The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-04-15 00:00:00

• . _ , • mss+ _ 4ir ~, PRICE OF STOCKS TUI Bank 'zinrk 3 per Cent Ite,l, lip j 80jo 3 per ('en 112 8114 con.nk for Arc. • t, s2 Bl jA 4 per Cent. 98} 98 9ii LONDON: WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 11118. 46 The career of your tabours is opened : the Nii 'doter of the Interior will ley before you the state of _ the Atlministratioh of the kingdom. You will be made atquaintml with the Projects of Laws which *All he the subject If yob, rielibevatiot s : the object 'of then( is progreo.sive amiliorkti to. 'the improve. vrient of the Pablic Finsecea requires knowledge, which only time and a due appreciation of the re• sources of tour Government can effect. The Con stivotional form of G.,tertiment will be gradually P. Vied to id out. of the Adtainivration. The &pin moot of Justice will anon be firmed: proposals re lathe to the Civil and Penal Legislation will hi laid . before you. I wiH readily believe that when you esamine throw with po ing attention, you will !oak, laws destined to ensure the most valuable bles eines, namely, security of persons cud properly, and - freedom of opinio n . ' As I cannot he always among you I have left !Ilion a lowlier, my confidential friend, who from our . t.narliest sears has been my inseparable companion...—. I have ceofided pour army to him. As the deposi • tory el my sentiments and my rare for you, he has exerted himeelf to fulfil his task. By his care this \ army. already so rich in glorious recollections and e'werlike qualities, has acquired, since he has been at -its head, all the habits of order and regularity which bleats be obtained only during peace, and prepare the 'l...soldier for his true situation. " One of your worthiest veterans is my Repro ' eentetive among you, become grey under your stand. • .arda and a steady partaker of your' . adversity and -prosperity, he has 'sever ceased to give proofs of his .attachment to the country. Experience has fully jus.. t Allied my choice..- " Notwithstanding my exertions the Iloilo under which you had to labour are not, perhaps, all repair ed. It is, however, in the nature of things : w hat iligOod thrives but slowly, end perfection is unattain. able by human we Arms. 66 REFNESENTATIMS OF THE KINGDOM olt POLAND, • 66 Elevate yourselves to the height of your desti. nation. You are called upon to give a great exam. ple to Europe, whose eyes are fixed upon " Show yner contemporaries, that the liberal in. stitutions whose ever sacred principles it is sought to confound with those destructive doctrines which, in - our days. have threatened the social system with a dreadful catastrophe, are no dsngernos illusion ; but if they are sincerely carried into effect, and are directed to an object usersi to humanity, are per. fectly compatible with order, and that they produce, 'in common accord, the true welfare of nations.— 'Henceforth it is for you to prove Ibis great and as. 'briery truth. May harmony and concord prevail in your Assembly,: may dignity, calmness, and mo. aderation characterize your deliberations. Guided solely by a love to your country, purify your opi felons ; make them independent of all private and ex. tiusive interests; express them with simplicity and flankne‘s, and avoid the seductiveness which may often accompany fluency in speaking ; lastly, may the sense of paternal friendship which the avitse Lawgiver has prescribed to us all, never forsake you. In this manner your Assembly will obtain the app'obation of the country, anti the general e3teetn which such a one will ever enjoy, when the Itepre. sentatises of a free nation do not suffer the exalted character with which they are invested to degenerate. 66 FIRST OFFICES OF THE STATE. SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND DEPUTIES. 44 I have expressed my thoughts to you ; I have ebown you your duties. The result of your labours will show me what the country may expect in future from your attachment to it, as well as from your good sentiment towards me ; end whether faithful to my resolutions, I can further extend what I have al. ready done for you. Let us thank Him, who alone has power to enlighten Princes, to render nations b re thren, soil to spread over them blessings of love and of peace; let us implore Him to bless and pros per your %wk." DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 5 per Cent. Nits" , IMil* India lion& 9i 97 p stock 438 IM Ann. 2i)i Exchequer Bills - TUE STATESMAN. The Funds experienced a farther elevation this forenoon. The Three per Cents. at one time had reached 82; at the time of our quotation ; they were floctoating between 81f. 811, 811. Ministers and the Royal Conclave, whose private interests they *ere so forward to advocate, without the slightest reference to the condition and ability of the People, have, in spite of all their Closet Coun• cils end Secret Parliaments, got into a most awk ward and ridiculous predicament ; but it is far from such a disagreeable one as their measures would have tended to plunge the country into, had their wishes met with a ready adoption. The Public have seen with what eagerness they would have availed them selves of the absurd custom of complying with the wishes of Royalty, without allowing a single day to pass i►► examination of the propriety of such com- pliance, in order to lay ground for the most ex. traordinary demands ever made upon a burthetted and impoverished People, by attaining an Address of Thanks and Congratulation from their Repre sentative., for what? deigning to extort further enormous sums from this abused Nation, to feed and entourage the most barefaced extravagance! The practice of thus expressing respect for the Throne, was so Imperative, that the postponement for a single ni4ht of the Address in reply to the Message for pro. visions to at young love-sick Princes, wee a thing that could Got !whom : and would hue been is the L 4' ' 11 • 'I•A'TESMAN. highest * degree disrespectful to the person of the Rte GENT, and the other august Personages to whom the Message related. These worthy and conscientious Mi nisters have now, however, discovered, that a little de lay is neither a very sinful nor a disloyal proceeding. The notice of their alteration of project, equivoca (ion, and perplexity, in the Report of the proceedings, of last night, will amuse the Reader, if he can be amused with conduct so contemptible and disinge nuous in the Most responsible Members of the Go ' vernment. The disgusting propositions intended to be made, have met with such universal condemnation, that the proposers of them see the necessity of pausing for some happier moment or pressing them, or until another consultation sb be held today with the friends and originators o ese measures. In the House of Lords, last night, the Earl of LIVERPOOL moved to discharge the Order for the consideration of the Mes sage relative to the Marriages of the Dukes of CLA• BENCE and CAMBRIDGE, for the purpose of postpon ing it to this evening on account of " particular cir cumstances," which he did not think proper to slate, but which all who are aware of the ridicule and dissatisfaction with which the modest propositions in question have been received by all parties out of the circle of Court influence, are at no loss to compre hend. Lord HOLLAND perceiving the situation in which the House, as well as the Ministers, would be placed by this postponemrnt, and participating iu the general sentiment, moved an amendment precisely similar to that proposed by Mr. BROUGHAM, 'moiety, that the Address to the PRINCE RFGENT, PM - Wen the desire of the House to enable his Royal Highness to make suitable provisions for his brothers in marriage, consistently wills " the burdened state of the People of this country."—Tbis, we think, is a very fair ad. dition, and a proviso that ought to be coupled with an acquiescence in any Address upon such objects. It is a pity that etiquette should stand so much in the way of honest truth. It is not necessary, we pre. some, to go much about the bush in order to convey • meaning upon such questions. When Princes are so doll in comprehension, plain terms may be useful to their understandings. It may as well be declared at once that the Personages for whom these extravagant demands are made are already amply provided for, and that the sums they require ought not and cannot be granted by the country.' The avowal of such facts may not be gratifying to Royal ears, but few will quarrel with the truth of each assertions. The A men d men t was ultimately negatived, but it put the Ministers in possession of the senliments of the Rouse upon the topic of their conduct and the nature of the Message. In the Commons the same indecision was mani fested by Ministers in regard to the measure they had advised the PRINCE REGENT to communicate. We were early aware of the course they were to tike, and of the cause of it. On the previous night many i of their friends refused to vote either way ; but see ing them disposed to persevere in their injudicious views, and aware of the necessity of appearing, a I number of the Ministerial Members had actually de ! termined last night to aid in the defeat of the ' sneasure.—Lord CASTLEREAGH therefore propos ed the postponement of the Committee for tak ing the Address into consideration till to-day, whets he, no doubt, may be better prepared to re. treat with grace, or model his future plans so as to compass some part of his object. His Lord ship and his Colleagues could not, however, expect to get out of this mess without some censure and disgrace. Their vacillation accordingly gave occa• sion to some severe remarks on the conduct of Mini• strrs, and the situation in which the House was placed, so inconsistent with the ordinary proceed ings in Parliament, and the respect with which the Crown has hitherto been treated. But the most ex traordinary part of the Ministerial procedure is the ignorance assumed of the measure which was to be recommended, though it is well known that those who brought down the Message must have been aware of the measures which they were to recom mend, and that they had made communications of. them to the meeting of Members at the Minister's.— Mr. TIERNEY, however, supplied this defect of in formation, to the confusion of the ignorant Mini sters, and the astonishment of the House. The scheme as submitted at the 46 little Parliament," was what the French would call " superb," and certainly far beyond the reach of vulgar imaginations. The items are particularly worthy of being taken in connection with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S declara tions en the proposed repeal of a tax, the operation of which was proved to be working the ruin of thou sands, because from the existing pressure upon the nation be could not abandon it without imposing other burthens upon the People. They are highly illustrative comments upon the state of our finances in general. Who will say after such p►o positions, that the burthened state of the country is not considered with sympathy, or that economy es nut the study of our Princes? It was proposed for the Duke of CLARENCE an outfit of twenty thousand pounds, with such an increase of his income as shall make it forty thousand pounds a year. For the Duke of CUMBERLAND an outfit of twelve thousand pounds, with such an addition to his income, as shall render it thirty thousand pounds a year.— Similar outfits and annual additions were proposed for the Duke of KENT and the Doke of CAM. BRIDGE, making, in the whole, as annual addi tion of fifty-eight thousand pounds a year to the sharps upon the taw s and an addition s for the pre• . sent year, of a hundred and fourteen thousand pounds. The taxes being already unequal to the es• penditure, every new charge is, of coarse, equivalent to a new tax, or to some part of it, and this will be equally true, although a redaction to an equal amount should be made in the Windsor Establishment; for that reduction may be made, without these addition., and, if so made, It will certainly not restore the ba. lance between income and expenditure. The subject of these strange proposals will be again resumed In both Houses of Parliament this evening. Its tho.l mean time, accounts have been ordered to be pared, to show the several incomes derived by these Royal Dukes from their respective pensions, and their military, naval, and other appointments. We have often heard of the pride of Princes, and hue seldom desired to see it manifested, but upon each occasions the use of a little dignified honest pride might be commendable. We are really estop , oished that the feelings of the personages, in whose names these claims are put forth, do not revolt at the ignoble course pursued ; for can there be a plainer acknowledgment that the measure is im proper, than that Ministers dare not offer it in a direct and manly manner to the sense of Parliament,' but are obliged to have recourse to the most sneaking and onronstitutional methods for its introduction; and when these fail, shuffle off by delays equally on. constitutional, from introducing it at all, or at least till fresh provision is made for its gracious reception? Is this ■ situation in which Princes ought to stand ? We blush for such nobility of sentiment ! and think poverty honourable in comparison with it. The Paris Papers to the 14th have reached is.— The Chamber of Deputies is still engaged In dis cu,sing the articles of the Budget. Two Special Committees have been appointed by the Chamber of Peers to examine and report upon the Project re specting the Bank, but the nature and objects of this measure have not yet been allowed to transpire. The conferences between the Duke of WELLING. TON and the President of the Commission of Liquida tion were continued, according to the Papers, but nothing is yet stated as to any final arrangement.— The private letters, however, assert, that the business of the liquidations was considered as almost finish ed, and represent the Duke of WELLINGTON as being on the point of departure for this country.— The KING, it is said, removes to St. Cloud in June, to remain there about five weeks. A Niadrid article states, that of the Russian squadron at Cadiz, only one ship of the line and one frigate are in a fit state to put to sea, the rest of the squadron standing in need of considerable repairs. By the Ilambargh Mail we find, that the Emperor ALEXANDER opened the Diet at Warsaw on the 26th alt. with a speech, which we have inserted, intended to revive the spirit of the Polish nation, and to inspire them with confidence in the views of their new Go vernment. The King of Sweeter: was immediately after his Curoctition at Stockholm to proceed to Drootheim to be crowned King of Norway. -.01.--- PIRACY. The Petite Auguste, arrived at Havre from Cadiz; Ives boarded about eight !Popes from that port by a boat's crew, consisting of 20 armed men, an . a was plundered of 19 barrels of cochineal and some dollars. The boat appeared to belong to Cadiz. The Russian Grand Dnke Micitet. is 4oming - to England by the way of Vienna and Munich. His Imperial Highness was expected to be nt the former place about the beginning of this month. He has a good help on his way—a credit of 200,000 roubles on a banking-house at Vienna. We find, by accounts from Gibraltar, dated 21st March, that positive information has been received , there that the plague is raging at Orise, and that the greatest apprehensions are enteriaineci of its shortly extending its ravages into the Morocco States, as it is ascertained that the crew of a man of war, presented by the Emperor of Monocco to thirDey of A MIENS, on returning overland into the Morocco dominions, has introduced the plague there, one having died, an d others left on the road with that disorder. Accounts were received yesterday, from Madeira, of the death of the lion. JOHN l'eacev.t., eldest son of lord AKDBRI, en the lath of lest mouth. Mrs. HANNA u DA ova is Ise dangerously ill, as to be given over by her physicians. Tug NEW COMET.--On the 3d of March, et 14 hours 35 min. mean time at Bremen, Dr. OLBERS found the right ascension of the Comet to by 302 deg. 36 min. and the north declination 24 deg. 38 min.— On the 13th of March, at 14 hours SS min. the right ascension was 302 deg. 10 min. and the north decli nation 31 deg. 38 min. The Comet resembles a small, pale, ill-defined misty spot, rather brighter in the middle. without soy perceptible nucleus, entirely without a tail, and not to be seen bet by the aid of a good telescope. Its apparent magnitude it on the increase, because the Earth and the Comet are ap• proaching nearer to each other; bat it is not likely that it will be visible to the nak ed eye even at the end of April, when its light will be the strongest. We shall be able to follow its course, till in the month of May its south declination hinders it from appearing above our horizon. It will proceed in its course between the Eagle and the Dolphin, through Mat tsons to the Archer. CORN P . :RULING*, APRIL 15.—Several cargoes of foreign Wheat have arrived since Monday, which oc casioned dull sale for that article, what was disposed of was at a decline of 2s. per quarter.—We bad a large supply of Barley both English and foreign, for which the demand was very trifling, and our prices have fallen fell 2s. per quarter on that of our own growth, end Is. per quarter on foreign.—!a Peas, V•eanh lad Oats Uwe i$ so alteration. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVER MEPOING, ISIS. TUESDAY, Arms. 14. Sweepstakes of lbilgs each. h. ft. roles, &t. 71b. D. M. Those as of worked snares or by untried stallissek lowed Mb. if both 61h. Mr. Watson's colt by Ciliate'. 81 1 .71 b. Lord G. H. Cayendesh's filly by Middletherpe, 7.1. 1711). Mr. Payee's Ally by Sella), B.t. Sib. • ' 6t04 on Mr. Pay. oe's . Sweepstakes of 100 gs each. h. ft. cults, Sit. 71b. Mlles, Lc. 411 D. M. Mr. Goddard's chestiest colt by Dotterel Lord Sufbeld's hay 611, be S•ircerer Mr. Rush's bay tiLy by Or. 5 to 4 apt Mr. tioddard's chewiest colt. Sweepstakes of 100 g. each. h, ft. for colts. Ac. rising 3 1 , old, and not ,eugaged So the Derhy. Oaks, N ew m ar t" , July Stokes ; colts, list. sib. 011ies, Sit. Dn. Ab. M. Lord Itous's bay enitLepos Mr. Tlanrohein. Brother to Cwrw Mr. Haffeudeo's black colt Coiner • 7 to 4 on Loth. r to Cwrw. Sweepstakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. colts, bit. 71b. fillies, Sse.44 It. M. Lord Roues grey colt Zenith Mr. floruvold's chesout colt Mol•ern Mr. Crockford's colt by Dick Ahdteof • Mr. Aodrcw's filly by * Walton 7 to 4 on Malvern. The °when& Stakes of 500 each, h. ft. D. I. Mr. Frroch's Fugeti‘e, nod, 8,1. lolb. - Mr. Watson's lag-Orville, S-srs old, 7st. 121 b. Mr. Wy unhook's Wanderer, 6.3 rs tad, B.t. 10;11. 6 !CO loot Fitt-Otvi.le. 7to 1 4.4 t Wanderer. . NEW FINANCIAL PLAN. • The Chancellor of the Eschequer's pion of Mows to which we have already alluded, ova communicate officially yesterday, in the City. The folio wing are it chief particulars : PLAN FOR EXCHANGING S PER CENT. CONSOLS OR REDUCED FOi A PER CEN r. Aurora. Every lastme►iber to transfer 1001.CumoIs orßeduced, and poi lit in money. The delimit of the money to he 11. per teat. and t.e r.mainde in 10 monthly paytnents. di4roue , t I. per rein. The deposit of Stuck to he 151. p. r re t, on the :18thafdpri to shed, h of alay. and 851. pore. in. before 9d of J nat. Tosobscriber. of 50,00.11. and as p ward*. the depotit ur be 151 per cent. on the 28th ur 29th of April, and 851 per rent. befur 27th of November. Every Subscriber to have the option of funding Eire eget Rills to double the amount of money subset ibed by 1% m, an so receive far every Wit. Exchequer Bills 611. Consols .or 641. Reduced. if ten millions of money be pulneribed. no further funding I liaebequer Bills before .st of Marc:4lBl9, x aoy late excedm 1451, pei cent, and former Subscribers to bare the prefeinia The length and complicated nature of the Prole( rendered it, on first reading, by no means intelligibl to the Brokers, and considerable clamour took place Questions were asked, which Mr. [lase was not pre pared to dnswer, and he made his bow to the Ball and Bears amidst the universal roar. The first irs pression on the minds of the [louse was, that th Project would not succeed, and the Consols drop! but some parties began to make purchases to an im mense amount, and the Agents of the Member, wli in his place in the House of Commons so seasonabl changed his opinion and vote on the Leather Tai subscribed for a som of 650,000 Consols in the pre posed plan, and of which plan that Gentleman is tl supposed author. This set the House on the qui rith Consuls were carried up shove 81, and a sum wolo three millions were subscribed in the course of th day. ' What the result will be of the cool and calcolaiino judgment of the monied men, when they shall bast hod time to reflect on the subject, AP know not—bun we conceive it will be difficult for the Chancellor o the F.achegner to reconcile it with the principles o economy. 111 a expectation is—that 100,000,000 Consols and Reduced will be subscribed, upon whir 11,000.0001. of money would he paid by the holder as an additional loan, and 42 millions of Escheque Bilk be funded, making an actual loan of 33,000,000 —but it is not to be limited to shit sum. It may go t 400 millions of 3 per Cents. upon which 44 million of money would be advanced, and 88 millions of Er chequer Bills (if_thete were so many) might be writte in, at a price which would not make the Consols a 78; since for every 1001. they are to have 1281. Consols sod Reduced. It is net likely, however that even the former sum will be sultacribed ; bu should it he so—it would take so much out of th marketable stock (on which. the Commissioners la; out the money daily) as to make the remaining Con soli and Reduced rare in the market, and therelt; it is.thought the price would advance, so as to mak an opeolog for the conversion of the Fives. Thi is a most sanguine eapectetion, and is not likely t be realized. There _will be, Tues required to meet the net Loan, to whatever extent it may be carried; an thus much the Mißister's plan, or rather the plan c his Parliamentary adviser, declares the alarming fact that after the third year of Peace he requires a Loa of thirty-three millions of money—and so much is t, 165 added to the National Debt! ill Gardens wets 'Melds'? knocked dow for 28,500 guineas. Yesterday evening, about half past seven o'clock an Alarming fire broke out at the house otNI r. Hipp a silk, hat manufacturer, in Webber row, Great Sur rey•street, Blackfriars-rosd, which, from the tsso of a plentiful supply of water (owing to some alters tious being made sit the road near the Cobourg Them trey, threatened at one time to prove very destructis to the adjoining houses. The time was so rapi , i that it was with the greatest difficulty two infaots one only sus, and the other ten months old, wort saved from the devouring element, by being throws out of the window. It is reported that two childret have fallen victims to this calamity ; it is true the two are missing, but we trust it will turn out the they have been taken care of by some friendly neigh hour. The fire happened in consequence of sum preparation used in the manufacture of hats 'intim boilNl over. It is stated that there were manilla( tured goods in the house to the amount of 5001. nt part of svhith was insured. The family consisted o persons who support themselves by their daily labour • MEI). Ou the 9th inst., James 1,105p. , n, Esq. F. R. S. Director 0 the Machinery of ors Maiesty'. Mott. On the lthh , the Rev. Sir William Henry Clerk*, Herr. Rect r or Bury, Lancashir.• . nged 65. Henry D4ricum4e, Eq. of Copgrore, Knaresburough, in the 90th year of his age, On the sth inst., at Paris, in bee 14th year, I..torm Maris wood daughter of Joseph Bullock, &q., bite Commissar] General in tne West Indien t. .Nl)(iN : Lid itithan;4i oy D 4orscc, .1 ok , STari>♦!t4lll Of FIcC, biu. t, Salisbur}•court, Fleet•streec -~ ~ . 1 Y~'~"z"~'~1!7~IC ,~ . ,~ i ..:. , .11F•` - ^ spa;; T~