The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-09-09 00:00:00

F P.- • :\ Mr. LorxtL having suffered an impris' unment in his Mgiesty's Ganl of Newgate for Three Years', and a Half, which expired the 27th of May, in' consequence of Three Ex-officio Informations, is' still confined for the non-performance of the last Sentence possed upon him for the publication of an Anonymous Letter reflecting upon the Com missioners of the Transport Board. This Letter tel4insorted dithout his knowledge and consent, is set forth in the affidavits of two persons in his employment. The Sentence of the Court, for this last o f fence, was, 1 gighleen Months. imprisonment in Nesegate, to "fry a Fine to the King of 5001. to find Two Sure t lies in the *gm sif f soQl.atA,,and histmetr in 10001. I. ilor the space qf'nor.pa 7 .ears. Di t evgate, Sept. 9. • ' • - I • ,•• RICE 4' f WUEELs , . NO CAPITALS DRAWN. I'LligiDAY,'OPept: is, is the &coed Dap • DRAVIIING•IIEOINS AT NITO O'CLOCK. 411 r. t • . Ifte ic,.* ov • ' rince P . :Nos 1 .. .1 • 4k• 401 ...' 1 1 Lisbon •••.40•••••116•••••4 ....dot • a - a ' 111141.6 tilt STOCKS 13 AT AT ONE O'CLOCK LAnor. Ann. India Bands il 11 p Esenoquer Rills b p Orannun Ifl d Consols for Acc. 661 6 Navy 96ie MB-.47ATESM4N. LONDON: • • UP'tpUStlt 9, 1914. . woomob- • • We this day insert the Reroae of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to take into consideration the Petitions which have been presented upon the subject of the Corn Laws. This Report is very concise, bet, like that of the House of Lords, not very satisfactory. The Corn tnittee commence their Report by stating, that dur ing the last twenty years a very rapid and extensive progress has been made in the agriculture .of the United Kingdom; that great additional capitals have been applied to the improvement of land ; and that these advances, in many instances, will be a total loss to the parties, involving also the Iss ' 10 the nation of the produce which, in a few years,. asigh 4 t . have been expected from such expensive under-, takings, if, from the want of a sufficient encourage. gavot to continue them, they should be abandoned in their present unfinished state. The great source of this encouragement to agriculture is traced to the 'increasing population and growing opulence of the United Kingdom, and to the check which the con tiuuance of the war has given to the importation of Foreign Corn ; but the Committee do not pretend to offer to the country any statement by which we might be enabled to form an opinion bow much this en. Crease of expences of management and cultivation has been produced by increased taxation and rise of rents, or of the precise nature of the remedy required, ezcstpt a suggestion, that it will be the policy of Par. Wield to maintain, if Dot to extend, the present Male of agricultural exertion and produce, In other Wadi, to keep op the high price of corn. A sug. ration is also thrown out, that this country pos. bosses peculiar advantages for becoming a deposit for' foreign corn,. which should be bonded and ware. . housed, subject to the same rules and duties as may files applicable to other Corn. This, they think, would have a tendency to keep the price.more steady in the home market, and afford a security against the effects of a deficient harvest. We shall make a few remarks, ea passant, on 'these statements. In the first place, we have to ob serve, that we suspect the additional capitals which are stated to have been employed hi the culture of lend, will not be found to have been either so exten sive or beneficial as the Committee imagine. To the landlord they certainly have been of advantage, but we apprehend the country has reaped bet little good from them. The class of persons whom the stagna tion of commerce has forced into the farming line, have been a species of speculators who knew but lit tle of agricultural pursuits. It is notorious to every one, that the great competition thus occasioned for the possession of land has been the chief cause of the rise of rents and it must be equally evident, that the stock of substantial benefit could be but little in creased by the new-fangled system which these inex perienced cultivators introduced. As the hopes thus incited were visionary, no wonder can arise that they should have been disappointed. We have no objection to such persons vesting their capitals in farming concerns ; and, during the period of continental exclusion, they may have been useful to the community ; at least, at whatever expence raised, by the sacrifice of whatever other objects ob tained, more native grain has been brought into the market : but now, when the necessity which gave rise to thetir speculations has ceased (which they ought to have considered as probable), are they to be sup ported in the consummation and perpetuation of them, at the expence of the labouring community ? Are we to eat our bread at almost double the price at which we ought to eat it, lest farmers should fall' , beck into their original condition of farmers, and land-owners be checked in their attempts to subject the first necessaries of life to espeasite projects of `commercial scheming ? r Syr • NRIMEM=SS2I=II=B THE STATESMAN Amossempe,--_ As to the growing opulence of the kingdom, we ' NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. should be glad to have better proofs of its reality than this R eport contains; for the wealth of thatlew Dear!. San. 8.-.7lPeoe dawn from the River the 4114 e. into whose heeds the-initiate wealth of the nation - hilltabist 'Dwain* Mold to nwiwn'S Bay, with ttootkts St. Ifeleaa, Asthma, fur Helena; sad the Barbara, Ord, for has passed mount be taken as any very fair criterion Quebee.--A Deal hoot is jail retoroed from the Quern's Chamseir Of the prosperity of the country at large, which Is the beauties mete, dot several of the West between eat from evidently and confessedly in a state of bankruptcy their *odors this memelog, and proceeded for the River, in and distress. The reporters seem to have come to eausequeere alit mowing v ery hard from the N. E. this deduction, that if the farmer sells his wheat at i PO iv, Su e. B.—Atrived his Majesty's ships Fame, hiss than frem 725. to 965. per quarter (a wide dif- c4 . 0 „1„ 1 , 4 „ d w ens *, from the wrdiurraaelia, aid are pal ference of opinion, by-the-bye), he will be ruined, ander quaraistiae.-sailed hb Majetty's ships Forrester, and therefore the price must be kept up. Those Charybdis, led lillateret, with a carve~ of transports for Auctnations which attend all other sorts of articles, Cork, aid sappmeskimm thence s.o America. most not be allowed to a ff ect the price of grain, Haewrco ! aure t e.—Silled the Auckland packet, with a although we knew it to be the nature of all Mall fo r frollaad ; gar! Leicester packet, with Mail for Cox haven ; and the Active, with a Mail for Gotteaborgh—the two disposable commodities to be regulated in va lu e latterheve doers put : bark. . , by the coarse of crests, the demand for them, and • PLewleuzsr, Agri I.—Came in his Majesty's ship RAW, the state of the market. We cannot see the justice womnark and , bloops of war, with &Alt 40 sail of or policy of tha t proceeding, which would keep up vessels ender . reavey • from Beemeeee and oilier pods the the price of Corn in England so much above the Pty.—Soiled the P. ring transport for !reload, with part of itandard of other countries. The effect of such a the south Cork Militia. . Measure must battle destruction of our manufactures, Urea POOL, SErr. 7.—Arrived the Hawke, Llaingtoo, from and the consequent dependence of all classes of the from Lkbon: sailed 10th Augest ender convoy of his Majesty's , -*people upon the landed interest alone, whose ad. ship Kongaroe, and parted from .her on Saturday tat --all vantage it certainly is to avert, by moderation, such well ; the Malta, Bale, and the Catharine, Parr, for this Port. a RA sl SGATE., seer. B.—A rri red the following treaiports 1 state of things. Those who could leave the country in the event of a continuance of their privations Jane, nuked Bedford, 653; Fortitude, 67; thenaaa. Aik's after peace has blessed it with the hopes of a speedy Friends, DW. ; Rover, GL. ; and the Albion, JA.—Sailerfthe v emu, CG. and the Land, AY. with troops for Ostend. release from the burdens occasioned by war, would • assuredly read the way to emigration, and an unna- • AMERICAN PRIVATEERS.' ' " tural preference of foreign countries to ouj Oil i The four American privateers which hailall.4lo l 4 `and If,' as the Report says, a great degree of that frequently seen cruizing In the Chops of *then'. encouragement which agriculture has derived ! n o, continue to commit their dePredatioiii on our from the increase of our population, be justly homeward-bound trade. To-day we have an account attributable to that cause, it follows, of course, 'of one of them, the Chasseur, having captured two that a diminution of the inhabitants of the , very valuable Brazilmen, viz. the James and the 4i. kingdom must prove one of the most serious /antic, both of London, from Buenos Ayres;" s 4 impediments to the prosperity of agriculture, and has also taken the Christian,, of lElrciidy ; i4ttet ought to create among the owners and occupiers of , vessel the Chasseur gave up as a cartel. land a sincere desire to contribute to the ameliora tion of the situation of their fellow-countrymen. It is a fact which the experience and information of thousands have placed beyond doubt, that they can live much' . cheaper, and far more comfortably, merely by crossing the English Channel, than were they to remain on this side of the water ; and the inference from this must be, that the corn. fort in the one case, and the privation and difficulty in the other, are owing to causes of a political nature. The period having arrived when these causes ought to cease operating with an oppressive weight on the community, our expectation is chiefly directed to the wished-for diminution of public burthens; and when we can perceive no sincere manifestation of a desire to lessen the real causes of the evils so long complained of, but rather, on the contrary, read of intentions the object of which is evidently to per petuate without end the calamities flowing from this source, can we wonder that general dissatisfaction should prevail, and, wherever it is practicable, our at. I tizans should leave the land, and other countries be..l come enriched, *not only with pritigh gold, iss4 by I the exorcist of British industry and talent. if lebs lative support is to be given to the traders in grain ) ! why may not the holders of stock, or any other marketable commodity, claim legislative Intefferencit in their behalf ? The absurdity of thus eatsading the band of power to support any particular branch of commerce, is hence evident, and proves the folly of its intermeddling with any, since all are equally entitled to protection, and have their interest in- . , separably blended with each other. The wisdom of a Government is discernible from the degree of parental care and solicitude which it evinces for all the subjects of the State, and in the just discrimination it makes in conferring the benefits of support to all who lay claim to it. There are those who need it not who will be always craving, and perhaps obtain ing, whilst the greater part are compelled to suffer under real necessity, and vent their grief in un availing complaints. On the part of the British Go vernment, this just distribution of parental care is pre-eminently necessary in order to restore the vigour and just equilibrium of the component parts of the State. The sufferings of the middle classes, a class that has almost vanished, are but little known to the higher, and deserve the peculiar regard of a Government pretending to restore the strength of the body politic. Far be it from us to say the task which Ministers have to perform is an easy one. They have not only the task of discovering remedies, but of applying them to the wounds of the people ; and unless the remedy is directed to the parts af fected, there is much reason to apprehend the cure will not be a speedy one. ~,.,; ~ ; A Treasury order has been issued within the last week, exempting passage vessels, whether inwards or outwards, having on board passengers and bag gage only; from the tonnage duties ; but if carsiages are taken on board, the vessel • will be subject to these duties. This is a seasonable relief •40, the packets, as they have, many, voyage, sunk isisobb owing to these heavy duties. We have ad vices by the Cornwallis, from Tenerife) and the unobstructed depredations of 'the American crullers is shown in the particulars of her toyage..-.r She h laden with barilla, and she has.been captured ; and given up three several times by American print teers. Some of these being much incommoded.by ' their prisoners, put a great number of diem animated her, and with them she was proceeding to the ,Brie tish coast when she was take possession of • (the >Sist August) by the Hyperion, Captain Caws", and seat into Plymouth. A detachment of the 19th Light Dragoons marched on Monday from Maidstone to Portsmouth, test.. bark for Canada. The petitioners against the return of. Mr. Corzzeei for Grampoond, net havingeotered kilo the necessary 1' recognizanees within the time primribed by Law,. the 70ions bamr folio) to the ern*, and that . gentle- I I 1 • • man's election remises anqueetifoied ', , .-4-.. - ! By the custom-house hooks,lt appoint, that, from the 3th January, to the sth April, there were 1 m - seed into this coustry 137,729 quarters of corn 1 and grain, and 38,575 cwt. meal floor. During the same period there were exported,• of corn and grain, 283,582 quarters, and of. meal . and floor 67,213 cwt. Very rigorous pretentious have,been taken in tbe , Kingdom of Naples, to prevent the admission , of spies or disaffected personsaartizans of the late Go vernment. Among other ordonnances published by the King is the follolming :—" Any Neapolitan or Sicilian, who may come from Sicily to this kingdom, will not be admitted, if he has not previously ob. tabled a passport from our Minister for Foreign Affairs, or the Minister of General Police." ITALY.—The excavatiens of Yompel are pursued with the most unremitting zeal by the Neapolitan Government. The most recent discoveries have been three new magnificent tombsadorned with sculpture, and a hall which is supposed to have been the court Id justice, and which is decorated with triple row of columns. Bronze stoves were also found in the someplace, of the most beautiful form, with a Faun and a Bacchus, two feet high, and exquisitely formed. Lastly, .a small bronze Gladiator, precisely similar to that which has been already so much admired, and which is in the attitude of supplicating life from the spectators. - A short time ago, there was also found a beautiful silver vase which seemed to have been used in religious worship ; it is covered with figures in relief, and resembles in form that of the Royal cabinet of France, which has been published by Caylos and Dom Martin.e There is a third vase quite similar in the cabinet of the late Cardinal Borgia.— There has been discovered in the cabinet of medals at Milan, a Chinese work published in 1750, by order . of the Emperor Kien Long, containing drawings of -wela —--- • , 1 upwards of nine hundred antique rases resembling French Papers have been received to the. 5404116..- • ihose denominated Etruscan. Several appear. to be they do not contain any thing of sufficient interest td' ..-e very remote antiquity. entitle them to attention, in preference to our own i A LANCASIIIRE FAMlLY.—Jonathan Andrew, ei, domestic affairs. It is officially announced in the ;Waterhouse, in the parish of Ashton-under-Line] Moniteur, that a navel armament with troops, was to and his nissesous, were lately engaged by Lieutenants nil on the lit of September, to take possession of the Colonel Smith, of the Ashton-under- Line Local 1 M West India Islands, ceded to France by the Treatyilitia, to mow some hay grass. The father led the • i van, and the sons followed according to their se. .mf the 30th of May. An article from Berlin states, niority. When the work was completed; the father that the kingdom of Poland is to be restored, and and Ms sons were respectively measured and weighed, that Austria has agreed to surrender Gallicia.— i and their agereaken, which were found to be ezattly 'fhe Pon has published an inquisitorial Edict, sup• as follows :-s- ~• yrs. feet. lark'. score. lbs. pressing all Secret Societies, particularly' those of 3onathae Andrews 56 6 0 10 0 Freemasons. The Swiss Cantons, in consequence James -------- 39 ;. 6 1 .9 It of the threats of interference on the part of the 81115 ,..1 4 -----•.. .13 3; . 9 5 On 4.1. .., ................. ~., 6 2 , $ , lt . Allied Powers, seem disposed to set about settling wino' •-....---:-• 31 6 1, - , ,46 it •-• ' 9 10 % their differences amongst themselves. The accuracy y o w l • vs '6 ,' l'" 9'' 4 4'' of the Intelligence furnished by the Paris Papers may Jonah — 2l .9 10 be judged of by a line under the Paris head in the Wed 4-- AlO ' 9 " o Gazelle de Rance, stating that in England tilt bar. 1 Maw-...... •12 , • ' 6 108 • '0•• 10 • • vest has totally failed. ' g $ - .......... ..., . * . dr0...a.. 1 ..• . . OM 60 4 1‘ e l* .• . .• -. !.. • . .1 0.,,,., , ~.,•,, 4... . INSOLVENT DROTORS' COUR7'. Before Mr. annotissioner Raman. Testerdey, on the application of an insolvent tor of the name of Franklin, to be discharged ander Lo►d gedesdale's Act, his discharge was opp ose d Messrs. Denton and-Barker, the attornies, ou ground of Franklin hating, in one instance in wk they were concerned, fixed his bail with a debt 11., a proceeding that is provided against by Act. Mr. PRINCE SMITH sprared on Messrs. Denton and Barker's behalf, and stated, that they had attornies for the Prisoner. ' In that character they became bail for him on E writ stud out by a penes, of the nqme of Smith, to recover 211. returnable' first day of last Easter Turn ; and at the same f they gave Franklin notice to he ready with his by the return of the writ, the 2Sth of April. however' Franklin failed to 40. In this crii Messrs. D. and Et put in nominal bail, 'by retarni the names of two of their dirks as such bail, at same time giving notice that Ater and better would immediately provided. As the hail put in by at' nies invariably got rejected by the Court, to r even these clerks' names effective, it was necessary Franklin should comply with the form, and personal .solicit them, and get them to agree to become bat him. They stated this to him, but this Franklin also k lected to do, in consequence of which' they 'ere jected by the Couri, as being tbi attoroey'sbail, the Sheriff became fixed. • On• the 49th of A which was o...day* toO late 'Franklin brought his but they were useless , they. could not justify the Sherifftniug been thus fixed, the attornies obliged to pay the 211., ibey hating appeared at first bait to get Franklin out of custody. They contended, that having sufferad his bail or suret, become fixed, there being a clause in the Act gepthigslicla transeelTeu if& the exception which tbertbus made to the Prism discharge witgolsaland 8111 d. 'Messrs. D. eld B. having done'ell•tn'their'power to get Franklin fairly dischtrged out of oustody, and that as he had been guilty of gross negligence in not producing such bail as the Court would accept at the return of the writ; and bad.allowed his sureties to be fixed for the tit., his Irate case thit.came within the sieeeteg of the -4,;•The above facts-having been regulatirpoied by Meagre. D. And, . !.,gp;tiunntiss'ipner ,PA,tute. Iseld;ehowever, that itiseblame end iegligeace resteti with the attornies ; for; When Fitotiliis failed to : preide.ce in good time unexceptionafsissAsail, , and Inch as• Could justify r they Ithoulditaverenderkd - him in discharge of hit original ' sAtrie ti f . „A zi th*plp.ineeigemce Messrs. D. and IL had beennatili.,Auto the: role of Court, that • the , bull o 1 attaqitotilibohia Ilßt be treceffetti It was 4 4iri , ioixt **aide 'haring beta thee inereeled, the Pthilitiei its dfiefirged. ; 41'FEci:ING IArcIORN;, • , - • The Captain-of the poi scbooutr, from Gottenai burgh, While' delivering a cargo of deals and iron is Messrs. Headeand Co. of Neweastle;opon-Tyne, few days ago, ,was accosted by a-miserable looking young utatl, . jest retagned (pun a Fritoll prison, bpi seechieg a littlerempinyillagat: .Thetilsptoln, in fly, said, he-was sorry 'that lief was not in want of 'any additional bands, as his Arra was fully adequate to discharge the cargo. The yoong man, in return, ex pressed his regret, but urged the Captain to suffer hint to work only for his meat, as he was literally starving for want of food; Commiserating the youth's un happy situation, the Captain Coviipillaki with the con.. dition, and the young man went cheerfully to work in the hold among the crew. Observing, on the second day, the eager assiduity of the stranger to diScharge his duty, the Captain asked him of what place he was waive ? " Lerwick," he replied. " Lerwick— Lerwick !" rejoined the Captain, " and what is your name ?" " James Work," replied the youth. Pal pitating 'with eager anxiety, and afraid he might be mistaken r the Captain immediately inquired if he had a brother. " I had," said he, " but it is a long time since I saw him." " What is his name—his name'?" *hood breathlessly inquired the master.-1. ` l4 Laurence Work," replied the youth. " Then yOrs must Was had lettirs from your brother ?" says Mt Captain. 44 On ! yes, Sir." 44 Come, come along with me," said the Captain, hastily, and immediately hurried.him into the cabin. . 66 Have you any °biers tions to show me those letters from your brother!" asked the Captain. " Certainly not," said he, and immediately produCed them, The Captain, assured then almost to a certainty who the young man was, produced corresponding letters to himself, and upon the mutual correspondence being laid upon the table, each exclaimed—" BILOTHER !" and they instanta neously-rushed into each`other's arms, and for site. ral minutes their feelings were so overpowered with the warmth of their affections, that neither of them could speak till tears came to their relief,. „ 'A tudicsows circumstance we hear lately oeverfa at Brighton, in consequence of an absoleteetellifet. tion being made to salute the Secretary of the Adult: raity, in propria persona, by a discharge of 13 guns from one of his Majesty's ships of war. A prece dent being searched for in vain, by the Officers of the Navy ; the fact is to be recorded on the log-b00k... CORN-EXCHANGE. SEPT. 9.—Fine Wheat supporta Wed acidity's prices, and the best Foreign sells freely without Tarifa tins' ; ordinary sorts, are heavy sale, and cheaper. Barley not in demand. stud ls. per (waiter lower. Oats and Beaas . tany support their prices. Other articles remain the same. Wheat (English) 63 82 Beans Ditto (f °reign) • 60 80 Old ditto Rye • X 40 Tick do. 4O 44 . •„, ••••.• • •• • •30 34 Old •• • • New ditto — Oats •••• • • • • 0000 •2B 4 31 70 76 Fine ditto - Poland do. ..........43 513 Feed ditto . ..... .....18 Fine Flour &coo& ••0444,. Molt s • While Peas 52 58 Neti ditto Dlito Boilers 6O 63 ()fey Yeas ' 44 48 , 881 ITII Fll ELD MARKE ' T.-BIP 0. To sink the Offal, per Opt of 81h. Beet ... h. 01. to 6e. 01. Head of Cattle thh days Hutton ..ba. U 4. to 44. 41 I Swab Veal ... 7s. Od. to Bs. 0.1. j Shoo •• 4 ,.••....•••• • Pork ... 64. 01. to 71. 6d. Calve ..•... Lamb Ss, pd. Pigs MAY.SIARK ET. Ifs? , ll. 03. M. to 51. 01. 41. Clover • Daly • • • • 11, I* 19 p. • 04, =rall . deb. ender ed b l g the which bt of r the eotoo been they erase, le the e time B beet • This, • ti crisis, siting at the old be attor. make y that orally 61 foe °neg. .re re. • and kloit• bail ; and I were as thil y now sty to :t ex. harge, ,uter's Id B. r +t