The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-24 00:00:00

TRADE OF THE CANAIMS. [mom THE QUEBEC GAZETTE, OF AGO. 301 Ameritan newspapers have lately announced the arrival of some portions of timber from Lak, Champlain in the Hudson, by the canal which has lately been cut from Whitehall, at the southern entre tist,y of the Lake of the HudauO Jiver. ne,sx.-Bert. -Ett a art; and lb+ same papers also state, that the navi gation of the Hudson will dustily be improved se as to admit of sloops proceeding up to the mouth "orfbe canal. • When these works and the great canal and its l,r:►nches connecting the Hudson with Lake Erie end Qatari° will be entirely complete, a period, which, Re cording to every probability and the positive state ments of the American Authorities, will not exceed two veers from the present true, the wishes of Sir Isaac Coffin and his friends will be complete: Canada, nor great Britain, will no longer he troubled with Ame rican produce and the returns passing by the St. Law rener; in British shipping. It is even possible that in so far as the trade between the Canadas and Great Britain is concerned, it may be said to be sunk to the bottom of the seas. • We do not think that the United States will make any divine:ion between the produce of the Canada% ant that of the United States. We dare say that they will g:tolly see it put on board of American ships, or the ships of any other nation, to he transported to any part of the world where it can find a market ; and that rcurns will be cheerfully forwarded by the Champ- Jain and Erie canals on paving the common fare. We do believe that unless something is done spec-' 'lily. to remove the inducement of higher prices of produce anti equally low prices of imported merchan slize and of the substitutes of American manufactures, that this will be the course that the trade of the Cana das will take in a very few years. The cost of transport from all the settled parts of Upper Canada, to New Yt)rk by the threat Canal will be little more than the first of transport to Quebec, and the cost of transport ef the returns, will probably be something less. It is well known that notwithstanding the duties which the. American Government levies on certain descrip thins of imported mereitantlize, particularly such to are of British manuf t etnre, goods generally sell as cheap (if not cheaper) at New York as at Quebec ant This the Ainetican rturrhant is probably enabled to do, by the profits which be makes on his outward cargoes, sent to any foreign market which may hap pen to be most advantigeons ; he is also forced to the best managetnent, and to be satisfied with the lowest vssible profit, by a very extended and active compe 'Won. The United States also, now manufacture a variety of cheap articles suited to their own consump- Gorr, which are equally adapted to the Canadas. The Lake Champlain Canal and the improve ments of the Iledsom, which we understand will be completed this season, will afford nearly an great faci lities to lower Canada. We question if the best mar ket for the wheat of the River Chamblv is not at New York, to which it way be exported from St. John's at very little more cost than Lion the Basin of Chatably to Quebec, where there is no demand for it. The Saint Lawrence, the River Chambiy, with the con templated improvements in its navigation, Lake Cham plait, and the Hudson, would form an uninterrupted navigable communication between every part of Lower Canada and New York. It may seem strange, incredible, that the bounty of nature, the finest navigable river in the world, should be rendered useless as an outlet to the sea, by works of art and artificial regulations; but whoever will con sider by what law trade is naturally regulated, the coarse whirls we have supposed the italic of the Ca nada, will take, under the permanency of the existing Legislative trepidation' of Great Brit sin is neither fan ciful nor far distant. The only thing wonderful about it, is to see mari time rivals co-operating in the same result. RF:.ILIRKABIR FRANCF:. O • Friday I ist, Baron Knuth was tried for his des perate attempt to assassinate Major-General the Baron .thijeon, before the Paris Assize Court. The features of this case were of peculiar and revolting atrocity.— 'I he Baron was allied to his mein ated assassin by mar riage ; lie found him in obscurity. and advanced him to rank in the corps which he commanded. He was ala'.n•s lavish of his regard and sincere of his affecticn towards him, and zealonsty promoted his interests on et ery occasion. But Bunnies per.iily and cowardice, at length compelled the naron to renounce him. En g►.sgcd in a duel, Ituatilt watched an opportunity, seized the sword of his antagonist with the left bawl, and run him through wish the right. The proofs of this were upon record. Another duel ensued ; and again Ruault triumphed through treachery. It was then only that the Lienetal dismissed him from the servic••, as a dishonour to his distinguished regiment, and this imperative punishment it was which excited his deadly revenge. On his trial the wretched murderer avowed his in tention, and on being asked what he had to say in his defence, demanded that lie might be condemned to death, and not to hard labour fur life. His Connsel, M. Choaix d'Es!angrs, addressed the Court in his be half. 'i he Jury declared him Guilt•, and he was l-tate:cell to death. The Judge announced that three days were allowed to Isi , es to appeal. Ile left the bar without the slighted symptom of remorse of fear. The General was not able to attend in Court : certi ficates of the still grievous stare of his wounds were read.— (Fiosch Paper.) linutsford Sessions commenced on Tuesday. Sir Jusin Stanley and nearly thirty Magistrates were on the Bench. There were eight or nine uppcals en tcreil, and thirty prisoners for trial. Oaring an ad dress to the Court. Mr; Willi ams was intertipted, by 31r. Hill; the former Gentleman immediately eat down. HP was requested by the Bench to go on ; which he decline.i. jocosely o bserving. that lie was not 1;' the habit of striti..g ducts. The Court said as the business it•cq be proceeded with. it would be otliged to Mr. Williams if he would favour it with a rola: Mr. W. iniinediately complied, and with great good humour continued his harangue. At these Sessions it was decided, that saes% a pauper remained in sm.' Thuile a full year. that is 365 days. he could not claim a settlameat.—(wilandiester Chronicle.) THE STATF.S' Mt. .trxint AND rife *MIT VF • DE3- . POTISM." d , • • • . • Tlie mystery which attended the origin of the ex traordinary little work ratified " The Spirit of Des: irotism," is not more remarkable than the manner in which k happeked to lie hronght out at last before the pulsate. Its reprint, by iltr. Hone, was owing, it ap ' pears, to one oldie few ort‘lnal copies haring, acci dentally, fallen Int., the hands of Mr. John Towel .Butt. Into the bands of few men could it have fallen, pore able to apprecia'e its political value, or its li terary merit ; and Mr. means became, undesignedly , but, as b Ire says, by no unwillingly, the cause of its re-publication. The way in which this was brought about isithus stated by Mr. K.:—" In 1816, I observed on a book-stall a volume, entitled The Spirit of Des potism, printed in the year 1793,' without a pub lisher. A very slight inspection satisfying me that it was the production of no every-day writer, I secured the hook; and, with the hope of ascert.tining the author, communicated, under the signature of Setti lins, the extract and inquiries which appear in your Vol. XII. 94. 1 afterwerds lent the book to a friend, who, on my recommendation, inserted, in a periodical work which he conducted, the 89th section, on. 'The Christian Religion favourable to Civil Liberty.' While the volume remained in my friend's Library, it was seen by Mr. 11., who,• being highly gratified by some passages which he read, determined on the pub lication of the whole. Having procured a copy with great difficulty, he pursued his intention, and made an unavailing application to me for some knowledge of the author. Just as his late edition was finished at the press, a copy of the work, reprinted in America, was brought to hint, with an assurance that it was there at tributed to Mr. Thomas Law, brother of the late Lord Ellenborough, who emigrated soon after he had here exposed the designs against of Mr. Reeve's Associ ation, the prototype of tbat which dates from Bridge- " It now appears that Mr. Law was not the author, but that he conveyed a copy of the treatise to America, and there procured its reprint at Philadelphia. Mr. Hone, by a train of circumstances, which, could 1 do justice to them, it would scarcely heroute me to detail, was led almost to conclude that Dr. Knox had written The Spirit of Desputiew.' "To Dr. Knox Mr. Hone introduced himself, and MIS treated with the utmost courtesy and candour . On pledging his word not to reveal the name of the author during his life-tiute, a pledge which 1 ant per suaded he most sacredly observed, Mr. Hone was in formed by Dr. Ku x, that, in 1795, he forwarded the manuscript to his usual publisher, the late Mr. Dilly, who sent it, in the course of business, to the printing office of the late Mr. Straiten. That gentleman, just as the work had gone through his press, became alarmed at some free anti-courtly passiges which it con tained. With these alarms he infected Mr. Dilly. The result was, that the author, unuilling that his hook should steal into the world without the name of a printer or publisher, determined to destroy the im pression. Of 1,008 copies, as Dr. Knoz assured, Mr. Hone, only four were preserved; one, Mr. Law ear -1 vied to America ; another remained in the author's Library ; from a third Mr. Hone printed his edition; and the other, by the accident 1 have mentioned, is in my possession." " Such," adds Mr. Rutt," was the early fate of a work which will now, probably, to very late times, contribute, even more than any other of Dr. Knox's first excel lent writings, to preserve the remembrance of his well earned reputation." PORTUGUESE PA PERS. -b Tna conves.--usnox, ocTonER 5. In the Sitting of the :nth September. the ortkir of the day was the Decree respecting the duties to be im posed on the importation of brandy, which gave rise to along and warm debate. The Deputies front the Island of Madeira declared, tbtt it was necessary that Portuguese brandy should be Allowed to be imported into their Island without duty, and the duty on foreian brandy diminialied,that propos..A being too heavy, be cause brandy is necessary to mix with the wine intend ed fur the Landon and American markets. • Some Deputies, on the other hand, arm that for-, merly brandy %tits not imported into the island of Ma deira to mix with the wines, which were then of excel lent quality, and celebrated all over the world ; that it was only in the time of a certain Governor that it had been allowed, but that it was an abuse. and contaary to express laws. The debate on this subject was ad• jotirned. In the same Sitting the measures taken by the flo vernment to repress the banditti who openly brave the laws in various parts of the kin.:ilom, were motional cated to the Assembly. A very lung Circular of the • 6overnment has been published, inviting the Provin cial Authorities to use the utmost vigilance to examine the passports of all persons %t his the greatest care; to impress on the people the necessity of associating and going in bodies in quest of robbers; to apprehend them, and deliver them to the nearest Magistrate, with the booty they have male, and with all the proofs that can be collected of their crimes. The Magistrates are to snake the people comprehend that, by thus act ing for their own defence and security, they will imi tate the most polished nations in Europe, who consider it as one of their first duties not to permit such crimi nals to harbour atti. , ng them, hut to denounce them to the Magistrates, and assist the latter, when necessary, that the criminals may sutler the penalties of the law. In the Sitting of the 2d Oct., M. Fernandez Thomas made two proposals, which were approved :- 1. That the nation being very ill served by foreigners acting as Consuls, they should be removed, and Portu guese appointed in their stead. 2. That it bring indubitable that there were Portu guese so degenerate that they sought by discourse sad conversation, both public and private, to disturb the new order of things, and to sow distrust among the people, he proposed that the enintnittee should draw up and lay before the Cortes a project of criminal law, to tannish as traitors to the nation (keeping in view the is:Amager of the kingdom on this subject.) all those who shall in: this suatuser disturb public order and tranquillity. The Decrees respecting the org anization of the pro- 1 vieces of Brazil are now published officially. as well as that on the Constitution and powers of the (Atoci! of State. In the Sitting of the Cartes on the 3d, M. Monis Ile yarns brought forward two motions, a Isieli were reserved for a seeond.readimg -Ist. tin the large grants of land made of Bruit, which were an ilury to the poor, and he wished to . the grant* grants teitiicted to what is suilialpt far a mau ;tad' his tam*, Etc. Tie 4d Mile in`favour of the 13Qh0p y Aho tgines of who iinght to be treated with mildness, and pre served in the inviolable possession of all the land which they stsamiava. as OM moodoet of 'William Penn towards the Indians should be taken as a model. - - - - PRICE OF RTOCKS TH II Rink Stook VW I per Cent,Red 7711 i I per Crot.enn 781S1 $4 per Cent. 874 f , $ per Cents. 964 t prr Ct. Navy I I to per Cont. Law AaD 194 9.16 In,. 'per Cent. Irish 6 per CAM. DAY AT ONI teal Stool 240 Dlttollonif24 734 —5. p.l South-flea rock South Sea 014 .%on. 1111 1 •2 d. 10001. 4q. 04. p. Os. 6a. 54. pa. Small 04. 7s. pm. India for ditto Goa. for Ace* Nil Lott. Tickets Ws. 191. TO CORRESPONDENTS. PAWSIIIIOWERS. — We have received several letters from va rious Correspondents. complaining of the non-insertion of their Communications, relative to the conduct of Pawn brokers. in reply to these, and also as a notice to others who may be disposed to write similar letters on the sub ject, we beg leave to state, that the communications which have appeared were inserted with a view to do a public good. We question very much, however, how far such an object may he attained by such means ; besides the co lumns of a Newspaper are not the fittest medium for the purpose ; and we feel assured that every case of delin quency may be prosecuted in a Court of Justice. We %hail, iherifore. without meaning to give offence to our Correspondents. beg leave to decline, for the future, insert ing letters of the above description. LONDON! WEDNESDAT EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1821. STOCK EXCILINUE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Yesterday 50,0001. Consols were at one period offered in the market at 73 fur money, and Consols were done as low as 79} for the November Account, and money was worth 5 per cent. The latter part of the day one French broker sold largely. The fall was attributed to a large Bull Account, and it is cal culated that from 18 to 20 millions 3 per cents are held on continuation by the monied men for the spe culators for a rise. Ministers still continue to issue Exchequer Bills to any amount that the public may require. The market opened this morning at 7$ for Money, and 7,91 for the Account, and the market looks heavy. On ushering in the statement of the Irish Revenue for the year ended the 10th of October last, the Treasury scribes renew the exultation they expressed on the returns of the English It. venue. According to this statement there is an increase in the Irish Re venue in the year ended on the 10th of October, 18 4 1, of 216.3251. 16s. 21d., and in the quarter ended on the Ilth of October last, there is an excess of 147,0001., beyond the corresponding quarter last year. In looking into the account we find an excess in the Cus tom Duties of the last quarter of more than 96,0001., ar.d in the Excise of above 51,0001., which, taken to gether, is greater than the amount of the whole ex cess of the late quarter beyond the corresponding qn 'tier of last year, and constitutes above two-thirds of the increase of the Revenue of the last year above that of the preceding. Now, let it be remembered that the Kino's visit to Ireland took place in the Oc tober quarter. Let the unprecedented influx of other visitors of high distinction into Dublin, the extra ex• penditure they would incur and occasion, the costly preparations made for their reception, the lavish use lef every article of consumption, and the duties payable on foreign importations and domestic productions to meet that extraordinary demand, let all the particulars of that splendid and convivial season be considered, and the wonder only is, that the excess is so little. Afeer all the advantalte, however, which the Revenue derived from the extraordinary circumstaners of the October quarter, we timl that in the Excise there is a decrease in the whole of the year of almost 69.000/. In the year ended Oct. 10, Its 20, the amount of the Excise was more than 1,650,000/., and in the year ended Oct. 10, 1t421, little more than 1,550,000/. What reason the Treasury scribes have in such circumstances, to boast of the produce or the prospects of the Revenue of Ire land we know not ; nor since we were able to develops their artifices, can we find they have better grounds for exultation in the Revenue of England. To-mor row we shall chew that the friends of truth have neither been idle nor unsuccessful in the detection of dirir fallacious accompts. We still hear of conflicting rumours as to the sitna- ' tion of General San Martin. Should it however prove true that the Patriots have been successful, and we are very much disposed to think that they have, notwithstanding the fiat contradiction of this news in a paper of this morning►, there is every probability that the whole coast of the Pacific by this time is in the hands of the Independents This, together n ith lloHynes successes in the Caraceas. will 'tire old Spain sufficient leisure to occupy itself in dividing and subdividing its European territory, and follow the ad vice we have continued to give it. on the sound policy of renewing its commercial relations with the Republican brethren, and of a bad bargain make the must. Th e Liberals of Spain would have long since effected that desired object, were it not fur the old Ultras and their beloved Rusbroiderer, who are 'the curse of every country that is annoyed with them. flow , ewer, the Spanish people will be no Vnger astray by this Kamp of sioyalty ; they see the misfor. tunes these L'ltras cause through Europe, and will render their loss of power of the first consequenc e to . the dearest intereets.of Spain. It appears that the Inquisitionists are something like our Tories hem , they see as notch disinclined ►o bring (learnt . H ug , • to trial if OW bugaboos are Sir ROVILAT WILSOx. 1 % 11. ) Itiseauot lip ..., • , ° e ar sat), that the Stanithrogie Jot submit to ti lof asosis loplit4s, tntilta and Elio, who must he hateful to ev.ry f lead of I'- 1 arty. While one of the members of the Itutti,i. tion holds power, Spain will be oppressed and the pri, sons filled with the victims of misrule. The treatmelt of those brave fellows who over brew that infernal edifice, at all times so hateful to baman nature, and par. tienlarly to Englishmen, they have been incarcerated, for the projected crimes of French spies and Spanish Ultras; hut the light of liberty will soon shine throne% their prison bar, and tear asunder those chains which have so long surrounded the Spanish people. Their neighbours, the Portuguese, are proceeding with a firs att.l judicious step; their KING has put most Kings to the blush; he is regulated by the wisdom of those who - 4 4VileVeri , 1 commas feed hien ; he sees the necessity of giving up the further idea of divine right and liassive obedience; hr finds that his strength lies in their affections. —Their feelings anti their Constitution assimi- Lae to those of Spain, and, in short, we feel coufi.lent that the wise men of both countries will farm an al. liance to enable them to subtitle their enemies, under evert• folio, and bid defiance to the intrigues of the Ca. holy Alliance. The French BOURBON has pressed tha litxu of England toquit the Ilanoverian elysiam sal visit Paris. "l'is said, he has made great preparations for his Britannic MansTv's reception; that he bas procured a large glass table, wherein they can admire their !loyal countenances, and compliment each other upon the happy issue of •37 years war and bloodshed for the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in France. Notwithstanding which, we do not suppose his Ma jesty, KING GEO:IGE IV., whose councils have bred ia France .10 touch hatred to any thing English, except English money, will venture amongst them, for it is not to he supposed, that a KING, who contributed ss material:y to their political subjugation, could become a welcome visitor to the French people. By the Paris papers we leant that the renewal sf one-fifth of the French Chamber of Deputies is cow completed. The Monitrur, in noticing the results of the election, boasts that the Revolutionary or " Libe. ral" candidates have been universally rejected; bat thinks it necessary soon to suggest, what tends is bring this assertion into total discredit, that the aisterial and Ultras of the Chamber ought to unite, e;se the compact minority of the Liberals could outvote each separately. By letters from the Hague it is stated that there will be submitted to the Second Chamber of the States General, i tttttt ediatelv after the formation of the Sessi.'n, a proposition of the highest importance. It is alleged that it will be proposed to suspend until the next Session, the execution of the -system of imports of which she bases had been adopted in the last. In the interval a new system of tinancesA • be created more in harmony with the acknowledge) interests of the two grand divisions of the kingdom. It is in a word affirmed that this change, if it take place, will be particularly owing to the solicitude of the Minister of Receipts, M. Appelius. In the speech of the King of the Netherlands on opening the State General there is one point which cannot fail to gain attention, especially at a period when such doubts pre vail upon the subject. " The disturbances in the Levant have," his Majesty says " caused anxiety, Lit still there was a well founded hope that peace would be preserved." The accounts received a the proceed ings of the Cortes of Furthest will be found in another column, and will be read with peculiar interest. The alarm excited by the ravages of the yellow fever, at Barcelona, seem to have extended over the whole Continent. Measures of precaution are adopted see• evasively by the Southern States ; and if the contagioe continue any length of time unsubdued in Spain, the intercourse between nations will probably he subjected to considerable restrictions in the other parts of Europe. A Proclamation has been issued at Tuna to protect the States of Piedmont from the fever,kt which it is ordered, that no traveller shall enter thst country from France, unlees he is provided with a certificate of health from the French Authorities —lt appeals by an article from Leghorn, that sat the 14th ult. the Turkish fleet, consisting of thirty4ie vessels of war, had anchored in the road of Zaats From Tsieste it is s ated, that the Turkish Beet wgi only fourteen vessels, and that they quitted Zante os the 17th, with •the imitation of re•victualling Prevesa The Greek Beet had quitted the ports of We awl Palm, and an engagement was immediately esPerted. In Bessarabia all was tranquil. The BUSSIRII troops. in cantonments in that province, had not oat , 4 d 3 Y hostile movement. A letter from Jass y of the Cl of September, states, that on the Ifith of that mouth, fire thousand Turks, under the orders of Seiha DeF, 114 attacked the Convent of Sack . The Greek garrias received them with a wellffirected discharge of Ile ketry, which killed a hundred of the wear. lb' Turks set the Convent on lire, but the Greeks. wh o had pored theinselves in a small vaulted hastier' , I °l 4 np a briSk tire with such effect, that the Twits woe obliged to retreat with the loss of two thousand sal in killed arid wounded. The richest o..yars had deposited their most valuable effete in this Com e° which have been entirely destroyed by the 1 1 1 3 C 13 t 4. to the value of several millions of piastres.-••• 1 tk Frankfort papers received last night, it is stare d that trytti., b t ?:,ore riche s tevaileit tati had iehi , lestuht t cording to accounts from Vienna in these portals.; aspect of aff.sirs there , was, on the 14/th inst.. Per' ()Takers:snag ofls the the same 2tj uciltimetwzilch there statr i: t i: a ts;l Ii within. :re; 7 11PFT Cbt ititati Oman. " TIM •11TI/1 STATE/11AX" II ' , scour AAAAA WIT! " TUN STAMMAIC," . v ., 4 I