The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-25 00:00:00

"itl 141 JICATION A

Duty upon national property. It is calculated that there are
not less that nine millions of individuals interested directly
or indirectly in the maintenance of the presettt 'to tl►eir
national domains, and this is enoughto show that those titles
must be iespected.

Thursday further Trench papers arrived to the 20th, and
also G(lman and Dutch Journals of a late date. The ac-
conn's tour Vienna disclose nothing of importance, and the
fate of-Poland and Saxony is still alluded to, in a way which
renders it probable that no final determination has been
adopted with respect to either of these countries. A tenort
of differences between our Minister at Vienna, and • he Em-
.peror of Russia, was again circulated on Thursday and the
credit given to it caused a considerable depression in the
public fund:. The private letter from which the report took
vise states, " there has been a great coolness between the
Emperor Alexander and Lord Castlereagh; so much so, that
far several days the former did not see the latter. The sub-
.l( ct of disagteement is Poland, which it is understood the
Hessian Monarch will in no way give. up for any other ar-
ramgement than that of being placed under a Eussian V ice-
roy. This, he declares, is bis uMinatunt : his Minister,
'Count Nesselrode, will not treat upon it, but refers the
other Ministers to his Master, who will not listen to any re
pre entations concerning this, with him, determined point.
It is further stated, that a new Russian army of Co,ooo men
has been organised to give force to this resolution—Prussia
and Russia agree perfectly in their views. So far fi•lea the
Emperor Alexander leaving Vienna, he' has openly dec!ared
that le.ria ;s t quit it till every thing is arra:lged to his sa-
tisfaction."

Dispatches from Ghent, ant}erstood to-be tlf great im-
portance, were received early on Monday :ncirning at the
Foreign Office in Downing-street. In consequence of their
arrival, a Council was summoned, and every Member of ihe
Cabinet now in the country attenacti. After the Co.ancil
Lad broken up, a Messenger was sent off with dispatches for
the Commitsioners at Ghent.

On 'Wednesday, Ministers were again *occupied with dis-
patches brought by Mr. Kaye from Lord Castlereagh, at
Vi?nna. There was not time to collect the Whole of the
Cabinet, nor was the Prince Regent in town, to take his Royal
Highness's commands upon the nature of the reply to be
sent to the dispatches.—Summonses were in consequence
hued on 'Tuesday evening to all the Minister's, and Mes-
senger: were dispatched to them wherever they were, calling
them to attend a meeting in an especial manner on Wed:
ines...ay, on these important dispatches. The Earl of Liver-
pool had a consultation with the Prince Regent on the sub-
ject in the morning. At two o'clock the Noble Earl met
the Cabinet Council at the Foreign Office, which was at-
tended by all the Cabinet Ministers. Thcy continued in
close deliberation for upwards of two hours and a half. At
the breaking up of the Council, a McsienLier was ordered to
hold himself in readiness to proceed to Vienna.—Respect-
ing the purport of these dispatches, there can, of course, be
nothing more than conjecture ; it has, however, been
said to be found difficult to conciliate the views of Austria
With those of other powers.

Of four large ordriance transports which sailed from Ports-
mouth, with supplies of the most cvential importance to
our army in Canada, not one arrived site : tws) were taken
by Ar.rerican priv4tccrsa and twu were lost.

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BUROUUM OF SOUTMVARK.

Thursd.” there- was a very nu.acrous meeting of the in-
habitants, convened under a requisition for two distinct ob-
jects: one Was to consider of a Petition against the Property
Tax ; and the other was to consider the prop, iety of applying
to Pailiament for the repeal of the 6th of the King, with re-
spect to the appointment of Commissioners for paving the
Borough of Southwark.
On the subject of t!..e Property Tax, several resolutions and
a petition was read, nearly soniar to those which were passed
in the City of London.—The resolutions were ab!y supported
by Mr. Clarke and Mr. Braila. who dwelt at considerable
length on the inequalities of the t. x, where people were
assessed not really in proportion to !heir p7;,perties or incomes,
but often merely in proportion to the apiwarances • hey
found it necessary to hold out in order to carry on fly.. • bu-
siness. The tax thus, in many cases, pressed nil' . rder
on those who were poor and struggling than those WOO were
opulent. It bad been stated that there was much stcreev in
the proceedings before the Commi:sioners: mild not.
however, conceive how secrecy was to be kept when a tax
collector was present. As to the oath, they conceived it
most unjust that a man shouid be obliged to take an
oath against himself; and that not only his last shilling
should be extorted frOnt him, but that he should also be
obliged to swear that it was his last shilling.—The resolu-
tions 'and petition, after some discussion, were unanimously
agreed to.
A letter from Mr. Thornton was read by t‘e Chairman.
which stated, that that Gent;eman was prevented by indis-
position from attending, but that he perfectly agreed with
those who signed the req.sisition, that the people of this
country bad a fair tight to expect that this tax should expire
on the 6th of April next.
On the resolution being read, for the petition to be pre-
' sensed to Parliament by the representatives of the Borough,
Mr. Calvert rote, and said, that if he bad any doubts in his
own mind abont the injustice and impolicy of this tax, be
should still conceive it his duty to bow to the decided opinion
of his constituents. He, however, most heartily coincided in
their opinion, and thought that the tax was most unequal and
unconstitutional. it was unequal, as pressing mote severely
On the poor than the rich, which was the very reverse of what
was cmisidered the proper principle of taxation. It was up-
cons:itutional, as the subject was deprived of his money in an
arbitrary way, and not allowed a fair appeal.
The petition was ordered to be signed by the High Bailiff,
and-by so many of the inhabitants as chose to sign it.
On the question of the Commissibners for paving the 80.
. rogh of Southwark, resolutions were proposed which bad
for their object to apply to Pat Hameln, to repeal the act of
the 6th of the King, as in consequence of that statue the
Commissioners were not elected by the people, and their ac-
counts underwent no examination.—After a very long dis-
cussion, the resolutions were agreed to, and thanks were
voted to the Chairman, and to their Representatives in

PROF ERTY TAX.—On Thursday sennight the town of
St. Ives, Huntingdon,liire, was thrown into a very scrions
ferment, by the Commischmers of the Property 'fax (yield-
ing to the suggestion of the Inspector) notifying a considcra-
b:e intended advance in the usual assessment on property.
When it became genet ally known for what purpose this meet-
ing of the Commissioner was held at the Crown Inn, more
then 300 persons assembled, who rushing themselves into