The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-17 00:00:00

jicators of Europe. They have, in every quarter, left the meterials of change ' and mutual annoyance ; because they have left the People discoolented, and because, with respect to the People, they have almost every where put themselves unequivocally in the wrong. By violating good faith, breaking promises, Sacrificing the weak, despising all idea of oationaf right, and of public principle, as unworthy of a States. man's consideration, they have destroyed the confi: deuce at first Deposed in their integrity and wisdom : tfiey havitaggin mankind that Coerts are not to be 7 treated. fee the redemption,..in prosperity, of pledges given under the pressure of disaster • they have planted every where, not adversaries ofthis or that dynasty,.hot natural enemies of the esistiOg arrange. Irma of Europe. It may be vain, and it certainly is winless, fa, enquire from what quarter the attempt ' will proceed,' to encroach upon the limits pre scribes] by it to each State. One thing, however, is Manifest, that danger may again appear in any quar tet, Without the generous efforts to repel it, which freed Gerniany from the French yoke; and another thing is cosily certain, that where so many nations ere held in subjection to foreign masters, the first of the Powers that is disposed to break the league, • which, after distributing millions of People like cattle to their masters, now pretends to stifle the voice of nature by force of arms, will find allies every where to aid him. The stability of the system (as they call their patchwork) is thus at every mo noat endangered ; and the power of putting down a formidable enemy of national iudepeodeuce is tit , Climseribed. " That England should have bornesoconspicaous a part in these transactions, is seriously to be lamented: Slie has lost that high character for liberal policy and strict priuciple which once not merely ennobled her in the eyes of other nations, but strengthened her hands in regulating their affairs. The best service that a lover of his country can now render to her, it to show, by his protestations, that the crimes of the ' Cabinet were not shared by the nation. " But have the lute eats not produced conse quences almost as fatal to our influence abroad, as the Treaties which closed them ? It is alarming to reflect upon the necessary inactivity to which we must now be doomed, stiouid the peace of the Coo: fluent be broken. All invasion, indeed, or any other imminent danger to our own security, would be strenuously and successfully repelled. But ,there is the man who can expect the People of England to engage again in wars, to prevent the growth of re moter mischiefs? The Sinking Fund barely coven the yearly deficit of our Peace E.tablishment. Ad. miffing that the Income Tag could be raised to meet • a War Eapenditure, thirty or fatty millions more must be annually borrowed ; and the history of the ' last eight years demonstrates, that no new taxes can •be raised to pay the interest. The incalculable dis ' tresses from which the country has hardly recovered, after three year's of peace, must be renewed in far worse circurestances; and an immense addition made • to the load of debt which is already hardly to be endu red. As often as the necessity is mentioned of watching over the balance of Europe (one of the first duties of an English Statesman in good times), the frightful picture of 1812 and 1816, will rise in the People's recollection ;•atl the danger of perishing, by present famine, is likely to make the risk of eventually falling by the sword be disregarded. A less lavish use of the splendid resources which England once possessed, would have preserved her power entire, without any Injury to her honour ; and it is melancholy to reflect, that they who have squandered away her resources, tare also been the first to sully her fame." COMMERCE OF VIE BLACK SEA: LONDuiv SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1818. —row — We yesterday stated on the authority of the French Papers, that a cause of dispute had arisen between —me— the Courts Of Constantinople and St. Petersburgh re. The contents of the American Official Journal, specting some maltreatment of a Turkish vessel on She Black Sea. We shall subjoill from an American the National Inteiligencer, do net accord with the Paper some observations that appear useful on the pacific professions iu the PIIESIDUCei Message.— subject of the flee commerce desired by various Go. The Intelligencer states, that nearly the whole dis vernmeuts in the waters and ports of the Black Sea. posable force of the United States is in motion to the it is es ident, ROW this Paper, that the direct trade Southward, but whether fur Amelia Island, the Flo. a ith Russian ports in the Black Sze has long been an ricks, or a gainst the Seminole Indians, is a matter iehject necessary and desirable to American com merce. Since the conquest of the Crimea from the Turks, of doubt. The force! ordered to march are those the enterprise of the Russian Government, in im- from North and South Carolina and Georgia. It is proving the ports, forming settlements, and building probable they will be divided, as Gen. Games re towns on that coast, has given the highest import. quires reinforcements against the Indians, and Ame - Anre to its contmercial character, not on l y b y deve. la Island, though report has stated that it bad been loping its resources, but by diverting the inland trade of Asiatic Russia, and the internal commerce from evacuated by Auttv's troops, might not be agues- China, into a new channel, which opens the greatest dered without a struggle. It is known that facility to the enterprise of our navigation. Hither. an espedition for the subjugation of Amelia o, through the waters of the Baltic, that great sailed on the 12th of last mouth from Charleston. — inspire has received its necessary supplies, and . is It difficuit to account ((sr the movement of any through the same conveyance has exported its pro. further force towards that quarter, unless the oecu ducts. Its possessions, however, on the borders of . the Black Sea, and the combined advantages of soil pation of the Florida' is contemplated. The Ame rind climate, are daily attracting the commerce of rican Papers have assured os that the GOTOMMeIIt of the north into a quarter, affording from its position , the United States is in treaty with that of Spain for more certain facilities to trade than any other part o f the cession of the Flotillas ; it must certainly sp. tlie Russian dominion., from which the empire can pear a little strange if troops have /been sent to take receive its supplies through the navigable waters which disembogue themselves its the Black. Sea. possession by force of these territories at the very The Russian Government, foreseeing all the ad- moment that a oegociation is carrying ou respecting *snug" arising from their possessions in that guar - them. It the Un it e d S tates have recourse to force, tar, have epare l no expence to render their harbours both countries must, of GUMP, be involved in war. safe and commodious. The port of Tangarock, at If , on the other hand, the American Government the head of theses of Asoph, io addition t o its local supplies, always affording a ready sale, has a depot wrest , Amelia Island from the Independents, the of China goods, and furnishes the interior of Asiatic Provisional Government of the Spanish Colonies Russia with foreign articles, through the rivers Dou may be expected to retaliate by depredations on the and Volga. Odessa, situated between the Dneister, American commerce, and thus a state of discord and is a flourishing and important port, from which, as animosity will be engendered and perpetuated, very far back as 18 0 8, no less than one thousand ves sels of different nations cleared out with cargoes in inimical to the harmony which should exist among one year. The ports of Nicoleff and Chelsea are States whose political affinity is, in other respects, rapidly. improving, and in these various harbours a of the closest nature. Soch a condition of things, constant 'apply of wheat, barley, rye, oats, tallow, . to regard to the emancipated Spanish Colonies, beeswax, iron from Siberia, hemp, fie:, hides, cord- would be very uncongenial with the interests and age, canvass, spars, naval stores, hair skins, and general feelings of the People of the United States. East India goods can be shipped, on an aver a g e, con siderably less than from Riga or St. Petersburgh. In fact, except in the particular of the measures tend- They require, in return," such articles as - we now ing to the emancipation of the Negro Slaves, insist supply them with, viz.. cotton, twist, coffee, sugar, • ed on by some of the Patriotic Leaders, and some dye-woods, indigo, cochineal, pepper, &c. and which • uncongeniality in religion, the Constitutions of produces an additional profit to that obtained in the Government and the political privileges desired and ports if the Baltic. Goods also may be placed in rutrepot, and cQntinue there eighteen months, fret, I enjoyed by the inhabitants of North and South of'sluty —au impatient poiut. It is uhriouq, then, America are the see. It has been Indestrionsly i i 1 1 1 , i • I • 1 1 ' . f a i 1 1 1 1 t 1 li . 4 i • . , '' a \ ... THE STATESMAI,•'; and in fact, is admitted, that the commerce* of the Black Sea is very desirable to us; bat if not as presenting a constant and profitable market ter our p . aeduela. at an e s hilildit i rthe ittledgeeil ProsPra #OK g t. ; . 4OW -00 y ig tredelk * i., .. 4 f 4,--- .1 , . Thifrat nuns ' Nag gam once *Stained for the American flag, our vessels will always claim 'the irrtirelainei., — end the beit freights. It tee yhe asked why, with our enterprise,' have net. our mer chants opened this trade ? The reasons are obvious. Mosey of them satisfied of it, Importance, have pressed our Government to have an understanding with the 'forks. The Government of the United States, al ways csutioos, acknowledged the advantages of that trade, but fearing that an understanding with the Turkish. Government would be expensive and es- , tangling, they have postponed any attempt to open this trade, end oor merchants, not knowing the cha racter of the Turks, have declined an experiment in that quartet. The fact is; there is nothing to sp. prebend. The Ottoman Porte has no objection to our having that trade, if we apply for it. We have long traded with Smyrna and other ports in the Levant, and never have had any difficulties ; and si tuated as the Porte actually is, in relation to the neighbouring European Powers, there is a strong dis position to cultivate a friendly and familiar inter course with the United States, who, from the inde pendent nature of her position. and being perfectly free from the intrigues and selfish views of European Cabinets, is a. Power whose friendship is very desir able and valuable to the Ottoman Port. The failure of the cropi in several parts of Europe has, for a few seasons back, rendered Odessa the granary of that quarter of the world : and in the last year, 1360 ships cleared out from that port, 846 of which were large vessels-407 of the umbel were Russians, 258 English, 101 Austrians. 25 French, 23 Turkish, and 15 Swedes. Considering our en ttrprize, and the unrivalled spirit of our merchants, and character of our seamen, it is somewhat melon,. choly not to find an American flag in the list.—The principal advantage which we may anticipate in ob. mining that trade would be employment of some thousand tons of our shipping in that quarter, in the cotveying.grain to Italy, France, and Spain; and if Russia should succeed in driving the Grand Seignor out of Europe, we shall then enjoy freely the be nefits of the trade, by having already made ourselves familiar - with the ports and navigable waters in that section of the world. From observation and expe rience in affairs relating to that commerce, and from various conversations had with important agents of the Turkish Government, we have no doubt of the existence of a friendly disposition which would give to us, without expence or an entangling treaty, a free ingress into the Black Sea; and possessing, as we do, friendly and reciprocal treaties with European Powers, we anticipate no objections on their part, and none in fact can arise which we cannot amicably remove. These advantages will doubtless be seen and improved by our Government, who are not behind hand in laudable spirit and enterprise. PRICE OP STOCKS THI' Rauk Stork .290 3 per Cent. Rent $1 3 ppr Cent. Consols 80.1 Coniol4 for Mc. 811 i 4 per Cent. 981/ :S I) 1Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. 5 per Cent. Nary 1054 India Bonds 105 109 p -- Steck fit Long Ann. 20i Exchequer Kills 19 49 p THE STATESIVL4N. I propagated that. the institutions and 0..... two -Republics were widely different. lis . set the cad. The point which zx,„number of personi ha and the . interjacent West India iiied :Avikat Jimmanity most regret es nr . .toAsiserim.ase- practice' freedom seam established on the Southern Contiseat,h, , the Spanish communities bare admitted' of the African race among the elements Institutions, and are therefore, precisel; situated with the Southern States of _the Unjon. It is computed that there ars between sia and seven hundred thoSsand negro slaves upon the Spauidh Main. In this circstnstance of their condition, then, there most be a common interest in both the Continents, as well es in the internment West India. Islands, where the cultivation is carried on by the same description of population. , Domestic slavery is a. principle which we are sorry to see mingling with the institutions of any Government, much more in the fabrics peculiarly sacred to liberty ; but the present Governments io South America found the system of Negro slavery of ancient establish (Dent throughout a great proportion of the Southern and Nothern Continents of America, and whatever unhappy effects may attend it, they could not with. oat exciting greater hostility against themselves de cree its immediate abolition. BoLivAit and l'Asz proceeded on the policy and principle of libtia in; the slave population, and receiving them into their armies. But the measure has roused such of the Americans es have a personal interest in it ; that is, who stand in the relation of slave-propiietors, near the scene of the operations of these Chiefs. We al lude to the Province of Guyana, which is represent. ed as Laving fallen under the power of Butt TAIL and Pacz, and tke countries bordering on the Gulf of Mexi co, or rather near the mouths of the Oronoko, where it is said the proportionate number of slaves to the general population, was much smaller than in any of the American States; yet that part of the popula• tion has thrown a preponderating weight into the scale of the Revolutionists, which will probably make the'opporite one kick the beam in some in stances. BouvAtt adopted the policy of emancipa. lion, as a means of streughtening himself in Carac cal, several years ago. That measure seems, how ever, for the time, to have operated against him ; for he was driven oat of that country, end obliged to take refuge with the Black Chiefs of Hayti i thence he has fitted out various expeditions, and having lat terly landed steer the mouths of the Oronoko, at the head of 2000 men, he has so far succeeded in his plane, as to have taken Angustura, and, it is said, he is in possession of the surroonding country. This will account for some part of the hostility PK. pressed in the American Papers against certain of the C o l o nial Chiefs; but we cannot believe that the American Government, or any portion of the People of the United States, will, in obedience to the cold die tales of political expediency, so far suppress all emo. tions of generous sympathy and congenial feeling as to aid the brutal excesses of the Royalists against their unfortunate neighbours, or increase their difficulties by exerting a power against the most important parts of their territory, which they may least expect to see actively turned to their disadvantage. Letters and Papers to the IBth of November, from the Cape of Good Hope, slate, that Government had ordered surseys to be made of the coast lying to the east, where there is a very extensive district producing the finest wheat. So flattering, say our Government Papers, are the future prospects, that about three hundred emigrants had lately arrived at the Cape from the northern parts of Eng•' land, to take the management and direction of the extensive agricultural districts. These persons, we doubt not, would have preferred remaining at home to visiting the Ca tires and Hottentots, but ne cessity is a powerful spur to emigration. They are, however, now in the 14nd of hope, and we fervently wish these flattering prospects may be realized. His Majesty's ship Dispatch had been sent by the Go. vernor to open the navigation of .the river, to com plete the surveys, to bx upon a harboer, and found the new Colony. We are sorry to find that both the Papers from the Cape, and the private letters. con firm the accounts already received, that the Dutch had committed great excesses in their restored Colo. nies. The immediate cause of the revolt at Saporana was, that the Dutch Resident had ordered a wo, man to be flogged naked in the bazaar. The mur. der of the natives (prisoners) at Java is also men tioned. The report that it was the intention of Govern ment to continue the Bank Restriction Act for twa years longer, from July nut, bas been contradicted, on apparently official authority; but, notwithstand lug this contradiction, the suspicion still lives, and that with so much strength and vigour, that it is surmised both at the Bank and in the Governmeut Offices, and again asserted by some of our co-tem l .', poraries, that the resumption of cash payment. with not take place et the expiration of the Act. The breach of faith towards the Public in this instance, after the measures that have been adopted to enable the Bank to resume cash payments, if this rumour shall prove correct, will afford another very gent comment on the permanency of the Paper Sys tern, its happy effecte, end its indestructible affinity with the szstem of Goverwineut t to which the sown- • sure sign of public wealth, taking advantage of cis. cumstances. The decline is now a proof of the sane wealth realizing its profits, and seeking the channels of improving commerce. The Loans, however, and the necessity for them , under such circumstances, sadly puzzle the Courier. The state of moral depravity, the worst effect of poverty and idlenesi, to which some, perhaps too many, parts of , the country are now reduced, is strikingly exhibited its the following statement:— On Monday last the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Essex commenced et:Chelses. ford ,before an unusually full Bench of Migis. (rates. The number of appeals entered was up. wards of thirty, the traversers Were four, and the number of prisoners charged with various petty offences amount to nearly fifty ; and cunsequendy, notwithstanding the judicious arrangement of the Dem.:. List Session, of proceeding to judicial bail. ors, early on the first day, the business .of the Quarter Sessions, which a few year. since seldom occupied more than two days, now presents the prospect of affording employment for the whole week. The great and growing extent of the busi. ness, says the Chelmsford Paper, which has dis. tinguished these Sessions for the last two years, seems to continue with unabated tendency to increase the labours of the Magistracy. The state of the other counties is not very different from that of E.sex. This increase of moral depravity is not easily reconciled with the flattering accounts in the Treasury Journals, of the improved state of the lower classes. The extraordinary exertions made to clear the streets of the miserable wretches who present themselves at every corner, by the exercise of humanity, or the enforcement of the laws, bate, in some degree, ameliorated the condition of the Me tropolis. The PRINCE REGENT certainly does not open the Session of Parliament in person ; nor will his Royal Highness return to town en soon as was expected,. Probably his stay at Brighton will be protracted until February. The Committee for the Relief of Distressed Sea man have given notice, that any persons who may be cent, or come to London after ibis day, soliciting re lief, will be returned to their respective parishes. Another smell defaulter has taken flight. Mr. W. R. RUDDICK, Chief Clerk under the Treasurer• of the. Ordnance, has absented hims•tf, nod he is report ed to be deficient upwards of 15,0001. exclusive of triune GOUOI. for Property Tax, which came into his hands as the Collector. . Ile had given security, bet owing to his having been suspended upon Mr. Burr's delinquency, end afterwards restored, his Bondsmen demur, alleging that they should. have been ca lled upon to renew their !sonde when he was permitted to resume his duty. Mr RUDDICK took his departure on Saturday last. .The father of the late Mr. Rove was a Nonjuring Minister in the comity of Kincardine.. Ile wsanever on the establishmeht of the Church of Scotland, nor was he in circumstances to affoid hie sou any other than the common education of the parish school, where the only science taught was Cocker's Aril& odic. Young Rose was an apt scholar, and was soon more distinguished for his knowledge of figurer than the exciseman, or even the Laird's factor. It was this practical and useful knowledge that recom mended im to th e humble employment of a Purser in the !Wish Navy, of which he lived to be the Treasure: Ills father died many years ego, leaving a widow And a dasighler in eery indigent circus stances; *Cr was it till his son became Secretary to the Trowel', that he learned an application had bees made, by untold friend of the family, to place them on the charitable fund of the Scots Exchequer!-- This, however, was rendered unnecessary, by the bounty of the Secretary, who immediately settled a small pension on his mother sod sister, as io duty bound. The latter still survives him. Unlikermost, Scotsmen, Mr. Rose had no predilection for his na• tive country, which he never once visited since• bit • first emigration. Ile wisely preferred Ilsmpshire tr the lluro of the Mearns, and the verdure of tb• New Forest to the russet heaths of the Grampians. Siftings appointed in Middlesex and London before. the Right lion. Sir YrcaniGrese, Kest. Lord Chief JustiCe of hie Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, in and after Ifilary"ferm, 1818: TERM. MIDDLESEX. LONDON. Saturday Jan. 24 Monday Tao/silly' Y 9 Saturday • it , Thursday Feb. 5 Friday Feb.ll AFTER, TEAM. Viiday Feb.l3 l Saturday Feb.l4 ITALIAN BANDITTI:--Lieotenent-Col. snails and Captain Gonnou, R. N. were attacked io their way to Naples, between Terracina and Foodi,' by banditti, on the evening of the 1 1 2th of December.- - The first act of the villains was to-fire upon the poetil• lion without precious. warning. Ha Yell mortally' wnomled; theft. proceeded to rifle the tra vellers, sod took from them their watches, money, &c. The banditti were divided into two parties, one of which was immediately 'active in the attack led rubbery, while the either remained in reserve at short distance ; and their number was so coosiderable that Lieutenant-Colonel Maim end his companion mast be considered as owing their Hoes to their being unprepared to offer, any resistance. They suffered little personsl violence, and were allowed to pie' ; taking their wounded servant with them. • • ViZr=adad l o -." * . •eik --. vak / objects of the try owes so many blessing.. There are doubt eis I rent. This other more e ffi cient causes for this suspension, (k g eh bas most th4disappearaect e ef the ,etallictetrenci, Willie's the United the 'alio tel wid th Gni its vepriadellitiee'sluidish it overrun's to edit blinds, is so difficelt f the A ty isdom t of th oe t r o p etnotive f no part of preserve a dilp or empted to be those unsteady ndardstof regulation 0 aril left, to o . s •1. r , ls,that some of divine. : 4 I the servitude •-••••■••••--. lof their Civil Whetter the Fonds fall or rise, the fioctestioo is r set.) , s i m il ar l y with the Courier en infallible proof of the advancing -- s h e A mer i cas prosperity of the country. The rise was lately a --,~_.