The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-24 00:00:00

; rlie rhlron OF THE CIATESMAX. • Ssn—.ls t 4 fi , ilowing letter perfeetiy agrees with streftethenh the opinhui I have always entertained of the &sided consequences whisk would arise frous i the use of those machines which destroy bana-labour, will feel obliged to yet if ion will spseaily insert it in %Hur nickel) , eirtithurd Itisper, briefly observing, thati the stanzt in the inclosed letter is iuunda4 oa Acts, 114 t a to that part of the touniry where dig 1 wvipse math letter resides, but as ritpiicable to the whole kinstdom. I could mention Dowry parishes 111 this neighbourhood where the pour rates have inereamod a iiutilar proportion (and entirely fruit, the saes, vvii , e),. Irons Wt. to 3688-from 301. to 6081., and from ~ Lutii. a year; and that ow+ dreadful ineriaate ut p a uperism took pi=er, even alstrivi Mist period rhino Iv o mairvischtred fur thereforrsha of the w o r ld sad tier, b.diriiiMl is the kistpitar 101Iffklig empluNed,„ Stscaavras. Ili•ref.trsh. Jan. 40, 1620. C 7118 INCRB.IBF OF POOR'R 8.17188!:41:81:13 Bl' MACHINERY. - • Ruyelon,./ine 1"20. T ae noire of the intended appliratiun lu Parliament, I.s- the Mtdilerifiitil tuantifacturets, for leave to inopsirt Toreign wool dmr free, and consequently to reduce the nein. of English wool in the hands of English farmers, des illtfiliCed me to investigate and ictid you an account, which I have extracted from the boob of a deceased wool stapler and webster, who resided at a village in tee neirhhnurhood: and also of the poor tales in the same perish, sod of another about live miles distant, whlrh demonstrate that the manufacturers of woeleu cloth have thrown twain's on agriculture, that, if in creased, will tend to its destruction, unless means are ~ 1 1 to compel them to share, equally, pour rates at least with the fanners. Until I eni•k not these accounts, 1 had no idea of the extent of the injury done by machinery. Within the time of my If memory, almost all the women. children from seven or right years, and old mem, in the villages, owl to maintain themselves principally by spinning wool ; hut by the invention and erection of machinery, all this spinning has been totally done away, and the 'palsy thousands of pour, who %erre Shinners of wool, have hewn eommonently thrown out of employment, and rodntained by poor rates on the farmers. The increase of poor rates, sioce the erection of ma chinery, will hr seen by the ae'uunts 1 have selected saiffereat year, as specimens only, and without any pre tercure; and of the payments made by this webster, for one vedv only, as a like specimen; but the whole could fie proVed, if required, before a Committee of the !louse of Commons. Something towards a remedy, o wild be to rate all machinery that renders hand-lahoor liseless, in proportion to the altridgettieut of labour, which throws the labourers and their families site the parish :mot. Wes. I have selow stated, and marked (A) the exact ac count of the welniter's payment, for one month, and added it for TP:tr : this is nut selected as different from others, hut as a specimen ; and I hare also stated the veark untsant of thr two parishos' poor rates, for dif t. rent years, as specimens, hot %%idiom any partial 'c ies-riots, and marked them (II), (C). I lease it to some ut your very intelligent and jutlicions correspondents to ,-ale such war of these facts as their better sense ma suggrst.-1 am, Sir, your Iromplarit reader and wilts uishrr. Was, N----K. I(A)—An areasat of ammoer paid by one trehsfer, for s('laning yin from wool, and tikt for one year only, to women and children, and aged pour men, in the webs star's adjoining villages, not etceeding six mikot front Lis own residence. Serrlngton 2 P 1,1.04 ekriokal '6•strrr , ,rd 1)1/%ford 191 o 6 }ulbourn. itietlinitfk•ld ...... 4 ditto ..... ...... 19. 0 3 f. &Won -*ditto :::elhouru Pumplfford Sun stone .... • ditto ... r Pen i Sliellbrd Paid for one month noir ..11,336 9 S And for Moo months More. whirh leeles two months for hat.-titer an harvest. when no ,pinning is expected Paid for spinning in this one year only . t13.364 10 0 --- This sum of 13.:i641. 16s. Rd. was paid to such poor v.-Metro and their I hildrers, and some poor o'd men past Orrin,.... labour, st of whom st otherwise hare hail parish relief, awl that principally from the fanners. This large sum pail by one at:inter only within his dis trirf. nit exceeding six tulles frosts his home; awl there were several other websters in the neighbourhood. who i.arl rash their rempectivrilistricts. 14 hat an enormous 'lust owed have heel' paid for spinning wool atitongst the poor! and yet tuanntsrturers still cry out for relief against farmers. When their stun machinery have pro d:trod all this suit IR)—Thc of poor Wes taken from the parish (where the weh>b r lived,. for ;et eral vitt:taut as) partial selection to show the increase: the spinning ended 1.: Mos , irsr 1790. Fur 1777 1778 1779 • 1780 11317 1819 (C)—The like for another parish, Great Shelford, where tlic,• lore very til.l :woks, Ike miles distant. For (000 fluter - rates) ZAN y 9 1003 ditto ll4l 1$ 6 • 1790 1itt0.....,a 144 10 U 1".111 ditto..,, 44 3 IS 1730 ditto llll 8 6 1779 ditto . ... 1700 ditto ll3ll 16 1 14 no spisaM.g, 4793 ditto 3lll 10 0 ditto. 11310 ditto 4193 6 76 ditto. 1617 ditto • • WO 14 4 ditto, 1818 dittu 630 10 101 ditto. JIB. 1101.illOUSE. - 'The following letter of Mr. Ifosztovvr is list in weer to the Atidrsas front the Liverpool Conceotric Society. Neirgotr, Jan. IS. Ata,—The Atlitres* of the Concentric Society of Liver pool reached me yesterday, and I hag to return the gen tten.en of that patriotic association me re.pertful thanks tl.e attention with which they tare honoured we, only by that address. but by the previous invitation annual festival. molest you to assure the Concentric Society, that, whellier in prlson or out of prison, my humble exertions Iran4ontinac to be directed towards the great national object which it his been so lung their honourable par. W yse to obtain. The present aspect of affairs is, indeed,' such :is to depress any roan not suiSciently versed in the history of nations, and particularly of this conotey, to `rterate, that the most violent and terrifying struggles of , eranny are the surest symptoms of its approaching dis 'dottier,. Pytu,lLunpslen, and Cromwell, had resolved M •I\. • I)nblio • Watarfiird It (lunman). •nd Jane? U Uuttraburgh 4 lidemburab 11. P. ARC btu. O Holland . I I Flanders 4 Francs 0 S Lithun I Malta DAN' AT O:CS O'CLOCK. istlia Stock Ditto Ronas Its. Ilk. pos. Did itiouitios Mr. Rats, lid. 3s. M. pa. Ditto Co.. Ss. dis. (Antigua Con. for A. 01411 Lott. Tlekets tots IL wirol all this sni4l 118)--The (where the %Ow, selection to riaoaest Fur 1777 1778 1;79 1789 .. 1817 1810 tr)—The like fo tin.: hare vary ull For 1000 fluter, 1881 MO". . • MO ditto 1:111 ditto 1 7 30 ditto • 1771 dittu 1780 ditto 1703 ditto 11110 ditto 1817 ditto 18114 ditto., • 'The followitil rwer to the Ath Society. Atit,—The Add pool reached ale Hewett of that pa for tl.e attenlion not 0:114 - br that to tl,r. r annual fi rviiitest you I whether in pr; 4111 !Aral! 4ontinae to 4 ohiert which it I poor to (Attain. such as to ileprti L kt ti.:t.lownrn!%l.ofhaaretnArthleieoss: THE TA' lo abaniion Altair imant,Fg f Amnesic:, mi es ear Illoicteenei wire: felko or kraeitig 14perilinsi bat at 11 huff the um of fief *crib; sled Ike like friemehtto. forebre years had elapsed, the gintlArts 44. tee Crams"' *odds were masters of the metropolis; spout the saute abort sacelaterveuesi Abe neon ion of Sri*" and Ru p ssell. "whet? be 6d men despaired," and tbe expulsion King James. also must expect (as is timidly said of the other see when io a certain promising condition) " to be worse before Iva are better." 11'e shall doubtless be dealt with by privilege of Parliament. by Quarter Se . " 6 • l •Lawt and by that which is called the last, bat which seems the first argoinent of tvrauts—the sword. The gaols will be more full, if possible, than at present; the gib hets will not be unadorned, and Templobar may per- I haps recover 4111111. of its ancient honours ; but we 1101111 wait. souse awkward and humble imitators in the north, we have as vet no such men as Keeling.' and Jetferie., and Kirk ; tut that some successful rivals ! of those octl.hrtil blood-hounds should arise aniouri us, is certainly in eonrse-- " Sint ,ILevanates, - &c. Where patronage is not wanting, such merit will not be rare. open etwourageniein of despotic doctrines, by prinnotiog the practices soil the preachers thereof, was, so thinks Mr. Hume, one of the most foolish mid unwary of the steps that led to the ruin of his favourite Stuarts; but, in our view of the sulvjort, sorb signs of the times are lust to be rreretted, but marked ; anti, re collecting that the hatred of the people procured from King Charles a Bishopric for Pr. 3Loriwaring, we *hunk' bare had reason to be perplexed, if the rays of royal bounty had nut :!roue upon the present Vicar of 11;whilale. These and similar symptoms will, sinless I am meek esidtaken, thicken upon us. If they do so, we may feel secure tbut the crisis of the disease is not far oil. Let us hope, that, arrive whet, it will. we shall not have to pass through any rode remedies to that health, which will enable the Sovereign to enjoy the undivided exer cise of all his lawful authority, and the people tha tran ' quil possession of all their lawful rights. I perfectly agree with your friends of the Concentric Society, that this is the only end and aim of all the Par liamentary Reformers; butt if their object were donlit• NI, there could still be no doubt as to the object of the Oliearcisial l'unspirary, which has rained line lend. which can maintain its usurped power only by our per petual enslatement ; and which we must, therefore, lip tertitine to annihilate, if we determine to be free. With respectful compliments to the Members of your excellent Sucietv. I am, Sir, your very obliged and obedient humble certain. .11111 X CAM 1101111WILSE. The Rev. Wilt. Shepherd, President of thel'otreentrie, SUI irty, Liverpool. PRICE OF STOCKS TO Bank stuck 3 per Cent. Red. Mill 3 peel:rot. Cons. H$ 93 3. per Ceoc 7711 • per Cods. 67 W In &pot rest. Navy HUM Ince .ion. lie. 3 per Cost. Ann. ebt- *talcOman. (Tess "BRITISH STATESMAN** iv I VCOMPORA ?lb sr iris " Tits STATEN VAN.") L 0 N 1)0 N : MONDAY, JANCARV 41, MO. We have received American papers this morning to the following dates: New York to the 10th: Philadelphia to the 14th ; Boston to the 13th ; Baltimore to the 13th ; and Virginia to the 10th of Fast month. (rnem TIIE COUSlrltrl if. ADriILTISFIt or Tag 13111.1 Extract of a letter from Havanna'', dated Nov. I:e. " Mori ►br Spanish lleneral, is expected here hourly. It is believed among. us that he has h•en defeated by Holivar, and that the latter in now in posies ion of the whole of the province of CIMICCaIt." :.~. itUtia 6 per Cents. 0410 41 awful ag 40001 an pit ooht: lb wer the February Account tied' !by Were for money ; yet we can hardly think Mid wilt be the ease, considering the present slate JeCinotiey, which . continues a dent, as it evidently mast be a great sacrifice to Fund at 6 per vent . , - ender the present circumstances. Cbttiols for the Account ran up to 691 on Saturday, allenxion, some say buyers; but the market received a check, owing to some heavy sates, which brought them down to 691; they closed at 69i. This morn ing they opened at 09t, and have continued so dmint the early part of the day, with very little rpliations ; they are now about 69i, rather sellers, the market looking extremely heavy. 5 . ,. • If the want of a true idea ofI.IBSATY be a cause of sltvery, so the want of a .true idea of tyranny is likewise a cause of it. One of the most valuable privileges of English subjects, and that which most 1 sontritsines to stop the progress of despotism, is the .. LOIERTY OF THE PRESS. Any one among us. formerly might publicly disclose the transactions of the Ministry, censure their pernicious undertakings, esolaim against their villainous or ambitions at tempts, and call them to an account at the tribunal of the public. This inestimable privilege has long supported liberty in England, against that abuse of power which is in the very nature of man sad things. It has been said, that the reflecting Eng lish were so sensible of this pre-eminent blessing, by the advantages it gave them at home, and by the reputation it obtained them abroad, that they never could be insensible bow carefully it deserved to be maintained. Who could ever have imagined that a British Parlian:..nt would prove so unmindful of its duty as to strike at the root of this fair budding tree, which promised to yield everlasting fruit with out decay !! The Parliameut of Great Britain has struck at its rout, and the question among the pa- 1 triots and real lovers of their country now is, how to make the wretched, the wicked attempt abortive. This important subjetet we promised, in a former' number of THE STATESMAN, to resume at a flt op portunity ; it his occurred : the short interval be fore the adjournment ends, is a good eecasion. Se veral Acts, from the Gagginx Bills down to the late Bills which have so ah.rmingly trenched upon this once boasted privilege, are so drawn up, that we defy the most learned and experienced of the pro imam' toasty what is safe to write upon the conduce be they whom they may, erwhat other., trim. The phraseology's( "Of tend to bring tbei Government of these kidoms Into contempt," &t: Why,we are infringing tins very law at this moment; we do it every day, and cannot help It, if we speak di' the affairs of the country. How can we see the fortune of the country deteriorated from year to year, and the best, because the most useful., part , of its population gradually sinking into ruin, anal, not complain ! To speak disrespectfully of such a system tends to bring the Government of these kingdoms into contempt, and, consequently, exposes the writer to the penalty of such an insidious and rigorous law. Yet what are we to do? Can a man of any spirit. who has .duly reflected on the value of political liberty, and on the dire come. queoces of below deprived of it, consent to live a t-r.vard in his own esteem ! No forbid it public virtue. If our countrymen will not stand by Qv when called to account by obsequious Law-officers of the Crown, for what, in the eye of reason and equity, though not in Ivry common law, is so com mendable, the sooner we are transported to ano ther region the better! !—And what writing on public affairs, if it contain any spirit or argument whatever, is not under such indefinite ambiguntis Acts of Parliament, worded as they are, susceptible, by the inuendos of the ATTORNF.Y-GENERAII., of being made out libellous or seditious! Such Act.. such laws, were intended to beo‘aewre and Joni!. fowl, but of copious ee•tring, to reach far, to opreii, *id*, and yet to be themselves ivarisible, as It 1 1 #/ere. To operate upon the pions views of dart 'late Bishop of MORISTE*, to place the Me of spirit in the Condition of the base wretch, 1. e. to I!ipe..stal fear, and .be to the honest.WlA it shield be to the vile, " the villain's carafe snob it is to live every day in fear of the falai tit' the law. Then, what is to be done in this difficult, and seemingly deadly condition, to which vaunted liberties of Great 1101:gt: OF REPRESIgNTATIVES. Drr. R. On lion of Taylor, of New York, tl.e Route resolved itselfinto t' t tee of the whole, on the state of the Union ; Mr. awn, of Virgini:‘, Witt/called to the chair. Retaliation% to the following effect were agreed to : That so mach of the President's Message as relates to tarrying into effect the late Treaty hetween the United Stases anJ Spain, the condition of dm Independent Governments of South America, the admission into our Ports of foreign vessels of war, and all other subjects of Foreign Atfrirs, he referred to a Select Com mittee. That so much of the Message as relates to military• objects; to our navy, and the protection of com merce ; to aaanuf.,ctttr►s, and to our commercial inter course with British Colonial ports ; to the suppression of slave trade; to the revenue, be referred to tkelt espor ciel Committee. We have rectived Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday. By a Bulletin it appears that the Chamber of Peers had a dobato on Tuesday, upon , the Petitions against any alteration in the Election Ina so long Britain ern brought 1 If Horace were again elite, he wink' Law.—The discustions wet* more temperate, and the result certainly more decisive, than in the say, to this nios, this important question, •'kis lobar, Chamber of Deputies on the same subject. After Aoe opus." We will, however, suggest the beat as . Owei.to -it in our pewee according to the pelmet some opposition from MM. Lonjuinitis, Daru, and . Segur, the order of the day was carried by a ma- ',state tthings. and Abe present state of publis jority of 48 to 109. mind, E ngland ; and also, which is net s tial consideration at this, period of time, esiii& The Chamber of Deputies assembled on Wednes- ...... to tits present way of ieting of the most day : nothing of interest occurred in their debates. "e , CoOrts of Europe, and of the manifestation cif their The Qwetidietine says, that Al. de Coles Is about subjects' way of thinking upon such measures: WI to retire from the Ministry, and becolue either , are sometimes at a tom to determine whether Ear. Ambassador in London or the King's First Gentle- ! laid er France 11 be most likely to held the man. ; FRENett Fl:hDll.—Five per COMS., 721 r. 30 c.--- key by which all the p o liti ca l i ns tru men t o f Europe lo be• tuned and regulated. The . i . Bank Actions, 'Ai.; fr. 11,0 . 0t Fromm, we often imagine, wilt, in its I , • ' STOCK ENCRAXOk, osK o'crocK. ewe eittils. atm day call 'set, intelligibly, to the The public seetn still to held to their opinioe as I Miniatee's 41:the &tropism Powers, wbieb i : probe ;to the probability of a Funding of Exchequer Bills,lbly, may not play io the same tone, or hum- niously draw the strings together " qjvilez ro ; Ades Sfekaitures." But whether the leader er the bind at St. Janice's, or at the Tbuilleries, sound the prfeA *We l when the great crash °ti e : struments is to be let off. our advice, for the pr e . sent, ought ikti tb be affected by any anticipad ee. however jest in its nature. It is this:—m en the House of Commons has betrayed the trust re. posed in it by the people, it is weiest t pet that body to rescind its own act—and next, so u oidering the Wed of councilor' which has been so artfully and unhappily woven between the Prox ek Itt.oracr and iht ilin;slers of the Crown and a le sort of infloence exercised by them, united oath proceeding recommended in genend to Parharn ebt, it will be of no use to petition the THRONE. Th. people ought then, without delay, to do thentoth ei justice, by frustrating the edicts of their treader, ous stewards. All wise men, all spirited true patriots, ought at once to take up the pe e against Parliament itself, and ail the presses is the kingdom work for that good porpoise, Astortirbar at the multitude of refractorieo, the corrupt Sew* would decline to take cognizance of the infraction, and be forced to see in silence their unjust and on. constitutional decrees violated. Made oeusible their fault by so spirited an opposition, they mom recal their obnoxious Bills, and leave EIREITT where it ought to be, triumphant. This is the anniversary of the birth-dal or Charles lames Pox, whose services to the couonv will be commensotated by all those who respect tai e principles upon 'which the illustrious Home o f Brunswick was placed on the throne of these kiss.. doms. Every considerate person, who recollects the seasonable advice that this excellent Patriot and Statesman gave against the system by whin this country has been brought to the present ex tremity of distress, must deplore the fatality of th e Councils that would not listen to the voice rif reason. What would be the situation of Great Britain this day, if the arguments of Mr. 141 against interfering in the concerns of France had been acted upon f Free from debt, and cows quently from taxation, our skill. the capital, ad machinery would have placed our manafbetares by yond the power of competition, and till the markets of the world would have contributed to the ops knee and comfort of the Britis:, people. This tai is now universally felt by the friends of free*, and the memory of the exalted person will there,* be celebrated with grniitude in every enlightened district of the kingdom. The Emperor of RUSSIA, it seen*, has distin guished and illustrated his birth-day, by repeal* all the war taxes imposed in 1812, whets thee. traordinary effort was called up against the over bearing power of BONAPARTII. Hall Primp. teem to signalive the anniversary of their hid (if t 7, same gracious mariner, the people might cry as " May the King live for ever." According to the French Papers, all the pee cautionary measnres adopted by the Spanish Go vernment, to prevent a rising among the have proved ineffectual : a serious revolt hes apt, taken place, and the Spanish troops show a finadeter mination not to embark for South America. They surprised the General in Chief, Count CaWeena, and carried him prisoner amongst the mountain dt Ronda. They seised all his papers, and caused lb correspondence with the Court to be immedi . t printed, and circulated in every direction. also took possession of all the forts at Cadik with the exception.of the 'frocadero, which they . strictly blotkeded. It is added, that the Cbtistitet lion of the Cortes had already been proclaimed a, Cadix. Lieutenant-Gesieral Freyre bud hastily se sembled souse troops in Andalusia to resist the It surgents. The most alarniing reports uzere Oro lated at Madrid. It was said, that ten thoossat: Insurgents were on their march to that capital.' If affairs. have really extended us far as these se corints state, there is little chance of Ferdinanfre throne surviving the shock. English and other tbreigners midi% II Versailles have deposited 15u0 francs its the BMW or Charity, fur the benefit of the iudiheat Mist town. The Gazette of Satnohty ootilles the ttpp«~6 meat of Viscount - Melville, Sir W.. 1. Hope, Sir U. MP render, Dart., Sir J. fhlmrti, Cornball, Sit 11. nudism. Ktir., and Sir li. Clerk, Bart., to be bill& jetty's Cosnutissioners for executing the office.of 11110 Adinir4l of the United Kingdom and its arposeleneirOf also Major4leneral Sir It. D'Urtialt, K.l'. It., to begat renter of Antig.ta, in the totuis of Nlajor-lien. Km"' duoease,l. I 1.., 4 I -., TO ••• A late military promotion, must give the NO lively satisfaction to every officer who has (legit the battles of his country, since, from the hostel .impartiality of the Commander in Chiefail ei r s t sal eon be given to the f a ir an d ju s t c l a i m s o f • individuals, 'fief it Gas !wan to The tondos Gese" that a young span who was but a lieutenant a Jor mouths ago, and who never saw a shot tired, elicifild pheasants and partridges, has bass promoted IN rity without purchase . The circutustance of his the son of a Duke, who influences the retire of Members of Parliament. and secures that trete, refitment on all occasions, cannot be a motive be or parting from the roles of office—otherwisi the for a reform in the rrpresentation acquires force, as a tumult of prrysitting a• abase of II au flagrant find so iojori, us to the service. The family of the late Cbsiitain GriMib. d es , Marine, consisting of three enterprising and MN.' gent young men, with their sisters, throe WANt sad amiable young ladies, embarked a few i ikir ago at Liverpool, as 'settlers to the Cape of Hope. They took out with them several ottillssa and kerriculturals tinder their proleCties. Tits: PLANeTs.—Venos ma y n•tw be welds to southowist every ruse evening; 0 • duration ghost 100 horizon of this beeetiful plattet after sense is tat Jopiter way be ss.n a short distance shove bre rf ri sotttlorestern sky; they are approaching awl. _ . .11 611 t Satan is also visible in the sou th ; Man how" on le the line of the Ecliptic towartis the east. 11111 are thefenr brightest planets of our system vitibit A t • gether soon after son-set. Doting the whelp 1! w. month tint/ will be most conspicsalls. -