The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-05-02 00:00:00

.1 tir.t introduced, it struck him as objectionable. „u, on consideration, he felt that k Was too extensive produce eves& the object of the lion. Mover. A . own& more partial, embracing the latter years, would . r.wer all the purposes, and such it was the intention lion. Friend of his to propose. Mr. TIERNEY wished to be allowed to see through own eyes. and net that of any Hon. tientleman ► thought he could discover the means of obtaining i& •'Mr. .'s) object in a clearer way than he himself e.. 0-red. He therefore gave notice, that he would un next introduce a f real motion on the sub wet, and he implored the House to recollect that there ....ter was a more constitutional question submitted to their consideration.—{Near, hear!) I alone! DAVIES gave notice of a motion for the Itith of May, for the appointment of a Committee to Watt the Military Expenditure, a measure which .odd lead to effective economy. Mr. TIERNEY said, he wished to be set right. If 'le was misinformed, when he stated that the discus-, on the Resolutions on the arrangement of the it it List were postponed from Thursday to Friday. Ilse CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ac quitseed in the statement. Mr. BROUUHAM added, that his Intended motion, aLi h would precede the'discussion on the report of ; •r Resolutions. now postponed to Friday, would hold relative si nation also on that day. Mr. BATHI . RNT obtained leave to bring is a Bill remove all doubts as to the continuance of the In ,.,'.rent Debtors' Bill.—After a few words from Lord .: THORP, which we could nut hear, the Bill was read first time. Sir J. NEWPORT wished to learn from the Right tl..n. tlentletuan. the Secretary fur Irelaud (Mr. Brant), whether any answer had been received trout the Irish ..hhishopi and Bishops relative to the state of the 1-..tablislsed Church in Ireland ? 11r. GRANT, in reply. stated, that some answers ,1 been received. and (we understood) they would .11 oily be laid before the House. LUSIIINOTON laid uu the table the Returns J. the ordinary income constituting the public Re ..•nue.—Ordered to be printed.—Adjourned. .KETCHES OF SWITZERLAND AND THE RHINE. .t OM GOLD •ND NO2TH1101: 4 1 . 1 LONDON 111•0111111111. Meatiasestfratt yesterday's paper.) My companion soon arrived at her clttage-home, •• t I then truly found myself alone. The scene .. changed into a desert, where reigned an univer -.1 silence, broken only by the feint roar of distant rents. Trees, meadows, cultivation, habitation, all hi disappeared ; ao leapt was there any animation • Lger' , o• longer did vegetation skew its cheering The sank, esemlngly bailed in a protonlid • iosp, gave no sips if life. To increase the horrors of solitude, the sett sae sae became totally obscured ; e lens* cloud itavelo the lift I a keen north wind ~.:notrated to m? very'soal with its caning blasts ; le thermometer (as I afterwards learned at the con . at) descended to the freezing point ; the falling • or drifted around me, and threatened wholly to d'iliterate the faint track which served as my guide; a few hours 1 had passed from the fires of the dog star to the extreme rigou sof winter. Near the path I suddenly espied two small stone buildings. Eagerly ...eking for untie shelter, however trifling, against the •• pelting of the pitiless storm," I approached the 7. , arer one, and recoiled with horror. The fun ob ,et that offered itself was the body of a man, prostrate the ground, stripped perfectly naked, and covered with gashes. Nut knowing what to think of such a • ,;ht in such a place, and being of course ignorant •w long the bloody work on which I was gazing had • .en pt rpetrated. I involantarily cast a glance around, ..:f expecting to see the ruthless murderers : all was. ever, silent and motionless, save the wind and the I ...rent. After a short pause. l proceeded to recut.- •ntre the other building, in which finding no such e• oloolied for tenant as, peaceably enough it is tree, epi possession of the neighbouring little shed, I .:•cily embraced the opportunity it rotorded of shelter ttig myself from* the storm. In a few minutes I re - tined my ascent along rugged and narrow paths, ha nding or. o. the rumblinir Dranse, without being able I • discern any thing but bare crags, furrowed with Img ridges of snow. The storm still raged with un :.ated violence; night and darkness rapidly advanced, ni not a living being appeared to direct my uncertain kteps. It is at a time and under circuraitances like t rse, that man, elsewhere so v.iin and So presamptu o".s. feels, sensibly feels, the oothiegaele of his exist r ice, and the futility of his boasted powers. Cast ' e urn with -awe. and overcome by consternation, he -ems alike Toren.; on the boundaries ST•thr'lletld sill the limits of his own little life. Here, however, here settee seems to abandon him, religion stretches t rth her protecting hand. In the centre of a ,iirrow defile, the Convent of the t• and St. Bernard shews itself to the traveller, like a .11 in the storm. There I was received by the plods ::units, with a warmth and sincerity this could not I ire been surpassed, had toe object been their nearest I. omen. Is a moment my snow-encrusted cloths, t. •re taken off; and dry linen, with a complete change• f'dmies, enabled me, amid many refigtentlations on y wife arrival, to sit down with comfort at supper in .e vlyfectury. It was a " meagre day," rad , Mise r leatTy, we had no delicate cheer; but exercise and t il had sbaspened my appetite, and the plainest food t,, me seemed delicious. A few short prayers, repeat s I by all the Monks, preceded and followed this meal; After which, at an early hoer, I was conducted to my c 11, where Al. cruellest bed completed the measure of that day's estoymeste ; and there, regardless of tho' s•urm which itaged withoot, I sees fell " IMo sock slam se west to aloe Olettios as the wasez head, ..Amer a toilsome day. Ike Coon* of the Brand St. Bernard is built upon Vie basis" of a small lake, at an elevation of 8,074 to c above the I.•vel of the seek, a height at vehicle, In rig old world, no other habitation is !town to exist. ';lie wilder there lasts nine amathe, and oven II the ry heat of summer it piles freezes. The winds, c flied in the narrow delas that inclose, the Conceit, b almost au:nterreptedly. and with such violence a. sometime to raise whole mountains of snow, aid THE 87 ATF.SMAN. .... darken the atmosphere with its flaky clouds. Seldom. SPECIMENS OP SYSTEMATIC MISRULE. indeed, is a clear sky enjoyed there ; in general, dark, ---.0.-- vapours envelop the mountain, and veil the convent in De. Maclean, in the recent work published by him, impenetrable obscurity. Under shelter of the neigh- and sodded Specimen of Systematic Alisruk, in speak- Doering rocks, the konks have formed several small gardens, miserable gardens indeed — producing , by ing of the souses which led to the rejection by the dint of incessant attention. a few wretched herbs, by Ministers of his project relative to the subject of con the month of August. AU the necessaries of life are teflon, says— brought, at a great expense. from the neighbouring ~ T o hove renounced t h e d octr i ne of co ntagion. in rallies. At the western extremity of the la ke is a epidemic disea ses . would have been to admit that want email plain, on which formerly stood • temple cones- of employment, and consequent starvation and des pair, crated to Jupiter. The mountain itself was called 1 w en doe real causes of the prevailing fever o f t he Mons Jovis, until that appellation was lust in the . United Kingdom; and the conclusion would be oh. name of its celebrated founder. I viously deducible that these evils were occasion A by The gnat number of ex vote's, found by digging t h e C orn L aw s, and other partial and restrictive veer. under the rains of this temple, proves at the same time . mares, together with excessive taxation, paper mefiffs both the frequentation and the danger of the passage ke.—and these would in their turn be traceable to t h e in ancient times, since men would scarcely offer an . means employed to maintain and increase the oli ga : bited at the Convent are engraved upon plates of ex veto for an easy or safe undertaking. Those ex hi- chic supremacy, as their cause. There were also ot h er bleed motives concurring tow ard the same e ut, i bronze, and generally run in the sanw style. In the ' i By the abolition of quarantine, laearettos , and othsg I same cabinet that contains these medals. are also c ol- I establishments of Plague Police, which would have sections of butterflies, marbles. and minerals; the lat• I &Rowed of 'Dane from the adoption of my discoveries, ter comprehending several fine specimens of abestos. I Mishears would he deprived of the patronage Min- The chapel is enriched with • marble monument. /.ease which arise from the alsraditum o f " se e l le l le I erected to the memory of Generals Dusan, wits fell 1 of the public money, on these establishments, at bents at Marengo. It is an exquisitely finished relief, repro- and abroad, as well as of the coatroul which the quaraso seating the General falling wounded from bis horse, tine regulations give them over the affairs of ratters: l and assisted by a Hussar officer; in the back grou nd and nav i ga ti on . • • • • • • is the field of battle; above is inscribed " a Desaaix « Besides the general motives stated for rejecting the mon a la bataille de Marengo." Here is placed a small box, entitled, " Tronc des Ammon," into which validity of my discoveries , as alre ad y p romul g ated, there were also particular motive* for refusing my they who please may drop Weir mite, as an of ackttow- o lodgment fur their gratuitous entertainment . It is. at making farther conclusive experiments, if few 1 ther experiments were deemed wanting ; which woull however, wholly optional, and the utmost delicacy is observed by the ecclesiastics in not hinting at the have set the question of contagion in epidemic disesseal for ever at rest ; as well as for fraudulently evading the subject. payment of the reward, to which I was considered eso! I requested to see the last abode of the inhabitints of the Convent, and was accordingly led t o a small titled by the British Ambassador at Co nstantino p ia . for my services in the Levant. I had alread y boss square building, where the corpses, wrapped up in injuriously and unjustly treated by the s y stem twent y ► winding sheets, are ranged side by side , or pil ed one , two years a g o, in India, and at different periods sub upon another. This mode of burial is horrible—it shocks the imagination nature revolts at it ; but it sapiently in Europe; and the sy stem never for g ives whom it injures. To have therefore afforded to &per il' the only method whirl; the situation allows ; for here the ungrateful inauspicious earth , nut content son whom it had injured , and wh o was a knows fr end of freedom, and of course a known enemy to oligarchy, with refusing the means of life to man, denies him even the refuge of her bosom when dead. This sad an opportunity of triumphantly proving his conclu sions to the meanest capacity, which the course of ex spectacle reminded me of the strange sight that I had wit- , liniments proposed would have supp lied, would have nested during my ascent to the Convent, and of which been to have contributed to the exaltation of that per- I therefore requested an explanation from one of the ‘ Sys- Monks. Ile told tne, that the two small buildings had , son, and therefore abhorrent from t he s p irit of the s y s- M tem. Hence tnis mode of proceeding was rejected tar I been erected, the one as a sort of shelter against sad- evaded, both at the beginning and at the end of my den storms, and where, during the wintry season, the' inmates of the Convent deposit , from time to time, intercourse wi h different branches of the Administra tion. But, although 1 believe this consideration alone small quantities of wine, bread and cheese, for the use would bate been sufficient to have de cided its rejec of such travellers as the inclemency of the weather 1 t i on , as coming from me ; yet I am fully persuaded, may drive under its roof ; the other as a charnel-house. in which are exposed the bodies of those who perish so great was the utility of the doctrine of contagion, as an ally to the system, upon which might be conve amid these inclement scenes, with a view to their be- I singly fathered so great a proportion of its misdeeds ing recognised hi' same passing Ma". He added, that' by sickness, that, even if the proposition had been the body which had so powerfully eseinal my stun- made ` tens of the oligarchy. by Lord Lansdale, for tion, was the remains of a Unman, who had been rob in instates,. who has nine Itepresentati ves In Parliament, bed and murdered a few weeks previously , whilst join -it it we'll only have been accepted with an understand neying towards the Convent. Of his name and rank but hoped that the corpse , log that the experiments, if he we re ca p able of con they were wholly ignorant , ducting them to a successful issue , should be made t o would soon be owned, when it might be restored to j fail ships. the family and friends of the deceased. how e ver, nay squadrons would be fitted I ost, and wealth would be heaped upon the Borough. Without wasting time, by stating and attempting I Leviathan, extracted from the pockets of the people, to prove what has so long been a disputed point in the be p resumptu- for simulated proceedings, which it was previously de literary world, but of which , if I dare termined should not produce any saving in return. ton enough to confess it, I entertain not the least doubt—the celebrated passage of Hannibal over this And if he had happen-d. as a volunteer, to have per formed any 'services, in relation to this subject, in part of the Alps ; and without more than just ailed -1 Turkey, the recommendation of the A mbassador at the fug to the equally well known passage by Bonaparte Ottoman Porte, or of the Levant Company, would nut and his army previous to the battle of Marengo, it have been necessary, in order to have ensured him an may not be wholly uninteresting to give a brief sketch ample reward. of the origin and existing state of the establishment " In submitting to the world these specimens of sys itself. mastic misrule, to which I am impelled by a deep It was ab act the year 962, that st. Bernard de and irresistible sense of mural obligation, my objects are Menthon, Archdeacon of Aosta, overturned the Heathen various and important. This narrative of official pro temples, which till that period had existed on these eeedings and correspondence, exposing the unfair Inaa mountains, and founded a convent, of which he conti in which the inquiry into the validity of the der sued Prior until his death, forty years afterwards. Ihe institution speedily acquired a high reputation, :rne of contagion, in epidemic diseases , has been Gam ducted, is also interesting, as it affords a correct @n and, along with that, extensive possessions in differ ample of the simulation which characty rises every in. ent parts of Europe. 'I he latter, however, it has gra vestigatiun, purporting to be far the public good , when dually lost, throngh the negligence or alienation of 1 its results, if honestly conducted, would militate against the successive Priors, on whom the Pope conferred its the interests of the oligarchic ascendancy. It will administration during the fifteenth and sixteenth cen- thus serve to demonstrate practically the entire incons turies. In 1752 it was despoiled of all its remaining property in Savoy, in consequence of a quarrel be- consequently of that ascendancy with the public good, and consequently the indisphnsable necessity of an isms. tween the King of Sardinia and the Republic of the diate, efficient, and adeqmote Reform, in the Commamms Valais, respecting the nomination of a Prior. At , House of Parliameut . It is perhaps better eabeelellad present its only wealth consists of some rents and lan ds than any exposition of public proceedings, which has in the cantons of Le Valais and Berne, together with yet appeared, to convince all those, who have not the privilege of raising subscriptions throughout Eiwit . themselves been in intimate collision with the system. Iserland, and, occasionally, other commercial countries. The eeclesiasti s are regular canons of the order of and may find itsit difficult to give full credence to the profligacy of operation, of the utter hopelessness of lgt. Augustin ; their number is not limited, though in , ail attempts to b r ing to a successful issue, by any re- i general consisting of from tilt to 30, of witens-vii rer yetosoo to the " may theloadamof which hitataasoo tide wholly at the Convent; the others filling the dm are necessarily the agents, or the tools, any inquiry. of pendent curacics. The Superior has the title of Pew which the results would be to unveil the nature aril rot, bears the cross and mitre, And receives the Papal consequences of that insidious and destructive deep- Balls ; in general he resides at Martigny, and • clam- ~ tism, which is the remote cause of all our calamides. tetras Prior governs the establishment. The lion— Their üblica,:un now will, in the event of any sect es live under very little rtraint: they rise at five; their dent happening dent happening in the mesa time to myself, serve as a l itious exercises consist hi meditation and prayer; they m att y e , nd an tn d aspsurasuned theirvespe vespers every in n a o y rd of discoveries of the highest importance to all one common a pa r t-bir ma nkind, of the validity of the proofs upon which they have been established, and of the undue and extraor 'Dent, or, if preferred, in their respective cells. dietary concurrence of influences, by which their ac- Considered in this light only, they are men of *pare kaowlealgment and application have been deferred. and edifying life; the, are solitaries, devoted, in the midst of deserts, to the investigation of learning and "It will establish for myself, or for my family, in the virtue, and are placed upon a rugged anisette*, me la- eyes of the howest and unbiassed part of mankind, a termediate beings between earth and heaven. But claim founded apes my undoubted right of discovery. how will our admiration increase, when we reflect on and the great bassets which the State will derive from their seal and activity, on the energy of their chaise- its application. to that suitable national reward, which tens, and on that commerce with mumbled, which esti- is now framiniestly withheld. bat which cannot fail gions considerations have induced them to sever, he- to be rewind, whenever Wass seam sijustice and do ing reunited by the most amiable of all motives, the coma shall resumes its ;skew in the @goodie slat lore of their fellow-creatures. If for a few moments country. • • • • • Theaaving *this t= we pursue the detail of the life and habits of these anii- at home, and in the collision. which smile be e able men, an idea may soon be formed of the astute in sonsoquenee id the similties of thoneeiblisheemits and extent of those sacrifices which religion inspires, of Plague Police, SPA sot 1111 sheet of IMAM 1 and which she alone can support. and might exceed bolt • million soisodly. Let the (Te be mistimed.) peek judge of the MIMS ads* reward to which the person le endtied, by whose efforts this retresehnient, The Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh has ped- this positive steins, bat been rendered paseticable, in. dosed Parliament on the subject of the present de- dependently of all the other considerations of humanity, pressed state of cosunseece in all its branches. We act science, commerce, navigation, isdividial intercom**. derstand the merchants of Leith hare also petitioned and the intercourse of tuitions, which this subject in- Parliament ou the same subject. I 'VIM." t 6 , • 4 A , .y I - . REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE. The thirteenth anniversary of this institution wa s celebrated yesterday at the City of London Tavern. Amongst the many charitable establishments by which this country is so highly distinguished, there is nose of a less ostentatious character, though few are calcu lated to be more highly beneficial to the community, than the Refuge for the Destitute. The object of thi s institution, as described in the Report of the c m . matte', is to provide a place of refuge for persons wh o have been discharged from prison, or from the hulks; be mmihetunate and deserted females, and others who, *MO willing to work, are unable, from loos of cha nger, to earn an honest maintenance. Within this asylums they are withdrawn from the paths of tempt,. don and vice; they art taught to reaonace t h eir former habits of life, to pursue industrious employ ments, to form resolutions of penitence and reforma tion, and to return to society with renewed hearts and amended lives. The Duke of York was expected to preside ; b u t hi, Royal Highness being prevented by indispositi on y to „, attending, the Hononrable Grey Bennet. li. P., too k the chair. The anal loyal toasts having boa d ni k , the chairman proposed "The health of the Dyke of York, and prosperity to the Refuge for the I/esthete " He was sure the first part of the toast would be re. ceived with that enthusiasm and respect to which Lis Royal Highness was justly entitled from the company. L e t it he remembered that his Royal Highness had, from the beginning, been one of the warmest sap. porters of the Institution, and that, like the other branches of the Royal family, he had descended from his elevated rank, if he might use such an expression, and had mingled with his fellow-subjects in endeavour. ing to succour the distressed, to support the hepless, and to reform the depraved. On the second part of the to ist,which related to the I limitation of which they tree then celebrating the anniversary, he begged leers to say a few words. He had had the good fortune to he v quainted with this Institution for some time, sad, i n his mind, there was none that called so loudly for the support of every intelligent man, because there was none which did so much good with so little mesas. It appeared, from the report, that from Jan. I, ISle, to Jan. I, 1620, 5$ males and 43 females had ken admitted ; and that during the same period PO mules and 55 females had been discharged. Them reinsined at present in the asylum 61 males and the same am ber of females, the Committee being obliged to redoes the number of objects from the want of pmentary means. He belonged to the Committee of that So ciety, and of all the painful duties which be ever per formed, none left such a sting in his mind as his at tendance at the Refuge for the Destitute, when the Committee were obliged to turn from their doors dims objects whom they could not relieve from wain of adequate means. Although the Institution had originally been established fur the relief of the destitute rather than the criminal, its tomtits were now applied almost solely to the criminal destitute. Se much for the objects of the Society ; ho bast aim Sad a few words as to the manner in which tistreherity was conducted. He wished that every Gentismaa who heard him would do himself the pleasure—for high pleasure it would afford—to visit the Institudes. It was truly gratifying to see the comfortable dtiaties and the grateful countenances of the munitteus eh jetty, particularly the females and ehildreo, whom the Society had rescued from want and vice. Be had placed in the Refuge many children whom he had seen in various Osumi, and from whets hardened countenances he had been led to fear that them wee little chance of their reformation ; but when Se after wards saw them at this Institution, aid observed the gratitude and penitence which were expressed hi their countenances, he felt convinced that it never was tee late to attempt reformation. If ever there was an Insti tution which called for the support of the charitable and affluent, and to which men should give a patios out of the great or the little which Providence had bestowed on them, it was this Society, became me other did so much substantial good at so cheap a mite. In the course of the evening several excelleot sd dresses were made, and, from the report of the i Tres surer, it appeared that the speakers did sot appeal s vain to the munificence of the company. At 11 o'clock the subscriptions amounted to 7U I . exclusive of various legacies. amounting to W I , I 4,000/., which had been left to the Institution &tug the last year. ----- BRITISH SISI'EH OF EDUCATION. Yesterday, the Six.); Annual Meeting of tie flora Institution for the Education of 1,000 &paid 31 . Oirls of all Religious Denominations, os tiny British System, took place. In the morni n g a weeder look pine: at the School-room, North City-rea. whet it Report was made. The school bus altilliehed seven years, during which time 3,900 boys bad bees admitted, and 00 remain; 973 females bat she Mrs admitted fie a school set apart for them, dace Sepses ber last; sod the object of the meetly ami &war which took place at the City of Londe. Taunt t the altursooe. his Royal Highness the Duke of Soma la the Chair, was to cover the deficiency of 1,0 1 . 1 " account of both schools. His Royal Highness the Duke of Suess: observed , that his late br..ther the Duke of Kant had boos the Patron and Founder of the Institution, and *Mortal to bis lamented loss, he was called to AU big Owe- H. particularly agreed with the objects of thrilessitr• due. because they embraced children of aU deessmias dose of religiose, u he was sot frieedly te thew fettudad on exclusion. Mr. 0411111 detailed the principles sad ofireedeffee tits new system of education adopted in them ellieo°, the dillicalties it bad eacoualorted,, ad the N ate it had always received from his lass libjeety• Ne w the straggle was over, and It was Is • state of Pr greedy, presparity. mote perticularly le the two ?hit ostehlishmeets whose utalwenery they wove that day met to celebrate. Mr. Timms made a powerful appeal to the WW I of the pumas present, sod hoped they wield tolhoe the example . of the Royal Chairing*. the Se ri d Dually. and others, who had again buses owl Blasi beeefactors. Letters , from Mh o s state, that flee Ragtag ha el I adopted the most vigor** s measures so Wrest i the 'reduction of the Spanish newspapers tats the realm. : IL