The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-09 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The Finance year of 1821 ended on the sth
inst. and notwithstanding we have been led to
expect a very great increase, we find it not more
than 597,2291. The Consolidated Fund which
was deficient in the quarter ending sth Jan. 1821,
838,5211., is deficient-this quarter (ending sth
Jan. 1822) 1,397,232/. The total deficiency of
the Consolidated Fund on the sth Jan. 1821,
was 8,806,9291., and on the sth Jan. 1822, it is
deficient 9,562,9141. making an increase of debt
amounting to 756,055/, so that our unfunded
debt now remains 39,562,984/., and our funded
debt about 800,000,000/. with a taxation on
the people of 54,000,0001. the real pressure
of which is of course greatly increased by
the improvement of our currency. A Pro-
perty Tax would at the present moment pro-
duce much less than it did 11.1'1815, when it and
the other War Taxes were in full force, and the
taxation amounted altogether to 72,000,000/.
This is not merely owing to the improvement in
our currency; which, as far as it goes, causes the
annual income of the country to be represented
by a smaller money value. It is owing also to
the circumstance that that species of property
from which an Income Tax can be most pro-
ductively levied, such as land, tithes, &c. has
fallen in value, as compared with other property.-
The Property Tax of 10 per cent. pro-
duced between 14 and 15 millions, which we
-will say arose from an income of 150 millions.
Perhaps the income which such a tax could
rkach would not now exceed the half of that sum.
Bow far the situation of the country in general is
better or worse now than it was at the close of
the war is a question on which we are not pre-
pared at present to enter. The produce of the
indirect taxes proves that if the consumption of
Landlords, Farmers, anti Clergy has decreased,
that of the other classes has on the other hand
increased, so that the diminished income of the
former is at all events not wholly a deduction
from the general income of the country.

[s.F.w TIMES.]
The internal state of France affords no cause
for apprehension. Another abortive plot has
been discovered at BeHort, still more centempti-
ble than that at Saumur. These two places lie
at a great distance from each other; the latter
towards the South of France, the former near
the eastern frontier on the road to Basle ; yet it
is probable that the conspirators of both places
had some secret understanding, and alike meant
to rally round the tri-coloured flag, the old
standard of rebellion and massacre. On this
subject an estimable Parisian Correspondent
thus expresses himself :—" These movements
stifled before they are ready for explosion—
their coincidence in point of time, with the
inexplicable flight of two criminals convicted,
the one by the Court of Assizes, and the
other Chamber of Peers—the attempt to force
down the Funds by false and exaggerated
rumours—the calumnious attacks directed against
the Members of the new Ministry—these facts,
and many others that might be mentioned, con-,
since -me that the old Committee of Direction
are still at work. So much the better. They
have not now to"deal with a Government which
will-wink at their schemes, or slumber over their
enterprises. The present Ministry has no occa-
sion to make shameful compromises with treason:
and you may be satisfied, that they will suffer
no 20th of March to overturn our institutions,
and to spread conflagration: throughout Europe."

[THE TIMES.]
We learn that a Deputation of the Farming
Society of Ireland, with that amiable Nobleman
the Duke of Leinster at its head, attended at the
Castle of, Dublin on Friday last, and presented
an Address to the Lord Lieutenant. They claim-
ed under their chatter his Excellency's patron=

age, exp. the objects of their national insti-
tution, lamented the obstatlei to its complete
success, which had been lately experVenced from
the limitation of its funds, .under the "'necessary
system of general retrenchment," and hoped for
the aid of the Lord Lieutenant in promoting its
.future efficacy. Lord Wellesley's answer de-
serves to be. noticed, for the emphatic. pledge
which it. affords of his ExCellency's determina-
tion to adopt and prosecute, now that he has
attained to power, that 'honourable course of
public economy, which some years ago, when
out of power, he declared to be indis-
pensable to - our welfare as' a people.--
.His Lordship's expression,' when he condemned
the extravagance of the Ministerial estimates for
a peace establishment, was strong and memorable
—4‘ Parsimony is the panoply of peace." Our
readers will see with plea Sure, the correspondence
which exists between the former. language of the
.Noble Marquis, and the principles which .he still
professes. While lamenting that the efforts of
the Farming Society for the diffusion of industri-
ous habits have-been fettered by the unavoidable
limitation of its
.funds, he adds as follows
But I, cannot omit this opportunity of declaring
44 that is not less my inclination than my bounden
" duty to give every aid to sthe progress of that
" wise and necessary:system of general retrench-
" ment which has been adopted by his Majesty's
Government and by Padkanient, and which is as
" essential to the true dignify of the Crown, as it is
" indispenSibly necessary for the security of the
" State, and: for the interest and welfare of the
." people." Those words in the above passage
which we have marked by italics, contain a truth
so obvious—so home and so unanswerable—that
we are more amazed at the folly which could so
long have overlooked its force, than at the dis-
regard of public duty which has given such
currency to the opposite notion, that every
shilling which could be extracted from the
Country was a triumph to the king's Minis..!
ters. Let us hope henceforth for better
things. Let us, until we are undeceived, at least
indulge the belief that the doctrine now so plainly
laid down by the head of the Irish Government
is that which has been deliberately adopted, and
will be faithfully adhered to, by his Excellency's
fellow-labourers on this side of the water ; and
that the coalition with the rump of the Grenville
party (fOr it is now said that Lord Grenville
had no hand in the new arrangements), so omi-
nous in its first aspect, was framed for no other
purpose than to give a more decidod vigour, ex-
tent, and eclat to the plans of frugality about to
be pursued by. Ministers, instead of enabling the
old Cabinet, as was surmised by the uncharitable,
to shut, with more pertinacious obstinacy, every
door and avenue to economical reform.

la;ned

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We this day present to our readers two addi-
tional financial statements (see another page of
the SUN), which cannot fail to be studied with
much interest. •The first of them we indeed in
a great measure anticipated yesterday, by the
abstract which we gave of the net produce of the
Revenue in the years ending respectively the sth
of January 1821, and the sth of January
1822; but the account now published distin-
guishes the quarter and the produce of the
Consolidated Fund, as separated from the an-
nual duties, and such other heads of the Re-
venue as are applicable to the ordinary ser.
vice of the year. The second account shews
the produce of the Excise during the. years
'and the quarters ending respectively as before
mentioned, distinguishing the amount of the re-
ceipts in the several articles which are charged
with the Excise duties. In the first account
it will be observed, that in the portion of the
general Revenue w:lich is known as the Consoli-
dated Fund, there has been a deficiency in the

last year to an amount exceeding one million ; but
'n the annual duties there is an increase nearly
o the like amount, and Upon a much smaller

total, and in the war taxes of Excise and Cus-
toms there is also a considerable increase.—
The result of the whole account spews an in-
crease in the year amounting to 597,225/. as
compared with the total produce of the year pre-
ceding. The net receipts of the Revenue for
the year just terminated, including the arrears
of the Property Tax, and the unappropriated
war duties, amount to the prodigious sum of
50,965,9394—a sum which we think it would be
scarcely advisable, under any circumstances of
the country, during the continuance of peace, to
increase. Of this immense sum, however, nearly
forty-four millions are locked up in the Conso-
lidated Fund ; and even this appropriation, how-
, ever large, is found to be insufficient to meet
the charges upon it. There are, therefore,
but little more than six millions properly appli-
cable to the ordinary expellees of the year, so,
that it has been-found necessary to empower the'
Commissioners for liquidating the national Obt,,.
to open the magic barriers of the Consolidated
Fund, and to pour out, under the denomination
of a loan to the Government, the sum of twelve
millions annually for defraying the current ex-
pences of the country. This mode of proceeding
i 1 sufficiently ridiculous, and has been continued
long enough for the admiration of the world. It
is mere child's play, and_ought to be terminated,
and the ensuing Session of Parliament will, we
trust, offer a fair opportunity for relieving the
financial system from so much unnecessary and
expensive compleXity.

[MORNING HERALD.J
There are no later accounts from Madrid than
those of the c 2 hich have already been given.
Private letters, on the one side, describe " the
army of the faith" as increasing marvellously—
indeed, miraculously ; whilst in the correspon-
dence of an opposite complexion, the banditti in
Navarre are said to be composed merely of some
fanatic Monks, ignorant peasants, and the wreck
of bands of robbers that had lived in a state of yarn
grancy among the pastoral inhabitants of that pro-
vince. The only victories gained by them have been
obtained over the " Pillars of the Constitution ;"
and when they come in contact with the Constitu-
tional troops they hardly stand the first onset. Gen.
Lopez Banos was proceeding with activity and
vigour, and, it was supposed, would soon re-

duce them. without even the semblance of a
conflict. The most important scene in Spain, by
far, is Madrid: It would appear that the Cartes
have been betrayed into an anornalouS proceed-
ing by the unexpected reluctance of King Fer-
dinand to dismiss, LAS Ministers. The Consti-,
tuted-Authorities of Andalusia have received the
resolution of the Cortes with professed respect ;
but still insist upon the appointment of a new
Cabinet as• the condition of their submission. - It

is, they soy, a glaring absurdity to commit the
pacification of Andalusia and the general safety
of the kingdom to Ministers whom the Cortes
themselves have pronounced incompetent. The
Representative Body had calculated that their
recommendation would be adopted without delay,
and that the enforcement of the laws would
be intrusted to an administration of more
weight, capacity, and honesty. King Ferdinand
has, hitherto at least, committed himself with
his Ministers, anti if he continue to maintain
them, after they have been pronounced utterly
inefficient by the representative strength and
wisdom of the kingdom, a violent shock is appa-
rently unavoidable. It would be so in any roun-
try. There was a recent example in France.--
Louis XVIII. had, unquestionably, the utmost
confidence in his late advisers, and as strong a dis-
trust of the present Ministry in that kingdom ; but
after they lost their majority in the Chamber of De-
pu ties, they tottered with difficulty for a few days,',
and then fell to the ground. It is to be feared tbat
King Ferdinand is secretly in bad hands. He
is a man of weak intellect, wholly governed by
Ecclesiastics of the worst description--who, by
their pretensions to relax the obligation of his
oaths, and inducing him to " potter in a double
sense," are probably betraying him into fatal er-
rors. It is ong of the great and most frequently
stated causes of disorder among the Ultra-Libe-
rals in Spain, that there is-no longer any confi-
dence in the good faith of the King.

FROM TUE LONDON GAZETTE, JAN. 8.
BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
T. Kay, London, auctioneer, from Jan. 12, to Jan 19.
J. Cropper, Great Peter-street, Westminster, brewer, from
Jan. 12, to March 2.

BANKRUPTS.
J. Pinniger, Le.chdale, Gloucestershire, wool merchant, Tan.
31, at five, Feb. 1, and 19, at ten, at the Angel Inn, Wootton
Bassett. Solicitors, Mess... T.. Thompson and Co.'
Inn-
place, Gray's Gray's Inn ; and Mr. Mullings, Wootton Bassett.
, 0. Potbury, Sidmouth, Devonshire, cabinet maker, Jan. 22,
23, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Subscription Rooms, Exeter.
Solicitors, Mr. R. Brutton, 'Old Broad-street ; and Mr. C.
Brutton, Castle-street, Exeter.

Harrison,R. Coleshill,Wrarwickshire, tanner, Jan. 23, it
three, 24, at ten, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Swan Inn,
Coleshill. Solicitors, Messrs. Jenkins and Co., New inn ;
Messrs. Long and 0., Grav's Inn ; Mr. Willington, Tam-
worth ; and Mr. Palmer, Coleshill.
J. Hall, Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, cow dealer, Jan.
28, at five, 29, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Falcon inn, Saint
Neots, Huntingdonshire. Solicitors, .Mr. Forbes, Ely-place,
Holborn ; and NI r. Day, St. Neots.

J. Broadbent, jun..and A. Broadbent, Tunutead, Saddle-
worth, Yorkshire, merchants, Jan. 18, at three, 19, at nine,
and Feb. 19, at three, at the house of. Mr. J. Wrigley, inn.
keeper, I)ohcross, Saddlcworth. Solicitors, Mr. IA hitehead,
Oldham ; and Messrs. Milne and Co. Temple.
J. Beaufoy, Meriden, Warwickshire, draper, Jan. 21, at
twelve, 22, at ten, at the City Hotel, Coventry, and Feb. 19, at
twelve, at the Bull's Head Inn, -Meriden. Solicitors, Nlessrs.
T. B. Troughton and Co. Coventry ; and Messrs. Long and
Co. Gray's Inn.

w. Thompson, Tottenhill, Lynn, Norfolk, cattle-dealer,
Jan. 29, at twelve, 39, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the. Pickerel]
Inn, Cambridge. Solicitors, Mr. T. E. Fisher, Saint Ives,
Huntingdonshire; and Mr. R. Ellis, Chancery-lane.
R. Y. Birch, P.ammersmitb, medicine vender, Jan. 19, 26,
and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners, Basing.
hall-street. Solicitor, Mr.. J. Harnett, Northumberland.
street, Sfrand. _

J. J. Cantor, D:Tor.shire-street, Bishorgate-street, feather.
manufacturer, Jan. 15, 19, and Feb. 19, at ten, at the Court o
Commissioners, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Noel, Greai
Ormond-street.

DIVIDENDS.
Feb. 1, H. Stanley, Jackhouse within Oswaldtwisle, Lan-
cashire, whitster—Feb. 5, W. Sykes and T. Shackleton, of
White Lion-street, Norton Falgate, seed merchants—Jan. 29,
R. Townend, sen., and J. R. Townend, Mitre-court, Fen-
church-street, merchants—Feb. 2, J. Freeman, Hatton-garden,
tailor—Jan. 29, T. Park, Dudbridge, Gloucestershire, Wool-
stapler-Jan. 30, A. Little; Mealsgate,- Cumberland, slate
merchant—Jan. 30, J. Burrowes, -Gloucester, mercer—Jan.
31, John and James Webster, Wakefield, corn factars—Feb.
2, J. Haigh, Ley-Moor' in Golcar, Yorkshire, clothier—Jan.
29, C. M. King, Upper East Smithfield, wine-merchant—Feb.
6, W. Handley, Stratton-en-le-Field, Derbyshire, milk:-
6, J. Hackett, Brcedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, lima-
dealer—Feb. 26, J. Fraser,' New-court, Swithin's-lane,
mer-
chant—Jan. 15, B. (Ironing, Broad-street-buildings, mar-
chant.

CERTIFICATES, JAN. 29. •
H. Stanley, Jackhouse within Oswaldtwisle, Lancashire,
whitsten—J. Card, Lloyd's Coffee-house, London—J. woo.l,
Birmingham, broken—VV. Luke, Liverpool, merchant—J.
Eaves, Liverpool, ship bread baker—J. Wright, Mill Wall,
Poplar, Middlesex, anchor smith.—N. Carlisle, inn-
keeper—R. Mathewman, Leeds, merchant—S. Wells, Mid-
dleton Garden, Middleton Terrace, Pentonville, Middlesex,
fruiterer.

PAR TNE RSII IPS DISSOLVED.
0. Hillman and J. Heather, Worthing, Suss, x, coal-mer-
chants—W. Bedford and W. Bedford, jun. Lincoln, tailors_
R. Marston and P. Day, Norwich, attornies—P. J. be Cointe
and Co. Devonshire-square, merchants—W. Stirling and Co.
Bow Church-yard, as far as relates to Sir J. Home--A.
Clarlie and H. Clarke, Portsmouth, ironmongers—G. Norton
and J. Shutticworth, Leeds, Yorkshire, cabinet-makers.—T.
Spooner and P. Abraham, George-yard, Lombard-street
G. Drake and J. Drake, East-street, Manchestcr•square,
furniture brokers—R. Nl. Austen and G. Austen, Tonbridge,
Kent, grocers —J. Downes and Co. macclesfield, Cheshire,
silk throwsters —R. Brinton and Co. Birmingham, brass
founders—J. v. alker and J. Bedfbrd, Leeds, Yorkshire, che-
mists—W. Blackman and J. Taylor, Old Broad-street,
plumbers--W. Jackson ant J. Speight, Barnsley, Yorkshire,
wholesale mercers—W. E Laurence and Co. Liverpool, mer-
chants-G. Freer and Co. Birmingham, bankers—L. Christo-
pherson and J. Price, Liverpool, ironmongers--T. Clay and
W. Earnshaw, Halifax, Yorkshire, fancy woollen , manu-
facturers—P. Grove and M. Lamboll, Moffatt-street, City-
road, bookbinders-N. WhaleS and J. Litchfield, Bethnal-
green, carpenters—F. Sapte and Co. Coleman-street, merchants
—J. Field and J. Slanev, jun. Greenwich, Kent, ale brewers—
J. Rimmer and Co. Livarpocl, tobacco coopers.

Letters from Stockholm of the 21st of Decem-
ber state that the King of SwtneN has issued
orders for a military encampment to be formed
in June next on the heath of Odskjold, near to
the frontiers of Norway. The encampment is to
consist of 10,000 Swedish troops, and 3,000 Nor-
wegians. The KING will establish his head-quar-
ters during that time at Norkjar, one of his
country seats.

The reniains of the Countess of GUILFORD
were yesterday morning removed from her Lady-
ship's late residence in Berkeley-square, for in.
terment in the family vault at Banbury, in Ox-
fordshire. Four mourning coaches, besides her-
Ladyship's equipage, and twenty-eight Noble-
men's carriages, closed the procession.
Dr. SHOnTT, son of F. SHORT; Esq. of Con-
ranee, is arrived at Dumfries, his native town,
from St. Helena, where he was at the head of
the Medical Department of that island. Among
other curiosities he has brought with him a
branch of the willow-tree which now overshadows
the grave of NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

INDIA.

. .
triorn'the MADRAS Counir.u, June 5, 1821.1
' • SIR THOMAS lIISLOP.

It is time that we now direct our attention to
local matters. The festivities by which the last
week was distinguished, were occasioned by the
approaching departure of his Excellency Sir
TnomAs Iltsroe from India. Every night was
occapied by private farewell entertainments;
and on Thuriiday, the eve of the gallant-General's
embarkation, a splendid public' banquet was
given to the gentlemen of Madras, by a party of
his Excellency'S friends. This festival was held
at Gale's Gardens, where the company began to
assemble about eight o'clock, soon after which
the distinguished guest arrived who was the oh-.
iect of the meeting ; his Excellency was.received
and ushered into the saloon by the Stewards, at
which instant the band struck up " See the Con-
quering Hero comes." Dinner was al nost imme-
diately announced, when the company repaired
to the banquet which had been-prepat ed in tents ar-
ranged and ornamented with a display of taste and
splendour we have never seen exceeded in any part
of India, and which were so, capacious that double
the number of personsassembled there might have
been conveniently entertained. When the company
were seated the appearance was brilliant and en-
chanting beyond description. The grand table
wars spas to extend through the whole length of
this elegant apartment, and from this, at conve-
nient distances, branched off four other tables,
at each of which two Stewards presided,. all of
whoth we must even thus early premise diSplay-.
ed the most unremitting attentien to their mune-
rous guests. Not- less than 200 persons sat down to
this sumptuous banquet, which in every thing
constituting a great public feast was uniformly
excellent, and might bear comparison with the,
best and greatest of the London Lord Mayor's
feasts, so celebrated for luxurious feeding. Thp
tables absolutely groaned under every delicacy
procurable, and the wines and fruits were of most
exquisite flavour—the whole arrangements indeed
for thin very large party, including, with very few
exceptions, every gentleman at the Presidency,.
surpassed any thing we have seen at Madras. The'
President of the feast was Major-General.
FORBES. He was supported by his distinguished
guest and the lion. G. STRATTON, Esq. and was
ably assisted at different parts of -the tables by
the Stewards of the evening. When the cloth
had been withdrawn the President went through
the official list of toasts with great spirit and
animatibn, and indeed the feelings of all present,
seemed inspired by the occasion with one utta-;
ninuous spirit, of conviviality and hilarity tbat
could not be surpasSed. When the health of:
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief was
drank, and the ettituisiasm called forth by the
toast had somewhat subsided, .the gallant Gene-
ral tendered his thanks in warm and grateful
terms for this, public manifestation of feeling on
the eve of his separation from a society to whom
he ivas attached by the strongest ties. It is a
source of regret to us that we had already in-
dulged too largely in the good cheer and festi-
vity of the evening to attempt the report of even
the heads of this and the many other eloquent
and feeling addresses delivered during the even-
ing. We can only say that they were all widl

received, and that hilarity and good humour, and
a disposition to please and be pleased, were the
distinguishing features of this merry festival.—
The following were the first twelve toasts :
The King.
•
Sir T. ilislop, and a pleasant voyage to Old England.
The Duke of York, and the Army.
The Duke of Clarmce, and the to•,•y.
The East India Company.
The Marquis of Bast:ll7.
•
Sir T. Munro. •
honourable M. -Elphinstone, and •the.Bambay Cloverarnent.
Lady Munro.
Sir H. Blackwood.
The Bench in India. •
The 71erL•.ants of NI adras.

Many other toasts too numerous to repeat were
given by different individuals, and the health of
:•:ir THOMAS lirst,oP was propo,ed in as many
different characters as ingenuity could frame the
various toasts gi.on in- his honour ; most of the,e
were in!roduced by animated addresses that for

the reason before given we cannot report, but which
were all remarkable for the forcible expression
of respect and attachment for the eminent person
in whose praise they were delivered. Every

thing that public respect and private esteem
could dictate was said upon this occasion, which
we are bound to look upon as the sincere effu-
sions or true, and pariotic hearts. Our absent
readers may farm .an idea of the happiness en-
joyed on this occasion from the mention that
scarce a dozen of the joyous assembly had quitted
their posts at three o'clock on Friday rn,_)rning.
At length, how.v2r, after many animating
addresses, some excellent songs, and numerous
soul-inspiring glasses, a parting bumper was
proposed to the health and prosperity of Sir
THomAs Ilistme, when he retired amidst the
cheers of those who still had voice to cheer. A
few jolly souls again repaired to the festive
board, and remained there till after day-light,
but of these after proceedings it is difficult to
give any, other account, than that the most so-
ciable intercourse prevailed to the last.
On the following afternoon his Excellency
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomis litsLor, Bart.
and G.C. B. embarked for England. The cere-
monies usual on State occasions of this kind

were duly observed—the whole of the troops
in garrison were under arms, and formed a
street from the fort to the beach, through
which his Excellency passed, supported by the
Lord Chief Justice STANLEY and the lion.
G. STRATTON, Esq. and attended by all the.
Staff, and many of the Gentlemen of this Settle-
ment. When his Excellency stept into the boat
three hearty cheers were given, and he crossed.
the surf amidst the congratulations of the spec-.
tators. He was accompanied on board his Ma-,
jesty's ship Leander by his Excellency Sir
HENRY BLACKWOOD. Sir TMOMAS lIISLOP will
he the guest of the Admiral as far, we believe, as
10 South lat., when he will proceed in the
gator, to the Isle of France, Cape, St. Helena and:
England. The Leander and Alligator did not
get under weigh before 11 o'clock, A. M. 04
Saturday, when they stood away to the South-,