The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-31 00:00:00

TAILS PAPER'.

PARI% DECEMBER

The King received on Clicomas Day, after
which lie heard in lois apartinent, the Ambit*.
sadurs of Spain anal Naples, the Nlinisters, ALr-
shals, and el great many Members of both atom_
bers. The King afterwards triii.sacted business
with the Duke de Ruchehea.—llis Majesty is per-
fectly recovered front his inehspoodion.
Marshal l'eriguon, the governor of Paris, died on
Thursday night.
The accident which happened to the Duke of
Bourbon is not so) serion, ivas at first appre-
hended. The hipletins of his health are dis-
continued.

A letter front Madrid, dated the 15111 December,
states, that the most pro fret tranquillity prevails is
that capitol, and that the most important news was
the illrivss of it famous tragedian', Maygnes (the
'Palma of Sl/61111), *011(11 it is feared would prove
fatal. The King teas employed in 'jolting the
public establishments of arts nod sciences.
The vase ut General Cannel draws to • elute.
Tlte Court, after a lung sitting. gave ?wire' that
iii•xt Wednesday should he the tail for Itearing the
pleading-.
BANK OF FUIINCE.—The Council General of
tLe 1h tot% fixed the Disidenda of the second
half y*-ar of ISIS atfiltrtive franettper action.

The reserve is 1i 'WV SO cents.
The dividend oill be paid of the Office, to Oe

opened' ei, the 1 Junitar3, 1319, at the Parsee of
the Bank. It is necessary to present tht vouchers.

CHAMBER OF DEPITTIES.
M R.%YIJ, President.
SITTING OF SATURDAY, DECLIIIRER

The sitting was opened at one o'clock.
After some preliminary business had been gone
through,
The President expressed himself ready to hear
the Reporter from the Committee charged to ex-
amine the ptojet of the I:itv relative to the percep-
tion of the first. Bibs of the contribution of 1619.
Count Beugnot—" Gentlemen, this is the fourth
year that the Goverament proposes to you to grant
provisionally a portion of the contriiiutions, direct
and indirect, until the dispositions of the new law
of Finances shall have received their execution.
" For the year 1819, in particular, the Govern.
:tient dern,,iids that the Chamber &hail vote the first
six-twelfilis of the land-tax, of the tax on goods
and persons, of the tax on dams and aitidoses, and
finally that of patents.

" The perct ptiou shall be made upon the lists
of 181$.

" 1 demauti Hko authority to collect the indirect
tote', until the prouinlgation of the new law of
Finance*.

" A lid, finally. to defray a provisional credit of
200,00u,000 to defray the public expenses.
" Government cannot give. awl does not give
io fact but one single motive, but a motive that
supersedes every other—N EcusslTY.

" The law of Finances is not yet presented. Ex-
perience has proved that the examination mid dia.
cosmos' of this law requires a great deal of time.—
Meanwhile/ it is not until after it has been promul-
gated that we can convene the Councils-General,
and those of the neighbouring districts, to pro-
ceed to the distribution of the direct taxes.—
The sittings of three Cotincils continue more than
a mouth, and we must wait for the expiration of
this time before we can proceed to the completion
of the lists.

These successive operations extend to six
months. It is then to obviate this delay, without
impairing the service, taut six twelfths of the di-
rect contributions are required of you.

" The continuation of the indirect taxes is its
own justification. The least interruption iu the
collection would compromise their existence, and
these contributions are the most precious resource
of the State.

" lu firtecthe regular pop:Gent of the expenses is
the first cundition of credil, todiriers
.T
order.

" Your Committee, Gentlemen; in acknowledg-
jog the truth and urgency of rte tuotisti proposed
by the Government, ha., however, charged um to
submit to the Chamber a few ogervations.
" It is in the nature of thing., that the accounts
of the application of the funds panted for anterior
years, slnuii t precede all demand of funds for the
current year.

" One cannot tee a reason even for this drlay.
The lulnlinistration of the finance', if well regu-
lated, as we moat suppose it, is in a situation to
render an account every day or the state of itsie-
expeoditere ; and its account at the end
of the }ear is nothing Lut a inettodicil retspitiala-
non ditto daily situstions,
"-The Committee have remarked with regret,,that
in this respect the business is less forward this year
than in the preceding. . Last year, and since the
opening of the t'ession of 1818, arcounts were dis-
Inhaled among you of the year 1816, drawn tip in
a grand manner, and more full than those which
had previously appeared. If these accounts were
not entirely free from imperfections, it was at least
easy to detect their errors, and to avoid them in
future.

4' Nothing of the kind has been done for the pre.
sent year. The change of the person of the Mi.
iiister ought to be no excuse, because where insti-
tutions exist the passage of men Semis public busi-
ness should not :west its progress. Whatever
changes may have been effected. or may be medi-
tated in the individual persous. the Chamber must
always find a Minister resoserstittor the flcrefrit.
merit.

" The [lon. Nletnher of this Chamber recently.
appointed to the Department of Finance, ha 4 said,
that the tomtit:tonal perception of the tuxes is at.
tended with great inennven'edn es, and bus conti-
nued too long. Let ndi imire that lie will obtain
for himself the Innioni of putting an end to it.
" The Nlinister, in btet, eic4.ages to the Chamber
to iminedi i.► pdt co id ance of the orders, of
the King..., legi•lactve diriitaati tttt which shall hare
for its; ohj..ct to put au eud to all these pruti.iuu .1
denude.

" It is to he regretted that such and so useful a
disposition should not hove been submitted to the
deliberation of the Chamber up to this day. It is
to be hoped that the Nlinister will immediately take
the orders of the King, and that he will submit to
you a disposition wh;ch will completely answer
the proposed purpose, and accord with the consti-
tutional multiple upon the annual rote of taxer'.
." The presenting of this law and that of the
budget. a►e rettaitsly in the number of priipwiii.
bons expectsd by the Climber with. the greatest
impatience. It rs particularly in the hope that
these comit'iotis are going to be ru!filled, That the

Committee recommend to the Chamber the r^. •a.
sure of voting provisionally the half of the re.
cripts of the State, and a credit of ten hundred
millions for the expenditure. It must net
I.
concealed—this provisional measure, wluch will
be revioduced for the fourth time. implies the
absence of • system of order mid foresight in a
matter that most imperiously require them, its
vote not being preceded by any detail, nor 1.:4).•
witted to any examination. The Chamber is me,
thervfore, excusable in proceeding with so much
haste, may because the necessity which presses tl4-.
Government falls back upon itself. We will Ch.':
with hoping that the Government, freed frtm the
difficulties that now embarrass it, will be able in
avoid incurring tins necessity beforehand, and af-
terwards pleading it in its justilicotion. Tie
Chamber will then be obliged in its turn to seek
in itself the cause should this necessity arise.
" In voting for the adoption of the projet of the
Law, tier Committee propose an amendment to the
Article 2. This Article imports, that the indirect
taxes shall continue to be received until the pro.
mulgation of the new law of Finances.

" Thi• term appear• to your Committee to have
something uncertain, and to depend upon cosidl.
tious slot in the power of the Chamber.

66 It proposes to you, in consequence, to
that the continuation of the perception of the
indirect tuz shall extend, at the latest, to t!.e
td of July next. This amendment will liarrus.o'se
with the disposition rehstive to the direct snit so.
direct lases, and will afford en assurance that the
receipts of every kind shall not be continued p►o.
visionally beyond ►ix mouths. Should this amend.
meta he adopted, the low will then stand iis the
following terms
" Article 1. Provisionally, soil until the expirati.us or the
delay necessary fur cumpletinc the lists of 1819, the six
first-twelfths of the land taut, of the taxes on pers..tis
and chat:d., dour, and winiluws, and patents, shall be col
'feted upon the scales of 1818.

"2. Until the proinolgaiitt .1 of the new law of Finaneis,•,nd
the litofinly next at the latest, all the indireel taxes shall
be collected accol di iia to the present (Kitting !ate'
" 3. There is opened fur the Minister the Secretary Of Slate
of Finance, a pro' isiunal credit of 209,000,000, for the pty.
matt of the public expeneee, until they shill have bit.), a fi.
oitiv. ly rex Mated by the law of Finances of tbe year 1819"
The I'IIIiSiDILNT—" The Report which bus 'teen
reed shall lie printed and distributed, sod as the
debate upon it cannot be opened, until 24 hours
after their distribution, I propose to fix it .for the
public i•ittitig on Monday next."
great number of Member: en the lei)—" Nal
no ! Tuesday.")

The stli•AurtingiLuo llondweske seconded—but
after u slight opposition it was fixed for Tue,'l,l,-.
Tile Chamber then resolved itself into a Secret
Committee, in which, among other Insurer, M.
I.allie de Nillaloveque give notice of hi. integrt;oo
to develope, on Tuesday, n !dim for establishing the
h no., of imlilic credit, and ii.crriising the mass of
v!,tcie in circulation.

Tat BRITI S II PRESS.

LONDON,

THURSDAY, Dec Emma 91, 19t9.

The Pais Papers of the 27th arrived at a late
hour last night. They bear also the date of the
none having been published on that day, in cot -e-
-quence of the strict observance of Friday :tt. a I:oh-
day. The Report of the Cominittee of Finance sac
made on Saturday, in the Chamber of Deputies.
It recommends the collection of 'ix mouths of
the taxes of the year 1819,' and a Vote of Credit
to the amount of two hundred millions for the pub-
lic service. IV ecessity is urged as the only plea in,
this forestalling of the public revenue, which kis
continued for these four years, but which the Mi-
nister uncle takes shall not be repeated. The Fits
per Cent. Consols opened on Saturday at 6.4 f. and
after Ti great ‘ariety of fluctuations closed at 63.
Ti,eie is no notice of any change of Ministers, a,
reperted in private letters.

• : •
Theiiike a
force in ships, men, ant arms, that
within the last three months left our shores for the
seat of war in South America, seems to have a N.,-
erfully incentive influence upon the speculative siei
adventurous disposition of our country. Ships of
heavy burden, well manned and armed, cariboue
from time to time to sail, not.only from the Throne-,
but from several other parts of the United
dom. while considerable numbers of our disbaii,l,
soldiers are regularly embodied and equipped f'
active service, under the command of hall- p
officers who had often led them to victory.
have no hesitation in saying, that in the presei:t ri,-
cumstauce• of this country such a vent for our di:-
banded soldiers must be considered ss
hi flay f.:r-
tunate ; for it could nut be expected that all them'
men should, on their dismissal frAn the se;•vire.
immediately find the means of hontst support
that they could, on the instant, bend their torts r
habits to a conformity with their altered or( It-t.-
steneet.. A considerable portion ofthe army has
been disbanded without causing the more pet.ct,sl)!t
pod of the eotninuntty to endure such otttrty,-..s
might be expected from nuinswous bodies rf d •
perate and hungry aien. Mullen and robri...o

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frequeut. not the chances cf such excesses
in the pres.ait case greatly diminished, by the
departure of a large body of the most enterprising
these men to join the standard of the Independ-
sin South America. Military men, many of
decor:lU%l with the Waterloo medal, present
themselves to the South American Agents in such
numbers, that many thousands of poor labourers who
offered their services have been rejected. In
the former expeditions to South America from
couk!ry, the officers formed the principal force ;
now private soldiers are so easily obtained,
. the Agents are enabled to be particular in the
selection. Should the Chiefs of the Independents
merge their private differences and jealousies iu
common regard for the public good, and act
anison for the achievement of their mighty le-
r, the result of the present war could not he
doubtful. Spain is utterly unable to send
a single slop; while several vessels well armed,
.ing from 30 to 30 guns, have sailed within a
short space of time from this country to Join the
conveying troops not fewer than from
;ht to fro thuu.‘nd men.
The elf.eni of such powerful succour most lie
• da.vernittle in the posture of affairs in South
•ticit. The Boston Papers of the 6th, speak of
inehenbions toot are entertained of a revolutionsry
it Now In inifesting itself in the Such
event is et ry probable ; for thought the Portu-
guese Government was not altogether so earl-
It mooed as that of Spain, yet it was ‘miffi-
dly had to justify a desire on the part of the
Brazilians to fling off its opptesisive burden. As
revolution in the Spanoth Provinces advances,
spirit that promoted it Will gradually gaits
.iigth in the Brazils, and must eventually
inip!i over the Royal authority.
'esrfill of the approaching struggle, the King of
:1 um; t I..emodinuet to draw from Europe all the
inn) C•ree that run be spared from his native
iuntry, and dratns wit tirver resources can still he
',meted from the unfortunate Portuguese. This
•xasperates the people, and weakens the Govern-
.a in the must important point. No sorb ap-
Tifei,ramions aff; ct the Government of the Ut,ited
ales, wi. oe it is thought the preseut standing
iy, not ez.oteding 8.000 men, will be further re-
iuced. "Ihr causes of this contrast in the melt-
,rt tm of ti.e t in Governments cannot be inistinder-
rood. G iv-romment acting upon hi erra! prioci-
rin iidve no terrors—it is tyranny alone that
mires protection.

Another Meeting erns yesterday held at the City
Lt.titlitti Tavern, respecting the course to he pur•
led In the London Fire Insurers at the Nora

~eapn44r* lkowpwice Office. lhe f.rmAtioni,f
new Societi, woo; announced fur the Mt-troll°lir;
our r,:wlers will perceive, he our Report of the

n vs of the d .v. that no Pxitiliflatlon was
the neroons embarked in the undert4k-
The di.eussinn terminated in the appoint-

ut of a l'ri visional Committee, to consider whe•
-r tt would be eligible to rstablish a slew Society
Hided on the basis of the Norwich lostitistimi.

it,. &nimble %hips have arrived nt Bengal. viz.
,Zt.a.13,11 July ; Cosile Ilunt/y, 14th July ;
Meirehrosesv of big. ip is Jill).
Yeo,rilay u ballot WAS held at the East Lxlia
Rte the election of to Director in the room
JOHN LOWDEN, Esti. dece.isi-d. At Nix o'i.lock
glnotits %%roe closed am! delivered to the Sum-
Ito Yeiiritted the election to have fallen oil
LUAU TAYLOR AIONUY, Eq. The numbers
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For Mr. Money
Mr. PfelCl.ll
311.. Raveushaw
Tl.e depots of the 17th, 24th, and 47th regiments
;lifsirtrV inoved on ‘Vedisrlitley last hum Canter.
iry to bover.
On Wednesday, at Harwich, 4:32 packs of play.
,-c.trilk, winch had been seized by an Officer of
Mnjesay's revenue cutter, the Eagle, and depo.
lied sit the Costom-house, were burnt, by order of
Comtnii,itmers of the Stamp-Office.
The Kentish C'hsotticle, after tnoieing an attempt
robbery near Dynichurch, by one of a party
;glossed for the prevelition of sinug.4ling,, says—
:n addition to the above circuinstauce we learn
from 'mother part of the coast, that the establish.
-tit for preventing smuggling, as it is at iiresrnt
';d'art;, begins to be felt ass most serious evil by
racks or persons. I'tnple are nightly stopped and
;tilted iu the very streets, and airily remark is ninth.,
Alet. is immediately enforced by a pistol levelled
the head of the unfortunate person who falls into
Ar hoods. A few evenings since, at a publics
rose, our of these men di ew out his pistol mid dm.
lard it, the ball going through the hitt of a per.
present, and through the ceiling of the room,
assume close to another person in the chamber
,hove." '[brae acts of violence may possibly
iginate among the persons employed iii this new
to ignorance of their authority ; but
'hates', r he their source or motive, the laws should
resorted to fur their punishment and restraint.
• the same time, it may be readily presumed that
. considerable prejudice must exist on the Kentish
coast against a system adopted for the purpose of
'muting a traffic in whir It 1141 many of its populios
is feel an interest. A similar prejudice, we be.
ve. also existed in the Navy, though arising from
lifferent cause. Many have affected to consider
Navy degraded by such a Plerlilet and yet
the members of which have as high a
Ise er honour and delicacy us those of the Navy.
I,r to-rn long employed iii the ilrevrfliin:t not only
but of illicit mid we du
. behove that they have ccmithired of it fns a
grading duly.

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