The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-04 00:00:00

Bill - - pv0;011110... S tought ap a bill for rep aling c.rtain Nrits'etri• Arseskttcl Taxes; anti Mr:,OOULBUILN an fireatitnclitirr the Laws relative to Chotretr Rates i n 14 nrl...Riad a first, and both ordered to be read a se cora Atte. At eleven the Rouse adjourned. MALES. AIM DM MIR. 0 0 . Holland 1...,,,Waterf0rd... • .0 o....Hambro J..—Cl &Jersey... A I L.—France 1 1 . o.... Flanders .......1 p._.....Gottenburg A 0., • • !galls PRICE OF STOCKS TAM sank Stoat 2361 7 6 per Ct: Rai • S per Cl.Coes 2 per Ct. 4 per Cents ........ New Fours .6 per Ct. 179/7...., Long Ann Irhp. S per Irish 6 per Cons. • DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock . Ditto Bonds 235. 24s 22s.pta South Sea Stock South Sea Old Ann . lOs 12s lOs 10001. 5001. 10s 12slOspm. Small ..103 12s pm Dos. tor at LotleryTickets 9'2l. IN. Vie atatetintan. TIIgSD4Y ESTP4III63, MARCH 4, 1823. • PARLI AM ENTA R Y COMMENTARY. IN TAR Flocs' or Lonns there was nothing done worth pointing out to particular attention. IN Tile COMMONS there was a great deal of talk; and, as 'we deem it, to very little purpose. The Overige Societies, relative to which Mr. Abercromby is to make a motion on 'Thursday were talked of; but nothing was said worthy of particular attention. The Sinking Fund. This everlasting bubble was brought forward Let nigh, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who presented and wbo got adopted a string of resolutions enough to turn the brain of any man livipt,e. The Sinking Fund has been venal a liombug in the House of Commons and in the Lorlelaundred times over. It is such a thing as lef"rer was seen or heard of before in any country spoon earth. We will not waste the time of our readers upon it Whetlior the landlords, hoping that war ind paper money will take place, mean to suspend for a time their endeavours to get tales repealed, we know not; but this we know very well, that if there be no war and paper money, they will lose tl:eir estates ; for, the delusion of Sinking Funds, attd other delusions of the like sort will, in all human probability, prevent them from doing any thing else to obtain relief. " THE ELD!" Our readers will recollect, ;bat, some time ago; we think it is, at least, three mouths, our friend the Chro mita congratulated its readers upon Mr. CANNINA hAv ing " thrown his shield orer the Peninsula." 1111 our, military coxcombs, till our whiskered geographers who have added so sweetly to oar debt ; till these made the discovery, that portion of Europe which comprises Spain and Portugal was never called a Peninsula. in plain language,theClronictemeantthatMr.Caxwr.co bad taken care to prevent Spain from being invaded by France, and it-congratulated its readers on the fact. We doubted greatly of the fact, and taught our readers to doubt of it. The Chronicle now sap, that the intrigues -of tur Moister io Spain have been directed for the overthrow ing of liberty in that country; and that it suspects that our Ministers will ahao2on Spain to its fate.—We are not spite as certain of this, as the Chronicle appears to be. We think that the Spaniards have a better chance front the friendship of our debt than from that, even, of the dinner party at the Citv.of London Tarern.—HoWiver, the Chronicle will, doubtless, take care how it is in haste another time in talking about the throwing of Shields. BOURBON WAR. Our readers will not have forgotten with what con• tempt a e treated the opinion that great lifect would be produced on the French Gorernment by the loud speeches in Fa:liam• w, and by the terriLle bellowing of the smck-i,bbing pr,ss. They will remember bow we laughed at the idea of the French king bring frightened by those speeches and those bt Ilawinks. We hare now htt,re us the speech of CHATESUBitIitIVD, the French Mi n;ster of Foreign Affairs, who was Ambassador here in London. just before Castlereagh cat his throat, and who went of to Verona, fast after that event.—This sp- ech states the grounds of the war now about to be entered on against Spai: . It is a frank and plain statement of those grounds. The Speaker asserts the right of inter ference to rest upon the authority of England. Just at the day when eIinTEAUBRIAND was in ,king this speech, 511'. COBFITT was writing that part of his last Register which relates to the grounds of the war. To be sure, the authorities, if the speeches of our pretty gentlemen and their papers, be authorities, are abundant, irnieed.— Ten . volumes; ten good stout octavo volumes, would not bold all that they Lave said and written in defence of the right of Wet/Essence; the right of interfering in the affairs of neighbouring Nations, to put down revolution ary principles. Their great text was this : 0 when your neighbour's house is on fire, kindness towards him int " pets you - and your own safety glees you a right, to ". interfere, in order to extinguish the flames that arc ,‘ raging in his house." This was the great ground of war with the French people from the year 1793 to the year 1815. Three and twenty years of war were carried oa; upon ibis single ground ; and that war has loaded this Nation with nine hundre I millions of Debt. But Cll/1- trS.SURRIAND spews very clearly that the same principle of right has been recognised, not only in Pie case of Na., pies in 1821 ; but even now at Verona. We say that the principle is a monster ; but our Ministers cannot call it in question without tatting guilty of the most shucking prevarication that ever disgraced human lips. What we wish, howevei, to point out at present, is, the want of effect of the tricks pleyed off here; the want of effect upon the French Government. The French Ali sister had read the Speech of ~)Jr. Brosighadi ; he had read that of 61.0ar, who was for putting aside, all our own distresses, and feeling am nothing but the vital in terests of mankind; he•liad read Mr. Husactssow's speech at Liverpool; be bad read the pretty questioning and answering that passed between Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. CANNING Omit theitvc *wend Seamen; he had, not DUE. D TH E rfted (for...what' mortal d6diri 'endure to read!) all tli Llustering, babying, brllowing, roaring Find thuuderini of the base an 3 !,topid wog: jobbing I.ITM in Ihndon and be had, too, we dare sty, heard of .the Spanish Mi. nister's alighting at the house of one of the orough Rump, and being dragged into town by the force ef a few hundreds of pots of very bad beer. Well! We tvere toren the elects of these. - They were professedty intended to pro. drier great (feet upon the French King. This was openly avowed. And, in the speech of Monsieur de Cu aTinu- BRIAND ; in that very able, ..pen and manly speech, we have a proof of the effect which these thingsdid produce; that it to say, a retorting upon oar Ministers, in the most just and most conclusive manner. Leaving those who relied upon the effect of all this Poise; leaving these very I simple persons to the enjaym-nt of their dieappointtnent, we beg leave to make a remark or two upon the great alteration, which, within these few days, has taken place, iu the tone of our frivol the Chronicle. Our readerswill remember how loudly it talked, about three months ago, of the vast power of the " British Empire ;" how bluff it wee; how boldly it asserted that• the French would not dare to set this power at defiance ; and how re peatedly, how earnestly, and vet bow humbly, we be sought the Chronide to be assured that while we this mill-stone hanging about our nears, the French would not care one single straw for ur. Ohr readers will, also, remember that just a month ago ; just four weeks ago, the whole of the stock jobi.ing press was in an uproar of exultstion at the prospect of seeing the King of France frightened into fits by the speech of Mr. BROUGHAM, or, seeing a fleet equipped and rent forth to drub the Holy Alliance into their senses. The cry for war was perfectly furious. 'fhe Chromide, in particular, would have it that ships were actually fitting out in the Dock-yards. Day by day the Chronicle asserted this ; though day by day it was. con*tadicted by the Courier. Some prople move by fits and starts; and there is a sort of politicians who appear ro be nfflieted with what one might call a mental agne. The hot fit and the cold tit take them by turn'. Perhaps it is to this cause thAt we are to aszribe that altered tone in the Chronicle, which we have noticed above. But we re.slly do suspect that the al teration may be pretty fairly ascribed to-the Regist• r hthre the last, and to certain articles which we have published within this —Letfortnight us see a little, however, what this altered tone is. "We do not, however, ado°. ease Me plunging . of our own emeriti!, inttplear for the " sake of Me Spaniards or any other nation. We-sym• " pathi;e with the Spaniards, and pray fervently for " their success in the grand struggle ots which they are " about to enter, end trust that in:B.-Waal generosity " will be liberally exercised in their b..!balf; but in the " circumetances in which this country is places', nothing " short of imminent danger to ourselves coald justify " our embarking in war. Our insular position and our " power leaves us nothing to apprehend front any State " or union of States; and where the aecuril of a nation " is not endangered, we doubt whether its Government " ought, in any case, to doom present and future " generations to the load of debt which war now-a -" days never fails to create." Here is an altered tone! Here is a change! Where is the mighty power of the British Empire now! Where is Mr. liseene. em's Beet now! The Chronicle has tliscorevak all at once, that it cuzitt not to be an.: advocate CIS 164 tans. try being plunged into war, for the Spaniards or any body else! It has discovered that we ought to sympa thise with the Spaniards; that we ought to pray fer- vently for them (a la John Knox, of course), but that " in the circumstances in n hich this country is placed ; " nothing-short of imminent danger to ourselves, could " justify our embarking in war!" Why, then, reproach Mr PEEL, fur what he said on the first day of the &a sion ? Then corn-s our " insular position ;" our secu rity from attack; and, in short, eves y thing to say, that " strict neutrality" is the proper course; and,that France may over-run Spain, if she will, without the smallest danger to us, near or remote: S:range change of tune ! What can Monsieur de CHATEAVB RIAND want more than this? and what can Sir Wm. A'Crunr, or any body else, wish (or more than this? But whence conies this wonderful change of tone? Why, the writer ha; read the last Register but one. Several other papers besides ; but that one, in (articular ; and that use has convinced him that to go to war would enah!e :he Land lords to pay off the Fundholders in good, honest, hard paper money: in other words, that it would blow back the Funding System to its inventor, the devil ;—and, therefore, the Chronicle is for peace. This is the true cause of the altered tone of the Chronicle, which is a thorough-paced Jew paper ; and which would are the Isle of talon pussersion of by the French ; aye, and England itself, into the bargain, rather than see. the infernal sys:em of funding and jobbing destroyed. This would be the case, too; the country would sink down to be a 10 - :v miserable defenceless thing,if this mill-stone were suffered to remain. From this very article in the Chroni cle, we may hither what passes in the heart of a Jew. Look at the sentiment look at the base sentiment about our "insular position," and about our being in no dan ger from any union of States! What! Is it an Eng lishman who says that we are in no danger from making Spain a province of France, taking into view the pro. sent state of the power of Russia and of the United States of America ? Is it an Englishman that utters the words. For an Englishman to utter them he must be mad, or must deserve to be hanged up, to the first tree that you can drag him to. Now is the time to res cue Spain for ever from the French ; now is the time to be closely allied with Spain, who never can be our rival; whose interest is the same as our own ; who, in case of war with France and America, tenders us great advan tages fur defence agairst and fur attack upon either; and these we shall now surrender up into the hands of France; because we have that infernal funding system which holds us chained down to the earth. The Chro nicle views our degradation, and says " Amen !"—This is the true feeling of the system ; justice, honour, huma nity, renown, even safety ; all vanish when compared with the love of the detestable three per cents. We believe tea most-sincerely; that, take the fundholders and poll Wok one by one upon this question : " shall the " interest' of the Debt be reduced, and the Country pre. serve its independence ; or shall it-not he reduced, •' and the Country be deliveredup to, France?" Pa this •• 'gsAIAN fluciffillt tostlieni; oni by one, u.ntiTtriit'iWiroultivote , with one nnanimous voice, for the surrender of thefteen try to Prance, is my belief, so help me Gon!—Nay. I verily believe, they would, if thef could.. cut the throats of the people, if they endeavoured (as they cer tainly mould), to prevent the surrender.—lt is, as Mr. HUSKIBSON, when ho was a Member of the Jacobin Club at Paris, most jiistly ybkrved ; it is a base, an infamous crew; a crew never to be depended upon for nay public spirited act or sentiment; they are what Lord CUATUAM Called them ; the muckworm, the blood-sucker of the Country. To how low a state they will be suffered to reduce this Country, it is impossible to say. A corres pondent, some days back, well observed to us: "our "enemies advance against us, in two lines; the Jews and " Jobbers compose the front, and the Bourbons the rear: " we must defeat the first, before we can come fairly at " the second." Never was any thing truer ; and never any thing better expressed.—CHATICAUDRIAND knows very well that our Ministers have not the courage to attack the first line; and, until they do that, he knows that the second line is perfectly safe! There is all the secret of the Bourbon war! The talk about the right of inter ference; about the moral contagion ; all this talk is no thing. France naturally wants to have Spain completely under her power ; and our mill-stone enables her to place it there. When she has once done that, she will take her opportunity for further operations. MONSIEUR DE CHATEAUBRIAND. The press ; the lying sto ck-jobbing London press, ac cording tO its invariable practice, enable to Ruiner this gentleman, have assailed him personally with all their Billingsga'e slang. They do not attempt to answer. This is contrary to their principle. When they cannot answer, they lay the subject on one side, and fall foul of the person. Mr. Cobbett nseans to a:leaver Mono. de Cita teautriand nett Saturday, not by abusing his person, but by remarks on the subject in dispute. Once more let us observe how disappointed our heroes have been as to the effect upon the French of those noisy speeches and those hullockings of the newspaper press, which, for the last eight anal twenty days have stunned this senseless wen. Not the smallest effect has that noise produced in France. DOCTOR O'MEARA. On Wednesday List we inserted an extract from the Qunterlyßeeiew,containing what purported to be copies of notes and 'titers written by Dr.O'M FARA to the Aid-de- Cramps of Sir HUDSON Lowe, giving the Governor, through that channel, certain pieces of information re- Wire to the French persons living with ISTArotso.N. Tiles, notes and letters were deposited (the Reviewer infortned os,) with Mr. MURRAY, the bookseller, in Al- betnirle-street, and now to be seen by any persons who applied to Mr. M URRAT for that purpose. We went, fur that purpose, and saw them; and a gentleman who says he is well acquainted with the hand-writing of the Doc tor; and on which gentleman's word, we can rely, has assured us that the notes and letters are authentic. This being the case, we can Lear of no ch fence from Dr. O'IttARA other than that which shall contain a denial of the authenticity of the notes and levers; for, if those notes and letters be authentic, the Doctor was a Volun teer I?y for the Governor, and statist those very French people, with whom he was an inmate. If those notes and letters be authentic, he betrayed the private conver sation of those along with whom he was living, and whose lot he is said to have commisserated in his book. IC those notes and letters be authentic,. he suggested to the Governor the necessity of those very measures, of the severity of which he is said to have contpla'ned in his book. What can he say, then, in Ms defence, unless he can contradict the assertion that these notes and let ters arc authentic? In the Morning Chronicle of yes terd::y there are two columns and nearly a Ipilf with an a•tivie signed by Dr. O'Meara. We ran our eye bootily o%er it to seek for a denial of the authenticity of the notes and letters; but, alas' not one single word sio we find tending to that point. The Doctor cilia the re viewer libeller, pimp, coward, save, hypocrite, reptile, and some other names. A very bad man this reviewer may be; and, though lie is certainly a very clever man, we ourselves are very far from thinking him to be a good man. A very mean creature he certainly is. for bartering, his great talents for the money which he has been get-' ting out of the taxes. But, what has this to do with Doctor O'Meara's notes and letters? Sir Hudson Lowe, Mr. Cruker, and others, may be all that the Untor here says of them; but not one inch does all this go towarls a vindication of the Doctor's own conduct. These two columns and nearly a half do, however, show one thing: and that is, that Doctot O'Meara was writing home to the Admiralty, too, and in such a way as to give great satisfaction to al: the persons high in office, and ercn to the Prince Regent hintreff. How in a ll tl:e world does this tend to wipe out one single line of the letters and the notes, the origio3ls of which are lodged at Mr. Mur- ray's? There are, it arpears, to be a series of numbers iu the Morning Chronicle, by Dr. O'Meara upon this subjeLt. The Chronicle say?, at the close of this first ar• tide, " N.B. No. 2on the next open day." We should supposs that there will not be another open d.y fora long übile. The Chronicle will scricely embark in good esrutst in a cause like this. We should ha 'e been very happy to find the notes and letters denied as to their authenticity; hut, unless that can be dune, it Is not to be expected that writing about any thing el.e will produce any effect in favour of the Doctor. lie may, perhaps, i neu lp a t., and justly inculpate others ; for there appears to have been a pretty deal of co very honourable work going on ; but the answer to him eternally will be: " Doctor, heal thysey:" IV NI. C. A letter in the Chronicle of to-day shows that Dr. O'Meara's intelligence sent home to the Admiralty came voluntarily from hint; that Mr. Finlaison handed it to Mr. Cruker; that Mr. Crofter had it copied for the use of the Ministers, " omitting some occasional passages " of an indelicate nature, soine of the:u reflecting on-the " French Ladies and others; and that Mr. Croker expres " sed his disapprobation of these passages." GoodGotil this comes from Mr. Finlaison. Here the Doctor was, then, a volunteer spy for Sir Hudson Lowe and for the Govern ment at home, upon'those very French people whoa; his ook accuses the Government of Ili-treating: • NTOCI(..iSZCIIANGE, itALT'PAST TIVELVII O'CLOCt.-- Priyate letters in down frotil Paris dated &Way last, state that great discontent prevails in the above capital; ail teen av at Lyons and 13o:.leanx,which,giv. sibs French Illifiistey strite uneasiness. It is well latown that most of the great commercial cities in France, are dt cidedly against a Spanish war. Consols opened this morn i ng a t at which price they remain, with little nr no business doing. By private accounts from Madrid, we learn, that the final preparations of the Spanish Government will not be ready until the middle of April, when they expect to have two hundred thousand men in the field, with 5" Guarrilla chiefs who are each to command a band, au,•, in case of invasion by the French, they will be joined by Mins's troops, and enter the French territory. We understand that a great Spanish Grandee, (now in this Country), has already given instructions, in ease of an invasion by the French, not to leave a stick standing on his Estates in Spain; as the Spaniards are determined as the French ath :ince, to destroy every thing in their rear. FOREIGN FUNDS.—In tht earlier part of the mnrning Spanish Bonds were on the cis; with a brisk market; since which they hare declined: opened at 3tIL, and fell to 293. Chili, 674—NewSperish, 2911—t Old, SS —New Pressler, 73176 —01 d, ditto, 79 74—Danish, 7714—co lon:hien, 471—Spanish Scrip, sq. Reduced shut today; also Old Fours. They open again on the 24th of April. Private letters from Ma.lrid, stare that the occasion of the 'King's decree fur changing his Ministers, was their urging him to prepare his mind for removing from ti,e capital. This advice. it appears, the ßoyal Family, had without exception, refused to adopt. The Orange men of Ireland, accoidinz to Dablin pa pers, are making an active rally, and ate determined to chew the Government and the Country, that they mist „ see . o ne of th ese J ourra l s in their i n t ere s t , rrteivrd be the Baling Pari.y, in appearance as well as in sub st this morning, says—" Four of oar county Metub..rs, hi. therto strenuous supporters of Administration, and the warnieit friends of the British Cabinet, weltering Minis ters ou Tuesday last. They expressed their I run owatrioN without qualification or reserve, at the condi:et of the I rish Government. They derlart d that they ivinild not lend themselves to the system now pursuing in their ill-fated country. One of these Nleinhers, the heir to the Earldom of Farnham, the Representative to the county of Cavan, resigned to Lord Liverpool, as an ea:- nest of his feelings, the situation of a Lard of the 'crea my." The other Members, it a:Tears, are, Sir John Stewart, Member for Tyrone; Mr. litowtdow, Meunier for Armagh ; and Mr. Forde, Member for Down : and it is announced in the saute paper, that " the alley atioa from the. British Government of several other mo st powerful and influential personages will be drelatcd in a few days." Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Conrail ROC lied at the Foreign flee. Do vning-street, st birli was SIM. owned by Mr. Secrcta'y Peel, On Saturday. The Doke of Wellington and Earl Ba•burst came to town, front Brighton, to ;attend the Council. The Ministers conti nued in deliberation till a quarter past four. The following are the new Scciesia‘tical arrangements; Man Arbuthnot, of Cloyne, to be Bishop of Killal sr— the Bishop of Killaloe to be Bishop of Down, arol the Bishop of Down to be Bishop of Meath.—(buldin Reciting Post.) A requisition, signed by about four hundred persons, was present«► so Taos. Besse', iliw High Sheriff of Dee von, on Wednesday last, by Capt.' Tlanttyn, fur a county meeting, to consider the propriety of petitioning Perna silent for a Reform in the House of Commons. In an swer to the Requisition, the Sheriff drelared " it win itith considerable regret he himself was compelled to decline giving his assent." Sir Compton Doinville having resigned his seat for the Borough of liosaiuev, in or ter to become a candida•e fur the county of Dublin. where he was derewed by Col. White, was re-elected by his form •r constituents, on Mon lay la. t. . _ _ A person m in Annan has comoinnicatel the foliowi i information 'Asti ng to ti.e African Expedition of Ds curery :—`• Anconnts hare Fccri re, eived, so late a.; N..- vemher last, from Dr. Oudenay and Lieutenant Clapprr ton (of - Annan), they were then on their way to Bonin:, in go - PI Iscalli and spirits. Daring, the vay of the Ex pedition at Murzouk. Ventenant Clipperton visited many towns, and. by his astronomical observation-. has precisely fixed the longitude and latitude of various places, where Europeans never beore trod. As was previously arrange.', Dr. Oe.denay riinained at H mum as sub-consul ; but Lieutenant Clipperton prosecutes 1,1 arduous journey to ascertain the terminatiun of the Niger." De r.L.—A Teeing took place early on Saturday morn ing at Finchley ('ommon, heto rrn Mr. S —A —L soil Mr. 6 L—T, in cons, trence of a lisp me which originatc.i at the else of the inves!igailn of Lord l'ortrsatavilfs ease. Mr. 6 was wounded in the simrlder in the first alp 4, sever , ly, and he was rein .vat I) the house of a friend at Kentish Town. The }sill ?enetr4te 1 throulia thetlesl , v part of the shouldsr, ar.,l !;razed the bon-. We are happy to sly, tliat ail the persons whom we' last week staled were hurt ir. the lanientah'e ao , •Pletst at the Tt.catre, are in a lac way of recovery.—(-Vert ea.sfle Chrw;.) Ihe Thea•re WAS re-rre7ed on Monday right, sr!t's . . the piece of-Tom a: Jerry, au.l U 1,1: crow Jed in every part. The additions( uto , : Fir exit from the gallery in case of nce'i, have ord the front of the house is now lighted with vil gas.—(Aid.) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S--MARcm3. CLARLT.-13 to 4 agst. Moses-7 to 2 agst Postbuma-4 to 1 agst Swap-7 to 1 agst Wanton. lhanv.-7 to 1 gist Ernelius-7 to I agst Fanatic —t , l to 1 agst Web t..01t--12 to I agst Talisman-17 to 1 apt br to Carbinaro-23 to 1 agst br to Parlitt-97 to I agst OAKS.- 13 to •3 ngst Zeal filly—S to 1 agst Tint-9 to agst sr to Sailor-10 to 1 apt Sultana. DONCASTER ST. I,EcF:rt.-9 to 1 . agst •Sherwood-15 to to 1 agst Tinker—lb to I oast Miss Fanny-18 to agst br to Violet—lS to I apt Paleis Royal-23 to 1 agst Fanatic —29 to I agst Coltman:F.. MARRIED. On the Ist into. at Christ Chill - Ch. tiladletter, Mr. F. Mil!. tier, merchant. to Sarah, the youngest daughter of the late Mr. J. Amos, of floxton-square. On Saturday last, at St. George's, Woomsbury, Mr. I!. Scougall, to Miss E. WIll;e, niece of the late J. Buyick,Esq. of Great Queen street, I.incoln':.-inn-sields. DIED. In October last, at hfrid.as, — Mr. A. Chatfield, of the lion. Company's ship Ds phr e. On Saturday last, Mr. IL A. 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