The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-11 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

We think we may now congratulate the country
upon the unanimous decision of Parliament in fa-
vour of the principles laid down in the Chancellor
of the Exchequer's financial expositions, and of
the expediency of applying a portion of our sur-
plus revenue to the gradual reduction of those prin-
ciples into practice. The Resolutions submitted
to the House of Commons on Monday evening by
Mr. Iluskisson have smoothed every difficulty
which seemed to impede the plans of his Majesty's
Ministers respecting the Silk Trade, and with the
able explanations and comments by which they
were introduced, have at length silenced those
whom it would perhaps be impossible to recon-
cile more positivOy to those measures. As we
observed at the commencement of the djscessions
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer's state;

'merit had provoked, the sole question was—the
best mode of applying a certain amount of Re-
venue to be surrendered by Government far the
f welfare of the country. Now we are free to
confess that if the previens remission of Taxes,
in the course of three or four years, to the an-
nual sum of seven or eight millions, had not
raised the nation to the high state of prosperity
which it now enjoys, we should ourselves have
advocated a repeal of direct duties, such as the
charges of Window light, in preference to a repeal
of those upon the importation of Raw Silk, which
it is admitted can only indirectly and remotely
be felt by the public as an advantage. We think,
however, it must on all hands be granted, that al-
though the people of this country are still sensible
of the weight of taxation which they have to bear,
they by no means find themselves thereby op-
pressed, or prevented from successfully exert-
ing all their energies, whether commercial,
manufacturing, agricultural, &c. Would it then
become a great nation, thus flourishing and at
ease, to grasp at an immediate, and we may add,
a paltry benefit, rather than wave that saving for
_ a while, in order to receive a return for it ten
thousand fold in the lapse of a few years
Such conduct would be a contradiction in Eng-
lishmen as a body politic, compared with Eng-
lishmen as private individuals, or as members
of a commercial community, of the most
glaring description. One of our distinguishing
characters as a people, is the spirit and
pertinacity with which we devote our capital,
time, and talents, to speculations, from which
an ultimate, not fa proximate, profit is ex-
pected, and that often of the most uncertain and
contingent nature. Is it not tit and consistent
then that our Government, which so faithfully
embodies and represents all the feelings of the
nation, should act on the same principle as the
people, of which it is the organ, do indivi-
F dually, and with the best practical evidence
of its wisdom ? His Maj?sty's Ministers do not
once question the perfect policy of relieving.
the public as much as possible from all bur-
dens but having already done this to a vast
extent, and so as to remove all serious complaints
of the least distress, they submit the propriety
of postponing the remission of some taxes for the
present, on the assurance, and with the certainty,

hat this very postponement will enable them to

grant a much greater- remission of taxes at the
end of a short period, besides in the interim most
essentially increasing the prosperity of the em-
pire. Are the present advisers of the Crown
worthy of this confidence ? Are those who led
us so triumphantly through the last war, and
have since so steadily guided us through the-
critical domestic sufferings which every class en-

(lured in consequence of that tremendous struggle,
worthy so be entrusted w ith the application ofa few
hundred thousand pounds of surplus revenue,
which their own wisdom has produced ? Could
the people of England, who placed their lives,
their independance, their honour, their all, in
short, at the discretion of his Majesty's present

them its much confidenee as May
to prove the policy of setting a
3 le
singleVl ;"% -ereset,:rdsaanrli of our manufactures at liberty ?
We dwell purposely on this view of the subject,
because in reality the whole is a question of
mere confidence. 'Ministers but ask to act

for the country as any individual would :n
similar circumstances act for himself, and if they
may be trusted, they ought to be enabled to exe-
cute their plans. having so fully expressed our
opinions on this Point,
expa-
tiate on the we would willingly expa-
evident
expediency of legislating
generally on the commercial principles upon
which the alterations in the silk trade have been
made, when the actual and relative situation of the
country is considered. This, however, we find
must be reserved for another occasion. It will
then be our business to show that in every
respect England is fitted to be the great manu-
facturer of the "rid--that our immense capi-
tal, our high intellectual rank, or superiority
in the arts and sciences, our mariti ne greatness,
to-
gether with the comparative our limited territory and dense population,
Parative deficiency of all

: all other countries dic-
tlse
iiteethccu
eirporliiicsytaout;t:pseriinnitting
the freest imports-

tion of every species of raw produce into the
of facilitating the ex-
portationUi ed Ki
lit
olig
fit°
nialtillu' faucrl
tit'lred produce to the rest of
the globe. The proposed regulations of the
these views and
iSnilkourrfr:(ll,ienioatriel,d.aivcetated by
no ground for dissatis-
faction in any quarter. Indeed, if we mis-
take not, the Silk Merchants and Manufac-
turers themselves will demand a repeal of the
prohibitions of foreign goods before the time to
which that measure had been deferred ; for the
sooner smuggling is discountenanced by the ad-
mission of silks on an ad valorem duty of 30 per
cent., the less competition will they have to en-
counter from the productions of other countries.

The Silk \Vetivers in Spita!fields, on Tuesday
night, had a partial illumination of their houses,
in consequence of the repeal of the prohibition of
foreign manufactured silk being put of till July,
1326. One upon a more general scale is expected
in the course of a few days.

New Romney, and places adjacent, ex perienced

the effects of the gale on Wednesday last. About
six in the evening it commenced and continued
upwards of two hours, stripping off the tiles, little
or much, from almost every house ; several
chimneys were blown down, and other damage
done ; the sign at the New Inn was also blown
off, but fortunately no accident occurred to the
person of any one. At Old Romney, two lights of
the Church windows were blown out ; a barn at
Newchurch blown down and other similar accidents

.
n various parts of the Marsh. Owing to the vio-
*rice of the gale the tide rose unusually high on
.his coast, the inmates of a cottage situate on
Ltomney Warren close to the sea, hut which has

hitherto been out of the reach of that boisterous
element, was, about one o'clock on Thursday
morning, surrounded by the sea, and the poor
fisherman with his family obliged to leave and go
to a neighbour's house about half a mile distant ;
it is feared this cottage, if not removed, will be-
come a prey to the overwhelming element.—
(Kentish Gazelc, March 9)