The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-04 00:00:00

[RRCEIVED THIS MORNIbN:I

LEu'SIC.-A party of Prussian troops in the
Northern Saxony rtas put ifself. iN Marcia for
Chemnitz, and the'frontiers of Bohemia, in order

to go into cantonments..
PARIS, J. 31.—Lord- Welliugton•, passed
Strasburg!! 'on - the. 27th; his 'train •consisted of
only two carriages.' His Excellency passed the
• Rhine without stopping, his intention being to
arrive aS soon as possible at Vienna. . •
In the Royal 41)Onark, just- published, under
the head of " Sweden and Norway,". after men-
tioning the King and Queen; -continues--,-clrarles'
'John., Prince Royal; elected by the States -of "the
, . .
Kingdomthe 2ist August, 1810 ; bornthe ,2;-2(1
January, 1764; married 16th Arigust, 1795, to.•
Eugene. Bernardine Desiree, Princess Royal,:born
the Bth November, 1784 by 'Whom:he had
Francis Joseph 'Oscar, Duke of•Sudtrmania, born
4th July, 1799..
PARIS, FEB.-I.—The 6th Regiment of Artillery,
in garrison at Rennes, have received aik order to
quit that city to proceed towards. the North.
PETERSBURGII„ J. 4.—The Persian Ambassa7
slor arrived at• Moscow .on the 23d December 5
-he was received with the greatest honours. •
By an Order-of the Emperor; dared Vienna, tire
24th Noveniber,: addressed, to Mons. Kosoclaw-
lew, :Minister' of the Interior, Doctor Hamel Os-
.
sesor, of the College; who is at present in Eng-.
land by the order of Government, in order to exa-
mine the manufactures of the:countrY, is to remain
three years upon that mission. •
The.2l/Inister ofthe Interior has presented to the
•
Empress sonic pieces of cotton, manufactured by
Tcheratw, at Moscow. The Empress ordered the
Minister to give the manufacturer a gold watch,
as.a:testinfony of her approbation.
' BERLIN, JAN. 16.—A letter from Gruneberg, in
Lower Silesia, says, that a band of some hundreds
of banditti, composed Of deserters from. different
armies which, have hitherto infested these 'coun-
tries, have thrown themselves into Poland.
Our Minister, Baron Humboldt,. has proposed
a, plan of a ritw German Constitution, in -142
Articles. ,
FRONTIERS OF SAXONY, JAN. 20.—The King
of Saxony, with his family, visited the Theatre of
Berlin on the 15th, fOr the first time for a long
period. All the Prussian Royal Family received
there. • lie has ordered two travelling carriages to
'be made, and it is thought • that he ,will soon quit
Fredericksfeld., It is reported that he has been,
invited to go•to the Congress, and that he ‘vill set
out very SOW). -
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ViENNA, JAN. 22.—Travellers who have ar-
rived tri,in Milan assure us that the accounts which
have been published or the conspiracy discovered
in that city. Generals Lcchi, Bonlanti, and Co-
lonel. Gasperine, who are under arrest in the
Castle of 11Iila.n, are allowed to walk about
it freely. General fontanelli, who , was arrest-
ed at Verona, was not long iu Confinement";
be is now on his toad to Vienna. The extcn-
dons which are to take place have no connection
with that conspiracy ; the persons to be executed
are seven or eight thieves who were Caugia in the
fact in Marshal 13'ellegattle's apartments;

. Prince Eugene Beauharnois appears more f-er
luently titan usual at the fetes of the Court.

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VIENNA, JAN. 20.—Lord Stewart gave here on
the 18th a magnificent fete, in celebration of the
Queen of England's Birth-day. All .the Sove-
reigns, Archdukes, and Foreign Ministers, were
present.

The following provisional determination has,
we are assured, been adopted with regard. to Po-
land :—The Duchy of. Warsaw will be preserved,
with a population of. 2,200,000 -inhabitants—
Warsaw remaining the,capital. A population of
500,000 souls wilt be detached•from Western Po-
land in favour of. Prussia, which will• facilitate
her communications between. the New Mark and
Sile;Aa, The remainder of the Duchy of War-
saw will form an Independent Principality, and
intermediee between the Grand Duchy, Prussia,
and Austria. The Sovereign of this new State is
not yet designated.
It is believed that '.the plan of the Germanic
Constitution presented by Prince Metternich •will
be adopted, with some modifications ;:though.wc
lt4in that Prussia has just communicated arioflier
drawn up by M. De Humboldt, by no means co-
incident with that of Austria. . -

EXIRACTS. FROM A PRIVATE LETTER:
" Oar Politicians ,are Weary of conjectures, and
have dropped them for.somedays. The King of
Saxony seems to be no longer exrcted here, nor
even at Prague. With respect to Poland, every
thing is said to be absolutely settled,,; the parti-
culars are not yet authentically known. .Both
Austria and Prussia bare granted the privileges of
representation to those parts of Poland which will
be ceded to them."

STUTGAtW, JAN. 22.—The King of Wurtemberg

1 We mentioned on Wednesday what we presume
will be the course pursued by Ministers respect-
ing the Property Tax ; namely, that after laying
an exposition of the Financial State of the Coun-
try before Parliament, shewing the amount of
the, Supplies
,absolutely necessary for the Ex-
penditure of the Empire, and the Ways and
Means in operation to meet the National
Expellees and _Engagemen6, they will propoSe
to continue the Tax for another year, and throw
themselves upon the judgment of the Legislature
and the Public for the expediency, of re-enacting
this Bill to wind up the war accounts. When the
subject comes to be fairly and rationally discus-
sed, mere declamation against the Impost will fail
of having any weight,, and it will he required in_
the adVocates for, the extinction of the Tax,_ to
demonstrate how the Treasury is otherwise to be
enabled to discharge the obligations of the Public.
It is evident, that under existing circumstances
we have-only an option of-Taxes—and
,t he real* con-
olden' don involves not merely the mode of getting
rid of one that is obnoxious altogether, but a.t
►he same time. of providing others equally•produc-
tive and less burthensome. This we will be bold
to say, would gravel the ablest Orator at any of
the numerous Meetings which have been held on
the subject.—We have before remarked, that the
main arguments of the " no property" men, are
founded upon the supposed pledge contained in the
original enactuient,
.that the Tax was to expire
within xspecified period after ". the termination of
the present war ;" and that they are no better than
an idle quibble upon Nvords. Tlie TaX is called a
War Tax, the very name importing that it was to
meet warexpences generally, and not definitely ,
the single; war then existing between us and
France. Suppose, for; example, that byany com-
bination of events we had made peace with France,
but had been left engaged in an equally expensive
contest With all the rest of Europe, would any man
in his sense have contended that by the inaccurate
wording of the Act in question, it was impera-
tive that its operation should expire within six
months after signing the Treaty with France ?--
No ! the obvious reasoning would be then, as it
is now, that the Act was calculated to meet a
(any) War Expenditure, and not precisely that of
the War pending which it was passed. This is
the spi'rit of the legislative provision which would
indeed have been more properly expressed, had it
defined the term of the Act to be " six months
after the conclusion of a general, Peace," instead of
six months after " the termination of the present
War." Yet even in this case, •we think, there
would he good grounds for urging such a pro-
longation as is now spoken of, to wind up the
accounts of the most expensive conflict in which
ever Country engaged, and from which ever
People'emerged w►th so much of real benefit and
gloey.

On this'point we beg to refer to the concluding
part ‘pf. the REVIEW of Mr. BOYD's excellent
Pamphlet in rilE .SUN-of to-day,

We shall only add two or three brief facts to
these observations, and request the attention of
our Readers, to them.

We have at present 70,000 men upon the Con-
tinent !—Was this contemplated when the Pro-
perty Tax Act was worded ? ,
We are still engaged in a war with America !
Was this in view when the Act was worded.
The military expeuce of the fornier, and the
military (and especially the Transport department)

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than ever the Country has charged with till the
present era !—Was this in the minds of the framers
of the Act ?

When these things are duly weighed, we feel
convinced that the great body of Country Gentle-
men will follow the plan chalked out by Govern-
_
inept—that is, they* will calculate both sides of
the question, and
_decide according to the -exi-
gencies of the Nation. We are sorry to think
that, any of them have prematurely given pledge
cf a contrary tenour to any body of their Con-
stituents—the better course would surely have
been, to have first had before them the state
the 'Ways and Means, and of the Supplies.

The French Papers to the 2d are as unimport-'
ant as they have been for the lasi two months, sts
will appear from the various extracts from
those of the Is' t received this morning, and of the
31st ult. which are given in another part of the
Paper:

The Duke of Kent packet has arrived at Fal-
mouth, with a mail from Lisbon, from whence
she sailed on the 25th ult.

The Court-Martial on Sir JOHN MURRAY IS at,
length drawing to a close. The evidence for the
Defence terininatedyesterday.

A distinguished Female, who is now upon 0.
visit at Naples, is upon the most intimate footing
with what ,is ludicrously denominated the Royal
Family in that kingdom. To. such a degree-of
partiality does her attachment to that Family pre--.
wail; that she will not return the visits 'of any of
those Noblemen and their 'connections who re-
solutely refuse to attend the Court of the Usurper
of their Country. Nothing, it seems, can exceed
the endeavour to give splendour to the Neapoli-
tan Court ; but it is marked by such a kind of,
tawdry magnificence as might be expected from a,
vulgar Upstart.

We have the following Private Correspondence

from Spain :
" CADIZ, DEC. 31.-,-Letters have been received
from his Excellency Lieut.-General DOYLE fral
Malaga ; he is recovering from his long and pain-,
fol illness, and may soon be expected" here.—The
Expedition is in a very considerable state of for"

wardness, and maybe on the seas in a few daysr •
"MADRID, DEC. 31.—The Royal Edict has been
issued, authorizing Capt. BRIERLY, of the Navy'
to commence the great work of improving the
Navigation of the Guadalquivir, which will hi":
crease the opulence and grandeur of Seville, °"4
have the most hendicial effect upon the whole
empire. This Magnificent undertaking was sng..7
gested by Captain BRIERLY, who, as his MajestY

in the official document alluded.to states, is dis''.
tinguished for his eminent'services in the English,
and subsequently in the Spanish Cause. fie
buoyed the entrance at Copenhagen, and was ill
.the confidence of the immortal NELSON, when his,
Lordship achieved his splendid victory over the
Danes. Many circumstances conspire to prove
his Majesty's attachment to the British Nation.--"
Major-General CARROLL has just received die
Order of CARLos 111. and the Croix d'Honneurf
which his Majesty has conferred on Gen. DowstS
and Lieut.-Colonel STEELE, bears his Majesty.,°.
picture in its centre ; and all the English Officers
who had. distinguished themselves in the Spanish
service have been rewarded. Colonels Macne
NALD, DOWNIE, and CAMAC, are also to reccil'e.
Crosses of Honour.
" The French Ambassador has arrived, al;
though his introduction to the presence has o°l
been announced in the Gazette.,
His Majesty continues to receive Deputation°
from all parts, Authorities, and SoCieties in the
kingdom : he attends more than ever to busines.f.o,
but appears frequently in the midst of his peopif!,
and the poorest of his vassals may pour the stall
of his affliction, or othis.wants, to the ready c 5
of this beneficent Sovereign, frOM whoin, what;
ever may be said by jealousy, or disappointed af)
vain expectations of individuals, much good 5•
derived, and more may be anticipated.
" Madrid fills very fast. The houseS of tile
different Ambassadors are the scenes of enj°l;
went, harmony, and the best society. The Idea
of
,Sir HENRY WELLESLEY'S present return‘
England seems to be given over.
" SEVILLE, JAN. 3.—On the Ist, the Gover;
nor of the Palaces, Sir JOI-IN DOWNIE, set off
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his carriage, and .
four post horses for Madrid, i`o;
be present at his MAJESTY Grand Levee 00 .t.,0
6th. His Excellency beats Addresses to the Ic“%os'
from the Corporation, the CoMmon Council, • ,
the Dean and Chapter of the High Church. (it.o°/.
loud STEELE left the .Palace this' morning 00
Cadiz : both these Officers are expected to
by the end of the month.'”

BREAD.—The price of the Quartern
Liverpool is 94d. a penny cheaper than is
don ! ! ! A 10
Yesterday morning the Duke of KENT Pal-tbet
respects to Iris Royal Mother and Sisters at e:
QUEEN'S Palace, as did a numerous assenibl%,
of Female Nobility. A little before two o'clecia
her MAJESTY and PRINCESSES left the Palace

Windsor, escorted by a party of Light HQrse.
Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Cotlllol
was held at the Foreign Office, which Ot
about five. At, the breaking Up of the Coup
Mcsseugar was scut off with dispataws.