The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-16 00:00:00

PIIOVINcIAL JOURNALS.

Though the arguments in the Loyal-Papers of
Ireland have in a great measure allayed the dis-
contents of those who objected to the proposed
Commutation of the Window Tax, yet as preju-
dices still prevail, we proceed in oui:Extracts from
those Papers. The foll Owing Article is taken
from The (Dublin) 'Correspondent

COMMUTATION OF Tim wr.,;Do Iv TAX.
"‘The,Aggregate Meeting of the Parishl3epu-
tiei, to which we alluded yesterday, and a report
of which we then gave, seemed to have little more
in view than to confer notoriety upon a few
garrulous individuals, and toafford:them an op-
portunity of impeaching the justice of the Govern-
ment. and of insuliihg some private. Gentlemen
Of worth and consideration. The character of
this Assembly may, in some measure, be judged
of, when, upon the acknowledgment of one of
the most enterprising Speakers. it appears there
were but three or four, out ht,Church-
;Church
wardens present—but it will be still better appre-
ciated by referring to the speeches. Front this
most grave and erudite assemblage of all the
talents' of all .the Parishes, a good deal might
be expected, as the foundation of an appeal to
Parliament against the enactment of the modifi-
Cation of the Window TaxHshewing its impolicy,
and how injuriously it would operate upon all
classes of his Majesty's Irish subjects; but scarcely
any thing
,to this effe-ct took place. Almost the
entire .hostility of the Meeting was againSt the
Window Tax, which, being likely to be.repealed,
should have been less a subject of consideration
than. the Modified TaX ;. but neither was so mhch
an object, as to display what the presumption of
oratory could aspire to, when it disdainedj he re-
straints of common sense or common propriety.—
..One Gentleman, however, did condescend Co say
`, that the Rent Tax was not intended to savour
the people, but to invigorate the declining re-
sources of the Exchequer ;' but his assertion was
founded upon a total ignorance ot 'what he pre-
tended to be acquainted with. It is not the ob-
ject of the Rent Tax; as he calls it, to raise the
Revenue beyond its present productiveness—th:
intention of the theasure is, raise as much, or
nearly as ninch, as the Window Tax contributes,
by. regulations which] will do away all the objec--
tionable rigonr of the latter, and greatly relieve
those who-now feel its pressure ;' and we have M.,'
doubt that the modified Tax would,' not, •in any
serious degree, or any thing hike what. the Window'
Tax does at' present, affect the persons who are
most clamorous against it. fire middle-conditions
of life, both in town antkcointey, m-'s experience-
important relief front it, though POW t,'•ey appear
to lead all the oppositin that is given to" 'the Tax.
The higneo- ranks of society; and those of the next
degree ot respectabilityi. will be the portion of the
rommunityhaVingmost reason to object to the modi;
fled Tax—hut they are not opposing it. They have
sense and pubic spirit enough to.encourage a project
tliat, besides serviue the State, stilt serve. that de-
scription of the people which can least contribute
to its demands for revenue ; and (hey slew to
their conduct a very landatile example of reel pa-
triotistu. The Gentleman to whom we have ad-
vet ted, seems to ,be as badly iniormed upon the
nature of our connection with Great Britain, and
its consequences, as upon the causes whist re-
commend the adoption of the modified Window
Tax. When he talks of English commerce, and
Irish shipments of grain, and other matters of na-
tional import, he touches upon subjects with
which he appears to have oo manner of acqnaint-
ance. But, perhaps, we-are • treating this Meet'
lug too seriously, for any thing it claims, on ac-
count of the discussion to which we are advert-,
ingL-.-or, indeed, on any other account ; tor, as to
its speaking the sense of the inhabitants of Dub-
lin, it as much does so, as. Dublin-would speak
the sense of the Empire, upon any public Occa-
sion. The great bulk of the property of this city,
has not, as we have already observed, taken the
slightest share in those Meetings which have had
a parochial designation.
" Should there he anymore el thoie'Conven-
tions, we would strongly recommend to those who
emerge front tbe„privacy of. their avocations, for
the purpose of passing for clever fellows and good
politicians, to abstain front the licentiousness of
personal:invective ; or, it they are too adventur-
ous to submit to this prudent and proper restric-
tion, we•would advise their b.iing well informed,
of any facts on which they do take offensive liber-
ties. Oue at the Parish Depotiess, discarding all
considerations but that of delighting his auditors,
even at the expellee of truth and decency, found
out, in the Irish l'eti-sion-list, a PensiOti which
never appeared on it. ,This Orator said, as if he
had made a •most notable hit against the Irish
Government, that the services of the Surgeon-
General had been rewarded by enroling hiS Lady's
name on the, Pension-list'--a proof than the
old system was in full action.' The fals,ehood of
this assertion has been established by what we
stated from authority yesterday, but- its oirensive-
ness is another subject of reprobation-=-and,
in- fact, there is nothing. that more justly
deserves the indignation of society, than the
practice of wantonly bringing forward, in public
Meetings, the names of persons of condition and
character, for some coarse-and vulgar vituperation.
Of the Surgeon-General, whose name, and what
is more sensibly to be felt, whose Lady's name,
has been introduced to give ignorance and pre-
sumption a momentary pretension, there
t s pro-
fessional one opinion in society, and that is, that
talents, of the first order, lie unites the
beSt qualities of the head; 'and the kindest quali-
ties of the heart, and should, therefore, be spared

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the mortification of seeing himself made use of,
to give falsehood Some credit by associating him
with it, Of this Gentlemhn we believe we ,may
say—and we hope we take no liberty with him in
the statementthat he does not, directiy or in-
directly, enjoy, through any medium, or in any
manner, pension or emolument from the Govern-
ment—thong!) a man less disinterested mitzht
have fairly exercised 'a claim upon the Viceroy,
whose gratelol,.sen4e• of unexampled pvolessionol.
service's. and attention, would have readily, it is
presumed, manifested itse'f in durable remunera-
tion, hati he conceived it would, be acceptable to
tile Surgeon-General. Calumny should shrink
from this fact, which redeems as upright arnan as
ever held official _authority, from an imp station
of having bestowed favimr unmeritedly•--and
man of pure and honourable spirit, from having
received it on such terms."

~I'RI+JAS '3r
BETWEEN BIS MAJESTY THE KING OF FRANC AND

NAVARRE AND HIS "MAJESTY !{INC; OF.PnR-

TUGAL, OF BRAZIL, AND ALGARVA (.2.OI,ICLUDED
AT PARIS AUG. 28. 1817.

Atr: 1. His Most Faithful Majesty, animated with the de-
sirg executing the !oil!) Articie of the Act of the Congt ess
of Vienna, hinds himself to deitver up Most (ht i:,tisut
Majesty, in the space of three months o if possitsle,
French' Guiana, as far as the river Oyapot tich the mouth
is situated between the 4th norl sth degree, k); wirthcrn
tude, and as far as the 322 d de4ree of ode to the Cast
of the Isle de Fer [lron Islaull] by the parallel of deg. 9.4
min. of northern latitude.

ConimisSioners on either side are to he immediately no-
minated and dispatched to fix definitively the limits of French
and POittlguese Guiana, conformably to the precise sense of
.the-tth Article of the Treaty of. Utrecht, and to the sipula-
tient of the• Act of the Congress of Vienna : the above-men-.
tioneil 'Commissioners must terminate their lahours at the- ex-
Oration of a year' at latest,• from the elate of their arrival at
Uttiana. If at the expiration of this term of a )I:ar the above-
Mentioned respective Commissioners cannot agree,. the two
High Contracting Parties will then proceed to other arrange.-
,Dents, under the mediation of Great Britain, and aiways•ccin-
formahly to the•precise sense of the Bth Article of the,Treaty
of Utrecht, concluded under the guaranty of that Power.
3. The fortresses, magazines,. and all the military stores
shall:be surrendered to his Most (Thristiah Majesty, accord-
ing to the inventory mentioned in the '3"th Article of the Ca-
pitulation of French Guiana in 1809.
4.• In consequence of the aboVe-mentioned articles, the
Necessary orders for effecting the transmission of Frenell
Guiana {which orders are atpresent in the possessiod of the
undersigned Plenipotentiary- of his Most Faithful Molest))
shall, irrupediatelyjatcr the .signature cif the present Trcoty,
"he communicated to the French Govern:Dent, with an official
letter of the 4Dre-Plenipotentiary, -to which &copy of
present treaty sholf be annexed ; and. ,a bich ill inforn the
Portuguese Authorities thatthey are to deliver i i the Ue-
•lay of three day', the said colony to_the COMM issioners
charged by lui Most Catholic Majesty to take possession of
thew ai soon :.••5 they shall have presented their instruction
to that effect.

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5. The -Fren'ch- Government engages ..to transpOrt to 'thei.
maritime towns of Para and'Pernambuccqin the vessels which,
shall have been. emplo).ed for the conveyance of the.' each
troops to Guiana) the Purtugucse g.arri,,rof this colony, as
-well as tha sit 411 uctionarles,•with, all- their higgage. •

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