Star.
London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

THE EV:

ING STAR.

LONDON.

.i...rIiWRPD AY, DECEMBER 17, 1818.
*TRIL Vin*Ds. •
pitti Ojr STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLO:K:
VIARGIC r!CdtlCo(l.77i lief Cent. Cons. shut- --.
for Account, 78if —5 a :ler Cent. 861}
Cent. 9411-5 per Cent*. Navy shut
Omni= # t dis.--Eaybequer Bills 6 14 pre.

Con Sols have experienced another depression. This
ing they commenced at • 781, went to 781; and
78k, and the market looked exceedingly heavy.
monied men are very cautious of buying, and a
farther depression-is fully anticipated. Exchequer
ore falling rapidly--they are done at from ss.
_ss. premium, but bets are made that they will
shortly be done at a discount. Consols at one o'clock
• '

.t another column -we have inserted a letter•from
Thomas Ford, late of East Hoathly, but now of
forfolk, Virginia, sent out 'with ethers, at the ex-
- althe Parish, as an economical way to relieve
Poore-TVS. ••
pon looking into the population and Poor Re-
we find East Hoathly, or Horsthly, has 450
Inhabitants :‘ that the annual value of its real pro-
, y, as assessed April, 181.5, was £2,166 ; the sum
raised by Pcors'-rate, in the year ending 25th May,
was £687 ; and that the number of persons,
including children, relieved from the Poors'-rate,
permanently (there were none occasionally) for chi
year, was twenty-four.
.king for granted the correctness of the state
ment, it does certa nly seem very odd that a Parish
inland should be under the necessity of laying
£2OO for the removal of two workmen and their
lies to another country, where on their arrival'
can immediately earn two dollars a day. We
no doubt, however, that the Parish acted very
ly on this occasion, for fifteen unemployed indi-
tuals woual, in a very few years, have consumed
::h more than the expense of their removal to a
country, from which to return, with their families at
, is next to irwp ossible.
This is ilitlzed the first instance which has come to
kaowledge of a parish sending off a cargo of in-
dustrious Poor to America. It is not unlikely that
- parishes, -.imilarly circumstanced, may deem
Iviiable- to follow the example. It does certainly,
however, seem somewhat odd, that a part of the
-apical of the country, instead of being advantage-
' - employed in setting industrious hands to work,-
should be sacrificed to the necessity of getting rid of
while, at the same time, even the most flourish.
of our manufactures are chiefly supported by the
• exertions and the great privations of the work-
But it is still more singular, that under such
nstances there should he found men in this coup-
. ignorant and stupid, not to say unfeeling and
wicked, as to seek to increase our difficulties by
enhancing the price of bread !
Never was a more impudent robbery attempted
by the men who are now has king about their
intended Petition to Parliament to raise the import
of Wheat to 90s. per quarter, and this, too,
under the pretext, that the share of the increase of
which it falls to their lot to pay, demands:this
merease in the price of the produce of their lands.
is an impudent and untrue assumption. It is
that the increase of taxes by the war has tended
enhance the prices of all articles ; but the extrava-
' increase in the prices of the produce of our
which these men wish still farther to increase,
be attributed to another cause. The United
Kingdom contains about sixty millions of acres of
;vated land, the rents of which have been more
doubled within the last thirty years: but let us
the increase of rent at only £1 per acre, apd,
. at this it follows, that the Land-owners have
subjected the community to a tax of 60 millions a
year—a sum larger than the amount of all the taxes
not only by themselves, but by them and the
Ale population of the United Kingdom. 0, shames
shame! Is this to be endured ?
kr does even this view of their cupidity expose it
half its deformity. The war did not create all
taxes. We were taxed before. The real increase
taxes is about twenty millions. The increase of
rents during that period has been at least sixty
millions—Three times the amount of the increase of
, not merely on the Land-holders, but on the
whole community ! ! and yet they want to tax us still
snore. Take care what you are about ye wholesale
dealers in oppression and robbery! Burn your Peti-
• and instead of seeking to increase, diminish
rents, and fairly bear that share of privation to
which, in common with your fellow-subjects, you
ight to submit !

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning.
The Duke of WELLINGTON was to have left Paris
Sunday morning 'at six o'clock; but at four his
te ACE sent-to the Post-Master, and countermanded
e horses which he had ordered to be in readiness.
bout mid-day his Grace went incognito to the Thuil-
and had a long private conference with the
_ of ANGOOLENE.
Lord Cest LEREAGU had his audience of leave ou