The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-18 00:00:00

Ilusu BUDGET.

Mr. WELLESLET POLE then proposed the
Budget for Ireland. The Right Hon: Gentleman
stated, that he should not go much at length
into the subject, but should be ready to answer
any observations which inight be made. He
would state the Supply necessary for the service
of the year, and would afterwards state the Wpys
and Means .for meeting that supply.
With respect to the 'Supply, it -was as follows :
Due on the Contribution for 1811
The quota doe 1812
Interest of the Debt up to the stii January 4,496,000

Making a total Supply of

'WAYS AND MEANS, :
In the first instance he should take—
The Stirplus of the Consolidated Fun& 2,755,000
Pevenue for the Year 4,300,000
Net Revenue for the last Year • 4,170,000

Bounty on sale of-Retail-Spirits - - 40,000
Regniation.of Tobacco Dotie, &c.
Profits of Lotteries 1505000
Payment of Seamen's Wages, &c.
Loan and Exclietpter Bills _ " . 2,000,000
..

Making a total of
Being an excess of eighty thousand pounds above
the supply. It was necessary to state, in laying
the Ways and. Means before the COMmittee, that
as far as respected the Loans, and, the mode of
paylng the interest upon the LOan now raised,
the .ame mode was applicable to bOth countries.
The amount of the interest to be provided for be 7
ing,four .13u nd red and forty-nine thousand pounds,
-it was proposed, in providing for the payment
of that interest, that the tag on spirits distilled in
Ireland,. should be , made applicable to the dis-,
charge of the interest. He tool,: 'it foi granted;
upowa moderate calculation, tat the tax would
cover, the amount required. A tax upon Irish
Spirits had been laid of 2s, 6d. per gallon in addi-
tion to the former tax, which made the amount of
duty ss. The 'consumption of spirits charged with
the duty, amounted to six million five bundied
and fiftyLsix thousand gallons, of which quantity
792 thousand gallonS were-exported, lealiing.con-
sequently 5 millions 764 thousand for home eons-
sumption. When the tax was formerly proposed,
he had stated, that it might very poBsibly operate
to reduce the consumption ; and he found his ex-
pt etations had in-some measure been realized, for
the consupption was reducearone-fifth,:leaving of
cOurs,: for home consumption 4 Million 610 thou-
sand galicins, which taken at 58. sd. Irish cm*.
relic y, per gallon, would produce 1 million. 248
• thousand pounds, being 468,000/. more than the
former day. It would be seen, therefore, that a
surplus remained of atiout 'l9 thousand pounds.
From-all the information he had been able to:ob-
tain, there was every prospect of a plentiful bar-
ve6t—so that there was every probability of the
di&;:tdleries being opened. After some furthmob-
• serwtions, he concluded with moving; " That
towards raising the Supply to be granted to his
- :Majesty, a. stn, not, exceeding 500 thousand
pounds be granted to be raised in the issue of
Treasury Bills."
After afew observations from Sir J. Newport,
Mr. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Bankes, the Resolution
was agreed, to; and the Report was ordeted to lie
received 49-morrow.. _

The House adjourned at Two o'clock.

Cons. for Op.

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L 0 ND N,
THUASDXY, JUN I`=, 1812.

ye are happy to have it in our power to lay
before our Readers the details of the gallant
achievements of our troops in the Peninsula, which
were published this morning in. a Gazette Extra-
ordinary.

The annual statement of the Supplies and 'Ways..
and Means for- the year, -was yesterday brought
fo;-ward in the A-louse of Commons, by the CHAN-
CELLOR of the E%,CHEO.I.IER. We have not room
to make any comments upon the statement of
the Right licti. Gentleman, except to express our
sincere satisfaction that it liTts been found practi-
cable to provide Taxes to so large on amount,
which are likely to press with such little severity
on the lower orders of the people.—Mr. W. PriLE,
in the Irish Budget, did not propOse.any new Tax
whatever.

•
_Last night Paras-Papers to the 14th inst. reach-
ed town.. They mention the arrival of BIT ONA-.
PARTE at Thorn.; and his reviewing the troops ;
but it does not 'appear that any act of hostility
has been committed on either side. The famous
Count Rom ANZ OW , died suddenly at \Vilna.

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LONDON GAZETT.B EXTRAMDINAII.Y.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1812.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Dwning-street, Junc 17, ISI2.

Major Cinrie, Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-
General Sir Rowland Hill, arrived this evening at
Lord Bathurst's Office with .a dispatch, of which,
the following is an extract, addressed to the Earl
of Liverpool, by General the Earl of Wellington,
dated Puente Guinaldo, 28th May, 1812.
When 1 found that the enemy hail retired from'
this' frontier s,
on the 24th of April; I iiirected
Lieutenant general Sir Rowland Hill_ to carry
into execution the operations against the enemy's
posts and - establishments at the pas Sage of the,
Toeis at Alniaraz. '
Owing. to the necessary -preparations for this
expedition Lieutenant-General Sir RoWland Hill,
could not begin his March, with part of the 2d
division olinfantry, till the 12U-eh-Ist and he at-
tained the objects of his expeditioti'lan the' 19th,
by taking by ,storm Forts Napoleon and Ragusa,
and the tetes-dn-pot and Other works; by which
the enemy's bridge was guarded, by destroying
those forts arid works;, and the enemy's bridge
and establishments, and by taking their magazines .
'and two hundred' and fifty-nine prisoners, and
eighteen pieees.of cannon. .
I have the honour to enclose Lieutenant Generat Sir Rowland:Hill's report of this brilliant ex-7
ploit ; and' beg to draw- your Lordship's atten-
tion to difficulties With which he had to contend,
as Well_ froth'the nature of :the country,' as•from
the works which the enemy' had constructed, and
to the ability and the characteristic qualities dis- .
played by Lieutenant General Sir Rowland Hill. , •
in- persevering in.the line, -and cop!ining.himself
to the objects, chalked out by his instructions,'
notwithstanding the various obstacles opposed•to
his progress. •
have nothing to. add to.Lieutenant-General
Sir 1t; 11111's report of the conduct of thesofficers
and troops under his-Command, excepting tin'ex-
press in concurrence in all he says in their praise.
Too much cannot be said of the brave officers and
troops whO took by stoenr, without the assistance
of cannon, such works as theenemy'S-farts oil
both banks. of the- TaguS, fully garrisoned, in
good, order.; and defended by eighteen pieces of
artillery. •
Your Lordship is aware that the road of Almaraz
affords rhe'only goodmilitary communication across
the Tagus, and from the Tagus to the 'Guadiana,'
below Toledo.: All the permanent bridges below
the bridge of Aezohispo have been destroyed during !
the war,.byone or other of the belligerents, and
the enemy have found itsimpossible to repair them..
Their bridge, Which Lieutenant-General Sir Row-
land Hill has destroyed, was one of boats ; and.l
doubt their having the -means of replacing
The communications from the' bridges of Arzo-
bispo and 'Talavera to the Guadiana, are Very dif-
ficult; and cannot be deemed military -communi,
cations for a large army. The result then of.
Lieutenant-General Hill's expedition, has been
to cut off the 'shortest and best communication
between the armies of the'Soxith and of Portugal.
Nearly about the time that the enemy's troops;
reported in my last dispatch to have moved into the
Condado de Niebla, marched from Seville,' it is,
reported that another considerable detachment
Under Marshal Soult went towards the blockade
of Cadiz, and it was expected that
.another attack
was to,he made upon Tariffa.
It appearS, however, that the enemy received
early intelligence of Sir itowland Hill's march.—
The troops miller the command of General Drouet ,
•made a movement to their left, and arrived upon
the GuadianaatMedellin on the 17th instant; and 1
on the 18th, a detachment of the, cavalry under the •
• command of :the same General drove in, as far as
Ribera, the picquets of Lieut.-General Sir Wil-
liam Erskine's division of cavalry,' which had re-
mained in Lower Estramadura, With, a Partof the
2d division of infantry,. and. Lieutenant-Gieneral
Hamilton's division of infantry. Marshal-Soult
likewise moved from- -the blockade of Cadiz to-.
wards Cordova ; mid the troops which had
marched rt from Seville into the Cohielo de .Niebhae
returned tO
.Seville nearly about the same time
but Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill had
attained his object on the 19th,: and had returned
to TruzillO,and was beyond all risk of being at-.
'tacked by a superior force on the 21st. The'
enemy's troops have retired into Cord Ova.
Since the aCeounts have been received of.Lient.-
General Sir RoWland's Hill's expedition, the ene--
my's tenor have likewise been put in motion in
Old and New Castile; the Ist division, under Ge-
neral boy, and a division of the Army of the
Centre under General, D'Arrnagnae, 'crossed the
Tagus by, the bridge of Arzobispo on the 21st, and
have moved by the road of Deleytusa, to relieve or,
witir.Taw the post- which still remained in the
tower of Mirabete.
The whole ,of the army of Portugal• have like-
wise made a:movement to their left ; the. 2d di-
viSion being On the Tagus-, and Marshal Maraio'nt's
head-quarters haVe been removed fromiSala.manca
to: Fontieros. •
By a letter from Sir Howard Donglas; of the
24th instant, I learn 'that the troops under Ge-
neral Bonnet, after having made two' plundering,
excursions towards the frontiers' of- GalLicia, had
`again entered 'the AsturiaS, and was-on the 17th
it:' possession of Oviedo, Gijon, and Grado.
Li the meantime the troops under-General Men-
dizabel are in possession of the town of BUrgos,
the. enemy still keeping the castle; and 'all
parts of the country the boldness and activity`of•
time chiefs of Guerillas are increasing ; and their.
operations against the enemy are becoming daily
More, important. • ,
I forward this dispatch by Major Currie, Aid-
de-Camp ;to Lieutenant-General 'Sir Rowland
Hill, whom I beg leave to recommend to your
Lordship's' notice and protection.

MY LOItD, Truxillo, May 21,1812.
1 have the satisfaction to acquaint your Lord-
ship, that your instructions relative to the capture
and destruction of the- enemy's works at Alinaraz