The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-12 00:00:00

which made part of the aforessid cargoes, either on
estimate or as securities, shall pay the amount
thereof before the 15th of next October. Those
to who'll they hat bead" daliveted• vtithout a pre-
vious valuation shag pat th; amount at the cirrent
price on 4be.Amilterdm ;Exchange. Thist price
shall be settled by a nin airy before the 10th of
Octr;ber;and the paynkut of theValtie then fixed
must be made before the. Ist eNovepther. An Inv
spector,ot the customs shall. be syrup Polland to
superintend the regulations prescribed by this De-
cree, and to report thereon to our Director-Genc.•
ral.' "

A letter from Lisbon, brought by a passenger in
the Marlborough packet, after stating the retreat
of the allied army, continues thus :—`• The Ansa.
:ours Portuguese frigate sailed a few days ago with
some of the conspirators. Tier destination was nut
known, but sUpposecl to be for Madeira or Terceira.
The Lavinia British frigate tailed at the same time,
having on board Dos JUAN SEDASTIAN CA/JAMAS°,
B. DuroutE, ALMEIDA, the surgeon, and PELLE.
G RINI, the artist. Report says they are bound fur
England."

Letters were yesterday received from Konings-
burgh, dated the 28th ultimo, which state,. that (es.
TAVUS ADOLPHUS had hired a boat at Pillan, for the
purpose of being conveyed to Sweden, but,that his
intention was discovered, and he was arrested by the
police officers when about to embark. It is.added,
that he was immediately sent off under a strong
guard to Riga. Letters have also been received
from Pctersburgh to the 24th ult. but they contain
nothing new.

According to a demi-ofileial-statemeot of the
produce of the TAXES, for the quarter ending the
lUth inst. it appears that there is no falling oti in
the Treasury receipts, but, on the contrary, an
increase. On this, some of our Journals boast of
the GROWING prosperity of our country ; and the,
recent failures, and distresses in the City, and every
n here else, they now hold very cheaply. Now,
it is plain "enough, that this conclusion is not infal-
lible. The country may be getting poorer every
day, and yet the Government wore rapacious,
and, of course, more rigorous in the collec-
tion of Taxes.—Oh, but .• it is not any exceed-
ings of rigour that have made. this excess of
the Taxes ! for there is the Lpgary Tax, that
has been unusually .productive and there is
the Stamp on Deeds, that has been the same.
Very welt!. let ns seertrowittis prom prosperity.
If ti.e Legacy Tax has exceeded its former pro.
duce, that catt only prove ,that more persons of
property have died than I*tal, and that dries not
necessarily make the Nation richer. s truth, it
naturally makes the nation poorer ; fur every time
the property is shifted from .one possessor to ano-
ther, by legacy, the GOvernment gets.a share, and
what the Government gets, we know, is:a treat
pdrtion of it squandered away in expeditions, and
fightings, or non:fightings, never to return
to the country again. Yoar legacy,tax, therefore,
may impoverish, and does_ tend to. impoverish the
nation, but cannot enrich it. Oh, but there is the
stamp on deeds ! Well! What of that ? It is of the
same kind as the legacy-tax, that is to say, it is
money paid the Government on the shifting of pro.
'may, and money which will go the same way as the
legacy-tax, in foolish expeditions, and in supporting
e‘pensive but uselesrarmamenis. Nothing of all this
is any symptom of being enriched. The dying
even of one half of the nation, is no proof of its get-
ting rich ; and the changing of property by salts
is some proof of poverty ; for in times of distress
it is that sales are most frequent, as Auctioneers
and Jobbers can tell you.—But there is another
source of the increase of the Revenue which the
Boasters have forgotten. There arc about sixty.
millions sterling of British merchandize exported;
which has paid a revenue to the Government, but
will uever return its first cost to the country. Will
this enrich you ? Why ! if so, it is an esti), matter
to be rich ; for it is only for all your Merchants.
to ten:tent to send' their *arse out of the errantry
by sea; with directions to the supercargoes to throw
them overboard in a certain :atitudc ! Really this
is carrying- the jest of 'inane reasoning: too fur!
Aud yet,• of this 'stuff is • made' more • than half of
the reasoning used by the abettors of, Ministers !
Surely, there can be uo need
.to ;go further in the
refuting. of this !

We have given an article from. The Timesb re-
. ,
spectitilthe distresstaof Holland. ...We4oneur en-
tiicly with that Paper in its opinion of 13otv,a.
exiiTs ; and we think the picture Holland con.
tained in that article is substantially, accurate.
There is no doubt, that BONAPIRTE is a tyrant;
there is no doubt, that he is rilvacieus, and faith.
less, and remorseless; And when the persons
who wield the powers of GoverOsent .are of that
description, it is not in nature that the people
who, are subject to them should be happy ; it is
not in nature, that they should not be miserable !
But we wish to make some application of this in-
telligence from Holland to our own case. We wish
it to be liken as a warning to this nation, for to
that point is she going, And propelled on by the
saint! cause. Who has more rapacity than ourT Az.
mAkcas ? And if these men have not annihilated,

without compepsation., two-thirds of the Public
D.tbt,.it is, Only because they would by that pot a
stop at once tolls° rubbery of the people, annul
ally .of many millions, by Loan:, which' is only
another word fur fraudulent levies. Their fu
bearance in not taking two-thirds of the property.
of the public creditor away, proceeds from the
-Same 'motive as their lenity (011ie hOuse of-Gor.o.
bSIID. They feared to toUch theianctuary of their
loan transactions. To get the people's money by
Taxes, is not half food enough for their keen ap.
petite fur plunder ; and if loan: could be annihi-
lated, they would pine away with despair as well
as abstinence. As to the perfidy of these men,
look at IRELAND! Has BONAPARTE dune any
thing more faithless to HOLLAND than they have to
IRELAND? We say—No! our any thing half so cruel !
I W ! what do you talk of the Hollanders' distress ?
Is nobody to have any feelings but the Hollander ?
Is an Irishman to lie on the same rack, and be
silent? Have nut Ministers taken .the property of
Irishmen, in a manner more distressing than the
robbery upon the Hollanders, and preceded by,
and accompanied with cruelty of a more malignant
nature? They tortured Ireland before they robbed
her, and they mock her now that both are dine !
Talk of bad 'qualities, such is tyranny, cruelty,
perfidy, and rapacity, and match your Ministers.
if you can ! But shall not the same causes have the
same results hero as in Ireland, as in Holland
Will the People of England for ever escape
the hut result of these wicked dispositions ?
Will not they, like the Irish and the Hollanders,
come to the extremest wants that men can
bear ? Why ! infatuated Englishmen, half of you
have come to. that already—you,and your wires, and
children ! The fate of Holland is mercy, and peace,
and plenty, compared with yours; for if two-thirds
of the Hollander!: property is taken away,'the re-
mainder will purchase comparative plenty, and you
have not money to give your children the food that
health requires ! If we had time, we might talk to
you too of INDIA! Who that hates BONAPARTE'S
oppression of the Dutch will not feel too for INDIA.
Let INDIA and let IRELAND be blotted from the'
map, and froin man's recollection,. before we go
upon the Continent to weep over the Miseries of any
people!

It is said in the City, that. the owner of a trans-
port, which lately conveyed troops to Lisbon, had
received a letter from the Captain of his vessel,
stating, that he was ordered round to Mondego
Bay, to receive troops on board-; and kis con.
eluded, that Lord. WELL' Proton is about to re-cm.
bark. Ministers, however, we understand to be
in high spirits, expecting the issue of aigeneral bat.
tle in Portugal. The scheme, it is reported to us,;
is this :—The transports are to go to Mondego
13;1 ;. and when Lord WELLINarom knows they ire-
arrived there, he is to give the enemy battled „This
will not street our reasoning on this, subject, not even
if'my Lord WELLINGTON wins. Ho cannot keep
the country by a victory.' He must annihilate the
large army of MASSENA to do that.—But the wise
men of Oporto have got into high spirits. • A let.
ter from that plate states,- that MASSENA, with
75,000 men, is surrounded by the Allied Army,
although that never was stated at more thin •60,000,
men !—We believe there will be a battle, far we
do not think Lord WELLINGTON
.made of .stuff to
come away Without—but we find tto,consolatiotf is
this now. •

This being the settling day in the Stock'Exchange,
great cariosity was excited respecting the transac.
Lions of Messrs. Gor,osatio's House, 'who; ive un-
derstand, have settled their accounts of the dal,
and the price of Stocks is much the same as yes.
tcrday.

We learn, that the report of the state of 'the
Princess AssELIA, at Windsor, this inorning,up to
about eleven o'clock, was, that• h r Royal
ness slept three hours last' right, and was, this
morning, exactly in du* same state as .yesterday.

His SICILIAN •Masitsze• has instituted 1, Third
• Class of the Order of Ferdinand .stitl Mc4t, and-has;
Amused it to be intimated •twAr Jelin STU A NT: with
a regnest,that he will particularize sal tbe
duals Of the British 'army who taaydiitingn.ish.thens-
selves against the enemy. A similar comsounicatiun.
was made to the Admiral commanding the 13r1tiqh
naval fories upon the station.. .
A le!ter from the Pot:sone frigate,,dated at Malta,.
Aug. 31, states, that Luctey BONAP.A turgid. coin..
lug to England in the Poonane, together with' all his
family and property, and 'kit he will have his choke
of either remaining in this country or proceeding to
America.
The boats of his Majesty's ship Sarpedon, under
the direction of Lieutenant Donellan, on the 7th
inst. attaCked'a vessel under the batteries' of Devc,
near Havre, and succeeded in capturing her, after
an obstinate resistance of above an hour, during
which time the enemy kept up a heavy discitarge of
artillery and musketry. Although several shot pass-
ed through the. boats and:hull of the vessel, forte.
nately not a min was hurt.
Two companies of artillery. under the command
of Captains IlAwKsa and MEADOWS, sailed on
Monday last from Plymouth for Lisbon.
The Duchess of GORDON arrived on Wednesday
night from Ireland, at the Duchess of MA NZIIESTLA'S.
house in Baker-street.
Last week a sumptuous entertainment was given
by Lord AMarius BICAUCLIRK, on board the
Royal Oak, at Spithead, to the Duke and Duchess
of.v. A Lean's, Lord SPENCER, Lord and Lady
Ilom.A.Nos and a numerous party of fashiucables.