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London, England, 1821-04-07 00:00:00

SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1821.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

[The Tim el .]
We have always thought an increasing revenue
a doubtful-criterion of improving circumstances ;
for a revenue may be increased by a more oppres-
sive taxation, as well as by a morn liberal com-
merce and consumption of the articles taxed.—
But in the case before us
_there can be no doubt ;
for the Chancellor of the Exchequer has allowed
that we are, and have long been, so burdened
with taxes that he cannot find a place on which
to lay a new one ; and yet the revenue of the
quarter just terminated is less by a quarter of a
million than the corresponding three months of
1820. The obvious remedy for such an evil, if
we were in a natural state, would be to reduce
the taxes upon those articles of which the con-
sumption had decreased, from.
o the detected cer-
tainty that such articles were.vcrcharg-ed ; and
the consequence would inevitably be either an
increase of revenue, or an increase of comfort to
the subject, upon the old revenue. This prOpo-•
sition is so certain, that .it proves itself to the•
human mind by merely:being thought over. The.
Chancellor.of the Exchequer, howeve4. hiving
with his colleagues, brought the :country into a
new state, cannot attend to old maxims.

[Morning Herald.]
The Army Estimates came under the conside-
ration of the House of Commons last night. A
resolution moved by Mr. Creevey, previously to
going into the Committee, led to some observa-
tions on the recent dismissal of Lord Fife. The
Noble Lord has, no doubt, given a right vote
against the Malt Tax. Every vote for the reduc-
tion of the taxes, even far below what was con-
templated in the Malt Duty Reduction Bill, would
have the approbation of the country; and there
was, perhaps, no brands of the Revenue 'in
which retrenchment would have afforded more
relief to the people, and pressed less upon the re-
sources of Government. The Ministers, however,
defended, or rather re-captured it—they staked
their existence upon carrying it,- and they un-
questionably had a right to exercise the discre-
tion which essentially belongs to 'a representa-
tive Government of employing the patronage of
office in support of their, measures. The Noble
Lord, it appears, had given a similar vote last
year, but escaped with impunity. This only
shows that at present the Ministers were harder
pressed.7-The complaints made for Lord Fife do
not do credit to their authors or to him. The
Noble Lord has endured nothing beyond the fair
enforcement of the condition by which he held his
office.; and, if he has made a sacrifice, it does but
add lustre to his virtue.

[New Times.],
We have really to complain of a plagiarism on
he part of the Chronicle, which-is hardly fair.
We a few days ago suggested what might be said
by an ingenious croaker about a Russian fleet,
which imagination might fit out in the Black
Sea, send through the Dardanelles, snap up
the Grand Seignior en passant, &c. &c. This
Conte bleu our worthy Cotemporary yesterday
dressed up, with a few trifling variations, and
gravely introduced it With—,-"Me-have to nn-
nounce a most important event." 'To be sure Ae
Had only given the Emperor Alexander-Constari=
tinople and Sicily, Which we thOught enough in
all conscience ; but the' Chronicle far' outdoes
us, and thiows him Malta and the lonian:
Islands into the bargainall on the alleged
authority of " letters of high 'authoiity'.".—
The letters, it is to be observed, come from
Corfu, and they statez that 44 an' insurrection
had broken out in the' Greek Islands." Now
the Greek Islands are very numerous ; and it
would have been but civil in the Ge'nfleinen of
high authority at Colin to have indulged us with
the name of some one particular Island, which
was the scene of revolt ; but perhaps he has
private reasons for not divulging so iirofound-a
secret. Another circumstance might have merit-
ed some little explanation, if 'Gentlemen of high
authority wete in' the` habit or explaining'myste-
.
ries. It is said "'the inswrgents have'been sup-
plied from Odessa with warlik/e'store's of every
description." Might i t'not •have been' as well to
inform us how the said store's got toz'Odessa ? It
is surely rather an Out of the' wdy place to pro-
cure many-of the 'aiticlis. We should have
thought Birmingham, Sheffield, and the Carron
Works more .conveni6rii. Bat, perhaps, it
was part of the plot. of -Iroly Alliance to
erect cannon founderies,. lull and. sword manu7
factories, powder-millsl ttc; so far oft,:-that-no-
body might discover what they were al-hint:And
yet the Corfu Gentleman his 'detected. them'.—
After all we must repeat, thit this way of dress-
ing_ ,
up our old articles and pntting thetas fbrth as
important intelligence, is a trick we should not
have suspected in so grave a personage as th©
Editor of the Chronick.

[Morning Chronicle.]
The Courier is mightily jocose' and fiippant on
the subject of the threatened insurrection inGreece,
instigated as it is, and supp6rted by the legitimate
power of the Emperor of all the Ruisias! The plot
which threatens an universal war, iiresents to the

Editor of The.CoUrier.Onli matter for wanton and
unseasonable mirth. lie calls for particulars, as
if his patrons'were ignorant of the facts—as if

they had had no communications from their agent
at Odessa, nor from their Minister at Constan-
tinople, and as if they were • ignorant of all
the secret movements of the Russian emissaries
in the lonian Isles. But more information he

shall have, and, we lament to say, WpfulcOnfirma.
tion of the facts we stated will soon be brought
home to us by the bursting of the mine which is
already charged: I is well known that it halbeen
the policy of Alexander to encourage,the settle-
ment of„Greeks.g.t Odessa. Its chief population,
indeed, is Creels., and that place has-been the
Foyer of tie There it has been nurtured
and is now "brought to maturity. The design is
no longer •concealed. , A public subscription' by
the Greek, inhabitants has' 'been made, and
300,000 ruble's were subscribed by them up to the-.
9th of Alarch,lait; when the last ad vices, were.
dispatched: A proclamation, avowing the determi-
nation of cco4nplishing the deliverance of Gi-eeCe;.
was actually printed, and was to have been public-
ly read in the Greek Church the Sunday after;,
but this;for the= 'moment, was prevented by the
Governor,,Jhough passports were freely given
bk him to,the.inhabitants to proceed to Kersh-
mar, nar—,.fitisy, 'Which, was appointed
rendezvolis;• where-Alussian olli.cers
r. were
ready to Peginntrt and: discipline them. Above
200,000 Russian troops are actually assembled
on the borders of the Black Sea, and the insur-
Tectiottof the Greeks is to be simultaneous with
an attack by Russia on the Turkish ilrovinces on
the DanUbe, So says the account !: