The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-10-28 00:00:00

PUBLIC FINANCE.

We apprehend that the receipt of the revenue
for the current quarter will he far from compen-
sating for the 6ficieticy experienced in the last
quarter, or from realising the hopes or the Lords
of the Treasury. We understand that in the
Customs alone, there was in the first week of the
present quarter, as compared with the corresponding
virtk in the List year, a fulling off, to the amount
of 100,000/. The pruduee in the second week it
seems was greater; but in the fortnight from the 10th
to the d3tl of October it appears, by official state-
ments, that in the whole revenue, us compared with
the produce in the corresponding quarter is the
last year, there exists • deficiency of no less than
37,5611. The amount of the two weeks' revenue
from the 10th to the i3d of October, for the yeats
1818 and 1819, are,

Fur the yea( 1818 .
1819

Deficient

It must, however, in candour be adulated, that
from the account of a week or a fortaight.no argu-
ment can be drawn to prove either the improvemeut
Of retrogressiou of our finances. The receipts
of Ito ►bort a petiod may be affected by a thottesuld

LONDON.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER es, isig.

The Paris Papers of the 24th ortived
Their contents !nnses• little *lnterco. Tile KING
rides ont drily. On Saturday he piot•eeuler'. in the
direction of St. Cloud, and on his return visited
the I)4eltess 4 IlgottY.

Account* front Bourdeaux, of the 19th, state,
that according to the :I.ltSt I t .11teII ..14ritce from Spuin,
hopes were entertained that the progress of the
yellow fever would be speedily arrested in Andalu-
sia. Ttie number of deaths in Cadiz arid its vici-
nity in the month of September, is stated in a
letter from Nlailiid, of the 11th October, at 1,200
The epidemic had not broken out at Seville,
There were only a few cases of malignant fever in
a quarter of the city. It it positively stated that
in Cadiz it affected none but those who were
attacked with it in the year 1800. Business in
that city was entirely at a stand. Every neces4asy
precaution was adopted to preserve the south-west
of France from the contagion.

The 5 per Cent. ConNols on Sat uriLiy commenced
at 701. 95 c.; Batik Actions 1,490 f,

We are extremely happy to learn from various
parts of the country, that the insult lately offered
to the venerable and patriotic Eirl FrTzsvtlAraNt
is universally condemned by all who are not imme-
diately conistctrd.with the officers of Government,
and that even among those who in Parliament
usually vote on the sole of Ministers, it is generally
lamented as an ill-advised ■nd precipitate measure.
Every Nobleman and Geotleiturii in Eagland must
perceive in it a resolution on the part of the ',resent
Ministers not to suffer any individual, however re-
motely connected with the Administration, to
breathe a thought in opposition to their will ;
even should lie, however elevated in rank and cha-
racter, incautiously venture to question the acts of
any dressed in a little brief authority"
in ally part of the country, lie must expect to he
•isited with the rude force of their high displeasure.
We know not bow the proud spirit of our Aristo-
cracy will brook this despotistii, but we fervently
hope that those who can humble their minds suffi-
ciently to endure so gross an insult, when offered to
otte the least. exceptionable of their illustrious
boelyo will have ennilir opportunities in their own
persons of exercising the virtues of humility and
patience. It is mlarge stride towards the attain-
ment of .an, authority that must insensibly in-
k* r milli it bests down the independence of the
'Nobility.

'Moil' unintelligible jargon about what are called
radical principleri, and an interruption of confidence
bgtween the Ministers and the Lords Lieutenant, in
• consequence of the York meeting, lois. been dri.
yelled out by the Treatury scribes, in their miserable
attempts to. justify their masters. The Ministers
cannot be such egregious dolts as to think fur a mo.
meat. that gaol FITZWILL4.III, and' time who with