The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-19 00:00:00

• ", THE SrIDEiVCE TAKEN BEFORE THE AGRI, CULTURAL COMMITTEE, After the lapse of some months, i. at lenctlielgh . - fished, and has seen in the hands of the priviieg4 a week or ten days. It is nn'st unnecessarily imr4leii some, and expensively cumbrous, extending to nearly five hundred folio pages of printing, such as is usn - ally executed at the cost of the public, by the order of the House of Commons. It has all the appearance of a most curious and important document, published ' in compliance with common usage and common de cency, in a form and hulk to render it as little accts• s'ble as possible to the public at large; a document whirls ought to have been condensed into as small a cornrows, as possible, and to have been ordered to be read iu every Church and Chapel in the Kingdom—von, it is a document, from the contests of which the Agri cultural Committee has pronounced that, under pre sent eireamstauees, it is impossible to Jima without 10,8 , .= Ihers, and occupiers of land, throughout the ronntrf, have been plainly told that the same Com mitteecan recommend nothing to alter those circum stances so that the whole body of agriculturists of the eitintry are turned over to be the sport of chance, or consiged to be the victims of despair. The influence Ministers are known to possess in the nominating of committees, the notoriety of Lord Londonderry having what is technically (and we suppose also literally) called eve maaar,•ement Vila house of Commons, his conduct at the sittings of the committee, and his polite attention to the members of it at its dissolution, warrant the con -elusion, that it is the opinion of Ministers,—First, that it is impossible, under present circumstances, to farm without Loss;—and, secondly, that it is out of their power to alter these circumstances. Thus, has the dis covery of the desperate state of the Agricultural inter ests been at length made! Discovery did we call it i Can that now be discovery to them, which has been long known and proclaimed by others, who hare not half the opportunity for ascertaining the facts which they pos sess? Can that be discovery which has been the sub ject of fatal experience fur six years ? if Ministers have been ignorant of the real state of the Farming interests up to the period of the sitting of the late committee, such ignorance is most gross, must culpable, almost mi. raculous. lint if otherwise—if they were aware of the r:111 situation of the country,—then, by that country have they acted most treacherously, and its best interests they have sacrificed most unpardonably. But, be this as it may, Ministers afford to the farmer ta hope of remedy; and sure are we that the present de plorably wet and expensive harvest will give them no re lief, though it will impose additional evils on the public. It is now acknowledged that the charges of production, in the articles of farm•produce, greatly exceed the prices the country can afford to pay, or their present (item:t -ea:lces" will admit of being paid. This we long ago said was the case; but we were scoffed at. We never, however, so much or so greatly despaired of the country, in our most gloomy moments, as to believe the distress the occupiers of land have long suffered, and which the landlords are about to suffer, admits not of remedy.— A constitutionally Reformed Parliament would remedy the matter in a trier ; persistance in the present corrupt system never will. Let the landlords, and the yeomanry ani tenantry of the country look to this, before it be toe late to work out thei r salvation SPA! N. The following are the Proclamations referred to yes ter!ay in the account of the agitations at Saragossa, sill of which we were compelled to postpone the trans lation for want of time . rnori.AMATION IIY TUE pot,ITIelL CIIIET. Inhabitants of Saragossa,—Amidst the agitation I cOorerve amoar you, and which the voice of my autho rity is about to calm, my silence may have appeared astonishing. Reports are spread that new enemies of order are working against the system of the G wernment to which the King and the nation have sworn. These reports alarm and fill you with indignatior, and vow would have before now been e %ger to overthrow them, had they not been buried in obscurity. But, inhabitants of Saragossa, what ever enetnit;s you may have, you have nothing to fear. Me vigilance follows their steps, and every thing in consistent with order, or which might disturb your repose, will be immediately dissipated. Icor pro perty and your persons, the preservation of your inpireeptible rights, the religion of your fathers, and that constitution to which you swore on the s!h of March, are under the safeguard of all the energy of my power. The machinations of those who attempt openly or in the dark to destroy this fundamental law, will be rendered abortive by the courage of the brave troops and national guards, directed by Chiefs who have given them so many profs of attachment, The Constitution, and no thing but the Constitution!' Inhabitants of Sara gossa, The Constitution or death !"fliese are the cries a thousand times repeated in this capital. We will preserve the Constitution, because the nation wills it, and because it is the system best suited to its glory and prosperity. Penetrated with these sediments, unite your efforts to mine; banish all distrust. No obstacle can withstand the intimate union of men who wish only the happiness of their . country. (Signed) " FRANCISCO Blonzua,'oliti.ca l C • " Saragossa, Aug. !S." PROCLAMATION BY GENERAL RIRGO. Brave Soldiers and Patriots of the Army of Arra gon, whom 1 have had the honour to "command for eight months'.—Finding myself deprived, in the must irregular manner, of the military command of the province—a proceeding doubtless instigated by the most atrocious calumny—l have an unspeakable pleasure in giving this public testimony that I have al .vays found among you the strictest discipline, joined with the purest patriotism. _ _ _ " Yon know the Constitutional doctrine which I hive endeavoured to inculcate in your winds on the general parades, and in the patriotic societies, and even in the church, where, through the medium of your Chaplains. I have caused the advantagei of our immortal code to be explained to you. " Read the despatch, a copy of which I subjoin, and compare it with the ordnance you have doubtless al- 'rug STA' ready read, by which l am dip' sived of the COMMIIII4I of this provincr. [The deipateli referred to is remit the lkilnister of iVar, under date the 23d of June, refusing Meet the permission he bad asked to go abroad, on the ground that liis presence was necessary in Spain, until the constitutional system should . be consolidated, and all the intended reforms completed.] " Be comforted, my dear companions in arms, and be assured that your fellow-countryman and General trill never swerve from the path which he has elialked cut for himself, and that his zeal and love for the con stitution will for ever glow in his heart. " Pinn, Sept. 3. "RAVAEL nen Risco." The Courier Fivngais contains the follAing par ticulars An infinite number of reports are in circulation re specting the cause of the dismissal of General Riego, and tin the plot mentioned in the proclamations of .the Political Chief. The trial of the persons arrested, which has begun, will disclose the truth. On the 4th Sept., the eve of the day of which the letters that bale reached Bayonne were written, the Political Chief published the following proclamation - Inhabitants of Saragos=a,---Langnsge offensive to the person of the Don Rafael Riego, Camp Marshal of the national armies, hss within these few days been reported to me, and particularly on the evening . of the 2d. I have with pain observed that some from igno rance, and others from malevolence, have t wished to make it be believed that the measure of' the Govdrn ment which deprives him of the military command of this province had some connexion with the facts re specting which a criminal process is instituted in this capital. " This is an error which might injure the reputa tion of the General, and 1 cannot and ought not to to lerate any persons, whatever may be their rank, tode chic in any manner against the General, or to endea vour to persuade the credulous, that the order of de parture for Lerida was grounded on any crime. The command of the troops of a province is an authority which the Government confers on whom it thinks fit, comfortably to article 171 of the constitution, without any obligation to make known the reasons of the change; and according to the constitution the with drawing of the commission of commander, or the giving it to another, carries with it no idea of crime on the part of the officer who is the object of such a measure. "According to this Constitutional principle, the de cision of the Government, in virtue of which Don Ra fael Reigo ceases to command in this province, in no way wounds either the dignity or the reputation of that officer, since he preserves all the ranks, honours, and recompenses which the nation has bestowed on him for his distinguished services. " Liberty and order! These are the two bases on which the edifice of the Constitution rests. Liberty amidst disorder would lead us to anarchy, and finally to despotism. Were every citizen to dictate new laws, or to decide as he might please on the lives and pro perties of other, the Government and the Congress of our representatives would be powerless. as. well as the tribunals and all the authorities that watch over the security and tranquillity of Spanish citizens. Let there be amongst us no divisions or parties. Those who dare by injurious expressions to blacken the cha racter of any person before the organ of the law has pronounced its decision, or who seek to disturb the tranquillity of this pacific city, under the pretext of avenging the honour of others, are equally enemies of the Constitution and the country, and as such shall be pursued a , :tl punished according to law. . "If the partisans of servitude hope to obtain some advantage over the Constitutional system by putting forward as a pretext certain measures or dispositions of the Government, they will find themselves mistaken. Be it known to them, that such an illusion can only serve to accelerate their destruction and their ruin. Would to God that the day may soon arrive when all Spaniards will have the same ideas and sentiments. Until then all trite patriots ought to be convinced that the authorities will uaceasingly pursue the partisans and the agents of the servile faction—a faction which is most weak and contemptible, if we remain united. " FRANCISCO MOREDA, Pol i trial Chief. "Saragossa, Sept. 4." _ DISCOVERIES IN EGVPT.—We copy from the .4,64.1 term the followingestract of a letter from Rome, dated August 1621 :—" A young Englishman of the name of Waddington, who has lately arrived in this city, has penetrated upwards of 600 leagues above the second cataract, in following the army of the Pac h a of Egypt. In the whole of tbeway, he fell in with only a few small Egyptian monuments, in isolated situations, and of no very remote date ; but on his arrival at Schayni, where the Pacha encamped, lie discovered thirty-five pyramids of from 50 to 120 feet in height, but in a very ruinous state. He also saw seven or eight templesi of which one (upwards of 300 feet in length') was covered with hieroglyphics. It is probably in the neighbourhood of these ruins that search should be madateeNaboths, and not the Meroe of the ancients. This traveller has copied some very curious (heel: inscriptiOns. lie assures us that he has seen nothing in his travels comparable to the monuments of Nubia. and that he considers that province as the cradle of the arts in Egypt. On Thursday last, Mr. Rush, the American Am bassador, and his suite, accompanied by Vice-Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell, Sir Archibald Christie, Sic. visited the Duck-yard at Chatham, and were sliewn over every part of it by Commissioner Sir Hebert Har low, with the order and excellent arrangement of which his Excellency expressed himself highly gra tified. On Friday, accompanied as before, he went on board the Bulwark, where he was received under a salute of 13 guns, which after he inspected he returned to Rochester on his way back to London. ' John Herbert Harrington, Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service, bas been appointed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, to a provisional seat in the Supreme Cotiocil at Fort William, Bengal. On Friday last a violent torrent swept away the bridge at Glandulas, near Newtown, Montgomery shire. The inhabitants of Llanhaiadr vu Muchnant, Denbighshire, were shrown iuto great consternation by dreadful thunder and lightning s avSaturday se'n night. A great quantity of *le was spoiled .in the -village by the lightning, and the heath on the adja cent hills were set on tire in various places, which was as soon quenched , . by the rain which Afterwards poured in torrents. Three cows were • killed at ;ire Wern, and several Cattle injured. In the • neighbour hood.—(Conirion.) HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 6 min. after 9.—Evening 42 min after 9. LONDON: II EDNESDAY EVENING, REPTSMBER 19, 1821. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The funds are looking up this morning in cunse• quence, it is maid, of Government being in Possession of accounts that no war will take place on the Conti nent.—Uonsols are 76a. The Gaicitc of last night contains more interest ing news than usual. It confirms the report of his MAJESTY'S intention of going out of the Kingdom for a short time, and announces the appointment of Lords Justices to administer the tiovernment of the Country during his absence. It further states the prorogation Of Parliament ; and the removal of Sir RounuT WIL SON from his MAJESTY'S service. " The fact that Sir RonEttx WILSON bas been re moved from his NI AJesrv's service is," as The New l Times says, "no longer doubtful : it appears in the shape of a memorandum in the Gazette ;" but, as of course, nothing more is there stated than that the KING has been pleased to remove him from the service, we would again consult our courtly oracle, as we did yesterday, to try to discover the reasons that occa sioned the removal. The oracle, however, though not silent, is as ambiguous as heretofore. " The reasons which may have induced the Government to adopt such a proceeding are not specified, nor could they be expected to be so, A few days will probably render them sufficiently obrioleit." Referring, then, to "some designs of an important nature" which the Morn ing Chronicle bad hinted as " obviously in the contem plation of Ministers," the New Times says, g‘ if from the examinations" which the Chrosiele tells us " have been lately going on," any thing has transpired to fix on one or more individuals the guilt of plotting an opposition to the KING'S forces likely to lead to bloodshed, we think Ministers would betray their duty to the country,t, they did not prosecute the offenders with the utmost rigour of the law. In these sentences, coupled with those we extracted yesterday from the same paper, and with the scrutiny of the Justices at Hammersmith, and the subsequent removal of Sir ltonaux WiLsos from his Majesty's service, the ulterior designs of Ministers, relative, to the gallant General, it will not be difficult to perceive. The rebuke of the Life Guards to the City Blades has completely disconcerted their measures. They who had gone begging for subcriptiens to remunerate men who refuse their rewards, now go about getting some other class of people to accept the rejected money. On closing their subscription! they-had pro posed to divide the amount, in some proportion or other, between the Lift Guards, who had been dis tinguished by their activity and sufferings on the 14th of Aug., and the Blues who had been admired for their forbearance and good order on that melancholy day, and who on that account had not likened at all.— Defeated, however, in their views, in the first and most important instance, by the refusal of the former Teeniest, they at present du not seem disposed to risk the spurn which they calculate fey would The Blues, they are aware, w, design ; for all the schemes of and transparent and brittle as , they do with the sum they h were any folks so troubled wit in getting it together, or sci . Tliti6l4 per persons to accept it ! As it a military purpose, as a solabe previous service, and a stimuli spirit on an occasion of a sit thought fit to offer to tl Royal Alilitary Asylum, that which was intended for the Lifi recei therance of the interests of tha, by a wish that the Donation mi preserve a memorial of the circi rise to it. At th ' e•ssme time, home, the generous managers pose that such subscribers as propriation of their money, dissent and have their money rei position we, and we doubt not, corned, very heartily subscribe cause we scarcely know a set of notions they entertain as to the and under the mortification about it, are greater objects of , the subscribers themselves. Si is stated respecting the parties under fictitious signatures ; bu! ceive can be soon removed. These are well known to the managers, cognized as the men with The gentleman, for instance, vereien for 10s. Gd., is., these sums set down as cot dle and lower classes of sociei avoid betraying himself whet displayed and praised. Still, remaining after subscribers hal of the offer to refund, and Royal military Asylum, like ti should refuse 'to accept it, managers what to do; and to correspond by advertise mittee of the Regimental fund have learned to appreciate the has governed that regiment, sceud for once to receive and they would really act with an: in; which they profess to oppreci we would advise them to thani to the relatives of the unfortur the lamented shots of the Life of August. The men who the evidence on both the inquest void of offence. Their beretv more clear of imputation ; orphan's claims are urgent possess any delieav of feeli Life Guards themselves did ni inentlation. Perhaps the saw them to decline the offer of the them to decline the offer of du our part feel no delicacy as commendation; and as the Lii estimation of minds not partia refusal of the remuneration reds so we urge the managers of tb try to do likewise. No mails having arrived froi a late hour this forenoon, we light from that quarter upon issue there. In the absence however, we have a report on relative to the matters in dispi the Porte ; and this report is know not from what authori have been pat into circnlatit English Government, to balance got into currency. as an extra( Emperor Alexander to his Impel and wh*.ela had too many hose' sistent with a long continnani tract states, that although the including the Empress another, of Russia are bent on war, he, for peace, and will prove that language appears to us not rt general character of ALEXAN' even an Autocrat of all the countries that possess and boast portion of freedom than Rnssi, of an Emperor or King count of his people; bat in Russia, allowed to law by some classes of the higher class. when I are reported to have since take' a Sovereign himself. In another have given a translation of the Proclamations which were issued in consequence of the agitation it Saragossa, of which we yesterday detailed as su ck as we could then learn of the occasion. The eq . . of these proclamations, with all the accounts of d' e affair, we have hitherto had only from the From Ministerial Papers, and though the accounts Of am be altogether false, they appeal not so corm or so complete as we could wish. The .lJ' for instance, would implicate Rice in a c f . spiracy, with the design of placing himsel t f at t° head of a Republican party. Snell a rumour, i aPPet a* ' taeta d ‘ prevailed, sad was the cause of much ferment ecerre frorn —l' th e fau lt : ~ , 4 • i (:"8511"sf t w h r gt i l a lit u v ele t l e :Bl i s e : i d o ae l ed l i l e n te i l t hra e g : d r i te i g ? t i I . t i kti n 4 e 81516 T ' :ever with money; so trow e l ed it had been collected i v ice" for the severities inks to excite a s similar kind, it is ow the Governors of d i . tat portion of the mei % • Life Guards, for the fee, hat Charity, accompanied may be so recorded,as t o circumstances which p re s: ne, as charity begins aa. rs of the subscription pre. as disapprove of this sp. ', should intimate then r refunded. To this pro. it, the most of those eon. be ; and we especially, be. , of beings, who, whit the k' be application of stoner. 4 *. a they have experi ew o of pity and charity then Some difficulty, indeed, ties who have subscribed , , but the difficulty we con- These parfies (doubtless rers, and can be as easilyre. th swiss' in their shoes. ce, who changed his so. , and 2s. 6d., and Lad ' contributions of the mid- iciety, could not pouibly hen his trick was soul( 11, if there be any surplei have had reasonable notice d if the Governed of the e the other militiifloodies, t, we would aegis* de .. ad since they condemei isements with tbe•• or ! id of the lot Life-guarX . _ he delicacy of feeling w t, we hope they will c (nd adopt our counsel:lllf any of that delimit*. (predate in the Life Oiards, thani fest some parties of it rtunate persons who dial by ife Guards on the fatal 1461 i j fell, it was dassertessodil sqnests, were peaceable ash (reeved families were still ; and the widows sad the at and tonchiag to allot* eling. We regret that the d not anticipate oar rem. Ime delicacy which induced the remuneration, proepled E their suggestions. Int as an obstruction to cam Life Guards, even is do rtial to them, have by du a redeemed their character, f the contribution to go aga i 11. . -- from the Continent up is we are deprived of any fresh . on the important points A • 1 :e of foreign intelligeste..; an 'Clianze this meruinp ispute between Russia aid is pacific. Perhaps, as as : , lenity it proceeds, it or ation in the name of the 'lance another, which had ,ract of a letter from the imperial brother of Austria, )stile indications to be cos- lance of peace. This et the whole Imperial family, her, the troops. and peork he, ALEXANDER, iS "ak ia tat he is Emperor." Sidi very consistent whit tls ANDER, nor very safe la e Russia* to express- l' boast of an infinitely lair aria, there may he o°d an g ef unteractiug the inelinstiess a, though little liberty is t i :J a e , c s e t o ut i f eg t irr h e e ab p t eeontpl liberties e iss ht tl e peoplemsr: irj,u —ln another column se :efsttithiceleeiredosPeoycrrasidtiliatenma.iaaltegid:i tnhasateiosircotwashoicioach: it la all fromh theae e 0 :o o t • Ft the ad only though the accounts soF they appeal Dot so corral old wish. The Ai ley plicat ! . 111__ieg i. o z_s tl if is:: .:, . r SAN, To the WORTHY and INDEfitND/rTiVIVERY of LONDON. GENTLEMEN. ACANVA SS having commenced far the OFFICE of LORD MAYOR of this CITY for the ensuing year. I should be wanting in rained to you. sad la justice to myself, were I to delay thus publicly to slide the grounds upon which it is my latent* - to become a candidate for that distinguished honour. The present is the year In which, according to the order of date, It would fall to my lot by the usual rotation b• serve the Offiee of Chief Magistrate. and to which, since the decease of Mr. Alderman Goodbehere. I have naturally looked. It was with this feeling that in the last year thought myself justified in declining to demand a poll, al though it was my determination to serve if returned at the Common Hall ; and it is with this feeling that I now request the honour of your attendance and support on the day of election, and of your suffrages at the poll, which I have decided, if necessary to demand. I sincerely regret that a contest should be likely to arise, and am anxious to avoid every thing which may bear even the appearance of an un friendly or unkind feeling; but I am convinced that upon no reasonable construction of the custom of rotation do I interfere with the just claims of any other gentleman; and in justice to my brethren of the Court of Aldermen who have not passed the chair, I can never admit the principle which would allow any member of that body to claim the rotation at his pleasure. In thus alluding to the rotation, which has always appear ed to me to conduce in general to the respectability of the Mgistracy. I trust I cannot be charged with an attempt to question or control in the slightest degree the right to which the Livery are clearly entitled. and which tbey have so often at all periods exercised, of deviating from that custom when ever they may think such n departure called for by a regard to the objects and principles for which it was originally intro duced and from which alone it derives its utility. My public conduct is well known to my fellow-citizens. I may have been often mistaken. but I can say with truth that I have been always sincere in the endeavour to combine mo deration with firmness, and independence of party with loy alty to the Throne, and an unshaken attachment to the con stitutional freedom of our country. By a reference to that conduct rather than by any pro fession in my power to make, you. Gentlemen, will be best able to judge how far I ens likely to execute with im partiality and effect the duties of the Mayoralty, to main tain your rights nod franchises, and to uphold under every probable circumstance in the ensuing year the high charac ter and ancient dignity of the Corporation and City of Lon don. I have the honour to he, Gentlemen. Your faithful and obedient servant, Chatham-place, Sept. IS, IR!. AVNI. II EYG ATE. PRICE OF STOCKS TB Bank Stock per Cent. Red 3 per;Cent.Con, 761/1 Si per Ce..t. 4 per Cents. stint 5 per Ct. Navy 1091 i 3 per Cent. Long Aan Imp. 3 per Cent. 78 Irish 5 per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stork Ditto Bonds ..s. Is 03s. pm South-Sea Stock South Sea Old Ann. Ex MINSK Os. k. Ss. pm. Small 7s. ss. pm. Bank for Account India for ditto Con. for Aect ?BIN II Lott. Tickat% 19/. 181. eDe tattifinall• 1 ‘ THE BRITISH STATESMAN" 13 INCORPORATEN HIM " TEE STATESMAN."