The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-03-12 00:00:00

egenry lovisibleand •ncontroalable, bet most certain ly it hag been accelerated and aggravated by the folly, the ambition, and the sires of a heedful of men, who, rantrary on Our dictate') of every wise Government, hare iseglected to prefer the interest of the many over the few, but have been studying the art of he/epilog the former in subjection to the will of the lasts . Even age has held out greet examples! And we find them thrown anXty enflame who should most profit by them. The Public nay ho. said to have a two-fold access lion against the Bank; not only for putting their specie at the late Minister's disposal, bat also for obtairsing from I.itn, t►rough that moans, the licence in issue as mach paw as they t►ink proper. Upon an investigation of their affairs by a Committee of flan Meese of Cominnns, it appeared not only that they had lest to Government more than one half of their capital, which night to have been in their cof. feta, but that since they have been ramp' from the o►ligation of making direr pips's,. is cosh, the louse of their notes has increased to a mist alarming degree. ToZe continued] FKKNCH PAPERS. PA ID, hl A limn B.—On the evening of the Sth Blsje,ty transacted boldness with the Marquis Dessolltr e President of the Council of Minhters,snd yetereley with Count de Cases, Minister el the In terior. The taw relative to the sale and mainafactere of saltpetre wss adopted in the Chamber of Peers on the 6th Inst. by o ssjo►ity of 130 against 6. The Cham ber afterwards entered opine the discussion of tire propositiao of the Marquis de Castelleee, relative to the repeal of the law of the Oth of November. Isls, on seditious language. It was opposed by she Minister of the Interior, sad supported by t►e Mar. gait de Marbeis and Count Boissy d'Aogies.—The farther debate was then adjoureed. Amongst the gocient Peers, Members daring the hundred days, are nine who have not been recalled by the Royal Ottlineage of the sth lest. They ere MM. Clement de Ris, Dedelay d'Aeier, Fable (de l'Aecle), Coast Gamendi, the Doke de Proslie, Casabieuee, Ceent de Seger, and Upon. Voltage. The Persian Ambassador arrived in Paris ea the 6'b inst. It was remarked in the Merest towns which his Escallenry has whited, that, tree to the customs of Eastern Ambassadors, he did not offer the smallest graisfieation to the persons employed in the public estahliohments, doubtless persuaded that the Soteteign of each tertitcry eight to do the ►onours of his ementsy. T►. Chamber of Peers of Fromm was romposed of 208 Members, mot incledieg t►o Seas of Franey, the Princes of t►. {need, and the Chancellor, President of t►. Chamber. The R.ysl Ordaseace of the sth Jost. increeses the aeathor so WO. The neely.created Peers will, it is said, take their teats to the Chamber at the nest Settles. Lord Ventral Somerset, Secreesry to t►e English Embassy, arrived iu Paris nee the 6th Wet. The Sitar George Crawford, formerly English 1:11•07 at lbll Court of France, for the oegociation of a Treaty of Navigation and Commerce, has recently died at Rotterdam, aged 68. It was this Gentleman who was acqaitteil on the tfith of April last, by the Heyal Court of &wets, before which be was cited with the Editor of a Journal. The trial of Centellon and Marino, aimed of en attempt to assassinate the Duke of ‘l . ellioglon. will coos on at the Assize Court of Paris, ou the sth of April seat. Madame t►e Marchioness d'O-mond, wife of the fruitier Ambassador of France at the English Coact, is detained at Dover by indisposition. French Foods, March 6. Five per Cents. shut es the 4th of March, 681. 20c.—For the opening, 65f. 55c. _ LAUSANIII, MARC' I —At the request of the Spanish Ambassador. t►e Directory has communicated to the Cantons the Royal Decree, according to which all foreign adventurers *be may be taken under arms under the banners of the American Insurgents. or furnishing theta with ammunition or arms, will be punished with death. MAnate. F•a. 23.—Nothing is talked of hers hot the marriage of our Sovereign. It appears that the choice is divided between a Princess of Sardinia sod one of Snowy ; bat the most general epeeist% is, that we shall base for <been a daughter of the King of Sardiok. lIIITRACT Or A MUTAT, LIM& Vistula. :ea. 92.—The elevation of Baron de dormer, en* of the most respectable veterans of .Aestrian diptoaesty, !IP sAt post of Secretary of State for Foreigo Affairs, ►es given very geestral sa tisfaction. LITRACT O A PRIVATE LETTER ADD/MIMED TO • lIIIIICUANT AT CACN. ST. Louis (SviLnAL), its,. 17.—A great nember of ship. Mesmerised here from Korey', and several others ere espreted, 'massive of those forming the expedition. The colony Is incumbered with mer clisndiae, •od nothing Is telling. The arrival of the expedition is 'otiosely looked for, to see what course things will take. It is hoped that the projects of Government will open fresh reseercee totted,. Some millions of pounds of Most base been shipped for etporistion. It is very 6nr, and from its melioration by the care of its cultiva tion, it perbsps canner be rushed. It is worth 4 soh • posed, when shredded; but this new branch of industry wants encoorsrairiat ; and I do not per mits, that any thing has been done to promote this.— We And here cohost of • nankeen colour, which grows, like the other, wittiest celtivation, and which may b► advantageously used in our manefacteres. Our::also espeditien has not been attended *Mt ell the tercets which we swticip•ted. It left this en the 17th of August, ISIS, to the number of nine vessels, tinder c y of three Royal brigs of war; they were three mouths in proceeding op the River, "best 300 lenses. The na►igation is dangerous, becaose it most be attempted during the hottest aid worst part of the season. This flotilla, with the et. crption of the Argos Royal brig, and • madam. ,easel, destined to pass the year at Gslam, retaliated about the middle of December. They elfeeteal nothing, swept bringing away , Imo grains. The most grievous part is, that ■ll the Esropeans, to the member of 30, were Micro sick, sod li of them died. Fears ere entertained for thole who remain. An express just melted s the devil of the Governer, M. Chattily*, Geographies, Engineer. Bullish ',Within tinder Miler Grey, set of lust year from Gambia to explore the (sib s bus bees ilertined at Gahm by the reins, which pre. rail during the moods of Aygest, Septendscrs ." 11 October, and also by other unforeseen obstacles. However obis may be, it is now united to oar% which is not established at the ancient (nit of St. Joseph, but at • few leagues Mow the river Filetne. Major G►ey dispatched Adrian Portoriege, a we. lotto, of St. Louis, atiached to his suite, to bring hint a supply of men and effect' from Gambia j they will join bin, by land ; the journey is SI days. An English officer has suited with au sweets of blacks at Spin, where Major Grey is desirous of constructing a galliot, With which be purposes to ascertain the course of the Niger. PRICK 4W STOCKS vu 111416 %writ p., Cest. Ned. S per Ceiti. Cow& 74f 34 per Cr*. Limpid. for A. 714 4 per Gist. THE STATESit IN.' LONDON: num. MARCH 12, 1819. The affairs of Fresco are looked le with greet ear nestness and ansiety, bat the Papers of Sunday end Monday Wit contain nettling which an satisfy cu. tipsily. Mach lee. is said in them regarding the late estraordinary creation if Peers than might have been Impeded ; the reason is, that the very Ultras, who would wish to imp►ll the King to measures beyond what their Constitutional Charter would trident, are nevertheless desirous to avoid ripening his Me• jesty to public censure fur any thing he may do. The Liberates, on the other hand, and the majority of whet may be called the popular party, regard the extraordinary act with comp' y, w being a check to what was obviates!, a growing power in the Peers, and among the higher Aristocracy, to keep down the spirit of freedom, es hes been manifested in various ways, and especially by the ',nosier Elections. There bee a circemetence reached us by a private hand, which we think may be correct e and that is, that M. Lamcifononosade s p►opnsitlen,of which the per. port was, that the Peers should espress their die saiisfiction to the King at the sodden increase of their body. The proposition was got rid of by a pro. cedere more tranquil theft could have beers espeet• ed. The Minority rose with ghosts of Vitsele Kais and left the hall, carrying with them others, who might have been inclined to dipped the preposition. Th.liing held his easel Covet on Sunday, which it is remarked in one of the Journals. 08 4 4 llistftnelt other., attended by the Duke of ORLILANS mod the Prince de TALLivaAnn. Not a word of illossisca or the Princely Doke. !!! _ _ The Central Committee of the Chamber of Depu ties, charged with Oho elimination of the Project respecting tobacco, are Plated to have negatived the •onopoly in that article by a majority of 6vo to foe,. The proceedings before t►e Court of Assizes against CANTILLON and &I ARIKIT, areered of attempting to amossinate the Doke of Wm.:Amnon, are to cogs. mime the sth of April. A Project for a new system of spoliation of the Natioasi Goarrls of France will, it is said, shortly be presented ►o the Climber of Deputies. CORRUPT INFLUENCE.. The case of Mr. W vronnst Qum and Mr. GRADY CROW on lest night io the House of Cow. mom, awl ',ideate called to the her. Mr. CARRII SNYTU was esewined, whom testimony was of that starore, that it was not deemed proper to sof. fer it to go into public till that which should be broeght forward to rebut it could be published Mr. STUART WORTLty, therefore, pee notice, that If any of the Journals presumed to publish any part of the eseminotion till the whole was concluded, he should bring the matter before the House. We do oast agree with the lion. Member for Boreiney 'boot the expediency of this keeping silence. Bat unsay persons prefer sending the poises and antidote lets the world together. If any circumstance whatever could awaken our torpid Ministers to a sense of the distressed condi tion of this once lioerishing kingdom, the various and multiplied Petitions •post the subject of the Our. Dtrrits woeld do it. The proceeding already had upon this tender subject, show in the most one. quivocal manner the feverish disposition of the wboie manufacturing class, which consume that sr. tide in abundance. The poor man also, who can only purchase it by the perk and lislf.peck, is looking with en speakable awaiety to the possibility of saving one single penny on his miserable little supply. If he knew also the nature of the origin of the Doty on the Coals consumed in and gear London, that it was laid on by the profligacy end libertinage of CRARLEs 11. es • boon and bounty to one of his itosal Mistresses (of which ha had sit, and created them all Duch ), he would be still mere indignant. The late Doke of RICHMOND, as a descendant of that Lady, received this tali in kind for many years ; but as he became unpopular on account of It, he odd the grant to Go vernment for a large sem of money, and it has thence. forward been legitimate article of Imam Another Duas(sa as illegitimate sae) may, rain ou THE STATF.qI4A Ibis see•ant, if not upon any Giber, relingsish his 10,0001. pet anneal, rather than be 16140 to con stilme to - sforre or famish She over oppressed me chanic or laboarer, in evon the samitest degree. 9A y Al ONE Iig:LOCK. Fr, C.M. New, !tom lodift Hook 31 Lang Am. EsOrgeer BM 1 3 thweiele THE. STOCKS. This pulse,or index to the fort one of the no don, keeps nearly stationary to the mark we noticed three (Joys age, 74f. There ere no remains from ebrosd, though all in the 'Change are on the " qui rive" for news. The Fends however will, we fear, be more affected by borne occsrences than foreign ones. There fs afloat a general apprehension o► despondency. F. great many failures of a minor estimation, end three or font of • higher description. One of these is beyond the power of coeceelinent, viz. BAIRCNOLII •od Co. The fall of this groat house, it seems. he, been occasioned by the mere fluctuation of trade. Two ethers are reported to es to be on the last totter, we dare scarcely apply the leitials of their names to our fears, bet a P. and M., and, wonderful' to sly, e great B. la alluded to!! Of these suspicions we are heartily sorry, end especially as they are followed by a total want of all confidence. Trade is abso lutely at • stand; a cautious man knows not obit to do; and therefore he does Nothing bet what he is forced to by ily and the vesture of things. The Romeo. made the Ambassador of solarised States (winces* to snake peace) bring them earth in token of saboritting their country to the rule of the conquerors. We newer did that, bet we bate side every ship selling through the Cbsnnel, pet into a &kirk port soil pay a kind of toll for ear keeping the gate or pass open from ti. German to the tic Ocean. The wish fur this ascendency has occh sinned the struggles so often renewed between oar Meets and these of liullsnd and France. There letter Powers, however, are not likely to feel any ambition of this kind for half a century nr more to cover.— Neither of OHM Powers are Inakingetry exertions of • maritime nature; Nab together could not produce I 14401 that would give as the fesst concern: bet America is the Naval Power that may one day an noy sq. _ . . From the Flanden Mail, which arrived last night, we extract the following : " Bavasrrs. Missal 6.—M. REG:SAULT Da ST. !lAN D'AINCLY has received perattliton to ret•rn to his native country.' Yesterday be left this city to proceed to Paris. We learn from Paris. that Al. MARST, Duke of BASSANI°, hes also hewn authorized to relent to Paris. M. DOUSACT DC PORTICOS/LAST, whom the King of FRANCc has recoiled to the Cham ber of Peers, from which he sass excluded by the Or. disuse' of she 24th of July, was for 6ve veers Pro feet of the department of the Dyl., used will be ever remembered, to his hemmer, et Brussels. Ills Admi nllration was also jest end equitable; end if he did not do all the good that be desired, it was because it was not lit his power. " is said, the. the works for the erection of the new Paler. for his Majesty, after the plan approved of by him, will commence In a furl. night. On the other hind, the works for the monu ment which is to he erected on the kid of Waterloo will begin immediately. This monument will be of a prodigies's elevation, end of immense event at its base. It will resemble as Egyptian pyramid. The spot chosen for it is that where his Royal Highness the Prince of Oastune was wounded on the memo rable 18th of Jane, 1815. The sem of a million of dories is said to be destined to this monument. " In the sitting of the States-Gesseral to.day, the Central Section made its report on the project of law relative to our eomemercisl collations with Sweden, and the reciprocity to be exercised towards that Pow er. All the Sections waive itt the principles which dictated this law, declared that the discussion was open. Count littcasnour, in an excellent speech, supported the project. Ile quot►d the opinion of the celebrated CIIAPTAL, formerly Minister of the Inte rior in France, who rejects every systems of prohibi tion as injurious to nations ; he .said have an unli mited freedoms of commerce, which, aid he, mat but be to oar advantage. " No other Member desiring I. speak, bl. Futca, Minister of Colonies and Trade, explained the grounds of the project, which, being pa to the vote, was passed unanimously. " It is aid that General Haunt (one of the 3S) who till now had not been motherixed to reside at Brawls, has obtained, for t►e present, leave to reside ther►." Lloyd's books on Wednesday presented a tery singlets,. appearance, there being only one line en tered on them, which was the arrival at Liverpool of the Jane, Govidstalc, frees Oporto; end what is Still MKS remarkable, there was net a single vessel entered at lie Custom-boese that day, uor one pass ed Gravesend hose any port abroad. The Mercantile world *offered a seven shock yes tetday morning, in the failure of the very eminent house of J. BASANDEN and Co. The outstanding I dylls@ and areeptawees fall tittle short, it is said, of 200,0001. This calamity has been principally brattgbt on by the declining state of the markets, the house holding large quantities of clover-seed, cotton, and tallow, the whole of which articles hare undergone l a very greet depreciation. Among their acceptances were bill. to a large antosnt, drawn in behalf of the Prussian Government ; hot these latter hare all been taken tap by Mr. Roritactut.n. Advices from Jamaica to the 49th of Janos - y, state Ike snivel at Kingston of the schooner Juliana from Angostura ; the Captain of which reported, that jest before Ito sailed a report had teethed the! place, of the Royalists having been defeated, end Cameos captured, on the 48th of December ; and that a greet number of Mostuto's troops had detetterl, and re. paired to the standard of the Independents. PROTILSTAIST MUTINO AT COMIC —OR Sitordoy last a numerous Meeting of Protestants rook place at Cork, for the purpose of pinioning Perlisownt to remove those disabilities ander which the Catholics labour. It is stated by the Southern Reporter that this Assembly was highly respectable, end the Rote lotions in fawner of Emancipation were unanimously carried. The Petition to this effect, on the motion of the Rev. D. Aunts, was adopted without a single dineatient voice. res EDITOR or rnE S 1',4 7 ES 11.411'. • .Ik. ErriallLD F•rtmo,—l thank the.. for the ;rise,. lion of my former articles, which hare bred some con. fusion amongst the greet paupers, sithoods stay recipe, however usturroos, in which the pasting curl, or arta roper, ore blended, is lik►ly to m►et en clay digesiioo in that quarter. I tine ask permissive to and my rho• ; ;hts to the 'flatly already disclosed on the late Westminster Eleciise, end my reasons I will giro !hes as Igo en. It has been roesselly red, that 2000 hectors hate been di.franchi.ed for net having paid up the last quarter's Your Rees, nut of which showy 000 offered their Totes and were refused. I am nut learned in the law, yet it appears clearly that tech • measure is repugnant to Magna Charts, the Bill of Rights, sad even the Common la w of the land,irs rept when the merciful 'amen cannot get by distress sufficient property on the premises to vim his de mand, end the 'spruces arising on the sale thereof ; or that the Elector is at the limo receiving perish sap per!. It elms appears to me that any infringement on the spirit and substance of these our Protecting Less is •nconsiitutioual, and subversive of the birth right of Englishmen. No doubt local Missed local Customs will be pleaded in extenuation; end the law curiously twisted to suit the tastes of the learned, and held forth with as much coiner of justice es the barberees dogs. of a f•rrreireg Court sycoplund, oho called truth a libel, or, in plain English, said truth rat a lie, for the word libel is the assertine or pro mulgation of a lie to the injury of a man's property or reputation. However, I shall submit these opi sinus to sonic other iribenal—perhaps an Election Committee, or • Court of Lew ; the lesser I shoed prefer, es the point could be properly argued, sifted, set to rest, and petty quibbling et once consigned to that obloquy it so justly merits. On the professions and conduct of the successful Candidate, es he is termed, I shall trouble thee with a few remarks, who, accordieg to report, stated himself t Whig, a friend to Reform, and • friend to the Poor. Does Grocer LAMB consider the name of Whig a necessary appendage to an honest R►presentative? I en ewe iiict unequivocally, it is she watchword of @misty. 'll4 Whits, as they ere nicknamed, long contetided f.•r power under she mesh of petriodstn--they obtained it in the year ISM.— rhe first act of their patriotic b nnnnn 'once was to add , per cent. to that odious at .d ohnolious impost, the Incase Tat, accompanied by bullying and insetting threats to those who could not live on the first floor to go to the garret, and if they found the air too I pure there, to dive into the cellar. Their nee act was to provide for a set of hoop), drunken, gambling bangers.on, among whom ens • poor apothecery, formerly to b. found at the hosed table, since an Elector of Westminster, and • distinguished per sonage at the late public breakfasts. This was the Whig System of keeping their words wish the People—this Whiggish patriotism ! Their reign was short, but the few months it held was mark ed by more profligacy than as many years situ*. Are not the peewee Whig Leaders returned genteelly , for Rotten Boroughs; and if they dare mu hint it Re form, their Aristocratical Patrons would, at the seat Elections, send them to the sight Atilt, to preach Whig Doctrines to the western breezes. Yet, still, Giotto' LAMS affects to be a Friend is Reform ; bet what sort of Reform be was not prepared to say ; perhaps it was tbat sort of Reform toasted et the Freemasons' Invero—df Reform of Abates Not a word of Kates Boroughs; it,iV too deli cate a sulject for Whiggish ears. Grottos LAMS was sot suihciently acquainted with the 800 rough Constitution ; and being a little too clues shaved on the subject, he let his Howeertble choler get the better of his legal prelim*, east made • flimsy retort with disappointed cheerio at his muc\ more hoeosrable opponent, by the Billingsgate far rago of Mr. CLASILeit being a barber, and a elution to the Electors Winn the sanguinary effects of hie razor. Wes this the wit of a man learned in the law—was it the oratory of a Whig—eras it the lan guage of a Gentleman—or was it • leaf out of the stable dictionary of a Sprig of Nobility? Shim., shame, shame'.!! is this the language of the blew end buff cavalry, better known by the title of the Aber mad -jerks. Oh, Owens Laws, Gioncs halve I I The nest declaration : he stated himself " a friend to the Poor." Was it a friendly act to arm one set of poor wretches with a polity ►ribe, without anger or malice propene", to beet sod abuse all who fe veered Joi n t Floawousit ? Wes han act of friendship to the Poor to disturb the peace of the capital, to bring dos n an enconsiitistiewal force, Ind give coleus , to tie oppressive measure of a stead ing army in time of peace? Or was it a feiesidly set to the Poor to disfranchise 900 Electors, because the oppressive system of taxation, the doubled price of provisions, and the general dearth of trade, pretested ihenstrom plying up their lest quarter's Poor Rates? If IGZORCt LANS if 001 • pretended friend lathe Poor, 'lie to be hoped he'll bring forward his sepporters to atop the t•swsen from making those distresses on the Electors after theElectioe, which the law allowed him to elect before. Should cii relevances of this nature take place, let it be aside public —let it riot; in the ears of the Whigs—let the politics' world be mode acquainted wilts their deeds of darkness. Amoy( the many the last has been • most mischi piece of treachery. Th.y have eistieeteured to throw the Electors of Westminster into the power of the (.o. teroosent, who will, no dealt, On the test occasion, 4.Pw'