The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-03 00:00:00

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CORN- ,',CCETAIgGE, NWT. 3.—We had but feces
arrivals this morning, but there is enough grain at
market for the demand; the sales in general being
dill in expectation of large arrivals on Monday,
so that the little business done in Wheat and fiats
may be considered on the sante terms as Monday.
Fine Barley and Malt stipports its price ; in other
articlesjfiere is no alteration.
Foreign Wheat - 465, s!ls. Fine Grey Pease - 3is. —s.
ditto - - 675. —s*. Tick Beaks - - - 245. SOs.
English Wheat - 465.. GOs. Old ditto - - -30 s. 3Gs.
Fine ditto - - 675. —s. Small Tick Beans SO:. 365.
Rye - - - 325. 355.
Fine, ditto - - -31 s. —s. Feed Oats - - -21 s. 255.
Barley - - - - 235. 275. Fine ditto - - - 279. 295.
Fine ditto - - - 308. —s. Poland ditto • - - 2Ss. 275.
New• ditto - -31 s. —s. Fine ditto - - - SOs. 31s.
Malt - - 325. —s.

ditto - - 635. —s. Rape seed 271. 201. per last.
WhitePease (boilers) 3Ss. 40s. Fine Flour - - 555. tiOs.
Fineditto - - -14 s. Seconds -50 s. 555.
Grey-Pease - -31 s. 355.

Satin-in cr,n, Nov. s.—This day's Market was.not well sup-
plied with the different kinds of Cattle : Veal supported last
price,: Beef, Mutton, and Pork, were dearer ; anti the trade,
for the most part, was somewhat flat. The sales in the Hay-
market ere not lively; Hay, Straw, and Clover, bare got up
in price. The following prices and numbers are a correct,
statenent - •

To sink the Offal, per stone of Sib. '
Berl', 4s. od. 2d. Mutton, 45. od. to 55.411. Lamb, Os.
Od. to os. 01. Vea!, 4s. Bd., to fis.Od.• • Pork, 4s. Bd. to Gs. Od.
Beasts, 710. „Sheep, 3,240. Calves, 223. Pigs, 3to.
HAY-MARKET.

• I-Tay, 31. Os. to 51. Os. Straw, 11. 10s. to 11. 18s. Clover,
41. 103. 10 Cl. 15s. •

IRISH PEERAGE.--:rhere site three vacancies in
the Irish-Representative Peerage, occasioned by
the deaths of Lords cALLAN, ‘VicKLow, and
GLANnottu. By the decease of Lord Callan,
without issue-mak, the Barony of Callan has
become extinct, being the sixteenth Peerage of
Ireland which has failed for want of male heirs
since t. e Union in January, 1801, not includ-
ing Peerages which have become extinct • in the
superior titieS, but continued in the inferior
ones. This is at the tate of an extinct Peerage
for every year since the Union. SinCe the cm ea-
tion of the Lords: Castlemaine and pecks, in
1812, tour Peerages hive become extinct, viz.
Viscount Longucvilie, Earl of Belvedere, Viscount
Howe, and Baron Callan. The vacancy, made :in
the Peerage by the three first-, has not been fiiledd
up, inconsequence of the-successful claim of Mr.
BArnewall to the Viscounty of Kittgland, which,
according to articles of. the Union, is to be consi-
dered as lilling.up the vacancy ; his Majesty hav-
ing it in his power to treat a Peerage of Ireland
only on the extinction of three Peerages, and not
then, where a supposed 'extinct title has been
claimed and e•tahlisbed.

00 Saturday se'nnight four men of the sth re 7
giment., stationed at Lewes; by permission of the
Commanding Officer, were employed to open a
large, oh , lir;tish barrow, on. the Church-hill,
leading to the Spa, at Wick. ,At the depth of a
few feet, a large urn was found, inverted over
the burnt remains of a human body. A hole.
rather larger than the mouth of the urn, was
opened in the chalk rock, for the reception of
the ashes, which were perfec►ly blanched, having
past a very ardent fire. This discovery, interest-
ing in every •point of view, as far as British his-
tory'may he concerned, appears to give addi-
tional weight to the conjectural etymon of the
•name of the town, as being derived from the
British name of the Hill, on which this very
ancient sepulchre was situated, 'contiguous to
which are four others of a contemporary period,
two of which have immense large • stones upon
them ; a fragment of a similar stone, once situated
on the apex of the barrow opened, now lies on
the eastern slope of it ; the other fragments have
been .removed for land-marks, one of which may
be seen at a short distance to the west of the
-barrow. Sept►lchral memorials of this order are
proved to have long exceeded the Roman period
in Britain.

JOHN RAIN, in the employ of Mr. JARRETt,
butcher, AlaidstOne, a few days ego, for a trifling
wager, eat four gallons and six pennyworth of
oysters, and drank a glass of brandy, in 2ti minutes.
He then went home, drank some beer, and eat a
quantity of plum-pudding for slipper, and .now
says he can eat a bushel of oysters at any tine for
AnT Nrll.

LAW i;'N'Tt'LLidENCE.

COURT OF CLIANCIE,RY, Nov. T.

The LORD • CHANCELLOR iho not sit, on aC4
count Ot iii I►~Vliln 'to giie the 'Prince Regent's
the Lord
.!,\la.,r Eiret, of. the
choice Punic by the City of Londbn, of his Lord-
ship, for the ensiling. year:.

His Honour theVidE:PHANcrt.t.oß tat 111 the
11311 ; but nothing of interest oceurred,.cl.:cept to
the parties concerned.

GUILDHALL, TzruitthAr, NoV. 2.
CURIIIE V. MULLET.

This comas actibn for the price of .3q barrels
of French rough turpentint. Mr. Clijasbic-, the
Broker, bought them froth the plaintiffs for the
defendants.

The contract note stood Originally', on arrival
from Bovideaul, hut When produced was altered,
by substituting the word " Frunce,7 insi'ead of
B`ourdeattx. One citte.tion arose on thiS.altera4
tion of the note- The Broker stater) that he al-
tered the note after it was made, by the consent
either of the defendant, 'or 'of Mr 'Goody, big
agent. But he admitted that he had never de-
livered the note over to its principal in its altered
State.

Another question arose', whether the goods:wero
dispatched with due expedition. It appeared that
the bins of lading were signed the 10th o 1 Janu-
ary ; but a letter, Which was written about the
12th of January, stated the goods wwihl he for
warded with due -expedition ; but, iu fact, they
did not arrive until the 3d of March, in wlikh
time turpentine had failen conslderahly n value.-2
The Jury found a Vetdict for the defendant.

OLD IIAiLEt.-Yesterjay Hester Houghton,
FronC4co Rothiguez, and ktuother to•eign sailor,
of the name of Santos, were indicted for stealing
from the persoli of Joseph 'lnvlor, a Captain ill
the merchant service, 91. in Bank of En;.;land
notes, as also his watch, with gold chain and
seals.--1 he Jury found the two prisoners, Hough-
ton and Rodriguez, Gviity, and acquitted Santos.
The Sessions haVing terminated, the REcoRDVIL
proceeded to pass sentence upon the several con-
victs, when three were ordered to be confined for
14 days, thirteen to be imptisourd for one month,
three for two monthsi seventeen for six months,
ten for one year, and three for tarsi years'; eleveit
were tinkled to be prirately, and two publicly.
whipped. Twenty-threi were sentenced to be.
transported for seven years, two for fourteen,.
yeari, and two for life. The judgment of sever%
years was respited, and several were dischayged
by proclamation.—The Court was then adjourned
to the 6th of DeceMlwr.''

Mrs. CARLETON, her daughter, and lady's-Maid,,l
are the persons who have perished in the Sir
ham Curtis passage vessel. The two former arc
relatives of Lord DORCHESTER.--It may he state&
that thin is not the plasure yacht belonginglo•
the worthy Baronet, but a vessel so named in his
honour.

A question of cOnsidet.ahle difficulty has arise*
as to the. right of large property in the neigh:—
bourhod Of Tamworth, late the property of the
Marquis of 'IOwNBI4END, decelsed, and purchased
I. y Sir RoilEwt VEELt, Bart. The tenants. have
received notice not -to pay the purchaser.—(Stal
forriAtire Gazette.) ,
EXTRAORDINARY.INCREASE --On the fat!, of
Tohn Christian, E,4. of F,Wanrigg, near MAr'yport,.
Cumberland, one grain of Wheat, this year, pro—
duced 23 'sterns, which yielded. upwards of 1000
grains,! This Vroduce., we believe, is unparal-
leled.

A few trays ago, n person belonging to Glasgow;
fell in with 27 persons. men and women, in DI urn—
mond• Moor, all carrying- smuggled whisky, and
conversing with t hem for some rime, dining which.
an Excise Officer came up, who, afier he had sk
tasting of the spirits, was neeessita ed to go onk,
his journey without daring to atteMpt a seizure.

PkaalcinE.—On Monday last Richard Russell
was committed to Horemonger-lane gaol. ou.
suspicion of having murdered his..father, who re—
sided at Esher, near King ton. He was disco—.
vet ed at his lodgings in that place with his beast
most dreadfully heat with a.hiptuner, or some
other iveNion, and his throat cut. Suspicion.
was attached to his on (who is a sailor, just sre,,
turned from sea), from hi ;
his 'father to the
,bed.-4-c-cm, in order to get
money to go and drink together ; and it is sup,
posed lie was prompted to 'the, dreadful act in or-
-der to get ahout 301. which he knew hiS 'father to
be possessed of. Immediately after the murder he.-
abscondec:, and a D. note' Which he changed at R.
public-house in the town, upon whicli were marks
of blood, led to his apprehension in London. He
had protured a license, and married a young wo,
man. the day before he was taken.

FATAL Aecior:Nr..---Early on the morning of
Monday sennight, one of Mr. Uardcastle's post..
chaises, of this city, having, on its return home,
to pass through the turnpike-bar near Kexby..
bridge, the Receiver at the bar, as usual, demand,
ed the toll ; when the driver, who was in a state
of intoxication, refused to pay, and drove his
horses forward; by which the pole of the chaise
was forced against the man, and killed him. A
Jury wits summoned over the body, who returnel
a verdict of " Accidental, Death." The chaisL,
however, wa(fiued 10/., and the funeral expences
of • the unfortunate sufferer. 'lt seems the driver.
was•in:the chaise with' two other persons, who,
when the accident happened,'Were asleep.—(York
Chronicle, Nov. 2.)
On Sunday last, about noon, as Mrs. RICHARD-
sox, of Curtain-road, Shoreditch, was standins
at her door, she was accosted by a beggar solicit-
ing relief ; on telling him that she had nothing to
give away, he instantly 'gave her a violent
on her left breast, and before she could recov,:r
herself to give any alarm the villain was gone.
The house of Mr;Gilman, fruit-salesman, ip
Shoe-lane, was robbed about tour o'clock oa
Wednesday evening. Mrs. Oiltnatt being us the
kitchen, giving sonic orders to the servants, and the-
street door being open, some persons entered the
parlour, and carried otf a,Considerable quantity of
plate, glass, tea caddy and knife case, off the
sideboard, And every other Moveable article, and
succeeded in escaping, withOuitieing either liearii
or cbserved by any person.

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!The tenant is te) fill up the Ist, 2d, 3d, and sth
r.oluu:tr, :and the assessors the rest. •
IletiCe it is evident, that the actual rents to
the landlordsin' the font; foregoing cases; though
Loder different Qgreetrients fia 'rents pnd
ances are exactly the
,sane, to each of them, and
for which. alone,: hey ought to be .assessed to the
Property Tax. These rents are in effect' the same
.Inthe tenant also,' but without this regulation,
each landlord would be assessed in different sums
,-to the Property Tax, and 'each tenant in.different
sums to the !louse Tax, the county and parochial

Tates. . •
That statement shows there can be. but. one
just mode of taxing all property, and that is at
one given., rate, per cent. to each proprietor,
on
its net annual valtie. • The House Tax is objection-
able,-because not strictly so, and the Property
Tax nt..i t being allowed upon it, as it is upon the
Land -Tax, it becomes twice charged;' there-
fore too heavy at '.l6.y'rate, but at font' Shillings
in pound, and with the Property Tax still dis-
allowed. upon it, making
.thirty per cent. Without
the, Window Dnty being reckoned, it is' oppres-
site in the .
"Ilite Window Duty is of itself a heavy Tax,
and the more so, frott not being allowed for put
of the .Property which there ore, like the
..klottfie Tax, .becomes ,twice ein:l4.ed : it is a,rso
ridiculous a:JI Mischievous Tct for the reasons
I-have literiliiisJ deseribH. To charge a house
.fOr its windows, toe its hearth's, or for any of its
-distinctions; or, that% light the size.Of a pigeon-
hole, six inOes squar, shmild be:charged as one
Of sty strare le-et, cannot be warrantc:l on •,any
reasonable "pretence. Doors awl' closets,
field-
t.ynteantl stiles, nliglit be taxed. Such
1104 iOu4 such a Tax, Inuit not, be entertained any

longer. . . . . .
Viet thest:are said to lie temailts•TAies, I trust,
I have confotud that idea. While, however, they
last, and any mil prop:ley is taxed for the.

ter of its coriteteler.ckt, the 11;:Invt•
not at its anitnill.i.alue., it TS impossible to.qualize
the rate of taxation so mach desire(!, so verY
cessary •to he clout. • .
It houses can be Otempt-ea from those heavy
and paitial imposts at so smail.a rate, as about
five per cent. put uPcin la all other pro-
nded anti
perty, that before the Property Tax \vas put upon.
it, paid nothing to the State but Land Tax, which
In-mses paid at the same date, bow great is the
inducement.

Tlvs would in faCt he relieving tiVe house owner
at the exPence of the 'laud owner, which however
is but jiistire that- both trial; be taxed alike. It
theft becomes ai question, whether the landlord
shOtild not ?Ad the amount of his present Moose
Tax, and IVindow. Duty to the rent, which
think he may fairly do. Where he is owner of
mtich landed property, • it seems but equitable,
that be should be entitled to take it in exchange
for the 'fax, that must be thrown on his land,
for unfortunately, houses cannot be exonerated
from their heavy burthens without so doing.
But the landlords-can only compel the payment
to them of the amount of the House Tax and
Window Duty by the tenants, with the authority.
of the Legislature (in all those cases where any
lease exists), during the remainder of the term ;
when, like those, who have only let their pre-
miseskto yearly tenants, (and, no doubt, will in-
tantly avail themselves of the opportunity of
doing), they will make the best bargain for future
rents which the times will permit.
But theJand must not alone be saddled with
the exchange ; it ought never to he partially taxed,
and cannot, in parti-enlar at this time, bear
It must ride generally over every description of
property or profits. whatever, the only mode by
which the whole cornini,nity can be on an equa-
lity with respect to taxation, and consistent with
this plan, if 3,293,2471; the amount now paid to
the Government for •1-louse Tax and. Windo iv
Ditty throughout England 4nd Scotland is added
to the Rental of both, that ciremustance will
tend materially to lessen the•new Rate to be made.

Those house owners who have no property in
land, seem by t his • mode likely to be relieved,
more titan any other description of persons, :as
they will increase their incomes ,without giving
airy. tiling to the State in exchange, except the
per centage that shall be put on them ',or their
houses, in common with all other- persons and
propertY., in lieu of House Tax and-Window Doty.
Nor do the house tenants appear totAs relieved
thereby, further than I have stated in the Mode of
fixing the sum, they ought to be assessed upon ;
vvifhout it should he so ordered, that those who
have their PreMises upon lease, shall not be com-
pelled to pay their landlords the whole ntount of
the House' and NViloloW Tax now assessed - upon
'them, :hut ,able. to_ reserve about (me:fotirth of
the amount. . I do not perceive how else these
matters can better be adjusted.
Justiceat-id the public welfare demand the best
mode. m • are able to adopt in this important con-
cern. Better is it at once to throw aside • the
trammels of prejudice tor modes and notions
which it must Mesufliciently evident have top long
existed to. the oppression in Taxes of one 3e'scrip-
tion of persons, and almost the exemption of
them froin others. The noble. and- praise-worthy
effort is only.to b made, and in a short time the
public will be convinced of its general utility and
benefit .to the country.
Should any feel a little more of the weight. of
taxation than usual, which is not seriously to he
apprellen,ded, unless under the present .system
they have escaped with an undue share of it, they.
may console themselves, that they are hut payiiu
in the same proportion as the resr of their coun-
trymen, and can have no right to complain of its
nor grndge those the benefit who may experience.
any by this equal and just distribution of the bur-
diens to all.
I have recommended,' that whenever a house
owner insures his buil:Hogs, on which a duty is
already paid to Government exclusive of what he
pays to the insurer, he shall not lie charged with
the Property Tax on the part of his rent, that
goes to'pay the insurance, which I took occasion
to recommend the encouragement of insurance is
a fair object of taxation ; but it is evidently a
Tax • on property. - ,
The Statute of the 43d of Elizabeth,, c. 12, re-
cites the -immemorial usage of assurance,- " by
means whereof it cornett) to pass, upon loss, there
followeth not the undoing of :any roan ; but the
loss lighteth rather easily upon many, than heavi-
ly upon few."
It-seems to be very fair reasoning, that if every
one ought to contribute to the support of the
State in proportion to his abilities, the State ought
in return to guarantee to him a full protection of
that property, out of which it is 'supported, and
I bold it as a general principle, that they should
do so, which in other word; would be only caus-
ing all persons to be insurers and insured, 'enti-
tling losers at ally time to recover- 'their -loses of
-each other by turns.
Consistent with this idea it was, that, accord-
ing to the laws of Alfred, each man should he
answerable to his immediate superior for his con-
duct and that of his nearest neighbotir.. By the
13th of -Edward 1. c. 3. every hundred is bound
to answer for all robberies. Alfred's system went
still further, by Making every district liable to be
amerced if a robber escaped. And by the Black
Act, every hundred is magic chargeable with the
damages occasioned by maliciously destroying or
.setting -fire to any kind of building or property, if
the offender is not convicted;
With such-precedents before us, I apprehend it
would not be straining the point -too far to compel
an insurance on all buildings at least, under the
present ,existing -or any het ter adapred regula-
tions ; a measure so well calculated for a mutual,
- and a national- good. • • .
Such is the excellence of the'sectitity ,winch is
1_ reposed in our- Codstitntion, that many•
duals of the nation have formed themselves
societies, and incurred the risk-of being liable to
;.-the penalty..-of- very he;ivy payments,
for the in,
eonsidirable,preinintu of two shillings. per teitt•,
I and' where they require more,', it is. on ac6P.lirt. of
•► greater probability of• aecidetJ, -asisingTh."'"
the more combustible materials of
their more from. -any
fears of being •destrbyea i,v malicious inoFt:""-
, ries i but with those superior risks, seldour wvrL

than a pr.einiton ktt sip . lirw cent. is re.
(inked, tvhich,-withtlie duty 011_it that is paid,to:
the State, scarcely amounts to-one-halt per cent.
1 osuratice is only a'tax oft property, as fin. zis
proportion of .its value is taken to insure
its cost, or worth to sell. To carry this measure
hitt) effect, is but to order a return of that worth
to beinadtt, when the premises should ha inspect-
ed by the stirveyor,of the district, and the pre—
mium being fixed by a competent jurisdiction,
according to some well digested rules, it shall
forthwith be levied by persons to be,appointed
under properly adapted regulations.
I ant aware that the ptiucipal objections to this
measure would be, that as most, or all of the
present Insurance Companies are fornied by giant.
of Charter, .or by any other compact, at a great
expense, it would be unjust to take it out of their
hands, and deprive them of that benefit they have
a right to expect from a speculation sanctioned
and guaranteed by the Legislature ; and that to
make it more general, would be but to create
offlues and places at a greater expense to Govern-
ment, who, by the present mode of its being ef-
fected, are at little or no expellee on account .of
that
_revenue which they already derive from In-
surance.
I do not mean to impeach the eligibility of the
security of those chartered' and other Companies,
because I know of no instance of any or them-
having failed
.of their engagements ; but I ant of
opinion, that the security to individtials of their
property is an affair of so much ititportuce, that
the Government ought to take it upon themselves,
rather than confide it to the Cate of any set of
individuals, however respectable they may be.—
And 111 err not, the insuranceof property against
fire, is but a secondarV consideration with some.
Offices, amongst other things-. If so, there would
not be much difficulty in compounding with the
several Directors, to relinquish: that part of their
plan to Government, who might, as at present,
permit that business, to be consbicted.by.the exist-
ing establishMetas, in such proportions, and over
such districts, and under_sach allowances, as they
in their wisdom may judge proper ; and which, in
the end, may redound to the greater advantage.
of these speculators than'the present system : for
on reference to the retarn3 of the duty payable
on buildings only, and
,from general observations
and inquiry, I ion disposed to belie.ve that not it,
fourth of them, throughout the kingdom are in-
sured, as in many tOwns notone- house is insured,
and but a very fete- ist the country.
Others may imagine that it would open the
door to greater traud upon the Government:than
is at present, practised -; hut as those instances
are not very frequent, and. the punisloneat is
.se-
vere, I donor apprehend day serfuus mischief in
that respect.
I do not include in this' recommendation the
surance of any moveable property, which ni,ly 'be
carriedon by their respectiv;: Companies as usual;
but it tnKV nevertheless be a fit subject for' the
consideration of the Legislature, " Nether it shall
not be as much tinder their protection 'as anv
fixed property; for I 1:ob!- it aSa maxim, that a loss
of the:prOperty ht any individual by being totally
destroyed is a national loss:
( To be continuesl.)
• POLiCiSf_INT.:%....LIGENCE.