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THE NNPIONAL REGISTER.

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WND.4I", FEBRUARY 14, 1815.

RENEWAL OF THE PROPERTY TAX.
'On Thursday- last Parliament resumed their labours,
and, without the assistlince. of Lord Custlereag:., whom
1% kids alone probably keep away• from our shores, Minis-
ters boldly met the Representatives of the nation. Their
aotagouists, full of self sufficiency, and vainly fancying
themselves irresistible, had previouly circulated unfounded`,
rumours of second adjournment, and found themselves
Woefully disappointed, when they were not only encoun-
tered with unshrinking firmness, but at once disarmed of
their faviurite grounds of censure and opposition, by the

Chancellor of the

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.hequer, that he

should not mil* the renewal of the Property Tax
The " nights of stormy discussion" which Mr. Whit.
bread so complacently anticipated on this impoitant soh.

ject, at the dower the last Sittings, then vanished array
as a dream. The " Inquisitorial" Hydra with which fir,
Ponsonby intended to assail the Ministry, fell headless at
the blow, and Alr. Tierney's wits were so disordered, oat'
a whole hour elapsed before he could recover himself suf...
ficiently to offer the least cavil ; and when he did tie
it was with so much evident frivolity and injustice, that
his own party were ashamed of the attempt, and refused
to share in its folly. It was indeed an excess of stupidity,'
only justified by the riAounding stroke which he had just
received, which could induce this Gentleman to. press the .
Chancellor of the Eichequer to enter into an immediate
explanation of tha finit tidal measures %%hid' he had stilted
he would propose to the Mouse on Friday the 17th, or to
doubt the necessity of such measures, after abandoning ser
abundant a source of revenue as the Property Tax. .But
his importunities had the fate which they merited : they
did not even excite (the usual height of his ambition) a
single Nith, and he had the mortification of perceiving
that the House vas couscions of his want of wit.
As to the nature of the financial measures which it is
the intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pro.
pose, we should fall into the very same absurdity as Mr,
Tierney, did we pretend to untold it. Some alarm hag
been experienced by certain individuals, lest a fresh -ap-
plication shotild be made to the Sinking Fund. But the
clamours of a few are not to be put into comparison with
the joy of a whole nation. Considetable reductions wilt
undoubtedly be made in our public expenditure ; but ar.,
rears must be paid, and sufficient means must be afforded
for that purpose. A nation cannot leap at once from a,
state of extreme expense into one of extreme economy.
The clange must be gradual. When the Samson hand of
Peace is preparing to pull down the great pillar of our re,
venue, we must he allowed to erect lighter ores, to pre.
vent the splendid edilice from becoming a heap of ruins,
Here, however, the skill of the architect may do much
.art may supply the place of numbers; and, with diminished .
weight, the well poised structure may boast equal solidity,
On Friday last, another Meniber of the opposition,- Mr.
Horner, who bad recovered his spirits still more slowly thatt
Mr. Tierney ; attempted to renew the chat ge against Ministers,
and bellowed most lustily against the intended renewal of the
Bank Restriction Bill, which he denominated " an alarminl
measure." Unawed by the powers of his v&ce, we would
appeal to his reason, and ask him, whether it would not be
much more alarming to abandon hastily a tnewore which
presents foreign enemies,- having moor,' in our funds. aria
discontented persons at home, from cawing a dangesous,
and perhaps a fatal run upon our Rank whenever they. please,
by suddenly withdrawing their stocks an demanding pa*
went in specie ? I las he lot gotten the ari;in of the measure
itself, when suck a run had actually taken place for the pur.
pose of ruining the nation, and when, on le,irning the IQ.
;111((11' promptly and energetically applied by Mr. Pitt, one of
the Revolutionary !cadets exclaimed, in the bitterness of his
soul, The rascal has saved the count y fhe has forgot.
ten, let him revert to the past, and let him consider whe ice
'it would be prudent, on our way to the Temple of. q,en
Peace, and still liable to dangers, to cast ()tithe Weld behind
which we bave hitherto remained invulnerably,

On Wednesday Paris Papers reached town __ •
Some more Frankfort and Brussels Papers also arrived. The
Vienna accounts are filled with descriptions of felesianti
some uninteresting details respecting Catholic establistments
in Germany, and contain no political news. A Prussian
statement from Berlin speaks of the King still persisting in
demanding Saxony, and of his being also desirous of obtain-
ing the Duchies of Mecklenburg; the Duke's obtaining an
pdemnity on the left bank of the Rhine. There does not
appear, however, any reason to believe that the two houses
of Meckleuhurgh will consent to any such exchange. There
is nothing more revolting to the feeling, than the continual
talk in some of the foreign journals, of parcelling out states
and exchanging territory, as if the inhabitants were so many
brad of cattle. in many of these accounts there is nothing
Litt a cold calculation of the population of different portions
of territory, with a siew to their serving for indemnities or
exchanges, without the slightest regard.to the wishes or in-
clinations of the people. Upon this sort of plinciple it is
alleged, that Prince Ilardenburg had sent an extraordinary
courier from Vienna to the Governor of the Middle Rhine,
lo procure, as speedily as possible, an exact statement of the
snhabitants of the country under his government, for the
evident purpose of putting them in the scale of indemnity,
and weighing them against the population of some other
tetritoiy. it is u.terly impossible that a Congress acting
upon such principles can come to any satisfactory conclusion.
They may weigh out indemnities or measure them by the
league, but the peop!e who are thus made the objects of a
sordid traffic, will never forget the means by which they
have been humiliatNl and disgraced.--•It is reported that
King Joachim Murat had entered Rome at.the head of his
troops. The arrests in Italy continticd, and the greatest dis-
content prevailed there.---The Duke of Wellington arrived
at Augsbtogh on the 29:11 ult. pursuing, without delay, his
journey to Vienna. Ills Grace was accompanied by his
nephew, Mr. Wellesley, Colonel Fieemantle, and two other
A ides -de-Cain

The train of amusements at Vienna has had an accession
of variety, by a fortunate fall of snow, and a grand sledge
party. The four first places were assigned, according to the
established rules of precedencr?, to the four reigning .Sove-
feigns who engaged in the sport. The Emperor of Austria
led the train, having the Empress of Russia under his care;
the Empercr of Russia came next, with the Princess Dowager
.of Auetsperg. The King of Prussia occupied the third
place, with a Countess Zichy Festititx. The Grand Duke
of Baden was fourth. The other places were determined
14 lot. Eugene Beauliarnois was of the party. Lady Cass-
dlereagh was nearly last, being 31,st of 33 in all, with Count
T. Zichy, son of one of the Austrian Ministers. The cars
ia;es and the entire set-outs were very splendid; the cava-
liers and the ladies were superbly dressed. flaying paraded
the streets of Vienna, the party drove to the palace of Schoeia-
Lruu, where a splendid dinner was prepared. In the even-
ing the opera of Cinderella was performed, with some ballets
prepared for the occasion. At the close the party returned
to the palace at Vienna by torch light.
Friday-, Paris and Brussels Journals arrived, the former to
the 7111 imtant. The accounts in them from Vienna, state
that Lord Castlereagh had submitted a propsirion to Con-
giess for the general abolition of the Slave Trade, which it
bad been at length agreed should be dismissed in a General
Committee, eon,isting of the Ministe:s of all the great
rowers. It is added, that all the Powers, in doing homage
pp the general principle, insist that the trade shall not be
holishe,l, except after a certain number of years. As to the
valet points before Congress, nothing-is yet to ba found of

FEB. 12.

; 'SO hopeless had the Plenipo-
tentiaries become of any speedy termination of their labours,
that. some. of tbem had. sent for their wives .IQ consololliem
during their protracted stay, whilst others had gone home,
intending to return when the negociations were more ad-
vanced. Italy appears to continue in a state of great fermen-
tation. It is again said that the Austi ian territories there are
to form a kingdom, to be called the Kingdom of Upper Italy,
of which it is added Venice is to be the capital. Murat is
reported to have surrounded Rome with his army, and to
have issued a proclamation, in which be lowers the Pope
to Oe:mere title of Bishop of Rome; but none of the state-
ments present themselves in .an authentic shape. Kilig
Joachim has been lately addressed by the Nobility of his
kingdom; in his answer he uses the following expression:
" Our first want is the independence of the nation. This Is
"Utilized: it is secured by the valour of my army."• A re-
markable declaration is stated in a Swiss Journal to have been
transmitted by the ci-devant King of Sweden to Sir Sidney
Smith, to be delivered to the Congress, in which he alleges
that his act of abdication was signed under duress, and he
therefore revokes it,. declaring at the same time that he bad
never renounced the throne of Sweden in the name of 'his
son.

Frankfort Papers to the 3d,. and Brussels to the jth iust.
were received 'on Friday. They have some warlike specula-
tions referring•to the movements of troops, and the keeping
up of large armies; and contain a few further details front
Italy respecting the discontents that prevail there, and the
dispute between King Joachim and the Pope. A spy from
Elba is said to have been arrested at Civita Vecchia. The
contents of these papers are under the head Forei4n Intelli-

geuce.
A Commission has been appinted by the king of France
to proceed through the departments which suffered in the.
Vendean war, and to enquire upon the spot into the suffer-
ings and situation of the widows and orphans of the brave
Royalists, who were so barbarously Isutchered during the
sanguinary contest in La Vendee. The Commissioners have
.been every where teceived with gratitude.
The Jews; are allowed to reside at Rome only on condition
of their appearing once a week in a Church where Mis-
sionaries arc appointed to recommend their conversion.
Vergers patrole the aisles, and touch with a white wand the
yellow badge on the shoulders of those who fall asleep. The.
richer Jews attend with cotton in their ears. There is
usually about Easter an annual conversion of some Jew, who
is baptised with great exultation, and liberally rewarded. fie
often relapses again about Christmas, in order to be ready
for the next anniversary triumph of the faith.
The Jesuits are said to have been very successful in pro-
pagating Christianity at Tunis, where they have a college.
In different cities of Africa they have found powerful pro-
tectors.

An envoy sent by the Pope to inquire into the state ,of
the Catholic religion iu the Netherlands, has been sent out
of the country.

By Papers received from the United States, it appears that
the insurrections in several parts of South America are ac-
quiring strength, while the means of repression on the part of
the Spanish Government are diminishing. We learn that the
combined troops of Buenos Ayres and Chili had towards the
end of last year, completely routed the Royalist army of Peru.
On being informed of the defeat of the army, the people of
Lima and other parts immediately revolted, and declared
Peru independent. According to these accounts, Guayaquil
was the only town in Peru which remained in the hands of

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