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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1817.

THE REV. WILLIAM HETHERINGTON'S CHARITY
TO THE. BLIND ; EATABLNHED 1774.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL,. LONDON.

7,7THEttp;As the above-named csentlernan,,in
v his Life-time, enabled the Governors of this Hospital
to pay Annuities of WI. to each of 60 blind persons, in the
hope that his example would be followed by other benevolent
Characters, the Governors give this public Notice, that front

the very niunificent Additions inadot to Mr. HETIISHING-
TON'S original Fund, by Doed of Gift, and by Will, they
are now, enabled to extend the Annuity to upwards of 480

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persons.
The Governors give this Public Notice, that from the 15th.
Otoher to the ;id of November, in every Year, they pre,realy
to issue from the Countintc. House of the Plopital; upon ,the
person•il application of a Friend*, Peeitions fur any blind Per*-
sons July qualified.
The Iradin4-atalifications are stated hereunder; and un-
less the Parties can re,ipectively prove themselves strictly
within them, the AppliCations in their Behalf will he entirely
fruitless ;
Birth in-England, to the Exiclusion of Wales, and Berwick-
upon-Tweed.
Age, Fifty Tears, and upwards.
Boideuce, Three. Year ; in-the present ode; and total
Plinduess durinz that period.
Those who have ever begged, received Alms, or are deem-
ed objects of Parishl'Relief, are exclnned from the Benefit of
these Charitiet., Nithith are intended " for' those who have
heea reputably br,,aght up, and who want some Addition to
what they bavt, fit mahe Life more coadortable under the
INlisfortune-uf plindueSs." -;

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- ' THOS. WUXI., Clerk.
• From the great Extent of this Charity it ii found im-
practicable to attend to Letters. .
Christ's Ficintital, Oct. 1, IEII7.

TOLLS Oil; THE DEPTFORD CREEK BRIDGE.
AO B LF;l', for Ot:i! I', or, from twelve
oVock.of tic 'night of the 1211) October inst. the Tolls
pdyahle in respect of Persons, Horses, 4easts, and Car-
riages, passing and're-pnonsing. over the Deptford Creek•
Bridge, trading forts Deptford to Greenwich, which rolls
will produce to the Company; for the last year, 21501. exclu-
sive of the Expellees of. Collection., Tits Conditiinis .of the.
Letting may be known by application to John Masons, Esq.
Slade's [tow, Deptford, who it empowered to treat for the
Letting, by Private Contract, until the 9th day• of October
inst4nt and the Conditions of the Lenin may alio be•• seen
at the Office of Messrs. Dresle and Suns, Nu. I Bermondsey-
Street.

IRELAND.

WINDOW TAX,

The follo.wing Leiter tuts 'been received by the
Dean 01 St. Patrick's : •
" Custom-House, Sept, 22, 1817.
" Dear Sir,—l have the Ironour of acknowledging your obr
liging cominunication of 'saturday, conveying to mr, the Reso-
lution of the Parish of Sik Antle,•in favour of the proposed
commutation of the Whitlow Tax, The outcry with which
this measure has been assailed, eannot fail to surprise, not
'only those who were present at tie meeting between the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Deputies of the several
Perishes Of this City, but alsoyall who may have heard of its
result. Upon that occasion, Vansittiart distinctly told
them, that the financial eireum*ances of the Country did not
admit of the total repeal of :flee Window Tax ; but that he
would readily listen to any iti'ggestion for modifying- it, and
rendering it more equal, in its' operation. This decision, sin
his part, appeared to be acquiesced in, rend, atter
some discussion, it scented at length agreed, that a Tax tqaoi
the annual value of HoOses, in lieu, at. least, of some portion
of the Window.PkttX3 hia.ro.u7;.; edrunnt ted
to air to the means fiir carrying the measure iuto
effect.
With resat to the commutation itself, a Tax upon the
annual rest; or value of inhabited houses, has lung existed in
Great Brithiti—the rate per pound sterling rising according
too scale of rents; and I have never Beard this Tax, as :if-
fecting any el-o-. 5 complained of for bring unequal
or unjust. With Out netting to fix any ',articular rate, out
assuming it, for the-mere purpose of Calelltatioll, to be from
IsAid. to es. lid.' per pound 'which is nca r;y as high a, that
now in force, as for as I ant intinaned, in Great Britain, and
would, I apprehend, be amply, it not more than suincient
here), every perion'inay see, suppci,inlr it to be taken at the
highest of 2s. 6d. how Le will be eifectal by a commutation of
the whole Tax,and may form Some judgment of its operation,
if partially applied.- . ,
"'Houses worth to/. per annum—a rent which bespeaks
opulence in the occupier—would pay the same they do at
present,. supposing theta charged for twenty-niiie Windows—
while Houses, with the like number of Windows, but of in-
ferior. value, would he proportionally relieved. I had lately
a complaint - from a Gentle Man, whose state of health re-
goired his taking a small !pulse its th'e vicinity of the City,
that though his rent was only 6u/. par ;mown, the Window
Tax amounted to 12/. Under the proposed commutation,
even at the highest rate, this Gentleman would only pay 71.
10s. making a saving to him of 41. 105. per annum. HMl:4es,
however; iii squares and its streets advantageously situated
for business, may pay more thau at- present ; but if they do,
they have corresponding benefits, and it never can he con-
tended that 'Thomas-street and Jarnes's-street should be
rated the same as Merrion-square, or as. Westinorlandstreet
and Darne•street.
" For this purpose, r, at first, only thought of employ-
ing the. Officers of the Tax Department ; but, when I adverted
to the practice iii England, where the assessment and the col-
lection of the Taxes are -eoudneted by Parish 011icers,, under
the soperiottrodance .and controul of Local Commissioners,
serving without salary, and when I considered the invidious
duty the officers here would have to discharge, and the un-
pleasant feeling- the execution of it, in the most favourable
manner, was calculated to excite, it occurred to me, that it
would be more graeiouS on the p :ft of the Reventie, and in
all respects more acceptable to the Public, and one step, at
beast, towards .I.4acing the Parishes in Ireland on a footing
with those of England, to afford them the Otportunity, in the
first instance, of making their own valuation ; which, if cor-
rect, would render unnecessary any interference of the Offi-
cers-uf the Revenue, except for the purpose of collection. To
this inconvenience, therefore, whatever it May be, should the
measure proceed, as I have no doubt it will, those Parishes
will subject themselves, who refuse to become their own va-
luators, as also, probably, to the continuance of the Window
Tax for some time longer, at least ; while those who act upon
the proposed contmutatinit, will come into the. immediate en-
joyment of whatever relief it is calculatetito afford. •
" The relief this measure is so eminently calculated to
afford to the middle nod lower classes of society, is, it seems,
to be rejected, according to the advice of some, from the no-
tion of their being able to- procure the total repeal of the
Window Tax—bat nothing can he more delusive than to ex-
pect such a repeal, ;against the declared opinion of the'Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and the known wants of the State—
nor does Um argument • froM the reduction of Taxes in 'Eng-
land apply to this country, unless it can be shewn .that Taxes
have been taken off there, which are retained here, white the
repeal its question, in favour of Ireland, would be justly ob-
jected.to by the Imperial .Parliament, if it were not also ex-
tended to Great Britain, which the financial circumstances of
the Empire would not admit. . .
•." Already has Vansittart evinced his desire of extend-
ing relief, to this part of the United Kingdom, by consentiog
to reduce,the Tax upon Jaunting Cars,-of eiwy description,
to two Guineas—and although I cannot go into particulars, I
know that all the other branches of the Assessed Tax are
under iMnsideratiOn, and that, in all his beneficial arrange.
ments; he it actuated by the most liberal view towards this
country.
" Many other considerations might be suggested' to con-
firm the Parish of St. Anne its the resolution they have come
to—hut they will not .escape your observation, and I have al-
ready detained you too long.
" I have the honour to be,
". Dear Sir,
" Your most obedient, and faithful Servant,
c. S.IIAWIIiUKNt.

" To the Hon. and Rev. the Dean .of
St. l'atrich's." -

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{PRICE SF,VENPENC E.

KING OF PRUSSIA.

. .
- WATERLOO' SUBSCRIPTION.
Cornbill, 23d September, 1817.
At a Meeting of the Committee for Distribu-
tion held this
BEES7'ON LONG, Esq. in the Chair,
Read the following translation of a Letter f-orn
his'Alaiesty the King of Prussia, tran-mitted to
the Chairman of the Waterloo Committee ity the
Hight Hon. G. H. Rose, his. Britannic Majesty's
'Ambassador to the Court of Berlin
The In:crest felt by that hig!ily pectible
association, the Waterloo Committee, in .he fate
of.thr wootideaSoldiers, the,Widows and Orphans
of•the.brave trnm belonging to my Attny, who fell
in the.diierent engagements with Ili'. enemy dur-
ing the year 1815, has keen .msni:ested. t4e
very libvred stiff zoa,ociu fl.,
been placed at the disposal of Pie!cl Marshal
Prince Bhicher for their support, as wcll as ny a
further:grant of 10,000 i: sterling for the particu-
lar benefit of those who were deprived oe their
natural, protectors by that
,ever-m.::norable cant-
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paign: • •
This contribution has given me the liveliest sa-
tisfaclion for it not only dispens•tsrelief to those
individuals for whom it was inteutted ; but 2lfords
ihe personally a valuable memorial of the high
sense which the English nation enterains of titty-t-
Military renown acquired by my army acting in
conjunction with it .
inconsequence induced to testify my sin.
cere thanks to tlik estimable Cothmiiie.. (tt. its
-generous sentiments„ and hale ';iteeted Prince'
IThicher to COmmiliticate in due ;tole all the'parti-
culars relatin,; to the application of these be'
nevolent .donations.
"Berlin,.the 19th of June, 1811.
FR7DEMCK WILLIAM.
"To the Waterloo Committee in London." . •
Resolved;
That the above Letter be inserted in the. Public
Papers.

BEESTON LONG, Chairnian.

ORDINATION.

Sunday last, the Lord Bishop of CH ESTE PoUld
a. public Ordination in the Car ht dral ; previous to
an excellent and appropriale Sermon was
'preached by the Rev. Atchdeacon Clarke. The
ton-Owing a••,! the names of the enfferent Deacons
atitlji.-iests ordained the occasion
P,.,letiM.—W Mimi) Birketi, A.M. of Brasen-nose College,
rd ; John Fell, .of Trinii C;allege, Cam or ;
Mall-son; Francis. Braila, A.B. of Brase;i-i:usc.. College,
Oxi-La'd. Anthony Watson ; .;uSuh 1-I,,rtlern, A. B. of Brasen-
nuse i- oxford.; Da -6id Hen;tr, A. li. of
Col-
lege, Cambridge Athincon ; Wm. Jatne Faiiirw-
t4o.,..nt. ra ..PAlldeOn,',i;ti. of t, Colnge, Ox-
ford ; Howard ;•Wflhiar.. lodshery Turner; Timinas
Walker, it B. :7;liversity College, Oxford.
Priests.—itobeit Caunee ; Jas. So I u, A. M. of Bralsen-
rose Colkge, Oxford; John Picrop, A. B. of Lincoln ccl-
leg'e, extord;.Jobt) Barnsdall ; .John Massey; Isaac Mil;
Joseph Bland Jameson; Edward Cavey, A. B. of Trinity
College, Oxford. . . .