The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-30 00:00:00

FRENCH FUNDS.

3 per cents.
Bonk Action; 1134f. 75c.

AMERICA.

We have derived the following information from
the New York Commercial "hire:titer of the Ist
October. We do not remember to Sive seen the
same published in England ; and it being highly
interesting to trade, we depm it right to give it
publicity : •

Commercial Advertiser, Oct. 1.
IMPORTANT LATTER.--440r the following letter,
enclosed under the Liverpool (late nt August 19th,
and received this morning by the way of Boston,
we are indebted to a very respectable commercitil
house in this city. Should the measutes adopted
by the Lords of tie British Treasury meet the

8411Cli011 01 the Patthithellt, our tiovernment will
doubtless manifest the same accommodating spirit,
by repealing the extra two per cent. auction duty
upon goods imported Irons England in British
vessels :---

4' Liverpool-Office, 'Westminster, Aug, 23, Isle.
" question having arisen, whether the
equalization of duties on the produce of the United
States imported in American and British ships,
established by the late Commercial Treaty, ought
not to extend to ate auction duty on the first sale
after importation for account of the importer;
and a recomineifiration having been addressed- by
Ihe,,Foreigt, office and the Board of Connell to
the Treasury, to adopt that construction of the
Treaty most favourable to the ',Lips and products of
the United States, notwithstanding the opinion en-
tertained by some law authorities, that the auction
duty, being an internal and (to the parties paying
it) an optional duty, and not a duty on importa-
tion, is not fairly within- the meaning of the treaty :
the Lords of the Treasury have this- day order. '
ell the Board of Excise to direct their., Solicitor
to prepare a bill for the next ession of Parlia-
ment, to legalize the sale by auction of American
produce imported in American ships, on the same
terms as it imported in, 111 itish ships.
And they have further directed the Excise,
henceforth, not to require the payment of auction
ditty on such sales' of American product, soul to
refond all such duty; ifittty such shall have been'
paid since the 26th of Arigust, 1815; the parties
in both cases giving security for the amount of
the ditty so unpaid or 'refused to them, to 'abide
the derision of Parliament.

" Tilts latter condition, you will feel, is tine-
voidable in cases like the present, it being in the
CoMprteliCe of Parliament alone to impose or re-
mit Government mules ; and if the nominal liabi-
lity to the ultimate payment of auction duty
should have a tendency, as it probably may, to
prevent individuals front availing theinselves of
the indulgence which this order is 'instentled to
convey, it must he remembered on the other hand,
that there is no instance of the Government hay-
ing failed tti redevin such a pledge as is virtually
given by the order in question.
" I ant, with respect, Sir, your very faithful
and obedient Servant,

".1. BACK TIOCAE, Jon.
"To the Chaimart of the Alum ican Chamber of Cuuluirste,

SI•I1I' NEWS.

TORBAY, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Charlotte,
F4NCOUItT, of and from Petersburgh for Rio Ja-
neiro, with loss of anchor and cable. Sailed his
Majesq's ship Larne to the Westward, awl the
Alacrity, FINDLAY, for the Cape of Good Elope.
IVind S. E.

DEAL, OCT. 29.—Arrived the Isabella, Gape•
SON, from Bremen for Cadiz, and sailed. Came
►lawn from the Hirer, an►l sailed, the Antoinette,
Itocu ESTER, for Buenos Ay►es.---Wincl E.
VORTEROUTH, OCT. 29.—Sailed the Russian

igate 'Mercury to the Eastward,—Wind-R.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28.....Citint in the Norway
ship Solertia, Ullmann?, from Longwood with
limber and deals ; and the French schooner Phoe-
nix from St. Meloe's.—Wind E.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 27.—Arrived the Statirs.
THOMAS; Hope, ----; IVilling Maid, PRATT;
and Active, flocxeNt, (rota London ; Polly,
BRowN, anfl Fortune, BADCUCK, from Plymouth.
Wind S.W. strong gales.

Eight, p. m.—The wind has backened to the.
Southward, but does not blow so strong.
GaavaseNn, OCT. 29.—Arrived the industry,.
Roy, from Rostock ; fiche, Jameson, from Bre.
men ; Three Brothers, Vanderplass, from Rot-
terdam. Sailed the Ganges, Falconer, for the
Isle of France; Hero, Morrison, for New Or.
leans ; Malta, Brooks, for Ostend ; Hoffanus,
florstman, for Bremen Agenorin, Legott, for
Amsterdam ; Wow Gysberta, likasnobt,-for Rot-
terdam.

The Hero, of 74 gun*, recently launched at
TN.ptfnrd, ll* since been coppered, and is to
kid tq at Sheerness.