The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-30 00:00:00

K - IMPROVED STATR OF rHE COUNTRY ! [IRON Tile neutral. MERCURY Or LAST iatuunae.l In proof substantial and decisive of the improve• ment in trade, commerce, manufactures, and agri cultural concerns, of which the veritable Courier and other Ministerial papers is town, and their 4or responding satellites in the country, have taken upon themselves lately to assure the public, last &fur „,,r4ay °night's Gazette presen s ds with a list of Pot:Te ma BANKRUPTS, amongst which is a Baronet, and several other persons known recently to have been • teen of large property; but, perhaps, the most strik ing' fact of all others connected wtth this important subject is, the applies:don made to the Lord Chan cellor, on Me part of certain Tenants of lands, to hare their Rents loitered on account of the reduced ritlue of the produce of their farms. 'lids is an ap plication, respecting which, before he lieciol.., the Chancellor may be excused for laying hie hand upon his heart, appealing solendy to lois Maker and--doubting. And may it not fairly be asked whether lee who concurred with his official collo..rues in ordering the Bank of England to rinse payment of their promissory notes. can, consistently uml con scientiously refuse to authorise a compulsory reduc tion of Rent, proportioned to that reduction in t.e retiree of fareerprodnce and ofall real property, which again he and his colleagues have occoiioned by their other financial measure, called Mr. Peel's Act This application involves a multitude of import ant consideration., which shall shortly have a full *hare of our undivided attention : whilst at present we • recommend the general contemplation of it, as furnish ing a most novel, most striking, and most important proof of the situation into which the country is now being reduced by storm weathering pilots, heaven . torn' minister% sycophancy, and folly. And will these appalling facts, above, below, around, never awaken those who still sleep with the sword of Damocles MlS prnifed by a hair over their devoted heads, or who, as if possessed by evil spirits, rejoice in the delusion srhich is about to destroy them ? ss 'Tit; a fearful thing to see • se go many Maniacs dancing in their chains."—Coors*. Dining the last Session of Parliament, as is well known, a Select Committee was appointed, in the usual • way, nhieh every one now well understands, for the avowed pu 'pose of inquiring into the state of extreme - distress and danger, in which the landed and agricia tura' interests have been plunged under the adminis don of Lord* Liverpool, Castlereagh, and Sitlutouth. --This Committee, se appointed, sat and adjourned, and adjourned and sat, for several months, in t:-It tom-se of which time the evidence of a great neither of persons was heard and recorded before this same Committee, whose invalnable labours at length t-rminatril in their acceptance of a most polite, most cattrteone. and most iriesistifole invitation on the part or one of the Ministers to—olinner, and in the produc tion of what is termed a Report on the bill of fare which bad been provided. This was considered at the time bit an odd sort of conclusion to a three months' con- , sideratiOn ore subject which involved the vital interests of nine-tenths of the country gentlemen of England (for we believe tl.at even ?pm there is not in numberij more than one-tenth of then) who are retainers of the', Minister, or who prosper by taxation,) and of ninety-, nine out of one hundred of the yeomanry and farmers of the country. Various reports of great difference of , o?inion between fhe Ministerial Majority and the Alinisteritl selection of Minority Members prevailed during the long protracted sittings of this tensed , Committee; and it was even rumoured (though of course without solid fonntlatioo) that something like a mutiny amongst certain thick and thin adherents of Ministers was apprehended. How all this terminated is now well understood; but not so the elaborate Be lton of this most segacious dinner-ending Committee, which deals in hypotheses rather than facts, and is made up of ifs and ands, of matters conjectural and winters relative, of hopes and of fears, of studiously obscure adnikion of past blunders, and of the usual pillar of trust, which all dabbler* in poli•ies, whose plans have proved either abortive or mischievous, never fail to have resonrse to ; the expression of a blind or conning faith that time will mend what they have marred ; and that things will in the end come round. There are also some distant and rather coy allusions to the always easurd, but now stale and musty non sense of the transition story, whose powers of delusion knaves and fools have either trus - ed in, or been de ceived by, for the last six years. But it may be asked, and asked with regret and indignation, whether such a Report, or any Report short of one which, clearly anti candidly tracing the present distresses of the Landed and Agricultural Interests and of the Country at large ts their true cause, dictated relief from those distresses by the removal of the cause, could be in the least creditable to the reporters,*satisfactory to the sufferers, or conducive to the restoration of that pros perity and safety which have been sacrificed to prin ciples, of despotism wool base self-interest ? Let it not be' said that the sulloct is a difficult one, and that the 'froth is entangled amidst mews of mete; the true principles of politics and of truth are everlastingly the same, and an honest and patient recurrence to those principles, and applica•ion of facts undistorted by party bias or seltioh predilections, could not fail of ex hibiting broth a retrospeet of the past, and a represen tation of the parent, pot only correct in outline, but without false colouring, It was very evident that with the prices for farm produce, note producing ruin to both tenant and landlord, the farmer in 1792 was doing well ; and it wao equally clear that the only material difference in his circumstances operating too his disfavour nose tool Men wasobat he is at present called opon to pay more than fourfold the weight of taxes and other pecuniary burdens to what he was then, nut at t all No oNKATt.It SiZANS: It was, and is, also notorious, that farm produce sells amongst our Continental neighbours at lower prices than it is even now selling fur here, and that the farmerii there can afford so to sell it. income they are comparatively li.tle hardened, atatiy " untaxed and untithed." • is it possible, then, that the " wayfaring man,.iliougb a fool," could fail of drawing the right conclusion as to the nature of the appropriate and only . remedy? •Is It possible. that the 'wideste now published by order of the House of Coasasous. which dlbeleses the follow ing important facts, and a multitude of others, all of similar teadeoey, could be mistaken by-potions anxious only to do the toiletry justice : Ariake's& wii• gild eat of the Sioeki in 1011. at iseisesee is% she sail is. 1014 t*e thesehadtipes fb.: h il a la ST kTESI I 4 41V .. - of wine at a loss of 55,0001. and laid. oat .100.0 001 . land, in ihe cooties of. ii ewe ford, Ilerifor4 . and Tee 11s . rtfriedalalte tattafin 44. in Oil 14fur .1 1 • a s ltear t . and tbf • refits ilia,. getnittett , putectua ly ; 1 16a reAtctitin of 2t pet cent. was made in the rents, but since .1819,..tt0t a shilling . of rest has been paid, and the farmers hate gisen iotire to nit ! Tim Essex farm was let•ih 011, when *heat *as' at 15$. a bushel t but the tenant has since failed, and the WM is in the hands of the landlord. The Herefordshire estate is not better off, and the landlord having it thrown upon his hands, is now obliged to dismiss ti.) labourers since Christmas last. These losses have obliged the landlord to offer his estates for sale, and he cannot n.ov get mere than one half, or 75,000/. for what he paid 150,000/. for; he has a mortgage of 60,0001. upon his estate, which leaves him only a pro perly of 13.0001, He has alsi 401) pipes of red Port nine, hich are now in the London Docks ; they cos: 451. per pipe, and the urtrket price is now ISI. per pipe, leaving a loss of 171. per pipe, which am o unts to 6,500/. 'en i which deducted from the 15,000 t. leaves only 5.2001.—the whole sum which is left to this gen t tertian of a real property of 150,0001. in the Veer 1611." —From the evidence of TI s Artivood, EN. taken before the Parliamentary Committee, I Ith•April last. In the ye.ir 1?..116, a Farmer inWorcestershire took a farm. which hail been previoutly let at 2401. a•year, (a price .the land was well worth) at a redliction of 70/. per annum, p tying the landlord 1701. rest for it. lie has occupied this farm four years; his poor rates sre grown up to 251. per acre ; and findings !timid' losing money every year, lie has now thrown up the farm and let it, because the landlord will not consent to reduce the rent to 704 a year. A mortgage of 1,0001. exists on the farm, which occasions an anneal detneml of 501. upon the landlord ; so that lee has now only ;?.0/. a-year left in the place of 1901. a-year, which existed on the average of ten years. daring the war."—ldent. There are several farms in the neighbouels - ood, (Dunalow, Essex), where the tenants have become in solvent. At iiallinghdry park, a Charter-110114e farm of 300 acres, the tenant being lately drat, and- being three year% in arrear Of rent, it will take all the effects of the family to pay it, leaving nothing for other cre ditors; and the widow and seven children would be destitute; • were it not for the hum only lathe Charter• house, who settled an annuity op the widow." " Simon Attridge, 78 years of age, and his wife near SO, holds 300 tteres ; a very plain, industrious farmer, who, wishing to make his will, bad his property valued by an eminent surveyor iAlfHtf, who estimated it at 3,0301., and it is note expected, when his creditors are called together, there will he nothing left for Unwell and wife but the forlorn prospect of spending their few remaining days in a workhouse; and which I feel cer tain most shortly be the case of all the agricultural tenants, unless some speedy and effectual' relief is granted them."—Mr. Litchfield ftlfrititirs Evidence before the Parliamentary Committee, Itth April, W.I. , • , ' ibtS44s - of age. His ap iste • I .• . *wan • -- -4 01 - • manner, if not of di ' t . p p , , .... . , . , * 'en/ISltast. I , I .., , ..,.. 711, Arlo ' fact, that at the' • i p sonees:iierb apprehended, the whole ship'a librm colloidal-2f a book entitled " Trial OlCaptaterkSior., Piracy." Ulan Cotlitt OF JUSTICIARY 4 Ewan WIWI,. NOliall.l The High . Conrs this day sat in the Chamber of the, Second Division of_the Court a:Session, is-eonowsteenerl of tie Aiii,;iralty Court beiliesitting in the Fits Hi vipion. • ; Chas. M'Arthur was placed at .the bar, accused of falsehood and forgery; in having, on the 24th Septem ber last, the month of August preceding, -or in the subsequent month of October, written,- or caused to be written, 4 counterfeit obligation on Mr. Wright, build er, of this city, and purporting to be drawn by one James Anderson, for the payment of 501. ; and of, fi;lonionsly using and uttering the same. Mr. Jeffrey undertook the defence of the prisoner. The indictment having been read, and found rele vant, and a Jury being empanelled, the prisoner plea led Onilty. . The case was restricted, by the Sotacrroa-Oestenai, to an arbitrary punishment. -' • Mr. Jerrnor pleaded, ou the part of the prisoner, (in mitigation of punishment,) that he was a young man who had been originally vecommende,l to him es one most respectably connected, and one who, up to the period of this offence, had borne a very exemplary character. Sentenced to 14 years transportation. John Smith and David Beaton were placed at the bar, accused of housebreaking and theft. The Court adjourned the diet with respect to David Heaton, until Monday next. John Smith pleaded Moiety. - The SOLICITOR-GENERAL also restricted this offence to an arbitrary punishment; but the Court having no deed the prisoner's crime as consisting of those aggra vated by housebreaking, and that the latter offence had been committed twice ; added to which there was the serious aggravation of being habit and repute a thief, the sentence on the prisoner was that he be transported for the whole term of Isis natural life, James .41.1 Cap, accused of theft, with the aggravation of habit and repute, pleaded Guilty, and the offence was restricted to au arbitrary punishment.—Judgment post poned. Ad:;n Orr was then arraigned on a charge of house. breaking, with intent to steal, in having on the llth of July last entered the house of John Horsburg, in the Grass market, and theftuonslv removed from under a pillow, a blue cloth vest.anol a black leather pocket book, containing W. in hankers' notes. The indictment also charged the prisoner with having entered the same house by the window, on another occasion with intent to steal. Another conOt i charged the prisoner with brill, art and part in the said crimes. The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the first count only. The public prosecutor adhered only to this charge, and restricted the penalty to an arbitrary punishment, when the Jury pronounced him Guilty, in terms of his own confession. . James APICay was again arraigned at the bar, along with the other pilsoner, and both were sentenced to transportation for 14 years. Heitman, who was mate of the vessel, is, it is under stood, a native of Yorkshire ; the other panel, who was rook, dberibes himself a Froechisan.. • PI R;C;F:4:VstiMURDER. MOH COURT OF ADMIRALTy. Enivavanit. Z4v. This day P. Hamm and F. &masa were platted at • AlVelise . *WO inmate - of his Majesty's ArNotate, on rr"iminaT letters, charging them with isiroticatly seiz ing the brig Jane, of flibraliar, on hrr voyage . from that place to the Brazils, freighted with . a valuable cargo, including specie to the amount uf 35,169 Spa- 1 nish dollars; and further charging then with murder- 1 ing Thomas Johnston, the Master, and a man named James Patterson, a seaman, of the said brig ; and also with confining Peter Smith and Robert Strachan, sea men. in the forecastle, where, by attempting to snail cate them with smoke, the prisoners succeeded in terri fying the said Smith and Strachan to assist •them in seizing the vessel, which they afterwards sunk off the coast of Ross-shire, and landed the speck on the Isle of Lewis, in that county, %here they were apprehended. An Interpreter liming been sworn, to interpret faithfully, the indictment was then read over, to which both the panels pleaded Not liuilty. The wit nesses called on the part of the prosecution, were An drew Camelier, a Maltese boy, David Robertson Strachan, Peter Smith, and Johanna l)hura, an Italian, who compos. d part of the crew .f the Jane ; and Ilugh Mamie-it, of Barra, Mr. It. M‘lyer, Surveyor of the Customs, at Sumnoway, John Murray, sub-te nant iu the parish of. Stornoway, and Kenneth M•lver, who had seen the vessel or the prisoners after the vessel was on shore, and %Ir. Abraham Levy Itensusan, who had been instructed to take out insurance on the Jane. The prisoners' declaration wu then read, in which an exculpation was attempted on the following allega tions:—That it was the Captain who shot Patterson, and that this was the only shot which was fired. That they all struck at the Captain together, and could not say who it was that killed him. That they could not say who it was that proposed to conceal the alollars, but they all assisted in doing so. After II trial of sixteen hours, the LORD ADrOCATS rose, and addressed the Jury at some length, for. the prosecution, and Mr. Matm.tsn in behalf of tlie.pri- SO . net S. • The J1:1102 ADMIRAL then took a very minute snr vey of all the evidence, and delivered his opiiitin on the points which weir principally dwelt upon by the Counsel on bath si.les ; his Lordship charged the Jury to consider of their verdict until half-past two next af ternoon, till which titue the Court. at half-past ail in the morning, adjourned. TUESDAY, .1 . 1135 C o't•t.ocx.—The Court met at half past two. according to adjournment. The jury hsving• been called over, delivered in their written verdio, unanimously finding the prisoners—Unaty. . The. JILIge A mural hereupon proceeded to pass en the unhappy men tie last awful sentence of the law, ordaining the pan •ts to be taken hack to the To:loath and there fed upon bread and water, until the first Wednesday in January ; at nine o'clock sin th e morn ing of which day, they are to be conveyekto the Sands of Llith, and there to be hanged by the com mon executioner ; their bodies afterwards to . be 'at die disposal of Alexander Munroe, Esq. Professor of Ana tomy in the University of Edinburgh. . Human is a good looking man, about3s years of age, of a wild countenauce and peoetrOing eye. it said. he is a native of Sunderland, and was'io the 'l 4, l,titiy. log the bite war, awl While a prisoner . of war. lOramtee he married - t native of that cosatiy,. : lty whoa 10:44. several 'ebildien. She is in let westing items. and Was is the Conn dating thi Avlttlifiese.o4 the trial, and was trectehtly obsereal sheath .-- thistles is said w be a Amalie of 'S.-- --. ~; • . ' - 1 • LON DON: FRIDAY EVENING, NGVEMIIER 39, 1821. STOCK EXCII.ISGE. 7'WELVW. O'CLOCK. The Bank is slant to-day, bat the Stock-Exchange is open. Consols 731 for the new Account. Philadelphia papers have arrived this morning to the lst of November, from which we extract the fol lowing : [1 , 110:41 TITF: P.IPEtt OP TITS 39111 OTT OCT.] THE FLOUR MARKET. During yesterday we experienced, as might natud rally be expected, a variety of reports from the east and south, but they hail not any considerable operation on the state atilt. Market. indeed, it may be said, that Flour is in suspense, although, we understand, the millers are sending a considerable quantity into town. Their stock of Wheat is very considerable, but, from want of water, very few are able to grind much. Wheat Flour stored up in their mills is coming in copiously. SLAVE TRADE. The following is an abstract from on board his 31a jesty's ship Tartar, Sir George Collier :—At Bonny, two slave vessels were taken by the boats of the Tartar and Thistle, by the good managem.nt of Lieutenant Hagan, Commander of the latter vessel. This young man put the prime of all his brig's company into a canoe, which had come olT; went alongside the Slave ship, a Spanish schooner, having on board a gang of the mist desperate villains. As it was dark, the stir. prise was, complete ; he fully succeeded ; his canoe captured the schooner, having 450 slaves and s' most desperate crew of 50 men. The schooner was prepared to resist, having her cannon all primed and 50 muskets on deck. As the black people.in the canoe were too much under fear of death to betray, when hailed by the ISpanish schooner, they answered all was well ; in the next moment, Ilagan and his 35 men were on the deck, when the master and others seized the small arms and kept up a rapid fire, by which three British seamen wore wounded, and in the alarm many female slaves, not in irons, leaped ovm.rboard and were carried away by the sharks. Whether the Crew of this scitodiesti, many of whoa* by, their language _must be either English or Americans, are apprehensive of some evil for their snieileads„ I know no, but they seem very l contrite and fall of sorrow. Lime/tint Ranh pro. ;aided sap the rim is OW of a Pertagseee v ef wbikh• IMP got iitormatioo, atttt Sher ;advise the firs of ho . ' • I guns, boarded and carried her. This vessel, thoa a k only commenced her slaving a week had 100 on boars', One of the Slave vessels captured was replete With human misery, the dying and the dead were mingled together. Nothing can be more horrible than t h e treatment and condition of the slaves in their pas sage , frogs - Africa • fever and diiiiiiejrweri let loose, the hatches scarcely open. t oftarsox.—Prom the list Citracoa t ie 'wished-for convoy from Curaroa, bringing n'tialberlei, emigrants, has arrived, both natives of the cow r y and Spaniards ; at least we have the satisfactioli fat all those who came are honest men, worthy of abidi ag in Coluinbia, whose ahsence we were.wont to conirs. plate with grief—highly pa%iotic characters, i s i o, amid the disorder and hustle of hostilities, had.,„;, hs refuge in foreign islands, and who now clasp as ie t h eir arms with cordiality and joy —men, who have beeal t , deceived in their principles, whose virtues and p ui l faith are already too well established, ant 44,. ,fret of the past is as grateful to ns as it i s hoe sara m o to them—men who, during seven long years' sh oss „ , have never bent their necks to any foreign yoke—j a short worthy of the springs of Caraccas, emleentpatriotse the ornaments of their soil, whose selierinp, "lose elnstaney in hardshipe, have bequeathed than the eternal love of iheir fellow-citizens. [FROM THE NEW ENGLAND covree , norac.l Ltvenroot., Nov. 30.—Arrived this day tittles• caster, Burkhart, from Philadelphia ; sailed an the ith instant, and experienced very bail weather. Captain 11. reports flour at 10 dollars per barrel : Exchangeh. No vessels have left this port since Monday utak, and this day it blows a very heavy gale. We understand a further redaction in the army is about to take place, and that Ministers intend embo dying 20,000 militia, for which- notice has been given to the Magistrates. This we are led to think is a Salvo, an universal medicine to care all political dis. orders at the Meeting of Parliament. This new es. listment will create new friends fur the givers aeon. missions and other good things, and strengthen that majority which is already too great. The wiJitia is, no doubt, the Constitutional force of the eats. try, and if applied to its general interests weeld he the most saving force, but when every tillage is directed to the one object, saving will be oat tbe question. This maumuvre is like the infallible trum that cures eveey allerder, and is afterward. found inadequate to this:cure of any. There N nothing in the way of saving or reduction, but has been wrung from Ministers like so many drspi if blood, and nothing but the (head of National Beak. roptcy, will ever tempt them to give up the..derieg ban ye, a Standing Ar r iuy. Ppr cap. galifii sod black-drummers, bare long been thought iecsuavy to teach wisdom and give understaiding to the putple.— In every country where the army leas been the up port of the Government, a change hes been alwartie most easily effected. The recent examples is Spoil and Portugal, should hold out a lesson of pruden t . to those who vainly suppose their security lies in * array of havonets, mustachios, anal mercenary seem. The people of every country is its strength. Tbeyan the pay-masters, and entitled to protection from tart they pay. In Spain, limo overturned, at once, fie abominations of ages, and shewed the people Ask power. The electric shock was immediately felt is Portugal, and the wisdom of the nation was ailed into action. All joined in the regeneration of Atli country, and the finest principles of other governmese were selected to mature a plan in which the whole pop* lation is so deeply interested. These great chasm we hope, sill prove a warning to all other nation, The hireling Press speaks of the calling out Irish 'rem. n. That such a measure should be resorted to, we are not surprised; nor would any thing write us that would create fresh misfortunes to the peopled Ireland, already borne down by a system of nivel , . We have seen the Yeomen when they were respectable, we hare seen them dwindle into an ORANGt FACTIOS. We have seen their ranks thinned by the pecessioa of the Catholics, on account of continued insult. Aid we are now to see them called on to irritate, lerted of appeasing the unhappy people of !reset rt , have repeatedly said, and will continue to 111161 the present state of Ireland is chiefly attribertable to impolitic tiovernment and its Agents. What bet ante applied power could raise the ()range misereants hte further notice ; what but persecution could stimulate to a continuance of those bat barons °precasts that goad the peasantry to madness ? nothing bat rrue:tr and ex action in every shape from the that sells his country, to every petty fellow is otibee• The land is let three or four times over, every jobber has a profit. The parson comes in for a kith ; good or bad, he thinks it too much trouble to let Lis tythes to his parishioners, he lets them to a jobber. or tythe-farmer, who must bare his owe riot if that is not paid or the tythe not taken in kip'. a process at the next Assizes or Sessions, erfora ir ; to a new Act, where In all likelvhow!, the esiti Paso sits on the bench to adjudicate the cause of his "sr* iTtbe-farmer. Beside the pour unfortunate tenant Ito the assessed and parochial taxes to pay, and gig 11 l quota to the Minister of his own religion, along wi ll ' the hide be must pay for the education of his ebildrer. In fact. half the property of the people is divided le tween the Law ansl the Church, at.d, instead blessings which should proceed from both, it is `P rincipally Ireland owes its heavie s t olatertases• " 111011 KATT* AT Lomnov-nainaa TO-NoItROW. Morning 12 m. after 6.—Evening 37 min. after G. Sr. 4tsitipii Der.—Holiday et the Public °fees. gotattiinum. "• TES BEITISE STATESMAN" IS INCNIIPORATED WITS " TES STATESMAN." r - .:;~ .1 111 ; s' • ~