The Sun.
London, England, 1806-05-03 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY.

A .considerable number bf well-known Amateurs
and Patrons of the Arts were admitted yesterday to
a private view of the Piaures, which are finally ar-
ranged for the ensuing Exhibition.- We will ven-
,ture .to,say that the Arts. are in a very prornising,
'state of progression, and that-many of the juvenile
Artists will be found to have made great advances
since last year. Among these, OWEN; THMsisoN,
and CALcorr make a distinguished figure..
OWEN'S chef d' Gollyre, this year,-is a Pi&ure upon
the well-known story of :The children in.the. Wood,.
a beautiful composition in design, colouring, :and
eff-ea. .

. .
THomlf sos best perform7nce is . derived from
ANACIIEON, Love received. on a cold Rainy, Night,
and- he. has treated the subjea: with felicity._ _
CALCOTT has two Sea-pieces, which will consider-
ably raise his reputation. . ,
HOPPNER has added to his high charailer by seve-
ral very fine Portraits,
,particularly one of that ever-
to-be-revered and lamented Patriot, Politician, and
ornament as well as friend to human nature, the
late M. PITT. His Portrait of Mr. FRERE is also
remarkably excellent.
ONE is very much improved in the . representa-
tion of the female charaaer.

LAWRENCE has some admirable Piaures, among
which is a, Portrait ofa fair neighbour of the Marquis
of AnEacottN; .with a child and a dog. The. whole
is executed with. beauty had spirit, and_ has the usual
splendbr of his peucil.
Mr. Pop, the AatOr, has some exquisite. Portrait
Drawings. .•
It would, however, be an of of great injustice to
pass over a work by a very young Scotch Artist, whose
name,we understand, is 'S. LKI E. his the reFesenta=
tion of the interior of a Country-Ale-house. The cha-
raders are admirably defined and varied, and it is no
flattery' to say that there is hardly any thing to, be
found in the Flemish School superior to this effort
of juvenile, genius ; if his future efforts should but.
correspond with this proof of his talents, Scotland
will have as much reason to be proud of him as
-England has of her fIoGART.J.
We are sorry that we see nothing from WEST,
BEI:011E1r, or FA ARINGTON, this year.
The veteran LOUTIIERROURGH, has' sent some
works. which; have all his usual spirit, and Boti-R.
GEotssfully maintains his character.
Among the ,amateur contributionS we were much
. gratified in seeing four charming Landscapes from
:the classic pencil of Sir GEORGEBEAU MONT, one .of
" which is founded upon The Thorn, a Poem, in the
beautiful, simple, and affe&ing Works of Wolips-
'WOßTH.
If the Exhibition was delayed this year, the public
will have an, ample compensation in laudable pride
and pleasure arising.from the triumphant progress of
the BRITISH ARTS. '

HARRISON'S Annual COricert took
plsce last night hi the Great Room at the Opera-.
House ; and, as usual on his nights, had an over-
flowing Audience, the due tribute to his profes-
sicnal skill and private worth. The Band was led
by Wklctisf.f., and the Orchestra was abundantly.
supplied with the best' Performers. The vocal deparV
went was filled by HARRISON, Miss PARKE, Mrs.
VAUGHAN, Signora GRIGLIfTTI,' VAUGHAN, W.
KNYVETT, and BARTLENIAN..--The Vaal in I In-
st'umental Pieces. were selected with great judg-,
twnt, and were admirably executed. HARRISON
everted all hi&--powers tp requite the liberal pa-
Ifonage that attended -him. He particularly distill-
wished himself-in " See from the silent Grove,
it. which be gave a chaste, beautiful, and itilercsting
lesson to the -decoratj-ve tribe of 'ilociern Singers
,tiat gained hi iii the Warm applause at the judicious,
s well as,of the audience in.general. -A new Air
.aid Recitative, on the glorious %'iC:tOry at Trafalgar,
vas highly creditable to the Composer,, Dr.
core, and was well sung by BA'RT,I.E lAN. The
vhole was. 3 fide Urn-ionic treat, - . .

NA PA
.L N E Wg;

'PCYifou'rU,'MAY the1..41/I-?ii.4li:', :-
Frigate, ot- 3:6', guns, Captain: P.o7:'-i.'Tz,;‘ froth
Admiral" Sir It. 'STRACHAN'S`Scinadron,- which
left a few days since to the-Westward, On their,.re-
turtr.to England- frOM: a Cluize off Madeira ; they
unfortunately have neither seen or heard of either of
the,French SquadronS vv-hith are e.ruizing.
Arriired the Frisk Ciitter: from the channel, Fleet.
Arrived the Arnerican Sin.; fokii and....4vice, J. L.
BAYER Master, laden with brandy.; ,froni Cette,. foi •
this Port ; 'the American. Brig -21/ei-c/zant, Captain
CASSEN, laden I\th-sugar, Bcc. from Charlesto•,vn;
'bound- to Hamburgh, detained' by• His -Mak!sty's
Ship Alificore ; the Lubec' Brig IndliOry, Captain
LimuicEi laden with wine and brandy, frOrn'Bour-
deaux-, detained by the :Lady Warrea Awned chip;
the Lubec Gcllioi Anna lilargeiretta, Captain So 7
SEMIEL, Jaden . with wine, -&-e." froth •Bov.rdeaux,
detained by the Harlequin Armed 'Ship 5 the Prus- •
r '
siau Galliot 'll'oU:arth, Capt. NORMAN, from Isle de
Rile,- in ballast, bound to Bott.ledux, detained, by
His. Majesty's. Ship •Hazard, the Breinen Brig
Pienintob; Capt.. 3.4.r,niJit'o, laden. with barley, and
tYp, from St. Ander°, bound to BrCMe-i, detained
by Abe Betsy-Privateer 5, the At:aerie:in Brig Marc,,
Capt. DAsnwoou; laden with, oorfee; , • &c.
from Boston, bound to Amsterdam, dcic.ined by the

,Betsy Privateer. • •
Sailed the Rose Cutter, laden with, tobacco 'and
spirits,
.havirig beeri liberated frOm her deter ion by
the Pitcenix Frigate. i••

UARN:VICI-1,, MAY 2.-:—The PaCket, Captai
StEWARD, sailed yesterday for. Husum, -with. the
Hambro' and Bremen Mails; and at-the same Mile'
an extra Packet With a Mail for Gottelibargh,

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FALMOUTH, APRIL 30. --Arri;•ed tine IhIMIT7:
Atmed Ship, Capt. I.3iii, frOm a•Cruiz,e; and the
Eliza Ann, cn from -Messina.

YARMOUTH, MAy o.—Arrived 'the Lady Francei
Packet, from flusum, with Mails and. Passengers.
Sailed A.drriiral ItussELL for a Cruiie off the
Coast of. Holland: •

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 2.—Arrived His Majesty's
Ship Isis from the, Dovtius with the following iudia-
men under convoy ,:—The Monies, RICFIES, and the
Royal Charlotte, PATTERSON, for China; Marquis
Wellesley, LELAND, for Coast and Bay ; and Had-
dart, BAYLIFF, for, Madeira arid Bombay; also the
Teigninouth Sloop of War, from the Downs, fbr
India. . • •

His I\lajesfy's Ship .Dwinegal haS detained 'and
sent into this Port -the- Eliza, SHELL, from '• St:
Thoma's's, bound Bremen;.laden with coffee, &c;
The 27th Regimen( of Foot: embarked here this
morning for the Cape 0fq904 ope.

DEAL, MAY C.—Sailed La Sybelle .to the West
ward ; the Dgvastation Bomb has just made the
signal for getting under Aeigh, with the Transports
and outward-bound Ve;lsel§ for Portsmouth. •

The 21st, 3 ist,- and 54th regiments of infantry
have marehed.frcini Colchester Barracks tO Tilbury.
Fort, ,where they are tO eMbark for foreign service.
..A;fewtdayS since a. couple repaired to a church,
not many-miles from Coggeshall, jh Essex, for the
purpose•of having their child christened, but wlrCn
.the Clergyman and party appeared at the font, it was
discoVered that:the parents had left the child at home.
Yesterday, a truly ladit;rois rugilistic Contest
took place in St. James's-street.-4 party of May-
day 'Chimney Swe'epS Were. exhibiting their garlands
in faint of White's COffee-bouse, \\lien a Gentleman,
who was pleased with their eccentricities, threw out
• a shilling ; the motly group rushed to pick it up,
and in the scuffle, the piece of money Wias lost
.; it
appeared that the party had strong ground to belieVe
that the lady of the company had secreted the same;.
in consequence of which she was: publicly accused,
and denying the charge, a challenge ensued; a fight
followed, and. the borrowed finery was quickly torn
from. the. combatants, They fought. with great
courage near half an hour, Whert:the'boy xi,ho ware
The fernale , habiliments gained' the viaory : and a
man of fashion, who had paid great attention to the
encounter, liberally.rewarded him for his spirit. :
COMPLETE HOUSE ROBBEIM—Some weeks ago
.the house occupied .by Miss Jean, BoSwell,. being
part of n iln house, near Mr. Norman's Nurse-
ries, Ayr, was discovered to have been broken into,
and a' large quantity hi bed and table linen and
blankets 'abstraoied. The chest of :drawers was
broke up in the back, .While the front ot. them re-
mained seemingly entire. Every closet, every trunk
in the house was .broken, and alMost every article,
iticluding bOdy clothes of every kind, silver, tea-,
spoons, &c. carried off. •

A More interesting moment cannot well occur,
than when Fortune is on the point of distributing
no less a •sum than 250;0001. among ,very,
derable number of individuals, who never before, •
perhaps, participated of her •opulence. That mo-
ment is so near commencing as Monday Week. It
is. almost needles,s,to observe,-.ltbat the present rno-•
mentous Lottery Scheme' is 'here alluded to. Can
the consideratiop•of a very Small risk of losing a lit-
tle stake of adventure, haVe a sufficient weight to
prevent an embrace of such a moment, that may so
speedily prove- of immense consequence to an adven-
turer's welfare?
APoTitEoups.----The oldest wipe is ,the most va-
luable, the oldest folks pre supposed' to be the.,
richest, the oldest heads should be the wisest, .and:
the long list of capital Prizes sold CARTER'S and;
Charing-cross, proves that the oldest Office
tha best to buy Tickets and Shares at .

FROM THE FRENCH P'PERS.

ACCOUNT OF, THE ADMINISTRATION OF TIIE FI-.

,ICAN.CES FOR THE 'THIRTEENTH YEAR, SIGNED 13Y

LIDINT, NITNiStER OF FIN NCE.

`!" 'present to yoni Majeity the Accol,int
of :the. Administration .of the Finances for the. t:3th

3 ear.
, . .
The Finances of, the Empii-e rest 'Upon two
fo,melations, immovable as Nature herself—:--the ter-
tiliy-of its soil, and the extent of its populatiOn.

. "It was only in a country uniting,this double ele-
ment of force that prodigies could be performed, such
as Mhosby which the genius .of )60- i'll-aje§ty has
astonished Europe-, without the political ma
chine receiving.iny shock, nor the march of atiairs
experiencing, the smallest derangement.
It W-as necessary imexpeCtedly tO previde for .tri
means of carrying on 'a War in itself uneXpeEiedi tcy
transport,. with :an- unexampled rapidity, numerals
battalions, front one extremity of the Empire"- to
countries Wheretriumphs truly fabUtous - attended
their courage ; and thits, lay' rapidity onnOemeno,
ta.disconcert . the projeas- of the E.nemy; and esta-
"Wish the Empire upon a foundation which henceforth
cannot be shAen.. :• . . .

Bisterity will scarcely helieve it ! Thirty daY-s
have Sufficed for the pfepnfation and execution of
this vast eterprize: The internal Administration,'
however, was so little affeelecl by these eNtraordinary
circurostaaces, whielkh ofreted so-many difficulties to
surtnbunt, that Frduce would have appeared' as a
simple speaator of this. struggle, on which depended
its, deai-eSt intere3tsl if it could for a .moment have
set aside eefie4;tion on the dangers to which it ex-
posed its illustrious' C:hief. Order era's every- where
maintained.: the conscription went on with facility ;
the public revenues were colleted with as much re-
gularity .as in time of Peace; anit on your return,
ytiur Alaj6,ty Was enabled to resume the, execution
of those plans which you had previously formed' for
the amelioratiOn of the Finances, as though Our at-
tention had not been for an instant diverted from
Saell occupattons. . •
From the rust moment that yOut. Majesty turn-
ed your attention to our Finances, you per'ceiVed,
with that acuteness which nothing can escape, and
whiCh is. never deceived, that the contribution upon
land was 'too heavy, whether from' its, amount or
tic m some titult of disuibution and that the love of
s::'ste:n, -which' is so oftn da'nger'ous. as Well in
trance as in the 'physical and moral sciences, had
en-enilered errors in *the Administration,, which
ors' y' be iern-ediett by experience.
" YOur :Majesty then decreed, on one hand, the
excut:on of a general quake, which has been a de-
ski

win in Fethice • for three centuries past ; and,
on the other; the plan, :which has been cobstantiy
followed stice, of preparing successive redu&ious of
tilt; direF.- con tiibidt lobs; by improving the produce
of the taxes levied upon-cOnsumptibn„ and by renew-
ing, ykrrtik necessary modifications for-the prevention
of nsistake and abUSes, old eIItOTYIS, whiCh
rience haft sanctioned, and Which suited the parti-
cular posbion of Franc, in relation to its territorial
and industrial produ4aidns.
" Tlins, since the year g, the real contributions
havebeen ditninisited from year to year, from 15 to
16 millions : the- personal contributions have been
redeccd about 18trillions ;, and the branch of cus-
toms ha's *Veen so extended, as to replace the neces-
sary detalcatiOn in the public treasury.
" 1.1)on thesame priticiple, the contribution upon
personal estates has been converted, in several-town;,
into duties 6f entty ;, and by-this means an end has
ben pUt to the surplus charge; whicb resulted, par=
'tlcniarly to. the' indigent classes, ifrom the Writs dl-
re‘`lted against them for the recovery of taxes,*bich,
occasioning Considerable expence, without any
profit to thp , p>rblic treasury, fell upon those who
were, not able to pay. • •
Upon the same principle agdin, the assessments
have been Multiplied-upon towns and pfirishes, to
se•cure.the payment of their Jexpences, and' the Main-
tcaance.-of their hospiLtNi and they find, by a tax
abnost imperceptible, for the citizen's re-
stinrces, which they could ncithae obtained but with
diff-lenity and murmurs, "13:0 the contribution beed
d re tic levied upon persons and. properties.
This plan will, in the course of the year, receive
new develOpments.
The legislation of the consolidated customs will •
experient:e -so me ameliorations, which Will produCe
a favour: bte effete. upon the produte of that bfanch
Of the Administration."

The. Rep Orr, after stating that it is in contempla-
.
Lion to -rene,V the Tax upon .Salt, but not in the
objeJionabie forrn of the Gab:Ale, prodeeds
This tax will replaCe that at present levied for the
e of the roads, and which never has been
rAishJe. in France, whiih excites frequent quarrels'
and coluinnal remonstraktces; besides, it produces
Scarcely .s 6 Millions 'applicable to its destinatiems,
and thL general:QpiniOn Is, that an itnmense stun is
nise,i, aio that it turns ont only for the advantage
w;11 add, that the net produce of
this tax being`much inferior to the demands of.• that
piirt of the servit-e'to Niiiich it is atfeeted; and which
r, gtiires an annual fund of from 30 to 35 millions,
t fiepublic treasury has been obliged,, since the 9th
year, to make-a considerable sacrifice of the ordinary
revenues to cover the expences of the werks,-Ordinary
and extr.toriti-,u-V, of bridges and roads,' and that
t!, 7-1 11 sacrifice Ia b great the funds 1 •
us ) een
not byxn prOportioncd to the demands upon them.
I'ron the application of these funds there, has
gensibleaniehoraion of the roadS,
are still far froth- being in the state that
s.iTe wished, and the execution of these views
be. very advant4geous both to agriculture and
The , produce of the -.tax on, salt
appropriated solely to the completion of
these views, particularly. to the. improvement of roads
of the second and-third classes;. the Nation will then
be assured, .that they wilLnever sutler from any ad-
ventit!ous circumspnee, or' any •pressing demand,
and that they will always be attended to so as to pre-
vent any degradation, which neglect in this instance.
neve
tails.to occasion: •

of tho fAntiors.

t

ll I.}TLI

Ci7:IIIIICI.CC,

" When the 'budget for' the following year is
brought t..irl,vard, I' shalt propose to your Majesty to
re,luce..the principal of the contribution upon real
,nroperty, in proportion to, the improvement of, the

Tublie-revenues in the 'course of the year, from tae
develQppient Of pe.indireet contributions.
" The-grMs' amount of the Mil-11 to be imposed br
the 'y.6ar 1,807 will be diminklicki provisionall, ;
Ist „? ,105,000 francs.for the expellee of the Doonisr
dasy book,- ‘yllich have been itivosed in addition to
ihe'principil in 1 80(3, and, which, counting from ilte
enSuin:...,. year, paid•out of the general funds of
the public treasury ; one • million for the (le-
ivrtini.ut of ci-devaut Piedmont, in consideration of
tbe •eia.-InSlve sale of salt 'and :tobacco established iti

taese departments,
" This system will condu& us to the ()kWh wh]cli
your Majety has wisely judged necessary to attan,
in °Mei= to maintain France in that high degree of
po*er to which it has been raised by ydur Majesty.
'" Six hundred.millions are indispensible for the
sexpences of every kind of the French Empire in time
.of Peace; and, in fact, as long as our neighbours
per-
severe in the fatal and expensive
_system of keeping
up large armies', Fra m a
nce ost have formidable navy,
and ariuies Sufficiently nurriebus, sufficiently diEci7
piiried, and Stifficiently aCtive to, be in a state at all
times todefendits territory, its honour, and its rights,
and a large proportion of the revenue must be devot-
ed to this object,, even in time of peace.
" A' time of 'war requires still greater means, And
it is by a better system of taxation that your Mo-
desty will assure the possession of them, in order ne-
, rerro be reduced to rest the public service upon the
uncertain and ruinous resource of borrowing.'

". Your Majesty ! has alWays been of opinion that
the system of borcowing,. which is •so favourable to
prodigality, by accumulating debts whickdevours, by
anticipNtion, all 'the resources of futurity, prepares
the ultimate ruin of the Finances, and 'Sometimes, by
this tneAns, the revolution of empires ; and we are'
not perhaps at a distance from, the wra when, in
this resped,-the
,GoverniNents of Europe will receive
A great mid useful lesson: • .
" It :%‘'as reserved for your Majesty thus to em,
hrace in.y,our vast -conceptions the 'interest of every
time, and to sheW tin our remotest posterity the
slime solicitUde which you constantly show for the
interests Of the people who-have the happiness to
Jive under. your Government"
•

[The Ministerthen enters into.the whole detail of the Fi-
rial:eial Accounts forthe last year, which occupy nearly two
spppioncntal sheets of the Muniteur, which, we doubt riot,
Our Readers will easily 'eicuse us fornot submitting to their
inspeetion.]