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London, England, 1822-01-15 00:00:00

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.Tut TREASURY (American) REeonT, as well
as several other documents of an interesting pub-
lie nature, must be excluded from our columns
till we commence our publication on a larger
sheet. The Editors of the National Intelligencer,
speaking of the Report, observe—
• " The Treasury Report, now before us and
1 our readers, is a document which has been looked
for with unusual interest, readily accounted for
by the consideration that on its complexion de-
' Pended the question, whether, in order to make
both ends meet, it would be necessary for Con-
gress to curtail greatly the national expendi-
ture, or to resort to direct taxation. We are
very glad to find, from a perusal of this honest
and perspicuous exposition of the state of the
Treasury, that both alternatives may he avoided,
without resorting to loans. Not that we are
averse to any reduction of the national expendi-
titre, which. can be made without derogating from
-
• the efficiency of the several departments of the
Government. On the contrary, had the re-
sources fallen short, we should have been dis-
Posed to strain a point in this particular, in pre-
ference to borrowing money, and decidedly in
Preference to laying direct impositions, at a time
then every body knows that there is not,
iu some of the States, money enough- (of
Specie value) to allow the people conveni
*;ntlY to pay even their own postages in
We rejoice, therefore to learn from the
Report, that there is very little apparent Inaba-
"
LllltY of a deficiency in the Revenue for the or-
?,inay purposes of Government, up to the year
'826. By our calculation, that is about the time
when something like a healthful currency will be
restored in nearly every State in the Union.
" The available funds in the Treasury on the
Ist of January next, if we are right, will be con-
luderably under a million of dollars. This is
running too near the wind. To pursue the figure,
it would be better, as a general rule, to lose a
little way than to run the risk of foundering by
'ash seamanship. The amount in the Treasury,
Should suppose, ought never to be much less
than two millions of dollars, though a little inte-
rest should be lost by keeping up that amount.
" These observations, whether of any weight
°r not, do not apply to the Secretary of the
Treasury, who, we remember, in his reports
Congress at the last session, insisted on a loan
of seven millions of dollars for the service of
tnia year, assigning the unavailable funds as
4, reason for its being more than the estimated
"ficiency for the year—stating the lowest amount
()
mone
r ready y
ti that ought, under any consi-
eration, to remain in the Treasury, at one
mill•
ion of dollars. The Committee of Finance,
I" the House of Representatives, thought the
rthnate of the Secretary of the Treasury'
°I the customs of this year to be too low
1,,
t has proved too high by a million of dol-
rs--and recommended a loan of 4,500,000 dol-
for
v'°°o,ooo, finally agreed on, was the result of a
tilt,"Promise of opinions, and has proved to be
()t It Cent. too much, for the Secretary has some
ti re e ago been obliged to avail himself of the
wholeTi amount authorized by lanr to be borrowed.
On the whole, though the aspect of this Re.
fort is very flattering and agreeable as to the
ato
re) we find in it a strong monition to finan-
ciers against sanguine calculations, and in favour
of
Ittl abundant rather than a scanty provision of
theaus for defraying the public expellees. On
" head, one fact obtained from the Report is
I,(3nclusive all the' appropriations made by
I`,"v had been called for during the year, the
• rea-t iry would have beep deficient (deducting
unavailable funds) by,- somewhere about a
ng
i million and a half of dollars,"of the means of pay.

I/RIGIITON, JAN. 14.—Lord LOWTHER, Sir C.
ri4'E'r, Mr. CitOKER, and Mr. SINGLETON, ar-
ved at the Pavilion in time to have the honour
Af ttli'ling with his MAJESTY on Friday. Count
ui"sTEr. left the Palace, for London, on Friday;
Ti cd Lownnut takes leave for town to-day.—
th Duke of YORK and Earl TALBOT are among
p: expected guests at the Pavilion. The KING
41:13°SeS opening the ensuing Sessions of Parlia-
titis" in person, but his MAJESTY will return to
Place very soon afterwards,
T.

110'6 Unity,• SMITH, arrived at Liverpool,
,r'f'gs letters from Maranharn to the 29th of
:;vember. All the inhabitants were anxiously
(1,: Ming the arrival of the instructions from the
nernment at Lisbon, to proceed•to the elec-
ofottof the new Junta. The ex-Governor of
vo—
arrived at Alaranham on the 213th of No-
-1): her, having been dismissed ; and the Gover-
of Pianhi was also expected daily. It was
i,Pected that Governor SILVEIRA IVOBId not be
President of the New Junta, having re-
"ti.Y made himself very unpopular.
frahe Regalia, DIXON, is' arrived in the Downs
• tht' Port Jackson, with a cargo, the prottree of
oils e°lony and adjacent islands : viz.—elePhant
She whalebone, seal-skins, wool, and wood.—
icti sailed 15th of August, and from St. Helena
• he‘ ,16f N.,')Vember. Sir TH M N OAS BRISBANE, the
Governor, was daily expected at Port Jack-
, from —The following is an extract of a letter
Passenger
'ld of ;le ship Surrey, Raine, arrived at Port Jackson on the
the refi: arle, from Valparaiso with 18,000 bushels of wheat for
to 6,, ef of the Colonies. The Surrey touched, on her return
NeCneY, at Pitcairn's Island, where the descendants of the
tity4 tett Christian (of the Bounty) live in undisturbed.secu:
totterind are, apparently, blessed with every possible happiness
e°loa ttneat, )OY, and perfect innocence,
.pervade_ this little
JaTY, as evil has not yet sullied their hemisphere."
1.l Westmoreland, POTTON, sailed from Port
r
to "ec on the 10th of August for New Zealand,
ace
cei 11
ve a cargo of cocoa-nut-oil, and pork, on
irkpc'ulit 'of the Church Missionary Society, hai-
-1,4 °n board, as passengers, the Rev. Mr. KEN-
9IUrCh
.Missionary, and the two chiefs,
tir‘ GI and WYTAK.OO.
in ?he Prince and Princess of DENMARK are now
(14 4ris• They paid a visit to the KIND on Tliurs-
-8„."-"C01011e1 GUSTAV, SOll of. the late King of
"Ibt.s, has left. Basle, F
and arrived at Yranltlfoit.