The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-07 00:00:00

Wriblz ter NLI. itAl t{l tett t o the pro. to b e posed ' Hu. th the solid t o action rrisp o to it s e the flare 'SS of I. this ?mots hood, were 1 in. n the II Y 9 II t t THE S'rATE.S. l oo ms, and every other branch of our manufactures; to reduce the enormous weight of taxation, which the nation so heavily groaned under ; in short, the !Awe was blazing with brilliant prospects. Peace ass the universal object of general congratulation, and not a cloud appeared to darken the bright trmttment ! How have these happy anticipations been fulfilled ? Let our daily increasing list of tialiktept3, the gloomy countenances of our met.. ,t!iets, the palsied state of our manufactures, and ~n t the decline of the public funds,—let these roofs of " national prosperity" answer ! We .1 that the late protracted war has so driven t o the nations of the Continent to the re. ly of their own resources, that we are success. f e .iy tivalled in every branch of our manufactures, side our commerce, which, during the war, owing to oar maritime superiority, we were enabled to force upon the world, now that the great high road of the is again opened, is rapidly verging towards a de. c!iue an d fall ! At home, what domestic relief have „ • i n es t wei? The universal opposition which the bye id. , a of the continuation of that odious impost, the I 1, 1, has experienced, has fully shown that the 'cobalt will not tranquilly submit to its re. impnsition : but we know that the demands on the puld'e perse will be this year much greater than the Let, %%hile its resources are ittfinitely decreased.— It is welerstood that bills from the Peninsula are al read► drawn by Sir RODENT KENNEDY, who is `• wiading up," As it is railed, the accounts of the lee ear, to the amount of near e'eht millions ; and, it is said, that, at least, 12 more will be necessary to meet the demands whi, will he made upon us. 1:p• wards of GO millions'nf ui,ftr.eled debt is in the market, which must be in some way provided f.ir. The ex. pence of the American war still continues to increase rather than diminish, for we hear of daily embark ations of troops, and shipments of Stores for that country. Half a million per month is tegularly re mitted to Germany, and must continue to be paid while the Congress remains sitting; upwards of 75.000 men sr.' in pay in Holland, and as we see by Port news of each succeeding day, that army is constantly receiving reinforcements! And how are we to meet this At one blow, thirteen millions are their efforts, and are entirely occupied in creating new orders and decorations, ridiculous to the in-, ventors, and contemptible even to those en whom they are bestowed. The rage for military uniforms and as-- tinctions has superseded every regard for that increase in our commercial relations on which our national greatness, indeed our very existence, as a great power, so entirely and substantially depends ! Let us endeavour to check this evil before it has taken too deep root to be easily got rid of. The at tention of the whole nation is most warmly excited to the approaching meeting of Parliament—its pro ' ceedings will be looked to with anxiety, not only by all the Kingdom, but all Europe ! certainly some thing of importance must be done, or ruin stares us in the face ! it is useless quibbling, and turning, and twisting—the day of settlement is rapidly ap proaching, and it must come! and the dissolution of the Income Tax is one certain measure to facilitate its ap proach. The war people say, with truth, that with out it we could not have so long carried on the late glorious, just, and necessary war !—No ! nor with out Loans! But mark the lessen thus taught. If the ex penditure of the nation was alwa)s, from necessity, obliged to be raised within the year, w c should care. fully avoid entering into eat racagaticies we could not support ; we are now arrived (or are very near ar . rivitsg) at that situation, and one year of peace will ' prove incontestibly, that we must either reduce our enormous standing army, disband our sinecure placemen, and bring our peculators to book, or the whole system of the fund-holders will fall to the ground, and either a military despotism, or a very altered Government, will he the certain consequence of that great, but unavoidable convulsion—a National B4tikruptc} The beloved FCILDINAND has got upon a new pur suit—that of a wife. He is almost in as great dis ; i tress as CELEBS : hut, Ladies, though a King, he wants money. The following Letter from Ma drid, of the I 9th ult., gives a picture of the difficul ties which stand in the way of his hymeneal happi lieSS taken from the Treasury by the death of the Income 'fax ; the amount of the Custom Duties will mate rially fall short of the. produce of last year, owing to the prodigious decrease in ft tralle,which the bid ax of foreign articics it:to all the markets at a much lower rate than we can afford to martu t .cture them, has ::::turally occasioned ! The amazing cmiz• Ilion to the Continent, by so materially lessening rho number tf espensive resibitts, will of course pro ikce a praportinnate of the Assessed Taxes. The depreciation in the value of the late Loan, which is now at a diAtnunt of hr.!) per cent.: all these cir cumstances occasion as awful a prospective as any Nlinicter, be his talents, and his fortitude, and his re soarces ercr so great, had yet in his siew. But when we look at the men to whom the task is con " There is to be a wedding, said Eseoletviz, when he carried Off FERDINAND to Bayonne, and the same is the story now. It is asserted that the ' Beloved FERDINAND entertains the design of entering .t second time into the holy state of marriage, and that there have been conte s and parties on the person who is to be the happy bride. We are told that BAR.. D IXE, our Ambassador at the Court of St. Pe tersburgh, intimated the advantages that would re sult from a ronnection with a Russian Princess ; a proposition which was listened to at first with at teution, because it was likely to bring with it power and security. But on reflection this would not do, for the saints who surround FERDINAND took the alarm, lest the Greek schism should be introduced with the Greek devotee; or if the mist► ief were not so great ()I a public nature, that this private calamity would be iev dyed with it, their powerful influence over the mind of the King would be destroyed. 4 4 Under this embarrassment, as wedding there must be, it was suggested that two Princesses of Por tugal, daughters of the Infanta, Donna CARLOTA, would make good wives for his MAJESTY, and his brother Don CARLOS. This notion has given satis faction, and the most Reverend Father FR. BER. N A RDO DIAL, has set off for Brazil to open the ne gotiations ; and although he has waited at Lisbon for some days the return of the ships, it seems he has gone e ithout them by one that was ready for de parture. :Matters proceed just as heretofore ; that is to say, bad as bad can he. Imprisonments are I continued, and the atrocities with them. Sometimes they speak of pardon, but generally when they hold forth such expectations, it is but the prelude of some new act of oppression. To complete our miseries, we have the lug uishion established in full authority, which was the only thing wanting to our utter anni hilation." tided of encauateting these exigencies, how is the picture darl,erted ! Whether Mr. VANSITTART, or Air. llc.l>issost, is to be at the helm of the (pier, we can see in neither of them ability sufficient to hone that they possess the means of extricating us. Clinging like the drowniag mart to the straw, they have, to the last moment, indulged the hope that their darling impost, the income Tay, might )et be endured ; and from the letters which Lord LIVERPOOL has had the imprudence (to say the least of it) to write to such men as Mr. (l Lan. STONE and Mr. Haar Dam, we may safely con ade, that even to this moment it is unde cided on, whether an effort to revive it shall not be attem:pted : and if not, not a prospect appears, that any thing like measures to pro vide any substitute have been ever thought of! Lord CASTLEREAGH, whether he is unable, or un. silliug to encounter the stor m w !rich is rising at Lame, or whether the difficulties at Vienna have so thickened on him, that amidst all the golden raree show of the Ice Cart Exeursion, even the aid of the DJke of WELLINGTON has become necessary ! in tither c ase he is not, it aii.ears, to meet the ap. prenchina, reunion of the Gram! Inquest of the nation. And what serious questions there ate to occupy its at• tention ! objects of more momeut tlezu perhaps have ever been discussed since the Rev elution. We have reached a new sera—we are quite a different nation to what we were in 179'2 we were then a trading one, a military mania has now seized on us—we Isere then called a nation of shop-keepers. The !hop is now on the point of being declared bank. rapt, and we are become knights errant ! Ex ito ler pomp has succeeded to substantial interest, pa4eantry and parade to industry and application, Dusioas's Evolutions to COCKER'S Arithmetic, and tie paltry playthings of the Kai,hisGrandCrosscs, ta the solid and substantial character known and re. 3aected as it former ly was all over the world, the rich ind respectable English Merchant ! Whilst our rivals, with all their natural advantages, are giving vigour to tteir manufactures, and seeking fresh markets for their productions, we alone see. lost in a perfect tiathy, and are neglecting to seek out and secure new channels for those which we are hourly losing ba competition. Deceived as we are by the facilities which have so long attended our borrowing system, we scrim to have forgotten the overwhelming burden we have imposed upon posterity and ourselves. In vain do rife remernher that our ancestors, by trade and com merce, raised the splendour of Great Britain to its . once 11;;.5 state of exultation S we seem ashamed of Yesterday Admiral lltr.r.osm.r. replied to the de fence of Sir Jowl floluititay; after which the Court proceeded to deliberate on the judgment they had to pronounce, which will not be made known until it has been laid before the PRINCE RECENT for his ap probation. For the Report see our last page. A circular letter has been addressed by Mr. PEEL to the Magistrate► of the principal ports in Ireland, stating what has been already made known here, that for the purpose of enabling the merchants and manufacturers of the United Kingdom to avail them selves of the earliest period of the opening of the markets of the United States, directions have been given to the Governors of Nova Scotia, New Bruns wick, and Bermuda, to permit British vessels ar riving at any of those places from the United King dom, with goods intended for the United States, to proceed to the ports of those States as soon as the Governors shall have received due information of the ratification of the Treaty on the part of the American Government, and with a ♦iew of enabling the rn , rchants to dispatch vessels to the colonies WIT IN limn LIFE.—A northern wit, a few days above-mentioned, there to wait the ratification of ago, accompanied a dashing family of fashion on a the Treasy, it has been recommended to the Lords , visit to a museum of curiosities in tke City, where it Commiisioners of the Admiralty to appoint convoys is the custom of the keeper to open a box containing from the United Kingdom for Nova Scotia, New , a human skeleton. A Lady of the party, remark- Brunswick, and Bermuda, at the earliest possible; able for the number of her lovers, shrank with fear period that the season will permit. , at this unexpected display of frail mortality. " Don't Sir CHART.TS LORAINE, the High Sheriff for the be afraid, my dear Madam," says the wag, " If you county of Northumberland, has coiled a meeting at can guard yourself from the dangers of the flesh, the Town-hall in Morpeth, to petition Parliament , I'll protect you from the bones." against a renewal of the Property Tax. i The LORD MAYOR inspected the Meal-weighers In comp!iattre with a Requisition presented to the returns and ordered the price of bread to be raised High Sheriff, lie ails appointed Monday, the 13th half an assize, which is one penny in the peck loaf. instant, for a General Meeting of the Owners and I Saturday, as Mr. JoNE•, of Princes-street, Lei- Occupiers of Laud in the County of Kent, for the , tester-square, was returning from Croydon-market, purpose of taking into consideration the distressed 1 about nine o'clock, in a one-horse chaise, through state of the Agricultural Interests, and to adopt; Streatham, a man, ha►ing the appearance of a gentle such measures as may b" thought expedient for their I man, rode up to him, and offered to accompany him. relief. At the head of the list of signatures to the i The offer was accepted, and on their arrival at Brix- Requisition, are, the Earls of Guizettoan and ton Common the stranger presented a pistol, and Dadr-uvr, Sir JOHN lIONETWOOD, &C. robbed Mr. Jones of his pocket-book containing a Orders arri►ed at Plymouth on Friday to pay off, 51. note, his watch, and great coat. The robber then all ships of war at that port under 20 guns. i gallopped op the lane towards Norwood-green. "'oh On Westlnedsty last there was a remarkably full Meeting of tll+ inhabitonts of N: , wcasile, at the Guildhall . , pursuant to pub!ie'adverlisometst, to_taktt into consideration the iiropriely of pt it the Legislature against the continuance of the Pl4,p...rty Ta x. The 1 asiness of the day wag (Toned by 13Ests.tmtst SOR3BIE, ESq. Mayor, who briAv clatecl tto , a, compliance with a Regoisition, ::,cl - mllo4 tire Han*. of many respectable (Iptitipmen, iohabitalati of tl:;1 town, he had convened the Meetito,A for the p.:rpotti set forth its the _ .10 ILK it ivnEtts6,, Esq. I tie 3 m”ved undry•ll.(?Ro lotions against the continuance of the Property 'Fos, which were subsequently merged its the Peti;ino. Sir M. W. Itinaxy, Bart. M.P. arid CUTHBERT F. E. L ISO 41, Est'. M.P. were present : they both spoke at considerable length agninst the continuance of tke tax ; but Sir M.W. Ridley-, in particular; denounced it as It source of revenue most obnoxious, and most cruel and unequal in its operation. Sir Matthow'i speech was delivered in a very argumentative and eloquent manner: he relivrtod!y received the tnost battering testimony of approbation by the' loudest bursts of applause. ' I- 4 Mr. 'Pa:uses also reprobated th 4 ftbeiiii; not in so decided a tone as his worthy collerioe.. An effort to introduce* a counter Petition was Inavie by W. LO RA I KX. Esq. who, it seems, delivered se -excellent speech on . the occasion. His motion was seconded by Mr. Alderman Sstriii, but it was negatived by a gredt cnajotity.—(Durheoe County Advertiser.) The domestic events to be coneete 1 (tom th French Papers to the 4th instant are Worthy of atten tion. Tkev principally illustrate the gradual ame lioration which carries comfort and happiness,into all the raniniiii:.;olis of society. The Moait,%ur 2 orthe ad contains a long report from La CrCtliP, .chmliaring the state of that department on the Ist of, Alay-, 1814, and on the first of January, ISI 5. It appears that the levies of men have been reduced three-fourths, the requisitions of the last Government are ie a stets of liquidation, and two-011,1s of 'the amount al reads reimbursed; the military on full . and half pay are regularly pail their Minn -inces ; there is hut a trifling arrear of the communal expenses; and the Government has already turned its thoughts to the promotion of agri-ulture and manufactures, even in this distant part of the kingdom. lit some other places a distemper has prevailed among the cattle, which has occasioned the de. 'ruction of many of them by order of the Government, with in demnity to the owners at the pub!i. expe:tce. The increase of mendicity in Fiance anti the adjoining countries is much complained of; and a M. Merril.: mentions the extraordinary fact, that in the course of a twelvemonth the l'elice of Bavaria ca , e..4! than 32,000 individuals to he arre , !ed, of whom 6853 were beggirs. It is getter:ov orid.....stbeti, that the wages of labour are high in F mice %Oh re lation to the price of food ; hut we observe it inci dentally mentioned, that the wages of a mason's la. bourer in the department of Calvados were only 12 sous (about sixpence-halfpenny) per day. By accounts that have been receive!. from,Jamaica, brought by a Captain express, who arrived yester day from a port of Scotland, it appears that the homeward-b ,, und Jamaica fleet, according to the ap pointment of the convoy, was to have set sail front that island on the 2d November. The Prinre..s Mary packet had not arrived at Jamaica, but. was hourly expected. The ship Sir J. H. Craig, [vett, Master, and the Brixton, had arrived out, being a part of the Cork fleet. Sir J. GRAHAM, Bart. M.P. for C4rlisle, has re duced the rents of his tenantry in Cumberland, in consequence of the reduced price of grain. In one case, a farmer recited a farm at '2201. n-year, which the worthy Baronet has lowered 501. besides return intl him the same sitm for the two last years. Mr. Conic, of Whalton, with that liberality which distinguishes him, has abated his tenant, Mr. WAT. som, of Rip Hilton, 1001. per annum in the course of a nine years' lease, and now for the last year of the same 501. more, being a reduction of upwatds of 3U per cent. A Alerting took place on Friday last at the Sara cen's Head, in Chelmsford, of the Occupiers of Land, to take into conside3,,tion the necessity , rapplyiog to ParliameNt for a revision of the Corn Laws. Several. Resolutions were entered into, and a Petition agreed upon. In,gestrie Hall, in Staffordstire, the noble seat of the Earl of TALBOT, was much damaged en Tuesday last by a fire that broke out on the premises, a::,1 which raged for about two hours before it could be extinguished. A letter from Trent, of the 18th ult., mentions the mutiny of three Italian regiments, marciing through that city into Hungary. They declared that they would not quit the city unlesq organised under tho banner of " Italy Independent." It was feared they would go to the mountains in c Mate of insurrection. VIENNA, JAN. is said that an Au6triart Officer, named Itieeowursini, while horiting near Swinitza, discovered a cavern, which having explored, be found an immense treasure, consisting of gold a cid silver coin, awl gold in ingots. The whole he va!nea at more than 23 millions of tlorin4, of which, how. ever, the Treasury Chamber has claimed the•pnases. lion. A certain innkeeper, not a hundred miles from Knaresborough, being surcharged to •he Incorn l Tax, had recourse to the following osp.•di.•nt to oh.. hitt redress :—On the appeal day he caused a good dinner to be served up to the Commissioners . , skc. for which he made a regular s :n•c•hrtrge. This ma noeuvre had the desired effort ; both parties cued out;, for '' 0 P." OH Prices became the order of t•to day, and thus this . ditlieult business vi as accommo dated. An ingenious chemist - near Briool has discovered that a st.ong decoction* of the common heath, will tan lenthor without the use of balk. . 4 Two female servants in the fainily of the rail of Couttvows have been c. mmifteti to Wexford gaol, or, su,picion of having a !ministered poison to two of his fnotmen, in consequence of which they both lie t 4 .. . t., • , . ... .. , . . lia4trir' - ' -: . ' ''' '' ' •'' 6, 4 •- - A •- • ~. . . . ' i • - . 11, . v . , 11....,.. .....,......, 0 • . NEIVCAS7'LE MAETING. ' $ 4ll -' . • 1. 1 ~ ...... ..' • f C . i 1 1 ) : . 1 , !-. ~. ...., .. I I 1 . " . .1 I 4 ~ ..... • dinzerinnily The name , ' of the women are SIZCC7II I and Breen, that of the men Carr and Gordon. . • • y • 10... • 61! N 4 AL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, ices. 6.—Arrived and sailed for (he River, the Goifirersi, Johnson ; and Mare Ann. East India man, from Portsmouth, bound to the River.—Come d6wn from the River the Britannia, Gcnrge, Nep. tune, and koyalty, bound to Jamaica ; the Governor flarcotirtOor St. Domingo; arid the Richard, fur Demerara, and remains uit,it the whole of the out ward-hound. PonTsmourn,Fss 6.—Artived thePick/eschooner, and Queen, Prince William, and Wellington, from Plymouth.—Came. in his Majesty's ship Conflict, from Cork, with the Contest, Langden, under con voy.—Passed by the Trowbridge, Barclay, from Bengal—sailed from thence the 24th of August.— Came into harbour his Majesty's ship Bermuda. FALMOUTH, FEB. 4.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Sealark, from a cruise; the Nimble cutter, from ditto; and Generous Friends, from Leith for Leg. horn.—Sailed several sail to. the Dt<tward.—The Grace pacliet, for Jamaica, is gone into ti:e roads: The Mercy, rtaggs, from Newfoundland, is cap tured. The Fayeurge and Sarah, from NewfoundlagoLka,- the bleriteranean, were taken off Cipe St. Vincipia, , in Dminiber, by the Warrior privateer, of Al glens, and 160 men ; the former was sent to America and the latter burnt. • The Argyle, M'Cormick, from Dublin to Ply mouth, was driven on shore at Porddellan, on the 27th ult., and with the cargo much damaged. The schooner Fanny, from La Guyra to London ; William. from Oratava ; and Fuerte Ventura, were taken off Lanzarotte, on the 6th of December, by the Laurence privateer, and sent for America. The St. Michael, Baker, from St. Vbes to Dub lin, is pot into Plymouth, with damage, after hav ing thrown part of her cargo overboard, and must unload to repair. ROUGE 1/OR THE DESTITUTE.—OR Sunday last the Anniversary Sermon was preached by the very Rev. the Dean of CANTERBURY, before his Royal Highness the Doke of YORK. P resident," the Vices Presidents, drc. Itc. and a very numerous congrega. tion of persons of rank and consequence. In open ing the benevolent intentions of this singularly useful Institution, the Dean, with much eloquence, turned the attention of his audience to the means A' preven lion, which it supplies, and to which the Second Case, given in ow Paper of Saturday last, affords an admirable example. We are happy to communi cate to the public. that the collection was adequate to the cause, and proved the effect of the very Rev. Dean's discourse. It amounted to upwards of 1161. Great abuses are stated to exist in the Sierra Leone establishment, and the benevolent Slave Trade Felony Act perverted to the most iniquitous pur poses, by the agents of the Africa Institution there —of the Negroes taken and landed under the Act, the best are selected for soldiers in the West India regiments—women anti girls for the basest purposes —the young aml promising males sent to the estates of those in power, and the refuse apprenticed to the settlers for fourteen years.—This is on the ant hnrilv of a letter from Di. THORPE, Chief Justico of Sierra Leone, to WILLIAM WILIIEHYORCE, Esq. Vice Pre sident 01 the African Institution. A letter from Basseterre, Guadeloupe, dated De-1 cember 7, 1814, states, that a few days after Sir A. COCHRANE sailed, 4000 troops passed that Island towards Jamaica ; and on the sth of December, 4000 more passed on for the same destination. The importation of foreign Corn will be suspend ed for three months on the 15th February, by the operation of the existing Act of 45. Geo. 3. as the average price of the twelve maritime districts, at that period, will be found under the rate of 635. per quarter, the limit prescribed by that Act at which the high duty of 245. 3d. on Wheat shall take place. The LORD MAYOR will hold a Court of Common Council on Thursday next, to receive a report from the Special Committee appointed to consider the pro -1 priety of petitioning Parliament for the Repeal of the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors ; to take into consideration the defective state of the Bank rupt Laws, and various other business. In many counties of England, the farmers are giving up their leases in great numbers; a farm be longing to Bethlem Hospital, which let a few years since for 11001. per annum, and was afterwards raised to 60001. per annum, is now offering for 40001. per annum, but with little prospect of its being taken at that rent. In pursuance of a Requisition, signed by a number of Nubility and Freeholders, a County Meeting will be held at Northampton, on Wednesday, the Bth instant, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the renewal of the Property Tax. In connection with a Jew House which has failed in London, we have advice of others under the like circumstances in Amsterdam, Hamburgh, Gotten burgh, and elsewhere. _ _ • "! Inot ear- of inst leti- urn) the :ich poqt hat n a t hi eet ent der Jp. ,t)(1 ,)