Star.
London, England, 1813-02-15 00:00:00

tb hib MIN Vite halve no tidbht that
he las quitted the sttvice in disgust'. 'flies* disal"-
fected.Generals will* most formidable partitani bj
and bye. .
Great prepafttions Mb making at Paris k•t• the to-
ronatien of the liinpeesi Regent; and the Infest Etb-
perm% BONAPIteII. it ii reported, will then invite:
diately set out for iliermihy. We have even heard
the day mentioned on, which be takes his departure:
It will be, according to the gossip of Paris, about
the first of March.

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FptAiircE.
h has beets reported alai the CHANCU.LOR or the
Excumuza has submitted a Han to the Bank Direc-
tors for raising part of the money required for the
present year, by debentures, 10 be funded in stock at
the option of the holders. This rumour, we have
reason to believe, is unfounded. That Mr. VANstt
TART has A most Herculean load to move under—a
burthen which will require all his financial powers to
manage, and the whole fortitude and strength of the
country to bear, is seen and acknowledged by 311— nor
will it be possible to devise•any plan for carrying on
the public service, that will not be liable to objec-
tions. Something has been rumoured of reducing
the sum laid Mit by the Commissioners,. for the re-
demption of the Sinking Fund—against such a mea-
sure many strung and forcible objections might be
urged ; but in the present circumstances of the coun-
try, the discussion of such a question might be the
means of shewing, that of all the great financial mea-
sures that can be proposed it promises the greatest
advantages.
When Mr. PITT proposed the Redemption plan,
which has ever since been adhered to,' he counted, if
we recollect right, on a twenty years Peace coming in,
and of its-efficacy; but, on the contrary, we have had
Went' year: of War : nor would it require much argu-
ment to shew that the Redemption system, when
carried beyond a certain point, must tend to impo-
verish the country. The only question then is, Has
it reached that point ?—ht-our opinion it has ; and
we think it would require little argument to demon-
strate, that all money taken unnecessarily from the
productive agents of a community, in the shape of
taxes, tends eventually to abridge the efficiency of
Revenue enactments ; or, in other words, to hasten
the period when neither art nor force will be able to
draw from the community a sum adequate to the
demands of the public set vice.
We mean not to enter into any arguments, at pre-
sent, on this interesting topic, but we have thought
it our duty to throw out these general hints for consi-
deration.—Need we remark, after ele progress that
has been made in the science of political ceconomy, ,
that the whole doctrine of the powers of taxation may
be reduced to a short axiori community can pap
taxes only to that point at which the productive energies of
those that are actively employed shall no longer be able M.
maintain themselves and dm who are not productively ow
yoyed. Beyond this point no human powers ate able
to carry efficient taxation.

The Malta Mail, which arrived on Saturday,
brought a bag of letters from Gibraltar to the 18th
tilt. The writers were sanguine in their expectations
that Trieste and Fiume would, in a slit rt time, be-
come the channel of intercourse with the Austrian
States. It is asserted in a private letter from Malta,
that intelligence had been received, tia Fiume, from
Vienna, mentioning that Lord WA LPOLE still remain-
ed in that capital, and that the EMPEROR had shewn
no disposition to increase his contingent, or afford
any further assistance towards the prosecution of the
Northern war.

The last Corunna Mail brought intelligence to
the Bth instant. SOVLT, according to the most re-
cent advices, was in Toledo With two divis'ons of in-
fantry and one of cavalry. His principal business
there seemed tit be to levy contributions, and the Mu-
nicipality of the City was consigned to pris,tn until
his losses were repaired, Which he stated as high as
2,800,000 iials- The Electors of the Deputies to the
Cones residing in the country occupied by this Mar-
shal, were In confinement, as well as those persons
who had lately sworn fealty to FERDINAND. A part
of JOSEPH'S guard had withdrawn t,) Arragon, but
the rest of his troops remained in the neighbourhood
of Madrid In consequence of the new arrangements
between the Marquis of Wettptarois and the Spanish
Government, considerable activity wa manifested
throughotit Galliciae in organizing for the public ser-
vice the hardy natives of that populous province.
The opetations against America on the opening of
the season ate to comMenee with great vigour. Or-
(lets hem been received at Portsmouth for the im-
mediate equipment of a number of the smallest
class of Wigs of war, which, it is understood, are' to
proceed to the River Si. Lawrence. Among those
intended for this service, we understand, are the
THISTLE, SHAY, BOLD, ROYER, BOXER, and MANLY.
—These vessels, from their easy draught of water,
will, with the assistance of a newly-invented machine,
be floated over the shallows above Quebec, for the
purpose of enticing in the Lakes in Upper Canada,
and prevent the passage of the Americans across to
the British lines. The ROYALIST, Rirtestati, Tiuw-
CULO, PRIMROSE, RALEIGH, and a number of the
largest class of sloops of war are also fitting out to
cruize against the American privateers in the West
Indies. The fleet under Sir JOHN WARREN will
shortly accumulate, and be on a very extensive scale.
Mr. Monten, his Majesty's late Charge d'Affaires
to the United States, and since appointed one of the
Commissioners of Mediation between the Spanish
Colonies of South America and the Mother-country,
arrived in town last night, having touched at Ports-
mouth from his Majesty's sloop of war the Blum,
Captain STRILING.
General SARRAZIN arrived on Saturday at the tin.
, penial Hotel, Covesit-Garcieo, from Harwich.