The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-05 00:00:00

~~'~! 1r 's4 .qtr T•• _ _ THE STA' Am••••••••• - - _ •oon any other quirt.) that I con recognise is this, tended to folleve.the preeeduat es' freelleSS MUM of a - that slat eau is the least Oppressive which brings meet , similar nature. Seek pewees as doe Houserable Geo. Into the Treasury Is irls the smallest espence in col. lumen alluded to, had not been ceeferred task each letting. Some taxes, hnvievyr, are disgracefel I. or:casinos, -.. .. the country -- I mean the duties for Stamps on law I ;141*.IMIOUglIAM. , -_-Deue the Natio &Did them proceedings. It is tyrannical to load law prioceed. ; rel 47 its the negative) Aul . : l wedded so -to teit; deic legs with such charges, Imitate it is by means ofi stood Mm? ~ . ‘. ~./. -... , • .. . - these that the common rights of the People are to be 1 Lord CASTLEREAGH was enderstood to say, protected and secured. I hope, Sir, that Ministers' thsteine had replied be the eggatiee. I , will.not run on in their career of espenditeri for Mr. BROUGHAM asked again, whether ffse titer: I hope they will make some redactions in it, Committee was . ** be' chasms' by ballot, and if so, ' notwielosteeding the oleeltrretiens 'we hear of improve. whets the bellot was to bike place? went in she state of our leaflets. It is to be la. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the usual - mode minted that pest • eyllobir on the 'object of economy was to chomp by ballot the next night after the mo. end retrenchment is to be found in the Speecb.trom tion should be nereed.to. the Throne, at a tins* when multitudes of die poor Mr. BROUGHAM stated, that an Honourable einem, by alt their exertions, ',aria opt* than 9d. a' Friend of bia.woold, is these circemotances, sebseit day, to supply fireman:re. and dirk (ponies with all ,a snution'te the•Hoesegre the subject. Friday was the necoss v vies of life. The Poor. Laws have existed an inconvenient day , he th e re fore re g retted that *ll for remade.; why did not the chows now coin. NobleFtiend; ille. Member for Lanark (Lore: Al plained of result front them in former times? It is Hamilton), was not Irk his place that hem ;pm s ig an unfounded reiecsion on the lower orders to as -, off his motion ( on Ilse Slap Trials in Scott AMMO Pfbrl that they are desirous of bring put on the Peer stood for Tuesday, to Theraday nest, in 1 itiOlut. , Hates; on the contrary, .the great majority of them the nation of his Hon. Friend sight - be •iteeit- fir would submit to every toil and every privation. in Tuesday. . preference to this fiumilietiug step. Hem degrading SLAVE TRAWL ,_ ._ Dr, Ptif GLISCORE moved fora . ratiell or all vessels ea to Englishmen, to smug them of being altered to gave to the Slave Trade. raptured' by BMA Alp, sod the poor-house by the hope of good feeding I :1" brought under the view dew Court at Stinirahy la this ciao. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, thatlhe general Pe- 47,„' .. " 4 , 1 1,,, i ," tbreti,,,,,fdlir" of S ' 1 0 . 815 „„,,, a „, ;11al. a r. d. t d e r a m e be aa r o _ of Fey of the Peer IA". mlgitt with' *ore propriety be her still peadiag; togeilsie Ipillo an moron re/Havel found io discussed at another time.. HS would be sort lobe "c a t vesvt• — °Mere d • y .. r.Serj eant ONSLOW a Petition from. sae who .. ,in lostliffprent on the subject of the present dystern of h a d w ee wowe d & irk is teammate el tbe New :these laws as the Lion. Battiest penferforieitareit.— street *et. had by thluseags his banana. 'Nona a i p i r i t e t. hoops , -- 5tr.. 6 11/ 4 71 7 1550N Nill no objective that the Annie* shoold otg, asiapsolpeet_ doe . to ' -4nions to diat Hofer I si oeld somoch prompts e . petit but Kit wis liiinded to he fill - owed up - by any further proceeds log,' he womid:itilliesmitie of the Corns' tosiomers, object to rt. The Hon. and Liara Hentleman never he-itated to give his le gal advicesultersons fa ha inferior situation. If. then. he should bring the rester,* into a Court of Law, the Commissiorers would readily 'meet the question. air. &ritual ONSLO IV said, that the Petitioner had musb .Mined an isijary ant in the immediate consemplat inn of the Aet. aoi therefore, he applied to the Haase in cumider his ease and recommend it to the attention of the COOltell4looef..—Ordere4l to lie on the table. Mr. COUR fEN AY moved. that the accounts of Saving Banks peeseated yesterday should he printed.—Ordered. The Hoarse adjourned at a quarter past sin. • iuR pride and independence in the lower orders, than a doe execution of these taws. It had btu said, that . a Committee of 39 Members bad tintirtained 39 dif. talent opinions on this 'object. His had atteeded at _Meetings of this Committee, and did not observe So Mach dill . .. Vance of opinion u might reasonably be , ' , expected; on the ossuary, on many kWh% points of coosideration, the Cm*IMMO/ mars enanimoos l — It was by no mores se be *opposed the the present whole spitem was to be obetislood. Mach thank* 'were due. to the Coessithre -foe what okay bud yet doss; much geed bed bee *settgie septheimigram nity from the circulehou - Sirtiiiiielhintopist, even if their labours *weld eat biog. lie Roust the Mon. Baronet's gloomy views wield nail, reified, stud solicipsted important bowie Imo the seeps• buts of the Golostinsafa mortises. he sossitvoi spiry end distraoloo was glom los soit)oct eo COW plicated, the greater chews wee them of sit iseeth arriving at • loestelleiel avid practically earful mule idea. He felt himself called epie to eesteuditit the atiortion % that there reechoed so feed of prosperity to the'coentry. The espectatinnn of the ceentry 00411 t sot to be raised too high; bet it was alto (tether erroneous to suppose that the !above of the Committee would be useless. and that the foisting to) stem of the Poor Laws meet be entirely destroyed. Sir F. BURDETT esplaheed. He had not disap proved of investigation, bet that be bad stated what be would now restate, that so investigation or discus sion would ever afford any relief. without such a re. Auction of the establishments of the Coterbusent, and such a rigid economy in-the expenditure, as cool re duce the enormous taxation of the country to a scale compatible with the fair employment of the indus trious population, and the full enjoyment of the fruits of industry. Mr. CA I.CIIA FT had not very sanguine expecta tions from the labours of the Committee. The Re port, he would admit, had doe. some good, hot no effectual relief could be expected without the power.. fel co-operation of Government. Two points of , great importance end considerable nicety would de. serve the attention of the Committee.. The one was, whether funded property should not be subjected to Your Rates as well as landed ptoperty. The other was, whether Petty Sessions - might not take coast. duration of many subjects at present devolved upon the Quarter Sessions. More good could be done by country Magistrates than by any act of Legislation. He had heard much said of the advantages of perms. pent OWPISIOrg; but the principal cause of misma nagement was, that those who bad a tight to at. tend and In enquire into the system of management hi their parish neglected to do so. Why did they not 'fiend and satisfy themselves of the necessity of every hoyden imposed upon them, and detect every attempt at imposition or peculation ? Lord CASTLEREAGH explained. The Committee was then re-appointed. The SPEAKER informed the House that the ab. steads of the rotor-Rotes for 1748, 49 50, formerly ordered, were uow laid upon the table. ELECTIONS. Mr. C. W. WYN* moved for leave to Wag in a Bill such as he had submitted to the Home in the course of the lad Session. Leave was given, and the Billivas brought in. The Bill bets% read by the Speaker. or collected that its objects are farther, to limit the duration of Polla—to provide Ilsr the erection of polling booths—to enable hereto more easily to obtaie their right of votiag—to qualify freeholders to vote wit/met being as sessed to the Land Tax—to prohihit the use of Cockades, or simi lar symbols, at Elections—to enable Sheriffs e or other returning 01fic..14„ to declare any candidate duly elected % against wheel so opposition is made, although the poll may go lib &Moog othfr candidates—and also, that in ease any candidate shosald die is the course of an election, the voters who bad supported him should he entitled to vote again. ' HIGH CONSTABLE OF WESTMINSTER. Mr CA LCRA FT said, that he had last year Inltedatted i Bill for the remuneration of the High and *hinny Coallabienf Westminster for their attendance on Parliament, bet it bad failed for want of previous enquiry. He therefore now gave notice on the subject for to-morrow week. Mr. CUR WEN moved tar a return of the *ember of Ser charges of the Assessed Taxes during the year 1817. the Appeals against these Surcharges. specifying the Parishes from whit* they came, and the dechoos upon them.—Oodered. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Sir FRANCIS BURG TT presented a Petition from serials Inhabitants of Bath, praying for Universal Suffrige and An nual Parliaments.—lt was rend, sod ordered °, lie on that table. The Hon. Baronet afterwards presented other Petitions for Par liamentary Reform, but not having been read, we could not learn from what plays they bad come, or to what extent they prayed for Retonn.—They were ordered to lie on the table. COMMITTEE. ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Mr. BROUGHAM said, that seeing a Noble Lord not exactly in his place (a laugh), but on his way to it, he was anxious to ask for some infer lion respecting the Select Committee to be appointee Did the Noble Lord intend to accede to the proposi tion which he hail taken the liberty to mike on the first night of the Session ? Having then obtained n• satisfactory answer, he now again asked, whether the, Committee to be appointed should be . furnished *LW powers to call for witnesses, papers, and every 000 sh., airy source of accurate information? Lord CASTLEREAGH replied, that it was is , FRENG'II PAPERS. CHAMBER, OF PEERS, JAS. M t The Report of the Special Committee on the Re. soletiaa of the Chamber of Depeties, relative to the oduiaaboo of it! fdesbors *as made by the Duke de aad ordered to be printed and distri *mid- ' The Chamber the, formed itself into a Judicial Coact. CTIAMBIER OS 'DEPUTIES, JAN. Si. The dismission, on the Recruitment Project was resumed, aid cootineed on the Articles seriatim to the Wilt, the debate en which was adjourned till Moodily. PART; Fee. I.—The Duke de Berri is slightly in disposed. An Ordonnance of Police was posted op yesterdiy, fixing the price of bread in Paris from this day at 18 sues (9d.) for the loaf of four pounds of she first quality, and 13 sous (Ofd.) for that of the second quality. We learn -from Geneva, that the religious assem blies of Puiitans there bays recommenced with more ardour than ever. The Doke of Wellington end suite arrived here yesterday evening at nine o'clock. Beat" JAM. 17.—The King has met with an ac cident, by making a false seep no a staircase, by which his leisvountled. il ls Majesty, however, is not its any danger. PRICK OF STOCU Till Hank Stock eSili 3 per Cent. Red. SOO 9 per Cent. Cow* /9H4 Comb for Ace. 79iifi 4 per Cent. Stliii I DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Navy 105114 ladia Bonds 101 99 p Stork V3l l Lang Arno. 90 ti 9-16 Ex •o-uer Bills 19 29 p STATESMAN. LONDON: TUUILIDAT. MIIDARY 5, 1118. We have received New Orleans Papers, by the ship Monarch, arrived at Liverpool, to the 17th of Dec. bat they do out contain any news of importance. Accounts in the Philadelphia Papers, male that the whole of the eeentry around Vera Cruz was in the possession of the Independents, and that the consmeeleation of the city with Mexico was in danger of being cut off by them. Mexico is also represented as in a very differeat situation from that given to it Is the Spanish aerosols. In the meentime the pri. veto advice. from Madrid menthe an expedient of the Curt of Faanitrarre to recruit his armies, which comes very well from the Royal Fugitivi of Vileony. Some deliberations en Sid to .have hams place in the Connell:, on tbe . expedincy of (*trying into effect the Decree of May 30, 1814, for reseilleg frees exits the Spaniards who had betrayed their ,cooetry by joining the French invaders. This on. mile might not be so eopepolee u it is described to be, bet the boost ma who de‘mided their country's liberties eve* spies. the Serremige himself, remain banished or imprimmed, esti Mew 110 angora mercy. It appears that • Den .Ennst Wiewilotir, who reco• vered by stratagem-the Spoeddlifeetreeee of Menem), Lerida and htequirmese from the rteeck, has been arrested and thsowit lots- the Otte* of the logoisi. tioo, se charges of etlempla 011111114 k social order, of free-oaso•rit ir.c•l OA as bas am pet to the tor ture, to extract a cootie** of pill, hot bas had fi rm . ness estrogh tb bear this cruelty oncuegoared. Some ',Ports state r that FliSIIK44:1111 TIE. le to attend the Coogremet Spa or Catished ie the sunning summer. His dear-bought ectialmenas to the Made. of the Slave Trade f. arteltis Wm to present his " honest Pi face, fleshed with a ,poepk veer," maws the rest of the ' 6 libesitari of emukind." • :~ ~, . - Pit* Pepin to the idea TO Dyke of WILLINGTOW se Saiiiiityplas. The dissent** * l 4 . 4.01 11 " 14 Project, kit 100 r wwilieed es &toilet AKNPt Ikeelitudshed their elir 4 l cis 19 ; tiw considfl!ti elk till Notsky. iiesovr*it'At. gowdefflits spewed, *IAA iili' groom part of 'Oka ay.._ or pt rid of by the preview! qeeition. The Cosset as Casa, Minister of Police, has been elevatiii en the Peerage by a Royal Ordenneece. The confer« ring: if this dignity, indicates pretty strongly tin, assidoents of the Klee with regard the the viaribiof his Minister. The price of bread hiss fallen . fit Pitts to about 9d. the pattern loaf. ilambergit Mails have also arrived. The plans for the military organization of the German Confedera. doe are the most prominent topics le the Papers thus forniihed. In time of war there are to be raised, from the collective population of Cormany, two men out of every hundred for the army in the field (which would amount to 579,000 men), and one sot of every hundred for garrisons and recruits. In time of peace the limy is to be 120,000, of which 18,000 . are to be cavalry and 6000 artillery. The' King of PuussrA has had a legitimate descent down nein, and Burt his leg. , 'lle me& of constituting the Committees for eat mining and reporting on the contents of the Minis ter's Green Bags was noticed last night in the House of Commons. Mr. BROUGHAM enquired of Lord CASTLEREAGH, whether it was intended to empower the Committee to send fur persons, papers, and re cords, to which his Lordship answered that no such powers would be granted to the Committee, and that if any Member would propose to grant such powers, he should feel it his duty to oppose the motion. —This is exactly the mode of proceeding which we have anticipated. The same course is Is be pursued in the Upper House. According to -the notice, the ballot for a Committee on the sealed pa pers, is to take place in the House of Lords this day. The mode of appointing the Committees is expected to undergo some further discussion in the Commons this evening; but the ballot, which is still the mode of election recommended by Lord CASTLEREAGH, is proposed to be held to-morrow. The Carrot lATER• Poor. apprehends so little opposition, that be thinks the debate upon the mode of choice, and'the choice itself, may both be completed in one evenly/ ; Lord CASTLEREAGU, aware of much resistance in his more popuiardepartment, assigns a whole evening for the t. bate. It is indeed strange, but perfectly illustrative of the.object, that a mode of appointing Committees should be persisted in which deprives their enquiries and decisions of great part of the effect they are in tended . to produce: According to the Report which the Committee may make, will be the ulterior measures recommended to Parliament. Is not this reason suf ficient, that the Committees should be armed *kb proper powers to investigate the subjects upon which they are celled to decide, and that a most minute scrutiny should be instituted ? It is ridiculous to say that more ostensive powers ought not to be granted to the future than were possessed by the former Committees, for Ministers re. quired and were granted more extensive powers by the help of their preparatory Committees than they possessed before; and there is reason to believe, for respectable Members of these Committees have avowed the delusion, that had not the necessary end correct information been withheld at the time, the Suspension Act would not base been passed, and the history of the country would not have been stained by the innumerable oppressions co* mitted under it. The purpose of the Com. mittees, we yippee', is merely to have documents laid before them, sub silentio, and Ministers are to report upon them. Thwoiay as well' lay their papers before their own p e Secretaries or valets de chambre, Who know too well the wishes of their masters to run great risk in offending them by uttering diugreeable truths. It is asked, in de fers of this mode of smoothing the way to a Bill of Indemnity, " would it conduce to the maintenance of that dignity which ought to surround high and re. spostsibk Officers of State, that a -Minister of the Crown should be put upou his trial, and reduced to plead bis innocence at the will of 'very man who thought himself aggrieved?" We will osk, in return to this deprecation of all legal enquiry into the con duct of State Officers, in what their boasted respoo sibility consists, if no attempt should be made to in vestigate their motives and proceedinget The higher and more extensive their trust, the more should they be exposed to public trial, and the heavier ought to be the responsibility attached to the exercise of their duties. Innocence and conscious integrity ,ne►er shrink from the ordeal —critique!' alone fear the ex posure of their acts. They " bate the light because their deeds are dark." It is because responsibility has become a word without meaning, that we see the offices of the State, on which the de. stioies of millions depend,, filled with ignorant, ambitious, and avaricious pretenders to poli tical science; that such expeditions as Walcheren were projected, and were followed by no reopens. sibility ; that the blood and property of this country bars been sacrificed to re•plsce foreign Despots on their Thrones, and that the commercial interests of '••••*;• ,, " 4, ; prisons of the country have thrown back again epos, Society, where shall we find men of honour, and character to conduct the Executive Goveremesit."- f . Really this is begging the question indeed. No body 'of character will perforM the duties of the rich and• highly pampered °Aces of the State, not even, we soli. pose, the CAN town, or the young Roses, or the firtt of all responsible Ministers, CASTLERRAGH, unless lheie is not a JACK, or Is Tom, or a HARRY, whom they cannot frighten into silence. But have not even these lowlypersooages rights to preserveand to plead? "T he meanest insect that we tread epon,in corporal suferiog feels& pang as great, as when a giant dies." Bat what, if in this despised class of subjects, we trace the chant: tors and the rights of the majority of the British People? It is to escape from the demean of thee despised persons, expressed in no unconstititional manner, that the great Suite Functionaries who ate now surrendering - their extraordinary powers, be.. cause they cats no longer exercise them In pees" cbaias upon the People, are laying foundations for their indemnity, and their hirelings are vilifying the cries for justice. 'The advocates of the indemnity are Compelled to grant in their eqeivocsl manner, that Miuisters and their inferior authorities did not ja. diclously exercise the extraordinary powers assumed by them. " What," says the Courier, " though we grant the gratuitous assumption, that the powers ea. trusted under the Saspensiou Act, were not always cautiously I exercised ? What though we wane to admit, that one or two persons may baps been unnecessarily detained fls it unprece dented, that even in the calmest and most se. ruffled period of a nation's history, men may err ? This is crying fog. mercy in the ,roe casuistry of the Suspension School. But what if it can be made eat, as was selliciently obvious at the time, that the persons who were uuneceuarily made to suf. fer by the tyrannies of pewee, were seized le the @swiss of a Constit u dons! tight—that of petitioe. ing for-I'l4l4nm in Parliament ; and that it was stray thisConst t tional right and repress the will of tits co u ft!ey t t hot Ministers obtained andexerted their writ. ord►nary powers ? Is ibis an error to be lightly pulsed over, and will the Representatives of the Bri tish People, whose will - was thus thwarted, we hope only for a time, sanction an oblivion of such acts ? If they do, how can they again lay claim to representsech an abased People? We would recommend that the Committees of Enquiry should have the power of sending for sod examielng such persons as Meer :and his associates, as well as the injured men whose letters we insert in this day's Paper, hi addition to the similar interesting details we halm gives on the same subjects. We heartily rejoice la thi opportunity .forded es of congratulating the Public on a reduction to the price of Porter. The Golden-lane Brewery has publicly notified it deferents to public opinion, is the ascertained injesfice of the late rise, and has re. dined their charge to 51d. per pot. There is little doubt but the °tints great Breweries will follow this' ' example. If the reduction is made generally, a daily saving of upwards of a thousand pounds will have been made for the Labouring Poor of the Me. tropolis, through the exertions of a single individual, aided by a free and patriotic Press. If the ether Breweries bold out, it will furnish an additional illustration of the mischief of the arbitrary Licensing System; which, by interdicting the 'peeing of any new houses, prevents the Public from receiving ge. smelly the bowl of reduced prices thus offered to them. In either case the public importance of cos. petition most be manifested. On a former occasion, viz. in 1804, the Golden-lane Brewery saved the fAbsering Classes of. the Metropolis nearly a Mil lion sterling i one year's consumption, by caus;og reduction equal to Id. per quart. Yesterday the Dispatches were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the fol• lowing ships, via. Dunira, Capt. M. HAMILTON • Intl Castle lluntly, Capt. H. A. Davmstoxn, for Bengal end Chins. 'Patsenevss per Denira—For Bengal. Mr. R. C. Clyne. fac tor Mr. it. Isarlaw. writer ; Mr J. Poole,. free manner; Mr. ll—rsendellt Messrs. Peasbenne, Meade, Wean. carklf .Per. Ciwtie !lastly—roe B.mgsl. lira -rip Simmons Hews. Beanie. Ramsay Cvi..Liest. R. Pinney; Mr. D. 'S. Nippier ; Messrs. Herniae, Hurst. free. esinia..rst Messrs. Hamilton, Brown. Swinens, cadets. . The Anniversary of Mr. Fox's birth was rala meted at Edlnbargh, on Saturday sennight, with much spirit and conviviality. A numerous and re. spectable company assembled at M'Evmee, Royal &whence, GEORGE SEEMS, Esq. in the Chair, sup ported by Sir ALEIANDER RAMSAY, of Belellint Bart.; Sir CHARLES RAMSEY, of Pitferren, Bert.; Mr. MANSFIELD, of Midmar ,• Mr. SPIER/40f Cul. creed; ; Mr. Mums, of Lindertis ; Mr. ilt/NT, of Piftelieriec &c. &c. The lion. Wit.t.iam M.P. Croupier. Some energetic speeches in favour of public right., and in condemation of the recent Governmtpnt prosecutions were made, and a handsome sum was collsictr A Court M' ANnusw Mr of his Mojest: their conduct of December, of Ireton& dual, and paid anion which 57% ----7 ' r•rirz,,,,lr' . r° 4 1111117- ''''''!.Fy. l ' ' ' ' • ' 7 7' . - . . • • 4 *tg. I, j / • il instant have +re- gift gin how•beenteillillr i nfertY. If i`i lir'', Lincrrow arrived li eal at Peticellokst eistir Mg, lidepiel,joo sw a gr ai 1 1 disestase vs sbe l bo a te e ' asati, , estnahster WI has no triatnphs f 'intim, I, t i t v ie i re .„i . D„,.. „ -snd the boast o itish. isdicial authority reach. tur d. ; • y l egairr4 ing the high as tlarlowy leien9 to mph ? , r N ie t l • -I. with Awf. soy tongue in the ntry. It is thrown oat "se t t f inr Artiel_ i s 2 0 was ditiod.r. E impeachment, or I "equity, that" If this degrad. ing ordeal is to await a Minister, open, thstsorrend er isaie a sesis i oat b et th e of an extraordinary function, if be is to be 'seeable the, ai me d, negatived, to every Jaen, end. Tom, and MARY, whom the .- ......-`...5.... 91 1 1... C....* nrianno of An enontest Ita•ai a 11..... 11 , ...1.- ..--!- _ prosecutions were made, and a handsome Acted for Mr. Ilone. 411rtial was held on the 28th alt. on CaPt• ITCH ELL ) the Officers, and surviving crew des late sloop Martin, to enquire Into t on the occultism of her toss. an the 11th in Trlht I)iy, on the North-oe.t coast The Galin folly acquitted every iodic'. id a Ilitti•compliotent to the skill and et- I *Off/0,14 bit Copt.. PA trat:Lte 'Atop° • • . • --~.