The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-09-26 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL, Nt-t.ri, Atm. 23.—Mr. Berilacqua, one of the riche t merchants of Rome, is Dow here ; he was ae tose ! there of being a freemason, awkobliged to fly In o der to avoid being throin into the prisons of the Jn .skition. This flight has been cohsidered as a, 4-0 fessiun of his guilt, and all his property, real a d personal, is confiscated. Many other fugitives a e arrived from Rome, where several persons have been thrown into prison. !tortilla, SEPT. 4.—Some months ago, a very itemarknble fall of a mountain happened ou the fron tiers of Tyrol, three leagues from Apeszo. On the 21st of April this year, at two in the af tPrnoon, a large piece of rock fell down close bylba Tillage of Borcha, rushed, os eye-witnesses report, with the rapidity of lightning, upon the two villages of Tanglett and Mareiane, which were wholly over. whelmed by stones of immense size and rubbish, only one house remained standing. The rubbish from the mountain was in some places 30 fathoms deep, and it spread in all direCtioni' to the extent of half a league; 362 people lost their , lives. The Magistrates of Belton°, indeed, gave orders Immediately to dig through the rubbish, but it was seen impossible to get at the houses. It would have cost too much time, labour, and espetice.—lt is strange, seys the Dutch Paper, that such a remarbq• able 'sent should not have beta published before. :. ` , , Jllrif:' Jinni. , ' ' ,hie . :11:;.4 • . •••• be •• 4• • reo pmpi.• • .-% 0. i 11 ...• .4.,... o Ciottemborgli •.• *. 1 ..•,..5`••••••&&s..10 114 a 11 ...• ••• .••i. IV PRICK W `oo4o.xnus Wink 3 per Cent. Red. S per Cent. Cermet 4. pperer,Cort. Cent s Nroy 9S} 21 . , DA AT (4:.. .tro—cK L..ng. Ann.' lona BondiAlt p Escheqtier. 111116 4 pat Owsniitio 71 Cuusoib for Are. 621 21 THE S7IATESM4N. LONDON: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1614. French Papers to the 22d, 231, and 24th, have I . r eached us since our last,from which we have made some i 4 .tracts , possessing more than usual interest. Frcshl taportance seems about to be added to the island o 1; Elba. If we may credit the accounts from • Augs- i burg, the sway of BONAPARTE in that island Is me- i naced with powerful invasion. His old friend, FEW' l i ' DI NAND of Spain, demands one part of it as his; right ; the Grand Duke of Tuscl:4l( lays claim to another ; and the Prince of Piotasixo is'kurging ' his title to the remainder. How the illustrioes • tumult of this barren spot is to shape his conduct *midst inch conflicting claims to the sovereignty , of his. retreat remains to be seen. HOMER'S birth- 1 place has been .very seriously contended for by cities which denied the living HOMER bread. Bona- i PARTE, though no IlomEit, sees the spot to which he has retired from an imperial throne, and which he doubtle“ thought worth nobody's care, beset all of a suddeo with almost as many claimants. The re. duct ion of our maritime greatness seems once more the object of French speculators. They s that the Universal Gazette has made a o the Emperor of Runt.% in favour of rty of com merce and the rights of ma; nations. The Editor grounds his observati 'on this principle, that an universal Maritime blo irchy will be as odious and oppressive as the tyranny which lately spread itself over the Continent ; unless other nations shall unite in establishing a balance upon the sea, as *ell as on land. The Allied Princes must know that it is only because our power had no balance on the sea, that we have been able to support them as we have dune, and to become a principal in the overthrow of the common enemy. We are, therefore, not prepared to expect that they, still less that ALEXANDER, who refused to aid BONAPARTE in bis schemes to overthrow our naval strength, will all of a sudden commence a crusade against outmaritime superiority. ^- '... er . ' The French Chamber of Peers has adopted the project of the law relating to the finances. On the 14th the Chamber received from the Chamber of Deputies the resolution for the payment of debts contracted by the KING in foreign countries ; and unanimously adopted the law. The Chamber of Deputies are occupied in the consideration of prepo sitions relative to Refugees, and the law of Na. taralization, with other measures of internal policy. • A UGSBU liti ) Star. lti.—lt is said that three Powers . threaten the existence of the Isle of Elba. The' King of Spain demands that part of the island in 1 which is situated the city of Longono, because it formerly belonged to Spain; the (hand Duke of Tuscany lays claim to that part which was formerly under the dominion of Florence; and the rightful Prince of Piombino claims the remainder. VIENNA, Sm. 11.—Oor Court will receive the Foreign Monarchs with the most grand equipege. Twenty thousand chosen grenadiers will be here in garrison. The noble Hungarian guardis reinforced . by younr ertlemen of the first families. Beussesig . SEPT; 19.—The Archduchess Maria Louisa, after having tihrelled over the Pays de Vaud at Berne the 12th of this month. The tine se bich we enjoy has iadoced her to make a circa 'Obatlead to view the Alps -and VW II d II I a.c.iers• -- - * - ' • . ~ Y. 1. •.Y ,:litsul t ssip *---The Diet ottite ljelvetic`Can too, her ."neaser their repteeestatives .at the Conran M .v ißeinhard, First Bergoesos4e of r e .. rick, end President of the General Diet; h[: Vie i : • hi TILE STATESMAN. land, also a Burgomaster of oor city ; and M. de Monteeach, avoyer of Fribourg. This deputation will immediately set out for its destination. Soots Cartons will send particular' deputations. Berne' has named M. de Mulinen. Two Gettenburgh Mails reached town this morn ing, by which we have received the following : Gorrewavaciu, Seer. 13.-rAccountk: from way state, that it is every one's wish titre that the Diet should be assembled as sops atipetisible, 4 in or der to have every thing arranged, •ancl4proper Con stitution formed, according to the laws'of Sweden and Norway. The King, Queen, and Prince ()scar, arrived here on Wednesday last, ind are _expected to remain some weeks. A grand ball hea been given by , the Bnvghers to their Majesties, at which above one..thoasand per• sons were present. The Crown Prince is expected on Stanley or Mon day next. To those aims have taken an interest in the obser vations wolnere made on the subject of the state of our agricultere, and the proposed alteration in our Corh Laws, a clear view of the measure intended to be pursued by the French Legislature in regard to the Exportation of Grain, cannot be unacceptable. Before, therefore, we proceed to any ferthet nomi nation of this important topic, we think* incumbent upon en - to lay before our Readers the whole of the Abbe Morercsontou's plan of the law for regulating the exportation of Corn from France. We conceive the object to be blanch infinite interest to the people of this country, particularly at the present moment, sit to deserve the most serious attention ; and for the I better understanding of it, we have added, wherever the French measure or price is mentioned, the corre- I aponding English measure and price. This is not a subject which can be considered abstractedly, nor distinct from the consideration of the relative state of our own agriculture, and thsi projects of the landed interests of this country o to obtain legislative re straint to importation, sod encouragement to **pot ation. A legislative view of agriculture te e iiit upon its result towards the communityit tete. • It may be instructive to examine how far this necessary consideration is attended to by the French Govern ment. Our necessity ought to teach our vanity not to slight the very common maxim, Fas est abhoste doctre. It will be apparent from the Abbe MON. TESQUIOU'S speech, that the French law differs as widely by the benevolent views it embraces, from that projected by the advocates of exportation in this kingdom, as the country for irhiCh it is framed does in its general features of prosperity from our less favoured and exhausted land. Exportation is not resorted to and protected by law in France for the purpose of enriching a few indisiduals who have grain on hand, and will not bring it to the home market for fear of Ipwering the price, already above; the ability of the people to pay,—but for the purpose of contributing to the general comfort and relief of the nation, in many places possessing a superabund ant quantity, and in others requiring quick supplies. Exportation is to be free when under twenty-one francs the hectolitre (of ten ancient bushels) in the dearest parts of France, and is to pay a ditty of only one and one-half franc (fifteen-pence English) per metrical quintet, when higher; and thepredtece of such duties are to be applied to the encoungeMent of agriculture. Compare these prices *lib those by which it was last season proposed to regeteteatios into this country. Compare aloe 'the *O F lifencod proportions of the rates lei bd t with thrt:•Wllyket the districts to which they refer, and the encossiage went given to the transit of supplies to tiecessitoes with the justie of the ilicy which would places, . ustice policy fix an equal rate for all, without regard to diversity of ability or situation. The Abbe MONTNiQUIOO justly remarks, that low or high price is a relative term, and not the same in every place. The average is t therwkire, not fled by one Or two classes of de plikments, where grain is plenty ; but regard is had to proportion in every quarter. The Abbe MONTINI• QUIOU remarks, that iu several frontier districts, pro ducing abundance, the lower class, who are very 'poor, are obliged to substitate other nourishment for *heat ; and from this diet, too frequently, diseases: _and mortalitks ensue. These districtranwpaetictivt tar attention paid to them, and precautions for prey` serving the comfort of the lohabitaats form a part of the law. The people there are not told, with in. salting indifference, that potatoes form a proper sup port for themselves and their families; but the pri vilege of export is converted into an encouragement to import, by importatiep into those digtricts being permitted at a lower rate. This Minister also lays it down, that the wages of labour are principally regulated by the price •of bread. It is the opinion ortome in this country, that the pries of bread should be regulated by the wages of !sheer._ The ,contenders for this humane propesitiee s 'be are aiee the advocates ter exportation, on aft et dent spirits, and liquors known to have a deleterious quality. The high duties levied upon French wines, have hitherto rendered them a luxury, confined to the consumption of the higher classes of society, but for which tbe cost at the place of their growth, and their proximity to us, would lay them down, in our markets, cheaper than those of Spain and Portugal. It may be partly true,, that the wines of Portugal and Spain are physically better suited to our Climate and constitutions during the greater portion of the year ; and it big been questioned whether the taste a those classes ot .society,, who • are the chief con `mem, especially . of port wine, would encourage soy considerable consumption of the wines Wl' France, owing to their supposed weakness of qua lity, although actually only to their delicacy of fla vour. It is not, however, in taverns, that genuine French wines are always to be found, and the gene ral inferior quality of claret, in particular, has It tablished an unmerited prejudice against Freda red wine. Man is also the creature of habit:, the experience of those classes, who, •kr-;Trivets • houses, possess .the superior French wines as luxuries, prone* 'that they are N powerful in' qualify, and q. high, if not bighir; In flavour, then those of Portugal ; that they will la climate squally long preserve :their colour, flavour, any circumstances, and the no less strenure I .strensth, and general perfectials. It is obvious alscr, for restraint ea importation, will And • •, We every 'Geary of life ceases io strictness to be of Lions In the speech of the French SWIM that denomination, when reduced in price, or Safes,' suitable for their purpose than • that. whleloo. 'to the price or a necessary of life--that the•port down•relative to the fixing of wages by the pyksn s et Mom, and Spanish white wines, have, by habit, been bread. WeaHude to what is said as to 1b. *64094t' l imiereed necessaries of life to numerous classes of rality occasioned among the labouring Omelet" tlslll polity ; that the difference in price to' the : con. wages, and thein'notacterer's concern it seeing a sumer, between those wines end- French wipes,. I.iie hi the price of subsistence, which it is argued conkists ao much. in our detien.:eircustoms abad 1 0 di unlit net to CRAM ' disconten t, U by au addition. to excise, that any which Arises in the charges, of ..; - : - •-* " art the price of his goods he can protect. his pro fits from socg,echasent. This44-40tretver; disqua 7 - Wei& the, argument from being- applicable'itte the 'fact in this **entry. If, indeed, whilst the Mead facturer paysa little more to his siorkmeti, he can proportionably raise the price of his goods to the standard of subsistence,. and still have a living pro fit, he need not grievously complain ; bet if the price of bread is Mill rising, and that of his' goods falling ; if be is undersold in every market,,and wages still high, and necessarily keeping pace with the in-. creased rate of subsistence, what is he to do then! The relative state of the manufacturers in the two countries bears no similarity. It was to be expected that with the restoration of , gMace, of ancient Governments, and its former administrations of justioe, the industry of the Conti nent would native : we ought therefore to be prepared for a competition which its disasters and oppressions haveof late prevented. As oar manufacturers and merchants have this competition- now to meet, (he Impossibility of their doing. so for any time most be . evident, without something like an approach to an, equal rate of subsistence. Without this, neither our established capital, per •Oni machinery, can be en— petted to enable us long. to carry on the unequal contest; brit (earlier ye, thee expected themselves . •to lead the emigration; whenever practicable, 'he 'snore than oins..,,sranch of our profitable , -industry. There aka be no doubt that the landed itgereit hope to be Isb4 to persuade the Legislature Ito give them scope in the prohibition of foreign grain, and thereby leave them masters of the price of [ British growth. It is no less discernible that it is -this competition of foreign grain which alone limits their power. If we do not voluntarily refuse the offer of cheap sopplg a It is from France, on account pf her proximity and present abundance, that we Amy most expect ithportation of the articles of subsist- Awe. The information therefore which we submit in the Exposé of the French law, may be of essen tiat service to many. The farmers seem not to know comedy what they have to apprehend from foreign competition, and on a subject re ,garding which so muck delusion prevails, the most ;authentic information is desirable. We hive too '4oetg rejected the benefits derivable from the corn ' merce of this our nearest neighbour. We have too long cherished an opinion that France is oar natural enemy. Man should consider none as his natural enemy. The Maker of the universe, in rendering --- the wants of men as well as nations, numerous and Mr. WELLE9LEY POLE, in addition various, has created that dependence upon each pointed Master of the Mint, i 3 a Mimi other which dictates the cultivation and interven- binet, and has attended the meeti ngs which have been held during the last tion of friendship : its offices are necessary le the three weeks, at the Foreign Office. mutual supply of oar wants—to our very existence.) The marriage , between the Archda._ The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- and the Duchess of Omemaonoe is regarded land, and the French empire, by their protimit, to taio. The nuptial ceremony will L Vieono. -•. each other, their geographical positions, the variety , DERESFORD ie expecte4 to sail , in their:respective wants, the features of their reli. i 413 convey the PRINCE RZGENT of POITIJI gloss, taws, add national character, and in their gsh.‘Biatili to Lisbon. parities to supply each other's wants respectively, • •On Wednesday night, the Cherub are competent to embrace the most sincere and lasting sent off a Portuguese Officer with reciprocity of friendship; and to dictate happineis Vienna. .i t to the greatest portion of the civiliied world. The ! The general reduction of the additional of the regiments of the line did not sok more prosperous the subjects of either nation could turdayl as was expected. become, the more prosperous would be the other, to S atu rday the Order in Council of the constant increase of the sum of human happiness permitting the impertation of provisilia. in each kingdom. Experience teaches that the con. ment of duty, expired. Orders hed-liems• quest of either kingdom, on the part of the other, the different Custom houses en thi , eon ; ., This will check " is impossible ; and it may be presumed, neither will tc out oll d ec tir t lt ors ol uggsep .d t . 7diers to . mike known again attempt such an ineffectual trial of strength. Polletiosi countri.kom Fran With this impression upon our minds we feel im- calves, bop, poultry, eggsigaere, sheep,. .pelled to make a passing, remark on atiether point, mutton, pork, hems, tongues, butter, which has a material relation to the commerce and toes, rice and other ar ticles, by whidh comforts of the two nations, and seems called for by 1 kept jowl, lw.the towns situated in the the great bedi'dt of Ha t e inhabitants, what is said regarding the pernicious practice so importation are the duties on the undernien common among the inferior classes, of drinking Sr. titles:—Butter sa. lid. per cwt.; bacon • _ 9' 41. i ls. of. ditto; eggs, uftl. for itiery 4s. 44d. per cwt.; lard, 7s. I Id. ditto Is. lit& the dozen. • The trades it Malta is stated to have impulse from ,ituations whence it was Thirty fire -ihips from. Mayseiltes have thlir, CO rgo!s t and received their returns, they have taken their departure; a vessel had entered the pqrt direct from the He The Grecian AiFblpe lago is infested vesselsorhicli . lark among the Wands ; favourable opportunity board vessels, kill cems,, 'veto. do • prise-. into , smelt -- eteelks . , earth.' and afterWarda destroy. the vessels fettled. . . By a • Cirrus from the French Royal dated the 29th.of •August, French iltip.o . informed that the Slave Trade is restored, under the' old arrangemoots- and Jegulutions. On the 6th ult: a frigate of 50 guns, and a gnn.boati were launched at Constar the presence of the Grand Seignor and ' Officers of State. ~ esipeotlo* . The destinations of the Fast Indite il4O, • OD Friday, by the Committee if.Cor - - 1 ,. svi . o be confirmed by the'Court orDbliaiio* Id. nesday next, . . : ..' ' , , . - '.',',..! - I,' r.:... •• '• ' 4 . M. TA I t LIVIIO/fl4 the day 'bete*, Att. dopilettire!, for Vienna, dropped his flioNArtinTE titti 'al .Priaieo.• Of -BENEVENTO, and was created by his Majestr ' . . Prince TALLEY RAND. •. . A very full • account hai.tettHliblished,isi the. Ruts • 'scan Court Gazette of the gievi.loystem of •Educatioti . . introduced into•thls country by De. BELL ilia Mr. . "ILAWCASTEI4. . • : • .1 1 1 Pursuant •to• an edict Imamd en . the 7th Install_ ' Prussian psperinotty to the 'Mount' of 1,500,000 i• rix dollar . vrill be drawn from circulation •in• count of Ake present year, and next year 800000 more sit) be Oantelled. • On 'fluiridif .week, at .the Market ! cross, Woke. Wittlata•Heslam„ of Thornhill, sold ht. via for five shilliatt, to "1944:4(4&. . +.? -4 freight, insurance, and attendant expel l e e , Neyence to our markets, weigh in far: by her proximity to us. ~Nor can there but her soil and climate are perfectly the successful cultivation of the same grapes of which the red wines, both of Spain, are made, so as to enable her to a cheap and strong description of red as wine, which would be acceptable_ orders of society, and lead to the disuse pernicious ardent spirituois licitiiiii,"l rious to their health, their interests, and whilst our revenue would derive from it might lose in the other. ',There cannot, be a reasonable doubt, but..our consumption wines of France, would, when plar equality of duties with thnie of. other become considerable and exteesive, a. our colonies; and that their superi, and flavour would be admired with ing civilization audjoaproving taste. petition between the wine •• count, snaritets, would be operied-L-they la( o.itch Atka, in -the perfection of their best of .whicb, u of fraer3r other art produce, laottracted or comis iod id.ed b; w.botk,ft.nd. inclination f1 i .. 07..‘ . . lot eig Alitdr - prbdirctioni,kit elyk A. it trircicol indent: It'isjili i o, snenirosAy.'ths t our ' 'aretir erpeucei, whatevri . er transport, 1 ikon the bad, as upon the good, of (cu ..' Ia sarticle of commerce, from each pat try—placed tile 'interest of the persons • the supply in accordance with that of t; the more considerable the Consumption I more encouraging awl certain our ma °e,_ _ t and consequently the *ore in De and considerable 'Would be" the .1;6101 extensive competition lovas supply, operating to keep down 'the price. wines, no longer confined to the coosul any particular class of society, would a( , the general uses of wine, for medical a , ' purposes, and form a considerable a sum of human happiness in the [Jo" ' the policy of iheltatesmen of which he fested constant anxiety to increase t' • commercial commodities, from countries • with us, with a view to their exchange' factures. Pence+ of Your of Fri, here be a d y co m p etent Sine species of Portugal suppf y as well ti to Oaf seat disuse of 9 DO k m ins , Id their ma r oi a the no t "IQ snot, (hi t c h timpti on of t aced u p nu nine count • at home sod erior d. • ..„ it our inc '• A ho e , arses, would l i e w . 1 teir wines, I tic!, of f b. by our xi igner, mere " by ir duties aa ort, b e i ng of every particular ions ling . the . t ion Wu % . . motets 41)1 , 1 i;t l' a i s li *l 9 be lelW' Thus V. consumption f t smalicantateahk as we!l a s s oc i a l addition to tit Cited have ever alai. the numher a( itries in amity ;e for our matte, 1 In to being sp. I tuber of the Cab ;s of Minister tst fortnight or Ids/10 CiAaLII regarded as cats take place K . ii in a fewtl ItyGAL fr • im tiler SALDAMIA s dispatches to Hovel battalions ikoplace on fte. 1111,11(arch last, without per ken received at coast, directing ter koown that check the W.. ranee of cows op, latobsbeec . 1 cheese, pots.' the prices were he Channel, to The following Piwtentioned aro coo and hams y AO ; clieraei rat.; ,41n114 0 , • ire receleett an , to not expected: hiesi •Aetivered; , rhs, sal* which/ 'sae! full's : laden' Havanonk. fed by, piratical. 1' ark( on iwery ; e lan tips sell to &TOW deo' • - • Cike t toMs, Rl4'olllo .are i ll :Ae*.aati • • S t J. ) ... 11 11. Pt 23 1: natant id as principal 01 ; 76 itare d- k aelanaMi.iri‘' ', '