The Sun.
London, England, 1816-02-22 00:00:00

P! iCE OF SIISCKS

TIIIS DAY TVVEGVI:
11ani. Mork, la4i4 Rom!: is Fs. pr.
4 per Cent. nee. 1%1 Etctieq. M.
pt
3 ens. Otuninitt, 18.111
i io:r Centl. 770. I Olt to. for rityilietat, Misr.lslll
At per t:t 90li tuns. i4ir Act.nunt, aft
Bank 1.. 15-ICtiti

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Any' one who will declaim against any Tax, '!
sum to he listened to nod supported ; but it is eat
the score of Petitions which those who oPP°e
all Taxes, aided in this instance by some. 0114'3
who object to the Income Tax ; it is not thy vevl
limited number of Petitions which they .lfave beta
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able to get up, that cart deter the liinance
from pursuing a course which, front every view of
the subject, be must he convinced is best calcu-
lated for the welfare of the Country.
We have obtained peace, but after so 11117.'14
fight, that we must expect to feel our brnizes for
some time, and not to be -whole in an instal:
An Income Tax for two years, at the rettncedr"',
of 5 per cent. (with every prospect of its .bring
repeated at the expiry.of that period) —an loon°
Tax modified so as to lower the Tenant's parnent
to dilly 21 per cent: •an'tl introduce such other sin"
liorations as to allow its levy without re"
course to new machinery'; such ,a tax as 1114,
we undersfand tv, be the meas," in view by the
CHASCltt.t.p.rt of the EXCII NIVEA, needs only tO
be understood, and contr:+s:ed with any other fi.
mince propwitioo that can. be Made to Meet the
necessary CX.penditure of the country, 611041°4
have the suffrage f every man of wirtlerstautliilS

in the Empire.
A Loan .ild be of all things the moct 111;1'‘
()us. Air,ady do the pulAic Funds, from theirsto"'•
an the iater:,t they afford, swallow. up all
tlyr
capital that would otherwise be lent to ettc;)ut3e
agriculture, trade, and Every spring, of r"
productive industry., which not only r(P'Y'
itself Juitsuipports- the Revenue' of. the
A loan would add to tb;s calamity, by iutita''"g
the profit arising from inretting money in. Go
vernment securities, while, on the other hang,
the proposed system of Mr., *VAN. SITTART must'
of necessity, raise the price of the Funds In tttit
pitch which will render it more desirable for Ca'
pitalists to lend to private traders, &e. (and thus
relieve the pressure of the tunes) than to emP4
all their funds in 'the purchase of Stock, wbielll
though productive to them, furnishes no source of
r*turn for the general. benefit.

There is nothing worth notice in the Pali*
Jeurnals of the 18th, and very little in the OW
man and Dutch Papers, which we received hot
nigbt and this tno.ning. Some slight movements
of the Army of Occitpatidn are noticed in t
latter, anti are evidently directed to facilitate the
!dhows of the Commissariat, and relieve lII°
people as much aa.possible. There are also seine
remarks on tll.l internal state of France,
from our own information, wo believe to be 'l4#'
curate and well founded. • The Government
.atixiously discharging all its obligationgi 11.
I„{eil
evincing that good faith n•hieb is best eaten,
to restore the countly: to its anciciit considers'
tion. A perseveranee in this e.t se will speediii
lien) intertill wounds, and sJenre` bat external To"
sheet which will render the, appellation of rTlir
196,
Grand Nkit jots ," no longer that term Of iron.
reproach ilto which it w con, erteTl by the
fidionsness of the U.:,nrping Goyernwent.

These Papers contain an interesting account fropl
Jonnina of the improvements in, ancienCEPirtii;
Greece indeed mly never be revivified—it never ,
revive under an e‘w ern despot. But still the 11111-
dwells with complacency on the hope that this re":
,nowned portion of the earth may vet re-assert ils
tlaim to the honours with ‘Vhich Antiqui 'ty covetel
It, by prod icing modern evidence et inheriting ti's
taste, the fire, and genius of other times. .Irha
cession of the lonian Isles to Bi itaiii, •and
city
spirit lately retuned by the icsvrches of
lets from this Country, the encouragentelir
forded to flee reb!oratirin of Literature by Itust4s
rtn
Germany, and Italy, all coinhitie to enc?iira„e
expectation that the parallel of ancient glory "till:
at no very distant day be accomplished iii
mvst c:lebrate I utat of ttie Art 4. and \luscst

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