The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-03 00:00:00

- informed be:, far the effect extended in those radii of the circle. The shock was felt at sea so violently, within two levee of Cyprus, that it was thought the ship bad grounded. Flaibes of volcanic fire were perceived at various times throughout the night, resembling the. light of the full moon; but at no place, to my know . lege, has it lefts chum of any great extent ; although in the low run& slight crevices are every where to be seen, aad oat et Jamey of them water issued, but soon after subsided. There` Was nothing remarkable in the/wither, or state of the atmosphere. Edifices on the selantits of the highest moaateins were not safer than buildings situ ateJ on the banks of rivers, or on the beach of the sea. Altbugh slight shocks of earthquakes bad been from time to time felt in this country, it is certain that fur I centuries none had done aoy material damage, except one twenty-seven years ago, when a single town, Latschia. was partially thrown down. In 17b5, an earthquaketAns felt at Aleppo sad Antioch, which so alarmed the inhabitants, that they all abandoned their houses for 40 days, but very litthatelury was stistained, - . and no lives lost. . hie The appearance of some very =tient edifices render it probable that this country bas not suffered from earth . -"sakes slice the memorable one-recorded by Gibbon, -about sixties centuries ago (I sneak from a very had theniory), in which one-tbird of the inhabitants of Am tioclt perished. when that celebrated city was supposed to contain a population .of 'seven hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand souls. It is Impossible to convey an Adequate idea of the scenes of horror that were siaseltaneousl.tassing in the drea.lfal night of the 13th August. Here hundreds of decrepiel parents. half buried is the ruins, were implies in! the succour of their sons, not al wayr willing to rids their own lives by giving their assistance. There distracted mothers were franticly lif.ing heavy stones from heaps that covered the bodies of their life. less it:fants! The awful darkness of the night. themes tinuance of the most violent shocks, at short interlude, the crash' of falling walls, the shrieks, the groans. the *aerate Of agonyend despair of that long night, cumin le described. '- -• • , t When at length, the morn dawned, and the return of light permitted the people to quit the spot on *id 1 if l they had bees providentially , saved, a tart a ' 1 scene ensued. You might have seen many, a s tamed to pray, some prostrate, some on their 1 adoring their MAILER. Others there were ronniat istu ' one another'e arms, rejoicing in their ezistencel , 1118) air of cheerfulness and brotherly love animated sitar) - con nter ancr. • Ina public calamity, in which the Turk, the Jew, the Christian, the Idolator, were indiscriminate victims, or .ohjects of thei care of an impartial providence, every one •ferget, for o time. his religious animosities, and, what was a still more universal feeling, in that joyitti mo ment, every one looked upon tint heaviest losses with the erratest indifference. lint as the sun's rays increased in intensity, they were gradually reminded of the amo rist- wails of shelter and of food, and because at length 'aline to the full extent of the dreary prospect before them, for a greater mass ofhutnan misery has not been often piodeced by any of the awful convulsions of ea- tote. A month has now elapsed, and the shocks con tinue to he felt, and to strike terror into every breast, night and day. The fear that they may not cease, be fore the rainy season commences, has induced those whose business cannot allow of their quittir.g the ruins of their towns, instead of rebuilding their houses. to conatraot lemeorety hovels of wood without the walls; sad many families, who thought themselves before this 1 ta!flui.y straitly l odged in a dozen of apartments, now exult at the prospect of passing the winter in a slogkl 10r.,m, 20 feet square. fhe spacious mansion that has been the residence *1 the British Consul at Aleppo for 230 years, is completely unineol, although not entirely fallen, and would require 10,000/ to repair it. The houses of all the other public agents and private, European individuals at Allepo, have been likewise en tirely ruined. At Aleppo the Jews suffered the most, ot. account of their quarter being badly built, with nar• tow lanes. Out of a population of less than three thou sand souls, fix bemired lives were lose. Of the Euro peans only One person of note, Signor Elides de Picciot to, Atli Tian Consul General, and ten or twelve women him chilikeh, perished ; but the greater part are now smelling from ophthalmia and dysenteries, occasioned by their being exposed to the excessive heats of the day st.d the coil, dews of the night. When it is considered, that two thirdsof the families in Alleppo have neither the means of making a long journey, to remove to a Own out of the effect of the earthquake. nor of building a shed to keep eff the rain. it is impossible to conceive all the 'niseiy to which they are doomed the ensuing winter. or ewer to find more deserving objects of the compassion and charity of the opulent. whom it has pirated Ilion to place in happier regions of the globe. ' Ilere planks and fuel are cheap, and the people have the resource of tiles, which they were taught to make by the crusaders, in their long residence at Antioch t lilt in Aleppo, where wood is very dear. they have r o contrivance to keep out raj, but freestone walls and flat roofs, made of very expensive cement. The roof of the vaulted room in which the voluminous archives of tile British Cancellaria in Aleppo are kept his not fallen in, and it is hoped it may preserve them firm wet till the spring, when it will he necessary to re ito•ce them. I n the mean time, your Worships will he pleased to inform me what is your itish should he done with these books and papers.--1 have the honour to be, &c. teal JOHN BARKER. .', Near the Ruins of Antioch, Sept. 20 1822. RIGHT WOREIRIPIUL SIRE—I had last the honour to address your Worships on the 13th inst. I ant sorry to say that shocks of the earthquakes continue to he felt to this day, the thirtrrighth after thoprineipal !hock, and no change has taken place in Vie st:..e of desolation that that dreadful catastrophe has ',rot:aced. 1 have the honour to be, &c. &r. JOHN BARKER. Near the Rains of Antioch, Oct. 18,1822. RIGHT WORSHIPFUL SIRS-1 had last the honour to address your Worships on the Mb alt. Till the 9th inst. shocks of earthquakes continued to be felt; since that day they have entirely ceased ; but confidence in a continuance of snfety from that dreadful calamity is not restored and although the rains .and cold weather render our temporary sheds very in convenient habitations, nobody is yet inclined to sleep under a roof supported by walls. 1 have the honour to be, &c. . JOHN BAWLER. Eli ract of a Letter from Consul Barker to Consul lieneral Cartwright, at Constantinople, dated 19th October. " At half-past five, p. m. a violent shack of earth quake has destroyed all our hopes of its being termin ated." • EXTRACTS FROM U NITED SPATES PAPERS• CURACOA, Ocv.l2.—A number of pieces of dry good' lately purchased at a vendue in this island, sold as da maged ariicles,were neatly packed up and sent toAruba, with orders to batter them on the Spanish coast fur pre dace. A person was promptly despatched with th e m t o the f coast of Coro, who soonfound a purchaser, and in esclisnge received a certain number of papelones, to all appe aaaaa eof an excellent f inality. As may be expect lost no time in returning to Aruba, boggiog him- , r;r_ THE ST A' self on his good fortune at having deceived the *pa- Muds ; but lo ! When the papeleoes came to be ax• amino, they were found to Dories almost entirely of clay, having Golfe thin covering ur sugar. Charles Pinkney Esq. (son of the late Wm. Piakoey. Riti. of Baltimore), Secretary to tht • Legation of the United Stati4 i■ Russia, has relished the seat of tiovern inept, with despatches tram our Minister, Henry Mid dleton, Esq. at St. Priersburgli. They are supposed to relate to the arbitrament of the Emperor Alexander, onecortiiag the compensation fox Waves (carried away by the British during the late war) under the provisions of the treaty of Ghent. There may also be some com munication from the Russian Cabinet with respect to the illegal blockade attempt in the Northern Pacific Ocean, n hick' has been resisted by our Government. — ,(Washington Gazette) The Salem paper, in giving en acCount of a fire At HainiPon, notices the followiug instance of intrepidity in a female. The fire was discovered about four o clock in the morning. The hour. was already enveloped in dames. Part of it was occupied by Mrs. Margarit Luininus, a widow with five children, the eldest on a sick bed. Mrs. L. with great fortitude. after having conveyed her sick daughter to a building near by, and extricated her other children from the dames, returned, anal, at the risk of her life, directed bi the cries of a child, proceeded into one of the chambers and brought out a child of Captain Dodge from the midst of the flames. The whole of the two families, consisting of Ciptain D.dge, his oar, and two children, Mrs: Lum mus and five children, escaped naked and destitute. The building was consumed with all Its contests. STATE OF IRELAND. :,., . t. • (r&0311311 .10URNtt. DitS We resatue the continuation of the observations Will were given in our paper of the 29th instant, relative the ministerial movement which has just lartipTicei— r, We have rendered a distinguished homag e to the noble sentiments and personal qualities of the Mi *Wee irho his voluntarily retired from the Dep•rtment Of Foreign Affairs; %this retirement, we know, is not a disgrect...lkis a natoridconseqnence of the representative system. Under this form of tiovernment, a perfect ho mogeneity is one of necessary condition•of the sq preme administration ; and when, in a question of big% Policy, the conscience, or the reason, of any Ministers does not permit them to c incite in the aentimen:s which the majority of their colleagues , or th e intervention oft Royal authority, canes to prevail, than conscience gm; reason, tombioed with boner, imposes on the dissitieeta l tbe.obligation of retiring and this step, far from dimi nishing, in the slightest degree, their claims to the esteem of the Monareb and to public consideration, on the con trary, giees them a farther claim to the respect which accompanies the honest man who is steadfast in his reso lutions, and incapable of sacrificing, to the seduction of power, opinions which lie regards as duties. But farther; the merit of sacrifices of this nature heightens In proportion to the slightness of the shades of difference between opinions: it will easily be conceived that an inflexible opposition necessitates a political saps. ration ; lit*, *lien there is en accordance in principles and the difference regards only such or such a mode, such or such a period, more-or less favourable to their application. the motive of retirement can only be im puted to an uncompromising delicacy, rather than to scruples which one would be induced to accuse of stern ness. This consideration increases the just regrets which all Royalists have manifested at the resignation of N. de Doke de Montmorency. The Journals to which we reply, have consequently been misinformed, when they ted that there had been no essential division between the Members of the Ministry, and that M. de Montmorency had been over come by the efforts of a victorious party; an assertion at least imprudent!—What! If, as it was ajilted to in sinuate, the Ministry had been divided between two opinions, directly opposed to each other, can it be be lieved that M. de hlentmorency would alone have given the signal and example of retreat? If the interests- of the Throne, if the dignity:of France, had been enliven mised, by refusing 'to adhere forth With to measures which he might think useful, would not such iierions inconveniences have attracted some attention: and if they had even been glanced at as possible, by any, of his honourable colleagues, who can doubt that they would not have followed the example which was set to them, and that their resignation would have been the cons°. ,quence of a conviction that they had unreservedly coin cided with M. de Montmorency? All that is permitted to conclude from the retirement of this Minister is, that on an important point of dis cussion, his manner of viewing it was not completely in accord with the result of the Council, and that, as we said at the time, by a sentiment, the v-ry exaggeration of which is a virtue worthy of the highest praise, he has yielded to his personal feelings, without ceasing to be united in heart, views, and principles, with those from whom he separated himself. He forthwith, and volun tarily, tendered a resignation, the offer of which has ex cited only a painful surpiise, and which has only been received with the most intense regret. Was it, therefore, indispendble. in order to render homage to an honourable step on the part of a Member of the Ministry, to evince injustice with regard to the ethers ? We will only add one more remark. Even they to whom the retirement of M. de Montinorency, has fur nished a text for the most violent declamations, now all agree in recognising, in the illustrious man who has succeeded him, a nobleman of character equal to the su periority of his genius. When, therefore, a statesman such as N. the Viscount de Chateaubriand, unites his talents and his political principles to those of the late Colleagues of M. de Montmorency, doubtless, he is sore of finding in them Royalists and Frenchmen, and ac cordingly we must, unless we fall into an absurd con tradiction, in admitting this double title of the new min ister, grant it also to the old ones. This will also be an answer to the objections raised by the same journals against the letter of M. the President of the Council to the King's Ambassador at Madrid.— The ion has been hazarded, that by this letter the Minister has placed himself in opposition to the views manifested at Verona by the Sovereigns, The eye of prejudice can alone have misconceived, on this point, the character which there preponderates. There is not a paragraph in that dispatch, in which is not expressed the most direct adhesion to the views and determinations concerted by the august Allies of the King. The Presi dent of the Council, organ of the intentions of his Ma jesty, has faithfully transmitted them to the Ambassa dor of France. Let them re-peruse, let them weigh, all the expressions of this document,and there will only b found in it the language of foresight, firmness, and the assurance of a de ided concurrence in the most energy tic measures, " if the essential interests of France con tinue to be compromised, and if she despair of an acne lioration," on which may be established the continua tion of the relations between the two kingdoms. When the Notes of Russia, Prussia, and Aust:ia shall be known, we shall then see whether they surpass in energy the French Note, nhi.ther they explain themselves with more precision, and whether they demand from Spain any thing that appears more intelligib:e and more posi tive. FItENCII P.l TAI 7W ,ZikliA TROY Tag numiN MERCADMItIe ADVltaikfint. TO THE M kRQUESS OF LANSDOWNE. Mr Loan—We mean to be understood literally, when we ammo, that five per cent. has not been received of the last year's rental of ilr&land. We reiterate these re marks; because the great fact ought to be perpetually present to your Lordship's mind. We mention charac- While anecdotes, if your Lordship will permit the `hltrase to he so applied—of the cooditiod of the landed interest of Ireland, nut for thelr'enriosity, bat as sere leg more accurately to, give aleneral outline of the de solation which prevails irl this coantry, than could be ietptired by a general description, however ably that vat ght be worked up. With this view, we shall tell your Lordship seedier story. There Is a great landed proprietor in the west of Ire land, and county or Mayo, a gentleman who might have pretensions to the representation of the county, not withstanding the opposition of the Sligo and other in terests, and %hose income we have heard rated from . fifteen to twenty .thoassted pounds a Year. Thiagentle man could obtain no rents at all on last Lady-day. It was found perfectly neeleas to drive his tenants, to cant their stock, or to leaarcerate their persons. The Ba rony in which the ben of his property lies, is a mail time and mountainous district, very generally barren, or only fi t for slteep walks. The steep, of course, are of an inferior description, like those of Wales, or the Highlands of Scotland, perhaps worse, for your Lordship knows, that in the res mote and secluded part of the kingdom very little attention is, or can be paid to the breed. The Middle men. as we inentioned on a former occaside;* havins been for the most part extinguished, and the sob-tenants without capital or enterprise, little attention can be paid to any thing in this part of the country, except to the planting of potatoes,the sowing of a few onts,and the tending of the starving flocks. The potatoes they keep. After what has occurred last winter and spring, partieu lady in the very district to which we are referring, no one would he so mad as to demand them. Even if they were seised, they would not be bosght, for there is no money to purchase them, nor would they pay the ert-1 pence of sending them to other parts of the country, should they be able to obtain,which they would not,a mar-; ket any where else. The potatoes,therefore,are safe from the landlord, and fortunately, in this part of Ireland, irons the tithe proctor, fur your Lordship knows, that in most parts of Connaught, potatoes are not subjected to this horril,le imposition. As Cie Peasantry, however, never ett meat, the sheep was the only equivalent which the tenants had to offer. The landlord—for what could be do'. Accepted the sheep of his tenantry as a dis charge, in part, of their obligations. Twenty thousand sheep were delivered over to to our landlord's agent,and he allowed Ins. a-head—ho offered the whole for 6s, 81 per—be was not able to obtain this. To ship them off for Dnblin, or to drive thenito the city, would be so expen sive, that the experiment, afti7. being entertained fur a few days, was abandoned. What was he to do ? What, indeed, can any Landlord do? They are talking here, as in England, of County Meetings. Of these wo have hitherto had only one—namely, that of the county of Galway. Previous to the meeting of this County—we know it was the intention of the promoters of it, to introduce the subject of Tithes, as one which grievously pressed on the owners and occupiers of land. Indeed it was given out, that the principal object of the meeting was to pass a resolution against the present mode of collecting theSvevenues of the Church ; fur, after all, a change in the system was the only intelligible mode by which any assistance could be given to the Agricultural People. They met—but in the presence of some representatives of the Church, iu the presence of the only people among them, who have now an income —n a mely, those who live upon the Taxes—Collectors, County Treasurers &c.—they did not dare to come to the point—the only point for which they met. Your Lordship must not be surprised at this want of spirit or infirmity of purpose among the Gentlemen -of - the County of Galway, or indeed among the Gentlemen of any other County in Ireland. Perhaps you have observ ed, even in Britain, some manifestations of a similar kind. You have seen therea Sheriff of a great county, unceremo niously turn his back upon the majority of its proprietors, and refuse to convoke a Meeting at their Requisition. You have seen with • what a tame and' christian spirit, the aforesaid proprietors bore the affront. The truth is, that the character of the English as well as the Irish Gentleman is completely changed. The taxes have changed it.—The present deterioration of their means have c attributed, in &certain degree, to fix, anal perpe tuate this change. Most of them—most of the middling' Gentry—possess little places, or look for them, and their efforts, as a body, are completely neatralized by their wants. In Ireland, though there are not so many places to give away, yet the same little intriguing, the same system of trafficking.the votes of their villages to the Court Member for a place, or the promise of place, pre vails to an extent of which the public, even in England, can have very little idea. The Galway Meeting was, under the influence of this very general feeling, rendered abortive to all substantial purposes, and a milk and water eet of Resolutions was passed, and a Petition to the Legislature. Thus it is, in one word, the Peasantry. are without wages„and almost without work—an unf hie season would leave them without food, and the Legislature has left them without a provision. The Partners, as a body, are extinguished—the Gentry are without an income— the Law Courts without business, while the Chancery is full—tke Merchant constantly contracting his transact ions, for the Country Dealers are without capital or credit ; add to this, that a fierce political religious pre judice prevails in almost every part of the country, and your Lurrdsbip has a picture of the State of Ire land. LONDON: FRIDAY, EVENING. JANUARY 3, I 523. PRESIDENT'S ISIESSADE. We have received this morning American papers, to the 7th ult. which contain the President's Message to Congress of the United States. The Message is of the most pacific and conciliatory character, but beyond that does not present much in terest. After a very :short preface, his Excellency ac• quaints the Congress with the Convention of Naviga tion and Commerce concluded between the United States and France, and with the 'prohibition having been removed which had taken place in the commerce between the United States and the British Colonies in be West Indies. lie then proceeds to state that the f •_ ~ ~ decision of the Emperor of itut,da on the question sub• haitted to him by the United States and Great Britain, concerning the construction of the Ist Article of the Tr••aty of Ghent had been received, and that a conven tion had been since concluded under the tnettiatiAt of his Imperial Majesty. His Excellency, next, after, 'motioning .that a Federal Government had, been established in Florida on the principle • r.f their system, enters into and developes the finan cial ;tate of the Union. From this, it appears, that the receipts into the Treasury, during the three first quarters of the year, have exceeded the sum of fourteen millions seven hundred anti forty five thousand dollars: The payment made at the Treasury, during the were period, has exceeded twelve millions tete hundred aid seventy nine thousand dollars. There were in the Treasury on the first day of ,laauery last, a sum exceediny, 4 millions, one hundred and 28 thousand dollars, besides discharging all demands foe the current service of the year including the interestand re imbursement of the Public Debt.Thetl per cent. Stock of 17961 mounting to 80 thousand dollars has been redeemer!. His Excellency then having adverted to the serious mala dy which had visited some portion of the Union, noticrs the cheerful pronpect arising from the encreasing mans - factures of the States, and from the commercial differoncio with France and Great Britain having been placed in a trainof amicable arranpment,and concludes wit itslightly referring to the differences that still existed between Spain and she Independent Governments of Seeds Awe ' rice, and between Russia and Turkey. STOCK EXCBANGK, HALF-PAST Twat/ie.—Very tittle business is doing bare this slurping, oaring to au m oonset of tbs price of the French Funds net havinz arrferd from Paris this morning, in consequence of New Year's Day being a Holiday in the ahove Consols are 805. FORKION Fur:use—The most business doing this more. fortis in Colombian, owing to the New Charge Ores baring arrived in Loudon. is above Stock. ; - rase his rooming 5 par Cent. • ; Obili, —New Spanish, 44/1-0141,11 1 -Ttew Prussian. Sef—Old. SR—Russian, -..4tolo,nbian, fßi to 71i—Perusiau, 77—Neapolitan, 771i—Spanish Serie. diso. Tite•Moniftur of ,Tuesday contains an -Ordonnance convoking the Chambers for the 28th of this month.-- We hive added, in this day's paper, to the extracts from the other Paris Journals we had previously received, au artiele s from the.Journut des Debate, which will be found in another column, and read with no little intereit. '1 he object of this article is to shetv that the difference b. - tween time retired Minister and his successful rival intim . Cabinet was but trifling, and that the latter firmly ad hexes to the determination concerted with the Allies at Verona. FRENCH FVXDS, DEC. 31.—Five per ant. Consols opened atSf. Q. ; declined to Stlf. 30. ; and closed at 88f. 60c. fur the acconitt, the transactions closed at 6Sr. 80e.—Bank Shares, 1,692 f. 50e.—Neapolitan Stock, pg.—Spanish Bonds, 551.—Exchange on, London, one: month, 2111. 46e. I three months, 25f. 30e. NORFOLK COUNTY-MEETING. This mast knporiant meeting takes place on this sc.; day, and we have taken the steps necessary for giving; in our paper of tomorrow, a copy of whatever petition may be agreed upon, or, at least, the substance of it, and a full report of all the proceedings at the Meeting, which will disappoint us greatly if it be not, in its re sult, a Meeting of more consequence than any one that In:s taken place in the country for a long time. It is in Norfolk, where rents were so high ; where taxes are still so high ; where farming-stock was so valuable and S!O immense in quantity; it is in Norfolk where almost every farm-house contained an occupant richer than one half of the petty Princes of Germany, and having a great deal more sense, and being ten thousand tiyws more useful upon the face of the earth ; it is in Norfolk where the slaughtering effects of the cash-measures have been felt most acutely. It is for that county, therefore, to take the leaden demanding an effectual remedy. We are led to believe that it will tali/ such lead ; and we have made arrangements for laying the steps taken a t this Meeting before the public to-morrow. _...~ PRICR OF STOCKS VHS Bank Stock... S per Ct. Red .... 7911 80 3 per Ct. Cons shut 31 per Ct 92 4 per Cents. one New Fours .shut 6 per Ct. 1707. Long Ann ... ..40 5-16 Imp. 3 per Ct.... .......79 Irish 6 per Cents. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. tndla Stock Diito Bonds s. s s. pm. South Sea Stock... South Sea Old Ana 1000/. "I 94 pm ---500/. 7s. Bs Os pm. Small Os 8s 10. pm. Con. for Sect. 80fi I Lottery Ticket s 971. 19b.. ,• Io TIIE STATESMAN of To-kloanovr we purpose to give a FULL Ftsroxy, (probably to the extent of EIGUT COLUMNS) of tips important Proceedings st the NORFOLK COUNTY MEE TING, which takes place This Day. We shall receive the Report BY EXPRESS. Vtv *tattoman. - . f. BOURBON -WAR. We had not time, yesterday, to notice what was said npon this subject in the Courier of Tuesday es ening. Let our readers remember that the Courier is a London evening paper,belonging to DANIEL STEWART, who was last year put down in the list of persons to he High Sheriff for Oxfordshire. He was once a tailor's trotter in London. The newspaper people got in his debt fo r clothes, and DANIEL took payment in copy-right of news paper. He became afterwards proprietor of this courier' which he conducted on French revolutionary principles' having given the paper a French name, Lc Courier. After several years of most furious jacohinism, during part of which this paper was most horribly censnred by the anti jscohin, conducted by Mr. CANNING and others : after many years of most furious jacobinism, the High Sheriff that was to be became concerted, and, of Course, "Le Courier" along A% ith hitn. " The au eet Nepenthes of a Court," where, as the poet tells us, all sine are for given, and where the way is smoothed to heaven : in that sweet situation, DANIEL appears to have lived front the day of his conversion to the present hour. lie lulls in his carriage; has his pew in the country church lintel with green cloth ; has his foatman with the morocco Bible and Prayer Book walking at the heels of himself, lady and family; and, in short, lives among the sweets of the system.--Whether DANIEL thus living be likely to be of politics d:ferent from his Majesty's ministers; whether DANIEL would venture to express in Le Courier sentiments d9erene from those of the Ministers with regard to the Bourbon war ; whether, in short, DANIEL would utter upon titis subject one sin. gle word, which he could not safely take his oath those Ministers would approve of; these questions we may safely leave to be answered by any man of comm. sense. Now, then, let us hear what DANIEL says with regard to the message or note, or whatever else you may call it, which France has recently sent to the Spanish Government. We will insert the article ; only just to— marbing Further by way of preface, that 7Dortea hers laughs at the Moraing Citronielc for saying that 111116LA.‘w - 1 . Fi is to is to M t 1