The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-09 00:00:00

THE DESIGNS OF RUSSIA.

(From Colonel Evans's interesting publication.)

ON FINANCE
" Remember the instability of England : (said thel
great Eugene) the voice of mercantile politics is ever t)
heard at the door of her Parliament. The English,
just, just
the noble, upright, and generous as individuals, are ust
the contrary with their country.' Even were the unfa-
vourable part of this opinion well founded, the following
will, it is conceived, sufficiently prove that no financial
considerations in reality exist, at the present time, to inter-
dict any line of policy that the national honour or interests
shall point out to be expedient.
" India and Ireland are as yet comparatively unexplored
mines for the Imperial Exchequer. One of the ablest
Governor-Generals of the former pots, as before quoted,
the eventual surplus revenue likely to be available from
thence to the dominant country, at several millions Ster-
ling. And it is clear that we have a right to expect that
the latter may be at length rendered capable of Yielding a
share to the general expenditure of at least ten or a dozen
millions" annually, beyond what .she at present contributes :
thus freeing this branch of the State (England) from the
necessity it has so long laboured under, of almost exclu-
sively paying for both.
" The public revenue in 1728, a period of profounA
peace and acknowledged prosperity, was under 7,000,000.
The then aggregate value of our exports and imports Was
under 14,000,000. It is now considerably above
100,000,000. It will • therefore appear that, making
the fullest allowance for change in the value of money, the
commerce, public revenue, and probable wealth of the tie-
'Yon 1? axe intermediately been augmented in a far greater
" The iliac most' the, consumers.
.sgaged were— in which we have been
" That ofthe Succession.
The seven years' war.
" That of the revolted colonies.
" Those arising out of the French Revolution.
" L—ln the year 1714, being that immediately suc-
ceeding the first of those periods, our public revenue was
about 6,000,000, and the interest or annuity payable out
of it 3,350,000.
" IL—The year 1763, being the one immediately sub-
sequent to the seven years' war, the income was 9,000,000,
and interest to be deducted from it nearly 5,000,000.
" 1784, being that succeeding the recognition
of the United States, the revenue was about 13,000,000 ;
while the annuity payable out of it was above 9,000,000.
" IV.—ln the year after the last great contest, 1816,
our revenue may be put at considerably above 60,000,000,
and the annuity payable front it at rather more than
f10,000,000t.

" Thus it will appear that, on the last mentioned of those
periods, the receipts bore a much larger proportion to the
annuity or interest chargeable on them, than at any of the
previous similar epochs. Nay, if we even substitute the
revenue of the past year for that of 1816, it will be still
timed that a manifest superiority in favour of the present
t;file holds good. Now, as it is quite clear that incum-
srances and income ate purely relative—the one to the
,:then,—so it follows from the above memoranda, that,
J:owever severely we may at present be pressed by debt, our
ancestors were even yet more so.

But as my object is only to dispel the unfounded pre•
&aims so often indulged in on this head,—a topic spe-
cially teievant to the matter in hand,—the following quo-
tation will probably best accomplish it:—
" ' Notwithstanding (says Mr. Ricardo) the immense
crpenditure of the ngligh Government, during the last
twenty years, there can be little doubt tat that the in-
greased production on the part of the people has more than
eaopensated.lbr it. The national capital has not merely
trees unimpaired, it has been greatly increased, and Tue
ANNoAL REVENUE OF THE PEOPLE, EVEN AFTER THE

PAYMENT OF THEIR TAXES, IS PROBABLY GREATER ATTHE

PRESENT TIDE THAN AT ANY FOR3IER PERIOD OF OUR

111 STORY. r

" One word more in relation to finance. Different rem-
.;nunities have acquired, by pursuing different methods, ac-
cese:ons to their public property. The Carthaginians flou-
rished by means of commerce and war jointly—a career
nut very dissimilar from our own. But they were over-
thrown by a neighbouring people, who, by the use simply
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of the sword, taade the-world, barbarian, civilized, com-
mercial, or otherwise, pay tribute to them. It was solely
i:y help of the same instrument that the followers of Maho-
:net subsequently possessed themselves of the produce of so
many of the exchequers, previously the reward of Roman
valour. For (in some degree) a like end, some fifteen
hundred years ago, another species of plan was adopted for
appropriating, not actually kingdoms, but many rich and
fertile domains, and splendid endowinente,. more or less
throughout every country ,of Eurcipec This was the de-
of the Ecclesiastics resident on the Tiber;—and a
large part of the acquisitions thus, so ingeniously made,
still return a noble revenue to the coffers of these pacific
conquerors. All things now lead to the inference that the
Chiefs of the numer.n. rp.ple to whase political progress
these stieets refer, are about to bend their efforts to a similar
goal, though by R different route or process--that of the

tayonet.
" It were weff, therefore, that the enlightened economists
and wen of influence would recollect that even the most ap--
proved pales of science, and thv laws which govern the
financial ptvverity of nations, cannot with the least safety
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be abided by, without an accompanying vigilant precau-
tion against the clashing expedients that may be resorted
to by less scrupulous alupetitors. We have to deal ivitli
an empire whose only profession of honour is that of arms
—led on by wily politicians, such as are usually to be
found in the courts of despotic princes, and vgliose ambi-
tion has but too often no other limit than their abilitiei."

* If soil, population, sea-ports, and locality, ba any

critsrion.
-I- Surplus revenue after payment of interest in 1793,
under 7,000,000—in 1828, above 22,600,000.
t 1821, cap. 8.

Despatches from Lisbon, dated the 24th ult.
announce the acquittal of Sir JoHN M. DOYLE and Lieu-
tenant Youttc, but both were fined in costs. Sir JoHN
M. DOYLE was to quit Lisbon in eight days, and Lieut.
'ionic was ordered to give security that he would never
infuture interfere in State affairs. The POPE'S Nuncio
has received peremptory orders to quit Lisbon.
FRANKFORT, Auo. 30. Ile Duke Of
CASIBRIDGE has passed through here, on his way to Rum-
penheim.
LISBON, AUG. 22.—The Duke of Kent
oeZZeL, LAURENCE, arrived bete the 17th instant from
Falmouth. Fell in with, off Oporto,, the land in sight,
three art.'led vessels (a corvette and two brigs). One of
full of men, bore down, and bailed him,
the brigs,but did
not board. Showed Spanish colours, hauled his wind, and
joined his companions.
gravingsl
PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS.—_Ln
of this city are, we perceive, in process of publication, in
monthly parts. The first part, whish we have just seen,
comes recommended to our notice by the great taste- and
finish of its execution. If the remaining series be car-
ried on with equal judgment, the work cannot fail to be
popular.
HOW A RD'S SPIRIT OF &LA KSPEA RE'S
PrAYS.--IrVe have already borne testimony at some length,
in two separate notices, to the very superior meritofthese
illustrations. An additional part, embracing "Much ado
about nothing," and " Richard the Second," has since
One ap-
peared, and is fully equal to the former ones. I us.
tration, indeed—No. S, the sadness of CbA unin—urho
is
represented sitting on the trunk of an old tree, in the fore-
ground, in an attitude of pensive rumination, sof-newlW
after the Byronian fashion, is superior, both as regards
grace and ease, to anything we have yet seen of Mr.
dowaan's. The female characters, too, throughout the
Illustrations are excellent.
On Thursday last the new frigate Leda, 40,
was placed at her moorings in Hamotize. The Royal
George yacht is ordered to be paid off, and recommissioned
-at Portsmouth. Capt. Sir M. Szymonit, Bart. Surgeon
C. Roontim, Purser. T. GODDARD, and J. Oxe; Mager,
are re-appointed to that vessel. Commander Jour; LYONS,
took command of his Majesty's _
sloop • aseur, on Sunday,
to fit out, it is believed,
for the East India station. The
Meteor bomb, moved from Hamoaze to Barnpool yesterday,
for the purpose of having the live shells put on board of her.
'The Falcon, 10, Commander Porat, is
exp.e.cted here daily
from Spithead,
on her way to the Cape of Good
ope,..—
The Pallas, 42, was commissioned at Portsmouth op
-
Saturday, Capt. FirzeLianNce, it is said, will have the
command. The Ony.r, 10, Captain Col.v, is ordered to
be paid off and recommissioned by Lieut. E. JcinissoN.L...
Peronport Telegraph.
in the Chronicle of Thursday last there Is an
Article headed " Attempted Suicide," copied from an Even_
jog Paper, in which it is stated, that on the Friday morning
preceding 4 man jumped out of the second Boor window of
No. 9, Newman.atreet, Oxford-street, who was taken op
to all appearance dead. We learn that no such occurrence
has taken place at No. 9, Newman-street.

The Writ having been received for that put-
prve, this day is fixed for the election of a Member to re-
prePent the town of Tralee, vice Colonel CUFTE, deceased•
...Waterford Chronicle of Saturday.