The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-17 00:00:00

Ito THE QUARTER ENDED
Oa. to, 4808.

Ott. 1c), 1839.

Income £9,06x,117 k 9,845,300
Charge - 6,347,587 6,700,001,

Surplus £2,714.53'

C3,145,3c,0

Tl,e War Taxes have also been unusually produc-
tive. The produce in the last quarter was 6,685,t5271
which exceeds by something more than a quarter of
a million the corresponding quarter in 180 S. Thera
has also been a very
,considerable increase in, the
Property Tax, the receipt for the last quarter ex-
ceeds that of the corresponding quarter of the last
'year by near 500,0001.

Yesterby morning his MAJESTY, Piincesses AU-
GUSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady CHAN-
LEY, General -FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode
on horkback in Windsor Park.
His MAJESTY is expeeted in town to-morrow, to
bold a _ Prit ate Levee and Privy Council, at the
Queen's Palace.

Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princess of
WALES, accompanied by Lady CHARLOTTE LIND-
SA I', tank an airing from Blackheath to Kensington
Palace, where her Royal Highness inspeEted the im-
provements and alterations carrying on at her apart-
ments, and in the evening returned to. her house
at Blackheath, and entertained a sele& party to
dinner.

The two sons of his Highness the Duke of
BRUNSWICK GELS, accompanied by two officers,
atrived to town on Saturday. They landed'on Fri-
day at Harwich. Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Bautiswictc sent a carriage with a set of horses
tile same evening, to wait their arrival at Rumford,
and escort them to Blackheath, where they arrived
early on Saturday morning, and were soon after
pined by his Highness their father. The interview
was truly affecting, and in the evening his Highness
conducked them to town, to his house in Clarges-
stieet, Piccadilly.
In consequence of the publication of Mr. CAN-
NiNG'S Statement, in teply to Lord CASTLEREAGH'S
charge, Lord CAMDEN, it is said, intends 10 pub-.
• li.h some explanation with resped to that part of
the statement in which his name is implicated.
• The following paragraph is given as authentic
PERCEVAL wrote a letter to her Royal Highness
the Princess of WALL'S, formally to announce his
arpoinhilent as First Lord of the Treasury. He
condoled with her Royal Highness on the loss of
Mr. CANNING'S splendid abilities to the Administra-
tion ; but took occasion to assure her that it was
hot his fault, .as he had offered to agree to the ar-
rangement that Mr. CANNING might suggest, by
which a third pe:s6n might have been placed at the
bead of the Treasury ; and he trusted that her Royal
Highhess.would see in this a satisfatiory proof that
it; was not from selfish considerations that he had
accepted of this situation. Her Royal Highness,
in answer to this letter, expressed her thanks for
the communication, and the extreme regret at the
resignation of Mr. CANNING. Shecoricludes, bx
coMplimenting Mr. PCaCEVAL on his courage inun-
del-taking so arduous a task as the AdminiStration
public affalfs,, • in a moment of such .uvpreb2dentvd
• ditiickthy. • .•
. • •

M. CHAiMPJGAY's LETTER.

We copy the following from a Morning Paper:—
" We are said to have declared France in a state of
blockade before the Berlin Decree, which first ut-
tered that denunciation against us. They might-as
well have said that we declared France in the moon
before the Berlin Decree.. Our preceding Order in
Council only forbade that coasting neutral trade
during the War, which France would not suffer to
be carried on during the Peace, and then was issued
the Decree in question, declaring that no vessel that
had touched in England should be admitted into
France. Our subsequent Orders were merely coon-
tera6tive of (his."

'I iie
writer of this paragraph appears to unto have
an indistin& recolleaion of the fads. What is
meant by our preceding Order in Council, (prior to
the Berlin Decree,) which forbade the neutral coast-
ing 'trade iiot'allowed by France in time of peace ?
If by this is intended, generally, the rule of the war
ef 1756, that rule was not applied by us preViously to
the Berlin Decree, to the Coasting Trade. .If the
Order of the 7th of January, 1807, is referred to,
that was consequent to the Berlin Decree. ,
In the Berlin Decree, NAPOLEON (agreeing in this
respel with the Americans, as much as be differs
from them in respeta of " free ships,—free goods,")
refers to the system of blockading , extensive coasts,
as a departure from the acknowledged laws, of Mari-
time War. He has uniformly brought this forward
as.a charge against Great
,Britain. It is to this system,
we suppose, that CHAMPAGNY'S Letter refers; and
the " Blockade of France," to Which he direaly al-
ludes, is the notification made to all Neutral Powers
by Mr. Fox, when Secretary of State, on the 16th of
May, 1806, declaring his Majesty's intention of plac-
ing all the coast of France and Holland, from.the
Elbe to Bleb, inclusive, in a state of strut and
rigorous blockader not forbidding merely the
Coasting Trade, but all intercourse whatever.
This prohibition we were enabled to carry into.
effect, and certainly did render the access to these
Coasts " manifestly dangerous."
It is not, therefore, from any desire of obje&ing to
this measure of the GRENVILLE Administration,
that we bring it forward, but merely as an illustra-
tion of a subjea which has been misunderstood.—

It was the notification of Blockade, nearest in point

of time to the Berlin Decree.,, and more extensive
in its operation than. any of those which had pre-

ceded it.

We have only to add, that to chara&erize the
Berlin Decree, as simply declaring " that no vessel
which had touched in England, should be admitted
into France," is to narrow its operation more than
either its tenor, or the pradice under it will justify.
It also declared England in a state of blockade, and
its operation, previously to our Orders of November,
was certainly extended ,heyond the ports of. France. •

. .
Yesterday arrived a Mail from Flushing and Let-
ters from Walcheren to Saturday last. The fol-
lowing Extra& supplies come satisfactory informa-
tton :
" FLusnING, OCT. 12.-We shill remain here
all-the winter.
" We have not yet heard who is to he our head
in the Island, but some say Sir JOHN HOPE, and
others assert that either General FINCH or SirESTRE
COOTS is to be appointed Governor.
"" The trade here is tolerably good; but the people
with whom we traffic are not without their_ fears for
the consequences of the intercourse. There :are
plenty of goods in the Island, which sell, for the
most part, at advantageous prices. „,,
" Very little transpires of any proceedings on the
Danube, but we have heard people go so far as to
say, that they have not the least doubt that the
treaty of peace has ,been already signed, sealed,
and ratified. Perhaps this is only a conje&ure of
their own, without, any.specific foundation .for it.—
The last letters I have heard spoken of, from Vi-
enna, are of the 27th of September, and they say
nothing, but that people an hundred miles off know
as much of the intentions of the Negociators as
the inhabitants of the capital. I dare say all means
are employed to keep their proceedings as secret. as
possible.
" The following,ships are here under Admiral
°TWAY. The Irnperieuse, Ccesar, Audacious, Clyde,
Blake, Hero, Theseus, Marlborough, Revenge, Dee-
mark, Victorious, Aboukir, Impetueur, and some
others, besides frigates and a great. many gun-boats,
&c. under Commodore OWEN."

EXTRACT OF' A LETTER, DATED DIIDDLEBURGII,
OCTOBER 13, 1309.

The sick in the hospitals are recovering be-
yond measure. Were it not for the number of con-
valescents in them of the old disease, our hospitals,
upon an average, would not be more ,crowded than
those of England, I mean at the moment of writ-
ing. The old Government of 1795 is about to be
restored, and General FINCH, it ,is said, will be our
Commandant."
The following Proclamation has appeared in the
Royal Courant of Amsterdam,
" The Commander of the distri& of the Province
of Zealand, informs such persons whom it may
concern, that all his Majesty's subje6.ls who so far
forget their du4y as to maintain any intercourse with
the enctny in Walcheren, by purchasing any goods
put up to sale by them, either directly or indirealy,
shall be considered not only as criminals, but fur-
, ther be incapable of holding any office under his Ma-
jesty. Those who have been compelled to quit
Walcheren, and have sustained any loss of property
thereby, may not come to any terms with the,en-
! My for its restoration, but shall, in due time, be re 7
munerated by the Government..
S!guvd) " F. .11521§15.,,„
`.` A, d. SINCLAIR, SeC!