The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-15 00:00:00

gs~! . RETRENCHMENT. / EXTZACT OP TAXASURI MINUTZ, DATSD AUG. 10, 1821. REDUCTION AND LISH ALTERATION IN THE ESTAB MENT. " My Lords, in calling upon the beads of the other Departments of his Majesty's Civil Government to enter upon a revision of their respective Establishments, with a view to such economical reductions as may fulfil the intentions of his Majesty, expressed in his answers to the addresses of both Houses of Parliament, think it right to state the principles upon which they have pro ceeded, and the course they have followed in the revi sion of the establishment of the Treasury under their immediate direction. • They have thought that they should best carry into Par• k the intentiols expressed in the addresses of Parliament, by keeping in view the following general rules :- Ist. That every office was to be restored to the situa tion in respect to the number of persons employed, and of their respective emoluments, in which it stood in 1797, unless some adequate cause continued to exist sillich rendered some alteration necessary in future, and iliat the mode of regulation which seems in all respects most eligible, is, to require that the individuals them - pelves who may beteafter enjoy the benefit of superan nuation allowances, should be called upon to contribute to a superannuation fund, to be administered under the directions of their Lordships, and according to the fol hiving regulations, viz.:- Ist. All persons holding offices, the salaries or pecu niary emoluments of which, after revision, amount together to 1001. a-year, or upwards, and who are entitled to superannuation under the Act 50 Geo. 111. c. 117, to contribute 5 per cent. of such salaries or emoluments, to a fund to be called, " The General Superannuation Fund."—(My Lords will have under further consideration what directions shall be given with respect to offices not amounting to 1001. a year.) 2d. My Lords are of opinion, that in addition to the above rate, whick,way be considered as a fair contribu tion to be required from the individuals who may he en titled to superannuation under the Act of the 59th Geo. 111. c. 117, in aid of the charge incurred by the public in respect thereof, a father contribution may justly be required from those who are in possession of emoluments which have been increased since 1797. and which are greater than it isintended hereafter permanently to at tach tolheir respective situations. They therefore think that persons holding offices, the salaries of which are hereafter to be reduced, should be called upon to pay an additional contribution of two and a half per cent. upon all offices exceeding 100/. a-year, and not exceeding 5001. Five per cent. from 5001. and not exceeding 10001. — And ten per cent. exceeding 1,0001. Provided that the increase of such respective salaries since 1797 shall have been not less than double the amount of the additional contribution hereby required. Such additional contri butions respectively to cease whenever the parties pay ing the same shall be promoted to a situation entitled, under the new regulations, to a salary equal to that which they now possess. 3d. This contribution to be collected as often as the salaries are payable, and to be paid within seven days after such collection into the National Debt Office, by which the amount shall be forth With vested in Bee be quer Bills, or such other security as their Lordships may from time to done direct. 4th. The annual aitoust of superannuation payable to retired tenants of the public who may contribute to this Fund, at no time to exceed 10 per cent. of the ag gregase amount of the salaries and pecuniary emolu ments of all the officers so contributing. sth. One half of every superannuation allowance granted to such contributors to be assigned Upon this Fund, and the other half to be paid by the public, and to be charged to the contingent Fund of the Depart ment, to which the contributor belonged prior to his superannuation. • 6th. No stiperaonuatiou to be granted to any such coutributor, except by the Treasury, and by that Board only, at four periods to be fixed its each year (except in case of immediate urgency,) when a Special Board or Boards shall be held for the purpose of con sidering all applications received in the preceding quar ter; police of whisk Board will be given to the Heads, of the Departments, recommending such applications, l hoe each of which some proper officer shall, if requir ed, attend to answer all such qaeetiowe as the Board of Treasury may put, ',order to enable them to decide open the fitness, or relative urgency of each applica tion; and to distribute the disposable amount of the fund, or so much of it, as may be requisite, in such manner as, upon an examination of all the cases before them. may appear most conducive to justice and the public interest. 7th. The interest accruing upon the contributions to be applied is the first instance to the expense of niasageinent of the fund, and the remainder to accu mulate for the benefit of it. Bth. If the aggregate sum now paid in superan unation allowances to public servants who hold offices Coming within the description of the first artiele,shall be found to exceed one-tenth of the aggregate amount of the salaries and pecuniary emoluments of all the said offices, the new superannuations to be granted in any oats year shall not exceed *as half of the seeing arising from such of those allowances as may have lapsed in the preceding year. until the whole sum so granted shall be reduced to ten per cent. or under that _amount. in conformity to the 4th article. , My Lords are further of opinion, that it will be proper to propose to Parliament to repel the am yid rates of allowance enacted by the 50th Cleo. cap. 117, and to substitute the following in lieu thereof, vis.— Above ten years' service, and not exceeding 15, 4-12 tbs of the salary; above 16, and not exceeding 20, 5-12th ; above 20. and not exceeding 25, 6.l2ths ; .above 25, and not exceeding 30, 7.l2ths; above 30, and not exceeding 35, 8-12thss above 35. and not ex ceeding 40,11-12ths; above 40, and not exceeding 45, 10-12ths; above 45, and sot exceeding 50, 11-12ths ; and exceeding 50. the whole. Such respective allow suites to be calculated upon the salary and pecuniary 'emoluments of the office, as charged to the payment • made to the Contribution Fund : and in n) case to ex ceed the net sum received by the officer after the de flection of such payment. My Lords are aware that notwithstanding the ex treme Importance of adhering to this scale as mach as vomits* there may arise special eases which it would lie difficult to Lorene or eauaerate, with respect to 'which some &porters from this scale may become In diapeniable, sad that anthedti o lprevide accordingly %Seed! be isms* to their bike; they are of 4eimi, however, that it should he enacted, that in nil sash 111•811/110011 OS eases eitesld he Lid before Par lament, topdhsr withn eci zet of the circumstances *kirk bum led their ipe to make the exception. c r* ... ♦. • .„ TAI , NEW EXPEDITION TO AFRICA. , . His Majesty expressed his desire,.a . short time lance, that an expedition should be formed to explore certain , parts of Afiica, which border upon Egypt. The idea was suggested in consequence of the successful re searches of M. Belzoni in the latter country ; hut the object of the present expedition is of a different cha racter from the pursuits of that Gentleman, inasmuch as it is the discovery, not of the ponderous monuments of Egyptian labour, but of the remains of Greek and Roman edifices, which it is conjectnred are scattered in different parts of Libya—a country which those cele brated nations visited, and in which they established,', colonies at several different periods, but which it is sup posed no Europeans have since explored. The Gentleman, who has been chosen by Govern ment, with the approbation of his Majesty, to superin tend this expedition, is Mr. Beechey, many years Se cretary to Mr. Salt, the English Consul to Egypt, and the constant companion of M. Belzoni in his late inde fatigible researches. The Lords of the Admiralty have also afforded every assistance in their power to ad vance the object of this expedition by fitting out a small vessel with a compliment of men, and entrusting the command to one of the Lieutenants who were engaged under Capt. Parry in the last Northern Expedition, and the same Officer from whose drawings were executed the engravings that embellish the account of that voy age of which the public are in possession. The vessel is intended to sail round the coast and to wait upon the expedition, which %sill only: proceed to far in the interior as will be consistent with its safety, or allow an easy return to the coast. The expedition will start from Tripoli to the Bey, of which, a communication has been dispatched from this Government to request assistance, which will, no doubt, be afforded as it has formerly been by that Power upon similar occasions. Libya, the country about to be explored by our ad venturous countrymen, is that which in ancient times contained the two countries of Cyrenaica and Marma rice. The former was called Pentapolis, from the five great cities which it contained; one of which was Beranice, or Hesperis, now Beraic, the spot where the celebrated gardens of the Hesperides are generally supposed to have existed. Not far distant from Halve, or Barca, and Ptolemais, now Marsala. To the east of the extreme northern point of the coast called Thycus Promontoriutn, now Cape Resat, was Apollonia, now Marza Susa, or Sosush, formerly the port of Syrene, that city being situated a little inland; it was founded by Battus, who led thither a Laced's,- monian colony from Thera, one of the Cyclades; and the kingdom was afterwards bequeathed to the Romans by the last of the Ptolemies, surnamed Apion, and was formed by that nation into a province with Crete. The Expedition will explore the vestiges of it, which are supposed still to remain under the name of Curio; to; the cast of this stood toe fifth city of ancient Cyre naica, called Dm nis, now Derne. South of Marmarica (before mentioned), which •nr, countrymen will visit, and in the midst of the sands of the Lybiau Desert, was a small and beautiful tapo re-' imbed by streams, and luxuriant with ItrditAk. stoodilie Temple, so celebrated in antiquitf,er ippiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, le gn-. titude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, whets perishing with thirst, iu the form of a ram, and showed him a fountain. Here was the Eons Solis, whose waters were cold at noon and hot at night. Here .also the eels brated ancient Oracle, so difficult of access throughtfie Libyan Deserts, and which was consulted by Aletaialer the Great after a memorable and dangerous joureey► the ' token of whidi, transmitted to posterity, is the rum's horn upon the head of that Conqueror on numerous medals. The Expedition will in all probability be merged three or roar years. PRICE OF STOCKS T H IS DAY AT ONE 01:1.01..11. Bank Stock lndia Stork 3 per Cent. Red Ditto Bonds ..c.Oes ..s. pa $ per Cent. Con. nii South-Sea Stock 31, per Coot. South Sen Oki Aim 4 per Cents. shut Ex Hills 3d. Os. Os. 2s. pt. 5 per Ct. Navy 118 Jimall Gs. 3 per Cent. ~ Bank for Account Long Ann : ' India for ditto Imp. 3 per Cast. .. Con. for Ace 7611 Irish 6 per Vent. - ' , Lott. Tickets ISt. Ms. HAZARD AND CO. AVE CONTRACTORS FOR THE PRES ENT MON Eir• LOTTERY. CONTAINING THREE THIRTY THOUSANDS, AND NOT. TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE! LONDON: SATURDAY &TENINO, SIMMOIR 15, 1821. [From the Board of the Nem Eaglaild Wee Ihnies.] PROM A CORRESPONDENT AT NRW TORN, ADC 38. I bave to inform you that Capt. BOWS, of 4he brig Amazon, arrived this morning, and bee 'lniiitglh papers detailing the discovery of 4plot at ltio, by the Clovernor, to overthrow the reigning Government and declare in dependence. He had so far proceeded uto imprOon the Ring's son, who had been left there by the Royal family. The Governor was arrested by the royalists and shipped off for Europe. The packet he was on board of arrived at St. Salvadore, the day the Amazon sailed.— The people at St. Salvadore were so exasperated at him, that they talked of bringing bins onshore there, and be heading him next day in the public square. New York Papers arrived this merging to the 21st of August, from which we extract the following : (FROM A NEW TORE PAPIII4 AEC 291 OUR AFRICAN COLONY. The Rev. Mr. Ephraim Bacon, who went out mane of the Government Agents to the African Colon?of Free Blacks forming on the coast of Africa, with Ins lady and Mr. Peck, one of the Colonists,' the weist from Baltimore to Sherbro', arrived here mem* fits the Smoglie, from Martinique. They left Sims Low. on the 16th of June, in an English weed }had to Barbadoes, whence they prOceoded:krilasellakteiwt Mr. Bacon retarned home in eeemeeetje• of 'iM its health. We are pleased to state the egeeinkle be* pace, that the Agents has. eilllmied 1111 pereltese of a tract of laid fros the satires estimated at Mitres, 30 to 40 miles square, situated la the slyer Et. Mites 'is tyrFsm Cy. t _ _- between 5 and 6 deg. N. lat. about 300 miles distant{ from Sierra Leone. It is remarkable healthy and fer tile, lays high, producing rice of an excellent quality, corn, and all kinds of tropical grain and fruits. The water is very good, and the river furnishes the best fish and oysters ; copper, cotton, tobacco of a very good quality, the . 6rst of which is sold at from 4d. to Sd. per pound. The purchase has been effected on the most advantageous terms, viz : for an annual supply of rum, manufactured tobacco, pipes, knives, &c. ; the total cost, in this country, would not exceed 300 dol lars per annum. EXTRACT Or A LETTER PROM HAVANNAU, JULY 30. The Hornet from Pensacola, is here, and we have now in port a British brig of war. Two Frenchmen have just come in, one a line of battle ship, and the other a frigate. It is said they came from Porto Cabello. The schooner Israel. Adeline, and the Spanish troop from St. Augustine arrived last evening. The convoy under charge of Captain Ramage is not yet arrived but short ly expected. SIERRA LEONE GAZETTE, JENS 9. His Majesty's ship, Tartar, arrived in Free Town-har bour on the evening of Tuesday last. We are happy to state that Commodore Sir George Collier, and all his officers, are in excellent health. RETRACT OF A LETTER FROM PENSACOLA, JULY 18. • Yesterday, after a series of delays and disappoint ments, the American authorities were finally and for mally put in possession of this city, and the Barraccas, and the dominion of the Floridas. The widow of the late Emperor Cbristophe and her two daughters arrived in the Downs yesterday in the Missionary from Port=au•Prince. Paris papers to the 13 inst. have arrived. Ac counts from Odessa, dated August 13, merely repeat the pacific indications that had been previously ex pressed. A private letter from the lower Danube dated Sept. 2, says that two days before the departure of Baron Strogonoff, the Reis Effendi addressed a note to the Russian embassy, and that M. de Strogonoff, on being urged by the Ministers of the other great powers consented to receive this note, which is of a very pacific character. The note is said to be of the highest importance, inasmuch as it contains new ex planations on each of the points stated in the Russian ultimatum, and that it might be regarded in certain re speets as a commentary on the Ottoman declaration, whiffs the Russian Minister refused to receive, and which was addressed directly to the Emperor Alexan der. The only other article of importance these jour mils contain relative to any of the points at issue, is that of the Austrian Observer, which, consistent with the partiality it had always shewn towards the Turks, has published a dispatch from the Turkish Governor of the Mores, giving an account of the capture of Livadia and the destruction of the greater part of that town, after a desperate engagement, in which 30011 Greeks are represented to have caused themselves to be hacked to pieces, or to have been burnt in the houses. Of the loss of the Turks on this occasion not a word is men tioned ; but the effect of the victory is said to have been the entire submission of the district. Hence the Austrian Observer conclades that the pacification of the whole of those provinces must necessarily follow.—, From what we have subsequently learnt, however, we have no doubt that the loss of the Greeks at Livadia, though severe, had been much exaggerated; for instead of shew•iug the submission expected, they appear to have made fresh efforts against their ty rants. By the Paella's despatch, we find that the capture of Livadia took place in June ; and by the accounts of advantages of a later date gained by the Greeks in the Pelopenuesns, it is evident they are still uosnbdned. Fattten FUNDS, SEPT. 11—Five per Cent. Consols closed Sept. 4, BSf. 20c.; for Sept. 22, 88f. 10c. The resignation of Sir 110B2RT BARER is attempted to be stated and accounted for to-day in a mode that is totally inexplicable. " The citcomstances con nected with the change in the Magistrates of Bow street havt," says the Nero Times, " been grossly mis represented. We are authorised to say that the articles in two of the Morning papers of yesterday". (The Morals.: Post and Morning Herald, from which we that teamr statement)" were extremely incorrect, and there was, indeed, no troth in either of them, except the mere statement of fact that Sir R. RARER did on Wednesday resign his office. In consequence of this resignation, Lord SIDIIOUTR on the following day. communicated to Mr. BERN'S his intention of recom mending him to the KING, as Sir ROBERT RAKER'S successor." The Morning Post of to-day says nothing so the points in question ; but The Morning Herald has the following paragraph, which will not fail engage the attention of our readers. " There was a slight inaccuracy in the statement which ap peered in yesterday's Herald, relative to Sir &URT SAKIIR and the Magisterial arrangements consequent span his resignation. His Majesty, it appears, never fsupressed any opinion upon the subject; and the new arrangement was no more Llama an official ace of the Maass Department, with the usual sanction and raw apassibility of the Executive Administration. Me *osur BARER. although be has thought it right to "resign at the present moment, is. we believe, truly sni jastly respected by all the members of the Admi taistration,and by every other person who has the pleasure of knowing Mm, as an excellent and worthy man, and s ---.4entious Magistrate." So, from this it soeind Roans: BAKZR thought it tight to • Mike froor at the present moment, from hie' OWIIII mere me. dolt aail ken-will. He is, " truly and justly respectoi „, by all the members of the Administration, and by other person who has the pleasure of knowing ind yet, he has such a 13w opinion of himself, appear, as convinces him of his incompetency , place he held, and urges him to quit it spontaneeaq and directly. His MAJESTY, who, by be terms , the statement, seems sufficiently acquainted the occasion which urges Sir Ronaas to retire, expressed any opinion on the subject; ROBERT is a man of such tender feelings, CORONER UM that he is visited with a pungeni of compunction for having avoided a struggle he saw would likely occasion the loss of the part of the soldiery as well as of the _ and of his own accrual" is induced to relidquish situation in which he wss respected, and with a salary it is supposed of a thousand pounds 'year. All or any part of this account is so dinary, and so much out of the way of the usual tires of human action, that it cannot fail to stagger faith of the most credulous of readers. The affair, however, is described as a matter of course, the appointment of Mr. RIRNIZ; as an ordinary act of his Majesty's Ministers, for which they sponsible as in the case of filling up a which is occasioned by any of the coma* sr.alties of life. We cannot credit a story - at variance with probability, and are more inclined barn a counter statement which has appeared The Morning Chronicle of to day, which carries it a ranch greater appearance of truth. "WI stand," says the writer, " that his RAJESTI pleasure was conveyed to Sir ROB ZIT BAIrR, I Lord SIDDIOUTB in no very pleasing terms; Sir ROBERT, with 'proper spirit, immediately his resignation." The version which The .IV and Morning Herald have given of the aff,til lead us to suspect that Ministers. howevet plead responsibility in appointing Mr. BIRNI successor of Sir ROBERT BARRIS, rather shrink the responsibility of baying urged Sir resignation. We have been lately so much taken up fairs " that came home to our bosoms and that we have had little time or inclination our attention towards the present state Indeed it is no easy task, when we ourselves threatened with danger from within to minds up to the contemplation of affairs and distant. The affairs of Greece concern sonally only through that natural feeling which every generous mind met feel, whoa a nadir- tha t was once the elegy of the world to throw off the yoke of mercenary and cruel These are the sentiments that every l+( .a must feel, bat yet it is very difficult to thing like a probable guess at the issue sonic of the powers of Europe make au' claration in favor of either one partyor the' the different states of Europe are now, by means Holy Alliance, united together, as it wars body : but as the designs and interests of will not and cannot permit them to act till some active step is taken, it would be a . jecture to hatard any ideas on the subject, farther those which naturally arise out of the affair itself. can be but little doubt that ALEXANDER from crushing the Ottoman power net elinition, but through the checks imposed upon him by the Holy Alliance, religion of Husain sad Greer* being the • s natural that the peerages which have milted upon the ministers of a religion which profess, could not fail of exciting the highest lion against, and, consequently, chastisement that Government which had committed thein, besides, supposed, thit ALszatenan has long ambitious eye upon Persia ; and, while the Turkey remain uninspired, it will be almost sible for him to accomplish his wishes. Ii he should, by any means, bring about the or even partial destruction of Turkey, it would difficult undertaking for him to succeed in his upon Persia. Bat, on the other hand, it that England sad France, When their trade, a principal concern of every Government, Is consideration, would be very sewillieg any assistance to Greece, u by this death blow would be struck at the elf flourishing trade, which both nations carried on with Turkey. From this view affair, it must appear that till some decisive is taken on the part of Europe, nothing bable conclusion can be drawn u to the i present struggle, in which the unfortunate enraged. No accounts have been received this Lloyd's relative to the Royal Squadron. val of the Camelion and Lee, at Plymout dosed yesterday, led to the expectation MAMMY would quickly reach that port, stated he had been left to the westward. account from Plymouth, however, which we this morning, it appears that these chi Royal Squadron on the coast of Wales, entrance into Milford Haven. The *pit being afterwards obliged to put into Cork In eemeerinesms of the tempestuous weather took plow on Wednesday. appears to be It k his put Into any post, it is probably of the Softly Islands. &We by every I Ma i " it 11104 for the aneessly . terms of Ite4 with re, serer but Si r 1, as the !at qualm e Ipeop le pounds uh 3 l i i endowed co 1 lives 1 ) extra*. usual mo. agger the he whole ours., and my axi a l ey are re- varie t y um* r so mach- Inclined to wared is rries with re under- Tl'll dis- , through. and that y tendered Veto rune. Nasir would ; they way MIR as the brink from ROBERT'S sp with af• bushiest," ion o foresee t te n g vulvas o o give oar rs external ,ern us per. 4 of nifty • a it beholds said atldeg mei tytaatk giseisisesa • form Ley ' ika ape sem kt puss of the rs idle eat ' F this body id concert, a sin Me- rest/set that itself. Theta is deterrd through is- which are ince. The Its same, it t been cow which Ms* est I adios. latent ark itin. It mg cast as ▪ powers eI most impel. If, however. overthrew, would be no his designs t is evident e s which is Is taken iato g to abed • means 1 ;tensive ad have keg riew of the lecisive step S like a ?re- issue of the e Greeks are morning at Th e orh otth, as met la m that hit .t, as it Was Id. $i we hat eats hips left the pr i er to 1 0 union of IN 'ork harhow , wea ther dell • ntlfen nati• ibly iso eM ebt gtattiOnan. "TUB BUSTIN& STATISISAII" IS INCORPOSLATIO Wria 1112 STAVIN/AN." 1