The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-20 00:00:00

} NMI dime wed lull part V 1.1.1 libel ill pi ;tin) tt .1 ; r.. is the - pith tenet of y L 4 I CNC? • and th,,se incel toriv t hat t‘ • ore•r • any who or pt ur It :t • U ;1 . elicit • j • it.) .1 • h, • cot& ...•ot I :1e 31 , b . 11k, I an their a re; the mak Alen 1:1 1'4'41 able EiV3 Airol Mei tie tiers to th • 1... i re I Vr:lr Britt Lace all II evil, ape " rm t . 64 tires 1 art; ft.. I Lieu t••ge. , the reeei of cl deep: as SI gore ; t to al it as whir sown; Prete oath cutio soon I . the they re i ta, mitre diemt ab•zei to th that ;titter - ohli2 had. • dent that the r of tie coin i curve , their Con doer; mine !twee prim • 64 I , • nor 66 Viet Met anati zed • r • si l ?tor • 46: thee 1,i1L16.111111111 171t,STATESMA N. S- v . awn was prepared ; the company was very munerons, ad the repast conducted t:utch in the att le ut .o.r Enc. I piddle dinners ; in the av, ring the *hole ut the let? proceeded to the Theatre del Principe, o here se :al pieces analogous to tie tset-abiun, and in tat our of iberiy, were performed I also a number of verses sung pealse of the hero ; these were encored, while the wle utadience generally assisted in the churns. It is suppo-ed that Itiego's reception would have A•its d the jealously of those older Officers and linte ls who happen to he at Madrid ; quite the reverse: u hole, inc:ittling several Grandee-, have tied th each other in skewing him every mark of tuition. The Duke do Patine, the tiring Mare-nee Spain, has dined n hit acid accompanied the hero of Isla to several public places ; nothing, in fart, can :red the honours paid to this champion of freedom. id if the sentiments he has enpresseol to the people are , se of the heart, there is very little fear tit* all this :vise, so dangerous to some minds, making hire° tart that it is to his exertions in favour of public liberty, tat he is indebted for this well merited popularity. 1 ,ice the foregoing remark pia passant, as whether it i-es from the caprice of opinion in the multitude. or ty facts that may haVe transpired, there are those to advise their fellow-eitirens not to be either Ali hasty prodigal of their praise—they even point out three four doubtful characters amongst the visitors and taaintance of the favourite General : the suspicions tatted by rhesr insinuations are not allayed to-day, in Iseqttence of hiegu's having removed from the hotel a pt irate lodging, instead of proteeding to the army he had promised. He continues to have frequent derences with the Ministers, bolt thout;ll it is mi tt :.re determined to disperse the army if they nothing ;sheerer has been *lade public on the , p i e. t. POR TUG L . Es E R101)1,1710:1. From the Estroordinary G trace, of Li s b on , Not. trd 3. of the date of thendSeptember ° It having been announced by the Proclamation of eir Excellencies the Governors of the hiii;:dutn, that revolution li id broken out in the city of Oporto an 24th ult. we can node Alth the greater satisfaCtiall letite known. that hishilly the 1 rovinces of Beim' 'ontejo, and Algarve, remain Hamra. with almost a tainty that in that of Tar-os•Miitts there lik.wbe :KTLI the same tranquillity : the loyal and honour ie conduct which fhe Governor of the fortress of 13', Lieutenant-tiestral John Lobo Brands* do itrreida, Anil the other authorities, Loth civil and iitary, who had, on the occasion, received an inti ,tiun from the provisional einertintent of Oporto, iting them to unite with that gi t. r ut, deserves • g reatest praise. That honourable and worthy %era!, at corilita.: to what he unite on the 30th ult. the present cumniamter of the army, Lieutenant ,i.er4l Francisco de Paula Leite, as soon as he re ,red the alone communication, called together the :rat:sander of that intreits, Brigadier Maxi 11l iano Ja :to Mozenho. and Brigadier John de Silveira de I,acerda, and in ionsequenee of the assent of the three, I tne other authorities, ecclesiastical, military, and it, the nobility and the people, were called together, .0 toted utiatiiiiiiiusly the following protest : lig DICLADATION OF TUC ACTIIDRITIF.S, IFCELIMASTI. CAL, CIVIL AND MILITARY. TIM NOBILITY AND PCO. FLE. OF THE CITY or ELVAII. ° On the 30th of the month of August, Is4o, in .s city and fortress of Elvas, the authorities eras.- a ivil and military, haying been convoked at head-quarters of the most illustrious and excellent utennot-lieneral John Lubo Brandao de Almeida, ' f rolicr with the people of the same, represented by said Lieutenant-General, that last night there was received, by the Captain of the II th regiment of ••• I 1 reeding% of that and the adjacent towns, when .1 re. ceived the despatch of illeflC-onilede• Ameranti, Ge neral of thi• province: Ada - Mehl lobjoln a copy. . !- immediately set ant for this city, and arrived here on the same day. I found At in perft7-11.tratigaillity;.and have a well-founded hope• that the plll4lle prime will not here he disturbed. Tmtlay l have reeeiverkanother .despatch, anti already thion• loops are taken -w.bieh it couumarwle. You. must he bet ter informed of tbe eve trts that have taken place at I/pc:Go than I am, and I shall never he negligent in taking the means which may be thought proper, - and in communirating what occurs : Ira I can affirm with certainty that there is no symp tom of the COntatriOn Villa• Real. itie. [Wee Ifolloo- copies of the despatches referred to above. svlich contain nothing new.' PRocLANI VI'ION FOR ASSENIRLING TIIE CORTES. 'The following Proclamation has been sent to all the tribunals and public Aires, and ordered to be posted in an public places:— " Portuguese '.—The tiro ernors of the kingdom, per suaded of the i • rot danger which the nation and the monarchy incur if the crisis produced by the in serrection of Gporto be prol-nged. and vtilltioYing the extraordinary powers which have been conferred span them by their instructions in nrgent rases, after hearing the opinion of a great number of persons in cluded in the Connell of his Majesty, and conspicuoiis among the ditlirent classes of the nation, hate re solved, in the name of the King unr Lord, to cone* the Cortes, nomi n ating • ediately a CommissiOn. for the purpose of proceeding with the arrangements ercessary for the prompt assembling of the same. 'I hr Governors of the kingdom hope that a measure which so decidedly proses their determination to attend to the complaints and listen to the w,tiiSs of the nation. will immediately unite in a leeitimate and comsuoti centre the whole people, and that all classes sit it is composed aild ackonwlrder the necessity of such an union, to avoid the threatening m:l4 nl' anarchy, of civil war, and perhaps a (11seolutioti of the monarchy. Lisbon. Palace of the Gcsernment. Sept. I. (Signed) " The Cardinal PITRIARCII. Marquis de ROltil 1. Conde dr PINICIIE. • Cr.nde de IFERIA. ANTONIO GOMEZ RIREIRO." Ltaunx, SEPT. .2.-IYe have the pleasure of being able to announce to the public the (Arial dispatch which the Lieut.-(ieneral commanding the army, ad interim, has received frotartlie Comte de Asuarante, military Go vern°, of the province of Trams-Mantes, by which sill be seen, in an unequivoral pail., of slew, the honour, loyalty, and patriotism which animate not only that me ritorious General, who has so ni 1.11 distinguished him self in the service of our beloved Sovereign, hut all the troops stationed in the same Iwo% ince. The same de spatch a ill shew the arrangements milk). have been begun to oppose any attempt that may be made by the revolutionary government of the city oft/porta. We present a similar despatch front Lieut.-General Marcellino de Victoria, the Military Governor of the province of Beira, under the slate of the flltth of Au gust. lie writes from Vixen to the same General, Com mandant of the Army, ttt tijratiag to him the ar rangements which he had formed for repelling whatever attempt might be made by the Revolutionary Govern ment ; anal concholing his 'lisped) hy the following pa ragraph, in unison a i th the honour and loyalty by which he has always been distingnished : " I may be excused from assaring your Excellency of my sentiments and good intentions, and of those of the chiefs and officers of this province, slurp I have the ho nour of being known to sour Excellency." (The first despatch contains nothing of consequence.) "('haves, Aug. 26. _ . cavalry, Antonio de Lima Barret° Praia, a " Illustrious Seror,—Agreeably to what I bad the ho despatch signed by Francisco Homes de Sils a. acting flour of addressing to you from Villa-heal on the 24th Se rotary to the Provirional Junta of the supreme instant, I marched the same moment for this fortress, +verunicnt of the kingdom, installed in the city and this morning unfortunately I have verified my sus- Oporto, on the 21th intt. with a Piocianiatiou picions of the rising at Oporto, and even to my greater all the Portnruese, calling upon them to recognise distress I find engaged in it my brother Antonio de Sil os such, and with one arcord to approve of the con futation of 11+e Cortrs, and the new Constitution I veria, a madman, and already known to be such. I am `Erb may Aft wards be established fur the govern- not afraid that this event should injure my reputation, es .nt of these kingdoms, ace ttttt panic.l by a singular since my conduct has been and always will lie faithful ,'rodan,atlost to the soldiers, and by the form of the to oar King. which fidelity I shall manifest by my ac oath which all were hound to take; the prompt ear- tions ; but it is a calamity to see a mats is ho is allied to utiou of all these orders bring required. Anal as me by blood disgrace me and my ancestors. I beseech Its as these abort-Mentioned do, uments were read in your Excellency to make known to the exivernment ! presence of all, it was asLed OW consideration what I have now said, and to declare that if there is any ! y should receive, find. what 'steps should be taken person who wishes to taint my reputation, I am ready esarding their objetit.' •it leis una tt itt ,ously deter- to y i o di cate soy (Wine . misted, that all having - once sworn fidelity and ohs- " I have ordered an union of all the corps of this pro oice to our august Ilonjrch Johu VI., and in his t since, and 1 have dispersed throvigh it the Procl..me 'settee, to the buyeenors of the kikraorn, it•bilosigesl . inn which ort which I ear lose to yon. I intend to assemble all the latter alone to aeri4e ;an f! .e presedt . feint, an'! It they nutoit in cummineor n tii -• be l ninnuid 6 1 i t, the troops el' the first and second line in Villa-Heal. an i have opened connampical:one with the Genera l s of the Ice obedience was the %IV +l;4- •or all• siilt;ects, i zed, a. , they here. to adher+Cto the. Oath 'Aoki* they prortn-ei of l'eira . anti Milder, (rano whom there is not , sworn. And roortogrer it tens - agreed :bit the p r est. - jtet time to have reeeived any answer ; and when 1 have .nt of the Town Connell, on ret*elving isiailsiliatioWto collected the troops. I shall wait fur the orders of your it 0 u rinrw,slisat Iti take flee n rens tlintimpearestto him Nxiellerty. I hate ordered all coommitiration by eon most I .:oper to maintain the peace and trinquillity rims to be cut off with Oporto, and that the revenues ( al . ,he city, ;minting eta 40• elm people the iitoriodii theteitY should be sent to Vixen. In this province there i :orisc l lt ueic and sad Jeanie% of •the . contr.:sty sy ltem. , is need do corps of artillery for the park of twelve it is the duty of the commanders of fife livery' pieces which it contains. anal :Is Ira I receive them wps of this garrison, Aber were required tw relic t rte . , from Oporto, that regiment having become revolts wit soltalteros in the-same obedience and suborrilii; • :on to the existing govanment which they ba/111 " I communicate this to your Fxrelleney, hoping Icrto preserved. onlesi:tlie contrary. ehould be inter that you will send some officers and privates of that enne, hied. Alt this being igreed upon,. a nautili) of the I and particularly supply me with the means of procu ,troceedings was ordered le 'redrawn upend alrpeneent ring cattle. promised to comply theriwitb, sad signed it. •. ' (Signed) " CONDE DE AMA RANTE. Elras, Aug. 30, I SID.' . ;•.,. • .• - - ••" To the Most Illustrious Conde da Fe ira. " 'Here follow the signatures of thiLieumnant Hover- • anal others.] . . . Inn COMM: At AM , " The conduct of Until-Gen. Aittoniollareellles de -a Pinto da roomer 'ictoria Is no Ina wbethy of ridge+ tie having re- , it of his Most Faith ived from the militify el , !lar•of.Peira a sindltr littl- 1 n. and Sivonl, ant oder of the sans widion to that whieb we barevientloped abode, loyally? rail of the Rays mart ionotrably rejected it, snagtug the neetissary pro-! i the provine * positions relative to the troops and getrliee of hb , p :ti.• .A. •:: province." : , e f Trios-os ewes which the Cnerogidoe efilli'Ebblet of ! suers have to Oillee of thrisneedee-aosiend ,' have had t of thet%ew filled the MI6 of August lest • • ' the mem! a. Moe Illoolokoll Mr. Intosident-Oosorel of tbe Ponce' of Rof the Vif Illoibirdom,— • rim. dsy Woes yestitrdey I happened to be in illy dissidsk . ds Sow coormseniting the correctional pro- num ritocussurtort or ?nit tenni Dlt ARIARANTE. Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Count of Amirante, of the Council of his Must Faith ful Majesty, filratod-Cross of thelower and Swonl, and of St. Fer dinand of Spain, Commander of tlw sante orders and that of Christ. biodt Aieironl of the !loyal Armie, and Oorernor of the. Armies at the pro%ince of Trast-os- Moines :--- "if Brave and faithful people of Trios-os.Montes--This is the third time that circumstances have made me mita- AllOll 70t1 to arms, and always I have Lad the satisfaction ,Res jf seeing you hasten to defend the sacred riglas of our *must Sovereifn John VI.. King of the United Kiog elle of Portugal, Biazil,ind Algtrre. In ISMS it was who broke thiongli the eiptivity whirls the armies it II radians insider told throwdliround as: kit ua fortunately what we did had no result: for, although we here had no longer any foreign enemies, we have among us; ambitious, mad, and desperate men; who un happily, in the name•of the Portuguese, seek to change the government, and under specious and fake pretences, enileaeour to induce us to be traitors to the King, and false to the sacred oath which we took to him ; and, sowing anarchy in the nation, promise us great blessings as the result of sip h innovation: but remember %that sort of blcsings revolutionary Frenchman gave to France,: being nothing else but delta's, cmidagrations, and rob beries, and, lastly, a destructive war: but your loyalty is so well known, that it is not necessary to awaken it by arguments. lam determined, by all the principles of honour, of duty, and of religion, to sacrifice even the last drop of my blood in defence of the sacred rights of the King our Sovereign. I am sure that these senti- , inents will be those of vou all. It is a crime to recog nise the revolutionary government of Oporto. The councils, magistrates, and all the authorities, as well military as chit, (ight to repel, and not to recognise, such a government. " Inhabitants of Tras-os-Montes, let us preserve our loyalty; and let our general cry be " Long live the King, and long live those honourable Portuguese who are faithful to " CONDE DE ANIARANTE." " Head Quarters at Chimes, August td, P. 020. TO TILE EPITOR OP TILE STATESMAN. LETTrR am induced loy unr well-known candour to obtrude npon your notit e. a few of my reflections that base occurred upon trailing a new work entitled the " Principles of an Equitable and Efficient System of Finance." IVhen a bodily malady assumes an intractable mode floe nostrum of almost ever►• empiric is recommended ; this appears to lw the case at present with the malady the nation is afflicted with, in -the shape of the National Debt. Several publications use, of late appeared on this subject, and all recommended as Pursaceas ; extremely ridi-nlosts, and sometivies absurd plans, rivet the; public attention ; but those that base lately been in-I trodured have seldom engaged wore than an ephenirrell reputation. Whether the plan of finance, now under notice, is destined to outlis e the day of its birth, 1 know not :1 possessing as it does some positive advantages, it is at least deserving of an impartial consideration. lf, as is ' proposed, and the arzunient of IL Wilkinson appears to he demonstrative, that four millions of money could be annually saved in collection of the revenue, the country would from this, annually derive an unex pected and unprecedented benefit. The nation has i been borrowing for about 120 years ; and if four lions could have been saved every year in the sloye of a sinking fund, five hundred millions more of the national debt would have been paid off. Were the' savings of collection allowed by the new system of: finance to be above four millions per usiesos, appropri-1 ated toward the reduction of the debt, a sinking fund in the tourse of a few years of considerable magnitude would be produced ; hut leaving four millions annually in the peoples' purses, would be only one of the advan tages that would resnit from the new mode of taxation. Another would be, the destruction of the powers of corruption to the actual amount of tour millions a year, and the demolition of the fond hopes of thousands of, hungry expectant% that sneak after the notonggmon-1 gers for posts and places. he new system would give a vital blow to oligarchical misrule, and the author of the system ought to know, if he is not aware of it, that his plan of taxation will never be carried into practice, while Boroughmongers' dominion exists. Their *est esti a ill penetrate the author's, ilesivis. They will proscribe the plan as a faction of tf.ji)ene ; ler it is, in fact, a Radical Returns of the Finances of the Nation ; and do all in their power to oppose its introduction into practice. You must be aware, Sir, that the plan of taxation in use is dear to the tioroughtnongers in another point of view, as their dominion can only be pursued byi coercion and poverty. That system is muss to their diabolical purposes, that impoverishes the labouring! people, and degrades them in their character. The system Mr. Wilkinson has proposed would exonerate them too much ; they would, on its introduction, immediately regain a degree of elasticity that would make them wore incontrolable by the means % now employed by the oligarchical tyrants. The system would tax the tyrants, unquestionably on every prin . Nile of justice entitled to pay, hut now nearly ex empted, and exonerate the labouring people bound down with taxation, and who ought in justice to be unb 'nen. has I ing existed a systetiwie design on the part of the Butoligkmongers,to impoverish ?belabouring and iachistrious people it IA the object of the former to the latter only a hare existenre, just sufficient fur the support of the animal functions, and the Pour's Lair t' , Je affords the inilizent and helpless an asylum, after they hare beets rooked of their hard earnings. On the introduction of the rroposed new system of taxation, trade would acquire an impe►es that would demand all the labour that could be spared front agri cult,;re ; tke diminution actually of the sum of tax ation a onlii actually lower provisions so much, as to enable the manufacturer to enter into a successful com petition with those of any other country. If a pound of keit fell to 4.1., and a lot of beer to 2411., the nte chanie and artisan would be enabled to lower wages in proportion. I am, Sir, yours, bee. THETIS. Sir RICHARD PHILLIP", the improver and reformer of Books of Education, to whom every rising genera thin will acknowledge the deepest obligations, has re cently augmented his useful services by the publication of a Biographies/ Coat-Book, which will in due time be co-extensive n ith the Englixlt Language, and ad ranee the juvenile mind more than any other book extant. A nseeting, numerously attended, was on Monday last held at Caine, to consider the propriety of present ing an Address to the Queen. N. Atherton, Eq. propoood lb. Address, uhich MIA strongly opposed by H. Masewsther, Esq. (the barrister) as being prema ture. and who snored an amendment to that effect. A 1 long illocution .ensned ; after abieh the Addreu'tas cure, sad U. Page, Esq. and S. Viviash, Bay. were tlopettal to wilt oa her Majesty with It, LONDON: NEIONESDAT • KYLNING,2 4 EPTIIIIHER 20, MO. tf JC.I"-ENCILINGE, OR, ocisti, St .thing of importance has ocenrred in the 5t..1 1 tlarket this morning. Consols cloed yesterday ete, ing at 661 for the Account, and opened this n:comizt at the same price ; they have since been dune ;t but are now 661 Sellers the market looking better than it has latterly. Extract of a letter from Bombay, data; April 25. " A detachment of his MaJIATI's 47th regiment co about to be dispatched at the time this letter hire% for the instrediAte march up the Decan, to gull '11: insurrection which had broken out among the nsti, a Princes at that place : but it was nut thought of an% serious consequence at ilombay. l aru sorry to kee that the Cholera Mor b us has again broken oat at Cal. cane, nnuthers were daily dying in Ilengal. The trade at this port is at present at a complete stand. We have en cotton for the regular ships, and Lee:: lambert are laid op at half-pay. The Indianien, lours. Mating*, and Marquis Handy, are hourly expected, and, with the ships we bare in !orb or, will throw the trade into a complete stand, althongh our commercial accounts from Surat ate favourable. His Majesty's ship Liverpool, which has sailed for Triticomale, under command of Captain Col.t.tes, will return to this port in a mouth, for the expre4 purpose of taking home the new yp gan ship, Cang,s, now on the stocks, when the Liserpool %ill be sou here at public auction. TVA DI DETNZEN A SialltrA AND FRANCIE.—The is lowing is from the Liverpool Paper of the September : " American vessels arrived and expected at British outposts with cargoes intended for France, have bees permitted by the Lords of his M•JItSTI . S Treasury to land their cargoes at such outports, under the ware housing act, pro trospore, in consequence of the heavy tonnage duty in France having caused the parties to suspend their original intention as to destivatista." iliew days %her, we brought under the smite of our readers, some remarks on the peaceable mesas by which the Continental RooWinne have been effected The tin untstance cannot he too oftrn repeated, or no widely circulated ; for, at the moment we were amidst those remarks, the conductors of the wretched shackled press of France were compelled to insert, is their Journals, falsehood upon falrehood, neglecting the state of affairs in Portugal. According to the Paris papers, every thing ut Lisbon was in a state of alarm; blood had been profusely shed ; and the de•.ire fur a Constitution had been resolutely opposed. These fabri cations ought not to surprise us. They are not so much the language of the Paris Editors as that of the Censors, who regul..t.i the perm', which is neither more nor less than the slavish polluted organ of the Revere: cent. '1 be corrupt part of our own press lent itself to the support of these infamous falsehoods ; sad en deavoured to excite the reseatusent of otter countrymen a i rstitist the Portuguese, by asserting, that a number of the English bad been niassacred at Lisbon. Such are the unworthy means by which arid tra-y power attempts to support ittelf: The means are certainly well worthy of the end desired, and we have no doubt they will be met with the coa -1 tempt they deserve, for they certainly are sot worth ' the honour of our indignation. it is now not denied, that there has been no violence whatever at Lisboa; that consegn;elly, the English there have nut beta ill-treated ; an,l it is not denies!, that the Regency of Portugal (after having increased the honour of the army, by ineffeetaally endeavouring to bribe it) ►ss quietly convoked the Cortes. It may uaturally aim the surprise of all, that the hired scribblers of power should be so weak as to invent these falsehoods, seeing that their tetiseralee existence cannot be prolonged you,' the space of a fortnight ; and dial our increased contempt must then be visited upon their authors. Ths surprise is perfectly natural ; bat it is not very' cult to account fur it. The tyrants' dread is not SJ touch at the Revolutions themselves, as at the force of their example. It becomes necessary, therefore, foe the purposes of corrnption, that the account of tech 1 Revolution shoed be accompanied, or renewed I. soon as possible, lay a statement of same faeces which may not ebaaturaliy be supposed to attend ever! political convulsion ; that' is to say, because it is melancholy fact, that hitherto, the generality of politi cal ellavidsions bare been the usurpation of Sovereigos over the rights of their people. As the glorious incise el the Revolutions' in question has precluded the possibility of violence, (for it is the force a mum slam with which they bare bop arciesi,) it has of PRICE OF STOCKS Till Hank Stock II per Cent. Red . I per Ct. Cons. tkili 31 per Cent. 4 per Cents. 6 pr Ct. Nat). 10-21,1ei Coif Ann. Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann. 66i _ ....--. 8 DAY AT ONE O'CLocz 'lndia Stock -all Ditto Roods I% 211 ps ()Id AnnuPies F.:. Bills N. its. 3s. pm. Ditto Cos. 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