Star.
London, England, 1820-05-02 00:00:00

P.4RLIAMENTARI' PAPER.

An ACCOUNT of the TOTAL PRODUCE of all FUNDS
at the DISPOSAL of the CROWN, and usually deemed not
to be under the immediate control:! of Parliament, since the
Accession of his late Itiaisyrr ; .distinguishing the Modes
arising from Droits of the Admiralty and Droits of the Crown;
41 per Cent.,West India Duties; Scotch Revenue ; and from
all other Sources not 11::rein-before specified—so far as the
same can be ascertained

An Account of the Droits of the Admiralty
and Droits of the Crown, from 1760(01820 9,562,614
The application of this Sum, in rewards to
Captors, and payments to Claimants, and in
aid of the Public Service, and of the Civil
List, and for other Purpose% is to be found
in the Accounts which have, from time to
time; been laid before Parliament.
An Account of the Four and Half per Cent.
West India Duties, from 1760 to 1526 4,116,414
This Revenue is charged with the Salaries
of the Governors and various other PubVe
Officers connected with the West Indies, and
also with the payment of Pensioni,granted by
the Crown ; as appears in the Accounts laid,
from time to time, before Parliament.
•An Account of the Surplus of Gibraltar Re-
venues, remitted to England, from WA to
1820, after discharging Garrison expenses
(An Account of the Surplus of Scotch Civil
List, from 1760 to 1820, now appropriated
as it may arise, under the Act so Geo. al.
c.lll, in aid of the Civil List in England
An Account of the Escheats to his _Majesty
In cases of Illegitimacy or otherwise, from
1760 to 1.920 - - - _
An Account of the Escheats to his Majesty,
being the Property of Alien Enemies, from
1760 to 18.3/ - -
An Account of the Funds arising by Sale of
Lands in the Esench West India Islands,
ettiLd at the Peace of 1763 - - -
An Account of the Revenues arising from the
Isluds of Minorca, Martinique, St. Croix,
and St. Thomas„and front the Settlement of
Surinam, while the same were in the pos-
session of his Majesty -

An Account of th. Casual Revenues arising
from Quit-Rents, &c. in the British Colo-
nies, and from all other Sources not before
nr.ume.rated, from 1700 to IE2O - -

124,256 le

997,700 0

214,649 l 5

108,777 17

106,k0 0

159,811 0

104,663 3

£1:4705,461 11 7
• The whole of these Sums base been appropriated at various,
times iu discharge of the Debts of the Civil List, ar.d to other
public purposes, as will appear by the Reports ai:d Accoullts
laid before Parliament ; with the exception of 0r386,000, which
gam was applied between his Majesty's Accession and the yi•ar
11120. in numerous Payments, for the purposus of the l'tivy
l'uree, as dfrectod by his Majesty.
(Nailed) Cif A R LES Alt R! LTILNOT.
Whitehall, Treasury Clmbers, it tla April., l 8 m.

THE EVENING STA%

LONDON.

-TUESDAY, MAY 2, I NO.

Tiflis FUNDS.
PRICE Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ovv. rirt.eric t
Bank 826—,1 per Cent. Reduced GS:Y4 ii
-Sfer Cent. Consols 69 TA 5/6
Si per Cent. '77 Y 4-41 f,erCent. 8678 $4 V/
5 per Cent. 105% 1,4
Bank Long Annuities 11/%15-16
India Stock 120—Inslia Bonds :.00s. 21s. pr,
Exchequer Bills Ss. Ss. prd.
Commercial par, Is.•pie.
Consols for Acct. (39% •1/4.

Our Readers are aware that the Merchants in the
City have agreed on a Petition to Parliament, praying
for an alteration in the system of Restrictive Dutie,
and Prohibitions on the Importation of Foreign Goods
and Manufactures. Similar Petitions have been agreed
on by the Chamber of Commerce in Edinburgh, and
by the Inhabitants of Leith ; and now that those large
Bodies, tatitny Members of which formerly used to be
the most clamorous for what they called Protecting
Duties, have had their eyes opened to the extreme
impolicy of that system, we may soon expect to-see
their example ever ywhere followed bycommercial men.
We have a copy of the Edinburgh Petition to 11:e
House of Commo:.s now befotedus. It is,a luminous
production, ai:d much more consLtent, as a wlicle,
than that of the Merchants of London :

" The Chamber of Commerce acid Manufactures, of the City
of gdinburgh, having been instituted by Royal Charter, for the
express purpose of ..vatching over the conlinereol inte,ezts of
that part of the United Kingdom, humbly conceive it a du.),
highly incumbent on them, at a period' of unprectdente p; s-
sure on every branch of mercantile industry, most respectfuliy
to call the attention of the House to the depressed state of fa-
reign commerce, and to offer their upinion of thy causes that, is
a great measure, contribute to tins' depression, whereby the ge-
octal industry of the kingdom is checked, its manufactures c.a.-
serpent ly deeply injured, and its revenue iu danger of being scos
most seriously diminished.
" It appears to your Petiticeters, that the system so long per-
severed in, of laying os heavy duties on Imports from foreign
countries, tenth directly to lessen the demand in those couritries
for the produce of the industry of our own hation.

" Thit the doctrine Maintained by maw; Statc*ineu, that in
order to a‘gumulate wealth by trade, a U 4( lOU must cavort more
th.o it imports, is most erroneous.

" 'nut updn this erro,l4.Jas oJetriti:: is fou.i&d the present
conintereidl policy of tins coo.:try.

• " It appears to your l'cittiourts, that the profits derived from
the exportation of the prouucc of our nuinutacturcs, agricultUrr.
fisheries, hid mines, can in ho other shape be realizee., or in.:de
elective to flit increase of the uational wealth, buc iu tne form
of 1n ports.

" That it appears to your Petitioners, that the sure way to
increase foreign commerce is to encourage the industry of other
nations with whom we trade; or, in other wnins, to enable them
to become our customers.

" That, tto that end, we should admit on liw (lades :Le raw
produce of other countries, and such articles of commet ce as we
are precluded from producing, by climate or other c‘i euntsuthees.
" That your Petitioners cd.l4,uor that th. hibis Moms on Bal-
tic wood and iron, on wines, iti.d more parucuiarl) on French.
wines, on raw silk, and on many other articles of trade, the pro-
duce of foreign count/les, have, directly and indirectly, lcssened
the demand in those countries for the produeuen.s a ems realm ;
for by checking the industry of those foreign nations, we disab:e
them from being our customers, and we hold out an example us
their Governin' ems to lay on heavy dudes on the manufac.iiros
and other exports from this country.

That it appears to your Petitioners, that this System of re-
strictive commerce has been followed since the Peace, by the
Government a almost every nation with which we trade. in
strict conformity with the system adopted by Great Britain. -
" That whatever may be the perseverance of other nations in
this system, the British Government should begin a more
beral and wise commercial policy, without regard to reciprocity
of benefit between us and any panicular nation, because, by en-
couraging an increased import from one nation, we are certain
of gaining an increased export directly to that nation, or inter-
mediately to some other nation.

" That it appears to your Petitioners, that nick a liberal sys-
tem of commercial policy, which is thus hun-sbly submitted ID
the consideration of the Honourable House, would produce a
greater revenue, from the increased quantity of imports, al.
though subject only to low rates of duties; and at the same time
wciold promote national industry, as a consequence of a propor-
tional increase of exports.

" May it, therefore, /Acne your Honourable Henn to per.-
mit this Petition to be taken into the confideration of a
Committee of the House, and to adopt such measures as,
in the wisdom of your Honourable Boise, may be
deemed most prudent and efficacious;
0, And your Petitioners will ever pray."

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There can be no doubt that the grievances com-
plained of in those Petitions cam a lit subject to:-
Parliamentary investigation, and it is hoped ever&
that Ministers are favourable to a general revision of
our whole. Commercial System. We arc the more
inclined to believe this, seeing that our 'commercial,
policy, as far as respects foreign trade, is founded
on principles the 111051 narrow and invidious. I*
many cases, national animosity is at the bottom of
those hurtful regulations which obstruct the imporra-
tion of French produce into this country ; and, ever*
when this. feeling does not prevail, those restrictive
-duties indicate a selEsh and grasping sßir it, which is
at variance with every sound principle of policy, and
which is always met in other nations by a spirit of
retaliation as effectual ag4inst cur own Commerce as
the restrictions which we impose are against that of
other countries ; and thus that pernicious system
grows up, by which the Commerce of the world is
tettered by an endless complication of attific;al re-
straints, and the necessary interchange of produce.
1 between different stations is obstructed, and, in some
cases, altogether prevented..
In the different wad iu vaxich.Nrancf. and Driutii

have been Involved, it has alwiys'hatipenea that a
ceaatien of hostilities has been followed not by peace
spirit of peace—hot rather by a short and
- fail truce, in which the two parties did all th.
ii -hey coald to each other by the texatious restrainssarieh they imposed on foreign trade. The war of
tha sword was invariably followed by this :-•etty war.
fare of restrictions on trade, and hence the policy of
this country, partly from false views of the nature of
commerce, and partly from national animosity, be-
came totally dis:or:ed from the true line of its irate
re,t. Oar ancestors never seem to have considered.
that the importation of French wines and silks neces-
sarily gave rise to an exportation of our own comma-
ditias to is pay the debt incurred, and that while
they were ,:iscouragiag the consumption of French
produce in this country, they were in a like
tea roe discauragiog the consumption of B.irish
manufictores in France. All there regulations
arc at variance with the very nature of trivia.
it is by means of Commerce that Nations are freed
from the incumbrance of their superfluous produce,
and every country, from its peculiar soil and climate,
necessarily ahound:; in some sorts of produce, while
it is in the same proportion deficient in others, and it
is only by a free exchange with o: er Nations that
this inequality can he corrected. The foundation of
Commerce, therefore, is laid in the very economy of
Nitrite; in that diversity of soil and climate which
telongs to different coruries, and which enables each
to excel both in the quantity and quality of its own
leculiar productions. In Mace of discouraging the
free exchange of this produce, Government ought to
give it every facility, seeing that it is obviously the
very life of all industre and trade ; for, if we cannot,
exchange what is superfluous at home for some corn-
toodiLy which is more in request, that commodity
a ill not !az produced, and thus industry, along with
:col-amerce, is discouraged. It will be found, there-
-fore, that all those prohibitions and restrictions which
impede the free intercourse of Nations, are not only
.aarimentai to Commerce, but are at variance with
Tau order of PROVIDENCE, which, in giving to every
f':orate and soil its own peculiar productions, and
aencloring what is superabundant in one place scarce
is another, requires the aid of Commerce to perfect
this arranaement, try a free exchange between different
countries of what is superfluous for what is useful.
In a general view, therefore, all restrictions on
trade are pernicious in their effects ; and although it
:nay trot be practicable, the evil having gone to so
o; eat a length, at once to restore our trade to a state
;:c perfect freedom, yet there is little doubt that many
prohibitory duties and injurious restrictions might at
once be done away, with great benefit to many classes
of our manufacturers. It may he laid down as a ge-
aeral principle, that all duties imposed on the impor•
tation of foreign produce, for the purpose of pre-
vanting it being brought into this country, and not
for the purposes of revenue, ought to b • abolished ;
and were this principle carried into effect, and our
fileign trade freed from the many artificial ties by
sahich it is restrained, it Would certainly pave the
way for the introduction of our commodities into
many countries from which they are at present ex-
cluded. France and Gteat Britain, the one country
rich in its natal al produce, and the other in the pro-
duce of art and industry, seem naturally destined to
carry on a commercial intercourse with each other,
and if the barriers raised up against this trade were
once withdrawn, there is little doubt that a beneficial
exchange of their surplus produce wool: soon
take place. Nor ought we to make the repeal of
those restrictions de;:end on any Commercial Treaty.
It would, no doubt, be highly desirable to induce
oilier nations to repeal the restrictive duties imposed
en the importation of our produce. But if they
tz'Fuse to accede to any propositions of this nature,
v:e ought. as we have been long a standing example
cc commercial moriction, to set an ca-ample of
retire liberal policy ; for, those restraints on the im-
portation of foreign produce being pia, itivela hurtful
t 7., ourselves, they ought to be unconditionally with-
drawn. It is a benefit to our own trade that they
should be repealed, even though no one State should
f)ilov.- such an example. But there is little doubt
Ulna in time the example would he copied ; and that
by pe:aeverance in a sound and liberal policy, the
natians of Europe, like the dial ant districts or the
s.-asa.-. country, might be formed into one great corn-
rra: cial confederacy, each having free scope for its
capital and industry, and no preference being any-
a llere given except to superior enterprize er skill.

The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday have
arrived. A discussion of some interest, respecting the
Ex-Minister Dee Are, took place in the Chamber of
Deputies on Friday. It arose on a Report upon three
Petitions, which re-echoed the scandalous assertion.
of M. CLAURZI. DI COUSERRGUES, that M. Deca.aE
was an accomplice (constructively) in the assassina-
tion of the Duke de BERRI. The Reporter recom-
sramded, that the Chamber should pass to the order
of the day. This was opposed, as to one of the Pe-
titie,ns, more explicitly calumnious than the others,
by MM. BiNJANIIN CONSTANT, lirlaNuct., and other
1e...-..l3ers of the left, who insisted, that these accusa-
tions were only part of the secret manoeuvres of the
Directlrg Committee at Paris, denounced on a pre-
day, and therefore moved, that the Petition
s!Iould be remitted to the President of the Council,
vi,.s.v; to ulterior proceeditigs. The Chamber,
:-..-e7er, by a large• majority, adopted the reaoti-
-3a ef the Committee, and passed to the order
of the day on all the three Petitions.--The KING gave
ca Friday a private audience to the Panatnn Ant-
b I`,.;ADOR.—Eve per Cents. Friday, 75fr. 55c.

1T.071 OUR ruIVATE CORRESPONDENT:
" Pia" Aran 21.
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" tlay laJore ye:At:y.l3y came nn M. Madier's Petition to
It•fl (~e,.n,0.r;, on the treasonable associadoolt at Nisznes; the
.tt= autl,enticttt:d, the documents are tendered in evi-
t,trce, yet the Minister of the Interior, in the face of such
;:t:,:ii,pted to deity them, but not all the silver lucks and
e.n.v.tenanee of M. fiinteon would make him believed on
11. t tlts:n abused M. Madier for giving publicity to it,
a, f trir et.,ngerotia; why did b 3 not denounce it to the
'tun; rl.,:tertt.tiAieraes.4? Did tig taeast 141. Dellart ? if so, )Ir

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Mollie was too good* judge to trust Ida t •se and the safeit of
the Protestants t f Nismes in such hands.
" M. littlart, if not the openly avowed friend of the Fitzjamee
and the Vitrolles, is the known partizan if their faction: Tho
monsters, while they assassin:AA their vict"ms, rent the alt with
'lies .of Vivo le / 11. ?Nadler denoun:ed the existence of a
;)irecting Committee (Comae Directeur) —Government has
enig known it, and what is strauge, has never suppressed
l'he reason assigned is, that it would carry inquiry into a sanc-
;wiry that ought not to be penetrated. Vitrolles is accused of
laving sent the C4-calar to Nistnes, the day after the assassina•
t ion of the Duiteof Bei ry. Now, suppcsirg that this communi-
cation were sent by Vitrolles, Fitzjatnes, and Co. and supposing
e7eti that they were patronized by personages pn the very steps of
the Throne, is th::t a reason for their crir going unpunished?
" The Vera' are preparing for them...lves a day of bitter
vengeance, and perhaps it is not far o If the Ministry will
save France, they must destroy the hyd- a of Treason even in
its windirr ronnd the hrone they know who are the guilty ;
and the greater the personage the greater the crime. Let the
Government bolt to it : on its conduct, at this very moment,
m“y eleir.nd, whether in six months Aare will be a BotrasoN in
France. The nation is tormented psst endurance; and the
King will find, when perhaps it will be too late, that it is M.
l'kcezes alone who has preserved him 0.1 his Throne these four
years; that it was he who kept the faction in check which
suu;;Lt to establish another Government than that of the King—
nay, another King than Louie XVtII. So says M. St. An-
Dire ! lie might have added, that the Government was to be
that ta. the N'aelcs, the Vitiolles, the Fitzjames, Benoist', &c.

We have recei.!ed New York Papers to the Ist of
April. The most important part of their contents,
as respecting this country is, that a new Bill, con-
taining a revision of the Tariff of Duties on Imports,
is under the consiaeration of Congress, which is to
take place on the '3oth of June next. A smarin-
crease is to take place onahe imports generally, but
on coarse woollens and cottons the duties are to be
increased from 25 to 33 per cent. I
We have also received Jamaica Papers to the 15th
of- March. They state that the division of Spanish
trool.s under Colonel WA nr.ETTs, consisting of 4000
men, was defeated at San Louis de Gregorm, by the
Insurgents from Antiaguia, the latter end of Febru-
ary, with the loss of 300 men killed, missing, and
prisoners; and it was with difficulty the Colonel
escaped, with 50 in number, in a very sickly condi-
tion; he was on Lis way to Mompox. The expedi-
tion which proceeded from Carthagena in the month
of December, destined to recapture the province of
Choco, had returned to that port, after an unsuc-
cessful attempt on the fort of Vigia. A number of
men, supposed to he Insurgents, had effected a land-
ing at Conchu, a day's journey from Santa Martha,
where they excited some alarm.
With regard to die operations of BOLIVAR, these
Papers supply us with nothing new. A Spanish fri-
gate had arrived at Puerto Cabello from the Ilavan-
nah, and another was shortly expected there. These
vessels were, no doubt, intended to cope with Batosf's-
quadron. We have already mentioned that the
American frigate Macedonian had carried a sum of
.500.000 dollars from Callao to Panama, on account
of the Spanish merchants. It appears from the Ja-
maica Papers, that Capt. SHIRftIEF, of the ANDRO-
MACHE, had been pteviously applied to by the mer-
chants, but he refused to carry the money, having
orders, he said, not to receive Spanish property on
board. The Spanish brig Venturana had arrived at
Panama with 150,000 dollars from St. Blas. Another
merchant ship, called ht Reyna, was to 'sail from St.
Bias in a fortnight after the departure of the Ventu-
rana, with 300,000 dollars ; but fifty-six days from
that period having elapsed without any further ac-
count of her having leached Panama, it was feared
that she had been captured by one of Lord Coca-
RA NE'S cruizers off Guyaquil. Lord Coemmarre had
captured and sent to Valparaiso the brig Andes, a,
privateer which had ueen cruizing off Panama under
a Buenos Ayrean Commission, that vessel having
committed various acts of piracy. Two vessels, sup-
posed to belong to the Phiiippiue Company, 'fad also
been captured by some of the Insurgeut squadron,
and carried into Valparaiso.

We wish some of our contemporaties would shew
a mote charitable spirit with respect to the unfortu-
nate men who yesterday underwent the sentence of
the law The offended' justice of the Country has
been satisfied, and surely individual feeling may rest
satisfied too. A Paper of this morning says, The Re-
former, Brunt, had been long known to be a dealer
in forged Notes!" So gratuitous an aspersion is as
wantun as it is cruel.

is is said that another Special Commission has been
issued for the trial of the late Insurgents in Scotland,
consisting o(the Heads of the four Courts, Lord Pre-
sident Hops: the Lord Chief-Justice-Clerk Born. z ;
Lord Chief-Baros Sir SAMUEL SHEPHERD. the Lord
Chief-Commissioner of the Jury Court AnAm ; with
all the Lords of Justiciary. The period of its sitting
is expected to be in June.
A reward of ESN) has been offered for the appre-
hension of Robert Fulton and Jain Hutchison, prin-
ters, lately employed. in the Office of • lltnicittr
I bl,KeNztz, printer in Glasgow, who are charged
with High Treason, and have absconded. They are
suspected of having used their master's types in
printing the late treasomble placard. The are both
mere Imis ; the one 18 years of age, the other 20.
On the morning of Saturday se'nnight, one of the
prisoners rescued out of Greenock Jail, was appre-
hended in Dairy, and taken to Ayr Jail, charged
with Radicalism.

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