The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

INTERESTING ADOPTION.

LYONS, AUG. 30.—Some days since a patrol&
of the regiment of Pyrennean (Masseurs was pass.
ing through this city, when t hey perceived a crowd
of people collected before the alley of a house.
They inquired what was the matter, and were in-
formed that in this alley there was a boy appa-
rently not more than three years and a half old,
who had been forsaken by his parents, was half
naked, and crying, because he was hungry.—
" And will nobody take care of him ?" cried one
of the soldiers composing the patrole. " Well,
then, give him to me; I shall always be able to
give him a bit of bread out of my rat ion." Upon
this be took the child, placed him before him on
the horse, and carried hint to the barracks. The
other soldiers, emulating the kindness of their
comrade, clothed the poor boy, one buying him a
jacket, another trowsers, an ,1 a third shoes, &c.
He ate at the common mess ; his foster-father be-
stowed tire-greatest care upon him ; he scarcely
even quitted him ; took him along when he went
out, and that he might not, as he said, set him a
bad example, he has renounced all the indulgences
of a soldier's life, to which he had been previously
more addicted, perhaps, than any of the others.
The Colonel of the regiment being imformed of
the circumstance, proposed to take measures for
finding out the
,parents : but the soldier entreated
that he might be allowed to keep the child, ass,ir-
ing the Colonel that he would never ka.:e a bet ter
father, and that he would bring him up to be a
good man. The worthy officer, who is himself a
father to his men, was affected by this conduct of
the soldier, and from that moment he has afforded
his protection to the forsaken orphan. These.
particulars, which are authentic, will he read with
interest by the people of Lyons, who will be
pleased to find in the soldiets of a corps whose
strict discipline and excellent spirit they have rea-
son to admire, that noble' alliance so natural to
French soldiers of delicate gild generous sensibi,
lity with valour.—(Paris Paper.)

GAMR.—Pheasants, a moderate breed ; Hares,
numerous ; Partridges, a tair season, yet deficient,
in !otne places, especially in cold lands. A later
from a friend in the New Forest says—,, Leverets
are abundant Partridges are rather scarce, ex-
cept in particular situations, owing to the Wetneo
of the SeitSoll."

PAI•EIL TRAM,,, OF IRELAND.

From The (Ccrk.) Seuthervi Repeater, August M.]

The following is a Daft of -the case svhieb has
been made for the consideration of the Irish Go-
vernment, on behalf of the Paper Trade of this
country. It was drawn up wider tlx:• instmetions
of the Paper Manufacturers of Ireland, 14 'tlieir
Counsel, ..VII-, 11*.txt4v-:7-, -

That this interesting Morrill:tante is, and has been -ui
p
pressed by a weilit of neproductive la,XatiOP, to which at
;anticipate its ser..edy extitietion. -
lbw the decay of this trade was. considerably influenced by
the nature and weight of the duty imposed, may he inferred
from the facts which follow:
The duty on Paper was first enacted in 1798, the dzity _on
.the paper engine e,as next enacted in 1799, and the latter
duty still further increasod iii 1900; and that during the pe-
,thsa of these three enactments, the paper mills adjacent to
Dublin were yedticed to half that number which they had
attained in 1795. • •
That during the See years which followed these enactments,
no new mill was erected—no suspended one revived—and yet
foi the forty years preceding these enactments, the paper
mills adjacein. to Dublin had increased to the ratio of two
mills ter every three year during that period.
That at the cOmmeneement of the•e enactments, the paper
engines of this• Country amounted to nearly 150, but are now
less than a third of that number.
That there is no other manufacture which, in proportion
to its extension, could produce by its taxation so little benefit
to the revenue, or, by its encouragement, so much benefit to
the country.
That the Value of every manufaCture is compounded of tiro
quantities—nameiy, the value of the materials necessary fur
its production, and the value of the labour employed on the
Material.
That there is no other manufacture in .erimpol'ison, with
.
paper, of which so little of its Value belongs to the material;
and so much of it consists in the labour, which converts a
material, otherwise worthless, into its state of perfection.
That for these reasons this manalacture ought to be an
object of p irtienlar encouragement in a cOuntry disiniguished
fur poverty-anti population. •
That the suspension of a-paper engine withdraws food, on
alt average, ft not less than 400 persons.
That if as we believe) 100 engines have been suspended,
since the commencement of these duties, that suspeosion
must have added to the class of pauperism 40,000 individuals,
and injured the revenue, by the decrease of taxation on the
numerous articles, which so many 'persons most have been
thus disabled from constimieg, whilst the taxation for the year
ending 18 t 5 did not produce to,uioi.
That any possible improvement of the revenue on this ma-
TinfaCteer can be no counterpoise for such a calamity. •
That could the trade be revived to that degree of anima-
tion which it had attained
individuals
in its infant state, a-Jorge
portion of these 40,000 would be restored to
that comPetence and- self support, which belong to the em-
ployed classes of -the industrious, and the misery of the
people proportionably relieted, and the various sources of
taxation le-opened, which this over-burden of taxation had
thus closed.
That the number of engines which survive, still give sup-
roil to nearly 10,000 persons, and that these too must be
-added to the class of mendieity if relief be refused to your
memorialists. because prudence -must compel them to relin-
Trish a trade to which they are now only bound by their ha-
bits, and in which they have seen, since these duties aummeu-
ced, twice their own number pulled down to ruin.
That if any manufacture 'were more suitable to Ireland
•than another, it might fairly be presumed to be that of.
commodity whoSe exclusive components are labour and
.rags. _

hat this rising manufacture was crushed in its infancy, by
taxing it on a principle of analogy to England, an analogy
which affected to equalize, but operated to,destroy all equality
of pressure—lst, because our taxation. set off at the very
paint in which it had aceuninlated in England, up to the
sear 1795, and the Irish manufacture was 'Attired, in its in-
fancy, to carry the same weight-which tbeJkitish manufac-
ture had been inured to support, and was enabled to rstislain,
by a lenient procesi of gradual taxation, during a lofig pre-
;ceding- period, of growth and prosperity. And Idly, because
_the capital and contincree of the sister country, with the age
oilier establishments, and enterprise of her trade, had no
'corresponding- countervail, in a country unaided by must, if
hot all, those advantages.
That whilst this principle and nominal analogy appro-
priated to Great 13ritain,the neirhet of the world, fair policy
might have so modified it, as to leave Ireland in possession
of 'ter home market.
That the imposition of an equal &ay in both countries, on
paw:: by the pound weight, brought the British manufacture
into the Irish market, under advantages not to be resisted,
'because the opulence of England supplies a finer material,
and a demand for paper of a Goer quality; whilst Ireland,
from her poverty, and the absence of her gentry, supplies a '
coarser material, and a demand for paper of a coarser qi;a-
lity ; and yet this taxation rejects all distinction of quality,
and the powr country with its coarse material and exclusive
deniand for the coarse commodity is eqqally taxed as the opu-
lent' country with its fine material and general demand for •
coarse'and tine, and its admission•to the market of the world,
and its protection against the world. • -
• That the coarsest paper subject to the first class duty is
equally taxed as other paper which is ten-fold its value%
That a smaller duty an the pound weight in Ireland would
bare been equal, in proportion to the price of the commodity,
to a greater duty in the other country, because averaging the
vice of paper manufactured in the bulk in both countries-the
Irish is but hall the price of the-English, and yet both are
eipsclly taxed.
. That for an additional reason, a smaller duty in Ireland
iv,infd have prodUced in proportion as much to the revenue as
a greater duty in England; because England has a drawhack
on her export equal to her duty, and as she has a considerable
export, a large portion of the duty is thus paid back to the
manufacturer, to encourage him and cherish the trade; for,
of the duty which the revenue receives in England on paper,
it can only retain the difference betweew the duty and the
drawback ; but this is an advantage which can nevtr operate
in Ireland in any considerable degree, because, though in
point of law, we also have this drawback, yet in point of fact
we have not the export, and therefore the legal benefit of
tills drawback is to us a nullity, and the difference between
England and Ireland is this, that in England the revenue of
what it receives can only retain the difference between the
duty and drawback, but in Ireland it retains all that it re-
ceives, and from our manufacture, so disproportionate in its •
price to that of England, all the duty is absorbed, and no-
thing is returned. .

l'llerefore, the revenue would gain more, by a less duty of
Ireland, t ban by a greater on England. _

Tuatfor thesC rcasons this manufacture, though nominally
taxed eqaally, is substantially timed unequally; but were it
taxed in a just analogy to the value of the manufacture, and
interest of the revenue, half the duty now paid in England
on-tile pPnutl weight, would. give in Ireland a fair level to the
tax,, and increased profit to the Exchequer.
That this principle of analogy, which was the pretext for
this tax, is thus clearly an unreal analogy; nor is it even a
nominal one because ire have a tax in addition, which Eni.7,-
land never had, and to make the analogy even nominally
when their pound weight duty was imposed upon us, oftr en-
gine duty should have been imposed upon them.
That by the lion-discriminating operation of the pound
weight (boy, the distinction of quality, so necessary for Ire-
laa'd, is avoided, and by the tion.iioposition of an English
Eugine Duty, that necessary restraint on quantity is evaded
Great Britain, by the first, has an advantage through the
law, and by the second, she has the advantage of evading
the law—by the first, the more favoured manufacture is here
admitted, and by the second, the contraband manufacture is
not excluded. Thus the enactment of the
.English pound
weight duty, 'and the non-enactment of an English engine
duly, combine to extinguish this trade in Ireland, for the
first, in respect to our struggling manufacturer, secures the
predominance of the British trader, and the second, in
respect to our solvent trader, secures the predominance of
the British smuggler,
and time compound effect of these

two causes of enactment and non-enactment is this, that in
the market, the fair British trader undersells the fair
_ .

Irish manufacturer, and the British smuggler undersells both.
Finally, it is sehinitted, that if diffusion of eilneatioli in

Ifekod he an ohjcia of jUsteOco:iragement, it must counter_
act this wise :tad I.),nevOlent policy, to tax paper, the mate-
rial of education, to a third of its valud, and that the saute
cau4e which has so nearly destroytsd the manufacture so in-
tercstintz and iiiipottant tq the pursuits of industry and edu-
cation, which so swot must convert those edifices of indiutty,
itt which st.e have •entharked our hope and fortunes, into other
tousttnueuts .nat.ional-decay, this cause of this-ruin, which:

it not coirceted, must soon .convert the thousands whom we

feed into idlers and paupers, this sane cause must alike-ope-
rate to obstruct knowledge, ;sad decrease revenue, as it does
to rum your Memorialists.

We received yesterday and this morning the
Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday last. From
the former we give extracts in our last page. It
will be seen that there is another obscure al-
lusion in them to the state of Lyons, where we
are told the intelligence of the approaching ar-
rival of MARMONT produced the best effect. This
phrase can of course, only mean that considerable
discontent existed at Lyons, and as it would
seem also, at Grenoble, to which MARMONT'S
command extends. Our Readers will, of course,
recollect, that not long since there were great

disturbances bosh at Lyons and Grenoble.
With respect to the former place, it was main-
tained, on the part of the Government, that the
tumults originated merely in the high price ofprovi-

sions; nhilst it was strenuously urged, on the other
hand, by the Ultra-Royalists (as they are called)

and their Party, that these disturbances were
the result of a deep-laid and extensive conspiracy

against the Bourbons. The truth probably, as in

most cases, lies mid-way between the two extremes
It is clear, that the discontents at Lyons cannot

be solely attributable to the high price of pro
sions, the appointment of ,Aittrimotyr, and the
obscure paragraphs inserted in theJournals,plainly
shewing that the discontents remain after all as-
signable cause,on account of the dearness ofarticles
of suilsistence, has ceased to operate. There must,
therefore, be some political motives operating to

produce that state of agitation which appears to
exist at Lyons, and they can only be found in
something of the nature of a conspiracy, the ex-
, tent of which, however, has probably been mitch
exaggerated, in consequence of the subject hav-
ing been rendered a party question, and dis-
•euss'ed with the greatest bitterness and
warmth, The Government have certainly been
:obliged at List to acknowledge, that the spirit
.prevailing at Lyons and Grenoble is something
beyond a mere tumultuary impulse,' on account of
the high price .of wain, but it may surely by sviae

Ana tenient ItlCasnics pl"'eVelit 0115 spirit non
breasicing out into open insurrection
Tile American Stinadron in the Mediterrane-an
vsls- spill in the Port of Naples on the (JO%

It. is now•said, that the Duke of WELLii•liztort
was to review, on Saturday last, near Valen-
ciennes, the Eugliit, Hanoverian, and other
troops, and that the King of Prussia was to be
present.

The following are extracts from the Journals

of Friday :

" PARIS, SEPT. s.—Some of the German Jour-
nals assert, that Lord Strangford, the new English
Minister to Sweden, is expressly commissioned to
demand of the Court of Stockholm the adoption
of a system less rigorous towards English com-
merce.

" The Prince de Talleyrand arrived the 27th

ult. at Toulouse.

" FIVE PER CENTS.

" Wednesday, 63f. 65c.—Thursday, 681. 65c

" LEIPSIC, Auc. 24.—The nagociations be-
tween the Prussian and Saxon CoMmissioners, on
the subject of the arrangement of the respective
relations arising out of the flivision of Saxony, have
been carried oar for some time with the greateit
activity, according to formal orders received by
the respective Commissioners from the Courts of
Berlin and Dresden. They have now adopted
the system of concluding separate conventions,
respecting All the objects on which they are hither-
to agreed. When the whole is concluded, these
separate. Conventions will be converted into a
general Convention.
Several Conventions, re-
specting financial objects, have been already con-
cluded. •

" There is also a report of new propositions
exchanges made to our Monarch, and of a forma
refusal on the part of his Majesty. This, liciw•
ever, we do not believe.

'rue Count de Dillon, French Minister to
our Court, has proceeded with his family to
Carlsbad.

" ZURICH', Auo. 20.—The Deputies of the
Catholic Cantons have again assembled, to take
measures in order to obtain the restitution of the
Swiss Eecksiastical foundations at Milan and ins
Lombardy.

" Madame de Krudcner, who, after being con-
ducted to Constance, re-appeared in the environs
of Schaffhausen, has been conducted by the Police
Officers. of that Canton to the frontiers of Upper
Swabia.

" VIENNA, AVG. 25.—The Emperor and Em-
press arrives! on the 17th inst.. at Clausenberg,
the seiit of Government in Transylvania.

" CONSTANTINOPLk, AUG. I.—Two Couriers,
from the Paella of Egypt, have arrived here with
intelligence of a victory obtained over the Wecha-
bites. They are also the bearers of several sacks
of ears cut from the vanquished. This' victory is
not of great importance, but it proves that all
the reports of a revolt at. Cairo are without foun-
dation.

" The English Ambassador, Sir P.obert Liston,
has returned to this capital from London." •

A Hamburg!, Mail aritived last niglit, by. which
we have further accounts, and in tome respects.
contradictory (particularly as compared, with the
narrative in the Paris Papers) of the origin:of
the riots at Breslau. It will be seen brat' an
Income Tax has been introduced into Hanover.
The contents of this Mail ►gill be tot ad in our
last page.

Sir THOMAS BERNARD, it is said, is now visiting
lie several Salt Mantddetories, «•itlia view to ob-

ain such a knowledge of facts as may enable him

to advocate a repeal of the SALT DUTIES in the
next Session of Parliament. It is said also that

this Gentleman expects that then such repeal will
actually take place ; but from all the inquiries
wt)ich we have been induced to make into 'the

matter, we h ave not., the,slightest reason to be,.
lieve, that the views of Government are at all
altered on the subject, or that there is any inten-
tion to propose even a modification of the Salt
Duties, in the present financial State of the
Country•

There was an account of av Insurrection at
Lyons in an Evening Paper of Saturday last, which
excited much conversation and Maim throughout
the town.. We have inserted the -article in ano-
ther part of our Paper, but as the French Jour-
nals are silent upon the subject, the report seems
to have gained little credit. After the intense
agitations of a protracted war, and the. varlets

of important and interesting events which Recom-

patsy it, die return to a time of peace temlN
to produce langnor all but tie trailing
and manufacturing parts of tire community,
and therctote at sneh thilES it seems to have been
deeme4l necessary by the Conductors of poli-
tic Journals to " elevate and furprite" oc-
casionally, by reports calculated to draw attention

to their cOlunin. Citii:Xents ttri
HICIII that the are less credoliius thAn !Let
used to be, ;nid conseittently receive tho,e
(Rents with caution and distrust. We presffilici
however; that in this instance the Editor has bet''
ithptised tikni altogether, or that if there was ail
foundatiiin for the rumour in- question, it 05
grossly ekAggerziteil bx, his correspondent.

VISCOUNT SaiNiouTit.—lt is with much plcE
sure we learn; that this Nobleman, in the coolie
Of his tour, has reteii,ed the sathe diaiks of public
respect at Worcester, Eyestrain, and Tewkesburp
a's did so much honour to the Corporatiol'
and City- of Hereford. It should lie observed,

that this Nobleman bad no pCPaot►al Connotioll
with any of "these places', slid that the tfibute
of esteem and regard which he received Was pal('
to him wholly on public grounds, from which jC
may fairly be inferred that the measures of that
Administration, of which his Lordship forms so
distinguished a part, are gratifying to the CountrY
in general.

A Flanders Mail received last night couttins th
following article :

`4BRUSSELS, SEPT. 4.—We reported in oor
ot the Ist, the conclusions ot the public
affair between the Duke ot ‘VELI.INGTON and
Editor of the Journal of East and West Flanders.
One of. our Papers gives to-clay those of the
Avon 6 (Counsel) VAN HOVE, for his Grace the
Duke of WELLINGTON rpartie against the
said- Editor. This Avoue. required that the 'Fri,.
burial shOuld be pleasertto condemn Sieur GvtsJ-
'LAUME DEBUSSCHER pay him (without, how-
ever, believing.the_reparation proportioned to the
offence), the,sum of 10,000 ...Dutch florins, as &v.
wages for the facts on which the action is found-
ed, his Gracereserving to himself to dispose of
the same sum. as be shall see good, according to
the .determination which. humanity shall dictate to'
him he demanded fiirther, that the "sentence
slibuld be printed to the number of 2,000 copie4,
at the expellee of tii-e said GUILLAUMF, DEBUSS;*
CHER, to be posted up wherever his Grace shall
think proper in this kingdom; lastly, he demanded
that the said Sieur DEBUSSC(IER be condemned la
the 'costs."

THE Ktr.slTG'S licavrit.---Yestertlay the follow-
ing Bulletin was exhibited at St. T,lmes's Polar?
of the state of the KING'S healtlip to the Nobility?
Gentry, and Public at large

" is indsor Castle, Sept. 6, 1317.
. .
" His Majesty has passed the last month in as tranquil and
comfortable state. His Majesty's 'disorder contihnesunaltei;
cd,.bOt.hisrMajesty's health is.good. ' :
' "H. H.ILFORD, ".1. WILLIS,
"I‘l. f3AILLIK, " R. WILLIS."
" W. HELIERUEN
. . . .

On Friday evening the PaiNce REGENT, at.
tended by Mr. WATsort, left town for Brighton,
and arrived at the l'avi;ion on Friday night.
Royal Ilighne,s is expected to einhirk in the
Royal George yacht on a cruise to the. Isle of
Wight. Saturday afternimn the Royal George
yacht, the Hon. C HARLES PAGET, awl the Ineon-
stain. frigate, Sir JAMES YE°, s, tiled for Veriv.hton
to attend on the PEI NCE REGENT. An e X Feta.*
lion prevailed at -Portsmouthr o;) Saturday atter--
noon, that the' PEINcE REGENT would arrive in
that town yesterday in the yacht.- A saline of 21
guns, will anirounce this event, should tire yacht
appear it) sight with the standard flying.
Lord, EXMOUTH, it is said, is appoltittd C 9111.•
mander-in-Chief at Plymouth, in the room of the.
late •Sir JOHN DUCK WORTH, Bart.; Mr. GRIMES
to be.hi.s Lordship's Secretary.--(Press)
FAGEL, Ambassador front the King of
the NETHERLANDS) is daily-expected in town hum
the Continent.
We -are hippy to• -find that • the garrison .amt
town of Gibraltar' remain perfectly healthy ;' the
letters received yesterday are of the 14th ult. The
communication with ;Spin remained. perfectly
'free. Froin the strict quai:antiime enforced, th,,imi
was little fear entertained of the fever beini;
iu-
:troduced frotn-M,Tiers. •
The LOED LIEUTENANT will shortly quit Ire-.
land: The greater• part of.. his baggage Is as con.
veyed Co the Custom-1-I,uuse all Moziday
prepdratoi-y'fo its being shipped for •Eitgland.—
tiis'ExcetLExicv, as a proof his desire to
-courage the trade of Ireland, takes tvich hilts
'two OE three: thousand_ pounds worth of Irish
,
, We are sorry to learn, that the account, given
in our last, of the death.of the. Dowager Marcito-,
hess of SLIGO is fully eontirint.A. .

_ -We are thuch Concerned to state, that as Mr.
EIC:SKISSON WUS Oil his return front his antituil
Sur-
veV of the New Forest, on Pitirsday afternoon,
between flavant and Enisworii, the axle-tree of'
his carriage broke, by which accident the vehicle
tviii overturned, and the right raw of L'S"•
KISSON 'sc.vercly-fracuirvd. •‘A. enthi welt, Wilt)
accompanicci hint, escaped unhurt. The eit.zeiss
of Chichester,. Who are greatly attached to their
Repreentative, nianitesteh the utmost concern 011.
hearing of the accident.

Frnm the 19th to tlic 27th August twenty-three
packet-hunts have, arrived at Calais from Dover,
with 692 passtugers ;' aod t weinv-eight pocket-
()oats have from Calais to Dover, contain-
irt. 44.4. person.
Yesterday Thanksgivings were offered ttp in the
different Cloirch<-s and Chapels of the Metropolis
tar the favourable state of the weather.
The General Court Martial, which assembled at.
Portswouill oil the 4lb instant, for the trial of
Lux.F. ALEN, C. B. of the
55th itegimetit, has been called on charges exhi-
t)i:ol.• against that. ()dicer by Major-General
• BAYLY—but supposed to he at Iris express desire.
The Lientenant-Co,,ritel appears to be unassisted
by. any legal advise, an Oil-leer of ins Regiment
attends for the purpose of making notes of 04'
proceedings.