The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-26 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, FE n. 211.—Wind N.E.— Came down from the River
and sailed the Hon. Company's ship Sir David Scott, for Ben-
gal and China; William Money, Jackson, fur Madras; Mit-
ford, Taylor, Mogadoe; West Indian-, Cook, Antigua; Sib-
son, Stephenson, St. Lucia ; Telegraph, Grandin, Havre ;
Betsey, Flig, -Antigua; Cincinnatus, Sebor, New York ; Ro-
sanna, Johnson, Batavia ; Tula, White, Gibraltar ; and
Betsey, Aspill, for Tenenffe.
PonTsmouTtr, FEB. 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Or-
pheus, Findlay, from London for the Isle of France; and his
Majesty's ship Camelion, from Falmouth.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 24.—Wind E.—Arrived the Eliza,
Ritchie, for Charente.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 24.—Wind E.—Sailed the Ruby, Wat-
son, from Genoa) Marys, Findlay, Britannia, Rubre, and
Watson, Watson, fcr Lisbon ; and L'Emilie, Norman, for
Marseilles. _ _ _

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Fast India
House, when Capt. Ilaviside was sworn into the command of
the ship Thames.

BOW-STREET (THIS DAY.)—(Robbery by a
Servant.)—.lunges Winter was put to the bar,
charged with robbing his employer, Mr. God-
dard, of the Strand, of a quantity of scented and
Windsor soap. The prisoner had been employed
for about three months by Mr. G. occasionally,
but at length, front repeated losses, he was sus-
pected to be the thief, and a watch was kept over
him, until at length, yesterday, he was detected
in the act of leaving the house with the property
in question. The charge was fully proved, and
he was committed.

Til E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Feb. 9.6

[TIIE TIMES.]
We perceive, if we are not mistaken, that stun
.of surprise hi the nation at the late exposition of
IVir. Robinson's most astonishing plan of finance,
which imposes silence at first,. but will shortly
Duak forth into indignation and exertion. " So,"
people are now beginning•to murmur, " we are
" to have no farther reduction of taxes." " No,"
-we reply, " you are to have no farther reduction
." of taxes ; retrenchment is at an end. The
" Government has taken one or two classes of
." your fellow-subjects, n 4 the South Sea whale
" fishers and herring ushers, and exporters of
" Irish linens, and sconced them for the rest of
" you. But it intends to allow you nothing of
" what it has itself ; and, which is worse, the
" money that was coming into you from foreign
" sources,—money of your advancing, and but ill
" repaid,—it stops in its transit to you, and
" squanders upon the most useless objects."—
Such is the disappointment of the people, and
such is the only real mode of replying to it. It is
worth the while to observe most particularly, that
the money really due from the Emperor of
Austria, amounting at this time to the sum of
upwards of twenty millions, would have just
yielded an interest (on the terms on which it was
lent) capable of removing the window-tax ;or
the capital might have brought up the whole tax,
and no one but the debtor have been the poorer!
and now, even the trifling sum of two millions and
a half, rendered yet more trilling by the deduc-
tion of the discount, is not to be allowed to go
wholly to the alleviation of our burdens, but to
be applied to building churches, and to repairing
Windsor Castle ! The inference, therefore, is
clear, that the repeal of taxes is now meant to
be at an end. Government is, as it were, upon
the plain : it has descended as low as it intends,
and therefore expatiates at its ease in playful
speculations upon the wool-trade and the silk-
trade, and dispenses its unexpected 44 God-sends"
around it with all the graceful prodigality of in-
considerate ease ; for if any farther reduction had
been contemplated as necessary, the plan of
finance would have consisted of the removal of
the real and substantial burden of the window-
tax, of the assessed taxes altogether, instead of a
parcel of frivolous speculations, meant only to de-
ceive, and incapable of diffusing any good. It is
further to be remarked also, that the Chancellor
of the Exchequer devises this his petty plan for
peace only ; for " if," says he, " a war should
" occur, some alteration would undoubtedly be
cc necessary in the arrangements which he was
" contemplating ; and Parliament would in all
" probability be compelled to make what it had
" never made in vain—an appeal to the public
" spirit of the nation, in support of its honour, and
"in vindication of its dignity." In peace, there-
fore, we are not to be relieved beyond the
present point ; and the moment a war takes
place, the trade of fresh taxation is to com-
mence. But we are happy to observe, that the
nation has at this moment (what it may soon lose)
the means of defending itself in its own hands.
The present Parliament is drawing to a conclu-
sion ; we believe it is in its fifth session ; and
a- Parliament never sits beyond the sixth.

the repeal of the war-taxes be not allowed to be
suspended, as is attempted, till a new Parliament
shial have been chosen, farewell to even the very
hat e of all farther reduction of our expenses.
We stand at present at a send-war establishment,
Had there we shall stand till a war breaks out,

when we shall very soon be mounted up to a war
establishment and a half ; the present being then
assumed as the peace establishment. What we
should recommend, therefore, is, that public
meetings be called to scout this frivolous substi-

tute for retrenchment ; and to call for the real
repeal of taxes, to the present load of which the
nation should not continue to be subjected during
a period of foil peace, and when Ministers also
have shown that they are not too easily to be
provoked to drat• the sword. This is indeed an

appeal which Mr. Robinson but little contem

plated ; but, which, to use his words, is an ap

peal 64 becoming the public spirit of the nation,
" in support of its honour, and in vindication of
" its dignity :" and what time so proper for the
constituents to meet their representatives, in
order that their respective feelings may be ap-
preciated, and the pretensions of rival candidates
canvassed, as within a year of the genera'. elec-
tion ?