The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-03 00:00:00

Y . "Ile reel opinion of Prince is known ; she serrounde re with a greet number of bee ►epresentatives end later petters of her sentiments. The tried real of the Chambers wIY tonstintly maintain the prerogatives of the Throne, while it defends the national liberties. "IPublic spirit will dilly teceive directions more tertian sod ensfornahle to this Monarchial principle. the ant etc. nest of ear ('on•tttutiom. Our manners will assimilate to the lints; their double inflame will (thee the last vestiges or asimehy. A lit.vernnvent Inn, and which protects, with an equal impertiailty, the rights and interests of all; fears mot the seditious nor their visiosary projects. The nation , that derives order and repose, knows well that it cannot and Stem but under the sceptre of Rs legitimate Kiss. "Inks power eta, Throne, supported by the devotion of Its subjects, was, at no period, more manifest, than at present. wee,—Tbe Chamber of Peers will be feithrelle the prin ciples whieh your Muarry peahens and recommendk. It brill take for its guide, at all times, that moderation so ne tesury, after such great political convulsion*. Moderation Controls power sad serrate& it with homages. and is.at the saute time, the most prudent method of pining a nation's streueth. A Ids by parsuingikis system Invariably, that we shall sotto iscreuseour credit. the arts, Industry and agriculture. .' We receive with 4uy, the assurance that the public ber th.= will be diminished. Those which fall directly on the cmtil *tors should sewn your first regards. The see qual assessment of the Senritorial imposts, increases the weight of them ; mad year Mums wishes also to reform this obese. A more just partition in the quota of this tax is not lass desirable than the dimiention of the tax itself. "pure.—The last words of your MAJUTT, has excited In , us the deepest emotion. You desire your days not to be ' prolonged but for the Ake of our happiness. sire, this feeling vow is in the heart of every Frenchman. !leaven , will ;eign t heir it. May we see our institutions strengthen sod dove ope themselves under the head of their august i founder. May we long enjoy, under your paternal, authority, those blessings it has already brought us, and , those which it is still preparing for us." The above Address signed by the President and ! i Secretary, was ordered to be presented to his MA. MIT by a grand deputation. The Ktme after bearing the address, said:— " I receive with a lively sensibility the testimonies of the Chamber of Peen. I see, with real satisfaction, the con formity of its principles with mine. I again repeat—lf I degire my days to be prolonged, it is to strengthen the insti tutions that I have gives to my people. But whatever be the decrees of Providence, lot us not forget this maxim : TAr Kum sever dies in France." The Chamber of Deputies have had several Meet ings, but no business of importance has yet been trativuted. The intelligence contained in these Journals on the affairs of Naples is very scanty. It appears that the embarkation of the Kixe on board the reageur, has excited considerable agitation among his subjects. They assembleifrequently in the public places; bat the general tranquillity has not yet been materially 1 disturbed. to au article from Blenheim, dated Dec. !O, it is asserted that the MARQUIS Rios, eldest goo of theDusa of Casio who had arrived at Stuttgardt from Naples, had sot been MEllpinel as diplomatic agent from the Court of Naples: it is even added that be had been incited to quit the States of Wurtemberg as soon as possible. Lord Srawsnr, it is said, has gone to Troppau again. The allied Sovereigns with the exception of Alax- 1 DEB I arrived at Vienna on the lath ult. Rvery preparation is still making by Austria, of a warlike nature, The scholars in the seminary of the Archbishop of Naples, says as account from Rome, have published a petition, in the name of liberty, equality, and, the rights of nations. The Spanish Government is about to remove all the Ministers in foreign countries. The Duke de Fatas in Loudon will be replaced by M. &SIB& de BAR- D.M. M. DYIS is to proceed to Vienna. Vtan:va, Dar. 18.—• News favourable to the PACHA of Janine, has for two days been current here. PSTERSIIIIRCIN. DEC. 2.-1 he Emperor of China, lita-Kix, is dead. French Fonds, five per cent. 79f. Isc.—Bank Ac tions, 1425 f. The bargaia relative to Marlborough-House appears to be settled. The price given for it by the ()rime to Mare Learnt., is a furnished state, is said to be a yearly rent of 4000/. This arragement, which is not likely to have been made without the coneerrence of his MaJures Ministers, would seem to contradict the reports that were in circulation respecting the renewal of attempts to degrade her .filaJnevv. That each attempts were, till • recent period, meditated, is more than probable, from the language at the Edin burgh Meeting, of the Lord Advocate for Scotland. Ile feeling of the country is, however, now discovered, as well by the loud expression of the public voice, as by the silence or subdued tone of the Ministerial ad heres* to be so extensive and so strong that it may be deemed dangerous to tamper with it any longer. Th e "Ming Statesmen who first endeavoured to area the risk of the late proceedings by their 10 41 , So the Qualm of a bribe of the national mein to the amount of 50,0001. a year, and after wards were so inconsistent and so rash as to commence a course, they had not the virtue to avoid, nor the poorer to complete. may be at length prepared on any terms to make a compromise that affords them any chaste of retaining their seats. If they are able tot retail*Lr seats a single day after Parliament reas- Maim, it can only be from the dilliculty of proctoring comps/sat pennons who are willing be undertake the 'Usk w Imielientiag the condition of a country which THE St they have loaded with grievances too heavy to be' borbe, and brought to a crisis of irritation front which the greatest evils may be justly dreaded, The intimation we gast the other day respecting the relative situation of Ministers and Parliament has led a Ministerial paper to notice the expectation we then expressed as to a ostpooesiont of the appointed meeting. Some doubts," says this journalist, •• ing been expressed with regard to the meeting of Parlia ment, we can state, from authority, that both Houses will positively assemble, for the dispatch of business, sa the 23d inst. No further prorogation is iatended. We understand, also, that the Address in the Hons. of Commons will be moved by Mr. Banks, junior."— Whatever may have been the measures settled shies the period to which we refer, see,here no doubt that the opinion we ventured at that time to pronounce, will be admitted to have been perfectly warranted. At that time; were ha reason to believe, that Ministers were in a divided and undecided state, relative to their own stability, as well as to the measures it was expedient for them to pursue. From the indication apparent by the arrangements implied in the preceding article, and the accommodating disposition Ministers way have previously discovered in the quarter on which they chiefly rely fur support, they may enter tain the hope of averting the impending storm which threatened to drive them from their stations, and et, meeting their ford►er friends, at least, in Parliammt, i in a spirit of conciliation, and with a face of coal deuce. There are abundant reasons, we are well aware, why the meeting of Parliament ought not to bs postponed beyond the time proposed. The awl merous aqd urgent demands of the country upon the attention of its rulers can no longer s ith any safety be overlooked. Through the infatuated course pursued by bliniscess during •the chief portion of the last year, all the great interests of the nation were neglected, and sacrificed in the par suit of an object which has roused the spirit of the people in the vindication of that injured rights to a degree that will be difficult to be allayed by the usual Ministerial nianceuvres, or by any measures short of ample and complete redress. The list of signatures to the Edinburgh Petition and Address, against the Anniston, were closed on Wednesday evening, when the number of names amounted to nearly 16,000. Many of the subscribers are of the first rank in the country for property, ta lent, and respectability; and it may be safely asserted thaL the persons who have signed the petition exceed one half of the entire number of male inhabitants above eighteen years of age. We congratulate our fellow townsmen on the proud attitude in which they are placed by this public and decisive manifestion of their senti ments. IVhen it is considered how great the power of the aristocracy of placewen in this town, where there are, perhaps, a thousand or fifteen hundred families fed by the Uovernment—how much influence has been used to withhold signatures, while none was nerd to procure them—how many individuals are in too dependent a si tuation to have any will of their own—how many are pttilt, absent, or unaccustomed to take any concern in pow cartiestions r--when ahatrutente are made for ail these circumstances, the numberof name — MA% ly decisive of the stew of public feeling. But if a sha dow of doubt could exist, the Tories have fortunately 'taken means to remove it. Hitherto it has been their policy, in getting up addresses, to muster only what they call the respectable classes, of whom a large proportion here are dependent on the Government, and to treat the rest of the population as a rabble, whose sentiments were of no account. Then, if one half of the inhabitants of a place signed a petition against the Administration, they Willi/ maintained that the other half, who had not declared their sentiments, were its strenuous supporters. All the neutral, sick, and absent, were lumped together as adherents of the Ministers. But they have now quitted this vantage ground, and lost the benefit of thi.; stale sophism. It is outof their power to say that all who are not against them are for them. They have been coaxing, by every possi• ble art, as many as they could of the middle and lower classes, the rabble, as they contemptuously call them, to sign their address. The pitiful result, we believe, will cure them of the folly of again appealing to the mass of the population. The whole number of names is said to be no more than 1,600 or I,SOO. Deducting the organ- 1 ised corps of placrinen, with their connexions, 1,000 strong, whose names are regularly found at every loyal address, hot or cold, temperate or furious, as those of a regiment on its muster-roll, our antagonists can boast of 600 or 800 names, procured wills infinite pains, out of a population of 100,000 souls. Compare this with 16,000 signatures, and then say what the sentiments of the peo ple of Edinburgh are. Could the most ardent opponent of Ministers desire a more signal triumph, or their ad herents dread a more mortifying defeat ? After beating up every dependent and expectant—after fasting, toiling, and sweating for • fortnight, and putting their whole influence in requisition—the result has only exposed their weakness, and held up their lofty pretensions to scorn and derision. We are glad, extremely glad, that they have brought their strength to the proof. The facts are worth a thousand arguments* They will shut the mouths of many of their friends, and open those of their enemies. And that the moral of the drama may not be lost, we shall take care to refresh their memo ries upon the subject from time to time. —(EdiabergA Pipes.) Epinal:eon, Dec. 30.—For the last fortnight this town has been kept in a state of strong political ex citement, something like what our happier brethren of the south experience during as election. Printed reports of the proceedings at the Pantheon, and after wards at the County Hall, kept up the interest created by these meetings. In all the most crowded streets, men were posted with large boards, setting forth where signatures were received for the opposite addresses. At night the more intelligible signals ,of flambeaux were employed. Placards of various descriptions, in large letters, posted on the walls, reminded the chi nos of their public duties ; ballads, band-bills of many kinds, counterfeit speeches, and other squib% in which the authors did their best to be satirical or ha mou7ons, were hawked about the streets, or collected knots of spectators at the shop windows. Pamphlets, making up in scurrility what they wanted in wit, t os sed &Me,• one it two a-day, and like maggots, sel dom survived the day that gave thesis birth. le short, our fellow-oitismes, plied with stimulants of all kinds, got rid of their habitual apathy, awl for ease fell what it was to have a political eliminate. Ni FOR 17111 STATTIMAII. LITTER 111. TO THE MORT HON. LORD eASTLERIAGH. LO, ON THE PRESENT STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS. MT Loan--Though consciousness of innocence, sad the especial sapport of providence had Jed former through thoQuorrt's trials.yet another awaited bet,which crowns your infamy and her triumph ; witness the Milan Commission—the wonders of the Oreen Bag, and her late acquittal. I will not mention the menaces!, that were held out against her—the insidious coun sels that were given bee—..nor the vast offer that was made to induce her to stay in s foreign country, without endeavouring to impose any restraint on her conduct ! I wave these circumstances, is. I grading as they are, and hasten to remark with what spirit and propriety she led, as soon as the death of his late Majesty made it necessary, to claim her rights an,l privi.eges; and how unhesitatingly she threw herself upon the protection of the laws and the people—how nobly she faced her accusers, although she knew the monstrous fact, that those very men were to sit in judgment uprm her; and with what patient contempt she heard those paltry agents who were employed to vent the fabrications of calumny as evidence against her! What a minute and scrutinous examination her conduct underwent, from the time she left England till the time she returned to it ; yet, how impossible it was to substantiate any charge against her! Would you, my Lord, together with your colleagues,suffer your daughters to be abandoned for years as she has been----then have their conduct minutely examined, and upon no stronger presump tions of built, allow them to be convicted and de graded ? You are not worthy of the name of fathers' or of men if you wonld. The Queen, however, bas come out of the fiery ordeal which yon have instituted " like gold seven times refined ;" and thousands, who before were inclined to believe the reports yon bad raised against her, are now convinced, by the means you have taken to give colour to them, that they were altogether groundless. The spirit of chivalry is not wholly suppressed in this kingdom, as your Lordship has abundant evi dence to prove; nor will it, I trust, ever be. Op-1 pression has compelled the people to feel; and feeling 114 s prompted them to think ; and to be satisfied with theories is not the characteristic of Englishmen. Yet, they have sustained their injuries with meek ness ; and in the true temper of christianity, proved themselves "long suffering," " not easily provoked," and "thought no evil," till they found that these very virtues, carried to excess, degenerated into vices. They have seen the representation of their own dis tresses treated with contempt, and female innocence wade the object of persecution ; and these bare kindled that resentment within them, which their gallant forefathers so often evinced on similar occa sions, and which will never be allayed 10 the causes cease to exist. That fermentation which has long been gradually rising in the country, is now actually boding with agitation ; and when it overflows, many will be the victims that must be overwhelmed in its vortex. You, my Lord, may pretend to be ignorant of this; but no, your infernal spy system proves the contrary : and instead of applying oil to allay the impending fury, you continually excite it by adding -fresh &sells Um fire by which it was first produced. Yet think, 0 think! of this contolltary, thoufh trio, maxim—" Sera astariani est, ad bawls mores via f " and do not lead us into horrors which perhaps you have not imagination to conceive. To bring a freak charge against her Majesty, would, in my opinion, be the last desperate step that you could possibly take. Oh, if such a measure be in contemplation, relinquish it altogether, and do not again set your " life upon the cut." Dare to be honest, and prove yourself st friend to your King, to your country, and to yourself; nor provoke violent hand to tear to pieces the temple of the constitution and the sacred ark of religion. But, alas ! you have done more to ruin these already, than all the speeches and writings of all the infidels and rebels put together, could ever have effected. I will not mention the unprecedented contempt that has been poured upon the representatives in the House of Commons ; for in their last agonies folks are apt to grow delirious, and it would be fruitless and foolish to take offence at their actions when they are reduced to that meLncholy state. DELTA. Private letters from Brussels. receired yesterday by the Flanders mail, and dated the 29th ult. at ten in the morning, state that a fire had broken out a few hours before, which bad consumed the palace of the Prince of Orange, and threatened the State-house with destruction, as the wind was blowing strongly from the eastward, attended with an intense frost. 10 de grees blow sero of Reaumnr, and no water could be obtained. There had been no time to ascertain the cause of the calamity, the intelligence of the confla gration being solely introduced in *postscript, written as the mail was leaving Brussels. Dsc. 25.—The Constitution of the Orand Duchy of Darmstadt is now published, and gives great satisfaction to the people. The most eutire harmony has prevailed between the Oevernuaent aid the two Chambers in the discussions on this impor tant subject; and the result, which is equally honour able to all parties, will doubtless justify the general joy which has manifested itself on this occasion. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Per nanabuco, Nov. 1, and received a t Havre by the French ship L'A agnate, Captain Oge The impression produced here by the intelligence of the events that have taken place at Oporto was entrmoely strong, and convinces me that nothing but terror pre vents oar being is a state of revolution. You must not be surprised, therefore, at bearing of my sudden return to Europe; for I. who witnessed the insurrection of 1817, and the state of anarchy which accompanied it, know too well the effect of the diversities of opinion, as various as their complezions, that govern the different classes of his Majesty's subjects, to trust my person among them when under the influence of popular agita tion. I watch patiently the storm that appears to be ga thering in the distance—gradually enriailing my bust ling, disposing of my property, and making investments in the English or French funds. Nothing, exempt the union of ti s iz a faverninent of Brasil with our garepeast brethren iodine use to lacrosse my stake in this asuetry, where I ass like a traveller with one feet is the stirrup, ready to start at a moment's notice." THEATRE. 'rho might of Shakespeare seems to have become the pisythitig of ewe children. if we look at the degree of power with which wise of the =Wilma engines of the might have latterly been wielded. The ball has bates baedied hem one of oar national theatres to the other, in the shape of Hamlet, Lear, &Vas, Coriolawas, &e. edtil we 'desire the public are quite tired of the sport, however much it may amuse the' dote immediate parties le the tame. In plain truth, we are palled with , that repetitious of experiments which continue to be • mode at both homers in the very teeth of failure. W' ' have sdhscribed to the nerative, or qualified praise which has been bestowed upon the exertions of the two recent aspirants to tint•rate tragic fame, from a conviction that the fruits of genius sometimes require the warm sun of easweragement before it would expand and ripen to perfection. Bet this feeling has, perhaps, existed too long, and more to the prejudice of the of whom we speak than to any body else. It is ti those on whom the duty devolves, to apply that re to the performances above mentioned, %illicit, all must be coo rineed, is their just desert. Mr. W A LLACi, on MOOur night, restored upon Coriolasus r and although it e ' not destitute of merit, yet its inferiority to his Rolla. together with his failures in Handel and Brutus, d'art • proves that Shakespeare cannot be his author at pee Time may do much for him, and it ran scaroelv doubted that by well directed study, the object of hi. -• ambition may be obtained. - The Princess Augusta left Frogman yesterday fur Brighton, on a visit to the King. The Princess of Hesse Hombourg, formerly Prin• ens Elisabeth of England, pasted by Frankfort et the 23d oft. proceeding from her residence at Houk bourg, accompanied by her husband. She was on bee way to Louieboneg, near Stutgard, on a visit to the Queen Dowager of Wurtemberg, likewise a Prisons of England. She will remain there during the kb sence of the Prince her husband, who sets out for Vienna, whither he is going to solicit the poet of Cos• mamler•in-Chief of the expedition against Naples, which is still vacant, General Sommariva, who wee destined to 11l it, having been appointed to replace the Dnke of Wartembe-g in his command in the in terior of AnstHa. The etiquette of courts -would not permit the Margravine, as an English Plume's, to appear at Vienna. where her husband could only be received in quality of a General in the Austrian service. It is remarked that the bandgrave of Hesse Hombourg is the only German Sovereign who has offered to serve in the Austrian army against the King of the Two Sicilia,. This is considered as the ho mage of gratitude which the Princes of that house pay to the emperor Francis, to whom they are indebt ed for the sovereignty of their house and the aegnisi• lion of a small territory on the left bank of the Rhine. —(Brinutels paper.) A meeting has been held at Stratford-upon-Arne. fur the purpose of erecting, by subscription, a mono melt, or mausoleum, to the memory of the immortal Sbakspsare. The King, it is said, will become the patron of the undertaking. Several offers hare al ready been made by eminent artists to contribute their professional abilities towards completing it, gratui tously. Amou( Avemassue.—..it had been stated that the address to the times from Aberdeen had been signed by between 11.000 and 7,000 persous in a few days, and that the ultra-loyal address from the siit elected Magistrates and other friends bad ban signed 308. With respect to the former the statement. It *ppm", was oorreet ; but, as to the latter, the fast is now discovered that the lift and fortune address' to the Ring, had not beencounteaanced by 50 signatures. Dumente Prime Miteetato.—.l Requisition, signed by fifty of the inhabitants of Dundee, who affixed their several occupations to their names, was present. ed lately to the Provost, requesting him to call an early general meeting for the purpose of considering the pre , priety of presenting an humble. loyal, and dutiful Ad dress and Petition to his Majesty, expressing their at j tachment to his Majesty's person and Government; re presenting the pernicious and unconstitutional nature of the measures advised by his Majesty's present Ministers. I especially in the proceedings against her Majesty the Queen, and in the sudden prorogation of Parliament under circumstances so unexampled and alarming • and praying that his Majesty will be graciously pleased to dismiss his said advisers from his presence and councils, and to re-assemble Parliament without delay, in order I that measures may be taken, by their advice, for allay ing the present discontents."—The Provost hiring , de dined to call the Meeting, the Requisitionists have given notice of a Meeting to be held on the nth ofJanuc-y, in the Steeple Church, the use of which has been granted by the Constituted Authorities. A practice, whieb well deserves to be know■ and imitated, is established at Maresfield Park, the seat of Sir John Shelley, Bail. M. P. Rewards are given &nasally on New Year's Day to such of the industri ous poor of the aeighbonrhood as have not received parish relief, and have most distinguished themselves by their good behaviour and industry, the neatness .f their cottages and gardens, their constant attendance at church, Ice. The annual distribution was mob on Monday last by Lady Shelley, assisted by vomit naltt ladies. It was nest gratifying to observe the happy effects upon the character and disposition of the poor people with which this benevolent practice has beep attended daring the few years It has been established. Though the highest reward does net exceed two gni nese, yet it has excite a wonderful spirit of emulation. and a great endeavour to avoid resolving money from the parish. Immediately after the rewards were given. 149 of the Andres belonging to the Sunday school and the National school lately established in the parish, eat down to a plestifed dinner; and after dinner they also received prises he their _good condttc t as teachers, and their diligence as asintlitrs. The new Theatre at Eimer haabig hoes completely ready, it was intended to have "owed it on New Year's day. The Managers, however, reekohed with ' out their host. In consequence of tics'oon-arrival of their performers, who, it is apprehended' were detalms4 by adverse winds on their passage from Owerosey, the perfonnsncrs were nocesearily postposiod. Saturday last, Thomas Steveni, Req. was elects/I Recorder of the City of Easter, in the room of W. Coursenay, Rag. M. P. who has resigned. CORN LICH 1,11416 1 JAN. 3.—The aikvigalies of the river being now completely stopped, all isessamm is out market is suspended, on soca-sat of the impossibiliti • of getting any torn wilted from Do•Ahipiesed, and consetwatly the prices of all grails ars nominal.' I i 1 i P 1 . / i 1 r ~,