The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-21 00:00:00

PRICK OF STOCKS Till Bank St'wk 9391 40 ' par Cr-10ton not per Ceet.Con. 713 k Sk 65 p:r Co.t R7l 4 per Cents. 90H pr Ct. Navy 111 191 Spar Cent. Ln.re knr 191 9.16 kotr Cora IPlth 6 per Cent. DAY A I' ONE O'CLOCk . Itbma Stott 242 Ontoßonde --s 715.725. pi South-Sea Stook • Month Boa Old Ann. Hz RIP S& 10001.4 s 5.34% p. -4M. 44. Ss. Os. pm. Smell 4.5.65. Os. pm. India for ditto Coo. ter Aeet ?Si St Lott. Tickets 24/. ISI. MGM WATRR AT LORDO O I-3RIDOR TO-MORROW. i Morning 12 o'elocr.—Evenimg 18 min. after 12. QM, btattiOnatt. • .4 Twa 111411111TATIJIIA14" I 1 11;WORPOILAT1D WITIII " Till STATISMAS." LONDON: WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1821. STOCK EXCH,INGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. • Tbera is very little business doing this morning on the Stock Exchange. Consols are at present 781. Bstract of a letter from Savannah, Sept. 15.—1 n voncequence of the low price of grain the farmers of Canada, in the western district,-are turning their at illation to the cultivatioa of tobacco. A sample has •been sent to Montreal, which is said to be of an excel . Is:at.quallty. The soil and climate of the banks of sae Thames and the norther° shores of,lake Brie, have . :been found to be well adapted to the cultivation of plant, and the crop' already planted have attained a luxuriant growth. Our city begitis to have a more ively appeatatice than a has hitherto done. Several vessels ban arrived from the North with a number of passengers. Business has not yet opened for the sea sal, all neither the crops of rice nor of cotton have as yet come in. A letter from New York of the 13th of October staies, that the State.prison of, Auburn was on fire, which commenced in the workiliops of the criminals. No account dale damages can as vet be ascertained. EXTRACT OP A LITTER PROM NEWHAVEN. SEPT. 23. On the lfith inst. four very large skeletons were found in a field, which had, for twenty years past, been cultivated in Corn. They were deposited under a mound apparently very ancient. The first was disco vered by the owner of the field, having ploughed it up, which induced him to make a farther examination, when three others were found. The hones are perfectly s.sond and th i tch larger than common. pirticolarly the it*Nil., which can be very easily slipped over the larg eat man's head. The upper jaw bone has one row of doable teeth, only on the left side. It is hoped, that `:e rit.iosjty of the public may excite them to examine Ow skeletons, and furnish souse iaterestingspecnistions sati the subject. Extract of a letter from Boston. dated Oct. 22:—It is?the intention of several of our Banks in this town to , lead money, at the rate of five percent. interest. This measure will, no doubt, have an important effect in the business of this city, while, in many other places. com plaints are made of the scarcity of money, which ap pears to be in plenty here. Our monied men have, for some time past, discounted good notes and drafts at . fire per cent. _ _ E IST FLORID t. The St. Aagrtstide Florida Gazette' of the 13th alt. gives an agreeable description of the opening of the local judicial Tribunal of E tst Florida on the 100, under an ordinance of li,►veronr Jackson. The bench was filled by " five plain, intelligent, ho• mat Citizens, sitting openly and publicly to admi nister juitice among the people." " The first American t}rand Jury, which was ever called upon in East Florida" was then sworn in. The Petit Jury was also called and sworn in. " 1 thought immediately" (says the narrator, and it appeared to him that every one was of the same mind) that " this seals thefite of kingly power for ever on this penin sala.—hiberty °jibe Press, and Trial by Jury, have taken up their ab /de on this fine land of citron and orange groves ! The sons of Washington will vindi cate the goodness of the Creator, in showing that man may he great and free, though living within the influ ence of the torrid sane. and fanned by the breezes and shaded by the bowers of a tropical clime." It is pleasant to trace thus the st'ps of improvement, which this country is making under the auspices of liberty. How many, years would have passed away '- *Ace the Spanish Regime. ere the Jury system would have poured its benefits upon the people.— But the improvement is not confined to the judicature. At a meeting which was held in the Council Chamber, at St. Augustine, (Mr. Forbes in the Chair) the citizens /tarred into resolutions to collect fends fur the establishment of a Protestant Church. and of a Library. A Committee of three was also appointed "to report to this meeting. on the 22d inst. the best practicable plan of a public school or schools for the inhabitants of East Florida." Thus. we already see the Jury trial—a Protestant Cbaretia public Library—Education—and, though last, not least, the Press, finding their way into this new acquisition. Suoh are the energies of liberty•—(Rich *ea Compiler.) By letters from Vienna we learn that the Greeks of Macedonia are far from being subdued. According to letters from Sere, of the 17th of October, they have gained some advantages. They have repulsed a new attack made by the Turks against the position of Cas sandra; the Turks were obliged to fall back on Salo idea, where Asiatic troops are daily arriving. The oily point, it is said, upon which the affairs of the insurgents present any really favourable chance is gpiras and Albania; since several of the Albanian ',eye have declared themselves Ali Pacha. It Is added, however, that it is almost Impossible to obtain say aatheatif sews from this terdiy, says the write, from hauling and the §itiotes Chourschid in the beginning of October near Arta; it is also asseqed that the fasnces Pull& Pacha's antaionlit,' has been taken, and bond Pacba killed. Some letters doubtless exaggerate the loss of the Turks in rating it at 10,000 men ; they have retreated to Larissa in Thessaly to await rein forcements ; Arta must have capitulated. It is said that Pacha Bey has offered a very considerable ransom,l but that the Albanian Beys have resolved to give him up to Ali Pacha, who has sworn his death. All the letters agree as to the truth of this news, though they differ in some of the particulars. From the various accounts that have come to band, we have no doubt that the Turks have been defeated at sea. By a letter which appears in another part of our paper, dated Trieste, it is understood that one Turkish corvette was boarded and takes, seven other ships •unk, another in the port of Cheri, in the island' of Zante. The inhabitants of Zante are said to have obliged the English authorities, after killing four English soliiers, , to send off the forty Turkish ships that had taken shelter in their port, so that hopes are entertained the shattered remnant will be entirely de stroyed. According to another letter from Leghorn, the meeting of the Oreek and Turkish fleet took place on the 12th of October, off the island of Zaote: the inhabitants of the island were assembling on the shore. The ad►antage appearing to be on the side of the tireel;s, u the Turkish dag was struck in some of the ships, and the banner of the Cross hoisted in its stead, caused them to express their joy by loud acclamations and clapping of hands. The English perceiving this, gave orderp for the stuns of the fortress to fire on the Greek ships; but while they were en gaged in this, the inhabitants revoked, and the English were obliged to retire, ant to shut themselves up in the Castle. Troops, continues the writer, have, since arrived from Coifs, under the commend a General Adams, and we expect, with impatience, farther parti cnlars.—This account cannot be true. If may have been mixed with those feelings which might arise in the mind of an advocate of the Greeks, when he had heard of the Proclamation of the Governor of the lonian lslands, to which we yesterday referred ; but, severe as that exercise of authority was, it is not consistent with the neutrality which the pro clamation professes, to make such a military interference as is here alleged. By that Proclamation threats are held out to " those imprudent ministers of religion, who, in contravention of the pure prkcipler if that Gospel which inculcates universal charily and benevolence, on this occasion put up,. under tbp very eye of the Government, public prayers for the destruc tion if the Ottoman Power. hies wickedly employing the rare of religion to inflame a fatal enthusiasm al ready of itself too extensive." The unfortunate PAL guinotes, who, with their brave countrymen, the Su- liotes, had failed in an attempt to ze-possess them selves of Parga, their expalsion fromiwitich forms such a stain on the history of this country,' ire also by this Prjelauiation declared to have forfeitbd their right of citizer.ship in the lonian Islands, and are to be refused admission into any of the lonian States.—This Pro ylamatioa, it appears, is justified on the principle of neutrality, which bad been declared by the Executive government on the 7th of Jane. The French Chamber of Peers with that fulsome adnlation that alike disgraces the givers and receivers, and whose empty unmeaning flummery cannot be ex ceeded, except by the late sapient address of the Al dermen and Common Council, have blended, in their asldrers to the French King, some bold truths hich appear t.) be satyrically directed some where else. In referring to the Greeks and Turks. they say emphatically, "He is not a Christian who does not feel alarmed at them, nor has he a human heart who i• not wounded ; and that policy must walk in the train of religion and humanity." This is a hint to those Despots who tamely look on the ,`unheard of murders and cruelties committed on their fellow christians in Turkey and Greece. The ad dress continues to boast of the respect 'hews the French flag in the Levant, and the protection it has at forded to the persecuted. whereby the lanoeent were succoured and protected ; the abase of power was pre vented, the voice of pity attended to, and a _multitude of victims rescued from the fury of vengeance. Whe ther this is meant as a censure on the conduct of Sir Thomas MAITLAND, is a matter we submit to our reader., whow we presume are aware of his refusing the poor unfortunate Pargwinutcs permission to land on their native island to save themselves from the sanguinary knife of the infidel. This is a mani ple of a British Governor. It might have pained over in India, where the press is in thraldom. bat even in France. and under a Bourbon Censor. it is held up as a disgrace to British ju risprudence. In another part of the address the insult gathers as it goes on, " The prosperity of the finances surpassed their biglizst expectations, the laws are more respected and purified from error." Are the.. two points directed against England or not ? In the first place, the re sources of this country without the assistance of loan., are unable to pay the interest of the debt, therefore, the irony is visible. la the second, our sanguinary code is a disgrace to s huinan nature. particularly as the example of frequent immolations appears to hare no effect on the prevestioa • cIIP- • •- hundreds that 4v►sagered for fofse are so inhuman and disgraceful t$ of the Country, that we do not wonder at it coming ander the cetuntro-cat the French Vhambey. Tear after year a e have called)spon the Government to abolish this base and bloody iyitem—vain we're our at tempts to humanize theme_ Bank prosecutions, and this morni og added 4 unfortunate victims to the appalling ea talogne.Again the Frenchmen repeat their masked abuse: ‘4 Your MAJESTY beholds the passions calmed, and the moment approaches, when ill jealousies, all resent• meats, will become extinct." The readers must set this was clearly meant as a rebuke for the conduct of this Government to the people of Ireland, in not sub• staotiating a system of kindness and conciliation, instead of coercion, the bayonet, and the gallows, the hopeful Tythe Farmer, and the Orange Wrecker. Taking this address as a whole, we consider it prin cipally ditected against our political institutions at home and abroad, and a censure upon our narrow hearted policy with regard to the Greeks and the Irish. We return to the subject of the application to ..the Court of Chancery by Messrs. Hudsons, Tenants to the Coopers' Company, for a reduction of the rent of a farm in Essex ; because an application of thii kind to a Court of Equity, at this juncture, deserves the most serious attention, as mooting a point in Which all persons connected with agriculture, and holding long leases, are deeply interested. The Petitioners stated that they had taken the farm on lease the latter end of the year 1817 ; that three years ago potatoes were 6/. per ton in the London Market, but by on importation from Scotland, they were now as low as 2/. per ton, and that they had con sequently lust 10001. by their farm during the last year only. We cannot at all float but that Messrs. Hudsons bare lost the money by the farm, which they state; but we think we shall be able to prove, either that they are themselves ignorant of the cause of their less, or had not the courage to state it to the Court. Now the fact was, that in 1819 the potatoe crop totally failed is all the home isounties, so that WI. and 11/. per too were given in the London Markets; this set several speculators on importing from Scotland, Devon shire, and other distant parts of the kingdom, which speedily reduced the price to an average of about 4/. 10s. per MR ; since then, a few, and bat a very few, cargoes of potatoes have been brought into the port of London, more than was customary previous to 1819; so that blesses. Hudson. cannot pretend that the pre sent low prices is at all owing to importation from Scotland. But Messrs. Hudsons also grew drum-bead cabbages to a considerable extent ; now no cabbages have been sent from Scutlamd, or from any other dis tant part, so that the reduction in their value cannot have arisen from a glut in the market. It must be evident from this, that some circumstances other than those pleaded by Messrs. Hudsons, have operated to cause thew so dreadful a lust as maw. in one year, of little more than 100 acres of land. If, however, it had been true, that the fall in the price of the produce of their farm had been caused by the circumstances stated, we can conceive of no thing more strange, than that a farmer may be re lieved by the Court, and his lease nullified, because, by a fair competition, to which every trader is, and ought to be exposed, the article, he produces are fallen so low in price, as to effect his rain, What should we lay of a merchant applying to the Court to be relieved from a contract, because he had found, that on send ing his goods abroad, a similar article lead been sent from France, by which the market was glutted, and the price reduced ? The most extraordinary feature in this ease, how ever, is, that the Lord Chancellor ordered the petition to be referred to the Master, to consider what reduc tion should be made ; the reduction to be refunded whenever pekes should get higher; remarking, at the same time, that "he never heard of a farmer, when 1 , the articles of produce were at a high price, paying a greater rent to the land-owner than be had stipulated for in his lease." But, surely, after this decision, we msy expect to see a land-owner come to the Court, and say. " I let a farm last year. when wheat was t*. a bushel. but now it is risen to 10s. ; it is lint just that my want of foresight should he remedi..d to me, anal the lease so far cancel led till the price of so heat shall again fall to .is. a bushel." If this should ever he admitted as a principle in equity. we may expect to see every foolish or unfortunate spe culator applying to the Court of Chancery to be re lieved from the injurious consequences of his own want of judgment ; so that trade and commerce would be soon annihilated, and law only thrive. _ _ • _ _ We have shewn that Messrs. Hudson's did not state in their petition, the true cause of their losses. It wa► not caused by importation front Scotland, but by the financial operation of the Uovernment, which is pro ducing precisely the same effects in every part of the kingdom, where importation from Scotland cannot possibly he even the pretest. In 1817, the tame when the lease was granted to Messrs. Hudson's, prices were high, in consequence of Ministers having caused an enorsnens issue of paper money, to qniet the landholder, who, after the dread ful depressions under which the agriculturalists la bowed in 1816, had become clamorous and threaten ing, as they are now ; though the Ministers were nut so well prepared to meet them. This temporary elevation of prices. naturally caused • rise in the value of land ; and 31 . . Hudson's, among many others, took their farm at a corresp.nd invent, not dreaming tha4,3llaisters could and might, by a single Act of Parliament. so alter the value of all their property as to overwhelm them with ruin. We conceive, notwithstanding these observati.•ns. that Messrs. Hudson bad good grounds for applying to the Court of Chancery for relief. from tin ruinous colseelsences of their lease. bad they ventured to s t a t e thins. Had they said, that they bad taken their farm l in 1817, at a rent. which prices then warranted ; that by withdrawing the paper money, Ministers had al tered the ►alue of property ; that it wss not equitable to pay rent. in gold, which had been contract e d f or is paper of a mesh lower value; that neitl►er iheu►- selves our the great mass of Ate people ha►l any. even the nest meow influence over tie allakiliffe, winch maid 'those Mans llecteatiedis in the mane of property, T 144 STATESMAN I esinntri. We beard iest of rili;ik We b i Belgrade t i that the A. nee on the : lciait ) had beaten the Puha the Governtnent of • ^ • ' - ~ Joastuuch as the House of Commons, :it hieh mighth eontroul Ministers, did not fairly repre seit 4. people, it being notorious, that a najority , f HHouse d their were nominated by Ministers the n's& dependants I haul 31essrs. 'lndwell 4 ,47' to the Court o n t h ese grounds, these are 4 butwillw A 414 men in the kingdom, t _ agree with Ut II il ft* they would have he re entitled to relief. 1411 —.............--, _,,, We are concerned to leara that a very I r y Rank, in the north of England, has stopped 9 : 444 The fat was known on 'Ch ange yesterday al):114.ilit: and occasioned the money market to be flat. Extract of a letter from Trieste, Nov. 2 sel has arrived here in eight days from Corfu, b r i t , ing letters op t o th e 18 t h of October, f rom a taw ip " . spectable merchant there, to the Director of th e 4 4. pany of Assurance of this City, giving the folloe6 information r es pe c ti ng t h e T ur ki th fleet. It cog 4 of 53 ships of war, with 37 colpiY vessels they k id takes at Galaxidi ; it was attacked by 28 Oreek sels, being the vanguard of their whole .fleet, am is. tirely dispersed, the Greeks recovering at tli. ass time the vessels taken from them. One Terld o k vette was boarded and taken, and 7 ether silp itik . another in the port of Cheri, in the Island et b ait : and four have not been heard of yet, the eaki i i ir forty took refuge in !ante, foorof the larg es s w i t h al , masts; a French corvette was present at thi a b alk They write from Einte, that the fslastien huh obliged the English Authorities there to sead off the 40 Turkish ships that had taken shelter is their pa r ; and that they had even killed four British Wa tts. We expect soon to hear of the attack of the shattered remains of this Turkish feet, and then we hardly tki l k there-will he one left to carry the news of the Qui te the Sultan. A small vessel of Spenia attaakeitka Turkish brigs and sunk thew. A letter from Augsburg speaks of a Deelaspi n ''' "- about to be issued by Austria, requesting, i n th e • I , l ) : ;t u iri r m t t e isi t te t a l b adt u tr. r i g cta , ited t s h t e t nh t ee l t r iut a r l e d icitto D yr u wo k if e t h a li o re east formal manner, the Kings of Saxony. Bavaria, std I, th to e ou tfit of Turkey. A eimil-r request will, it is aid be to the King of the Netherlands, who, as Gan ' g f r ed a er , a r t r io ea n t . y oTfheAsialitannecseamhaevlienticterbuzet cob: Doke of Luxemburg , is a Member of the 6. a wa re ni p e o C rt on o eluded. at Hanover, between England and Austria, with reference to the a ff airs of Turkey. Letters from Constantinople to the 11th ult. expos! less confidence with respect to :the contiaaaase of peace between Russia and Turkey than they had terly done. One thing is worthy of remark, that aim tion is no longer made of St. Petersburg, as the goat. ter from whence the solution of these doabts is to be expected, but Vienna ; the inference from which is, efssegnardeadleurn: and aint that a mediation has been undertaken by Austria be. tween Turkey and Russia. Letters we have seen from one of oar COllllll at Malaga, state—" We have been It good deal'llimatem ed with the yellow fever, and l fear inforn IsMytt quite clear of alt apprehension : bear one intif of thi population have already tied to the country, aid I also think of rem.oving in a few day* with my issatty."-. Moog-out Courier.) . . . Letters were this merging (yesterday) reeekbett St. Petersburg, of so late a date as the 29th /It There appears to have been " no ex ensive stir lathe war department," nor any " extensive preparations,' sta stated in The Chroillek of the 23d alt., and agate revived lately ; and, as to the public opinion in tie Russian capital, it has always been held that the Bt. change was a fair criterion of that opinion 4 as to rat or race. If we may johige by chi's, therefore, Omit not the slightest idea of hostilitio s, as the exchange continues steadily to advance, the last quotation being 9 Ifith. Authentic accounts have been peerlessly rreeived of the Russian army having retired into win ter quarters —(Courier.) The Times has at length condescended to notice the changes thatare taking. place in administration. The version it is pleased to give of the arrangement meat, of con, se, be different from the statements that pre. ceded. “ The following." says a paragraph is that paper this morning, " is the manner in which we bare heard the Ministry arranged :—Lord Wellesley, it is said. and Mr. Canning. are both to be aoltoitted—the former to the Home Department, the latter to the Ad. miralty ; Lord Sidmoath being to take the Priry Seal, and Lord Melville to go to India; Lord Westmorland is to become the new Lord Chamberlain : and, hotly. Lord Buckingham is to go ont to Ireland." As the King %tent yesterday to Brighton, and went, it ap peared, with a view to a long solournment there, it may he presumed that the n •w arrangement bad beta previously settled, and that, whatever it is, the public will soon officially learn. In the present state of doubt respecting it, speculation may be well post- Toned ' An extraordinary degree of indifference seems t• prevail amongst the French bepcies, which is set easily reconcileable with the strict discharge of di* portant trust reposed in them by their coastittlest&- .- Day after day the Chamber bad met without being ilk to proceed only with the public business, bet with the appointment of its own officers, through want of , a sufficient attendatoce of members, although it was known that they abounded in the capital. It bed con sequeotly not been able to take the King • • o ar o, into consideration, or to prepare an Address is replyto his Majesty, a mark of respect which we won der polite Frenchmen have so long witholdeu. The Messrs. Hu.lsona•wbo made so extraordlo m y an application to the Court of Chancery a few day s ago, pique themselves as being right loyal men, sod their loyalty to the King, has pretty mach the sates !foundation as that of all the eerriles in the kingdom. who boast of their loyalty, according to the Court as ceptation of the term, whirls is now understood in mean the same is England, I ine k Neigaud,r,loe Joe' in France. Messrs. lindsot s' are, and h ave b e es for many years, his Majesty's Butchers, (they 4e however, live at Knightsbridge) sad bare amain a considerable fortune by their business. We can tin_ longer be surp r i se d, why the decrease in the price of potatoes was i•ttributed by them to istporiation from *eland, rather than to the diminution of the ciecu: Laing medium. It would have been horribly disloyal' to have insinuated to the Lord Chancellor, that bi 4 M +sty could foil to choose the wisest of all pemibi* hl inisters. .:•• des i t . ro lle y e ed ne b ir y n tire .b e s a te rl b y °f in :te e sno ja rni b e i g ns o s f tahterlarth'itilt:l6*• " 4: 41.° -~:: ~.:~ 1 • r .11 0 1 I I