The Sun.
London, England, 1816-03-08 00:00:00

This proposition was not indeca carried into
ace, (tor it MIS thought preferable to funchhe
fii,.ty-six, millions and augment our Taxei to Pay.
the interest), but the hare mention of the scheme
proves most decidedly that these Ministers did
not shriAk'frurt the contemplation of entailing this
Tar upon the People for flee years after the conclu-
sion I'4=e, at its mar. imam produce at ten per
• 4 '
cent.

Ir was highly sathfActory to hely the PREmiseß
distinctly 'deny that ever :Nlinisteri, or Parliament
were pledged-to the Country to reiimptish the PrO»
part}•, or I,lconn! Tax, under any eil•entustaneo, flt
the concht,ion of the mo.. Future litlsertioni 01
this- take iteensationitnust he viewed with aug-
mented conturapt.

`rite Duke of IlEnrortn was taken suddenly ilk
►wile bringing forw trtt a motion ott the Slate of
the Nation, and the subject was accordingly post
potted. Though sorry for the cause of this belay,
we rejoice to see that smelt a tatter is not so very
predattirely atttl unnecessarily brought forwird
to renditr I[3 discussion an abiurdity. The State
of the Nation' is already fully before Podia-
_
ment, in the shape Of the three great ques-
tions on the Peace Establishment, Property
Tax, and AgricilltUral. Distress ; and to multiply
the forMs of debating it, can neither add toper.
spicnity nor promote the public interests.

Mr. WeSTEItN last night formally called' the
attention of Parliament to the State of otirAgri,
cultural Interests ; anti it will oniverlial sa-
tist.tetiou to are WitlllloW iaucir feeliitg and una-
nim Hu . ity tile o se of Contruntis ii as determined to,
.tleviite itself to this vital quystion': We shall
hive marl opportunities of explaining our view of
the subject.

So soon al we hove compared a Doenment, yeyv
. •
ominously eutitleii-4' WILLI/01'g Ltisi,-
.Speacti," by the Moiniog Paper which thinks it
necessary this day to reedit that Speedb, with a
contemporary harrangue or the CHAN ter TA RTARy,
16 1701 e•• a. II y oppletible to the situation of Great
, .
Britain at the present era ;' it is our intention ,to
lay them both before our "Readers, ti,gether with
some loyal comparative remarks on the dress and
behaviour of Queen ANN!: (fettill another Morn.
ing Paper of this date), which we trust will not
be lost on` the existing gentratiou ! ! !

Tier NIA:insTY tuid the PtuNctscas bad a select
party an %Vedne,,day-evettin.t.t. Yesterday the Duke
of Yoati. and u'nutuerons assemblage of the No-
bility visited thew.

'Yesterday a Captain arrived at the Foreign Of-.
fice, about one o'clock, in n chaise and foor,
Dispatches awl Treaties. • He mime from Paris in.
thirty-nine boars.

Soon after, a Gentleman 'arrived at the Office
for the War Deparcment, in a chaise and four,
with Dispatches from Genoa.
Yesterday monaingi het wren 20,and 30 packages
were removed from the Secretary of, State'sotfice
for the War Department, to proceed- to Vorti-
inotitit to be pnt on boatd his najesty's' ship the
Newcastle, to Sr. llektia. They are soppooed to
contain hookstool other property for litiot/APhOTE.
A letter. from Brussels says---" One of our most
celebrated lace,mandartories has had the making
of the lace dress intended for the Princess of
WALes, ott the Dav of her multiage. It has jast.
been bent to London. Another noitininetory is
11,Hiii0g1 tl flittair dress, untended for the Consort
of the. Prioce of OnsNOS. These two tiresses,.are
at adniirahle workmanship, and tlu infinite hopour
to our national, industry.;"
IixtICOUST House, in Cavendish-square, (011 re
the re,iiiienee of the I'ritice4s AMALIA to 161.
NIASEATY, is, it is reported, finally fixed upon for
Ake totvn•reSideace of the Princess CuAßLorrs
and Prinee—lattorot.n, on their marriage. The

aid Countess will leave the horthe-intinedi
and upwards 9f a hundred workmen ',it'di be
employed iu repairiug nod •enthellishing it it; the
course of tiftxt week..

Yosterday morning the Arendokes arrived in
London from Brighton— Their Imperial High.
noises are expected to leave London to-tlav, and
on their road to call af Woolwich, to vieVe nit the
Government establishment% there. Some t;t the
heads of the Ordnance Office will attend to receive.
them.

The plan for fortifying Charleroi has been corn-,
mcnced. lay the proposed works,. that place, io
celebrated in ttce annals of the last campaign, will
become an important fortress, and. cover the
Skimbre. Experience has proved that the French'
-have almwit always endeavoured to penetrate into
Belgium by this point and "here Is not in tile
ivorid'a plain that bas been moro frequently walk.
ed with blood than that' of Flearret. '
The Junon frigate, 'scar from Jamaica to claim

t!le British subjects who might be it) Curshageni,
returned On the 1311) rrf January, without 'loving
• succrethni in the object of tier roage. -The Hoy-
',lists, it it said, keeo tip the blockade a Cardin-

gena, to induce trading vessels to run in, 'that

t►tey. titay thus be fornished with a pretext for
lag them. Several lit itish vessel, have thus keen
seized by. the Royalists at carthagena; and their
crews to u'inets pot into close confinement. Capt.
TAIT, of the Junin,, was not alloWed to have any
intercourse with. the shore.

1:1,e itopd Society of the Arts at Ghent having
nifet el it Child Medal toi
.the Anther of the best
o:iiiitorit on the Battle ,44 Watt:rim), 14 hove been
iirebenteil in the French; used 15 in the Flernisli
Imigt6ge.. A. Lady, Mrs. CA:ragtime -ITtwiEL-
At-niter(lND, Giglined the
vr-;.44 for Cit4w:it; •