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this debt were placed on the same footing ns the
rest of the national debt, to pay 5 per cent. inte- '
rest, nod by means of a siuktng fund of one-half •
per cent., paid off in 60 years, the expense for pen. i
stows wrothl be redneed from 647,000 florins to
353,000 ; that is, an immediate waving or 289,009
florins would he effected, which would be a relief
to the payer• of taxes. But if the uensioaers dill not
tke this mode, the same object may he attained by
the modified English plum, viz. I, Fixing the an: '
/mai expenditure for pensions io the next 60 years
at 333,000 florins ; 2, Covering the deficit at tbit
hrginitiug by atinsial 3, Repayment of these
Imo* by the subsequent surplus of receipt; 4,
completion of the whole transsction in fifty
yin.. Such a reform in the department of the
elisions would, doubtless, be welcome to the
p.ters of taxes every where.—(Faimskjart Papers,
Jou 4.)
BOHEMIA. tMAT 27.

• A.
The contract provisionally conclordedifor the sup.
ply of the Bohemisis landwelir. whom it was pro-
pose-it to call out to exercise this summer, have
been given up by order of the Govertin,ent, and it
is now uncertain whether ►he troops will be all as-
sembled.
♦IENNA. WIT SS.
bletalliques, 76k ; Bsnk Shaves, 6gB.

WSPEANION OF T rit :10 S WlTif QBJ I.
THIRD EDICT OP THE VICEROY.
The following Edict was transmitted to the Hong
merclunt., in consequence of a represestation which

they merle In answer to the one Which has been
published already
Year, GOVERNOR or CANTON, A GCAROIAt
TRW PRINCE, &e.

_
" Whoever it occurs that, convected with the said Na-
than! commerce at Canton, there is any disturbance, or din.
obedience to the laws of China, the commerce is to be im.
mediately interdieted, and the removal of goods and things
•p sod down prohibited, which is intended as a punishment
and a •arninge 'this is an old usage, sod has been acted**
fur many on. erssive year..
" Now the said nation's man of war (Richerdson's) read
to Canton WI tO7VOy to the merchant •hips, and be sllowed
his toes of war's men to kill and wound natives. Next he
made opposition, and won Id not deliver ap the foreign mare
derers ; therefore 1 interdicted the whole of the said nalloila
commever, and in so doing acted according to former legal
practice.
" in consemsence of Yalexi, PatelLehln, and Fake-Aid
(Haviside, Patterson, and Cruikshank), three ships, herbs(
taken in ell their cargoes, 1 allowed them to proceed first I.
Enplane!, lowed of waiting here at Canton. But this wee
In set of pity and compassion in me. the Governor, to these:
foreign merchants. It was an act of grace beyond *bat walk
weedy right and proper to he done. Bet these ships' Cap-
tains •re inseniiihle to feelings of gratitude.—(Havialde s
ship was away before this Petition was sent.)—ln consequence
of what I have done, they make whining sad clamorous pre-
texts, and write Petitions—a proceeding exceedingly dis-
orderly and founded on false principles.
" 1 hereSy command rev, the Hong merchants, to enjoin
then lay orders on the said nation's chief, and his colleagues
—to eremitic them to urge mid compel the delivering up of
the foreign murderers, sod after they are tried, and the legal
proceedings closed, then all the ships may open their hatches,
nay muse goods op and clown,snd afterwards set sail ; but if
they sill mill gene abont, and hope, and linger, and delay,
I hereby positively declare that I will not allow them to move
up or down so mach of goods is • thread of silk, or the
down of a plant.
" As to the question whether or not you, the Hong meri,'
draw, ewe west, to the commanders and others, It is
cumbest on the commanders to apply to the chief and blw
toiletries, who with you, the Hong merchants, may cur-
tains into the affair and nettle it.
" As to the household furniture, utensils, the., whether
will permit them to be moved down or not, must be deferred
until this can, allierdet is In law concluded; and after that
is done, I will move another edict.
"The emu of the matter is this—that, for • man killed, it
is absolutely sea-emery that • life he forfeited. It is not by
any mesas an affair that cao be terminated by empty talk
and remoniuga.
" Let the Hong merchant, order the chief and his col-
leagues to communicate these commands to their several
ships' Captains to obey the teurror thereof.
JAOW-KWANG.
" A Special FAllet (trub copy of Immolation.)
" Tat lair, 12th amosa,ll4llb day--11111 !savory, 11122.