The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-19 00:00:00

CONCLUSION OF THE nvnGET,

expenses of the Chamber of Peers axed by
the Acts of institution :it tour millions, will be
reduced to two, as in 1816. Those of the Cham-
ber of Deputies will be augmented by 100,000
(roues, experience having proved that the sum of
700,000 was not sngieient.

The Ministry of Justice cannot defray all its
expeuccs with the 17 millions granted to it in the
budget of 1816 ; u million more is indispensable,
FOreign affairs present, on the budget of 1816,
wad) was 8 millions, a reduction of 1,500,000 fr.
The-iklini3tcr of the interior requires, for his
.ordivary service,
,57 millions, instead of the 51
millions granted last year. This sum of 57 mil-
lions comprehends 6,500,000 of increase ; viz. 5
millions_ to 'iodic a new step towards that ante-
lit,ration, so necesSary and so desired, which thc
fate (,f the opinitris tlt ,religion requires; and,
1,5L10,0001r. for :he aid of public instrsiction, j

supported formerly by arbio ary yet► anitions, which
the reign of his M nisesty.no longer tolerates.
The same Ministry had in 1816, for the depart-
mental expellees, 23,930,530 fr. lie retoires for
1817, 27 millions 300 tr. ; this difference is taken
on the increase of the additional centimes. This
department has so much to repair, that even this
increase is far troth enabling it to meet all its ur-
gent wants.
The War Ministry is that of which the service
is the most expensive arid most complicated. The
Sinn- of ISO millions, fixed in the last badge!, was
:mind even beforehand insatlicient. Thii depart,
ment has shown that it cannot Inwer its demands
for 1817 below 212 millions. Besides an army to
be teeonstituted in all its branches, it has the
charge of pay of reti cat, half-pay, &c. for an army
disbanded, and the lragitlent.S sit preceding armies
since-1792., These remains of a gigantic military
force cost still 64 millions. There only remains
therefore 148 minions tar the active army, coin-
ising the King's military household, the royal
guards, and the gendarmerie.
This sum will not appear too large, when we
colniider that the pay of the troops, their subsist-
ence and fiaage, absorb agent 100 millions ; that
seven other millions are devoted to expenses of
clothing, and especially to retnonuts become in-
di.pensable ; and th3t the artillery, engineerS, and
military beds alone require 19 millions. This
rvice will become lees burdensome in propor-
tion as its expenses are reduced to those of pay
and equiptut nt.
The navy, which has been so long neglected,
rtgoire great supplies to .enable it to rise
from its perishing slate, and merely to place' it in
a capacity to protect oar commerce, our fisheries,l
and to form seamen and o ffieers. It had for 1816
48 millions ; it confines itself in 1817 to ask mg
2;570,000 tr. additional.

The• i►+•4(l of departn►ent of fio3oce, fixed i
1816 at 16 willion4, prcois for 1817 ouly au at
/Nikon of 700,000.traoes.

The Minister of Police is obliged to augment
hi• budget by 200,000 ►relics, detroy the ex-
pence of the increase or services which dream-
,t,inces have required. - It will he in the whole
I ;200,000, francs. •

:Ike interest on seem ities., on royal 01)Iiptions,
&c. present an expenee of 13,860,000 fr.
Tike expeneet of negotiations, fixed at twelve
tt.~illi~iits in the biineet or 1816, cannot he below
13 .nollions in 1817. The cattle of this difference
MO be in the new means of credit we shall have
to 11.• next

We require for the Sinking Fund 40 millions in-
stead of 20. This fond is a real deposit, to make
the means of the state fructify, and found for its
cleatt always increasing alongside its debt, which
it will eveurtia!ly extinguish, if its progression be
followed tip to its Imest term. We kase calculat-
ed that this fund of 40 millions, annually increased
up to 1830, and augmented snceessitely by its
twit mil optt interests, will have absorbed at that
era 87,700,000 francs of annuities, at the rate of
w;,i,h is the most moderate that can be
rni.eivei. It to.this 40 millions fin. the Sinking
Fund, you add pr9diicv of 150,000 hectares
of state forests, the extinction of the Ntinnal
Debt will ;pc, still more rapid. Thits,.'on the out:
band, the State will clear itself by the Sinking
Fund, aril on the other, will consolidate its re-
venues. Ye shall Solve by our example, as ,th-
otlit:r Nation has done by its, the problem of de-
riving from the toxessity of contracting debt, the
means of enriching itself, vs ithout those means
Costing the probity of Government any Sacrifice.

'Elie Minister then stated several smaller items
of expellee, to all which were to be added
83,051,153 fr. previously hnoticed as the money
deficit on the budgets of 1814, 1815, and 1810.

The Minister then gave smile consoling, pros-
pect as to the probab of tt decease of expen-
diture in futtlye years. Our expellees, he said,
relieved from the burden of subsidy, but aug-
mented by tie interest of our loans, Will he far
from absorbing all the reeeipts.' The war de-
partment, re-organized on the peace establiib-
ment, will become gradually' less, ex"veusiee,—
That of the interior, more advaneed in the re-
nail. of our ruins, will require lees. it ie pns-
ible, alio, that the navy, having before it a
long perspective of peace, will be able to moderate'
its demands. The life AlllltlltlCS and pen,ious,
aniounting together to 37 millions, will experience
successive reductions by the chances of life. We
have to propose to yon measures for limiting the
pension fund. Beneficence most phice by its side
the ttilditry severity of the lavv. he eN pences of
negociations, when 'Mir emb;irras.ments have'
pit.‘edaway, may he presumed to offer a sensible
diminution. Other otea.ns of economy are search-
ed atter, and may probably he found amidst `an
infinity of details, both in the public departments
and in the administrations. The presence of con-
fined nteons will always rentintkits of the necessity
of patsimony : your vigilance, Gentlemen, will
strengthen this memento, and your intelligence,
will aid in turning it to account.

There will probably be no illusion in believing
that, France being once restored to herself, the
developcmcnt of commerce. the Progrets of aOI-
- the security of proprietors, will procure
without droll an increase or the duties on import;'
those oc consumption, such as salt, which will
he better watched ; tobacco, which will be better
protected against fraud, and more in request as
formerly among foreign consumers. In fine, the
duties on registration will increase in proportion
to the number of civil transactions; , The posts
also, anti the lattery, in tittles of easy circum-
stances and of good order, will probably offer Ito
mean resources. Thus calculating what we may
gain, in the receipts, and economise in.the ex-
petters, we have a new ground of hope, that ou'
coming out of our sufferings, the natural reionrces-
of the State will present a remarkable excess over
.
the necessary charges. This fine kingdom, scourg-
ed us it has been by revolutions, by the compres-
sion of military despotism, by its reverses of every
kind, has not lost its principles of vitality;. it con-
filmes to possess its fertile soil, its active toll in-
dustrious inhabitants, its geographical positioni
between two SeilS, and is surrounded with popu-
lous countries, which present a vast field for,its
commercial relations. It has, besides, atter 25
years of absence, a King, French, like his people,

having It ith theca A community of interests, as be
has that of country.
You ate aware that, pending the dpration of
our political obligations, every year Will ptesent
a void to he filled up by means of credit, fur the
maintenance of which we shall have the aid of
vigorous sinking mum!. That
.void, which will
amount to more than 500 millions for the years
1817 and 1818, may be
This mitigation depends on ours...lves. In every
event the taxation will not rise to the scale of our
wants. We must always resort to confidence to
reach an equilibrium. That confidence, it can-
not be too often repeated, must come of its
own accord : peace, steadiness, arc -the ele-
ments which attract it. Alarmed at theidea of the
least vacillation, it requires to be te-aisored as to
the inviolability of pledged faith.. That faith shall
-be kept. An engagement eluded resembles an
oath retracted. The Government recoils from
such a violation, like an honest man from dis-
honour. Let us hope, then, that with our re-
sources and your assistance, France will come
court!! victorious Icout her struggles with
fortune, and will be worthy of herself, wOrthy of
her King, mid of the destinies that await her un-
der the dynasty at Eirnry IV. and of Louis XI V.
M. DvooN, Counsellor of State,then succeedNl
the Minister at the tribune, and read the plan of
the_law comprised in 63 articles..

The principal new taxes appear to he 10 cent 3.
increase on. patents, 90 cents. increase ou the
principal of that on doors and windows, ,50 cents.
on the tax On persons and moveables. Ilydrontel
to be a taxable liquor. A tax on oils, to be paid
by the manufacturers and dealers in all towns, who
shall take out a license. Public carriages to be
taxed 10 cents. on the price or each seat : the tax
to be a fourth on seats remaining empty. Perio-
dical Works relating to science or the arts appear-
ing only once a month. and containing at least
two piloted sheets, to be exempted from stamp
duty,
tie BARENTS,Director-General of the indi-
rect duties, succeeded N. Dation to make a report.
It appeared from his statement that these taxes
had not produced so much as was expected, be-
cause they were too late in being put in opera-
tion. The misfortunes of the times,- the accusa-
tions, time calumnies unceasingly renewed by the
spirit of party. "and which had discouraied the
persons employed tor those taxes, the disasters of
the seasons, and the badness of the harvests, the
penury of commerce, the diminntion of consump-
tion', all those causes had contributed to render
the indirect taxes less productive.
,The Chamber ordered the Reports~ and the Law
Projects' to be printed.

THE KING O 1 WIEITENIBERG.

nurroAßD, Nov. q.

[EXTRACT OF
.A P.UIVATE LETTER.]

It was during an excursion'which the late King
madt on the 25th to Cronstadt that he tvtrs.seized
with the, distemper of which he died. The object
of, his visit was to.see. the 14 teeth of a mam-
moth, of enormous -size; which had been found in
a place called Peelberg. The King staid "it consi-
derable time, expressed much satisfaction, and
directed that they should be dug up, with the ciew
of having them conveyed to the Cabinet of Na-
tural History at Stuttgart!. This, it point of
fact, has since 'been done... tik Majesty, how-
ever, took'so severe a cold on this occasion, that
on Isis return he caused his feet to be rubbed for
two hours withoot success in restoring warmth
and circulation. The physicians considered the
symptoms to be of a serious nature, and the King
was confined to his chamber. Ilia malady pro-
gressively increased up to the 30Th of. October,
when he expired, at two o'clock in the morning,
with astonishing composure. A few hours before
his death he sent to the reigning Prince the key
of his private chest, recommending his country
to him, and the care of a few particular indi-
viduals.

After his Majesty's decease, all the Ministers
were summoned to attend, and the o.►tlis of Rile;
giance to the new King were administered to
them by the Grand Master of Ph►l►l. M. le Comte
de GoerlitZ, the Grand Equerly, was also con:i-
tined in office.

At eight o'clock the will of the late King was
opened in the presence of the Ministers, and the
arc among its principal dispositions :
Uhl M~j~.r,,tyKing William is, declared heir to all
the priv,tte•property of the. Kaig his father, under
the obligation ,of paying 200'000 florins to the
children of Prince Paul, 80,000 to the children of
Prince ‘Villiant the late King's brother, 1.20;000
to the children of Prince Lon;s,. 60,000 and an
annual pension of 3000 to the Count de Ditien,
who is likewise to bare the power of choosing
eight horses out of the Royal stud,. .20,000 00.1

tour horses to General de Brenniug, 10,000 and a
do:ation of the annual value of 1000 to M. de
Vellnagel the Secretary of State, and 10,000
florins with two horses to the Count de Southern.
There are' also a great number Of smaller legacies.
The first act by which the King signalised his
reign was to direct the purchase of gisitt in the
ports of the Baltic, in order to ensute the sub-
sistence of his subjects.
All the fallow elecr of the Mrnagerie who can—
not he fed within the limits of its parks are to be
destroyed, and the potatoes, barley. oats, and
every kind of grain used at present for their nou-
rishment, will he dit,tributed to the poor. All the
late contracts relative to the Menagerie, Arne of
the richest of Enrope in foreign a:iiinals, are an-
nulled, and the contractors wiil be intleati6ed
for the losses to which they may be subjected in
consequence. •
Her Majwy the Queen Dowager has required
of the new King, the appoimnient of the Count
de Dillon as Grand Master of het Household, to
which his Majesty hat assented.
Mons. the (..00nt de Zepplin, who was Minister
for Public Worship, has been appointed Minister
for Foreign Affairs. He is succeeded in the for-
trier Office by M. de Hagenheitn, President of the
Tribunal -of 'l'ubitn

Mons. the ennui tie Winz;utferfule the elder,
who was Mlui*ter for rore!gn Airtirs, is appoint-
ed tirnncl Mnster IN) the reigning Queen. It is
not known whether his son, who fillud the office

of Minister of the Interior to the late Kings w
be retained in that situation.
M. de Muhl, Minister for the War Deptirtmen
is appointed Go vernor of ti4is metropolis. kle
succeeded as Minister for War by M. Genersltl
ePfilit de Franguemont.
M. de Scckcndnrf, who was Grand Alava of II
Queen's household, is tib unmated to the same 001
in his Alajesty's.
M. the General de Wolvearth, nho commatult
our corps de armee in France, hits bee•ii recalled
he has been succeeded by Gen. Seboeler.—(Tal
Paper)

FUNERAL OF THE KING OF WIRTEMBEIM
STUTTGARD, Nov. 2.—The body of his 'MI
jesty. the late King, having lain in state the ds
before yesterday and yesterday, nett the
tants of the capital. alloived to see it, was le"
day removed to the family vault at Ludkvigrint4.
The ,solemn procession began at seem o'clock
at the Coittt ;
_officers, &e. alteoticd. When t
procession -arrived at Ludwig.burg, thehody
ua
brought into the cl:nreb ot the Taber, andafte.
a discom Se by the Court Chapl tin, placed ludo
Royal Sepulchre, a funeral dive being execute(
by the musicians of the Royal Chapel. --
His Majesty the King, Prince Paul, and DI
William, attended the nerd eerk inane,and Pi,
the late King the last tribute ot filial and traterusi
regard.