The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-03-23 00:00:00

Lord NUGENT sloe objected le the eulogist of the peopo•fri emir. Mr. HILOUGHAM was at a loss to know how the items wiontioned in the account could amount to Ufl,oool. lie thought, before the onto tires agreed to, the Committee ought to hero ware Information. Mr. I.ONf; said, only 60,1•Xi1. won. at present asked for. It had boon observed by an llnonerable Member (Mr. llontint.), that the ricketier% in this prise• had mot eaorri.. solitiont. He (Mr. Long) could only my, in reply to this, that be had •ever knot's§ a plan., when. an many prisoners were ontihnoll, so floe ft , mi sickness as the realtamilaty was. With respect to the stesat-engisto, it was • molar of economy : a ostentation had been mad., and it appoint, that the leas 01 labour on the pert of the prisoners, had they boon employed to draw wa ter, would halo been mote than equal to the *sponse wr 'hl, P.. 1110. . . Mr. IIUkIE hoped ,be Committee weeld got sac. tine 'ha stesne.engin• ' silica , the employing tho pd. goners emotionally in pimping was a wholesome sooree of discipline for refractory Outliers. Mr. DOLFOIt D said, there seldom hod been prl. snores ire.sech a state as to call for constant punish. ment. An lyceum had been published of s supposed distorbsece in the prison, and application to Roo. octet by the Governor in a state of extreme alarm. Now no filch disturbance kid existed, or bad the t;overitor et ell gone to Bow.otreet. The fact was, that some change of officers had taken plus, and the Steward went to Bow.strut ; bet kf he wee In any slate of alarm. be mien have met with sometkieg oe the way to shake his nerves. • Mr. Aldenman WOOD then moved, as an Aetna. rent, that the sum should be 40,0001. instead of 60,0001. After • few words from Mr. S. BOURNE and Mr. LONG. the Amendment was withdrawn, mod the or;sinal Resolution was agreed to. • 21,0001. was then voted for defraying the Es. peaces of the Pegitentiory.house, from Jams 1819 . to Jane 1820. On the Itesolution for granting 50,0001. for con. tinning the Caledonise Canal, Lord CA RUA MPTON opposed soy bertha gnat of money for this ;Hurts*. Lord BINNING defended the grant. The work when completed, he raid, would prove very advs.. luensi In the committee and trade of the country, and had formished employment for a number of Scot tish labourers for a eery tonskletsble time. The work was originally undertaken in coneequece of a ✓est number of Petitions promoted from the North • England, Ireland, sad Scotland. and from persons engaged in the Baltic trade. If the present vote was barred to, • (farther vote next year. of 30,0001. II mild, in all probability, covet lest this greet work. Mr. HUME did not wish to oppose the present par.!, bat be thought, before any further application 'war wide, it should be ascertained secetately what sum would he required to finish the work. Mr. W. Sllll . ll defended the grant. The work bad already been productive of great public benefit, by employing a great number of poor individuals, rod teaching them indestry by fernishing them with labour, and ensuring then a reward for their labour. Ore advantage bid already arisen from 150 voyages had within the last six months been made on Loch Ness ; which before had been considered as ien. practicable. It would also be bad economy to wish. bold one.eighth, and prevent the work from being itsislamlos hem seven•eigliths had been already grunted After a few words from Mr. Alderman M 00D, the Vote was agreed to. The Ilosse reigned; sod the Report was ordered to be received to.notrow. Anew Writ was ordered for the comely of Mon. moroh, in the room of Lord G. Soorersot, who has accepted the office of one of iho Lords of lb* Tressory. APPEAL or klußDElt. Oa the third reading alike Trial by &dile Abelitina Bill, %sr IL %I . ILSOY sake, be fell it le be his den• to e s plots the soothe. mi whirls he bad sated *a a former soemmiois &soiling the 1141. Ile had its toning objresioas as any .are to sloe Trial tor Ilawir,otenl the peace of pestilog an ledirioloal to a Normal While Lot be Mill elsoaglit thelprostriple of the A pp. ill of Meader might so he preserved as a princeliest for the torn of thesalsirt tagahoot alt orhotrario estammoda of Illiaisters. who might plaint their Nieto. ardort the et' burr pester by the prerugaiise of rude*. Rs the Marini A. t She wither was horrao I. whey cell la•fol enneonhanie" bat It a., always to the potter of she theater to sell an adkeor, whom be might crammed to hie upon she People. th it he oat secured hy a pearls already signed. she salerair. fear a the Inc 111.111101 he hikes away, and be wish, he Pest reaslown to eoh.ider wouot command. weir and what weir eme Lutist. As he dot rot with to pot sin life of an individual purely al she nwrry oft farilollllor mob, owl. prime, he tletoold prop• se 111/11 it should be no she p o ser of She Jodie. eosins ose.atime ad nee Appeal. nod oh it tote ultimate power of voodoo thoorld be lodged milts she twirls, Judges lie sloald mate shot she Bill to read a shirt Ilene oh s dot Ilene weeks. Sir. Alderamo N 0011 told ke thnold vote silk tl.e Galloint firoeral, note ithodurodiog the very 1.0. W.., speech of the loons dile and Learned Geatiensaw( Serjeant COOP.). l o r Sir 11. W.I. or', Ameadvamd i Agoirt.t it 611 Majority 82. The till WA.. nowt a lima time and pasted. Mr. W. IX/lit; I.AS moved for leave to Woo is a Bill fur Swing Books in Scoiland.—Leave Mr. Serjorrot COPLEY . withdrew his Notice of outlive for to-roierow for Ibo Minutes of tiso Not. tioghout Election Committer (iso believe), bet in no ion a toes of voice thot centre enable to collect his r 4.1111011111. Mr. HUME moved for urines Pews respeolog the Commie Commissioners, via. Letters addressed to the Commissioners by the East India Company's 1)i. r-ciors, recommending a more speedy mode of lei. thug the claims of the CreJitore—'2. ',tiers from the Creditors to the ume rifect-3. Ablract of the Amount of the Climatic Hews, appropriated in the liquidation of the Claims of the Creditors :—4 Ac. (-mai of the Eapences of the Cumniisaioners from ti.cir first establishment, &c —o.flered.—Adjoarned. LONDON: TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1819. In looking ..ter the French Papers we 6nd a eery small rern•ner•tion far oer trouble; and the reason that our e•teuporaries lend se large a portion of their Jo•rnsls so French alfai►s is, that they ere on raining or afraid to speak as they ought of their af fairs at home. The American author of • book on the Principles of Nature has taken for his motto as follows : •' Ile who cannot rra.on i. a tool, " Ile who will not reran i. a bigot, '• Ile who darn not re..nst 14 a slave." Now we hose only to observe on the above epigraph that there may be another cause for a man's declining In reason, and that is lase venality. There has not occurred within the memory of the oldest man living, an event that would call op an much manly reason as one of last night in the /louse of Commons, if our Journalists liked reasoning; and ohm, bat for the speech of Sir It. WILSON, and the support of Alder man WOOD (Sir F. BL'IIIJI.TT had spoken on it as became him before), tl•e measure might he said to bare passed sub silottie. In the progress of Ibis Bill we expressed our indignation at the manner and time of introducing it : but we never could believe that it would pass a third reeding with so little said span its demerits. " Wager of Battle Bill," indeed. Why, it might be called any thing el.*, end yet be as well described or imagined. Who cares a fig about the Wager of Battle Bill? It is at impolitic and ins pious a law, es that which was formerly put in force against witches: the sooner it is expenged from our Statute-books the better, for oar credit as reasonable emigres. Bet tantistitisc PPP • A L IN CAtIE OF aluNoLa!! POLITICAL MURDER, my Countrymen! What do yne think of that ? Look at the trick of those lawyers, for the pay. coma of whose salaries and pensions you deprive yourselves of so much useful and necessary money. " Wager of Battle Bill." As well might a mar demos Physician call a draught, made up of subli mate snerestry, or soy other deleterious drug, by she innocent title of a rhubarb draught, because the compound shesld contain a few grains of the powder of that innocent root ! The completion of this Bill is the more horrid and menacing at this time, because it is possible that the solierings of bodies of workmen may drive them to associate, and after petitioning in Wain, to ethibit themselves as spec tacles of pity to the Throne (would we could sly to the Throne of kltact on earth). They msy hope that the sight of their haggard coon. feu races and emaciated bediee would plead more io their f than all the elegem* of their sympathising fiends. NOW, in this Case, suppose the military sboold Le called out (as they no doubt would), sad under the lortience of a con. cooled treaseuable desige la the visitors, • few pla.' loons, wader the command of • prig of a Martinet, be prepared .ith ball cartridges to obey the orders when gives to fire on the crowd, unless they instantly dispersed. How possible it is that a few of these pki• able wretches in retiring might deal out some violent in vectives open the military, sod those who em ployed them, and • zealous aspires( of a corps. cal and sir or eight men fellow them into the atone. of a public-house, end there lodge In their backs or breasts either their balls or their bayonets! Weald a death so inflicted be murder or not ? If it should be •o deemed by a Jury, the Kira or lit:. um would, no doubt, as the head of the Army. and the encourager and reoarder of its seal and lirjaity, pardon the murderer, and pension him for life. The friends of the slaughtered men wneld— what ? APPEAL. Bet where is the law of Appeal? Disposed of for ever, es the Habeas Corpus is Ills. posed of as *cession requires. • This is a subject to which we shall have occasion to recur; it mast not, it shall not, pass off so easily. Nay, we are not sere that on ibis momentous oc- Calk). ors may not be forced to break through a rule we had laid down, and cell up by name or designs. Oen, eeetain writers in Journals to joie in the de. ounciation of this proceeding. They hare not sorely take. berldx-morsey to indict ,curses anal slavery open their very offspring for ever. A mars may enlist himself for life, bet we newer beard of his son end grandson hiring included in the enlisting me i ney, to she same slavish servitude. If certain Edi. tors are silent upon this high and important subject, I they have more turpitude to answer for than could base been imagined. The very Government lawyers must think them • flagitious set of corrupt hypocrites, and we shall consider them as mere than para.:fps crimihis, for they are the very cause of the mischief. TheArroaerv-GEnteAr.(theliing's deril, as Boast Tonic, sod writers of old called him), would no more have ventured to propose each a Repeal Bill without ',chunk,' on their geilly silente,than he woeld the enacting one, which should make it imprison. ment in Bridewell for • mao to tell • neighbour that limes were hard. Jost as ua had written so far is the weensipled silence all around us, Coop so dreadfully beset with danger, we recnived a enpy of Mr. TULLWALL'S Pe tition to the Mese of Commons, which we cannot bet highly commend, and shall !MINIM touinorrow, as it deners.s. Where •re the descendants or pupils of the litacastomer, and pertieularly of tins liotas ? We are informed (and we hope not untruly) that, touched by the probable poceniary difficulty of the f.mily wherein so many indlvideals have died of pu trid sore throats, where wine has beers prescribed, Sir WILLIAM CURTIS sent the OMICTINJ surviving pa. rent a hamper of wine, and a 201. note. Now, al though this is bet • mite in the weekly profits of the Ilareoet's contract with Government, yet is it a trans. action, in these days of selfishness end bard.hearted. nese, that deserves to be mentioned and imitated. Two Ilambergh Mails arrived yesterday, bringing Papers to the 12th inst. An •rticle from Warsaw proposes to make the lazy Jews in Poland useful to the State, by ma►ing them repair highways avid canoe. ways. The late Loan, negotiated for Denmark, to the amount of silt millions of marts bent°, will, it is said, be soon followed by a larger one, to be raised in England, on the same conditions as the first. The Course of Eachange at Copenhagen has improved re. pidly, end is now nearly at par. The King of Dem. MARK is to take a journey into Jutland in slimmer. During the Carnival at St. Petersbergh, the Court is to lay aside its mourning for the late Q•een of Win. TEMBLIG, and the places of public amosemeat will be opened. The Governor of Dalecarlia has presented an affecting Report in the Swedish Government, respecting the 'kinder' of 40,000 souls in that pro. since, who, *minima to his statement, will, from the beginning of this month, have neither bread nor other means of subsisterice.—The army of Hanover has been seduced from 3U to 20,000 men, notwithstanding the wish of a Great Personage in England that it should be kept up at the fell establish. meet ; but the People seem not quite sure whether it will ultimately produce a saving to them or not ; for as no Budget has been made public, they do not know what is to become of the one million and a half of dollars which ought to be saved by the reduction. Teo young German Noblemen at the University of Jena tied challenged M. STOURDIA for the Memorial published ander his name. Its replied, that he could toot fight, as he had merely acted by order of the Emperor of ItuastA. The answer of the young Germans was, SS M. STOURDZA bad acted only as servant according to orders, they, as free Germans, had no ground to demand satisfaction of a thinking. writing, and acting aichine; and, therefore, would not require it.—llataburgb &change on London, 33.:.-33. 5. By the Leeward Island packet we yesterday re ceived Trinidad letters to the 28th Jimmy, and of various dates frees the Spanish Main. Nothing ma toast bad occurred, in a military point of view, since Idesateto's defeat by the Spaniard., in his approach ' , towards Comilla. " This defeat," as one of oar' letters from Angostura states, ' 6 was owins to one of those accidents occasioned through tha want of discipline in the troops ;'• bet it is better that this should have been the cause, than the repetition of those lamentable dissensions among persons entrusted with command, which bare retarded the progress of thermos*, and thwarted the views of the V • lean Government and its meritorious Chief. In con. sentience of this defeat, the (loyalists entered Co inenscoa with 608 men, bet •fteewenly evacuated It in take possession of the line of coast up to the Golf of Paris. The PstriAs hod, however, re-occupied Goiiia. To rss EDITOR o• rue ST.ITES.VAV Sts,—The Westminster Committee, in the opieloa of some people. have committed an oupardoweble offence by publislarig their Report of the 9th IFob. last. It is alleged to bare been the solecism 'kids vicilvd the oppositios to Mr. llonaousa at the late Election. If that Report bad sot beers published, would not the same men have used epos some other thing as a tea', for opposition ? Yes, moot certain'', it was se Wiled. I hare frogeently heard that Re port spoken of with great *Moony, and when t►ose persons were asked, " Prey have yea read it ?" .6 N.; I would not read such a ferny of abuse of the Whigs." Others, who ere good friends of free. dom. lamented that such • Report shoold have bum published to mouse division among the !Amok at Parliementary Reform. list when they also were asked, 44 Have you read the Report ." N• ; I should like to see it." Accept of this copy, read it with eindettr, then give me your opiriion. The result was always fareorablo. They wool/ theresay, " I have read tholleport again and again, and my opinion now is. that the Committee, bested of being stigmatised so bit lerl y, deserve greet praise." That importeet Report appears to me to be well win. thy of a place in the Srarcvastr. to . give every Reader of that useful twit widelf:estendod I►iiaael lie, an opportunity of reading and judging for Moi self, mod sot be warped by garbled accounts, oe misrepresentations of it. lam sure it would be few acceptable. Perham it wield be tee long for yes to lepers room for it all in one Paper, bet it might be divided into two. 1. hope, Sir, pie will see with me the propriety of making t►at public document still I I more public. _ T. H. We will C.llaw the ailvire a? oar wash, Carrell...Aka. naA pable4 the Report at aver, al al ilia pallet*. a. airy Ile 11104 eatereairai. There has been no wive! ad Paris Papers sin= Saturday. Three days Journals ere now due. Owing to this disastrous operriergwf the campaiges„ Geiser's! Bouvet' had been competied to change htu plans ; and after returning to Auguste's, had set of to join PAU'S division. Tho latter bad burnt and do strayed San Fernando de Apure, in order, wo sir pose, that his force might be the were diseugsged, ga we have alwajs been led to consider this pint at greet military and commercial iroportarem. It wee probably owing to the advance of Mott %LE,' (Royal- Lir) division to Camangsao. from which place he af terwards fell back. CALZADA, with soother Royal. hi division. occupied Yuan**. The concentration et the Patriotic forces is on the Apure, where the So prem. Chief "orrid arrive about the Itegioraing if January with reinforcements. An epidemic disorder had broken out among the Indians belonging to the Missions of Grotty, which lord midi coosiderahle ravages. Three hundred and fifty British voloartwrs had arrived at Angostura, and more wereespected.— 'lli% would certainly be esirearely favourable to the Patriotic cause in Venezuela. Yesterday, Papers to the 24th of Janeary, mad totters to the Si ell. were received frees Jamaica. The blood of Si. Kitt's, by the latest arrival at Kingston, was described to he in a very unhealthy state, and Rarest mortality had taken place. Maul of the inhabitasts were quittirg the colas., foe Nevis and other islands. Tilo President of the Council at St. Kit 's died on the 11th of January; end was buried on the 14th. The death of Goo Pamir,' has been already mentioned; Mr. Smite, Comptroller of his Majesty's Cosines, bee also fallen a victim to the prevailing fryer. TM mortality in Basre.terre alone was calculated at six white inhabitants on each Jay, iodepredeet of cologne(' end black people. His Excel.. lency Governnr attivaae, of Sr. Ilartholomear„ passed a few days at liasse.terre, St. Kitt's, is the end of November, and ofeersanla proceeded to Nevis, where be died en the 10th of Droombev.--Ae eapedition. under protection of a frigate and a brig of war, sailed early in January from the newspeak. for the Florides, to take pateessirse end gamisee Pensacola. The Sybille frigate, hawing on board a million end a half of dollars, had reached Cassie. Items Vera Cris. Letters from Cadiz Is the let, sod from SiWWI to the 9th last. have bee• received. It is aneretioned in them, that Om Spanish merchants bad agreed to pay • certain amount a Hy to the Gramme it for the repeal of the increased cloths,. Ths latest dispatches received from General Mesita.° were br the Sabine frigate, from the II nab, bet not a word of them has appeared in the Madrid Cinders received of the beginning of this month. Letters from Ilavannah, received at Cadiz, stale that thw (; nor had laid si rmhargn at that place, owing In the appearance nt I iisisrgarst privsreets. No mer chant weasel scarcely ever sailed from that island wit hoot convoy. Private letters from Cadiz state, that the Agents o f the S pan i s h Government hate purchased in Frencts ports, principally at Bou rdr us, a light aquadrott.cone. silting of two corvette.. ten t rig:,and four schooners, which, it is understood, are not to form part of the Been*, Ayres expedition. Thu following is • list of the cargo of the Castilla' from Lims, captured off Cadiz, a n d act i ve ,' at liueaw Ayres : Cocoa, (learnt, aakacma 1911 11;111es 35 &non lodize 5Y Kits Capper 41 Hales %Soot _ Y ram llaraware IN t:a•n Mirk l($ i 2 ;i. - 6. - ti.. - - S Coro Cocos rate 10. 1 Iliedtee -deli* et Pewter 9 Clues Malaise YO Dalrviloiacisitios .lkias I 1 Caw Old Silver 5 DVa ales sa it 00l 726,619 Dollars is Sileer 1 Caw Cbocalste The follosiiig Balilb ship arr said to have bees taken up by an Agent of tbs Spoish Gooecomeot rise cow/fiance of troop" from Cadiz to Saari Asirrica. MI but the four last•meationed bare re cent!, 4lrarrd at the Cwrow•hoer' for Cadiz is bai lie!, and Mare procee•lyd from the Rust _ Tor.. !WO. Le bosom,. 6!) hi' Kellar Camilla. Sieph. a. et,' Ed S 4 are Pile-, stepheasaa 460 Cl.aat. lidocana :Ala I Newure. llert4 ba 1he.1.410t0. Hart 3:0 Med.,. l'n liteirr YS! T*llll. Vrigeg Mnn. Rind "In nb Y 2 AO•Pft HVAlttlfirl d us. r 111'Dosald tl4l Robert tlf Oct age Ile Moist 'a 701 etc, C.. 11% b•;2 tit Tut .I SIU .A.VERICAN PAPERS. in the Senate, on the 9•h ult.. a motion was wade by Mr. Mounts, of New Hampshire, for requesting the President to strike from the rollh of the Army and Nary. all who were directly or Indirectly con /word in the late duel between Armistead I'. Mason cid J. Si. Al'Carty, citizens of Virgittia.—Tbe mo b.. was ordered to lie on the table. Tim question Ins taken on the Reselotion report ed by the Committee en Military A fairs,disspproving the proceedings in the trial and excretion of Arbeth. sot and Am►rister, and decided in the stoke. The ameedment moved by Mr. Cosa to the Rosa lotion reported by the Comities. of Military Affairs, having been modified was then rejected. The Committee rose mod repented its &seising. A motion was made to postpone ind►finitely the further consideration of the whole subject; when, After some discussion, the privies. question was required, sod being liken, was decided in the alSr motive ; which precluded any other than a direct quiestinn on the preposition before the House. On the question, thee, to concur in disagreeing to so mach of the Report es relates to the cases of Ar buthnot, the vote was, ly yeas sad oar V., irsererleve is dii.streeiiiir so S. 108—Arshet it, 6i. On the questing to r in disagreeing to se mach of the Report as relates so Anibrister— Vet irileturrence la divert...sew. 101— .Ixitio.o it, 61. A motion was then amide by Mr. Cosa, that t►e Howie do Collle to lite following Resolution -11,10194. That the bye ',Met, of the Spanish posts at Pensacola and St. Carlos de 114,11f1COS in West Florida, by the army of the United States, was cootrary I. the Constitution of the Uoitell Smites. A motion was mode to postpone indebt.iiely the further consideration of the proposition, and derided in the negative— For t►e postwirratmet, P3—A glows it. r. The main qoestion was then taken on Mr. Cobb's motion, and derided in the negstire— F.► week." to it. 70-I.9asi 0,100 Thus has this knotty question bees misled; otter s debit, of three seeks. The porticslars of tick dare proceeding will he Riven hereafter. It is worthy of remark that the Hoots has never been knouts to have been more folly attended than she. fire above votes were taken. HOUSE OF REPRESENT 'JIVES. We hese great satisfaction is anneencing, that the discession ho respect to the incidents of the Seminole 113 r is at length broi*ht In a close. After a coesiJerable debate, lc. the regress of rich shall b: hereafter stated, This dne was published, Price 9.. id. hi Iliwiedh dedicateri t..Jte Hard College of POI. skim*. lonaloa. ADiRaUISITION nn A* S I'ONE and GRA- Lt. in ilw. 11LA DI)Flt and K I DV RYM, a. sell a• an all ralvalow. din.r4rn wl the pdviriges. The oriel, avid .eiwrr of the lh e t plain. d. which give. Li,e In tire farm. friar, and growth de the painting 0111 she awl at the ,e time the waft elllearina. wearily vet di.envered for their rare, thereby preventing the neer.oly of that delicate add doe. errata operative with the hhiniv. e. PI.KIIY , Printed for IlltertentWl. Neel), ;eel P derooster-rovr I IliAttle. Fleet-street I nod Porter (late lierkeo), TI!E STATESMAN TO CORRESPONDENTS. Fittllo Os swan" is arrived, and shall have doe Mies lion paid to haw. Pere. Poossea's exposition of the inner of tarry's* on the bovisess of the Admiring, to-.annw, without fail. Mr. TNILM•Lei well designed and well-rammed Petition lo the Ilioneof Counnwan, 10-osorrew also. VERITMI will appear In aday or two. OF STOCKS Till Knot l‘ioek '1 per Pent. Keel. 3 per Cent. Cssehol. per Cent. Imasok far Act. 741 4 per Cm,. DAY AT O O'CLOCK. ft per Ceul. Mar• LS, Isediot K.. 30 p. Inn Ado. Eschew*, Mk 1 6 dis. Daniels THE STATESMAN.