The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-04 00:00:00

1' ~ M . • RAVAGES OF THE Y ELLOIVF EVERim SPAIN. • • 'the late hour which we yesterday received the Poda . ..papers prevented us from stating, except in gene Val terms, the melancholy intelligence they contained re specting the spread of the yellow-fever in Spain. The • following are some of the particulars :•—• PA Rfb, SEPT. 30.—A letter from Perpignan,lated oitlwrittlrtMittritrehisfilitil - 11traitai is already given relatively to the sad sitesierd of Barcelona and a part of Cata l 9 l lis. The numbar.of persons why-have qni`- ci Barcelona is stated Ao &Irons 35,000`t0 '40,000, who are scattered in different quarters of that ill-fated pro:risme.: Tortosa,..uati the whol'e shore of the Ithro • I, a prey to this terrible scourge :—Malagi, :Cadiz. Iteses, and. sort St. :)lary, are no exempt from the in ' fettion. lt feaied that the state of political affair, ' Sitees not permit the queernmeat to deliberate with effect ''ispoq the necessary tneesures yhich such grievoua ay. cbusstaaces require. Airceiona, it is said , . is only oc ...eniied by individuals who'll the Lope of pi!la,ge has in -limed td remain. The lazirettO of that town is now empty ; all those who were confined there have died ; • that of Barcelonettais menaced with the same rtsiklts: . A letter from Mount Loui.:, dated the 19th instant, - announces that all Catalonia is in desolation, and that the streets of Barcelona are deserted, as the unhappy inhabitants have withdrawn to the mountains, front whetme they are repulsed by the peasantry, and die of Limiee and misery. .This letter confirms the previous hecounts, that upward.: of 61000 passports wire de livered before the establishment of the cordon of health. —lt was concealed from the inhabitants that this cor duo would be funned at a very little distance from the town. As soon, however, as it was known to them, they committed sad excesses. The Civil Authorities had qnitted the town. A letter from Bayonne. dated the 2.2;1, says 4 ' Mriers have reached.our antbolities respecting the progrens of the infeetiOn in Catalonia, which has de termined them to adopt more rigorous precautions on the frontier of Navarre and Ciuipurscoa. The custom's posts have been reinforced by three companies of troop:, of the line, which now Eisen a strong cordon. —Tile lit st detachment will be stationed at Ilendaye, hiriatoro ; the Pas.de-Behobia, and 011ietta ; the se tend .it Sart' and St. Pee ; the third at Ainhod and ItsaAlpu. The l'as-de-Itehnhia is the only point by which communication with Framee will be permitted. " These measures an•, at present, merely precau tionary, because hut little communication exists be tween Catalonia and our neighbouring provinces. Even should contagious symptoms appear amongst us. the vigilance of the audio' itics and the fidelity of the troops would inspire us with security." MINISTERIAL RETRE,NCIIMENT. Ti,e following is given as a specimen of Mi nisterial Retrenchment in one of the Public Establish meats, the Audit Office, and proceeds from a Gentle- Mill) who ►s considered well acquainted with the sub- jest :- 51ini.,:ers have just given a remarkably strong proof of their insincerity, in professing an intention to relieve the miseries of the people by adopting aocourse of eco nomy. From the first constitution of the Audit Board in 17t45, down to 1806, that Board c:msisted of five Commissioners, at a thousand per annum each, two ef whom, however, received only live hundred a year as Commissioners of Audit, their retnainkg 500/. being raid them as Comptrollers of Army Accounts: the total salary of the Audit Board eras, therefore, only 4,000/. per annum. In 1506 this Audit Board was soddenly wade he consist of nine Commissioners at 1,20:0'. a year each, and a Chairman with a salary of 1,500/, a year—making a total salary of 12,300/. per annum ; taut as the tie o Comptrollers of Arauy Accounts vt ere excluded Irons this Commission, and made to tisteive their former allowance of A edit Commissioners how the ColeeptroP era' (Mee, and as two others of the Conamissionees of Audit were allowed to retire on pen sions of 7501. per annum each, the total annual charge of these. Audit Commissioners amounted to 14,800/. But the Audit Establishment of 1806, which thus nearly yeaelrupled the salary of the old Audit Board, and the Act of 46 Ueo.lll. c. 141, relating to this subject, provided a prospective remedy fur this enormous charge, by prohibiting Government's filling up any saibneies until the number of Commissioners should he reduced to five. Mortality has recently reduced t:,c number to three, who, considering the diminntion of business, were ample enough for the public service.; 'ter four, at all events were amply sufficient ; but the Illuisters compel the ohl Chairman of the Board to retire on a pension of 1,000/. per annum ; they sub btitute another Chairman with a salary of 1,500/. per annum, and appoint three new Commissioners at 1,200/. per annum each ; so that the expenses of the Audit Board stands thus— Two Comptrollers of Army Accounts, for merly paid as Auditors - - - £lOOO 0 0 Pensions of two Commissioners retired in 1806 1500 0 0 Pension of Mr. Serjeant Praed, adieu 15 years • service - HMO 0 0 A Chairman to supersede Mr. Serjennt Praed 1500 0 0 Mr. John Whishaw and four other Commis sioners - - • ; 6000 0 0 .Cll,OOO 0 0 The Clerks of public establishments are to be re duced in number to the standard of the year 1797, and their salaries are to be diminished in the same propor tion. Now, in 1797, a Commissioner of the Audit Office enjoyed a salary of only 1,0001. per annum, and the total salaries of the Board amounted to 4,0001. — Now, an individual Commissioner receives 1,2001., and the salaries and pensions of the Board amount to 11,0001. In settling the claims of Clerks and Com missioner, this is what the Chancellor of the Exche quer may call " even-handed justice." A clerk can retire on a pension, only upon the ostensible plea of ill health, or of old age ; and by the Act, his pension cannot exceed one half his salary. But—. A physician of Madrid, who is said to have nide the yellow-fever the object of his study for twenty years, has published a letter against the tneasures of precau tion adopted by the Oovernment. He observes, that the fears which these measures excite, the want of care ex perienced by the sick who are abandoned, and the fa mine which follows the suspension of all communica tion with a town, are all circumstances which extend the ravages of the fever to those who would otherwise have resisted the contagion. He advises the cleaoing of the places where the disease prevails, and the allowtog per !boas not affected to remove to healthy districts. ..own _ . . ;Woe orW,rial party oominetrd moor (3,llow ion, J. Bakes WllkindM, and itithem were --AtAbOttr. Breckies, James CoolfillidrT: Crowe, flirlhccfiges.o.f Water baili ff , Guide to the Hotta!: and Town CrituTits OCTOZE,iII7en . the ,tlite.. ; lalter. .were elected,. taae . kgain 'ilktnitottr,by.,ppjorilies of RAi 79, and 6S; The la)* they proceeded to the of St.litiriTower in due form to lirar divine .service.., to the ovening upwards of one httmlred'per 4 ions 'sat down to an• excellent dioserlO hall.. The room was decorated with bahnits.,api propriately inscribed, and . ' the'' fliritre of placed over the canopy at of the tabo which crossed the end tfirickiin. Sir Robei Harland, the inewireleiteri Ililth Steward; and cesiful opponent of the Rake of Weliington, took, Al chair, supported by Slr llosyley, bury, Sir •W. Pelker, Sir W: Ni.idlettin the f n. F. . . Lumley, T. B. Lennart!, Esq., 'M.P. for 1p5iv4 ; . t 0.,31 'Macdonald, Em , 51. P., the Rev. C. 04rnwalii‘" knit several other eraineetnpposihon gentle Men. On' di cloth heinx removed, Sir It. Ilarlan'd gate the Itiailq of the " King," and as their political opponents, he said, seemed to measure loyalty by cheers, he would propose that U should he drunk:with three tiu t ejArees; to pre a ve that the loyalty of - the meeting was• intkirlet their own. Several other loyal and 'pathetic toasts( followed, and many exec ieni speeches were A tillyreill in the coatiebf the evening, by the gentlemen natant, the above, 'stud other persons. While Mr. Mai; donald, M.P., MIS speaking, a piece of .brick . was ;1 thrown through She window,from the street , aitstruele, the opposite wall with great , force. Mr. Maitdooal , ' begged no one would disturb himself, and remarked , that the cause of freedom could only be answered by such means. No farther notice was talc sa of ibis ill.I• IidOUS transaction, and the remainder of the evening was spent iu great hilarity. . LONDON: THURSDAY SWENIND, OCTORLR 4, 1821. STOCK EXCHANGB, TIVIELVE O'CLOCK. This looming the market looks •ery heavy, and scarcely any business is transacting. Consols up to the present hour are 771. -~.-- - Sir llonEtyr IVILSON has fuifilled the general ex npetation, by addressing a letter to his constituents, which is dated PariP, September Having referred to the order which, in his Majesty's name,hat removed him from the army, lie assures the elector's that his demand for charge and trial was instantly despatched. The Duke of YOIIK, however, it is reported, has re fused to grant Sir llonctur the Court Martial he de manded, and the Court Advocates today justify his Royal Highness's 'dossl on the ground that even while Sir R. was a half-pay officer be was not subject to Mar tial Law, and now that he is no officer at all it would he still wore illegal to constitute a military tribunal to take cognizance of his conduct. Without stop ping to consider the cruel and anoma!ous posi tion in which a half-pay officer is placed, with ail the remuneration for his past services, and all the returns of his purchase money, at the mercy of a Commander-in-Chief, who without affording him an opportunity of learning the impu tations against hiw, or of uttering a word in his deferce, can cashier him on a private and ex-parte investigation, All allow him no appeal ; without pointing out particularly the inconsistency - of these proceedings with the principles of general justice, and especially with the boasted frankness and fair ness of all our English Courts of Jurisprudence, we would only notice the tendency which such a case. if established as a precedent, must have to extinguish every spark of in:lependent spirit in a military breast. end enslave and debase every mind which it does not drive from the vice in disgust. With what consistency can officers of either the navy or army, however eini sat their services or illustrious their characters, hence fordi address the electors of any part of the kingdom with the face or spirit of a free and independent candi date for the suffrages of free and independent men ? Their public and their private conduct, their parlia mentary. and even their personal biasses expose them, without a moment's warning, to the severest pro fessional punishment which dishonour itself could deserve. Their fate is in the hands of those who are disposed to view with prejudice, the slightest devia tion from the dominant political system ; and firm Ow"! minflofthe,piincipleyoft untourtly politics. Pp, this occasion._ which on,,pallalio And gerseral,-an well as on,personal and particular grounds, is to us a Au' roe of mortification and pain, it is no small _COMO* I gplation to- find that the letter of Sir RO i lltltT ' Wile / MN to hissconstituents, does rot afford to Ids enemies o opportunity, for which thke iere war g !, ' of finding a handle of soma .further cha in what he might offer in 'his . defence. ' II A l'Alinistert r al Paper of this. morning cannot concen , its disappointment and chag 4 t:iii 'at: ftir,RonzaT's. I jecting " exery opportunity of : clearing himself: . : hirvitbin hiS grasp." To-mtwanw, rmiever, itn!say, ;;Bloy Batter themselves, afford them another chance; 'fir' to-unitirtyr o lri in expected to. arrive ih town, ,•_. and perhaps, they think, appear at the Meet ing of ' his Constituents in the Borough. Vibe- Air he appear at that meeting- not ant, we doubt . not the proceedings of the day will be condutled so as still *ore to disappoint the nialignity of `l,is adiersarics, and lay the basis of a " Nation!, ,Testimonial" to be erected to his fame, more valuable than even the pecuniary contributions that will there i coinistenre;• ;rinin : durable than any monument of perishahle materials and unassailable by the spite lind:peraecl4ion of his ungenerous and relentless enemies..it ' ; • ~.Ilil • By a reference to rte.'Weufetwarso, in almost every • ~ . , aunaber since the dismissal' of Sir nosiurr .WlLsorc front the army, it wilt appear that we fully prOinOsti: cated that refusal of satisfaction to the wounded honour of a soldier, which any. soldier had a right to expect ; we clearly pointed out the improbability of his receiv ing any redress from a quarter who could advise so petty-fogging a measure. But the public are not sur prised at any act of weakness from the same source ; the same scurvy scribes who abuse Sir RosaaT WiLsox, panegyrize MORILLO, and would in the same strain, exalt the royal properties of the Grand Turk for his science in decapitating the Christians. We noticed the silly farrago of the Old Jacobin in Isis legal raving on the effect of Military law on half pay Officers, anil if shame had not for many years.) been a stranger to shins he would have blushed at Isis own insignificancy. Toquoirow's meeting of the Electors of Southwark will give Ministers a taste of public opinion on their wantonness, as it is likely to be marked with the greatest reprobation that freemen can bestow upon protected weakness and narrow usiuded malice. The fiat of the Electors will give a tone to the country at large, and if possible add tothe disgust so generally and so deservedly excited on the occasion, in the breast of every real lover of his country ; they will show to tie country that those who would pu nish Sir ROBERT WILSON for his respect to the ashes of a Royal Martyr, would taut hesitate to give countenance to peculation, to the buying asol selling of seats in the Council of the Nation, or advise the KING to act so different to his English and Irish subjects, and to discharge the first and most able officer in his MA- JesTv's service from a paltry feeling of political .dif ference of opinion. An enquiry would have answered every purpose required; if there was a charge of guilt, that charge would a pp e ar uwn if es i, an d cr i me should then be justly followed by punishment, but the sorry noodles dreaded the light of day. They shud der at the mirror of truth, and dare nat look at it, least the reflection should siak them in that disgrace that is already pronounced by every lover of the, army, as the protectors, but not the agents of the people's wrongs. trot they dare to bring Sir ROBERT to a trial, even by a Court Martial at the Horse Guards, he would tell such a tale and would show the people at large how business was managed in some of the mountains and highways. He would, like the purest gold, coos c out of even that fiery ordeal, and appear rich in value, and additionally resplendent. He would become (if possible) more dear to his friends, and an eternal scourge to the malignity of his enemies. BLOCKADING SQUADRON BEFORE CARTHAGENN 'fo COL. MONTILLO, COMMANDER IN-CHIEF. SIR-I have the honour ti communicate to your Excellency that I have carried into effect the project of cutting out from under the forts of the City of Car thagena the three gun boats, mounting each a twenty. four pounder, the three barks and three launches, each mounting an eight pounder, and all the nit of the eneinies armed boats I likewise succeeded in scut tling the brig of war Andalusia. The loss I have ex perienced is very small, not amounting to more than three Lilted and 9 wounded. Our boats have sustained some small damage. The contest was decided in a short time by the bravery of our crews, who put to the sword more than 200 of the enemy. June 23. (Signed) J. PADILLA. Accounts from Lima state that the Vice Roy has permitted the various merchant•vessels at Callao to arm themselves, and to take on board volunleers I for the purpose of bringing the blockading Nita ! dron to action. In consequence of whit+, they hive compelled the division left by Lord Cochrane who was otf Truxillo, to abandon the blockade, and that the port of Callao was by the last advice+ declared open. Paris papers of Monday have come to hand. By these we learn that his Britannic Majesty left Lille on the morning of the 27th of September, for Brus sels. As on his arrival, all the garrison were under arms, and lined the streets from his hotel to the • • - ... . . . • - ...-.- - HE ST T ..• --- -- - -,-- ?. •V.' • p , 411 i4 01 .. ' ' . a geleed, must that . in bit in the tuldit. i i i . ) .... 4 %., - It 1 . ,o a oo an perverse genera* , n, who, after title Et.evetozi' et: BOROU4H $ MILER ' 1. ,• ... -... . e ample - , can assert, without the fear of profcbsional las-day (Saturday last) die election of the suhorainate firers fits_the krough of .42.sigt,seek.igaii6.‘abeopliaaaiowasi•froasoiarr loiii-thenthnestrotto wr-. SIR ROBERT WILSON. Part of our impression having been puhlished with out the following letter, we now tepriut it here : GENTLL:.:EN,—An order, in his Majesty's name, has removed me from the British army. You have read my condemnation, and I cannot stiffer another post to pass without assuring you that my de mand fur charge and trial was instantly despatched. I will not insult you by a request to suspend your judgment, when the opportunity for definer has nut been as yet offered ; but it is my duty to declare to you, that I am fully alive to all the obligatioos which, in every con tingency, a regard for your honour, as well as my own, prescribts. " I am, (ientle►nen, With grateful respect, your o.eglient servant, Paris, Sept. 27. WiI.SON.. PUCE OF STOCKS THIS Hank Stock 1 per Cent. Red 3: per Ctot.Con 77 GI B', per Cent. 4 per Cents. blot o per Ct. Navy 1091 10 3 per Lent. • Long Ann Imp. per Cent. Irish 5 per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stall 245 Ditto Wilda —5. fl-1, 664 pia South -tip Stock South Sea Old Ann. Er /1111424. IWO. p. ---N)(n. 414 ON. U.. pm. Small 4s. ss. Us. piu. India fur ditto Con. for Acct 77 tit Lott. Tickets 191. I. slit gait teOntan. " Tug 1111.111919 ITATISMAN " 13 INcoRPOR9I9.I) WITS " T9lll 91 ATE. 91.199." gate of the City through whicli he took and a salute, of artillery pr ;claimed Lis d, The munificence with which his Majesty his sense of the attention paid Lim will in another column. 1t is pretended in a letter a a to Paris in a ha-weeks. A Icttett iroß. Wass& Park, and other entertainments On his Mat' dial there. The Elector *of illtsse is 'bad with the Ist regiment of the 1/ussaL Electorate, to receive the Kin; of Exe, The accounts from Spain in these paper ing the progress . of tLe Yellow-Fever, to he lamentable, and those from Madrid unpleasant in a political view. On the 11 pears General Morino feentited the military , of the capital, ind -of the' province of Cast.. the 18th the 001441,f:hie( pithlishell an Ordi prohibiting all' kindi 44 pp Asseetings, r of which should be eon the laws lice. This measure was &by apl was known to exist of carry IV tte portrait throw_ the streets. The Ordinance also deel the' at the Pontana d'Or shall be suppl the present. Just after the. OidillillsCe was with a great display of public force, a group .20 or 30 in number, appeared towards night') Sun Gate,'with the portrait of iliego. They passed before the troops at the Sun Gate, but as libry themselves with making a great noise, the ot, not think fit to disperse the o ; emboldened forbearance, they proceeded to the Mutticipalitt the Political Chief, the Commandant, :old so, Officers were assembled. When the Phi saw this procession, which had increased gresa, arrive before the Hotel of the Manic attempted to persuade them to separate ; tl Commandant placed himself , at the head talion of National Militia ou duty at tl pality, and cleared the squ ire with the ba is not certain whether any persons were but it is certain that none were killed. litical Chief himself charged the in hand, awl seized the portrait of Some Alguitails mixed, by order of the AL among the attendants of the portrait, awl the most seditious, several of whom arrested. This measure has confounded the and this first act of rigour on the part of L rities, to which they are not accustomoned, a wonderful effect on that collection of v every moment disturb the peace of the capi the sequel that of the provinces. Letters from Seville say, that Me Grimarez (almost eighty years of a; condemned to ten years in a Presidio, spiracy against the Constitution, the People, displeased at this sentence, went to and tore to pieces this unhappy old tnan, whr front the service above 20 years. Letters From Catalonia say, that Riego has ed at Lerida, by order of the Government. By the arrival of a gentleman from 11 morning, we learn that his MAJETTI city at the time, as will appear in another expected. MS MAJESTY'S entry was such . his Royal dignity, and the peculiarly amicable lion in which he stands to the Court he communication reached us too late to enal sert the particulars to-day, but they w; morrow. The following is an extract of a privat ceived yesterday, dated Paris, Saturday e' " We have accounts here from Franl mention, on good authority,' that an Oerstantling between the Porte and Russia completely established, and that matters future in :he usual train. Nevertheless, w hostile reports here, some of which found into our nrwspapers, and from thence, n( be transplanted into your.. I di not place reliance upon any thing purporting to cm Turkish or Hungarian frontiers. " From Spain, we find, that the distal have as usual, been exaggerated, by fear 07 that the Local Authorities have been 'town any turbulent spirit on the part of The accounts from Biscay, and the immedi of the North and the Pyrenees, throw discredit on the statements from ti►e Soul " Our money market continues rising that of London ; and as all is tranquil, prosperous, there is every reason to expel advance. "Time reports are very various as to King of Great Britain will visit us. Tim nion is, that he will not." ------ - A letter, in the French papers, from 517 states, that six slaves at Tunis late! successfully executed a plan fur robbing own arms, which are of exquisite wor: great value. They enihsrked on board and stood for ✓icily. The Dey having robbery, sent one of his coriai, s after th , did wit come np with the fugitives to got within the range of the Sicilian vessels entered the port of Marsala ti they are pat under quarantine. The Marsala hare thus time to c.msider do in this case. A motion has been made in the Porti on the utility and necessity of the ['mai The Milan Gazette of the I Sth nt edict, by which Count Louis Porro, son of the Marques' George Porro Lambertenghi, is required to appear within sixty days before the Royal and Imperial Commission of Venice, in order to defend himself ainst the charge of high treason impaled to la. Count Porro is accused of having been a party la s plot to overthrow the Austrian liovernutent. The panic respecting the price of corn, on.ler.ths idea of a scanty harvest, &c. gr adually subsu l l , and the prices of wheat and bur are rapidly bill to their former level. The speculators in these art': Iles have defeated their own end s b y pouring iso quantities into market, that from the present pril there is not the least apprehension that the ports 'n u be opened in November.—(Corawall Gaze/tr.) • his route; departure, expressed be found r from Lille 14-peeceed . selseSf th e iiio64llolte ikSTY'S • • ars Of , th e 4.G LAND .. re respe c t. , continue are alt's lBth it ap , r comma stifle. O n Ordinance, the obje c t of the pa. plan which ti t of Rive ;dares that pressed 4 0 published, of persons, irfall at the sued before contentri! offau to did tied by this ality, where >toe Genera! itical Chief in its pro. i pality, he the General of the bat. the. M iaynnet. It e wounded, 'f he p- ious sword f ltiego Authorities, Ind watched I T have been r lie Clubbists, f the Autho- ' tied, bas had • ' , retches who ['hal, and in lajor-General age) being o, for cot, e Sovereign to the prime ho had retired as been arrest. Brussels, this entered that er article, we sch as became amicable rela• e visits. The nable us to is• will appear to- rate letter re• evening : nk fort, which amicable on. ssia has been will goon in we have many nd their way so doubt, will e the slightest ~ , ,ome from the nrbances there Jr interest, and able to keel of time people. . ediate vicinity ✓ considerable stli of Spain. sg, as well as and tolerably ct a continued whether the se general oie Marsala, in Si. fly formed and the [lcy of his rkmanship add a stnall vessel , discorered the hem, but 1011 until they bad batteries. !loth together, where magistrates of rhat they should rtnguese Cores riage of priests. ilt. contains is of the Masque" ired to appeit it and Itupeelsi defend himself m pated to hill ea a party in $ potent. corn, un ler the wally subsiding, rapidly falliof rs in these on; sy pouring WI p present P R O 7