The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-02-27 00:00:00

PHILA. OF STOCKS THI! 'lank Stack 3 per Cent. Reel. 7if per Cent. Cotrool.. if 31 per Cent. tor Ace. 74f 1 per Celli. 934 IS PAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 5 pet Cats. Nits y IlAi Isills Mods Si Lim Asa. 19i liselorsper Buis 1 dos. / pr. Chsalea S. 'VTOL ititk-Broker. C.ondill. and Liksbar.i.wees. THE STATESMAN. LONDON i SATURDAY. lISDRUARY 27, 1519. M. will commence our article upon the Was r lIIISSTait ELLCTION with the conclusion of Sir F. Bualscres address of yesterday to the Electors : '• Ile recommended Mr. flosstousa to their cond. need efforts, as he was fully ;wished of his abilities, sod his integrity would never be shaken. Ile trusted they would do every thing ou their parte as be was determined to do his duty to them."—This is all that can be required. Mr. liosstouss being an untried man, Sir FDANCIg, as one long hied, an swers for him. Who should know him better? — What more can be desired than that en honosrable bondsman guarenives the performance of • duty in * person whose ability sod disposition are sot gees. rally known ?—Arise then, we beseech yes, Elec tors of Westminster ! and rescue yosr City from the disgrace with which it is menaced. It is not whether it shall bee Whig er Tory who is to represent this prood City in Parliament ; bet who ther you shall have a Reformer, a RADICAL Raroass ea for your Representative, or one who is no Re former ; for he can be none who hesitates to cot of that clinkering, that corrupt pert of Our system which threatens to infect—fstally to infect the whole body, •il. the ROTTEN BOROUGHS. What honest min—what rational being, whose Insert is not filled with the blackest, most envenomed blond, can say that Old Serum, end other places which have scarcely any ishabitents, should send two Members to Perlis. meat, and Manchester and Birmingham none P Citi sons of Westesioster,nliether wealthy or otherwise, ve iled on your critical position. You have for some years been in the place of • political light-house to the whole country. If the /Flags and Tories, by the moat odious of connesions, a connexion which makes each bleats is the other's face; if by this most unna tural of eoalitioos that ever was area or beard of, your torch as a beacon be extinguished, all will be &Awns over the three kingdoms; for then the two motet, %auto ailverso to each other, anti now unitedly adverse to all Reform, will join from policy, and from the bighted sewed of their hese joectiow, melt widget each other's reluctant bat forced embrace, and at once take a stand spina every spades of Reform !! On the twotrary, in meting Mr. Iloanouss by the side of Sir F. Buxom, you yourselves eternal honour—the country a per. mom benefit, and we may say nt.lasteo, for by your success in this instance there can be no doubt of a wholesome, because Radical Reforuv, and the country saved from those disasters which long de layed abuses, and long stifled resentment never fail to kindle. In whose bands will yew, ye rich 'Vest stsiasterians, trust the wheel of Reform? In whose bands will it be safest ? Verbum sat. That it most come from some quarter or other—look East, look West, leek North, look South. Torok at she Court, I look at the City, and, in fine, only open your eyes, i and look any where!! W EsTMlNsrbtc LLECTIU:4. State of the Nambers palled this day up to Three o'Clock 3. C. Cameras. Fa, IPS nee. U. Lars 3.7 State of the Poll, es it closed yesterday :- 3. C. Ilaseeraz. tag. ?Rn Hee. C. Lam 33.51 We ay, with the true Patriots of Westminster— " No saw Coax BILL !"—eacept, Weed, it be a Bill to repeal the lost Coen Act ; audio removefrom commerce and industry its destructive effects on both. The balance of all arguments on this subject is easily struck. let, Under the operation of the last Corn Act, our manufactures could not regain their footing in the foreign market ; although, it order to meet the low prices of foreign goods, our lahoering classes had not sufficient wages to find their children breed ; and, 2d, under the stagnation of our commerce is the foreign market, the Revenue is become inadequate 110 PAY the INTERLST of the NATIONAL DIRT, and SUPPLY the YEARLY rustic ►ae►NDITURC. The spicalteral petitioners may argue in Palace-yard how they will; bet never ern they produce arguments before the Dation to move these propositions from their place. What, then. is their waw BILL to do? To give met to costs:Lame, and BREAD to lbe mayn't; POOR! Why ! if they did cell it by that precise name, they would not sifis a more absurd title to it, than in naming it a Bill to relieve agricultural distress. It would be a Bill to heap misery on the poor, is its list sad homediste operation ; and, finally, to bring calamities upon the rich. It would be a Bill to depopulate forms, sod turn the whole fete of the country frog the waving and golden sea of a corn harvest Ws a desert; for buyers would cease, and the fields might go eoresped for the want of money, THROUGH DIMINISNED com mence, to purchase the produce. If 'plainer, be oppressed, lot it have its due remedy; bet this is none, for Ail ecn only add to its distress, In the wty we have pointed oet.--If agri culture be oppressed, let the (mama of ,land hen his remedy in the arpLAL Or ALL TAXES btaii/le directly vow agriculture, and in the at. SUCTION of RENT'. Then, the farmer will be re heard every way. Ile will raise his produce at a price which will find a ready willing market in the ability as well as wards of the working artisan and WOO. facturer, and will also amply pay him for his labour and employment of capital. Low prices will, thee, be to him high gains. And why should not this plait remedy be applied ? The Goveramest will be stupid U, seeing bow things are going on, they do not re ' peal all direct Agricultural 'lazes; and the LAND. OWNERS will he still more consummately 'gnomic, it they attempt to pees'''e their present rests, is the present position of the country. Theetempt, much lodger persisted in, will he ruin to them, in bee deserted, or swept away from them by the reds band of a aunt NICTAIITY. Can nothieg give one lesson of wisdom to the Govern. went or the Land-owners ? Will they not referee until they relent in unavailing tears ? Will they prefer to weep with bitterness when they might smile with kitting complacency sod well. earned joy ? Will they run sod put their heads in a hush, like the silly ostrich, and suppose no one wee them, till arrows and death find them there ? We wish it not to be se. We wish them to occupy their stories, end live and be happy in it, giving and to. clawing, but receiving mole than they give. Bet this minuet he, is the coarse they are pursuing. Re pealed Agrkelteral Tames and lowered Roils as oleos lase thee. Ministers may now be said to practice the art of pleee-keeping by cunning, rather than by wisdom.— Bat the art will fail them. What can be en grins as their conduct upon this recent subject of 10,0001. a per to the Doke of Yeas. If his Royal Highness be poor, it is his own fault, for he has a priactdy in• come! Bet be Is heir presumptive le the Crews, tied therefore these cunning Ministers do net forget themselves, while they plead for the Deke's interest. The Caroms Mail cominuoicates, in an article dated Warsaw, two letters, which are said to base been written by KO4CIVSZO, within a year or two of that hero's death—one addressed to Prince CsAsto• RINSIT, the other to the Emperor ALEMANDCR. 00 the subject of a re-union tinder a single denomi- nation, as they are already under the ;acne scup. tre, of ■ll those provinces of ancient Poised, con tained between the Vistele, the Dnieper, and the Dona, which acknowledge the Russian sway. This saw sere, which was eery amorally so object dear to the heart of the Polish Patriot, is said to have bees for some time in the serious contemplation of lbs Em peror. 7 Tax EDItOR or Tax STATESMAN. was greatly pleased by remarks on the I elharecter and pursuits of a certai.. class of Ladies of the present day, published in one of the Papers of last week : like that Correspondent I condemn every act which gives publicity to the female character, mere particularly in their acts of charity. When the best feelings predominated in the female heart there were few of them subscribers to public charities ; their arts of benevolence were confined to 'here ob. jects she made personal application for relief, and few applied in vain. God forbid I, or any other person, should see unmoved the dear in teresting children brought op at the eharity-schools, I hope they may flourish as long es the earth remains; bet these end other public subscriptions have re. moved from nor Ladies that delicacy of feeling, and delightfel reflection, produced by a conscioesneas of removing the misery of want from objects more im mediately connected with them, or ender their eye. It is too often the case that feelings so powerfully operate': en in public, are invulnerable in private. These reflections on one part of the female cha. racier, natarelly lead me on to reflect on another.— Any man being in the habit of perambulating the streets of the Metropolis of an evening, most perceive with horror the dreadful occupation of numberless females, from earliest youth to mere advanced age; there can be no doubt that the greater part of these I beings are depraved In the extreme ; but there are some whose first false steps lead them progressively through all the wretchedness of misery and vice, pro. biddy because the path is easy to tread, having all the streets of the Metropolis open to them ; but thereat@ others, whose hearts and minds baring been formed; on the strong basis of virtue, yet driven by change of circumstances, aed emcee, poverty, with trem bling limbs sad reluctant steps wander through these paths, encoeraged by the hope of pecsolary relief, to mops collided dist rem, bet escosraged most by the non repulse arid certainty of not being exposed. And there are too many whose natural dispositions, aided by this easy access to vice, become the prey of it ; but should the Legislature Interfere, its wisdom would surely check this progress of vice: it employs itself in matters of leas consequence. Neighbour. ing natio., set the pattern. When a stranger enters Paris, he may feel shocked at learning a cer tain clam of females are allowed by Government to take out Ikences ; bet n hen he reflects that they are confined to one walk (the Palsis Royal), he ad mires the arrsogenient : was this the case with us, it would deter all bet the really depraved, for estrogen with the rest is the most dreaded part of the crime. Robberies wherein these females are concerned, would be much easier discovered, and it would leave our leading streets open for she porsasbeletion of our wives and daighters ia their necessary calling, with , Dot subjecting them to the loselts of the licentious, who cannot Insensible's between the female obliged to walk frequently through the Strand, Fleet-street, I ke. on her own urgent concerns, and those whose 1, walks eight to be confined to siker places. &c. A CONSTANT READER. The poli.lcians of Paris are thrown into a con.l siderabte agitation. by what is termed a ruse among the Ultras in the Chamber of Peers. They hose he. held with a green eye, for a long time past, the gra deal approaches of the Patriots towards consolidat ing ttus benefits the Chester was calculated to offer to the People of long-seffering France. The Iles& of that class, ancient Peers chiefly, who cannot too meth exalt the power and inflames of the Crown, on which they are always casting their re. girds, because they draw their whole consequence from it, hose for some time been plotting to lessen the popular influence In the elections. They fised their attentions open one of the recent Peers, Mr. BAIITHII.I3/T (son to the admired author of The Voyage of the loan' Anacharsis), the Member of the Directory, who was banisised to Cayenne, and for a moment he was ensnared into the trap. It is tree, however, that he no sooner discovered the lore, than he marketed himself from it, and proved to the Chamber that he had been surprised into the mea sure. All the Members of that body in the popular interest, will see with ;demure the tailors of the proceeding, which would throw the whole kingdom again into commotion. The financial as well es the political f,ee of our I, country appears peculiarly grave and Interesting at this moment. Accounts from foreign markets are unpromising. It appears, by letters from Liverpool, that 160 packages of British manufactured goods have been returned from New Orleans, not finding a vent in America, owing to the high price set epee them. This is the way our Ministers prove the thriving condition of our trade, from the entry at the Cestom.house. The goods are reported, it is tree, bet they are brought back because our masefacterers callow sell them at the price offered so as to live. We have sot half the American merchants in Eng lead as some time back. They look into Der manu factories, but purchase very little. Notwithstanding all this, Petitions are pouring into the House of Commons, from various eoenties, in order to enhance the price of bread-corn for the benefit of the land holders. The galling load begins4o be felt by every class in the Looted Kingdom, awd„ of course, each wishes end strivers to threw it of ileir own shoulders. All this while the Fends, which kit been considered the barometer of the country's fortune, every day fall. They lowered agalo yesterday, and have fur. ther fallen torday !! Major CARTWRIGHT, we are sorry to learn, has been suddenly called out of town to visit a sick and elder brother, to whom he is fraternally attached, and to whom he is shearing an •ffeetionste attention. The conduct of Ministers, with regard to the two hundred pounds per week given to the Duke of You for his carriage horse biro, to go to see his Royal disordered lather, shows at once bow mesh nearer the Throne his Royal highness now is, than be was seven years age! William Brewer, of St. Augeatins'a, Norwich, bonsbasies weaver, was convicted before the Maths. trate@ in the penalty of 401. for purchasing worsted yarn, knowing it to be stolen ; and on refusing to pay down the said penalty, he was ordered to be whipped in the sgarket,plact on the following mar. ket-daj. ulteatioo of life to deserve his notice. His ophsloo was the very reverie: he deemed the Editor of a Paper, if cendecled it with impartiality, awl to that im partiality added ability, to be a mao infinitely gape. tier to the b soles. being who derived his ooly distinc. lion from the d►coration of a title, or the enjoyment of a splendid fortune derived free bis aocestors. lf, however, a false colouring was pot open facts, and circumstances were distorted, which oeght to be fairly tepreamiteil, then he was the man who was the most Wine to, and had the least right to complain of, soy animadversion. The Editor of the Paper to which he had on orlon had occisioo to anode, had said, that in the Middlesex F.lection, in IBM (for the pre. ago was not the only straggle in which he had pnerd foetheir rights and privileges), he hail cern, fnritarti as a Candidate on Whig principles. Now, it was notorious that he hod never been able to discover what Whig principles were. Were they the prin. eiples of Charles Foa Z or were they the principles of Lord Grenville, which were as different from the former as light from darkness I If they were neither of these, were they the principles of that monstrous • coslitien, which, as Mr. Rnbitnose hail observed, bed only degraded the character of the Whigs; and for this very reason—that they were the oily party which bad any character to lose ? for he • was ready to admit, that among the Whigs there were many 'Wanes and honourable men, who had the interest of the country eeriossly at heart, • and were the beat friends of public liberty. Ile did not mean to conferred ell distinctions, and, there. fore, in speak'ng of unprincipled Whigs, he applied the term generally, if It was impossible to stop on *very occasion to make the distinction ; should any of teens, therefore, be offended by it, he had as objection ; if the cap stied, he hoped they would weer it: trusted also that he was not carrying liberality too far, when he observed that there were many honest men among the T... ties; bet allowing this to be the case, It did sp. peer to him wonderful that whew the country was ground to death, by Whig and Tory mel.administra tint', and oppressed by Whig and T•ry legalises, end when it was of little importance which of the two parties was out, and which was is, any honest wan could help seeing that there was something rotten in the system, and that that rottenness principally ley in the pause of Commons. Ile should not detain them any longer from those exertions which it was requisite that they should still make to en sure final success ; it was not of importance so far as men, not measures, were concerned, that Mr. llobhouse should be Warned to Parliament; be ought only to be considered as the Candidate of Reform, and it was only as he was connected with that cause that he but recommended Mr. Hobhoaw to their notice. Ability to support it that Gentleman bad in abundance, and if he usight answer for an other, though it was !NV,' difficelt for a man to an swer for what he himself should become at lay dis tance of time, he had integrity enough not to de sert it. After some further remarks en the odious nature of the coalition which now /listed against the liberties of Westminster, the glory the Electors wild &Noire in denting it, and some panegyrics en the principles which actuated hies and them, the Baronet soncteded his speech amid very loud and general cheerings. The crowd then dispersed. Neither Haut nor Jones were there this day. THE STATESMAN \ : nori L A rrAEILITY. Th. I)—e o'er serupuSeate abject, la late A ray& sews fres Peary Perm fun; Yet drip. t.. packet, for the Path's sake, Tea iltssoond posed., • year, free Jean ir What pure heneveleuer ! whet eandearesslaa N hat zealous isere4 Is the satires west I What chyle hostility ! what sweet 010.101101! To SCOW the rich, a... Osbert the pier man's Meal I This —ly pouf of Pr --ly wroderatios Let hisery regimer. and peels Nag ; Let Joan itodsl;e in eat aalielpailars Of what a weirraie Pr—cc will be, alma g J. . IVEIV CORN IIILL.• The two following lotters._one from Mr. VAN. ettrnew,, and the other free Mr. Camara, are ad_ droned to the A:Mt-nit:era Gentlemen, who hold their sittings et the T , Is Old Palecelard Bareaing-rtreet. Jan. 45.11119. am dltetted ht the Chou...llor of the tacMarer to ackonortedie the receipt of the kite. whirler:to hare addrerrod to be at Ciminero , .4 the hiretiag of Airiestßonds. la whirls you roan-4. a copy ..f certain Re lotions 'thick bare been rypeed to by ,h,• Gentlemen comparing that Meeting. nod las nppa,t to the 00,14 of their application In Perliameat. " la reply in which. I am directed by air. Vaarittart on Sr. quaint you. 800 the sense of his Mejesry's Mleistera wpm the general aewttnr h..ving beets so unequitecall, expressed is Ow Neese or Coaminns. on Friday hie. by Mr. 'Mobilises. lt *sly Miele for liins 1.0 refer !no 10 I het statrariet. as/ as ti:arree i ant any porticolar point abler the Meeting say frel it Nero. retry to submit to the cotakleraiina *Vibe Goveramead.shitadd be Mae heart,' thrott l es the medium of the Board of Coutail fee Trade aril Firrtgli Pisamitiota, of which Mr. Vansittart is a I ktrenlier.ned where it sill receive every etternderatiou to whit! It b eatltled. " I have the banger le he. SIN Your mat eb J. eillen. Ser.ael C. EREELING. " To George Webb Hal, Eq. Chairman, Ste." •• India Board. Jas. 45. " Sta,-1 hn•e had the liniment le receive your letter of this day', date. including • ropy of inert•la Itesoletteen agreed teat a Alerting or Agricalturiwe on the 14th lest. as the grosses WI their intended appliettien to the Legialatere. •` In weer! to which, 1 beg Inge to ref..e yew le the declare lion made by the Pre-West of the Board of Trade, is the 110e.e of Commune, no the 4311 inst.. as coataisieg the seat inseam of his Alajctry'A lioerrotacot a ith revert to arty alteration its tote Cote Laws. " I bate the Wooer to be, Sir. •• h Do room Weediest I.toolde Serrate, " GEO. LANNIhG. " Geo. Webb Hall, E. Chairman, Stc." The Politicians of Preis have not been so agitated and warmed by any °ceramics sinew the return of Levis XVll I. as by the motion of M. °MOREAU'S! ins the Chamber of Peers. It oar book of Whigs and Tories be out of print, the French have plenty of puLlications full of lbw spirit of those distinc tions. lica.wrie CONsTANT, a Member of the National Convention, is at this moment the greet delineator of die political partisans. The Doke DE FITT•JAMiI, DR CUATRANDRIANT, M. DR CAM, and Bo u t'' D'ANCLAI, another old Con. rentionalist, are the greet levers of public (Tiniest ; and the tardiness of vomit:tin the Charter, and the unfisedisess with respect to the jest point to which the elective franchise should be Wended, is ' the felchrom on which them levers act. Most serious alarms were prevalent on the Rept F.:change yesterday, in consequence of the letters received that morning from Liverpool, stating the ocinsmerciel distresses of that place. The smasher of 'Whim there end elsewhere, in consequence of the magnitude of the speculations Into which men enter , ed, from the facility with which paper geoid be dis counted, is daily segmenting; Ind the dread of its Went threw a gloom aver the City, sects as has not been witnessed for years. The Dyke of GLOUCESTER, in his late •isit t o th e Hospital for the Blind, at Paris, was accompanied by the Duchesses of COURLAND and Ntso. Yesterday morning dispatches were received at Bed BATUURIT'S office from Malta and Gibraltar. and also at the Admiralty, from the Commanding Naval Officer on that station. The Aid surveying motel, Capt. Stamm, had returned from a complete esamination of the shores of the Adriatic, in which he bad been assisted by some Austrian officers, seat for that purpose from Vienna. The Weymouth store , ship was to bring home a cargo of timber for the one I of the dna-yards, from Trieste. The King of Wirrsatemto has abolished the pit. eishment of the gauntlet In his army. About seven o'clock en Thursday night last, while . William Fisher, labourer, of Stamford, was employed !In thrashing his mother's gleanings io a distant pert of the town, some persons, one of whom is supposed to have al oud sentinel, broke into his house, sod otter forcing sit different leeks in the interior, sec eeeded in taking 71. in goateed bills, and varying away various articles of wearing apparel, linen, and some fond. &mit loose characters, reputed rogues, poachers, and ceche'', are suspected. Vigilant mea sures are ha consequence adopted, which enceinte" the inhabitants generally to hope the offenders wilt be brought to the tribe's! of speedy jestiee.—(Sfam ford New.) On Wednesday last, a brute In the 'imps eta man, wee &Wog a team through Holbesch, whets, on a midge, he struck the leading horse so hard a blow is OP head with the thick and of his whip, that the poor salami fell down fiat upon its side. The poor harmless beast, though not maim-loos of any fail', bore its creel usage with patience, and seemed, by i , s guiltless looks, to implore mercy, but alas ! its strength was gone : oppressed with paio, it sunk down, we (thought, to rile no more! In a short time, however, the poor animal was so far recovered, as to enable its merciless driver to leave the scene of his worths. cruelty. We sederstand tie team belonged to Mr. Tinsley, at Penny-hill, near Relbeach. DISCOVERY Or AX ANCIENT CITY.—A French traveller, now in Egypt, has discovered at a distance of street nine hours' journey from the Red See, se ancient city built in the mantels', between the 24th and 25th degrees of latitude. There are still SW houses in ezistence. Among the reins are found temples dedicated to various divinities. There are eleven stators, antligarleas ruins of others. Ile has also discovered the ancient stations that were sppiet- ell on the rouse thrnegh the Desert, from lFe Red Sea to the Valley of the Nile. 'l.lPoi !latices are at register distances of nine Pining h.!vittea each. This route is undoubtedly one of these trarei.rd by the commerce of India—a commence which nes to flourishing at the time of the Legidee, and eerier the first Esipetors. The situation is 110111 ascertained rf she emerald mine, of which no certain kotswledss rtes had for severel rtes. I.