The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-08 00:00:00

L. S k. vt. p r: - I .X~" cgibraollll . laity coin, . ,___ no systnes, so , ..oy ~.._ *cut! 4ips it Niple ied give &epode itroul: to i!i iii k ,estis eooait,r, In they sittief; of the "" which .1 4ryiltg the Ex-Commissaries fat furnishing false documents and vouchers for articles of sub sistence said to have been - 1(1[04d to the French Army' in its teties t t, on Thursday last, MARINET, who is charged with being concerned irr the attempt to essassioste the Doke -of WELLINOTONYWIS es amined as to the character of ono of the Es-Com missaries named Cusix, whose name is said to have been forged to 2,733 of the requisitions. M Allister said he was introduced to CusiN at Brussels by an Officer, but he could assure them he (lid not like spies ; and as.they were beset with them hi Belgium, he took M. Como to be one and treated him accord ingly. The Papers now make no allusion to the Royalist Plot, but a private letter from Paris states, that Gen. DONNADIEU has been summoned thither as a witness in the affair of the late conspiracy, and that he is to appear immediately before the Juge d'lnstroction, to answer the requisite interrogatories. On the evt minations of General Doort.aotEu, it is rumoured that [ the preliminary steps will be declared complete, and ~that the accused persons will forthwith be put upon their trial. The Duke of WELLINGTON does not return to Paris before the Congress shall have finished its deliberations. The Emperor of ItusstA, it is now stated, is expected to arrive a Berlin on the 15th ;mono, and to remain there about five days. The EMPRESS, during the present 'month, intends to pay visits at Weimar, Stutgard, and—Brussels. The whole of the Sa'son troops are, ie is said, to as. semble by the 18th instant, in the environs of Meis sen, and to form a camp till the middle of October. The report of the death of BLUCIIER is contra. dicted ; but it is said in an article from Frankfort, that he was very ill at Carlsbad, and that fears were entertained for his life. A report prevails in Paris, that an attempt has been made to assassinate Colonel DUYAY, who, it may be recollected, killed Count ST. MORT 9 some time ago in a duel, and who re cently succeeded in actions for slander agaiust the widow and daughter of the deceased Count. The Colonel is said to have been wounded while re-enter ing his house on lost Tuesday evening ;• and his wounds are represented at being very daugerous.— Pursuant to the Act of Grace lately issued by his Majesty, 28 criminals were pardoned and discharged at Rouen on the 2d inst. • The French five per Cents. were on Thursday-at 79 f. 95 c. The Flanders Papers informs us, that the Grand Duke of limit DARMSTADT has issued a Decree, pre scribing the forms of electing a General Council for his province , ' on the left bank of the Rhine ; and that he has promised to continue to them all the limit!. Lions introduced by the French. On Sunday week a lighted match was found attached ton barrel of pew. der in the magazine of Antwerp, to which Wisest, In a short time, have set fire. At the date of the last accounts the offender had not been discovered. The subject of Borough Reform is still a most in teresting one to the People of Scotland; end we are glad to perceive that they seem resolved to continue their exertions to recover their rights and maintain their local and political interests, in spite of the at tempts of arbitrary power to repress them. The Privy Council end the Magistrates of Aberdeen have got into a curious predicament in consequence of the late decision in regard to the election of. that Bo rough, and the situation of its pecuniary affairs.- - It appears, from an account of all the Royal warrants granted by the Crown for holding Elections in the Royal Butghs of Scotland since the Union, carefully extracted from the Records of the Privy Council, that except in those cases where the Magistrates were prevented from meeting to elect -their successors in office by the Rebellious of 1715 and 1745, there is no instance whatever, previous to the present case of . Aberdeen, of a Magistracy having, been• . restored: otherwise than by a pat Telect . ion. of the, Aar.; gems. The invariable practice, therefore, which• has been followed daring the last 110 year., for the cases which occurred during rebellion do not constitute -any exception to the general rule, is entirely consonant with the doctrines ma i n t a ined by all our legal authorities, and with the principles of the Constitution and of com mon sense. It was reserved for the present Ministers to insult the whole Burgesses of Scotland, and to nullify the Act of Parliament authorising the set ting aside of an election, by ordering the old Ma giatiates of Aberdeen to meet and appoint their suc cessors. But from what we have learned, says a respectable Scotch Paper, " we hope the old Magis trates will not fall into the snare which has been laid for them by the Privy Council, and that they will not consent to become the abject instruments of the degradation of their fellow-citizens. There can be no reasonable doubt that any proceedings which mu take place under the Warrant of the Privy Council will be reduced and set aside. The old Magistrates are aware of this. They know that an action fur the reduction of any Election they may make will be raised the moment it takes place." CITY, Two o'CLocs.—The Funds continue to advance gradually ; Consols for account.opened to day at 76, and are Dow 761. No other c a use is stated for the rise, than that the Public are buyers. A Mauritius Gazette, of the 1 lth April, has been received. It contains no Dews. A general mourn ing was ordered to be worn for two months on ac count of the death of the Princess CIIARLDTTE. A beautiful carpet, 40 feet square, is now facturlng at Axminster, for that costly repository of John Bull's wealth, the Regent's Pavilion—the de sign Ckjnese, chiefly hieroglyphics. 51 K 4 • f. lk • •,. To Tax S k • ' • - , —......—. ... .- - Stee l —The aOicies in your Paper co 9e ad Sep. tember, respecting:Miss TQCICER, and also them ee , chester Spinners, ought to be well studi e d b y every person ; but there is one thing which seem s t o escape the London Editors, and which, unfil lately, h as net been touched upon in the Provincial Pats; and I wonder. .Mr. WOOLER, who is_ tersoo t elly k nown to me, has not taken up the subject. It wo u ld assist the cause of Reform more than any-thing —n o saying in the country is so common as, 66 What go o d wiltp that (meaning Reformo?—llo any of th e Refo rmers : attack the. CORN LAW TAXATION, iltid that is t h e '. principal thing to us ?" The consequence is that they won't 66 badge," as their saying is. In year Popes , of the 2d, the President of the Workingtot Agricultural Society is represented to have said, ji lt Government tasation averages 41. ahead, and tbse r • therefore, the food of man most necessarily b e hi gk The people in the country make a different calculi lation : they well know that the farmer looses i e• s t ea d of gaining by the high prices, because b e pen more than the difference in the estrusgant real to the landlord, who is the ONLY person benefiting b y the high Prices. The FARMER then is inj ure d 6s , high rents and high prices ; .his LA Bovattesrp ee ,, f much injured, because their wages, out of wbiththey should have a surplus, is insufficient to pay f or e food, and the Poor Mule must thus increase; - itt too is injurious to the kingdom, as it ruins the indu. try and morals of the labourers—all BUYEns of Foos are injured, and the LAN et.oßni oscr SEMITE. ; and by an tirade lately puolished, it appears th4t of 121 persons, there is only one of these benefited is. • dividuals to 420 injured ones ; it stands thus— Peron engtiged in Trade and Commerce Per,obs noel reed Persobsengnged in Agriculture Farmrts Landlordb ably • 1 • Total ..• • 421 I Now, if this calculation be correct, of which have no doubt, it appears thilt of 421 persons, there is only one benefited by the high price, and he, the richest of all, complains that being taxed to the amount of. 41., in common with the others, he matt have a Corn Bill Taxation, whiclr, as 1 shall shoe presently, amounts to more, than double 41. each; so that one great man, I mean rich man, bec ause he is . ‘axed, and because he can get into Perlis. menyt I hkyout AND TWENTY other persons at 91. 2s. W. each, as 1 shall.presently show to the -*Yount of 18321. 109. the greater part of which falls on and is severely felt by the labouring and noddle classes. The calculation' on which Igo bas.generally been admitted to bolsi', very far, 1:w -idow the mark, it is taken at 6d. per bead per day or the increased prices of provisions s e nd malt liquor, all kinds of which are artificially kipi up by Corm 1..0r rizerzoN,, and which most be paid or the People starve, in addition to the Government Taxatioa. Six. pence. day is 91. 1 2s. 6d. a year, and on a populatioN sr ip,ooo,oop amounts to roe' enormous sum of U 5,625,0001. which being very far below the anti, we may very justly make even !lumbers anti say,thst ila addition to sixty uallinna, of Government Tax. *lion, the People are . paying * Colts LAW TION Of ONE WUNDRED *AND TWENTY MlLuotts 'STERLING .TFARLY t t ' P t t And as the number of 'heifers compared with the sellers of grain are at 440 to one, the People argue that the burden of Taxa• lion is* reason why the price should rather he art& dolly kept down than up, particularly as that one it a rich mart, and the 420 are chiefly poor persons, alio cannot afford to pay 41. as stated by the President of the Workington Agricultural Society to. Government, sad _9l-21.-Gd. Cott; Lew 'relation to the land-own. —cr.— Until this article be placed rms.'. an the list of giievances, the roll on the Peep). to join the Re formers will be in vain. BoNAMETE kept his sok diers well fed to fight-his opponents; had he suffered them to want bread, he would have been deserted: the circumstances ate Outline and ought not to ba lost sight of, and I trust you will enforce this doe.. trine.-4 ans lii.,yoer most obedient servant, Cheltenham, Sept. 4. . A REAL PLAT9IOT. The . st l 6irsamts, recently .arrived et Portsmouth, , goner t he command of Captain /011EPII HAMMON, late First Lieutenant, sailed from. Port Royal on the 27th of . Jaly, with a freight of specie for the Ha. vintsals ; a!rived.,therat on *he 2d of August, and sailed again on the 40, with 9610,000 dollars, besides gold dust, Oibehluitl, • and ivory, on account of OWN chants in London.' The Cherub, Captain Wit.i.ss, had arrived at Port Royal, from the coast of Africa (having left Cope Coast Castle on the 21st of May), and sacs to sail for England about the 10th ult. The ity,ian was the only ship beside at Port Royal During the three years' service of the Semiramis upon the coast of Africa, she lost only two of her men by sickness. The unfortunate AMBRISTER, who was put to death, together with ARBUTIINOTT, at the entry of General JACKSON into St. Mark's, is the son, as tve are informed, of Colonel AMBOISTER. holding a com mission in the militia at Nassau, in New Providence. He served in Florida at the close of the last war, and bore the rank of Ensign in Capt. SVoonattic's com pany, formi ng part of the regiment under the imme diate command of Major NICOLLS. At the period of his executiou he had not attained the age of twenty. The Doke and Duchess B EDvoltD are expected to.morrow at their seat, IVoburu Abbey, front Scot• land. Mies BYRNE of Drury.lane, end Mr. SINCI.IIa of Covent-gardeu, are playing at the Edinburgh Theatre. Mr. 11UNDEN, Mt. J. JOHNSTONE, Mr. EMERY, and Mrs. amsus, are play iug at the Manchester Theatre. • A fuel wat fought on ununslow.heath yesterday morning, between two Gentlemen, named litu.inN and MARSDEN, which arose nut of a dispute in obe of the stands at Egham Races. The latter wail wounded severely on the left side, and was conveyed away in a gig. Some Officers of justice had followed the parties from Old 03k Common, where they first met ) but they were too late to prevent the mischief. THE STATFSMAN PIIICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Heat Stork a perZ e ttlyHaan su m A mit', AUG. 30.—A Journal of this city has Seer gent. Red. - huh. ' P rf the following article:—Extract of a letter from the :X; t er i ;Ceavil MI LonOtetsi • , • Ill'annahs June 26.—" The Aid-the.Cemp of the a na bbas r l ' Escargot.* RIM 17 p a cs . cs ma i ug ou di p ./ •• * Viceroy has this moment arrived from Vera Cruz, 4Per on board the Sybil, Captain Maltase ; he'bringa dim patches relative to an espedition which is preparing at Gehtevtowo, under the orders of General Lytle mend aid his country mew. It will be composed of *Omit 6000 tinny, commanded by Bonaparte's hest officers.— it is supposed to be destined against Mexico —.that country is the rendezones of all nations." - The Grand Duke of Hesse-Dirmsiadt has just insed an important edicLfor his dominions on the left bank of the Rhine, renewing his promises to pre serve to that country all its institutions introduced 'by the French Government, and which are conform. able to the spirit of the age, and to public opinion. SEPT: Sunday there was found in a pows . der.magazitte, in'the citadel, a lighted match, which lied bey., bailing for some time, and which it might he calculated would require but a few hours to com. municate tn a ba try! of powder to which it was applied. [factor, SEPT. I.—A letter from Flushing says-- " Captain M. Bakher, commending the vessel De Verde, bound from Gone to Antwerp, was attacked riff Alicant by two armed loggers, bearing the Bog-. BA' flag. They forcibly opewed the hat Ches, and took from him two barrels of wine, leaving on the ,deck, by way of payment, some articles of small treble. BUISSEIA, SEPT. 3.—Among the latest arrivals bereave several Russians of distinction, as well as .English ; of the latter we notice the Marchioness (Duchess) of Devonshire, with her family and suite, Lord Calthorpe and suite, and Lord Clancarty, Am bassador from his Britannic Majesty. FLANDERS MAIL. IN- • • ~ i . I THE STATESMAN. LONDON: -- It is asserted that a letter of bis Excellency the Secretary of State, dated July 11, addressed to the -Ministers and beads of public offices, says, " That in future there shall not be addressed to his Majesty. aay PrAjects of Decrees except such as are draws up . in the Dutch language, with the permission to add s French translation, if it is thought proper." Thus even for the Southern Provinces, they must make use of the Dutch language s which is almost entirely au- .known there. - I'OPULATION OP GERMJNY. We extract from the proceedings of the Diet of Frankfort the scale of population provisionally es ' --eetned, arrording to which the military force of the Germanic Confederation is to be organised, eacb hon. dyed souls supplying one soldier, the whole prodeciog van army of 300,00() men : Austria 9.482.927 ' Prussia ~ . 7,515,439 Bavaria . 8.560.000 barony . . 1,?00.000 nanover . 1.905,951 Wifiemtscrg . 1,395,164 Batten' . 1,006,000 Bleviorate of Heise 640,000 Brand. Duchy of Hesse 619.500 Holm ei Zoo° 11.niernborg . 214.058 Jiro aswick . 409,600 Isfeekleoburg SchucrinShS,uoo Name 302,769 13azeoWeimar . 401,1100 A ohalt Berborg . 97.046 Coetheo . . 9Y.454 Schwarzburg Souders- ( 45,117 hausen -- : • -- - ltudolstadt - 53,937 Hohenzollern- Fleck- / 14,500 ingen . . Lichtenstein . 5,516 Hohenzollern-Sigma- 1 35.360 ringen . . 5 Waldeck . 51,877 Reim. elder branch . . 22,255 younger Jilt° 52.205 Schaumburg- Lippe . 24,000 Lippe- Det mold . 69.062 Hesse-Homburg 20,600 Lubeck . . 40,650 1 Bremen 48,500 . Hamburgh . 129,800 Total . 3d,094,050 Gotha . 185,6821 Coburg . 8 ,012 Meningen . MAO Heildburgbausen 29.706 51eeklenburgh Straits 71,769 Oldenburg . 217.769 Aubalt Dessau . 54,947 FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, SEPT. 4.—Yesterday his Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers, and afterwards took an airing in the direction of Choisy-le-ani. • There was a report yesterday at Paris, that Lieu tenant Colonel Daftly had beep attacked by some as eassins as he was entering his house on the evening of Thursday last, and that his life was io danger from tae wounds he received. His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester left Thoulouse on the 26th,and proceeded on his tf.ay to• wards the South. The action of calumny brought by M. Le Vicomte ;3e Chapetlelaine against the authors of the Minerre, bar been postponed for a fortnight, on the request of M. Dupin, the Advocate, his rime being absorb ed by the affair of Doumere. There remained only the private action against the authors of the Genres .IVormandes, and against the Sieur Prestal, seller of a two-penny pamphlet, when M. Clareau, the de fender of Prestal, raised a difficulty. This person, and seven of his companions who had sold the pam phlet in the streets without a licence, have been ar rested within these few days. Prestat is confined at St. Denis. Mr. Oman observed he should be transferred, that he might be present at the trial. The Court bas in consequence postponed this cause to Wed nesday. The affair of the Lettres Normandes has been deferred to the same day. M. ltoussialle had already commenced his pleadings for M. de Chape tdelaine, but the Defendant, M. Foollon, remarked that a part of the articles censured as calumnious were not his, but M. Leon Thiessee, his fellow labourer. The Tribunal then ordered that between this and Wednesday the Sieur Thiesse sheibld be made a Defendant in the action. French Funds.—Five per Cents 79 t '23 c.—Bank Stock 1622 f. 50 c. Triune", stmemsta 8, 111$. .1 (sr/ From the spirit so justly awakened end manifested in ; Ir.land against the Window Tax, the effects of which are most conspicuously calamitous and irritat. ing, we have reason to believe that the repeal of that odious impost will be one of the first subjects to be considered in the new Parliament; and as that topic cannot but suggest the benefits 'which the British Peopie ought now to derive from a general state of, peace and improved revenue, we may be to!erOY correct in supposing that it will be the first *cps stance that will try their real temper. If we may judge from the Meetings held on this subject, Peti' lions from every part and parish of Ireland will bet ready for presentation the first day that the House of Commons assembles. This is what the People ought to do—let the sense of the nation be unequivocally declared on this, as well as other grievances, and let the veil that covers the iniquity and the melancholy consequences of taxation be removed—let the ap palling picture of a nation's suffering+ be exhibited to the eyes of its oppressors till even the Ministers of cruelly startle at the deformity of their system. — Peace has now been a visiter of our shores for up wards of three years, and yet imposts of the most oppressive nature are continued, in order to pay the wegea of profligacy and corruption, and the interest of the debt contracted in supporting the di vine right of Kings, controlling the choice of a free and enlightened nation in the exercise of its un doubted right of choosing its own form of Govern. ment and its own Governor, and in restoring Louts Ole Desired, FERDINAND the Beloved, the POPE, awl the Inquisition. For these laudable purposes, to maintain such worthy and ennobling objects, a sys tem of tuition is continued upon the British People, which is injurious to health, prosperity, and na. tional character. The Legacy Duty, a most inqui slave tax, end baneful in its effects, and the Window Doty, that most hurtful and disgraceful of all im posts, are still enforced with unremitting severity— severity which it is acknowledged has produced and fostered a fever of a most fatal description in Ireland, and which undoubtedly militates greatly against the health of the inhabitants of this part of the kingdom. Whet reflections strike the mind, when viewing many of the otherwise beautiful man sions in the country disfigered by the effects of this odious tax! Instead of that light aspect and free access of air which is so desirable, if not absolutely necessary, in large towns, there are many dark rooms and blank walls ; and this evil has become so general, through the long continuance of the tax, that the mind has insensibly become, in some measure, reconciled to it. The real Patriot, however, as he looks on these marks of desolation, regards them as so many monuments to warn men of the evils of war, and so many badges of the disgraceful slavery which the People have been, and do still, labour under to Ithe faction which has stained the glory and ruined the prosperity of this abused country. Did the House of Commons present a true picture of the minds of the People of Great Britain, these op pressive taxes would be abolished in the first week after the Parliament assembled, and we hope even in its present corrupt state, a strenuous attempt will be made to procure a repeal. BAVARIA, AUG. 27.—8 y accounts from Turkey, it appears that important events are expected there. The greands for these apprehensions are, the nume. root fires which have palely occurred at Constanti nople, and the fermentation that prevails smog tbs Janissaries. The three principal Pachas of Janine, of Egypt, end of Aleppo, have shaken off all dependence upon the Porte, except in mere form. ViENNA, AUG. 24.—M. de Cevallos, the Spanish Ambassador, has, by order of his Court, transmitted to the Chancery, a Memoir relative to the occupation of Pensacola by the United States. It is, supposed that the Spanish Ministers, accredited to other Courts, have it in charge to make the same committal cation The most important notice in the arrivals from the Continent (consisting of French Papers to the sth, and Flanders and Frankfort Journals), is that M. CEvAi.t.os, the Spanish Minister at Vienna, has presented a Memoir to the Austrian Government relative to the seizure of Pensacola by the United States. The same, it was understood ) would be dose by all the Spanish Ambassadors to the several Courts at which they are accredited.— It thus appears *bat the Court of Madrid is resolved to press the subject of its disputes with America into the discussions of the European Cabinets ; but the decision of the PRVIDENT of the United States in re. gard to the restoration of Florida, may set that ques tion at rest, unless the Powers are very, quarrelsome. ly disposed. It may occur to FERDINAND'S Allies to enable him, by a supply of German mercenaries, to keep possession of Florida, if it shall be restored ; bar will America consider this sort of interference a fulfilment of her Treaty with Spain ? The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordinance, giving the King's sanc tion and authority to the Savings Bank at Paris.— One misfortune after another falls upon the bankers here. M. David Isaac Armstein, a Jew of consider able eminence, has attempted to make away with himself, in consequence of the difficoltieo to whichte found himself reduced. The money received is to be invested, as with us, in Government Stock; and the interest of the de posits is to be computed at the end of every month, and added to the capital. The object of this plea of yoking the poor and all classes, who contribute to these banks int* the support of `Government is obvious. The tendency of the prin ciple may be good, but that is supposing the Gove►n. ment to be always good also—if the Public are thus to be systematically connected with the ruling Power, land their private property to depend oo the Govern. beet •We Vrail‘k 9 ;" _1)1 t • ~.-~, viwgwwl • 7 ~~ ~. - • ::.: 71` !1 ' 4 . r • ) I A