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en
with so much earnestness 'to procure a general
_renunciation of that criminal traffic.

The formalities observed in the prorogation of
the' French Chambers., and the Address of Mr.
LAINE to the Representative Body-which we had
not time to translate yesterday, will he found in a
preceding column. There is nothing more of po-
litical nature in these Paptrs worthy of extract.

An extract from a real letter, from Milan is
contained In another part of our publication. We
have been amused to find that our credit is so well
establishea that even the Max.Laters which we
intended to ridicule the. inventions of the Morning
Chronicle have been received in various parts as
authentic, which is more than those they were
meant to expose ever were !,--,lThe Chronicle is,
of course, well paid for being the organ of an
Italian, faction—we have no interests but those of
Great Britain.

A Supplement to the Gazette, copied into a pre-
ceding page, describes an extension of the Order
of the Bath, so important as almost to amot.lt
to. the creation of a new Order. of- Knighthood.
The Order is now divided into three classes,
Knights, Grand Crosses, Knights Commanders,
and Companions. Thefirsi includes the existing
Knights of the Bath, with a few additions, and
is limited, exclusive of the Royal Family, `to
seventy-two, whereof 60 are to be Military or
Naval, not below the rank of Mitjor-Generals and
Rear-Admirals, and 12 Civil. The second consists
of ISO British 'Members, not under Lieut.-Colonels
in the Army, and Post Captains in the Navy ; and
ten Foreign Offleets holding Commissions -in our
Service. The third Class is unlimited in nuother,,
and the honour is to be bistowed on Oflieens who
distinguish themselves in the cause of their coun-
try ; who are indeed so numerous, as not
to be readily inclosed within a list of Heroes.—
They have no title but to take precedence of all
Esquireg. Sir GEORGE NAYLEa, so distinguished
for his heraldic knowledge, has been named the
Herald of this Order.

There have been several Meetings in the Coun-
try on the subject of the Property Tax, at which
speeches have been made, resolutions passed, and
petitions agreed to, resembling those •in and
about the Metropolis. We should lament these
proceedings did we believe that man) of the right-
minded portion of the community lent themselves
to a business so evidently needless and superero-
gatory. . But we are persuaded that the Pro-
vincial Meetings • are like those which have

taken place under our own immediate observation,
,—.the work of the common Agitators, whose sole
design is to keep alive as much discontent and
elamotir as they can. It ►could be truly mortify-
ing were they, by mixing up their mischievous
schemes with a question so personal to every'sub-
jeet who possesses property, and yet so distinct
from their aims, enabled to obtain even the sem-
blance of that support which they neither possess
nor inerit.--This is no Party question : whoever
i 3 Minister, must provide the Ways and Means
adequate to the national expenditure, and it
may surely be granted in behalf of any Administra-
tion, that, it will endeavour to do this in a mode
the most equal, +►noppressive, awl "agreeable to
the People. Why then should the Country act as
if it
_withdrew, its confidence froth a Government
which, not only from feeling that the pressure of
extraordinary circumstances irn our times was
sufficiently grievous, -but from a sense of duty
(no dereliction from whicl► can even be al-
ledger' against them, while innumerable in-
stances of economy and retrenchment are on
their side), have ever been seeking ways to al-
leviate the burthen of taxation, and not to

raise a single farthing unnecessarily ?• Such nu-
! justifiable suspicions may suit the views of an Op,-
position Party (they cannot now embarrass the
Government, or injure us in our foreign relations),
but are surely unbecoming in that part of the po-
•pnlation which feels that What is due to our Rulers
for their past conduct, entitles them to our confi-
dence for the coming time.
It is "worse than idleness to protest against
a most productive branch of revenue, unless
it can also he shevvn that the produce with-
out it is sufficient for the
.experiditnre, or that
a better source of taxation can be' suggested.
We have mentioned an increase of the Assess-
ed Taxes—not as a threat, but as an alternative
and one that must be looked to, it the PropeliY
Tax is annihilated, instead of being, as we sup-
pose it will be, modified and contintred for a
limited time. Let those tvlio exclaim against
.both these courses, take a general view of the
Finance of the Country, and demonstrate how
the interest of our debt and the cost of ourindis-
r.t.nsible services can be defrayed without either, -
and we shall become willing and hearty. converts
to their opinion, which would relieve 03 from a
•Tax we individually feel as much disposed to.shake
off as they can possibly feel.

IJA iv•

1 XTR4C77 OF A LETTER FROM MILAN, NOV. 30

" The people in the north of Italy, in general,
are by no .means well-satisiied ; not that :..they
threaten any thing,. hut wish for Much : a sepa-
rate Constitution at least, and that (as all the
world seems to cry out for now) on We model of
the English. Those %vim have attained a certain
age, however, are aware of its impraqticability
in any other country than Great Britain, and its
utter ,impossibility here. Not content with re-.
•
eciving kerseytneres, cottons, sugars, &c. &c. they
expect to receive a separate form of thivernment
also from the hands of England, and say she has
deSerted them if they have it not. The specula-
tions of the common people on this subject are
highly amusing :—one tells me be expects
-
an-
other conscription, for Austria'atfirEngland wiil
go to war for Italy--another hopes. they shall he
British.subiects—another fears that England and
France are forming too strict an alliance—but
England seems all. in, all.''

REPUBLIC OF HAYTI.

LIBERTY---EQUALITY.

DECREE,

REDUCING TO 5 PER CENT. IHE IMPORT. DOTY ON

MERCHANDIZF, OF ENOLISEI,NiA,Nu.FAcTuttE.
Alexander Petion, President of Hayti,

Considering that the trade with Great Britain
has been very advantageous to the Republic, and
has even aided it in the most critical circ►tntstances
in which it has been placed,. and wishing to en-
courage the same .more aud'more, l►as decreed and
does decree as follows
:
Art. 1. Reckoning from the Ist of Jan. 1815, merehandize
manufactured in countries under the dominion of his.Britim-
nic Majesty, shall be subjected to a. duty of o.ily the per cent.
.according to the tariff of the 22d May, 1810, upon•t their im-
port into the country.

2. All merchandize, other than the above described, shall,
continue, as before; to pay an import duty or 10 per cent.
according to the same tariff.

T.... present decree shall be printed, published, and trans-
mitted to the adminktrators and directors of the Ciktorns,
registxred wherever necessary, and put in execution by the

Administrator-Gcneral of Finance

le:"I'l()N'.

By the President, 8.-INGINAC,
Chief of Squadron and Secr.tary.
Given at Port-an-Prince, Oct, 15, 1814. •

yrar of Independence,

The Privy Council sat yesterday on the case of
Baron D'ImBERT. It was attended by—
The Lord Chancellor, Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Ilucliinf,--
havashire, Lord Viscount Sidmonth, Lord Vi,count
the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the
Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Coulmon Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, the Dein or the Arches,
the Chancellor of the Exclacyter, wild the Yiee-Cha'neellor.

Their Lordships xvere occupied fur several hours
upon this case, when they adjourned for a few
days ; after which illey will meet tor the purpose
of finally deciding upon it. The Council, we
conclude, considered the quustion as one HD:cling
the political interests of the State, and they as-
sembled, therefor., in their character of Private
Councillors of the Icing, and not strictly in
.their
judicial capacity. They. sat, of COtirSC, tlwsis
fora.*; and we are consequently unable to siate
what passed before their Lo-rdihipi.
• Yebterday hisßoyal Highness the Commander
in Chief held a Levee at his Office in the Horse
Guards, which Was attended by—
Briglulier-General fenry Fox, on his return from tlitz.
Bombay Estallishment; Major-General Michael e;or:lon
Lieutenant-General Air (;eortv. Beckwith, Lient,Gencrai
St. LA:ger, Brigadier-General BrownriFg, Sze. •

• It appears by adviees, that off Antigua the
Plantagenet sjmke the Itarossa frigmte, Captain
Al'Cint.oct4, 30 guns, and was informed by her
that the Islands ceded to French bad been
surrendered to that Power.

The affair of General ExcsuslANS having_ been
referred to the Government, orders have been is-
sued by the KING in Council, that he shall be
tried m the 16th Military Division ; and the
Marshal Duke de TREviso,,, in quality of Gover-
.nor, is to bring the business before the Council
of War of that Division.

Louts BUONAPARTZ'S novel has beenlatelypub-
lislied in three small volumes at Paris. The scene
is in Holland ; the principal' characters Lsre
Dutch ; all the virtues and si:fferings .he *exhi-
bits are those of Dutchmen : the criminals are
French; the crimes those of the Re%olution the
chief calamity is the conquest of Holland.; and
the miseries of his hero arise froni his hviog male
one of the victims of the accursed cortscription,
enforced for French objects against a people
whom the author paints as endowed with every
human virtue. French laws, French principles,
seem to be viewed with deteStation by this alien
to the BuoNAPAhTE blood. He dwells on thebap-
pinest of domestic life with the enthusiasm o. a
private English Gentkman, when the English
character NvaS in its Tarot state ; And deplores
and'reprobates the new Jacobin systrm of divorce,
with the just feelings of a:Moralist awl a Christian.

Mad:une de •STsEt,'%is said to have left Paris in
disgust. it is said she offered to write a Military
:History of the reign of IitToNAFARTE, but that
her proposal was rejected by the Government.,
A Grand Festival is to. take place in
Edinburgh, early in the Spring, similar to the
CommemoratioU-of HANDEL, in Westminster Ab-
bey, tl:e receipts of which are to be. divided
amongst the ,Charitable Establishments of that
City.
THE FRAUDULENT ATTORNIES.—We hear that
more deeds, with Int:ld:dently:li:fixed stamps, have
been found in this town, •on the different parties
referring to them, during. the• last week ; more
discoveries of the 'kind may be expected. There'
dues not seem to be any other means of legalizing
theSe deeds, than by giving the. Commissioners
power, by an Act of Parliament, to re-stamp
them, on payment of the proper duties.—(Leeds
intelligenoer, Jan. 2.) ' •

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3,—Yesterday, after post,
arrived from the Downs the Ibbetsons, KIPPEN,
for Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. Arrived to-
day his Majesty's ship Curacoa, from the 3Nlediter-
ranean, and put under quarantine at the Mother-
bank. Sailed a fleet of transports for Cork, un-
der his Majesty's ship Hope. Went out of har-
bour his Majesty's ship Malabir.
Admiral's Office, Jan. 3.—" The Havoc will
proceed immediately to Cork with the vessels
bound to Bermuda and the Bahama Islands that
have received instructions from the Montagne, to
enable them to join the convoy under his Majes-
ty's ship Leonidas."—The Havoc will sail to-
morrow at daylight.—Wind Easterly.
PLYMOUTH, J. 2.—Arrived the Dutch frigate
Daageraad, bound to the Mediterranean, much
damaged, and 'the Dutch frigate Ysel, bound to
ditto, dismasted. Arrived the Tyrian sloop of
war from off the Land's End, and brings an ac-
count that the Long Light-house has been washed
away in the late gales. Sailed the Brazen, Fa-
vourite, and Insolent sloop of war, to the West-
ward.

ciRAVESF.NP, JAN. 3.—Arrived the David, Colburn, from
Memel; 'Mentor, Stephenson, and Ann, Brown, from Peters-
burgh; Orspeck, Hickner, from Riga; Spring, Howe, from
Quebec; Sarsh, Lucas,. from. Seville ; Louisa, Rodrigo, from
Bahia; Juno, Reynderts, frees. Hamburg') ; and Three Bru-
thers, Spa,:demans, from Cadiz. "Sailed" the Providence,
Sinith,.and kiarmonie, Potter, for Antwerp; and the it u. i, 0,
Bottcheu, fur Trieste.

The Charlotte, LINDT, front PiWan to London,
Was lost near Dantzic, between the 4th "and
sth ult.

The Flora, H0t.1,4, from. Copenhagen to St.
Thomas's, is'on shOre near Calais.
The 'Triton, STEINGARDT, from Newcastle to
Konigsberg, is lost near Marstrand.
.The Yrow Torn egina, CKTALL, from Elbing
to ID rc, was stranded, during. the late gales, on
the Islam! of Vliel4nd.

The Clifton, UNION, from Barnstaple to Bristol,
is lost on the Holmes.

The Arinus Mations, LANGEVELD., from Rot-
terdam to Bitavia, was stranded on Goree Beach
on Thursday la,t, had 11 feet water in her kohl.
Part of her cargo and stores will he saved.
The Ocean, SCOTT, from Quebec to Pcrts-
month, s totally lost on Byron Island. Crew
saved..

•
The Friends, BuoAn, from Plymouth to Liver-
pool, was tt'tally wrecked on Carnurvon Bay, on
Saturday. Crew and most of the cargo is
.saved.

Extract of a Letterfroin ",'-rncra -(Switzerland), dated -I 9th

Dee( mho., 1514.

" We hate the pleasure to. inform you, that. in
consequence of an application to our Government
by several' EnOish familles residing in 0r near our,
to%vn for a pla.:e of worship, a neat Chapel has
been fitted up for the purpose, in which Divine
Service ill be celebrated, according to_tl/e. Rites
of the Church of England, On Christnuis Day
next, and every ensiling Sunday. We 'have here
two English Clergymen of abilities, who have
undertaken to officiate alternately. This new
stittition has been received with univers4 satis-'
faction, and we all wish it may rest On some
permanent foundation. Imbed it is not a new
thing ; for we read in our Records, that is the'
lith century a similar establishment was formed
likewise in this city."

ANIRBACA.—By the arrival at Liverpool on Sun-
day of two ships from Pensacola, we are enabled
to explain *the report of the successes by the Arne-
ricao General JAcKsox, in which it was said 400
British were lost. Some time ago, the Spaniards
invited the British to take possession of 'Pensa-
cola, the capital of West Florida, and to protect
it against the Americans. The American Gene-
ral, JActi.',•mi, then issued a Proclamation, saying;
unless the British retired, he would attack the
place. When the British failed in their attack on
the Nobile,.they retired to Pensacola. -General
JACKSON followtd them, having collected 3000
men for that purpose. In consequence of the ap-
proach of this force, the Seahorse frigate, with
four sloops of war, left Pensacola •with the Bri-
tish troops early in Novetaber. The ships ar-
rived at Live! pool left Pensacola in haste, with
'imperfect cargoes of cotton. They bring no ac-
count of any fighting, though it is probable some
skirmishing took place as the British retired, and
the loss of a few lives may have been exaggerated.
The Americans, it is supposed, will seize ;upon IVest
Flor,ida, unless they, should (head •a war. with
Spain. New Orleans is said to-be well fortifi—
ed, and defended by 5000 AtnericanS. The.Eag-
lish force destined against it is said to amount to
5000.

CORN-EXCHANGE, JAN. 4.—We had, large ar-
rivals this morning- both with Wheat and Oats
from our own coasts and abroad. Oats may 19. e
considered 2s. per quarter cheaper. ‘Vhcat was
nearly unsaleable ;-• and where the sales were
forced, lower prices must be submitted to, say
2s. per quarter. Barley, having a large supply,
was 2s. cheaper. Pease and Beans were each Is.
cheaper. Malt was dull in sale, at the close of
the market on Monday. FlOur declined ss. per.
sack.

English ‘Vheat - 5 is. 60s. NCR' White Pease - 575. —s.
Fine ditto - 645. —s. —s. Grey Pease - - - 335. 405.
Oid (into - - —s. —s. New Grey Pease - 436. —s •
I,;'!tlicign do. - -40 i. 50s. 60s. Tick Beans - - -33 i. 41s.
Flue ditto - - this. —..3. -s. 1 Small Tick Beans Sss. 445.
Rye - - -90 s. 20s. J Feed Oats - - - -17 s. 20s.

I. (1;e ditto - - 365. —s.
Barley - - -18 i. 335. —s,
Fine ditto - - —s.
Ntw ditto - - -85 s. —s.
Malt - - -

Fine ditto - - - 244. 265.
Poland ditto - -17 s. 20s.
Fine ditto - -20 s. 30s.
Potatoe ditto - - 325. —s.
Rape Seed 301.371. per last.

Fine ditto - - - 765. —s. Fine Flout,
NilbitePease (boil.) 495. 535. Seconds -

555. 60s.
-50 s. 553.

Nothing done in Consols—Omnium in a Som-
nium, that is, "fast asleep all speculation at
an end, but the Lottery, which begins the 18th of
this Month, and the- Scheme will aim what a
Illiae of worth it,coutaih3...