The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-02 00:00:00

i PoRTANr PA 111 f
PAP WAS.

A BILL (as .amended, by the. Coritaftieo to explain and
amend an Act, made in the 48th year of his present Ma-
sealing the DUTIES of ASCiESSED TAXES,
aid antitv, Vew Duties in limy theroOf i_and to exempt
lacb.rilUitkili.v!!9llSeisill may b,e employed for_the sole put-
pole, of:Pr:1910r of..l,odglrwqomi!, or :slerchan-
dile, from t Duties

Whereas by ott Act 01010 in the forty.-eight year,
of the feign,orltis present ,Majesty, entituled, " An
Ac.4ir riPealing the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and
griiiitiiirtiew"Dittiet in- lieu thereof, and certain
stf,lirionai Duties to-be consolidated therewith;
alio for repealing the Stamp Ditties on ck„inie

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discharge:Bony aisessments witich shall stave bee:;
mode fat "414 year ending the day of A,n ii oue
tit onsat4'eight bombed, Anti -,freventeen, on the
owner or occupant, upon huses, tenements, or
,huildings, which.under the provisions of this Act,
world have Been Ocempted from the payment of
dutirs in case Ale 'said Act bad related to' such
last-mentioned assessments ; and in all, cases
where Assessthents s(i'diseharged shall 'have been
previously paid.by the parties, it Shall he-,:lawful
for the said Commissioners to certify such dis-
charge or discharges, with the cause or causes
thereof;to the Commissioners for the Affairs of
Taxes ; and itt that ease it shall be lawful far the.
said Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes to
order and direct the lteceiver•General of the
County, Riding, or Division, who shall have r-e=
ccived the sums so paid tinder such discharged
assessments, to repay the same. to the party;
which order shall be
.an authority to such lic-
ceiver-General to ,repay the same, and such repay-
ment shall be alloived in his accounts : PrOvided
Always., that. no 4uch, assessinent
,shall be dis-
charged, except urns. a notice and declaration
being delivered by the party making the claim,
to the Assessor 'Or Surveyor of the Parish or
Place, in the same manner as is required with re-
spect to the exenipilon allowed by this Act.

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Cestifitatta, and granting new Duties in lieu
th'i!reoP, to be • placed under the. Management of
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the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes,'! cer;
tilt Duties were granted to his• Majesty upon
thiases, Windows.and Lights] asset forth in the
Edbeilule to the said Act annexed, marked • (A.)
suit upon Inhabited Houses, as'.'Sist..forth in the
Schednle to the said .Act annexed, marked (B.) -
And whereas it is become :usual in cities and
latge towns and. other plaets, .for one and the
28.—The Duchess of Angon-
saMe person, or for each; persou where IWo or
lone • will go to-morrow, to Saint Germain.en-
more persons arc in partnership, to 'occupy a
e• Her Royal Jlightiess will be present if
dwellingsliouse or dwelling-houses for their resi- La
-v
the .benediction of the flags of-the National Guard,
&nee, and aithesattle (inns one or more separate
amid distinct:tenements or buildings, or parts of
and will attach the Cravats.
TWO vessels have arrived at Lisbon, from
teaements. or buildings, for the purposes of trade,. •
• ••
Li sit It appears diat our relations with the
or Warehouse's for lodgi -
tng goods mires or trier.' .
Peelle of prosince are ecljnated, as well as
ehandize therein, or as shops or couoting-houses,
those of Austria, 'lsmael; agent of the Pacha, is
rel.! to abide therein the day time oniss for the
porpmes.
of
such trade.i
respecrivek,.;:
whieh have expeeteiVat Lisbon; froin' Naples, where he is at
been charged with the said recited duties, although this moment.
In the Gazette de France, M. Martainville, who
no person shall inhabit or dwell therein •in the
writes the theatrical criticisms for that Journal,
'night time; and it is expedient hi such cases to
gives a detail of a violent assault made upon him,
eXempt from the said duties .snch tenements or
at a, Cafe, l rue de Calonnes, in consegnenee of the
bnildings, or parts of tenements or buildings, as
are or shall be solely employed for: the put poses critique he wrote upon Germanicus, He declines
• inaming,„titssintliidual.who attacked, him, deeletring
hereirismentioned.
Ajot• ibis intention of bringing the affeir before a Court
Be it therefore , enacted by the King'S
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 'of- Justice:. • '
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and On the 18th of March. at Agen, about three in
.Coutrrions, in this. present Parliament assembled, , • •
the'afternoen loud explosion was heard, similar
and by the authority of the same, that from and
after the sth day of April, 1817, on due proof to that of tbe btlt September, 1814, when several
made in the manner bereirdireeted, to the satin- aerolites fell. It was. succeeded by detonations,
mactiOn of the respective Commissiouers acting in more'Or less strop{;, for about twominutes. lie
the execution of. the said feeited-Acr, that any..
person, or any number of.persons iii
,partnership , atmosphere was serene.
together, respectively occupy a ti,:itement or VIENNA, illitttht 15.-s-The Princess of Wales,
builditig, or part of a tenement or hitililing which ,11
oin we expect, proposes, it is to make
hath heretofore"been occupied for the purpose of
residetice wholly, as a house for the purposes of some stay)iere, and then to go to Odessa, tO travel
-trade only, ores a warehouse for the sole purpose of i in the southern provinces 'of Ititssia,* and pay a
lodging goods, wares, or merchandiLe therein, or ' visit to Constantinople, •
'as a shop or counting.house, no person inhabit- 7 ,
ors thiding therein, such person or Auoseolso, Mattcn 21.,—We have just reeeiv-,
each of euch • persues in pi.rttimst.hip rebpcetiveli tka rraelaniution Which Count c3oyer-!
residing in• a separate and distinct dwellini;-house, nor of L onsbardy, has issued at Milan, respecting'
or-part of a, dwelling-house, eherged to the duties
the Jews,;'' end- which says—" It is the will of his
under the said Act, it shall be litwlel..for the said
Commissioners according to the provisions of this i Majesty, on .that person' Who professes die Mosaic
Act, to diseharge,the assessment made for
that (religion,slinuld either by coersionor stratagem be.
ytyolaj
ire
hi
hraelsi
(-)oufst,sdecitoi r ttehielseitrtis;4,lu4kc.:l), tit
induced to
.adopt the Chnstran truth. Wherever* a
. . a •
be
or so employed as a warehouse. forilmsole
put, change of religion is agitated as respecting: Sons
!
pose of lodging goods, wares,7oronerchandize and minors of tie Jevrisli creed, it is ordained
therein, or as a shop or countingshouse, any •
that the legitimate rights of *fathers and tutors are
thing in the said Act to the contrary notwith-
standing.
never to be impeached. It is, consequently, now
, ordered by his Majesty, that the Decrees of the Provided always, and be it further Anacted
that all such tenements or buildiugs,•whether ern-
Italian Government which were issues! in 1803
ployed wholly for the purposes of. .trade, or as
warehouses for the sole purpose of lodging goods', and '%vere Ninnies) on the OrdinanceS of the Etu.•
wares, or mereilaue therein, or as a shop or perors Joseph 11. and Leopold 11. shall be carried
coinstingslimise, shall be brought into assessment into• Effect ; • nail that, moreover, all other laws
as dwellinkhouses, in.the manner directed by the
said Act ; and every person inteuding, to be re- and regulations with regard to the same, whiel
lieved from the essessment made in respect are enforced in other parts of the Austrian Mo
of his or her tenement , or building used for narch
y, shall Ue o,nserved in the kingm do of Ve
the purpose of .trade, as, a mare-house for
the sole purpose, of lodging, goods, wares, or netian,Loloa4
1.1 ! • -
seerehandiee therein, or as at slurp or comas Fucticn FUNDS, 111Ancit `? ~—Five. per Cents
ing.house, by virtue of this Act, shall give 1238 f.'s c.
notice thereof to the assessor or surveyor of or
'for the parish ;or place where such lest-mentioned
tenement or building shall be situate, and at
the same time deliver a deelaration iu ittiting,
stating .the parish, or place where the•dwelliugsi
'house or dwelling-hoeses used as the residence
of him her or them, or his her or, their
family or families, are. respectively'situate ; and
every assessor or surveyor to whom such notice and
declaration shall be delivered, and every surveyor of
the district actinglor such parish or place, whether
Ire shall.have receivedxuch notice and declartstion,
'or smut, whu_thallitttve itifprnnajtohof •such claius,
being made, or to, be. made; opoo re-
quest,. from time .to time, ,and: at all times iii
!the day.thne, be Omitted :to inspect and survey
'the tenement or building described to be so ein-
.ployed, as well internally as externally, and shall-
enquire and examine into the uses and purposes to
which the same is' or has been employed; and if
after any such claim made, or, before or atter al-
lowance thereof; it shall be discovered that the
same tenement Or [tallith-1g bath been employed
7eor',iny otbei rise OW) for the .purposes.of trade, or
'as a warehouse for lialging goods, wares, or met.
eliaodise, or as a shop or counting-house, or that
any person cloth inhabit tar dwell therein, except
as aforesaid, then, on due proof thereof before-the
,iiil-Commissioners;, they shall and ore'hereby
cl.tired to assess and charge the said teneuteist, or
as a dwelling-house to the duties granted
• :,.by the said AO, nistwithstanding such claim or
tiny thing hericiabefore 'contidoed to the contrary
Proviiled :dways, That nothing. bereinbefore con-
shall tic construed to 'impeach or affect .any
exemption flow the said duties -expressly COntaiited
in the said recited Act.
Anil' n it further enacted, That it shall and may.
be lawful for tl4e. Commissioners acting in the
execistiou of the said recited Act, and this-Act, to

FRENCH PAPERS.

LXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.

• LE:straot of a Ixtto from rlandorl/4,.
„
" one of the Communes, near 'At:. °Merl,
is a character, which may, perhaps, afford your
readers some amusement : it is•that of a ady or
fortune,, above 60, who bas long expentled.:a con-
siderable part of her income in keeping a pack of
bounds for the destruction of wolVes, which some
years buck, very much infested that. pitrj.ofi*e".
&annoy,. and .414 great damege. The•lielinits urs
still in,her possessiOn, and she-takes grot
in going to the kennel, and seeing them. A few
years since, she, stied tq go 'oat to hunt, and-con.
tinned to pursue the chaee for 'sometimes' 14', nr.
16 successive 'clays, as the wolves Changed their
haunts. ' She' was then attended- by a great re;
Untie, The outer gates of her chateau :are still
erow,ded with the heads of the wolves she hasde•
stroyed. Her dress is as tstrange-as her mode Of
life, consisting of a green frock 'coot, with a gold
bugler born embtoidered on each skirt, a yelloW
waistcoat, with black stripes, a kind of plush or
else black velveteen small clothes, jockey boots
and round hat, with' a hivad gold bantLfrild
Very.lerge gold buckle in front. Site never de-.
viateS from this costume, and is not at all dis-
ple4sed at being addressed by a straiteras
_Mon-
sieur. To all apdearance she is more like:a ser-
vant in liVery than any thing else. NOtwith-
standiug these petitliarities;"Shel's a wry good
kind of a person,. gives away money and other
necessaries; and is universally beloved by the in-
habitants, who are never tired of 'relating, the ser_
vices she has rendered them. The Englth Of-
ficers in general, ivho have beets billeted upon
her, meet with..the greatest respect and attention,
and dine at-her' table tree of expellee.",