The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-17 00:00:00

Si Rei p.:tibli-em cures,

" candittc, utcre

irentintiatitm if Audi Alteraiwi" in this Paper the 19th

July.)

Among the errors and detects of onieconotniCal
System has been the addition to the delnSiVe fa-
cility of indirect Taxation. the only proper ob-
ject of taxation. is ,Properigland and, its rich
products, productive.wealth of every kind ) either•
in its first occupation, or in its.repartition what*
mortgage, or other sharers of its increase.

Let Land he taken for the substratium of 'att
property and income,—it must then he the object
o►f the taxation required by the general expences
+if ti►e Society and, Governinent,—it must contri-
bute to the Sovereign, the Army of defence, the
body of the Clergy, and of Judicial and Municipal

But this it, has ever been the study of: the'pro-
prietor and the occupier of ,the soil to avoid, and
to avert from themselves, to the trader and la-
bourer, as if it were not in effect the same to
pay a contribution of 40s. an acre on the 100 acres
of corn land, yearly, or to repay to the labourers
and others, employed on them, the increase of
weekly wages, necessary to enable him to pay' td
the same extent, the indirect sand cramping im-
posts of Excise on their beer and gin, tea,
rank
Soap, anti lieht :—.Here ties the absurdity of prac-
tice and prejudice, from
,bad begiunings, in bad
times of weak rule, and gross ignorance, its politic
combination and economy. •
•It •may be held as certain, .that whenever the
labourer has, by added duties on the necessaries

of his use, been excised 'for 10d. he has always
been paid one shilling 1n the long run by his ein•
toyer, to discharge this fiscal burden; not in
truth, imposed 'on him, but through him, on the
property and means of his employer, who wisely !
bus always hitherto preferred to pay Is, in this
manner, to 9d. or les, in direct contribution from
the fruit or harvest, of the soil : This is a remain
of prejudice of the feudal system, a false distinc-
tion, by which the lord of the soil has vainly
fancied that he threw the load of public contri-
bution on his '' villains ;" on the vulgar traders,
Jews, Moneyers, and Merchants of the Realm--
it is time that more correct notions, and the sim-
plicity of truth and of fact, were more evident
to all,

The public debt is a mortgage on the products
tor the soil, and the produce of the industry and
ingenuity, the labour, mechanism, art, and trade,
of :he whole society : it is a sacred obligation,
moral and political, and, well considered, is not
a loss, hut only a modified repeti►ion of the great
products.of. the soil, 01 commerce, and of inge7
nions industry, in, son►e other
,manner, 'in a, full
and numerous society, where each family does
nut occupy and encumber in misery its own half-
sere of subsistence ; the same system, in effect,
?mist prevail—the difference can be in name or
jimn Only; and the history of the world does not,
record a condition among mankind milder, or
snore capable of case, information, and moral
and civil progression, than that. which the .civi-
lisation, science, and good sense of all Europe
'tt►ty con* to continue and' improve rat the preSent
era of peace and renovated civility among all its
bacions.

I'Vtunson, AUGt 16:--This being the Duke of
Voak's hirth-day, the morning was ushered in
tinging of bells and other demonstrations of
rejoicing. The.Ducliess of )(arm and the Princess
81)PHIA of GLOVCEsTEU ,anived yesterday. This
Thcriling the Duke. and Ditrbe,is of GLoncEsTna I
the Duke of CASIBRtnoc, and a rutmerous assent-
lilage of distinguished characters, arrived to pay
their respects and congratulation's on the warn of
the day. The QUEEN has a prtY at
Proginore„ at which the Putt,ice REGENTnumerousa is ex-
petted to be present, and also an evening party
IiRIGHToN, Auo. 16.—This day being the, 53d
anniversary of the bit th of the Duke of Yoax the
celebration will be kept at the Pavilion, At one
-o'clock the Lord Wellington packet fired a salute
In the roads. The bells rangi merry peal on the
Occasion. The Races yesterday were productive
44 very excellent sport, and the company on the
Eottrse was more tnimerous than on the preceding
41bY. The weather bore such a 'threatening ap-
Pearance for rain that it precluded many fashion-
V"les Anatio r on t the course. The Duke of
t t'
watt present for a short time. The Steward's
(lin )14%
her at the Bteine flotel was well attended.
Llll3 CoCHRANE's TRIAL.---TliiS is the da
ritationed for the trial,of Lord COCHRANE, but L 1 i 5 considered doubtful whether it will come on )
I.6re lionday. It is said that Lord COCHRANE
ihlol Li defence upon the circumstance.. of his
,:ting been kept in close confinement, in the
"ng roonr, for a cOnsiderable time after his ap--
hrtehension, anti forced to return to prison,which,
e,:u.„
us 1-. Hes, constitutes a stitlicictit punishment, for
t" fiesice of breaking out of prison. It remains
10'e seen What weight will be considered as at-
'"l to this Hovel suggesti friends. on of. his Lordship's
SPQR
vie n et season is said to have been
uy de ,:Active tbe -broods of partridges ;, bait
1"e "f moor-pine have flourished, and arc in
teat abundance. pheasants, rabbits,. and
11,417.'. have all bred well and the different rabbit
A 'wens were never ki.iown to stew a Inure abort-
sto‘k.

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adnlirable Cnrikav fir
The Poor Gentleittan was perfoiwed at this The;
at re lot eeening will, d=.4ingnislled approbation.
JoNiF:s's Frederick and Fawcei-r!s oilapoi/
well knonii (6 need commendation. IVATKINSON;
in Sir Robert Bramble, proved no aide auxiliary,
and
.vves. 106,4 applauded ; I'OnTE, in tut.
Worthington., ti o'd Cntsi, in Stephen Harro by;
are alike entitled to praise ; and MeStlornicS
TAYLOR and DAVENPO4T,.in ".Efrui/y and Lucretia
Al' Tab, are welt worthy the ap.plAuse they re-
ceived.

ENGLISH Ol'EttA.•:---One o'Clock,,or The Knight
and the Wood Demon, was last night performed at
this Theatre.--In producing this piece nothing Lisa
been neglected that could add to, is Nplendtiar, or
heighten its general effect. • Dramas of this de-
scripthin afford opportunities for the exhibitioti
of spectacle and pageantry, which regniar-seenic
productions very rarely sanction—and of these
the Proprietors of the English Opera have
taken every posSible advantage. All that the
scene-painter, the ibaachiuist, the
ter, and those vvilti superintend the Wardrobe
and decorative patrtsntntt could--effect,' has been
effected. It the romance of The WoOd Demoi
could boast no other attractitin; it would, a's- a very
grand and imposing spectacle, have many admirers.
But it advances claims of a much higher nature rci
our approval—those of excellent Singing and ex-
"celleut acting. The characters are very ably filled.
Mr. T. SHOUT appeared, for the first • tine, tas
Hardyltnute. This character, to be propel ly re-
presented, eletnands not merely a good singer, but
an actor of merit. Several of tlie scenes in which
Hardyknute is engaged are strongly moiled by
a variety of passion, and require much
tliscri-
ntination, and Mitch energy, in their perform•:.
ance. In each department Mr. SHOUT • eX»
erted himself most successfully; he slug with
taste and 'spirit—and he acted with force anti
feeling. Ills last scene was excellent. It
called forth shouts of -approbation. It would
be paying this Gentleman but a poor compli-
me,nt
,to say, that no singer on the London
boaMs colt Irkve performed it so well: 'There
are many who assume the buskin who could not
come near ;his effort. Miss KELLY sustained the
character of Vita, the heroine of the Romance.
She never played more home to the feelings.—
Mr. W. S. CHATTERLEY assumed the part of
Guetpho, and by his dry and caustic humour
rendered it very amusing. We were sorry that
he was not p,rtect in the song, " Old Orpheui •
played so well, 'tis said." Is is a good einnic
song; and will not bear mutilation, hviltikind
was represented by Mr. ‘Vit.Ki.r4si6t. Tins Gen-.
tic:lntro undoubtedly possesses a certain iyortion
Of comic talent—a-and, %vete he to leave off a few
of his grimaces, and discard.sonic of his distorted
attitudes, he would then become it very entertain-
ing perforMer. At present he is too littlett the
caricaturist.. The part of Ciotitda 'was well sus-
tained by Miss la.•K ALLy ; and Mr..l. JoN as, as
OSUUty, and Mr. J. IsAAt:s, as Roy, were very
happy in the execution of the music attached' to
their respective part.
The t)pera was received with unbounded ap-
plause.

r. R MILE has this week appeared, for the
first time, 'before a Norwich audience, in his two
celebrated characters of Coto and Penruddcwk
Of the performance of the latter character lty,this
unrivalled °rumen! of the stage, the Editor of
the Norwich Mercury justly says--"/ Mr. KEIVELE'S
acting, it has been said, and sedd truly ten thou-
sand times, is the 'result of the most laboriouS
study, and it is impossible to imagine any substi-
tution for what he dogs, or any addition to it.—
Acting may differ altogether in kind, as indeed
Mr. KEAN'S dues, but it, is next to impossible to
eintcrive any thing that Mr. KENILiLit has minuet!,
or that he has not rejected, for reasons which if
others knew as well
:as he does, they would not
also reject. Such a compliment is the highest
we can pay to the exercise of intellect in any de-
partment, and with such a compliment, well tne-,
rited, for it has been &Orly earned, we take our
leave of the actor, who; 'won the whole, has
given us the most entire satisfaction. of any man'
we ever saw:"

Miss STEPHENS appeat-ed for the first tithe on
the Irish •Stage, at Dublin, on Monday lest, as
Rosetta, in Love in a
.Village. She was received
with the most flattering testinumies of applause.
'PHILLIPS was the Young Meadows.
We tuiderstitml that MI'S. FAUCIT antl.Mr. BEL-
LAMY, late of our Theatre, have renewed thew
en; agentents With the Nlanagers of Covent-Garden
Theatre for a term of years, and Mr< FAVCIT has
likewise an engagement at that Theatre.--(Nor-
wich Paper.)
Mrs. lletvAun, another long,established per-
foerner has been, lopped off from Covent Garden
,Theatre..---The weekly 'salaries of performers, ser-
vants,-, &C. at this Theatreltmotuttedoltaing the fast
season,rto more then 6001, weekly; the tent and
taxes to more than 30001, per annum. A consi-
derable and ingenious improvement has been.dis-
coveredin the process of making and using the
gas, for the lighting up of the Theatre.

OXFORD, AVG. I6.—His Grace the Archbishop
of. Canterbury has,been pleased toicollate the. Rev.
H. B. IVilsoo, B. D. of Lincoln College, in this
University, and one of the Masters of Merchant
Taylors' School, to the Rectory of the united pa-
rishes of Stt Mary, :Aldermury, and St. Tho-
mas the Apostle.—On Monday the Rev.. Francis
Rudge was admitted to the Vicarage eft Eardis-
land, in the county of Hereford, wild by the
death of the Rev. Theophiltis Lane, on the colla-
tion of the Lord Bighop of Hereford.—The Rev.
Jamss John Hume, M. A. Rector of West King-
ton, Wilts, is empowered by Dispensation to hold
the Vicarage of Hanney.Berks—The Rev. Evans
Holliday has been inducted to the Vicarage of
Carmarthen, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm.
Bat ker.

An English quack Occulist who has been ren-
dering himself very conspicuous on the Continent,
is now adding blasphemy to this piifts. He com-
pares hiinself.to the Deity, and assumes the divine
pw.vers of saying; " Let there..be and there
is light

K I:. Y.

WHAT'•; A sIGII?

\Vhat's'a 'l'is ii 'pelt

grief's unliallow'd voice;
Vidding puiui men—
Bidding thosc that weep rejoice:

What's a digit / Ask thOleart
Attuhed tO bounties finest tone,
Doomed 'to act the Cheerful part,
ho' that Biiiotit sorrows own.

See that pale and weeping form
Benthng u'er aflrict ion's bier;
See that breast wittrAnguish torn;
See the life-bluud's gashing tear:

Bid him tell what is a Sih,-L
1•Ie will tell you 'tiN a token
but: to life's exhausted joy—
To love and joy fur ever broken'.

Ash the ti►uid lover, why
anguish rends his panting breast,
He will tell you 'tis the Sigh
Of fluttering fet• and Wye suppress'cl.

the gloom a evening's bre
When the sun of blixs is set,
Memory crakes the bitter strifp
di friendship pit and lures regret.

'When on the fah:ring; tongue" Faiei•elr
Lingers sail,l:).„ ere it part,.
'Tis a Sigh alunet4n tell
The feeiingst.hat assail the heaVt:, •

Lof't='s softest breath! thy all imp r
In that dread hotii. of itirioiv tell;
The pangs it gives thistclingingheart
breathe to bliss a long*" Varewell."

FASHIONABLE n p.urruitEs.

Their li4al Highnesses the Duke
.anti Duchess of Glou-
cester, fur Daphatt fsarl of Yin-Mouth, for Briglitun;. Mar-
quis of Camden, for the WildeAess, in Kent; Sir Gilbert
Hedthcote, Bart. for Margate; W. Townley,, for Berk-
shire; Major llonbury, from a tour, to Dublin ; Marqiiis
and Marchioness of Worcester, for France; Captain Harvey,
for Tunbridge-Wells '; Lord ;slid Lady Sondes, fur Lees Court,
near Faversham, in Kent; Captain Evan's, for Maidstone,
in Keut.

ARitIVALS AT BRI.GUTON.—LatIy Lawlinson, Sir W. ;Adams,
Sit Wm. Burroughs, Bart. Lady C. Fitzroy, Lady Briscoe,
Cul. Green, Mr. Governor Penn !irld Family, Captain and
Mn. Barton, Capt. Cowan, R.N. Mr. and Mrs. Salomops'y
Mr. Rothschild and Family, Mr. and Mrs. Ker, Mr. and
Paul, &e.

Anatv4ts avrtt...---Lord and Lady Thornton, Conntess
of .Waldegrave. sir . Gladstaines,.Sir W. Herschel!, Sir 11.
Russell and family, Sir H. Smith, Lady Saxton, Major-Gen.
and Lady C. More, Colonel Gore Langton, Licht. Colonel
ilogg, Major Hujel.

STATE OF THE couNTat

TO TILE EDiToit OF THE SUN.

Stn,—Your Correspondent, who very properly
signs, himself Cypher, asserts that the tainkownert
have the power in themselves of relieving .their
present distress.

Ist. By dividing their overgrown farms.

2dly, By bnilding cottages along the highways,
and inclosing;.l, acre of the waste to each, which
be says way he clone with little or no expellee.
idly. By cultivating the commons and wastes
forthwith.

Bat he deserve a better appellation than
Cypher, it be can spew us how farm-houses And
barns, &c. can be divided, and still retain their
conveniences to both parties;--how conveyances
can he made of waste lan c., and cottages built
without esti:lnce ;,--=and lastly, how the commons
are to be inclosed and iutproved, when nobody
has money to pay for an \et of Parliament, tar to
risk a hairdons undertaking.
With regard to the first, why have farms been
entailed but to make them Snore valuable ? and
to he afore vainable, the produce.tnntit be inereas;
ed; .and every one knows that a greater strength
and. substance will produce a greater propor-
tionate increase.

IVith regard to cottages, every one is not at
liberty to inclose and build by the highway;
manors are often in settlement and the waste can-
not be sold. Besides, a comfortable cottage can.
not bt• built, and an',acre of land added to it, at
such a low expellee us to admit of its being let
to a labourer At such a rent as he cart afford
give for it. Those who build cottages .expect
some convenience from them besides the rent.
They are neceSsary appendages. After ill, an acre
of laud is more than a 111411 can cultivate by hs
spare labour ; and the policy of letting labourers
have so much land is ‘vry problematical.
Lastly,' it seems highly absurd to talk of in.:
closing commons when tenants are not to he
found for the lands that have been in n constant
state of cultivationbithertti.—Your's,
Aug le, 1816. NUMBER.

DRAT/I.OP LORD lIUNTINGiIeLD.-011 TIIIIII.,
Clay the Ititit of Augitst, died in his 71st year, at
his seat, Heaveningharn-hall, Stiffolk, the Right
rim). Lord. Hut,rnsGlArt.n. lie is succeeded by
his eldest son, the Hon. JOstitia Vo-N4cx, 4)1
Luston House, in the 'same county. His' death
will excite some surprise, because it is scarcely
more than a fortnight since he was seen taking
the walk, which was usual with him, every day,
into the city and back to Grosvenor-square. The
family is: well known to have been of Dutch ex-
traction. His Lordship was. the first Peer and
third Baronet of the name. • His Lordship has left
several other .children. The Peerage-being an
Irish one, he sat in Parliament for the Borough
of Dunwich.
PEDRSTRIAttitSt4..--.-EVANS, the Brighton pedes-
Irian, walked 53 miles on Thursday-; but was
then 2.2 miles deficient in his performance during
fvur cloys, , .

O

S CONDUCT,' &c.

-Of the distorhimces at-Preston,,,whiph tie
til:ed yesterday, the followittg further iiiirtictaara
are given
• ,
A letter, tlated From Prehtott, on Tttesdav
says•-•-•-" A ntitilber Of the ntanufarturing per,ons
hatevtrithdrawii front thti*r ehiploynient, in enti-
sequenee:of a rednetion *Of Vvages, nnd are parad-
ine; the strcera and using thretitening langti4ge,
but no acts of violence have been committed. The
haVe 'Setit `fo'r lA,llieary-in case of
need."

A private letter froth Live'rp'ool; dated Wednes-
day, says, that '' the nusled populace had nt-
tacked.entue imititActeries Where extensive Ma-
chinery was used. The li4th had sent a strong
detachment from Liverpool, 11114 order would, it
was suppOsed, be soon, re'stored."
- 4T nrAv,o ,
In ConSerpfehee of a eery gen'eral 'exPeetatiott
excited' that the two un!Ortntfate then who were
left for 'execution at the. Idst Salkbury Assizes,
(SroO. ilOwer for a highway robbery, and Sam.
Newman.for forgery', ilnd who suffered in the gaol
of that city on Tuesday 'Asti) would undergo thel
the 'sentence Of the law at the new 'County Pri-
son at Devites, ittlrkd: to the circurnstauce of a
new drop being lately plaCed in 'front of the pri-
son, a' vast concourse :of people, estimated at
frith
,two to Ahree thou'aud, aisemhled at Dc..
vizeS at an eArry boor on Voestliy, when,
rafter •eichausting their p,:,,ience y staying this
greater part of the tiny, several persons become
exceedingly turbulent; se, much so as to regnire
the aid of the Civil Power: And it was
~not till
the constables Of die town h ail vigilantly exerted
their authority that order ',vat restored. They
were "exetned at Visherton.--(See out last page.)

LA %V INTELLIGENCE,

'COURT O.F CHANCERY, Aua. W.

DAY V. DAY Mit.) MARTI Ns.
-6 ii part'of the deiendants gr. LEACH move
ed the Cotirt to dissolve an injunction obtained
against than, to prevent them from using the
same labels on their !decking baffles, and the same
signature With the plaintiff's. The Counsel vt.Ot
On to abserie, that it was probable the blacking
Was the same, but the plalet if complained that the
defentfant called his the real japan blacking.
LORI) CitANICEttOR—I Widl to see the bottles;
nefelt will depend upon the eye.—The bottlee
were handed up Co his Lordship, who compared
them attentively,
Mr. HART said that an affidavit had been mode
before the Master, Coe, with respect to the plain,
tiff's bottles.
The Loeb CHANCRLLOR observed that this was
the filet time he had heard of en affidavit on the
subject of blacking bottles. His Lordship tilt%
pointed ont some of the differences in the descrip,
tions fag given on the labels of the pfaintiff's and
defendants' blaeking, that of the plaintiff being
described at to brilliant black, and that of the de-
TentiantS as a beautiful jet black.
LEACH said, that for, the most part' two
differmit persons were not in 'the habit of using
the same terms ; but in a case where the virtues
of the 'articles were the same, and known to all
,the trade, the satne terms must neceSserily be rm.
played. A man of the namgeof had ac-
euired great reputation as a shottetater. Hi;
neighbour, who had a son of eleven years of age;
took the adjeiningehouse, and put over it Illy ..;all's
warehouse, . cut the Court interposed, as the dee
teriptint was not a proper one. .
`l. he Lotto CneNCFL.LOR recollected ft case of a •
man ed the name of Mybouse, where another bad
bought a
_house with a, view to carry nie the same
trade,, and had put over it, " this is'llte /touse."
Did the Counsel think this justifiable? Suppose
(said his Lordship) a lilan of the name of John
Doe, in extensive business, and another of the
name of J. Roe, Was to put over his bote,e the
Wards; 3. Roe, from, in very small cherecters,
and the. word Doe, in large characters, would
that be jtfit'ifieble
Mr. Leech ebserved that that would be mile It
'colourable, and not a real 'coiecideece ; but the
-resent, case was wimpy different, in Which the
Court was not bound to interfere, and he therefore
humbly submitted,' that the injunction should be
dissolveiL
Mr. I-hee insisted the' injunction must stand;
and stated that in fact the question had already,
14een determined by no less than five persons have
itig been restrained by' iejonctions from counter,
felting the blacking of the plaintiff'.`
LORI) CIIANCELLOB.---.A5 there wes no patent,
monopoly ill thecase of the blacking of 'the plain-
tiff, if any other could make the same article he
was at liberty to sell it, but not as the coteposie
lion of the plaintiff. Martin, whose name was
joined in the firm id the plalutiffs, had lately'seld .
iptt for 10,00 W. but under the agreement that
name Was to continue. If I/1 could find Nana!),
of the name of Martin, the blacking might be
sold as that of Day and Martin, and they might
set up their shop neat door to that of the plain-
till, but still they must not sell their blacking for
that of the plaintiff. The article was sold to the
retail dealer, :and their customers might think that •
the firm of 97 hail beet) removed to 87. His
Lordship was Of opinion that the injunction, with
some alterations, must stand. But he was quite
ready, if wished for by the defendants, to direct
an issue to be tried in a Court of Law.
Mr.- LBACH said, he should to-morrow be pre-
pared to state whether his clients would avail
themselves of- his Lordship's indulgence.

Softie young gendleinen who passed throttgls,
Stamford last wevk. by the York wail-coach.
bought a gninea's worth of eggs, and amused.
themselves hy throwing them at persons as they
passed along.

We are authorised find requested to state, that
a paragraph -vrhich has appeared in most of ilia
Daily alid other Papers stating, that Sir EM
Coors hail accepted the Chiltern Linnt.beds, is
totally void of foundation ; no intention being
entertained by that Gentleman of vacating Ins
Seat in Parliatneut. •

The Trials tit the Gttilaorti AsoiZtS will appear
in The Obserrer of to-morrow, inciuding that of
1.0.1111 Cocitr4tht,