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CHARGE.

Exchequer Annuities
South Sea Company
Bank on them .........
Dmidends
National Debt .....
Civil List
Pensions
'Other Chagas ...............«..._

Surplus

Exchequer Bilk issued for the Consoli.
• dated Fund, at 10th Ortober. 1t123.
and paid oWnut of the Griming Pro-
duce of that Fund, in the Quarter
ending sth January, 1824
►pplus as above slated
DeJbeehlonies issued In fut the, pett of
8.700.000/- estimated as the Surplus
of the Consolidated Fund for the
year 1823 ..............

Total at sth January, 113'21. to be pro.
vtdcd for by Exchequer IS.Ila, charged
on the tjrurting Produce of the Con.
toludated Fund, in the Quarter ending
.sth April, 1824 ........ „„.. ..... ...,„„.

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3.104.773

13.41ji. T7:5

1,711163 W

2,104,ra

8.907 HG

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1.554.4&T

W.N.W. from Padstow. Arrived, *ha, the Watchful, Warren,
from Terceira; and the William, Spence, from Brest.
'Poome, JAN. fl.-The Westbourne, Brown,- arrived lions.Sun-
derland, reports, that in passing the Dudgeon Float, 2d Orkte, saw
a sunken brig, with royal MAMA strewing, painted white; and two
vanes flying. Capt. B. supposes her to be from the tiorthravd, bas
not a collier.
Gow', Jag. g.—Arrived the Edward, Drew, from London,
fnr troops for the West Indies.
POETSMOE TB. JAN. S.—Arrived the Ettphentis, Norte, from
Hamburg ; and Atalanta, Smith, from Demerara.
Doran, JAN. 6.—We have now a very good harbour, both to
the southward and northward.
DEAL, JAY. 6.—Parwal through this morning the General
Prescor, Truseott, and Pyramus, Brodie, from Madras, and For-
titude, Gibson, from London to Malta.
OKAVESEN D, JAN. 6.—Atrived the Abeona, Davison; Ben-
jamin and Mary, Baker; and Fame, Hamilton, from Gottenburgh ;
Ajax, %Colson ; lerriby, Stewart ; Argus., J17114%011 g irjeoa.,
Barnet ; Percival, Forrest ; Margaret, Wetheral ; Pcovidence,
Wilson ; and Egerton, Wilson, from St. Petersburg!'; Stnekton,
Gibbs, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; ltuhy, llsll, serd,Wil-
liam, Lang,
.from Memel ; Young lineman, Peterson, from Dant-
zie. Sailed the Carl Lintilat, for Oottenburg ; 'tad Eden,
Pearson, for Antigua.
%rotator wu, JAN. 6.—The deals are nearly all out of the
Nymph, Clarke, and about lel pieces of timber. A contiderab.e
part of the cargo of the Liberty. of Poole, and a large part of her
wreck, have been brought on shore.
ABERDEEN, JAN. 3.—The Margaret, Slal.er, from Pi:ltch:7-
town for Newry, is wrecked on the eekorries of Scuba. Ile
maste-, a pilot, and two men drowned. •
WIC IC, DEC. 29.—The Elizabeth, of Rothesay, bound to Bel-
fast, was wrecked in this Buy 27th inst. Crew saved.
ELS' WE UR, Uae. 27.—The Thorp Arnold, Ilurst, from Memel,
for Hull, has put into Copenhagen, Ic-Iky, and sill hare to tae .
charge and repair; the Pearl, Priest., from.. Riga, lite lion, Lot
a-ground on Saltholm, 25th inst. but was got .ott, nith ass!statee,
and put into Copenhagen, having unshipped her rudder; the A gi•es.
Mackie, from Riga, for Leith, has been cut off, and titocnattcd to
Copenhagen to repair; the Ceres, Scott, item St. Petersieurstr,
for Dundee, was driven on shore. during a heavy gain fith
between Fredrickshaven and the Sea Crew and cortostatvcd..

CRONIITADT. Nov. 3U (Dec. 14.—The host nlne.last them
days has knit the ice mgether, and it now brine nue ennapeet bate
as far as the eye can nada, consequently the.departure tlitz sluis
this season may be coasidercd impassible.
The Fri Anna Margaretha (Russian schooner) with sec& from
Riga, for lklfast and Newry, stranded po the I.D.h ult. ,
four leagues Rom Imibau and the 0010 euroli•-m, Ater,
Leith, far Windru, stranded on the 7th ta Wirdam faa ill*
aouth-aideut the harbour. 'flume had Lean dreadful surcus tat
the last fourteen days, and it was fared cadet damage hat
been dons.

The BRITISH Passe commenced publishing yesterday morn-
ing at lira o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1844.

Monday's French Papers, morning and evening, reached
rter office yesterday. The Moils is still harping on the
affairs of South America.

"Willing to wound, and yet afraid is strike,"
this organ of the bigotted Ultra, while* it more than
insinuates the right of France to support enfeebled Spain
in her attempt on the Colonies, does not dare to make an
open avowal of such views; this Jesuitical article cm-
eludes by stating that—" It is very satisfactory to ob-
" serve, that the Radicals of England zre willing that
" the King of Spain should re-isosscss himself of his
" rigbts, if obtained without foreign assistance."—
There is some dark meaning in this sophistical sentence.
But the feeling in Paris was, that no support by France
would be given to degraded Spain against her emancipated
colonies. It was even said, that an assurance had been
given by M. Villele to Mar Ambassador to that effect.
ftom whatever cause, the French Funds rose rapidly on
Monday ; after the close of the "pallquel," they were so
high as 94f. Soc. Spanish Bonds were as proportionably
depressed—they were as low as 26 and 261. Accounts
from Madrid to the 25th December present the most
gloomy picture of that wretched country. 'The whole neigh-
bourhood of the capital was overrun with bands of robbers.
Ave French soldiers, forming part of an escort who convoy-
ed some money returning to France, were stopped by an arm-
ed band and stripped to their shirts at Alcovenda, one post
only from Madrid. Maragnon, the celebrated Trappist,
seas in that capital, and, like one of the appalling followers
of" Death on the pale horse" of the Revelations, traversed
is streets daily in his brown habit, flung over a military
uniform, on horseback. 'This infamous and sanguinary
fanatic was backed by a score of armed ruffians, with fa-
mine and atrocity in every feature. ll'hat a subject for
Domenichino or the terrible Salvator, were they now in ex-
istence, to ponrtray the bandit monk and his crew of !slur-
deres ! Our Bayonne letter asserts, that the Decree of
Amnesty, loaded with exceptions, was at the printing-
office ; but the Madrid account states, the idea of it was
abandonsxl, and that Irujo's Ministry kept their places, not
because they were agreeable to the tyrant and the bigots
who surrounded him, but from the protection afforded
them by Bourmont and the French, who are absolute mas-
ters of Spain. Insurrection was already beginning openly
to break out, against the atrocious tyranny under which
Spain is suffering. Accounts from Truxillo, to the 21st of
December, say, that a conspiracy, formed by more than a
hundred individuals, with an Advocate at its head, had
broken out in the environs of Valencia d'Alcantara.
They attempted to get possession of that place, but failed
in the attempt, and were pursued by the Royalist Go-
vernor, Morales, who is said to have surrounded them.
Theirst effort may fail, but the attempt will not atop there,
and every province will yet be in arms. No country can
succumb under such a tyranny as that which now oppresses
Spain.

It is most gratifying to us to observe the improved and
improving situation and finances of this great country.
Eight years of peace have not dawned over Great Britain
in vain. The gigantic struggle in which she was com-
mittal, while it consummated ber glory, consumed her
vast resources, and left her, at its close, ►momentarily ex-
hausted. But the sinews of her power, and the strength
of her people, are again renewed ; and far from being
powerless or exhausted, England is yet in her summer
strength, and in all the freshness of her summer glory.'
Bet arm is still as strong as when she struck at the most
distant extremities of the globe. Peace is ardently desired
by the country at large, and the Ministers are wise who
cherish its preservation at the risk of every thing but na-
tional honour. War would bring with it heavy and dis-
tressing burtbens ; but the character and influence of
Great Britain will be maintained at every sacrifice; and the
despots, whom our resources finally preserved, and who
are now arrayed against the e untry that gave them ex-
istence, will find their calculations sadly mistaken, if
they imagine their career of ambition and tyranny
is to extend to the New World, and the Old, and be

viewed by this country in silence and apathy. Peace has
dune much for our resources; nor do we think its continu-
ance likely to be impaired. No open attempt will be made
on South America while Great Britain and America de-
nounce it ; besides, the resources of the C..mtinental Sove-
reigns are infinitely more distressed than our own. They
could not have maintained their struggle for existence with-
out our aid ; and they have borrowed /millions from our
capitalists since the war closed. The expenditure of France
within the Pyrenees, during the past year, was immense,
and a great proportion was derived from a loan raised here.
She is now about to create a fund of several millions, to
reimburse the emigrants, and can have no means to scatter
in a Transatlantic war. Austria could not pay two mil-
lions and a half of her vast debt without borrowing even
so much from our merchants. Russia, with her inter-
minable regions of ice and snow, and her millions of bar-
barous hordes scattered through her aide extent, is no-
toriously without resources. She a:so has been a borrower
in this country ; and, with all her atnbition, must remain
quiet. But her eye is on Turkey, though she affects to
look across the Atlantic ; and a very few years will disclose
all her plans in Eastern Europe. Titus, between present
poverty and mingled apprdiension, there is, we think,
little fear of the peace that now prevails in Europe being
disturbed ; and the resources of Great Britain will in con-
sequence go on improving, and each revolving rsr see the
burthens of her people dinvnialied. Want of spate obliged
us yesterday to witlihol3 the official documents relating to
the revenue; they will be sem in our columns of this
morning. The review, on tile whole, will be found a

flattering one. The increase on the Customs for the year
exceeds a million. On Stamps it amounts to upwards of a
hundred and fifty-four thousand pounds. The Post-office
revenue is also greater by eight-and-twenty thousand
pounds than it was in the preceding year ; and on the Mis-
cellaneous Estimate there is the large addition of near seven
hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds. There is a
sensible decrease, however, in the Excise and Taxes: the
first has fallen nearly two millions, and the second up-
wards of eight hundred thousand pounds. There has been
a falling off in the article of flops, and a serious one in
Tobacco, Snuff, and British Spirits : the decrease
of produce to the revenue on the former amounts to
110,0001. for the year, and, on the latter, to 662,0001.
The decrease, under the three heads of Malt, Leather,
and Salt, on which the duties were so considerably re-
duced, is set down at 1,790,0001. In the minor articles
of Bricks, Candles, Coffee, Glass, Paper, Printed Goods,
Soap, and on Wine, there has been some improvement.
The decrease in the articles of general consumption, such
as Hops, Tobacco, Snuff, and British Spirits, we must
admit, is very serious, and proclaims diminished re-
sources in the mass of the community, to whom the use
of these articles becomes, from long habit, almost essential.
The pressure on the people in general is, in fact, still
very serious, and the burthen of direct and indirect
taxation moat heavy. With the continuance of peace
we hope to see every possible redaction of taxation ;
the resources of the country ought to be bui-
lbanded with the greatest care, and every assessmentl
not indispensable to the State ought at once to be struck
off. The country is put to a heavy expense, by colonist
I land other appointments; they form part of the vast patro-
I nage of Ministers, and are capable, we think, of being
greatly reduced. The Revenue too might be collected at
nearly one-half the expense now incurred in this country,
while in Ireland it might be reduced two-thirds, and every
departmett be made more effective. The resources or
Great Britain, and the unwearied industry of her irople,
if properly cherished and attended to, are still equal to
lany exertion ; they should be anxiously husbanded and
i reserved for her day of future trial ; for the period will
arrive, when it will be necessary for her to put forth all her
strength, and it should be kept unimpaired and unwasted
. for that momentous occasion.

After a legal investigation of two days continuance,
Thurtell and Hunt were yesterday capitally convicted for
the murder of the gambler Ware, and Thurtell was or-
dered for execution to-morrow. No other fate could
have been anticipated for the latter; the evidence as to his
guilt was, in our opinion, strong and clear as flashing day:
his lamp of life is now burning fast to its close, and will
be extinct before another day runs half through. This
ill-fated young man displayed, all through the fearful
investigation, firmness and capabilities worthy a bet-
ter destiny. His presence of mind scarcely forsook
him for a moment. He struggled hard for life, ap-
pearing to care nothing for the damning crime with
which he stood charged, and anxious only about the ap-
palling consequences. His defence, though inflated, was
drawn up with considerable art ; and its clime was calcu-
lated to affect a Jury strongly : had there been a doubt on
the evidence, it is probable it would have secured him the
benefit of it, and that the verdict would have been is
,/poorest vitas : but there could have been none ; each suc-
cessive fact was stronger than the other ; and the whole detail
to us was irresistible, as to the wretched Thurtell's guilt.
But after the facts detailed in Hunt's affidavit, so strongly
corroborated by that of Mr. Rooke, the respectable Coroner
of Hertford, what shall we say of those who broke all faith
with the latter prisoner, now a convict, and put him on
his trial for his life? Mr. Rooke expressly swears in his
affidavit, " That while the inquest was proceeding, Mr.
" Clatterbuck, the Magistrate, told Hunt, in his, Mr.
" Rooke 's presence, that there would be no breach of
" faith in the promise made by him, the said Magis-
" trate, to the said Joseph Huai." Let this state-
ment speak for itself; it needs no addition. Does Mr.
Clutterbuck call this humanity and justice? And to come
forward subsequently with a counter-affidavit to the de-1
spairing prisoner's, to snatch the last gleam of hope and
mercy from him ! We have no language to express our
deep and indignannteprobatian of such conduct, appearing
as it darkly does in the facts before ua. On Hunt's con-
viction as an accessary before the felony, his Counsel most
properly moved immediately in arrest of judgment: and
we have ourselves no doubt that, from a regard to justice,
his life must be saved—" justitia, rug! celum."
He was deeply implicated, we are convinced, in planning
the murder; but his testimony once received, faith should
have been kept with him at every sacrifice. The violation
in this memorable instance will hOt soon be forgotten, and
is a foul stain on the parties implicated. There is now
scarce a day passes that we have not to record some act
of the Magistrates of this country, revolting to humanity
and justice. The Judges of the laud act in a manner
every way worthy of their high office. With many of the
Magistrates it is far otherwise. Their conduct now
loudly calls for the most immediate and effectual control.

DOVER, JAN. 6.—A French messenger landed out of an
open boat in thi night, with despatches, with which he set of im-
mediately to London. Many inquiries were made of the people
who came with the boat as to any news ; and, after much pressing,
they
.said, " the ships have sailed ;" whether alluding to any fleet
that is gone to assist the Spaniards in the attempt to recover their
southern possasaiuus, was unknown.
Mrs. Wigrain left Portland-place on Saturday, on a visit
to her brother, Mr. Arkwright, at his seat, Hampton Court, in
If erefonlidnre.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
Innis House when the following Captains took leave of the Court
previous to departirg for their respective destinations, via.:—cap.
tam Henry Andrews Drummond, of the Crude Huntly; Captain
Alexander Christie, Thomas ('mutts, for Bombay and China; Cap-
tain Edward Maxwell Daniell, Duchess of Atholl, and Captain
James Walker, Macqueen, for Bengal and China. The under-
mentioned ships were stationed as follows, viz.:—The Asia, Cap.
tam Thomas F. Baldveston ; Alarchioness of Ely, Capt. Charles
Mangles, for Madras and Bengal. General Hewett, Capt. Thos.
Barrow; Capt. —; and Prince Regent, Capt. Henry
Her, for Bengal direct.
The decreased consumpt;on of rum last year in the ports
of the Clyde amounts to 22,000 gallons. 'file consumption is now
reducal to 00,000 gallons, not one-third of what it was Nix years
ago. The consumption of sugar, however, is increased last year
&,,000 mit., about one-fourth. The consumption of molasses and
tobacco have also greatly increased.— Caledor.iapt llfrrrary.
On Thursday evening a public meeting, numerously and
respecably attended, was held in Calvert-street Chapel, in this
city, to take into consideration the propriety and necestoty of erect.
ing a second Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Norwich. A string
of resolutions in approbation of this object was moved and unani-
moudy agreed to, and a subscription then commenced, which in a
short nme amounted to upwards of 8001.—Nunrich Paper.
Hicitmoxv.—.lt a Guild, held on the 26th ult. the
MI. Thomas Dundas, eldest son of Lord Dundee', and Samuel
Moulton Barrett, Esq of Carleton Hall, in the North Riding of
Yorksitire, the present Members of Parliament for Richmond, were
made freemen of the Corporation of that ancient borough ; the fer-
nier was elected into the United Company of Carpenters and
Joiners, and the latter into that of the Merchant Tailors. The
freedom was presented to each by W. s. Goodbutn, Esq. the pre-
sent Mayor, in a box, made of the heart of oak, inlaid with silver,
the gift of their respective Companies. Out the box presented to
Mr. Dundee was engraved. " To the Hon. Thomas Dundaa M.P
with the freedom of the Corporation of Rielimot.d, presented by his
bretren of the Company of Carpenters and Joiners, as a shear
testimony of their regard." On the one presented to Mr. Barrett,'
" To S. M. Barrett, Esq. AI.P. with the freedom of the Corpora.:
tion of Richmond, presented by his brethren of the Company of
Merchant Tailors, as a sincere testimony of their regard.' —Jut k,
Piper.