The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-16 00:00:00

RP" ---"" t ~s. , 7 gii%7% . 4!" - :' .17 "7. ! --7 " „ •of self-pse...tration in a choice of Legislators, you 'ought to he wholly deprived thereof.? . Here. Sir, it may 1w well if yo'a note the distinc 'tints to be preserved isetwoos• the nature of whet you cell " propel*" and which is in fact merely ea -external possession ; Onelthenature of that property • which, according to Mr. Loam I(11. ISO), t man kith "iu his own person." ." Tim labour of his bot t ly,:' toys " and tiro' wore[ of Ids hands, are properly his." • Exteroill property is likeuleolistloit in its nature from that property and inheritance which every man - has its the Constitution and Liberty aids infantry wherefore the personal and .peiftical properties, which belong' . to a man because fie ft a man, and a member of the State l . may be celled ids. Miscued or frt. •herent property. Before I proceed, I.t me aUdeuvour, Siry to call Ina hack into the path of correct reasoning, from which at your very outset, in the very first step you look, you went astray, after an knit folunr, which, dancing before your e 1 es, misled you Into a course by which it was impos•ible you shooid ever arrive at a jest conclusion, touching the troth of falsehood of the doctrine of Universal Suffrage; wherefore you must not be surprised to find. yourself, at the end of your pinta! excursion, sticking fast in a quagmire of sophistry and disappointment, far 'wide of the point at which you aimed. You begin thus (p. 4)—" In civil society no man can kayo any any rights which do not ari.e out of the common good" But what, my geed Sir, is this so common good?" Who is authorised to captain it, or to declare it ? In your whole book I cannot find 11 explained or declared. fa the king to define this criterion of our 66 rig/Wt.? " Ali S. hit ; Minitlert to put their notion* of tie 4 "terifilion: ‘• bits 4,$ good"• sealed Green Bag, into whieh none e 4 to peep bit themselves end their minions, and is their report to decide this question, en whict all oar "eighle are to depend ? Or shall this deep' qeestion be rather solved by Parliament, which having within the last twenty•three years, repeatedly enacted that we have a " Constitution as by low established'," has theiretin modestly claimed for itself, aright if giving us, in exchange for the Constitution of • Rttglend, that of algiers or Morocco No, Sir, it is not thus the " common good" is to be sought; it is not thus our " rights" are In be ascertained; and when, Sir, we behold the infinite variety of modes and devices far undermining those " rights," and confounding the distinctions of right end wrong, thankful indeed ought we to be to God, for having in most Legible characters inscribed on our nature the proof of our rights, and gifted us with intellect to read the inscription. There, Sir, in all the self-evidence of principles written by the finger of infinite wisdom and goodness, we read that the " common good" of the community must ever be in *net proportion to the degree in which the common rights of the People, of the ag gregate and the individuals, have been held sacred. Notwithstanding your reversal of the eternal or der of nature between common rights and the com mon good, as cause tied effect, I sincerely hope it Nth proceeded from mere error, in not having dis covered the interval of actual separation between the lines of liberty and property, which lines it is admit ted do so border on each oth e r, (hot t• • eereteet. or not Strong-sighted observer, they often appear as one; whereas, near as they are ever seen together, they are two parallel lines which never can meet. About 30 years ago, as a note to a " declaration of rights," it was remarked that " the rich and the poor, being of the same species, are under the same laws of nature ; end being alike capable of benefit or injury from their Rulers they necessarily have in the election of those rulers the same rights. But the rich, in defence of their liberty and property, have every advantage which wealth, •knowledge, and the purchased sortie's of others can afford them ; while the poor, destitute of all these, hive no security but in the purity of Legislation ; nor any means of self. ,defence but in retaining their share of the cledioc Forcer. The poor then, have an equal right, but FAIL NIORE NEED to elect Representatives than the rich. lie that is free, possesses that which is far more to he valued than riches, but robbed of liberty, he is poor indeed:" By the very estraordinsry stress you lay upon the' value of .wealth, as if wealth were the sunimuns bo. sum of a community of moral and intellectual be. age, you appear to differ widely from the wisest Statesmen in the best times of Athens and Rome; but you are more ;•- , ticularly •t variance with the Areal lau-givar of Sparta, who, aliheegh no friend to universal freedom, was yet no meau architect of national power. But what is more to the purpose, 'oar views of political economy are quite opposite to those of the great legislator of the theocracy of Israel, who, in the humane and profound law of the Jubilee, etrec tualiy counteracted the grasping temper of avarice and ambition, and prevented, as adverse to the 66 common good," the bowdleas accumulations. of wealth in the bands of individuals. To a teacher of religion, who also teaches politics' economy, and " morality united wills policy," the sound principle at the bottom of the policy of the Mosaic Jubilee, may perhaps be recommended as not unworthy of consideration. But how, Sir, does this estrsordinsry solicitede of yours for wealth being made the mein spring of action in the State, and a. proportion of it made e'en the very qualification for the emjoymeot of political liberty ; bow, l ask, does this accord with the send saws of him, who authoritatively said nato the rich, • 4 first part with your wealth to the poor, and then follow me t" And who immediately added, 66 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than ',r a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.►► I do not construe this language literally, but merely to show that, for promoting the 66 common good," we are not to prefer riches to righteoesness, nor to oat up W EALTH above RIGHT and JUS TICE. But that author does set op riches above righteous ness, and wealth above justice, who positively denies that a poor man ought to possess suffrage, which is only another word fqr freedom; or can ever be en titled to freedom, until he have previously acquired a proportion of external property, to be denoted by a point on the scale of wealth, at which he, the au thor, or some man or men equally wise, shall be pleased to draw a fanciful line. a - _. , . •• - • / a: . ^: THE ST . No *ju t - Sk, can reed yoer book !Moots 'IOW ; sharked et tisp gresteinskit o 4 6 ,e4tfeinniontivairt irrhy tlictvhor, itnct et> o he the f ideti et their Aid% is the dreier' it 04 1471811114,1 re gairodiaxis • ligtonie, firth, of nary incapacity; and secondly, of their presumed le suukenr ' - ' • iiistording to . your reasoning tilt eenrciee of ear* a right in such handl mast ript•soroy be shined t 3 the wjerrat of purposes, endanger liberty. most kn pieniS its destruction ;" (p. 69.) that it could oily a " idesolaling hurricane;" (p.-54) volcanic eruption," to" !awes oil distinctincisV.aitil reduce circumstances to i sort of original wretchedniseasts; barherisur; r ' (p. 41) that it would be as dinger..l ous as to put a sword into the bend of every adult 10 1 bedlam ;" (p. 86) it . would be 66 t0 disperse beggary and indigence over the land ;" (p. 89) that 6 , Uni penal Saireage, cembined witk the Rates,would. erelong, consummate the ruin of England ;" (p. 107) 66 that it could • not be established without a total change in the form of the Constitution ; (p. 125) that it is " incompatible with the existence of the Monarchy;" (p. 129) that it would, in place of `the " Borough-monger fa c tion," set up another 66 of. t more degrading species, and with less worth, or fes , r beneficial qualities to redeem it from destrac 'inn. ft would be much more rapacious, selfish, and vnali. p nant" (p. 123). Good heavens! Are such the sentiments avowed by an English scholar, in defiance of the demenstral-- ed principles of representation, end in contempt of the equal right of all men to freedom ! Are such the opinions of a philosopher, touching a vast majority of his fellove men in a civilized country, and depicting them as the must stupid of barbarians, as the bloodiest savages : In the scale of animals, on a level with wales and tygers! [To be continued.] • STATE AND CONSTITUTION ca THE 10th4N ISLES. Tlfe State of the lonian Islands consists of the Isles of Corfu, Cephalonia Zante, St. frlaure, Ithaca or Teaki, Cerigo, Pato; and other little Islands on the coast of Dalmatia or the Mores, formerly under the dominion of the Republic of Venice. The funda mental religion is that of the Orthodox Greek Church. The vulgar tongue is the Greek. The government shall consist of a Legislative Assembly, a Senate, and a Judicial Authority. The military command, ac cording to the Treaty of Paris, belongs to the Com. mender of the troops of his Britannic Majesty. The Members of the Legislative Assembly, are named by the body of Electors, the Senate by the Legisla. tine Assembly, sod the Members of the Judicial Au. thority by the Senate; these Elections shall be made for five years. The Lord Commis•inner of the &tie. reign Protector is invested with the powet of con voking or poroguing the Parliament in cases of urgent necessity ; but it cannot be dissolved in such a ease except by virtue of an order of his Majesty in Council. The Senate, as the depositary of the executive power, shall be composed of Gee Members and a President. The President shall have the title of Highness, and each of the fire Members that of Prwitantissinzi, nearly equivalent to that of Eaeetteney. The President shall be named by his Majesty. The Protector and the Senators chosen among the most distinguished persons in the Legisla tive Assembly, shall be elected in the following pro portions, namely, out for each of the islands Corfu, Cephalonia, Zaote, and St. Alsure, and only ot.e for the other islands, Ithaca, Cerign, and Paso. The Senate shall have among its attributes, the proposing of projects of laws. Every project approved by a majority of votes, shall have the validity of a law, provided it have the approbation of the Lord Corn. missioner, and be not annulled by an ordinance of the King's Council. There shall be at Corfu a General Printing-office, ander the immediate dire*. tion of the Senate and the inspection of the Secretary General ; no other printing-office shall be established in the Isles of the Union, without the permission of the Senate, and the approbation of the Lord Com missioner. These, with a few minor regulations, constitute the. basis of the New Constitution of the lonian Islands, which, according to the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris. of sth November, 1815, are to form one free and independent State, ender the protection of the King of Great Britain and his successors. PRIOn OF STOCKSITO Rank Nock 3 per Cent. lied. 3 per Cent. C0n:4,1.78 78e Cuntott int Acc. 783 4 per Cent. I DAY AT ONE O'CLOOK. 5 per Cent. Navy 1044 Indio' Rondo tl p --- Stork Long Au.. Exchequer Bills 11 15 p THE STATESMAN. toNDoNs 11110111 DAT, MARC,' id, VIII • :Jr _...._ - IMPORTANT DECISION IN SCOTLAND. The reformation, so mach desired in the election of the Magistracy of the Scottish Boroughs, is likely, to be very generally advanced, in spite of the obsta cles that have been attempted to be thrown in the witty of its progress, and the pompons declarations of Mr. MAconocrttE, the Lord Advocate, that he is not to be influenced by the precedent of Mon trose, or by any general principle whatever. By a decision of the Court of Session on Toesday last, the late Election of Magistrates for the City of Aber- deen has been totally set aside, and the Ltoroogh consequently disfranchised. A Provisional Msnsge• went has been established until a new Charter,caa be obtained; *for which a Petition to his Royal Higls.l ness the Parscc Rcutsre in Council will be forts. with addressed by the Citizens, praying for a Char ter, probably in the terms of the one granted to the Town of Montrose. This is one of the beneficial results of the inhabitants of a town looking into the conduct of a self•elected Junto of Governere. The coma the City of Edinburgh and Borough of la. 1 !• I --r • )-41.10,1 Plr\MA . ..1 7 - ' i- ~ T Ili atei di waiiirsrs;,_.f ; Ircid se ed me . day im; itirmil,ritisti"ilit;tv-itece*libirmi r,pltuarliPen fboireeishAtoffrtatheselbethet":losilt:diNeesJyasnev;:arilkt'ltie year I* . -. . .;• . • 00 oe'eacio,n, is !ii retell ;_ t h ' c a it a i n e i b e r e a t t se e ;y by Ft a gb. by *ill iso dilfrauchised. This Molter has ea- a solemn festival. Some partic rimy made k great sensation in E c h nhesg h , an d the State and Constitution of these Islands• at.p% . - - - -.. t...... in Beeline Mean. Spain stems to be snaking great inertia ( • • no for the military „ore. j "t oin TSPaN ed et b h y lif-A i las.:l42l S r pl ica nish a sg ehre a g : R dr asu o s n s l iaa" which a i s incomp e rel. squadron will h e readiness. The troops are already assembled in A s . England. d. F dalusia. , ....._,_ *Jepson, Kumla lb.—Yester d ay RE t the N. Docketsw went at of Bowl t h e Quer.* had a select party at the,Castle. Lord BURGHEIRSH transacted business on Swords at the Admiralty, previous to his leaving , of . Saturday the Duke S tbe f Yok GLocestga visited the Patrice Riapn at Ce mi , no it n4ohto , :iii., 'J ett " house: in the evening .ets bad been Dr - dry-lane Tbeitre. .all majoritiesc the The Dike of CAMBRIDGE will be married eadri n .., De:e o .o li ferw oon was N b a y To a x n:: : c A os pr n tl t i, ty a , t ir souy eb ' ipoies' his , b a r :t d d e, is he es io tr e c t t h e e d en to d , a ,f rr t i h v e e The iesidence of the Duke in South Au dleY preparing for *the reception of his Ro yal Highness is indisposition, could not at - ners by the King to the Foreign and his illustrimis Consort. bet there was another meet- The Prince of lizase-Hostsuna yesterday sem*. sters et the Deke's Hotel on panied the Doke of CLatterics to Bushy -park. • he Duke be Rtcner.tzu was On Saturday, at too o'clock, a Cabinet Co l l o di was held at the Foreign Office. poi T t e a s n le h r i d i a n y is , te th r ecaßilliesdsiaatncaCarlton-boas., Ambassador to 1i . ho s s e n 7l ( o l t p h a e y N thei ea r . offered to transpire in the Meet or result of these can ' WELLINGTON, it is said, respects to the REGENT: ty on the 26th inst. It is, Yesterday, being Palm Sunday, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY preached before the Doke of Yalta, I subsequently come to ion arid I numerous aSsemblage of Nobility andGentry,at o attend the Congress of 1 the Chapel Royal, St...James's Palace. then this Congress is to as- The followireg changes its the naval commands are a be known with any cer- •stated as being *Niel to commence:—Portsmouth, . _ . . ne accounts the Meeting Admiral Sir GLonGE CAMPBELL, vice Admiral Sir , le Ist of August. A city l':. Tnottraarrvon ; Sheerness, Admiral Sir J. Goae, toy. will, it is asserted, be rice Admiral SirCILAULCS Row Lev; Cork, Admiral Sir J. ROWLEY, vice Admiral Sir BENJAMIN HAL LOWELL; Mills, Admiral Sir G. Moon/ vice Ad- An article from Nurem mired Sir Cito it P t Ito resume the delibira- LES ENRosE. , . . ... .., been so unceremoniously A le.tinionial iii lip e character of NOdin, the Man. return of NAPOLEON chester Basha w , thief.taker, and apy.sup:drer, is pub tithed, from the Manchester Police (Mice, with the lea, numerous romans names affixed; of Constables and Boroughreeves, se. venal of whom are dead, and as many abroad, movedor.re from Manche s ster ! !! e inhabitants of Verdun lug that a considerable THE PRINCESS or WALES'S CAUSE.—TIP cause of Princess of WALes againot e to them from English- her Royal Highness the . w hi c h c l a i ms they h a d 'the Executors of the Hake of BRUNSWiciL, iii the h and English Govern- Court of Chancery, has excited much curiosity. It is kaolin, Owls the month of May last, tier Royal waled for jsstice to the Highness transmitted two bonds, one in German and tf the Treaty of Paris, one iti French, to Mr. CANNING, with a request that pplicable to their case. he would apply for their liquidation, instead of ad rticle from Berlin, has dressing them to her own regular Trustees. Why she chose Mr. Caritas° as her agent in this business . may easily be accounted for. There are circem nee from Paris of a stances attending those bonds, which induced the opy of an autograph Trestees to hesitate as to their discharge. The first irA :( o f a MUM' Count MuNsTen, as our :Mien have Tressed by his' Royal seen, was thought insufficient to authorise the Lotto ) the Duke of WEL- CHANCELLOR to call for the production of the docu. his Grace from as. nients. A second affidavit has been now mule, but "my dear friend," ; ch from delicacy was not not read on Saturday im CoCourt. We understand, however, that it stales the tis Ro)al Highness grounds of distrust upon which the Earl of LIVER -3Eupoßri, and after root, and Count Mvnarsa have resisted the payment rror and indignation of the bonds. The circumstances are stroog, and was Ailed at the which Count MUNSTER would not have stated, but ick," he says, " I for the observation of the Court, that reasons most be oa of the nat i on assigned for departing from the usual practice. ',, Extract of a letter from Major CARTWRIGHT, to a )rem. goodness °l Correspondent at Paisley :—" But while I recom rotected a life as mend Petitions by twenties, I beg to put you on our own country, your guard against a trick of our enemies, which -al tranquillity of some base men have attempted to play on Lord noosing enough, COCHRANE and myself. From two populous places we have received parcels of Petitions, each having nsideroblo notice twenty signatures, bet on examination great num. if the peace of bets of them are evident forgeries, proved by all the an the life of the names being written by the same heed. There can to wonder after be no doubt but that it was hoped they would have I OW sod * then • be been presented without ony previous scrutiny, and Ihst the plotters had taken care to give the proper intelligence to some virtuous Boroughmonger, in the hope of his being able to charge on the Members by ' lve also arrived, with whom they should have been presented, a connivatt&, At. Th. Corona. if not a participation in the fraud. Such attempts weden, which having been made, in the hope of bringing into dis ' will take grace cities and towns which are most patriotic, as well as euabling some profligate orator to stigmatise The the characters of men they dread. I beg most ear of tipsily to repeat my caution, in the !tope that you and the other promoters of Reform in Paisley will be very vigilant to prevent what has taken place in two other places; but, thanks to the vigilance of Lord Cochraue, without effect. Withiregerd to myself, I merely follow instructions in sending half a parcel to hard Cochrane, and reserving the other half for Sir Francis Burdett, which I had not delivered when the discovery was made." DEAL, MARCH 15.—Arrived the extra packet Trafalgar, with a Flanders Mail from Ostend, which was landed here.—Put back lost evening the Gotha. rine Griffiths, Peyster, with much damage, having been run fool of by another ship off the Wight, aid has sailed for the River to repair ; several more ships have come back, particulars unknown.—Come down from ihe River the England, Ray, for Jamaica, and remain in the Downs with the rest of the outward- , - - plata threitihopt Scetleett. , -As the world grows older oegbt ("grew *keg, end it . would be carious, N.._ pen' the sag' tiat wisdom of collected autheri. - fr.this"-and a whole maims of enlightened men,.. withi chattered rights to exhibit in the . facts el their .eaq ;41krillorPT to give way to the dicta of o young brieV • Jess Advocate, or eves such forensic and political 4isillfitations spare known to adord that stir of ear Ilemisphere, Lord CASTLEREAGH. French Papers, including three days (to the llth inst.). have arrived since our last. The Chamber of Peersdecided upon the new Conscription Projedt, OM Monday last. After several amendmeots had Wei negatived, some of them by very small majorities., tS Project was adopted without alteration, by a ma jority of 96 to 74. The Dike of WELLINGTON, in consequence of e slight indisposition, could Dot at tend an audience given by the King to the Foreign Ministers on the 10th, bet there was another meet ing of the Foreign Knitters at the Duke's Hotel on Monday last, at which the Duke nit Rican.= was present. Nothing is suffered to transpire in . the Journals respecting the object or result of these con ferences. The Duke of WELLINGTON, it is said, leaves Paris for Cambisy on the With inst. It is , added, that his Grace will subsequently come to Lon don, and then proceed to attend the Congress of Sovereigns. The period when this Congress is to as semble does not appear to be known with any cer tainty. Aria - Tani to same accounts the Meeting, will not take place till the Ist of August. A city . in the north-west of Germany will, it is asserted, be the scene of its optratioos. An article from Nurem berg says, that its object is to resume the delibirs. l iions which, at Vienna, had been so unceremoniously interrupted by the sudden return of NAPOLEON from Elba. In the Chamber of Deputies, numerous Petitions have been presented from' the inhabitants of Verdun and Valenciennes, complaining that a considerable *meant of debts were still due to them from English ' men who bad been prisoners, which claims they had preferred in vain to the French and English Govern ments ; and that 'they now appealed for justice to the fuitilment of the third Article of the Treaty of Paris, which they conceived to be applicable to their case. The Prussian Loan, says an article from Berlin, has not yet been completed. In the Private Correspondence from Paris of a Morning Paper, there is the copy of an autograph Letter. said to have been addressed by his' Royal Highness the PRI SCE REGENT to the Duke of Wit.- LINGTON, on the late escape of his Grace from ar 'urination. It commences with "my dear friend," like the " dear John" which his Roy al Highness used to apply to ti:e Dyke of BEDFORD, and after expressing the " sentiments of horror and indignation with which his Royal Highness was Ailed at the baseness of such an atrocious attack," he says. " I can only, in common with the rest of the nation, offer op thanksgiving to the supreme goodness of Divine Providence, for having protected a life as important to the great interests of our own country, as for the preservation of the general tranquillity of Europe." This latter passage is amusing enough, and we are told it has excited considerable notice among the French politicians; as if the puce of ' Europe were 'opposed to hang upon the life of the Duke of WELLINGTON. Who can wonder after this, that a life so valuable should now and *then be in danger ? Flanders and Dutch Mails have also arrived, with Papers and letters to the 12th instant. The Corona. Hon of lirnmanorre, the King of Sweden, whirl l lit 11191 supposed would bave-been deferred, will take place during the present Session of the States. The last accounts from Stockholm notice the failure of several commercial firms of the highest respectability at Gottenhurg. They state, that two of the most. ancient English bows there have failed, neem4y,! , SCOTT and GORDON, and SasiTu and Co. the former is 19 tons of gold, Swedish money, and the latter Is 12 tons. (A ton of gold is 100,000 dollars Swedish.) Two Swedish bogies have also failed for immense sums. This circumstance had prodeced a great sen sation on 'Change, and the most distressing results were apprehended. A Angelus , event has occurred at Warsaw. The inhabitants of the suburb of Praia have elected the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE Deputy to the Diet, by a majority of 103 votes to o. This Prince by taking his seat in the Chamber of De puties would have to renounce his rights as a Senator during the Session. The Second Chamber of the Diet is composed of Senators, and the King presides in it. On the 14th ult. the Russian Board of Customs gate a formal notice to the merchants of Petersburgh, that the present Tariff will continue to be in force daring this year. The silver rouble will be estimated as last year, at four roubles Bank-notes. An article, dated Venice, the 12th alt. communicates the °edits,' of the Constitution of the lonian Islands adopted by, the Legislative Body, May 2 1 1817, and ratified on the 4 18th August following, by his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, in the name of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY ; the Protector of that State. This Act bound. • • PORTSMOUTIT, MAUCH I s.—Arrived a very large Beet of outwaril.bound ships from the Downs. MARCH 14.—The whole of the ships so long detained in this bay and harbour, sailed yes terday with the w ilia at north, which backed to the westward at night, and continues; but as it is mode rate it is likely they will all clear the land, as they lost no time, and were out of the bay early iu the morning. GUERNSEY. M A [ICU B.—Arrived the brig Aim well, Alexander, from Oporto for London, with fruit, &c.; the Master reports, that the Motions, of Newcastle, struck upon Oporto Bar in coming out on the el'ith of February, and was making three eet an hour, but afterwards sbe took up a little. :~. ~:. , * 1, ~►-.;