go lated by the price at the company's sales-95 per cent. on that produce; so that the Bohea, which is bought in China at 9d. costs, duty included, about 5s. at the wholesale price in England; so that, when duly intermingled with ash and black-thorn, it may fairly go into the tea-pot at 6s. The company must levy about two millions a year upon the tea-pot. The enormous tax which is thus levied upon tea-drinkers does not all directly into the pockets of the proprietors of India stock, for the mode of conducting the trade seems to be wasteful in the extreme. The freight paid by the company from China in the year 1822 and 1823, has been, on the average, at the enormous rate of 21. 11s. 1d. per ton. There is also a pretty establishment kept up at Canton, in which eight gentlemen, under the modest name of supra-cargoes and writers, receive various salaries and emoluments, from 4,6001. to 10,5001. per annum each; while eleven others, who, from the comparative moderation of their salaries, we suppose are not full-grown writers, but merely makers of pot-hooks and hangers, are paid at various rates, rapidly ascending from 701. to 2,5001. per anIt is not to be supposed however, that these gentlemen maintain themselves on their salaries; for a sum of 13,000l. to 14,4781. a year is set down for their maintenance. It must be extremely consolatory to the drinkers of Bohea at 6s. a pound, that the business of shipping it at Canton is managed, among others, by two baronets! We shall give our readers the salaries of these gentlemen in 1821-22 : num. Whereof have died under 2 years Between 2 and 3 years 517 2 966. 593 Miscarriage 3 84 Mortification 232 1 Palsy.... 144 1 Rheumatism Scrophula. 14 this year 350 Small Pox. 725 Sore Throat, or Quinsey 13 52 Abscess. 96 Stillborn 824 Age and Debility 20 Apoplexy 333 Stoppage in the Stomach 18 Asthma.. 716 Suddenly 104 Bile 2 Teething 388 Cancer 98 Thrush 65 Childbed 169 Tumour 10 Cholera Morbus 2 Venereal 4 Consumption Convulsions 2772 Croup 94 Diabetes 1 Diarrhoea 5 Total of Diseases.. 19882 CASUALTIES. Dropsy.. 1 ... Dropsy in the Brain 30 Dropsy in the Chest 73 Choaked 1 Dysentery.. 2 Drowned 149 Enlargement of the Heart, 9 Excessive Drinking 5 Epilepsy 45 Executed* 5 Eruptive Diseases 27 Found dead 5 Erysipelas 14 Fractured 40 Fever 750 Frighted 1 37 Killed by Falls and several Fever (Intermittent or Ague) 2 other Accidents... 86 Fistula Flux 2 Ossification of the Heart 1 Gout 4 Hæmorrhage 31 Scalded.. 4 2 Hernia 1 Hooping Cough 627 Smothered 1 Hydrophobia 7 Starved... 1 Inflammation 2116 Inflammation of the Liver.. 137 Suffocated. 5 52 Insanity 144 Jaundice There have been executed within the buils of mortality 10; only 5 have been reported as such. SPEECH OF THE KING OF FRANCE, "I am happy to be able to congratulate you on the benefits which Divine Providence has bestowed on my people, on my army, and on my family, since the last sitting of the chambers. "The most generous as well as the most just of enterprises, has been crowned with complete success. "France, tranquil at home, has nothing more to fear from the state of the Peninsula; Spain, restored to her king, is reconciled with the rest of Europe. "This triumph, which offers such sure pledges to social order, is due to the discipline and bravery of a French army, conducted by my son, with as much wisdom as valour. "A part of this army has already returned to France; the other shall not remain in Spain, except for the time necessary to secure the internal peace of that country. "It is to you, gentlemen, it is to your patriotism, that I wish to owe the establishment of so satisfactory a state. Ten years of experience have taught all Frenchmen not to expect true liberty except from the institutions which I founded in the charter. This experience has at the same time led me to recognize the inconveniences of a regulatory disposition, which requires modifying, in order to consolidate my work. "Repose and fixed purpose are, after long struggles, the first necessity of France. The present mode of renewing the chamber does not attain this object. A project of law will be laid before you for a septennial renewal. "The short duration of the war the prosperous state of the public revenue-the progress of credit, give me the satisfaction of being able to announce to you that no new tax, or new loan, will be necessary to cover the expenses of the year just past. "The resources appropriated for the current service will suffice. Thus you will not find any obstacle in anterior expenses, in the way of ensuring the service of the year, the budget of which will be laid before you. "The union which exists between my allies and me, my friendly relations with all other states, guarantee a long enjoyment of general peace. The interests and the wishes of states agree in removing every thing which might trouble it. "I have hope that the affairs of the east, and those of Spanish and Portuguese America, will be regulated for the greatest advantage for the states and people whom they interest, and for the greatest developement of the commercial relations of the world. "Already numerous channels are regularly opened to the products of our agriculture and our industry: sufficient maritime forces occupy the stations most suited for the efficacious protection of this commerce. "Measures are taken to ensure the re-payment of the capital of the rentes created by the state in times less favourable, or to obtain their conversion into stock, bearing interest more conformable with those of other transactions. "This operation, which must have a happy influence on agriculture and commerce, will, when it is completed, allow the reduction of taxes, and the closing of the last wounds of the revolution. 66 "I have made known to you my intentions, and my hopes. It is in the improvement of our internal si tuation tuation that I shall always look for the power of the state, and the glory of my reign. "Your concurrence is necessary to me, gentlemen, and I rely on it. God has visibly seconded our efforts: you may attach your names to an era happy and memorable for France You will not reject such an houour." ་་ MADRID, JAN. 2.: The king our sovereign has issued the following decree : The violence with which several corps of my armies, turning against my royal person the arms which I had put into their hands, compelled me to recognize and swear to, on the 7th of March, 1820, the political constitution of the Spanish monarchy, could not fail to attract the attention of all the sovereigns of Europe. Their thrones were endangered by the horrible crime which had been committed against mine. "Masters of the government, the conspirators and their accomplices did not fail soon to throw aside the mask, under which they had dis guised the true object of their mysterious designs. Blinded by their triumph, they did not dissemble that the constitution of Cadiz was not the final object of their desires, nor Spain the only theatre where the spirit of rebellion was to display its dreadful fury. The maxims of sedition and anarchy spread among the people the spoliation and humiliation of the elevated classes the gross insults, both in words and deeds, directed against the majesty of my person and all the royal family the usurpation, sometimes surreptitious, sometimes violent, of my legitimate authority; and lastly, the scandalous degradation of the holy religion of Jesus Christ, barbarously insulted and persecuted in the persons of its ministers, left no doubt, even to the least clear-sighted, that in the dark machinations of the secret societies, Spain was irrevocably condemned to cease to be a monarchy. The revolutions of Naples, Turin, and Lisbon, contrived one after the other, by the same means, and on the same principles, completed the conviction of the sovereigns, that no throne could be in safety without cutting off at once all the heads of the hydra which threatened to devour the universe. Such was the object, equally noble and important, of their frequent meetings. Certainly, but for the resolutions, which for the salvation of the human race prevailed in the congresses of Laybach and Verona, a great part of civilized Europe, deluged in its blood, would now be the prey of ignorant and presumptuous reformers. "A single effort of the powerful emperor of Austria sufficed to put an end in a few days to the troubles of Naples and Piedmont. A similar effort of the most christian king sufficed, in like manner, to make the edifice of the constitution throughout the Peninsula fall to ruin on its authors. Emboldened by the presence of my well-beloved cousin, the duke of Angouleme, and his valiant army, the immense majority of my subjects hastened to overthrow the trophies which stupidity had erected to revolt, and to re-establish the ancient institutions which had made the happiness of their fathers. Conducted by victory, the son of France flies to the banks of the Gaudelete-he attacks he carries the Trocadero: he fills my oppressors with terror, and at length I and my family are free. Glory be to God! "In the midst of the griefs with which my heart is afflicted, at the sight of the condition to which three years of suffering have reduced my kingdoms, I have seen with satisfaction that my supreme council of the Indies, moved by its constant zeal for the good of my service, was eager to propose to me by its deliberation of the 30th of October, the measures which appeared to it the most proper to alleviate the evils caused by the revolution of the Peninsula, in that part of my possessions. Adopting the opinion of the said council, I ordain as follows:"1. In all my dominions in America, a solemn Te Deum shall be celebrated, in gratitude to the Almighty for the blessing which in his infinite mercy he has granted to the whole nation, in preserving me and all my royal family safe and unharmed amidst such great and continual dangers. "2. The political constitution of the Spanish monarchy is for ever abolished in my said dominions in America. Their governments are re-established conformably to the laws and ordinances existing before the 7th of March, 1820. "3. The political chiefs, the provincial deputations, the constitutional municipalities, their secretaries, officers, and dependents, shall immediately cease their functions. "4. The newly established courts of justice shall also cease their func tions. 5. The militia created by the cortes, under the name of national, shall be immediately dissolved. The individuals comprising it shall give up their arms and equipments before they return to their homes. "6. The suppressed communities shall return to their convents, and be reinstated in their possessions, comprehending those which have been alienated in any manner whatsoever. "7. I confirm the favours and employments which may have been granted during the constitutional government, in my possessions in America; provided, however, that they are not derived from the constitution; that they are not of new creation; and that those who have obtained them have not rendered themselves unworthy of them by their conduct. 8.. With the exception of what is determined by the preceding ar ticle, any office which may have become vacant by the discharge or unjust removal of him who held it, shall be restored to him if he desires it, with the exception of him who shall have been put in his place. In consequence, I order my viceroys, courts of justice, captains-generals, governors, and intendants; and I charge the most reverend archbishops and bishops, deans and chapters of the metropolitan churches and cathedrals of my kingdom of the Indies, of the adjacent islands, and of the Philippines, to fulfil and cause to be executed, each as far as he is concerned, my royal will, such as it is here above expressed. "Done at the palace, the 31st of December, 1823.". The king, our master, desiring to recompense the services and the fidelity of the minister de capa y espada don Lopez d'Alcaraz, and the intendants of the army, Don Ant. Gongora, and Don Joachim de Peralta y Sauz, has, by a decree signed by his hand, nominated them directors-general of the revenues of the kingdom. Father Cordon, provincial of the jesuits in Spain, has commanded all the priests of the order to celebrate masses in gratitude for the happy deliverance of the king of Spain, and all those of the society who are not priests to offer up prayers. The |