The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-01-28 00:00:00

/~"_" ir .i.r. pert it. votive dissppearanee. in the HOP manner as the Gold 1i...0h had diseppeered ender eineilar cir conistences. lie also wished to aNit the Right Hon. Cent'omen whether. if the fact was as be had stated and believed it to be, be (the Chan. of the &cbi. quer) was prepared with any expedient toereeatarset the effect of igen an operation an the contliertie and ineiustrt of the country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that the House mom be sear. be could not inirno.liettoly erisorr serb • gawks us that proposed to Lim hy the lion. Gentlemen. All he could say sta., that elthough be had fiesta of the circumstance edveried to by the lion. Gentleman. be bad himself knowledge of the feet; and he bad reason to be lies., that olielever might be the high price of Silver at the present moment, It would aot be of ion con. Sentience. _ _ 114NIC OF E4GLAND. Mr PROTHalsl : ;PapreseiCbia hope that some Ilnn. lil.•mt•er, who was one of the Directory of the of England, mesa object to the Committee •pl.ninted to investigate their capacity le resume Cash Payments being • secret owe; because it was most important that the Committee appointed to ex amine let f.ct should retry with it the public e.dr Gdmice, end be icy wierti doubted whether the Re peat of a Secret Committee woald be so sccose ponied. Mr. MANNING obsetveat, that for one, he was booed to discharge bia duty in that Ileeseas • MMU- S*, of Parliament, sad oat all a Bank Director, and that Ise site•ld be ineemaced in his conduct by • strict referent...to that consideration. The CHANCRLLOR of the EXCHEQUER that if Hon. Member for Bristol world refer to tie Report of the Committee, in 1797, be would not And any Wog which precluded t►e Politic from be coming prememed of all the considerations on which that Report was fosaded. He now gave antic*, that on Tuesday nee be would move for • Committee of Secrecy on t►e state of the Bank of England, with re ference to the resumption of Cash Payments at the period now lined by law, and on ether matten con mested therewith. Mr. TIERNEY observed, that the last espreuion used by the Right lion. Gentleman wen obscure.— It might mess that which he (Mr. Tierney) wished to tante for, and it might not. The motion which be (Mr. 'Dewy) intended to make. incleded the whole 'object. Did the Right Hon. Gentleman object to his modes? The Right Ilan. Gentleman said that be would move for a Committee of Secrecy. Ile re. quested Min to state, as a matter of candour, whether or not he meant to prepore that the Committee should be chosen by ballot ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re. plied, that be meant to propose that the Committee shoeld be constituted as Secret Committees always were. If the Right lion. Gentleman's notions did wet spite with his, both their notices might still stand. Mr. TIERNEY observed, that the Right Hem Gentleman's notice at present, was different from that which he originally gale ; which was armload to a mere enquiry Into the cipacity of the Bank to teatime Cs•h P•vments. Of that he (Mr. Tierney) ball no doubt. uldect was to institute a more gettersl ►. iul.y , i n order that should the resumption of Cash 'coats be further postponed, the House and the artistry faiths act with their eyes ones). lirss that the Right lloti. Gesolernan's object ? If so, 10 tthe Right Hon. Gentleman say so. so. he (Mr. Tierney) would by no memos ishject to the I•re. pe•it 11. Or was tl.e Right II .n. Centleinalel only tot.. tiro to oppose hint (Mr. Tierney) ar all evenu—te contend that what ha himself prnposed Ins tie', and whs. he (Mr. Tierney) t .rnpoee•' was wrong? In other word., did the Hie t Rom Ctn. Omen mean the same thine 111 h. (Mr. Tiernes ) did ? the Right Hon. Gentleman tweed gone rally t his prepositioa, and if the Committee were impartially chosen, be would net object to his two bon. • After some farther esplanatiow by the Chancellor of the Esrherpser. Mr. TIERNEY asked, ff ha would limit the en. qeiry by the Secret Committee to the simple fact— whether or not the Rank would be prepared to pay in Cash on the sth of neat J.•'a ? To this the CHANCFLLOIt of the EXCHF.- QUER replied, that he n lest to propose the Com mittee for the same purpoies as those for which the Committee was appointed is 1797. Mr. TIERNEY finally said, that he had done all that he ceeld to avoid unnecessary discussion. but that Deb being the determination of the Right Hon. Gentleman, be most persevere in the course of which be bad given notice, for every one knew what world be the Report of • Committee appointed by ballot. ELECTION PETITION. A Petition frost Lord C. Townsiend, complainiog of an wedge morn for Tantwortb. was ordered to b. taken into consideration on Tuosdiy, the 9th of March.—Adjoornori. FILENGH PAPERS. PARS, JAW. 23.—The presence of one of the En glish Princes el the Blood et Ike solemn ceremony re. *lusted ,n the chorch of St. Denis, to the memory of Loaiv XVI. ' presented an intermitieg particelarity. The Hike of Gloucester, and suite of four personages, ettired like the Prince in sanitary ouiform, were con i;uctecl by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies to! a rest in front of the Members of the Royal Fa-1 oily. 'rho. bench reserved her the illustrious trawl- ; tor was that which is G enerally appropriated for the of the Coors ; hie Il.o)tal Highness invited two Ladies who were on the secoud bench to take their seats near him. The Prince *ore, as mourning i n siguis black pantaloons and a c re p e scarf, and appeared deeply affected tiering the resoling of the pious will, to which he listened with remarkable at tention. Ili, (I nl et Highness will set off on Toratiey nett for lontalohleao, eccompanied by Prince de Tal 'eyelid, where he will remain several days. It is asserted, that eight slays sin a coorier,charged with very importait dispatches, left this capital for Rome. It is not known whether these dispatches are relative to the etclesiasikal affairs of France, or to the C o ronation 8011. The Relletio of tie &ewe, No. 157, which has iest bent published, contains a Royal Ordiusoce, 'IIIF, S'll/11'ESNIAN dated the tirb inst which assigns a pension of Io.ono Noes to Coent Comsat°, is recognition of his din. Iloggished amines as Minister of Financ►. A Coronets astronomer be* predicted the weather of the present year. The spring, he says, will rem. w►nee early; the unnihs of March and April will he very bur; all the harvests will be abundant, the cherries end prunes alotm will fail ; the wine will be of eacellent quality, and •hove all v►re saccharine, but there will he less of it than in ISIS; there will be anmedry fogs in the month of August, and she snout" of September will have souse very cold days I it. Thine who live near volcanoes dhoti be on their !guard, for there will be many eruptions, preceded btr earthquakes. Two Comets will approach our Planet, bet not to rause any evil. They will be with. out tails, and (dud ala Titus. So says the Gazette de Bayreuth. The cause of General Sourish, will not be tried this Assize, as was 'tweeted, as the General has appealed ■gcinst the indictment. French Funds, Jan. 22.—Five per Cents. 08f. 20r. Bank Stock, 15C0f. PNICh, OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OSP. O'CLOCK. Haat , ttnek 9744 5 per Cent. Navy 11,1:1 1 pet rent. Red. 79 I India !km& WI li7 p 1 re, rest. fnit.t.ts 74 Long Ann. 10 7-16; 9; pet Cent. FMI Eteiwtinet Kill. 19 15 p I now!. fur Arr. 7% limning' 4 pre Croat. 97; EYT4INI. fliftek-Proker. 9, ..n.14,11, nod ion Abell.? t0r.,11. TH X STATESMAN. LO A' OU N : IRURIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1819. Eldred of letters from Port d'Erpogne, Tlini. dad, dated the 15th and 29th of Not►mber, from a Gentleman who left Angestua the beginaing of that month : _ . " Colonel W. left here the day before I arrived (the Ilth inst.) for England; he Iraq pet out of the country by an order from Hoursa : be is in a mighty rage, and I em told intends joining the Royalists. He says he will bring a ship from ling. land, and take every thin in the going to, or cooled from the Orinoco." GLORIOUR NEWS FROM MAROARITTA. " Commodore AUNT has taken that fine ship IA Nymph, mountiog 30 guns, in the Culph of Mesico. She chased AUNT% vessel, which is smaller, bet fell , of see, say 180, all Enelishmeo. IA Nymph sailed I so much superior to Altair that she soon was along. side; lashings were immediately ordered, and AUNT headed his men, sayiag,' Board her, my boys, she is ours; 150 men immediately poured on her rigging and deck, end in 40 minutes she was taken, bet that bravo fellow, Avec, was killed is the attack. The person who has brought this news says, that from , Coinana to Paseo Calsello, not even a canoe an : leave the Mein without being taken by the Patriots. Yoe slily rely on what I write you to be a fact, as I the authority is Royalist. I " Colonel PINOT dromees greet wised, so fa: I sties; I. bus drilled, in the rifle eastrcise. • battalion, consisting of about 400 men. They were reviewed by Boctv get, who was math pleased with them, sad at , a &ones he gale be expressed himself to some of his own offirers, laying, that be hoped they would now confess that there was, at least, one Officer amongst the foodeners. " All are now in high spirits, and think there is very little danger of the clew; for, from every thing I can learn, the 'lest campaign most put an end to the I power of Spain in this quarter. " blgatao has fallen hack on Malaria in cows quince of the defection of MONAuuS, before Cuss ' ea, bet has succeeded in collecting his forces. BOLITAIII is I. inspect MARINOs Division, as ss all the posts op to San Fernaltdo. 'best re turn■ lo Angusiors to form the Cumuli, which com mences on the first of the hear with a new Cede of Laos, lio is sot to join the army any more." The noon of Lords was yesterday oecophmi chiefly with the Petition presented by Lord Hot.- LAND, from the City of London, for a revision of the Criminal laws, and the consideratios of sirb Bill, in a Committee, for the care of his MASOTTI'S per. son, and the &Deletions in the Wiadiorlatablish !sent. On reference to the former obleet s Soil of Lt vsseoor., who was compelled to admit thigliateissing fact, that the communion of crimes had settle yes" greatly *stressed is this coststry ; and w id not avoid taking some sort of notice of the arsosi of this 'net's'', thltisiseethliblt West the mailer before their Lordships is each s iisHrt of 'Uw e 's titbit ob scured than esplehred IS t in the vague new-invested phrase, to a transition Nisi a state of war to a state of pease. 'lt is notorious; ever, that the cause proceeds not from the allerg transition from a state of war, bat from having been involved in ir,—from the load of Debt end Tales which she progress of she war created, soil which hhve impose ri.lred, or drained indeed, the resources of the Peo ple of the Country, that would have laudably em ployed their time and talents, sad lawfully supplied their wants. What proves the fast is, the times at which this entrees, ire (nand to be moat romp'. conus and alarming. It was experienced, as the Marquis of Lasitrown observed, in a period of peat*, and in some degree tiering the eastinsance of oar. In the Committee on the Bill rtypeatliog the Eats blishments at Wiudsor, Lord 11oLtaso remarked, Oat tboegh Lord Irekajoor, bad !Totem the day be- i. _. _—_-____ ,------ • e fore of an intention to rodeos these Establishments. there seemed to be intention only, for the Bill itself made no prevision for any reduction. At a time wisen'the appointments can forilar neither diguily nor comfort to the unfortunate Kist:, and only snake additional berthas to the unfortunate otiosity, nd fewer than for Lords of the Bed-chamber are to be kept in office. In fact, it appalls from the declare- Hoe of Lord Ltvuteoor., that notwithstanding all the promises and prospects of retrenchment held out by Ministers, and notwithstanding lire tarsi I cry for economy and the redaction of that grievous source of 'Waviest:a and certupt influence, the Wiedser FAtablishmeet, it is actually intended to give to the Duke of YORK for taking care of his infirm parent, an establishment equal to that enjoyed by the late Qualm! The Earl of I.tvra• roor.,i odeed,ssid it was precisely Bawer es that of her late MAJ my. Such Is the measure of retrenchment which our moat just, considerate, and economical Mi nisters are disposed to grant to the nine... 1141 and with., of Ostia's/dry, and such are the mighty adsan 'ages which it is to derive f rem I be late importaat events, Changes take place sad mast needs come, but no changes appear for the better to this impoverished and abased nation. As to the intention to redure, still professed by Ministers, we suppose that will not be carried into effect until the Bank resent, Cash riy. meats, and that we fear will not take place till the March the CHARCELLOR of the Examines talks of, shall sweep of with Its winds all the dregs of Cur. ruption, and usher in the Millennium. In the House of Commons, Mr. Oacirst.t., ad verting to the surcease io the price of silver over the Mint price (as much as three-halfpence in the ounce), wished to ken, if the CHANCELLOR of the Excli EQU co was prepared *ids any expedient which would coun teract the disappearance of the silver likely to take place, under such circumstances, unless measure of prevention were taken ! Mr. Viestrraer replied, that be was not aware that the fact was as the lien. Member had stated it ; but if it was, he had rea son to think silver woold not long remain at that ad vanced price. Mr. TotttiLy wished to aye the House! the trouble of a long debate on Tuesday neat, re specting the affairs of the Bank, if the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER woold have consented, Ist, that his Secret Committee should be chosen by the House, and not by belief ; and 2dly, that the Committee should be directed to report whether the Bank be in a condition to resume Cash Payments io July neat. To neither of there would thu Right lion. Gentleman agree; his determination being, that the Committee shall be billeted for, as in 1797 ; sod that it shell only have the same powers to act, and ditties to perform, as were granted to, and required of, that Committee. The object at which the CHANCELLOR of the Excnieuca aims, le thus attempting to top plant Mr. TIERXTE'S motion, is evident enough ; but thealb the etutisea of the Minister be designed to' 1 j'ettleiWt eras other able sod Honourable Member, the public cannot be so jostled out of their senses 1 as net to discern the artifices empleivesi to keep them, , if possible, in the dark, nr in a delusion respecting the finances of the cowry. The Committee to be proposed by the Minister is to be a Committee of ISecrecy, sad the Members of that Committee are to be chosen by ballot'. One of the satires to which the attention of the House of Commons was yesterday called, was whet is termed, its the language of Pediment, a Breach of Privilege. RoSFIRT COMM E BURTON, Esq. who had been elected for the Borough of Beverley, had, it seems, while meditating to discharge his public duty iii Parliament, been retained in consequence of I certain canopies of a peivate nature. in the custody of the Warden of the Fleet; and daffier, sebmitted 1 his case to the Hoes*, in order that be might take the i seat to which be was entitled ! The American State Parrs which we have in part inserted in our Paper of this day, may be consider ed as Documents of high impovisoce ; act only to the People of the United States and their 'Cavern meat, but in a Diplomatic view es to their relations sills other States. The whole business is contained in a letter from Mr. ADAM% the American Secretary of State, to the Republican Minister at the Coon of Madrid; and while it should seem to be professed ly an anon to Don PItAINO on the procrastinated 'object of the Floridas, it is made the vehicle of ea labial's, by its timely poblication, a sketch or paint ing of a trausaction which cannot be done away without stirring op the opinions of the Publicistr is every civilised Nation on the face of the globe. The greater part of the letter, which, at settinuisti• might seem devoted to the discussions on the Se minole war, is occupied by the mods-talked of topit of the military meatiest of Aeoeviartor and Am lIRISTES ; which, by many of the alit'', in America es well as in England, is denominated by the on qualified terms of " military meatier." This sig nal transaction, in every point of view, cannot but be affectitig to the friends of hunsassity in every country in general, and to the good, or otherwise, understanding of the two Governments in par. 'icon,. Bet, perhaps, it will be better to lay the I whole of the commenkation before our sealer' (it is ton long for owe insertion) ere we make' our mind op folly to the qoalifieation of the deed of the American Commander (Jgcuvou): in the moan time we may say, that we never ten ad mit that a General of an army should bare absolute X - 4 itt\ll casts,over Ale lives cif his pe;ioners,and be amenable on nn cothotity oo wilt far his c oncluc . I : Thimeld tuk t io threw dust all tbe bailie,' that writ Cu the Les .f Citil d Nations hate so landably, and h) the enrral n.rnt of men in ft. duty, Ilk tip for c.fiebilig the rigouts cf narrate.— Let it not be said that men r f such voliciotrned ruiner as pyreEN DOR Tr, Gccrit. s. V ATTEL, &c. base lived and written so many volumes in lain. reds l'spers le the 25th isslatil Lave suited. Neither of the Chambers sat on &Hartley. O• londay, the Chamber of Deputies was to meet, t• receive several Reports, incl•diug that for ',Wing on the Doke of Ricti•Liru, and his heirs male, ■n estate of 50,0(0f. • year. The King trammel baseness, on Saturday, •ith the Marquis Dt.sw.t.c•, the Minister for Fors ign Alois& General MAUI% is said to lone been appointed to the Covernorshirt of the Ist Military Disision, 'stint by the death of Marshal I'FRIGNOX. The Coontess of Gotrr.surs (Queen of Sweden) is seriously ill. TI.. • idea of (.rnert•l MOREAU bus made • present of bet but. hand's tst,re to the of Ssrs•t.~tr. The vdvires fr r Madrid, in these Firers, ►each to the inst. They stele that, at the begioning of the month, tie talic tranquillity was on the point of bring dittos bed at Valenc•a, by a second plot avina the (;r:vernnr, Get, ELto. The Orins( baring been apprised ri the reodesvous of the con. spiritist* (aitiossig whom um sever,.; Officers), re. patted thither with a fee guards. One of the partite ■ttschrd him with a poniard, bet only woondrd ham in the arm, for which attempt be paid the forfeit of his life, the General ba►is g run Was throosh the heart with his sword. The Jest of she min. 'pirating were apprehended without atecasloolog vls slightest interruption of the public pram Accoupta had teethed Cadiz from Vera Cri.a, to the 20th of September. Father Torras, at the bead of a body cf MO men, continurd to annoy the roovnys ke toses' Vera Coos and Slezico. The Nonilevr of Suildpy her a Surplement of two sheets and a hell, entirety Elled with • lteport from the Direttor.Ge ner•l of the Indirect Contributions, relative to the collection of the Tobacco daily. The proclaims of that branch of the Revenue, which, op to 1815, scarcely, at any lime, eacceded 30,000,000 f. is es timated for ibis year at 41,000,000 f.—TV b per Ceuts. left off on Saturday at 681. Bbc. • Cat.t.ters N‘wee.—The Newspaper Press hen. dnebtedty at once a powerful weapon or shield ; bet sorry are we, curd an most every man of decent de. portment be, to see it applied to the ungentlemanly purpose of reviling and alieslog persons by Mote. stigmatising their names with the grown epithets of abuse; and all this became their politics tiller from these of there'll's.. Such a emodset sot owl, shows • went of good breeding, bet a shadow of a Irmo Of courage, since the attacked t arrt Memel with the same weapon. bet meat combat he Use werettpo vier, at least with unequal limpets. There is not a fact better amensimed by the 'psi. eioes observer. (though net regarded by theeetnewn eye,) then that the over zealous admen* r.., or de fender of, attests, I: the most operative Iteenintiesrim. WP fancy at this moment, the/ wows a baldheaded Parson (hating forgotten in his passion to pet en his scratch, or pall off his cassock), turning nut with Ms clinched fist to ight the fire Belot neer who 11-all pre. sent himself to his brawny limbs. A fighting-Por ton has at all times been • coetemptible cbatackw-.m soft of Reverend Buckhorse. The Commissiouns' Report on the Forgeries of Rank-note 4, throes out an opinion that the business of Forging Banknotes " is caviled on by men of skill and experience, and pawned of a very mai. derable command of esplial." Is that capital ()toyed in the kingdom or out of it ? The ships now going oat to South America, and which eve obliged to pet back for the Downs. by stress of weather, carry out welly 400 men, se Sol. diera. well provided for and in high rpiritt. 'lle Independent Governments of South Ameriee. like every other equally in an infant Stale. hese been played upon by hypectites end imposts's. It wee so with the commenced . Republican Clovernmetat of France, where Use notorious Major SulrLt NO. hived 10 obtain a Lieutenant-Colonel's Cow. minion. We are informed, however, that a few Gentlemen of undoubted ammeter for Wieser end coinage are about to join the standard of Liberty, in that distant qearter of the world, where a few of their friends have been tried, estimated, sod pre soled to distinguished rank. A PARADON.—Seeen wise men of England heed been five months considering how best to mete a Report upon the subject of • man making that üblit s is to be inimitable by man. In talker words, and tnely so, to do, chat ss not to be done. Government Walf conceding to the flank the wish of its Directors (for wo sibArafely told it is their with) to Mete to Cub Payments, will put a sensible end to all the absurdity we have Even speaking of. The age of Miracles if 'one by. All that these sonder.workin‘ wise bead• have been able to do is nothing, thereby profit," the maim, ex nihilo nihil fit. Tuesday the Arehiteke Maximitt 4s we: cur ducted over Catlton.ilount by Sir WILLIASI CON. GREVE* By an arrival at Liverpool, letters were yesterday received from Cape Fiancoie ( S t. Domingo) to the 11. h December. In the *thole of CIIKISTOPIII'S do minions every Wt.? ass tranquil, nor was there Noy a ppearanee of prt,...trations of a h 0421!• name a,,:aivst tl,e rival Chief of the Sloth aide of the Tt intricup‘ .f the Froticit in that quarter hal com -1.1e1•1y died awly. Colonel O'D.,4:tirtErv. of the merinos, one of 11.5 most rcr.i.itie cLi rider, F.tteartti,thei a few days alto at Nott-er, iu Deroosiiire: althoadh parson(' of 4 fine Ireei.ol.l estate aid mintion, he lied resided for some years i.l a "nett! cutoffs, sod slept on e s aws /•211.1. ty , V ~'