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must er-hvegra.: rm: ..,,..0
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.1.1• 1 frilliall(see Rote' cas—=Pro- 473°A"16°°
=;grako
z) ; at present computed, after
an • foe the increase of produce,
adi ohs fer the great fall of prices -
Rental of haves, returned at nearly £16,800,000
111 1814 ; 410 l which, the houses are augmented in
number by 5 per en in increase prpbably balanced
by the fall of recd. Waiving the amount übefore -
Whining Wane, which, during the latter years
.111 the war, was so large as to equal the rental of
the kingdom, but which, in 1821 and 1822, has
been reduced to almost nothing, we estimate, with
• view to the future, at the medium rate of 6 per
'Sint. on £200,000,000, the supposed amount of
Bepital invested in agriculture - -
bowie from trade and professions, comprising
ilet may manufacturing and mercantile profits, but
item from mines, doll's, canals, tolls, iron.
works; likewise salaries, as far as derived from
Ole concerns of individuals; to the excluiion how-
ever, of all incomes below £5O a year. This par-
ties efour national revenue, returned during the
war M £30,000,000, and which, if augmented in
proportion to the increase of our numbers, should
at present be £35,000,000, we compute, in con-
sequence of the change ha the value of money, and
the decrease of business, at a great reduction, say
Wages and all incomes below £5O a year, com-
puted on a population which (exclusive of Ire-
land) is above 14,000,000, but from which some-
what more than a third is deducted fer persons
either above or below the station of those receiv-
ing wages. This large deduction compriseti not
merely paupers, but cottagers and oth:.srs whose
mode of life is such as to lead, in a very slight de-
gree, to the consumption of taxed articles. The
result, estimated on a population of 9,000,000,
working at the reduced wages of peace, but add-
ing the earnings of women and children to those of
the men, is - - -
Interest of our debt, funded and unfunded, since
the reduction of the 5 per cents.

4,000,000

16,000,000

12,000,000

22,000,000

80,000,000

30,000,000

Conjectural amount of interest from other mo-
ney securities; viz. mortgages, private securities
generally • also public securities, such as 'Bank •
stuck, East India stock, foreign stock, in sho'rt, all
securities distinct from those of our Gos/ernment

20,000,000

Expenditure of Government for the army, navy,
civil list, public offices, and miscellaneous setvices,
after allowing for the late retrenchments, aad
leaving out the proportion expended in Ireland
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Total of Great Britain - 250,00040
Ireland : taxable income computed during the
war at ,C 35,000,000, at present at

16,000,000

- e 3,000.000

Total - 235,000,000
Of which, lost to taxation, being expended abroad
by travellers and emigrants - 4,000,000

Remainder

.. 2;1 MOO ,000

In France, the increase of numbers is as low in
towns as in rural districts, and the augmentation of
property probably keeps pace with, but does not
much exceed that of population.. This inlet ence
seems justified by several reasons; partly by the slow
increase of the Public Revenue, more by the sta-
tionary condition of the inhabitants, many of whom
follow the same occupation's, and hold the same rank
in society as their forefathers two centuries ago. Now,
in comparing our former situation w ith that of our
continental rival, we find that in the reign of George I.
England, Scotland, and Ireland, bore to France, in
point of population, the proportion of only 45 to 100
(see R'apier's Supplement, *heads of " England and
Prance') ; nor was that of taxable income much more
considerable : at present, in point of numbers, we
hold the proportion of 70 to 100, and of taxable in-
come of 100 to 100; so much greater during the last
century has been our increase than that of France.
The source of this rapidity, as far as regards physical
causes, is to be sought chiefly in our command of
water communication, and in the productiveness of
our mines. As these causes continue in full opera-
tion, or rather are more effectual at present than at
any former time, we are justified in anticipating a
continuance of superior progress. First, as to popu-
lation, the increase in France at the rate of 10 per
cent, on the existing numbers (a rate greater than has
as yet been exemplified in that country, but which,
under present circumstances, we ate inclined to con.
skier probable), will give, in ten years, a result of
£3,600,000.—8ut the increase of Great Britain and
Ireland at 15 per cent. agreeably to the Returns of
1811 and 1821, will give £3,300,000.
Next, as to financial resources : the national in-
come, by which we mean the aggregate of individual
income, is, in one sense, somewhat greater in France
than in this country ; but in regard to the portion of
it that is taxable, the advantage will be found on our
side, in consequence, chiefly, of our greater town po-
pulation : thus,
COMPARATIVE SKETCH OF NATIONAL INCOME
EXPENDED ON TAXED ARTICLES.

Grad Britain
and
Ireland.

France, after
adding 20 per
Ctnt. for the
greater rabic
of Money.

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cent. in ten years, in conformity
population, will be about £20,000,000.
But in this country the increase, reckoned also in
the ratio of the addition to our population (15 per
cent.), will produce above £27,000,000.
Those of our Readers to whom this conclusion ap-
pears too flattering, may satisfy their doubts by a
consideration of our various advantages, physical and
political, as well as by the practical proof afforded
during the last hundred years. Were we to continue
'the parallel, we should and that even in population,
we shall probably overtake our ancient rival, ere
another generation pass away. Meantime, those who
know that the issue of a military struggle depends
not so much on population as on disposable Revenue,'
till be satisfied that at present we should have no
cause to dread a contest, single-handed, with that
Power against whom our forefathers were obliged to.
seek safety in continental alliances . .

FRIGHTFUL EARTHQUAKES IN SYRIA.

The following are extracts from official letters, de-
scribing the awful calamity with which a great part
of Syria has been visited

" Near the Ruins of Antioch, Sept. 13.
" It has fallen to my lot to relate the pat ticulars of
an event that has tlirown most of the familiei of this
part of Syria into sorrow and mourning, and all into
the greatest difficulties and distress.
" On_the 13th of August, at half-past nine in the
evening, Aleppo, Antioch, Idlip, Riha, Gisser, Shogr,
'Darcoush, Armenas, every village, and every de-;
tached built cottage in this pachalic, and some towns
in the adjoining ones, were, in ten or twelve seconds,
entirely destroyed by an earthquake, and are become
heaps of stone and rubbish, in which, on the lowest
computation, 20,000 human beings, about a tenth of
the population, were destroyed, and an equal number
maimed. or wounded.

" The extreme points, where this terrible pheno-
menon was violent enough to destroy the edifices,
seem to be I)iabehir and Merkab (12 leagues south
of Latachia), Aleppo and Scandaroon, Killis, and
Shecloon. All within these points have suffered so
nearly equally, except Oita and Latachia, which
have not suffered much, that it is impossible to fix
on a central point. The shock was sensibly felt at
Damascus, A deno, and Cy prus..

" To the East of Diabeicir and North of Killis, I
am:oot well informed how far the effect extended in
those radii of the circle.. The shock was felt at sea,
so violently, within two leagues of Cyprus, that it was
thought the ship had grounded. Flashes of fire were
perceived at various times throughout the night, re-
sembling the light of the full moon.; but at nu place,
to my knowledge, has it left a chasm of any extent,
although in the low grounds, slight crevices are every
where to be seen, and out of many of them swater is-
sued, but soon after subsided.

" There was nothing remarkable in the weather, or
state of the atmosphere. Edifices on the summit of
the highest mountains were not Safer than buildings
situated on the banks of rivers, or on the beach of the
sea. It is impossible to convey an adequate idea of
the scenes of horror that were simultaneously passing
on the dreadful night of the 13th of August. The
awful darkne,s, the continuance of the most violent
shocks at short intervals, the crash of falling walls,
the shrieks, the groans, the ascents of agony and de-
spair, of that long night, cannot be described. When
at length the morning dawned, and the return of
light permitted the people to quit the spot, on which
they had been providentially saved, a most affecting
scene ensued. _

" You might have seen many unaccustomed to
pray, some prostrate, some on their knees, adoring
their MAKER. Others there were running into one
another's arms, rejoicing in their existence. An air
of cheerfulness and brotherly love animated every
countenance. In a public calamity, in which the
Turk, the Jew, the Christian, the Idolater were in-
discriminate victims, or objects of the care of an im-
partial l'uovxnEnce, every one forgot for a time his
religious animosities, and what was a still more uni-
versal teeling, in that joyful moment, every one looked
upon the heaviest losses with the greatest indifference.
But, as the sun's rays increased, they were gradually
reminded of the natural wants of shelter and of food:
and became at length alive to the full extent of the
dreary prospect before them, for a greater mass of
human misery has not been often produced by any
of the awful convulsions of Nature.

44 A month has now elapsed, and the shocks con-
tinue to be felt, and to strike terror into every breast
night and day. The fear that they may not cease
before the rainy season commences, has induced those
whose business cannot allow of their quitting the
ruins of their towns, instead of rebuilding.their houses,
40 construct temporary hovels of wood without the
walls ; and many families, Who thought themselves
before this calamity straitly lodged in a dozen of
apartments, now exult in the prospect of passing the
winter in a single room 20 feet square.
The spacious mansion, that has been the residence of
the British Consul at Aleppo for 230 years, is com-
pletely ruined. The houses of all the other Public
Agents, and private European individuals at Aleppo,
have been likewise entirely ruined. At Aleppo, the
Jews suffered the most, on account of their quarter
being badly built with narrow lanes. Out of a popula•
tion of less than 3000 persons, 600 lives were lost. Of
the Europeans, only one person of note, Signor Esdra
de Picciotto,' Austrian Consul General, and ten
er twelve women and children, perished ; but the
grea.er part are now suffering from ophthalmia and
dysenteries, occasioned by their being exposed to the
excessive heats of the day, and the cold dews of the
night.

" Near the Ruins of Antioch, Sept. 20, 1822.
Till the 9th instant, slight shocks of earthquakes
continued to be felt; since that day, they have en•
tirely ceased ; but confidence is a continuance of
safety from that dreadful calamity is not restored,
andalthough the rains and cold weather render our
temporary sheds very inconvenient habitations, no-
body is yet inclined to sleep under a roof supported
by walls.*

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STA It.

►NDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1822.

1176 NULNAJO.
WFOCE EXIIHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE.
The peak in the market this morning *as very great, emits
lee several Expresses haying arrived frog% Paris: the first &peen
brought the price of the French Funde, at four o'clock on Tues-
day, at 11111. 110 c. seen after another Express arrived, with the
price at, the closing of the French market at 871. 50c. Tit
fall Of the above funds immediately operated on our funds—.
Consols, which °Petted at 801 1, _Went down to 80k, and,

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this hour, they are acii to with a heavy market.
A certain party, who axe great Bulb, came early into the
market to sell, but few Broken would purehlsi.
IPOILIJON TIMM
The French Ezpresies had a great effect on this market. New
Spanish Bonds opened at 55i to 56, and little is doing in otter
foreign securities up to this hour.
. Current Prices :—Chilian 70, New Spauldr 55i, Old 65, Xew
Prussian 86*, Old 86, Danish 90i, Neapolitan 77i (Scrip),
0141eiblan 72, Peruvian 78, New Spanish Scrip
STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
The Market looks exceedingly heavy, and Consols are tro.
sellers—the Foreign Funds are also heavy.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced 79 Y 4 7B 7/i
IA per Cent. 911/s 91-4 per Cent. Old, 97 964
Bank Long Annuities 201-16
India Bonds 345. 355.
Exchequer Bills (C 1,000) ss. 3s.—Small 6s. Is.
India for Account 25.5
Contols fur Acct. 80% 1/8 Vs 79N 60.

Private expresses from Paris, which left that city
on Tuesday afternoon, bring the account of a snddea
fall of the French funds. The reports in circulation,
to which the depression was attributed, were that the
French Government had received an answer hem
Madrid to their ultimatum, which spurned, with ia
dignation, the proposal that had been made of alte-
rations in the Spanish Constitution. Annthei lejit
was, that two French regiments had gone over to
Mina. It will be seen by our report from t] e
Stock Exchange, that the news from Paris had s: me
effect on our funds.

This forenoon we received a Hamburgh Mail, wiLlr
Papers to the 14th inst. They confirm the previous
accounts of the insurrection at Constantinople, but
are not of a later date than those already received.—
The Persians are said to have gained another victory
over the Turks. The following are extracts :

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Ciesall=agir frenqaasaise. -. t ~ se or rem the . 7;4*
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deer gliaitlig pito& *duo-- .
onsiegenei lad anises Is du .
1 AtAiseep to - . - 4411,11001.000
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Aeliphr ste Wooden of Ilksamite . - ^ Jilkiliii
. ill 1111 Ippetria , .. .
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resources, we shall' • • tbsique•tilte. And
take %hp amount of ins:omi Ii - cdantry frithout. ;
these questionable twsiliaties. What;smder this as-
sumption, is the prospect of increase?' In Franco the
r land since the Peace . .- • 11•000,000
.:. augmentation of national income, reckoned at 10 per
vtb:i.eLir ' Anzano.ano cent. in ten years. in conformity to the increase of