The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-05-25 00:00:00

r , .t, , • • ..ote" lenT7 --- as don, a 0 tf*n to upbraid the opposeri of the measure 4Weir want of knowledge on the subject. r. HUSKISSON laineo:eo .. that in contradic ' thin to the acrangv,ent which' bad been made on a former night, a iliscossi , u as nose gone into. No measure be thought was less open to the charge of precipitation than the present Bill. It was a month since the Report of th6 i c ommittee was received, and it was now intended to postpone to the '6th of June any further proceeding. The lion. Member fdr Yorkshire (Mr. Lascelles), had refused to accede to thi present measure, until distress should have fallen on the holders of land. When that distress bad ar sited, it was too late. In the next year, unless some protectirsit.arere granted to the farmer, the de . cry of agriculture would hnwe began, and irreparable ndsc 'i.f would have been done. solptnined, thnt he had not Moiled 444,0 woaid he necetsary for him to see the farmer ins state of , cliitrets before he could accede sw the ineasore; hut .lint he would not give his as sent until It seemed probable that sod distress would a • en 1101 N Elt said, that the complaint was, not . that tbliaobject bad. not been enough debated, but *but l.thed not been sufficiently enquired into. In • . the Report of the Committee there was no informa *. doe. Not a single practical corit•dealer had been .",mined in order to afford such information as Moue • twoutd be sati , factory to perstets not conversant with she subject ; that the Report contikined beibg p ome statistical knowledge respecting Ireland. lie proposition of an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ban d:) f or the appointment of a Committee to enquire into he subject had been rejected, and the linuae_w_as. without my inform ation The Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. Bose) was the only person who had stated the •pr;ce (Mr. Rase said across the table tc conjecturally") ; but that statement as the Right Hon. Gentleman said, was merely conjectural, and lie might be allowed to say very erroneous [a laugh], *tube had .not taken into consideration the exchange. Ile Right .lion. Bart. (Sir Henry Parnell) who so violently ,opbrakled the ignorance of the opposers of the Rill • Was ittcoltsliient iii his remarks, as he said that the protection of Parliament was necessary to the farmers, while he asserted that it would not in, fluence the price of corn. The House, he thought, should be indulgent to the public feeling, and though no one should consent to relinquish a mea sure which he thought necessary, yet an enquiry might be entered into, and the measure delayed un • dl the people were more reconciled to it. H. PARNELL explained. • • The P was :heti received. r. Alderman .ATli INS wished to know whether it mai intended to re-commit the Bill on the day for the consideritiOn of the Report was to be . lied. - - . - - _ - - - - - . IIUSKISSON said, he should not object to such a recommittal, if any Member wished to intro:. • duce a • Ocular clause. • After some farther conversation between Mr. • Horner. Mr. linskisson, Mr. Alderman Atkins, and Mr. Bathos*, the farther consideration of the Re port of the Committee waa fixed for Monday, thireth 1 . 111 1 1 11 Committees upon the Pensions to Lords Lytieciock, Ilill, and Beresford were order ed to be brought up on Friday. On the motion of Mr. ROiE the Dutch Trade. Bill was' committed, and the Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. Mr. 111JSKISiON brought in a Bill for Repeal. big and Amending the Act of Wm. 9th and 10th, with respect to Wool. Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday. Adjourned. DUTCIi PAPERS. VlrmsA, MAT The following official accounts, with respect to thearmies in Italy, have been pub lished here : " Accordiwg to details received by a Courier from' Field-Marshal 13e11egartle, Gen. Count Neipperg, with the van of the Austrian army of Italy, after having, on the 26th of April, taken possession of the fortress of Pizzighetone, entered Milan, on the 28th, amidst the rejoicings of the people. On the same day, the Italian troops evacuated Mantua, • which was entered by the Austrian column under Gen. Mayer. The municipality received him with great solemnity. There, as well as at Milan, and in all the towns entered by the Austrian troops, the popular feeling is excellent. " Gen. Stanifavelich has also taken possession of the small fortress of Bocca d'Anso, in the valley of Sabi:t ; anti all the Italian troops have provisionally • taken up their quarters at Bergamo, Crema, Monte chiaro, and in their %icinity. • "I n virtue of the Convention lately entered into between Prince Borghese and Marshal Bellegarde, for the evacuation of Piedmont and Its fortresses, General Count Nugent has been ordered, without loss of time, to advance to Alexandria, and to take possessi.• lof that fortress, as well as asal, on the Bth of May, the day appointed for its evacuation by the French. Fenestrelles, Turin, and the other for tresses on the right bank of the Po, will, in like manner be occupied, as soon as the Austrian troops have advanced. - - - 66 Marshal Bellegarde trusts that the occupation of Piedmont will be carried into effect in a short time, although Gen. Grenier, who was appointed to conduct the French into France, has, contrary to* all espeetation, informed him through the General of Brigade Courtly, that he (Grenier) had received or. ders from the i'ro‘isional.Government of France, to conclude an armistice, by which the Tesino and the Scrivia were to form the line of demarkation. My shal Bellegarde, however, declared to him, that he had stlict orders to take possession of Piedmont, und that the Convention with Prince Borghese placed him (Grenier) a second time under the obligation of retiring to France without delay. This declaration, rind the solemn assurance with which 'it was en forced, that Marshal Bellegarde would resort, if ne cessary, to force of arms, to 'compel Gen. Grenier to fulfil all the articles of the Conventions entered into, must, in all problitity, hare, ere this, re moved every impediment ; and there is little doubt, that Piedmont is now in the provisional occupation of the Austrian troops." v ,...,, \ THE .STATESMAR FINAEMOF THE UNITED NETHEELAHM_ always ready to defend it. Let us apply these prin ciples. The Revolution in France had broken 'this in- AIM-balance, and the same f igitatiOn which inward `distu rhed us, induced us tis carry our arms amongst other people. If this fermentation at first exalted our strength, our success after Wards increased that exaltation. We fought with people wiser than our selves, and whose love of repose deprived them of a part of their means of defence. It is thus we arrived at a gigantic height of power. We should, fray; we ought to regret that grandeur, if it had any thing real or solid in it; but our reason would have sufficed to inform us how artificial and chimerical it was. When the balance which held in suspense forces opposed to each other was broken by an extraordinary effort, which could be only .mo mentary, it was in the nature of things that the van quished forces should react until they hare been re established. This is what we have experienced in two ways. All the nations of Europe have aban doned in their turn the care of their repose ; they have thought, only of recovering their independence. On our side, our internal fermentation having ceased, we have judged bettet of our true interests and glory ; and from that moment, even in the midst of war, there has no longer been either success or reverse ; there has only been that succession of events which puts things in their place bgain, and restores to the laws of nature their force. These principles should lead us to judge justly of the nature of peace.' Very good citizens will think the conditions of it very dis advantageous;if they continue to regard as a true and just conquest the grandeur which we have so dearly bought. Others, on the contrary, will re mark with more truth, that we lose nothing real by renouncing acquisitions which it was impossible to preserve, and which were not less disproportioned to our force than inconsistent with our repose. The happiness of the people doe& not consist in allusions and imaginary good.—(Jusornal des Debuts.) The Dutch Minister of Finance, in a speech lately delivered to the States General, gave the following account of the expenditure and incente of the Val* 'Provinces:— - " For the current year, 1814, the ordinary and .extraordinary expences of the State may be reckoned 'at 63,500,000 guilders. The revenue to meet this expenditure could not be estimated at more than 38,480,000 florins, "thus leaving ir(eficit of 25,020,000 florins. " This picture might at first sight seem very dis heartening, but when more closely looked into would appear less alarming; for this deficit was caused by circumstances of such an extraordinary na ture, as, by the blessing of Providence, were not again likely to occur. " The expenditure of 63,500,00010rins might'be distributed under the following heeds: " 1. For the income assigned by the Constitution to the Sovereign Prince and the Hereditary Prince, 1,600,000 f. " 2. For the Department of the General Secretary of State, including the expennes of the meeting of the States-General, and of HID Council of State, 339,581 1. " S. For the Home Department, including thg ex petices Ofdykea, Stc. (waterbtaat), 7,189,230 f. " 4. For the Department of Finance, including the interest of the national debt s 22,500,000 f. 4 ‘ 5. For the Foreign Department, 891,000 f. , ".6. For the Naval Department, 3,300,000 f. 44 7. For the War Department, 23,658,054 f. " 8. For the Departments of Commerce and Co • lonies, 3,000X0 f. rt "9. For extraordinary and unforeseen expences, 1,022,132 1." The Finance Minister proceeds to assign the rea. I sons why these charges are likely to be greater than I,may he expected in future:— " The public chests were carried off by the enemy I as effectually as they could ; the operation of all the taxes stood still for a while, and the loss upon in. direct imposts could not he recovered ; the war for l a considerable time raged in our Interior ; the for tresses occupied by the French, with their environs, I produced nothing to the Treasury ; it required some months to re-organise the system of indirect taxa. flan ; and the produce of convoy duties and licences only now becomes considerable from the revival of our commerce." AMERICAN PAPERS. NORFOLK, MARCH 18.—,The enemy have lately placed a buoy on the . Middle Ground, another on the Horse-shoe, and a third on 'Willoughby's Point. It is believed they intend shortly to come into Hamp ton-roads. Orders are said to have been received from 'England, directing that no more American prisoners are to be sent on shore, without an equal number of British prisoners being sent off in ex change. Nov LONDON, MARCH 9.l.—The enemy's block ading squadron are reinforced by the addition of two frigates, one of which arrived off the harbour last Friday, the other this morning. More are expected, as it-is reported there has a number been seen off Block Island within a few days. The 4 Papers also contain the correspondence which took place between Commodore DECATUR, Of fliellnited Stales American frigate, and Admiral $t THOMAS IIAUDY. Challenges, as cur readers an already informed, were regulEr4c given by Cap tan lion, of. the British frigate Endymion, to Cap . fain Jon,es, of the illgaqvisua l late a British, but so w . American triate ; Captain STACK- Poi; of;the Slatira British frigate, to the American Commodore's ship theUnited . States. No meeting, however,, tank place, for Criromodor DECATUR re considered the abbject, and discovered an imaginary superiority in the English ships. • After observing that the two first branches of ex penditure would remain the same in future, he pro- !reeds to state, that 64 the expenCes of the mainte. nance and 'restoration of dykes, &c. would probably be much diminished in future. The extreme neglect in which the late French Government had suffered these most essential establishments to remain, in order to save money for other objects, necessarily occasioned extraordinary wants this year ; but the dykes, when oncerestored, will not cost more that usual for their maintenance. " For the department of finance less would also be required in the ensuittg year. 0111 this point it would be sufficient to state, that the payment of the interest of the public debt was 'so much in arrest., that in this year it was necessary to 'provide fossil's, and one-half year's interest. In future, however, the interest will be paid half-yearly, and each year will be charged with it, own hurthen." The Secretary then proceeds to state, that under.• the head of the foreign department less would be re: quisite in future, as the present year reqoired an extraordinary expenditure in the establishment of foreign embassies. " The expences of the naval department, fixed at the moderate sum of 3,300,000 florins, are llis._; ceptible of little reduction ; but it is by no means , to be supposed that the very large sum of t 3 millions for the war department will in future years remain a burthen on the finances of the country. The extra. ordinary circumstances in which the country was placed, have in fact occasioned this expenditure.— When his Royal Highness entered on the Govern ment, there was no army in the Netherlands ; the magazines were emptied of all their stores, and it became necessary to supply by new purchases the numerous wants thus created. " In the first place the army, which, besides the land militia, cannot be reckoned at less than 30,000 men and 4,000 horses, was to be wholly raised, and required an expenditure to effectuate its first levy, which will not be called for in future years. A second source of expenditure, to the amount of about four millions, consisted in the supplying of subsistence and other necessaries to the numerous corps of allied troops which passed through, or were stationed for months in our territory. This, how -1 ever, is an expenditure not likely to recur in future years." FRENCH PIPERS. The Readers of the STATESMAN are respectfully informed, that since the, intercourse took place between France and England, the French Pop'e i rs are regularly received at the STATESMAN OFFICE, and the important part of their contents published daily, in addition to what appears in the Morning • Papers, which arrive the preceding night. The Dutch, German, Spanish, and other Foreign Papers, are also received as usual. The advan tages of an Evening Paper are therefore obvious for country circulation. A rr. IMaih. •1 hie O O PRICE ON STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. • ---- Bank 2506 lodia Stock 3 per Cent. Red, 66116 India Bonds 7 8 9 p 3 per Cent. Cons. Mil Exchequer Hills 2 5 p t per Cents. 821 2 Osmium 21 3 per Cent. Nowt 971 Pay ditto Long. Ann. 1611 3 16 Consols for Acc. 653 THE StATESMAN. • LONDON: WEDNESDAT, WAY 26, 1114. - , PARIS, MAY 19.—The Peace! The Peace !,.Will it be good or bad? It would riot be .dillicolt to —o. judge; but we have had for these twenty years many • . erroneous ideas upon the interests of France. llard-i - The-non-arrival of French Papers, since Sunday ly emerged from the whirlwind of expectations end , last, occasion sk , variety of conjectures, which, projects, in which we mistake the love of glo ry' for I were_not-the deaf work of Peace rapidly advancing, patriotism, there now remains a pongee', agitiaten T. might cause an apprehension that something very which stands in need of being aimed % andweetskebt i ominous had unexpectedly happened to cast a gloom quite - in that situation of mind which see thlige in upon the opening prospect so cheering to the friends their proper light. We did not want koowledge or , national energy in 1789, yet we found our territory '; of humanity and a suffering world. • It is therefore large enough ; it sufficed for our prosperity, and all to be hoped, that whatever may have happened to in our wishes would have been fulfilled, if the promise terrupt the communication, is only of a temporary which we made at that time not to make Conquests . nature s and that it will . be speedily resumed. Re . i had been the basis of a general peace in Europe, and . if that peace had been maintained. How happens it 1 that an es%lightened nation should entertain, with re- ports are abroad unfavourable to the harmony of the Allies and the King of FRANCA, respecting some of spect to itself and its laws, two judements entirely the territorial arrangements to he made; and the opposite, at two periods little remote from each pretensions of the Emperor of AUSTRIA to Al other ? It is that it is mistaken in one or the oiher. sace and Lorraine, which formerly belonged to I l ls the error of yesterday or to-day ? Let every one hi s H o use, are assigned as the cause. Private letters I ask the question, and examine it with impartiality. There is no organised body whose life and duration are even said to haye been received, stating, that the do not depend upon an exact proportion in the na. departure of the Russians and Prussians from France tural forces which make it exist. It is the same with is countermanded. However, it is again asserted, a nation ; her pro sperity cannot be established, she that all differences have been adjusted, and that we I cannot preserve it but by a just balance between may speedily expect a definitive treaty of peace. It the tendency to repose and the tendency to motion ; w iU be seen by - our Paper of yesterday, that the ar by the first she devotes herself to agricultere,:the arts and commerce, and enjoys all the blessings of rival of NAPOLEON, at Elba, was announced to the civilization ; by the other she avoids becoming etre. inhabitants on the 4th of May, by DALESMN, Gene. minate, her independence is dear to her, and she is rat of Brigade, who says befars theirirew Monarch entered their , interior, words General, I have sacrificed my • r.g.i,S to the interests of my country, and hdve reserved to myself the sovereignty and property of the island of Elba, which has been assented tdby all the Power s . B e so good to inform the inhabitants of this new state of things ; and of the selection which I have made of their isle for my residence, in consid erat i on o f the mildness of their manners, .and of theit.:ll:mtatte,.4: :Tell them they shall be the constant objects of my most lively interests."---There is likewise an Aril rflq to the inhabitants, to the same purport, f biani , the Vice:Prefect ; Sand Give to the Priest: • hood, from ARRIGUI, Vicar-General ; which are t well worthy of attention. Thus the island of Eiba i whose territory is so small, and iris history i hitherto comparatively so obscure, is about to be' illustrated by becoming thi residence of the conqueror of more than half the Earn. • . peen Continent, ind ith Acknowledged genitts of the first order. If he foie like a meteor, end In his astonishing. career dazzled and terrific the world with the' awful grandeur of his power t. land the corruscatioha of his ambition, fit* appeitil to ; settle like an Italian sun in a happy climate., and promises to be the father of the mild and amiabl e Elbese. But, surely, NAPOLEON'S character . 4 tyrant cannot have been properly appreciated 4 'ee why should his fate have been so different from that of the tyrants of antiquity, or of mnre modern ; times ? NEBUCHADNEZZAR became a wild beast, and lest grass ; PHARAOH brought upon his country and himself all the catalogue of human pl:t go p s; ATTILA perished, as suspected, in the embraces of female perfidy ; Dronistus was banished, and taught school at Syracuse ; CESAR was stabbed by his friend ; but NAPOLEON takes possession, with his fortune and honours, .of the beautiful *little island of Elba! If lie is a man of., general knowledge, as it has been often asserted, and that he means to devote his time to the pursuit.ot the arts and sciences, he has a fine opportunity in a country famed for its plants and minerals; but if, as it is said, though 'not superstitious as to. other faiths, he has a faith peculiar to himself, in which he still firmly belieies, viz. Fortune, who has in her caprices to try his fidelity, deserted him for the mo ment, he may still consider himself as at her dis. posal, and destined for more astonishing' perrlsea than the world has.yet xitnessedr. . \ The Report on the Corn Importation Bill was bat night brought:up in the Nouse of Com•nons, on which.a very interesting debate took, place, and the: further', discussion of it was postponed till the 6th of June. • It is to be hoped this interval will afford the different Members of Parliament en opportauity of consulting three reiniiiiteenti l 'before they decide upon a measure•of so much importanee to the country at large, as a more interesting subject never Occe pied their attention, nor one in which the Laid.. owners, as well as the Manufacturers, ire so Mach interested. The ObservatiOns of Mi. Lascems, who is much interested in the high-rents of land, no doubt, had a very powerful effect upon the House last night. The disinterested conduct of seck•Meebers will ` go far to allay the irritation of the public feeling, it any legislative provisions ahajl eventually be found necessary.' It must be admitted that the great in equality of wealth in this country, as caused by a number of fortuitous circemstances, impose upon its possessors the task of becoming the dis pensers of nature's bounty, and the benefactors, instead of the oppressors, of their species. It must he obvious, that policy, as well as humanity, should direct. the attention of our Legislators to the condi tion,of the lower orders, as in case of a decay of trade, the bulk of them would evidently be thrown , upon the landed interest for support. The following judicious reflections are take►► from a cotemporary writer on this subject, which are much to the pur pose :—We have a vulgar proverb, Give a man an inch, and he will take an ell. Now for the exemplification. In 1806, we allowed the Irish cultivator a free intercourse, as it was called, with this country. Being thus let into competition with the English farmer, he feels his own advantage. He has no land-tax, no property-tax, no poor's-rate, and his labouiers' wages are low, because population is abundant, and the lower orders live on potatoes. As tong as the war lasts, thp field is all his own, his agriculture rapidly inseeitses, and he soon sends into the British market a supply to the value of nese . `three millions sterling. But the peace is likely to create competition, and he persuades the Euglish Agriculturist to join him in barring out the F'o- I Now, as an intelligent Correspondent has I observed to us, " so far as the interests of agricul ture in England are concerned, it is perfectly Itn !, material whether importation tikes- place from • Ireland, or from any other coeutry." The MI question to the English farmer is, whether .he shall continue to cultivate 'the inferi4 and recently inclosed lands ; and it is quite manifest, that if he I cannot do this against a regulated foreign compe , ' tition, still less can he do it against an Irish compe tition, which is wholly without restraint. The pro posed measures are recommended upon this abstract truism, that under an importing system, Corn mus t be dearer than under an exporting one ; hscause we I cannot import unless our prices are higher than they are abroad, nor export unless they are lower. But observe, how this theoretical axiom becomes a , practical absurdity. Oor prices in fact are higher than those of other countries, and we are desired to L • agii i iimum mi gh tiftzmair he' arkiresied to Alim these have sacrificed my lig iif t.