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London, England, 1821-02-10 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1821.
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The House of Commons was last night occupied,
as a Committee of Ways and Means, with the details
of the Revenue and Expenditure for the current year.
The CHAISCELLOK of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to
some observations of Mr. Carevey, observed, that
the reduction of the Military Expenditure, mentioned
In the Speech from the Throne, might be taken as a
pledge of an intention ott the part of Government
to effect further retrenchment. A saving to the
amount of £130,000 per annum had been made in
the collection of the Revenue ; and he hoped, though
he would not pledge himself to the precise sum, that
a reduction of about one million will take place in
the whole expenditure.
This statement of the Hon. Gentleman will, we
doubt not, very generally disappoint the hopes which
have been entertained from the tenour of the fiords
Speech, and the assurances of his Ministers, It does
seem idle to say, that out of an increased expenditure
of no less than eighteen millions annually, since Mr.
PITT'S winding up, account in 1792, no more than
one million can be saved by retrenchment. We think
it would be no difficult matter to sheer, that immediate
relief from taxation, to the amount of at least seven
millions per annum, might be given to the country.
We refer particularly to the unappropriated part of
that financial fiction the Sinking Fund, .which is of
no other use at present than to bolster up a species of
property which has been already a great deal too
much benefited by the distresses of the country.—
A relief such as this would be a measure of concilia-
tion—which would give an impetus to agriculture,
manufacture, and commerce; the elects of which
would be felt in increased consumption it home and
sales abroad. It would also afford a breathinptime'
for Parliament to enter into the investigation of all
the causes of that state of general and entente dis-
tress in which the country avowedly is.
Mr. DENNYSON put a most important question last
night to the CnAwcELLoa of the EXCHEQUER, to know
whether orders bad beengiven to Sir G. Mooaz, to
stop any vessel laden with warlike stores from enter-
ing the port of Naples?—information having been
received that notice had been given by the Admiral
on the station to a British trader to that effect. The
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that any
such order had been given. We truct that this is the
case: and )et, from our knowledge of the high ho-
nour and liberal principles of the British Admiral in
the Bay of Naples, we think he would not have given
a caution of the kind without direct instructions.
Tire matter will, no doubt, be further inquired into;
for it would be a mord countenance of-the Allied So-
vereigns with a witness, if we were to deprive the'
Neapolitans of all means of defence !