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SITUATION of the Bilvrisu EMPIRE,

IN THE YEAR !RI( ;

TIEING IN CONTINUATION TO:1110iP. OF TIM TV.AWS

1814 AND 1815
4{id►essed to the EMU.. of LIVERPOOL.

• LET-rfit
attnuary 1, nits.
hFY nof
t t.ittontia return this' flay,
k'alistomary to offer-to our friends and to our
Ifeititaintauces ttie periortkeel .repetition of what
ore, commouly Called, the, compl.ittlents of the
tvason—our congratOations on any favourable
tivvnts miry bave.mecitired in the course of
the lirecetijng year; end, Our best tvislies for the
coutinuanee of their fortunate eerier through the
journey of life. • •

'l'o., you, my Lordloin .W6ingratulatiims on the.
,4 91k-, • , ,
pr!)11011119 situationlo
itrat jcicountry, wi,
ose affairs
you have beeti.oloSlMtAnatlininister, will agsume
a higher .tone and mane' cOmmantliog energy of
langnage, than the minor considerations Of private
life', and tlie iiitle interesting events..of humbler
stations, I shall have tO offer to you my most
vineere anti heartfelt acknowledgments of the well.
directed talent, and the promptly exercised vigour
‘e!)ielo have
,enabled you to effect, in so short a
periotil pf.jinle, ouch a coMpletefultilincnt of the
pi.odiations in my last * addresses. to your Lord-
fl,in. Oil the subject of the " Bit domitunt civile

Aniongst the numerous events, which, in this
c:Foribiovs and itnoable,worlti of ours, appearing.
4(1 proulke much pritua facie evil, have yet been
,uhimattly productive of great perinafient bond,']
lto:'irv: wit Where to• select a tome promitleut or
inStonce ttniti the second irruption of the
(:;nrorito into territory.
There-were many things to bc regretted in the
mate of Europe at the conclusion Of theiwitr::in
I .1; there were some tanbieh no mind of sound
political judgment could yiehrits entiriand perfect

aippro;),ltioit ;

.46 .11,11 c nu fait bit,: des elutes avant dint/raper la raison." -

The throne of Frauee %VHS too feeldystioporto
to enable its lawful owner to exercise a due (Hs-,
elimination in the punishment of guilt, 'and the
seward of fidelity ; the abettors of rebellion walk-
ed
abroad iu all the unblushing assurance of per-•
sonal secority,und'held alokitheir undiminished
heads in contemptuous defiance of their legal So-
vereign ; the niiiereantlSTq, .oul the treacherous
tabcdoyere Were yet uoexectued, and the rest of
the faithiesserewiremalned uudeuounced and no'
impeached. Indeed, partly urged by overbear-
ing and iil:periouscircuitistances, aml-paitly, per-
by:a too gentle and indulgent dik•
the Prench 'monarch seethed to have
thrown hiniself and his'most-se,:ret councils into
the hauls of those who were most able and most
dieposed to betray. both.; and the wily- instigator
pfNapuleott's nefarious plans of universal con-
(pest) the unprinCiPled Bishop of Amon ; and the
relentless sprinkler of hUtUati bland. during the
in`tiny-sl'ifting,seenes. of the revolutionary tragedy,
the sanguinary rendre, were, to the astonishment
nf (he world, chosen-to- act in concert with the
illustrious and unimpeachable Ministers of the
'Ancient thronecof Europe.:

But above all, my Lord, the great and leading
error seems to have taken pl;tee in the mistaken
treatment of the arch Rebel himself'. Every prin-
tiple both of justice mid expedience, required
that the disturber' of the world, the invader of
Europe, the usurper of his masters throne, the
%'tle unprincipled and sanguninary murderer of
D'Eughien, Wright, L'alm, and Holier, should be
brought to, public trial, and exemplary puaishment
..instead of pet witting him to retire with his ill
got spoils to the mock Majesty ()Finn European
sovereignty, though only over " a pelly fortress,
and a. barren sid and," in thelittle islet of Elba.

And even Our 01%1 beloved country, high as she
stood, at that time, in the scale olnations, as the
unceasing opposer and check of the all-aspiring
Tyrant—unconquered and
,unconquerable, as she
Ayes -even then—unshaken by all his eftorts, and
laughing to scorn his impotent attacks on her
'lleets, her armies, and her commerce:—Yet even
Britein, my Lord, though now the redeemer of
. ,
the puiitioal won Id on the plains of I,V,aterloo, the
'watchful preserver of the peace of Paris on the
Jleigias of Montmartre; the guardian of contk
Iranquillity at Cambrai, and the secure and
incorruptible keeper of the Corsican Savage in his
datt at,Snint Helenato what a loftier and more
waivhled Iteight.has site soared in the regions of
Tame since the commencement of ,the hist. (tea-
,
paign ; and 4c what halcyon days of peace and
prosperity may she•not now look forward, with.
m •
ore rational anticipation of undilturbed enjoy.
inent. • , , • .

runependently of tire great principle of duty to
soc;ety at large, nothing could have contributed

• see Lettrrs, 9 ptid 10, tiAtvd :stet March, and 9th April
181.1.-I'ssupitteteet; No: p. 410, •

• Has not our Corresp►uudent forgot to pre,4 tlAt letter. i II
to this WUrd ,

standing at:present being 42 millions anti
wards of which rather more than 21 -tuilliontkz,
are provided for nut
.pf- Rids already voted, anti_
the sum' now oiststanoling and unprovided fOr IS7
20,774,7001., which in Five per Cents. t,th-e'
present rate .will create about 24 tr -
tiunal stuck (with a proportional increase for
any part which may be funded in • Four or Three
per Cents.) .
The most difficult part of the present unfunded.,
debt to estimate, will be the necessary loan for
• •
satisfyiqg the outstanding demands for miscelbs.;
neous services not yet provided for. What. this
may amount to is not very easy topronouce with
•
any degree.of certainty ; but if we assume about
20,000,000, 1 should suppose that this stontThay.
be fully sufficient, and •invested in Three pet"
Cents, at about 60, :will 'create 33,000,000 more
of stock ; and will swell the aggregate of stock
debt to 860,000,000. So that, at any rate, we
rutty venture to assure the readers of the Chroni-
cle that instead of One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Fifty-five Millions, of which that faithful vehicle
of correct intelligence, has so modestly infohned
them they are to bear the weight, they may soothe ,
those exasperated feelings, with which they must
naturally reprobate •t the wicked M:nisters who have
so wantonly told unnecessarily saddled theta with
such agrievous burrhen, by the comforting as-
suranee,-that it 'will oot ainonnt to quite Sc' much
as the oddloo. And on this they mill have the
Satislactiou' to find that a Sinking, Food is at
work io redemption, the operative powers of
whiZ:b have inerea‘sed from the year 1803, when
proportion to the debt of tileat Britain, (I
have hitherto been speaking with reference to
that of the United liingdom),• was as one tivBZ',-
, to the yeir.lBl3, by whieh.tinie it had• advanced
to the proportion of one to 44. lint at that 0,14ew
taking jilt.° consideration the rapid accumulation
of the Shifting Fandoind the heavy charge about
to he incurred by the new loans, it was thought
;expedient and equitable,, to.divide the lowthen
with posterity, by•cancelling a considerable part
of the redeemed capital, and appropriating the
released interest to supply the charge of the loani•
tot thac year and .of the succeeding Jones, and ,
thereby avoiding the iMpositiou of new taxes ; a
measure certainly founded on justice, and dictated
by.reason anacxnediency; tor. it Is. quite clear to,
those who areaegto,inted with the state of the..money market, that 'if by:the return of: pert K,
tkc war charges had ceased at dog time, and the
i progressive accummulation of. the Sinking Fund
had ciatitined unchecked, a very Ain't period .(I•
may venture to say five orsix years. at the IttinotY
would loive rendered its operations so,:prejudietal,
to the commercial.would,. by•taking such a quad.'
thy of stock out of.the market,, as to retpiircflie,
interference of the legislature for its rednetton:
The measure iu question can, therefore, only be
regarded as an anticipation of that. which must at
at.y rate have been put in execution in a short:
• time ; and anticipated at a moment when the ,ctm7,,
begin:flees were most beneficial, by the interven-
tion,ot a breathing time, fruits fresh •taxittion
And let it be recollected with triumphant. pride by
every true Briton, that •this ha; taken place hilt*
concluding years of a tvat to onexampLi do*-
. lion and expense ; when twenty two
scuts ot,continued hostilities had swelled.the ex-
penditure of the country to the enormous amount
of 114,000,000 Sterring per antiOnt,t aunt when
the salvation of Europe had been effected.-14 the
unremitting fortitude and perseverance of this na.
'ion in . the,., support of burthem nn' other
penpie could hart: borne. fur a tenth part of the
time. : ; , ,

• , • I
'Let us, trust, then, my Lord, that the, good
sense and patriotic discrimination of Eugliihmen.
will enable thein to appreeiiite the mativei7ill
those who, to pi'omote the paltry VieWs of thenl-,
selves iiturtheirfaction, tvilt,ully misrepreseathe
measures of Government, .ants the real situatioit of
the country either in finance or general polities.
Thank Heaven, my Lard; both the political and
tlielinaacial state, of the British Empire at the
opening at the new year, are such as to inspire a
,just and happy confidence in 118 continued a nil
inereming prosperity. And whatever temporary
eMbarrassnient may appear to have taken place
With respect to the interests of the landed part-
of the community, 'though certainlymach gene-
ral inconvenience,. had even- great individual d;s•
tress has arisen from it, yet the consequences are
only for a time, and must. be regarded but as the
natural retrocession at a stream which has been
sowing. With unnatural and overstrained . ra-
pidity, and has met with a strong and sudden
check of tide. It is that which has happened al-
most. invariably cm the return of peace, after
war of any length and extent. After the con-
clusion of the American war in 1783, the- same
general canfusiati, the eatne,stagnation of the
markets, the same failure of payments ; and even
a still greater' number of bankruptcies were the
conkccoenCe of the Sudden stop of tyeGovernment
contracts, and of the demand for the supplies of war,
lint what falloWed diversion' of theemploy-
ment of 'capital ihto new channels ; and an in-
crease of cOmmerce, of agriculture, and of gene-
ral wealth; which led us to the height of financial
prosperity, and laid the foundation of these
im-
mense resources which have enabled us.to pose'.
cute, -to' its successful and triumphant termina-
tion, the must important war in which the coun-
try has ever been engaged, and have placed on
the brows of Britain a wreathe of such unfailing
glory as veils the laurels of Greece and Runic in
deep and dark eclipse. A war, in the direction of
much. you, my Lord, and your 'Colleagues, have
-purshed aline of conduct so happily illustraiive
of
that doe combination of prudence and resolution'
inculcated by Alachiavel.

ita rerem administrationem prudentia tt heznatini.
a tale tempera! see r,ineid essfidentiel ineautum, our cligimiess-
"4l4 non fererolino reiXeial."

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Amsterdam
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Rotterdam ll 10 2 Us.
Antwerp ll 12Ex•ItIonei
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Only the Moniteur• of the 21st reached us this
morning, and we believe that no other Paris
Paper %vas published on that date, On account.
of the commemoration of tl►e Martyrdom of,
Louts:XVl. From this Journal we extract Lila
details of theobserVanee of thc,solemnity in the'.
Capital. The Will of the murdered King was
Told in all the churches—a.:simple and touchitir
ceremony :.7-•

PARIS, JAN. 20.—The obsequies of .Louis
XVI. and hii Queen, were celebrated to-dayin.
the Church •of St. Denis. 'The. Dtike of Attgon,
letne,, the Duke-at Berry, the Prince de Condi,*
the Duchess of Orleans, and the Duchess of Bour.
bon !misted. The Duchess of..Angouletne was.
also present, ',whose. grief on—this occasion Was
apparent, to every observer.
The Grand Deputation of the Chamber of
Peers and of. the Chamber .of Deputies, of the
Court of Cessation, of the Court Royal, o. the
Municipal BOdy of Paris, of the Tribuoels of Oa
fir,t Imtonce, and 'of Commerce, occupied the,
Choir of the Church, in the midst of which was:
placed the funeral decc;fation.

" The old Servants of the King, appi•Oved, by.
I their zeal and fidelity, came to pay thetrilnite Of
their respect. 1111 that France could offer th,it
wsi'S august, and xvotthyto represent her, was t$
setubled at St. Denis.

" IL was in the presence of thieAssembly that
the:Westement of the' martyred King was, Rad,
a Code for all Kings, and a -lesson for evert
people.—...

'['be same service was 'also perforated in all
the churches of the Capital. All the Civil Miti-
tat-Y, and Itidicial Authorities met at Not rename..
An immense concourse of the inhabitants filled the.
churches, isncl, every.-k% here a profo'untl. sileUct:
,
reigned wbile'the ceremony wits performed. Dur-
fl the the 'appearaitce of the Capital-'was
coiolkteut with the sentiments inspited by time so-
lemnities of the (waning.

Tikkutieral ceinuannoraiiOn uf the Rini;
was celebtpted to-dny is the Churches el the Re'.
formed Region: ,