The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-04 00:00:00

p #. ;s NEN' RUSSIAN T.IIIIIT. This document will be read with great interest by all perions connected with the commerce of the North of Europe: and for ourselves, we h a il with sincere plecsure the evid...rce this document affords of future heneta and encouragement to the manufactures of Great Britain. Many descriptions of goods, prohibited by the tariff which is in use at present, are to b wilted under the new commer cial regulation. •• e lt4o . ug these are printed cottons, and chintz, muslin, linen of all kinds, silk and half-silk manufactmls, and earthen-ware. Our co lonial trade, also, is likely to ih.ive material benefit, from the reduction by one-third of the original duty on coffee. Rill er Co- Roubles. perk•. Cotton Twist, white and dyed . per pood• 2 50 clYrTom DI tYVFACTIIIIRS. Unprinted clothi, cambric., fostiaos, scc. Muslims and all transparent thin staffs made of cotton . . . . ditto I PO 3. Printed cottons and rhints . . . . ditto I 40 THREAD EIANCIPACTrRES. I.inen, table-cloths, &c. Stockings, gloves, &c ditto 0 !Ace ditt.. 11 Ditto ordinary Silk ntannfactnres of all descriptions 11411 silk ditto, with rotton or wool . Silk ditto ' with gold or silver . . . Ilalf silk'ditto, with gold or silver . Sowing silk . . . , Worsted . . . . . . per pond 2 Earthenware • Bronze Cloth, under 27 itershock wide, by land . ditto Ditto, exceeding do. do. and by water herseymeres igonia I a nnel,baize, gloves, stockings, carpets, ditto 0 lamblets, stamets, moreens, woollen tape, &c. Merinos and fine stuffs I offee Hew sugar Refined ditto, in loaves and crushed Liquors of all kind remain as before. • The pood is about 901 b. weight. ON THE POOR I-111N. so 61) 25 41) GO WI 35 20 One of the chronic diseases of the State, o hick, without a complication of other ills, it must waste away until death, is the dreadful system of the Poor Laws. The drain upon the nation's vi tality grows worse and worse every day, and it affects not only the financial economy of the coun try, but its morals : a more fatal inroad than the other. Previous to our taking up the subject more at large, we will give our readers the means of duly contemplating its magnitude, by laying the following well drawn up facts before them. As the plan which it is intended to pursue with re gard to the Forest of Dartmoor, appears to he con nected with some alterations in the system of the Poor Laws, we will briefly consider the nature and effects of that branch of our legislation—one that more than any other affects the condition of that class of people whose dist at present call so loudly or rommisseration and relief. The original error of the Poor Laws is to be found in the spirit of legislat ing for that which should be left free, because liable to be affected by causes not to be foreseen—we mean human industry. The intention, indeed, of the fruiters of the Poor Laws was not to confront indus try, but to wore a provision for those persons whom t.ii.kness, old age, or accident, rendered incapable of supporting themselves. They dill not mean to construct, at a vast expense to the community, an asylum to render rofligary seen re, and make idleness perpetual. No —such was not their design ; but benevolence may produce as much mischief as a malignant principle, if the means to which it has recourse should happen to lie absurd. And, giving every credit to the spirit of h ttttt anity which first dictated the code that regulates parochial relief, it is not very difficult to show that its character is not that of wisdom. For this purpose it is hest to look to its mi rth The principle of the sTstem does not, as some scppose, appear for the first time in the reign of Eli zabeth : its rudiments may he found as far back as th e 13th of Richard 11., arid the litth of Henry VII ; by both which Acts the poor were directed to abide in the cities and towns wherein they were horn, or in which they had dwelt for three years; but they con tained no clause by virtne of which means could he taken to compel that confinement to the parish which hiss since given rise to so many and Ms _perplexed enact ments. It was the Statute of the of Henry VIII. which first, in some measure, enforced what the former ones had only advised. In die reign of Henry VI. hospitals were founded by royal bounty for the support of the sick and infirm; and Hridewell was erected to furnish suitable employment to voluntary and sturdy idlers. Still, however, many persons remained destitute, who were not in a condition to labour, and many refused to work, and chose an idle and vagabond existence, who were folly adequate to the duties of useful employment. These, no doubt, were existing evils which required a remedy, hot in the choice of that remedy, some attention ought to have been bestowed upon the original cause of the distemper which it was Intended to eradicate. That cause was to be found in the mistalten or inter ested Charity, which went hand in hand with super stition in a 'barbarous age. The monasteries which then overspread the country, and which were so ex ceedingly active and successful in drawing to them selves the choicest inheritances of the rich, practised a meretricious hospitality to endear to them the lower classes, and doled out a portion of the spoils of the opulent in alms and gratuities, -in order to strengthen themselves in the affections of the people, and a character of sanctity in the opinion of . The consequence was, as might be naturally , that great numbers who had been bred up to a toil, chose rather to Wiwr shunt the gates of a my, and await the stated hours of distribution, continue at any labour which suited her ter fart manly state of 'independence. The contagion of as thus engendered, spread most dangerously to labouring portions of time community, to the grea t ' of the spirit and character of the people; for, , ...7116 - 1 7 iSh' - ii the public. expected, tl life of toil, monastery, thou to eon with a mat idleness th the !Oxtail • detriment THE STATESMAN. besides the lose of indolence, there was also a charm in a state of dependence on so holy a protection as that of the Church, which made the receiving of alms a:spear not so degrading as, under other circumstances, it must have been. It is not, therefore, surprising that the number of idle, sturdy, and yogrant poor, increased so much as it slid, even in so industrious a nation as Englam!. Nor is it wonderful that, at the period of the supl•ression of monasteries, there should be thrown destitute and incor►igible, upon society, crowds of lusty mendicants, who were inveterate in the abject habits to which they had be ,) fil long inured. . The evil was 1i felt in society, but legislators, overlooking the cause oleic% had thrown such a man of poverty upon the hands of the State, seemed rather to consider how they could provide new temptations for that indolence which hail lost its original support, than to cut off any prospect of relief but what was to arise from the legi timate source of honest industry. v nit.. A. O 1011,lin O (itiernsey and Jersey .. I 0 I)ollenburgli O Ilainburgh PRICE OF lIITOCKS THIN I:ank Stork 3 per Cent. Red. mit 08 67i 3 per rent. Cons. 3% per Cent. 711:II 4 per Cents. 1 0 .1%ifi per Cent, N . 8% 1 Long 'lnn. 17 Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann. 6111 ILA. ARR. DV F. • Holland • Fliinders . . O France Ism 11 Malta DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Intlir g'•rk 1)11 lc Ss. is. pr. 1,11 Annuities Ex. Bills. Yd. Is. 4S. 2s. dls. Ditto Com. Ili Cons. 'or Ar. Otti P+;:.?1 se 1,011.1 Pekes .tI9 1$ 1110 H WATER AT LONDON-11111MR THIS DAY. Morning, 27 min. after 4.—Afternoon, 43 min. after 4. 0 D O N: TLTIMV, JANI ARS' .1, 1820. In the absence of Parliamentary proceedings, it is difficult to adopt subjects sufficiently interesting to engage the attention of our readers, whom we well know are not of the dandy breed, or slip slop quality, to be amused by a story of Lady CR !MET T---'a ,Inshing appearance in going up Pall-mall to Carlton House, in her Ladyship's new chair, with her two nrcitmental footmen be- I hind her : whose exact height was live feet ten and a half, with not the thickness of a gold leaf between them in measure. Not that we think the proceedings in either house will, tinder the same regimen, ever excite the same notice again which they have done—we mean as far as reve rence may he blended with that notice: we arc sure that they will not. They have done too much injury to the feelings of the British people.to be beloved or esteemed. They have wholly lost ours: and it will require snore million to deport our selves in a manner so as to avoid the invocation of that power which they will be able to carry about them as long as they will have a political exist ence: and which they will doubtless be more ready to exercise than ever, when they discover the true light they are held in. The one House has long been doing too much for itself and too little for its eonstituents ever to be trusted with entire confidence again and the other has shown a most unjustifiable and odious readiness to fall into the views, the passions, and the fathomable schemes of an upstart Lord. while the enormity of the act could only be softened in its asperity by being the production of a Peer, whose creation wes invisible from its remoteness in antiquity. The proceeding, ton, has the appearance of having been prompted by malignity: it certainly has been accompanied by a detestable pride. But tyrants, whether of the petty or other tribe, oftentimes, nay, generally, add insult to outrage. Ours Las, in his place in the gjeal Council of the Nation, ap plauded himself (as he advised the PRINCE RE GENT to applaud the Manchester Magistrates and Yeomanry for the slaughter and maiming of the 16th of August), he has displayed a self-exult ation, that his obnoxious Bills had already ope rated wonders by the great terror they bad in spired !! That they had occasioned a conster nation all over the kingdom we will not delay; for, till this instance, it never entered into the imagination of any man but a Parliamentary man, that the Court, Council, and their majority, would venture to set about making laws for abro gating parts, and those chief parts, of the CON STITUTION of their Country. We should hale rested assured in our own minds, that whatever the upper House might have been induced to do, out of gratitude and respect for those who can create and extend titles, that in the Common* House we had friends enough to join in the well-known motto or exclamation—" &to perpetua," when the unhallowed bands would begin to pull down this venerable palladium of an Englishman's liberties. This it is which urged us to declare that we slundd despise our countrymen, if they could be made more submissive and silent on their wrongs by pro ceedings so &Trading, so unjust, so insulting, as those which may be presumed to have arisen from the Home Secretary of State's partly barbarous and partly babyish proceedings, which necessarily include the extracts of letters from A B—B C C D—up to the top of the gamut, and down to the foot of the alphabet. No; our countrymen are, no doubt, astounded for the moment, as we were, but we are well assured they are not such coward as to resolve to accommodate their hacks to bear all the weight their oppressors would put upon them, an.: tamely submit to all the arbitrary mandates an upstart race of despots would prescribe them. The patriotic and sensible letter of the majority of the Oldham Inquest, to the Coroner, inserted in our Paper of yesterday, cannot fail to impart satis faction to the lover of justice, and the enemy to murder, whatever may be his political professions, or hit opinions of the merits or demerits of our pre sent men in power. Ileaven forbid that an inquiry into the cause of the hidden and sudden death of a fellow-creature should he a matter of indifference with a Briton! wherever that happens, worse than " Chaos is come again." The age of Satan will return ; and murder will stalk abroad to the dis may of every heart but the savage one! No; let us leave an inquiry: a HI, fair, and impartial in quiry. " justieig, rest cerium." In the Chamher of Deputies, on Tuesday last, a Report wrs n.uJe of a petition of the Sieur Marie- Duplan, an Orrcer of the Legion of Ilonour in Paris, complaining of the reduction that was made in his pay as a member of the Legion. . . General Foy said, that Captain Marie-Duplan, the petitioner, was a brave Officer, who lost a leg by a can non shot at the battle of Salamanca. Nearly 14 years, he said, have now passed away since the creation of the Legion of Honour. Alms)int . power has, not then effaces, the forms of the Representative Government. The law of the 29th Floreal, year X. was freely discussed before the Legislative Body. The new institution was called to be prolonged to future r and a dotation was as signed to It. Already advaucsol in glory, even on the Slay of its birth, its sta • at once gleatu . ed with a lively splendour. The Legion of Honour held its ground by its own funds, and by its material establishments. It marsised at the head of the social interests for its own especial object, the strengthening of the re sults of the Revolution. The law of creation had proportioned the number of titn!aries of each rank to the dotations assigned, but the unmeasured develope ment of our military power soon rendered it insignifi cant. A crowd of incrative employments were at length reserved to the Legionaries; the public schools received the sons of those, who, dying on the field of battle, had left the head of the State to he the father of their child ren. Asylums were opened for their orphan daughters, to p eeeee re them fr the corruption of morals. The I war overthrew Napoleon, who was raised and aggran- I diced by war. The King, remounting the throne of his ancestors, judged, that a new order of things was ince riably established in France, by the voluntary or forces part which two entire generations had taken in th e events of the 25 last years. The King solemnly conse crated for himself and for his successors for ever, the material and in interests of the Revolution ; the material interests in acknowledging the sale of the pro perty called National, the immoral interests in reeog suing the order of the Legion of Honour. The guarantee mentioned is the 12th Article of the Charter is a personal proof of the Royal beneficence of Louis XVIII. By that the King wished to mark the high esteem in which he held oar institution. The Orders of Saint Michael, of the Holy Ghost, and of Saint were founded by unpopular Princes.—(Violent murmurs.) lienerai Foy, with relimenre—" Yes, very nopo pithr. fur they were Louis XI. Henry 111. and Louis XIV." M. de Catutelbajac—tt We acknowledge no one to be unpopular but Napoleon." General Foy continued-11e said, that the Legion of Honour, which had been hitherto given as the price of Wood, and hail been lavished at once upon men who had de eilered only o b scure or unknown services. on men who had nev,T !wen warmed by the fire of a bivouac. Ile declared that the reduction of the pay of the Legion of llot o ir appeared to him a bankruptcy, and a fraudu lent bankru,►tey. The Chamber remitted the petition to the President of the Council of Ministers awl the Committee of the Budget. BERLIN, DEC. 12.—We learn that Jahn is very diligently at work in his confinement, on a history of the Thirty-years War; and it may be reasonably expected.that he will produce something excellent. Ins examination is said not to have been brought down later than the year ISIC, respecting whirls period and the union then existing un ler his direction, many of the members have been examined ; among these are —Zeune Starke, Turin Grasshof, and also Jandke, who at that time gave information of it. That such a union existed is proved! ; and thus Mr. Shemitz is justified, who asserted it : whereas those who boldly denied it are proved to have been in the wrong. Bat whether the union hail at that time the same dangerous tendency as that which arose (according to an English Journal of the 16th of September thus ( year) in ISMM, is now to he male out from the pa pers. The book of the constitution of this union has been accidentally or designedly destroyed. It is to he conjectured that it was wholly directed against Napoleon, and had in view the desirable union of tier many, without any intention of having recourse to poison or the dagger. Dr. Rodiger, who was released some slays ago, has been again arrested. It is said that a clue has been found towards the discovery of the cor respondent of the English jostrnal, whose articles of the lOth and 16th September have not been inserted, as far as we know, in the French, Netherlands, or Ger man papers, though they throw much light on what are called the secret intrigues. The deputation of the so ciety of German merchants and manufacturers has met with a most friendly reception at Berlin, and has reason to hope that the Prussian government will promote the intentions and proposals of the German merchants. FRANKFORT. DEC. 21.-1:le Gazette of Munich contains the followino. article:—" It is certain that , a plan has been formed to establish a printing c—ce at Strasburg; that six German compositors had already arrived there ; and that it • was in tended to print in that city all such works as can not be published in Germany, on account of the late Resolutions of the Diet at Frankfort It was alsi intended to print a newspaper of the same ten •leriev. %.Ilich would afterwards have been circu ilateti on the right bank of the Rhine. We have 'now received certain information that the French Government, far from tolerating such a project. Ihas prohibited the executioa of it, and that posi tive orders have been received on the subject from I Paris." . •2 ' II 3 . 6 `. ~•. TRH FUNOS. • STOCK ENCIIANGK, Owe o'Cloe. The Funds still continue to rise. Consuls • the Account were done yesterday as high as 6 , ;. • . which they left off. This morning they opened that price, and in consequence of their being of money stock for the day, they declined at G hut have since resumed their former pricz% '0 • market looked very favourable towards a fart elevation. A failure of a firm of hitherto great respects', *. lity was made known on 'Cliairre yesterday—it supposed to a very considerable amount. A dim' - pointment of expected remittanci.s, to repay most; advanced its England for the Sluth Arncric 4 cause, is said to be the occasion of their suspytt..- ing their payments. Mr. John Green, of the firm of Birch and Greeo. of Sheffield, was formally outlawed on l'uesda• last at midnight, in the hay-market of that towa. for not appearing in the limited time before the Commissioners, under a commission of bankruptc:.. DEMOURIER, the once-eulArated French Re publican General, now in t! , , k , ;1 1 ) year of his a 4.•. is at this time in London. :.eel siWag to an art;• • for his portrait. This vetertto, iu the course of numerous campaigns, has Imo v minded at let..! twenty times. BRUSSELS, DF.C. 30.—8 y tha accOlMiS we To. - ccive from the Hague, it appetirs that very want debates are expected in the Seclaid Chamber ki; the States-General, upon the ello!)ters of the new codes which have been laid her:l-e it for examina tion. It is observed that public opinion is not ver favourable to those parts of these codes which hats been hitherto published. MEINENGEN, DEC. 2t.—ln this city, where pab lic opinion had so clearly exprersed itself respect ing the injury done to the town aid country 1w the increase of the pt tlr 00711.114'1"CP of the 3(4 , 5, limits have been fixed to its fintlinr spreading by a Ducal Onlinanee. sir this Orilinalye, it is decree that the nneteher ofJe !no-remota.. es•ahlishments nue existing shall not he rewired Hitless peculiar c!rriite stances should occur. and without pernii ...ion from the Cc verntnent. The Jews are still allowed to deal in mannf o • . tured goods by retail, so far as it is iwt cow rary to the vileges of the Guilds or Companies. nail existing Ord:. names. Retail trade in colonial pro dnee is prohibited t all Jews. They are forbidden to hawk goods about to sell, as well in the ctanutry as in the towns, they only m"r hawk about goods al fairs, and one day 'oefore and after. No licenses to trade will be given to foreign Jews. IRUN, DEC. 25.—The Kin. of RN& has ordered a corps of 5 or 6,003 chosen tl'oops to be dispatcht d im nediately to .join General MoriHo. Orders have bean sent to Cadiz. :old it is supposed that this 6r.1 part of the expedition will sail about the 2fitli of January. Lis impossible to form an idea of the general astonishment caused in ail Spain by the forged orders for the march of the regiments of Militia. The Mime:lse rewords offered in the King's name to him who shall reveal the authors or this plot, have hitherto been without effect. Meantime it is certain, that resolutions layout-at:le to a great part of our exiles had been taken, awl were on the point of being published, which are now deferred, because this inconceivable manceuvre is attributed to the party of the Liberals. Extract of a letter, dated Edinburgh, Dec. 27, 1t3!9-" The quie!est flare, and the most devoi.t in outward appearance, I hove seen for long, is Clostrow, as we saw it yeaterdav daring divine service. The calm and depopulated appearance its streets exhibited whilst church was assembled, was most strikia ,, .. and even at " grim Tollcross" itself we saw nothing indicative of its reported ter bulent state, say:: a-so!dier or two, without order a without arms, were sauntering here and there. I could not help feeling that these were strong proofs that infidelity is not so much abroad here as is ap prehended. and that the result of our own observa tion would be far more comfortable and cheering to . our minds than the gathering reports from a dis tance. Neve ,. in nor hest times could Senday have had the oppvaratice of bring mlre rz.vectfully re 0-arded." One hundred and thirty new dramatic pieces (says a French paper) have ar.pearcd at Pa►i dtarinz the year 1319. In the preceOing year ona hundred and forty-nine were produced. Sitiings appointed in Middlesex and London. be fore the Hon. Sir Robert Deltas, I(ot. Lord Chief ittstieo of his Majesty's C.-7i of Common Pleas. at NVetniinater, iu and after Hilary Term, 1820: 7 f li : (• . r IX TER.Y. MITLFSIM. &SUWON,. Torsd.ay . . . Jan. 25 l i Wednesday . . he. IS hioniiay . . . . 31 1 Tuesday . . . Pek I Monday . . . Fob. 7 Tuesday AFTER TERM. MOMI:ty .. . Feb. 14 Tuesday . . Feb. 11 The celebrated horse Jupiter, by Sir Oliver, is onw the property of Mr. Underhill, horse-dealer, near this town.—(Shrewelairy Paper.) On the night of Sidonlay week, about 12 e'elnrk, the house of Mr. Drennan. farmer, is Wotan ne ar Ayr, was attacked by a hand of armed misere A nts, wt v o forced the inmates to deliver up 'all the bank notes anolt silver they possessed. with three silver watches, and plundered the house of evrry thing they thought worth taking. They deliberately )teiligh candles, ransacked the drawers, threatened olt•ath to whoever would make any resistance, and obliged every one in the house to take an oath that they wcold not make . known the feb• beq. The ruffians were tiro hours and three quarters in nflinT the house, dioring which time tdoi burned one pound of candles, and dran't one bottle of whiskey sad two of gin, which were among the articles they hid Means were immediately taken to 6a I oat the depredators, who proved to be an Irish latnditti, win load been committing other rohheetes lately. Neveml sh'rts stolen from Borland were disrovered t in the cus tody of these viliains. In the •.ouse of ohe of the ridli.tus there ass found n flag, hearing the word ut'obin;" and also a pole. They mad./ their escape; hut it is expected ese this some of them w:1I be in cut tody, . *tatedmatt. (N. IL THE " BRITON, sT.ITES.V. IV' ►s rvconronArso n . ITN " TuE S7'. TEN 1/.1 N.'')