The Sun.
London, England, 1816-04-01 00:00:00

THE IttGENT,s cOlifer, Std.;

On•Saturdat tbe PRINCE RE6ENT held a Pelf
Cotmcil at three o'clock, which was attended by the
Lord President, the Lord Chancellor,tbeLord Privy
Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the First
Lord of the Adfniraty, the Master-General of the
Ordnance, the Secretaries of State for the Herne
•
and Foreign Departments, the Chancellor of the
Duchy or Laneaster, the Lord Chief Justice of the ,
Court of King's Bench, the Judge of the Admi4
ratty, the Lord Steward, the Lord ChttiherlAno
the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Hone",
and the:COmptroller of the Hotisebold.
At the close of this Council, Whleb sat but tt
short time, the RECORDER of LONDON was ad'
mitted into the presence of the RECENT, and lllalla .
his Report of the Convicts capitally convicted at
the last December and January Sessions. His
itoyal Highness was graciously pleased to reprieve
all the ottfottunate'persons during pleasure.
The Earl- of HARROWHY and Viscount SID'
MOO TH had private audiences rof the PRINCE. •
Carlton.houle was visited, onSithrday 7e,"
terday,Jl numerous inquirers after the REGENTS
health' and the general answer wea, that his •
Royal Highness is moil. better. Among the
tors were a, number of Foreigners of distinciion,
Dignitaries of the Church, &c. &P. Sge'
Her MAJESTY stays iu WWII until the latter
end of the week, in order to regulate and forward
the preparations for the approaching nuptials of
her Royal Highness Princess CHARLOTTE.
On Saturday her MAJESTY had the PriftEPE
SOPU/A of GLOUCESTER tend a select party of the-
nobility at her palace.'
Prince ESTERUAZY, the Austrian Amhasiador,
presented his- father, Prince Paul. ESTORHAVIrr, "
who has arrived in England within these few days,. •
to the PRINCS Rainer: yesterday at Carlton-,
house,.
Yebterday fhe Lonb CHANCELLOR, Vise9tint
Sinuourit, and CoIIOtMUNSTSR,.,had audiences
of the 'PRINCE REOP.NT.

AIIOLITION OP THE SLAVS MUM By THE NANO a?

SPAIN.

" I have jost this instant received* tette froth
Madrid, stating, that FERDINAND VII. Ordered
his Council of the Indies to present him a report
on tl.e Slave Trade, and to give his Majesty their
opinion on that subject. Shortly after the Coon'
cil Otuplied With the'King's
order, and made a
very luminous report, urging, in the most ene!.-
;tette terms, the itece.sity of immediately aholishti
iog it. The King, it is said, was highly' Oros':
with the report of the Conned, and on doubt 4'
entertained but that this must .unchristian-liktt
traffic will be immediately prohibited ; for if the
King had not been disposed to adopt such a tner
Sure, he certainly would not have ortiervd't°'•
Council to make the report in question, *1 it ".4544:
agreed upon. at. the conferences of the COgrc—
ot Vienna, tbat Spain might continue the Afrirtin , •
Slave Trade for eight years longer."—(Gaidsmith4
dnti-lattican Monitor')

On Saturday the Baron 4e STOitiaaa, Ccitittni4o.,
sioner from. the Emperor of AnsTark for thei'aidi*
Of BuoxAmera in the Island-of St. Helena, ,
spected the various offices of the Bank and
Coffee.house. It is expected that the °route*
frigate a ill Sail for St. Helena soon after the 10th
instant; with the Baron, bis family and suite.
A letter from Malta, dated. the 10th of February:,
says—" The Sandwich packet drifted' to letweril!.
but is now in sight. The last accounts from Corfil
0. are not quite so favourable, the plague haring
broken out in another village." .
Ilear.A.dmiral Sir PULTNEY MALCOLM is 74
,
p.m.d to succeed Sir GEOROR CoCIiBULIN t
command at St. Helena, the Cape of Good Hope*
and the Mauritius. Sir Piwrz4gy arrived at ports' .
mouth on Thursday morning, and hoisted hio OAK
in the Newcastle,- 50-, Captain 'MEYNELL. Ife
w ill soil for the command in about ten 114P•'—.
The Ititssian and French Commissioners Dili gc
out in the Newcastle. The King of
does not intend to send a Commissioner.
'the Abundance suaresliip, Josias Oske,
now at Woolwich: is under orders to repair tcl'
Antwerp, tor a cargo of pictures, sculptures,
011(
.Auliet- classic articles, stnien by the French from
:Italy, which, she will convey tither to Leglirwtu
or ',Chita Vecchia, in order that they may be ft'
stored to their rightful owners. The value °it'll
. .
cargo is estnuated at a million sterling.
KOSCIVsKp has written letter to the Editor
°film Journal of Altenbnurg, dated froinSol";
master.;
dumb in which he declares that the prefenil.e`'
appeal to the Poles, guiportitig to be from Wino
and published iu tl.e sante journal in 1807,
NAPOLEON penetrated into Poland, was entirely
a fahrication of M. FOUCHZ.
'The Bermuda, Captain PAKENHAM, finfT Prif,"!.
rose, Captain Pan:LOTT, have arrived at Jaraaielr.
for the peace service. The North Star, 20, Ctrr
Vain BENTHAM, Ivos to sail-thence, with a nun! W'
England, On the sth ult. *The Racoon, Captain
CAnrr:NTER, and Leveret, Captain THROCI, hart.
likewiSe arrived at the Cape pf Goad Hope, 1.4
the peace service; and the Challenger, Captain
FoRBES, on her way to India, arrived at the Cap)
on the 25th
_of January.

One hundred and forty-two ordinary men were
discharged
.this week, of whom 25 were after-
wards entered as rigger's labourers. It hes been
estimated that fron; the reduction already made
in this and Portsmouth Dock-yards, there have
been less wages paid by 20001. per week than
were paid during the last year...- (Pieriomill'
Paper.)
'The Telegraphs, Which have proVed so useful
in their early communications from Plymouth to
London during the war, were dismantled on Moo.
day last.
On the 20th instant the foundation-stone of
the new Town Hall of 'Celia was laid
:II hi 4
Grace the Duke of ROXIMIGU—there was "It

grand masomic procersion on the occasion.
A reward of 100 f. is offered in Saturitars GO.
zetie for the discovery of the parties supposed tO
have set fire, in the night of the 18th nit.; tO 0",
stacks of wheat belonging to Mr. 0. Pat.malz:,
St. Leonard's, Kent; with a promise of free Pr.'
don to soy accoraplictpolting !uch dise"grY'

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(To be rantiumetl regularly.)

Ni lo Proposed it SOLUTJONS for .thaittlitgP of
. ' AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.,
That it is expedient to permit Sheep and Wool
to be ttt all times exported frOm the United. King.
aont of 'Great Briiain and Ireland), ditty-free ;
/Ind to perMit the carriage of Wool, 'both inland
amd coastwise, to be conducted, as it shalt seem
gt to those concerned in it, without restriction,,
tegulatioqi- or interference. - •.- -
That it is. eNpedient to permit the cultivation
of Tobacco, withio:Great Britain, under such re-
gulations end restrictions as may enable a duty
to be collected the4eon, . .

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ON THJ AGRICULTURAL DISTRESSgS.

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(To becontiontii.)

This subject, which is of great magnitude in its
onsegnencesb has been treated in a luminous.
*peech by Mr. WESTERN, in the [louse of COilfr •
mons, and that House has resolved itself into a
Commitee, directing certain resolutions proposed'
by that gentleman to be printed.
I have perusetiAlr. IVEs-rEates speech with at,
tention. - It contains a great deal of information
and argument ; yet, I am hound to confess, there
Appear to me considerable omissions, particularly.

as to the causes of the Agricultural Distress,
which he supposes to have arisen by e combina-
tion of the pressuie of the poor rates, of the
tithes, the magnitude of the National Debt, the
paper medium, and the surplus produce of the soil
baying been thrown into the market, He adds,
tlocs not believe the distress is brought about
by the return of peace. •
With Out attempting at present to examine the
above stated causes, it is rather surprizing the im-

inense increase of rents during the last 25 years is
totally lost sight of, as adding to the tarmrr's.
res'elit distretii, which ditrin,:l the war induced
by-a great call. for landed produce, he was induced
to engage to pay:.
As to the fall of prices in 1813 being previous
to the peace, the defeat of the French on the RUS•
aiatt Expedition,' was 'considered such a forerun.

ter of a imate, that. it- mowed speculation built
on war prospects, and Government slackened its
porebases fur the armies abroad. This, and the
great Irish imports, damped' the markets surptiz•-•
fnkly, The withdrawing, even in part, of such
weighty customer ns Government from the Tar,
kels, has been all efficient cause why grain, pro.
'visions, leather, and many other articles declined.
'the assumed certainty that those articles were of
ricces.- sity itlotsed hy,Gmiirernmenf, inspi-
rited the holders,,and created speculation in them.
Good harvests added to the diminution of time va.,

Le of the Produce. This diminution lessened the
credit of the farmer with the country hanker,
who, by loans in their petty notes, hi; used to.
enable to uphold the price of produce, to
the great hurt of the Consumer, whose feelings
and smarts make no part•of Mr: WESTERN'S ora-
tion On this occasion: Yet this 'connection be
tween the farmers and the country banker has
been a great grievance to the at large.
These bankers petty notes were the circulating
paper MediUm on WhiCh the speculations rested, and
the mutual convenience by lending and borrow-
ing, on the decline of produce being withdrawn, is
the very cause of the failure of so many country
banks, whose circulation was, thus impeded and
stopped.'

The examples to which WI% Wthnitt refers to
prose that peace cannot be the cause of thiagreat
elecline'of the value of produce ; viz. of the years
1763 and 1783, ought to be taken with caution, in
regard to the peaee then concluded. Since that
period, the free intercourse to the corn trade he.
tween Ireland and Great litinihu has taken place,
and Whatever maybe said as to the, general pat.
cy of that measure, it does not admit of'a doubt,
that a country which has neither land tax nor pro-
rei.ty tax, and where labour is much cheaper thlan
•in Cam Britain, must be Capable to cultivate the
produce of the land much cheaper than Eng-
land iff particular.
On the part,ot the British Agriculturist, it was
certainly a great oversight not to secure some
!block to meet this contingency till Ireland pays
British taxes. The great faikires in Ireland in
18.13 and 1814, arose chiefly from corn specula-
'dons to the 'western ports of England and Scot-
hilt% and materially contributed to the fall of
vices in general, which.Mr.WarrEaN can thus
ttilliaecount for, in connexion with my former
Osereatinn.. jw1763 and 1783 Irish grain gas
0.41 y, admitted as :foreign grant, subject to tly.:
shinting and opening of the ports, besides the
1./Ysleut nl admitting foreign corn upon. that plan,
on !()W duties, according to the return of British
corn pricef, only took place in 1773, cinder Ge-
nenaConwity's act.

D4ALI .-Ltirme down Front ti,'e
and sailed, the Ben Jonsolt; Vil'aTsON, for Ilerbiee)
aptii the liritnitt; *iVIII,ToN,' "'kir I;arbatioes. Itt
mains his Riajesty'ss Ship Gnnytttetle.—AViod

HARWICH, MARCH 31.—Sailed yesterday the
Beauloy packet for ilalland ; Lord Nelson packet-
for Cuxhaven ; and the Thetis. packet for Gotten.,
burgh. -Wind C.
PORTSMOUTH, MADtca .—Arrived yesterday
liis Mnjeey's ship Euphrates from Sheerness.
Sailed to• day his Majesty's ship Algerine on it•
cruise, and the Itusseu., for Linvre-0.-
GtAce.—Wind S. E.
PL.:: MOUTH, MAReli SO.—Sidled his iNTsjesty's,
•ship Redpole 'for N'ewfoondland.—Wind

FALMOUTH, ,111.Aacti 29.—Sailed the Di►ina
packet with a mail for the West Indies.—..,Wind
E.S.C.

COWES, MARCH 30.—Sailed the uieero trails
port with troops for Gibraltar.
By-the statementrof the British Naval Force up
.to this day, it appears that the niunber of ves,ttls.
in commis ion are 267, ordinary and repairing for
service 432, building 35.—Total, 734.

I 131STRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.
The Medway, for the 11.3 Siren, on Wedae,elav, the 270
instant, at Pl)alionth. Recalls at No. :i,.Clifford'lslaa, every
IVednesday and Thursday, for three months.
The 'Rattler and Iteerait, fur the Romney and Santa Mafia,
on Tuesday nett, the -26 h . at No. tit, Great Geou ',-
street, Westtnitwer,.. Recalls saw,. place, for threr mom I7s.
The tdas, for the Marpreths 'Dorothea; -the -.1" itee Oro-
.
titers, 'and the Resolution, on Tueseay; the "Itith in•tsta., tst
No. 41, Norfollostreet, htrasul. itecidls same plAce, every
Turiulay and Friday, far three mon' ht. •
The Defeowe and Was, for the Fortuna and Gui:ild
on Tni.sday, the 28th • instant, at No, 41, Nortoth-sti•i•rt,
Strand.. Recalls same place, every Tuestiay and Friday, for
three months. •

• The'Calhope,. for the Frou Nlargaretlia, on T,lisa.e)• the,
26th instant, at No. 41, Norfolk-strk.t, ltryealls same
Once, every Tuesday and Frilay, for tiree•mont h.. •
4 The Nlercurius, 'tor the Louise Charlotte ;t:r Go;(1(.1Icrowt
on Saturday the :3oth instant, at No; 22;• Norfolk-street,
Strand, Recalls S4IIIC (lace.
• The Urgent, fur the Margaretha 1)060(.3, on
the 27th of March instant, at No. St, new ltroa.!-- • , Re-
calls every Wednesday anti Thntsday, for, three

THE ARMY.,

PARTICULARS OF TI-lEilp)IICTioN!t IN TIM STA:T

OF THE 41i41)'.

The follinving are In(' lit'ollo.ied to
be made from the e,tiotated Charge orthe Staff at
home and abroad for the year 1816 • •

STAFF IN ottuvr BRITAIN, INCLAJDING JERSEY,

GUERNNFV. AND ALDFIINWC.

• dlt iferni-gitcrler.t.--..Adjataw-Cieneral's Office rto
duced to the pelce rate. The AdAntain-General to he taken off
• the Staffas a lael.e.iai,t.(ienerai; r...rertitig to an allowance
of Soot. per annum, formerly granted when au Adjutant- .
General'was not tit at the Staff. heauty-Adjutittit-tieneral
to'be taken off the staff Depot) - Adjatant
General Recruiting. I)emrtment., discontionen. quarter-
, maiicr.Gesieral's-Oftice. to he reduced to tne saute rate a.; .the
Atijutaiti•General's, to be also taken off the Staff a., a Ma.
jor-General. Deptity•Qoarter-Master-tirtieral on the- saute
footing as Deputy-Adjulant-: omeral. (Inc Deputy-Assistant-.
Quart•er-Master•Oeneral to he discontinued. Contingencies (01
• the etitcvcs discontinued. The total annual say inglindcr
head amounts to g.6.3,21..dit. tid. and tau saving for the.pre-
lent year to 1,5241. Ws, :hi
SoulA Britoin•—rour .Nlajor.Gen,rals, .4 Aide's-de-Camp.
4 Miles de-Camp to toe Prince Regeut, 4 Brigade Nlajors, 5
Temporney •Asi.istaat-Quarter-Masters-f;........1,
of Army Clothing;*-3.Cinummulaiits of I tospitals. - •
Osteriaty and jeritey.-1 Lientenants Oehel•als and 4 Aide's-
de-Camp, to he replaced fry 2 Major-Genet-4s, with cm:Wok-
de Camp each.
Nlajor.Qeneral and 1 Aide-tle.Camp. , • •
North liritain-1 Lieutenant-General and 2 Aides-tic-Camp.
Afeolical cuff in Great Britain.—A Inspector of llospitals,
3 Deputy Inspectors, 2 Physicians, 11 Surgeons,. 3 Apotheea-
' ries, IS Assistant Stirgpoui; 8 Hospital Assistants, g !liven-
, sera of Medicines, 1 hospital Parreyor, 2 fleptity
4 Purveyors' Clerks, I Chaplain of tlitiForee,—Clisitingencies
for the Military Staff Officers.
These reductions make the total annual saving for Great
Britain, 26,7021. 134, 6d, In this year, fol. is.
iretangi.—s Lient,snaots-Generak, ft Aitles-de-Camo, 4
MajortAimerni, 4 slide--de-('atop, I Adjalaut•Oeneral to be
~taken off'the Staff a. Nlajor-fieneral, I Quarter-Mattel (;r•-
noel; S Asilstarit'Adiiitants.General, ti Assistaot Qll.lll, r-
Masters General, 15 Majors of Brigade.
Aletlirmt,Vtfiff.-I.i Deputy inspectors of hospitals, 3
'Surgeons,. Hospital-gates, Contingencies for the Military
Staff.

1 otal anntiat saving for Ireland, in British currency,
'23,2301. 16s. Ilti.—saving for the present year 14,4901. 2s. 4d.

STAFF ON' FOREIGN STATIDNS

Canada --I Major-General, t Aide-ilo•Cooy, I Major of
Brigade, 1 Deputy Assistant-Quarter-Moil,er-General. 4 tios-
pital Assktaiits, I Deputy Purveyor.
Nord( Seutia.-1 Major of Brigade, .1 Surgeon, 2 Hospital
Absistoins.

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11aha»ta's-1 Ili),pittit Matt..* • • •
M4;or-Geoefi4l, 1 Hospital
- Assistant, i Dispenser of Uctlicines, 1 Purveyor's Clerk.
• J'antaica....-1 Chanuander of Forces, 4 Elides-de-(.:snip,
•, • , ••
'Surgeon.
Gibraltar-1 General, Aides-lic-tamp, -1 Assistant Bar-
rack-Master-General,. SingeOn, 9 llosiotal-Assistinits.
Itirtfid anti ',mini, Island-4%—i Lieutenant-General, Q Aides-
dr. Camp, I Major-I:curl-al, 1 Aide-tic-,tinnp,
of the Fortes, I.Mitjbrof Brigade..
Crepe of Gam, Coniiiianderof•the•POrces, 4-Aitlesd'
at-Camp, I Oreuty Assistant Adjutant-tit:nem!, 1 Origitile
Major, .1 Physieian,A 9cputy Porveyur, 'l, •
Matc.ititts.!--1 Clitoniantler agile borer', with 4 Aides-dc.
'Camp, to lie replaced lira Major-i ;enroll, with i
Camp, I Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master4leneral,
germ. -
Crylen.-1 Controander of tile Forces, 4 Aides-de-Cainp.
• :M. ilt•lena.,—.l Inspector tit Militia, included iu .tbe esti.
mite through a clerical error.
'Ntal. on Foreign Stations:-..Annu it saving, 29,0311.83.0 d.;
this year, 10,7ni. as. ad.
The whole of these reductions make a total annual say-
ing. Of 81,897.• 6e. stl; and. for the.present pelf a saving of
41,8121. 4s. Sd.

It has been announced in General Orders from
the tiorse Guards, that the PIUNCE REGIVNTIMS
confirmed the sentence of cashiering passed upon
Mott. 131towN. of, the 101st regiment, by -is
Court-Martial in Jamaica, on the 26th of October
lest, for Foss and, insulting conduct towards
Lieut. T. APoLAsHAN, of the same regiment, and-
subsequently fighting a duel' with hint:
The . v.ili.mt corps of Life Guards have now
niounted their Voter/Jo Medals, the name of each
man atatmpcd on the .exergue ; never was mik;.
tary honour inure gallantly earned, or military
merit more deservedly rewarded.
The Coldstream Battaliou of Guards, serving
in France, have been severely afflieteJ with the
ophthalmia, initight from uCcupying barracks, nut of
which some French soldiers were recently marched
afilietetl, with this Egytinn disease ; more chin
2(10 oe our bravt countrymen were thins rendered
unfit for duty at 111.0 same time. The last acCoonts,
we are grad to state, represeut'do disease to have
considerably abated:,.
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Ottuss,-4 round dress toppusett of CaTlitiej
and finished at the bottom-frith a puui4i• of small fiicks,,and
a very richly Wlrlictl thistfice
.with a:bending, The back has
luseftltness enough to 'give the dress an air of ease, WPliout
-disguising the 'contour of the shape.. Long and very loose.
sleeve, With "It very elegant half sleeve and cuff. A shirt
richly trimmed round the .collar with lace, and thrown open
"at the throat, where it fastens With a gold and coral broach.
Elsie parted on the forehead and dressed I;ikv at the sides:
1164 dress an, ei:mo4itely fancied lace cap, of a forte re-
tremety simple,, bat uncommonly becoming t it is Ornament-
ed with bows oflihte ribbon. Plain gold ear-ring:, and white
' hid slippers and gloves, - • ,
OPStia Dness.--=White satin slits, over which is.a whits
lace skirt, finished with satin tucks, :ins' a rich tiMince of sleep
blond at the. bottom. The body Is composed of.white satin
and white. late = it is uncommonly novel and elegant. The
steeve, which is ton 4- Is also composed of satin and lace; .its,
form is man:lei-1n which it is finished at the
wristis singularly tifstefat and elegant. The hair disposed
so as ttt tii'd forehead, and fails in soft loose CIITIA at
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each side. (lead .dress the Berlin cap, composed of whit.
satin, fore,: part ornamented with s rich gold Mimi, and the
crown with a profusion of beautiful short ostrich feathers, die-
'posed with much taste and novelty. Necklace and'cross coni-
posed of pearl and. Amethyst ; pearl ear-rings ; white kid
gloves, and white satin slippers. • - '