The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-19 00:00:00

LONDON,•DECEMBER 19, 18.01.

WE-this morning received Paris journah of the
instant,' one day later than those which came
to hand yesterday. The following are their prin_
cipal contents
The Rouen 3ournal„contains a Letter from the
/ •
Minister of the Interior, stating that it is not the
intention of Government at present to negotiate a
Commercial Treaty with England.
The river Seine' is still so high as to cover both
the Ouays.

A violent, hurricane committed considerable ra-
vages at Havre on the 9th inst.
It has been observed that the Po, since the in-
undation which has laid the surrounding country
more than six feet under water, has been covered
•
with a prodigious quantity of snakes and vipers.

The Tiers Consolide on the i 3d), Were 53. 15.

NAPLES, Nov. 7.—The Wife of the Presumptive
Heir of ate Crown, who has been ill for some
months, has died at--the age of 24 yezills and 6
months ; she was the Daughter of 14 o kOLD, Grand
Duke of Tuscany.
The Aid-de-Camp .of the-General in Chief Me.
RAT, has carried to General SOLIGNAC the•order
immediately to evacuate the States of His Sic r-
LIAX MAjESTY. The Republican Troops.are- al-
ready on their march—some go by sea, and others
by land.

ROME, Nov. 21.—The Holy Father, tueaning
to take solemn possession to-morrow of 'the E•ecle..•
siastical State, has informed the Public by an Ediet,
that His Holiness, in consideration of existing cir-
cumstances, desires that all expensive.pomp-sliOUld
be avoided upon thii occasion.
ViENNA, Nov... 28.—Mr. PAGET, the Fmglish
Ambassador, has notified to. the GRAND DUKE of
TuscAwv, that 'notwithStanding his intervention -
with 'he French Government; the laita ginily -per-
sist in adhering.to the stipulation in the Treaty. of
Luneville, by which that. Prince is to be indemnified
in Germany. The English Government, it is 'said,
proposed that the State of Venice should be given
to him, as an Indemnity, so that the Territories
which he was to receive in Germany might devolve
to Austria.—On the other . hand, Citizen CHANT-
PAGNY has barn order ---•=rpts...._ ar
our Court the pretensions of the STADTHOLDER to
an Indemnity.—Both these objets, it is supposed,
• will be settled at Amiens.

HAGUE, DEC.. s.—By a publicition of the Exe-
cutive Power, dated the 24th of NoVember, it is
ordered, that the Law for prohibiting the Importa-
tion of British Merchandize shall continue inforce
till further orders, or at all,evcuts till the end of
April next.
This measure, which was by no means expected,
after the directions which were- issued for the re-
establishment of Commerce with England, has de--
rangedour Merchants- v,ery much, particularly_ those
of Rotterdam, who carry on the greatest trade with
Eno-land.
According to the cnnstituttonal A 6, the Meet-
ing of the Legislative Body were to terminate on
the istli December, but Government• has pro.:
longed their Sitting till the 2CI of. January.

The.first Packet-boat from Harrtpicob to klekoet-
SkyS is expeaed to-morrow. .
There are seven Ships fitted out for. the East In-
dies, and they will sail before the eod of the. year.
The Asiatic Council has engaged a great numberpf
persons to go to our Colony "in the Island.ofj4p-z?a.

Mt L.kisT, Nov. 3o.—More than- 300 Deputies to
.the Assembly at Lyons have already commenced their
kith) ey for that -place. Several of the Notables who
were appointed by Government, have refused to go.
Some of the ETeOions which have taken place in the
country, ,have been declared void.

Mr. JONES has given notice of a Motion after
the Recess, for the repeal of the Tax on Income.—
He supposes this to be a race against the Minister
for popularity.—Nothing is so common' as far men
of little wit, to take advantage of the thoughts of
others. We do not positively say . that Mr. AD.
DINGION means •td repeal the Income buty, but
we have heard such a report ; anct so, no doubts has
Mr.Joras.

If the War had continued, we' should have -been
the last to have suggested the-repeal of this Duty ;
on the contrary, we should have endeavoured to
have pointed out means for its better colleftion ;
for, with all its imperleaions and evasions, we do
not think that so large a sum could be-raised an-
nually on the Nation in any mode more free from
01)jettion. But the War being at an end, the ques.
tion nowis, whether the Peuple flail bear the In-

come Duty for the next nine or ten years (acco Id-
ing as the price of the Fends may be), or whether
the Interest of Fifty-six Millions, the sum far
which the Income Tax is pledged, shall be defrayed
by annual Taxes, in the common mode of imposing
them.

Upon this point, when we.consider the burthens
which the Nation has already borne -far the prose
cution of the War, se have no difficulty in saying
that we-should think the,tepeal of the Income TaX
an advisable measure, and the more so, %Olen wilt
-. •
consider the increasing amotfit of the Sinking Ftindi.
-and the rapid extinftion of the Public Debt,' &ring
Peace.

We are well aware that the winding up of the
War will occasion this • year some additional ex-
pence, and we are also satisfied that our Peace-Esta-
blishment cannot be reduced nearly to what it for-.
marly was; but the first of these cannot go to any
very heavy expence, from the mode which has been-
aidopted in the course of the late War, of leaving
as little arrear as.possiblein the different branches
of Public Service, and the
.increase of the Peace
Establishment, which we expert and..,hope will be
Considerably augmented (for, withoUt an increase we
Cannot provide for our security); -is- not likely, I
any, view of it, to require such additional Supplies
as win render it'burthensOrne'fo raise the Taxes ne
. ,
cessary for it, as well as thOse for - the Interest of
•
the Fifty-six-Millions weltave beforetnentioned.

It is generally understood, that the Budget for
the year will be opened soon after -the Meeting
Parliament in February. next. L •

Neither of the two Rambirgh Mails due, .Fal
arri‘cd when this Paper was put to Press.

There was yesterday 'a grand Breakfast
.at ttie.
Queen's- House, at Which the PtuNctss-of WAL-Est.
with seyerar branches of the 'lcty Ai„ FAM I L
the Princess of ORANGE were 'present. The PRINeA
continues at Brighton. , • - .

- . . .
_The Countess of IVIAc t I;,ESEIE.L. D. was introdpce4
to the QUEEN on Jhursdiy, and had the honour-to
kiss Her-Majesty's Hand,
.on ippointed. 010
of the Ladies of the Beciehamher,An the Mein th°
late Countess of HOILIEItIItSSE.
Viseouht CR ANLEY was introduced by his Fatter)
the Earl of ONsLow.

• The ROYAL FrTAM ILY were attended at the Theatre
last night by the Earl of MACCLESFIELD, as:Lord
of the Bedchamber, the Countess of ELY, Vis*
countess SIDNEY, and Lady A. CUMB E/ILAN D.
The CHANCELLOR was yesterday called. out of
Court by Mr. NEPEAN in the progress of a very
interesting cause; and after staying a few minutL-
out of. Court, his Lordship returned to adjourn. 616
public business, and went away. It was srivose,l,

to a Commission to be sent to Ireland, for ilte jai
metiiate trial of the Mutineer& of'the TenAraire as
Formidable.

Yesterday a Meeting, called anonymously, wag
held of the Merchants concerned in the Trade 0,
France, to consider of the new Regulation adopted,
at the General Post Office, of charging the Inland,
Postage to Dover, upon Letters direEted for that
Country. This charge is new, but it is nor the
less just. It is a charge which is, made upon Fa:
reign Letters to every other part of the Globe, ail
which the French themselves base made for a low.;
series of years ;- there can surely be no good reasol
adduced against the measure.

Last night the first Mail was dispatched frosts 016
Foreign Post Office to Paris.
Some of our Papers, having nothing else, we
prebend, to impose upon their Readers-, attempt '°
excite a doubt with respeet to the Signature of 1114
Definitive Treaty, upon the ground of no Plenipcy
tentiary having arrived from Spain. For such 4
doubt, no reasonable cause at all exists, for. the ac'
quiescence of-Spa. in in the Cession of trillidado %%'3'
ensured Isefore ever .the Preliminary Treaty sglls
drawn ; and wofind,,by the French Papers of yes',
terday, that the groand of doubt . from there berg
no Spanish Minister at Amiens, is by -this' time re'
Moved, as M. DEL CAraro was' on his. route ail'
ther very early in the .present month... We have c°.
beg..Ahat the Public will .isay no, attention to whi3„.‘
Ise). see in these speculating Papers, •as,.-if they' A,
they will certainly be :misled.
It is. confidently said on the Continent, that tbd
Covornmersat..of-lirancer ,and 'the Courts of Madre
and Naples, interest theinselves muds -in:,favour.f6
M.,..tiomrEsex, for.. his re-establishment -in the
dignity of Grand Master of_Malta.-
• There.zronow in'the House of Lords seven Chalr,i
of State for—the... Princes. The Pa IvCEof \V LO
Seat is on the right-hand of the Throne, the 001`0
six are on the left. These would net have beet:
sufficient room to have
.placed them in. the 501-
manner in .the old House of Lords.
Lord HtTTC II illsoN, of Alexandria, is the seveatll
Peer in the
.Iniperii.l:Peerage, 'who take their tits 3
nominally from those places . where they atchievea
-glorious or memorable actions : the others ,rot
Lords AMHERST of Montreal HE.VrHFIELD ri
Gibraltar ; -ST., VI NC ENT of St. Vincent ; DuNCi:
.of CairipertiOwn ;. NELSON of the Nile; and MENd
LitOMBEY, Of:AbOUkii.

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Rumours of strong Parties existing in Paris, Wtii
been in circulation for a day or two, at the heaj
one of which- is said to be'a General of high dis,
tion. That' Parties exist in France is well 0
but ive doubt that any have ventured openly
avow their in4entions,' if they alually meditate''
active hostility to the Government.

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