The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-04-27 00:00:00

'V" - - - liament rashly. The question was obviously one ot great importance and difficulty ; and before they went to Parliament with a recommendation that it should become the suhject of a legislative inquiry, be thought it was incumbent on gentlemen to make them saves thoroughly acquainted with all the propositions which the Report embraced. He for one could not say that he yet understood them. He was certai ra uly te trtend to reform, and sh ould be happy to to-ope with the gentlemen present in measures to obtain it. The subject of the present deliberations was indeed ode of reform; it was reform with a vengeance, for it went to affect a change in the whole system of so ciety. But he again urged the propriety of allowing more time for consideiradon. W. P. Casseest.b, Esq. of Shanteld, saw no reason for any further delay, ins had great pleasure in sup porting the resolutions. A. J. Haan LTort, Esq. of Dalzell, said the Resolu tions did not pledge the meeting to an opinion as to the truth Or fallacy of the views contained in the re port ; they merely expressed that the subject was one .leserving the attention of the Legislature. He thought Lord Belhaven bad told him that he had read the report in Edinburgh. Lord Bemuse EN observed he had only glanced at tllc Report; he had indeed seen it that morning. It nas large and contained much novel and weighty Mat ter. lit begged it to be understood that he was far from ittending to express any di s approbation of the plan. With respect t o the 7t h resolut i on (viz. " mach c h at at the repott appears to be drawn up with aid the statements and reasonings which it contains to have been derived from much study and long expe rience.") It appears to ground the recommendation of the plan on their owl crperiekee. ?dr. OWEN remarked that the expression ailnded to, ceitainly could only be considered to apply to the individual whose plan they were deliberating upon. Lord BiLHAVV4 under this explanation had no ob. J . 1.....ti0n to accede to all the resolutions except the 9th, to which as it pledged the meeting to peon Par list:neat immediately, he could nut give his assent. 11. t therefore felt it his duty to more that the meeting 0-uold adjourn to this day month. R. Batt x, Esq. agreed with Lord Belhaven in re. commending the county nut to bring this question be fore Parliament in a precipitate manner. This subject •!volved considerations of the highest importance, and 41entandeti duo deliberation. Among other alterations of , lie existing systetn which the report suggested, he might mention that which regarded the currency. ...4.ttour was proposed as the new standard of value. In short the report went to establish quite a new order of things. It must necessarily form an integral part of the petition. Now be conceived that before submit., ting it to Parliament it would he expedient to recoil.' cider the text, which he was of ~ . ".anion might be much co.drnsed and amended: and the object in view would , re effectually attained. if gentlemen would con to a little delay for this purpose. There were Inly many parts of the plan which had his appro n; he should however rapport the amendment of 'Ale Lord. le question of " proceed" or " delay 23 —" was then 7 when there appeared fey proceed, 'delay, tjorite in favour of proceed, 16. A committee )ppo;ntrd to prepare the Petitions to Parliament, h were read to the meeting and agreed to. S3RDI.Y7.;N REVOLUTION. GENOA. ACCOUNT OF THE REVOIXTION AT GENOA. [sr ex eve-wry:vein.] On the 15th of March, after a lung delay, the Go ;or of Genoa published a proclamation, announcing at 'l' urin the Spanish constitution was proclaim and that the King Victor Emmanuel had abdi ted, appointing the Prince of Carignan() Regent of Kinedom. By the lame p r crclantatioe the Spanish istinvion was given to the Genoese, and received :'• great joy by all the inhabitants. Every thing !n:ai-etl quiet at Genoa : it even appeared that the •: Arse were willing to remain spectators of the strug .e between Piedmont and the common enemy of .aly, Austria ; when, on the 21st. a fresh manifesto , e published, as coming from the new King Carlo elle, calling the patriots rebels; and threatening .em pith the vengeance of God and the Allies, It .ey .lid nit return to the ancient system ; but with tar a word of amnesty. To this was joined a proclamation from the Go !erttor. praising the Genoese fur their former tran 4aillity ; and threatening, it they did not continue it, to call in the Austrians. It was o bscurely added, that `lll. P.ivce Regent bad already conformed to tire King's I;eaSit7.`. At gdnn an this manifesto appeared, there nay heard in every part of the city a sullen voice of indiznation. Twenty students ran tumnltsously to ;tie Governor's palace, and forcing him to grant them sto audience. demanded the new constitution, the na tionai 4 uard, and the Regent's letter. Two of their demands the Governor abpolutely refused ; as to the civic guard, he promised they should be satisfied.) On receiving this answ er . the steidentesallied forth , atee l, t wisted by the citizens, disarmed almost all the guards, who were soon replaced in gre.it number!; and the Governor himself proceeded on foot to the es palace, to hold a cou ncil . followed by great crowds e x ecrat ing him, and throwing ston. S continued all night ; but no Seri 3Utl disturbance oc caned. The next day two regiments, supposed to be disaffected, the marines, and the Saluzzo regiment was , we re shut up in their quarters. Military law proclaimed, and a strong guard planted in every part of the city ; on the Polite Reale, opposite the Ex change, the cannon, loaded with grape shot, were titrited towards the city ; and the soldiers had orders to fire on the least alarm. In the uteanwhile the Genoese preserved a stern and resolute silence. the constant forerunner of a storm in Italy : it was gene rally said that the city urns sold to the Austrians, but that they should buy it dearl y . At night. nu some slight alarm, a pistol was fired near the Governor's palace; on which the cannon began firing ; and there he,o4 none of the citizens in the square, 14 soldiers were killed, and some others wounded. On the morn ing of the 23J the same a ppearance continued in the city ; the Governor's emissaries were at work sowing dissentions between the soldiers and the people. and between the different regiments: on the other hand, a party of 511 students , wbo, having given a dinner to 50 utiieers in honour of the Constitution were marked for vengeance, and were eager to increase the number of their milli. -tits. It was at last . the appro.telsing revolt by the sword, w. o'elock a cry of " Long live the Conatitntion," was heard near the tquare of the Exchange, shorted forth by the marines. The guard before the palate 'pre sented their bayonets ; but at this moment. the offi cer commanding them was palled against the wall by four Genoese, who, presenting a pistol at his throat, whispered in Frentli—" Long; lice the constitution,' and make your soldiers do the same, or yen are a dead man." The officer replied by instantly obeying the order ; his example was followed by his troops, who threw down their arms, after firing lifer de joie. and embraced tie people, who, assisted by the corps of IMArille4, seized on the Poute Neale, and turned the cannon again toward' the sea. Another party rushed into the palace, and were dragging the Governor down stairs with loud execration., when two young Genoese merchants, named Per.tquallo and Chiacealugo, forced their way thiough the crowd, and taking hold of the Governor,led him in safety to the house of Cbiaccalu go, on the Piazza Campetto, where under the bayonets of the self-constituted national guard, who had taken posses sion of the arms at the arsenal, and amidst the shouts of an immense populace demanding his bead, he signed a paper resigning his authority into the hands of a junta, all Genoese. The junta also published a paper proclaiming anew the Spanish constitution. In two hours every thing WWI tranquil, and the city was a s cene of universal rejoicing ; part of the diets dividing the dut y of mounting plant with the citizens, and the vest singing patriotic hymns and dancing among the people. The officer commanding the small troop of cavalry, as soon as he saw the cause of tyranny defeated, rode, full gallop, to his quarter, and ordering Lis soldiers to mount, tied with them through a private military gate towards Tuscany. The neXt d.sy the Governor was carried to the palace, where he remained under the ;Oct custody of the national gua rd. The revolution was unpollnted by any act of plun der or revenge. Even the tiovereJr's palace was left untouched by the populace, who merely seized on tlte arm' they found there, and threw his papers oat of the window. A party of wood sellers, having intelligence that he lsad lodged 60,000 francs in the hands of the captain of the p at, took them from him by force, and carried the n hole sum untouched to the junta. IREL.I.VI). Every mail from Irelaw! Wings the news of some fresh disturbances on the part of the peasantry, and of some corresponding instance of coercion on the part of the local government. The following extract, however, from the proceedings of the Douse o f Com mons, during the last week, will, in some degree, de velope the cause of discontent in that interesting and generous peop!e, and will fend to convince the inha bitants of this country that c onsistent and reasAtable conduct in thuoe who direct public affairs would con ciliate the Irish acs well as any others of his Majesty's subjects, and would convert Ireland into the strength of the British empire in times of danger, instead of making it one of its most assailible points : „A Petition of the inhabitants of the parish ofCul daff, in the county of Done— e' al, was presented and read; setting fortis , that the Petitioners have, daring the last five ) ears, suffered under the twist severe hard ships and oppressions, in consequence of the existing distillery laws: and that these rhstresses have accu mulated on them such a weight of miscortitn. , , that they are compelled to appeal to the justice and com passion of the House to procure relief; the Petitioners humbly beg leave to state, that in consegnence of the monopoly of grain, w liich a few favoured distillers have been able to effect, there is nu reward for the toil of the farmer, that agriculture is languishing, and that the labouring classes are in Amager of starving; the Petitioners also deem it necessary to inform the [louse, that a great part of their property has been at various times of late forcibly taken front Owlet, under pretence of levying flues un the parish, and its several townlauds, for the illicit ; that the excise officers who seized their goods, took them from tke unoffending as from the guilty ; that age. infancy. sickness, and decrepitude, were alike disrespected, sad that famine, disease, insurrection, and murder, have resulted from this indiscriminate rapine ; the Peti— tioners are comp; led by their distress to state, in ad-1 dition to tits above cotnplaints, that their property when seized was not disposed of according to law, that they have never beets able to procure an account of it, and that they roily believe that a considerable por tion of it was applie d iu manlier different from the avowed purpose fur which it was taken the Peti- 1 tioners, therefore, humbly rely on the House for reme dies for the many grievances which they endure under the lens for regulating distillation in Ireland; they implore that small stills may be licenced, on condi tions compatible with the boots which they are intend ed to bestow; and they avow a confident expectation that measures will he speedily taken by the House to bring those persons to jit.tice who have committed acts of robbery under poetic, of executing the laws." Extract of a letter from the --ounty of Tipperary.— " Nothing particular in the way of news---provisions are tolerably cheap, which is what e nables the p eople to exist, in the present scarcity of money. ee 3d. and mutton 4 d. per l it. ; p ork eggs five B for f Id., potatoes Id. per stone of 1 alb., oats 6d. per stone, hay 20s. per toe ; groceries nearly hall as cheap as some time ago, and to assist us in our misfortunes, we have punters whiskey in great plenty, at 6s. per gallon. The farmers all ruined, the gentlemen not able to pay the interest of the money they owe, which is the ease with almost all our country gentlemen, and the shop keepers without business ; the only thing to save or serve us is thisconutry, is a reduction of rents, tithes and taxes, all of which are as high as ever; and none of those three concerned inclined to come down in their demands one penny. The landlords, with few, very few exceptions, are extorting the last penny, and sell ing every beast the tenant (who has been under them for several years) has—the clergyman has sot abated one penny of his tithes, and I fear tloveranseat cannot afford to give up any of the taxes. 'floe endeavour to keep up the price of land by corn-bills, is of nu use in the world to the occupying farmer ; it is a bill merely to increase the rear-roll of great men at the expense, misery. and almost starvation of the lower taders.— Was work scarce, anti provisions dear, yea can from yourself form a good idea of what a miserable way we woald be in."-16th April, Is'2l. al . LONDON ...10116r To-unaanw. sin. after 19.—Evegling a min. PRICK OF wrocics TIM.. flank Stock 4234 I 3 per Cent. Rett. 71 lin 3per Cent. trin. 7454 34 per Cent. ell i 4 per Cosh.. MU 3 per Cc. Navy llsl, 74 bper Cent. Lnag A in. 1445 7-16 646 limp. 3-per t•ent. Irish 5 per rest. ----- - DAY AT ON IL01:. LOC K. India Stock 4104 Ditto }loads —s. 444. 41s. pin South-Sea Stock Mt tooth Sea New Ann. Kg 11111014. Os, 44. 61. pm (monism for Money pm Rank for Account India for ditto Coo. for Acet72lll I Lott. Tickets 14i. Its. LONDON: PRIDAT EVENING, APRIL 27, 1321. ArcordiTz to private accounts, which, we are as sured may he depended on, the sway of the Ultra faction in France is, fur the present, suspended. A letter from Paris, dated the 23d instant, contains the following paragraph : " Yesttoday (Solidity) the Duke Deca:es went to Coen to pay his respects to the King and Princess. His Majesty addressed him twice in presence of all the persons in the Charmer. This is sufficient to destroy the malicious reports which the party opposed to hint have been pleased to dissetnivate as to his pretended disgrace. Ou the preceding evening the Duke was pre sent in the Sitting of the Chamber of Peers." The letter adds, that the appearance of the Dake at Court, and his reception had tilled the Ultras with rage and consternation. Another letter of the sam e date says, " The Spanish Minister liarilaxi is still here. 1 am happy to inform you that the Spaniards have at last adopted strong mea sures. They have decreed a levy of 500,000 men, and the creation of four armies. A commission of tive Mem bers is to be nominated in order to be joined to the Mi nistry during the war. As soon as hostilities commence, the political Chiefs are to have dictatorial power. and all attacks against the Constitution are to be tried by a 31ilitary Commission, the sentence of which is to be “ectitel withiutl hours, with the approval of the Voli tical Chief. We are still in ignorance of what is really going on in Naples and other parts of Italy." Letters from Naples of the tith inst. have arrived, con taining little public news, excepting some decrees passed by the present Government of that country. In the pre amble to that which appoints a consmission, it is stated, that " whereas sundry persons have been arrestsahnder suspicion in the provinces of the kingdom, by the Com manders of the Imperial an.l Royal Austrian troops ; anal considering that the said persons may thus be ren dered liable to long and severe trials; wishing to save such subjects of his Majesty as may be innocent, from stick inconvenience, we have, nn the report of the Minis ter of Justice, decreed, and do decree as follows : " 1. There shall be established in the city of Naples a Provisional Commission, consisting of three tslagis trates, who shall inquire into the circumstances which caused the arrest of the persons accused ; and if they be found to be innocent, the Commission shall onler them to be liberated ; but if there be ground for accusatiu, they shall be immediately tried before their proper Judges. " '2. An officer appointed by Raton Fritoont, Coin mairder-In-Chief of the Austrian army, shall be an as sessor with this Commission. He will tarnish the ne cessary information, hot will have no deliberative voice. " • :1. The Commission consists of the Marquis di Paten°, President ; Signor Angelo Fiore, Coonsellor of the Supreme Court ; and Signor Michel di Curtin. Vice- President, Court of Accounts.' another ilet:ree of the Provisional Governuinit an cols all the appointments of officers, all grants of rank and all diplomatic nominations made by the late I:ovri iiient. A decree dated the 4th, and purporting to be issued directly by the King, is given iu the following terms : " Our paternal heart wishing rather to present than to punish errors, disposes u 4 to view with compassion many youths who have been seduced by their masters — men who speculate in revolution, or by ending mo.lern seditious books, or finally. by the moral contagion of wicked compinions. Persuaded that incre as e of yeaeir rs, ex perience, and soli4 knowledge, will in time open th eves to the light of truth, we decree as follows : I. All students now at Naples shall return home and there resume their studies, until wet shall again inti tute our Koval V n i ve rsity. 2. After te period of eight Clap from this date, all who ma They be found itsLendents f in eat capital shall be treated as vagabott 3. o the provinces shall represent to the fathers of families that it belongs to them. by aosonsitor the anth which the law Of nature gives them to extirpate from the hearts of their children all traces of perverse doc trines. 4. All the hea ds of schools of every kind s hall present, within eig ht da y s from this slate, a list of the names of their pupils, arcompattied with an easel statement of the religious, political, and moral conduct of each. rs. The pupils who distinguished themselves by their good conduct shall have a claim to our special protection and munificence.' Au Italian paper states that the garrison of Mes sina, having heard of the advance of the Austrians on Naples, and being deceived respecting the real situa tion of affairs by souse ingitives of the constitutional party, broke out into insurrection. General Itassarol, the commander, sent rotisseries to Palertno, to collect the troops in garrison there, with the view of effecting a debarkation on the coast of Calabria, and thus stop ing the progress of the Austrians; but the news of the occupation of Naples and the submission of the different fortresses rendered this plan abortive." A private letter from dated the 12th i ns t a nt, says, it is impossible to describe the effect which ll:e news of the events at Naples had produced there. The King cotonsunicated it to the Cortes in a message, in which his Majesty loudly manifested how blameable the conduct of the Neapolitan Princes appeared to him; that be trusted that the Spaniards, in similar circum stances, would not behave like the Neapolitans; and, to c onclude, that in the politivataitnatiou of Euroi e, it was to a helped that the AllieCrowers would not interfere with the iffairs of the Peninsula. the Co'rtes decided that a CoMmittee should go up wilt thanks to his Ma jesty for his messy e, and concert measores *MA it might appear proper to take under exisCng circuntstan. res.—At:retains from Barcelona state. that conSitlerahle commotion!: having appeared among the people. a Jnnta assembled, composed of all the authorities, and coss. missioners from all the corporiesions, who resolved t o transport to Majorca the following individuals:—'l'h.. Bishop of Barcelona; .kbella, Vicardleneral ; kinzer, ex-Inquisitor; the Onardiatt of St. Francisco, (JelinAli Eroles, Saarsfiehl, and Pottrnas; Brigadiers Attdrian and Campbell; Estrauch, commanding the regiment o! Barhastro, and brother to the Bishop of Vi;:le ; Burti: battelta, and March. The Captain-General ordered, an the Junta sanctioned it, that they should be een k ai kp a t fur Mahon. The people also desired that the front . 01 the citadel, which looks towards Barcelona should it; demolished; but this was not acceded to. An article from Madrid of the 11th inst. says, by let tees from Tangier of the .19th March, it was known at Ceuta, that the Emperor of Morocco, Nlulcy Soliusat!, was encamped at the distance of two leagues and a half from Tangier, covering one of the passes by which the rebels of Tetuan might escape. The weather had pre- vented any thing further being alone ; but preparations are made to act as soon as the season would allow of it. Meantime his Majesty had received by express the agree able news that the people of Pea had entirely repented ' of the conduct they bail observed, awl that they acknow . • ledged none bat his Majesty. Fur this reason salutes of artillery were fired at Tang ier, and e!:presses sent to Tetuan to intimidate the rebel s, who were in want even of provisions. The soldier s who brou g ht these accounts to Ceuta, confirmed them verbally, as to the present situation of Soliman, who is at E.l (haste : adding, that as he was returning to the fatly, some Moors of the party of Zied uset him, who attempted to kill leim, think. ittg he was of the uncle's party ; but they contented themselves with disarming him, and making hint de clare that he was fur the nephew, o ho, as they inforprd him, left Tetuan with 1;200 horse by the monntaint en the left, hut that his route and designs were not knows. The fortes have been chiefly ocenpieti with the debate on the law for the regulation of Patriotic Societies, which was passed. On the 10th a project of law was read for abridging proceedings in the courts of justice, which is inked t o be absolutely necessary for preventing or punishing the crimes of the ill-disposed who attempt to subvert the Constitution. Considering the urgent necessity of the case, it was proposed by M. Martinea de la lima, that the law should be read a third time within four days, and that the day should be fixed for the debate: mean time, it might be printed and distributed ; and when the discussion was once begun, it ought to be continued without interruption till it was conclnded. The point being judged sufficiently sliscusscd, this was declared to he the second reading. 'flee third reading wailed for Saturday, the 14th. Extract of a letter from Columbia, datea the begi inr of March , receiv ed this m orning. " ltisas geu rally been remaiked of all the Bev•liitionary Cisme ments, that the debts they incurred in throwing all the yoke of the prccedini Government and establish ing their own antlnwitc, hare aiways been tardily at- Imowledged and often c u mpr.oni , e.l for less than half of the orizinal sums due to the private creditors. Of this numerous examples could he quoted. The Govera m ews now forming in South America, shew a bright example to the contrary ; of this particularly, that of the new Republic of Colombia, comprising Vene zuela and the rich ter ritories of New Grenad The moment the form of the Government was established , the Pretident, Bolivar, grateful for the supplies he had liberally received during the time of their greatest need from British subjects residing in this country, despatched the Vice-President, 'Lea, to a scertain what was actually iltw, and to grant State acknswiedgments for such debts, hearing 10 per rent. until p sid. This task %ea has most honorably fulliilcd, and in virtue of a special commission granted him for this pur pose, to the amount of 40,000 pounds sterling. From the length of time some of the adventuress have been nut of their m one y . and the doubtful issne of the con test, they were at first glad to zet any thing, and 15 per cent. fur their bonds : hut tunas baying arrived at Jamaica to satisfy the claimants at that island, the bonds have been from 15 to , I.:k per rent . 1 hare no doubt that the original adcewurers sill be s:wedily rewarded fo r the faith they placed iallolior• who will pay them with ample interest." Among the meastiren which will occupy the tom' lion of Parliament. soon after the present reven..o that which has been distinguishr I by the name of*. linovotam's P.dtteation Hill. When we take into consideration the multitude of objects whose improve* meat it contemplates. the importance • f the principle. i. involves , the va riet y of interest • it has to cons it t!I and a djunt, and the num erous details into frbills m ust enter, we know no t whether to admire m ost, do benevolence and greatness of the initial which eel. r ceived the plan , or the industry and pctsererance • quisite to shape it into a practical and effective form. In no other country in the world h tve rich num erous and liberal endowm ents been pro idea a s in Brits . " for the instruction of the rising generation. In many in stances, however, it ban been discovered that this prw ' , ion has been perverted from the public purposes fur which it had been begneathed, and enjoyed as prirafe emolument. To redre-s this glaring ahuse in one of Shs important objects of Mr. littocotAm's bill ; and f ihis view it proposes to supply defects i , i trusts. to improve the a pp lication and administratios of the fonds, and to remedy w hatever failure ha. taken p ica ;II the object: cutitemdlated h; ln the 'tripling a reform of such a utsgnitude as it It h mrr !•-et v., certalti • I:..tion the Nt The I , r jlt. m ...-11110 .., 1, .L,,,, ,t I I . AC 0, verrl tL- it eti, r ' 4 4 cite t:•c C.171' pit' II I r :il: . , Ct. e, !Cie i l V•P $ Fel t*,,c 11.3 I I In V ‘' , 1 Mu o. t,,, Ni V I 1 1 1 .1( ' ill , . ti •i 1 a t, d t c i 1 I I '' I, • , . 3 t, , i • i 4 1 i 11 LI I 1 4 • . . i , I li ll ' :. • THE STAT MAN. resolve+, upon to quell WiTnlt e ,mull, when at I ! ___.--"'"1"41 • .o.ti••t , Slitgh- 11 is 1 . 119 i 'wear yerf r tb• ba • the !•m Mean t. e 0 icesst ligbte City of te.P . ifew. ' 1 1 !t it m. ine yin ie- l ii fur 'a.te the t Attat t fonan. 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