The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-04-30 00:00:00

complainants conld possibly proceed. The consider ation has, they admit, been forced upon them by the sufferings of the country, in the same breath they maintain the impossibility of obviating the effects of their former impolitic acts of omission and of commis sion. To a Committee composed with such a prepon derance of Ministerial power as the list exhibits, we are not perhaps to look with much hope, nor indeed dry we look with any, except inasmuch as their.report will furnish points for investigation, facts for elucida tion, and general object* for discussion. From the report we expect very little, from after investigation, 1 1 when the whole energy of the oatiunal ability shall be brought to bear upon this curious, intricate, and km damental question of political science, every thing that knowledge and talent can elicit. It is, however, full time for the country at large steadfastly to calculate the effects of the change which lutist happen. England (almost up to the present day) has been acting upon the idea of Expansion of her possessions. England must now come at once to cons pate upon the effects of Contraction, not only of nominal value only, bat of her system of individual expenditure. The first grand operation has taken place upon agricultural produce, but even with respect to articles of the first necessity, the depression is yet partial, and only at its commencement. Land, the immediate sonrce of production, has hitherto been comparatively very little affected. Rents have not ' , offered the depreciation they are doomed shortly to nnilergo. In this operation, farmers who hold under- INises, will surer a loss of property also indefinite, because it will depend upon the impression their s.-vetal cases and the general state of things shall make upon their landlords. Some will meet ruin, stone will compromise, but all must suffer. With or is some instances before the fall of rents, the tithes will sink, but not we apprehend to the same degree, because the clergyman having the alternative of a moduli or a gathering, will be likely to insist more nearly upon the utmost value, and most especially lwause the generally insnificient incomes' of the church, will, of necessity, render incumbents more evict. Thus those incomes which circulate perhaps th- most immediately, will be suddenly and greatly diminished, while the price of all other commodities will follow subsistence at a touch slower rate. It is therefore impossible to estimate the distress which the sudden and %Went contraction of demand must occa sinn, unless counteracted by other cusses. Those traders wire derive their profits from articles of luxury, will be the first reduced, because those who must retract, will first begin with the abandonment of ;interim It will not be until the reclined income st:all be adequate from reduced price to command the saute gasntity of commodities which the artificially enlarged income now commands, that distress will cease. Nor will it then altogethvr ; for the pressure of taxation will he felt with a weight proportioned to the comparative relation it bears to protlnc.ion. If we take the two periods just before the com mencement of the late war with France, 1791, for in stance, and the present time, we believe it is next to impossible even to soajecture what the difference of Vie pressure may be. We know indeed that the tax ion was then 17 millions and is now about 54 ; but is impossible to compute the increased value of the oduction of the kingdom. It is obviously immensely mgmets:ed, but it is not probable, even under the pro. tgious advances scientific power has made in *pi .altare and all the arts, that it should be raised to any 'hung like thrice the former amount, the ratio in hich production ought to stand to taxation, iu order to place us upon the same footing. Colquhoun's corn sutations will now avail us nothing. since all the ;Janda:ions of his ralentations are already and must be still further altered. There is then still a period If great weakdess to be over-lived, and it is therefore imperative upon the government to throw in some support that may enable the patient to sustain his fusses. Retrenchment is certainly one means, bet we Lave always held it a very inadequate means. Tim tru • remedy is the course which we learn from tint natural pear r?-1 of society—to set idleness to work by app:ication of capital upon fresh sources of pro ductien.—We cannot express the abhorrence in which we hold the doctrine of those political ceconomists er'to maintain that public misery can be wrought by abundance. It is not the abundance, but the unequal distribution of that abundance that is the cause, and the-c is no peaceful way of restoring the balance, ex cept by raising the idle into the class of the indus mons, and thereby enabling them to exchange till (roils of their labour for the fruits of the la boor of others. Al: that we have heard and read about nn profitable employment being attainable f apitat and labour proceeds from the determination to adhere to artificial standards for the great bulk of commodities. erected during the war, and to accept the natural standard to which the price of corn Las fallen And is falling as the remuneration for labour eniplosed in agricultme. It is allowed on all bands diet we must Tillie the price of corn or depress that of every other commodity. and the only difference be tween the alternative of raising or reducing lies is t .is—the first it forbidden by external relations and , Y) domestic necessity, and these obstacles to the first iervirably lead to the acceptance of the second term of the proposition. There is then no present immediate or *devote relief bat by an increase of production e Taal to the relative increase of taxation ; and in the clear, decided, manifest failure of individual exertion to preside such relief, we contend that it is Ts' DCTI for Tun Ooettttxuax t to originate a MEASURE OF NA TIO:I/IL ASSISTANCI. Mesa, Aram 27.—Sailed this evening. for Bouhugne, the Sybil, Captain Middleton, having on bearsi the Hight lion. Ueorge Canning.—April 2S, passed the Honourable Company's ship Bombay. from tae Downs, fur China, with a fine wind east. Yesterday afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, a young man, having the appearance of a gentleman's secant was observed deliberately mounting the hal lustindes of Westminster Bridge. A number of the passengers stopped to observe him, supposing be had dropped something over oa the jettueste of the bridge, whoa hiving gained his object. he sprang into the water : in a few moments lie rose to the surface. and appeared to commence swimming; but after striking out a few times, be raised his hands above the water and gradually sank. There was but ens boat near the spot, Walsh instantly made towards lint ; bet it was Ino late—tbe body had disappeared. The bat net was pinked up. - _ 7,1 t trI'ATP.;SMA: PRICE OF STOCKS TIFIIS DAY AT on lIECLOC 11 Sank . Stint • ••1 fedelitdar 04 se A• 1 C 7 41 1 P I Son 13 *ids ei — ew An. s. h a ts. 4p• Pee CoT C Crilh-Ren Rork 711 #er Met. 111‘ . 14 per Cents. Os. Ss. Ss. pin Viper Ct, Diaty4oll 7j 111 S tiontian for Moony pos • toper Cent. I Bank for Areount Long Ann. 191 India for ditto • I lop. S per Cent. Con. foi Met Irish A pie G.M. • Lott.l4thets 141. 141. LONDON: MONDAY EVENING. APRIL 30, IS2I. ---• Ing - 11 L I roeneo stance i :opus, A Vie pr ation ;t is it rode oxigm. digiol cultoi thief( whicl to pla patAt be sti of gr icve snpp huge Lave tru . nen duct • we t Or:to *btu k • diati the . (apt trio tail boa oho I. fir cats the S' rill 001 of t t lito f ta 01 I 11 tN . . t p • , t. V 1 1 t 1 VOW Incise% Rear . Men /Irm+ papers to the 27th have arrived. The pre parations for the baptism of the infant Prince were pro ceeding on a very magnificent scale. The celebration was to take place on the Ist of May, and the festivities were to last 3 days. The cerentonial of the baptism was to take place on the first day, with the marriage of sixteen female orphans, to be portioned by the City of Paris, and presented after the marriage to the King at Notre Dame. On the second day, takes place the royal banquet, concert, and ball, at the Hold de Ville, and on the third day balls and concerts are to be given to t h e mat h e t.wornen, apprentices. and labouring people of Paris in general. There are several regu lations for , the public distribution of food and wine, charitable donations, admissions to the hospitals, and ' illuminations. One of the presents to be made to the Prince by the City of Paris is a copy of the llenriotle. It is remarkable that VOLTAINE was refused pertnis sion to print this poem in France, under the tiovern ment of Louis XV: but Import tantantetr. The other articles of news are as follows: Pants, Aram 26.—Letters from Barcelona state that General PEPE, with some members of the late gotern sent of Naples, has arrived there on board of a small vessel. Letters from Madrid state that since the arrival of the news of what has happened in Naples and Piedmont, there prevails in that capital, amidst apparent tranquil lity, a deep agitation which seems to be precursor of great events. A legal investigation is going on respecting the transactions which occurred at the funeral of M. Manuel. Several witnesses have already been summoned on the application of the litre's attorney. It is said that the discussion of the municipal law will be postponed to next session. FRENCH FCNDS.—Fire per cent. Consols 92f. 70c. Opposition to legitimate authority having been completely crashed both in Piedmont and Naples, the exercise of severity is shout to commence against the agents in the late revolts. The following isa specimen •f the spirit that is begitiniag to appear : " NAPLES, Aram 10.--Ferdinand I. by the grace of God, King of the Two Sicilios..k,c. &c. he. " The paternal hints contained in our deereas of she 29th and 31st of March against secret associations, and in favour of a general disarming throughout the king- dom, have not hitherto had the effect which we hoped for; this shows us the guilty intentions of the offenders; and such conduct obliges us to take more energetic measures. Penetrated with the truth that the law to he perfect requires a penal sanction, and that punishment, to be useful, calls for prompt and impartial pnblic exam ples, on the suggestion of the directors of our royal secretariats, we Is are decreed, and do decree as follows : t' Art. I.—A court martial shall be created, invested with all the powers of a special council of war. " t —This Court will rigoronsly execute the 4th and Sth articles of our royal decree of the 31st of blarch, l against persons carrying prohibited arms, by condemn ing to capital punishment, altap assassin, whoever shall be seized with these arils, au& causing the sentence to be executed without delay. " 3. The director of the police is authorized to order domiciliatory visits as prudence may dictate to him. If prohibited arms be found in a private house without the proprietor being furnished with the permission pre scribed by article 6th of the aforesaid decree, he shall suffer the pnnisment and fine pronounced against such offenders. if the collection of arms and warlike stores should be sufficiently considerable to estahlish the pre sumption of a conspiracy, the director of the police shall secure the person of the proprietor, and place him, together with the papers and other documents con nected with hisconviction, at the disposition of the court martial. "4th. The same court is charged with the execution of the royal decree of the 28th of March against all kinds of secret associations, and particularly against the so ciety called the Carbunari. " bth. The object of the society of Carbosari bag the overthrow and destruction of trovernenonts, nhoeits, after the publication of the present royal decree shill inscribe himself as a member of that society, or whoever bowleg previously abandoned it, shall again attend eon- ' 1 ventitles known by the name of lodges of Carbonari,.en 1 any other kinsi of prohibited society, shall be punished with death, as guilty of high treason. " 6th. All those persons shall be subjected to the pe nishment of death, who, without being Carbosari shall be taken its jiagraate ielirto, by forming partpf a meeting, baring fur its object the overthrow of pilslic order. " 7th. The same Court shall pronounce sentence of from 3 to 8 years' imprisonment upon any one who, knowing the plate of meeting of these ruffians, shall I I not immediately inform against therm "Stk. Wileefer, belseging to the above-named eos-1 vestieles, moved by repentance, shall discover to the pnliee the names and projects of the temperate's, will I obtain impunity. liia name will remain unitouvro, and I will not be inscribed in any register. " Signed, fur Isis Majesty . in his absentee, ;Iv the Pre sident of the Provisional Governtnest, Secretary of State, and Minister of -Foreign Affairs. " Marquis de entert.t.o." The King, wishing to re-establish order is Sicily, or der, that a Previsiosal GOVVrEOIOIII may be imosediately Which shall at:* INiorow. tikt Ciiithaal Ora- spirit 111•Dato. Ateau. 17.—Tbe Censiitireionessf Ores. is 6, article sailer tbiadate. the fleeter, at whirls ir•pablitsboi as abstract is our paper of Satanlay, subject*, aM offeistlers aftr . ainst the State to martial law. its sertis- Plogrt ISW, botrover. stow alsservatiesa:— , Tbls law yr be celled • law alr earpoi.— would lamp maze iap rosary siber*•' 04 1111•4 5 , I*: ,- - - E' . - . - .L I ....ao swer s 'enielt le WOrbOrmiteal ftene th eace ...-., oseir aeon Oilier Wit . We* la WI. *OW 10611 'Whyte tteedtial that A Direction of the police has pablishist Itist WWI Woks • 101,3tssoSIOlier Wpfedaee a • tent eime. ' ilkilememilidoreplitleta oisoaneugedinktel. Au forguatke :-- „ _ .. . As . es-Oeieral Rossaroll having notorionsit rec-' enodsles a free inthcommmovion." A himself guilty , of high treason, by hiss itted at' 111. . elirall ) 1414111 °. .:., sility ... " 111- -wagrinia,7 4 " ""entleore a month this y wll lie despical. The es , .6,1‘ find batik the ltd s l talus. it is publicly made known that whores! , ; 111* boll. illyeemsteage (s e e. l owe r tress wens& with which the tonoldipatty ri Neon& weak Part 1 Aar be found in the territories subject to the dominion of his Majesty. he shall be put to death." , ; embraces ihe same of liberty, fa WA; th e m aim of down, the article beaded Vienna.) in secret, anti the rtes have taken measures to r m The same general direc tion of the p olice of the king. yorT strew "P""station le 'fhe Comes. It was faid epetsl dam has this moment cause d the following placard to be posted:— this excess, being resolved not to depart from their pri ••A reward of 1.000 ducats will be given to any pep ciples of moderation. news from son who shall aid the arre st of the individualshereaftcr Wimp time k °Natant Torreno h , a common teas es, on the appoionea Is we reeeive d te Napl ai . named—Laurent de Canca ns, Michael Marelli, Joseph Silvati, Louis Miriehimi , and Jose p h Ca pp nrcio. spea Wilms Ripe In private. The conference is said w Th on e ly other articles relative to Naple s are the hair It." one of great Interest. Among other things the gal said. " We have not to fear that any one K a y following : come to attack us. They know the Spaniards:" Ft.naexce, Aram 14.—Last night her Excellency •filanatc, APRIL 13..—A report is in eirculatiea, the Duchess of Florida departed for Route. To-mur- that the people in Valencia, as a part of the peopl e . row her august spouse, the King of the Two Sicilia , demand the deportation of certain individuals, w h oa will set out for the same city. ai. they point out as stis i lested. We are iguoraut of the V III NNA. APRIL 16.—(Reeeived by an extraor nary channel.) -- it is stat ed that a courier who left details of this alfair, which will probably bt kaown to- Fl ore nce on the 9th has brought intel li g ence that on morrow. the sth the King of Naples received a despatch from Aram ll—The representat ion address ed b y the Constitutional Ayantansiento of Palencia upon th e the Marquis of Circello, atmonscing the restoration of order in Messina. (lettere% Rossoiroll, the ;earthy eve nts to teach we alluded in our l ast nu mb er bet one, has been and still continues to be the subject of eotupanion of Pepe, has followed his example. Ile has embarked and left his troops , wh o have sent their sub- conv e r sation among all those who take au interest in mission to Naplvs. The inhabitants of Mevsina took the fate of their cou ntr y . The re p resentation in part in the u estion was drawn up in terms which some try are vi norevolt ; and the discovery made by the q military that the people could not he induced to make cocoas. others patriotic, and which others again af firm to be irreverent, and even anarchical. Awing common palm with thesis, contributed not a little to defeat the plan of the rebels. these various and conflicting designations, we are sn. The 'aloe article from Vienna contain,' the first two able to judge which may be the most correct, and ats subsequent paragraphs. The othe rs contains same obliged to content ourselves wills relating what ire hear, since we bare not been able to obtain a sight e r further accounts of the march of the Russian army, . the paper in question. and the progress and ef f ect of the Oreek insurrection : It app ears that the ni g ht before last an accoutres" According to the accounts from Jassy , d a t ed March 31. g iven to the Cortes in a Secret Sit tin g , and that fete gre at co::sternation prevails there, since it was known th e contents of it were characterised in as man y mien ill it the Poop-for of Rnssia had expressed dissatisfac. mann ers as they have been in public. I t i s added that • • • ' tion on being informed of the insurrection of Molda. in this Secret Sitting all discussion u p on the terms is i via and Walla.:liia, and had not only declared that be which the paper was drawn up was cut oft shw a, m i would not assist its promoters, but hall even, in the that the Ouvernment was authorised to take such nose. mast unequivocal lerws, intimated to them his olieplca- surer as it judged best calculated for the preservatisa sure. The alarm has been feather increased by the of order, and the respect duct lour tutelary institatiem. Russian Consul, Pisani, notifying that he Las re. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a cites caeca orders to leave Jassy issomeaimelv A number lar letter to the Political Chief, of which the followiag of Royards and rich individuals have removed to the is the introduction : of and Austrian territories. The reigning " The accounts which have been received of the toast- Prince w 44 himself on the point of seeking shelter, events at Naples. tho u g h the y are indifferent with till Lis family, in one or other of the neighbour• tiun, which, with its beloved King at its head, ad. states. emcee , unterrified and majestically , on the p ath ef gag Souse persons here persist in the report of a new war. glory, honour , an d p ros p erit y . which they huh spend According to them the Ituseiaas bar e not received to themselves, in adapting with irrevocable reedit counter orders. On the contrarv , th e first column of tion, the C ons titutional System which now happily go. the Russian army destined for Italy is expected chipve nos us, may , however , e ncoura g e the p erlidioaseiremles say, on the 23rd of April at Csatga, in Hungary. of this beneficent system, to increase their cried's' at- Tit: se troops will continue their march by Crentschin, temPtshY seducing the incautious and ussaspedlag Tyrnan, Presleargli,.B.lenburgh, Oans,and Kermond, to trouble, in some places, the public tranquility. sad will enter Styria by Flirstenfield. It is also as. " 'rheas' 'wean' *bay also serve asnesetest to " 1 " serted that this column is 10 0 , 000 men strong, of whom 55,0011 are iufatotrv. Laybach before its.: end of June. unquiet incoasislerate aod imp rudent minds, in to inalls. Th e y w ill not shirr at ing dangers which do not exist, or givi n g them m ai. weight than they merit, may excite popular agitatleas Av.:sot:at:, Aram 19—Several private letters state, which always offend the Majesty of the laws, aemiles• that orders have been transmitted from Laybarli to miss the public authority, and place the depositaries hasten the march of the Russian army, which is to of power in the most trying and painf ul sili atles • — occupy, coujointly with the Austrian army. the whole The King, whose first duty is the preserved.' of of Italy from the Alps to the Straits of Messina. We public order, cannot bat foresee that such may be the are a s sured that this occupation will take p lace in con- result of the impression made by the news of the erects I sequence of a new convention conc l u d e d at Laybach. in question, and being resolved to employ the fall ea. Vies StA. APRIL 11.—For some days considerab le bo- tent of his Royal authori t y to maintain public trap nces ' dies of recruits have passed its the neighbourhood of this . ci t ' lllit Y' and not to suffer any interruption of thimble provi a nd majestic march of the N ation and Goverment, city, who have arrived from the m ost distant to consolidate all wise institutions, Le has ordered it of the empire, escorted by detachments of troops. to be signified to all the political chiefs that in ivies It is certain that the Russian troops are in march•— * with the Captain °meal and ether authorities of the 'limy will arrive on the frontiers of Italy in 2 columns' provinces. they are to take all the mean' which their *se of which will de fi le very near Vienna , and the other I seal shall suggest, which circumstances shall deemed. pass by Pest. The capital of Austria will not have to : es must de- and which are in the circ l e of their functions, as well maintain the Russians ; but all th e other citi to pursue without remission the secret enemies of the fray the cavilers attending the passage of these troops.. -.ystem, to discover their inquisitous intrigues, to de- C plaints of the stagnation of comments daily in• liver them up to the arm of judicial power, and to es crease This stag:teflon is the more prejudicial to seve- , cite die zeal of the latter to indict prompt pope nil etas:at% of Austrian subjects, as the contributions : plary panishment, as also to repress everylar (taxes) have not ceased to Le severely augmented for 20 I agitation and tumult, whatever may be its pretest. years in an enormous progression. 1 His Excelleocy then enforces the necessity of talkie. A letter from Jassv, of the 2;th of March, announces , cuing the people of the provinces with respect to the towards the Danube with real situation of the coun tr y , and to ins p ire themxith that Prince Ypsilanti advances 20,000 men, and six pieces of cannon.— the conviction that thoug h events like those at Naples a body of about cannot but aMict the friends of liberty, vet they will Prince Sum continues preparations fur war: Ise does not want money. The number of Turks who have been n ever arrest the progress of t he S p anisit nation sad massacred by the people are estimated at 40. Those whoendanger its Independence , i ts re p resentatives and its king being firmly uuited together, and resolved le pe were at liodusebain ded into the Russian provinces. rislo rather than suffer this heroic nation to become a Intelligence from Constantinople states, that the Tar. victim to despotism, or to cease to reap tbehaitspree tars, who have been sent in all directions, have carried noised by the exact observance dour sacred cedes[an order to the Pachas of all the provinces of Europe servin in their glorious career. without rega sag Asia, to unite, and speedily pet ilk pooh 101 the etAishorastisos owl wittiest cakelatieg lit Itisbps wforcla they can reinter moveable. . goottriar boa success if the cau se of libert y albs; aleta APRILs, 1 I.—Letters fronaroland masonA letter from Akoy , is The L'airer p the them.• 'lntelligence of the march of die Russian army late Italy. el, says, %V 60 Other accounts positively assert th at the arm y of that wise disinrhalle" at drat on the 71b. ' l "l rthes na tion, commanded by General Witgenstein, is destined • re hilled , arrays were Obliged to fi re ; some persons se Tut key, lad that the Austria' 0 to occupy the frontiers of *woe severely wounded. Tranquillity • selis bonen' .restureil, and the prisons were fu ll of the guilty. Tie army of llalicia has the satyr destination. They are very content in Prussia with the near retire o . Ilisterbessiee lime at the election of a new Maniries of Prince liorde m serg, from whoog. premises say, thee She oerrikei, says tbe letter, wanted to low nistrative organization of tbe kin • a miff adnit ' :claim for Akide, a person formerly a devoted Wall" the documents fur the establishment Oa oseatitati 1 °lnnis expected. All of Elio. The tioverament is said to bare got and representative system are reo4f. ""- orders to Burgos to tre, by martial law, the pen"' Nomara is want - laerly a rrested by the troops, a ccu:ding to lies use ing than to place them in miler, ,and put a fi nishing is fo rce. band to the Work. The following articles relative to Spain are from the, Madrid and Paris papers that arrived last night. The first is an apology fur the lair about to be passed hg the Cortes, which is deemed inconsistent with the' of their.Conatitution : Dill, tiali bf tl lief J 3 , 1 The House of Commons meet this Cresistr. smut to adjoarataent. Besides the appoint's! u WO . and orders of the day, it is asserted, is a pper useesiag, that some notice sr motion will he hretifil forward riwitieeted with the Liberty of the Pre-' Pima kr Wit will, it is said. be also submitted te Jis• eussism to.morrvw, by a Weis* ?iublesses. ll' Het" 6f lords. 11. variety of other soloject4 of the highest iateseet to the public. will probe awaked.* of Psalmist in the coarse et I it I"' Amemg time, is Use kit of the Aria" C°lll. I II S .. R .,~ .; 1 1 2 Y . ) O/ttw4 osi 4tattibuatt. 111111 autism MTV:SWAN " 10 101 - 0111 , AAAAA WIT* " 'Olll ST ATK<MIII."