The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-12-30 00:00:00

P T .41•0-. 0 . -, W i t al ma Intend in future to pci to Orleans for our • As you may cut capon and talk of siting us, it OW be wall to inform yon that your merchandise is SlMMartad islo brick houses, whirls. thank to our Ap. praloomet four, you cannot sell.—Yuur's, " ItSCOAN HAG AND CO." STAMM 00111CCINII.—New -Jersey is one of the States in which the question has been recently taken, by pops lir suffrage, fee or against a preposition to sand the constitatin of the State. The proposition was, to alter the period of the annual timelier of the Legislature. On this tinniest, of mere conventions, the vote was 12,633 to 1,631, ageless teeching the constitatien. • Oitto.—le Ohio, the question was taken by popular -estrogen **question of calling a Convention to revise the onedastioa, lied decided in the negative by an in. mimes majority; there being 3,333 votes in favor of the muss" sad 15,122 against it. Moan Casectea.—The•Legislaters met on Monday last. The linsage of the Governor was received is both Houses oo Tuesday. Education is the Indies topic of s. Message. or rather the first in order, and is strongly recounted.' to the attention and favour of the Legisla• tare as the means necessary to perpetuate the blessings we enjoy. The state of the currency next 'Mints the attention of the Governor; and he recommends it to the ' Legislature to do whatever may be in its power to " resus citate" the depreciated rte. - eery of the State, sod place it on a stable basis. After recomeseuiling a revision of the lasolvest Lass, we find in the Message the follow ing Mending massage:— " Impelsommest for deo nowt be ins:dered as a kind of paanhimist which is Jolliet'd at the mercy of the cre ditors. sad most often be exercised upon objects where pity, on pnielmwet, is due. In truth, it seems to be a reunion of that Gothic policy which prevailed during the ruder ages of society; a policy as barbarous as it is useless, and it is to me strange that it should so long have bees soared to disgrace the role of laws of a State which might otherwise beast of its freedom and hu manity. • The fellowiag passages of die Message are also wor thy of mediae : " Theseus' sad sanguinary otter* of the pusish meats idlined enthuse guiltr of perjury, and probably setae echoed/maces. without reference to the different Vof evinsisality, are well worthy of legislative se es jeenien. The certainty of penis/neut. It Is uni verse/ay admitted. has more influence in preventing the coesemisekto of crimes than their severity. Hence it is desirable to apportion as nestle as practicable the pushdown to the maomaiity of the offence." " I barge it may be advanced as In incontrovertible that whe any law, however plausible shoo ril l es isy, ponokloi ts to lie dormant, either from a general rspagooose is the public mind to its execution, or from any Wier nese, that there must be something in it radi maNyttelbetive. In this light have I for some time viewed enemy laws. einauating donbtless from the purest de cades le the public interest, but, so far as I am capable of kedging, too often eluded, and of course inefficient. : t a r a re-examinatien, they are found to be wise end adorer them by such k ir at sanctions as will in vent their execution ; if otherwise. why front an *Mier nee to anoint usuages safer them to remain, I might almost say, a dead letter on your statute-book? Their if they have any, is to alarm the timid, inexperi amd conscientious, and to keep them and their oiplisl set of tuarket, while those who are less scrupa bon, God who perchane may be in possession of a little Aeon noel nage or mooing, are preying neon the eery VIIIIIIIrrtric community. The Message thus concludes:— " I esteem however, in conclusion, but hope that. mot withstantlinehe depressed price of the staple consul.- dities of the State, and the difficulties and embarrass ments with which so many of our fellow-citisens have to struggle, that the period is approaching when the ease anefiadepenslence which has heretofore been their happy allotment, may be restored. But this sau.t be the result of a renewed industry, and the observance of a rigid economy a gfel. above all, by ceasing to cherish the delusive idea, that speculation, and not labour, is the source of wealth ; a spirit which has been tolera ted, met to say eacouragetl, by legislative sanction. The mise ries arising from indulging in this dream of wealth be gin now to be frit and to be deplored in almost every section of the country. " North Caro:Sim, from its remoteness from naviga tion, must long continue to be an agricultural rather than a commercial State ; all attempts to make it, otherwise, to promote the interest of towns, and not that of the country. to advance commercial rather than agricultu ral prosperity. is giving a constrained invoke to the in dustry of the people, contrary to their nature, and I contrary to the true interest of a vast m a j orit y of the population. " These several sahjects I recommend to the dispas sionate consideration of the guardians of the people's best interests, with a confidence that every proper and constitutional means will be used to correct the verbose Musses which bare been mentioned, to relieve the cid nes from their present embarrausueuts, and to promote the general prosperity of the State. " That this prosperity may he merited by the virtuous and moral deportment of the citizens, and that it may be perpetual, is my constant and fervent prayer," BUTIPALO, (N. 1.) Nov. 9.—At the late Meeting of the Board of Canal Commissioners at Unica, the north ern route of the canal was definitely fixed upon as far as the village of Rochester. From this point. tea toyer stand, it is undetermined which course is to be punned. The British schooner Elizabeth was driven from • her anchorage at Point Abbess, in the late gale ' sad ran aground between this village sad Black Rock. About filly barrels of salt, lying on the beach weir the light-house,__ were likewise destroyed by the rise of the waters. We understand it was owned at Dunkirk. As the schooner neseral Huntington was getting loader weigh at Black Ruck, on Friday last, with several Irish families pauengers, a child about tire jean of age fell overboard, sod. although considerable exertions were made to save it, was unfortunately drowned. SINOULAIL—The rain which fell in this village and vicinity during the sterns sea Saturday night last, was deeply tinged with souse black substance, somewhat re sembling soot. so as to discolour the windows, teams, bee. almost as mach as if sprinkled with ink. We have heard no reason assigned fur this phenomenon. 11ALT131101111. Nov. 18.—It is h igh ly gratifying to ob serve the renewed activity is sea which is now so conspireees le our lately quiet, and is some measure dis tressed city. That energy of disposition which is the characteristic of the great majority of our citizens, will soon enable them to rise above the difficulties which for • *hart tinge have interrupted their rapid march in the road to prosperity--(Fed. Ges.) MAILS. Aso. 1011211. AIM . DM • Dales . ...... ..... 0 0 11.• r/ ... . ..... U • Wooortmeil . 0 0 11 , 1mion 0 • floonsioy owl Jenny .. 11 • = . I 1 eillookosib • • • • Ilhollbo* • • lidls .. - • PRICR OF - STOCIIII ISM lank Mod 1117 per Cest. Red. 67111 S per Cart. Came. 111 per Cent. 7311 6 per Cents. 66111 a per rent. Vh♦ Long Ann. 17 7-16 1 Imp. 3 per Ceut. Ana. Abe ttatttiman. (N. B. Tar "BRITNII STATES MIN" ►s ►WcORPO AAAAA WITH " rep MTATF:SILIN.' LONDON: TIII:ftIIDAY, 30, 1819. ITOCK EXCIIANGt. One •Thei. We hazarded an opinion on Tuesday evening, of a probability of a rise in the Funds, in conse quence of the long vacation of Parliament, and the result has justified our assertion ; Consols have been done as high to-day as GM for the Ac count, with every prospect of a further elevation. There have been various observations this morning by some of the greatest speculators, both pro rood eon ; but the event must prove which ip. the strongest party. " The Stamp Duties' Bill" was read a third time yesterday, and pissed in the short diseessien of which Lord ERSKINE distinguished himself far that unostentatioes patriotism he has been allowed to possess, and in the exercise of which the tame of liberty has gained so much. It never will or ought to be forgotten what the people gained by his exertions in the matter of Libels, that political earneleon, which, till he prevented it, fed upon the the air we breathed. Though obviously indis posed he was found at his post, to the injarioes comparison with many other Noble Lords, whose temporary sentiments in favour of Britons' freedom served to exalt them to the Peerage, in which they sit down at their ease, indifferent about the means which raised them to eminence and fortune. The Pleas (or rather the Lords, for their Peen. ' I i.e. their equals, were never witnessed in this king- 1 dons) will have brought their work ep to a level . , with their worthy coadjutors, the House of Corn- .mons; so that they may felicitate each other for the laudable work they have conjointly achieved, I and in the words of a meagruly-endowed Noble Member of the Upper House, compliment each other and the kingdom at large for the good the remedy has effected before inhibition ! Oh, what 1 • sapient Doctor ! If he bad not been created en 1 hereditary Counsellor to the KING. at the instance or his late school-fellow. wiLLimit PITT, who was, however, the first celebrated for " wee- I thering a storm," be must now have bees called 1 up to the same dignity, by prescription! Both Houses will now adjourn, to reflect on, and to I enjoy their collectively well-earned bowers sad 1 reputation; and each individual who has so man- I Rally and heroically stood by the Ministers in their hour of peril, to pass the short recess with I a sort of *limn cum dignilale. When the power of Despots is no longer susceptible of eat:ream ; for we defy these law-makers fmni going briber inl the way of legislation than they have gone, ides they issue laws to punish those who should sympa- i thize with the incarcerated patriot, as with poor Ocoee for instance. TIBTRIIIe did actually onset a law against those relations who ',mishit bewail the victims of his tyranny. But the , Tasanauses still exist in most countries ; man- I kind is too much enlightened in every country 1 to allow such detestable monsters to play off r their cruelties on human nature. No, let us' hope that our House of Commons is the last public assembly in Europe, where an illegitimate son of Britain could be found to pun and jeer upon the infirmity (dreadful to say, a rupture, a bursten ligament of the body) of • State prisoner. Oh, pity! hasten to bide the malady, and, oh, shame, so readily expunge the vik record from the historical proceedings of a temple so prophaned !! ! Let this coo-descript animal, this false conception of a man, enjoy his inhuman jokes, if he can Ind con genial spirits to relish them ; we have an equal de testation for the wit and the joker together. We were sufficiently shocked at the language of an official bullbon of the same kidney, some years beck, but who, to the consolation of ou r kind, is II nose no mere!—we mean Mr. WINDHAM, who, 011 being asked, as Secretary of State, what bad be- I come of a certain fifteen Mainland men, added to the British army then fighting against the freedom of France. This jack in Office, this stoical So- 1 nator (his friends, if such a man can have left any behind him, may,on this occasion, well exclaim, i " 0 name mestere &kerma), in a frigid manner, be replied, " they are killed oft" What a par Ifratrum these two Commons-bonne Mambos would 1 I make, hung up in a*proper place! TACITUS tells; us,that the Roman Knights courted the servants of! Taseatue, and valued it, as an honour to be ac quainted with the door-keeper of Sonless. We have no desire, under such a rule of things, to be acquainted with the principles of the beings we have here alluded to. Before we conclude this article, there is one! Y•<-- - THE STA' r DAT $T DN O'CLOOD. lee; !tort Dlttoßoada 11. tr. Ms. pr Old Almeida, • Es. Dills. es, 7s. dia. • Ditto Cos. Ws. dbl. Osmium cow. for At'. NI VI Lott. Ttekots I 1 18 t I- Meg we with to suggest, in older to do away all rekaising animosity in the public Wad about the awkward proceedings at Manchester on the lath of August; and this the two Houses of Parliament „weight do in a very short time, and have the Royal Assent given to the various Acts together. It world put the Senate on the looting of that of' Itome, in the best days of the great Emperor Ti- 1 seams, when he affected to refine the supreme authority. It is only to issue out an Act as the Romans did a Decree, " commanding that every thing which his Royal Highness the Patrroa Ra- QM? of England shall do, by the advice of his present Ministers, be deemed well done !" If the Viscount's alrenation be true, that two of the lye Bills have operated wonders already, this could not fail to effect marvellous things indeed!! Extract eta letter, dated Havaanab, 24 dOet :- 1" I have bet very little to communicate to you re specting our political situation. The inhabitants of , this island are looking out for a war, without 'knowing whom they are going to contend with. las they are grinding their old swords and cleaning their guns for action. The troops lately arrived *with the new Governor, are dying off rapidly, add I calcelate at present but one third of three thousand lately arrived et for doty.—Poor expe dition ! The Governor has issued a Proclamation, forbidding the running at large of dogs, under the penalty of three dollars, which is to be paid by the dog. The law, it is said, was the result of • Illiceth's consideration of BERMAILDO O'GaAHAM, • MIMI Counsellor at Law, and author of the new Comedy, " lai Clerige mess dettelkods." We regret to learn, by advice. from Halifax of the lath of November, that on the I Ith of that month, the Naval Hospital in that town wis con sumed by fire, owing to the carelessness of one of the nurses, who, unhappily. fell a victim to the flames. Fortunately there was but one patient in the hospital, and he escaped. The loss is esti mated at 48,000 dollars. ST. Priam', (IlanTrxruva), OCT. 30.—His Excellency, the Governor of St. Lucia issued, on the 21st inst. 0 Proclamation, of which the follow ing are the principal features: — The !sort of Castries is °pee for the space of see year freer this date, to the vessels of all nations in amity with great Britain. In consequence, vessels as above speci fied may istroJnce into this port of Castries, free of all defies (eseept tonnage ditty of one dollar per tee), rice, hrails, curs, lour, vegetables, and all kind provisioos, orses, males, limber, and materials for Indlasig t it is permitted to vessels bringing sack specified artklea, to re-load with any rittantitv of colonial pads they choose, subject to the ditties stolid; nine lines pale/shard of ram, sin hares per hogshead of molasses, two Fines per 1001 b. of sugar, three litres per 1111 k. of eau, two litres per 1001 b. of cocoa, four here. per 11111111 b. of mutes. A Delaware paper says, one of Cobbet's sons was in this neighbourhood a few weeks air, when he observed that a revolution was in tram, to be de veloped early in lone, 1820; shortly beton which time Ms father would arrive in England, to take a part in the scene. By a letter from St. Thomas's, dated Nov. 6, we learn the following particialan of South America:— " Oeneral Bolivar had dispatched General Angualse. with 2,500 men, to take Santa Martha. Bolivar is W ilily engaged in organising the army lately raised in New Unmade. The number is said to be 8,000. A parties of the looney which was taken at Santa Fe has reached St. Angostura, and some of it bad arrived at St. Thomas's. The doubloons of 1810 are usessally heavy. This money ha. given new life to the Patriot cause. Their army is in a pleatifal country. and well supplied with prov i sions and forage. It is the opinion of our Correspondent, that, if the Patriots do not quar rel, or if strong reinforcements to the Royalist army do not arrive from Spain, Morino and every hostile Spaniard will be forced to leave Vesesaela in leas than sit months. " General 3forillo, at the latest dates, was at Tina rrhere hr bad entrenched himself. Sines he kft St. Fernandez Jr Apure and Clialllllll, those places had been taken by the Independents. " General 31erino, with about 2,0110 aim Is road at Mat n, in the province of 'nuiana. Bersawiee is at Margarine, organizing the 1,300 Irish troops, of Dews reoz's corps, who have arrived there. These troops are to smite ender General Meriso, and march upon Garaccas. " General Pare is said to be &drawing from the army of Bolivar, with about 6,000 awn, to attack Morino, who is supposed to be inclined to retreat epos the fortified tows and harbour of Porto Cavelle." The public and private property of Prince Paul of Wertemberg has been for a long period se ted by order of the King, his brother. His E lr ;s t il il Highness has received intelligence that this inseitire had Seen reversed. He has likewise re ceived a letter of convocation to attend the open ing of the States in his quality of HeirPreruniptive to the Crown on the 15td of January, 1010. Mrs. 1111ftnnorr, we hear, is engaged for the next Season, at Drury Lane Theatre. Major•Oeneral Sir Hussey Vivian has arrived in Glasgow, to take the command of that district. At a Meeting of the heritora of Inveresk, and in habitants of Mune'burgh and its vicinity, called by the Magistrates, and held in the Town Hall, on Monday the 20th inst., which was both numerous', and respectably *Mended, a coaskierable number enrolled themselves to serve as volunteers with out pay, and as special constables, as circumstances may require. At the same time a very liberal stab , scription was entered into to give assistance and employment to the labouring and asesseitoss poor of the palish. On the 211€1 instant, lames Thompson, Esq. 1 111114mnd, ordered thirty-one carts of coals to the poor Operatives and others, in the village of Partick —a most seasonable donation at this time of the yeat,'lnd worthy of imitation. DOB& Paurswrae.—A sneming between Captain p —w--y and Mr. 8--o—n, a medical gentlenean, was prevested Isidro( pima as Wormwood *nibs yester day morniog. by sabers of justice. The Gapodo was taken of the grouse* was meastrod, sad be was left upon his Imam to enter Late bail. . ; Felt TER STATESMAN. -+IIII.•'•- Flit ADDS AND COVNTITINILN have not out of v Laity seasmid the signature of the celebrated young Roman historian. becalm I expect to be raised, as he was, to places of trust and honour; bat because I was born under a veigo which has given so much scope to am bitious and corrupt Ministers, that I think, from my cosacieace, many of the evils which my namesake wit nessed in the days of Nsao sad Donman, I may lire Wen la this. Not that I think either the present Mimi or the present Recitav were ever tainted with a particle of the cruelties which marked and stained tie charac ters of the two Roman Emperors. No, on the contrary. the Sovereign himself, who has lived long enough to show his settled disposition, is to be ranked among the milder Princes who have wielded the sceptre of these realms. His son, indeed, has not suMeiendy displayed his character and mind to show the full bent of them ; he is, nevertheless, not to be suspected of harbouring half the vices of the two Roman tyrants; nor his brean the receptacle of their perversities. unless his inexorable temper towards an wahappy Papules. (now a voluntary wile) may be taken for the bad owl. But it is no longer the nature of the Prince which stamps the destiny aid happiness of the people of Meat Britain; for a!- though the Sovereign is individually 'superior in power, rank. and authority, to any of Ms Ministers, or all to her—his attributes placing him above every thine bat the law; yet before he ascended the throne had evil-disposed servants contrived to fetter his will; and this was dose from those (well may they be deno minated) crying. pecuniary aecessitimunder which his early profusion had placed him. His Royal Highness was nearly in the cooditiou of his early companityn in pleasurable dissipation—Mr. Fox, whose pecuniary cogeseles and compulsions, as by fate itself, furred on him the inevitable consegoeace of dependence. The one. therefore, in gratitude made himself over to the Whigs, whom he had however no reason to dislike, as the other lent himself in chagrin, or some other in, It motive, st the time his wants were supplied, to the Ministers, whom he had reason to dislike. The supply however came from the people, the people who are now in rant imploring his sympathy and emporia ; so thing came from those formidable men is power but words and long speeches, whose effects were praises& by that same influence which is rapidly undoing their helpless country—a country which, without too strong a metaphor, may be said to lie bound sad chaioed at the feat of men, whom for years it was the pleasant of this Prince to deride and condemn. Alas, Princes seem as versatile in their opinions and affectibns as common men! Bed, my countrymen, I will not waste my words and your time, in fruitlessly deploring what is past and irre coverable. You may remember what I said in my former letters, of the gradual, but certain approach to despotic rule. II observed that Ministers had so artfully wa stages' matters, as to involve the Prince himself in the demerim of their advice and conduct. Ido not by this involvement mese se soy. that to the pp/ Sovereign ant the people were for a moment dissolved, so as that they could resume the sovereignty and sit in road notional inquest on their distress and disastrous prospect, that they could or would measure out the Mlle potties of reseetsnent against him as against his Minis ters; no. that would *either be constitutional nor just. They should have better advised their Prince. They had more experience. If they had nut they were traitors to take offset upon them. These men might be arsenal& to impeachment. They might lose their heads ; and, through them, their Prince might lose the &freedoms of his people!! Here is the diletama—the dilliculty to the Prince how to act. I believe, from my soul. that his Royal Highness js conscious that the Goveremmeat is going wrong ; and that it is not probable these Misiaters can being it into a right way, but that his good or yielding nature has been surprised into a promise of protection at all hazards. Without this they never would have ventured so far out of their depth. They look to—they depend upon the Royal life-boat wbeeever the wreck happens. This circumstance, and this akar, can account for their having stuck to office so long be yond all comparison of time, and sinister incidents. which. for their unlucky, or inauspicious aPti suc cessive effects, have been enough to drive, hereto fore, twenty Administrations from their posts. Bet there they are, on the right Land of their Prince, sad under his protection. What then is to be dose? yea will say. Why, as soon as one privilege or right is taken away from you, exert, with more etre ouonsoess, some remitting panchise. The Parliament has already fotfilled, in part. what f prophesied. They have augmented the army. This is a sorry sight! aid in time of profound peace also! and what is this dons for? Why. to prevent the people from asessabliog i■ large bodies ; and what do they assemble for? Why, to consult bow to make their grievances, reel grielmoces. best understood by those who have the power to remove them in the whole, or in part. They do not most to de vim the means of placing a Pretender on the Those, there ovoid diets be reason fur passing severe laws foe their dispersion, and depriving them of the temporary use alarms. Bat these soldiers being citizens also (for so the Chief of the King's Bench has said, when it has suited his purpose to say so), they may Not do all that is expected of them by those who call thee into action. By such a trial mad liNure, the Prints It sever- Useless safe (though his Ministers would not, far ought to be so). What will be done then? Why, these de spotically disposed Counsellors will advise his Royal Highness to call epos some of his Hanoverian troops to ;id sad impel . our own reluctant British troops to the terrible hot. Is that ease, his Royal High sets will be no hare safe, for be will lose the aN feedos of esiUioss, who sew hare no idea of the pos sibility of things being pushed to such dreadful' ca usalities! The progress to this appears inevitable, ex cept a national bankruptcy, or SOWe other unexpected callosity, which, by a violent shock, throws the nswieldy mains of Oorenusent of its axis, and which, frees its massy estaboresseessea, many on taught daily to expect. What, nosier seek ea aspect of affairs, you will Asa say. a