The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-03-26 00:00:00

e"lesa r enniewor tress may be concealed ; may be delayed ; it is poison still, snot it is deadly. So much for the police of England, the effects of whieli she is now feeling to the core.. —We cannot alismias this part of the production before us, without . another quotation ; it relates to the policy of Spain, - }tut more particularly to that Decree of the torte', which has excluded foreign motile lures from the markets of the Peninsula. without supplying their place by the product of native industry. " The writer cannot, however, in this place, forbear expressing his astonishment at the reproaches and in dignation with which, he is given to understand, the decree of the Corters, which prohibits on many British manufactures, has been received in different parts of this country. Spain will punish herself —is planiahing !smell hat too severely—by her erroneous policy ; and interested as is the writer in the well-being of that coun try. the witness as he has heen of so much of her suffer. ill, and so conch of her glory, bound by strong ties of personal affection to many tit the illusirions acto feel.rs in the late Iltollll . llillltt awl exhilarating changes,—he , and poivertislly tools, disappointment and regret that her legislators should have committed an error so fatal : but, hr tome hr allowed to ask, on what plea of honesty or consistency can England object, who so inexhorably stints her ports to the manufactured produce of foreign hands? aye, even of those of her own subjects—of her ovu colonies Is it for us, forsooth, to complain that high duties or severe interdictions prohibit the circula tion of our fabrics, while the cheap linens of Bessie, the tine ones of lierniany, the canolorics of France, the car pets of Tir 4 oev, the cottons Of India, ant the silks of China, implore an admission to our markets, with all the Aaron of snperior cheapness and superior excel lence, and are met with a stern unyielding No ? We imagine, complacent souls ! that other conntries will give a welcouie to the works of our looms, becau.se tie &Ter them so honest an equivalent. the prohibition of every thing proolneed by theirs. Their wool and their fruit, their oil and wine, their drugs and dye-woods, we wilt receive from them in our abundant generosity, as we are not al.le to produce them: lint what right have we plain, if they copy the example we have given them. and sullenly turn our manufactures away ": They show liew they value, and how well they can apply, the xorol lessons we have given them. We would persuade them, perhapa, float it is for their interest to take our roods : they are cheaper, better ; twilling more reason a'tle. Put, in common justice, if they have a word to s.y to na on that score in favour of their own. let us, pray let us listen to them. Shall our answer be—No, tervet Mr. Bentham's% portion of the pamphlet embraces the ot-eninents in favour of less restricted coniniercial in terconrse between nations. These are illustrated by farts, atoll strengthened by reasonings which, it would, in our humble so; inion, be impossible to controvert. Must lc lailily would we fay' copious extracts from this part of the work before the public ; ice can only offer trie or two as specimens of a production that deserves the maturest consideration of every reflecting nrin in LI- I - toiled Kingdom. We begin with the first principle I iid down by the author. " It may lie laid down as a universal maxim, that the sy ten of cututuercial restriction is always either useless mischievona ; or rather inisloievons in evert - ease, in 11 degree, or in a greater degree. In the judgment cr the purchaser, or the consumer, the gooola diacon razed mast be either better than those witien are pro treted, or not; if not better, (iii course better for a fixed egaivalent.) they will not be bought even thought no pros lubition exist : here then is tiseleaatiosas, or mischief in the lesser .legree. But etas., and the only probable Case, in which the fictitious encouragement will be tip pled, is that where the;, Is eat-lusted are better, or in ' , titer words cheaper, titan those sought to be protected: Lire is untie:tidiest mischief, iniaehiel in the greater de }see. We do not hesitate to say that the ingenious sloe triaes by which the above fowl* newel 111.1XillIS are s:pportetl wilt hear to be put in advantareeons cony*. r. son is ith all precetiing writers on political economy. As we cannot fellow Mr. Bentham in the Itiminons tie." he takes of the mischiefs arising from, and moms the p:ullibitory system, in which he removes a host of vulgar prejudices, and exposes the innumerable pals of our present condition, our readers must be satisfied with one more passage, wherein the venerable a•uthor points at once to that pestiferous tree, whose p oisosions Stanches feet the air we breathe, while its roots extend to the remotest corners of the whole empire. " Whichever contest is taken; action or inaction—in terference or non-interference —liberty or coercion in the s; ape osf prohibition ; distress to a vast relent—distress %et-ging i.ll ruin—distress on the one side or the other — be ;he inevitable consequenee. It the importation et foreign grain be left free. ruin is en ailed on the Ca rrel-, ilistreaa on the lamllitrola : prohibit foreign grain, -ri ruin falls not only upon the manufaeturer, butt upon l a isonring class ; that is the great majority even of airienlturi.ota. Stich is our miserable situation: its exc.-aloha- taxation : excessive taxation, the con s •11111 . 11 re of unjust war ; unjust war, the fruits of the 4!..!erilail`3 . l o ' l formed by the roiling' few to keep the sub ' ..t many in a state of ignorance and error.--in a state dependence something beneath the maximum of de t• -rotation awl oppression. In England, the primal and a S-flitticient cause of misgovernment. and co n sequent r• wry, the corruption of the systems of natioual repre s utation; in every wher country, the want of a.systein a dequate national representation, or rather the want a, a representative democracy. in place of a more or less rt'tigateol oleapotisin : the want of the only form of go . cement in which thesreatest happiness of the greatest ttnber is the end in view. 'flits mischiefs, then. of this system of partial eneon r 4;eursetit being in all its shapes so vast, au incalculable, a• al their sum so plainly prial 1111 l inant over the sum of rued, to whom or to %%hat shall we attribute the exists ca . e. the prevalence of such a system ? • To the general causes of misrule : to the want of the r avesary elements of good government to a deficiency u. appropriate probity, or intellectual aptitude, or active te.lent : in other words, to a want of honesty, or ability, • 'n 'ustry. " One cause hearing upon the question of appropriate intellectual aptitude or ability, and likely to mislead it, la this:-the good which coosiatitioes the etound of the prohibitory measure, the reaasei that operates in favour of it, is comparatively prominent : the evil not equally • / ; its place ts comparatively in the hark -growls!. Hence it is, as in too wane other instance', a however mall, is by its vicinity to the rye enabled to eclipse and conceal the evii, however large. •• When, reckoning from the day on which a wafture leas received the force of law, a certain period of time rase elapsed, custom cover' it with its mantle ; and. fe giriiing it as au unauthorised act of daring to look into t - •e nature of the noeasur-, men inquire no further than it•to the existence of the law ; habit glees it a fixed au t!ority : and thus it is that, in every country, wwrship is 1 -stowed on law* and institutions vying In absurdity aay scheme of extravagance which the imagination 1,1.111 could prodnee. • Thus things go on—evil is piled upon evil—till at leneth the hurt hen of evil is absolutely intolerable. Then it is that men's eyes are opened, and a desire to retrace their erroneous steps is conceived. But no sooner has the legislator turned round, than he finds the way barred THE STAT against him hr a host of difficulties. And the*. whim' nothing would have been easier at first than to present the di se am—that is, to f.,rhrar creating it,—the cure becomes ineligible, insufferable, not to FAY intpolsi ble: and error and folly become immoveable and im mortal." We perfectiy coincide wi fore submit his urgnments meditation of our country, PRIOR OF STOCKS Ranh Stock 3 per Cent. tied. shut. 3per Cent. Con. 7041 71 per rent. slint 4 per edam shut. 3perCt• Is 10.3/ 3 per Cott. Long Ann. silo Imp 3 per tint. Irish 5 per Cent. itis Mr. Bentham, and there to the solemn alul serious • • • - K D.% Y AT ONg O'CLOCK. Indio Mock Ditto Roods 354. 331. pm. rionth-first Stock Ex Hills4d. 14. pot Otontiom for \loopy pne Book for Account Indio for ditto Con. for Apet lUa - An; Lott. Tickets 2 4. --4. 1k N. hONDON: MONDAY ETENINO, M , 11421. EXCiLINGF. ONK O'CLOCK* Consols have rrr.,rrr.•d thrtim•lrr+ this morning, and are not► aliout 71', hnt with little business doing• - CharlestArn par:s arrived this enemies to the' ISth of Fehru.try. By them we learn that an ecpe• ditiou was fitting out at Rio Janeiro, fur the purpose, it was ruutourell, of conveying Don Pedro to Portugal, as Vice Boy of that kingdom. Ha(MIK harbour was closed ►cith ice, from 1•1 th to the 20th of Jan ; a circumstance which tweet before occurred in the mentor:• of the oldest inhabitant. An express arrived tlok morninv from Paris, lost, it is supposed only with the prices of the French Fends, which are quoted at 7; f. 111 c. EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS, DATED MARCH 21. " You have no idea of the manner in which every I step of His Royal Iligline , s the Duke of ttai.KaNtt is ; watched here, or of those unworthy suspicions thrown upon his conduct by the ultras. The greatest pains • have been resorted to, for the purpose either of shark. ling or intercepting his correspondence, since it was discovered that he forwarded General Dustornt Les plan of defence to the PRINCE gr.:ENT of Naples, with a strong reeommentlation for its adoption. You will be able to form some notion of the present sys. teat, when informel that, the Packet you sent five weeks ago through our legation, and which C--- was to have taken charge of, has never reached its des tination 1 . Whatever the faction may think or do, the Duke fee!s that be has a country, towards which he has sacred duties to perform. Firmly devoted to the KING, he is ready to sacrifice both life and fortune in his service, if his 31 %Jr:2; ry does but i t lentify hi m self with the people who will not much longer bear to be governed by the ambitious and corrupt men that now hurry the nation to its ruin." We have good reason to hdirve that soon after the arrival of 31. Meters at Paris, a new Ministry was proposed, of which he would have become the heath, bad not politics taken a new turn —His rolleagnes were to have been chosen antonpt the party who are styled doctrinaires, men whose principles have neither been defined by themsel‘ex or cotnprebeniled by the public. Hoven COLLARD, CAMILLE JoeRDAN, and den. Uouvios Si. typ, ale amongst the names handed about in the French* capital. as likely to have formed part of the new Adusinistration. lbus it would seem, as we hare already hinted, that the return of the Ex-Minister is little inure than a species of honourable lieneral Do Auto continnes to brand the actual I Minister on every occasion, and nwsvitlistanding his characteristic fury, it cannot be denied that he tells them some severe troths.—ln the sitting of Monday last, the General moved that the whole should be int peached. and by way of illustrating their crimes es-1 claimed—" what kind of men must those be whose system of rule has placed France in such a sitnation, that they cannot order a single regiment to march to- I wards the Frontier, lest it should revolt and join the revolutionary troops of Spain and Italy With respect to a change of some sort in the Conn- sets of Louis XVIII. it is by no maims ofilikely. The following is the Austrian offir•ia/ areotint of the military operations in Italy, reeeiveil this morning by express : Letters from Florenre, dated the 1301 of March, contain the hollowing partienlats : " Yesterday we had news from the Anstrian army. After the taw of the 'th, betteral Stntterbeito made a movement. After having passed through the de files of Carniola, without having met a single Nrar. litan, he entered Jagliacazzo. He is marching hy Alba, Celan°, Pescitta, on Sulmnna. If he do not find General Pepe in the last town, hr will proceed 'orthward as far as During this march, Count Waltunden ought now to have reached Aquila. Home, which is uncovered loy this march of lien. Stutterheino, has not been flimptirted for a single mo ment. The Neapolitan General Atuhrosio remains at I:ri and Fondi. Carascosa, it is said, is at San lieu maim. The Neapolitan Prinees have not yet set out for the head-quarters. every thing that is reported respecting the interior of Naples is full of rontradic- Itions and incohrrences, amidst which it is impossible Ito form a single rational conjecture u to the situation 1 of that city. " A bulletin, dated head-quarters Antrodoco, men tions that Genera; Stutterlsrim has taken the fort of Cone, and the passage of Coeca di Cerro." sIQUItt. of THE otIMAL INTELLIIIENti 114031 Tat AesTRiAN MOM " H e ad-quarters. Freseati. March It. ts We hare neither space nor time to insert the pre Ilininary dispositions male by the lieneral Baron Fri moot to surmount the obstacles which presented them ?viers on entering the Abruzzi, and we hasten to the particulars which are most interesting. " The advance ruar.l of the centre column under General leeppert, had orders to advance rapidly until, it should meet a resistance sufficiently rigorous to ren der it necessary to wait for the effect of the tisareli of the centre column. " Our chasseurs fell in With the enemy at Canetto. the eatrance of which *as Imarricamloeml; but it was abandoned without resistance. Before the village of Itorehe:to we (wind a bridge on the Veilino. This bridge, commanded by heights, whose successive sum mits might have favoured a brisk and murderous fire, was entrenched and was capable of an easy defence. A regiment of light infantry was posted there. Our eltassettrs advanced boldly. The enemy did not stand their ground. and a superior officer was wounded and made prisoner. " The enemy, instead, of retiring Oh Borghetto, and thus defending the approaches to Antrodoco, threw hitnself into the mountains, whither he was pursneml. We therefore arrived eithout any obstacle before Antrodoeo. We there saw the neighbouring heights revered with infantry ; and some cannon fired front the castle of Antrodoco made us believe that the enemy was there in force, and that he wonld defend a post which nature had rendered formidable. The movement of the column .s slackened, to wait for tl.e arrival of Major I)'Aspre, and the effect of his at tack. ,Meanwhile we exchanged some cannon shot with the fort of :%ntrodoets. We heard Major D'Aspre's lite, which was for some inimietits very brisk. It was late, and the enemy profited of the night to escape into the mountains. Major D'Aspre occupies the ahatolitiont fort, and the advanced guard of the centre established posts in the t twit. We found three thirty six nnn and some ammunition in the fort. Major D'Aspre proceeded in his march at one in the morning of the 10th, and advanced towards Ma duna dells Broth'. Ile found the road undefended, and one cannon in a bad entrenchment which com manded the passage. " At day-breal: !Amt.-General Walmoden moved forward : Lieut.-General Mohr marched the division of the Prince of Wirt!. At ten in the morning General Villata descended the mountains of the Pas de etwno, bringing with him stone officers and a hundred soltliets prisoners. This was a very fatiguing march ; it made the enemy, who obtained inf irmation of it, abandon the Nholona del la tirotta. A rapid timed' was then commenced on Acquila. Major lE.Vmpre, who. in consequence of his rapid movement, had with his corps become our advanced guard, found the enemy at the post of St. Thomas ; hot they withdrew, after thing a few muskets, awl abandoned two held pieces. At !wren in the evening he arrived before Actinilit. A deputation from the town came to meet lam, to inform him that it was es-imate'', and to invite him to occupy it. He entered, receiving from the inhabitants evi dent proofs of their joy at being delivered from the intolerable yoke of time undisciplined legionaries. The commandant of the Castle of Acquits, an old officer, an invalid and faithful, opened the gates as soon as he received from Lieut.-lieneral Baron the assurance that the Austrian army did not make war on the Neapolitan people, and that it was acting according to the orders and intentions of his Majesty the King of the Two !genies. "tin the 1 Ith General Iteppert, supported by the division Walmoden, advanced towards Popoli, and the division !Vied encamped near Acquila. tt Whilst these movements were being ezeenteml, Colonel Schneider advanced from Leonessa to la Porta, and thence tit Monte Beale. In his wards he met some enemies, disi.ersed them. and took some pri soners. On the 12th he marched on To:tra. " The division of StUtterheint, posted at Tiroli.l proceeded on the 9th to Carsoli, attacked the hill and took one piece of cannon. Three battalions of infan try were drtacheil fruits 16.6 by !'ogle-Alto on Capara sil ) Aso and Carson. with intent to favor the movement of the division of Stotterheitn, and to follow the enemy on that road, tty taking. the direction of Stiltnotia : the rest of this division was to reinforce time main body of the army at Valmontore. " The whole of these dispositions were made upon a calculation of the pompous words of General Per, and ewi r,, rusa lify to the etrorts which be appeared to introit making, and which, in effee:, he dill m a ke. "'1 his operation, begua on the itioroinir of the 7th, terminated on the evening of time Intim, by the acqui sition of Acquila, " 'these facts, thus detailed, in order that their na ture may Le better understood, prove suture than all the speeches of factious orators, what is the actual spirit of the Neapolitan army and people. The soldiers abandon a cause which never was theirs ; the militia, compelled to join through terror, have also manifested their real cpiuion. The initahitants of the Abrazzis, plundered by their own defenders n ith the pert: ode design ut stopping our march, receive its as friends. " One cannot but pity the fate of the peaceable in halinants. The ettilty hare toot even known how to avail diet:mires of the stssist.anee of art, in addition to the natural difficulties which the defiles of the Abruzzi% every where present. " General Pepe departed from Acquit* without as army, declaring that the soldiers had betrayed hint. " Baron tie Frinsont, arrived at the passage of the Corn°, has sent home a hundred of prisoners, and some officers. " On the 10th, at 3 in the afternoon, he left the corps which had adranred to Atlisila, to rejoin, and to direct the movements of the other divisions ut his troops. (Signed) "JOHN RA HON DI FRIMONT. —tieneral in niief of the Austrian Arm)." Nom Ihitrat 21.—The accounts from Turin com mimic:tie several decrees of the Prince of Carignana. Otte augments the number of the members of the pro visional junta ; another establiNhes a national guard in all the cities, town•, and villages: a third orders the publication in the Italian langintee of the Spanish constitution, provisionally adopted. The second arti cle determines that no alteration •Fall be made in the organization of the authorities, and their respective relations with the government. • 'rusts, )lAm:el 17.—ThePrilbeeof.;aroy-Carignamt hap sworn to the Spanish concitution, in the pe rfrace of the provisional jnnta. Our city is tolerably tranquil. The City (hard is !wing formed. The Nlarquis tie [lrene has been appointeul Minister fur Foreign Attain.. lie was formerly nominated Mi. nister of the Interior at Milan, before the French e t . storntion. Ive are twally ignorant of what is passillgb e t wen the Austrian and Neapolitan armies. Ali t h. spate lira %vide]. arrive from that quarter are Wi r d I , a close insrction. The Austrians have broken ,tp the bridge over t h e Tessin() at Ilussalon), on the borders of Piedmont aai the Milanese. Re N ge A n r t i. ra:l 4 • - The said that it has been deferred, arrival of despatches which have cause.% the P 4e ,e„ tne T nt h a e ry Secret Neapo C o mmit t ee itatignatlro wf war niA c eru to isin le g i i t n •o t n h v e okell .tdriatte. We are iriei is nti!it:atttteefail its the t. er . r , e with ir theA it is t.e bay of Ancona. N mcn inareleing ref from. o f militia, and of lee arks continnee on all the rreyrri points. The Calabria', unity of the kingdom, have already seat their mint,. tiers. Patriotic gifts, is arms and maser ,sarceeel each other throsighout all the proth e ss. m ew , alone has riven !76 dneata and 115 centimes. e as y. lenrio Valociptiore is elistiteguisheel by a eow l ed truly patriutir. The news of the t l e p se th r , of 16 militia and the legionaries no "isomer took plot t6aa subscription waA opened in farmer of their families. 'fles• spoilt. of the district diet e Heated corn anti at his own expense, and afterwards marched with t 5.• soldiers. 'fliougla the English and French merchants an 'tempt front the farces' loan of three millions, N. Block, a Jew merchant of the first class, has voles. tarily paid the sum of :Istlt ducats ( a bout I,6ollfrantsa and Mr. Graindorgee, an Englishman, 100 'hums. Letters from Germany, received by veaterelay's notice reports of a pacific nature. which had obtaiaem suffieient credit at Vienna to raise the Attstrias which were falling. These letters go so far este Lc that General Printout hail recently received ordert to advance, but to concentrate his force., and wait Iv; I further ilestructione.—(('onstitationar I.) The French Chamber of Depu:iee on the 2lst pee sented a scene of tumult and confusion seldom vi'. nessed in a national asseenlely. 11. Casimir Perrier in the enlace of a speeches,. denoting the system followed by the Ministry, welted— " Why due% the mere report of the events in Pirl mont produce on ministers the same elfert as the Ms• pets of 'era .1 heretofore did on the walls ofJerichieF . (A great •entent in the chamber.) . 1 hr raw that violation of public liberty a-Isl.+ every day take , from us some gnarantee. Ileaz-e the slightest Mfr• men? of public opinion which tied ro:;re , - ivakes thsw tremble, because that opinion pnrsuvs their seeitsit tration as rentorae puree's.% a bad coascietece.—{blurt sensation.) The nature of time influence which the Minister of-, Finance cc ished to exercise veer the Funds, was proved by his sending notice to tin elm dies and exchange-brukers that the Neapalitass keel been defeated. fietteral I'oy spoke with rrheme•nce, and, address ing himself to the Minister', saitl, " You are sot Frenchmen—von :ire the filigree. of France. Vern never was an instance of thus publishing the earal's bulletin known before. It it shocking." 31. Chanvelin.—We are told that we are at pew. We are, however, in a very strange si:mation ; is ow which is neither that of peace, war, nor neutrality: l ov , hich serums to be somewlsete between war sad two t trality. I ieneral Foy.—Tise 3llimiaters of the Eiger bar pw• seated to the Ext•loteige of Pais. to the city ter l'at•itto all France, a piece of news materially false from the int in which it is expressed. (A peewee-Int seee , stion teethe right : several soiree, " This is too much.") It is topatra pleirally impossible, that an Engagement haviagaay 'licence on the operations of the war shoed.' hare taken place at Itieti.—(duct sensation.)—Rit•ti is withemt the Neapolitan frontiers, and, accorain. , ti , the disPo' %kiwi of the Neapolitate troops, the. tmeg.egratent car only bate taken p lace hetwee•em a Small, a very incon siderable number of these troop, and the abide of th e .tems:riatm force. Itesides, even allowing that the Ass• trians had entered the Abruzzi, so I ..terie the wove for them: they will never dr rt voiee on the 60'. " Is this 'centrality ?")—No they wal neve: depart, and Italy will be Cot grave of the learlearian' With respect to the attaira NApirs, the lioverliMei carries on a sort of double lii i ilumat•y.—(Laug htet the left. Yokes on the right—" That does r ut (" 11 ' tern you.")--France has sent an Ambassador, M. 11 ' Blara4, to the King., who is the prisoner of the 30- trians. On the other hand, slee has sent a chary; ll'a"T&res, the Chevalier tl:. Poro•arey, to Naples, at while Ise iv there, treating as a neutral v itle fiv Nuke de Gallo, the Priam. de l'a,telricala,il here etc-linet hiseasell • the Neapolitan Anebass. I • • and yet he is disavowedly the Ihthe de liar.: not the events of hale ',indict' a flame threo all Europe? Are nut the t ossacks once metier to overrun the south ?—(:".!nrusura on the riglet). ant conatitutional govern men ts nnolcr the etecessitYl.: ag leuing, of coalescing to resist the invositma of . 11 north? These constieatio.eal goverm uents a re, Spam Naples, and ottraelves.—( V. ie-e on the r i. ! let--" 311 : 1 tint on." voices 011 the left, " England.") " ii • liee ; ; land also. France,lusted a s she is. Italy, Span, anti &II:1,A, cannot remain net Or-: , Whatever part she act, she must have all son"!,., and it is impossible to h a ve an Amoy witheat tin 10.11„, frientelv terms with tile natioa : for the ' moon the a: my are one. lelrpori The Minister for Foreign Maim 4 then al the Chamber in reply, the deb ,te wa• clu' r Five per Cent. Consuls, j 6:. : s tk.; 13.13:. . 1 - • u 1,472 f. :ette. We are happy to infurtu oar remiers that hob I I Nlstiipee and Gu . yrt, the French i Owe is teresting cases pu'alisheil a few ' Lars a go ilt lh e S'CATE%NIAN, hark bri•:l acquitted liv the Cour , izes of lids is elm best cuotturntary out oer 1 11 reasonings, while it futu' .i oglis tl iding pred 1)t AltAtt "THL DRITI. I II %TATUM AN IR INCoRPuII %TKO WITU Tlllt ITR4M %N." ro• t nail I