The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-12-19 00:00:00

I .r• THE STATFAIAR. . ... .. I..bnurett. Hence the pratput depression is the snore , fresh and roost copious issue of paper; that will bring severely felt. go great a portion or lota now fella' ep the wheat to Hrs. a bushel; *Nun abatement of upon one man, !l i ar the ni i i;le race stagger under it. ypur litirrest ! I am *pare, that, by the means of You will ei.ily j he of the degree in which this arrears, pid may get through the present seaton.— class of mess Lase been elevated, when I tell you,' Be4riedi Mtn have. not, all at once, exhausted their that Mr. Arthur Young, whose hardihood, as a capital. They keep up a little while after their legi weiter, is equal to hit talents, insists on it, that ! tinuste moons &regorge* taut,. it is next season, that even the farmer's, bailiff nought to have a bottle of they must come - ro hook. . You have your choice, geed pair every day withiri- dinner; which alone, then, and I would idyls, you to apply fur a re-opeu yoe will bear in - mind, 'mold cost t he farmer 365 hid of the flood-gates of paper-money. Your an dollars a lelr. -- • • . utilities will fall in value as much, perhaps, as they This musk of sublimating formers nit .of their- would by a lowering.of the rate of interest; but, the senses list hem, iiromoird by the Nobility and Gen-. thing will not seem tn. he what it really will he ; denten of ;vela room ! , uho hare, by. the means of anti, ,besides, if an openly avowed lower ing mica agricultural aorieties, cattle-shun'', and the like, given lake place, recollect the powerful effect of ptece every encouragement to this. class. of oteo to become dent ! conceit-ti ant! pletoroptanov. ,The King. ton. must . tt Al. 6.0.118ETT.. hare a carm. It was 66 Farmer .George.l" What a . l (To be cootinoed.) 6 ' thistkine. pcoptr" your kinsmen on this side •art the . . r..3....+.,.-.. r.A. , .. water ari.! . Ifbat ween 'tor aommercial people on one . 4.. , . Unita ywe side end the farmers on the other, the far greater part i .. e.,,..,.,, , antrrntrnroh t ....,.., a niTtbe tow ry gentlemen in .England have beentairly ; .0'......... .. . .... .... Ilatabtirgb • • • 1 ' 6 : • • Holland t sqeeegesl out of existence. 'Elle three great estates: { 3 .• . • Prance • near the place where.' was born were the Dishopinsl 0 ~.. „ ~ 1,i•hoo , „...,...... , ;.!.•11•!... • Wiuditestrr's Cattle ; Moor iPark, occepied by, the 1 ' •" .- - ' ' " Matra '• 66 .. - " ... I I descendants of Sir Vi'vrie.Tentple, where Dean swift j - . - reletes that he used to run up the steep hill; and PRICE titt mrognal .11011 DAY AT ON* ti•CLocit Waverly Abbey, which belonged to Sir Rnlwrt Itich.. !tans trait. Ann. 14 1-18 'When I retnrood to England I found Moor Park in , .3 ;ter Coil. * Red. t 9 ii India Roads 3 4 ti Coot the hands of Mr. Timsow, and Waverly Abbey in 1 ?" - ltsebeq ct.„,. nook leT ll: pia roinium_ 13 . 11 . _ The wit whieh this country has been waging - for twenly.fite yearl In favour of ,thelotetwass is now at an end—the principle of legitimacy, sett up to check the progress of reform, is how estaillishect— no nation whatever csin-haneeforth, with safety, wen- turetoeject its ruler, if he be born a King, whatever msy be the errors' nr oppressirins of reign— tour of the most potent Powers in Europe have so lemnly engaged to support-this principle, aed Greet Britain is one of them---:imuts restored to the throne of his ancestors—the Dukoof WELLING , tow is Coihmander.in-Chief in France, and N tro ts:els the terrible is chained to a rock, is the midst ot'g boundless ocean. Who, gay the Ministers and their hirelings,. would not Maize, and forget every thing but our glories ? Alegi:we wish we could join its the triumphant ejaculations with indeed a sincerity of gladness ; but a glance at the effects of this boasted Peace, at the internal state of this country, from which our attention has been too lowg diverted, and which is ready to . boric ui—n us in a voice of thun det, will mot hilOw es, howevei- fond oar harassed spirits Maybe, tit drop hitet he poorer! ; I dream of fell- , ___ _ _ . per . Safi • _ those of Mr. Inman, the one a dealer in spirits tied 5 per Gam, S.seey , , ~ . ~ , „ lA.* far sail. Si if I city. The vision that excited our epeeist V. onder is al the other's dealer in wine. The Bishop stands.,ltts, ,' grOund yet ;Awl 'his old castle-walls and his Initial . , .. • behind. 13y their fruits Moonlit things be judged. Now elm trees. Atoll, really, it watts consolation to ors .„TELE: 471.471ESLWA'w . ii• : 1 that we hare accomplished the objects of all one to find something as I left it. 'VI 1 s e • , or as we should more properly sib -now ilea 'I should trot mind this sweeping away of the little old Aristocracy, if a worse had not come in its place. i . . ., LD .N Dl M : the Pearers le a g u ed spinet France Insaeaceemplisltei . ' • Nor should I so much mind the elevation of men in.' tets:4lf, DEceasums 1.0, 1815. the objects of their wishes, that then• 13sittenee, . -; trade, who, in general, bare bad some opportuni. fur whom we have expended so mach bloodied thee, ties of series the world, and are, from lon habit, . -. / polite and liberal. But the farming aristocracy is :• At a late hour brie forenoon we received three 1 sure ate resealed on a throne which they bare eis thi object of my abhorrence. Here you have all days' Paris Papers out of the four that had become., long disgraced, that the cause of legitimacy has, the meanness of the crouching tenant coupled with doe 16t hin. . Obtained a glorious and a sanguinary triumph, andl : •,• the arrogance of birth ; all the insolence of wealth, '' • namely ' One of the latb, 14th, and [the halcyon season of peace is at length arrived ; we slant. unchecked by any of these sentiments of honour, The Journals of the 15th are wanting. • I may fairly ask where are those blessings which were which are seldom wholly wanting in men of 'birth The fate of LAYSIATTZ i; at length finally . deter.. :to spring up . y on tire . . , and ednation. This was the class of men, who, m i ne d. Th e C our t o f R ev i s i en h as con fi rme d th e so ebundautt restoration of' snore than say other, and more than all others pat ' tranquillity ?—where ere those restores in the coim sentence of the Court of Assizes ;.and the condemn- . together, were 'the cause of the long and bloody ed Lteal.Eree has, probability, Tenance of Peace, which as soon as unveiled dissipate, war, which has just been brought to a close, and in allere this time • ' disappointment and despair? The gorgon features whom Major Cartwright always called the " Body' added another victim to the unappeasable spirit of . , .of ruin, mistrust, and war are alone visible.--' other of the Boroughanongers." Amongst all revenge which is now dyeing the soil of France , other classes of men there have, at times, appeared with the blood of its ablest men, and seeking to cover ', •Wilese is the property, the smile of returning pros.' something like liberality. something like feeling ; perky which should accompany the return of the land with scaffolds. .. but amongst these men never. 1 - , peace? " Gone like the years beyond the good,'!' Notwithstanding all this, however, they will not General Ca tusra, it it -affirmed, his heen arrest=,l 1 and many a chronicle beyond the Losidex Gezetl4 sink alone ; they will press down some classes under ed in Paris, and lodged in lire prison of the Ablatie. many a melancholy . - herod of misery loll! m il i them, and pull down others. If they return to their .Therep arations for the to Went Daouot and former simple slate, all the middle class must come 1 p l l / ' knell of its departure. To commerce k bus' down too. If they cease drinking wine, using car- ast.t.t are proceeding with activity. ! preyed the peace of d eath, for most. of the cove. ;yeas and sofas, riding fine horses, using coaches, In the mean time the Amnesty ;Sweateds but slowly menial houses in Europe have been' plunged bete . , dressing their wires 81111 daughters in silks, and in its progress. The Chamber *Of Deputies met on distress and diffitallTes by it The pictire which ifet sending their sons to boarding-schools, tradesmen Tuesday to examine the Minister'e,Oroject of a Law every day now see exhibited in Ole' teed* Cart ot and their families must come down too. Whether to t hi s eml, when a Commission was appotuted te • the whole of society will undergo a revolution 1 this kingdom, is most Appalling,—nor . 11).1he prri- , know not ; but this Ido know, that the whole must report to the Chamber on the subject. Tb 4 tie 1184/ ..specs more encouraging is any other direolien;' if' undergo such a revolution, or it must all resume its elated in the Papers of the 1311 4 bat no fdethee . : we look at the agricultural part of. the community, state, •nd . go . on, as before, as long as it can• notice of the Amnesty, or the Report, occurs its tiSe: • i ... , .r 4r, .ttlfilAvta eot only the peasantry d esolate and driven to'. To return now ie the question of finance, you sa b s e q U en t Journals. --'. - ••ivisseine and despair, but one wide ruin Poigulphing most clearly perceive, I think Out it is impossible T . e n French Funds keep up, with some varistien. • s for the Government to collect the former amount of iandlord. and tenant. The cottages and favm-housee taxes in this new state of things; and, that, in fact, The Five per Cents are still flucteatin between are no longer the dwellings of Emesperity seed con to lessen the quantity of the currency one half is to. 58 and 59. ~ -. ' 4 .• . tent ; and even the lofty mansion of •the proprietor double the amount of the tax. The Government ap- l a meta, Dec. 160,--The f am il y of Lerldette . has - totters to its fall. Those heads which supported .it . pears to perceive, that it cannot enforce the collec.t . again implored the clemency of his Majesty. I have become impoyeriahed and feeble, by the ree, lion of the direct taxes up to the old standard; but - the direct taxes make a comparatively small part of The Tribisnel of Correctional Polite of eke depart- morselets draining of that power which should harel the revenue. It is the Excise, Customs, and Stamps; meat of the Seine smacked, on the 9th ult. six per. strengthened and ' protected them .; and even gran, and, in these no deduclions by authority will be coos for seditious cries . I deer cannot rest in ease and security any longer. wanted. The people will themselves make the de- , • I . The French Ambassador al Naples, bad an extra- Those— " messengers who feelingly convince duetion. Th. y must make the deduction •; Nl' they ordinary audience of the King on the 17th alt. for the will not have oh., money to lay out. If the farmers, as what we are," are becotning more imps-. Purpose of congratulating him on the defeat of for instance , have left off drinking wine at • dent than ever.—Never was there misery so cons market, will they not leave it off at home, where Murat's audecioas attempt. I plete—never was there poverty so hideous as they can do it snugly without being perceived by i. The Field. Marshal Rouge', Commandant of the this Peace has brought upon all classes; vivo hope, any one? Will not their wives and daughters department of Lot and Garonne, has ordered all • ' use less sugar, and tee, and coffee? Will they soldie r s t o be arrested who do not wear the white' the wretch s list comfort, seems to expire under not be near, sparing of paint, perfumes, and slops ? c o ck a d e . . 1 the overwhelming pressure of a National Debt, of 'Will not Ins soap and candles and salt be used ? r which the liquidation is a chimerical delusion ; the Less spit its ? Aye, and less beer aud ale too. Will It is affirmed that General Clausel was arrested' :frightful and unconstitutional oppression of a not fewer people pay for marriage licences ? Yes, y ,yesterday at P aris, in a house in the street hero n, Stand and fewer people will marry. Will not fewer stamps N. 1 4 , and that he was immediately conveyed to ing Army in the time of peace, to support the cause be wanted, and of less amount ? The lawyers al- the prison of the Abbaye. lof despotism sod awe men into slaves ; the cer ready find their briefs fall off; for law is a luxury i Th e D u k e trAngueleme is expected at Mont de I tainty of a yet painful period of undiminished tapes, that few men can afford lvt to enjoy, even when money , .. . arsan, the Department of the Lande, on the 19th and the prospect of fresh privations and additional is plenty . An empty pocket is a great promoter of , !bustling to the already soul-depressing catalogue.— forbearance, and the guest check in the world to o , or 20th inst. litigious disposition. The advertisements (on which 1 The payment• of the half.yearly annuities for 100 Who can look on this state of things, or believe there is a heavy tail) have fallen off a third in num- consolidated, due on the 22d of last September, that such a state of affairs is possible, and say that her. The Newspapers and the Almanacks have pro. I will comma , on tee la January, 1816. It will Reform is not necessary ?—Economy by retrenchment diginusly decreased in sale. Books are not printed Ita.ae according place as usual to precedence. 1 we perceive is not contemplated ; the doctrine that to snore than three.foorth of even the last year's , In order to avoid the burthens and the entire ex- people, whatever they may feel, have no right to amount. Paper of all sorts; and, In short, every haustion of the countries through which the Alli ed I I e the expression of stun the ears of their R I es with taxed article, he it what it may, has undergone a dins . instion hi consumption. Armies,are marching, a part of the English army their feelings, far less to act fnr themselves, might I need not say that this will be, or has been, the has suspended its march ; that part of it which was be endangered by a dissolution of its military sup ease; for it is manifest, that it most be the case.—lf to evacuate France is to embark at Boulogne and port, and therefOre an overawing force must be kept there be only half as much money in circulation is Glais, and the remaining part has entered the dee up. The bayonet has silenced all• complaints and there was before, only half as much east be laid not; pattments of La Seine and t ve Seiue and Oise, whim talk about liberty in France, and mac have the sam e end if there were twice as much, tease as much would be laid out ; for e the whole of a people can they will evacuate entirely at the end of thin Month._ good effects elsewhere. . never hoard a farthing- What one saves, he lends The li e pte min t.G enera l, o f t h e E ng li s h troops , If the British people and the British Pa r li amen t to another to spend, and thus the whole ii• always ,whe will command under the Duke of Wellington, ' will not now open 'their eyes,. %lied such dangers kept in circulation. Now and then en old man, or are I l owil 11111 for the infantry, and Lord Comber- threaten the country, itis is Tails for us to ruse our a monkey, or a jackdaw, takes a piece of money a for the cavalry. ' feeble voice—in vain we tell our count r y men that and pokes it into a hole ; bet these are instances Set Some persons have been arrested at Coulommiers !their interests and happiness must emanate from the • worthy to he deemed an exception. It will be said, that, if the Government receive. for singing seditious songs. I purity of the administrative system, and that pro. only half as much tan, in nominal amount, as it did Tiro clerks, formerly of the Post-attics, assaulted ; sperity, freedom, and honour, when once destroy e d, before, it will, in reality, receive the same suns that yesterday the Secretary of his Excellency Couto - cannot be easily retrieved. it did before, seeing that the price of every thing kat Reugnot, for being, as they pretend, the cause of fallen one-half, so that, at but, the Government will ! heir dismission. They were arrested by the pawn- he as rich and able as if no diminution had take n gefs, and as they were taking them to the corps.die place. This would be true if the Government had no annuitants to pay, and no fixed salaries and al- garde they made their escape. lowances to discharge. But, as it happens, the M. de Laralette received, on the 14th inst. notion contrary is the case. The expenditure consists of of the sentence of the Court of Revision, which eon fixed salaries arid annuities. These meet be paid up firms that passed by the Coen of Assizes. to their full amount ; or, a law must be paned to ---. lower them. To pay them op to their full ansoosit, FwEvcli Ft/Nos-58 fr. Woe for two years, while the guinea is worth no more -.ens, r ' than ifs present price, I say is impossible ; • and to Wo. Isarl't an mini! of Brussels and Frankfort pass a law to lower the interest of the annuities is the grand conclusion of the drama. Papers to-!lay,, but they do not malaise/7 thing of Which P then P do you choose, Sin, of the Fund', a interest. The fltd regiment (General Houle's), the 00th (Lord LyN gnomes), and some others, are to be made light infantry corps. They will than be taken out of the Hoe, hut will remain on a level with she line in rank ; both hating reciprocal equality of i n t erc h ange to th Officers and mutual access to promotion. — These light corps will, it is understood, be Made op Of picked men, selected for the purpose in the cuurse of the approaching reductions. As a feriher distinction to the regiments that have participated he the soltiesements of the glorious sictory of Waterloo, they are to have the name of that place ea thek coloan. NAVAL INTELLIGENCL • I Mai, Deb. 18.—Arrived and sailed for the Ri ver the Mistime Cattle, Ralph, from Halifax,- in at (days. —Came dostn from the River. the P eace Setter, fur the Ilavannth ; the Parthion, Elliott, f ar Amsics, rind remain in the Downs, with the whop of..the outward-bound, es before.—Airived.tho d e . live, Laughton, (tom Neweastle for Grenada.. FALMOUTH, Dec. 16. Arrived the Sertdefit packet. Capt. Scbujleri With Mails, ftom Gihran 'in 17 44 —Sailed the David* Capt. Bean, t o/ Loodoo ; Duke of Clarence, Cad. Lowry, (Or Et,: ter. • • • 11rftw ICU, DEC. 18.-;-The ship Lord Gollingw oo d , Capt. Stevenson, with coals, glass,,dic. from Neu. castle to the Cape of Good Rope, has been brought In here by two salvage smacks, hating been l ike Guistlrch Sand; lost her rudder,' two 'lichen, and cables. . Doves, Dac. 18.—Soiled this morning sev era l transports with troops on board for Calais, laving *een detained-bere some time by contrary winds. t LYMIMOTOPI, Dec. .18.—Arrived.the Axe trees. port, Bell, Master, with .troops on board frost RamsgatefOr Plymouth, and there to wait for orders. RAMSGATE, Dec. 18.—Arrived the Speedwell, Iletrie,. from Teneritre for . London, bovine cut het gable off the North Foreland.—Como in the Indust% Lambing, from London for hlareeillett, Iwo. foreigners for shelter milom•mm. Every fresh arrival from America brings co n t ra . dictory intelligence relative to proceedi ng , at 0,,,,1, 1 . gems. The last secouott gave (len. Niossit.to pus: session of that city diet thee* days bard fightiNc 4 e . The present advice' strife, that the Spanish Goiseral was repulsed with great. loss. . Several of the first houses in the 'city, • conn.th., with France, told Stocks on Saturday, to the *tenant' of a million sterling, for the purpose, it is ronjec. tilted, of bein g testis rased to the Great . Book of that kingdom. . An . igenflois rirsaPPeired it Mr' WiA . eo'et lif tin,' and 'ah extent:trent 'Governinitst, on his pre peity,: issued. for upWxrds of '.50,0001: The present reduced vales.ef.land erne siagalstly manifested et the late disposal tititfarte in the pos. tiessisin of Mr. I.:natant?, at llielsep's Lydeard.— The rent on the leapt, just expired, was 3001 per swum and thtt tin& paid fur rdpaits . ind in Ow, -- '*iiit i `ti' • .il -of - the skins faiiii, 'tWo titmoil bidding wee•lififi and ,silt of dill this lietflorkii to pay 0 .putpipo end' allow fee repelm--41sus redesinithe net seat to le more) thi&.B9l. per. ennem.. The farm' coltsistS .•' 'lO5. aerei.:k( TatatilOit Courier.) 1 Tittlittl ilvtite productions ..of agricalteril is, in., kiverial degree, imputable to the decliuleg.riedk m .:Provincial Banta; it which the greet (arose,, could, ' until last yeari readily raise money, or rather country be.iik bills,. which .then answered the .same• p•rpoo• for their own paper, and were thus enabled 'to - with. hold She produce ofibeir lends from the ideelielioe, . . The fflillini of the late Dike of Neaeout will be rumored on Sithrdey nest *relit* Ms residence hi St. 'James's-agouti, for inter:neat ISt the lewdly resit, et Dorl'tin4, Sierey. ' t"i - , ;s: • • A quendans:•Cishinel of the Foot Onerde, wbo r lately held an tippeinttneet on the Staff dike *raty, .was last week : ordained a Deacon of the Church of &elitist. . It is calculated that, in- Scotland, the rerun loses yearly 300,0001. hyllticit.distillation. Thur.day next, being St. Tiscinas's Day, the Right 11 ,, n. the Lotto M.siou and %Mere! Alders** will hold Wiirdo o pa in their respective . Wards, fot the purpose of choosing Common ennocilmen ter the year ensuing. There are expected WOW eppo. si t ions for some o' tl st Wards. The Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Sawa being vacant, by the death of the Duke of Noavotz,. it is coofidently stated, that the Duke of itteumora .Will have the offer of the important trust, width intruding the expectations of three other distinguished Nobletnen..t. • . • . _, Bombay Papers to the 15th July have been re. ceived. The accounts from Calcutta state, that sine s the surrender of thin Sinn, and the conclusion of peace, all the petty Goorkha garrisons have been withdrawn, and the inhabitants are freed from the yoke of the iNlepaul Princes. Our troops are return. jog from the hilly country. Letters from Nathpoor slate, that the whole of the reserve was cantooed at drat place an the 4:h of June. The impression made on Mae SING and his followers. by the result of the war, is likely to be attended by the most lasting effects. • The ship Romba . y was to come out of dock at Bombay nn the thh of July. and wouhl he remit' rfor sea the '2oth of August. The shirt Essex, Durid `Scott, Charles Grant, Marquis of Camas, Inglis. and. Vansitlart, were expected to sail from Bombay fur Chino on the 21st of July. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Pest intlia.llouse, when Capt. J. VREE" 14 Wl' lesions into the command of the Combridge. - Fifteen battalions will he reduced on the glib Instant t the Officers will be allowed pay to the eith 'of February. 1111611 Rpp Luc likel i 6 Orel 1 'The Rhenish Mercury contains a complaint of the purchase of the Pictures at Malmaisoo, by the Emperor A LEXANI,ER. Some of the finest of theie pictures, it is ailirnied, belong to the Elector or ite,E CAsas:r., and four of the (Alludes alone are worth more than the whole sum, 500,000 franc' , paid for juSENIINE'S gallery. A hope is expressed that they will be restored to the lawful owners. It has hems order . ed, with a view to encourage thew Officers who here been serving for the rank of Mister In the Navy. that the rating of one second Master shalt be added to the present establishment of all ships of the sixth raie and upwards. The neighbourhood of Clerkenwell !tort Smithfield %sus thrown iota a meteor alarm on Tuesday eveni n g' between six and seven o'clock, by a fire breaking eat a fire-wood yard in St. John's-lane, near St• Jahn's-gate, but by prompt exertions it was Sib' duPd• The cause of the fire has not been Mc"' tainee. vet Sol re d, 1n An NI Ito. jaipy k. wo o io gr ja 004 'lt T' kitty' t ot itatl le: To A , 100 i °4l, labiJ Erc ere lit i vo u itrY 111 1 ' aiid kg , ltrxs kite oa won Int) n " , bold het w its 'v al. And 164 TOR the p daini d 105; been he. ,Se " 1 this - i le the t ant' gm" Perf.l hat son I moat tW tkelt the e lily thole Wt. CIET per Rita it. I co, , Frin Ind r Ind ' se I tle "" of Rti, eeeuc " likel of Id, c the le in 11 lb. win ' I ~~ r . ! I, ~~ Y (n O M tei 04:4 nit at,) AO It* Nit S and Oat 1 sal *ha it it