The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-07 00:00:00

V r t e, ;‘ .ir+~ sla 41 • . '`v I.` • .ti. WIXDOfF TAN: Dent.tx, Drc. s.—Yrsterday the Committee ap pointed to wait on the Lord Mayor with the requisi, Von for isa Aggregate Meeting, met at St. Maryi ♦'estry Room. and proceeded to the Mansion House at twelve o'clock, according to the appointment of his Lirdship. The Deputation was composed of Gentle mee of respectability from. the different parishes, and . was received by the Lord Mayor with politeness and at tention. Mr. Herrick', the Secretary to the Parochial Deft. , ties, read the Requisition, requesting his Lordship " to call an Aggregate Meeting of the Houseolders of Dublin, to prepare and present Petitions to Parlia ment for the total repeal of the Tax on Window Light." It was, be said, signed by great DSO sof the ift respectable Householders of the di ff eren arishes, and he hadansuch pleasure in having the ho our td present it to his Lordship. The Lord Mayor said, that it gave him great satis faction at all times to forward the wishes of his fellow •eitisens in any thing that might relieve or advance them ; and, feeling as be did, the necessity of some relief from the heavy burden of the Window Tali, he was most happy to receive a Deputation so highly re spectable ; they had only to mime a day themselves, when he would cheerfully call the General Meeting re- After some discussion, Thursday week was named, and approved of by his Lordship, on which day the Argregate Meeting will take place at time Royal Ex change. The Deputation then expressed their thanks for the manner in which they had been received, and respect fully took their leave. AGRICULTURAL QUESTIO.V. TO THE EDITOR. SIR-I take the earliest opportunity of writing to request you to correct a mistake which occurred in your Report of the Meeting at Lewes, on Monday last, and which it is of consequence should be itnme diately rectified. lam reported to have stated, that I tad received information from a gentleman, that it ass the intention of Government to abrogate the pre `sent Corn Laws, and impose a duty instead, and that t..is information came from Mr. Webb Hall, who had from 3ir. Huskisson ; and also that I reed part of alr. Hall's letter. How this misrepresentation of what took place happened I know nut, but the troth I read no part of any letter, nor did I state any thing more than " that I had no doubt the present Corn Laws would be altered, particularly as the Re tort of the Select Committee, drawn np by Mr. Hits- JOsson. described them as • tending to aggravate the evil of scarcity, and to render more severe the depres sion of prices from abundance e and that I had reason to believe, from information lately received, that Mr. flaskisson still retained the same opinion of theist." 1 ant, Sit, your most obedient servant, JOHN ELLMAN, jun. Southover, Lewes, Dec. 6, 1821. THE WITS RED BOOK-FOR 1322. .-......- To inch of one readers as are not ton fastidious to derive amusement from a jest book, we think we may Feature to recommend a little volume entitled " The Wits' Red Book," as combining some originality with some pleasantry. This collection is not confined to anecdotes, but contains a number of epigrams, and pi•ccs in verse, besides several in prose that do not come under the denomination of epigram. Some of these are distinguished by a playful vein of humour and of satire. There is, too, some degree of sweetness and drollery in the tales in verse, such us s"rhe Modern Prometheus, or Frankenstein the Second,' ' The Spirit of Contradiction,' Notoriety,' &c. The Pr.yface, too, is not one of the least entertaining parts of the book. Dr. Rosso (which name, by the bye, we sltretdly conjecture to be assumed, merely for its al lusion to the title of the book and its sanguine tincted' livery) it here very facetious upon himself and his relations, whom he describes at some length. But we will close our ieniarks and quote two or three of the pieces as specimens of the work. COMPANION' . In pairing pictures it is geuerelly the rule to produce contrasts; thus, a painting representing a storm, if it has a partner at all, is sure to Imre a calm ; a morning is as invariably allied to an evenin! , scene, and so on. Thais sort of antithetical companionship seems to be the principle on w:sich many hymenial allianres are formed. inether an erroneous one or not, cannot now be consi d.r4:4, but it no doubt tends greatly to diversify the monotony of life, and to produce that connubial E./liar °Nees?, so flattering to the eye of taste. Such contrasts may he oily like discords in music, subservient to ge neral haruiony. AN HORATIAN PRECEPT. " Dalce est tlesipere in loco: cries his grace— "'Tis cliartninz sure tilplay the foal in place: Alt I s h, a.. l !:?riSg• strictly to the port's rule, lie wisely gets in plate ; then plays the fuol.. • . EPIGRAM. " Poeta naseiSur sionfit" You Go.nstrue thus, with wicked tit, As you hay. construed many thing ; • • For sennething tit each spill is 'twin, Except a poet,. wretch forlorill Who's born mg fit fur any thing. • i . Mr. Tomas Hale, of Salisbury, has been to Alder kr, Oleueestershire to demand possession of estates desrmolvd to him, in male line, from Lout Hale, Chief Justice of the Court of King►'s Bench. The estates are at present enjoyed by Robert Hale lilagden Hale, Esq. ; but the present claimant contends, that the estates must descend to the heir male, under an old entail of the Jn , lge's will ; and this step has been taken previous to the matter being brought before the proper Court.—(Boils Chronicle.) The man mentioned in our last to have been wound ed by the firing of a pistol, in Brunswick-road, died in the Infirmary on Friday morning. Herat hopes had bens entertained of his recovery until Wednesday 'Centeno, when his case took an unfavourable tarn. Ai inquest was summoned on the body the same day, anti the Jury, after having heard the evidence, remain ed in consultation nearly two hours, but not being able to agree upon their verdict, they returned with out coining to a decision, when the Coroner took their voices separately, the result of which was—that there were . six for manslaughter, and six for juilifiakk homi cide. no verdict was therefore recorded, and the Jury separated.—(Liverpea Advertiser.) THE ST, COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court of Common Council assembled in order to receive the Report of the Committee of lieneral Purposes appointed to inquire into the disturbances at Knightsbridge, on the day of the funeral of Honey and Francis. Some preliminary business was also dispatched. The Loan MAYOR presented the Answer of his Ma jesty to the Address of Congratulation on his return from abroad. Mr. S. Dixon', on seconding the motion for receiving the answer, gave notice of his intention to move on a future day, for the erection of a Statue to his present Majesty in that Court, according to usage. blr. OLDHAM observed,that the precedent was to erect the Statue after the King had done the City the honour to dine with the Corporation. Mr. Alderman Bnowx took occasion to notice the dis graceful precipitancy of the canvass which bad begun for the situation of the Upper Marshal, in consequence of the lamentable accident be had met with on carrying np the Address to the King. In order to put a stop to such a proceeding, if there should be still any disposi tion to persevere in it, he was happy to be enabled to state that he had seen the Marshal on the evening be fore, and found him in a state of convalescence, which he could not have expected had he not witnessed it him self. He was also requested by that gentleman to re turn his grateful acknowledgments for the kindness with which they had acted towards him, and to inform thew that he hoped to be able shortly to attend to the duties of his office—(Loud applause.)—lt was unnecessary for him to observe upon the manner in which the. Marshal had discharged those duties; they bad all isitnessed how much they were calculated to benefit the public and do credit to himself—(Loud applause.) • Mr. FAVELL gave notice, on the part of his friend, Mr. Oldham, that that Gentleman would submit a motion upon the state of the Criminal Code, early after the holidays. DISTURBANCE AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. The following is the substance of the Report of the Committee of General Purposes, respecting the affray which took place between the Life Guards and the popu lace on the day •f the funeral of Honey and Francis : The Report in substance stated, that the Committee had examined several witnesses relative to the occur rences at Knightsbridge on the 26th of August; dial their opinion, founded upon the testimony of such wit nesses, was, that the statement made by Mr. Waithman, in his letter to the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, was fully borne out, and that no steps having been taken by Go vernment to prevent the probable disorder of that day, Mr. Walthnian's active, spirited, and humane exertions were highly commendable. The Report concluded by stating, that in the opinion of the Committee a violent personal outrage bad been committed against him, which his Majesty's Government ought to have inquired into, but that notwithstanding the promise of Earl Bathurst that it should be investigated, they had not been able to discover from any of the witnesses that any steps had been taken for that purpose. Mr. eLARICK thought it was not possible, that in a question of such importance, the Court could think of coming to a rash conclusion. They were bound to con sider the nature of the whole evidence, to ascertain whe. ther it was exparte or not, before they could, with any propriety, come to any determination upon a Report, which was professedly founded on that evidence. With a view to enable the Court to come at the necessary in telligence, lie should conclude with moving that the evidence be printed. Mr. ORIIPPITRB expressed his conviction, that the +trot.• inquiry took place the more honourable would the con duct of the Gentleman appear, to whom, in a great mea sure, this question referred. It would appear from the , evidence, that their late Sheriff had saved a great deal of bloodshed by his spirited and humane interference and for that reason he was anxious that the evidence should be placed before them in the most regular shape. Mr. Alderman► BROWN disclaimed any thing like per. sonal feeling upon an occasion so important, but in the discharge of a great public duty, he should not decline what, in a free country, he felt that he was entitled to discuss. An assault committed on the person of a She riff of London in the discharge of his duty, was an outrage on the rights and privileges of the City of Lon don; but on the other hand, a disgraceful act committed by a sheriff of London, was a disgrace to the City of London itself. He could not avoid regretting that tl►e reference to the Committee had been, what he might be permitted to call a garbled reference. The whole of the proceedings at the Inquest which sat upon Honey ought to have been referred to the same Com mittee, as a part of the general question. upon which they were bound to report. Ile acquitted the late Sheriff of any intentional misconduct, but he could not help thinking that his feelings had carried him too far, and however honourable it might have been in a private individual to have acted as he had dose at the Inquest of Money, a Sheriff was bound— Mr. lIVRCO3IBE called the Worthy Alderman to or der, observing, that the inquest of honey had nothing to do with the question before the Court. Mr. WALTUMAN said, tiWt he had not flme slightest objection to the fullest eAmination of his conduct either now or at any other time. if the Court should be of opinion that it %ratio order to enter upon it now', all he had to claim on his own part, was a fill oppor tunity of answering whatever charge might be wade. At the same time, he could not help remarting, that it would have been more becoming in the Worthy Gentleman to have made a distinct motion on the subject he had iotcoduced, than to have attempted to mix it up with another question, and without any pre vious notice. Mr. S. DIXON wished to know whether it was in tended to consply with the request of printing the evidence before the Report should be disposed of ? He was ans ered in the affirmative. 'Pie question was then put and agreed to unani mously, tbat the Report, with the Evidence, should be printed, and referred to the consideration of the next Court. 31r. Alderman &low,/ then gave n , tice, that be would move for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the conduct of Mr. Weidman, at the in quest on Richard Honey. and in doing so, he again disclaimed being actuated by any personal feeling. After transacting some further business of no public interest, the Court adjourned. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's. at Deal. dated sth instant : Maay of the Deal boatmen have been off to day to the ships in the Downs, and we consider, from the measures which hare been adopted. in order to resist the late attempt to withhold requisite assistance to the numerous and valuable shipping I. the Downs, that the whole are returning to their usual avocations. ;MA PRICE OF STOCKS TB!B7NAY ATONE O'CLOCK. 1 Bank Stock I limbs tato* ,11 per Cenr.Red 78111 Otttelt•nde—...§ 63 4 . his. p„ 11 per Cent.C. r e Bondi 8.41 Proek 81 per Cant. 87* Beath Sae Old Ana. 6 par Cants.9Bll Ex 1211114. 10001 es. dis per. 6 per Ct.Teavy —5O 1. Is. die Is. pa. 2 per Cent. —Small Is. die. Is.pin. Leag Ann India for ditto Inv. 8 per Cent. 7311 I Cita. for Ace ?7171 8 Ir sh 8 per Cent. Lott. Ttakets ti!. — 18.. ---- NIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDOR TO-NORROW. Morning 116 m. after 12.—Evening 31 min. after 1. got btategman. sus fattllV STATRIMAIII " IS INCORPOI*TID will " TIP LONDON: FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1821. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is nothing doing worth mentioning. The price of Consols the same as yesterday. Charlestown papers arrived this morning to the 16th of November, from which we extract the fol lowing : HAVANNA Il i Nov. 3.—By the arrival of the schooner Margaretta, in four days from Campeachy, news has been received in this city as late as the 25th ult. from the Mexican Capital, and to the 4th instant from Vera Crux. Tl.ese accounts m..-ntion the approaching entry of nubile into the metropolis of New Spain, and the nomination of the individuals who were to compose the Supreme Junta of Govern . meat. until the convocation of the Cortes. We have also received a file of the neateco, a paper pub lished at Morida, and from it we collect that that Pro. since declared itself independint on the 15th of Sept. last, and was determined to follow the fortunes of the Imperial Leader of the Army of the three guarantees. There is no longer doubt, that the Imperial cause , which has already reached the banks of the Sabine, would extend through vast and rich provinces to the Isthmus of Darien, the boundary of the Spanish domi nions, in North America, which in the career or race of independence, has, through tl►e cunning of lturbide and inquistorial Priest•, far ontstripped the southern dominions of the same power in the new world. Captain Couthony, late of the brig Aristides, states it was reported, that the Pirates had captured a French ship, off St. Antonio, and murdered all on board, in cluding a Lady passenger; and the fact of a Lady's clothes being found on board of that vessel, stained with blood, is a strong confirmation of the report. MEXICO. RETRACT OF A LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS, OCT. I.] REVOLUTION OF THE INTERNAL SPANISH PROVINCES. Texas, August V. Stn—l arrived at Saint Antonio on.the 12th inst with my company, all in good health, and found the government had been changed, and that instead of entering the dominions of Ferdinand I. was in the Independent Empire of Mexico. There has been no commotion of importance in any part of the empire, except in the cities of Mexico and Vera Cruz, and Durargo, which are the only places in the empire that have not declared in favour of independence. Ytur bide was besieging Mexico, according to the last ac counts we had, with 56 thou4and men, and had de tached 12 thousand under General Negrete against Dnrargo, land another large body againsti Vera Cruz. There has been no disturbance in this province, they are all anxious for their independence. Extract of a Letter from La Bahia, Province of Texas, Sept. I.—The mail arrived from the interior this morning Saint Antonio.—Mexico has not surrendered, but was still closely besieged, and no doubt is entertained of its falling into the hands of the Revolutionists, who were redoubling their efforts. All is quiet in the interior, and the independent Go vernment is firmly established, with the exceptions in my former letter (Mexico, Vera Cruz, and Durargo.) The New Government prompt lyeontirmed the proceedings of the old one, in regard to my grant of land, and has al ready furnished me with guides, &c. for exploring► the country. This labour I shall commence in two or three days. FROM TOR CUARLEATOWN PAPER, NOT. 15.] COMMERCIAL NEWS. The following is all the information we could ga the? from our New York papers yesterday. relative to the state of the English markets. At the last ad vices, per the Orion. all accounts from the continent concur in representing the harvest to be good, and the crops plentiful. After the arrival of the Orion large sales of Flour were made in New York, at 7 dol lars to 7j, being a reduction of 1 dollar a l 2 from pre vious prices.—The Cotton market also assumed more activity, and sales were readily effected at prices which before had been heavy. Ihe tempestuous weather which has prevailed fur some days past, har greatly interrupted our intercourse with the continent. Up to a late hour to-day, no French papers had reached us. Where the occasion, however, is urgent, mercantile interest can contrive to effect what appears impracticable to regular official duty ; and though the mails have nut arrived, two ex presses were, yesterday, received in town, bringing the price of the renter, with an abstract of the news of Tuesday morning. The French Funds, in cons.. quence of the collision of parties, have suffered a de pression, but not so great as might have been expected. 'fhe Five per Cents were fluctuating from 88f. 50c. to sBf. 25e. and the state of affairs was still unsettled. The Chamber of Deputies had assembled subsequent to the King's reply to their Address, and a stormy debate bad ensued ; but both the Chamber and the Ministry re. a suness ou main is dote quo, neither the one nor the other b e , fraying any symptom of dissolution. The Ministers, it is understood, have intimated that they inlaid to keep their ground, and carry on public basin .% l e spite of the majority of the legislature agai kt them. If they can carry on their business i e this manner their measures must be unexceptioseih indeed ! How long this state of things can last, or v i a will be its result, is extremely difficulty to foresee. g f this collision France has again become an object of high interest, and let which ever of the parties yi e w , important consequences must follow; for the trim*. ant party will not stop without taking further cl eve to secure its position, and promote its success. Theme, sent struggle, as we before observed, is Woe's d ie Ministers and a coalition of the Liberals and Ultr a ... The present Ministers vainly thought they could stuT clear of both, and even employ the latter against t h e former; they have made the experiment soil faded r . Their failure was foretold by a writer in Fus ee , whose remarks on the state of parties in that cow ry are, at the present crisis, highly interesting yd ea , couraging, as pointing out what a Ministry mid NI by coalescing with the party which is expresi n public opinion. Referring to the men of the old r e , gitne, and those of the new, with the one oe the other of which the government of Franc, must make common cause, M. Unisot thas thews the advantage which the Government mast gel s by attaching to themselves the latter. " The ft are," he says, " two great classes of men in Frame ready to serve, and be served in their turn, by the Government—for there is nothing solid or real, without reciprocity of interest. There is sa the one side the ancient aristocracy, which pos. senses the social saperiorities, and wishes to keep th en to itself: the other class consists of those who look to enrich and advance themselves. The first class is feeble, and in a false position mono us. It is an aristocracy with much pretension, few privileges, and little strength. What could such men do its an Admi. nistration—discontented with their silnati:m ; thisk• less for office, which they think their right ; a bathes to the public by which they are reluctantly endand, and which they are watching to despoil of its rights and liberties ? It is among the men of new France that any Uovernment in France should look for sup. port. These are io a position with which they are not discontented—they are not fretting at the dif ference between their present and past situation— they serve the Charter the . more faithfully and disinterestedly, because it is consonant to their principles. They do nut, like their opposeots, join haughtiness with begging importunity. A nistry devoted to the fiemurbons should know that the men of the Revolution, even those who have hails part in its acts, and have grown grey nailer its he oars, are far from intractable. For a great antior et those men, and even the most distiognished of thew, neither the revolution, nor absence, nor war, or the career of their own lives, nor even their fears, have es• tirely rstinguished their sentiments of legitimacy sad of respect for the ancient race of our Kings. They would thank the House of Bourbon to acknoniedp their rights, and accept their strength." A meeting of the Sussex Agriculturists have set as example, but not of wisdom, to the Farmers in geseni, They made a great many speeches, but all to little per pose we readily believe. That such a meet* should slur over the real cause of our distress, is sot astonishing, though the whole country besides them selves know it, and feel its dreadful consequences. — These gentlemen binge on the importation of pais as if it were the sole cause of all our utisfortnaet. Messrs. Et.t.stAx might take the lead in speakise, but he must alter his tone and his line of up• meat before he can take the lead In loud sense. The whole meeting, save Mr. 11LACEMAN' attributed the misfortunes of the country to tastes very different from the real ones. We should wish to ask the Noble Chairman, and the rest of them, was it the importation of hops, that reduced their price to one-tenth of what the article has been within the last ten years ? Or, was it the importation of cattle, that reduced the price of meat ? Or, is the reduced price of corn, the cause of our misfortunes? - Mr. I3cacettais truths ought to have carried wisdom to their near standing. To crooked policy, not to low prices, is °mist the wrctehednees of the country. Taxes, not prices, are the real evil. The present prices are sat• ciently remuneratieg to pay suitable rr awl moderate tax a tion and the expense of producing. But hea v y taxes, heavy poor's rate, and other he av y demands sink the Farmers and ruin them. We did expect that the !eloquent gentleman w ould have tog the meeting that the present stat e of the soused was attributable wholly and solely to the tract of an honest representative system, and that uo mestere un connected with a genuine Reform could he of any use ' whatsoever to the encreasing evils that now summed us. We have little to expect from meetings li bel' , such wise men as Mr. ELL MAN ende.tvonr to separa te P it. tics from a political meeting. It reminds us of row parted from the sea. What! Mr. Ewa as, has the evil come home to you ? Are r oar ',Morino and your Pitt Clubs of no service to yon now ? Have your favourite politicians rendered your poor rate s heavy ; or, do you think the taxes independent of do poor rates too mach for the Somric farmer as as the rest of the nation ? The Paul . , then , has n et weathered the storm, hut has wreeked Isis craty host lt in deep distress on the coa st of Sussex. 1 01 4 1 re others staffer but those that contributed their soI the present national distress, er should feel l i ttle anxiety bow they gut through it ; lut unto-trawl) ./ • i ,1