The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-29 00:00:00

S VAW ~;. ~, ,:; .L, „ . • • FREIVGII PAPERS. CHAMBER OF PEERS, JAW. 23. The discussion was resumed on the Project re specting the Press. The amendment made by the Chamber of Depts. ties to the effect that the deposit o f a work should notie citesidered a publication, so es to subject the author to a prosecution, was agreed to on a scrutiny, by a oseerity of 86 to 74. - An assatheant was introduced Into Article 24, to the effect that the enactments of the Pool Code re specting acts* Contrary to toed morale ahould be equally applicable to publications contrary to the lisped due to religion. The ether Articles having been agreed to, the deb. upon the whole of the Project, pre., 'Pettit the folluning result :—Out of 161 voters, 102 voted for the rejection, and only 59 for the adop tionl- of the proposed laaw. Adjourned without auy day being appointed for the neat Sitting. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JAM. 23. Tie discussion on the Recruitment Prolest was reposed. 'fbe Marquis as CAUSAttliad the Co OS fit MAST. car.t.trt -opposed it. •-•• • M. DUPONTIIIe I'Eote) ripportedlt •opow tkiwgost.,. dition of annually voting the mili tar y: force. FLOIRAC and the Count. Alb G sumac elio• spoke in favour of the Project, but proposed Amend- . 41ents. Jaau et. A discussion arose upon some Petitions from the Department of the North, praying for further indem. Idly, in consequence of the burden imperiled by the presence of the Allied troops. It was at length 'agreed to refer the Petitions to the Committee on the Budget. • The discussion Intl resumed on the Recruitment Project. Devergier de llaoranne and M. Cleric; spoke in faroor of the Project. M. Cornet d'lncourt against it. M. Corbieres at great length opposed it. The closing of the discussion was called for. M. ALLEN', Under Secretary of State in the War 'Department s requested time till Monday to reply to the objections made against the Project. Agreed to.--Adjourned tilt Monday. PARS', JAN. 25.—A great number of young per. lons of the Department of Landes presented them. selves to their respective Mayoralties to be married, on information of the Recruitment Project. The Mayors applied to the Prefect, who caused it to be made known that there was no exemption with regard to marriages that were not contracted within ten days after the presentation of the Project. Marshal the Duke de Fe!tre was with the King yesterday afternoon. • The report of an intended journey of the Duchess d'Angouleme to the South has beets contradicted by the Quotidienne. The contradiction is stated to be from authority. M. Scheffer has been sentenced by the Correctional 'Police, for his work efaitletj the . State of Liberty in' France, to three months insprisonmritt,. 200 f. Mot, 1 a year of surreillance under the High Police, and -1000 f. bail for his good conduct. The work to be suppressed. The printer, Gale, not having been proved to have ezamined the work, was acquitted. httonto, J.tx. 1-I.—The Infanta Maria Louisa Isabella, daughter of their Majesties, died on the 9th instent, at midnight. VIENNA, .1 AN• l4.—T`•e Military Contingent of the Germanic Confederation during peace is to be 120,000 men, viz. 96.000 infantry, 18,000 cavalry, - . 6000 artillery, &c. In case of tsar the cavalry ssi be doubled, and the artillery tripled ; the General issimo to hare the title of Field-Marshal of the Ger manic Confederation. PETERSBUROH, Die. 97.—8 y Its Imperial Ukase, published at Moscow', ,the Minister of Public In. struction is to he united to that for the affairs of all religious confessions, with the title of Miniatry for Ecclesiastical Affairs and Public Instruction. JAMAICA rAPsns.. • [FROM THE IT. JAGO GAZETTE, DEC. 13.] The House of Assembly have received a Report from one of their Committees, of which the follow ing is an cam, : 44 The slaves are satisfied that their condition is of sefficient interest to engage the attention of those ender whose authority they ere placed, and that their comforts and personal security are the objects of pro tection: in availing themselves of the facility which lies been afforded them in making their complaints of arty realer supposed grievance,they have observed the 'Mention with. which it has been investigated, and 1 the justice with which it has been decided. T he 'n mese which has taken place dur in g the last 12 months in the number of proceedings both civil nd criminal, which bet heeriinstituted by or ea behalf of slaves, is a flit which, accompanied as it has bpeo sly the greatest degree of subordination and ghod order on their part, may be referred to as to the most • decisive proof of their well-founded confidence in the justice of those to whom they appeal : this feeling, whilst it operates directly on their present condition, by lessening the possibility of their being exposed to injury, without receiving redress, and by rendering them contented with their situation, is calculated to impart to them those principles which will enable them to estimate the benefits, to acquire the habits, and to practise the duties which belong to a more civilised state of society. " Your Committee attar great importance to this consideration, because it encourages the belief that a foundation is laid for future measures of progressive Improvement : but they are of op:orion, that the im provement of their religious, moral, and civil state can only be effected by gradual and progressive mea- sores,and that any esperiments that have a tendency to produce a sadden change in their present state, by the introduition of principles Whicleare unknown to, and inconsistent .with, the policy of Colonial Usti lotions, and the habits of the slaves themselves, would be fatal to them sod dangerous to the secu rity of the Island ; e dee execution of those laws which baie &treacly been passed—s constant attention to the operation and a effect of those laws—the adop- THE STATESMAN. Lion from time to time of those etessures, mod the tip ' plitation of sap peinciiiles tct ihelc present condi awl, which se& attandon bay ttegpst..kan stool ream aCcomplishmout, of this inkportotot objecti Coiumittvii-theieforrrare bt oplvdeb, 'that two sit , teration at present appears necomary in, the Consptir, aster/ Slave Lew, which was paad - duritig the test Session, but that further time 'Weld be showed for the development of those effects which it is calculated . produce -" y a return of the slave population, it appears, there are 345,'25'2; and that the number of shires+ baptised in 1817, amounts to about 40,000 ; but we returns had been received from three parishes. - - The Douse of. Assembly, , as proof of their satiii . .l faction at the conduct of the Duke of Manchester, have voted him, nem. con. an additional salary +~f 30001. a-year. • ------ • - - TO CORRESPONDENTS. ao A. N. D. swim the Conduct of Electors,. is •intended for publication. The Letter of Pitu.o Barnes, to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, shall appear the first opportunity. We are obliged to snr Correspondent at Chichester for his good opinion, bat as the communication be has made seems of a personal nature between two rival &Ilion. we fear it might be controed into an invidious attack on oaf part, tor which ninon we must beg leave t• , decline its iatertiou. PRICE OF STOCKS Till Bank Stack 9870 3 per Cent. lied. 8011 9 per-Cent. C 081.06 Consols for Ace. 79iii 4 per Cent. 9t • IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, 5 per Cent. Navy 1011 105 India Bonds 100 101 p • . • --. Stork 1401 Long Ann. Wit Exchequer Bins 18 41 0 THE EITATESMAN. LONDON: fitolnealt, JANUAIT 29, IRIS We have received Jamaica Papers to the 16th &time. They contain en important Report from a Committee on the State of the Colony, which was hid before the House of Assembly on the 9th ult. We have elsewhere *stymied lb* particulars that relate to the effects of the measures adopted during the last Session for the improvement of the condi tion of the slave population.. The Committee report' that no alteration at present appears necessary in the Colonial Slave Law, for the. Slaves themselves are satisfied. The Committee do not, however, state how the enquiry was made•which enables them the, to vouch for the feelings of others. In regard to the general state of the Island, its population and agriculture, the Report is far from pleasing.—" The prospect which the present state of things holds out on these points," Ally the Com mittee, 66 is most uneatisfactory : no improsemeot in agriculture, as it relates to the extension of it, can be expected, when all . sources . of a supply of labourers are entirely cut off, and whilst the attention of the Legislature is constantly directed-to the diminution of the labour of the Slaves by all possible means. It Kill be in vain to expect that the cultivation of the Island can be continued even on its present scale, be cause we must anticipate, for some years, a very considerable diminution in the Slave population, owing to the number of Afticatts. which in the course of nature must gradually be extinguished." — The remaining part of the Report points out the dan gerous consequences that may arise from any inter course with St. Domingo, notices the proceedings in the Grand Court against Mr. STRATFORD, for dis seminating certain Haytian publications in the island, and the prompt end energetic measures taken by Ad. miral DOUGLAS for the recovery of Mr.M‘Kowetes negroes who ran away with his vessel to St. Domingo. The dispute between the Governor and Assembly of the Bahamas, it appears is net yet adjusted. Oo the ' 28th of October some Resolutions were come to by the Hogue on the subject, when they declared them selves incompetent to proceed with she public busi ness, while certain proceedings of the General Court, in receiving the bailments of Mr. WYLLT, remained annulled, and a Select Committee was appointed to take a Message to Governor CA31101031 respecting the same. •••=•••.. ' The.doobts which we have stressed of the capture of bitaa were grounded, in part, on the smallness of the force which he is said to have had with him in the heart of Wilco. It will be recollected that the Spanish Extraordinary Gazette asserted. that he, was taken prisoner, with twenty-five . others„ in the Pais of Venadito. We find in the St. Jago Gil:site an article from the Ila 'mulish Papers, of the 21st and 22d of October, which affords reason to believe that Mines fate was not such as has been represented, and that his force was much more considerable than has been stated in the accounts alluded to. These (the Havaonah) Papers contain a copy of an official dispatch from the Officer commanding the Royal Army at the siege of the Fort Sombrero, in Mexico, in which General MINA, with his army, had taken shelter, deviling the ope rations against it from the commencement of the liege on the Ist of August, until its capture by storm on the 19th of that month; previous to which Mora, with two other of the Chiefs, bad effected their escape with 'a few attendants only, and had joined another Independent Chief, of the name of Tosses, tommanding an army, with which they attempted the Wend of the besieged, but failed in the attempt.—lt appears, however, that the besieged made sorties In the night, for several nights before the storm, and although generally driven back, so many effected their-etcape in this way, that not more thin about 70 of S, od ' igners and 250 of the satires. l aded, . ...,.„ , lec l t . . . during the sieri - rawsdoad for' the ki ' elder., which the. dispatch. sta tes to liFilk . - .. fah; of. ail the prhionere lekei, wimen iiid ; r • -4 • • '''.4oly escepted. ~The Rezel. army • • • -. 'Ori -- this service appearcto have 'imeseated te i10w01,4800 miry sad that of the besieged within \lleslPeboot else !homed. • • • Peris•Papers to ther26th have arrived. The French., Stinistrfltave esperienced *another defeat in the re. ivelott, by the chamber of Peers, of the Project of jww relative to the Press ; eoly 59 feted le favour sof the.Law,'and 102 against it. The dismission in the Chamber of Deputies on the ftectidtment Pro ject continued on Friday and Saturday, and was again adjourned till Monday. The only thing re markable sport this subject is, that M. as CAURANI Wes called to order for having said, that he saw in lb. Ministers of Louts the same apathy as hrtbe •Mhtisters of the unfortunate Louts XVI.; .and the same love for pretended liberal ideas which - had overturned France, and threatened the over throw of Europe. He voted for the rejection of the Law, because in 1792, as Dili, the army ayes called SM National Army, out the . Artily of the King.-‘.; Meny Frenchmen,' it.seems„y, will sow rather take a' wife than a 6relock.. In one of the Departments of France, the fear of the Law of Couscription.bas in duced crowds of young persons to hasten to be united in marriage. le order to escape its operation: This eapedlent to avoid' the. Boynton service, how. ever, will , not How avail them. The report of an intended journey of the Duchess a'AtteouLuma to the South, is contradicted. .That Intelligence from Madrid announces the death of the young Infanta, the daughter of their Majesties. From Vienna it is stated, that the military cottlingani-of the Germanic Confederation, for a period of peace, is to be 120,000 men, The private lettere from' Pant 'esy, It is beyond doubt that the negociations,letwein -France and the Allied Powers, respecting theleparture of the troops, are not very far advanced, and that. definitive reso lution on this'subject bill not be taken these fire or six months. The same letters inform us, that the Duke of Wzr.uncTon was expected at Paris in few days, accompanied by his Staff. Preparations r were making for a ball, which is to be given at the eapence of the city of Paris. The Prussian General Mumsno, who has been attached to the Stall of the Duke of WELtrnotox since the cam paign of 1815, was also to come to Paris.— They talk also of the approadhing creation 'of twelve new Peers. The Kura, It is said, will choose most from among the Marshals and Generals. It Is likewise asserted, that the King *ill grant to several individuals comprised in the Ordinance nf the 24th July, 1815, permission 10 retilit to France. if this, news may be depended upon, General Salmi - will probably be among the nember of those who will be recalled from exile. A remoist bat been in timid'. lion for some days that Fouctia is on she point of obtaining from the KING leave to return Os France, and this on the pressing request of the Duke of WELLINGTON. We confess it is difficult to believe this report. &tract of a letter from the *seat to Lowey at Dartmouth, d.ted 21th Jas.:— _ _ " I ,beg leave to inform you of tboerrival of the French ship Elizabeth, Capt. Le Courts, belionging to Rouen, from Martiniqoe, booed to Mere, with a cargo of sugar, coffee, cotton,.&e. hr.3fl ys•-.- I find Captain Kaacetsu aid Ofikort, of 414 Frisch frigate Caravan s lately lost at Martiniqae, :am pas. sengers on board ; and I is glad to find that aid; one Officer and nine of the crew belonging to the frigate were lost." a •!'. ; • :* • r. , The Bill for repenting the Habeas Corpus Act ,passed throeg . it all its readings in•the Housed Lords last night. Locd . lioLLAifp's . speerts (mike Conduct; Coot Ministers will be reed with great satisfaction. -,..;; His Lordship displayed the. .same spirit and ability which ' characterised the speech of Sir S. Rotuma:ll He took a general view of the state of the Imams and. the occurrences of the recess. "His observations with' respect to the 9ospasssion Act were most spropriste 114 just:" - He observed, with greet Mills, get ;kb' odious Parliamentary Liw upon which. Ministers *, Mare so unrelentingly acted, invaded rights which were not conferred by Statute, but which belouged. le us as men end freemen before the Statute few was' 'mown. A King may confer a title, and ae Act of 1 Parliament may take it away by attainder; bet ez.., empties from arbitrary imprisonment - is a' right pre-ezistent . to Kings or . Parliaments ; it is a right of nature, a privilege of humanity, which' belongs to os as rational end aesountable beings.— Lord llot.t.s:t D stated what we believe to be trite,. 1 but which ought to be forther.enquired into. He, seamed Ministers of deceiving the Legislator, whit. partial and garbled itiformetioo, to procire assent-ft their`erbitrary plan, and of withholding docuMmite which would have disproved their allegations. His Lordship characterised the prosecutions against Hone,' as acts of the grossest hypocrisy, and though Lord' SIDSOUTII, with great warpath, disclaimed all base motives, and avowed that be was solely :cleated by a regard for the interests of. religion., dm piode Secretary did not fad it convenieit to orple lO bi l t ' seal for religtoe sboela come W copesp#llt,pi - S • aid at that pa ° Mettler time,..ind tow It bsd, en Al fisr. met occasions of the same unsure, been so completely asleep. The proceedings on the part of Ministers lig the Commons, wereetarked with their anal cant 04 'artfulness. Lord CAtTLEREAoIt moved for a itesEi t ' , :letion, not as Address as was expected, of coudeinge ' to the Quilts.. His. Lordship acknowledged this pro. seeding to be unprecedented, but thought, that the occasion jostified its °smelt,. Some Members, bow. . ! over, coul dso t ' perceive any justification fir thin I measure. Mr. CALCRAFT and Mr. M. A. TAYLOR objected to the Resolution, bat did - not explicitly assign any reasons for their dissent. 'Tie meta' for disagreeing in such a motion indeed requited little ettplanation, and to judge from the voices that joined ' with them when the question was put, their semi, want, seemed to be shared by many hlembers.• Thin course of dissenl wes very extensively perssed : ao regular division took place ; but the Semitic, sp. penally at a loss fur happy thoughts, at length de. tided the gee:Oen in this manner—when the cries of 44 aye and no" had been repeated from all parts of the House, " the eyes, I think," said he (casting a . . . glance over the Hou se, ss*d speaking hesitatingly), " the ayes, I think, have it." This was the manner its which the Address to the Quesh was carried. The Coodoleeckof tba-House with Prince Itoroio could he eapreseed only by • a similar Reserletion—bet the. mOdevf pasiintit was ea similar. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, we were,glad to bee, was at his postlast eight, sod by his prise-worthy con.. duct on this occasion in Abe cause of Reform, has give!, greet ntisfiction. The Friends Of Perlis. mentary Reform will perceive by the speech of the Hon: Be remit last night, that there is at length a chance of their griehaneetbeing heard in the Ws. House, if not redressed, and from the . Bath sPeihnen, it is Pos sible the number of Petitions which may be expected front the Electors throughout the kingdom will be. nearly aufficieitt to fill St. Stephen's Clve!. For 'this Hovel mode Of proceedingsWe are indebted to the int repid asd venerable Major CaßtWelnirt, whose et ortions in favour of Parliamentary Reform base been unremitting for 40 years, and will never cease but with his life. . Sir Fuescts presented a reultitede, we say call it, of Petitions front the city of Bath, each signed by twenty persons. This, he stated, was thetiumber of persona allowed to assemble under the molt rigor ous Acts of Pittiament. And with Petitions of this nature, end thus subsciibed, it is probable ,Thit Parliament wi:l be frequently addressed dur ing the ensuing Session.- The Petitions last Ses. itioir for Parliamentary Reform, were said to pre med from more' than 1,000,000 of persons.-, Supposing the same number of persons to sign, there• fore; under the form now commenced of twenty to • Petition, -opivardt of 20,000 Petitions, may be ea. petted during the present Session. Tire Treaty with Spain respecting the Abolition of the Slave , Trade, to which we have frequently ad. wetted, was presented to Patliameat last night. The 1 principal erticles are quoted in another column. We are I firmly of belief that the money the, given to - Spare is 'cot for the purpose of perchasing her con sent to the inhuman traffic in Slaves, bet to enable her Government to send out more armaments to de stroy the independence of South America, and spread slaVery„ . terror,' and bleed - over the provinces struggling to be free. Abrahams . Therodois's Trial, ohiCh. was expected 40 bare taken place this morning,. hi . the Court of .fling's Reach, Westminster, is again postponed till • Fridar. weekillbe ittis of February, wliiis• the De. . 541 *wryerl chi by #assii#Orieill be ere nt by Coen /1'4.'1 ..reellft 'Wid. as eb a former uncut's, mach cr • .. • • Letters from Quebee meth, that a robbery of all extraordinary musts lied taken place of the military chest there. Two bags of gold containing attest 20001. were stolen. The bags were found next mom. ing in's garden near. the elfin, divested of their eon. .tents, but without the seals Whig been brokee. All the lock awd , doers of the opine Were foond perfectly vivre. As- investigation' bed 'takes place, but no grounds of ltriesioatioo mkt be.laid egainSt ail person. .'. .. • . . 141ANCIIIIMR, lASI. 47.--The following is the 'copy of tieb' letter sent from the Secretary of Stste'e 011 ice to W. 1). EVAIIII, Fog. of the . Police Odin, Manchester :- - . (COPY.) ' •., lise.—Lord timeerre being referred dlit ventral of the peo nies. vilakafter being apprehended sae detained by his Lord ship's Warraatt etieharges of High Temeiso, having been lately discharged, ape* onteri , ,g into recogatiitrices to appear on tae Bret day of iseqt Tema (lb. 29d test.) in the Court of li.'" 4 Betas; are us&tr misscariziety for the fo th eir of r rep co. its is desitoos of lerdng,tbe several persons so W in ein,- Onneed keow,,dist, as nothing ha. appeared easiest du? Audi sedge since'their ditchtirge, thew altenduiree in the !w Al of Inwls fiend; will be di-greased with ; and hi+ Lordship has directed me to reques , , that, as the persons noosed in the morel reside in your immediate neighbourhood, you will have As goodoess, either through a constable or any other medium more eiseesicrit to yourselt, to communicate to those persons, That , they weed not appeo . is pursuance of.their recognizance. is the eswohtg Term ; and his Lardsbili hopes that their future condors will never render it *memory to call them into a coedit Justice.—l have the hewer to be, Sir, your most obedient i humble *avast, IL HOBHOUSE. W. IL Evssi, Esq. Police Omen, Manchester. G. CARatow., • Contractor for Use last Two Lot• tales, has thopleasore of remindiog his Friends and the Public, previous to their makieg,their purchsof is the present Grand State Lottery, of the eerier , dinary Success.which generally 'attends his fortanste Offices ; as an instence of which, it must be reel' !teed, that daring the List Lottery alone, he Sold lo Shares no less than FIVE Capitals, including Two of 'fierily 'Thousand Pounds.--The present Lottery, i which will.commence Drawing on the 4th of March, contains the fellossing inducements, which it is soffi cient _briefly to enumerate :—Twelve Pipes of ben Old Port—One Hundred Capital Prizes—Three Prism of Z 30,000 Sterling, Isc. Tickets and Shares are telling at 7, cornhill,- and 26; Osforci.sirve.t. where No. 7.735, the last Prize of X 30, 000 ev il 'thaws, was Sold iu Shares. L