Star.
London, England, 1824-09-30 00:00:00

WINCHESTER SESSIONS, SEPT. 28.

Thomas O'Neal, the boxer, stood indicted for stealing
a sovereign, the property of Andrew Phelan, a brother
Pat, on the 24th of August last.
The prosecutor was sworn, and stated, 44 I had been
at work as a labourer, at the farm of Mr. Woodham,
on the 24th of August, and had been paid the money
due to me ; I was a little tessicated, having been treated
with a good sup of Mr. Woodham's ale ; I was not iliriteJ
drunk, only a little drinkey. In the course of that night
I went into the City Arms, and called for some beer.
and bread and cheese; while taking it, the prisoner,
Mister O'Neal, walked into the house with Mister
Goulding, who began to talk about fighting, andffashed
a good deal about that they could do; I told Goulding
I would fight him for a sovereign, and Goulding said
he would not fight•me. One of the company said to
me, 4 you cannot shew a sovereign, for yon have not got
one.' I told them it was a lie, for I had, and I took
one out of my pocket, and threw it on the table. The
prisoner, O'Neal, immediately snapped it up, and rung
it on the table, and said it was a good one, and told
me that if I won the battle on the following day, I
should• have the sovereign returned. I said I would,
have my money again, and not be robbed of it;- and a
row was kicked up, and such a hubbdb was made that
the landlord'cleared the room, and O'Neal and the sove-
reign were both gone. I went to O'Neal's lodgings next
day, and found that he and all his party,had left there
during the night, leaving their lodgings and teckoning
at the tavern unpaid, and I gave information to a eon=
stable, who pursued the party and apprehended them."
It appearecticom the evidence of other witnesses, that the Ma-
gistrate dismissed all but O'Neal.wben they were examined before
hint, and O'Neal said the money was takes fora lark.
The prisoner being called upon fort 'hii defence, said that be gape
the "arraign to Goulding, who shared it whit two others, and thxt
he had none of it, except what was appropriated to paying a pan
of i reckoning ate public-house.—The Jury found hint Goat*.
The Catamaran, in passing senteuce, said,. that his course of life
was uric that was likely td lead him, and every own who nude a'
profession of it, to ruin and itsgeoces and he exhorted hint to
leave off his fighting habits, and adopt solue•hosam made of ob-
taining a respectable litrelihood.. • ,
Tile prisoner said the thing was only intended at the time as a
seee.--tle was sentenced to tow •monthf imprisonment and the
tread-mill, se that her will undergo a good ani j. • • •
".# . . .
No less than forty bakers in,.the neighbourhood of
Greed•st!setl fiittingbounie, atc. have been. fined Ss. fol,
not having the tßitik W oL eitch 104 of whirr band.

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particular marks of welcnme by the audience.
The excellent Farce of Brother and Sister followed ;
in which FAWMIT, DURUM, NI SADOWS. BLANCHARD,
Miss PATON, Miss JONRA, Miss Love, and. Mrs. VINING,
combined to give it one of the most spirited representa-
tions we ever witnesses'. The laughter of the audience
was encessive and continual. The House filled as well
as the state of the season could warrant tLe Managers
in exppcting.

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FATAL AFFRAY.
Wednesday evening, the 22d of September, .a party
of smugglers attempted to run a cargo of spirits, near
50 Tower, Bexhill,lStissex, when they were interrupted
by Lieutenant Brand and the men under his command,
and seven of the smugglers taken, together with one
hundred tubs of spirits. One of the blockade men
jumped into the boat for the purpose of seizing her,
when the smugglers shoved off, and carried the man
with them. Three galleys immediately put off in chase
of the boat, without effect, and the body of the unfor-
tunate man was picked up in the morning on the sands,
below high-water mark, with the head and (ace dread.
fully bruised and lacerated.

A Coroner's Inquest was held on Saturday at the
Wheat Sheaf public-house, Little Compton, near 50
Tower, before ThOMAS BARTON, Esq. Coroner for the
County, when Lieutenant William Henry Brand de-
posed, that being on duty on Wednesday, about half-
past nine r. M. he observed a party of men go over the
beach towards the water's edge, and shortly afterwards
he heard a noise as if of tubs being rolled out of a boat,
and immediately afterwards the same party returned
over the beach, and then he perceived the deceased
William Welch lift np his arm and fire his pistol in the
air for an alarm. Deponent immediately I ushed among
the party, and from that moment lost sight of Welch.
Michael Maloney, seaman, depowd, that being on duty oa the
beach on Wednesday evening, be heard the alarm fired, and ran to
the spot, where he saw Welch, in the boat, who called to him by
name to come to his asslistance. Deponent went into the water as
far as he could, but was not able to reach the boat ; the deceased
called out several times, '6 Oh, Maloney, Maloney, come to me."
Deponent asked if he should are his pistol ? to which be received
no reply ; he was deterred front firing his pistol lest he should
shoot the deceased ; he was well acquainted with the deceased, and
could not be mistaken as to his voice. Five or six other witnesses
deposed to the same effect.
Isaac Dias, assistant-surgeon of the Coast Blockade, was called
up at five o'clock on Thursday morning, to esamine the body of
William Welch. He found a wound in the forehead, which, in
las opinion, was indicted with some obtuse instrument L was quite
paisitive it was not a wound from a pistol ball, but thou& it might
be from the butt-rod or the muzzle of the pistol : part of the nose
was also cut off by some sharp instrument. Neither of these
.swounds would, in his opinion, have caused immediate death, but
they were sufficient to have stunned the deceased, and the proxi-
mate cause of his death was drowning was sure neither of the
wound. could have arises from a fall.
The CORODIZi read over the evidence to the Juiy, and informed
them, that whether be was killed in the boat, and after wards
thrown overboard, or whether he was knocked overboard by vio-
lence, or thrown overboard, it made no difference ; it would be
equally murder.
The Jury considered for moose dare, and then brought in a ver-
dict ot—Fonad. Drowned ! •
In washing the body for interment after the Inquest, four Wounds
were discovered on the tipper lip, end one under the left eye, all of
which had been evidently inflicted witk the muzzle of a pistol.—
These wounds were concealed by the great quantity of Mood that
was clotted on the face.

SPUR I7NG INTELLIGBNCE.

• HUNTING.
The thnmieigh Poe-hounds will meet at Lapferd Forches en
Monday, October H.
Sir A. Chichester's Hounds hunt the alternate days of the week.
HAMPTON RACES—Seer. 29.
Walton Cup of 10 soy. each.
Wk. Wystt's Maid of the Mill
Mr. Home's Staring Moll .
Mr. Camases Fheaway .
Mr. Draper's Mayman .
Mr. Phillips Tiger
The Surrey Stakes.
Mr. Gkw's Stingtail .
Mr. Ealing's Fanny . _
Mr. Jacobi Turpin
OSWESTRY RACES.—Tuesomr, Sari. 23.
A Gold Cup, value 109 sovereigns in specie. Three miles and a
half. starting &vibe winning post.
J. R. Kynaston, Esq.'s hr. e. Whittington - I
Mr. J. Rogers's gr. h. Sir Edward - - 0
W. Ormsby, Esq.'s gr. h. Rowilson . - 0
Earl Grosvinor's M. f. Etiquette - 0
A finer race *as never run, and the Judges mug wily place one.
• • CHESTERFIELD RACES.—Mousy, Sem 4'7.
The Maiden Mate of GO gs. given by Ms Grace the Duke of
Devonshire, was won at two beats by Mr. Brown's Comely, beat.
ing. Sir George Sitwell's Postmesk.
PEDESTRIAN (Silt.
Wright, the pedestrian, has again commenced the task of walk-
ing from Rochester to Boughton, and through Gravesend back so
Rochester,' the same day (being a distance of 54 miles), for twenty
successive days, for 309 sovereigns. He commenced on Friday.

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Professor &Dor/tett, of Trinity College, Cambridge
visited Whitebaven last week, on a geological survey. •
An Inquisition was taken at the White Horse; Brick.
lane, St. Luke's, before THOMAS STIRUNG, Esq.• Coro.
-net., on the body of an infant, aged two months, son of
Wrn. Stiles, a watch-maker. It appeared from the evi.
dente of the father, whose grief and distress during his
examination were of the most disconsolate appearance,
that,his wife, who carries on the trade of a green grocer
and fruiterer, rose at an early hour to gote market to
purchase stock for the shop, leaving the infant in bed.
On their return front, marktt, he went up• stairs . te the
raom in which they slept, which he also used as .his
eroikshop, and not being aware of the infant's situation,
proceeded to put it inproper order for commencing his
business, for which. purposehe turned up the bed, which
was in a press bedstead. In about twenty minutes af-
terwards, as the family were sitting below at breakfast,
he desired one of .the eldest of the children. of• which
there are sic surviving, to go up stairs and open the win.
dow. His wife desired, that it.might not be opened just
then, as the child was in the bed. In the agony of the
moment, .excited by the sudden consciousness thus
awakened of the consequence of his unguarded act, he
exclattned...... Good Goo! then I have killed my child.*
To rush up stairs to extricate the infant from its shock.-
, ing situation was the work of an instant, and surgical
aid was as promptly procured ; brit too late, far the vital
spark bad been .es.angpithed by suffuciiiwn. Verdict,
Accidental Death.
If any Saving Bulk in England or Ireland should have
,neglected to change 'hell- debentures for money lodged
in the National Debt Office, for the receipts of tkpo pep
sent form, we advise them to do soimmediately.:aais
.interest on all dessotutes. sea*. oP,Lbit, 01104 .
Hillakber aCg• . • . . ei robletl'. •

CCIFENT-G AR6EM tligirthe"l2""lll- •
_ •• Thelist•ceseVifaidy atrifdea4altisittie
pjayed lasi night at this Mu.' 'ashis;ciis
n from its &tie eastothd/ , • delsgre-
stowed upon it the deelte7of stVeaneui-oteifflon
which first gave it popularity. All those who appeared
for thefirst time in the new season were 'received with

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Comparison befteeen the Powers of England 'and Reasiai
as th_ey stared in relation to Eattopeat large. By M.
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imager *adagio of Mb "WC
The continent of Europe is at this moment under the
dominion and influence of two great Powers; and how-
ever the national pride of the other States into which
Europe is divided, may vaunt and endeavour by out-
ward appearances to prove their-independence, yet so
great is the disproportion of the forces of those two
Powers with the strength of the other continental States,
that, in point of fact, it has become impossible for the
latter, in the conduct of their affairs* to move totally
uninfluenced by the former. In future we shall hear
no mere of the independence of nations, for these two
Powers will exercise supreme controul over the other
kingdoms, until all are more completely absorbed under
their overwhelming rule, than even at present; and no
independent banners- shall flout the, air save those of
Russia and England. .
In the plenitude of its greatness* Rome was the only
asylum where the injured or oppressed could find secuv
ritr from domestic convulsions, or receive protection
from external 'aggressions. But in our days at double
" Protectorate" has reared its colossal form in Europe ;
and although the modes of intercourse adopted by civi-
lised nations may, to a certain degree, conceal the traits
of this vassalage of the less powerful States, the yoke of
tacit submission is not on that account the less firmly ri-
veted on their respective Governments. Of these two
Anvers, the one, namely, England,-possesses the means of
attracting to its own coffers the riches of other nations;.
while the other, Russia, may at any time menace their sera
parate existence. The former, by its essential interests, its;
lawskand its manners, is limited to a certain line of poa.-1
hey ; whereas the latter knows no such impediments,
because the nature of the Government is autocratical:—
There ate stlll taro other powetfttl States on the COnti-,
Prance and Austria ; but they are very inferior
to the two former in strength and independence, the
first elements of which Nature has bestowed on Eng,
land and Russia, while she has refused them to Austria
and France. In every' question of European politics,
however little important, the general inquiry now is,
*bat may be the view's and determinations of the Rus-
sian or British Cabinets? Under every circumstance it
is their " visa," or authoritative permission, which pre-
scribes' the rule of action to the other Governments. It
was thus that, in the time of Napoleon, the whole-of
continental Europe followed with anilbus eye all' the
movements of the great ruler, and listened with atten-
tive ear to every word which fell from his lips. The
scene is only transferred from Paris to Petersburgh;
the dictator, it is true, is chan'ged, but the etistence and
the pressure of the dictatorship reniain. Br this extra-
ordinary concurrence of events, the labours of Henry
of France, of Gustavus of Sweden, of William of Env'
land, of Richelieu, and Oxenttiern (provident and
mighty geniuses) have entirely failed in establisliing the"
liberties of Europe by founding them upon the balance
of power. Where is that political equilibrium, the fa-
irourite object of their wise combinations ?—On one side
Russia, whore name not an hundred years since was
scarcely known as a Power in Europe, has been silently
advancing to gigantic strength, veiled by the impene-
trable darkness of barbarism ;—on the other, England,
effecting with difficulty her religious and political re.
formation, had at that time hardly tried her power on
the ocean. India and America were as yet unknown
to her ;—at present she includes nearly the whole world
under the strong force of her arm, and the extent of
her foreign empire seems only to be equalled by the-
apparent permanency of her dominion.—Frenchmen !
Spirits of departed warrior, whose remains have ferti-
bled' the Russian soil ! Ye conquerors of a military
race ; but, alas! inglorious victims of northern incle-
mency, how doubly burdensome must be to you the
weight of that earth, since your blood, shed in vain,
huh hot received its merited rewatd ; and the barrier,
WhiCh Europe demanded, has been denied to your la-
bours! Fruitless regrets! Alas! the day propitious to
unrestricted and salutary combinations for the liberties
of Europe has long since passed away from us t
The natural result, however, of the vast extent of do-
minion conquered by England and Russia has been to
establish a tivalship between them. Do but let us ima-
gine two mighty rivers proceeding from one common
source, flowing along in parallel lines, contiguous, as it
were, to each other, and yet " asymptotically" refusing
to'blend their waters. Thus, united in counsel and el-
fort against Napoleon, by his death, which was the
common work of both, the interest.- of England and
Russia are separated for ever. His tomb was the point
of their estrangement from each other ; the allies of
Leipsic and of Waterloo are henceforward essentially
opposed to each other in every political circumstance.
Never did Rome aid Carthage watch each other's
xnovements with more vigilant jealousy ; never with.
more fervid envy did Cesar and Pompey behold the
metropolis of the world divided between them, than
those two modern Empires display in their dealings
with each other. Both are daily laying claim to the
good opinion and the admiration of the other States ;
acrd each demands to have the honour of protecting the
weaker against the stronger Power. We might fancy
that upon the two extremities of the European Conti-
nent two heralds were placed, vaunting aloud the pre-
tensions of the " double Protectorate,' urging the
merits of either to become the protectress of the world !
A work, whose object is to guide the European choice
between these two high protecting Powers, by making
completely manifest the elements which have combined
to cause their political elevation, seems to be the grand
desideratum of the age. Circumstances contribute to
render such a production absolutely indispensable. It
has no limited character, no confined tendency; it is
general, not particular, not local; in short, it is Euro-
pean, and embraces the consideration of all its various
interests! Suggested by no motives of resentment ;
without any view to the advancement of private views;
impartial, and balanced by regard to truth alone, this
work is destined to analyse in the face of Europe and
the world their most essential and dearest interests! It
is too common to bear it remarked of a book • sa 0!
that is an English work—a French, or a Resss pro-
duction; but of this let it be said, that it it, in the
most extensive signification " European." In discussing
questions of such great and infinite importance as the*
our first duty is to tbrow out of the way all coolideil--

tion_ of men, whb ittet'istettly..Waident creatures, in wi-
der to have our undividetattabdon fixed on circum-
stances the nature and effect of' which may be perma-
nent. In taking this' great cause in hand, the author har
had no higher ambition than to prove himself the faithful
and impartial' natfator. Readers will jodgelow far he
has entitled himself to their credit. Free in his re-
searches, and sincere in his statements, he has conceived
it, to be useful and proper, in the first instance, to give
'a succinct account of the separate parts of which the
British power is composed; from which it will be teen,
that the increasing civilisation of the globe_has pro-
gressively and mainly contributed to the advancement
of her staticin al an empire; and that the art of being
wealthy and successful' at home, principally consists in
benefiting others, and in following only the line marked
out by reason.
muff. 11.

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Enghtsd—in Population.
The true basis of a country's strength is hi popula-
tion. Man is the universal, indispensable agent, whose
destiny it is to work and fertilise• the earth.; to whom
land and sea yield alike their tributary riches; whose
presence gives life and animation, and whose absence is
alone sufficient to produce the sterility of a desert. He
is in fact the same vivifying principle tcahe social state
which the sun is to nature at large; for without the
concurrence of men there would be neither the nerves
nor sinews of a kingdom ; and without the invigorating
influence of the solar orb we should in vain look for the
varied productions•of the soil.
The European population of the three united domi-
nions of Great Britain amounts to 18,000,000. The
census of 1821 proves that the population of the British
Isles has advanced one-fifth during the list thirty years,
This increase is very considerable, and has no example
in any other country of Europe ; but in the UnitetiStates
it has been stillgreater ; for "there the population, whidi,
in 1776, was calculated at three millions, has already
reached eleven million's. The progressive advance of
!population in Engiand has been going.bn,notwithstand-
ing the unfavourable circumstances of a long and san-
.guinary war; and this, which hat proved a scourge to
:hUmanity on the Continent, has entirely failed' in check,
ing the population of England, owing. to its local and
other peculiar advantages accorded to it by nature. In
fact, so situated, and so socially, constituted, England
derives benefit and increase hoer those citcsintstunces

'which press heavy on, and are injUriotts to)-the other
,States. The plagues of war retell only td tht Money-
Coffers of Britain, but. spare its cities, its. fields, and its
'cultivators. Misery and devastation, those ordinary
;attendant curses of mar, perish cur her coasts. Her nu-
merous and powerful fleets render the interior of her
'dominions secure from the attacks of on as,ailing foe.
.Whilst almost all the capitals of Europe were occupied-
by hostile armies; While twenty Princes were driven
from their hereditary thrones, were wanilering over the
face of Europe ; or trembling received back from the
conquering hand their diadems; shorn of their brightest
gems, England was attracting to its bosom the gold and
merchandise of the whole world ; she was supporting,.
clothing, and arming both friends and foes ; the arts,
encouraged by necessity, verged on perfection, creating
at once the want of and taste for her manufactures!
In such a state of things, for one ma,n slaughtered in
the field, it must be evident, that industry would sum-
mon a hundred to the work of reproduction, and thus,
that England would naturally derive life and increase
from the very causes which tended to depopulate and
to weaken other kingdoms. The national progression
of England was exactly in an inverse ratio to that of
the Continent, where war suspended the course of ope-
rative labour, the principal and chief agent of repro-
duction in the social state. England has .lately for-
nished a solemn example of the contrary effects of war
on herself and the Continent. The- more envenomed
the character of the war, the greater her prosperity;
at once she became the grand entrepot and manufac-
tory of the world; and thus the value of her soil, and
the number of her working men, increased every day.
But the succeeding peace, Which gave to the Continent
its share in her hitherto exclusive prosperity and hap-
piness, has proportionably diminished the wealth of het
aoicaltutists and the demand for her munnfactures.
But it does not follow that the population of England
•should, owing to this state of peace, be on the decline.
Under an enlightened Government she has sought and
discovered compensations for the losses which she has
'in this manner sustained. Her revenue for 1821 and

1822 exceeded the amount of any year during the war,
!the most favourable to her prosperity. The Increase of
the British population' is on many accounts no less fa-
vourable to the Continent than to England herself.
Commerce is the sail of modern societies ; everywhere
it seeks consumers; the nation which is the greatest
consulter is the Most valuable in a commercial view,
and most beneficial to society at large. The English
take more for consumption than sty other nation, and
thus their increase' in numbers will be commensurate
with the extent of their conimercef and Will be of in•
-finite consequence to the whole wOrld. Compare with
the British those nations who ate morally and physically
benumbed, and insensible to the enjoyments of life, the
Turks—the Africans-is their increase of importance to
the world ? What have they to give ? what to exchange
with us? Dead in a meaner to the world, the very
animals by which men are supported rank higher in the
scale of existence than those beings, who are clothed
with the human figure, and yet contribute nothing to
the welfare and comfort of their fellow• creatures. We
have purposely excluded from this census the eighteen
millions of British subjects, Who inhabit the Eastern
and Western Colonies, and whose defence requires a
part of the population of the mother country, and
stand thus to it more in the light of expense than re-
ceipt; more as diminution, than addition of numbers.
They are useful, however, to England, as consumers of
her productions. These objects of consumption create
labour, and salary, which in their turn contribute to the
increase of the population of the country, which fur-
nishes those objects. Our attention, therefore, is limited
to the population of the three United Kingdoms of
Great Britain!

CHAP. 111.

The most remarkable, 'and at the same time, the most
instructive feature in the character of the finances of
England is, that their ahnobt incalculable extent does not
depend upon her possession of Mines of gold and silver,
but on the industry of her people, and her ur.deviating
fidelity to the admirable institutions by which she is
governed. This is the real and permanent cause of her
immense wealth. The possession of the precious metals
does not constitute national wealth, as the example of
Spain more than sufficiently proves. It is by the adop-
tion of fixed principles (not liable to be changed by
the continual controul of public opinion), and by the
unrestricted developement of the faculties of every
citizen, that the wealth of a nation is acquired, and,

rendered'cihrable. The revendes•or Siotland and &O-
land must be considered-apart from those of Ireland ih
our•estimate of the British fibithees, for/the Irish Go-
vernment returns, as well as those of the Colonies. and
the Indies, do not enter into their composition.
- The budget Of England, in INS, amounted in
Receipt, to £55,333,333 6s. Bd.
Disbursements, to £50,000,000, according-to the
Report brought up in the House-of Commons, on the
sixth of February of that year.
In 1815, the taxes levied in England amounted to
£66,666,666 13s. 4d.
From 1808 to 1815 (an uninterrupted period of war)►
this revenue remained steady (at a mean ratio) of
£64,500,000; the product of the labour of twelve Mil-
lions of men only !
Consequently, had England possessed the same ad•
vantages in territory and population as France, her an-
nual revenue would haie amounted to £150#000,000.
Spain, with all her superiority over England,- in the
possession of the country teeming with the precious
metals, and numbering a population nearly equal to-
' that of Britain, and with a soil infinitely superior, has'
never seen her revenue exceed £6,666,666 13s. 4d.

Austria, with her numerous population and fertile:
territory, with difficulty forces her revenue up to
£12,503,000 which is scarcely the fifth part of the re-
venue of England, whose population is less than that
of Austria by one-half, and who at most has only one-'
third of her territorial extent; so true is it in finance
as in everything else, that natural causes must be sub,
mined to moral causes, that is to say, to wisdom
guided by the light of experience and observation! •
Under the Stuart race of Sovereigns, England
ranked in-Europe:tb'e lowest on the scale of wealthy
nations. ffer revenues, her credit, her industry, her
commerce, all languished' or-perished. The history of
that time is nearry that of a 4..financiar struggle' be-
tween the Prince and his people, and the lamentable
demonstration of a revenue annually deficient. No
sooner, however, was she free to display
_her native
strength, and put fotth her hicKlen pdvaers,.than in, an
instant she bec'a'me prosperous' And stealthy; and esta-
blished her interests 6n that line of intelligence and
cuteess, from which the national vigilance has never
permitted the GovernMent to depart. Front that period
she ha's gone on progressively increasing in wealth and
happiness,andfrom being originally orreof the smallest
of the European States, and the least favoured by
nature, she at this day surpasses thetft all by her
wealth ; and rules in neatly allby her powerful inflhence I
In fact, Ettglanti possesses the purse,of the world, and
disputes' with it the absolute possessi6n of the sceptre of
Universal dominion! She has arrived at Such a degree
of wealth; that, nationally speaking, the words gain"
of ,o lose" have not in her cra,e their common accepta-
tion and force; therefore, that Which would overthrow
or enrich another State (such is the immensity of her
wealth), scarcely affects her ; or in case of increase, it
would be like adding drops of water to the Ocean! It
;is " the public utility' alone, which guides and restricts
the propositions. and measures of the English Ministry.
!Let this be fairly proved to be the object of a measure,
:the Means necessary to its execution are instantly forth-
coming without any difficulty. Thus the English Go-
vernment unhesitatingly adopts the most extensive and
boidest schemes, add easily overcomes obstacles, the
very contemplation of which would paralyse a hundred'
other Administrations

The credit of England surpasses all that is attributed
to the signiticationql the word in other countries. Btir-
dened by a .dekt of nearly £800.000,000, her Ministers
declare, io the face of Europe, that never was she more
able thaq at the present hour to adopt every mea-
sure required for the preservation of her own ho-
nour, and the general interests of Europe. It is the na-
tional spirit; the fidelity of the nation to its engage-
ments. It is England herself—England) with alt her
mighty and distinctive attributes of moral integrity,
universal diffusion of kniow•ledge, as of wealth, which
is the soul of this credit. With foundations thus deeply
laid, where is the power that shall overthrow the glo-
rious edifice of British credit?
The taxes in England are' levied. chiefly on consump-
tion, while the soil is spared. This principle is carried
still farther in Arnerica,..for there the land is totally
exempt from taxes, and consumption alone is burdened.
In England the direct intpost on the soil does not ex-
ceed £1,500,000; all the other imposts which affect the
soil produce only £8,333,333. 6s. Sd. Consequently,
the imposts on property in England hardly amount to
the eleventh part of the Government expenditure; whilst
in France, where the Budget is fixed at £37,500,000,
this same impost forms a little more than one-third of all
the contributions. In the other States of Europe the
proportion is still greater ; and it clearly appears from
this that every direct impost proceeds frons ignorance,.
and that the incli,ect are the result of science. Eng-
land- alone possesses a perfect knowledge of this science,
and to it-chiefly it owes-a revenue of 133,383,383 6s. Bd.
arising froth eight exciseable articles.
The produce of the English Custom-house (amounting
annually to £10,000,000) proves thee:tent of the com-
merce, and immensity of consumption in the country,
and it exceeds the total produce of all the other Custom-
houses in Europe! The English Post Office revenue
amounts to £1,833,368.65. Bd. annually ; but in France
only to £500,000. The good policy of England directs
her to provide for the general wants of mankind ;
whereas on the Continent a less sound principle of ad-
ministration provides almost exclusively for superflui-
ties. It is easy to determine en which side good sense is
to be found ! In France, and still mote in Spain, it is im-
possible that there should be general easiness in circum-
stances, or observable circulation of money, because the
habitual condition of the mass of the people is wretched,
and the enjoyment of the comforts and superfluities of
life is confined to a few. Hence the interior of these
countries often present the melancholy scenes of a peo-
ple badly lodged, clothed, and fed, and of public ways
silent and deserted. The appearance of the English po-
pulation offers a remarkable contrast. In 1814, when
the Allied Sovereigns visited the British Metropolis,
and among the well-attired crowds, who followed their
' steps, recognised noise of that misery, so striking in their
own States, they demanded of their attendants, where
were the people? a homage the most- complimentary
ever paid to the prosperous condition of England In
lEngland the sea and numerous canals facilitate commu-
nications, and of all countries, it is the one where the
roads are the most frequented. The English consume
more provisions than all the rest- of Europe, with the
exception of bread; and as one proof, we may instance
their consumption of sugav, amounting to four hundred
millions of pounds—whilst in France it scarcely reaches
one hundred, and this in a population greater than that
of England by one and a half. This difference of con-
sataptidn will sufficiently evidence and prove the diffe-
tent systems of economy practised in the two countries.,

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it is officially detiarelby theEritisli Stinker, that Oe
internal commerce and consumption is more important
even than the external commerce; and what is the most ee.
mailable is, that consumption, the source of the public
wealth, annually increases in proportion to that wealth,
without any prospect ofitS being liMited or arrested in
its career. owing to the wise principles of the Adminis-
tration.. England, as well as other nations, can boast her
literati; her statesmen, and her men of superior genies;
but she alone possesses a population among which is
extensively diffused the instruction necessary to enable
it to form correctiudgment of men and matters;. to distin.
guish that which tsprolltable and suitable; and to defend
itself from that'which may hare an opposite tendency;
( To be continued.)

POLICAtiVTELLIGENCE.
' GUILDHALL.

A respectable young man *is charged with *Nanking a watchman
End
in Fleet-street. It appe*ed he was talking with his wife and sister,
when Cerberus used language nut fit to be uttered. The defendant
then struck hinvand Was ednveyed to the watch-house. Alderman
Wboa reprobated the toast* of Cerberus, observing that he himself
op Fleet-street the same bight; and observed upwards of 100
moseksitans parading up and down under the very noses of the
*Meissen, who connived at their improper behaViour. In the
=eats an assaulthed been committed, he shook nevertheless
the complaint, and leave the Phrill OiScer* to take it up
if they chose.
A ruffian named .kkissen,was.chargedwithattecking his mother,
a very aged woman, with a pair of tongs; but on his eiprelsing
contrition; the poor wothan' begged him off; and the Alderman
discharged hitn on his osed retopisance, to keep the peace toward*
bet fot six months.
M AR LBOR OUG H-STREET. •
dides Betts and Mary Ann, his wilt., in custody upon a charge of
1461M1Ifing money under false pretences; by writing tenets and kind-
lier petitions; With fictitious descriptions of their distsesa and ander-
kegs to various Noblemen and Gentlemen,. were again .brought up
1 yesterday:a-Rad Spencer was in' attendance song after the Office
opened; and the prisoners being brought• in, his. Gordship was
sieromi, and stated, that the letter anclpetition produced, the fbr-
Mee signed " Ann Morgan," and the latter a William Murray:,
asst purporting to be euthentkated by " Josiah Rawleys A.M."'
and the Overseers of the Parish in which the fire described in-it
*as stated totavenskeer place,. were received by his Lordship ott
the 2:141 inst. and, suspecting the trdth of the statements, he Wes.
rid:both-letter and .petition to the.Mendicity, Society.
One of the Overseers of the Paiiiirltere the fire was deactibed
Indeeisetidon to hive taken phew. attended; aed produced a list of
siginfiliftem by the fire spoken of, Id. which there were no suck
nomeS as Murray, or Morgan; andithosignatures,to the petition, of
the Itectnr and Overseers, were lotteries.
Mt. Conan?, the Magistrate. sad that there was net sufficient
evidence in this case to affect the Mile prisoner. AS for the woman,
the had beet before in custody, bo a similar charge, and must
have Mount the conseqoentee of what she was doing; the case was
now so clear against hers- that she must be committed foe two
months' to the House of Correction.

Radlireniser who is a subscriber to almost every. charitable in.
'Station in London, and well known for his philanthropy and he-
mane disposition, haa been, perhaps', mere than any other Noble.
man, imposettipenibp such nefarioas phetices as those of the pri-
soners. His Ltedship, who woe just on the point of leaving town,
withdrew immediately on the coneinsion of the examination. lie
wore the blue riband of the Order of the Garter, and was accom-
ponied to the Oitae' by his third ion, the Hon. Captain Frederick
Spencer, of the Navy, who has jolt returned from South America.
• MA itir-LA-BONNE.
lin, Yesteithir, Henry Perris, the young, man cbargea with burglary
the house of Thomas Lindsey Holland, Esq. Cornwall-terrace,
Beguat's Farb, was again examined. 'The thiefi in endeavouring to
lolatoin an entrance into the house, broke the flat part of the button
bribe his coat, which was found in the area ; and on the prisoner
being apprehended, Staples, the officer, on examining a blue coat of
the prisoner's, one of the buttons behind was found broken, and
the bit found in the area exactly hued the shank remaining on the
;chat, and this singular circumstance caused hii detention.—He was
fully committed for trial.

H A TTGN-G A R'DEN.
Arra, was charged with Indecently atnickin g Elten drunoti
and on her resisting, with stealing her shawl, in the passage between
Bagnigge-wells and Grays Inn-lane. Road. A Bow-sweet Officer,
Ilwaring the screams of the proaecutrix, stopped, and, aftir a stout
resistance, secured the prisoner, who Was committed for the capi-
tal offence.

- UN lON-HA LL.
1311geBNUAM lIIIRDIII4-IYesterday Thomas Coombs, charged with
the murder of Mr. Goodhart's gardener, was again brought up,
for the examination of a further witness. The evidence given ap-
plied rather to robberies committed by the prisoner about the time
of the murder, in the neighbourhood of Langley Parls, than to the
fact of the murder.
William Kingston, gardener to Joseph Warren, Esq. of Eltham,
stated, that on the night of the £1 st of June, Mr. cteen's Is it-
house was broken open, and a thermometer and about a hundred
weight of paper stolen. The thermometer produced was that stolen.
This was the thermometer taken from the prisoner's lodgings.
Coombs was asked whether be had any questions to put to the
witness, or wi..hed to say anything for himself?
He appeared to be in a state of despondency, and said he had no
questions to ask, nor anything• to say. He was again remanded, as
further evidence is expected to be produced.

There is a fair walnut crop this year, but good filberts
are very scarce.
When Foote was one day lamenting his growing old,
a pert young fellow asked him what he would give to
be as young as he? " I would be almost content,"said
Foote," to be as foolish r

HIGH Lirs BitLoW STAIRS.--A short time since a
family arrived at Keswick, and took a furnished houst;
they brought with them a Gentleman's gentleman, and
a Lady's attendant. One day the party went out on an
excursion to Stye Head, leaving these precious domes-
tics at borne. There was pldnty in the larder, but as it
happened to be the remains of the former day, such
woold not suit them. To the no small astonishment of
the cook, they ordered her to dress a dinner of three
courses. The butcher, the poulterer, and the fishmon-
ger, were all put in requisition, and the amount put
down to the account of Mr. —. During the repast
they condescended to take humble port, but with the
dessert, the knight of the shoulder-knot ushered in a
bottle of his master's claret, over which they whiled
away the time until coffee was ready. The gentleman
then proceeded with the lady to the lake, and rowed
her himself to St. Hetbert's Island, to listen, amid its
rhades, to the cooing of the stock doves, and softy*,
and returned home just in time to receive the party,
who, having excellent appetites from their rambles
among the wilds of Borrowdale, were accommodated
with the remnant of a cold round of beef for supper.

DIED.
Sept. 24, at the Parsonage Home, St. John's Wood, Regent's
Park, aged 65, the Rev. G. Parke, formerly of Wadham College,
Oxford, and Chaplain to his Majesty.
Monday sennight, at Sedgwlck, Dear Kendal, Mrs. Atkinson,
wife of Mr. John Atkinson, of the former place. She had just re-
turned from the garden into the house, when, without comphiut,
she was laid prostrate on the boot a corpse.

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