Star.
London, England, 1817-09-24 00:00:00

TUE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER U. 1817.

PRICE OF STOCK% THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCE4
Itodttopd thot—Coosolt, el —Do. for Oct. St li
4 per Cent. obit—Nary. 1041—India Bonds 45 TO pr.
Bal.& 1.40 s Anis. sbot—Ear.begoor lips, 1124. to Sot. pr.

Tim Frame Dividends wilds Imam. dee Ms deb oast-
easoced paying as Maws. atercescast.e's. 'led at Beasio's.
Wilds will bring as additioeal sent to ibe ilognas Mutat.

The Gout* of last night contains an important
Notification under the authority of the Steam of
the. Home of Commons, as required by the Bank
Restriction Act, declaring that on and after the first
of CietOher next, the Bank will be ready to pay cash
for their sates of every description dated prior to the
lit of January, 1817. It is with a feeling of sincere
joy that we notice this proof of a return towards good
old times. In the existing circumstances of the
country, there is.certeinly nothing in this resumption
of cash payments, but what was reasostably to be ex-
irected ;—it grould have been matter of astonishment
indeed, if, when gold bad sunk to its ordinary rake%
the case had bee* therwfse. Yet is there something
in the precedent which we do not like; and we *say,
now, that the danger in which the suspension of cash
payments originated is over, sty with freedom, that
we hope the Bank will never again be placed in a
situation in which it shall be obliged to violate the
plain engagement on its own bills to pa, es! &wend,
for it is no payment on demand to substitute paper
for paper.
The last night's arsine also contains a farther Pro-
rogation of Parliament, to the 3d of November next.

We give in another column, from the pen of an.
intelligent Correspondent, a Plan which we think will
be lound to merit a more than ordinary share of
attention...a Plan for effecting no less an object than
the speedy removal of our greatest national affliction,
a Naiad Deis, exceeding in magnitude the debt of
all the weld beside. Of the practicability of the
Plan, we make no hesitation in saying, that we enter-
tain no doubt; we will even go farther, and affirm,
that if, instead of paying off the Debt in three ran,
as our Correspondent proposes, it were desired to pay
it off itt one year, one month, nay, one day, the prae-
ticabilittof the thing would be not a jot the less,
and we should, as a nation, be made not a shilling
the poorer. It proceeds. en the principle of a mere
thane-of position t and as locomotive beings, in a
OPIPSUP al.PhPical MP's* It 0017 golgit,Wl
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In the meat to sihkb the principle Ears-ter
bb Ip-
•plied, bower, we think onr Correspondent butanes
into as error, which be will net, we dare say, be die•
pleased with uti for correcting. The wealth or capital
of the country be militates at six thousand million.
—Bat on what data does he found his estimate ! He
reckons, he says, Glasgow to be worth twelve mil.
lions, and that it comprises one five-hundredth psi
of the total wealth of the country. But where arias
we may only ask, are his data for even this minor ad.
mate 1 It is evident that these are merely gratuitous
assumptions, on which no reliance can be placed:.*
Nor is there need that we should west in she least to
conjectural calculation on the subject, since it hap.
pens to be part of the blessings which this enormous
load of debt has 'mailed upon us, to have experienced
a system of taxation which has already furnished a
criterion to go by of the most certain and indubitable
description.
What did the Tax on Income, from which we are
only just relieved, produce At ten per cent. it pro.
clued 4114,000,000, indicating the total income of
toe country to be 140,000,000. Now, taking this in.
come at twenty years' purchase. which is perhaps
quite as much as it can be fairly rated at, we bring
out the total capital of the country to be only
412,800.000,000, being somewhat less than one-bait
of the sum at which it is computed by our correspon-
dent. Suppose, however, the total capital to be taken
at

or the nett half of our eorrapon•

deist's calculation,—we believe that this will be lowed
to be abort as liberal an allowance as the fact will
warrant. What then is the effect of this correction
on the plan before us f AU the effect is merely this,
either that the rate of the contribution for paying off
the debt, or the duration of that contribution, would
require to be proportionally extended. In point of
practicability, the difference can affect the plan no
otherwise, than as it sheers our capacity to be less,
and our burdens to be the more intolerable.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning.
The only domestic intelligence of any interest
' which they contain relates to the protracted trial for
the assassination of M. Punta's, the farther conti-
nuation of which we hart gins in another column.
The Journal & Paris states, in a nom, that in conse-
quence of the remarkable exclamation uttered by
Madame Munson on the last day's proceedings, as
noticed in our .teport, that N all she galley are not ia
armor as order had been sent of to Rhoden to put
this mystedoua witoess herself to the bar. The con-
closion of the proceedings against the other lOdlth

WrErp*tted is this horrid affair. was stfl un-
known at the departure of the Post front Park.

Of the articles of foreign intelligence in these
Papers, the most remarkable is one from Constanti-
nople, in which this country is in a very particular
manner interested. Our Readers will recollect, that
some time sine we directed their attentioe, with feel-
ings of strong reprobation. to a Treaty which bad
been concluded between the Government of the
lonian Isles, then as now under British protection',
and the Sublime Porte, by which the fort of Parga,
on the-main land of Albania, was to be delivered up
by the British to the Turks, us one condition among
others. that the inhabitants should be at liberty to'
leave the place if they chose,and should receive hom
the Turkish Government proper indemnities for their
possessions. ft now appears, that on proceeding to
make the delivery on these terms, the greater part of
the inhabitants were so appalled by the dangers which
they had to apprehend from returning again tinder
the Turkish yoke, that they resolved to profit by the
alternative allowed them ; in consequence of which
it Was found, that the Turkish Government would
have to pay them in indemnities, nearly twenty-four
milrom *Mom. The payment of such a sum, how-
ever, was a thing either not within the compass of
the Grand Sultan's Treasury, or beyond his estimate
of the worth of the acquisition—the evacuation has
therefore been postponed for the present, and the
place remains as we sincerely hope it will ever re-
main, in the possession of its native inhabitants, pro-
tected by a Government which knows bow to respect
the rights of a brave and free people.
The King of VI/ITEMISE; not having as yet suc-
ceeded in his project of a new organization of his
States, has had recourse to a measure, which, to say
the least of it, is extraordinary. For want of a le.
gislature chosen by the peoplethemselves, which might
vote the supplies necessary for the public service, and
of which want his lid.t.terry is himself the culpable
cause, be has thought fit to substitute his own will
foe the will of his people, and resolved to hazard the
bold experiment of levying at pleasure whatever mo-
ney be requires, or may chase to say he requires.
—By a Rescript which his Majesty bas just issued,
be is pleased very laconically to declare, that the
sem wanted for the public service daring the current
year, will be 2,400,000 florins ; and so without any
more ado, his good people are required and ordained
to pay the money forthwith. Is it possible to believe,
that such an usurpation of power will be submitted
to The late King. we know, tried something
in the same easy way of despotism I and we know
also chit -he was foiled in the attempt by the steady
patriotism of the beads of the people. The pre-
sent LSO may perhaps be a man of sterner stuff
sad greater power than his predecessor—be may
justify what BOWILIPARTB is reported to have said of
bids, that 0. If that OM bad 50,000 soldiers. be would
waiumbios a sure Mica& web than he ever bad to
dissatangle."--But, stern and powerful as be is, we
amid sot be surprised if be alsoihould be fated to
ezpseience that there are certain limits which so dee.
potism can pea. wises it has to encounter the spirit of
g brave and enlightened people.

Estrum of a letter just received from an English
Merchant, now resident in Buenos Ayres ;
ee We remain very quiet here, and I think we shall
cootinue so. We shall soon have? larger Bald open
to us, owing to the occupation of Chili by the Pa-
triot armies. This has already given new life to our
commerce, and it seems prohibit that we shall soon
have the valuable market of Peru laid open to this
settlement. The British Government ought to do
all in their power to foster and protect this trade,
which may eventually be a second North America
to us. The Portuguese remain in Monte Video, but
they seem to discover a great backwardness in their
expedition, whatever be its object."

On Monday the Doke of SAII Cacaos, Minister
Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraordinary from,
his Catholic Majesty, arrived in Pordandplace, from
Paris, with his suite.

_
Yesterday Lieutenant-Colonel Sir VICI'OR Vox',
Aasursattl.% and Baron Saimaa, had audiences of
the Panics Recur, presented by Count Mumma,
at Cat lton-House.
Mond.iy, the Bth Italian, the last stone was laid of
the Marquis of Anomie-AVG Column; its elevation i.
100 feet from the bur, standing upon a rock, MO
feet above the level of the Meaai t forming a mem
beautiful and most picturesque object, as viewed in
the sorroanding scenery to a vast expanse.
The Marquis of Hun}l.sv has a large
_Shooting
Party, at his seat &urea Cottage, Scotland.
The Earl of DARTMOV 111 has left his mat Sand-
well Hall, Staffordshire, to join a Shooting Party in
Norfolk.

The Archbishop of CAWTIII3ViT sod Mrs. Maw
sass SUTTON bays left Addington Park, for Rams.
gate.
Lord Coussaaw: is returned from his continental
excursion, and is aria to. be seen in his meal coaaa►e
on the pave.

Among the distinguished persons from England
who have visited Ireland this summer, is the cele-
brated Mr. MALTHUS. his supposed be went to pick
up some new ideas on popolation.
Yesterday evening, about nine o'clock, as ad elderly
Gentleman of the name of MAWS, with a Lady in
'company, was passing the end of Castle-street, Fins-
bury-square, be was attacked by four fellows, who
knocked him down, and ribbed him of his watch,
chain, sod Kahl and although the Alarm was imme. diately On, the villains escaped with their booty.
They appeared to be frost 18 to 20 years of age.
The reams bad sot time to rob the Logy, but they
mach bet. i violent blowia the face.