The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-03-16 00:00:00

Ilecssus. bisect' 10.—A private account from Madrid, of Feb. '25, contains what follows : " Gorneral Morino, in his last dispatches to the Government, atlirms, that if they will send him Omni •;pain a reinforcement of 6000 good troops and two frigates, be will answer with his head for the submis sion of all that pert of America, the command of which Is ealreetel to hiss." hints, Vac 2-I.—Their Imperial Mejosties mode their solemn entry into Venire on the 171 h. Mt Majesty the Archdockess Maria !Asia, the Arch. duke Viceroy, all the Conti, and the principal Civil end Mailer? Authorities repaired to Toile*, live lodes from Nellie*, to wait for their Majesties. On alighting from his carriage, the Emperor affection ately cabs iced the Vr.—roy, and the Dockets of I'4llllll. Their Majesties thee embarked in the insig• nificrot barge which bed been prepared for them, and which was 'silently followed by en immense number of barks and gondolas. On arriving at Venice, 'their blejesties found the gates, the banks, and the prtlaces occupied by a prodigious cre•d, whose accla mations rent ibe air. Theis Majesties then meat to perform their devotions in the church of St. Mark ; they then walked through the great square to the Palace, midst discharges of artillery, rior4lag of bells end the ecclassations of the people. The nest day She Emperor received the Public Authorities, sod is the evening their Majesties west to the theatre. TO CORRESPONDENTS. PsAmmo's loiter to his Friend CIIIAULILS CALIrltaT, M. P. ---.-.. shall appear to.asorrow, if pride. COAL (tort.—if lAO DIANCIALOII of the ELL/LOOM Were compelled to reed time half of the letters we have received ots this Interesting subject, his feelings woold be power filly hewed op io (avow. of the complainants. Ile would be lest teaocioss (limo maiataistag the Windsor Estobliih meat wire, on seeing so essay poor wretches Marvin with cold and heaserto uphold it. losot.vver Acr.—This is • fruitful bet unhappy source of dio cnisoin also. It is, however, dilemma from the former painful topic, became meth is said •u both side, of this question. It may to maw appear irrelatire that we re. cur to t►e hordes, of soar song— KILIPORX, all • great petunia'', of the evil. With a lizforso weaboold be same prosperous, and with prosperity then would be less temptation to defraud the omespeetiog tradmosaa.— losulseocy could nut they, as now, be ascribed to pub- Im distress. Orr Readers well cacaos so for net Wog able to town one half of their Casson es Ibis series' subject. PAWN Itir STOCKS 11111 nee\ liseek 3 per Cele. lee. 3 per Cele. Ceorsir 74§ Se per Get. r earl, Per Are. ;41 4 per Gret. DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK. prr Cant. Navy 10 leas Neale X 39 Lim Am. ReArgees SIT? 4 dis. thesium THE STATESMAN. LONDON: SULSDAY. MARCO Its, 1819. The English politician bas been looking with an I oozier,s eye for some event (not common proceeding) from a transaction in the Government of France very uncommon. Mr. PITT, the greatest Peer.msking Minister Great Britain ever pia ed, would have been astounded at the creation of so prodigious a batch, and that on a sudden ton, not even talked of for a fortnight before it happened. We have ever telieeed and said, that it is the Government which makes the citizen. Formerly the French were all garruhts ; new, they say no more thin is absolutely necessary, mod conceal • great deal that might be fairly enough spokes§ of. Last Friday's Papers have brought nothing remarkable is the way of legislative Intelligence, eseept that • we reidiscussion ensued with regard to the 20th Article of the Charter for address ing the King to propane law., whew, after some obset. stations from M. MAXIM, M• BLANQUARTBAILLLUL, BIDOCR, M.P./OSUMI, M. Have at VILLINIT, CNAUTILIN, M. DUPONT, and M. Covavotstsa, some sentiments highly favourable to the People were elicited ; such as that the King's name or office should not be unnecessarily brought forward on any subject of legislation. On the Sittings of the Chamber of Deputies last Thursday a Petition from the Sitar Czt.zz, of Paris, offering to communicate a plan of Finance, on condition of obtaining a recompence proportioned to the advantage resulting from the adoption of Lis project; and another from a Sleet 11 Loans:iv, offering, for an adequate reward, to point out alas which would produce 100 millions of frames, without diminishing the ',mount of any of the existing imposts, or being felt as a burden by any body, were disposed of by the Order of the Day.— Another from Messrs. DRITLUS, of Lille, soliciting she interposition of the Chamber with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to procure from the Swiss Government a repeal of the Ordinance of the 28th of October, prohibiting the residence of Jews in the territory of Neufchatel, was referred to the said Minister. A Petition for a Law fur the more effectual suppression of Deets, was referred to the Keeper of the Seals. A Petition of Sister DtLACOUR, for the appointment of a Committee of Enquiry into the effrzts of Somnembcliso, cached a good deal of mirth. The Petitioner described the discovery of auimal magnetism as a blessing conferred by the Del y upon man, by giving him the faculty of exploring the interior of living bodies, and ascertaining their ma. ladies and the remedies proper for their core. Ile proposed, that some hoes, in the capital should be placed at the disposal of a Ccramissioe, composed of men enlightened and free from particular passions, for the reception of Somnambulists and other patients . This tamp of nonsense was disposed of by the Order of the Day. We shall not be surprised if the proposers of the fa . mous tales should come to Waged sod offer their services (where they are guest warded) TILE STATESMAN i to Mr. VAXSITTiIIy—I prophet has no henbur in hie emu country. We know of no tat that can b• I skl upon the People that woold not diminish the amount if soma other. The last accounts by the Spanish Mail inform us, that proceedings hid lately been followed up, and sentence of death pronounced, by the lligh . 1 ribenals in Barcelona, on no less than fifty Spanish Officers, implicated in the conspiracy of the unfortunate Gen. Gacw. 'no eentence bed been referred to a con. 'siltation with the King. From the period of the discovery of the conspiracy op to t►e present lime, these unhappy victims have been immured in den , geons, and possibly their fate has ere now been re. solvcd upon, in consequence of the recent occerrences at Valencia. And yet Spain is going to seed oet an espedition against South America, while all the late attempts at redress, and a change of things within herself, have originated with the military ! ! The 13111 for totally doing away the use of Climb ing Boys was throws oat by the House of Lorde, and the Public are (henget* left to *semis, their Lion in the employment of boys, or in substituting the use of machinery; and their consolation most be, that the frequent diecussioas will have awakened people to a Inmane consideration on the cats of this unhappy class of children. It will be seen that the House proceeded again on the Question of Privilege ; it appeared not necessary to send a Messenger for the three nts from Ire land. The matter will now he brought to a decision, after the perusal of the weleinhentiq evidence. Though nothing could be more opposite than the subject of the Sweep Chimney Bill, earl its cause of failure, for calomel is et white as soot Is Mick, yet 1 a dose of the former administered to the Noble Lord who took so prominent a part in the debate of last , night in the Hasse of Peers, operated so powe►- fel as an elteregire on the hearers of the story, that their previous feelings gave way, and the laminable ' costes was left to be proceeded Advice, from the Brazils state, that up to the end of Februarys great number of persons were still con fined et Pernambuco, charged with being concerned its the lase revelation ; and as se time had been fixed for their trial, it was likely they would remain far a much longer period in prison. A few, it is said, had gained their liberty, by paying certain semi to Mi. 'ideals who had tbees in custody. Orders had been sent by the Government to the Collectors of the dif ferent ports, to be more particeler is the quarantine regolatioss ; sod the Health Officers bid, is conse quence, been much on the alert. At Mannheim, the Collector, d'Azrznerca, bad enforced his iostruc lions to the utmost, and bad detected wetly instances of smuggling, more especially by Masters of ships from the United States, as the clearances predicted by them were made out in such a way, that the reel de scription of their cargoes could not be ascertained. Letters have been received to the 'nil ult. from Gibraltar, by which it appears that the plague on the coast of Africa, instead of diernishing with the cold weather, was increasing to an alarming exteut. The only information with regard to the ravages corn. mined by it, was brought to the British fortress by the vessel appointed by the Governor to sail at stated periods, as no private trading ships were allowed to have soy communication with the Barbary coast.— According to the latest advice', gee or two hundred persons died daily of the disease. The Ea:pi-roe ALLIANOIR gave a gracious recep tion to the Deputation which was appointed last sum mer to proceed to St. Petersbergh ; ■nd his reply to the Memorial which was protested by Lord CATIII. CART was of a conciliatory character. ft was shortly after this, that his Imperial Majesty sot out for Aia la-Chapelle, whither a second Memorial was sent, called for by the observations of his Majesty upon the first. With respect to this second Memorial, it ' was stated by Count NESSELRODE, that his Majesty being absent from his capital, and at a distinct' trom his Ministers, cud all the ►ecords and documents connected with theme, it was not considered expe dient to Isy it before the Empero►. At the sates time, the most positive assurance was given, that it sbeeld be submitted to his Majesty immediately open his return to St. Petersborgh, where Count Noseutoot himself did not arrive till last month. in this site atiou the wetter stands at present. A sort of wa► of Custom-houses appears to be carrying on in Germany between some of the Ger man Powers and Pressia. The latter baying recent ly established regulations on her frontiers, which are harassing to the commerce of her neighbours, a system of retaliation against the commerce of Prussia has been adopted by Hanover, Brunswick, Hesse, and other States, which is to continue le force until the Cabinet of Berlin shell find it ezpedieut to modi fy the harshness of its Custom-boose !AIM The population of the Austrian States amounts to 2.1 million; ; and it is a mortifying comparison, but not less tree, that mere crimes are committed io a single English county in 12 months than through the Austrian Slates in two years. The mode of pu nishment is ►asd Moor. ily a law recently passed in the kingdom of the Netherlands, which is to take effect after September, Swedish ships, importing any other than the 'tredve, of Sweden, will, with their cargoes, be subject to seizure nod confiscatioe. This law is in retaliation of severe restrictions in Sweden against the Dutch nag. The proviecial Papers abound with accounts of Public Meetings, for the purpose of Petitioning against' the proposed Doty nn Coals, and fee the repeal or modification of the Insolvent Act. There has been a general cessation of labour da ring tie past week, upon the Sheffield end of the nits-n(lrd new turnpike-road leading from thence to Glossop, and ultimately to Manchester, in cense qe-nce of prices being demanded for land consider exceed!ng the original estimate. It is now is, contemplation to apply fur Parliamentary aid to cra b!, the Coransissiniters to divert the road from the Cowmen-0 originally contemplated, and introduce it through Broad-Isue.---(Boncasfcr, 4c. Gazette, March 12) To rus EDITOR or rigs STATESMAN. your * leading Article of last Monday ( March 8), you advance. doctrine relativists the Bask, s bids, coming from a professed Radical Reformer, is really startling. Yoe assert, that " the Bank might stand, though the Government should fail!" and vice versa, that it to sly, that both ■re ens. pletely independent, eve of the other! This, Sir, is the doctrine of the Borooghmoneers' Press, end it is congenial with every other doctrine oe public affairs flowing through that polluted channel; but. when the ST.iTLSTWV:Ir becomes the champions of such ' a dogma, permit me to say, that it behoves his to suppo►t it with much more than mere naked As many of your Reeder, hold the very opposite opinion, namely, that the esistenee of the pretest system of Government depends upon the credit of the liank-note ; and as you are pleated to term such all opinion a 4, osonosirositg in political argemeat, arising from the grossest ignorance or perverseness!" perhaps yes sill condescend to p►ove the soundness •f your ease( lion, by giving some satisfactory reply to the following simple queries, sod their accompany ing observations. By saying, that the Bank might stand, those, the Goverment should fail, is it meant that if the pre sent corrupt system were swept away by a National Revolution, the Bank (freed from the hardship of a Restriction Act) would be enabled to pay in gold and silver, end on deinand, its e. 5 or 30 millions of notes now afloat, and at the same time carry on its usual traffic? If not, bow east it be said that the Bank might stand, t►oegh the Goveronsent should fail Circemstanced as the Bonk now is, what meaning is stlacbed to its f ai lure ? If a White of the Bank mean • general and positive refuse' on the pert of the People, to give away their property is es change for its paper, is it not obviate, that were such an event to occer, the present ”steue would drop lifeless to the ground ?—Does not taxation constitute the sole income., of Go vernment ? Are not tales of all kinds paid es ctu•ively in paper ? lf, then, the Bank should fail, if the Public Wyse its notes, is not Government ren dered, io all reepecu, a bankiept —a beggar ? Ilas it wherewith to purchase • single dal's fend for those who now 'semis* its functions, and enforce Its mandates ? The Bank might stand though the Government shoold fail ! Good God ! were Government to with draw (could it dare to withdraw) its protection front the Bank to-day, who will believe that the Bank could stand a ten epos it entil the evening of to-mor row Look at the proceedings of 1797. At that memorable period, a ran of only four days prodeced sock a panic among the Directors of the Bunk and the Ministers of Government, that they were compelled to lake advantage of the intervention of the Sabbath and upon that day to pass an Order in Council, pro tecting the Bank from the demands of the note-hold ers ! they proclaiming to the world, that the stability of C °imminent depended upon the credit of the Bank, and that the credit of the Bank rested only on the se curity, and consequently on the existence of Govern• went. Were any thing farther oftener, to prove the fell conviction of nor Raters themsel►es, that the credit of the Bank is the basis of their power, we have only to look at them, at Government, sendi.ig •cross the Atlantic, and Wittig on the artists of America to as sist a Company of Merchants in England in render ing its notes inimitable! We have only to consider the circumstance of a itsgel Gommission being ap pointed, and devoting lime, money, and i it, to the task of inventing a mafioso( making promissory notes for a particular Company of Merchants ! This ' circumstance, Sir, speaks treenpet-tongued, that the Bank mild NOT stand, should Governess.' fail, and via verso! &ippon A. to bo a Merchant. obese outstanding debts •mount to 100,0001. ; whose real property may be 10,0001., but who bolds bills of B. (a greeter Merchant, end one universally trusted), exceeding. suppose, the remaining 90,0001. and upon the credit of which bills his own are take*. Now, wi9 any one in their senses say, that, in this case, were B. to fail, to be deprived of his accustomed resources fur meeting his hills, the credit of A. would remain un altered, sad that be coald still carry on his bu4iness as usual ? No, no ; his creditors, finding ►im unable to meet their demands, 'fold sows seize span whatever real property be possessed, and divide it amongst themselves. Does such a case apply to the *stied before es ?I According to the statement of Mr. Manama', dur ing the debate of Feb. 1, the Bank holds from 45 to 30 millions in lischequer Bills ! These Bills, with a very small proportion of specie, coostitate the Capital of the Bonk, upon the strength of which its notes are issued. The Eschegeer Bills themselves repre sent the income of the Boroughonongers—Tosafion. New, Sir, is it not clear, that st , ould the People peremptorily refuse to submit any longer to the ar bitra►y imposts of the Borooghmen, their Eschews Bill, are instantly reduced below the Mae of the reg. Irene which they were made ; •ud. in such ell • event, what becomes of the boasted capital of the Beak ? Who should then protect ibis Company of Merchants against the clsmoar and rage of the wretchrd noteholders? and who, viewing the sib. jest in Ibis light, will assert, that though the Itortiegh tyrants should fall, the Bank might yet stead Pray, Sir, recousider the subject, and give some reasons for thvestreordinary doctrine (extraordinary from a Radical Reformer) which yen have laid down. lbe iosertioo of this letter may, lichen 'Wet a itply frost some Cedreependeist, show opinion user happen to coincide with your own on this subject.— , At ell events, Neu ere certainly bnend to prone yn* ale correct in asserting the?, the railer. ut the B ee k dues not now 'twelve the destrection ut the B efeei t t Gore assent.— I ago, Sir,re'..ectielly, M.r.kkMail. IS. 11419. P. w. D. Thus we have. at the desire of ear I 'orrinpundeas, platinised kill Letter, which hat itforded or rathitatet ion, r.inee we we that • wk. jert at owl prewar euse , rquessee least overt.mked by ow iltroares. We remits of the vitae °potties a. hei.ire expermed, sod well lake the Ant eips;oriontly (probably to-entierow)rit Orin oar wawa. for it. In the meantime we shoolit be ism that sant cc aim", .r hoer to .a...boald shortie the RA uICA L H ...FORUM* lu his hopes or a better sy-ten of imerainent. %re we rite, that neither Mioi.tert oar flank Disecass ran Sod comoLtiim am earns* In what we adraured. The unnatural. the eon ' devanable part 1.1 the comma ma heftier. die Government and the Hank tats amen undoubtedly tram the feel urrapl tom et Ike Pursuer, and the grow awake of doe Inner ste•ertheleis • casual admit that their hart &minim are sasepatah;y ...ten together. tkauph oe meter meaty Homy that they might sat, I.e anr even by probability. fall ineethet ; they a e toindetvi, hat not riewparaitly matted. Tie Ratak dor. met tali: itself amoi sable tarns 11;zeliequer bill ear the Goterssibeat tor a Kash bill. I'RI NESS AND PLASANTS VILATIRDISI the purpose of showing respect to the situation of the labourer. the Dike of SAIE•GOVIA appeared et • tall in the town of Altenburg, dressed after the mea ner of the neighbouring peasants. U. borrowed foe this purpose the 1161,0 of a paa•ant„ to whom Ise seat a silver cep, with his name, his arms, and the fol lowing inscription Honour to the Waal men. eery and costume." Coyest REDNAULT DE St. JEAN &ANDREW, II new. aside Peer of Freure, arrived in Paris on the 1041 lust. at nine in the evening, end died neat morning of the goat in his stomach, at two o'clock. The Sieve DELACOUR, of Paris, petitioned the Chamber to appoint a Commission to utentivie imp the effects of Somosmbulism.—( Lameller and plow dits.)—This Petitioner spole of Animal Magnetism as the greatest Wait which the Divinity has coo fused en man, for the core of his maladies, by im parting the focally of seeing ell the details of living bodies--( Universal laughter)—to esculein their diseases, sad the remedies best adopted to them.— Meer DILAEOUR SINS desirous that an eneblishavent for the reception of Somnambulists should be formed in the capitol, cemperied of enlightened men, (livened of ell prejudices, and anzioos to relieve the sick.— ( taegMer.)--The Chamber passed to the Order of the Dry. Tux RICIITI or WOMEN.—Dams GARET, of Calais, pard for a Project of Law, authorising the wives of soldiers ' not heard of, to marry again.— The Chamber passed to the Order of the Dry ; as it Jid else on she Patina.' of Sitar Jorraoi, for seek ing the arensouy of marriage a religious rite. Upwards of 70 persons emigrated lest week from the perish of Portse* to the United States. They embarked for Havre. Several of them ere mechanics, who have recently discharged themselves from his Majesty's service. Ti.ge are nee eeeee ily valuebie men. It any be s woke whether some other in divldeals, who more in an higher sphere, might oat be better spared. Those, for @sample, whose ear bitent sinecures and unmerited pensions render ne cessary the very Militia, the rewire of which deprives indostry of its reward, and drives frees their native shales the persons whose departure we are regretting. The Gazdie of Saturday night an nounces the appointment of a new Judor hued of the Admiralty, end else of a new Lord of the Bedchamber. 'rhea are twelve Lords of the Bed chmber. What do they do ? Each of them, al though paid by the year, does duty only ea month, and that is merely ■ nation duty. Some retrenchment, under these great heads of expellee, might have contributed to keep these valuable emigrants from the parish of Pulses at home.— Bet it is absurd to arc , that Ministers will ever set about soy thorough system of retrenchment or ea nosy, whilst the state of our Perliameotary Repre sentation alien continue In render profusion sed corruption the avowed and only means of se curing a majority in the Legislature. So long as a few itoroogberongers retain the power of dispos ing of the liberty, property, and Wes of the whole People, so lung must there be en extra. valiant espaditere.—The remedy for thin and every ether political abuse, consists in a Radial Reform of Pulisment, without which, es Mr. Pirs, in the early and honest part of his ca reer, declared, " no honest man can be Minister."— Why then, do not the advocates of retrenchment joie with the Radical Mortars in their demand of the only measure by which their professed object au be really obtained! The answer is, we fear, too obviate. The Whigs, though sincere esoegb in their dislike of teeing power and profit monopolised be their adversaries, ate not perhaps at bottom quite so indignant at the modes by which their power is held, end their profits wrung from an impoverished and miserable People, as to wish rudely to pat an end to a system from which they hope themselves as.. day or other to drew esti iment sad Satins, by drainieg the lest penny. On Tuesday lest, pursuant to Pablic Reqeisition, there was a Meeting of sbe R•rman Catholic inha bitants of Haitkrornhees, County of DeWitt, to peti tion the Imperial Parliament for a repeal of the Penal !Avis. And on Wednesday • numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the Catholic's( Lath, was held in Deedalk, for the purpose of preparing a Petition to Parliament, fur the repeal of the Petrel Laws still affecting them. Sir EDWARD 13,LLEW, Bert. was called to the Chair. Several Resoletioes were proposed by Mr. TA tree and Mr. FITZGERALD, end unanimously 'dowel LoeDOM Ctraca.— . l he Committee of the Hate of Commons, to whom the Peeking of the Londrrn Clergy, under the Fire Act, for so increase of Tithes, ens referred, ramp, we understand. to e Resolution, on Friday, that the Petitioners had failed to prove the allegations contained to their Petition. Th r oe Mister, of vessels hate, been convicted in tb, penalty of 101. each, for hariog lime on board their reaael, in the flail Dinka, century in the Act of railsament ; and alcg a timber Merchant, in the penalty of 51. for so freriote timber to float ist the Dock longer than the time flats.—Wednececir vic..rniog a fire was diicovrred at the Nunnery, Io Itinetagh, near Dublin, which eitrirety cnncemed the Ci.apel of that liestitelion. 1111 also the Pri-et's vectinen:v, Communion Olt', Am The &miles are estimated al epwards of 12b01. — Some 'opines arrired ton his to aye the Chapel, Let prevented lie vattircion .j the Ore. IP"'