The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-23 00:00:00

a.-.....••••1r. . - that that was impracticable, but that it would come from I)antzic ; while a third set characterized that supposition as absurd, and thiclarOd that from America an overwhelming impot ta tiop might ra tionally be expected. For his part s he did not fear our being overwhelmed with foreign Corn, although, in times of scarcity, we might obtain a supply that would be very serviceable. Whatever encouragement we might give by Acts of Parliament to the importation of foreign corn, the state of the Continent had been, was, and unfortunately would, he apprehended, long be such, that Foreign Govern ments would prevent the exportation of their corn. France was that moment going to stop the exporta tion. As for the Baltic, what could be feared from the-Northern countries? Look at the harassed and desolate state of Poland. \Vas it to be feat ed that an act • of the British Government would immediately turn Poland into a fettile country ? And were that practicable, was not the King of Prussia strengthen ing the opinions of those who thought with him (Mr.W.), that no danger of an overwhelming impor tation existed in that quarter, by imposing oppressive duties on the exportation of corn ? In his opinion, GoveLnments and Legislatures had no more controul Over such matters than they had over the air. What could be more vigorour, vigilant, and omnipresent than the poster of Bonaparte while it endured? yet, when he attempted to prevent us (in imitation of our disgraceful example) from receiving snstenance from France, he failed. The French wanted money more than corn, we wanted corn more than money; the elastic force of the raw material burst its bands, and French ships arrived in British ports laden with that forbidden cargo. So it was when Bonaparte, in his hostility to England, attempted to compel Russia from sending us any articles of naval equipment. As in the other instance, the elastic force of the raw materials burst its bands, and the exports, which were in consequence made to this country from Russia occasioned those complaints on the part of the French Emperor, which led to his invasion of the Russian empire, and eventually to the condition in which things now were—a condition which almost induced some people among us who could not sell their wheat quite so well as they did formerly to claim, " that it would be better to set Boney , up again." [Laugh] considered him as an in gredient which tended to enhance the money market. _lt this spirit %vete permitted to gain head, he was afraid, if he might use such contradictory terms, that ilto Right Hon. Gentleman opposite must declare war again, in order to keep the price. [Laugh.] Adverting to the subject of averages, he contended that their fallacy was gross, and generally allowed. --It had been allowed by the Right ilonoura ble the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, who kail.,Kvertheless said that he must take them, be eausoThs4 na—knomt— w liat else to do. As a Le gislator, that Right Honourible Gentlemen ought to *Wee - thee to discover what to do:- Xs/ his part he not agree to the propc7iO4 Resolu gous, pe en * m ot m e re correct mode of obtaining the averages was relrokked to. He had been told by several weli*lformed peatesig, that had the averages been fairly struck throughout the kiugilom the ports would have been shut so long ago as November.— Were the averages better taken therefore, they would aford greater protection to the farmer. In the erst place he would say, " take the averages better, sad the porta will sooner be shut." In the second place, " now the ports are shut, wait until you see the Wired before you adopt any new mea- . 3 lures." Mr. Rose, Lord 13intting, and Mr. Ponsonby ex plained ; after which, on.the suggestion of Mr. Pon 'pithy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer mored the adjournment of the debate to this day, which was agrevd to; the Chairman reported progress; and at half-past two this morning the !louse adjouroed. DAY AT bNK O'CiOCI PRICE OF STOCRE Tii l9 - ---- &nun u i Ann 19 5-16 S. pet Cent. Red. 641 b India Bonch. ‘ 8 p 8 per Cent. Conk 6411 Exchequer .13111, 1 d 2 p 4 per Cenu. Blii Omuinrn t.i 3 d b• per Cent. Nav) 933 i . Cousol. for Acc. 611/ 'P1114: 4 STATESMAN. LONDON: .tuunsi).►r, FELIRIJ Alt V 23, 181.5. We this day received the Paris Papers of Monday last (the 20th), and advises by private letters from various parts of the Continent. The intelligence from Vienna is of the 9th. It is pacific, and conti nues to induce an impression that the material points of the Negotiations are settled. The private letters affirm that the Duke of WELLINQTON is seriously ill of a nervous complaint ; and the Emperor of illness . still'contioues. It will be observed by the following extracts from the French Papers, that the restoration of the King of S.txoNT to at least a part of his dominions is secured : VILVNA, Fi.a. 9.--For the last fifteen days the I Gong' ess hate ha 4 daily meetings, which have at I last ended in the most satisfactory manlier. The precise details of course arc not published, but the general result is declared. Prussia will gain in Poland, Thorn and Kalisch ; in Saxony she will have, beginning at Laubau, passing by Bautzen al most to Dresden, and then following the course of the Elbe to Leipsic, including the two Lusa ties. By this arrangement 320,000 Saxons be come Prussian : all that will remain to the King of Saxony will be a part of the Circle of Alisnie, of Erzebert, of Voigtland, and of Leipsic. The con sequences of this change will be very important in . a commercial point of view. The city of Leipsic, the fairs of which nre bo considerable, will be. entirely surrounded by Prussian provinces. Nothing now occupies the Congress but the unim portant affairs of Germany. It is officially an nounced that the Austrian army will be placed en the peace establishment on the Ist of March. 'Bellow, FEB. 14.—We are assured that Eng land has decided on obtaining as an additioa :to our kingdom the late French provinces of Liege, of Limburg, of Luxemburg, and that part of the coun try of Namur, which lies on the right batik of the Meuse. This will account for the immense British army assembling here, which is daily receiving rein forcements : the expence must be prodigious. Ia:YoEN, FEB. 15.—Sir Charles Stewart, late the British Ambassador at Lisbon, has arrived in the save quality at the Court of our Prince at the Ilague, where he presented his credentials on the 13th. THE grA' r ESM AN. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. NAVAL LVTELLIGENCE. DEAL, FEB. 22.—Put back the Nancy, Brook s , for the Canary Islands. — Came down from the RiTer the Swift, Church, for Montreal, and remains wita a large fleet of outward-bound.—Sailed his Majesty' s ship Spy, for Sheerness.—Arrived the Rosario sloop of war, from Portsmouth. HARWICH, . FED. 22.—The Prince of Oran , e packet landed Mails and Passengers' yesterday, at Lowestott,fromHolland.—Sailed the Leicest, r packet, for Holland. Yesterday the Report of the Committee of Im provements, as to the Erection of a New Po st-O ffi ce, &c. in the neighbourhood of St. Martin's-le-Grand, was brought up, and ordered to be printed. On the motion of Mr. WAsTIINAN, it was ordered to be an instruction to the Members of the City in Parliament, that they do, in their places, on an early day, move the House of Commons that two Petitions presented to that Honourable House, from. the Cor-• potation of London, against Mock Auctions, and for the Repeal of the Insolvent Debtors' Act, be taken into consideration. CORN LAWS. The Loan MAYOR informed the Meeting that the present Special Court had been called for the purpose of taking into consideration certain proposed altera tions in the Corn Laws. This was a subject of the most vital importance to the country at large, in volving as it did the price of the first necessary of life. It became, therefore, the incumbent duty of that Court, to whom was committed the important For TUE LONDON GAZETTE,, FEB. 21. protecting the interests —roe— pofritvhileegmeeotrfowpaoticish,intgootavkereatill:l e earliest opportunity of DIVIDENDS. enquiring into the propriety and necessity of such a measure, and expressing their opinions thereon tolidUrch 14, M. Howard and J. Haddock, Cateatem-streee t hanker,—April 15, S. Barnard, Kingston-upon-1101i, inertias; the Legislature, and to the country at large. I —March 15, L. Knowles, Newnharo, tilnitrestershlre, skinner T. Watson, Sandlittest,Gl i s i : ! —iMare_h.lB_,..l4.,..Murphy, Howlandvstreet, Fitzroy-square. ri- Mr. JAcKs, then, in a speech which was wholly i za, ft. Toby, Lucas-street, Gray's Inn-lane -read , inaudible below the bar, addressed the Meeting, and ilf ri T t _,,,Z; nuvernan _ainveh 14, concluded by moving a set of Resolutions—(for . cestershire. corn-dealer—March V. 5, J. Hobson, Deal, linen uhich sec Advertisement.) ' d r aper-Mareb 14, S. Britton, Russell-street, bennondsey. car. .°ter —April 8, J. Field, Chiswell-street, linen - dmpar— Mr. FAVELL, while he completely concur red in 1 g t oseh 18, J. Tagg, Nether Knutsford, Cheshire, innkeep er _ opinion with the mover of the Resolutions, ; March 14, N. Davison, St. Ann's-lane, warehouseman—Vault u , 14,6. Neeld, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, mealicao— e.,rel a The Corn Resolutions were debated last night in • that the proportion of t h e burden of ti and agreed the twen t y - years 9, J. Bryars, Brnseley, Shropshire, cor ner—March IS, C. Bar -1 war which had just been concluded had fallen upon the per, J. Id•Whinnie, and .1. Banbury. Snow's fields, emery.p g . the House of Commons. Mr. BARING proposed an ' commercial ft' and td• branches 1 1 , menu ac uring, ra ing mr-nrinufactarers—April 5, J. Warren, Limehouse, toupee— Amendment to limit the duration of the Restriction , of ; the commun ity, mobile, on . the other hand the . Apr"' J. Somerville, London-wall, merchant. CERTIFICATES—MARCH 14. on Importation, leaving the sum to be stAliintea landed or agricultural interests had suffered in J. and It. Hayward, Beekington, Somerseishire, clothiers_ for 80s. as a subject of after consideration. After a a comparatively trilling degree, owing to the great J. goods—J. Smith. Tabernacle-walk, w s le-upon-Tyne, soap-maker—A Liod-ay, Man grain mc•inresitc.ieshr, :eledeeraitn cotton great variety of observations, in which it will be seen 1 increase of rents, and rise on the prices of hant—G. Poison., Edgewate-road, coat- merchant . the rise in rents was much defended, and a strong i during the same period, yet thought, that when a _Harrj un , s Hadleigli - ii hall, ou tw er s — ex j ,. Winker—J. Banks. `lentil_ F. and W. Street, BuckJers subject of such di ffi culty and delicacy as the present t oe-b utts , ~. Surrey, concurrence of opinion was expressed in favour of i bury, stationers. - was to be discussed, it ought to be regarded not as a PARTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED. some Legislative measure to keep up the price of; part i a l h u t as a nat i ona l question ; not as a measure W. Rayner and E. Outram, Sheffield, merchants—J. and J. corn, the discussion was adjourned until this day. in which the interests of the commercial, manufac- H. Foster, North Curry, Someraetshire , coal and Irriek-traders , —J. and \V. Mew, Rochford, bankers—J. A. Oeschunsps and Almost every Scylla in politics has a Charjbdis turbo', and trading p a rt of the communit y were o p . :J. Pringle, lloward's-place, Bowliug-green-lane, Clerkennell, M. Maitland and M. Winh, liatiovet-streee in its neighbourhood. The dangerous situation in posed to those of the landed . and agricultu . ral . si . i , e n in o e- „ i r ti . rne u rs ar - e, milliners—%V. Linskill, A. Trotter, and J . which the country may be placed if no such measure • brandies, but as a question involving the great in- !" lurnholl, s tow Lights, Northumttrlattel, eintelass-,austsa terests of the nation at large. As soon would he turers-l. Minion and R. Whitfield, Manchester, Warts—J. as is proposed were carried into effect, was set the interestsofag a i ns t up e o hi s h an d those of . , and W. Fatiowlietd, Penrith, Cumberland, druggist.. therefore much dwelt upon ; and we-feel strong- ' his feet, or' of his feet against those of his hands, j _ _ .__ ______,___ ly inclined to leave the Reader to make his.: as think of regarding this as a partial contest; CORN LAWS AND- IV AR Taxiathosit Witch own comments on the statements made, and between one branch of the community as op- ' are shortly to be made the matter of discuiliou at to find his own way, if he 'can, between the posed to another. It was not so : it was a question . County Meetings in Hants and Wiltshire. On Fri dangerous nlternitives to which the country is not of partial but of national , interest. He then pro- • day last Mr. Hunt, who is a large proprietor and seeded to take a view of the burdens which the coup. occupier -of hind in Wilts - as wells, in litinpshire, reduced. But if we can find room we shall still try had borne during the war, and of the different presented d Reitinisition to the High Sheetffiorthe hazard a remark for his assistance. The first that i effects those burdens had produced en. rommerce,' former countyi signed by 515 persons, calling on strikes us is, the ground for apprehension that the manufactures,and agriculture; the rents of land and him to convene a meeting, to consider the pro. reVef so necessary to the farmer may not be afforded . the price of corn having continued to increase . while priety of petitioning against- the proposed Corn Bin, to him though prices mlaumid be raised; for if high , trade and manufactures had been as constantly on the and all the War Taxes, especially against the decay. Peace had now been restored, and-corn had Property Tax and the duty on Malt and Beer: The rents have been attendeli witihietelebeneficial go - " e -Tbr a alert paged suffered a depreciation. The effects Requisition states, that evil-dipoied, or miegairki (mimes as are imputed to them, what security is k o f peac e, Vowever, yet had not •begun to be fairly persons, are endeavouring to prevail upon Om &Ws there that the proposed encouragement will not he !frit ; and were the landed and agricultural interests, lature, b y means of private petigont and ['there/so; converted into the means of further increasing the l lhen, to cry out and complain the very first moment to pass a law, prohibiting the imAnetiriloti at rent of land ? The humane conduct and enlightened :they felt 'themselves affected? This would not be deal. • &c. It is singular, that the Sheriff fa ha*Cleap' ..74. ir with the c . ountry in general, which had for . principles of many landlords are sufficient security l in g this important meeting to be held at Salisbe;y, eh so long borne their unequal and oppressive share of -- so remote a day as the Bth of March. A *Oat re-' against oppression from them; but it is the the burden. The balance between them was not yet quisition is now in the course of signafure)n almost' nature of evils to increase, and to take perma- ' even; and, at all events, a sufficient time had not every town and tillage of Hampshire. In the Ito. nency of themselves; and we fear many instances yet elapsed to enable us to judge of the effects of roug h of Andover alone, upwards of 300;tredes ceuld be cited where proprietors have not waited to peace, or to see whether any measure for the protec. 1 men and landaholders have already signed. see whether the diligent cultivator, who has slaved all lion of the landed interest was necessary. For many I it ...osiArative has Tared the life of the alsassiq• ears, during which mercant, desman, d who d . e has hd the clemency to the year through to render his land productive, was, manufacturer had been sufferin h g the tra severest pr i t s. content h attempte imself hi wi s t life h only H sending a him off tbe island. or could be, repaid for his labour before they exacted lions, the landed interest had been more than enabled The pressure of other matter has prevented us from or proportioned their rent; nay, where they havenever to meet their increased burdens, by a twofold increase , g i v i ng the particulars Of this desperate attempt..r. thought of bounding it to surplus produce. A plen.... of rent ; and the farmer again to pay his taxes, and i They are briefly - these :—BoNseaare; bad lately tiful supply of grain insured at home, it is thought, also his increased rent, by the greatly increased price I very nearly ceased to be an object either Of coda. will prevent scarcity, and keep down prices. With of corn. Let not then those two classes which had . hitliertsunffered comparatively nothing,not cry out for assassinate him by a young Corsican, on account of sits, anxiety, or alarm. An attempt was made to ; all due deference, we cannot conceive that any culti. an alteration of the existing law the first moment they .1 some old fend. The Corsican had got into bin 'valor will propose to raise more grain than he thinks felt themielvea affected, and that too, before it was . Cabinet, and white BONAPARTE was reading a paper, will be wanted, and will sell well. Profit is his ob- I ascer tained whethe r the alteration p r oposed wo uld he aimed at him with a stiletto-, but the point strack ject, and surplus of his article will destroy his into- not be generally and nationally injurious. 1 the steel buckle of his braces.and did not penetrate rest. Neither landlord nor farmer can afford that Mr. WurrE was far from rising to oppose the Re- , the flesh . BonAaanTainstintly seized and disarmed , According to late letters from Spain, that country is in a most awful state of alarm and ferment; and if the Goverment continues on its present system, it mill shortly become the theatre of horror and of bloodshed; the Clery govern absolutely. The late Bull of the Pope, issued by the Inquisition against Secret Societies, Freemasons, &c. has carried terror ' and alarm into the bosom of every family. Areas increase daily, and a dreadful convulsion is on the point of breaking out. VIENNA, Fes. 9.—The Emperor Francis is still considerably indisposed. We are assured that a triple alliance between France, Austria, and England, has been lately con 'eluded.' PORTSMOUTII, FEn. 22.—Sailed his Majesty's s h; pl Hope and Pickle, for the coast of France.—ili s jesty's ship Leven gives instructions to the slips bound to Newfoundland, Quebec, Nova Scotia, a n d New Brunswick. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 21.—Arrived his Aliljetty's s hi ps Rolla and Slam), from a cruize. Our Post.offsce has received orders to consider in future all Northern Italy as an integral part of our Monarchy. sort of benevolence which implies their own impove rishment in order to feed a nation. The; only surplus therefore which can be expected from the cultivator is_ an incidental one. Reciprocity ofj supply and exchange is the best encouragement to production, and the best bond of society. The farmers wish to be cos erect in the light of traders, and claim an equality Madvantage. Cau any thing be clearer, as a general maxim, than that traders must flourish by trade ? Trade is the most eligible means of forwarding agriculture, and agriculture is the most eligible means of forwarding trade. So in timately are the two interests blended. The pre ferable mode of forwarding the one can never be at the expence of the other. Free principles form the basis of commerce—an equality of justice and pro. tection, that of good Government. And let us never forget that wars and tumults, and taxes and Eacnine, and national misery and de l ay, are the fruits dry departure from such principles. A Special Court of 'Common council was held yesterday, to petition both Houses against the Corn Regulations, and the Petition agreed upon was pre sented last night in the Commons by Mr. Sheriff Imam We give a Report of the proceedings at the Meeting to deliberate on this subject. A Common Hall is also to be held to-day for a similar purpose. solutions, of whichle highly approved. Ile barely wished to do justice to the farmers, who, he was con vinced, were hardly dealt by in the public opinion. It was not owing to . the farmers that Corn and Bread were dear, but owing to the land-owner, oho had all the profit. The land-owner did not 'say to the far mer, " I will let you my lands at the lowest rent I. can afford ,• but you must give me the greatest rent you can afford ;" thus creating a monopoly of rent. This system had within the last 20 years been carried to an enormous height, through means of a mis chievous set of men who, till then, had been scarcely heard of, he meant surveyors and others, who were al waYoeatly to point out toe land owner, when his leases were about to expire, how he might lay out his land to thest advantage. Sir W. CURTIs approved of the Resolutions, and declared that he should in the House of Commons, oppose any alteration of the law. Mr. S. Dtx.ox contended that corn, like every other article of produce and of commerce, ought to be importable. Sin JAMES SHAW assured the Meeting, that he should oppose any alteration of the law as it now stood. Mr. Alderman CHRISTOPHER SSIITH expressed a similar determination. Mr. ‘VAITIIMAN assured the Court, that his senti ments remained the same as they had been hut year, when he in the Common Hall proposed Resolutions against the then projected alteration of the law. He went the full length of the Resolutions now moved, which, in his opinion, did not go far enough. Mr. Alderman WOOD likewise declared his senti ments to be unchanged, nay, to have been strength ened since last year. After a few words from Mr. HARDIE, the Resolu tion!: were put, and carried unanimously, as were Petitions to both Houses of Parliament founded up on thee. him, and gave him into the mutt* of 'one of leis guards. Ministers, we understand, have received further lc ! counts from the Mississippi, and the report is, that New Orleans• was in . the occupation Of our troops. By a letter from •Liverpool, which reached tis yester '4 day, we find that General PAKENIIAM, on the sth of January, was within a few miles of the City with' 14;000 men, that General JAcKson littervened with about an equal number at Terre aux itteufs. It I was supposed the 'action would take place the next •day. An elopement has taken place within the last week, from a boarding-School near town, a youn,„ , Lady not above 15 years of age, with a Cornet of Heavy Dragoons, aged 17. The lady-it possessed of considerable fortune, and the happy couplein the first stage of the journey to Gretna drOve a tilbury I to Barnet. • A subscription is on foot amongst our fashionable spinsters, to produce a piece of plate, of pure virgin ' silver, to be presented to Mr. VANstrr.utr, as a grateful memorial of their respect for him, and his liuchelor's Tax. SnoT ExTRAORDINARY.-:-A foreigner, who is an excellent marksman, lately took very long odds that f he winged two MARTINS at one fire, and actually shot into his pocket a half of the double-bodied Prize of Forty Thousand Pounds, which .was sold at No. B, 7 Cornhill last month; he now insists there is a Covey of Capitals on the premises, and seems de l: termined to renew bit" fire at the above fortunate I Office, for the LEASH of Thiity Thousand Poundel , id the present Gorden Lottery - ) which begins sth of I April. FALIBOUTII, FEB. 20.—8 y the Duke of Kent packet, which hos arrived here with a Mail from Lis bon, in seven days, we learn, that reports were pre valent at Lisbon of the capture of the British frigate Maidstone, by the American frigate Constitution.— By her we also learn, that American privateers were very numerous between Cape Finisterre and Cape St. Vincent's, and that they had captured several vessels, amongst which is the sloop Johanna, Kitfs. Master, from Mecagisey, for Naples, with fish ; and that a cartel had• arrived with the crews of three or four vessels at Lisbon. DIED. On Monday last, Sopbronia. the wife of Apsley Pellatt, kr- Esq. of St. Paul's Church-yard. At Bombay, in August last, aged 95. Lieut. D. James Grant, of the 'ld Battalion of Bombay ,Native Infantry, eldest surviving son of the late Rev. James Grant, Minister of Laggan, Inver nessshire. The above report of the capture of the Maidstone frigate by the Constitution is, we believe, an old story that has been subsequently contradicted by let ters from the former rebel. A Morning• Paper has the following laughable an nonee Not lets thin 300 colliers are now on their way front Sunderland, a future reduction in that necessary article may. therefore be reasonably expected.", • On the 9th last. at St. Albans, Mr. Edmund Cotterill. jun. of Sidtnoutb-street, Gray's Inn-road. 1 LON DON t . __...- Printed and PuAM !ed by D. Lovsa.a. at ' .`" STATISIAN OFFICE, 87, ritet-street. 14.