The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-03 00:00:00

*et t „ • ! ' ••• • . • . , £XISCU7IONS. TO TAt EDITOR o i r — ruz STATSSSIAN. yOn pettnit me, .throigh the medium of your Met, to put a fewviesdone, not is the 'vesati ens spirit of angry coattails', tat Welly fer the'eake• justice, sad Itnnsesity ? • • - • . • • Vas net the law of capital paniihmtat is forget • • astlCtterers if forgedllisk ut England motes, though . aireelsed by many, and *Make thenf•the writer of this. for by the offineekhd not caleilined to check .• if-;.-afisetrd for the; roteetips lathe Oldie frimfotged • Allitilt" setts? is not this pioteetion. y the resumer lie& of Cash Payments, if tbe public chalks to avail • Wolfe( it. sow *mimed ? If the public does not amass io avail Itself of it, should it not take the 'coos& swots* of IS in 'neglect, Waist or delay f So fat' the enestion ii viewed in respect to the public if I body; now as individuals. If the public -scgliets, Woos. or delays to avail itself of the prober!. security, may or may net any person if he cheeses demand io payment cash, instead of Bask sates ? , If he mar sit; and he takes a forged Bank wate, is limn Tab that be, as * part of that public, wheal() take the coneeetteices of hi. oven neglect. re! fold or delay? If be asap demand 'cub instead of • flaak-notts. is he not thaeseeseed, if be chooses ? and 'if in this ease be will take notes and is Imposed upon by s forged Hank-note, can be tosselestioesly prose cute the offender, and by so doing take away his life, for •an offence which he might so easily. have prevented ? It appears by the public prints that the Bank of • England has 'resolved to cease from prosecuting capie. tally the titterers of forged Ose pound Bank-notes ; sod is it not probable that this resolution bas pro ceeded principally or solely from an assurance that I the public, it It chooses, is by the resumption of Cosh Payments protected from forged bank notes? ands would it not be jolt that the sane forbearhnce, for the same reasons which formed its humane te.ternsitkilon respecting the ntterers of forged One Poona Bank Notes, should extend to Ilse atterets of Notes of *bat. ever value and forgers also ? • If the public be protected, if it chooses, from forged • Bank Notes, by the resumption of Cash Payments, would it not be just for those authorities who have the power, to sparefrom exoeution those offenders who have •heen or may be convicted or sentenced to death by a law whose object is now otherwise attained; that is, all forgers and utterers of forged Bank Notes, by whom , wirer rosecu ted • It is hoped the Cirri& of humanity will watch over and save from death, if possible, all such offenders. It has been remarked that, notwithstanding the - de termination of the Bank of England to . cease from 'prosecuting capitally the utterer, of its forged one 'pound notes, a person charged with this offence has been within these few days found Guilty—Death.—lt is not remembered by whom this person was prosecuted. I am, Mr. Editor, tour's, ice. PRICE OF STOCKS THII Be-k Stock—, •ilof a per feet. g `per Ceut.Col Mt' tut • l ei Per era t ) per Cents. sbd prr ChNsvy 10911 !per Celt. Lotg Ann . ''‘ • Unp. 3 per Cent. Irlst 3 per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. who Stock Pitt 6 Bondi —B. 6.1 a —s. South-Sea Stock t 443 %oath Sea OM Ann. Pt finis Vb. 1000 t: par. 1 p. 3001. Is. 2s. Os. pm. Small ss. Ss. 3s. pm. India for ditto Coo. for-4.84 VII 7 - • Zeit 7.6ltets IW. I9s. !lOU WATER AT LOKOON-!RIDGE To-isoanolv. Morning 3 mid. after 7.—Evening 34 min angel. Cht AtattiOnan. " TIE 881TIS3 STATESMAN " IS INCORPORATED " T•t STATESMAN:. LONDON: %F.DNESDAT EVEXtNG, OCTOBER 3, 1821. Paris journals of Saturday and Sunday reached us this day, at the moment when our paper was going to press. According to letters front Trieste of the 14th Srptetnber, there had been a decisive action between the Ottoman Fleet. (reinforced by the vessels sent from Egypt.) and the Fleet of the Greeks. This engagement took place off Rhodes. A sobseqoent adcottut from Genoa confirms this intelligence only in part, and states that the Turkish fleet bad been very roughly handled, and hat lost several transports, which had been taken or burnt, but that the principal r part of the fleet had gained the port of Rhodes, where it MIS closely blockaded. From Augsbonrg it is stated, that they write from the banks of the Danube, of the date of the 15th ult. th it the Greeks had ahtainei some advantages in the Morel, but that theirdisunion was lamentable. Tripolitza and two forts had surrendered to the Greeks, but Preveza and Co rinth were still in the hands of the Turks. Fatras and other fortresses• cocaina, to defend themselves. The Turks have evacuated Thessalia. 'fhb: article sub. Jules "It is pretended that the itusaiatiCabinet insists Ina very formal manner on having More precise and ca tagorical answers relative to many objects on which the .Ottoman swished expressed itself very superficially. It ,appars that the declaration of the Russian Cabinet has been transmitted by Baron &bashers, to be addressed without delay to the Porte, through the mediation of M. *de Latzow, Austrian Internancio at Constantinople. : Tbepapers of Sunday state the progress of his Britannic .Majesty from Calais. About five o'clock in the after. noon of the. 26th the cannon . of the citadel of Lille an = 'bounced the arrival of his MAJCITT in, that City.-•• .The Matquies de Jamilhac t at the bead of his Staff, mowed his horse at the, fmtbourg de la Barre, to accompany the King on his enter. A tel. .INF accident afforded the iababitants..a Lille the yleseare of seeing his. Majesty in an optics/eche.— . Meet a haadrel yard frogs the barrier, the traces ar. a spring 0 ( his caaclOsoctinto deranged, and the billy going out of the • perpeadidelar, Iheltorfeiwett • dept. The eafeeke of Map* Liattirie • follOsied Xing. • Tut: heti , and . had Ai hollow' to eive:ftNor to 19;14ifesty, rho Ace at at tid satellite( like Nuggets de bullied. .. ~ . C authorities. 4111 the mated°s in - stlellesioll-mcca• pied the 'Rs* tame, JD which. the hotel Is iltested, The *magic of the garrison execnted.duOnt the whole evening. tisdet the windows of tie - Milona,the is oat select nymphonies and military airs. As article Irma Sniped, of the 264 b ash 'states the otriesi of the Slat quasar Londonderry, Lord it that city. T.heKlag of the Nutheilands, it hyoid, to 014 his expected illustrions Inest the King of AtigOti. an ii - eardlis Royal Inuaificencia and of the Iloarish log state of ibe modern Flemish school; intends to pre• sent him with tweite•of the'beit pictures in their gel lery in the different styles. The tectiounts from the eastert pint of Spain 'respect? log the 'ravages of the yellow fever continue to be most deplorable.—.-French Five per Cents. 88 f. 60 c. STOCk EXCHANGE, Tit MYR irdLOCK. Within these two days Stocks hare risen One per Cent. The above rtse,is supposed . tn be eAsinetir t ibli, rise at ell the Foreign Fonds. Consoleopoged morning at 77i1, with the market looking up tie s titri then rise. Mod of the principal Brokers are pitches► lag Stock this moroing. . : [BOARD 01P linv ENGLAND cd£FLF:-H01.38.). 'tztract of a letter (rout Liverpool, October 1 I am happy to Worm you of the safe. arrival back of the Mercury. Nichols, all well. Arrived this day the London For Philadelphia. We hamoderate wea ther last night ; but this day the gale has commenced with equal fury and continues to this time, 8 o'clock. William Dawson, for Demarara, continues out, but has a pilot on board. lam fearful we shall hear of many accidents. Accounts have been received from Valparaiso to the Ist of May, containing the following:— TO TUE SIINISTER OF THE MARiNE. To-day at one o'clock, p. in. anchored the ship Thais. From the Captain (dike port I have received the (owing information : The English ship, Thais, .130 tons, Captain Albert Robinson is just now anchoring, coming from the coast of Peru. He brought the news that the best spirit is said to exist throughout Pent, and that the cry is" Inde pendence or death.'"f he Captain also states, that the frigates Pemba and Vengnara, had left Cenoazul where they had been for a long time. Extract of a letter from Boston, Sept. 7:—l have been informed that a British Indianian bac been spoken at sea, who informs, that in consequence of the death of Bonaparte, the port of St. Helena was throe::: open to American vessels. Extract of a letter from Port-au-Prince, Ang. S.— Two daysago the cruizers of this Uoveriintent brought into port two small vessels filled with desperadoes, who were fitted out expressly fir capturing an Ame rican schooner that sailed from hence lately with 30 or 60,000 dollars on hoard, bound to Philadelphia. Had these pirates succeeded in their object, it is pro bable they would have murdered every person on board the American schooner. These pirates are foreigners, principally from New Orleans, amongst them are nine white men. PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. severe storm of rain conunitted considerable injury yesterday afternoon. in this city and its vicinity. A part of the roof and side of the upper budge on the Schuylkill were blown down; a small horse in N. Second-street was also par tially demolished, and its occupant, a baker, hurt, but providentially escaped death. Several sail of boats on the Delaware above the city were upset ; but we have not heard that any lives were lost, except four or five coloured persons. who were drowned near Race-street wharf, in returning from a camp meeting up the river. A great number of poplars which ornament the streets and :19stares of our city were torn up by the roots, and we fear that much damage has been done in the sur rounding country by the storm, than which we have seldom witnessed a more tremendous one. UT THE PRESIDENT Oi"Tlig UNITED sTATEs co, A3IERIC.t. • - - Ad • , . ~ -- A PROCL t'IATION. Whereas, by an act of - the Congress of the United States, of the 3d of March, 1915, so - much of the seer : , rat acts imposing dutim, on the skips scut visivis. on goods, wares and merchandise iruported into. the United States, as imposed a discriminating duty on tonnage between foreign vessels wad vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels, and vessels of the United States were repealed. so far as the same re speeted the produce or manufacture of the nation to which stieh foreign ship or vessel might belong, such repeal to take effect in favour of any foreign nation wholever the President of • the% Unitei States shoold be satisfied that the discriminating or eountervailiag duties of such foreign nation, so far as they-operate to the disadvantage of the United Stater, hare been 'abo lished. - • And whereas satisfactory proof has bees received by me, through the Charge d'Affaires of the Urnited States in Sweden, under date of the 30th- of January. 1821.1 that thence forward all discriminating or coun tervailing duties in the Kingdom sof Norway. so far as they operated to the disadvantage of the United Suites, had been and were abolished. Now, therefore, I, Jamessillostroe, President of the United States of•Ameeica, de hereby. declare and claim', that so much of the' iieveraletts i.ptaiig duties eta lite tonnage of ships and vessels, 'am& on goods. warm; and. merchandise. icipootet lite - tbe Veit./ t ltl tits, as impieed a diaceitandtieg shity tease beckons vessels of the ltingdods if Neevreyoust mmeala ig" tat Usiod Stites, , irogis.Agirstled •• Pry If *atilt this tittatiesh day Akeiust, a year of our Lord sloe thousaad eight hundred tool %veiny one, and the forty-sizth year of the Indiptadeace , of the United States. Joins Monson. ity tho President : • Joan Qvtoct Anasts, Soc. of state- Cibrittrtano Ftutaatas.—aThe emirs of ttat Oren bind ships of Hull, it.was reported, Ofereehnitt to direct girt of the immense capital employed by them I. the whole fobery into other channel* of comanlkeei ors ac *mint of the excess to which that trade has been carried at that port. . . . In the Meth Atli, we tegrtt toleartt, they have ex perienced a wary sudden and . calamitous loss. From letters abteived * this morning from Aberdeen, we un derstand accounts have been brought by the Dorothy, of Dundee, arrived there front Davis's straits, stating the loss in that Pisherk of elered ships, seven of which belong to Hall. On Saturday we announced the refusal of the Elton Bsturr of Southwark to comply with the requisition to call a Meeting relative to the dismissal of Sir Ro- SERT WiLsox. On Monday we mentioned the intima. lion that had been made, in terms of the . late Act of Parliament, to an acting Magistrate of the district, stating the intention of the parties whose signature• were attached to the notice to bold a meeting on Fri- day next at the Town-hall. The subsequent proceed. hugs were an application to the LORD MAYOR, whose jurisdiction extends to that part of Southwark to which the Town-hall appertains, and whose power an percedes the authority of the HIGn BAILIFF, for the use of the Towtpliall for the purpose stated, at the time proposed. His Lordship readily complies) with the desires of the gentlemen who waited upon him, and yesterdays placard was posted in the Borough, appointing the meet ing on Friday next, at the Town-hall. By the terms of the placard it would appear - to be the object of the parties who convene the meeting " to take into consi deration the propriety of commencing a public sub scription to indemnify Sir Boa ERT WiLsox." Not withstanding these arrangements, it is intimated by totue of the Ministerial Journalists, who would gladly have the people gagged as well as shackled, that it is not certain that the Meeting will take place. By the Act of Parliament, say they, passed in the sixtieth year of his late Majesty, entitled, " an act for the re gulating public, and preventing illegal meetings," there is a clause in the second section empowering the Magistrates topostpone for ady time, or adjunrn to any place, any meeting that may appear to them illegal. It is, moreover, understood, continue these pretending gen tlemen, that advice has been taken by the Magistrates from the highest Taw authorities; but the result has nut transpired. There is no doubt there may be Ma gistrates %tho will take occasion to consult authorities, whether of the highest law or not, respecting the steps they ought to take respecting the meeting proposed. There is no doubt that if it be not legal to prevent the meeting being held, every means will be exerted, which the law does not actually forbid, to embarrass the ' proceedings of the meeting, and to defeat the objects for which it is to be held. Whether such a consulta• lion. however, has been held as is pretended, or whether any uncertainty any where eeists as to the meeting taking place, we cannot pre sume Lo know; but of this we are convinced that the intimation we have quoted is an artifice to intimidate or perplex. Grievous as the measure is to which this intimation refers, and rigorous as is the authority re specting public meetings, with which the Magistrates are invested, we do not find they are empowered to postpunefrr any time, or adjourn to any place any meeting they may happen to dislike. In looking into the secon4l section of the act already mentioned, we tied it is enacted " That it shall be lawful for t h e jus tice of the peace to whom any such nutlet- at' aforesaid shall be delivered, to MAIM THE TIMS AND PLACE. OR EITHER or tux, mentioned in such notice, slid to fix , any other convenient time, being NOT mon.: THAN FOUR DAYS AFTER TUT DAT raorossu in the notice, or any other Convenient prove within the parish or township for which such meeting is intended to be held. By the sixth section of the aforesaid act all Magistrates are empoWered to proceed to the place where such meetings shall be Bolden, and there do all such acts as the care may require ; and by the seventh section, in case any meeting shall be holden in pursuance of a notice, and such notice shall express or purport that any matter by law established way be altered os other wise than by the .authority of Parliament ; or shall tend to Weiss the people to hatred or contempt of the person of his UAJEsrv, or of the Government or Con stitution, every such meeting shall be deemed unlaw ful. By-other sections of the Act, in • case any person or persons attend sochaweting contrary to the pro visioss of: dre.Act, and do not depart trials the space eta itrerterofen boar after proclamation to that ef fect be made, or if one or more Magistrates present st six meeting shall think fit to order to be taken inteenstody say perms who shall at such meeting proceed. to *abash' say proposition of the kind pro. UAW s and say forcible eiretrectioa be made to the *secedes oftbe order, the lifigiateitss are empowers,' to make Proclamation chargieg all persona assembled disperee,, and *opt who. to the number of twelve , it mom shall reasia foe the space of hell so hoer to ! ;. ohm after fed ttoetottertioe slrittie elljaged Meow, • ••• _ . lawful in a: melting or proceedings. They give ttw illagististo the pawn of dissolving the ldeetlag st Puy time if he deem It or its proceedings of a atilitiois tendency. and of preventing itsbeing holden at all if it appear se be of an Unlawful kind; bet to snptiaa. they anther's* the Magistrate, as the Ministerial papeto say ' to postpone the neeetiasifer arty time, or to miter it to angrrlice, becattse he deems it unkawfal, would be to enact a childish trifling with a matter which may at ' uuce be altogether suppressed. The power invents' is the Magistrate is almost absolute, and the exertias of it under the control of his judgment and discretion alone. It may net even be in*" power of those who call a meeting to prevenVoteedings occurting., which, to the understandiadvaile Magistrate, may appear unlawful, and requiring to be suppressed.-- it is in the power of any person, it may be re marked, who is a hold . and tweak enemy to the object for which the meetiug is convened, to assume such a tone and language as to give * me e t, ing so unlawful character, and to render it obligator on the Magistrates to caste it to be dispersed. The Uentletnen who have called the Meeting of thealeetoo, of Southwark, are aware of the ground en which they stand, and have exercised a sound discretion in divest ing their placard of any terms that might be construe( to the disadvantage of, the meeting proposed. They have confined their object to the consideration of the. propriety of cotninencing a subscription for indem nifying Sir ROBERT WILSON for the losses be has sus tained ; and we doubt not they will conduct their pro etedings with inch circumspection, yet with such public spirit, as will fully accomplish the impose is which every generous Englishman will concur. It was an express provision of the Act of Settle ment, " that the King shoulJ not go to his foreign dominions without the consent of Parliament;' bat as some thought it would be a humiliation to the Kier I to ask the consent of Parliament, that came of the original compact, with the House of Hanover was se. pealed in the second year after their accession. Letters dated the 31st of August were received yes. terday from Odessa. Sufficient time had then elapsed to allow the determination of the Rnssian Goren:meet, if intended to be communicated direct froth the Court to the authorities at Odessa, to be known there ; hot the same uncertainty still prevailed on the subject* Favourable prognostics of peace were, however. de rived from the entire inactivity of the Russian attar and marine, the movements of which weir' watthefi, and could always be quickly and correctly ascertained. Seaman Ftsaxce.—The Madrid papers state. that according to the accounts received by the JEEtII of Public Credit up to the 3lst of Augurs, the sales of property in the provinces for the extinetioa of the as tional debt amounted to 1002 from monasteries and other suppressed establishments. The estimated aloe is 74,569,109 reels, and there have been, emitted 136,507,12 S Teals (or about 1,365,0001. steelier) Thus the sales have produced about doable their es. timate. 1 (11BRALTAR, Sepr. 10.—It appears by an official communication from Cadiz, that the existence of the yellow fever at Port St. Mary's has been formally de clared by the physicians at that place. The Count de Montezuma, says a private letter, the last descendant of the ansient Emperors of Mexico, has resolved to aspire openly to the Throne of his ancestors. He has enrolled at Bordeaux many persons to aid him iu his enterprise, and many of f icers of merit quit the Spanish service to follow the standard of t h is Pretender. The latest accounts from Charlestown are of the Ist of September ; they state, that St. Augustine's was in ra ther a sickly state. The Floridas have been divided by Governor Jackson into two jndicial districts. The one to include all the country between the Perdido and Si. waney rivers, and to be called the County of Escambist the other, comprising all the ceded territory east of the Suwancy, to be called the County of St. John. The same ordinance requires the County Courts to co nfine )he parties litigant strictly to the merits of the ir causes; ad to thcpunge all useless matter, as well seal! nnotera ry.forms, from the pleadings, at the expense of the rues introducing those irrelevancies. Colonel Forbes • appointed Mayor of St. Augustine's. The oath of al le lance has been administered to the Civil Officers, and • ... he Spaniards as choose to take it. bode Island American contains a very flattering a , ' , nat of the condition of the cotton samsufactories throughout the States. In Philadelphia it is said that 4,000 looms have been put in operation within the kit six months, for the purposes of this tuaenfactnre. and this number, it is Vakurated, will be very largely in creased. The produce meet's a ready sale in Iclosialla. 'and it is said even in Canada. In Patterson (New der. sey? the numerous establishments hare been restored to their former activity, Captain Sleemaa arrived at Falmouth yested' morning (Friday, 48th ult.) from the Brazils, is 1 ' weeks from Rio de Janeiro. In consequence of the ship having had some contmnnicatiot with a vessel from the Mediterranean. she is pat nader quarantine. She has brought no passengers , nor any particul3r 1 news.—(Corneal[, Gazette.) 1 • A large frigate, supposed to be the Glasgow , of an,. 1 . , , ~, ' anenoreu at uats-past out, p. as. yesterday (2til ult.) at Falmouth, bound to the Mediterraseano—(ldem .) la coneequeuce of the late trial at Shrewsbury Assizes. the Mayor of Chester has called a Corson" Hall fur the purpose of tbrowier open to the citizens at large, the election of the Corporation according to the charter of Henry VII. This will materially ailed the Grosvenor interest in that city. The damage dent by the We hurricane is Norfolk, Virginia, referring to the city only. asnoetts to tit° hundred thousand dollars. Mach more fatal coast line's -8 ware, however, expected in the interior, and awn others the destruction of the standing crop' ' f Indian corn was deemed inevitable. Similar Weds ;,Ave apprehended all along lbp road from Norfolk to Near York, within Wilda epee the fury of the4emprog 'Ry • . Ins Pehmiraity felt. - At &deb it appears that to ` r - was Ow. _~:. - 1 I f ..: . - . .. . ' "*. • *. -. : '.. ST i1 a ,,, ; .,, . ... . . • • - - . ... . ---- - - . ' opt it . • 4 L ikatia . ll hi Waaaliflii ll . olol liOti ' . a shall be liable* fool& --- -lilt my term Tw irl's ,. a the. Valbri Stat. :are ee- lat—iliag scrod yean. These erisetsagats are strict • lassapase* ailed iteelit osieciateriakti %ha bite wht iC In. f illesta lithitvgl X ...1441111111"1"1411111ih )41:111111.* - 1 001141, *W I" !mai ler es the ea" . eweraet tkh pled g ee . ee . aaoagh to revisal% oae would think. say meeting or lodged is u intereethig ssiaaor.The !dog ,alighted at , atiaa' facture of the said Kingdom of Norway. ipeoceed tits that are of as ualawfal character ; hat as of the Hotel de l'Europe, viters.bs.reedivoidiarlialio l " *yes usher ay titled. Milo City it /ratbillgtosa; . _--- -I_2_ ......t.di .o.— is /.:,..6_ is Agh velr awn " il l they haPra to ( Ma. what shall be rackawsd aa. I .Tw 7 1 • • r7T