The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

I&XTRACTS FROM TIIE D %MY MORNING PAPERS,
September 30, 1:3422.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We can state positively that the Government
of India has been offered to Lord Melville. Ills
Lo.rdship was in Scotland at the time he received
communication to that effect, and is expected
in town daily. Unless an objection should arise
from the delicate state of Lady Melville's health,
the appointment, it is presumed, will be accepted
by his Lordship. Ills successor at the Admiralty
hit* not been mentioned.

.The Paris Papers to the c27th inst. have arrived.
They communicate very little foreign intelligence.
One of them announces the receipt of MadricrJour-
..nals,by express, in which a declaration of outlawry
appears against the Marquis of Mataflorida,
Querada, the Trappist, and some other leaders
:of, their Party. he French troops, which have
-. hitherto borne the title of the Sanatory Cordon,
• oO the Southern frontier, are, in pursuance of a
royal 'ordinance lately issued, to maintain their
. positions-- as an iirtny of Observation. Almost
from 'the first moment of its organization, this
force-was looked upon as intended to serve the
.:very :purpose which is now officially acknow-
ledged. The department of the Somme has been
again visited with.the same calamity which some
time since excited so much alarm in. several of
the French departments. .• No fewer than four
frres have lately taken place in different quarters
.of it, in the space of *so many days, and in one
'instance the flames extended to such a degree, as
to ,consume forty-four houses, together with other
,property

[MORNING CHRONIC LE.3
Among the Candidates, for what may be
called the Sovereignty of India, who have already
been named, it is said that Lord Amherst is
neither-the least solicitous nor the least hopeful
Hof :success, although the public have hitherto
apparently taken little notice of his pretensions.
.I,t Is reported that his Lordship reckons consi-
derably upon Lord-Liverpool's interest, and that
if a zealous canvas were sufficient to ensure his
appointment, that event might be deemed no
improbable.

It is reported that in order to impress more
fully on his colleagues the necessity for the ac-
cession of Mr. Canning, Lord Liverpool, in the
late discussions, laid before them the plan of the
new financial arrangements, which he has it
in contemplation to propose in the ensuing
Session. One important part of these arrange-
ments we understand is, the substitution of
a Tax, on Property for Assessed Taxes,
which are to be repealed to the amount of
some millions a year. - In this way it is
hoped that the Country Gentlemen may be
quieted, without any sacrifice on the part of the
Exchequer (the •amount of Property tax equalling
that of Assessed Taxes repealed), and that con-
sequently the Civil and Military Establishments
of the country may be preserved from further
reduction. Besides the expectation that monied
men will:be made to pay much more by a Pro-
perty Tax than they do at present, while the
country gentlemen will pay less, Ministers may
also- have in view the. reaching those who now
consume their revenues abroad, and the tempting
those.to return whom the Assessed 'Taxes have
driven away. Of course every shift will be tried
before entering seriously on reduction. Whether
or not the country gentlemen will be satisfied
without any reduction is a question which will of
course, be variously answered, according to the
notions entertained of them.—( Ibid.)

[NEW TIMES.]
We felt it our duty, a few days ago, to animad-
vert on the state of .the Spanish Finances. It is
hardly necessary to contend that this subject
touches British interests very closely. The means
by rhich alone the authority of the democratical
-faction can even for a short time be maintained
in Spain are foreign loans ; and no loan can be
raised in any. part of Europe without speedily
finding its way into our money market. We shall
not:at present dwell on the general effect of fo-
reign loans on the agriculture of our own country.
itlias been said that of the twenty-eight millions
sterling which were raised by foreign States in
1k320 and 1811, full eighteen millions were nego-
ciated. Bo* far such- a drain on British capital
may have tended to aggravate the distress so
loqdly complained of, it is at present unnecessary
to,. dispute. If there be any portion of truth in
the opinion'that domestic taxation impoverishes
a country, it would seem to be true a fortiori
that a foreign loan mdst impoverish it more. If
the ..devoting three or four millions out of the
national. capital to pay clerks, soldiers, tax-
gatherers, and other dependents of Government,
'-wit.o.expend..vvithin The country all that they re-
ceive, be- a national burthen, surely to devote,
out of the same capital, eighteen millions to ac-
cortuniodate foreign.. Governments, who will ex-
pend in England no part of what they receive,
Enttst. lie an infinitely heavier burthest.

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[AMMING llERAzfeEr.]:
It gave as much pain to read the account of
the number whom the Recorder, an. Saturday,
sentenced to. be hauggd. We do hope, however,
that his Molest), will avail himself of the humane
A.er, which was passed last Session of Parliament,
an&that he. do.away with the horrid punish-
ment' in all cases, excepting that of the crime ofl
murder. It is a mode of pnnhhment quite con-
trary to the spirit of the doctrines of Our Saviour,
banded down to us by. his Apostles ; and we think
that the, present King,. George the Fourth, cannot
do any thing that will more command the affection
of his subjects general ly„than to say to his Council,
-whgn it.presents..to.him a death warrant to sign,
ex.c.eptlit the, case of ,murder, " Take it.awrry, I
will:,,not sign it." it is an idle anti-Christian
talk to preach about the protection. necessary to
be .given to trade . and: commerce, by hanging