The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-23 00:00:00

rATIM AT LONDON MUDGE To-r9saow• r, fi oda. after IS. —Hvesieg. N aia. iftr i. PRIOOF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. leek Ma In kids b per Cent. 3 per Gat. Red. MI bdia Stock 224 f, per Cent. Con. OM Ditto Bonds —s. les.lMis. p.. Se per Gat. V Rends4lea Old Aso. • per Cents. 1112.11Melld. Ss. As. Os. plc 11 pref. Nary I 1 Osolue for Money —pm • per Cott. Solpt Re it ter Aseoent Less Ans. 181 ' Can. ftr Aeet 70ii I. II per Cent. Lott. Tickets ill. Ss. etc ttattiSman. " 1111111T11111 fiA12111111 11" If INCOI STATESMAN." MID WETS " TUX LONDON: lIIKSDAT SYZNING, J•NUARY 23, 1821. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. -ow-- TIIE KM'S SPEECH. We step the press to announce that his Majesty in per son opened the Parliament, this afternoon, in a Speech of Which the following is the substance. The Foreign Powers continue friendly ; and the late Continental events are not likely to disturb that friend- ship. A reduction of the military establishment is promised. The deficiency in the Irish Revenue is confessed; aa4 is attributed to the unhappy circutustances which have lately affected that country. 'nit gnglish Revenue is then noticed ; and while an Improvensen it is stated has taken place, it is not de ities' that that improvement has originated iu the time taxes. It is stated however, that in that breach at the Retinae from which the state a Me country is generally ascertained. an int. provessest has lately taken place; and thence it is con cluded that an abatement has taken place in the districts *tour manufacturers, and that commerce will speedily flearish anew. The topic relative to the Queen is touched very deli cately. It is stated that the provision which, iu 1514, was made for her as Princess of Wales, ceased at his Vllajesty's death—that advances have been made to her since that event ; and it is t. t to the Commons to settle I' ander all the circumstances" a permanent provision. The LOYAL Atmacssas were then alluded to in a tone of muck triumph, They are called so many testimonies of Loyalty to his Majesty's Person and Government, and they are declared to speak the affections of the peo . pie, which are admitted to be the best safeguard of the Throne. (A Second Edition, with the Speech rertatim, will be give% at four o'clock.) The usual formalities took place in the House of COMUIOOII where the Address was read and seconded. After the lapse of several tnontha, Ministers have Ott last recovered sofficleat courage to face an insulted tarliament, aid an indignant country. The interval - - isetweett their past and their fawn defeats has been long I hew has It been employed ? Has it been spent .fp Optisipt,Behome. of r obot wis.olll, VT In prepara tions to render tardy justice to the object of incessant pertecutions ? has it not rather been used in ac tire► but we trust, unavailing endeavours to strengthen thehr tottering edifice, and by threats, adjurations, and protnises, to persuade a few weak-minded and credulous men to fill up the gaping void left by the desertion of thei r friends and colleagues, and to share at once their disl race and their ruin ! A few hours will reveal to the Con utry the secret of these mighty operations. How Natty years may not be required to repair their perni tient, results; Measures of conciliation, and even of hiemiliation on the part of the persecutors, are now, we are told, to be adopted. But how can we trust the protestations of men, who have uniformly repre ss nted Reform as Revolution, and improvement as rids? Let us look at their conduct during the last fix years only, and there we shall see what co►►fidence tan be placed in the honesty of their pron►ises and I,he wisdom of their councils. Who did not i►nagine 'that when the toils and dangers of our foreign crusade shotild have ceased, inward tranquillity would return with external peace ? inn did not believe that a sense of personal interest, if not one of public duty, would impel these Ministers, whose expensive and unneces sary wars had exhausted all the resources of the Country, to endeavour by strict economy and undivided attention, to soften, if not to repair, the deep injury which their measures had inflicted? Did even the old est opponents of Adn►istratiun start a doubt upon the subject? No; the line of action was so strongly marked, the path so clear and straight, that error appeared impossible, and wilful dereliction too bare faced to he atten►pted. Never had any Govern- I went found itself so unshackled in its plans end in their execution as at that period. A delusion, the mire dangerons as it was natural, had fallen upon all classes. The European contest was elated, and triumphantly closed ; all other consi derations were sunk and lost in this. Success, like the light of the sun, on the skirts of the retiring storm, threw a momentary gilding over the sacrifices of the past. Hope illumined the future ; and the nation, still wild and giddy with the rapid and ►nighty changes which had suddenly laid the world at her feet, re signed herself with scarce a thought, and without a fear, to the guidance of the conquerors of the moment. What an opportunity for the honest to repair his 41 "0 1 1 for the wise to exercise his wisdom for the patriotic to serve his country ! But how has that opportunity been used ? What errors have been repaired ? What wisdom has been displayed ? What services has the country received ? She had been dragged into war by solemn assurances that war STATJ alone could purchase the safe enjoyment of peace. The Betz' of thousands, and the expenditure of mil lions{ had been reprftealeji as a cheap price for those years of untroubled rest, that revival of the golden age, which they were certain of procuring, and daring which she might lay down her armi and live beneath the shadow of her name, without soldiers to guard her, or taxes to maintain them ! By representations such as these had she been more than once prevented from listening to the voice of her real friends, and sheathing the sword of battles. The enormous bur thens of the war were preferred to what the people were taught to apprehend would be a hollow truce, and the deluded continued to support the Ministers, and to exhaust their last resources, in the blind and infatuated confidence, that a peace would ultimately be procured, which would render the tnaintenanee of a large army unnecessary, and the reduction of the taxes cer tain. How have their expectations been realised ? Events, which man had n• right to anticipate, and which heaven alone could carry into effect, have in deed, brought us such a peace; but what reductions have yet taken place in our army, or ,our expenditure, to redeem the pledge given to the country ? What sign is there that such reductions will ever be made? Years have passed since the close of hostilities, sell 'till we are on a war establishment. Oor army still exceeds by tens of thousands the numbers which were deemed sufficient for our defence at the opening of the contest. The Property Tax, it is true, had been wrenched from the desperate grasp of a faithless admi nistration, but had not an unexpected burst of public spirit in the senate achieved this important vic tory, the odious impost would still fasten on our 0- tals and bear down all our energies. In the first alarm of defeat, another war-tax was resigned by ministers, iu the hope of propitiating the country, and partial re trenchmens ensued. Bat on whom did they fall ? On unfortunate underlings, who had hitherto vegetated on salaries of 60 or 70/. a-year, and who were thrown upon the world to starve without any salary at all, whilst their chiefs retained their annual thousands unsur tailed ! Retrenchments such as these were not even a nominal good : they were a positive evil ; for they en creased the number of paupers to whom relief must be granted, whilst they produced no sensible diminution in the amount of the original hurthens. But even these was• soon repleuished. What had been lost in one shape was revived and recovered in another: and after three years of peace, thee noilliota were suddenly added to the taxes, at the very time, when nearly the whole of the Sinking Fund was extinguished, and large loans were borrowed to enrich individuals and render the ulti mate ruin of the country certain and unavoidable. In oar next we shall pursue the subject till we come to the policy which the results of this evening's debate will re►eal—the new light which is to break upon the country and to heal all her wounds. 4MON - NiftltVlVOE, ONE o.eLoem The Funds continue to mend ; Consols for the account have risen this morning from 691 to 70e, the market looking very steady at those prices. To day being the first transfer in the Navy live pet rents, has occasioned a great influx of business in that fund, and large purchases have been made; the highest price quoted is MIL which is nearly le per cent higher than they have been since the dividends began paying. A Mail from Braslls arrived this morning left Rio Janeiro on the 3 1st of November. Ralifax and New Brunswick papers have also arrived to the Ifttli of Recen►ber. From these we learn that a Spanish frigate and brig arrived lat►ly at the Ravannah from Vera Crux with 6,000,000 dollars on hoard ; and from St. John's, that an alarming fire had, in November, de stroyed the premises lately occupied by James Cunliffe, Esq. The intelligence in the Paris papers to the felst is uninteresting.—French Funds, Five per ernes. mlf. 50 e. At a mectiniz of certain of the inhabitants of liive rurr, held on the 10th instant, it was agreed to present a petition to both Houses of Parliament, to insert the Queen's name in the Liturty, and to restore her to all I►er legal rights.—(4/erdrea Joetrnal.) The Guidry Inoorporation of Perth, on Saturday last, resolved to petition both Houses of Parliament to have the Queen's name restored to the Liturgy, and an establishment provided for her also calling the attention of Parliament to the present depressed state of the commercial and agricultural interests. We understand forts•-three members only were present, ten of whom, including the Magistrates, of the City, voted against the measures.—(Perth Courier.) On Tuesday last, at a meeting at the Ebenezer Chapel, Truro, a petition to the House of Commons, praying the Honourable House to use its constitu tional influence for procuring for her Majesty the re storation of her legal rights, and that a suitable pro vision may be settled on her, was adopted, and ordered to remain for signatures. A meeting of the Inhabitants of Chipping-Sodbury and its vicinity was held in the Town-hill on the 4th instant, when Mr. E. H. Parker was unanimously called to the chair, and a petition was proposed and agreed to with acclamation, praying his Majesty that he would dismiss his present Ministers, and direct the restoration of the Queen's name to the Liturgy. It has already received nearly 1,500 signatures, and will be forwarded to Sir Berkeley William Guise to be presented at the meeting of Parliament. A requisition has been presented to the Sheriff-Sub stitute of Renfrewshire, to call a general meeting of the inhabitants of the county, for the, purpose of ad dressing his Majesty on the present state of the coun try, which he having declined, the requisitionists have appointed the meeting to take place in the East Relief church of Paisley. No. 46, class A. was drawn this day, a Prize of 21,000!. Consols, and was, as anticipated, sold by CARROLL, in sixteen-sixteenths, at his favourite Offices, No. 19, Cornhitl, and 26, Oxford-street. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Paris. Jan. 13, MI. Sts—Although no event of importance has occurred here since the meeting of the Chambers, the extraor dinary speech of Gen. Donnadieu, said to have been prepared by another furious ultra, and spproved of by the gomnermemsemt oeculte, has created a great sen sation, and clearly shews the impossibility of Minis ters bearing up against the two fires, between which they have placed themselves by the recent elections. It is a novelty in the history of the French Chamber to see one of the most desperate anti-constitutional ists make espeech, which, with a few trifling alte rations, would not disgrace a liberal, and it is indeed, generally allowed by the patriotic Members, that they would never have been permitted to make so violent an attack on the Administration with similar impunity. That part of the General's philippic which relates to the treatment of the army, seems to hare made the greatest impression on the public mind, because it happens to have been the most consonant to truth, every thing in fact which bad policy could suggest, and timidity could dictate, has been done to create disgust amongst the military ; and considering the Influence which this class seems destined to exercise on the social destinies of Europe, what hut an un accountable partiality can induce the Ministerial and ultra royalist factions to drive it to desperation? How ever diEcult it may be to account fur the manner in which the cause of freedom and humanity is retrograding in France, the fact is too glaring and deplorable to escape the most superficial observer ; but as extremes are said to inert, sanguine hopes are entertained that this period has nearly arrived here. At all events, the occult party no longer make any secret of their determination to turn the present ads isers of Louis XVIII. out, and occupy their places. While the ultras are doing all they can to restore the age of barbarism, the friends of order and good government, console themselves with the reflection, that Spain, Naples, and Portugal are free, while the spirit of reform is fast spreading in England. It is this refire- Akin alone that enables them to sustain the evils .ssf their present situation, as exemplified in the innu merable abuses of the judicial establishment and cri minal code, by which trials are protracted to an end less period, and hundreds of individuals severely punished before they are found guilty It is only Bach a consoling ipference as I have alluded to, that n fluid induce people calmly to look on, while so s. an unfortunate victims were arraigned and shut up in dungeons, ever since the month of August, for a conspiracy which nine-tenths of the counnnnity verily believe to have been organised by the police! You have heard of the trial and acquittal of M. Madiea Montjore, and of the able manner in which his intrepid parent corroborated all the assertions contained in his petition. U. Lavache, a young man of the most promising talents, who lately wrote a pamphlet in defence of the venerable and virtuous Bishop Gregoire, as well as in refutation of limey of Guisot's doctrines, has been more recently con demned to pay a fine of 10,000 francs and to suffer five years imprisonment, for disputing the inviolability of the Throne, and arguing in favour of the sore reigntylf tienark► as cuaancrated in the Spanish Vanetitlifflott." Fortdnately, the intended victim was apprised of his fate in sufficient time to escape from the harpies of the law. The process instituted and carried on against those who were detected in giving vent to their patriotic feelings in the month of June list, exhibits such a scene of procrastination on the part of the judges, and of suffering amongst the accused, as it would be extremely difficult to find in the annals of European jurisprudence. 1 bail hoped to have been able to send you the result of this sin gular trial, but it will not close before a late hour to -day. It is supposed that the Ministry will be broken up by degrees, and not dismissed cu moire. Those who are narked out as likely to become the first sacrifices, are L—n, M—g, K—g, and than whom, it would be hard to name, three persons participating more largely in the general contempt of a nation. .13aron Morestier has considerable influence at Court, is liked by the King, and wishes,it is said, to conciliate the jarring interests of the two factious ; he may in this account outlive his coadjutors iu oflice. M. Matthew de Montmorency, eltt voiler hunmeoir to the Duchess d'Ankonleme, has the t redit of being the life sad soul of the occult party ; his word is as a law ..pith them ; it if needless to add, that this gentleman qnjoys the unlimited confidence of his pious mistress. Parodizing the well-knowu saying of Alexander to Parmenio, the Duke d'A , was souse days ago heard to exclaim, " If I were not the Duke sl'A—, should like to heMattheir Montwerency !" lieiuv upon the subject of [Minor count politics, 1 may as well add, as amongst la es dit that the Duchess de and her Highness of A—g---e are on any terms but first of friendship and harmony. People account fur unnatiuel state, by saying thatthe former is deep. ly imbued with those principles, Which render her Father so deservedly popular at Naples, while her rival in the King's rood graces, is known to be of a totally opposite colour in politics. Whether the result of waggery or one of those presentiments which assume the authority of gospel in tins [sits e.ralt , er of the ultras, a few of them have la - ely given it out that Madame is erwieate, and same go so fir as to assert orders have been given to keep her Royal Highness very tranquil As to the King's health, it is such as might be ex pected at his advanced time of life ; he is, however, rather better than he was some weeks ago, when, his Majesty is said to have experienced a severe attack. The Duke of 0---'s populArity continues to increase and he leaves nothing untried to be thought well of by all ranks. Aithough several of 31. Dream's friends are occupied in proving that the fate of Prance depends on his return to power, they have not, as yet, convinced the public on this subject. The last accounts from Turin state that the Sovereigns, about to meet at Laybach, have invited the King of Sardinia to become one of them, hut, that he has excused himself and sent M. de Sanmarsa, Secre tary of State ipr Foreign Affairs, to supply his place. From that transpired of the proreedinus at 'l'roppau, it is not difkali to conceive the ulterior views of this sew congress, and if it required a stimulus, there is a very strong one furniebed by the ultra-royalist Jour flats of Paris, whose Editors are straining every nerve to justify the barbarous policy of Austria and Prussia. fo such a state of degradation has this once great country fallen ! • While the members of the Holy Alliance are occu pied in trampling on the rights of mankind, and vainly endeavotiring to oppose the spirit df the the constitutionalists of Southern Europe are no: idle : an alliance defensive anti offensive, if net already concluded between Spain, Naples, and Portugal, is in agitation, and will undoubtedly be the -immediate re sult of a perseverance in the measures adopted at Troppan. It is true that a trilling difference of opinion has arisen at Madrid, between the patriotic societies and the ministers. But so far from being in jurious to the new order of things, those occasional eruptions are even necessary for its preservation.—' The minister of a goverment just returned to free dom, if not vigilantly watched by the people; the fountain of all legitimate power, are but too apt to relax in those duties which can alone insure its stability. Some fatal errors have, it is generally allowed, been committed by the advisers of Verdi ' nand, and the weakness of his own character hes also been made subservient to the views of designing individuals ; it is not too late to recover from the ill effects of a misplaced indulgence to treason and con spiracy. No only do the infatuated King, bat his ministers perceive that the people will not be trifled ' with. Let them therefore profit by the experience of the past, and there is nothing to fear from popttlar indignation, which is only directed against the real enemies of liberty. Nothing of any consequence re suited from the late tumult which was confined to the members of the societies at the erns de Melia and Fortama de Oro. When the last Courier left Madrid, on the 4th instant, all was perfectly tranquil. A new con spiracy is said to have been discovered at Saragossa, where several arrests have taken place; amongst others is the Marchioness tie Lasan, wife of the for mer llovernor, a most intriguing woman, and already detected in cooperating with her husband against the constitution. Do nut, however, attach any impor tance to the reports you hear, as they are generally circulated by the ultras here, and their agents, for they have many at Madrid. The Sovereigns were to reach I.4osach on the Gth, and from the number of Ministers that have proceeded there, it will be much more numerous than the late assemblage at Troppatt. P.S. I have Jost heard that the persons implicated in the affair last June, were yesterday ortpeittrd, with the exception of Fayollt: and Adam-, who are bound in recognizance' to keep the peace. Thu., have these unfortunate individuals, been incarcerated for ' nearly nine months, without, as it now appears, has.• i lug been guilty of any crime. •So mach fur the clitui nal law of France!!! AI. 'l'heratr}• has just published an able panaphlrt on the State of the Country, of which I shall give an account in a future communication. EAST INDIES. -..r.-- The Dunt.tx Monst,in POST, after qmotina the sic count from the London Papers of 41. e. ewpssiltiow pte paring against the Scindlans, adds,we (Morning Post) are in possession, through an exclusive channel, of the result of the expedition above alluded to. Indeed we have of late (exclusively) furnished the Loudon Papers, as well u our Irish contempora►ies with e'•e y snick of the intelligence of any importance coming from India :--- BUCCINS OF THE ('UTCII EXPEDITION AGtINST THE *UNMANS. (VITRACT OF A LAT 11E11 FAO): lIONIRAO " Bombay, September 12, IMO. " While 1 was seeing the last of your goods on board last night a vessel arrived in the harbour, having on hoaril an officer from Cuteh, who was the bearer of the official intelligence of the complete success of Sir Charles Colville's expedition against the &Wiens. The expedition consisted of 12,11110 men, commanded by his Excellency the Commander in Chi ef; from all I could glean of intelligence from the followers, it appeared there had been some hard lighting for five days, but it ended, as might be anticipated, from the imposing force sent against the Scindians. The moment the officer (who is one of the Staff, and an Irishman.) landed, he set out for Government !louse to inform Lally Colville of the event, as it must he supposed she was in a state of anxiety, her husband being the Commander, and her brother anti her uncle, Colonel T. Blair, being also on the expedition. At day-light this morning orders arrived from I;overn:nent !louse to secure a passage and private cabin for the officer in the ship which takes this to England, but there was no such accommodation, as the cabins were all full, and as another vessel will not sail from thence before ten (lays, and this will be off to day, the chance is, you will have this letter at least six weeks before the officer can reach England with the official intelligence. All kinds of European produce are a drug here, particularly fine goods ; and rum, brandy, and geneva are for a song—the cholera has ra ther abated, but still rages in a frightful manner. SIERRA LEONE. The British gun-brig Snapper, Captain Nash, went into Rio Pungas, abort the Ist of October, to examine a vessel in that place; and 'while in the act of going on board, was attacked by the natives. A midshipman and six men were killed, a few were taken, and the reinait:- der of the boat's crew esrapwl over land to Sierra Leone. A sloop of war, a sun-brig, and a detachment of troop., were immediately sent from the latter place to Rio Pun gas. They drove tile natives, retook two or three el their men, and burnt the town. (inc man was woundtd in this affray. On the Ist of November, the ('Sane spoke the British sloop of war Pheasant, bound to Sierra Leone. The Pheasant had captured from in-shore at Accroa, a Portt:- guese settlement, fifty slaves, after having been landed from a trading schooner. Spoke on the coast, bound to sierra Leone, the British brig Cecilian, and barque Pierson,. The tecilian bad several officers passengers on board, some of whom were sick, and one had died few days before. In lat. long. 72. spoke schooner lien. A. Jackson. two days from New York for St. Thu mas.—(.!dieriran Paper.) BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, JAN. 22. -..1101.-- . DER•V.-8 to I eist Reginald-1t to I asst e. out of Charm-13 to I apt JocL—l4 to 1 asst L ustat us-22 to 1 art Polygar. 0.11E5..-4 to I agst My Lady-9 to 1 agst f. out of Emily —II to I apt Zeal. RIODLIOIWOIITII,-7 to 2 agstiteginald-9 to Y apt e. out of Helium-0 to I art Polygar. no alteration. in the belting on the Doncaster St. Lew. • . / ... 1 P , } } 1