The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-24 00:00:00

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DEMERARA PAPERS:

Weshave received a series of bemerara Papers
to the commencement of May, from which we
extract the following :
" Abstract of Publication, by his Excellency Major-General
John Murray, Lieutenant-General in, and over, the United
Colony of Demerara, and Essequibo, and Dependent Districts,
Commander-in-Chief, &c. and the Llonourable the Court .of
Policy, combined with the Representatives of the Inhabitants of
the said Colony for fixing Colonial Taxes. • ,
" Unto all to whom these presents shall come greeting, be it.
known. 'Whereas a statement has been laid before our present.
combined Assembly of the surplus wanted to defray the Colonial
expenditure of the present year, we have fixed,. and by these
presents do fix, for the purpose of raising the Colony taxes for
the year 1822;.. as follows, viz. : —That all persons in the .)..tid
United Colony, or its dependencies, shall pay a poll tax of four
guilders for each of his, her, or their slaves of every description,
whether domestics, labourers, sailors, tradesmen, children, sick,
lame, superannuated, and infants, according to the returns al-
ready given in. Excepting from such poll tax all proprietors,
renters, or occupiers of any plantation or plantations in the said
colony or its dependencies, cultivating sugar, rum, molasses,
coffee, cotton, or plantains; task gangs, tradesmen, wood-cut-
ters or all others who pay income tax derived from ie labour of
such slaves. That further. all persons deriving, or who may de-
rive, a revenue in the said colony from any other source than
military situations, fixed salaries from Government, (the prof--:ts,
fees, or emoluments of any kind received by all public and civil
officers whatsoever, being liable to the after-named tax,) or
the cultivation of sugar, molasses, rum, coffee, cotton, shall pay
on the gross amount of his, her, or their revenues, from the Ist
day of January, 1821, to the last day of December in the same
year, and so on in proportion for any shorter period within the
last year. such rate as is pointed out by classes published, ex-
cepting from such payments all persons whose annual revenue
or revenues has or have not respectively for the last year ex-
ceeded the sum of 2,000, guilders. * * * * *
Exclusive of the above-mentioned ordinary annual taxes, re-
venues, and slaves, the Combined Court ordered that the fol-
lowing regulation duties shall be levied and paid to the colony :
" First, A colonial duty at the rate of 66 guilders per pipe
containing 110 gallons, and so in pro Portion for every larger and
smaller quantity, on all Madeira and other wine in wood, and a
duty of two guilders per dozen on all bottled wine of every de-
scription (except Port wine to remain at one guilder per dozen) ;
• and further„ a duty of one guilder per gallon on all foreign spi-
rits imported into the colony, say brandy, rum, and gin (the
Court abrogating so much of the Act of the 2d December, 1820,
published the 9th following, as affixes the duty to be paid at three
guilders per gallon), which duties shall be paid at the office of
the Receiver, on pain of a fine of 500 guilders for every offence,
and no ships having wine or spirits shall be admitted to a free
clearance, unless it shall appear by the signature of the Receiver
that such duties have begin paid or security given.

" A drawback of 50 guilders to be alliWed on every pipe of
Madeira or other wine, having paid the above duty, that may
be legally exported from this Colony to the neighbouring Co-
lonies, West India Islands, or Great Britain, on the exporter
producing (if shipped to Groat Britain) a proper certificate of
such wine having been cleared out ; and the penalty for reland-
ing is 1000 guilders per pipe, and forfeiture of tle wine.
"Secondly. All transient traders, viz. masters of vessels,
supercargoes, &c. who may arrive in the Colony with 'goods of
any description, whether they retail such goods or dispose of
them otherwise, shall pay a duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem on
these goods, the invoice to he attested on oath before the re-
ceiver of the tax. Unless this is complied with, no permit or
pass for the departure of such persons from the Colony will be
Issued by the Secretary-
" Should a false statement be given in, a fine of five hundred
guilders will be levied on the person of the offender. To pre-
vent evasion, the securities which are bound for the masters of
vessels entering this port'sliall also be liable to all the penalties
to which the master, &c. will be liable for offending against
this present law. It is understood that the above duty is not
to apply to the masters or supercargoes of vessels from the
United States, in consequence of the heavy duties which they
pay to the Sovereign's chest ; nor to any master or supercargo
of vessels from British North America, who are exempt from
the above duties.
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" Fourthly. All horses, except brood mares and their foals,
to pay a tax of twenty-two guilders per head.
Fifthly. All person of every class to pay a tax of 50 guilders
for every two, and one hundred guilders for every four-wheeled
carriage.
" And lastly. The following tax on produce to be paid :
Seven stivers on every hundred Dutch pounds of sugar ; twenty-
two stivers on every hundred gallons rum ; fourteen stivers on
every hundred gallons molasses ; 25' stiVers on every himdred
Dutch pounds of cotton ; 33 stivers.on every ditto of coffee.
Signed) " JOHN MURRAY.
" By Command,
" CHARLES WILDAY, 1 Joint Der,: Sec."
W. J. ARMSTRONG,

On Wednesday Mr. RANDOLPH, the late Can-
didate for the office of President of the United
States of America, who lately arrived in this
country for the benefit of his health, dined with
Admiral Sir J. H. WHITSIIED, K.C.B. Corn.
minder-in-Chief at Portsmouth. Every suitable
attention was paid to this distinguished gentle-
man i• he visited the Royal George yacht, and
ships in the harbour, and afterwards proceeded
to Ryde.
Among the 'improvements about to be made in
Drury-lane Theatre, the audience part will be
somewhat circumscribed.

There is a project in contemplation at Paris
for 'establishing an English theatre ; several
Englishmen have joined together, and subscribed
large sums; they only wait for the permission of
Government.

FOREIGN INILLIGENCE.

PAtus, JUNE 20.—ThKing presided yester-
day at a Council of Miners. _ _

Tuesday eveninz Mnal the Duke of Bel-
lune, Minister of War, tnounced to his Ma-
jesty the arrest of Genel Berton and two of
his accomplices, at Saunr, by a detachment of
carbineers.

The French brig La arie, Captain Gilbert,
arrived at Saint Maio the 15th instant, left
Cayes (St. Domingo) the.Oth of April, two days
after the taking off thembargo. The colony
was then very tranquil, .nd the French were
respected in their propey.
The Cordon Sanitaire ill exercises the imagi-
nations of our politicians Its necessity is-gene-
rally recognised for. the teservation of our ter-
ritory from the contagio which has desolated,
and which still tnenacea part of Spain ; but
they think of nothing bt hostile projects, and
the movements of troopsrecently ordered con-
firm them in• their ideas.. They no longer are
in doubt ; they
.declare war, and talk of
commencing the campaig. We can give theSe
gentlemen some informatio, which will, perhaps,
induce them to retrace the steps-. Orders have
been issued for putting or artillery into order,
not Only at the Pyrenees, bt in. places,;
an other places
an arrangement, Which enbraces equally the
Eastern and Southern front-_,rs, has occasioned the
late movements in all the inn s. There is nothing
in all this to sustain th.:supicions of unquiet
spirits, or the hopes of tulcontents. France is
beginning. to regulate its military, state, as we
may conjecture. Franct makes no attack upon
the independence of ant Power, nor :has any
fears for her own. Of his we may be assured.
(Monacan)
A letter read on Tuesday, at the Academy of
Sciences, states that thire was observed at
Angers, on the 3d 'inst., a' a quarter-past eight
in the evening, a very rematkable luminous phe-
nomenon. It was laccompa4ied by a'consider-
able explosion, and followed by a fall of mete.
oric stones, one of which fell in ,a garden near a
female who was Watering- it. This fragment,
which weighed thirty ounces, was bristled by
angular particles, which sheaved that it had form-
ed part of a more voluminous mass ; it was
blackish, and strewed marks of fusion. The
light of the meteor was seen at London and at
Poictiers.

PARIS, JUNE 21.—General Berton, and the
two.nersons arrested with him, have been con-
veyed to the Castle. of Saumur.

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Authentic Details of the Arrest of General BERTON.—A
report had been spread abroad and credited that General Berton
had escaped out of France, and landed at St. Sebastian. The
object of this false intelligence was evidently no other than
to relax the activity of the researches made after him. Never-
theless, the Forest of Paithenay, where it was supposed he lay
concealed, was surrounded by gendarmerie and other troops ;
but the most particular inquiries were productive of no result.
It is solely. to the adroitness, courage, - and devotedness of the
C,arabineers of Monsieur, that we are, indebted for the . ar-
rest of Berton and two of his accomplices.—Wolfel (the name
of this brave and faithful servant of the family of France) pre-
tended to listen with attention to the insinuations of certain
of the disaffected at Saumur. In a very few days he was ini-
tiated into their designs ; and ' he gaided so upon their con,
1 fidence that not only was he informed of Berton's hiding place,
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but had also the honour of 'being presented to him. This in-
terview took place in-a farm, three quarters of a league from
the town. Wolfel now tendered to Berton the fraternization
and assistance of four subaltern officers in his own regiment, for
whom, he added, he would be answerable as for hiMself. Ber-
ton with eagerness accepted this promise of a new army, and
fixed, of his own accord, the precise day for another interview at
the same place. This interview took place on Monday last.
Wolfel then presented to Berton the four subaltern officers he
had mentioned to him, in the company of two friends of .±:er-
ton. In about a quarter of an hour the conference took another
tone. Wolfcland his comrades drew their pocket pistols out,
pointed them upon the breasts of Berton and his two colleagues,
. and informed them, in a manner that indicated a fixed determi-
-1 nation' that the least attempt at resistance would furnish the
signal for their annihilation. The three liberators of 'their
country were disarmed at once! Wolfel left them safely in cus-
tody of two subaltern officers, while he dispatched a message to
Count de Breon, his Colonel, who immediately sent to his as-
sistance M.M. de Guercheville and de Macmalion, with
fifteen c,arabiniers ,_. and this detachment was soon followed by
a second. It was feared that in this country, where he had cal,
lected such numbers of followers, Berton had also some par-
tisans ; and the event proved that precaution was not
quite useless. If, however, the detachments were not, compell-
ed to charge the rebels, it was because the brave Wolfel was in
himself a detachment.—The arrest of Berton and his friendS
was not accomplished' without its causing some movement in
the farm. Wolfel sail that a body of peasants were advancing,
headed by some person,on horseback. There was some reason
to believe that this man, disguised as a villager, was in'reality
an affluent and leading inhabitant of the town of Saumur.—
" Restore us our General," cried these worthy soldiers of Ben:
ton. " Retire, you scoundrels," rejoined Wolfel : " or I will
shoot you directly." The leader of the peasant rebels put his
hand upon his sword-Wolfel fired at him, and laid him dead
at his feet. This proceeding was sufficient to dishearten and
disperse the rebel troop. Berton.and his two acolities were con-
ducted in 'chains to Saumur in open day, befoe the regiment
of carabiniers, with repeated cries of " Vive le Roi !7 while
the army could not disguise the satisfaction at beholding those
revolutionary heroes thus delivered up to the rigour of the 'law,
who had dared to insult the honour of the Fr.-mach army, by
supposing them capable of abetting their infamous projects.—
One of the two' persons who was arrested in company with
Berton, is a notary, and proprietor of the farm. It was ima-
gined, for a moment, that the other was Delon ; but it appears
that the latter has taken 'due refuge in Spain.—( Journal des
Debuts.)
General Berton will, it is said, be tried before
the Court of Assizes, at Poictiers.
It is asserted that General Berton was brought
under escort to Paris at eight o'clock last night.
(Ga;Fette de France.)
The- individuals implicated in the affair of
Nantes have been acquitted.—(/bid.) . .
A Letter from Bayonne of the 15th states that
Viscount Labarthe,Chief Secretary of the French
Embassy at Madrid, passed through Bayonne on
the 13th, on his way to Paris. It is alSo said
that the order for the removal of the Spanish Re-
fugees had not yet been carried into execution.
(Journal des &bats.)
A letter from Pampeluna, of the 13th June,
contains the following details :
44 Navarre continues to be perfectly quiet, in
spite'of the efforts of the disaffected to light up
the flames of civil war in our country. The whole
province is inundated with incendiary
.proclama-
tions, disseminated by our refugee countrymen
in France, who style themselves the Defenders
of the Throne and 'the Altar. Government is
apprised of all their • movements. We know
that their rallying point is at Lecomberg, where
they are at the moment we are writing ; but
measures have been taken regarding them, not
to prevent their re-entering this country, for

thete is nothing we so much desire, being
convinced that they will never again - hare
the opportunity of getting back into France."
The accounts from the contiguous Provinces
are.very favourable : Arragon and Old Castille
are quiet, but not so Biscay, which is disturbed
by a few bands ; but this state of things cannot
last long. General Lopez Banos has taken the
necessary measures to overwhelm the factious.—
(Constitution nel.) _ _

For some days, says the Journal du Gers,
troops have continually passed through Auch.
" The 11th, 2 companies of the ad regiment of
the line marched 'from Agen for Pau ; the 12th,
6 companies of the Bth foot artillery, consisting
of 390 men, and 20 officers, proceeded from
Toulouse to Bayont.e : the 13th, a squadron of
of the 2d horse artillery of 112 men, and 5 officers,
and the 2d company of artillery workers, destin-
ed to Bayonne ; the 14th, a company of the
37th line, from Cahors, going to join that regi-
ment at Pau."—(lbid.)
VIENNA,JUNE B.—We no longer believe the
statement of the appointment of M. de Tatischeff
as Russian Minister Plenipotentiary to the Otto-
man Porte, although it has been believed by
persons enjoying a certain credit. The fact is
decidedly false. The only thing which may be
regarded as certain is the approaching arrival of
M. de Tatischeff, to continue the negotiations
with our Court.—But what surprises every body
is that, according to very authentic intelligence,
the evacuation of Moldavia and Wallachia is still
delayed.
TURIN, JUNE B.—King Victor Emanuel ar-
rived here on the 3d instant.

NUREMBERG, JUNE 14.--The accounts from
Constantinople, Vienna, and other sources, con-
tinue to announce peace, but well informed per-
sons refuse to believe it, because they cannot
suppose that the Holy Alliance established upon
the precepts of Christianity, will abandon the
Christians to the fury of the Turks. This con-
duct is too contrary to the principles of the
Christian religion.
CRONSTADT, MAY 29.—A private letter from Krajowa, in
Little Wallachia, of the 25th says,—" The !Asiatic who left
this have not only returned, but brought reinforcements, who
have quartered themselves on this and threaten not to leave the
country before coming to blows with the Turkish Ghaurs."
FROM THE BUCKOWENA, MAY 29.—Four thousand Tile-
mans (Asiatic Janissaries) left this to join the force against the
Persians ; on the other hand, 5000 European Janissaries have
entered Moldavia to replace them. The speedy evacuation of
this principality is not therefore very probable, especially as the
Turks have let for a year to the Jews all the estates of churches,
monasteries, emigrant Bojars, and all the Greeks, whether
Russian or Austrian subjects. The emigrant Bojars have also
made arrangements in the neighbouring countries for some
time. The Turkish troops proceed in the mean time in their
usual manner; more particularly they carry off the daughters
of the best families, and when complaints are made,. and an in.
vestigation takes place, they restore them as uninjured, after
they have b3en several days in the hands of forty or fifty Turks.
In Constantinople the intrigues are said to increase in the ratio
of the impotence and weakness of the Government; and many
persons, well informed respecting the situation of things, doubt
whether matters can be peaceably arranged between the Porte
and Russia; and should it be so, Russia must be in want of
money and materiel, which we cannot bring ourselves to be.
Hew,