The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-11 00:00:00

TRADE WITH HAMBURGIL

Extract of a letter dated llamburgh, Decem-
ber 3 :----Our commercial regulations will soon
undergo very material changes. Hitherto our
trade has laboured under three great impedi-
ments--

1. nigh import 'and export duty ;
2. A complicated and almost unintelligible mode of fixing
the price of goods; and
3. A high rate of brokerage. •
By the activity of our present Chamber of
Commerce, our Legislative body will most pro-
bably be prevailed upon to reduce considerably
the rate of duties, and to adapt them to the pre-
sent scale of profit. It is obvious that a diminu-
tion of charge must encourage importation, and
enable our market to cope with any other in
Europe. The present duties are 1,1 per cent.
ad valorem on imports, and a quarter per cent.
on exports. As to our mode of selling goods,
there remained from ancient usage so many de-
ductions and different currencies, so many
weights and measures, as made our market quite
unintelligible to a foreigner ; scarcely ten articles
were sold in the same way, •and the variety of
fictitious agios, drafts, and tretts, gave to our
price current the appearance of the map of Old
Germany. Yesterday a series of resolutions passed
our assembly of merchants, by which it has been
decided, that from the Ist of January next, all
goods shall be sold in Bank money, without any
further deduction than 1 per cent. for cash ; and
that any merchandise sold by weight shall be
quoted and regulated either by, the single pound,
with one half per cent. trett, or by 100 pounds,
with one per cent. trett. There is no doubt but
that the effect of this simple and clear manner of
trading will soon be felt by our intercourse with
foreign countries : It is, however, to be regretted
that the article of sugar, owing to the prevail-
ing antiquated prejudices of our refiners, and their
adherence to old customs, will be excepted, and
remain to be treated in their old way. The 3d in-
convenience of the high rate of brokerage is severe-
ly felt by our trade, especiallyin some articles, and
the necessity of enforcing the law and of putting
a stop to- the daily transgressions of the same, oc.
cupies now seriously our several branches of legis-
lation. A short report on that subject was de-
livered yesterday by the President of our Board
of Trade, at the sitting of the above-mentioned
Assembly, and received with general approval.

~_
M. Dupin the younger, the Counsel for M.
ment. At all events, time is necessaryto think A
-
,
what we want islici of that. In the mean time .lot, argued that the Dramatic Censors were peace; and when we shall have experienced the
neither public functionaries nor agents of au-
thority. advantages or the disadvantages of our Constitu-
tion during the eight years in which it is to be
After the reply of the King's Advocate, the in force precisely as it is, and without altering it
Judges, having consulted toffether, sentenced NI.
-, in the slightest iota, we may then, if it suit us,
Michelot to be imprisoned for five days, and to.
ask the advice of Publicists ; .and if not, we, will
pay a fine of 1,000 francs. -
M. Dardonville, author of a piece entitled not trouble them."
" Reflections on Treason," had been acquitted Inby the sitting of the Cortes of the Ist instant
the report of a Committee on the memorial pre-
the Tribunal of Correctional Police ; the public
sented by the Secretary of Finance was taken
Minister havinc, appealed against this decision,
iM. Dardonville has been condemned to a month's into consideration. The report, which consists
imprisonment, and a fine of 500 francs.—(Le of three articles, in conclusion proposed a grant
Courier Francais.) to the Government of 442,478,117 reals vellon.
TM. Fournier de la Pommeraye, a Counsellor of The estimate of the Minister was 784,896,332
reals, making an excess of 342,418,214 reals in
the Royal Court at Angers, and President of the
Assizes of the Department of the Sarthe, opened the opinion of the Committee over and above
the Sittings by a discourse, in which is to be what was necessary. The Finance Minister sup-
found, verbatim, the following passage : ported the estimate, and stated that there was
“ But how can 1 doubt, Gentlemen, of your inviolable fide- an actual deficiency in the revenue to the
lity towards the children of St. Louis, when I address myself amount demanded. The Committee had sup-
to the best portion of a department which has so recently given'
such striking proofs of it, in driving from the legislative func-
posed that the revenue could be collected in the
tions two enemies of the Bourbons; one of whom has been provinces occupied by the army, but that was not
guilty of a murderous inactivity, and is already sufficiently dis- the fact. A town which the factious had plun-
graced in our history; the other, celebrated eryually for his in- aered could not be expected to contribute any
constancy, and his revolutionary sophisms, has not even the "
honour of being a Frenchman, and never will enjoy that ad- thing. In the province of Tarragona there were
vantage, at least as far as regards frankness and loyalty." not above thirteen towns which had not been
We abstain from making any comment upon occupied by the factious, and the situation of
such language from a Magistrate. other frontier provinces was similar. He con-
M. le Comte Alexis de Noailles, Aid-deXamp tended that the calculations made in his office
to his Royal Highness Monsieur, arrived at I3or- were correct, and trusted therefore that the It appears from the Madrid Papers, that trans-
deaux on the 3d. Cortes would grant the whole of the sum which lations of the French Charter are published with
Romu, Nov. 25.—The health of the Holy had been asked. notes and commentaries, pointing out to the
Father is better than before ;he stoops less, is Senor Muro desired to know the date of the Spaniards tile great advantages which they would
stronger in the limbs, and enjoys a species of se_ dispatch, from Which it appeared that there were derive from a Chamber of Peers, on the plan of
coed youth. .It is true, indeed, that our winter only 13 towns of the province of Tarragona un- that branch of the French Legislature.

FOR THE SUN.

SECULAR CLERGY.

MR. EDITOR—The very logical letter of your

correspondent VESPER. is exceedingly amusing, and
the naviete with which he professes to fear that
44 VERITAS might assail him as a methodistical
writer, if he were to quote certain passages from
the sacred writers," is quite curious. VESPER
writes in a passion certainly, and therefore

very accurate reasoning cannot be expected
from him, but what it is that excites his

ire is not quite so apparent. Is it because
VERITAS has profanely ventured to expose
conduct inconsistent with the respectability of
the sacred calling, and which required the
notice of the superiors of the Church ? or is
it because VERITAS has not afforded to VESPER
the opportunity of citing the sinning party be-
fore his Diocesan ? If it is the latter, perhaps
his choler may be cooled by a reference to John
Bull of Sunday last, where the names of se-
veral clergymen, who have united secular

and mercenary employments with their sacred
functions, are given. Whether the object of the

animadversion of VEIIITAS is there to be found, I
will not pretend to say, but perhaps VESPER may

know.

I was not aware till I heard it from VESPER,

Mr. Editor, that the lives and employment of
the clergy are matters of indifference to the

Heads of the Church. I did not know that
they might nod in their easy chairs, and
wink at unbecoming conduct in those who
have taken upon them the holy calling of the
Priesthood till they receive an unmannerly tap
on the shoulder to rouse them from their slumber,
and to require them to hurl down the thunder of

.heir censure on some guilty party. For my own

part, I was always taught that prevention was
better than cure, and I cannot help thinking that
a little activity, and a little timely admonition
from the Reverend Prelates of the Church, would
be far more, efficacious, and more likely to pre-
serve the esteem and veneration of the country
to that establishment of which I would profess my-
self au admirer were I not threatened with the dis-
pleasure of Vesper for so doing. But I believe that,
in fact, it is the duff of the higher orders of the
Church to watch over the lives and conduct of
the Clergy under their charge—for otherwise the
many grades that connect the general body of the
Clergy with their Diocesans are utterly useless,
and the functions of Deans and Archdeacons,
and of Chancellors of Dioceses, might all be
dispensed 'with.

In conclusion, Sir, I cannot help expressing
my fears, that the mind of VESPER, something
like his namesake, is now and then obscured by
vapours and mists, for otherwise bow are we to
reconcile his conduct with his doctrine. He
upbraids VEItITAS for bringing an instance of
irregularity before the public, and exciting
public discussion upon it, and yet he is him-
self the very first to prolong that discussion.
I would therefore prescribe to VESPER a good
night's rest, and suggest to him the expediency
of a little reflection before he vapours agai❑ in
print ; and as we are now approaching to Christ-
mas, when frosts may be expected, perhaps, if

he again appears, he will be seen surrounded with
cooller influences, and emitting brighter and

milder rays.

Dec. 10, 1822.

AURORA BOREALIS.

FOR THE SUN.

BURGLARIES.

Alit. EDITOR—Many robberies would be pre-
vented if the servants of families would not ex-

,ose plate in the kitchen windows in a morning

while cleaning, a practice very careless and
common in a Gentleman's house, which has been
particularly noticed in the neighbourhood of
Russel-square, and at the West end of the Town.
To prevent depredation and temptation, this
practice should be resolutely prohibited by the
head of every family. F.

ImposTon.—A fellow, partly in naval attire,
is every day passim.; forged Bank Notes, chiefly of
5/. He defrauded a gentlewoman in Cross-street,
City-road, last week, under pretence of making
a deposit for her lodgings of four sovereigns and
fixteen shillings. The same fellow defrauded
Miss BRUNTON to the same amount, under pre-
tence of taking tickets on her recent benefit at
the Royal West London Theatre. Ile is dressed
in a blue jacket and trowsers, is short, about 20
years of age, and pretends to have just arrived
from Calcutta. The frauds of this fellow have
been so many that he will probably be soon de-
tected. The not are so well executed that the
utmost caution is necessary.

We regret to see in one of the Irish Journals an
affecting statement of the decay of the state of
the silk trade, by which man'y thousands of in-
dustrious poor were formerly supported within
the liberties of Dublin, but which it became dif-
ficult—indeed, we suppose, impossible—to save
from falling into comparative ruin, since the Irish
Nobility and Gentry have scattered themselves
about to world.

A CONTDlntrrou to the Eau REINK DRAINAGE, tO'tn°
1)1
%, • For the REPORT of the SOCIETY for Pitog-1
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, see the Fourth P •Ige•