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London, England, 1809-12-30 00:00:00

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LONDON,

EATURVVI, DECEMBER 30-1809.

BUONAPA RTE has frequently boasted, in his annual
ExpOsitionS of, the affairs of France, that he will lay
no additional burthens on his subjeBs to enable him
to carry on the war. Nis assertions, of comae, ob-
tained implicit. credit froin the Opposition Writers
in this country, who always indulged themselves
with a•number of patriotic renditions-upon the in-'
crease of Taxes in this country.—The faa is, how.
eve!, that notw iihstanoing &To NAPARTE'S assertions,
'there has been every year, since the commencement
of the war, a great increase in the Taxes of France. It
is very well knoWn that the statement of the French
Minister of Finances does not undergo arty .real in-
vestigation ; there are in France no Motions for
rapers to confirm or reinte the statement; no
Committees of Inquiry ; the Minister may there-
fore make what asertions he pleasei without
the danger of deteEtiqn. But though no .public
refutation 'can be given, yet every man- in every
department of -France knows that there is every
year a great augmennition of the Taxes. After
the Budget, in which the Minister assures the People
of France that nth fresh biirthen‘ s will be imposed, he
writes to the heads of the different Departments,
stating their portion of the general coutribution,u, blob
is invariably _bleier-, than it was the year before, - if
any of the Departments remonstrate upon this stir-
charge, the answer always given is, that Government
has- been obliged to ditninish the contribution of some
r other Department j(without naming -it) in. otiose-
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quenee of seine 'disaster it had sustained, but that
the general revenue. must nor sn4r, and the una-
voidable deficiency of *me Departments must be
made good by the btlieri. This there 1,-; every year
an actual, though trot a. nominal increase in -the
Taxes of France. Thew Taxeai. too, are colleeted
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with most unprecedented rigour. ".if -.farmer, from
extreme poverty, leaves hii4and Uneultliated, his
neighbours are bound tcy make. good, the sum.

•hat tie wdnld have been liable to icy, if „his_

farm had been cultivated.. Upon tha 'Same prin-
ciple, is Parish una'rie itst (I.,,;uta, it
must he made up by the Pcpartrovnr: The 'caint-
quence is,, that the weight' of taxation fats 'with
almost intolerable severity upon those wbo are able

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to pay. 'There are other modes • of increasing, the
Revenue, without. apparently augmenting the fixed
taxes, viz. by demanding sums tor particular pur-
poses, such as :taking roa ls; widening buAl-
ing bridges, improving harbours, &c. and then
applylog the surris so raisei.: to the general .expetl-
diture of Government. This system has bid

the natural effe& at ale value of land

throughout France. The corn !antis are not now of
one third of the value that they were six years ago ;
but the: depreciation of lands- employed for the
growth of vines is infinitely greater. Deprived of all.
resources from" foreign corornetce, and borne down
by a severe and impressive system of taxation, the
unfortunate Proprietors are reduced to the greatest
misery.' In many plaCtls the lands are not cultivated
at all, and in others the grapes are suffer-3 to rot on
the trees, b.:cause they WCfald •not even pay the ex-
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pease of gatherins.

We have f4ivsn in .another partof our: Paper the,
substance of some private 2cconnts,recently received
from Incl.ka. We {lope;
.lo.wever, ghat they will be
found to be ezaggerattd, .in many patienlars,

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We understand that an American Pule::
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in town whif:h Cori tWiIS thtl CPIT-01Pu,!*4'. Nltt4io!"YreAri,
Mr. Sittra and Mr. JAcoisoN, and w 4 are to cored,
from very respe6lable authority, that it is decidedly
in favour of the latter ; but the Paper in -question
'had not reached our hand,' when Tuz SUN was put

to press.

On Wednesely evening Lord St. FIf.LENS arrived
at Win-Asor on a
,visit to their MkJESTIES. His
Lordihip-rode out on morning with
MAJESTY, Princesses .A...cfG:Ls3:A And .SOPIIIA,
twelve. o'clock. His MAJEITY and PRINCESSES, were
aiso accntbmnied t)..y Lady-ELY.' Generals SPX.NCER
and.CA'aTwa-,GRT, and Colonel TAYLOR,

Princes.; Al, SLIA re-mains In, the same state, and
is const 9tly. vlsited by The tatt,,tr and PatNcFssEs.;
'His', - 'ii4trt OR regularly` to every day; And
s.tays wt h ner -unwards of an4itiitr, Dr. Po..rs
+daily, attend nOr 1,10±74 Hi hue
PrncessMAßt feaicle: constantly yeikh the Prin-
zesi AMELIA, and never ';eaves.her. ,.-, .. '''
: = License hAye' been „gtantcd to shills ' oceeding
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irs ;I;iallast to France; -•atitiivrettyrsing if.ift• grain,
iloui,' and burr stonos, ftit sit:Ai, fort.igri vessel ..=.,
hael'before hrovgh: t'iese 'borrinicAliti3s,;;;errnittior-
ihem to ioarl 44th Britif.ll 'rranufaduree, and Bri-
tis:h or foreisn colonial p::ooace, 4311. to deir.;:t with
f! .;h carzces to .Vraiae-auklliollanA.. - :
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