The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-01-31 00:00:00

~~ l. it has been questiened,whether liberty ought to exist, with ont corresponding intellect; and for that reason the people of Ireland, from their want of education. bad not been thought fit to aterive liberty. The people of Scotland, however, were allowed, on all bands, to be eminently in tellectual; and thouch not eflually celebrated with the people of England for politica. excellence, were, certainly able to enjoy it. The little band, miscalled our represen nstives,did so entirely misrepresent and belie the feelings of the people of the country,that no mockery was ever greater, more cruel, or more complete . (Cheers). The high minded, liberal, and spirited population of Caledonia were now entitely excluded from any participation in the bene fit, o f i e gislation; lint he was well assured, that when Scotland did get freedom, she would show herself no less excellent in her political, than in her moral character. (Cheers.) The toast lie meant to propose would call up the kindred enthusiasm of the whole company. (Tremend ous, rapturous, and long-continued cheering . ). lie con cluded by giving— .' The health of Mr. Brougham, and the advancement of edecation."—(Three times three.) Mr. J. W. linounnast rose, and retnrned thanks in the name of his brother. He could not help alluding to these high hononrs which had been bestowed upon his brother in Glasgow—honours which he must ever remember with pride, and could never forget, while lie continued to exist. (Loud cheers.) He proposed— " The City of Glasgow, and may its prosperity keep pace with its Political Principles." (Drank sith three times three, and immense cheering.) Mr. Irony rose, and, with a few observations, proposed— " The Memory of Mr. Ricardo." (Drank in solemn silence.) Lord ARCHIBALD ifAMILTON rose and said—l have now to propose to you a toast of the highest importance—a FRRE PRlM—and may it be daily extended to the confines of the earth, as a tenor to the Holy Alliance, and a safe guard to the rights of Man. (Loud cheering.) 1 am happy to think,, that the value of a Free Press is not only the palladium of liberty, but the very sine qua non of freedom. (Lone! cheers.) There never was a time when this truth was more prominent than the present. It is now when the Holy Alliance have tried every means of con tracting the Liberty of the Free Press, that it ought to be tolled and tlittnete-eel in their ears, as the knell of their despotism, and the glorious handing of the freedom of man. (Loud cheers.) The rancour with which the Free Press has been persezuted, proved how much the tyrants were afraid of it. They could not bear a Free Press, a free discussion, or a flee enquiry. They could not bear the light, because their deeds were evil. (Loud cheers ) They invatiahly attempted to control a Free Press, where it did exist ; and where it did not exist o take especial care that it should never appear.-- In consequence of their measure', their subjects could rever he informed what their monarchs were doing. It was only from the newspapers of this country they gathered any information. It was impossible that such a state of things could continue. The suppression of the Press aimed a fundamental blow at the ground work of Liberty itself ; yet, what was the conduct of this country under these circumstances ? When the holy Alliance was attacking the Free Press of Europe, our Government was truckling, in the basest and meanest manner. We were viewing the Holy Alliance effecting the whole of their objects : the invasion of Naples and Sardinia, the Congress at Verona, the Speech of the French king, and the attack npen Spain, all came before us : yet our ad ministration affected not to see the Practices of the Holy Cor.spiratore, until the Rubicon was crossed. We suffered Nsples to be seized, Verona to proclaim, Louis to speak, ant yet, week after week, our equally wise and patriotic Ministers told us Spain would not he invaded at all. Our mini+•ers have been either elopes. or worse. (Loud cheers.) The Liberty of the Press %v.'s the only safeguard which the liable of Brita:n po , sessed against the further schemes of the Holy Alliance, and was likely to constitute the greatest terror to those crowned sroilers, while it conferred the highest benefits upon this country. (Cheers.) It was, however. to be lamented, that the Liberty of the Press was to frequently connecteel with its licentiousness, anti this city had, not long ago, seen a parr of the most infamous nature, which was supported by the highest authorities, and the greatest official characters of the country. (Cheers, mid cries of shame.) For my fart, said his Lordship, I do nor complain of the observations they have made upon myself: I do not complain that they should have attacked me, but they said they would prove every thing. They said, that when it came to trial, they would prove all, and more than what they had said, to be true: yet I dared them to it, and what was the remit!? they skulked, and sneaked, silely and tremblingly out of Court. (Immense cheering.) It was evident that they meant nothing but ;political 'wind tie2. : y e t I ask—Who were their supporters? I ask the official characters of Scotism], who? I ask the judicial officers, who ? (Continued cheering.) Yet, Gentlemen, while we lament the licentiousness of the Press, it has never ceased to support its Liberty; for as some poisons are antidotes to others, so will the Liberty of the Press he an effectual antidote to its licentiousness. (Cheers.) If again I ehputd be attacked by the base hirelings of a faction, I now know that the liheral Press of Scotland is able to confute and correct all the calumnies that may be uttered. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I am sorry to trespass so long neon your time, hilt I conceive this toast ought to be, and is, dearer to you, than any that can he drank. To Scotland—to Britain—and to Man—nothing can be more interesting than the Liberty of the Press. (Great cheering.) We have far more cause to rejoice from the blessings we have enjoyed front its liberty, than to regret from the evils we have experienced of its licentiousness. Gentlemen, I gire you— " The Liberty of the Pregs." (Three times three, with immense cheering.) After a pause—. The EDITOR OF TUC GLASGOW FREE PREIS roar and , said,that he was surprised and sorry that none of the lien tleinen connected with the liberal Press of Edinbur4i had taken notice of that toast, under the peculiar circumstances in which the Press was now placed. lie felt that he should be omitting a duty, were he not to call the alention of the Noblemen and Gentlemen, now present, to the efforts that were now making to destroy this palladium of British Liberty. (Cheers.) Though he highly disapproved of the tenor and temper of Lord Byron's Vision of Judgment' —the verdict that had been just obtained against its pub lisher, he was certain, would be used as an engine to de stroy the freedom of political discussion. A Society, self st led Constitutional, had dared to set themselves up as judges of what ought, and what °sight not be published ; and, in this instance, had affected to protect his present ;Majesty's feelings, and prosecute the Editor of the Ex aminer, when his Majesty's own servant, the Attorney- General, neither conceived that his Majesty's feelings were wounded, nor that Lis late Majesty's character needed a legal defence. (Cheers.) If the liberal aristocracy of Scot!and really thought the freedom of the Press was worth preserving, they would come forward and form an association to counteract the designs of this soi-dirent Constitutional Soli ty—and his Lordship, who had seen the venom of the licentious Press, would he the first to preserve from destruction the Liberal Press.— Cheers.) Lord A. Hastrt.Tos rose, an I read a letter from Mr. Mottle, M. P. which stated that the writer's health ince imitated hiM from attending the meeting—after which his Lealth was drank. Sir ItoNat.n Frew:sewr, M.P. rose to call far the smogs of the Committee for the next meeting, which were The Earl of R06L7,4 rose and said, though there were • • • it • •••• ( • . I • • • • • • • ' . l - ; • • • • • • i t A "44. THE STATESMAN many more toasts to chink, the time had elapsed which I was generally devoted to the Chairman's continuiftg in the , Chai r. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON rose, drank the health, of the company, wished them good night, and retired amid loud cheering ; after which the meeting separated, about one o'colck. PARIS PAPERS OF TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. (FROM VIE CONSTITUTIONNRIO The rumours in the EngMl) Journals for some days of armaments being in a state of progress in several parts of France, are not destitute of foundation. Already the Ministerial prints have announced the departure from Brest of one thousand eight hundred troops, some frigates, and other vessels of lesser force. It is believed likewise that preparations are made at Toulon and Rochefort, and that the 55th regiment of the line from the Isle of will he embarked at that port. It is added that other regiment. , are to be embarked at Toulon and Brest. There are the 43d and 57th said to be appointed for that purpose. Are these two regiments, and the 45th, declined for our colo nies, as well as those which have sailed from Brest? We cannot think that they have any other immediate destina tion. (FROM THZ JOURNAL DES DEDATS.) Cotten, Dec. 27.—Sir Thomas Maitland, Lord High Commissary, is arrived here this day from Malta, in fifteen days. He has published the following proclamation : " Whereas, on the 10. h and 12th inst. one of the most flagrant violations of territory has taken place in the island of Saint IVanre and Ithaca on the part of some armed Greek ships, under the command of a man called the Prince Mavrocordato; and such being in opposition to all recognised principles of neutrality and the law of nations, his Excellency the Lord High Commissary of his Majesty finds himself, with the greatest regret, forced by his duty to ordain, that the two islands so named he immediately pot, as far as relates to the other lonian islands, under a quarantine of thirty days. The Inspector-General of the Medical Board at Corfu is charged with transmitting im mediately the necessary orders to that effect. " His Excellency feels extreme regret for the inconveni ences and sufferings which will necessarily result from the measure—and what renders it more afflicting is that an attempt has been made to compromise and insult the lonian Government by men who declare that they are fighting for their own liberty, and to make this Govern ment, if it had been passed over with silence, an accomplice in those frightful massacres and odious atrocities which, on this and many other occasions. have marked the conduct lof the parties engaged in the present war. "At the Palace of Corfu, Dec. '2O. '6 Lly order of his Excellency, " FRED. MAUKET." TRIZETE..TAK. 13.—A ship which arrived from Syra in 28 days. confirms the report that the Sella!' of Persia has not ratified the treaty of peace concluded with the Porte, and that the Persian troops have made new movements. Accounts from Corfu say that the Greeks have taken two ships near Ithaca, and that they have had sonic alter cation with the English Authorities, who pretended that they went beyond the boundaries of English sovereignty in pursuing their enemies; but it is added that Mavrocordato has given the required satisfaction. Nothing further is known of the expedition against Tunis. Opassa, Jan. s.—The letters from Constantinople of the 31st of December are not without importance. extraordinary sessions of the Divan have at length brought about a ministerial revolution, ahich has displaced the famous Iteis4.lifentli, who has piloted the helm of the State through so many diplomatic rocks, and who nas kept to his post in every change of Ministry. He has ceded his post to Sadek-Effendi, known to the readers of our Gazette by former events. It is said that the Isle of Chi° had again become the theatre of bloody scenes, after the lauding of some creeks. FRENCH FUITDS ON Tuesnalr.--Highest,9s. 50.; price at 4 o'clock, 95. 20. BAYONNE INTELLIGENCE. BAYONNE. JAN. 22.--We have letters from Madrid o the 18th. The death of Casa lrugo,.the Prime Minister though matter of regret, as he was an honest worthy man trak s but little sensation, considering him merely as Minister. The King continues to issue decrees, some cf which relate to the finances, which are the weak part of his administration. It is affirmed that he has also created a Prevotal Court, the secret powers of which will be almost unlimited, and which will have to proceed with the utmost rigour agaiost whatever has the appearance of being Con stitutional. We learn from Segovia that assis'ance has been called for in all haste, against a mutiny of the artillery of Ciudad Rodrigo, prisoners at Alpinac, who sing the •"fragala." and cry " Death to the King, and the Constitution for ever:" The poor militiamen continue to lie harrassed. At Cuenca they cannot venture to leave their dwellings except on Sundays and holydays, to go to mass. They are forbidden to meet more than three together, and as soon as the drum heats to quarters they must tro to their bones. Those persons who shall detain them shall be liable to the severest punishment. Discharged soldiers daily pass thronal► Madrid, who joyfully return to France. There is little news in circula tion at Madrid, where people do not talk politics. Every hotly is uneasy about the future. People here talk of a considerable corps of Russians which is coming they say, to join our troops in the occupation of Spain, and that on this condition, Ferdinand definitively cedes the Balearic 1 slands. WEEKLY REGISTER OF IYEATHER. AR It We have had, this week, a variety of weather. The first Iwo 'lays were fair, serene, and genial ; and the float in the night thermometer on Monday morning stood . remarkably high. The next two days were showery, and the night of Wednesday was windy. Since then the fair weather has returned, though tie temperature has been lower than before. Yesterday morn• ing, the puddles were hard frozen ; and last night, too, there was frost ; though, since the morning, there has been a rapid and agreeable change. The quantity of rain fallen here this week amounts to 4 hundredths of an inch. I Strand, Jae. 31. TlitallolllTEß. 8 o'clock. I o'clock. " i t night. 1•1OY1211. Jai. 23, S 47 54 50 30,04 Fair 20, M•• • • al St 47 ,14 Cloudy 27, T 4B 62 39 29,72 Cloudy 28, W 3B 42 40 ,63 Stormy 29,Th 3B 48 33 .97 Fair 80, F 32 40 39 30,10 Fair 31,2 33 44 .03 Fair Greatest degree of cold early la the morning, as ascertained by the ni9kt thermometer : Sund. I M. I T. I W. 1 Th. I F. I "4 42. I 40. 40 31. 33. 93 29 . A late traveller through Caroiola gives us the following account of the punishment of some persons who had resisted the payment of a tax :—" Tbey stood upon a scaffold erected before the Town-Hall (at Laybach); a line of soldiers was drawn round it to prevent their being rescued. A lawyer stood at the middle window, and declared aloud the crime for which they •ere thus exposed, first in (;ter• man, then in the dialect of the country. He then de clared the law, and afterwards the sentence; the latter of which was, that according to the extent of each man's crime, he should be confined for a c:,::;.:2 and publicly w bip pod." MAILS. DUE. ARR. DUN. Dublin 4) o....Tlnlltril I I....Wsterford 0 o....Hembro 1 0....0 & Jersey....o I. ...France ..... 0 1....L15b0n 0 0 ...Flunders •I o....Gottenberg ....2 0. —Malta •+o PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE OCLOCK. Rank Stock . 3 per Cent. Reduced.. 91;11 Lon; Annuities 0 21 0- Ili I 3 per Cent. Consols —9014 91 I India Itnnda '45 6 13 31 per Cent. .. .... 1001 I Exclt.Rills2d. 10001. 5.5 .ifirn 4 per Cent.. .... .... 10211 v i Consols for Account 911 901 Ot -tatetintan. SATURDAY LVENING, JANUARY 31, 1821. SToCk Esc It ANG E, 12 o'CLocK.—Consols opened this;morning at 911, and arc now 911, for the Account, with a good deal of business doing. The Expresses from Paris bring the French Rentes of Thursday, 95. 75.. and Spanish, 27 ; but at the close of the Market Rentes were up to 96., and Spa nish had fallen to 25 it ; the previous rise in Spam ,h was owing to a report that the Old Loan would be rati lied, but on this report proving fa!se they fell again. FOREIGN FUN os.—This being Settling Day in all Foreign Securities, Spanish Bonds opened at 25, and fell to 441. - - New Spanish. 17—Old, 24i to I—Colombian,1 —Colombian, 64/—New Austrian, 3 to i—Chili, 761—Russian,S9i—French Scrip, 71- -Mexican, 71. By an express this morning from Paris, we have received the Journal des Debuts of Thursday, and the Etoile of yesterday's date, from which we extract the follow ing:-- (FROM TILE JOURNAL DES DEIIATS.) PARIS, JAN. 28.—The opposition Journals yesterday took an alarm, and declared that the French troops were going to re-enter Spain, and that Baron d'Eroles was going to take possession of Barcelona. Others stated, that we were going to send ships and regiments from fires►, Ilochfort, and Toulon. What can all these reports mean ?—k is at the moment of the elections that the public spirit is to be agnate'', and lain imaginary warfare. But these manoeuvres will not silenced. Troops will not return to Spain, where none are wanted. In regard to the armaments in our ports, we repeat again, for the twentieth time, that it is invention of the opposition. Twelve hundred troops of the line,ac cording to the'rew systym, are going to complete the garri son of Guarioloupe and Martinique, and to replace the Colonial liattaiions. If France should think fit to equip fleets, anil to em bark soldiers on board, she will not ask permission, nor make an excuse to any person. The poor opposition are ♦ery ill. To day, after mass, the King presided at a Court of Mi nisters, which lasted from twelve o'clock till half past one. Prince Frederick Alexander Francois Constantine, of Wur temberg died on the night of Jan. 22. FRANKFORT. J. 28.—News direct from Missolungla of the 10th Dec. confirms the account that the blockade has been raised, and that the Turks lost before that place three thousand men, and all their artillery and ammuni tion. Omer Pacha has retired to Janina, but it is said he is made a prisoner in one of the houses by his own troops, because he has not paid them. AU strangers have been re called to Missolunghi, under the command of Lord Byron. The Minister of Marine has established a commission to deliberate on the best method for the projects for arm ing ships of wtr and improvements in the ports. (mom TILE ETOILE PERPIGNAN, JAN. 25.—The Constitutional troops which were cantoned according to the treaty of the 2nd Nov. have been disbanded by Baron d'Eroles, and sent from Tarragona to Barcelona. The same operation will take place under the orders of General Sarstield, on the garrison of llostalrich, cantoned at the San relue de Gaorole. The whole of the disbanding has been executed with the greatest order. Their number exceeds 12.000 men ; there does not any longer remain an army, as they have all returned to their homes. The Royalists force for this province will be 13,000 men. Measure; are taken to keep a good police in the several towns. MADRID.—It is affirmed that the Marquess of Mataflorida is appointed Ambassador to Turin. The Gazette of to-lay has published a list of promo tions which his Majesty has ordered among the Clergy. CADIZ.—The ships Asia and Achille, are ready. They will sail in a few days. Jamaica Papers have arrived this morning to the 25th Dec. of which the following are extracts:— FROM THR COURANT OP THE 25TH DEC. We understand, that so fully are Ministers impress ed with the necessity of imparting religious instructions to the Slaves in our West Indian Colonies, that they ap plied to the Wesleyan Missionary Committee for 50 young men to be sent as Missionaries to the %Vest Indies, agree ably to the regulations of that body. Qmo.—The latest information received by Government from the Liberator and President, is of the 22d July, from Quito. The Southern Departments enjoyed tranquillity, with the exception of Pasts, which is still kept in alarm.—His Excellency has commissioned General Sucre to proceed to Peru to give aid to that country. General Sucre had arrived at Lima. The following is part of a communication from Commodore Owen : . PORT ROTAS. RARBOUR, DSC O. • For the information of persons interested, 1 enclose en ex tract of a report made by Lieut. Cowley, of his Majesty's cuttererecian, respecting the loss of the Minorca schooner on the Bar of Guezarouleri on the Bth Nov. [There is a long account in these papers of a continued se ries of alecepiloms prr,:tir.d ""nn the dupes of the Po)ais scheme; but as the iteln-ir,” has been nt !mint. b the result of a recenjttuicial proceedinx. it unnecessary. insert the detail.) If implicit reliance cou'Ai be plaeoml on tlio nainra „,„ given by Ministers, the subjects of licorge the Fouriii. ought to be the hapriest on earth. A few yoams ago, a late Fore . g,n ts!) , .••;e tittathict:s ricer; ; will render Ins trat.li• %trend arcs his honest countr7 : men at Del st, with a hig!i picture of the then state of the country. :1 ship ..c war, returning in tr iutnplt front tae docent co, and entering the harbour with her Cmhers her colours chosen flying, Has as a faltmt image of our national glom y. In the same spirit ,but in somewhat heft"; taste, our present State Pilots, at the rt.cent Ship-owners' dinner, exult in the security, and gromt ing prosperity of the country. This certainly was cm fortable news, but it would not have been the 15.,,,, the Speakers been a 'tittle more explicit, and condrEce n .;p4 to tell us of what this growing prosperity consi , teil. Whatever might be said of ship-owners, land-owners, or place-owners, we see little in the state of the country to warrant extravagant exultation. While Castlereagh's six despotic Acts remain the Law of England, ar.d an insur rection Act governs Ireland, it would be cit!Cnz irony to boast of our peace and liberties. In time latter countr y, where we feen starving and oppressed people driven hydei pair to acts of violence and insurrection, we can trace in qtch a state of things, no symptoms of peace and prosperity.l lEng . land, too, where the labouring agricultural popalator, ar e at this moment half fed by parish bounty, being half pau pers and half ploughmen, we see abundant intlicationr of decay, but none of prosperity. Let pride and ins.lien e e advance what they may, this class form the solid have of society, and their prosperity or depression, the oir!y tre e coodition of our national condition." " Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade, " A breath can make them, as a breath bath made, " 6 Rut a bold Peasantry, Cieir c3untry's pride, " When once destroyed, can never be supplied." The Courie r and the profligate press, may prate about an increasing revenue, which, instead of being a blessing, is the great prolific source of public distress. Low taxation is the best criterion of good government,—it proves a sym pathy on the part of Rulers, with the wants and necessities of the people. It is not a high military establishment, a 1 profligate host of platemen, ,pensioners, and idle sir necnrists, thst give strnegth, or add prosperity to a stale. It is on a Loge revenue dist corruption depends fur support. Po away with a scrainide for the pubiic plunder, and honesty tiny have some chance to come in fashion. At present, honesty is almost heroine a term of reproach among public siren, who seem to shim it as ti n y would disgrace. We hope therefore, we are about com mencing a new reckoning, and that the speech from the Throne, will announce the Royal desire, for a great re duction of our burdens ; rigid economy in the application of our means, and a determination to give the people bow evidence of the prosperity of the country, than any to he found in the speeches of Ministets,idelivered at Tavern Dinners. Letters from Pernambnco, dated the 14th nit. were re ceived. yesterday by way of flavre. 1 ntelligenee of tie. recent events ;a Rio bad arrived there, and had created great uneasiness. The remaining members of the Jiro' had resigned their situations, and a new election had taken place, which led to the appirament of the following indi viduals :—Mannel Carvalho de Andrade, as President; Senhor Selilanlia, recently arrived front Lisbon, as Secre tary; and Dr. Bernardo, with two priests named and Venancio, late deputies to Rio. as CUIMAPI r 410'.! di Maros, who commanded the Pernambuco umthpzent At Bahia, and who had recently arrived from thence, hid been appointed Commander-in-Chief of Vie troops in Pir nainbuco. In this province the inhabitants were waiting with much anxiety the arrival of the next despatches from Rio, with the intention, as the letters state, of declaring against the Emperor, shonlil he either 111. t op t 40_ .t 0 asSilliC despotic power, or to re-unite the country with Pin - Viol. The !ante sentiment was understood to exist in all tlia northern provinces of Brazil. Lisbon Papers, to the '2oth instant, have arrived ; hot the following is the only article of interest which they contain: — f t Ltsnote, Jar. 13.—The Gazette contains a circular letter from the Board of Commerce to the Superintendents of the custotn-honses in he several ports of the kingdoin, in which they are ordered strictly to pia in force the ia" against smuggling. grievous complaints haying been made by the silk manufacturers of the illegal importation and sale of foreign goods, of that kind, as well as others, to ti' great injury of the national m tnnfacture, and in content of the salutary laws and ordinances which hays been fribel time to tune enacted and published against this pernicious abuse and abominable crime." The following is an extract of a letter from anninica, Sth Der. received by the last conveya nce We are at present wider the greatest alar m in this island, in consequence of a strong presumption of i twitter elan. Something in the shape of a plot is beyond dou bt en idea a the Negroes, who are impressed with the dea that at Christmas they are all to obtain their tre dom. Examinations daily take place, and a Privy Conseil has just been called by the Governor no the occasion. The Assembly sent a Nlessage to his Excellency yesterday' en the apprehension which they entertain of the state of the colony : arms are to be issued immediately, and it is sup posed that martial law will be proclaimed. word at Itosean was, • Emancipation by Christmas, or tbe Whites shall be Blacks.' " By accounts from Calcutta, it appears, that steam navi• gation has commenced on the river flooghly, and that it t is intended to attempt the establishment of a steam he ache The watch communication between India and England, by the route of the Red Sea. In one of the Lisbon Gazettes recently received. is 3 . 1 attempt to shew that " Brasil can never form a nation to the strict sense of the word," because it " contains such variety of inhabitants from Europe. Africa and Ameriticcan, a. If it cannot form a nation, or sustain an Em p eror however, follow the example of its northern neighbours, and form United States. eras The 30th ofJanuaay being a Bolyd a y far the Dr3lll3tie performers, a selection of Sacred an d Profane music perorme at Drury -Lane Theatre, in the evening, nnn er , Che f mil eri d ntendence of Mr. Bncbsa, to a very erow de O haute. The pieces were selections from The life:sill/4 anal r The Bag olJedgment, and the Overture to Weber's il Freysehutz. All the pieces, except the second, went with great eclat. iiiim