The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-10-12 00:00:00

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'tonal prosperity, moil itnYtirlanee has ever becit solider leap,
attached. A reduistios its one quarter in the Cos- of 10,000
'turns elms of mole thou 000,000/. is in Ito& an lieu armies
alarming cireumstiiee, and *hews beyond the pose will not ext
-sibility of cootroversoy that the foreign trade of Duchess
the country has experienced 14 sudden and serious
check. The diminution iu the Excise is compare.
tively trifling, being somewhat less dam eoo,oool.
but if we regard the produce of the Excise as of- by
&ling in some degree a test of our domestic pros- '
verity, reels this dieninutiun in one quarter cannot
fail of being contemplated with feelings of alarm
and sorrow. The reduction in the produce of the
mumps, amounting to 96,7e8/. is also calculated
to give rite to serious reflections, sod is the more
important from the consideration that the produce
of the stamps have for some time been with little
exception uniformly declining. The reletioss which
this breech of our revenue bears to the progress of
justice, renders it a point of peculiar interest.
Nothing blsott of the most urgent isecrevity could
justify the imposition of a tax epee law proceed-
jog.. To sell justice is not only contrary to the
( most übsious ptincipirs of natural equity, but is
directly opposed to the very terms of our great
Charter ; but should the purchase money extend to
• denial of justice, no principle of financial expe-
diency could warrant suck a neglect of the first
objects of all civil society. In fact, if the duties
upon law proceedings be of considerable amount,
their effect can be felt only by the middle and
lower classes of the' state, to whose claims upon
public justice they operate as an effectual bar.
Legal rights are permitted to slumber and expire
from the difficulty of encountering the heavy pres-
sure of law stamps ; so that if a regard for Intl-
I justice exercised no iufluence upon the sen-
timesots of Alinisters, they might perhaps advanta-
geously pursue their own interests, if by reducing
the rate of the tax upon legal rect.-dings they
brought the power el enfoocitig individual claims
within the scope of the greater portion of society.
The Ministerial Papers moat unaccountably toe
present this diminution in the quarter's revenue, as
a matter of too importance; but brink well ewe
how few of their readers could be ii.duced to adopt
such an impression. they hope by reverting to
very unpropitious period in our financial hiiotory,
VIA Olt% ilig an improvemetot in the quarter and
year eroded on Sunday last, ae compared with the
quarter and year retied the 10th October 1817. to
dissipate in sonic degree the despondency which
too troy great a reduction in the last quarter is cal.
ciliated to create. There undoubtedly is an im-
provement in die present year over 1817, but if we
are to estimate our foreseiat condition by reference
to periods past, why should we take the year 1817 in
preference to any other since the ceseetion of hostili-
ties ? Why not go hack to the year preceding,
and compare our present financial state with the
year 1816 ? The decrease in this year, as compared
with 1818, amounts to 368,941/. ; cmnpared with
1817. there is an increase of 4,080,000/. ; but
compared with the year 1816, there is a very
great diminution. The tort revenue for the year
1816 amounted to 60,138.8631. while the net
revenue of the year ended the 10111 of October,
1819, amounts only to 47,920,367/. The pro-
duce of the quarter just terminated amounts to
11,433,514/ , elide the produce of the correspond-
ing quarter in 1816 amounted to 14,502,296/. ‘Ve
should toot have reverted to the year 1816, which
by the way was less productive than the year 1815,
had not the Tr ury Prints, fur the attainment of
a certain objecfrhrought forward the produce of
the revenue in the year 1817, ass means of estimat-
ing the character of the present.
The diminution, however, in the last quarter is
the more important, us it presents the first and most
obvious fruits of the neer system of Funnier. which
was flamed by the blinisters with the most con-
fident assurance t f success. Dllt hitg the previous
port of this year, awl a considerable pert of the last,
the rtveriue ass gradually and even tepidly improv-
ing, and every e)e was turned with anxious hopes
to the continuance of this favourable principle, but
the rashitees of the Ministers has at once blighted
these prospects. Their unxiety to drain supplies
with greater tepidity from this imp overished and
distracted country, defeated their own objects, and
they are now justly punished for their rapacity, mad
the ignorance they bare evinced of every correct
principle of taxation.

A Council was held yesterday at Carlton-house,
at which report states it was determined that
Parliament shall be summoned fur the dispatch of
business about the middle of November. Of the
expediency of such a measure we have already
spoken. both as it regards the country in general
and the safety of the Ministirs. But independent

of these pre►ent considerations. no time should
he lost in assembling the great Councils of the
Nation. for the purin►se of endeavourimg to dis-
pose of the immense mass of matter which was of
utcessity postponed from the last Session.

At a late hour last 'light we received Paris Papers
of Friday lost, from whic:. we have wade the fol-

lowing extracts:di..
PARIS, OCTOBER B.
Ili► Eminence the Archbishop of Paris took Imes
Moulton )esteitlay of the Archiepiscopal Palaces
Ilie installation Mill hike place to.nu►trur.
The statement to the Engli►h Papers is totally
!die, that the Emperor of ltusbia his 740,000 men

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, find t ia tie is now tassiqiiiiher tev
men. TM elitists miliegth el the Res-
now is 111,0,000 me, and the new levy
c evert 00,000 then.
The _ of Berry and Mademoiselle het
iul•lnt daughter both enjoy the best state of health.
Queen of Spain arrived at Bayonne, on the
301 h of Scp'tember, at midnight. and woe received
the civil and military authorities. On the fol-
low rug day her Majesty visited the eiriidel, and
a fte rward4 proceeded on hoard a small ves.rl lying
in il.e harbour. She sailed at ten o'clock in the
more:rig of the 23 of October; ill the garrison was
miller arms. Many of the inhabitants went to
lrtni, to witness the reception of the Queen.
We Pre assured that Marshal Oativiun St. Cyr.
not bri..ig enabled to obtain in the Council that
the vetet ins shoulil be restored to active vervice,
has troth red his resignation.

The 0 niral ComMipsion which will be &gladioli.
ed at Ala) encl., for the general prosecution of po-
litical critues and misdemeanors committed in Ger-

mans, eider oleos its labours about the middle
of Octobei The Jr'is CoPaula who ow to form
this Coot:Sias:ion are already designated. They
are at nre•eot seven in number, though possibly
some others may he added.