The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

-.. -...." ~... 1 , 41 *rinses, it is certainly prepared to adopt sueli a modi fication of it, as is out opposed hi the prej , i.lices of the times in which we list.; and a iihi atiou I am really to proposc, u sball not interfere with the existing tiovernment or Religion of the country, o f be detri mental to individuals of any rank or class. This moth fixation will leave to the present Church nstalolislutletit the useendarey it now pen.M.,441.% and to the Dissenters :he rights of conscience and full religions lisertv. On this basis. a -dem now he formes!, wu h might, speedily reiiile the c tttt uicy from its pecuniary embar rassments, and from the demor,dir a t o n i s now thil!y spreading offer the Em i ..re, cud which, if not checked by other measures than raer:ive enactments, n ust very soon involve ilex renetts7 in far greater di ifi iititics than it has yet exprrietircd. Fates. arrange nasnb shall be forinitt to give effect to the industry, • ~.i'.!, at.d capital of this country. the present frame of ,iuriety rannu: lie lung held togetiser. It is now evident that these valuable materials of a Nation's prosperity, are by the existing system, pare- Ivsed and reedereu of little avail, when they ought to be, and might be, made efficient and productive—When they ii.; 414 be applied to give beneficial orciTation to all who are is want of employment—to reduce, and gradu ally render unnecessary the Poor Rates—to diminish the most pressing of the public linrthens—and out of the increasing Revenues of the kingdom, gradually to re duce the Public Debt ; while, with thr.e important re sults, other arrangements would be combined, to secure, on principles of science, a superior character to the lower classes." The effects of these measures would he to in duce foreign Powers, from motives of interest, to open with us, and with one another, a free and beneficial interchange of the advantages which they could mutu ally impart. Sach, Sir, are the outlines of the aelvant tges which I have to offer to the Government and Population of this country, whenever the prejudices naturally arising from the localities by which they are surroamle,l, shall permit a lair and honest inquiry into and propusals. Seeing how you are enveloped with inextricable diffi culties, in every direction to which your present system an extend, I await the time, which c nt now be far dioaut, when the unavoidable Necessity for a change ahall overcome those prejudices of localities which weak co' the wind, and deprive it of those clear, distinct, and strong powers of judgment, which are now so requisite vi enable the world to derive benefit Irvin past experi ence and improvements. My request is nothing for myself, but that you will i:Lpartlany examine the arrangements which may relieve !ou front ditfvulties which, experience trill soon prove, are insurmountable by any other means that can be devised, and which, sooner or later, the liovernment of this country, for its own security and political interest, will find it necessary to adopt. It is true, some of the Members of the House of Com mons who took part in the debate on Sir It illiam Ile trespigny's nostion, applied the terms visionary or im practicable to part of the measures which I have to pro ose. These liestlenten, however, in justice to thetn belt es, should study these arrangements much wore ac curately and profoundly than they. have yet dope, before they pronounce a judgment on a subject uhich is so far removed from their ordinary thought and reflection. 1 have the honour to be, most respectfully, Tour must obedient, Loudon, Jan. 1, 1.10. Iton EltT OREN. INF4LLIBLE RULES rose REDeCING j GREAT EMPIRE. TO THE EDITOR. Sta—When T contrast the tone and manner of those. dastardly spirits, who compliment people in power with an offer to support whatever measures they may deem necessary is the crisis of the fate of a great and hitherto free people, with the dignifie.l deportmeat of our im mortal anentors, who wrested the late great charter of English liberty from a tyrant in Ronnimeile, and even with that spirit which, at a mach later period, did " claim, demand, and brain, upon the right to petition," and did declare " all commitments and persecutions for petitioning elleptl," I am tempted to inquire, with an guish and gloomy foreboding, what has occasioned the lamentable change ? Though the causes of the deplo rable prostration of truly British spirit, which has been recently eshihited by certain classes of people, may be, and indubitably is, owing to various causes, yet may it . . be chiefly attributed to the enervating and pestilential effect of the venal part of the MOM press, of which the London.Coorier, of the 4th of December, exhibits at once an instance and a proof when it advocates, with unblushing effrontery, the adoption of one of the late measures (now, unhappily, law), from a precedent in the very worst of times, which was one of those scan dalous exertions of arbitrary power that precipitated the country into a state of revolution. " The right to imparle was solemnly argued and 6 tally refused (says this virtuous Jonrualist), in the case of the seven Bishop*, when the Judges derided that defendants were not entitled to imparlance, but must plead imme diately." These were the times when Jefferya and Kirk flourished, and when Russel and Sydney were perse cuted by a perversion of law and justice, which will hand down to the detestation of the latest posterity the infamy of the former, and consecrate to the gratitude and love of the most distant period the self-devotion, the patriotism, and the sufferings of the latter. at the prostituted part of the press is right, if it be right to perm. certain ends, by the means best adapted to injure' them; and in this object it& accordance with those an. der whose dictation it is, is sufficiently apparent, for both seem to have studied with effect the infantile roles gives by Dr. Franklin, for reducing a great empire. If you are told of dierontents, never believe that they are general, or ►hat yon have given OCCASION roe TIME j therefore do not think of applying any nawawr, or of CLANGING AN OIFINSIVI MEASURI; redress no grimace, lest the people should be encouraged to de mand the redress of some other grievance. Grant we re quest that is just and reasonable, lest they should make anotilier that is wareaseciabk. TAU! ALL TOUR IN. FORMATION OF TIM STATE OF TUN COUNTRY FROM TOUR spill AND AOCITS; SECRITI TIMM LIVING ACCUSA TIONS, LIST THEY seouLts Is CONIUTID I but act upon them as the clearest evidenes; and belief's nothing you heir Jives Ike riends of the people. Suppose all their complaints to is invented and p►omoted by factious de inagogaes, whom if you **rid catch and hang ell would be Piet."—(l'ranklin's {Yorks.) ARISTIDMI. h. - * ARR. 2 Dohlin WE-n*ord ... U b.tern.ey awl Jersey I U Outteoburgle • Ilainborgh . _ _ _ PRICE OF STOCKS Till Bark Stock SSUi per Cent. Red. 87f OS S Cent. Cons. er Cent. nit 4 per Cents. r. 113 bperCent.Nnty Long inn. 17; 11-10 Imp. 3 per lent. Ann. TO CORRERPOYDENTX !king now stillest and all oar arranyeatests completed. ler hope to be able In pay due attention to tkefuronrs of npr Correspondents which are iatended for pnbtieation : some of thew were unfortunately and unavoidably lost, in Ike rronorat front the late gree of Tun Srsresms Erratum hi.vesterday's STArrs wit N :—For '• the eye of Satan," in Ike kodiety artieir, read. iR the nye et/ Saturn." LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1820. -~ We have long seen and spoken of the political harmony that was establishing itself between the Courts on the Continent and that of St. James's. Every day unfolds the truth of it more and more ; and although we shall not insist that our Court tins avowed itself a Nlentber of the Holy Alliance, yet will we maintain the fact, that Great Britain has tacitly consented to second the grand design of the several lending Slates in Germany—in restNtining the press, in oppressing and punishing free writers in even• way possible, in order to put down that spirit of inquiry, and reduce their subjeCts to that blind and submissive condition in which they were held half a century back, when KINGS were said and considered to reign " by the grace of Cod." If men could be again reduced to such an abject state, they would sink lower than they ever had done before. But why do we say, if so and so— the thing is impossible ; it would be impious to suppose it. Alen must first be made (to use Tom PAINE'S expression) to unlearn what they have been taught. Extreme ignorance has ever pro-: duced extreme credulity : and the information they have obtained during the last half century will pre- I vent their being made such passive dupes as they have been by both Court-craft and Priest-craft.! While the subjects were utterly unacquainted with their rights, and were accustomed to bear the epee( Great called by sublime titles and porkpois names, they were ready to ascribe divine honours te the very despot himself. They considered him as the respresentative of Mity, and his orders as oracles from Heaven ; in short, they ranked a Wind sub mission to his will as one of their chief duties. le spect ing a little more narrowly into the conduct al these Viee-gerents of the Almighty, and finding that they are imbued with the same weaknesses as then+ selves, and practising the same vices,only much more refund, they have discovered that they are bet. mere men, fallible men, and that it is aboolaisly necessary, now and then, to call one to aosolutt for his sins against the people, and even to cashier him, as well ti►r the sake of example as justice. All this is but right; for if it were otherwise v Princes, like devils. would torture their subjects at their mere will and pleasure. 'They would convert their palaces into places of debauchery; they would take actresses for concubines, then marry and repudiate Princesses,without assigning any rea son bat sic rob, and again receive anew cast-off mistresses, or fresh chosen ones, whether married or unmarried, making the husbands of such ladies Lords of their Bed-chamber, for the sake of a reci procity of good-fellowship. Notwithstanding all this we see venal and corrupt writers on their side, representing such Princes as entitled to be considered SOVEREIGN MASTERS, and SUBJECTS SO his SLAVES ; they inculcate that every one ought .to kiss the rod, whether in his own hand or in that of his &mooted and execrable Ministers. rig, doctrine they take all possible pains to spate abroad; whilst, in order to thew their zeal, certain other ambitious villains, many of no mean condi tion of life, set up as informers, under concealed names—A. 8., B. C., or C. D. &c., and look every 1 1 where for victims whose condemnation might be 1 considered agreeable to the Prince. Mr. Owcv has now proved himself, if any proof were required, that his great design originated in the purest benevolence, and from a mind at once clear and comprehensive. It is impossible but that such a man must, every day he lives, continue to enlarge the circle of his friends and his supporters. We perfectly agree with him in his predictions of the growing didiculties of the State under the pre sent system of management. Mr. Owz does not attempt, in this reply to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S objection to his Plan, to terrify Mr. VANSITTART, or those who may confide in his' -, THE STATESMAN. .. • great powers of finance to carry the natiokthrough her unexampled embarrassments, but, in this dis passionate and philosophic reply—in this little book, " men may - read strange matters" which ought to set them a thinking. The next Budget will open the eyes of many who have never as yet thought it indispensibly necessary to fix their view on the relative condition of revenue and expen diture. The great object of Mr. OWL\ I{ system, as we understand it, is not only to increase the na tional wealth by the employment and consequent produce of a number of ilsioceispied hands, but also to make such arrangements as may render this in crease of wealth subservient to national purposes ; an effi•ct which, under the present system, it is clearly evident cannot be accomplished. Would it not, then, we ask, be a matter of common pradence, in those who direct our present Admi nistration, to listen with attention to a plan which promises to extricate the country and themselves from the distress and odium which the measures now pursuing have brought upon both ? The coun try, it is acknowledged by Ministers themselves, is in a state of unexampled suffering. They have taken no measures to relieve that suffering, thereby virtually confessing that they are ignorant of the means of doing so. If, then, our inference is cor rect, and they are actually unable to repair the ravages which a strict adherence to their own sys tem has produced, is it fair to the country, is it wise for their own sakes, to reject, without a trial, the plan of an individual, who is clearly actuated by the most disinterested motives, and seeks no re ward in personal emolument or distinction? We has•e just had handed to us a list of the Norwich Subscribers to the MANCHESTER SUF FERERS, which does the highest honour to that polished and patriotic City ; and shews that its feeling inhabitants are fully alive to the state of their country. We trust that the race of Britons, which has done so much for their abused country hereto tofore, are neither " dead nor sleeping," but are on the watch again to rescue it from perils it never had to encounter till this ill-fated hour. The Courier, with that euriosa felieelas for w!iielt be is celebrated, opens a tirade against the Oldheillllegbest Jurors, with the impressive intro duction, " Foe, fa, fum !" There is more erudition than judgment displayed in this quotation, as our claxsical readers will remember that the Subse qudnt line is—" I smell the blood of an English man !!!" What an unskilful gunner ! Ills piece recoils on hint with a vengeance. The conclusion, if our historical knowledge does not fail us, is some thing about grinding little men's fines to make great men'a bread. Notwithstanding the prohibitory laws of the American Legisfatiare, two vessels sailed from New York ou the Ist tilt. wholly laden with arms ard ammunition, known to be for Lord Cochrane's squa dron and other patriotic armaments. The cargoes were paid for in hard dollars. Letters from New York, of the 7th' of December. have been received (via Liverpool), which have brought several considerable orders for British goods, particularly the manufactures of Yorkshire (exclusive of coarse woollens) and Lancashire (ex clusive of coarse cotton goods). These letters ex press strong hopes that the commercial distress of the United States had passed its zenith ; specie bad become more plentiul, and confidence among mer chants had considerably revived. The markets were still overstocked with various descriptions of coarse good, ; and many thousands of emigrant mechanics still continues unemployed, and in most destitute circumstances. The yellow fever had en- drely subsided, but the western shores had been visited with the most tempestuous gales ever re membered, and which had done considerable da mage, not (nly to the shipping, but to many build ings and plantations. CENSUS of New YORK. —The Natioxat Ad rocale says— " We have received the official return of the Census taken by order of the Corporation ; from which it ap pears, that there are 112,1157 inhabitants in the ten wards of this city, giving an increase, within three years, of 19,008. In this Census there are 46,783 males, 51,187 females, 6,560 male aliens. ,5,204 female aliens, 3,t44 male coloured people, 5,822 ietuales of colour, 65 male slaves, and 155 female slaves. And it appears, that is the three years there has been a decrease of slaves to th e amaber o f 367.—We are of opinion that their total number exceeds 120,000, and that the city rapidly in creases." Sir John Newbold, Chief Justice of Madras, has remitted from India 5001. towards erecting the Wellington Pillar in Somersetshire, the foundation of which is to be laid early in the spring. In the late contest for the Recordership of Col chsster, Mr. KELLY was supported by the Mayor and Corporation ; and Mr. CI: IWOOD by Mr. HARVEY, one of the Members for the borough. A ft er the close of the poll, a scrutiny was demanded by the friends of Mr. RWOOD, which was refused ; and it is said the matter will come before the Court of King's Bench the ensuing Term. KING'S COUNTY.—We have received some com munications from the King's County, stating, that several outrages have been committed at Creggan, Dear Ferbane ; but u our authority is anonymous, we do not wish at present to give the particulars. It is sufficient to observe that tne robbers have been secured, and are lodged in Tullamore gaol. We beg that our Banagber Correspondent will favour us with his name. At the same time we warn our readers against the exaggerated statements, which it is likely, will steal into circulation in conse quenoe.—(DnUen Beeson Poe.) MAI DUE. LADIES PETS. Beanie: and God& saes. SS I can prove. Have had their pretty pets for many a day: Ji so her Peacock, Vim s has her Dove. PSLLA. her Owl. her Bxlf-dog• Cast:env* • This annual gocs ni!it Lady C. wherever she goat r Olt r• .1" WiNnsoa, JAN. 3.—On Wednesday, the D of Sussex arrived at the Palace, on a visit to Princesses. In the evening his Royal High ' returned to Kensington Palace.—The Princess Iritsta, during the past week, has taken her o airings to Frogniore.—The Marquis of Co e arrived here, to attend the Duke of York's Coo upon the. state of the King's health, the No !Marquis being a Member of the Council. At breaking up of the Council. all the Membe rs here, except the Earl of Macclesfield, w mained to be in waiting on the King. arid Noble Farl will continue to do so during this W ( Monday, the Duke of YORK arrived at y, house, St. James's-palace, from Oatlands. y e , day his Royal Highness held a Levee, at histy in the Horse-guards, as Commander-in-Chief. The Baths on the beach at Sidmouth have b fitted up in a very elegant stitle for the weft Royal Hir , hrtesses the Duke and Duchessof Ks during their residence at that watering place. Yesterday morning the Duke of CLotets left town for Brighton. • -.di 49, Prince LEoPOLD has roturned to Clues from his visit to the Earl of DARNLE.Y, at his in Kent. •1 Ogg' a li „I j~l VICEROYALTY OF IRELAND.—The late Duke Rutland died during his administration in country, in the sear 1787. The late Countess rW orland died in Dublin iu 1703, dari nc yalty of her husband, the present E ar l esimorland. The late Duke of Dorset was ki 111 l by a fall from his horse, near Dublin, in 1815, ring the Viceroyalty of his father-in-law, the sent Earl Whitworth. And nQr we have to ment the death of Cenntess Talbot, during Viceroyalty of her husband, the present , Talbot. • . We understand that the remains of her late cellency the Countess of TALBOT will be ern. i for England on the Bth instant. The Persian Ambassador, who now reads our lx. page with fluency, and who daily peruses as newspapers with great interest, has expressed gtet surprise and anger on reading, in a Morning Pape, a long paragraph, entitled " Tour of his Excellent the Persian Ambassador, in England and Fruit Ayiewed, from a French Journal." The whole; this is a fabrication : a selection from the Trivial of Mirza Abu Taiib Khan, an I ndian, of Persian s• traction, who n....ver resided in Persia, and whom yelled in Europe some 20 years ago. The ex from the pretended Journal express sentient which his Excellency totally disavows, and wit are both illiberal, and tending to give an oafs able impression in the minds of those who have dcscrimination enough to detect the fallacy. Ambassador keeps a Journal. hut no part has been translated or published in any Europese P a g e " Duet..—On Saturday, the Ist instant, a emetic took place near St. Omer's, in France, betwesa tat Officers (who arrived from England the day below): a Colonel 1) and a Captain M—. The semi fire the former was slightly wounded in the neck, ass the latter in the left arm; the seconds then interfered. and an amicable arrangement took place. There hove been, for the last few days, several spots visible on the Sun's disc ; some of them vets large. It is remarkable. that these spots change their figure and position, and disappear and reappear with Imam! rapidity. DIABOLICAL OUTILAGIL—The detachment of police stationed in Ballietubber succeeded, as Monday se'nnight, in apprelipoding four moo, charged with offences of the most heinous malignity, in the Tier , nity of Balliolough. Having broken into a beset where arms were kept le,. the owner for his protection.* extort a discovery they heat and abused the poor Ewa iimucreifully with clubs: they then proceeded to torture him, harrowing and hackling his naked body with a strong thorny bosh, nntil his flesh nas torn and tow Bled to a jelly ; lastly, they bad recourse to the Dodd pnnislittien• of impaling , and actually forced a sharp wooden instrument into the rectum, and a oossidal e b:: way up through his body. These monsters were i tifiell by the man and his wife, who swore informations against them before Ilajor VALI." by whom they wen cominitted to Roscommon jail.- (elalciae Herald.) GLasoow, Dec. 30.—Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, an eiplosion of inflammable air look Ow in a coal mine at West Thorn. An exteu et alum three hundred feet was instantly exploded. Theca me% according to custom, were working naked iss the ado at the tinsel one of them was only slightly hart, bat tie other two were almost completely flayed with the ifs& lion; and their flesh was dreadfully lacerated, la ettele quence of their being tossed through the sebterreseess recess, either by the direct force of the . orb, the violent recoil of the atmosphere to the Ml* librinm. They were both carried to their Ile joss, eel medical aid immediately procured ; but, we are mays add, one of them died seven hours afterwards. and tie other, though still in life, is not expected to sinew long.—lt is proper to state, that though provided web one of Davy's safety lamps, they Lad anbetanateil * glected to make use of it. An uncommonly heavy fall of snow occurred is the neighbourhood of this city on Toessiny laic, WW I Illoaaranlate.l to such a depth as to render Weenie/ M icah, and in many of the cross•roads quite initrichelbjt A thaw, however, commenced yesterday monist, witltit pp cognises to terminate this highly seassuabkvisltitialL.- - rbrietol paper.) ► AUDACIOUS Ronsaay.—Mr. Arthur Askew, SF Wiwi. swill-street, was stopped on Mond** , reeving, hi are daylight, in the road between the Alpha Cotters sei Lord's Cricket Grounds, by three rullaes, who Meek him down, and robbed him of 31. and his mark, which they escaped into the Park. h •••- .wep- I ~ .. ; • VA .. fA ti .46 LS. AIR. DVZ. 1 O Holland O Flanders • Frame O Lisboa ...s %. • ; • • • 0 O Matte ... ,‘ • ip•• •••• U I DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditt••llunds ss. 104. Ss. pm. OW Annuities I. Bilk. Yd. Is. 116. par Dill.. Com. Minium Con.for Lett. 'fir-lets IV Isi the 4tattanum. 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