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raiment of their Majesties' goodness In every house
in the kingdom, the duty of Hearth-money wax taken
away and abolished."
Mr. Iloanousea motion
was rejected by a consi-
derable majority) but from the tone of feeling which
pervaded the House) as well as from an expression
which dropped from the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, we think another Session or two may re-
lieve the country from one of the worst of its but-.
dens, the House and Window Tax.
Some of our contemporaries, whose devotion to
the Ministers is sufficiently known, seemsquite in rap-
tures at the expos, of the financial situation of the
country made by Mr. VA NstrrA RT on Monday last.
They:have culled the choicest epithets of praise, which
they have unsparingly heaped on the Ministers, whom
they represent as " most wisest, vitteonsast, best'."—
They call that a clear statement which some of the
most acute Members of the House, even in financial
matters, declared to be complicated and unintelli-
gible. They might hate added, that it was fallacious.
Mr. VANSITTART tells us that we have a real Sink-
ing Fund, that is, a surplus of Revenue beyond the
expenditure of five millions; and as he has repeated
this. assertion on every occasion for the last twelve
mouths, it may seem strange to doubt it : but what
is the fact? From the statement of the Finance Ac-1
count presented to Parliament for the year ending
the sth of January, .1822, it appears that the ex-
penditure was within £519,868 of the Revenue ;
and. that the Sinking Fund of seventeen millions
(taking round numbers), was only encroached on to
the extent of nearly fourteen millions; so that there
was here a surplus of upwards *of three millions,
which, with the balance of £519,868, made the no-
minal surplus for the year 1821, £4,074,780. Rut
against this sum there was an actual charge of
£310,000, for Greenwich Hospital; another of '
£1,800,000, admitted by Mr.VANSITTART to be due
to the East India Company; and a deficiency admit-'
ted by him in the Ways and Means for 1821, of
£290,450. Here, then, is a charge of £2,400,450,
which, taken from the surplus of £4,074,780, reduced
the real surplus for the year 1821 to £1,674,930.
We thus see how fallacious all the assertions made
by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and his ad-
vocates, of our surplus for the year 1821, has been ;
and although we have not the same data to go upon,
yet it would not be difficult to spew, that, according
to the present Estimates of Revenue and Expendi-
ture, our surplus at the end of this year Will be greater
than it was the last—or that, in fact, we shall have
any surplus at all. The worst feature in the whole
transaction is the attempts at disguising and conceal-
ing the real fact; for whatever may be the difficulties
of our financial situation, they are only to be ob-
viated by being fairly met and fully known.

The French Papers of Sunday are chiefly filled
with the adjourned discussions of the preceding day
in the Chamber of Deputies, on the subject of the
Customs: these possess little interest out of France.

An article from Vienna states, that the GI eeks have
declared the coast of Turkey in a state of blockade,
and that the Russian Government has addr'essed a
new Note, in polite terms, to the Porte, desiring that
a Turkish Commissioner might be sent to negociate
directly with a Russian.

The Gazette of Augsburg states, on the authority
of letters from Wallachia, that the secondary Autho.
titles in the two Principalities had received orders to
petition the Porte for the immediate execution of the
new plan of Government.

The Journal des Debats of Sunday contains a pri-
vate letter from Bayonne, which states, that at Ma-
drid, on the night of the 17th ult. some disturbances
took place, but it may be sufficient to say that our
Madrid papers, which are to the 24th ult. do not hint
at any such intelligence, and that we believe the whole
pure invention.

French Funds, Saturday.—Five per Cents.9ll. 55c.

Madrid Papers to the 24th ult. have been received.
In the sitting of the Cortes of the 18th June, and
some subsequent days, the discussion on the Report
of the Committee on the Political State of the Nation
was continued. The debate turned chiefly on mea-
sures recommended by the Committee relative to
the Clergy. •

In the Sitting of the 21st, the Cortes were officially
informed that his Majesty and all the Royal Family
were to repair to Madrid on the 27th.
The Madrid Papers continue to express great jea-
lousy of the favour shewn by the French Government
to the Insurgents. It is stated, that as order issued
at Bayonne for the Spanish refugees to retire into the
interior of France, had not been enforced.

A letter from Vienna, of the 19th June, states, that
the news of the check receivedby Cnounscrun PA CHA
on the 27th of May is confirmed, and that Tricala was
retaken by the Christians by assault

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It is confidently stated, in the Higher Circles, that
the resolution of a GREAT PERsoNAOE not to vial
Scotland, arose from his submitting the propriety of
taking the journey, in his present state of health, to
one of his principal Physicians. who gave an opi-
nion that it should be postponed for this season.
Yesterday the Duke of YOKK held a Levee, as
Commander-in-Chief, at his Office in the Horse
Guards, which was attended by Sir DAVID BAIRD,
Lord EDWARD SOMERSET, Marquis Of WATERYORD,
Earl of Conn, General Mmizzas, General MILS R,
General GROSVIINOR, and about thirty others.