The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-29 00:00:00

ORANGE-M EN. The fdllowing article is taken from "the it (Ante*" of the hof March, in answer to niyarticle in the Sratse• at or, of the Pith. The writer calls this latter 'my defence Of the Orange System. In this be is wrong, I never said a word in defence of it._ What I said wan WI,: that that systentis neither more nor less than the • Ilt`nt4trent • Paraon System - 1 and, that either this latter would be rotted out, or the Orange System must go on. This I have always said ; and, when Irish Catholics have been p',fessing to me, that they did not wish to see the Pro test Ant Church things meddled with, I have always told h.tri. that 1 could riot understand what they would be at. If they'really be thus forbearing in their wishes, they are so much unlike me, that I have no idea of their views breve now lying before me an account of the Revenues and of the Receivers of the Revenues of that Protestant Church in a Catholic country; and, if I were an Irish Catholic, could I, recollecting who were the founders of Close revenues, ever rest satisfied while things are, in this respect, as they are? However, I insert the article with• out further remark, it being as much as the writer can expect at my hands. If his arguments be the best, it is tight that he should have the benefit of them. If they do .not convince me, they may convince others. lam Au sr, willing to give others fair play, though I so sekkim get it myself. „ War.; sat Connarr. • .- Mr. Cobbett, Cobhett, in an article aader the head of" Orange men," which appeared in The Statesman of the tith in -stint, begins with the announcement of a most import ant • cireutn , tance--natnelv. that " he had been Just reading an Irish paper called The Antidote." Of the elthraeter of the principal' a writer (if it be not treason to ,the name of writer,) in i paper, the notorious Sir Harcourt Len, Mr. Cobhett seems not unaware—a man whose innocent credulity so butders on madness, .ind whrise.fanatiCal passions so frequently excite the laugh ter of his readers, that unless the serious announce ment, onthe part of Mr. Cobbett, of hating consulted such an authority, we 'know nothing better caleulated ro make the community laugh more heartily than the random fire which so often pours down from the columns of our friend, Sir Harcourt Lees. Mr. Cobbett may know, perhaps, a circumstance which is not so well known to every Foolish reader respecting this clerical T ;o'itical writer, Sir Harcourt Lees: the ravings, and ear and wand. rings of the poor Barouet's mind l.ave been for the lust twelve months so extreme and so a'apening, that his Brothers, who ar. so distinguished by . their good sense, their gond feeling, and strict primilre ty of demcanopr, were obliged, in defence of their m'yo' character, though in the most delicate manner, to sepa rate that character from all rernsibility for the errors of their fanatical Brother. '1 he advertisement appear ed in the Dublio papers, and Las contributed, certaip- In to prevent that most painful confusion of persons ohich might be injurious to persons placed in the high ttd respectable station occupied by the Messrs. Lees of the General post-Office; And yet, though Mr. Cobbett seems to know his man, be thus speaks of the policy re commended by the said Sir Harcourt " Wild as Sir Harcourt Lees appears to be and push : , ire', as he appears, things to the other extreme, of the, • ire, his policy is, certainly, the most likely to mays sotitethlog like peace to Ireland." • • - Mr. Cobbett then puts what he conceives to he the 'real question at issue this moment in Ireland—he thus 'Writes : It is not a' quektkpn Of eonelllatitim 'or oon-concilia aloe s it is not a qutadioq of the more or the km. The plain question "ball the gorerniog powerstran the hands of the Protestants , or shall 'they be tr red to the Catholics? This is the real q uestion." With great 'deference to Mr. Cobbett, this is not the real qnestion. The real question at issue now is, Shall tile Government of Ireland be the real representative of the King of England, invested with all the powers that Fing . eroays ? Shall he have the power to put iu force the wishes of the King's Government of the British Em pire ? Or, shall he be sobjeet to the control of a third power—an Orange Fa lion, or an Orange Ascendancy— to he the mere register of their orders, and the humble ;notroment of their wishes ? It is not whether the power of the country is to im transferred to Protestants or to Catholics. 'the plain question is, is the King's Govern• men in Ireland to•have any power in Ireland but that which it derives from the Orange Ascendancy ? Hither to, it had not. Hitherto the Government and the people of Ireland were subject to taskmasters, Orange and Pur ple, against whose authority it would be treason to • re bel. Wh a was the consequence ?—That Ireland bas heett one field f discord, contention, and blood—petpe tool civil war, and never-ending dissension. That this dissension should gain fresh strength—that the acrimony and Malignity of a checked and disappointed domination r-h•iuld increase by the first effort to restrain it, Mr. Cob-I !sett should not wonder at. But is it because the Orango Ascendancy no* writhes under the lash of power—is it because it as goaded to madness by the manl y decision an d intrepid deportment of the King ' s present Represen t -dive in !Ireland ?—We ask, is this a reason why no.ef fort should be made to put an pod to the pernicious pre d .minsnce of so destructive a power ? Mr. Cobbett thiuks it a vain and hopeless work to reconcile the. Pro t set :we and Catholics--that it cannot be accomplished ly any Irish . Government. His words are All attempts to r ecpncile , Protestants and Catholics by giving a little to the Catholics : by showing them route degree of favour ; to itgrodnee them into power by rfe 4reea, can o nly fewd to irritate and inflame. e these • en &savours have produced the present state of things.--e The Lord Lieutenant by endeavours to conciliate, has tie- I utile thrown the country into such a state that it is ita- 1 po.sible far some terrible crisis not to arise out of it, no less a change speedily take place." • Mr. Cobbett is m'staken in point of !act. " Some de rm. of favour" has not been shown any Catholics as yet by the Marquess of Wellesley. He has not introduced the • Catholic into power, even by degrees--no Catholic has received either place, or pension, or title. Therefor?, prnurs of this nature has not crested the distinction of 1 , Which Mr. Cobbett complains. The favours which have produced present state of things in Ireland (by-the-by . 7int half so horrifying as Mr. Cobbett represents) is the ' prevention of Orangemen repeating those public insults •It.b' eh the brave, anal the wise, and the generous Lura y ably despise. The Marquess of Wellesley would not saffer the Catholics of Dublin to be insulted by a drunk en, beggarly Corporation, whose annual prl and g io lory i% was to dress and disfigure the statue of: This was his great *fence, and the re d mighty P row ? conferred on the Ca tholic ; as it because—we pat it sincerely to Mr. Cobbett—is it because Sir Har court Lees should, with his followers, run naked through the streets of Dublin ? Is this a reason• why the King's -Representative should not pot into execution the wishes of the King. that equal and imparti al j ustice should be • done to his Iriela people—that no audacious faction should rai4e its head ag dont his authority ; and particularly •,,t.en the entectse of that authority was to protect and s' , elfrr the lOW wounded feelings of the great majority 01 the Irish nation? Whet crisis cats come so bad as - that from which Ireland has emerged?—We put the • eneation again to Mr. Cobbett, what crisis so terrible as ttoit which saw Ireland at the foot of a contemptible 5). Loe Asceadancy ? IVe would prefer all the miseries of , ina g rrhy to the dead calm of such ruffian despotism. Mr; Cobbett becomes a prophet—aud foretels that if uisfer - STAIESIW. ,T] the Ministers persevere much' lottgWeNie fbty torment course, rho is, in uphnitting their qleacm.the Mar twits of Wellesley it Ireland, the mirtjaeli Welt will be broke't tip. What reply has Parliament Liven to this alarming prophesy of Ale. CobbettS ?—That they tall stand by the measures of the Matinees of Wellesley in fro land, and that the King, and Cabinet; and Parliament, are united in this determination. Mr. Cobbett, when ta attempted to prophecy, seemed to have forgotten the am meter of the King, and the materials of which hisCabinsit is composed. Is the King that weak. and foolish wen thercock to he blown up 'by every gale—st one time fro this side, and at another from that? We believe Mr. (a¢ Lett will admit, that' the experience of the reign of Deorge the Fourth wilt convince every observer, that the Royal mind is not made of site!' Mal Ittnff, and that his determination, once-tukesi, are not ems easily shaken or turned aside. Hence the humble and pliant . ohedieure of the Royal servants ; even the most stittneated can now bend to the Royal wishes. And what is time immediate effect of the Kings's firmness on the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland? Is it not at tliN moment one ' common sentiment of respect ? etas not that manly in trepidity which the Royal and has manifested in the faithful fulfilment of its promise—has it not WOl moeo hearts. and made more sincerely loyal subjects, lima could be effected by centuries of violence and suspicion ? The King has struck the waster chord of the Irish heart,l and it responds with fidelity he leas set an example-elf kindness to the Legislature, which the latter, with OF Its corruptions, is following with a fair and honest spirit. And is it with such a King, and under such a represent's-, Jive as the Merit'. as Wellesley, that Mr. Cobbett is to lee humbugging the mind of England whit' a recommenda tion of the maniac policy of Sir Harcourt Lres, or the threats of a little, humiliated, Orange ascendancy. Mr.'' Cobbett endeavours to put forth the strength of Ohmage- . ism in all its magnitude. " Let any man look at the immense mass of property; not less titan a good fourth part of the whole of the real ' property of the, kingdom. Let any ma! look at this MASS of property, and consider that it mast all be shaken, Ito say the very least of it, by putting an end to Protes taut predominance in Ireland.—Let any man look at this, and then let him believe if be can, that the parties who either posse , ' or have the reversion of .this property, will ever listen for a moment to any mewinge that shall shake that predominance. The Orangemen have, there fore, for allies, these who are interested in this great Mass of property, and then they have, beside', all the unconquerable prejudices of ninety - nine hundredths of the people of England. That part of the people; even that part of them who never read a newspaper, and ne ver see a newspaper, get-at information open this subject, and arc ell alive to it." Again Mr. Cobbett mistakes the fact, and betrays an ignorance of the state of the public mind iu Ireland we email not have suspected. The men interested in the giegit mass of property Mr. Cobbett describes, are not the'allies of the Orangemen. The greatest Landed Pro prietor., with one or two exceptions, are not the allies of the thangetaeo. Beginning with the Duke of Ltinster, we could eninneeate•a long line of Nobility, in the t Soeth, Best, and West ; large Proprietors, also Absen tees, not only not allies, but at title moment honest and candid opponents of Orangeism in Ireland—the Earl Fitzwilliarn and the Marquess of leetidown. 'Tie trite that a few are to be found in the North; but, even in the North, the Marquess of Downshire, Lord Stewart, Sir Robert Hatesou, Mr. `!'Donnell, of lilenarni, Mr. Nar cissus Mitt, and many others in Down and Antrim, are decidedly hostile to the system and its principles.* So far Mr: Cobbett is mistaken with regard to the feeling I and inclination of the Protestant property of Ireland on the subjeet of Oran geistn. Now for the people of England, the ninety nine hum- Airedale of whom Mr. Cobbett says are decidedly in (a tom of Orangeism.. We big leave Io lek Mr.Golaktt, mit not the English Reformers, who cOnstltulicthri Feat masa of England, decidedly and unequivocally ha favour of Civil and Religions Freedom in Ireland? Is this net 'always one of their favourite resolutions? We can an swer for Scotland. We know that the Scotch Reformers would not be the allies of Orangemen in Ireland. Dees Mr. Cobbett imagire that among such a people as the Reformers of England or Scotian'', the cry of No Po try could be set up with an y ho p e of success? Who wilt commence the shout—Who? Will he be a Minis , ter ?--If se, out he goes, like Sir Charles Vernon, because his master is a King who will not be the sport of the fa- I s t atic. Then, who will? Would Mr. Cobbett commence the cry?—lf he did, we would republish Mr. Cobhett t against himself, where he buried themnfortunate Vo Po pery men in a heap of ruins. No, no, these days are gone by—the mind cannot unlearn what it has beet taught—.it may go forward slowly, but it cannot be re plunged into d a rkness—not even the e prn of Mr. Cobbett can re vive the ashes of .Vo Popery either here or in Eng land. Mr. Cohliett goes on and says, the Methodists are against the Catholics. His words are:— " The Methodists are a formidable body In this respect ; and to a man they are against the Catholics ; and for this reason ; that the Methodist Parsons are very well satisfied that Catholic Priests would soon root theta out. Give these latter fair play ; That is to say, let there be no law about the matter; and they will have nineteen twentieth. , of the women with them 1., a short time; and then they hare all the children After this they !teed care very little stool the men." We beg leave to ask , why are Catholic Priests so foil mirialaiga priesthood? Is not one of the leading cause their eery depression and humiliation ? Mr. Cubing, would continue—Give Catholics equal rights and equal eli Ribility to power, and you take - away from the Catholid Priesthood one of the most powerful weapons he now whields over the human mind —namely, the constant appeal ich can he made to the .pride of the Catholic, who, no matt er w hat his conviction may be, will not be driven by an illibe r ral law from the religion of his ancestors. This pride, if no other sedtiroent existed, will make hint cling to it with a desperate fidelity. • Put him on a leve l with his Protestiest fellow -subject—then, and then only, he will be free to dis cuss the respective principles of all the different systems of re li g ion which come before him. An yet Mr. Cobbett would preserve a system that gives the Catholic PM* such a triumph over the Methodist, as well as every other denomination. Mr. Cobbett concludes by the alarming, and, we must beg leave to say, most unwarrantable °pail), that unless the Church Establishment is put down, It is worse than fiireical to talk about Catholic Ewan cipstion. The Orangemen of Ireland put the same opi nion in a different shape ;—that, from Catholic Emancipation must follow (he ruin of the Chtirch Establishment in Ireland. Both Mr. Cobbett and the Orangemen are egregiously in error: the reverse is the fact. Has time Penal Code of Ireland multiplietl, the members of the Established Church in Ireland? In the time of Primate Nutter, the Protestants were a third of the population. Seventy years of a ruth less, and furious, and desolating Penal Code inter vetted between him and the first relaxation of the P e nal Laws, and the Catholics grew to a proportion of four-fifths. Silapis ntartyrurn eat semen rehgiona,' is a proverb most hilly illustrated by this marmite. — The Clergy, some of the most zealous of the Catholic Clergy, have expressed their fears that religious ia difference would he the elfeet of Emancipation.-- Certaio we are, it would be any thing rather than re ligious zeal. The Judge of the King's Bench Or, Com. mon Pleas, if a Catholic ; or the Magistrate in Quarter' -- - • Tile population of Belfast amounts to near 4u,ooo—oy this number we defy any mau to produce tire individuals of the smallest preteuvions to consideration either station, or circumstances, or intelligence, w are members of an Orange Lodge. Sessions, if a Catholic, would. if we know any thing of the htiman mind, he more inclined to be occupied in the performance of 'their Judicial and Magisterial dudes, than in propagatiog the do.urines of their religiop. This religious zeal no longer exists. Common sense, the ex perience of mankind. their knowledge of therrauds which have been practised on their credulity, have opened the eyes of manieihtl. Man now most have a reason for the belief be entertains, or else all preaching goes to the nind. Ile will ever be the ardent supporter at the system of Go- C er nment which gives him equal protection.' The Catho lic, under 'lt parental Protestant tioverninent , and the Protestan4 under a parental Catholic Uovertinient, will be eqnalljuloyalseil sincere in their attachment. There fore, Mr. Vobbett, argues unfairly against human nature, .when he asserts that it ir a farce to talk of Catholic Emancipation, uhlelis the Established Church be put down. It isms uttfosnded as it is unjitst. IVe . distniss these opinions of Mr. Cobham with great regret, that a mind so able to see the truth and lay it be fore the world, could have been so benighted on a ques tion vital to - the people of Ireland. Sure we are, that one of those days, Mr. Cobbett, if satisfied of his errors, will not be ashamed to retrace his steps, and make the best atonement he can, namely, by defending the claims of the Irish nation to equal and impartial justic e. Ton iRISIIMAN. PETITION ~• 'toren. RT MAJOR CA/ tWRIORT AT TIM LINCOLN 'trove NESTING TO RE P RESENTED TO TUE MOUSE Or COMMONS. • " I. That the table of your Hoarable House, being el ready loaded with the grievances of those who do not fatten by the misapplication of public money. or upon an intole-, ta ble taxation of au unrepresen ted people, your petitioners wiii not add to that load, by useless repetitions of what is universally known and understood; but confine themselves at present to declare, that they see before them no other than one of the three following results, namely, an Algerine slavery nutter a military despotism. — a dire convulsion, with civil war,—or a restored constitution by means of a complete reform of the national representation, for securing the enjoyment of those rights and liberties, which in the Bill of nights were verbal l y • claimed, demanded, and in sisted upon t' but for which rights and liberties the abused nation hid waited one hundred and thirty-five years, and ,bath them yet to seek. • 2. The tuition, instead of these promised rights and liberties, having since endured wrong and oppressions far exceeding any thing experienced under the tyren nical house of Stuart, your Petitioners now apply to your Honourable House for redress. • 3. Stilt( a nd feeling the fatal conseque nces of the ragne, ittleTeite language of a Parliament which ought to have sceured the rights and liberties it talked of, your•Petjtienera,on behalf of themselves, of their CORD try, and their posterity, do now, therefore, formally and apeciticalty,'clann those rights on which liberty, and eonsequeetly property, depends, that is to say,— • I. That all nudes, it the time when, by adult age, they become entitled to inherit such right and property in land, goods, or chattels, as may be thetr's by the laws of Mau, MAT, at the same time, as rqdals of their fellow men in the eye of their CREATOR likewise enter into full possession sod enjoyment of that superior and more sa cred right and property, which, - by the law of Gon, be longs to them as intellectual, moral and responsible be ings, endowed with sense of right anti wrong, as well as with free-will for choosing between good and evil ; by which inherent superior, and sacred light, they are evi dently entitled. , equally with all their countrymen, to share in electing and appointing those persons who are to make laws which must have power over their properties, their liberties, acci their lives; because without such sa cred tight to legislative representation, no inferior rig h t s or interest in lands, goods, or chattels, can hare a s dow of secorit y. • • • 11. That the legislative representatives of the people in and si r vlistriots, w as wroth Pribilase" may be practicable, without inconvenient l y subdivid ing parishes, wards, or other existing ditislona of the po pulation. • ill. That not only in recognition of ancient salutary -usage, but likewise for completely securing to the peo ple universally the sacred right of representation as they successively attain adult age; as well as for erecting a strong harrier against the horridly tyrannical practice of taxing unborn generations, thereby crushing liberty in the very egg, the legislative representatives of the people may be chosen annually. iV. That, as aright to an end includes a right to the means,—and as no man ought to be exposed to ruin or' persecution for freely voting, elections may be made by ballot. •4. That, in the present awful crisis of their country's destiny, your Petitioners solemnly protest against all ex iplbritnentil projects under the wane of Reform, as indicat ing either a lamentable onacqstaintance with the coosti- 1 tntion, or a presumptuous discretion, in contempt of those eternal principles of Truth, emanating from the wisdom :cid goodness of Goo; a report to which, in times of trouble, extremity, and consternation, the Divine lie-1 ing bath prescribed fur the earthly salvation of nations. • 5. The, in the opinion of your Petitioners, all ex posures of official abuses and delinquencies--of minis terial mismanagements—of unjust and unnecessary wars, foreign acquisitions, and uselessinstitutions, fir the wide - extension of patronage—aod for prostituting of honours or titles, as well as of all profligate sqeanderings of poblic money. in bribing, influencing, or corrupting members of the legislature, for securing majorities in support of' arbitrary power, in which exposures there is an unprofitable and disgusting expenditure of podia-I mentary time, unless such exposures be introduced as' mere illustrations of the paramount necessity of purify ing the legislative and pecuniary fountain whence those manifest evils flow. • 6. That whenever such exposures do not terminate in avowed, determined, aad persevering exertions for perfectine the national representation in parliament.' your petitioners must consider the best of them in no tort ter light than the efforts of faction for the attainment of power: to end, as all such exposures, front the period of the revolution to this day, have ended; that is to say, in national delusion, and a gradual but constant rivetting more and more the yoke of despotism on the neck of the people. 7. Wherefore your petitioners exhort your Honoura ble House to grVe, by statute, speedy effect to the claim they have made for the salvation of their country. • And your petitioners will env pray.' -- - The late storm must have been very severe in the neighbourhood of Woofer, as we are informed that 500 deer in the Earl of Tanberyille's park at Chillingham Castle perished through its violence.—{ Berwick Adver tiser.) BRIGHTON, MARCO 26.—in consequence of informa tion received by Sir David Scott, Ban. that a Mr. 6-- had conducted himself in such a manner as to warrant the strongest suspicions that he meditated an act of a must alarming character, he was directed to be taken into immediate custody. tin his being brought be fore the above Magistrate, it was evident that the prison. er was labouring under mental derangement, and he aas consequently placed under the charge of two dour head boroughs, until inquiries could be made respecting hini. It was ascertained that the unfortunate gentleman had resided for some mouths •in the town, and was very re- Ipectably e granted. On Monday he was again brought before Sir David Scott, at the Town Hall, and after a • strict examination was rem►nded to a future day, when his friends will probably be present. It was soon known that our beloved Sovereign was the high object to which the priloner's violence was directed.—Brighton paper.) MAltAi. AIM DIM MIR. *Vt. 1.... DlDlin 0 0. • •Irollaad 0 0 2 .... Waterfowl:T.. • . . I 0 ....11 a umbra I 0.•. . G & Jersey. •. .0 . 1.... Vtasee 0 0.... Lisbonl, •••. • .., O....rimier' .• • 0 2 .... Gottelfturg ••• •0 0....111a1t5. . .....0 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock . 2 per Ct. Red 8 p.Ct.Cous ...... I DAY AT ONE O'CLOUtio India Stock . Ditto Roods I. ...s. Ebro. South Set Stock South Sea Old Ana E5.8i11.241. t •91 • • tio 03 pet WM. 500 t. 94 'I le 01 pm. -------SMIO OS iill I. I. !Mt Condor Sect i4it LOtteryTiCketS .... M l 9 ierCt. 4 per Cents ..... ....... New Fours 94013 b per CL 1797 Long Ann . Imp. 3 per Ct Irish 6 per Cents. rite *tateoutatt. SATUIIDAY EVEN I NO; MARCIi 29, 1 823. BOURBON-WAlt. • The' French papers ;milt beyond all tioubt, that the story of a conspiracy in tits French army, aas inveetk by the stock jobbing press in London. The traders in this press gained some pounds by it. we dare say. The good of the joke is, that the lie will still go op unrcoara dieted by them; and, their readers will coolie no ;o think that there is a conspiracy in the French army l We hare read the French papers attentively ; 'and, as far as . we can judge from them, the Bourbon., are likely to meet with no hinderance from the people of Francc.—We have seen gentlemen who have recently been in France. They assure us, that we have, during the last five month., been very accurately describing the feelings of that peo ple with regard to England and the tear. Our stock jobbing press disfigures erery thing. In short, it lies. The people of France know, that the war is, in fact, against England; and they harbour against her those feelings which they have bad ever since the year ISIS, when the English entered France as the Allies of the French Yu lion, and when they dealt nith the pictn . ics and statues! There are none but the political gossips, who bring over accounts of the diseontents of the French people. Many of them may dislike the Bourbons ; but, they dislike tits English more. The idea of our stock jobbing press is this: that the French pimple ought to destroy the Bour bon., because the Bourbon.; are pulling down our fends, and are about to curtail our posters! Why should tlti people of France destroy the Bourbons fur this? The Bourbon-Government is spoken of as a despotism. Its. it what it may, we imposed it on the French. But, if that Government be a " despotism" we should like to know what ours is! Yet, the French people and pros do not call upon us to destroy our Government. We have challenged time Morning Chronicle to show, that the French are less free than we are. If it dare not accept • oar challenge, with what face does it call upon ns to be lieve, that the French people must desire to overthrow their Government' s ' THE CURRENCY. A Public Meeting has been held at Bakerell, is Derbyshire, for the purpose of considering the const ipates of the INsh , Measu res. A M►. Joha Barker was li`the Chair, and a stateleent was read by a Mr. lames Taylor, anti ordered to be printed, and sent to the Members of the Million Committee and to the Noblemen and Gentlemen. This statement recommends the fol- lowing measures to the consideration of Parliament: " lat.—That Bank of England Notes be made a legal tea der, for all payments of the value of Oue Pound and up " wards. " 2ndly.---That the Bank be required to pay their notes "on demand, la gold, at the market price. AM in order to " aseertain the market price,— " 3rdly.—That the Bank be required to give perindicsl " notice of the price at which they would sett their sotesjor " gold, or give gold for their notes, or receive gold in pay " meat for the various securities lying in their hands.— "Such notice to continue in force till the stated period for " its renewal. " And &thly.—l conceive it would be found beneficial to " art the parties interested, that the present mint should be " the minimum to which the market price shall at any time " descend.—So that Foreigners, as well as Englishmen, " weight always calculate with certainty upon a Severe:!/a, "or 3 dwts. 3 grains of standard gold, h e isig. w es t, sae " quote to the payment of one pound Eng,i.h." That is all! Simply that f Just a return to paper-mo ney ; but, not such paper-money as we bed Wore; for, we can assaro Mr. Taylor, that it would now be el sipsatc—Mr. Taylor is afraid, that the qnantity of the currency will dinainieh after the Ist of May; that is to say, when the Country Bankers shall be compelled to give gold in exchange for their notes ! We are but at all afraid of it. We know, that such diatittoti mut take place. But, we think it a good thing. We 1!110+►, that it will augment the gains of the tax reet►ocrs, the mortgagees, the ctanttilanl lof all descriptions ; and, er courses we know, that it will hasten the transfer of the estates from the hare-and-pheasant gentry! We cannot think of the Game Laws and of the It' ewe Law cf Tres. pais, withoutreeling inexpressible delight at the eTerts of Peel's Bill. If any man can read the exposition its tits Register of this day, and not wish to see wheat at half as crown a bushel, he must be in his very heart a tyrant...-. Let Sir Jamei Mackintash say what be Will, cheap wheat is the only reel softener of the criminal code.. We have laughed at Mr. RICARDO'S plan for dividing'tke parks aad estates: but, we cannot look at the laws, of which we have just been speaking, without wishing to or his plan adopted, and that quickly tosh—The late rite in prices (now gone off, mind) gass new . bopes to the top•bput and leather breeches brood. They thought that the" days of Pitt were coining again ! It was. alas! only what the nurses call "a lightening beforo death:' just a little blaze previous to the going oat of the candle ! THE FUNDS. It is Curious enough, that our gamble should have fallen nearly ten per cent., or quite, merely because the French are going to war! The Morning Chronicle scrims the Holy Allies of destroying public credit : Why, what have they to' to consult the interest ol are, indeed, charged, too , well ; but, never were' deadly euesnies of liberty minded gamble is. it ilvpots of Europe," th, parishes receiving the I 01 oestroy tog pawn. ....•••• • ' remained." odo with our gamble?' Are they FRENCH FUNDS, M of our base stock jobbers: hey opened at 78f. 40c.; • 00, with enmity to liberty. Very 1475f.—Neapolitan F they, anti never can they be, *ltch London, one month, rty as this great, base, and blmdy- The Funds on Tb Cents, for matter, at- It is this gamble, and not " the time at 4 o'clock, 78f. that we bare to thank for whole titan Stock, 67k. extreme Inietion ; and that we !Mu • . . • 'i: F ' +~ 301 .. :7 ~ _ f ii to thank for seeing Engßs sacks over their shirtless s pod round with straw and I that has been, and that is, 4 Allies ihake it, we thank II Liberty clad in old sacks a the extreme unction ! We found impudent enough to state of things. • Paris papers to the 28th The Constitutionnel has th 'it had previously maintain 1 4 Reports of an extraordi Jonrnsi on Wednesday, " iiriParis. A conspiracy is i *bleb are represented .as 4 tat we must receive with c 'chitty on conjectures. TI lalinisterett War may peds arrest of several superior of Colonel Seessy, is also met Dora! Molitor is recalled. anxiety prevails among the totwatmications which wi tiently exieoted. It is as ,division exists in the Mil --14. de Villdie becomes ever ficult to believe that unfo .arise - from the state o placed. An eyes are tort can by a single word reeri • 'system of which we expel Jourital deg. Debate, as if - igto the question, content. -nlrpassage from the Jeu r asserted, that in conael fiat, several individuals. been taken up by a superi is Colonel Sanessy, who glitz ence, in which were it is also companions is a person Is of the conspiracy of the nel Satiny to Vitry." ,lolder tone, thus under eertrls that had been i We learn from Orl the Duki of Belluno's ci pity cf that town, which lency nu re than half a Journals in this mettopol conjectures respecting th War ; they reproduce e , Party has circulated duri of their absurdity. 11 changed, as it had been at for opening the campaigt 1.-ary, that the period wi either General Guillemi commund in the army." An article of the 20th Wednesday's papers, ant intelligence Rom Madrle baLitants of 'Andalusia pital to assist in the re meat, and to streogtlsee of those volunteers thro to Madrid which may ho an insurrection in that ties of 'the Northern Pr Vie (Joveritment to retie 105 milts) into the inlet the command. They merchants and propriel favour of the Conti vengeance of the Chit accompany the Frenc cal-ried away with the and it appeared evicts so successfully adopts .C ll , would be followed the enemy would have sieseeted by its inbabi could yield import to were to be driven to tl and to be kept, so much -of their cannon., The of AWOOULE34E was n( 2d of- April, and that 4 a , pplies of prcKiiions t i: was. I. take up a po it was to be composed calculated, could not 1 - of April; re-that addi the Spa:shoed* to mann sneaus_of defence so etas from feLetzating countri. The journalelefrit private letter gives its& Yion~ .4. Pm" 1114Rai Madrid, bringing atco The King kft Madrid preconcerted arranger nied by nearly RAMO 13 as far as La Mancha. the enemies of public departure would encol or the factious, hare to 4sis escort left the capi made, amid the acclan bare not left the tapir fixedi'q e obahly they from the tovaalun bet. " Itertran de Lys n fore the Cortes lease I a resolution to make when the time fined u F:nglish Ambassador int before the King. a" • r - .1 •