The Sun.
London, England, 1814-11-09 00:00:00

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that the Sth of C tuber, 1813, bad been a most
painful nay for t /ern : the Americans were then
• let; lonse to ph rider, and: the Moravians were
obliged to surrender every morsel of bread.in their
possession, t heir potatoes,. and 600 pounds of flour
svhielt ;hey .had. laid up for their winter provi-
sions„ Not even a single outhouse was spaced.
..I.lns was nut under the pretence of retaliation ;
was done tarough mere wanton cruelty, and after
such an example. on the part of the enemy, few
persons would b,e -disposed to quarrel with the
Orders issued by Sir George Prevost. On the•
4th of August this Commander stated in these
Orders, that such conduct was derogatory, to the
character of America, and to the honour of hu-
manity, and felt it his ditty, in consideration of
the safety of his Majesty's subjects, which was
exposed as long as such outrages remained un-
punisherl',..to call loudly for retaliation as a 'pre-
ventive measure, trusting that the Commanders •
of his Majesty's Naval Forces would seize
every opportunity that offered to retaliate, on the
enemy. Having thus shewn the fatal but urgent
necessity of retaliation, he would sincerely joie in
deprecating and la tenting it. But now it rested
with the Americans to give us the example of-
forbearance
,and milder proceedings, and we
should be very happy to follow it. As to what
hadLail. been said respecting the violation of private
property, the enemy themselves acknowledged
that the plunder had been committed by their 1,
own people. The .Honourable Gentleman bad
also attacked another branch of the Administra-
tion, the Board of Admiralty. He had stated
that the British flag yielded no protection to•the
British trade, and that the privatcers of the United
States had swept away all our merchant vessels
from the seas. This was rather an extraordinary as-
tertion. But perhaps the /lon. Gentleman had made ,
a mistake, and meant the _Aoierica, instead of the
English trade.* lathat case, the people wonld molar
easily understood him. The fact was; that through-.
out the year only 200 British vessels. had been.
taken, and not. oue of them tinder convoy. Of
these, indeed, eleven were not compellable to sail
tender convoy. 'These actual losses would appear.
unimportant when comparell
:with the extent of
our navigation. He would select a year, even
under Lord Chatham's administration, 1761, in
which tbeaminber of captures made by French
privateers amounted to 800 ! At that time, how-
erer,,. our navigation was not one-third ateconsi'-'
derable as it now was ; and yet no one thought
of saying our trade was not protected. 'Such.a
number of captures, on the present scale of, our
'navigation, would be equal to at least 2.500 vessels.
On the other .hand, in the current year; not
less than 37 American vessels laid been taken by'
our cruizers-; of these 38 were Government Yes;
sell,_ and 199, privateers. Yet, instead, of tejoic:-
jug at
,the successes thus c.btained, he felt. More
inclined to deprecate the,continuance of the war.
But the hope of its_terudnation by a secure peace'
Iptist depend on the willingness, of. the Anierican
Government to meet our terms. At this peritrd,
be thought it would be improper to be more ex-
plicit. Ile would therefore giV-e no ansiver to the
intimation, rather than the question put to him
by the' lion. Gentleman respecting the state of
the negociatiOo at Ghent. The propOsed. Ad-
dresses, he repeated., only went to thank the
'Prince Regent tor the continued expression Of the
pacific disposition which he professed, and Satisfac-
tory proofsof wh Jell would be laid before the house
svhen the•eorrespondeace between the begoci-
ators', should be produced.._ As the flourishing
state of our revenue Vv,:is mentioued both in the
Speech- and in the Address, it would no doubt be
expected :that_ he shonlil give some statements to
Geri ify that liare*aSaertion. He would 0-(') it by
giying a comparative view Of the produce of the
revenue in the last two year's. In the last quarterof
that concluding on the 10th Of
_October, 1813., it
bad amounted to 18,53.1,000/. In time last quar-
ter finishing on the oth October of the.present
year. to 19.437,002. The reveinie 'Of the
whole year ending is October, 1813, was
60,876,am. That of the present year, end-
ing in October last, 63,461,000/. which proV-
ed an increase in the last year' of two
lions and about six hundred thonsand potmdS. •
receipts in the Customs' in 1813 were .1

10,16;,•:)06/. ; in ISI4, 12,423,000/. So tlig

there was in this single branch an increase of
2,256,0Q0/. The Excise, in. 1813, had produced
22,561,000/. and fa' • 1814, "24,160,0001. He
would not trduble the Ifouse with 6016' details

of this nature at this mornent; but would proceed
to spew the progress of trade since the year 181'4:
The returns for the present year were, not coin.:
pletely nyade out for every part Of the country
he would, therefore, only notice those of the port
of London, h jell' were the most perfect% The
value of the exports frQlll.that port for three guar-

.tees" of a year were . . -
In 1612, 14,446,000 In 1814, Z25,8(28,000 '
In 1 18,9M,0(161
So i ).:ir 1813 nearly doubled, and .181 A almost
trebled, the amount of exports in 1812. .It might
be said, why since the revenue was so flourishing,
should money he needed ? Itwas natural to sup-
pose that the want of money was one of the rea-
sons that had occasioned the early call of Partin-

inent,. and that want sprung from the arrears of
1813 and- 181.1,. which remained to be
The• necessity of yroviding for the liquidation
of these had occurred at an earlier period than
was expected. It chiefly proceeded from this,
that circumstances had arisen which had led Mi-
nistt rs to *apply nearly the whale vote of credit
intended for the Army, to the service of the
Navy. Thi %vas done tsithout injuring the inte-
rests of,(►nr soldiers, but solelytecause the number
of seamen who had returned had far exceeded
the, rdeulation. that bad been made. Oct that

tccount the army arrears were considerable. He

hart only taken up the points which he thought
required cxpianatinn at this period, and if the

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../Ipnourable Gentleman was not satiified, lic'really
'did not Allow ‘vliat he eoulft say more for his
gratification. The Honourable Gentleman, .tiOur-
I. N cr, "badcolanenteci on the.procetdings of the

Prince Regent in air ering the. title Pt Elector of
ilanover inr.o that of Kiag. The Electorate of 11a-
ti.over vas 'the only one that remained in Germany,

find had nOW midergune the same alteratiou as the
test; Wilea-t he German Empire had ceased to
tic, elective, and all its members had assumed what

title/dtvy pleased,. the Decor pi: Hanover was

ccoainlyuo. t bound to remuin,satisfieti with eau in-