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London, England, 1824-10-13 00:00:00

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tiens which have been made on the amount of
`the:duties, We understand that the revenue of
Ireland for the same period as our own is nearly
made up,- and is expected to shew an improve-
ment of about 500,0001. without making any
allowance for upwards of 80,0001. taxes received
in the Corresponding year.' All- these are matters
for sincere congratulations between , the Rulers
and the Ruled, who are both:equally interested
in: the happiness and prosperity of their country.
• [rita TIMES.]
A.* financial document has been published (in
addition to those which we-inserted yesterday),
giving the detailed prodUce of the Excise duties
fer the year and quarter ending 10th•of October,
1824; and comparing it with the produce of the
preceding year, and corresponding quarter of
1823, the comparison is somewhat checkered ;
'exhibiting here an increase, and_ there a defalca-
tion: The activity of trade being shown by the
transfer of property, we find, that the Auction
-Duties within the last twelve months- have risen
_above 50,0001., or almost 25 per cent. on the
duties of 1823. Beer has experienced a'falling
oWin the year'of about 1,2001.—end in. the quar-
ter of so much as 43,0001.; and this not accounted
for by the alteration of the la*: as hate British
Spirits, in the year, of 386,900/., though in the
quarter,an increase of 74,0004 ‘; while foreign
spirits•piesent ne excess for, the whole year -of
above 300,000/., and for the single quarter of
nearly half-that sum; or'more than .140,0001. We
are not of the opinion Of a Roman Emperor, that
one tax innoXiona With another, how-•
ever eminently .otfensiVe the:source from which it
may flow ; and we therefore do not congratulate
the country, that a curtailed enjoyment of
Eng-
lish beer has been succeeded by excess in the
use of foreign spirits. The tax -on bricks and
tiles has .adVanced from' 360,000 i. to 420,0001.
per annum---a Strong indication that money
abounds, and that. of the former channels for
employing it, some have been considerably
narrowed. The rent for houses' is that species
of rent which has. suffered as yet the least
abatement from a change in our national
-circninstatices, and offerA therefore, to mete of ca-
pital, for 'the present mordent, a faveurite field of
speculation. The tax on candies haSincreased about
four per cent.-----4 pleasing symptom of - comfort
among the people ; and the•mere so, because the
consumption 'of oil and gas-light has at the same
tiMe 'extended thrOnghOut the middle classet4 so
as, cceterie paribus, to produce- a sensible effect
upon; the gross amount of the duty. Coffee and
cocokhave faileneff in 'the first quarter upwards
of 10,0001.: Cider; Perry, &c. have likewise di-
minished. Class has yielded, itk
.the shape of
duty, an increase of above 80,00 a. Within the.
year---a prodigious spectacle to that order `of
great men.who play the neressOry,,albeitlititnlile
part, of laureets to his Majesty's Exchequer, that
the consumption of glass ishOuld.,have increased
at home, where it is secured by' a rigid Mono.
poly, while the same article is-undersold abroad •by
those who neither pay the taxes 'nor the wages to
which our,English manufacturers are'subjected!
lii hides and skins there is aft improvement' of 8
per cent. on the amount of • the former' year's
clixclr~ nn hoproventetti ie iMprobably assisted
!?Y the repeal of the leather tax. In the article
of licences there appears a considerable increase
within the last noarter. In malt, a gnat.. and
striking imprnVerneet, amoutitiog in 'the quarter
to no less than 1040/. The salt ink for the
.quarter lets prodUced. very nearly three-fifths of
the corresponding quarter,' 103; Hotwithstand-
iag that the tax' was reduced in the proportion
of above six-seventh,. The tax on Soap his
fliminished considerably within the last quarter.
: imposts on tea, w inch produced in th'e whole
year an ititirerised revenue of upwards 0f60,0001.
hove fallen .off widen the by above
.10,9004 Tobecco end snuff a rebeAmtrig rapidly
less prodective;. the lies pli the year was
X1,0001,---qn the single quarietr:29,oool. Wine,
~w,hich on the whole.year ekhiliitell'an improve-
, meat of 51,0004, leaveS d,deficit; Cr nearly
- 24,0001. on time 'quarter.- Such are the prinCipal
heads' the Excise,
,or we• hate quoted'
the, several' differences and iinctuatimni;,nt 'p'ut
forth by thitste whose interest it is to excite' the
liul?licOfidi;* in 1..44 'TNe fact Is,' •
'that we tire now undera course of exPerinient,Whith
it Might be rash as well as uncandid- to disturb
by premature aniMadversions. In our own minds
there is no shadow of doubt, that if fairly tries},
the'tetrtiCtioii 'of dugei' will become •a. fruitftil
spring, not onjy 604eXief and prosperity bathe .
nation, but—what, perhaps, more coniniOnly fixes •
the attention 'or a iviii 'move to the
-•eoriction of all the world. the;guresrnlethod 'of
increw,ing the, amount of 'the. very' taxes"
diminished. The details of the Irish Re-
venues haVeiidt Yet been laid before fh'6 public'; •
Ina we arc -desired to anticipate from them a fa-
vourable result.

DID R. NI SCi` HERALD.]
•
Sunday's 'l).arii Papers arrived last` flight.
Their. principal, interest consists in the vivacity
with which they attoC,le the Ministry on alt sides.
M. de. Chateauhriand hai 'again taken the iletd in
Ott! columns • or th'e Journal der Dibats, with' a
reiiew of ;:theiSsi SeSsion 'Of the' Di.puttes.—
There is something entertaining in the iter-
inon4 i'anity with which the hiitory of 'this
article is told in a sort of intreductlini-Vlre-
tlrer written. by the Viscinnit himself,
or some of his 'hratlier. .InuenaliSti, we will
not venture to decide. There . appeared iu
the burned des DOats of the. 11th of Au-
gusts a:n• ahicle, Itei4ew. the'Ses-
sion.'' This article 'stabil,: 'the Ministry to ils`Cen-
;tre. Whatshotild beconie 'of thorn if another gun
i'roin the sierne quarter ? In'the crisis
of their.teiTors attiither'vhis
composed ' and ready for Publicatit;ti; de
fertringr to encOonter his late colleague
with a SeCOnd VeiVieWof the SeSsion, saw nothing
left hut to establish. theeensorship.
,SuCli was
the origin of this measure, ascribed to so many
other causes. It wai •not to prevent false ru-
rndurs"or stiditiotts prospects, ,or, to reltricf'the
Journals—No, it. .0.115; to preve.w the pn.ppica..
tion of an article from the pen of M. de Chat'eau-
briand ! it was to have appeared on the 17th ;
but the Minister got the start, and ordained

the Censorship on die 18th—the Minister, it is
observed, displaying activity, as usual, only in
doing mischief. Such is the strain of puffing di-
rect, in which this gentleman is spoken of by his
partisans or by himself. We have looked over
both articles. They contain no interest for an
English reader, and almost no danger to an Ad-
ministration. They embrace a great variety of
topics—such as enriching the Clergy, indemnify-
ing the emigrant France—the-Greek cause, &c.
One curious circumstance is the fact stated, that
snore than two millions of livres were employed
in bribing the Journals. They do not, however,
apply so rude a name as bribery. No ;it was in
each instance a douceur or gratuity,—no,hing
more. But after all, a great numerical majority,
and almost the whole talent of the Journals, is
still in arms against M. de Villele. There is no
intelligence worth notice in these Journals.

[NEW TIMES.]
A sudden improvement in the Funds took
plod° yesterday afternoon, which was ascribed
to the receipt of private intelligence of a favour-
able tendency from Paris, by express, but its
nature was not known. Consols, which had re-
mained stationary at 961 the whole day, sud-
denly advanced to 96ii- for the account, at
which, price they closed. It was the settling.
day in the British Fund Market, which
passed over without any occurrence deserving
notice. An improvement in price in nearly the
whole of the Foreign Securities also took. place.
French Renter were 102 f. 75c.; and the Scrip
15 premium. Austrian, Prussian, and Russian
Bonds were also higher, the latter above one-half
per cent. The Greek, Loan from I'3 to 10 per
cent. Mexican Bonds were about 1 per cent.
higher; and Colqmbian Scrip from 7 to 6+ disct.

TIIE LEDGER.]
'lf the account in the Brussels Papers, which
reached us yesterday, of the recal of General
Guilleminot from Constantinople, be correct, we
should look upon it as a strong indication of an
approaching change in the French Ministry. It
is well known that this embassy to the Porte is
a sort of honourable exile, to which the jealousy
of the present • Cabinet has condemned him,
lest he might use the high favour with which
the Dauphin honours him to
.their detriment.
these intrigUers fear nothing so much as
the candour and straightforwardness 'by which
the conduct of this 'Officer has been uni-
formly marked. Guilleminot, who seems ;to
have penetrated at once • into the motives, to
which he is indebted for his .present mission, ex-
hibited great, reluctance in accepting it ; and it
Royalwas suspected
hplat
dt he
not
ti mb
eeetnh at
riuhe ng cwoint
hseentlt of his t
great
dwiaffis cbuelutlytd,
in tritoi cnuoluarrltyo
parosellree
ftehroutghhetGtehialetrahle,
on account of his signal services in the late cam-
fia ign- in Spain, some reward that would serve to
illustiute the conspicuous. part he had taken in
restoring the reputation of the• french arms on
'that memorable occasion. But the orders of the
King were ,peremptory ; and as the growing in-
firmities of the Monarch hind rendered access to
him more and more difficult, Guilleminot saw,that
the .prudent course would be to yield with as
good a grace as possible; and the splendour
of his mission was only another part of the
Ministerial intrigue, which had procured the
removal from Court of so obnoxious a per-
son. Such is the substance et least• fir ,the
rumours which were then prevalent,• in.;Paris ;
and, as it agrees with the character of Vil•
lele, hS well as with the influence %vide?' 'he
exercised over the late King, as soon as the
'hides of the latter bad reduced him nearly to.• a
state of dotage, it appears to us to have stronger
claims to belief than similar statements have in
general. If it be therefore true that,Guilleminot
has been recalled' it would be the mosi ominous
event for. the presott Ministry which has been
brought as yet under public notice.

• [MORNING onto:item] . • '
The infamous Proclathation, of Sir Frederick
Adatn, declaring that the Cominander-in-Chief of
his Majesty's NaVall'orces :la the Levant, coil.
formably
.to the. instructions he has received from
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, will
arrest and capture all thevesSelS, armed or bear-
ing armed men, equipped by the authoritrof
the Provisional Government 'of Greece, or by
'those who acknowledge its authority,_•iti con-
sequence -of the refusal of , the Provisional
Government to revoke their Proclamation
against the 'vessels of neutrals interfering in the
contest betweetv:the Turks and Greeks, excited
every Where yesterday the keenest 'indignation.
The most servile Englishman who rend it blush-
ed for his country, 'When (re-saw those who re-
present it outraging in so barefaced a manner the
general feeling of Europe. A French paper (the
'Courier Francois) suppinies it the production of
some insolent Pro-Consul unauthorised by his
Government ; and we would willingly adopt
this.-suppbsttiOn, did we not ffee the instructions
•of the Admiralty referred to by Sir F. Adam. It
would, however,' give us great, satisfaction to
think that tie —part of the odinm attaches' to
the Foreign Oibee ; for, without • wishing to
flatter Mr. Canning, ive inust say that we have
seen nothing in' his conduct which would lead us
to suppese that he would be-guilty (a milder
'word 'Weilld 'be unsuitable) of such an abotaina',
tiou as .the issuing of such. a Protlaination
amounts -to. Let us“'hope that the Admiralty
alone is in fault ; and that- the measure will be
disowned and countermanded with all conve.
nient speed., The transporting of hostile troops
and warlike' stores to 'the shores of one of the
belligerems, is, as we, yesterday observed, taking
part in (he 'war between the—Turks and the
'Greeks ; and those worthless Englishmen who
thus allied themselves to the Turks (and whose'
names will, We. hope; 'be published in
wherever,tlis-cout)
Coun-
try, that disgrace may. follow them
they show themselves,), thereby placed them-
.selves, with respect to the Greeks, exactly in the
situation of Tu-drokst.o:,rNVorksti voss
itilleVer,Aes co
hierefoirieve,;tillitge
Greekst' rnitlit
trOOPS' Mkt wartikd stores 'fie) 'their Aar* • they'
might do to the Englishmen who joined the Turks.
Now, it is agreed by all writers on international

law that the Greeks would be perfectly justified
in attacking, burning, or destroying Turkish
vessels, with their crews. The most celebrated
writers, as Cocceji, I3ankershoek, &c. do not he-
sitate to, lay down abstract positions, that in war
every thing is permitted to the victor against the
vanquished, and that though the right of killing
r a conquering enemy is seldom exercised, yet who-
i.ever wishes to enforce his right, may proceed to
that extremity.