The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-12 00:00:00

f.A` Et • 4. ..." • •' I • • - • , %, • . . !7' 7- 7 ,~--w,~•^¢~ - - . r 771 wilt 41ri1e liseip into ritawsureig. most hasardeealor Moat awl for snriely avert this crisis-40 pre dare itiP eboter readonliy sod by universal coeset4 I rmetti • Mil& foreje every private toositierstion%' sad &you Hs itself u• satritice In tech a nest. I will Hew state same of the *flyaway.% *bleb the country eta, derire flee having the new eteveltti so eiertrft s Is to ?Keit the doable purse of .Chard. owl School. , . . . 44 In there Wadi**. le :which artistkoe HO 1 4! . ., doharnt for•tbo pepelorion. wheals mill he tle6cieot , else; awl year crags will "debit. lim i t M a foende. ties for the ispenvemeot ottieecieb,,sibette stogette es oece•eary as Awakes. 23..Thet feedoseettelfy, iebotaetially to int. roe, the popelatiftn, wheels shophi hi iele4ololo, prier' ie . citerdiel s or, at Alto hest, at elai Shoe period. 341. Th.t the new chvehoo sod saute's, if ..114' lece-rstreitotiondethe soy be sob lhe learreseeess oft errititi the serried *limos, laisikleti es devoted potato, chick, fro. their Oe.' tow; ',41 ode& of KW, sod whWo 4berefore. el hf over to be forced out the yowl *a l bill placed before It shoo !be jadoesonfie ripe. aid capa ble of tombs s lathemslioeilealen foi . Any Wog of this his prettailee to ho Called aloe' for has 'POW -011,11.") 99 tte4i week tw to be. bs ,of re& list useful in sett, Ages; iamb. A her dissent her- mea more I be. boa ' re ty.of loot ,the been house the safeguard 111 of 1 .lCr `y i 1~ 4 fillky ; the edgy , potation of ' these islands would soon become little - latifftr than usloorable brutes, having scarcely the form of ties. • • Yet to give the population time for infraction, • and lot provide that instriction, would be to mock • the reasonable expectations of every reflecting mind ; ' say, my Lord, it could not . fail to prove the certain Amoans of bastislog the period, 'when, without the 1101 plication of effreteal remedies, society will find it. • OW involved, •throngh 'ignorance, in violence and coilfestoo. . Bid happily for all patties—for the Improvement of the poor—for the safety 'of the rich.—at the ono. meat when reqeirrd, so opportunity presents itself ' whoa the ignorance apd bad habits o r the mine geOe ratios may fie re by the influence of the new Schools of the new Churches; and those poor chit.' dreg who have latterly beon mad* the victims of, seet.ealcitiatiog cupidity. In the maeofactering die.' Wets, will rams from those Sohi,ois 4.)apetont and' prepared to rotors fourfold ialeantages to the Public for the expellee sad libber which shall be thus be stowed epos them - Tr.. MY Lacier Isperloots which the ' Natiu. , at f4i• us* afforded you, may have some feint idea my be obtained by proper ages den to she yoting mind. Sot, my Loa, std I say it as a pooh* man from our yowls op to at. present period, whims' 5... seCh straiter experience, you can form we adeqoato eoureption of the mum which the Government and the Politic peaks, to add to the onmfort and wall-belog of all ranks, by feinting and . directiftg this physical and twinged Capabilities of the averkiiig classes in the beat - maaaer tot themselves said for *Map Vitals timerrinelptos shall he thetwnghly undentood. whoa tb Issislatare of this and ether countries shall steadily oat apositlicm, sad legislate solely its esafeemitY with theta, anti 'Whoa the este. sidling effects shall be witnessed, which they are Bare to prodace is practice, then will ono and all ay press their astoolahment, that that Which is so ob. Istoosly troy, so plain, sad so simple, so perfectly la . unison with every known fact; and se easy of appli• . ...litho to all the *poses of life, should ban betas disregarded for sootily ages of the world, and lefis6 l be brought into salon at 'this late period of bump *istence. I treat, my Le4titairoa are destined to lead. c; helping hand to forward this great work, and that you will take every pedant step not oily to combine Schools with the Cherokee, _bat to.hasteu, as far as possible, their complethis, le order that oar mane factoring population may not be compelled to ac ,qoire • bed and vicious habits; because no ellialant i mpute beveling prepared to make them virltio i astral members of society.-1 have the.hononcto be, : my L t Ord, saes respectfully, your Grimes obedient bumble servant, ' . • • . , New tamoirk, May 6,1618,' ROSE= OWEN. • zw========m • , • lateirdey opronittg. Mr. Mu.% the ILleg's Meg :llft tows for Fraakfort. Wig them of this has so pretesslow te. oe cam libertylefseetcleece; tad moil it•csaili obtained fo dearktos Imeeretion, tau meat 'coolies' ela he Ito : • . little elere . ini tgamaet mama', imam t ) • to dyer& g Aso* .*lskiiiiitrosid hi., t . - - 4 ...., . . , , '.7 `.. '.; • raers, clitrt iiheu ebea 1 , -. w • ' do '. ~.,..:... .. ~ : 7 1 . ,0 100: , ; 4 .4 . 0 .11 1 t 13.1 g g o. • . i flat hee i w t: fitei e ff e 4 ' -‘l''' Ug21 :1 1. 1 " ' , lll . ‘""tgibaion I 'der 461 coo r e ~., . ..• - , - • 4 Pitale reareica; . derive soap be ..... . . , . . ' 1 '' • " :fripli thetill4ol4o4g naafi's 'aught' here to 1 - `. .. 'it is lei 'Va. , belied . that the 'Church - .• • ' r wiii pits the Mist evimapla of a church ested "..ligittimMigZifklipees to Jectruct thathileirso.4 • ..._ ' .. ea, !wet I W.. is Ora peculiar tel : •:tieve s ite, bit is itieor habits and sabstautil W pole il i pmilljli them to become Gulf e • •4 4 7 .a ll s " hb ' ‘ll *libi r o of society', either • A . ~,,t 'aside of their, tweets, or *rant o th er me • ": N1 - .. their matowir jedgmeet . may teed them :Weald be sewed Polley in the chars .!' ..1 . . . 4 I . * 41111 d jest mild she disarm iv ) ~. ': • . :' - ' withilriew the beanie.? of time ob(' disse - • • . ., „ 4 ..=-., 1 presp , tieri . 'Old si a b d teki . ties kd 1 g i r i edealf te 'reform be 1 * . 4.' • 4 : ll4 ll4V " :stitier:ieles el abundantly sufficient -Itreite thi Alley 00 wisdom of the plan of combi s fag the wbiliffilet a Moot with every Church to' .. . 470 : bill/after thitified f faitie time approaches when tl i ,jl reeill'erelaissole the best protection and setegua :.* • ',.' aill C ateirtib: jai who cam anticipate the evils 1, ' 4 Oast relieve/HI, will adopt every prodeat me ) i af o l i ii e jt i t ifi lt;' and eiril e y ti t p loze m wi a ll en be ion m; . - . '• flitiese . tith Church and the *beet. There is, ho t ' aer, need* tie* die the inehject, which most 1 # .''~iii Rill doidit froii every Mind as to the Necessity 11 161011.0 1 0 1 1 .,_ nectlemhembid. The ' Legislature is able ~ ." - Mil elaticfilabe the Manufacturing labourer from I which be and his c hildren have be • I' . - ' '4 4 =Z i t t liog• ...:. . . c. re health and time for how -tie*, to the mass of the People, is a measure of 1 ilivatttlest 'policy ; it is the first step to improve 1 • iteadittoet ief society. %Without it, indeed, the 1 • . ' •-.-- -.----..... tti .~.-,.r.,~.~• . • G a ItAlf: f lM A V pin at ii. Niter tetsdajoarnet. du, troops at Paseo, od Al Thanes go on will accompany only the Master ,Altis-da•Gasp to his hisjesty,nek ossorstille" Kings. Alain% hi A ace $6,-*OOl , theater at Febreary the brigaotlise of 18 gess arrived at Algiers, *skis the' Emperor of Morocco has soot eta present to the Dye. Ors the 13th of gebrairy arrived sTenbtsn cor vette, with an Asbassader from the Bey, who breeght to the Dey prowl. of a gin inlaid with gold, a pair of pistols to snatch, ate ' ornessestai pith diamonds, a saddle, ape, cloaks, sad other clothing, tnanufacturod is Tunis, for his troops._ Oa the 20th of February arrived a lian frigate with 25,000 piastres, which Is dismissal Whets pad by that power to Algiers. -Corsfalkouw, blaw.l.-dillse Danish Gazette of today contradicts the repots• Wetted in Ham bergh Pepin. that the Doltish Irivite, the Nymph, is going to the Mediterramme, because the Danish Governmeot bas not yet made any definitive swim. his arrangement with Tsai.. As this report alight injure the coq fidence placed in foreign ports le the Danish Sag it is judged necessary to state that Dag. mark's Madams with Tools are as at kebie as eith the other-Governments on the Afters coed. The frigate is assigned to visit the ports on the coast of Africa end others in the hlleditermatha where there are Danish Consols. • Equally fake is the statemeet that Danish sabitets -in the West Indies had outdo common mien with South American insurgents, and even carried ea piracy on their account, with passes given them by the Chiefs of the I n surgents. No sentence his been referred, as has been stated, to the Sepreme Court ; but seotence was passed some time ego by this Court upon some foreigners who were esericied of sach a , crime, and are Confided to hard labour is siuttoss in chains. • FROld Tilt MAINZ, Aram 29.--The wife OASIS) Bonaparte, who had at Frankfort an inter** with the daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, who is married to Como Posse, is going to Ems. • Among the groendless repots is. that of the equip meat of ten sail of the Noe et CooMentlnisple to cruise with the Dutch kit aping the Bar bary: Pirates. to %bin be the ~ • • MIT Tv SSD* Ir.-•• Walley at 'be Walley Public Maw. - THE STATESM.4ff. LONDON: TVZSDAI. MAT 12, lel& The Dike of Wst.t.ixtgon is espeeted to return to France about the 20th instant. The. diplomatic intercourse between the erideh Cabinet aid the Courts of the Sovereign Alliance, is said to be eery active at present. The statement we made yesterday, that a &sole. lion of Parliament will take plum early pest month, .is repeated in the Ministerial Paper., with 01 the coefirmatory circemstances they an add. We he. 'line that this is the deternsisatioa at• presoak, for there is certainly every reason to believe that thi whole business of Parliament may be gone through , by the last week in the present month, or by the day which has been eienolo...l, the ed o f June. its, that case the prorogation might take place on the td, and the dissolution gin the 31; bet unless the dim. lotion takes place before the, 10th, it is presumed that it will be postponed till Autumn, es it may be taken for granted the Government will not gaffer the Elections to interfere with the Anises, which muse be ebb case, if the dissolution occurs at a NW period, ia June than that we have mentioned. • - _ Another rumour will have it that the 11th of Joao. is filed for the dissolution, and that Lord Livineoos and Mr. VAPORWARE will retire. Conjecture has used on Mr. 1111411401 as Op new CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The retirement of Mr. VANSITTART with his schemes against coeetry paper, is understood to be a propitiatory espedient to appoese the Country Bookers, tied CODVIDEO this that his project is relin quished. Bet mach as the opposition Las been, that the Gentlemen of the Tutelary bare lately esperieneed in their financial schemes, and their proposed modes of *spending the hardly acquired • produce of thew and British indestry, we weenie they are too weH acquainted with the sweets of office to take this step telestarily, before they try the pulse of a new Parliament. Farther Dispatches have been received from India at Lord Bkran IttrellOgite, brought by Caps. flawireear, of the 3d Ceylon . regiment. They relate to the affairs st Ceylon, whkh it is said are in a mere disastroaa and posilieg situation than was supposed. The intern. pace that has transpired, reaches to the 30th of Dedellbet, up to w* tpsti•d' no movement of a decisive eataroAlsi -idles place in the Caodian provinces, timpailt the necessity of Mesas measeres for the aeppressimt - of the'•-k -affection was vniversally *drifted. This Is. serriction tourists is a steuiernauf petty Is coo., the faithful adherent, egthe amen of dm reign, having takes sperms, for the purple tainius hi reaterstion of We ancient dynasty, getting dill' of what they call as osatimilig6 Europe, tot•rdi•g to the 41.0alihr et ztlitsibj. „lbw, tgifs . party" would be`tinsfd and advocates of kgitimacy, bat is WA% nab .Na •estakiPtiektii.tailiiil Istote" * ". tlicH l 4 ll4 i 4 01. t ',1104 7 da ! l it °sit to t!°•611, .4 1 0 010 , ff.I.P./jiatiligidiv i "Pqr,f2 w 7 .61 1 ; Mir nee reptimek;' tiny. hail • the ireiidervilog 00 •PPosim" , b‘teet w Cfsrbtles, tuck, or Indian, late Jecebistidel and highly isiiehtiOsmi4 characters, worthy of be* ezderated or banged by an who venerate thetroefaith end pieregitives of reigning Sovereiges. i rk. real difficelty is in the made of compelling en classes, from tie istremities of the Bast to thine of the. Other hemisphere's to bow the peck ks. sehjectka to kiwi Of authority; Tip dillicatilis encountered br r the troops sent ..Oast the rebels to the British irktbririty im Coyle's; are mated to have be.. very sithit; and the insurrectionary I:duties mask • their newsy with the most atrocities cruelties to every fiat of the British. The 19th reg i o seat of foot, Itee Pitted Ceylon for Enabled, and is now es its 1 pommy, being relieved by the Sad segissest (row COrt, a detachment of whieb,asoanting to 400 men, hared very opportunely at a critical state of the rebellion. Some accomets were in oirealation yesterday, On lebious authority, relative to the Marquis of BAsrirroi's operations, which we hope, and have Passe reason to believe, are not correct. According to one of these statements, the Marquis of HAsTiNoS had received a cheek, and had lost great cambers of Mils weir" from the lOW of the water in the tanks ilitang bah pelsoisrdli Ilthwietter,circomstance be linpo;',.iialthrot Uwe; she had the effect of re ~tfrdip his Pirseit of • this enemy,; tot the scale upon. !which • military, ; operations 'are at prevent dirtier! en is India wlWscercely peresit as to be. Hine that any other check weld have been la terpoied. It is asserted, that we have en army of Weerly 100,000 men in the field, attended by per haps half a million of followers. Of these, part were 'Stowing, at the data of the last dispatches, from the teaks of the Jetnne towards appeal ; part were de. ;Wading the Chembei its purrait of HoLKAft, part were in the neighbourhood of Poonah, and part at Nsgpoor. --a • Paris Papers to the 10th instant have reached es. The Moniteur contains the Reyel.Ordielences 1: 0 **• Elealgatbug the low providing for the liquidettou of the' debts dee to foreign States ; and the Coined. of the iiiirerent 4prondissemeali were to assemble, in order to' carry the Law respecting the Finances into effect, in etch department. Tam was ee sit dug in the Chamber of Deputies an the 7th; and all that was dose in the Chamber of Peers, was to bear the Report of the Special Committee appointed to ea. amine the Projects of Laws relative to the Port of Havre, the Canal of Sense*, end the Bridge seer the Ponies's& The Report of the Committee, recant ding the adoption of there Projects without eimadateut, was agreed to. On Thursday M. Lars% the Minister of the Interior, presented to bis Majesty tille Project.: the Law adopted by the Chamber oi l Bleputies respecting the Canal of Osreq. The trials at Albi had not cencieded at the date of the last accounts, bet it was espected that judgment I would be passed on the 11th instant.—lt 'salad to be its tba contemplation of the great Powers to re `ettliblish the Order of Malta. A Chapter of the wr aith% Knights of that Order, it is said, will he held in July. The Emperor ALCIANDSIL is aid to have sighed the different jeils in Warsaw, and to base particularly examined into the case of every prisoner. The French file per cents left off, on Thursday Last, lat 611 1. 70 c. Bank stock at 1520 f. •--+w- A Mail from Bolliad, istith German Journals to s late date have arrived. The King of Paussti. is go , ing to visit the Emperor of ittlastat at Moscow. lie probably wants to be beforehand with his brother Sovereigns of the approaching C'ongestea, in settling some particulars with the Russian. Autocrat. Ile is Hs be- accompanied lly the Csiowtr Prime. The .British Minister at Statgard, Mr. TAYLOR, had gee, to Carlsruhe, on a special mission from the. British Government, and had an audience of the Grand Doke of ilApEri on the t7th ult. According to an .article from the French frontiers, a itoyal Ordinance was daily expected to be forthcoming, for regnlat. ing the details of the new 'levies. About 1400 . 0 f. Laws had been put upon the establishment of active sorrice,of which 700 leers taken from the ball-pay list. The trial of sidetreaturt. pne conlusece, wee deed fOr,' the sth instant, before the Tribunal of Come. liana! Polito at Douay. Mr. &ruts,' the American Ambassidor at the Hague, has bad his audience of • leavi v iselng about to return hoeur. The Prince of "01111111011 wag laistwariag under indisposition. An fintiortisfil Throutiil Ordlosfice.ans monli ' published by this Danish Government. It declares tee abolition of 'III thgditierent issioos 'pit .land in the kingdom of Denaserk, end the sobsltition of one general land tax in their stead. By this measure the Tespostxare sery.,cqesiderebly diminished, nod great eloplidty istrodeeeil It the adminietteties of the on the other Tiehd, have get very talky, mod it its 1 01 l us it present mating greet efforts ve obtaiia large vents, with'the' eh* of equipping them, i e i order its anise mildest the North Arseritsh c4l: mosso„ shield the demands of the- (Jotted Stites pahisted is, sad war is oetseleeite fosse. ' • • Coos ilimes now WARS WIETIInt.—Aus Totheen 4 !Sr island of tee, according to an Patrol of a ' , Piled 'en - Ediribergh Paper, bee Most . e intArriently 1 144 41 Jemmied upon the Island of Fuels, the most •••••,. 1 0 of the Shetland Islands. This fceherg is said to pg.: Medial% sic codes is length, end, racoons, is an ob. sect of terror .Its the staliree. lessors's , as the Na o m i that northern region are supposed to he, we sal. Om the avidity*, the Saritkerap isalloaleg whole amds of Ice at this rate, will amine thew n.. 1 a H t . Ile. It Is believhd by some of the toiler Nothea, Hue shish spreparatery motion of the Ktitg,of Om lee., 41101 tn allow the British Expedition to past thee*. • 11 1 110 Americas Papers inform le of the dreidfal fait **l the extensive powder.mills at. llreidy eine, Delaware, listening to M. DePoNT (who lied frees Franca with Marshal Gaoucay) having blown dp N the 194 of March, and that &boot 30 persona *ere killed and 10 uploaded. Marshal GIOVIIIIT exerted himself greatly, but in vain, to saretai boom of his friend Dueoxr. The windows, tior t . and roof *ere blown of. The only article saved Wee e portrait of NAPOLION BONAPAKTB. . The French loodly extol the impartiality end Mo. 'deration manifested by the Doke of WBIBEINGTOP with rsOrd to the foreign claims. 64 to the 'beefier in whi4 the confidence of the Europese Seserekei bes,pl4ed me," he is reported to have said, " I be , tong .0 so nation in panicalar, bet to Europe, it otieeklis prodece gown! satisfaction." That the Fietieb, who base so greatly besefited by the semi 'pen this subject, should panegyrist the Duke, Obey estotall bat it is not to be espoused, the these who are sufferers by it will join in. the sum misers. . TIN Goering Gault* contains an article, bliteri complaining of the stagnation of hostilities and roust quent poverty throughout that interesting Want since the return of peace between Garet anal end France. Theo* evils are st , tihuted to coital restrictions imposed epos the trade of Gornto! with the French ports, by which the elm of manufactured tobacco, British manufactwe generally, rem, refined sugar, dtc. , hat Wet prevented, to the rein of e, trite ortion of th ithshitants of this sod . idiot Bride Muds. Tliv .west Wilda 1 fseis4port for sec descriptiOni 'Of merchandise, have hitherto been if we entierstand the present statement, the opt boars of the' French inhabitants on the opposite shoo of Noremody sod Bretagne. Since the tast pesei thessberstskave been seined and seat off to Is:10am for condemnation. Great seethe's of people in Geer sey, &c. have thence bite deprived of their dal bread; and the necessary corteequeoce hes town wide.spreading emigratioa to the continent of Nut America. Mr. Bowl refereed to Cork from Killarney Sunday last, and on Triestlat moonies t ; sailed. in 1 ' Blucher Government picket for Bristol. Ws hi, tress in Cork and Killarney is said to hive beet qu of a private watere.--( Waterford Mirror, May 9 MARIIIIAL NIT --Men of all nations, who visit I the sepulchre which' Madame NIT elected over 1 ashes of her illustrious husband. inscribed with pr dips their opinions and sentiments of his virtees a valour. These inscriptions, in some instances, their 'liaises of the hero, who, in the cause of country, was " the bravest of the brave," sere to reflect on the present dynasty ; whose ',civil.' wrote counter.iuscriptions, *nose or below 'hi which •bad been the tribute of Eisillith, of Russian, Prussian, Rod of American, ie-pect ; cod ter Poi put an end to this war of sentiment, by causing I tomb to be removed. Nothing n•ivi indicates I spot where lie the remains of the mast whose hisu is known to all Europe; and unless the gardener ihio remsntie barying.groartil, or some one • kenos the spot, points it out, a stranger might traverse the hill of Mount Gook for a month he could find that speck of its surface, which ashes of the murdered NET have consecrated. 1 grit, or iroa.railiog, still exists ; and Britons, s know that it fences so sacred a spot, least gently it, and talk over the infraction of site Csinvelitior Paris, which allowed the Priilde of the Mossy , to be immolated to personal weer sod impci bigotry. • --oil. tah• • DISTURBANCE AT WIRCenIO4OI?..O4I serious turbance, we are sorry so say, has taken place et College School, near this city. The yotholl f erea men, both scholars and commoners (with the est (ion of a few College Prefects), st hsif.past tl on Thursday afternoon, armed themselves with stir stones, &c. got posll,lllo'2 of the kegs. and lot themselves within the College walls. The Viso Fellows, and Masters, having refused to treat 1 them on any other terms thee in entionditionsl tern to their ditty, they, at ten o'Cloit nest no ing, delivered up their sticks, opened the gases. went to their respective quitters. _The ringlets" Conscious of their demerits, and aware of the rain punishment which awaited them, had cut , promise from their deluded schoolfellows, that 'all would share in their poliklinlent whatevev* o he. When, therefore, t ringlemieri bad been polled, mati7..of the others scatespoinied thew the teen. l'he great majority,_bootser, seen toned, though we enderstiind that a few of the s miners . prciteeedird to the's , ' respective hornets. Of 1 letter the, greatest part Weil been viols' brought by their friends, and we ate happy to say Ike der is oder Inertstablisket..—( ilernpelitti (.boot May II.) iim p ine.l7 . l .......p ronwr o mm it ug s quirro p i. F.r.-- - „. . • .. • . a ' -' .. . ... 4 ... _ I • i. • . . ~ •, , a * , . .- - , ' si The Aseticaojts campus ilsive,l4,l4 fr.* ;RAMAN PAPERS. I 'o 1%4 • liti g ea" " d " " Mil ""__, • .._ tie Correspondence aalk**lnt lkfl Os tip. hs ....._„,b. • Bet this is aat.thor ma w...- -* ••• 7—.01 11 .-19. I 40 • • .. 1 ' -- :T' % I *•fr' . le ts • leo : rklak Gateradiont. tut Stildlatlinti hater an net t .v 1.-.l 4 l,‘MajdistY tho thug *pi IPS dss . , 1 . . mos. Oei a gig tantalite ttpdaleet width as sat froauenti er Pad . this dllernth. 441 bee 64 in. to tipoin - ' ". ' ,In Ms spea d a d oe s, when iiik aaiirts ' -. y o i l i es t to 'splayed In au atisitable lutereners"; tied shirt) sp. • Os his wlyiblilisit*T irillwil ." chef thet . idiy . HOS gl rossallei tbica nses,'Martreetwerder and Kaniganaug, thepeakiiiiiiedibsr spintors witklov ip s k, ,pets ha lota conspired Phit nth", castes la pradss. an to klaniloW. rig Crown "Move _ , i • .-- . ......... , t . aims we lag a asponsion of Ike lilplasask carrespard"nce.... his father. 'rite snits will Swaim ad-illeg'lw .2 "'I " 11 9•"' Twee T itille4l-1 ._ Tb. A w aked chternebeat eitideno. !torts' tit ler of the rims, Van Jags", two baliiiiii, iif iisti list staassiout Wad, ilk• flop _ sham en . 'L i . - . . . _ -- •IA - ......i., ..._i1.... ._,... x-r.5a.... I.rdsaiiiillav Griot a T 1104•04 iv