The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-06 00:00:00

SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1822.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
April 6, 1822.
[NEW TIMES.I
We this day present our Readers with a most
gratifying statement—that of the Revenue of
Great Britain for the last Quarter.—(Seb an-
other part of Our Paper.)—lt will be found that
the produce of the Quarter presents an increase
of no less a sum than Four Hundred and Twenty-
eight Thousand, Nine Hundred and Sixty Pounds!
Upon the year the increase is One Million,
Two Hundred and Sixty-one Thousand, Two
Htmdred and Thirty-five Pounds ! After all
the complaints of distress (many of them but
too well founded) from the agricultural portion
of our population, it is most .tisfactory to, per-
ceive
that. the other interests of the country are
so flourishing as to present these extraordinary re-
sults. The only decrease of any consequence is to
be found under the heads of Post Office and As-
sessed Taxes, the former being deficient in the quar-
ter 30,0001., the latter not quite 10,0001.; whereas,
in the great branches of Revenue, there is an in-
crease in the quarter of nearly half a million.—
The Customs have improved above 190,0001.,
and we must remark, that that improvement is
steady ; for every quarter of the last twelve months
has exhibited a similar result, and the sum of
the whole amounts in the year to 749,2401.—
The produce of the Excise has been increasing
(as compared with the corresponding periods of
the former twelvemonth) for the last three quar-
ters. In the quarter just terminated, the improve-
ment, after deducting the decrease on certain
articles, amounts to 149,208/. ; and we under-
stand that the Excise on Malt and Beer alone
amounted to 996,1311., being an increase on
the corresponding quarter of 172,5561.—The
Stamps also have increased 114,5471. on the
quarter.—lf we look to the Consolidated Fund,
we shall find it exhibiting a surplus of income
to the amount of above a million and a half !
The total charge was 9,600,0001. and the total
income 11,154,5691.; the consequence of which
is that the deficiency of the Fund to be provided
for by an issue of 'Exchequer Bills, is reduced
from 8,921,3031. to 7,366.734/.—Upon the whole,
we must repeat that such a statement of revenue,
at such a time as the present, is most gratifying ;
inasmuch as it serves to prove that the home
market, on which the Agriculturist must rely
for essential relief, is still rich in resources, and
capable of eventually restoring him to his former
ease and comfort.

[THE TIMES.]
Among the last year's payments from the Droits
of Amiralty, charged in the official account, there
is a lumping sum of 40,0001. handed over " to
" W. Cotton, Esq. of the Treasury, towards de-
" fraying the expense of his Majesty's late jour-
" ney to Ireland, and residence there." Without
the most remote desire on our part to dim the
becoming splendour of the Court, much less to
abridge the Royal comforts, or indiscreetly to
pry into the recesses of the Hoe • hold, we must,
with all deference, declare our opinion, that,
looking at the work done, or at the manner in
which it was done, 40,0001. must be considered
a great deal of money. The expenses of the
expedition, or much the larger share of them,
—viz. those of the squadron out and ho-me—
are a fit subject for the naval estimates,
and there ought to have been emblazoned.—
The King resided not quite a month in Ireland,
rent free. While expellees for his Royal table,
&:c., were incurred at or near Dublin, they
ceased altogether at Brighton and in London.—
We once more disclaim every wish to speak in-
dividiously, but a few particulars, by way of
vouchers for this charge, would spew good taste
on one side of the House of Commons ; other-
ise a demand for them ought to be made, and
could scarcely be called ungracious, on the other.
It is obvious, moreover, by the account itself,
that Droits of Admiralty are DOW held to be
(which they unquestionably are) public money,
and open to the inspection and fair control of
Parliament. If, indeed, the cost of the Irish
visit had been contrasted, not with the benefits
really received,
,but with those which the politi-
cians or prophets of Ireland (for most of her po-
liticians then turned prophets) anticipated from
it, there never undoubtedly was less reason to
fall out with the price of any such article.—
All differences reconciled ! all wrongs for-
given ! all grievances obliterated—nay, trans-
formed to blessings! Eternal harmony ! bound-
less prosperity ! Crime and suffering, even folly,
at an end ! For miracles like these, and for
the worker of them, who would grudge forty
thousand pounds, or forty times forty thousand
Alas ! the bright spectacle has vanished. We
have nought on record but the metamorphosis of
demagogues and party minions into fawning
slaves. History, and common sense, and national
dignity were laid aside ; and the fancy was ran-
sacked, and, bombast exhausted, for Materials of
unmanly adulation. Ireland soon became more
wretched than ever, and she still remains so. In
spite of strong laws, and an active Government,
her hungry and half civilized people are laying
the axe to the root of both. Bow much more
effective would have been the' application of the
whole Droits of Admiralty to the purchase of meal
and potatoes, towards softening the misery of a
bad harvest, for the poor of Munster, than this
sacrifice of so large a portion of the fund for a
month of locomotion, and a two days' pageant !

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The account of the Revenue for the quarter
which closed yesterday has been made up at the

Treasury, and the result, we are assured, presents
an increase in the ►eceipts of more than 400,0001.
in comparison with the corresponding quarter of
the last year. We hope very sincerely that the
official accounts will confirm this statement. The
account of the Revenue for the quarter which
ended the sth of April, 1821, was not very flatter-
ing ; it presented a decrease of about 150,000/.
as compared with the corresponding quarter in
the year 1820. The total produce of the Re-
venue for the quarter which ended April 5, 1821.
was 10,468,196/. Should the increase in the
last quarter be so considerable as has been
stated, the total receipts amount to nearly
10,900,000/. ►`his is au enormous sum of
money to be raised in a country where
distress so generally prevails among the proprie-
tors and cultivators of the soil, and must be con-
sidered as equal in value to at least thirteen
millions of the depreciated currency which cir-
culated in the years 1813 and 1814. The amount
proves the feasibility of extending to the people
the relief which is sought to be derived from the
abolition of the salt tax, without deranging the
financial views that are entertained by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The late Irish Papers bring us a report of a
Charge delivered by Judge Fletcher at the
late Cavan Assizes. It contains some valuable
observations on the evils engendered by the illicit
distillation which flourishes under-the existing
Revenue Laws ; upon this subject, however,

little difference of sentiment exists; the most

important part of the Charge is that in which the
extraordinary system of fabrication and exagge-
ration that has prevailed during the commotions
in the south of Ireland is adverted to ; there is
also some reference to the accession of Lord
Wellesley to the Government of Ireland, and
some expectations of its operation in extinguish-
ing party-spirit expressed. We should be very
loth to renounce all._ participation in the
Learned Judge's hopes, but we cannot forget
that Lord Wellesley is not the sole depository of
power in Ireland; there are offices with the admi-
nistration of which the tranquillity and happiness
of the country are even more intimately connected
than with the dispositions of the individual who
may ostensibly hold the first place in the Govern-
ment. The question, perhaps, most directly
and immediately important is the state of the
Magistracy : now it rests altogether with Lord
Manners, the Chancellor, and however excel-
lent Lord Wellesley's intentions, the country can
derive no benefit from them in this particular
particular.—We have also the charge of Mr.
Serjeant Lefroy delivered at ,Limerick. Our
readers will be, no doubt, surprised to hear,
on the authority of the Learned Serjeant, that
the present condition of Ireland is not occasioned
by the superabundance of her population, by
the absenteeship of the great proprietors, by
distress, by tithes, by the want of education ;
but arises altogether from want of the love
of God ! lie tells the Grand Jury, that they
will find the whole matter explained in the
Bill of Indictment. " The not having the fear of
God before their eyes, but being moved and in-
stigated by the enemy of God and man." We
might, perhaps, let Serjeant Lefroy's Charge
pass unnoticed, but that we deem it a duty to
express our reprobation of any thing, however
colourable, which has a tendency to arrest the
progress of inquiry into the calamitous situation
of Ireland, and to prevent the application of
such remedies as human wisdom can devise. We
are quite sure that the Legislature must do some-
thing, and Government a great deal, before we
can reasonably complain that the poor Irish want
the grace of God. Besides who does not know
that the irritatio❑ produced by the unfortunate
situation of the people of the South, must, so
long as it exists, prevent the fear of God from
having its proper influence ?