The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-08 00:00:00

IIIP" -- aatioas, that Russia, Austria, or Prossia shoOld gain a greater asesodancy in Europe than each posatises. an insuperable barrier, is thus interposed between Naples and annihilation ; did it not materially aAct the ifitereete of England and France ? Did it not ag grandise others to the danger of themselves? We do not believe that there is so much, virtue or so much smand polity in the councils a either, as to prompt them to interfere on behalf of Naples. The KING of the two 'Sicilies, like most other KINGS, has deceived by evil c o unsellors, but truth has at length reached his ear. iVithout maintaining _with his subjects, a dangerous conflict ; by which he must inevitably have been hurled from his throne, and de prived of power; he has wisely consented to repair past error►, ass.ist in the regeneration of Naples, and thus prevent a repetition of political crime. He has h4d the repttarion of possessing 14 incerity of heart, ge ner.oity of sentiment and much prudence, most of his i subjects idolised him, while they detested the mea-1 so: •, s o f his Canneila, possessing . these advantages, he will not readily become the dupe of artifice, or con sent, at tie imatigatioa of crowned swindlers, to ab jure that Cati;iitatiou which he eras sane*? remised • to maintain. We shall semi Issweter be enabled to give our Readers the result of the anticipated Conference. If the Kies of Narties should be persuaded to annul the constitution of his country, he is just fit for the company he is about to'enter. If be refine to annul it, under what pretence will the Allied Sovereigns dare to make war upon the Neapolitan people? UN. an article extracted from a fflinisterial paper into one of oar other culnums, it will be perceived, that the amount of the Revenue for the preceding quarter, has been ascertained. Instead, however, el a clear statement being given of the produce of that perild, or of the competency of the • oduce to liqui date the current expences during term incurred, or any data being furnished by w we could fairly compare-the gross amount of that router with that of the corresponding quarter of the preceding year,' a ,Callow pretence is set forth thriLike accounts for I the palter were not completely made up, though it is affirmed with anblushing inconsistency by those who m.,".r the statement, th.it they have the satisfaction of hilowing that the produce of the Revenue fur the year 1820 has exceeded that of the year 1819, by a sam of about 2,300,M0/. The very preface with which they endeavour to recommend their state ment it sufficient to betray its unfairness; and the first Shy we take to exindoe its contents completely dis ctuses the ingglinrhand by which it has been fabri cated. " The produce of the revenue for the year I tilo has exceeded that of the year 1819, by a sum of about 2,300,0001."! Hut how was this excess obtain- ed? The statement very craftily withholds from view • the important fact, that for fhe revenue of the year MO, new taxes hail been provided which were calcu ' lated to produce the stun of 3,190,000/., and that daring that year these taxes were in full operation. What a state of our national finances for a topic of congratulation! In point of fact it manifestly appears that in lieu of having " the satisfaction" of knowing that there is an excess of 2,300,000!., we 'have the mortificatisn to learn that there is an actual deficiency according to the estimate of the CHANCELLOR of the EICHEVER of a stint no lens than t 490,000/. This is precisely that specie! of financial operation which 'footer:, fur many years anticipated, in his paradoxical sentiment, "More taxes and less revenue!" On entering into details, we meet with farther evidence of artifice in glassing the account. The revenues of the Custom are acknowledged to have been about 300,000/. less than in the precedingyear ; hut this deficit is imputed falsely, to the transfer of some articles to the excise. I'he seduction of our exports, as our merchants' books can testify, affords a genuine and conclusive reason for the diminution. As fur the great increase of the Malt duty, so greatly vaunted, though it happen this year to make so great a figure in the account, that cannot be taken as the average income on the tax. In the previous year the Maltsters were well known to have restrained their operations on account of this new duty; end this year the cheapness of Barley and of Hops ha+ occasioned a demand for malt much more than is likely soon to recur. The Aesessed Taxes having been propped last year by the manceuvre of a composition, has evidently obtained a lift ; but the Post Office, the index of internal as well as of foreign commerce, has manifestly experienced a consider able decline. On the whole, the statement now before as is, to every one who feels for his country's welfare, littte calculated to afford " satis faction." Yet, this is the condition of our national Sauces in the fifth year after peace, while other countries are rapidly recruiting their resources, and placing themselves is an attitude of command which oar growing weakness sort forbid us to dispute. Sir Charles liampfylde, Bart. High Sheriff for So- I mersetshirr, with a noble spirit deserving the highest Praia'. has des+ roved, for the present, the petty yet cruel orders of the Magistrates against Mr. Hunt, of which that gentleman tatty complained in the Court al King's Bench. Sir Charles, u soon as he was in fwated of the real state of the case, west to Ilchester gaol. and there said, " I am High Sheriff for the comity : this is my gaol, and Mr. Hunt is in my ens tody and recollect the officers of this gaol are to take their orders from me. !dark me well. Let none of Mr. Hunt's friends be °hornet's' but let all male and particularly his female, friends have free access to him. If you obstruct any lady, and particularly the ladies of Mr. Hunt's family, it shall be at your peril. It is quite enough for Mr. Hutt to suffer imprisonment, without any other punishment: It was cruelty itself to culotte him from his female Meads. 1 did not wish to pe placed is the office of High Sheriff; but as long as I hold that office, two masa or set of mos skull interfere with my power."—(Lech meregry.) ♦ - sr ) • PUBLIC MSSI . INO Ar Immediately after the meeting requisition was renewed, requesting _ venc the meeting in some place sufficiently capacious, to contain the balk of the inhabitants. The requisV tion was handed aci the Mayor on Thursday, by a deputation from the requisitionists, when his worship stated that he would give them an answer on Saturday. At eleven o'clock on the latter day the deputation accordingly waited upon the Mayor for his answer, when he politely declined calling another meeting; but declared, that he should not offer any obstruction, if the requisionists should deem it advisable to call a meeting uu their own responsibility. A counter-requi• sition was prepared, and signed by 120 gentlemen In a few hours, requesting the Mayor not to accede to the requisition which had been presented to him on Thursday. He received the deputation very politely; and informed them, that he would give his answer when the original requisitionists waited on him for his determination respectini.- the calling of another town's meeting. The following is a copy of the coun ter-requisition: " We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of I Liverpool, understanding that a requisition has been presented to your worship, requesting that you will Loan a public meeting of the inhabitants of this town, .11 . 14 held in some place sufficiently capacious to con tain thp bulk of the inhabitants, for the same purposes as the one convened in the Tems44 on Wednesday last; and feeling confident that the real sense of this great town cannot be ascertained by such a measure, and that it can only tend to produce animosity and to hazard a breach of the public peace, beg leave ne express oar hope, that you will be pleased to decline complying wLls the prayer of that requisition.— (Liverpool Courier.) • (EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIVERPOOL JAY. 5.) THE LIVERPOOL COURIER. Of Wednesday the 3d January, contains no less than seven dense colums of matter, with a view to prove that black is white, and white no colour at all; in plain English prose, that the eltra-ministerie lets, Fad an overwhelming majority at,. the late meeting : and, as a Panne of their CONFIDENCE in the strength of their adherents, the Editor has heel' so silly as to , publish a counter-requisition delivered in by the ULTRAS ' , wherein they prayed that no further meet ing might be granted, on the flimsy and ludicrous plea, that the sense of the town could nut be eager &lard by ageneral meeting of its inhabitants. In this veil attempt, the vengeful beings *hewed their fears and confessed their weakness. No truth is more evident than that the corruptitmists, trembling at the near approach of an utter and irreparable defeat, mustered a band of wretched dependents and brutal ruffians, and sent them, at least two Aonrs prior to the doors being opened, to blockade the entrances. I have been assured by persons who were present, that at first, the fellows who stationed themselves in the ave nues, obstructed every person who could not give a certain sign ; and that this continued till the pressure became so great, that it forced the whole of those in spectors away into the body of the hall. The immense pains the ghostly Editor has taken to varnish over a foul and atrocious deed, shews his etmaciousness of the deep disgrace which the naked truth must inflict upon the fabricators of mock-Liver pool Addresses. Their means embraced iatiwidutioa and intoxication. A sea-port town like this, has a vast proportion of shipwrights, caulkers, painters &c. in its population, and these men, in past times, used to overawe all the other inhabitants. They are no* partly muzzled, partly subdued by the better execution of the law : but when occasion requires the assistance of the veriest ruffians of that rough class of useful men, there are persons who know where to find, and hole to excite their fury. On the occasion in question, a formidable phalanx was set in motion, who acted by signals privately given and perfectly understood. it has been asserted that they carried concealed bludgeons, and if the Mayor had not dissolved the meeting as he did, these wretches would have fallen upon the peace able and TRULT LOYAL part of the meeting. From very good authority I have been informed that a public-house in Edmund-street, kept by one S —s, a large party of the rioters were regaled with ale and liquors, who stated that they were paid their wages as if they had been at their ordinary work ; and had each of them half-a-crown, and, to use their own ex pressive slang, "a bodyfull." The New Year commences very gloomily in this town. Poverty and misery are desolating thu lower ranks of the inhabitants; and thousands of poor house-keepers are rapidly sinking under the weight of taxation. The workhouse is said to ay. rum,. Un happily, the frost is set in intensely severe, by which a vast number of persons will be thrown out of work. In the manufacturing districts, owing to the very low price of products and wages, the condition of the weavers and spinners is improved; hut in the villages and agricultural districts, such is the depteciation of produce, that those who have any property, are seeing it daily waste away to pay rent and taxes. What is worse, there is no prospect of amendment except by reducing the interest of the public debt, or /*eerily fazing t.e funds. Such arc the effects of Mr. Peel's celebrated bills to enable the Bank to pay in specie! Tna RIXIWID RiQttslTton.--••We stated in our last, that, after the meeting convened by the !stunt, which was dissolved in consequence of the clamorous uproar we then described, the requisition was renewed, and a public meeting suggested in some large place. The Mayor appointed Saturday, at eleven o'clock for delivering his answer. The Ministerial pant in the interval, betrayed the greatest alarm at the prospect of on open meeting, where peace might be preserved by the proper officers, and where discussion would certainly put down both them and their politics.— They accordingly got np a counter-requisition on Fri clan they c.mvassed for signatures in the Charity Hall-room in the evening ; on Saturday morning they were seen running about to the shops and Aces in Castle-street and the neighbourhood ; in some plates, we are credibly informed, they used the Mayor's name 14 under the rose," as if a counter-requisition would he agreeable to hint ; and at la■t they presented it to his Worship, signed ►y about one hundred and twenty names. At eleven o'clock, on Saturday, n deputation from • • _ waited aped the Mayor to receive Mayer received the solidus's id Amer, aged said he had just received a dapiladsa4 who presented to him a counter-requisi dos. Ms bad Wormed that deputation, that his own mind dictated to him the decision he had formed en the irobjeet, and that no individual should know that decisiao, until they the requisitionists, arrived. With respect to the counterrequisitiol, he bad pat it into his pocket, without reading it, or homing whose names were attached to it. Such was his view of counter-re quisition. To the gentlemen then present he must say, that be bad given to the requisition the most serious consideration ; hut, with al, possible respect fur them ; and the requisitionists at large, he must decline to con veselitheroposed meeting in consequenee of what oc curred the other day. He had a decided objection to preside out of the Town-hall, and certainly the Court- i room as not large enough for a meeting of that de scription, being liable, as he plainly saw, to the opt.- ratio*, of trick. He bad suspected on Wednesday that there bad been a scheme for disturbing the meet ing, and he now knew that such a scheme was prac tised. Although after what had occurred he should decline presiding at a second meeting, he should have no objection to allow the requisitionists the use of the Town-hall, where their own chairman might bat be could not see how stratagem, and even vio lence, could be avoided in that limited space. How ever, in withholding his assent from the present appli tattoo, M would assure the gentlemen, that he would nothin any respect stand in the way of any meeting irhieh they might arrange elsewhere. The Deputation then withdrew, and the requi-i -tionists have fixed upon holding a public meeting in the Tennis-court, on Wednesday next.—(Lieerpool Mererry.) di " -----111111 r — mr ilrE ERPOOL: re q uisitionists I sawn. The r of Wednesday Ilse the politest alum ri g the Mayor to eon- clotsulodos. wise, TRULY LOYAL AIRRTLIVO OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF LICHFIELD. 4 -.11100. Ate attempt of the senior Bailiff of this city and his Mends, to prevent a Public Meeting of the Inha bitants, and to silence all free discession has pr0e...1 abeartive. A requisition, signed by one hundred and thirty-seven inhabitant householders of the city, was prowled to the senior Bailiff requesting him to call a meeting to consider of a " loyal and dutiful Address to the King. on the recent conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, and of an Address to the Queen to congra ,tulate her Majesty on the abandonment of the Bill of aand Penalties, by the House of Lords, against onour and dignity." To this requisition the lol g answer was sent to one of the tientletuen oho presented it : Lichfield, Dec. 28, 1820. Rev. Sir —Having taken into consideration the Requi sition which you left with me; I feel it my duty to tie. cline tailing the Meeting proposed. The Requisition has two objects in view ;—lst.—" A Loma and Dutiful Address to his Majesty on the recent conduct of his Majesty's Ministers," and secondly an " Address to the Queen." With respect to the first oh -1 jest, 1 beg to remind you that a Dutiful and Loyal Ad dress has been already unanimously adopted. by a nu merous and most respectable Public Meeting, held under the authority of the Bailiffs. lam bound to con sider this Address as the recorded opinion of the Public, sat is my duty not to promote any measure, that may be Me to it. With respect to the ascend objets, an Address to the Queen, you must Le aware that it is ~teary to the wishes and seatiorests of slit most en. qhtesed and respectable part of the behabitonts,.and Neriglore cameo t üblam recut:ragmen:from tho Barlijs. i , I am, Rev. Sir, • Your very Obedient, and Humble Servant. THOMAS WALTON, Sen. Bailiff. " The Rev. T. Harwood." The sleeting was called at the George Inn, on Thursday. James Ehorall Esq. the jun. Bailiff, was ttneni moss's' called to the Chair. Ile stated the objects of the meeting in a neat address. It hail a twofold ob ject —to prepare a loyal and dutiful address to bis Majesty on the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, and also a congratulatory address to her Majesty the Queen, on the abandonment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, instituted against her honor and dignity. That it woos very probable some difference of opinion might exist among them, teeny might feel disposed to coincide with one, and yet hesitate to sign the other. and some might think both altogether unnecessary and ill advised. He had therefore one circumstance to im presss upon them, that they would give to every indi vidual, whether his opinion coincided with their wishes or not, a fair and impartial hearing. Mr. Senesore then addressed the meeting, and after some excellent observations, he alluded shortly to the objects of the resolutions, and the addresses to be pro posed. The resolutions which were unanimously agreed to. were read separately to the meeting and proposed by the Rev. Thomas Harwood. Mr. Alderman STANLIEY who seconded the resole dons expressed his Loyalty to his Ki:.g and his seal sad ardour for the constitution in the warmest terms. The Addresses then founded upon the resolutions, were thee read and &greet! to with the loudest accla mations. A Poatcript of a Letter from Lichfield. dated Satur day, says, " a couple of Parsons, a late Surgeon, a Schoolmaster, and others are going round tha City by House Row, to get a protest against the meeting held at the George. The most indecent menaces are held to obtain the Eames of tradespeople." Where will these political maniacs stop ? The; are dtagging the country to the verge of Revolution. The Resole lotions at the George meeting are admirable. TORII CO► " ITT METING.—The intentions of the patriots of Yorkshire, respecting a County Meeting, appear, from the York Herald to be no longer doubt ful. The slight shades of difference swung the friends of the object being adjusted, the meeting we are assured, will yet be held. BRIDPORT.—An address has been lately privately got up here, which, after the most zealous canvass, obtained shout 270 signatures only, out of a population at least 17,000 or 10,000. It is needles. to remark that it contained the usual charges of impiety and die. affection, and that it was signed by almost all the clergy, and a great number of half•pay officers and ex , daunts. and others whose loyalty is usually proper liquid, to the eiseletnents they enjoy. ~~ • - • .MODERN DRAMA. ,• , assasur— . a Dartmouth, Jan. 2, int. On Wednesday last was performed at the Old Rot- , tenbourg Theatre, in this tett'', a new Political Farce, entitled, RoyalAddrees, or the Plot revived, which report attributes to the able pen of a geottensan of the Treasury. Notwithstanding its charitable object, and the very great palms taken by the managevs to fill the house, by posting and circulating bills of the play, invitation tickets, orders, irc.,no greater umber than forty-One persons, including performers, could be brought together—the perv•rse inhatitants, *Hedging in excuse, that their attachment to Royalty was mons pected, and the total destruction of their commerce by mis-gorerament and mock representaion—left them little relish for suet exhibitions ; The piece, however, it was pretended, went off with eclat, and each per former displayed a real and taledt proportioned to the liberality of the wages be enjoys. DRAIILTIS rinso24.ll. Clovernor or Dartmouth castle, Colonel of the Guides, aad patron proprietaire of the Bo rough, within the Cue tom-hunse and public eppointmenta, within the district of the Port Crown Parson of Stoken- 190/.per eon Alder man A. H. r. ham Croon Parson of Brix- SCOI. dittu. Alderman C. H. 60a. 4ilttr. Alio man R. H. ham Allier on the Collector- ship of Newfoundland Cornet and Paymaster dr tits Duides,and Corpo ration flanker Collector of the Customs at Dartmouth Tide Surveyor A Cnsto►r.-house Clerk, with expectation Landing Waiter 3001. ditto. Alderman H. H. uncertain, Alderman N. J. K. 330/.per ann. Alderman B. 120/. ditto. Hi, Brother. 70/. 11 is Ron. 1901. Candies' ends end Cherse parings, Atdersoar. N. R. Acting Town Clerk. Landing Surveyor of the Cu5t0m5........ SOO/. per ann. His Brother-in-ins. Vice-Admiral of Dart mouth. and a rider in P.'s and Q.'s Newfoundland . ascertain. Alderman it. Lieutenant-Governor of the Castle.. SM. per ann. M. W. Preventive 'pincer. with lOW. per ann. Captain H. Pension and half-pay Distributor of Hawker's Licences... Female Pensioner. Pa tron s mother ... 1001. per ann. lrrv. Dowater IT. Candle Snuffers, Scene Shifters, &c. by expectan's. Job bunters and converted Jacobins. Toad eating in a superior style to Grimaldi's Car•►.t tern, 'ovine. by a Labrador Chief ; and Caper cutting by his young triend. II; Father, OLYMPIC THEATRE. We were agreeably surprized on Saturday to observe Mrs. Cuarrinuor at this Theatre., in a pleasing little piece. called " Trelre Precisely." The plot consists of the successful endeavors of a Lady to secure a tickle Lover. Tu accomplish this, she assumes a variety of characters; and certainly for versatility of talent in this branch of theatricals, we do not think Mrs. Cnit- TIMLET second to any other actress of the day. We applaud the judgment of the Proplietor in his ongagestoesit of Mrs. CHATTINLEY ; and know not how to account for too amilect of are porton cams• necteol with the Winter ?kestrel; especially ;is We have not observed a soper-abundance of. •dent '.n their hoards in this particular line of acting. A Mr. Kowa(' miss went through the pat t of the kyr?. Althenglt we du not wish to say any thing ill-natured of this Urn 'lrwin, we beg to suggest to him that he might 1 1 110 better mode of shewiag the impatient lover than hat of mat! ig wry faces and scratching his lo Ad. SPORTING INTEbLIGENCE. NEWMARKFT OATLANDS. Age. et.lb. Age et.lb. TV VIDAY. —TIM CLIoi. Mr. Farrall's Vic- Mr. West'. Fitz-Or- toria .09 7 sills 8 8 II Champignon .4 Si 6 Captain Candid.... 0 14 10 Tiresies Shoveller Shrerkhorn ... Ermine Locksley 3 7 b Ranter Copeland Lord Jersey's c. by Charming Molly agd SlO W:lxy 3 7 3 Mr. West's Alpha.. 4 7 9 Mr. Jones's Abra 3 7 0 Mr. Chariton'sPhe- Ssrexesexv.—erc. CLASS. nix Tadig Little John ...... Mr. Dundes'aOrello 4 7 IS Mr. Prince's br. c Mr. Jones'e hr. c. by -Andnastan Stapleton Anti-Linilicen Lord 0. H. Coven- Lord Jersey's a. by din's ch. c. Tiger 37 10 Sootbeert 3 7 4 Canovn Mr. Stephens'. r... 3 7 U Moonraker 3 7 0 . Mester Henry .. 3 0 19 Arbutus TII I. RlD&V.—roar• CLAN. Allegro .11A R K Ell. CO It N -Excm A Nei, JAN. . --Th eft. was & tolerably large supply of Wheat this morning by land eartinge samples frnto Essex and Kent; but the Navigation Out being yet free. very little business was Jose, and rites may be considered the same as last week ; which is also the cue with Barley, not having had any arrivals since this day sr'nnight. Beans are is. per z e e= de wet ; hat Peas and Oats were doll sale, tire far each !gog very trifling is consequence of the tarp. diluent of working. Wheat, Kest, and s. s. asses new S4l Ws slid 00 Suffolk lls $44 iris Se Norfolk .... old 04 64 Rye Ol fierier Malt Oats, Potatee Poland ...... 111 , Feed Fleur .... per eidt SO Rape Seed, per WOOL . FORUM What, Americas bm. Americas.. WbitrPeas sl MI Manic . .. 116 IN Ditto holism 0 4.1 Sante Re d.. Da as Grey Ditto : 9 6 :0 4 a lr b ekee r • " t r Itil es ... ll a° a l Resit Reaps Tit* Ditto MI MI lbsteartaio bittaaal..- beta was a good airplay of ail kind of Cattle at Market this moraine, but the Market Nily maisteitted the pekes of last week. (r• stab the US! ; pet Stone of elks.) Beef ... . is. N. to 41.10 d. Gatti AT is Aiint ' hilt/t06.. Is. K. to 48.194. i earn ' Veal ... . la. 66. to is. N. CIlIPOI Pork .... 61. 04 to M . N. Piet+ sad Lambe ...."Isii Lamb.— Oa. W. to w. ed. Plea • •• IN ~--s: . . '~~