The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENT'S. ilospet km soma to plead the press of Parliitoiesttary wadi rate hastlipears. as as aptly, for the smears f oot. a lumber a/ oar Correspondents complain.— *leiter XIV. of Aristides.. that of J. D. N. to Priors Lo pkt. and the coasopuntralsou J Pits Go/titer, will war fa mos as possilde ; and the austrows *User Noes received, will sleet With die alks's. ali - pIICS OF 6FOCIS THIS NA Stock ISS F r Cot. Sit WI leg Ct. Um.. IS &II *per Omit 714 4 psi Com en sprCt. Nay. 101 log Ass. MI 1.111 lappet Coll. DAY AT ONN O'CLOCK. India Stock I Ditto Bonds Ills. pas. 1 Old Asesities Ex. Slits SI. 4s. 6i. pot. Ditto Coss. itts. pit. Outolon i pm. Cos. for Ace. See loft. Ttekots LONDON: WIDNIISDAT ItTINI:40, JULY 26, 1590. --•rw.-- STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Du attention of late has been rather withdrawn froesa y particular notice of the observations of the si N u tlet, occasioned in the first place, by the press of matter of more inaportoce, and in the nest e their absest total want of interest ; whether it be that tit ardor of speculation which has hitherto pre duriaated has somewhat subsided, or to any other raise not quite so apparent, certain it is there ne ar was less doing in the Funds than at present ; the only fund in which there appears a+ be any 'minces doing of importance in the Navy 5 per rents. which latterly seems to have become very l arder. particularly since the funding of Exchequer' Bills in that stock, as a proof, on Friday last the first pnblic transfer day. no less than 2,300 tran.fers were rade in that Stock, a circnmstance unprecedented in me day. Navy 5 per Cents. are on the rise, and hare sow nearly reached the highest price they were at previous to the Funding, which was about 104 ex. div.: they opened this morning at 1031 and Consuls on for the August account ; and have continued so ap to this period. Money is very plentiful at t and 3 pet cent. interest. Exchequer Bills are Ss. Premium. India Bonds !2s. Premium and Omnium to premium. There will be an instalment due on the Navy 5 per cents. Friday next, of 201. per cent., which will probably make money somewhat scarcer. Ye this morning received American Papers of a resent Jam, and those of New York to the 28tis of Jane, (by the fast sailing ship Cincinnati's. in 25 days, if Darer, from New York), from which the following are extracts illlolll Tat NOW YOU& POPO* or ?MP 49.9111 OF JUNE.) Pocommitst, * Jown 11.-1 number of cases of an uncommonly malignant fever have lately occurred in the lower part of Fish-Hill, in the vicinity of the mountains. [Ron A BOsTON PAPP% em Tlle titu syvt. 1810.] YELLOW Fsvita.—A Letter has been received at New Fork from Charlestown, stating, that two cages of t':e yellow fever have just occurred in that city. It was supposed to have been imported from H,vanna. 111021 ?MI COMMERCIAL AWFUL CONFI or rut , Vrn fuss.] Y AT TROY. Yesterday, about four o'clock in the afternoon, a most awful and desolating fire broke ont in the city of Troy, which has laid in ruins one-third of the finest portion of that flourishing city. The musher of buildings destroyed, is about 1241; among which are son,e of the best buildings. On the river, or main street, all the stores and buildings ou the west side, sad extending to the water's edge, from Calesion* to Dr. Comings, both of which we saved. The esti awed loss is a million of dollars. TILE WAN VOR IWO. Wasatxu?ox, Juxu 23.—The time fur receidag Impost& fur the 6 per cent. Loaa of two million, expired on Wednesday. The offer of the Mink of the United States, which was 4 per cent. premium spots the whole Loan, being the most favourable, has been wepted--the whole amount which was offered above psi !.oats would nearly six millions. The premium on this would thrnbtless have been touch greater bat for the uncertainty as to the term of its durations, it Wag redeemable at the pleasure of Uovernment. SAVANX.I.U. Jere 14.--Lettars from several of the West India Islands state, that owing to the great droa;ht the crops are spoiled. la some parts where last yap 2 or 33100 llobeshearls of Sugar were natal', 64 2 or 710 can be produced this present season. In the House of Lords last night the principal be appears to bare been to take measures for en suring a numerous attendauce of the Noble Members en the second reading of the Bill respecting the 4,lvaax, and for providing adequate accotnenudations for the occasion. So completely have the proceedings ott this subject taken possession of the public mind t!.at it way seem iucotupatible to notice the motions of Lord latoruomer, by which this business was pre reeded. Ills Lordship's motion was fur returns of all Commitments made out ander 'Listing flame Laws since the year 1514 ; sad his object, which is of no inconsiderable importaace to the peace and moral wel fare of the community In the inland parts of the country, was to .uwertain the alterations that had taken place in consequence of recut Acts. The principle from which, as the Noble Lord had sag grated, these Acts arise, was salted only to the periods .rhea within' was hell valuable bat lead, sad se pursuits 'apse or to the plesiaaros of the chic.. Ms iittgartaat as the objects of the system; are II reopect mosef Mu, 161 imaetweite of the redoes statutes we et material areagereee to the geed spier of tbo "as l 7,_ • Coarsely patellar Orders es a &mewl ""N GAY a settled hostility semis; the awl. *We wade, 4 nettled 654407 galifff I,he dlh relate and daring. At wte time, the iota hofottr,6*.• awe thee 11011 wee were ezpeeed to the ruldshwat and moral contagion of prisons, on account of the offence of poaching. For the sake, therefore, of the public morals, as well as the public react, it is ex pedient that the system be revised. The Motion of Mr. WermatteLL in the House of Com mons to direct the Attorney Ueberal to prosecute the Editor of the Westrrn Luminary, for passages reflect ing on the QcztN , excited, as was anticipated, a high degree of interest. The terms on which these passages were censured on Saturday and Monday in the Covrier and Marxist" Punt, were sufficient to apprise the pub lic that the libel on her Majesty was about to receive each a kind of animadversion as began to make the waiter feel alarm. Mr. Wernentu.'s motion though „withdrawn, chiefly, it would appear, because the offence could only by a fake construction be deemed a breach of the privileges of the House, had the effect of uniting every party in the Assembly in reprobating the atrocious scurrility in question, and of producing an assurance that it was the intention of the Arroa- Nev-Uatinnah to proceed against the author of the libel. Such an opportunity of declaiming against the general litentiott.ness of the press was not. however, neglected by the Members of the Uovernment ; and with even-handed justice, they engaged to balance the prosecution of the libeller of the QV FIN by prosecu tions of offenders in the opposite party. Thus, by the sacrifice of one, who is justly termed a wretched scribbler, and under the skew of candour and re gard for public peace, the artful unrelenting enemies of the freedom of the press may take occasion to lav further restraint. on its mutt wholesome and sea sonable exerei(en, and to harrass and to punish its most virtuous as.erter.. • Most of our readers recollect - the circumstances of the Parliamentary investigation into the conduct of the DUKE of Vona. Few, however, are aware of the oblique course which Ministers pursued at that period : or of the pleasure with which they enjoyed, in secret, the proceedings against the Commander is' Chief, whilst they opposed them in public with the greatest appearance of zeal, candour, and official influence. At the time Cobnel Wardle brought forward his charges, the nation was agitated in the extreme by the results of the expedition under the commahi of Sift Jonx Moony. The immediate subjugation of the whole of the Peninsula was confidently antici paled ; and its immense line of coast, with its excel lent harbours, numerous dock yards and arsenals, was expected to be added to the resources of the enemy for the invasion of En; land or Ireland. The public feeling pointed to Ministers as the cause of reverses that befel our troops. Their incapacity to manage so great a war, while diets, was supposed to be the reason that the country MGM not mad out a single armament to say pot of die continent, without the certain prospect of failure and disgrace. The removal of the administration, certainly the most incompetent and unsuccessful that OM before governed this country, would have been the inevitable consequence of the prevalence of such ' a sentiment. A keen spirit of inquiry both in and out of Parliament was directed at the ties? to the sub ject of our military disasters. The usual supporters of the Government were seen to waver ever alter the affair at Corunna. The miserable defence, made by Lord CASTLEREAGH, as Secretary of war, in his place in Parliament, contributed to increase the alarm of the war party ; and the ruin of that imbecile cabinet would have been unavoidable, if the famous inquiry into the conduct of the I)nke of Yoaa, had nut been started ; which, for a time divertrd the public attention Nom the consideration of every other topic. The character and feelings of his Royal Highness, were offe:ed up as a sacrifice to appease the national irritation as well as to save a degraded and slaking administration. The sacrifices answered the purpo ses of the Ministry ; who, to retrieve their character, prepared the notorious expedition to Waleheren. 1 We shall shew that the proceedings against the Wass have extricated, at least for a time, the present Ministers from the consequences of an inquiry as intellise as that which followed our military reverses i■ the Pesitriula. The new Parliament had scarcely tact, when the tables of both /I..uses were covered with petitions from the chief trading cities of the empire, complaining of the unprecedented depression of trade, commerce, manufactures, and agriculture. The petitions were signed by persons, whose expe rience and loyalty were usinspeachable ; sad they presented a ;deters of national distress, that was never equalled in this, nor probably any other country. It was proved that our imports bad fallen ed to the alarming. amount of ten millions; and our exports to the extent of six millions. It was also shown, or rather it would hare been *hewn, had the inquiry goo* on, that the landholders throughout the king doms bad not received for ems time two-thirds of their nosisal rents. It would also have bees esta blished is proof, that the labouring classes, is the two great branches of asissufsetures said agriculture, were actually verglag oa a Mats of *tornados sad did sot receive us 6111 tavetrage, see week with smother, rues than nine ships. The piatsre was frightful I and eo seined the goversasest of sash glaring lino raw, and of sigh seasolobana mismausgessest, that the &weld of the ministry named to be aboolulsly coetais ; whoa the arrival of the gnaw served than se a Dore es mosiims, sad saved them heft Wood rails. The procoodisgs is this east .were probsbir on, with the thew of coverisg a 'satirise •4* waolorption ; tits besot, of the 4/vssx4:wssirst, sad -.• • , THE STATESMAN. the best inserests ►f the Crown hart bidis exposed, to the most imminent danger. Woe to the country that is governed, or rather ridden, by an unprincipled Mi nistry I They will keep their Sean, and whip and spur it on, till it falls down Convuhively under them ; and there is reason to fear that such will be the fate of this kingdom' front the treatment of the present Mi nisters. We shaU resume this subject to-morrow. The case of the three wretched men who are or dered for execution to-morrow, for uttering forged Bank Notes, to which the attention of the public is this day directed by our correspondent Huss 4NITAS, ex cites, from existing circumstances, an extraordinary so licitude in their behalf. The crime of forging the New Bank Notes about to be issued is, by the Statute passed the other day, to be punished not with death, but with transportat;on for fourteen years ; and yester day Sir J. Macintosh's Bill which repeals the sin , gui nary law under which these unfortunate victims were sentenced, received the royal assent. We will not therefore ask what impropriety there would be in giv ing to the recent act a retrospective influence at these unhappy convicts ; bnt we would boldly demand what possible good can arise from making them a sacrifice, fur the sake of being Me lest to be offered up, to the vengeance of a law now declared, by the legislature itself, too barbarous to be retained ? While that lawl was fUll in force its deplorable operation was found quite ineffectual for the ends it proposed ; and the ev ecution of its sentence, in existing cirtomstances would be as needless an example of rigour as the world could ever lament. TO THE ED!JUR OF THE STATESMAN. ON TIIE INTENDED EXECUTIONS FOR FORGERY ON YiitiEßDAi MORMINO NEXT. Mn. EDlloy.—ln scale of the Papers of this day and yesterday, a communication, speaking the senti ments of myself and friends, and it is hoped the heads sad hearts of the whole empire, has appeared, in which it is considered, as satisfactorily proved, that the punishment of death for forgery is unjust, trite', and ttawaremsta6k, dad impolitic. it is there mini- ouily asked lit. Why the continuance of a law which has been proved as above? end. Why has not long, long sine, the po}sibilit► been prevented or difficelty been incicased of imitat ing Bank notes ? Aed Srd. Why, when some per•ous (alluding to those who by an evasive plea had avoided the gallows) have been saved. have others for the Jame offence been sacrificed, while at this moment three store await the ignominious* death which they will surely die vs ',norm* morning nest, rakes ransom and Arlin, in• I have lakset, Mr. White, that by the mew kw, which is passed, haft ollsadere of the same deseriptioa will sot he prioishird with death, sad therefore it is ins ploriagiy tithed, why, in the name of justice and met. y, should the victims now be sacrificed 1 am, Mr. liditor, Your's, reesc chilly July 44. lOW. HU M ANITA'S. P S. A propolal fur petitioning is proposed is the commuuication alluded to above. 7'o THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Stn.—On reading in your Paper of the 41st statement of the alarm at Dover, taken from Pie Poet, 1 wished to make a short reply. So far were the inhabitants alarmed upon the arrival here of the mi litary to disperse the imaginary meeting of tbe 19th inst. that they appeared completely 'gnomon of their errand. and the military were quite surprised to find the inhabi tants so unconcerned at their appearance. There were a few placards (proposing such a meeting) stuck up at differ's' parts:oth, town, which were generally thought to be put op by the enemies to the Queen, as there are some persons in certain situations at Dover. who wished to get preferment, at the eepenee of the peace. able inhabitants. Niorty out of every hundred here are friends to the Queen ; but as to forming themselves into a Volusteer Corps for her protection, that would be 1 as unnecessary as unlawful, for she is already protected by the hand of Divine Providence, to the rest mortification of her enemies. It was also said, ever/ pneastion was taken to prevent the peace being beoken by ordering the constables to be in readiness on the least symptoms of disturbance ; that 1 can positively soy was not tree. 1 have been with several of the constables, and they declare that not one of them had the least Animation fres the Mayor. or the Ma)•or's Serjeant, to attend on Wednesday morning. By the small number of placards stook up and the little notice taken of them, it may be gory easily glidoritood from what quarter they sprang. A FREE IBARON t DOS BR. Doter. lay 23. 1990. CHELMSFORD RACES, 1930. - 1 .0.- TUESDAY, Just 23. A it/MMtshe. of 60 R. red, b. ft. For thee-fear-old colts, t. 7lbl. •, filliaq, 84t. ,lib. The New Mlle. Lard O. Cavendish's e. by Middle horrppee, oat of Cat I 6kostessor's b. c. Arbiter, by Petesrttes ...... I of Chaftoa's br. c. Lock. byllaphuard rabey's brother to Mired* We .'s b.-8 to 6 sot LotJ O. Cates diligel.VO I silt t is ek.- 1 2 to I Gest Arbttar.—Mon by 9 7tia tilli o;tistod Stakes of 30 c each. Two Miles sods Hoff. Lord Ezeter's Andrew. 4 year.. S it. 71b. Mr. T. Wrl fi rlit's asses Danmark. 3 years, list. Sib 9 Lord Version's b. e. Veterinarian, 3 'ears, 7st. 41b 3 Mr. H. idirond's Mimeos, 6 you,. 9 qt. Illi. 6 Ito 1 apt gloaaark .--6 to 1 apt Aancreon.-11 to I opt /4a hew.-11 to . 1 apt Yelorlnsilan.—lfon by 9 lihl Majosty's Plate of 109 s. for Mores stall aftet e ltallen years-olds. Ist, ; foor•lnar-olds.lllt. Mb.; Ike. bat. 111 h. t sla and aged. Set. Mb. Two MOD eats. Mr. Itosareali. a. Ceramic& years I r I Mr. Mesh's b. ta. Reap. 6 yeart 1 - 9 dr. The Doke of thedoa's be. I. Zest, by Plower, 4 years Mr. Smith% ch. a. 1111,6144-Haad, by Itireorar • ' r. e rabaor rears 'a b. I. Lucretia, hy iodise. 4 yetis 4 6 at.. Cbarealotes b. V. by Whaiaboao, oat of 1 . lailliss. 3 "W U. ildwietra b.ja. Ilitia4p,. opal t : 6 1 1 7 1• P l akirs at,kll.l &WS bI OW.. $ • um i OMMNI6 111 i .WI 611111p0m4 l ea st lard Claraidoes b. C -111111apt OMw 6 Wig bag 6 I 0 11. . , . • , CAUSE aid REMEDY of GENERAL DISTRESS At an early peeled of Mr, Horathfield's Pshlications, we endeavoured to draw, to them she sureties .of the public ; eat as the importance of the sob;ect 'stresses daily,. we must intrest, notwithstanding the • vast In terest excited . , most properly, by the case of the Qom*, and the eonstitutional questions which it•itivolves, that the intelligent and, thinking part of the commueity keep them Publications. before them. .. • Mr. Heathield wss the first to proclaim that the National Debt was the cause of the •verr ;surest dis tress which ants almost every class of the people; he was the int, too, to suggest a mode of relieving the country from its pressure, by an honourable die charge of the publics' engagements with its creditors; whether his is the besumode that can be devised we will sot now discuss, but it is sufficient for the prompt that it is the only one giv n to the public in a tangark faro, aid as we consider the language and cendnct of Minks. ten &whit; the present Sestion of Parliament eqoul to an extilicit acknowledgement that they are unable IS devise any, rellef . of the public distress,_ we request the attention of our•readers to the following short abstrset of the Publications in question, in which Mr. Heath. field his, as we submit, shewn, . • • . That, the increase is the British•empire; of the ea of national riches and power, has been very cossidetabh daring theism thirty years. That, Individual ease and comfort we not esposkimilk in any proportion to this increase of means, hot thpt. the contrary, the increasing prevalence of suffering WIG distress, is generally admitted and deplored. That, the public debt is a chief cause of this aftesmisolt stale. . • . That, the public debt admits of en eirripand lileielatien, upon the basis of a contribution o l f= per cent., to be levied upon every description of primes property, including the amount of public debt. That, such lignitistion of the debt may be elllectod. witArret a dangerous or mischievous ilistwriletrate the state of property. That, relief from duties to the extent of thirty stilligull per annum, nearly, might precede any levy in moped of the proposed contribution of fifteen per cent. That, such ?mission of duties would. in effect. allay the country from the payment of at least thittrols lions per annum. because the coommer pays a cossidet able advance upon the Jetty paid by the oweelisat or dearer. into the Exchequer. • That, the same remission of duties, would be the amps of repressing tau great extent, the fraadolost seed aim rious practice of smuggling, of preventing othet doss of fraudulent dealing, and of reduclog rate% in a very considerable degree ; asd shire admit the establishment of a system, eider willa great evil of a population encoding the doused lord* , t, might be prevented. That, apes comparing, in the crest Conecespileftek ft* probable rate ofi nestle money, and the prassald 111111 of public, °d eist and stipendiary income. with the I and consequent advance in the value sesuoy,= sent proprietors of loads, houses, ail gomermoina and all please remising public Immo and pay. experiesco a door foirpromment. in respect of considered with reformats to British espesilitsre. very lag is tholresrnive classes, betweestbirtms sad avenri per cent. in parties's?, that in rarest of litres,' Apo load, the improvement would h. in Ms prorrstiao whist 10001. hem to INN. per maws. J- intatrillsoldsipsfsel simago armey, tut smipoots les riuhaties .f meow prist4eees set lad to the appialessiss of aysemsagessoes pee the hada, et egfidshural sack, or et sof* t ilis sat bassist tide chase would assns. 111 aOM degree, from the feudal** of dales the imaidiab of- .. feet of whit:l4'mm mosey prices, wield admit of are. • dy to sossielerabie extent, by the modestly's of duty to toorehast and dealer, on the stink on basil t uit also basest the hither decline of essmoy rice* smeN. in some demo, be checked is its bLetsitee sailing eases% and might be 'beans, so as to sustain the priori psiticslnt% of 'Ord tura] stock. Ross time to time, DRIB tutu ave supplies. at diminished east, should noble the grower or dealer ' to vend at lower rates of price. without loss or prejudice. That, by the means proposed, the Parser woad be pla t in a coadition to support the tiosan he , siaistain Ys It family In the state of oamOset seised to his ste. Olt is society, sad to make a proper lotus of rest to liejourissar of the soli. That, by the means proposed. also, Wisterias of the sarshant manufacturer, mid trader, wadi be eseastlally pus sussed aid advises& partioulmiy w•dba reprooke elf lassallag, rod by the temoval of the oinuntotass which a high ravine system preessta. M the, advs.- 'means revision of the British commercial spina. And, assammmaly That the positions_ aesemsd by the writer, are irk = le tly established for immediate practical &petit es. rrN~.'the ass sad mishit of the British people aro l, intersoptad, or precestsd. by mom nidtv pad Ile wow place all classes ass orders in the 'slag. most of the advastagos which they have so well oatied e by their skill and industry, by their erioatasoy aied tole ; and to which they are estielmi, by the Tallier nod conduct of those who have fought sad soalimad them, on the ocean and in the bid. Trrirl i rr • • The charge against Wria. 04614 contisted at tihmlet Assizes fur the inspier of his wife, eacialti usassol. bit jogs horror. is thil misty. The ihersest ' made by some pheaalta tr delimit the adalpistratialt juitice • rapet socoesaily Thst 0- eltiniaes.. • •11 -• .. • . • • .% . 1 :.0.. *hi joules with vowel to hia, have soconswily calm' •• • vehement Wks; of isOissatioa. That harliag. iris a coat believed, coaostal alamvivie the astiolhaitog soot. •• limped h ie rosavietist), M tho i aaparalliik4 treetriltit • of the case. lit doubts toy e•Mltaiso r ll ookiga l de ts li rc bera l tio li k*W villelh Attß aai lisill aSse .s tht • 4Wid oetho air . vied" ascetalle Sp el* SOW .Jary. The Croirlia/att war a44mataarlher oa l s t till 12 to- moor.*. t ••smat of tko . I Alter diaitro wok* !this is • • ; Court -walled * 10 1• 40 0 01 $ '• I ;gala's 0441644. 44 4 o'clock liklo totokrigiha •• r t . I V ll l l l4 Mayor of Turk rocrthoki eel • ' WAN from Loot Wasoath. ameba% a • York, which kaorsio4 the 14. M. Wel ibat - • of arias were oroorotholl la-, wails Wen la T . • The Loci Moro brostomily hamied a weersot .10 th em 44torr• heal woo wriPlololll.ll l 4 Ifericsiacs, II& PA, Coax lixostatraalenr-lr . hal4:1111114 tareersklo Awe lieshay. Jra ishP" .1 whoa =imam 1 1 welt obritied tor the bon 4 111" • g ba 2 d o uricod ap• aro , stk.* mtg. The rj. cuokionalk, tho yak Italian, it per goartor. le Bans lisswpopi irit pp . % . r alrarosioa, • . . - . 4 etc ttattOntatt. TIP IRMO naresman" ir nicosponaasp with " TIR