The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-03 00:00:00

DU rcri 14,1 VERS.

'DKr. 25 the very remark iblerfc-
b.ite whit() the. teiecciun of the Financial
Lots proposed by the-Goverionent, there appear-
ed three different grounds of opposition. Some
Of the speakers, particularly those of the Sotoherit
provinces, grounded their opposition on the ex-
ces'sive expenditure, which, in their opinion,
hrotigh.t the country to the blink of ruin ;
others thonglit that though the expences for
the present year were not too great., yet they
could not he adopted for ten years ; and a third
pary did not think the expellees so excessive, that
they ciitild reject the proposed laws nn t his ground,
but, in their opinion, the cause of all their em-
barr4s.sniefits, which had been experienced for these
last four years, was to be sought in the
iujrrtli-
cianrs nature of a system of revenue, which, how-
ever continually reduced in its limits, yet 'always
remained below the bounds fixed, so that they
j,,dged it impossible, to continue this system ftir
ten years. The Dirt ctor General endeavoured to
refute. all these arguments as Will by .an intro-
ductory discourse before the opening tit the de.„
bee, as by. a detailed cirleiltoshantial reply at the
end of the debate to the objections of the several
Speak'erS. Atl thz proposed laws, however, as we
bawe before stated, were rejected. and his NJ ,jesty
was requested to re-consid, r them, the lasi only
excepted, which was for the purpose of covering -
the arrears. The following dig the particulais of
the lasts rejected :
_ . _ - -

No. I. First project of the law for the Decennial tindget
Expences, as first proposed and rejected unanimously by the
ninety-tn.:lit Members present.-
No. 2. Project of law for the Decennial Budget of Ways and
Means; rejected by ninety-sereu•vntes to one.
No. 3. Revival of the first law, rejected by 55 to 4t.
No. •t. Revival of the second-project of law, rejected by C
to 36.

No. 5. Law No. -3,• of the 28th of October, ri•i=ttiee to the
Extrlordinary Budget of 1820, (Expenditure.; rcj, cted by b*
t o 80, .
•

-No. K. Law N0..4,- of: the 28th.of October.' relative to the
Extraordinary Itudget of I S2O, (Way% and Means) r.je•cted
b►' 70 votes to 28.

No. 7. Law No. 5, proposed the 25th of Oetobe,7, to lice
the Government a credit of twenty-four millions ;le-cording
to the laws of the 24th of February, 1816; adopted-by 54 volus
to 44.

HAGUE, DEC. 27.—1 n the Sitting of the Second
Chamber, this. day, a message from his M ,jesty
was read, stating that their High Mightinesses
having reported on the financial I.aws. purposed
to them, that it was impossible to fix the expert-
ditore-and Ways and Means (as preseribed by the
fundamental law) for this year that it is Drees-
sat y to provide for the ordinary exprnces of Go-
vernnient,
,for satisfying the claims of the public
creditors,. which Iris Majesty -is engaged in deli-
berating on wish all the speed that the impor-
tance of the subject will allow.- On the Measnres
to be proposed to the States General for tha.
execution of .the above mentioned, Article* of
the fundamental law, his Alai o,,ty, feeling it his
ditty to prevent any stagnation its the public
business, sent with this message a project
of law, the object of which is to maintain in
future the existing laws :on the subjrct for the
space tit eight months after the 3lst of December,
1819, or for such shorter period as they shall re-
main unregulated by other laws, to be heteatter
enacted. This message and proirEt of law teing
read, it was resolved to ret,r them immediately' to
the Sec ions, to bear the Report of the Central
Section in the afternoon sittirig,andthen to pro-
ceed linmediately to the debate. A point of form,
however, rendering it necessar y to adjourn the
debate till the following mortiing, the CliAmber
Met on the 28th, at eleven o'clock, when, atter
some previous conversation, the proposed law, was
put to the vote and paised unanimously, 81 went •
hers being present.

ROBBERY -AT SOUTHAMPTON..-,--111 COOSCTICrICe
of the inconvenience and distress arising llOal the
suspension of payment at Messrs..,Smith's Wink,
a meeting was held at Fletcher's Library on Tues-
day last, consisting. of" several highiy -tripe( table
gentle Man of this 'town and neighbourh'lind, who
passed a .string of Resoliitions; .pledging hem-
tivlVeS to discharge the whole of the bills of their
respective tradesmen before the 1t of February.
Thin' hononrable, and •judicious uteri-
sttre, has also the entire co•ncurrersee. and appro-
bation of many other of ihe", ptincipat gentlemen
in the Vicinity, Whom the'shortness of the notice
and the state of the Weather prevented limn:being
present ; and it is not doubted kliat it will be the
means of bringing many thoinond4 of pounds
into immediate'Ciretilation among those who have
been principally incommoded by the accident of
the Bank. The chair- was taken by Admirril
Scott, and fhe•nesolutinns Were moved awl se-
conded- by W. A. Mackinnon, Esq. M P. and Sir
James Lind, K C.l3.—(Hampshire Chronicle )
MELANCHOLY •ACCIDENT.—Mond.ay, as some
young turn were amusing themselves on the ice at
Lochend, it suAdenly gave tv,iy, by which 5 persons
were plunged in the water, two of whom, we regret
to state, were untortunately drowned.- One of them,
Daniel. Fraser, a shoemaker, aged IS, was the
son of poor widow residing in Dickson's Close :
the name of the other is Robert Scott, a curriir,
aged .16. l'Ve are informed that the ordinary
watchman acquainted with the saving apparatus
was most unhappily ill In the Intirmat y: No-
tice was placarded at the loch that no watchman
was present, of course no arq,iratus could he. used,
and the less•appreheusion -was_ entertaineJ,-.as the
ice's as considered strong, 200 persons, at
having gone
,over it io safety the thy before. It
is five winters since•an aecidetit of k•shidi,„- kind
happened at the same loch.—( Edinburgh Courant,
Dec 30.)' •

At the Mfinsion-bonse on Sattirday, live fisher-
men's nets, of the value of 251. each, were fon-
dernued in consequence of the mesh being sin t r
than the Act tor the protection of the fish in the
river specifies.

On Wednesday morning a melancholy accident,
occurred on the ‘Vve, near Fownhope,_ in this
comity; owing to some -mismanagemen!, a barge
belonging to. Mr. Prater, of l'idhrook, was opset,
and the three men employed in the navigation at
the vessel unfortunately Perished• Qt c of thew, the
master, had lived with Mr. Pearce severttl yea's,
and was -much respected by his emPit'Yer• he
height of the barge, 25 tolls of cools, was en-
tirely lost, and the vessel also greatly inittred ;
the loss to iklr, Pearce, of comae, must be COlOl.-
derable.-(iiereford Journal.)

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Prim the LO N DOS:
.GAZEI-14E of Jun 1, 1820.

This Gazette notifies, that .the Prince Regent
hii;s zippi,inted Major .Geneial Lewis Giant, Go.'
%woof- ut the ilithanta ISlandS ; and -Dr. It.- Gra.
ham, Regius Professor of .Botany in the University
of Eiliiibingh and that. be has approved: of the
Flank Compallies of the 25th Regiment being per.
initted to bear on their ppo intments the word
" Mattinigne."

frar-Office, Dec.:ll.

9th Regiment Light Dragoons—Major T. Wildman to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Lard' Hartland, whO
retires; Captain. J. Hurt to be Major, by purchase, viva
Wildman ; Lieutenant J. Minchin to be Captain of a Troop*
by purchase, vice Hurt ; Cornet 11. F,. Porter to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Mllinchin , 'W. Beresfurd, Gent. to b.
Cornet, by purchase, ,vice Porter ; Paymaster H. Knight,
from half- pay Mb Battalion of the Line of the King's German
I,,zion, to be Paymaster. vice B. Chapman, who exchanges.
loth Ditto—Ensign C. S. Wortley, Irons the 7Gth Foot, to
Ciirnet, vice Langme.d, who exchanges.
250 Ditto—Cornet Hon. It. H.S. Cotton, from
.2tl Dra-
goon Gnarls, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jeffries,
promote'.
29th Regiment of Foot—H. Deedes, Gent., to be Ensign;
by purchase, vice Darlie, who retires.

5-6th Ditto—,Lient. E. Fug..iolt, from half.pay :37th Foot, to
be Paymaster, diceTOrner, deceased..
el.3d Ditt o—:Lietit. E. C. Cons, front half-pay of the Regi-
inent, to he' Lient,oant, vice'(. W. Dillon, who exchanges,'
receiving the Oilletence.
7hth Cornet W. C. Langmeatl, front the 10th Light'
Diagootts, to In Ensign, vice I.Vortley, who exchanges.
87fla Ditto—Ensign W. Bateman to be. Lieutenant, with.,
out purchase; vier flotclilicton,*. prointitetli- C. H. Doyle,
(kot. to lie Ensign, vice Balei,nan.

POtb Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon J. Nl'Attlior, from half-pay'
Foot, to be Assistatl. Surgeon, vice Al.-Fat-Ilan, placed
25111 Fort. ,
Rifle Brigade—llicvet Lientenant•Cokinel G. Miller to be
Major, by purchase, vice Wilhios, Who retires; Licot..l. Cos
to be Captaiii of a Company, by purchase,, vice Ntilkr; Se-
comilLieutenaitt 11.'3. llrownrigg to be First Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice

21 Royal Veteran Hattalion7-District Raymaster G. Houns.,
mini, from half-pay, to he Paymaster of a Vtter.ut
al t:iatf--;-Physien-in T. Shortt, M. from
to be Physician to the Forces; hospital-Assistant T. Hall,
front to be Huspital-Assistaut to the Furcrs, vice P.'
Robertson, M. D., who exchn, es.
Brcvet-,.-Lient-Colunel- IV. ortlTe -25th Light lira-•
coons, 16 have the local rank of Colonel, on the Contioent of
httrope only.
To be Majors'in the Army—Capt. It Pierce, of the liqal.
Artillery ; Capt. %V. D. Nicolls, of the Royal Artillery.
MEmonANDA—The Connuissioo of -Captain I.4renfell, itls
Dragoons, has been antedated to Dec, 24, 1818, but it
not allowed atty. back-pay ; the eornotiSsions of. Li, utenants
Stewart and Browne, of the 53.1 Foot, have been altered, the
former to the and the hitter to the'l7th Ostobet Is*"
those Mug the dates they on_tht to bear.• .

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