The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-25 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, FEB. 24.—Wind E --Came down from the River
and sailed the Orpheus, for the Isle of France; Hero, Ritchie,
for Bahia; and Viscount Exmouth, for Palermo.
PortrsmouTß, FEB. 24.—Wind E.—Put in by contrary
winds the Ranger, May, from the South Seas ; and Elizabeth,
Wickham, from Berbice.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Wind E.—Arrived the Euphemia,
Lane, from St. Michaels.
PALmou'rn, FEB. Wind S.S.E.—Arrived he Duke
of Kent packet, from Lisbon : sailed the 15th instt. Sailed
the Montague packet for the Leeward Islands. Off Penance
the. Swift, Walker, from Taragona.

REMOVAL OF THE GUARDS.—This being the
half-yearly day for the chariging qnarters of the
respective Regiments of Brigade Guards that are
quartered in London, all was bustle in South..
warn, Westminster, the Tower, and Portman-
square. As early as six o'clock waggons of every
description were in requisition, conveying the
goods, &c. belonging to the respective battalions
to their new-appointed stations, where, in the
course of the forenoon, they assembled as follow :
—Those of the Ist Battalion of the Grenadier
Guards, from the King's Mews, to relieve the
2d Battalion at Portman-street Barracks, who
are ordered to Knightsbridge, arid the 3d Bat•
talion of the same Regiment, from the Tower to
Bird-cage•walk Barracks, instead of the 2d Bat-
talion of the Coldstream Guards, ordered to the
former place, and the Ist Battalion of the 3d
Regiment from Knightsbridge to the King's
Mews, for the ensuing six months : they are a
fine body of men; and looked remarkably
healthy.
ROBBERY OF KTGW GARDENS.— Yesterday
Robert Sweet, an elderly man of extremely respectable ap-
pearance was put to the bar at the Old Bailey, charged with
having feloniously received five earthen pots and five plants,
the property of our Sovereign Lord the /king, he well know-
ing the same to have been stolen by one 41lichael Hogan,
servant of his Majesty. The particulars have already appeared
in our Police Report.—The Jury retired, and after an absence
of nearly two hours, returned a verdict of Not Guilt.y.
Suicxnr.-1: Coroner's Inquest was taken yes-
terday, at the Wbite Horse and Thlf Moon,
London Wall, on the body of John Bywarth,
aged 38 years, who, in a fit of melancholy, cut
his throat with a razor. Verdict—" Insanity."

CORN EXCHANGE, FED.
The arrivals of Corn this week are only moderate,--Wbeat
2,052---Barley I,Boo—Oats 2,400 qrs. ; of Fiour the quantii
is large, being 6,400 sacks. The Wheat trade remains much
in the same state as reported on Monday, there being not mucu
at market, and but little demand at present. Barley stUs
heavily at the prices last quoted. Beans and Pease are without
alteration : There has not been much demand for Oats this
morning, but the supply being short, Monday's prices aro
supported.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

. . .
DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Feb. '25.

[MORNI NIS POST.]
One of the most remarkable features in the
Financial Statement of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Monday evening, is the modera-
tion with which he pourtrayed the future pro-
spects of the country, and at the same time. the
singular picture of national prosperity which he
was enabled to submit to Parliament and the
Public. Had it beets the object of the Right
Hon. Gentleeean to excite the highest hopes of
the future, the results of his past measures and
the probable effects of those at present proposed
would have borne out the most flattering sug-
gestion of a sanguine imagination. It was evi-
dent, however, that he, on the contrary, laboured
throughout to restrain himself, and also the ex-
pectations of his auditory, within the strictest
limits of matter-of-fact calculatien, independently
of any assumed increase of the national resources;
although the latter are now in the midst of a
progressire improvement. It will therefore, in
our' opinion, be but fair to bestow much greater
credit on the Chancellor of the Exchequer than
his own statement of our financial situation seems
to sftnction, and to indulge in the hope that by
the expiration of another year he will be enabled
to exhibit a still more gratifying representation
of our affairs than he ventured to premise on
Monday evening. We may, in the next place,
observe, that the Right Honourable Gentleman's
statement so completely disarmed the Opposi-
tion of.all objection, that he ilias,-for the rest of
the .evelliug, compelled to .hear scarcely any
thing-lbut•panegyric, direct or indirect, from that
side of' the House: Some few cavils were of
course to be expected, but they only amounted
to a, verification of the proverb, " that it is im-
possible' to please every one;' particularly when
there is a disposition and wish to be displeased.
The maintenance of the Sinking Fund, which one
or tics embers objected to, is that very measure
to which, of all others, the
,present circumstances
of the country prompt a close adherence. Capital
- f,O abundant, and so rapidly :accumulating,
notwithstanding the successfUl efforts of Govern-
menteto open-hew, and widen old channels of in-
dusry,'that the interest on
.money-is reduced, to
almost-a nominal amount. What-course'of policy
then's& manifestly wise tiS'that'elfdravring a por-
tion .of this wealth thron g *I- tine mediam of taxes"
•
which do not press on the:om.forts or exertions
-of the people, both to liquidate the national debt
in the first instance, and As a friend in store to
meet any possible exigencies which the country
may hereafter experience from war or other mais-
fortunes•? The best security for the continuance
.of peace is ample preParatiOn.for, .war, which no-
thing. can.more effectuallyeonfer than the exist-
ence Of.aKuking Fund,. . •,

,
• CIS
We' have -received ... lA:Ate: re of', the 12th instant
from Madrid,-with the Gacqu de Madrid of•that
day,'. containing the text :,:Of jheL),ecree of the
9th thstant for the, establigriiinkt of a free trade
-with Spanish Anserica,.-Ilte;litfbjett of which is
already before,the Public.: Our Private Corres-
pondence states for.certainAleat the French army
is to -continue in Spaltrod10, ear longer. Great
surprise has been excited ajt Jadrid by the news
receiied•there that the Dey of-Algiers Isad pro-
claimed war against Great Britain : and the ge-
neral expectation•olthe Spaniards was that Lord
Exmouth would be sent.to exterminate the Mar-
bgrians, whom, on the former; occasion, the Bri-
tish fleet so signally punished,- The friends of
the Spanish Government -continue to assert that
a great effort `will be made to,reduce the South
American Colonies t0...a „,state of subjection ;
but where the means of.etakipg such an attempt
are to'be found, they do,itiltlretentl to disclose.
there :exists in all
-that
It is, however,,aeqed;
the new States,
excepi,.-Buenos Ayres, a nume-
rous and powerful Party :n favour:of the Mother
Country. Time: Win hew whether than party
has the means to do any thing effectual for the
restoration_ of the Royal Authority. Frequent
disagreements occur in Spain between the people
and the French soldiers, in consequence of the
protection which the latter, out of a sense of
honour, extend to the Constitutionalists. The
latter, relying on the support of the French, as-
sume a menacing air to their more loyal country-
men, who view them as Rebels and Traitors.—
Hence arise disterbances often attended with
fatal results.

[enrisx pnEss.]
Sunday's French Papers, and the Male of
Monday, reached our office last night. It ap-
pears the pirates of Algiers have armed their
Corsaii's In. considerable force against the hap-
less Spaniards, as if the latter were not already
doomed to sufficient misery, and domestic sla-
very pressing quite hard enough upon them,
without the shackles of these barbarians. We
trust they will soon receive the chastisement
they deserve. The French, in this instance, are
bound to act at once, and should unite their force
to ours, to humble in the dust this nest of lawless
pirates. The details in the Etoile respecting the
Greeks. are most inspiring. We look on the
freedom of the gallant Christians as now assured.
The Porte, it appears, has complained to Lord
Strangioyd, in consequence of the sympathy and
support Greece has met in this country. What
are the complaints of the barbarous Divan to us ?
"We cannot stay the course of events, or arrest
the ruin now impending over the dynasty of the

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Lord Chancellor felt so anxious about
the motio❑ brought forward in the House of
Com Mons last night, by Mr. Williams•,respecting
the Court of Chancery, that his Lordship re-
►nained in his private room at the House of
Lords, to receive tidings of the progress of the
Motion, and to learn the result. The Ministerial
Members went backwards and forwards to his
Lordship, who, however,, waited till the qklostien
was disposed of. It excited similar interest
amongst many Members of the Chancery Bar,

several of whom were under the gallery. Mr. B.
Montagu was in attendance. The gallery, too,
was exceedingly crowded from an early hour,
and in the House there was a very full attendance
of Members.

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[THE 'mum]
Consideration having succeeded to the first
perusal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
speech, a dead stagnation, it will be perceived,
has taken place in people's minds. One man
had previously said within himself, or to his
neighbour, " The remainder of the window-tax
" of course will be repealed :" another expected,
and not unreasonably, the removal of the whole
of the assessed taxes. .One financier looked to
the relief to be effected by the diminution of the
rate of interest upon the four per Cents.; an-
other augured a beneficial effect from the reduc-
tion of that upon Exchequer bills. The result
appears to be, that all will be disappointed; for
though there are some general principles acknow-
ledged by the plan-of finance, there is no measure
truly applied, even in the midst of these boasts
of our flourishing situation, by which a sensible
effect can be produced in favour of the comforts
of the people. The State at present (thanks to
Divine Providence) is not in that situation, that
human error or mismanagement can inflict irre-
mediable evil upon it. We are not in any of the
crises of our fate, in which die measures of Go-
vernment might decide irrevocably against on
existence. The benefits that might be conferred
on us would be very acceptable and useful, and
the want of those which are withheld may not be
ruinous. Now, the nation being in such a posi-
tion, and after a long peace, and with vast
claims to kindness and indulgence from antece-
dent sufferings, we really could not have con-
ceived a financial plan so little calculated to
diffuse or impart any beneficial influence what-
! ever.—One might almost have thought that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his,
more experienced and practical advisers, being'
obliged to remit something of the public
burdens, had sat down and considered in
what vv. ay that remission should be as little felt
as possible, how it should do as little good, and
by what method the perception of the good, if
there were any, should be blunted. The present
Chancellor of the Exchequer has adopted a sin-
gular mode of expression in speaking of the
'abatement of taxes. He does not talk of the
ease or benefit which the people will experience
from the remission of this or that tax, but of i
what the revenue will lose ; and for the adop-
tion of this phraseology, he has, in fact, some
reason. By the diminution of the tax upon London
coals, for example, it appears that the revenue
will lose one hundred thousand pounds : but the
relief of the people will, in reality, be nothing
from the diminution of that tax ; three shillings
and fourpence a chaldron (the sum which is re-
mitted) being but a few pence per week upon the
ordinary' consumption of the lowest and most fill.
merous class of housekeepers. Are the poor
_man's shoes much cheaper by the last reduction
of the leather tax ? And even where machines
and steam engines are used, consuming 100.chal-
drons per year, the loss of Government, sup-
posing it to devolve wholly on the consumer,
though, probably, one-third of it will never
reach him, will only be about 161. per an-
num. But now, would Government have been
content .to sustain the loss of 100,0001. from the
window-tax, not only would the lowest order of
housekeepers have been most sensibly relieved—
not only would the sum relinquished hays gone
directly into their pockets—but they would have
also experienced much farther relief, by the re-
moval of the odious race of window-peepers,and
tof the taxes necessary for their payment.