The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-16 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. he reported it to the Secretary of State, and, he be- In the Commonsthat most important of all heves!, these troops were than removed. measures, the quest+) of the Corn Laws, or, more Mr. Woon expressed himself satisfied with the ex- properly speaking, the proposed measure for keep planation,and said, if the circumstance of the presence . ing up the price of Bread, was again agitated. The of the military was indeed purely accidental the pro test of the friends of Mr..J. Burdett on that score observations of Mr. BARING and the other speakers woute of course he withdrawn. on the highly indecorous and injurious proceeding of Some further explanation on this point took place, hurrying this" measure of so much moment to the which was, we thought, considered satisfactory to Public thretigh Parliament without deliberation or the friends of Mr. Burdett, enquiry, save what may have passed at the re- Mr. Kminarisn stated, that the friends of Mr. litirdett finding that thei r utmost endeavours to hcarsals of the landholders and persons confessed to promotelis interests were not likely to he Ultimately be interested, at Lord LIVERPOOL'S house, are of successful, had resolved to withdraw their poll clerks an importance corresponding with the deep interest from the hustings -.• the next (this) morning, not ,' of the subject, and deserving of more than appro. wishing to disturb the peace of the Borough untie- s tation . Th e ports are a l rea d y s h ut , an d w ill b e so I cessarily ; but the electors forming the Committee did until May next, against importations of Corn ; and not hold themselves .responsible fer the conducttef, yet not an hour is to be lost in placing the country any other electors, who, by polling one vote an hout,,, Might keep the poll open for fourteen days. more and permanently at the mercy of corn-growers Mr. Ilor.Lasin (who was the legal adviser of the and grain-dealers !—Though half the people' of- High Bailiff in his o ffi cial rapacity ) said, that a dis-,: gip commercial kingdom were starving, they art cretionary power was vested in the Returning 0111-. i not to be allowed to exchange their manufactures . cer, by which he could close the poll at any period' s and merchandise with countries which • require them he thought fit, for the exercise of which authority,. he was accountable to Parliament. In counties and for the means of subsistence! There are already,.we., extensive districts, it was sometimes necessary "to should apprehend, sufficient difficulties in the way of• keep the poll open till the latest period alloy/ea by' our merchants coping with foreigners—the Smallest the Constitution, to give the electors fair opportu- 1 I addition to the price of bread must make this centre- I Mlles to come fore aid, many of whom might not tition still more difficult. ThelXiiclholdertinA r know of the election until it had considerably ad. farmers have not met, and prayed, and petitioeedicre. vanced, and they might then have to travel a consi- nothing, though the people have. If she price cif. derable distance to give their votes. The case was i different in the Borough, the electors lived in a small bread corn is to be raised so much beyond eves) their compass, and could express their opinions without" own estimates and wishes, and the Property Tax procrastination ; and in the event of there appear-1 is to be taken off also — it will indeed be wonderful ing a disposition to create unnecessary delay, it was if they do not get out of their di ffi culties, from in the power of the nigh Bailiff to return that Can- I which we wish them at all .times a safe deliver didate tr ho had a majority of votes. The HIGH BAILIFF perfectly coincided in opinion ! ante; sad and enrol, on the contrary, is with Mr. Rolland, and felt It his duty to close the : the fate of those upon whom the weight of all poll. Ile then came to the front of the hustings, and ' this alleriation is to fall. Another diminution of declared the numbers to be, • the loaf ) another and insuperable bar thrown 'la M r. Bu r thtt flarlay 1633 r. r 401 the way of a vent to our commerce, and another pa. merciful screw given to the household taxes,, which,. reach every one who has a covering over his heart' and have already gone far to take that shelter frail many, muse make sad havoc io the already din& Iwished sum of public comfort. We deprecate public commotion as much as any existing beluga; our I strictures on public measures, if they are severe, ire intended to show the framers of these measures. the danger and impolicy of leaving the people to he the guardians of their own interests; but if nothing but the public voice will arrest mea sures conceived by the populace to endanger I their interests, it is not difficult to foresee what sill happen. The general voice has Avid" spoken constitutionally upon this topic—it it a ne t tural inference that if the plan which has excited the reprehension of the public is persevered in, they will not continue to evince the necessary respect to au thority, or even reason, in any further expression of their sentiments. The conduct of the populace at Maidstone on Monday is a sufficient instance of this, aad we should be sorry to have to record a similar conduct on the pert of Englishmen, whose first glory it is to act in conformity with the laws of the Con stitution, and by so doing, as often as occasion may require, to preserve that Constitution, and' thiii rights which it guarantees from vielsdio. - - The LORD Maroa has given. proof that ha . . I considers the interests of the country again in danger by the proposition about to be submitted to_Parlia. ment, and of the necessity of again having reconne i to the Constitutional mode of opposition se krone, I and successfully made to' he Tate Coin - 131K; lit'has notified that he will convene the' Coinin'in. aitkeit upon as early an occasion as possible; teernerider the pi ices to which the landholders hue %mask aftasti. cis of the most indispensable necessity. ' That:octa -1 sion must indeed be early; or it will be too late:4. The evil will be done, and the manufariteritig : and commercial interests will long and degpli t rue the dilatoriness which may involve them is a common destruction. It is stated to be the object Of the proposed Bill to fix 80s. a quarter as the prohibition price, below which foreign, corn is not be allowed to be imported into this country. We decidedly say, that that price will be ruinous to the trading interest. Look at . France. Cross the Channel and examine the price, and the improved state of manufactures there. Ask the price of bread in that country ; and then see whether it is possible for British manufactures to I maintain a competition of six, five, or even four I-years, under such a disadvantage. It Is impossible. But, is 80s. a quarter a necessary‘protecting price to the farmer, and will' he be Milted lithi this? What security have we against an locionasi pf this high price? What security is there that it will not be converted by his landlord into a ground for an in ; crease of rent ? We have only to look at what ter tain landlords have done to know how they would again act in a similar situation ; and SOO-the ne cessity alledged for some such meanie - as Pot pro posed, we have only to consult their own . book of evidence. There we shall find the witnesses—farmers, land-owners, surveyors, Auld all the host of Interest ed persons 'mustered to testify in fawner of high prices, stating, that If the farthers coflld baby law protected to the extent of 705., 72i. t .ssel5s. per quarter, they would have a living profit, ma under the'preseef rents anctfaxes. This is; the nefersof the evidence adduced by the landlords and hymn thing. `selves. It is well known• bow was sought or adduced of i coatnpr ft:4r `B7 their own statement therefore, ex- - infra os tie; 'are, shall we aloiselpdie them;? They.lneess edraltted that if' the Property Tax ware taken off and tabour should ''. the diliereecs lu - theludtuetiotiireeidtbe . such Malirity for Mr. Barclay - 1232 Mr. WALKER then stated, that the friends of Mr. Burdett did not think further exertions were likely to prove availing whilst a military force was in the neighbonrhood, in clirm opposition to the principles of the Constitution ; they had, therefore, determined to bring the contest to a conclusion, Mr. BARCLIY then addressed the multitude; but from the noise which prevailed, we could not collect a word he said. Mr. KEMMISIL next stepped forward, and while be declared the intention of the Committee appointed to further the interests of Mr. Burdett, to abstain from further opposition, from their conviction of the im. possibility of success, arising from the overpowering influence of the friends of Mr. Barclay, he con gratulated them on the opportunity which had been afforded them by the exertions of a few independent Electors to express their sentiments in favour of free and fair representation in Parliament. [Loudchecrs.] The business then concluded. Arr. Mails. Dine Malta ... ........ ... ... 1 France O O . HuMud TRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS hank 3 per Cent. Red. 613 t R pet COOL Gm.' 6411 4 per Cent,. 811i1 rJ per Cent. Navy tqi DA' AT ONE O'CLOCK Len. Ann. 16 5-14 India Bondi 11 I? 0 Exchcquier Hill* 4 1 4 p Oinninns 3 21 d for Ac. - 641 . • THE STATE.VIIIN. LONDON: yitURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 0115. —■eb.•-• The discussions in both Houses of Parliament, last night, had much of interest in them. In the Lords, that most disgraceful and flagitious violation of British faith,which so strikingly appears upon the face of the transaction that has annihilated the gua ranteed independence of Genoa, and transferred it to the King of SARDINIA, to whom the Genoese never owed any allegiance, was made a subject of just condemnation by, the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM and other Peers. Though this subject is one which Is proved incontestihly to have been decided by the documents which have appeared (and for the ho nourable way in which it has been decided, see .Aur Paper of Wednesday last), and consequently could not involve more than Ministers chose of the close shut-up secrets of the pending ne gociations, Lord LIVERPOOL would give no expla nation on the point. Ignorance of the circumstances urrrh. , r which this shameful transfer, made in the teeth of solemn pledges to the contrary, had taken place, might have been a good plea for withholding . _ information ; hut though unable to disprove that the British Government participated in the injustice of this acs, and the similar pi , teedingi which have characterised the conduct of the Congress, his Lord ship, pledged himself to show, .4 a proper season, that the British faith had aot been violated, .uid that no expectation had been held out which had been disappointed ! Unless Ministers base added • • another bacillation to their weather-eock policy, and lade another transfer of the Genoese State, his .ordship, for we cannot call him the Premier, has • set himself a task, and Lord CASTLEREAGH has set himself and his Colleagues many more. The keeping of the Militia embodied, when thee is no law to authorize it, was also made a t6lsic of discussion in the Upper House, and here also Minds• sera, with the Crown Lawyers at their back, made but a sorry defence of the innovations they have thought it proper to make in our existing laws, by Lecping op a handing Army in time of Peace. - r r. 0 1 0: as not to require this Legislative remedy. Now we find that the Property Tax is to be taken off, and that the fall in the price of provisions has occasioned P I a diminution in the price of labour to a considerable F extent, what occasion is there for this violent mea sure' so fraught with mischief and increased priva tions to the nation ? IVe trust a due and cautious regard to justice and propriety will be evinced, by the Legislature in this most important branch of do mestic policy, and that the public by the legal and constitutional means always in their power will con tinue to exhibit a watchful vigilance over this and every other measure which concerns their interest,— in particular that they will not cease to 'lige upon' an Administration which seems at a loss to devise the . means of relieving the people, that a retrenchment of its expenses, in the many in stances of unnecessary posts and pensions, and a li beral policy to the country at large, is a far more likely metbod of producing the end desired than throwing 'insupportable clogs on, and obstacles in the way ,of. national industry, by distressing the working man, and instead of adding to the resouic.es Of the country, laying in the hour of peace and the birth-time of national hope and re-animation, the deadly seeds of national decay. , We hare no fresh news from the Continent to-day. CASTLEREiGH'S arrival in town is now daily. expected by Ministers, the Duke of Wstmerwrogr having reached Vienna on the Ist of this month,' and received the Porte feuitk of the Negociating departmentfrom his Lordship's unsteady hands, with, it may be supposed, many sage admonitions dictated by experience, and perhaps wishes, in which there are those who will cordially join, that his Grace they manage better s and with more consistency than its` late holder. # i'arripr so hold and ; . Statesman so gay - Cooversed at the Vienna scene—. 71the Statesman, " y,oor w.effame, fciy I wait ait►tty had r here too long 1 have been." Two or three respectable houses in the City in the silk trade were on Tuesdiy under the necessity of suspending their payments. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ,Commandets took leave of the Court, previous to departing for, their respective destinations, viz.: Captain SANDERS . (Metcalfe) Madras and Bengal, Captain WELLER (lluddart) Madeira, Madras, and Bengal. SOuTlt%l RR ELECTION.—State of the Poll this day at twelve o'clock:— Charles Barclay. B•q. ~ Wm. Joucs Burdett, Esq. Majority for Mr. Barelay 104 • .., The Duke of BEDFORD and Lord HOLLAND, were 1 both at Rome, on the 25th nit. The latter was then confined by a fit of the gout. Miss lloevrto NELSON is arrived in -Lender) Awm Calais, after seeing the remains of Lady Hmitwrott consigned to the grave. lIMPORT owFuneraw-Gone.--The high duties 011 import, it iv thought, will act as a complete probibi tion oar ports will; in eonseqeence, close neat Iweek, and continue for three months (and by that time it is generally supposed some new Corn Bill will be enacted) against the import of foreign wheit, rye, 'barley, end beans, except at the highest duty, • • Sonteletters reached usonT.iesday foorn SOU th Ame. rime, *hick remove all, doubts Ss to . .the successful t operotions of the Spaniards in the province of Chili, and add some feats with which We were unacquaiet ed. The troops composing •the expedition from Lima, entered St. Jew litliteapital, on the sth of 1 October, when the insurgent authorities precipitate- i 1 7 left the place, undertook along and dangertioi ahro . is the Cordilleras, and sought refuge-in -Mordant; 'which, however, they were immediately. ordered-to quit by the Governor, and nothing since ...- •baislieettlrenrd regarding them. . _ 'A Correspondent complains of the delay, and. even the non-delivery of lettere by the carriers of the. Two-penny Post-Office. He states, very truly, that business may not only be retarded by such neglect, butthat very serious injury may: sometinteijeselt from K. It is the duty of these - who hseelhe.guligre' intendince of this eoncern, tru-ptoxidn4 -sUfficient. I-slumber *of persons to insure the strict performance of their iWoction. ', • ' To rat EDITOR OF THE STITESII.III'. SIR,—I know not whether you copied the pe rt . graph which appeared in the STATEiDIANT this eve,. respecting the burial of Lady HAMILTON, from another Paper, or whether you have *en itopeied en by so erroneous a statement. If se, I s aw , , you are too liberal to withhold the folloiving stet. ment from the Public—particularly as it regards • person to whom the cluntry is as much for the battle of the Nile;ps to; the great NELw:; himself, who often declared it before his death, and . requested Government .to protect her. From t;:il circumstance, and relying on the promises of those in power, Lady 11. got lute difficulties from wnicS she embraced the first oppOrtunity of . escapin g to France (too much, I am sorry to say, the fashion at present), where she resided for Several mulch!, near Calais, with some friends from England ; oo their return Lady H. took a house in Calais, her health, which, at that time wns very bid, becam e rapidly worse—and from various disappointment s , and the absence of those friends who wou ld have afforded her comfort in this couutry, expired on the 18th ult. It is well known that she professed herself a Catholic before her death—eed. so far froM being buried as described in yr/et-Riper this evening, her remains are depOsited m diet:iliac oral at Calais, and her funeral,.which *as, ve ry handsome, attended by a &feat many 41 1 04:1 and other Gentlemen., ' • •••' : I am, Sir; Our obedient serest, A, FIUEND tar - Admirally, Feb. 13. IslL' •• • • • ' ' ISTEL,LK;S"*:.- FAMIOUT,I4 FEB. 14.-44irrivd the Princess packet, with a Mail froav Jamaica in 42 da; experinced Very bed 'weather. In sliatricsne, scudding under her foresail:, she.*anitidck: . ning, which killed tlie*tfu add wintiiiloe men, and meterially injured fie r tleck 4 set the Lady Wellington packet, bound from ' Hatifas with a Mail,. after being. et sea one and two days. Ow twrierierreed:Wercfr.' Weather, that she..itat i. .n 11ength clbylted'Citlintr_ this port to repalictdamege, been compelled to iitepw all her grin, iserhoei, PORTSMOUTH, FES. 16.--Artived ; tit* it S. ter, from? he coral of Alnitica • 4111 41 . 40Wadott* st ore-0441,41*0 she • newei.-4:Thscidtvief fleepu ale sti 1 . at ~lriel, ; with ciinvAiiberio to the. Panarien coast of Africa, sre.l4 &name n c‘wiffilit•A'4".- • DEM' ' '. FEB. 15.-Arkired 'tire.Jiers Indianian, Captain ArbUtbnet, from Mathis,. (tom Stilly, end remains in lint from the River the Swan cutter P; a nd his Majest}cti ships Merenrigi; 'aka Scourge. . ' Taasait, rat •11110..41004'min-strintittg jesty's Ilnp Acteeo4'wtr peruhre.—Arrived-hit ty's ships Corcklist, - Orestes, and Sern/y-intlgriefitst sailed Again *ha aids.. • • Covms, Fn.. 15. 7 4epived his Majest~t'r+ Arid and Sabist i i : uriilu &U tkeir convoy, be Africa ? from SPitheid. . • • - > , r '•f~ ....: .6i6 - ;_#4itztt:' .. ' _:'' ,~ ~.~ -- . 3TEDNiSDAY., PEIL•I. . . •The Sentient commenced this day, before dialog,* and DALLA4 and the; City Officers, J. Slaver on attoraey, was Indimed op the e!tnigg f .elnistly shoolingat Sam. Sewell, Mkth intent to 11111 f. _. The P.rosecator, vrlui way deieribed by the Colima areoustitaat r weal to the Loupe of the Prisoner to vellenti of ii.'lfis.s he saw the Prisoner, cod informed iiito lit ei that be lull called Tor a debt dee to a Mr.Brolie.•Thei Pr; aftersitina. etikvi‘reatlnn, - thieatened• tor kick die Prr .th;wit stalls. alfd r .he seideavoured to do so. hit failing I tempt li _lavaneid himself .with a mu.ket, When Sewell binisellliterii,renti', and on endeavotning afterward, I • liestea•rits. - the Prisoner fired at him. On a natation the karniecutofeoUld pot'swenr the• piece • was alai the,nlitipetioni In the itsdictment not Win:vireo , the Pr isoner was itrqulttO. ,• •• w i li e r -se • 'N Was.lLactfo. bosun his,telfe. nod Satoh AOSMIRII 'fee: high trelimui. lii feloniously and • testitarifibly b ksi afit thereby tasking (ciente/foil money. 1 bad been detected .' in - astern* 'emoitterfeit , AR taktirelltaltatlet.led to a knowlellge..of his reofd thlugh he gave the Dltierrs of Justin • a flelltiaus adds the. officers enterio4 the /tome, which they effected' i some walls, they found the too Prisoners therein, 1 baud's black as H they hal lately been at work. T' the materials for colouring, aqua fortis, erca.o of lh, 1 , blacking to give the base coi n the appearance. of Yaw I iotireulation. besides thillin;s, sixpences, Sze. in as es • state. The proof against (Aeon, the wan. was ;.. - r.clA • wit %Went, according to evidence, when the Prisoi.emwel I trued, and consequently coairi not be aid:og and utt,.eta , tGuiltrenumi. He was acquitted, nut the two females *4 ty—Death. Guilty—Death. . Itichaid Grape was indicted 4er slezilint hrlyge ' house of -- Ceeptuaa,-a great coat and du umbrella, 1 iierty of Mr. Itikard. The piopeity was proved Lc. b. :lin the value of'4os. Which coiutituted a capital armee. • Ptiterier intruded himself on the Prosecutor. and weer Ca;. d torso Coffee-hot:re with him, in bliorcJitch. 'Ta tutor left his grew coat aud umbrella he tke es(te-ro. .... the both went Into an inner ro om. Th e Orhoiiir s left the room, mud ea, prated to have takeu the proper!! ' him. —Guilty—Heath. IWM. Janice was indicted for ravishiag• Lydia Jeliases t • 12 yeah; old. The tale of the Prot:retorts was foe-fnoi , i nail her own evidence was such its to prove the act war i that violence satscirat to coustitute the crime, and the was sequined. i Saran Petty was capitally convicted °Climber seven of printed cotton, the, properly of John glig4:1 1 t;" hit :bop . . y . . .. 1 , . , - . A 'melancholy accident occurred a few days ago, at the manufactory of Messrs. Johnson and White,. ott Birmingham, from the'bursting of the gasometer, i recently constructed for lighting the premises.- The head of it, it. seems, somehow received a violent pressure, which forced the remaining gas through , one of the tubes, which communicated to a burning i-lamp, and the whole Apparatus blew up with a terrible :•explosiOn; by 104414 Sine if their servants was killed, mod Mr. Whitibi4lis leg and thigh fractured. The body of a rispectably dressed man was piiked , op in the ritrer Thames on Tuesday evening, which on examination proved to betbat of Mr. Deakin, of Watling-street, who It will be, recollected was disco vered by the ('atrole some time back with his clothes dreadfully torn, and a rope round his neck, in the Shepherd and Shepherdess Fields, which be stated to have been done by thieves. On Tuesday evening, a party of the Bow-street officers went to a house in Leicester -street, Leicester. goers, in consequence of an- information• against a man of the name of Oakviey, for keeping a common Igambling -house there. They found a table evidently used for the game of Roused Note, but there being no players, the o ffi cers had no fur ther duty to per. i Beer is at this time sold la Dublin at three form. The informer, who states that he has lost.a halfpenny the quart. considerablesom in the house, accompained the olk-'• The Monetcor states;that his Eirellestiy cers into Leicester-street, but did not enter the house with them. • nister of the King's linuvhold had, by his le, the Bth lust. authorised Madame CATALAIiit tie --A very melancholy occurrence took place on board the East India. Cumpany'a ship 4.ia, on her voyage possession' of the Theatre recant, .which s ,from Madre' : Major 8.----, a passenger, in a fit agreed fur on the 9th of January, and to • consequence theIMCIUSive privilege of the 9aser of despondency, threw himself ou t o f the quarter , gallery window, and wasilroweeii. His native set- el first built' witchwitchthe' Goverment granted ti t!titibth of Deeetnbm. last. . $ want gave the intimation of the sad evert, but, • too late for any attempt being made to owe hint. No. a6T • --------- " a t m! Pirse.•• o l d , POMO)* n 1.• O. 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