The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-23 00:00:00

OCT. 25.

The regn!ations entered into With. Government for the
payment of the duties upon bondrd goods is invul‘od in
such obscurity that the public find much difficulty in un
deistanding them, and the prudent cautions of Sir Charles
Price are calculated to continue the delusions. One fact is,
however, clear, that the faction which I.,,overns the commer-
cial interests of the city is sufficiently poweiful to influence
tie decisions of Whitehall. It would be an acceptable ser-
vice, therefore, to the commercial world to specify the anti-
Iles to he redeemei by instalments, the length of titne they
have been bonded, and to whom they belong; we think it
would then clearly appear, tl-at those to whom the • litchi'.
gencebas been extended have reaped great fortuees lir the
chatiges that have taken place ; and that those against whom
the original resolutions of the Treasury still operate, where
duties are under a thousand pounds, are those whom a wice
Covernment would have felt it their duty to .:rLtecit aglinst
the enormous capitalists whose predominance keeps down
the aclvity of the enterprizing and laborioni. Whatever
may have been the intentiem of Min'sters in first nndertak-
ing to insist upon the payments of these duties, ne thing is
certain, that it has confirmed the wavei ink, and int reased
their influence in the city. The weight of taxes, the con-
tinnance of a war expenditure, with a nominal peace esta-',
blish men t, and the almost total exclusion of our trade ftom
the continent, have began to alarm the mercantile interests
arid to shtw theta the fearful consequences of the system
which had so long deluded the country. Ministers have
found out the same, and between the danger of fresh loans
and a diminished revenue, expedients are :adopted that must
ruin the most respowible and overwhelm the leaser merchants
with sure and inevitable ruin. The Ciro/tick, which on all
questions of party is actively alive, has never taken notice of
this partial and oppressive measure as it bears upon the ma-
jority of the trading interests.

• Certain weekly journalists seem, in their partia'ity for the
character of the Empetor Alexander, to confound terms
with principles, and call that restoration, as in the case of
Poland, which is little more than the consummation of that
• system of intrigue which having failed in the use of force at
former periods, would now flatter theta with tl.eir own laws,
never worth much, the dominion of an obnoxious stranger.
It may be asked, have the Poles forgot the sufferings they
owe to Russian politics ? Or, du they expect v.) derive from
• the philosophical benevolence of a despot, that which they
have not been able to attain by their own ipavery and virtue !

Buonanarte, with all his tyranny, trea'ed this unhappy na-
tion with mai ked and singular attention, and he placed them
under the controul of a power, the mildest and most con-
. siderate on the continent. But he still made 11FC of theni
for his ambitious projects, and the military stren.g.th of Po-
• land was nearly extinguished in furthering the daring of
universal dominion. If, under the presumed appointment
of Duke Constantine. Russia engages in any new war, will
• she permit the Poles to remain in tranquillity and peace ?
The reply is too absurd to deserve a mouient's notice, and
Illand may as well expect to receive ample justice from the
Congress of Vienna, where she has no voice to i epresent
her, as security and peace under the Czars of the Muscovite
Lmpire.

By letters from Cadiz to the Bth ult. we regret to learn
that-
the malignant fever has appeared in that city. The ac-
. counts.state, that the complaint is at present confined to the
hospitals, but there is too much reason to apprehend from
• former experience, that it as extenciethfurther.