The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-03-25 00:00:00

petitions with which they were assailed. " Observe," he, In condom's's, " that public confidence is, sl.;.ltee, thousands of electors are animated with ion dienant feelings, as steals° the inferior classes, sOo look to thee for support ; may I never witness Ai t roubles to which this inconceivable attempt may lead." M tic Bourtoon‘Alft deprecated the conclusions of the ( ' null Beegnot, sad spoke in favour of the Kesoletion. lie s.id the Commission had decided, without diecussive the proposition seder the lets ✓ue* of views foreign to the eistolers. A majority it• Peers hail .:.riled epos the necessity of useful hinges in the elective system, and this was a strong pre.useptinn in reply to the rancorous epithets which bld been lavished upon the proposed amelioration.— /le could prove, that the present Law of Elections was seise and arbitrary In Its t , and that it enabled the King's Ministers to 'swiss , an influence in that Chamber hostile to public liberty ; and in support of this assertion, he referred to the abuse of fraudulent patents, sod affirmed, that by payment of 95 freed, itiditideals were eligible to ccccc ise the rights en Elector, by which means legitimate Electors were deprived of their rights, inasmuch as only a tenth of the latter presented themselves at the E:ectoral Colleges, and consequently the patentees were masters of the Elections. M. Buts defended the Law of Elections in the principal points which had been made subjects of at. tack, end dilated upon the ill-judged reforms which • were attempted. Insistiog *pen the danger of a di vi ;nt. of the Electoral Colleges, be said that it would be cundeisielitg Mess lo death. M. ea ViLizzA nest succeeded to the Tribune; he declared, that he wished to appeal to the reason. not to the passions of the-Chamber. He would re ject all discussion foreign to the subject. lie corn. plaieed, that the first Article of the law of Elec. tines was dangerous in its principle ; inasmuch as it drove away real and adasmitted fictitious Electors; it permitted, by patents, the parches* of the right of voting, which the Charter had reserved to landed proprietors: to judge of the abase of this system, he referred them to the list : they would there see the validity of the rights of the Electors inscribed. After stating that the system of ceutraliestion by Flertorel Colleges was inconvenient, and precluded the @Umlaute. of numerous Electors, that Prefects had too much irleence in the formation of the lists, and that no means existed of verifying these opera thing, he concluded by toting in fates, of the Hew. lotion. M. DEiT. AULATINIC declared, that he did not as. wend the Tribune to reason upon the grounds of the .4oestio , .. bet to notice what had been advanced by bide Villeie. ft was ',ideally the College of the, (:srd to which that Hon. Member bad alluded ; bet 1,01. de ht. Astaire) protested that he was in error. The Deputies of that department obtained at the ^Aro scrutiny nearly 1,000 votes on a total of 1,401) Etcetera. It had been signified that 45 Electors were ineligible. lie did not think that they were struck off : but could it be said that they were introduced by the influence of the Prefect? Of what importance etas so ample ao addition ? The Administration was pot without ind ; bet that influence was legiti mate: it bad been employed to persuade the Protest. aids, that they could eaercise their elective ii4hts 'without danger; that they should be protected even against their assassins. " You speak (said M. de tit. Aulaire) of the Elections of 1818, and I naw Terri. to those of 1813 ; they ought to hare 'okra place on the 21st : on the 17th, 13 Protestant Elec tor. had their throats cot; the others, in dismay, withdrer to the oseentains. List year, the same D•paties of 1815, again presented themselves at the Electoral College. The former crimes not having been punished, the same (rows sere enterteioed ; and the Administration were necessitated to adopt means to allay them." M. us Vir.t.st.a again needed the Tribune.- 46 If," said he, " crimes were committed in 1815, the Government neght, and should punish them; but crimes committed four years ago cannot repair abases committed last year"—[(:rhea on the left Ode, that the general order of the discussion ought not to he Interrupted by the detail of such incidents.) N. Guttman Deputy for the Department of Pi nisterre dainsed leave to state a fact. The Assem bly became: temellooso. The PRESIDENT was called upon to pet it to the vote whether the order of speaking as inscribed should be observed. M. Oa Conavotatee theeeht that M. Guilhem eight not to be presented from communicating a Biagio fact. M. I the Kazeer of the Suns worsen. moistly beard on this point. M. CUAUTCLIN said, that erroneous statements ought to receive a direct reply. M. Gunmen ascended the Tribune, and referred to an elector presented es not having the right of voting, though he had shed his blond for the country, oriel void 500 francs of taxes.—[The tumult increas ed, sod drowned the voice of the smelter. The gif ting broke op, and the Secret Committee was adjourn. eJ to Monday, the 22d inst.] DUTCH MAIL. !Univ.*, MARCH 15.—As the First Chamber of the Foetes.Genersl hive rejected the law on the right the Chase, it is thought theta new Preject may h ►epetted from the Kong, in which the various api. Mona on the subject will he reconcil e d as much us possible. We learn from th• French Frontiers, that she sleds of the people in the northern departments have ben SitliD iscil44 by the proposal in the Cham ber of Peers, respecting the Election Law ; and it is added, that the uneocceisful proposition made in the game Chamber, to prevent, if possible, new Peers, has greatly contributed to We alarm, so that the People had resumed the getting of ap Petitions, which they traosmit to the most distinguished Constitetional Members of the Deputies. The People ere firmly pomaded ►hat the 'lightest departure from the cour'r prescribed by the Chamber capitol but have prejudi cial vs oseq pewee. _ _ _ M ARCM 17.—His Mikity has proclaimed the law which prohibits, ender the comity of confiscation of ship and cargo, after the Ist of September, 1819, the importation, ceder the Swedish gag, of any pods into this tit: grime, excepting such as the practice •,‘ o f tMlitmash soil or indvtry, or its triossarioe co \ THE STATESMAN lonia. The term of the imprit onment. t. which tke .Abbe de Fevre was condemned by the Eliteorditiery Special Court, will 'spire in a few days; Ike Abbe will sheetly ?Morn to Brages. . The French 'Mies; who are in this city, await with impatie n t, SOWe me respecting them ; bet it is said that the Cog still make: difficalues to take a resolution in their favour. MILAN, Miami celebrated Mechanician Lecatelil made on the 19th of February, at Pavia, a trial with a vessel of bis invention, which moves in all directions both up and down a river, without the aid deans, oars, or steam. These trials excited the admiration of the nemeroai spectators. Count Stel.• sold°, Prmideet of the Government, went to Pavia to be present at the trial, and, hiving viewed the ►essel in every part, impressed his satisfaction to M. Locetelli in the most flattering terms. Six men are required to pot the mechanism of ibis vessel in motion. It may be laden with one and a half times its own weight ; the empty space in the vessel is nearly is great es in common merchant 1014.11. It ran be moved with the glestest rapidity In all direc. tinny. Those, it is chiefly intended for the novice. tinn of rivers, it may also be used for crossing lakes with all the obese-mentioned advantages. MA, OCT. 4 —The day before yesterday, about half-past on. o'clock, P. a very mood shock of an fa ft htesake was felt at Beitenz mg. TM houses were violently shaken. the windows rattled, the mortar fell from the walls, the bells rung, and people svhis were standing up become giddy by the mutiou of the ground. limns houses had the walls rent open.— Happily the shock lasted only • few sistonds.—ht Vail tilt •lsn iu the mountains as well es here, in Batavia, but at this place less severely limn at Bol ton:ors. . . TO Ctift It I'SPONDO4Td. • We Moe received the a"inglit two dareesews et ewe Wend& letpottemee to the stain of Bowie. Arts sad CNC and the thew oodetwoodiekat the lodepeodeet reale 12 shove diwieltekitid plates; hot Ns she caw ,o mid too Wein-day for puhlicat loom Itiood delay sod the S I lIMILW too lodß, wo hove deferred them till to.soorrovg. LADY-DA r.—Holiday at she Public Oficei. THE STATESMAN. SOUTH AMERICA. Intelligence from South America every day es oemes a deeper interest. Sir Gregor M'Greger (who carries out strong reinforcements to New Gra nada) bas now reached that cavalry, as well as Lord Cochrane; and as several transports with veteran British officers earl mew have also arrived, it is pre. bible that the long-promieed expeditiou front Spain will find the remmet of Morillo's force absolutely annihilated era its arrival, and consequently a more hopeless war to wage than could hitherto hare been imagined. It seems highly probable that the feeble Spanish fetes will speedily be swept from the shores of the l'acific and from the Western Provinces, and that if this Spanish espeditiun, more fortunate thee the one which preceded, should ever reach the At lantic shores of America, it will find the Independest armies there concentrated before it, proud of former triumphs and prepared for new ones. The following it on interesting extract of a letter from Kingston, Jsmeice, dated 7th of February, which throws mach light on the preparations now mating for this contest—a contest ulsiek would ivies. 'portant under ano rircumstances, but which itren dered especially in by so many of our conntrynses being now engaged in it : " By a sch from Aux Cayes we are lamm ed, that General Al•Greanr arrived at that port on the •:Ith of January, with two ships of war and some armed transports, composing part of the traps dition which was destined to ski the Patriots of New Granada. This lotelligence caused such alarm among the merchants of this place, that they immediately applied to Sir Home Popham for protection to their interests on the Spanish coast, sad the Admiral re plied, that he would give all the protection compatible with his order+. which were to maintain au entire neutrality. Ile consequently dispatched a ship of war (the Iphigenia) to observe the movements of General M•Greger. who hourly expected the arrival at Am Cayes of a Depety from New Grenada, who left that place en the 18th of the preceding month. " The Captain of the ship from Ass Cayes, says, that the I which conveyed the Deputy, entered that harbour at the moment of his leaving it. The point to which the espeditinn was destined, he had not been able accurately In ascertain, in VR1144,001 of the profound silence which was maintained on the subject. Some thought that it would he directed spinal the Isthmus of Panama ; but the most probe. bible opinion was, that it would go to Santa Mirth', as from that province it would be easy for Mae Gregor to proceed by land to Omni, and thence to continue Ms match sitheet opposition to Pamplona, or some other province of the interior, in order to place himself in communication with the Patriot General Santamler, who, according to the latest in telligence brought us by those who have arrived from New Granada, bid under his command three thee send infantry and two thousand cavalry. " The consternation of the Spaniards throughout New Granada was immense, independently of the arrival of M'Gr►gor's espeditinn, in consequence of the bad state of their C 1111%! in Pero, and the increase of the Patriot force in the Dams of Canine's.— What hope can they now have of preserving that country, holding as they do all the points of theceest undefended, and its inhabitants at the same lime exasperated by their cruelties and opressiosis? A.- cording to the information which we bare of thedis position of the People, it is probable that the mere announcement of the arrival of the espeditiou at fax Cayes will recite them to commence the work of liberty. Gen. Al•Grrgnr, we ate assured, would not delay at Asa Cars Inniger than was necessary for conferring and determining epos the plan of lye tenons with the Deputy from Now Granada, mid for the arrival of the other ',stele. _ . •-'•— By a letter from Porte Betio, we are informed, that G al Osorio had arrived et Pentium (wheocs we infer Oa/Talcahuano was then in the power of the Chilian Patriots), and that Gen. Omit) bad come to Panama, without touching at Lima, that he might act io conformity with • Council of War." MEDICPetf. PiIeTERTIEJ or GOLD.—Dr. Cliats riLyi, el Montpelier, hes mode seine ezperisteuto on she medicinal properties of gold. lle declares, that be cured a most obstinate siphy hs with eery fine Aliso of pure gold, robbed upon the tongs. in doses of rase, two, nod Inn and a boil grain,. Ile farther smarts, that the rubbing of Nur grains of psiverbed gold spun the relive and goals, prodsces, in some in stances, • strong rilivatiots ; in Gam, attains diar rhea and frequent perspiration: LONDON: TIIVILIIDAY. MARCH 25, 1819. A collisies in Fromm, something like one of the subordinate revolutions during DOPIATAITE'S Con selate, is evidently approaching. We do not We how the parties can avoid a shock. The tribune, as it will be seen, was filled by inflamed speakers on both sides of the qeestinn, and as each felt the importance I of not giving umbrage to the People, (who now feel their consequence in the State,) they took care to I speak of their interest in the measure proposed or at tacked. All ibis while the King feels easier than might be imagined ; for although his relatives keep aloof from hiss at this critical time, he is satisfied of his personal safety. An extended Fraechive is the ob. ject wish the Patriots, and no arguments of c onvenieaa ought to weigh one feather in the scale with the true patriots of their country. If they want to axe, isin the evils of precedents, let them look t•. i...gl■nd: I they will there find enough of that evil. A &psi. tore from prieciple, upon any ground whatever,l ought to subject the proposer to the suspicion of a disguised traitor. In the Chamber of Peers, the' Count Degree reported from a Special Committee, lin favour of a proposition for r►pealing the Ise re- i !alive to seditious cries. Th. Report was ordered to ; be printer). Count CUATTIL, theßstke de PLAISANEE, and Marshal the Doke d'ALIVTcat, all of the late creation of Peers, were appointed Presidents of the lit, 2cl, and 3.1 Bureaus. The Chamber then ad journed to Tuesday. It will be seen that the Chamber of Deputies soddenly broke up its sitting fres the dam- prows warmth of the several orators. There esist the same contradictions in the French Smote as in owes, according to the interests and prejudices of theseveral parties. M. Du VERcialt Dg lIA LILAND I complained, that the berth's, occasioned by the events of 1815 bed fallen wish an oppressive weight on she Cotton Manu facturers, whilst the Woollen and Silk Manufacturers had been entirely tempted. The Codes Mseefac. ture was consequently languishing ; end every where there were numbers of Weevers destitute of employ. meat. Ile moved that the Petition should be taken into coesideration by the Chamber, and referred to the new Commission of the Customs about to be up pointed. M. BElfollT supported the motion. Bat M. DE ST. CUM, ails proof of the increasing prosperity of the Cotton Manufactures, stated, that in 1813 the consumption of Cotten.wool was only 9,400,000 kilogrammes, whereas in 1818, it amounted to 15,t)00,0(.0. Injurious competition resulting from lie 'Raisin number of manufacturing establishments, was she s ole casse of the existing distress. M• BauN DE Vu.t.rotts (the Beporter)contended that it would be highly impolitic to encourage the Cotton Manufsc. lore at the ramie, of the Woollen, the raw material of which was a native produce. The improvemeat of machinery, however desirable in some respects, was undoubtedly one of the caus►s of the distress alluded tn. lle was willing that the Petition should be re ferred to the Commissieuers of the Customs, as well as the Minister of the Interior. A stronger proof could not be offered of the jet• lice and expediency of a more than toleration, of a enntually sad equally free carrelsu of religion in the United Kingdom, than the fact which M. nu Sots? AuLAIR, msde known in the French Scow, via. that 13 Protestant Electors were murdered at the Election in the Department of the Gard in 1815. The disclosure of this horrid fact it was that broke op the Silting, and occasioned the adjournment align debate for two days. The Americans have fallen under the censure of the majority of the Pub Udder in Kerepo for their decides in the case of Aaiun:taut and Arms. m.—Character Is fortune to a country ; MOM specially to It Republican country.--.... That the ROUND of Itepreseetatives was placed in a soy difficult position no one an doubt ; bat Its res. PM should not have given way to screen an act arisiet; from the peusion of one man, however eminent his services to she State alight be deemed. It pains es to condemn the acts of a People we wish to be on Rood terms with. They owe their national eaistence to the lessons which our institutions inculcate ; and they have sullied their setteesl reputation by the debasement and dentorelialag effect which • familieri. ty with slavery occasions, of which we kayo espme ed our abhorrence. ‘Vhat our Government will do we cannot say ; but It must not, cannot, pass over the transaction unnoticed. We trust that the Common Council will, this day, express their proper detestation of t►e odious, be. cause partial, 'fez on Coals. The resis►ie` thrall im. positions with becoming spirit is the 'sly •ay to he esemplad from fetereizectioss of the like kind to favour the views or extraverts.= of Paittcrs end their mistresses. The SPCAILLIeI last Parliamentary Levet for the present Sodom will be ea Salerday seat, the 2711 i fastest. IOURISAL DC PARIS, MARCH 21.—" Th. J.urnat tic Marseilles of the 13th hest. snakes no mention of the reported disestrows event at Messina ; we, their fore, tape that it has not taken place, or, at least, that the accent was mach resaggerated." The Howls, Germs, from Wet to Hell, put into Slssanger the 21st silt. very leaky, sod bas charged her cargo. Th. Christina, SLlLteestost, of Gottmober4k. and three British vessel', perticelars unknown, were lost in the Serpa the 14th inst. The Persian Ambassador sod suit* landed at Dover on Thursday afternoon from Calais, mod were isle:. eat by the firing of the cannon at Ike Castle and western heights." Asiatic Mirrors have been rereived to the flat of October. BAJILF. Bow, the Es-Peishwe, had ar rived by the last accounts et Ajmere,and was espect. ed at filming abort the heeinniog of November.— , Area Sums, late Rajah nt Naglints, was still at large, sod *meal skirmishes had i•ken place be , teems •Of troops and runetor the Couffilb s i n w h; e t, the former were uniformly succerrful. It war stated, , that IligadieteOrmerAl A 11401.9 was ohne' m trek . 4 1iffitt the refractory Scit-li (Alois in the north-west •r The :feint frontier t‘sd been the stems of ••"I ales n the ',ono of Moo torn Slla tt and the Persian., Mott4IIED a as &rotated, sad forced to take 'Prod. with the Vtzttn at Beret. In roorst, the scrawl , ' that hail been transmitted from t]•ti,..r Wu. represented •Isst% as by no WWI in a -• t.ed nor like!, to be litodgitt into it, the aid and presence of a large military force. l'he fr ant Ceylon continned to be f ***** able. The troops that had volunteered t eir set. 'vices to that island from the Bengal srmy were nearly in ■ slate of readiness for embarkation. According to the last advice% from Spain, trade continued ire a state of general stagnation, thank the Government had abandoned the project of in creased duties at the several ports. The only bustle et Cadis was owing to the preparations for the Es. ;sedition, whirls was aogasenting daily ; the troops drawn from the interior before Cadis amounted to 15.600 men, which were kept in constant esercite. They were reviewed on the 48th of January by Count tura kl.• There was an espectation at Rare -lona that M. us CETALLOS world speedily pass threragk that place, on his way from Vienna to the Spanish capital, for the purpose, as was commend. of ro. Isensing the administration of Foreign Affairs. A story was curfew, that CEVALLO; bad aporised Its. I Dlsanu VII. that the late QuEsts was subject to epilectic fits. The party who had projected the war. rise. pretended that it was nothing bet a nervosa I disorder, mired by the client, of Brazil. Amongst a variety of communications from India, a Ceylon Paper bas reached es of the 39'k of Sep tember ; at which period, If we can byline that Journal ' the hostile movements of the Candians were drawing to a close. The notice who had assumed the Mire of King, la said to have been taken psi soner, as also hid principal adviser ; and the People of the country were in tinny places tendering their I ssbraiasinn. A reinforcement, consisting of the dank companies of the Stri h regiment, bad wind at Trio ! camale►, by the (I•tsnde frigate. i If appears, that the troubles at Nismee woo really wines and political. We regret to find that the fa natie of that town, who went fortk with the torch and the dagger against their Protestant I fellow.citizenv, in 1815, again bets■ to let lone their pis inns. The lives end propertiet of Protest. lents were again threatened ; and. +hat is still m..te shocking, one of the most devoted objects of fasati cal vengeance was a person named Loco _es,- whose father was murdered by these infuriated zealot, in 11815. _ Letters from Rio Janeiro, of she 4th of January, state, that trade was then very doll, there living no, demand ezeept for fine goods—these of inferior de. 'caption being entirely a drug. A letter from British America, received by a Gee. Heinen In this city, sass—" The American Beard of Commissioners for Enrolls. Missions base just sp. appointed $ Mr. Mesons aod a Mr. Film, as Mis sionaries to Jerusalem. They observe, that America has theft coinreemeol the fir-t minion In that city, an dear to the hearts of both Jews and Christians, and that It is most proper swell a mission 'horrid be-begen by the American People, as they alone of all the, nations of the earth can stood wp and say, ' We never have been espied in persecuting the Jews, for amongst us the children of Israel have the same ptivileges as those of es who are Gentiles.' What sorry thin Maoism will have time alone nest deter. neirm."—(Durkom Paper.) 11 was reported on 'Change. that a vessel bed ar rived at Ivimopool from New York, which place she left on the 'Mils Feb. bringing some impootatit news : co jectere says it is respecting the Beek. It is generelly reported, that the present Lotto CHIEF Belot of the Court of &cheque in Scot land, has signified his wish to retire, on a pension of coarse; and that hir h,* be eeeceeded by the Loth ADVOCATE. This certainly is an SppilinIII•111 more idapted in the Loomed Lord's 1111111111, as the COMM. .that are tried in that Court relate merely to the IL.- essme—snd require only a practical knowledge of the Code of the Excise and Cestom-house Laws. Governor M'Qu Artnic It not the only British Co. that hat levied tales without the sithority of Parliament. There is now a strong remnestraine to Laid MINI:114T, on the pert of the Planters and other inhabitants of another of our Colonies, cow. plai ll ig ig of the modulo of their Governor, in demand ing and levying totes without the sanction of Perlis. mint or the consent of the internal Legislature of tLe Colony. Letters from Leeds of Monday last, inform is, that in addition to the great numbers of woollen. wearers dist huger', the masters have given notice to the remaining stirkmen, that they must limit their labour its future in eight hours per day. until affdlrs take • mist, (securable torn. In fact, both ltin woollen and cotton manufactures •re et present in a depressed state. Escept fur articles of the finest fabric, Ito demand was never known to be so dell, either for home consumption or for exportation. It is true, there bare been some flimsies orders re. veiled within these few days, both from North and South America ; but ati these are confined to a few of the first hooves, whole warehouses hare been long overstocked, they have tint occasioned Roy Witt le increased throand for labour. •. ~ • ..