The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-22 00:00:00

111111111111 b - d Ur. Lamer AID returned thanks. " The Liberty of the Prese.7. 1" The Duke of Bodford,"—" The Stewards." Sir H. P. JODPIUM returned thanks. The kealtiss of Mr. Newcome and Mr. Fowler (the Vice-President) were drank, and both Gentlemen return. ed thanks. " The Earl of Rossiya's, and &ow Gentlemen in Scot land who celebrated the memory of Mr. Fox." The Mooting broke up soon after It o'clock. CORPORATIONS versas arm LIBERTY and PUBLIC PROSPERITI: SECOND SERlES.—Larrea VIII. The winds grow high. impending tempests charge the sky ; The lightning !Des, the thunder roars; And big waves lash the (righted shores. Paton. Stu—When the situation of a people, enjoying so - - much freedom as to be able to keep up a constant inter course of mind, has become such as to make a majority of them feel that scarcely any change could render their condition worse, or fail to render it better; among sects people an important change is at Land. In this country, unless human affairs should for once stand still, or a circular of the Home Secre tary could obliterate knowledge, or the omnipotence of Parliament arrest the progress of events, or some other miracle interpime, we are evidently on the eve of such a change. Itjs, therefore, proper that those of us who are yet in their senses, should calmly con template, and prepare for such mutation, with a view to alleviate those calamities which we cannot w)lolly avert. If it he asked, why such a change may be regarded as certain and proximate, I answer, because the struggle between knowledge and currwption has of late become so close, that either the one or the other must speedily prevail—that we must have either s reform of Parliament, a military despotism, or a re volution, as the result of the conflict. With respect to a revolution, I do not believe that there are six in dividuals in the kingdom insane enough to wish for such an event. Even the number of those, who may have a speculztive predilection in favor of a republican form of government, must be very small. The great body of the people of England are habitually attached to a mixed form of government ; and that attachment is so strong, that nothing but the extremity of dis tress, together with increasing knowledge, could have convinced them of the necessity of remov ing even those abuses, which hare, by time and cir cumstances, crept into the system. The cry of the hole and corner men against sedition and blasphemy, then, 1 regard as not only impertinent and unfounded, but a deliberate calumny propagated for the base purpose of holstering up the unprincipled Administration, who have, by their love of place, occasioned all the agita tion of the country. The existence of blasphemy and sedition, and of the desire of establishing a republic in England, or of destroying monarchy, are pan fabrications of persons in place and power, for tarot tubieldbron, Wpm. ?Inch eelttluiPets, ?fll are at all entertained, are, I am persuaded, as rare as 1 1 the wish amongst independent men, of seeing the members of the present disgraceful Administration retain their place.. Nay, lam convinced, with many others (and the pr. of will perhaps in no long time appear), that the republican and blasphemous protege of Ministers, the notorious Sherwin, who has suc ceeded in making a scape goat of that poor fanatic earlile, will be found to have heel', like Castles, Oliver, Edwards, Reynolds, and Fletcher, laboring in his vocation. Has it not been rendered more than pro bable, that it was one of those vile emissaries of the system, who threw the •1 sprakiitg" potatoes, and othernise insulted Isis Majesty, when Prince Regent, in his passage throng,' the Park to the Houses of Parliament ? Anil will not the same miscreants be ready to commit similar crimes, if his Majesty should now meet his Parliament in person ; in order to afford their employers a pretext for accnsing the people of olislo ;thy, and of calling out the military? I would I pledge my life, that every truly loyal man, and every real reformer, are disposed to pay their Sovereign all personal respect. And, it behoves us all to watch and to um, any one attempting, upon such an occasion, to create a disturbance, anti to consider him, like the spies, informers, and inciters to insurrection, the pla card conspirators, and the regularly wrganized disse minators of blasphemy and irreligion ; to treat hint as a hired incendiary. Who are interested in such liefarious proceedings ? Those alone, who wish to pespettutte the existing abuses. Against whose in- ' tertsts do they operate? Those of the people. Yet, we are called upon to believe, that the people, against whose interests they operate, are the perpe trators of these crimes, and that Ministers, and the (other tools, agents, and emissaries of the system, in whose limier thee directly militate, bold them in abhorrence ! This is drawing some what too largely ni.on the credulity of the nineteenth century. ..—The conclusion, and a very satisfactory one it is, which follows from these premises —is, that there exists no danger whatsoever of a revolution in this Country, except what may arise front the efforts of the abettors of the present system of misrule, in their en dearou:s to establish a military despotism, with a view Is preserve their places, or to prevent their be lug punished for their past misdeeds, or both. That Ministers will make inch an attempt, if they should still find themselves backed by a majority of the honk of Countless, I have not the smallest doubt. But tilt. 'newtons of that body, it is to be hoped, will feel, that although they have certain interests as Borough mongers, and us Ministerial partisans, which would lead them, in ordinary times, to stand to their colours; not to abandon them in times like these, would be not only high treason against the State, but obviously roatrary to their own best interests ; as members of society, and as proprietors of the soil, not to talk of the eventual safety to their lives; fur they are not to "Mlle, that, if Ministers could succeed for a mo uwnt in establishing a military despotism, the stabi lite ce their power would be thereby ensured. Would sot the people feel it necessary, when they saw thin despotism approaching, to agree unanimously to re-' Huse to pay taxes? And, where, in sock case, ctuaid the despots raise fends to pay their soldiers ? And I what dependence mil.' they have upon the fidelity et. the Army, similes they could ensure them regelar THE STATESMAN. pay ? Even in that case, indeed, the most favourable to them that can be supposed, their dependance could not he absolute : fur, persons feeling. that they bad the influence to confer, would naturally feel that they had the influence to take away power; and this state of things would, sooner or later, infallibly lead to revolution. I cannot, therefore, allow myself, for a moment, to believe, that the Members of both Houses of Parliament can be so infatuated, as, in granting their support to an un worthy Ministry, or in opposing a reform—become indispensable in the representation of the people—to incur so tre►nendatotts a risk, nay the certainty, of loosing all that is ♦aluable to them, as me►ubers of a free State. Aatsvioax. HIOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE io-Nnitaow. Morning, 3 min. after 6.—Evening, Ibmin. after A. PRICE OF STOCKS TII Bank Stock ettile 3 per Cent. Red. 70e 3 per Cent. Con. 0911 te per Cent. 4 per Cents. 91 ni 9 6pr Ct. Navy 164114 6 per Cent. Script Long Ann. 3-16 Imp. 3 per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Irish 5 per Cent. India titodt Dim) Plonks —l. 361.364. pm. South-Sea Old Ann. 6k Exit nll4l. Os. 4s. 6s. pm. °minium for Money pm Bank for Account Con. for Aeet 604 Lott. Tickets VI/. U. TO- 111 ORRoWTHE.LOTTERY BEGINS TO MORROW. AND THREE OF THE NINE PRIZES OF ttl.mo, WILL BE DECIDED IN FIRST FIVE MINUTEs. tin &tattOmatt. " THE BRITISH STATESMAN II !MCORP AAAAA D WITH " TEE STATESMAN." LONDON: ).ONDAY, .1lN: ART 22, 1821. STOFK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Fonds maintain their prices this morning. Consuls for the Account opened at 691, and have since become buyers; but the Market does , not look quite so well as it did, in consequence of a quantity of Money Stock having been sold. A misrepresentation haring gone abroad through a cotempory paper that five hun dred thousand pounds Stock remained undelivered on Saturday morning, we can confidently contradict it, as only a few thousands (not more than ten) remained undeliveted, which, of course, could not warrant so ex travagant an assertion. American papers, from which we extract the fol lowing, arrived this morning to the .15th of De cember : A French sqnadron, consisting of the Coloss°, of SO guns, La liaistes, of 46 guns, and a corvette, commanded by Hear Admiral Iperem, arrived at Rio Janeiro, on the 20th of August, and was expected to be intended to enter the river Plate, but for what object it has not been ascer tained. RAVANNAII, Noy. 21.—You will leave beard, no doubt, that the Fortes have given to their American posses sions a free trade to all the world. From St. Domingo, on the 4th inst., the papers con• tain several proclamations, which announce the com plete restoration of tranquillity throughout the whole Island ; the territories, formerly Christophe's, having quietly submitted to the authority of General Boyer. There has been an exchange of troops from the South to the north. lien. Us, one of the principal black Ge nerals, died on his passage from Cape Francois to Port au-Prince. OA La AT JACQUEISEL.—The gale on the 28th of Sep tember was very severely felt at that place, from the north-east ; 40 buildings, including the church, were blown down. An American schooner and two British brigs were totally lost on Cape Beata, and only two men saved. A Letter from Washington, recrired at Baltimore, intimates that a loan of Five millions of dollars will I.e sufficient for this and the succeeding yrar, and no other be required ; but this slew would be effected by the ratification of the Florida Treaty. similar displays, passed St. Clement's Church in the Strand ; and these were followed, at different intervals by the Loan Mayo' and Common Council, and a vast variety of other Deputations, accompanying their Addresses to her MAJESTY. While the procession of the Industrious Classes, &c. was passing, a party of Life Guard's appeared in view, proceeding towards the City. At first sight it might have been apprehended that these defenders of the State had been summoned to preserve the tranquillity of the streets; but this sus• picion could not long be entertained, when it was found they were marching only to protect the wheels of the State Lottery!!! As the soldiers approached they were good-humouredly saluted by the gazing crowd, with " the Queen for ever !" and the men, with equal pleasantness, received and returned the salutation with their smiles. While the hule-and corner men boast of the number of their venal Addresses, and of their declarations of pretended loyalty, and of real and vile servility, let them eon template these spontaneous and tlisinterested expres sions of the public mind. This day alone has pre sented to her MaJErry a multitude of testimonies, greater far than all the signatures of all their addresses put together. The number of signatures to one address to the QUEEN was 6,545, and to another no less than 20,:s23.—And call ye that, ye men who live upon the taxes paid by these " industrious clams," —call ye that nothing? PALM Dr.c. 20.—Soine distuibances have broken out at during the co!lect;utt of the tarts. But the arrival of a battalion of infantry and *qua dron of horse restored tranquillity. TplesTr, JAN. 7.—Private accounts state, that new troubles broke out in Sicily, particularly at Trapani, where several arrests took place. NAPLES, Dee. 31.—The Parliament has presented an address to the Prince Regent, expressive of their satisfaction on learning, that the King had a safe journey to Leghorn. FRENCH FUND6.---rive per cents. Sit 40c.; Bank Actions, 1460 f. lite King arrived at the Palace of Carlton House on Saturday night about ten o'clock, from the Pavi lion, at Brighton. His Majesty was attended by Sir Benjamin Bloomfield and Sir W. Keppel, and es corted by a party of the 106 Hussars. The fog was very intense, especially towards the latter end of the journey, but it did not occasion any material inter ruption to the progress of the Royal carriages. Yesterday his Majesty gave audience to the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, and Count Munster. This day his Majesty was to hold a C.,uncil at his Palace, Carlton House. Saturday's Gazette notifies that his Majesty will bold a Levee at Carlton House on Friday next. We nadetatand bis Majesty intends to rettrrn to Brighton on Wealnesday,or on Thursday, at farthest. As soon as the negotiation Iris successfully con eluded for an appropriate Mansion for the Queen, her Majesty, it appears, proceeded to arrange her Household in a manner corresponding to her future place of resi dence, and to her acknowledged rank. In conse quence, it has been announced, that the Duke of Rox burgh, is appointed to be her Chamberlain, and Lord Hood to be Lord Steward and Controller of her Ma jesty's !household. The period for which the Queen took Branden burgh House terminates on Wednesday next; anal should she continue longer the tenant of Colonel Roper, the rent is to be one hundred guineas a month. '[he petition prepared by the Reform Society, of this city, which we mentioned last week, has received nearly 4,000 s'gnaturcs. Some time ago the Doke of Wellington was ap pointed to the Governorship of Plymouth, vacant by the death of the Duke of Richmond. l.a't week a morning paper stated that the Duke had trainferred its whole revenue, about 3,04311. per annum, .too the widow of his late friend anal predecessor, and, for a day or two, bis Grace had the credit of this noble act of generosity. But 10, this morning, the same paper, the consistent Post, liar the candour to ',llliterate the favorable impressions of the Duke it had previously made, and to acknowledge there was no foundation for the story it had related. AEEITAL or KNIIIIITS EXPECTANT. —Yesterday evening, arrived at Willis's hotel, the Lord MAyor of Dahlia, the Recorder, the two City Members, and nine Aldermen, the Sheriff, City Chaplain, Town clerk, the Secretary, and the Lord Mayor, together with several of the Common Council and Freemen, the City Officers, and regalia, to present the Address of the Corporation of Dublin to his Majesty. The Address and Petition to his Majesty for the dis missal ta( his present Ministers, voted in the Public Meotiat in John-street Church, Glasgow, was on Thursday (Jan. 18) transmitted to London, to be presented to his Majesty. It contains 1b,0641 sig natures, and marks unequivocally that the genuine sense of the people of Ulasgow corresponds with the general feeling of the country upon this important subject. The naval as well as military posts that protected Cotton-garden, are at length withdrawn. On Thurs day or Friday last, or rather at that Midnight hour which divide the two, and correspond with the deeds of darkness connected with the protection, the Thames Police vessel, was removed from her moorings above Westminster Bridge. She now occupies her previous station in the river, opposite Norfolk -street, in the Strand. Trifling circumstances will often chew the state of the human wind. Bonaparte lately collected all the canary birds that could he procured in St. Helena, put them into one room, and then let them fly out at the window. It is understood that the Dock Company have accumulated a fund to the mown of 500,0001. Stock, or the...bouts, after paying the dividend of 10 per cent, which the proprietors have annually re• calved. At Staffordshire Sessions, a true bill was found against W. H. H. C. Floyrr, Esq. fur a libel upon Sir Robert Pael, Dart. APPEAL n) TILE BRITISH JUSTICE ON THE NEAPOLITAN CAUSE. Ilerroxa—His Sicilian Majesty, on the Ist of May, 1815, proclahned at Palermo, and promised to the Nea politans a firm, wise, and energetic Government; where in the people should be Sovereign. and the Prix , e the depository of the laws, which should be adopted from smelt Constitutions es were beg and moat desiteily formed. 1t is well known that his Sicilian Majesty-acted at the time in combination with the Representatives of the British Government; that be was in no degree.con strained by the Neapolitans, but that his proceedings were altogether voluntary. These pronaises, however, free and liberal as they were, had no beneficial resttlts ; the evil connsels of evil advisers contravened and de stroyed his good intentions, and the best friends of (Treat Britain were persecuted with unrelenticg rigour, and in the most arbitrary manner. His Sicilian Majesty has now realised his previous wishes, and has 'auctioned the Constitution which be had promised to his sub jects. Britons! I would ask you at which period his Si. cilian Majesty acted more in unison with his own interests moil those of his people ;—wlien he allowed himself to be iuiposed on by the late inin4try and his de ceitful counsellors; or when he resigned himself to tLe will of his loyal and a ff ectionate subjects ? What course, then, is mos t honorable and just on the part of 111, Al lied Sovereigns? To put dawn or to maintain the new system established at Naples? To direct their hostility against the deceivers and the occult supporters of tyranny, or against an innocent aml faithful peopie who desire to witness the exaltation of their King and the welfare of their country ? Cin you feel an interest in the prosperity of those who admire your freedom and your principles, or in supporting all who have an aver sion to the free institutions of England, mho would op pose the fulfilment of yonr sacred engagements, who would destroy your friends, your citizens, your credit, and deprive you of your resources and your most sacred rights ? I am, Britons, Your affectionate and sincere friend, CAPT. FRANCIS ROMEO, A Neapolitan subject. Letters and papers from Naples to the 3d instant, were received on Saturday. To give additional zeal to the officers of the army, a general promof of one ore? in rank has taken place, from the Lieutenant Colonels to the second Lieutenants inclusive. The measure is, however, freely condemned, on acconnt of the increased expense imposed by it on the nation, and its tentletiey. by making promotion universal, to lower its value as the distinctive reward of merit. Some emberrasstnents have arisen in the financial department of the Neapolitan go vernment, from an unexpected refusal of the bunkers at Paris, who hail contracted for the supply of a loan of three millions of ducats, to pay the second instalment ; but this backwardness is said to have arisen solely front some informality in the docuinents, and not from any distrust of the resources of Naples. A Supplement to the London liazette of Tneaday was published on Saturday. Its principal contents are Dis patches, Reports, and lieneral Orders, concerning , military operations in India, of a distant date, which did not arrive in the regular course. The most recent dispatch is dated the 9th of August last, and contains a letter from Captain Miles, employed with a detach ment against the Khooaes in March Is2o. liaowrva.—An account is given in some of the Ministerial papers of Satnrday, of an attempt to at sasainate Col. Browne, at Milan. On the 9th ult. re turning late at night, and alone, from the Opera, he is said to have been attacked }ay two persons, who :are sup posed to have had no intention of robbing hint; for though they are represented to hare disabled, they did not attempt to plunder him. He is reported to have re ceived four wounds in the head, apparently with a knife. and one in the chest, with a stiletto ; but to he in the way of doing well. The assassins have for the present escaped. A manifest bias appears in the narrative to connect this affair with the business of the Queen ; hitt it is more probable, if the attack was Bewails , made in the manner represented, and on account of any person's gallantries, that the affair had no relation to her Ma jesty's business, but belonged entirety to somebody err. As to revenge on account of her Majesty's cause, the people most likely to sheer it, are those whose hopes of making their fortunes by their evidence, have been dis. appointed. A deputation of merchants waited upon the Lords of the Committer of Privy Council for the Affairs of Trade'on Thursday last, by invitation, to confer on the snbject of the renewal of the charter of the West India Dock Company, when their Lordship gave the deputation to understand, that his Majesty's Oovern ment are in no respect pledged or committed to the West India Hoek Company, and signified that no de cision would take place on the subject until all the parties interested had been heard. 'floe meeting broke up with an intimation on the part of the merchants and ship-owners, that a general meeting would be held in the course of the next week, for the purpose of collecting the sense of the commercial interest of the metropolis at large. Such a meeting has since been convened, by advertisement, for Thursday next. FROII THE NEW YORE PAPER OP TER 27TH DEC. The United States ship Cayne, arrived at this i.ort, after a cruise on the western coat of Africa, last from Cape Sierra Leone,and the island of Sherbro. At the time the Csyne sailed, the free black colonists who had sur vived the sickness were all well at Yeoni, a town about thirty mile, from the coast. Governor AliCarthy had sailed for England by way of the river Gambia. Major Grant had been appointed Governor in his stead, and hail very politely offered every assistance to the Ame rican colonists. The persons who went out in the ship Elizabeth, as settlers, were in a state of great confusion, owing, 'tis said, to ieveral haring refused to work, and their pro- visions being nearly all gone. No land had yet been granted to the emigrants, and it was uncertain whether they would obtain any. CONSTITUTION or MISSOURI, BOSTON PAM, Dsc. 21.—The House having resumed the consideration of the resolutions of admitting Missouri into the Union, speeches of considerable length were delivered in op position. The resolution for the admission of the State of Missouri into the Union was rejected. The above was in Senate on the 13th of December. The demonstrations of the present day have shown that„ notwithstanding the relaxation of an interval of five or six weeks, the tone of popular feeling and at tachment respecting the QuaiN,continues as lively as ever. At an early hour in the morning the Brass workers, with their Max in ARMOUR, their banners and gap, and a vast variety of decorations, assembled In Lincoln's-inn-fields, sad formed a body so numerous that though four or six a-breast, they entirely occu -1 pied the west side of that vast quadrangle, Before 10 o'clock they proceeded thence, with their bands of music, along Qeeen-street and Long-Acre, towards Brandenburgh House. About balf.past ■hie, the In dastrions Classes, with their several Wears, the Calico Printers, and the Carpenters and Joiners, with MARKETS. Comm EICNAPIOR, Jax.:•!.—Our Market was largely sup plied with all grain this morning, particularly with Wheat from Essex, the major part of which being of inferior qua lity, caused a ready sale for prime samples, on full as good terms as oa this day week, but the trade was exceedingly heavy for all other descriptiora.—Barley is AIR Is. per quarter cheaper. in consequence of the abundant supply front Sofrolk, at that decline, only the finest qualities could be disposed of, although the ordinary samples were offered at an abatement of Vs. pe► quarter. Beans and Grey Ppai are Its. per quarter lower; the qi:antity at Market being very large.—Outs are Is. per quarter cheaper, and sales were very• slack at that reduction. Oetn, Potato. 24 el Poland 23 Z Feed ricottsw. Wheat, Kent. sad Essex new 36. 604 old Si Suffolk 11.36 s 60s Ott Norfolk .... old 46 66 Rye 26 Sit Barley Malt White Pea s 34 36 Dantsic .... 65 CO Ditto boilers V 40 Baltic Red.. 60 5S Grey Ditto lB SO Ilanthro' or Bremen Small Beans .. 36 Se Brabant Red .. 60 44 Tick Ditto 23 18 SIMITIIIPIRLII MAIRIT, hiss. 12.—The above market this looming was very thinly la all kind of cattle. in consagassoa of which, the li grare higher than last market day. (To sink the Offal i per Stoott of 8145.) retr.... 34.10 d. to 441.10 d. ciavan AT MAIMILT. .. 4a. Od. to 6s. 4d. Beasts Yost .... 4a. ed. to Ts. Id. Gahm PIA .... da. ed to 0.136. Pay sad Lambs —.10.000 Lomb ..• . Os. W. to Os. Od. Pip Ilaa-Maaarr.—No alsaratiou la die above market Priers taasalnas pat last week. Straw and Clover as per.our tact ray 181 1...!. M. 10s. to IL 411 Straw 11. 125... to 11. ICs. Clover .. 41. 10s. to 11. 6a. I . Flour .... per sack 60 71 , ..$ Rape SeeJ, per last /111/. 4t►i. 4 k . • i • I 1 1 1 I • I ' 4 I • limm... ••••••••••