The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-04 00:00:00

Mr. PERCEVAL will this day kiss hands, on ,being
appointed First Lord of the Treastiry, and Lord HAft•
BOWBY, as Secretary of State. Mr. DUNDAS has
returned to Dublin, for the purpose of completing

the business of his department there.: Wr are happy
to hear that Mr. CANNING IS sufficiently recovered
to be able to attend His MAJESTY with the Seals of
his Office.

We believe that there is no truth in the report of
Mr. CcioxE's succeeding Mr. HUSKISSON, or of Mr.
ARBUTHNOT'S moving from the Treasury to the Ad-

miralty.

The leading Paper of Opposition recurs again this
morning to the silly charge against Ministers, of
forcing the colledion of the Taxes, in order to pre-
clude the necessity of assembling Parliament.
Nothing ,can be more absurd than this idea.
Truly the Morning Chronicle cannot be ignorant
that it is upon the amount of the G7-ants of Parlia-
trent, and not of the Revenue, that the necessity of
further Parliamentary aid must depend. The efFea
of a diminished. Revenue would be, a greater de-
ficiency to be provided. for in the ensuing yea?; but
in- the mean time, the whole ,sum appropriated by
Ac of Parliament to the services of the present
year, has been or may be raised upon Loans
or Exchequer Bills. The daily.
.Stock List will
shew, that there can .be no difficulty in raising
ney upon Exchequer Bills. If the sums required for
the Public Service, during the ensuing four months,
exceed the amount authorized to be raised or applied
-to the several annual services, the VOte of Parlia-
ment must necessarily be Obtained before another
shilling can be issued from the Exchequer, although
the produCtions of tberevenue might have accumulated
a large unappropriated balance there. But although
in this point of view, the state of the revenue, and
adequacy of the funds out of which our expences are
ultiMately defrayed, is a.;matter of no importance,
we are happy to havealgopportunity of stating that
the taxes have been unusually productive, and that
the arrears have not increased ; so that if the deduc-
tions of the Morning Chronicler were More. correa,
Ills premises would entirely fail him,!
It is impossible at the same time to pass over the
absurdity of making an aaive colleaion of the Taxes,
and especially of the Property Tax, a matter of
charge against Ministers; as if when Parliament,
upon the motion' of Lord HE SRN PETTY, seconded by
Mr. Fox, imposed Ten per Cent upon Income,
they intended that the impost should only hang
in terrorem over the beads of the peopl ;oras if the
Ten additional Inspettors that were appointed in place
:of the THREE HUNDRED additional Surveyors no-
minated by Lord Gaasivict.t, about &he time of the
General Eleelion, in 1306, were paid for sitting
still at Somerset-house, while the duty of the Collec-
tors was negle&ed throughout the Country ! We
must not be accused of harshness in our opinions
upon this subjea ; we contend that a more cruel and
oppressive system cannot be devised, than to suffer
the payments to fall in arrear, which must be made at
one time or
:another. If the Taxes be too heavy, let
Parliament select such as may be thought right
to diminish,. but the punaual colleelion of such
As are imposed by law, the imperidus duty of
the Officers of the Treasury, for the performance of
which they are likely to be called to a striit account.
We have only to add, that we do not apprehend
that there is any present intention of assembling Par-
liament before Christmas.

We this morning received some more Foreign Pa-
pers, but they still leave us in doult.t upon the im-
portant question' of Peace or War between Austria
and France. The foll Owing are the only articles of
any interest which they contain :

BANKS OF THE INN, SEPT. 7.—Ten thousand
men are working without interruption on the forti-
fications of Passau. The forts of NapOleon, Ma xi-'
Joseph, Louis, Eckmuhl, Abensberg, &c.
which surround the city and terminate at the castle
of Haekhaus, are already furnished in a great mea-
sure, with heavy artillery, There are few examples
of a city being surrounded with such bonsiderable for-
tifications, within the space of four months. Passau
is now become one of the most important passage;
of the Danube. The 13th Regiment of Bavarian
infantry is encamped in the city, in which are also
jeveral depots of French cavalry.
DitisopEN, SEPT. Majesty hasapproved
the plan of forming a. national guard in the capital,
04 this measure_ is atready carrying into effect. The