The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-31 00:00:00

healthy standard. redeeme Moral conduct will return. Bar moat' be d. That great stay of our community, our home-trade, will revive by the accession of so many millions, now azain restored to the capacity of cnstomers for our c ,, i nmodities and British society established upon the most kin and stable basis. With pleasnre we might trust the advocacy of a cause, than which no one superior in importance can be contemplated since the Revolution of 1689, with the general interest of I tte so discoverable. It would, notwithstanding, be improper to omit adverting to the minutes of a etseres patience,* which is act honorable to characters of all ranks, and has been affording opinions and proofs the most inefragable in the gratifying experience of indivi duals, of parishes, and districts, illustrative of the efficiency of the plan recommended. DELTA. • See Minutes of the Provisional Committee for En couragement of Industry, and Reduction of Poore-rate, King's Head, Poultry, London. HlOll WATER AT LONDON !MIMIC ve-anonnv. Moming, IT We. after l l—Evening, •29ontn. after I. --- PitICF. OF STOCKS Tilt Bank Stock 219 3 per Cer:t. Red. 729 Netent.Con. 711 711 7le k pat Ceut. RI ♦ pea-Cents. 9I 801 beret. Navy 1051 i 1061 b Ver et:lt. Wvpt I.oug Ana. IS3i Isso. 3 per Cent. 711 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Irish b per Cent. India Stock 2254 nine Bonds —s. 435.4 le. pm. South-Sea Stock Ee.lltlls2d. Os. es. Rs. pm. I):■niunl !or Money 44 pen Bank for Account Con. fer Acet 7 II 2 Lott. Tickets 231. ISs. Ott gslategman. •• „,„‘ 11111111 SH STATIMIANIS im - nittosmisD MTN •• TS STATESMAN." LONDON: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JA srairr 31, li2l. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Funds are gradually recovering their depres sion of yesterday, in consequence of its being said the allies were marching towards Naples, which the fall 1.1 tl,r French Funds partially corroborated. Con sols for the account which opened this morning at 711 now 731, the market looking well ; but it being a lloliday, the Money Stock can not come into pia► - , which inay, perhaps, create a farther elevation. Two ki.bon Mails arrived this morning. It is re peril that Bolivar is on his way to England. Aceounti from New York of the Ith January state. Cleat the news of the ratification of the Florida treaty reached Cadiz about the 2d of November, and that the Cortes were unanimous in the vote on the, question. A ship of war was immediately di.patched to Baiin nail, with a copy of the ratified treaty, and with in• structious fur the formal cession of the Floridas to the Visited States. - A l iticirstiqnaton of ?limey; too". of were and 3 store-ships, sailed from Cadiz for Carthegena. By a gentleman who arrived the evening before at New York from Cape Cod, lie learn that a ship belong ing to Newburg Port from tlitradalonpe, laden with 36f5 hogsheads of =hisses, 23 hogsheads of Tin, was r.Nipwrecked; and shocking to add, the captain and mate, and I passengers, instantly perished. The spleen with uhich Th u • Nero Times this morn ing has fastened on an article relative to Parliamen'ary Reform in the last slumber of The EdiahttrArk Review, must prove no small recommendation to our readers either of its execution or its aim. We are not, wears vatly to confess, notch pre-diiposed to admits the ►u pl: u n• of Reform propoed occasionally by that respectable journal, because we are convinced they• are not sufficiently extensive to redress the sells which it is their object to remedy, nor to s►tisfy the people who are anxious for refire; s We cannot forget, especially, that moderate attempt which was niatle a year or two ago, to reconcile the public to a species of rirtata 1 representation, of which i: arts the summons advocate, instead of that dire•! and aetnal representation which we conceive essential to the national amelioration. The object of that ar gument was to slim that a representative assembly, elected by consi►lerable bodies of ell classes, must ge nerally prove a faithful and equal guardian of the rizhts and interests of sill mess. This, as must of our readers would perceive, was little more than a new edition of Mr. Archdeacon Pauses apology for the de fects of our existing representative system. This re presentatiOn of classes may be beneficial enough to the rights and interests of those classes which are actually represented: hnt as it is manifest that ALL classes arc not really represented in the system that actually ex ists, it mnst necessarily follow that the rights and in• terest of those will be neglected who are not repre sented in this virtual system. Ever since the funded system began to be extended. it is obvious that it has gradually operated to the benefit of the few at alts expense of the many. This system, with its ac companying and encreasing engine, the instrument of taxation, has more than any other ne►w invention that Las started tip within the last two censures, augmented the importance of the privileged orders, and placed the inferior classes more completely in their power. ►While the numbers and the wealth of capitalists have thus encreaseil, the numbers and the privations of the poor have encreased in a still greater ratio, and while the progress of intellectual improvement and an en creat,ed sense of personal and political rights have, in an equally wide degree, extended with the spread of intercourse, and the multiplied means of knowledge. a larger proportion of the people of the kingdom than was ever before contemplated have beets altogether excluded from the benefits of this boasted virtual representation. Who can pretend that the 'class •f Paupers, who now constitute so large and so fearful a portion of the inhabitants of England, are reeog-' niscd by the existing system, as members of a COM. mnni►y where rights and interests are maintained, and cherished in a political sense? By the very privations and poverty to which they are reduced, they are, if by chance of birth they werefpossessed of a claim to the elective franchise, debarred from the exer cise of that peculiar right. -But not to dwell on that large portion of our population, because their case is deemed extreme, let us turn our attention to other numerous and respectable bodies of the people, who constitute not only the laborious classes, but the many others who are distinguished in inferior ranks by their industry and utility in the State. Can the indi vidual merchants, bankers, at.d traders, ..rho obtain places in the House of Commons, be reg;rded as fall and adequate representatives of the whole of that com munity which was once sarcastically termed by our Gallic neighbour, a nation of shopkeepers? Are those distingu;shed personages so elevated by their principles and fortune above the inluence of the contracts and the bonuses they are, from their situations, so mach in the way of acquiring, as to prefer in their Ogees, as senators the good of the public to themselves? If that be actually the result of this sort of virtual re present.tion, why may not then such a man as Sir Wtt.t.taxr CURTIS, for instance, be erected at once and fur ever the Representative in Parliament fur all the trading Commons in the Kingdom? To be serious, however, it is unques tionably necessary for the good of every State. l constituted as that of England is at present, that not only every rank but that every individual, so far as is expedient with the general peace and welfare, should possess their proper organ in that branch I d the Legislature on which the liberty and property of the people essentially depend. It is necessary that between the Representative and the Constituent bodies there should;be a community of rights, of interefts and of feelings; and where that is not the case, the name of Representation is but mockery, and insult added to exaction and opp:ession. With a view to remedy the evils that prevail in that which is called our Representative system, it is proposed in that article of The BdixtSnr,qh Review, against which 7'he Arm 71ntee inveighs, that there should be A cumeiderahk increase of the direct power of the people, and to prevent alarm, that this should be effected in a way that should adhere religiously even to the technical forms of the British Constitution. A future opportunity may be more convenient fur directing our attention he the details of the plan proposed ; but there la no time so proper as the present to affirm that esseephen of se other is tbieedittely oink site to be pot in practice, and that, without further delay. It is justly obseved by the advocate of the plan before us that one of the two expedients for sup porting national discontent Las been fully tried. A fair experiment has been made on the force of arms and of laws. Prosecutions and pu nishments have not been wanting. New pe nalties have been annexed to political °genets. New restrictions have been imposed on the exercise of political rights. It may be safely stated, that coercion and restraint cannot be carried much further, without openly renouncing the forms of the Consti- tution, or aLloptin4new institutions for administering the law. We cannot but be forcibly struck at the very ma' ment we are thus urging this momentous cause, at the state of him who has been emphatically termed the Father of Reform, at the venerable age of nearly fear score, now actually brought before the Court of King's Bench, to receive the Judgment of the Court for his exertions in the promotion of that work. Suck is the fate of him whose valuable life has been devoted in the spread of political knowledge, the completion of the British Constitution, and the ad vancement of the public good ! It has been rumoured fur these two or three days, that Lord Castlereagh intends to propose to-night £50,000 as the allowance to her Majesty, but that a proposition toallow her a smaller sum will be made by a lientleman who is in the constant habit of supporting , his Majesty's Ministers. We merely state the ru mour. If such a proceeding actually takes place. the' public will easily see whether the opposition is the re sult of any understanding with Ministers. An article from Naples, dated Jan. 9, states, that offers have been made by Lieut.-Colonel }tyres, to raise and bring to Naples a corps of Auxiliary Reg lish troops of 'l,OOO men. In addition to this iatelli genre, it is said, that an offer has been made to that tiovernment by another English officer. well know■ in Europe for the gallant manner in which. in concert with a heroine, he rescued an illustrious victim' from the fangs of tyranny. Not only is the Oeneral ()deer we allude to represented to have tendered his services withont making any stipulation as to rank or recast pence, but alto those of some thousands of his old com rades in arms, who arc desirous of again cowbells( in the cause of liberty against a despotk jails tyrants. If this be the case, we have no doubt so laudable an example cannot fail, not only to 1111014 with the applause of every lover of freedom, bat aloe to soon have a number of imitators. The inhabitants of Axminster have opened a amb scription for the purpose of procuring an elegant piece of plate, to he presented to Lieutenant Liddon. d the Royal Navy, a native of that town, as a toile's et the high sense they entertain of his ser►ioss, is the late expedition to the North Pole. A petition was presented at the Levee. es pride,' beat, to his Majesty, by Lord °nudity, High Steward of oakusta, from a great 'majority of the ishaidtante of that town, deprecating all fsrthor ptesesdiar spinet the Quo's, sad humbly payist fit Mid" aft? pretest Seta of anima AN: ORIGINAL POETRY. SONNNT. arsractrrwr I tSCGIBED TO THE *MOT BON: EARL GOVT. " Snout of her beams," while R Geishas weeps, And Faesoom droops, of venal bands the prey. tiers, undlsmay'd, her throne serenely keeps, Sustained her empire by the patriot Gaev ! " A breath unmakes it, as a breath has made" The rank, by Ktmo's to servile :minions given ; Cleves is the beanie worth that cannot fade, His honors granted by the KING of llcaven ! Of fir . enbinss'il, comprehensive mind, Of voice personsiie, and of manners bland, With seal to soothe the Ills of human ki And skill to renovate a bleeding land ! Still may he live endear'd, of bigh renown, Till FATS reads his virtues as bee own ! A.V EGOTIST. A. K. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sta—The following anecdote contains a whimsical' specimen of that "slap ifs She face," which so often befalls the lacangious sour:sr. As your paper abounds with the rir.itions, probably you may think it worth insertion. It is uo " Jue Miller" I assure yon; but authentic. The late Mr. 11' —, who was a Banister of much talent, and in good practice; was unfortunately too fond of being the eternal sobject of eontertatidit himself. Hs and nis Olin were on the tapir perpe featly. That gentleman had a sea, an Attorney, whose con duct at his profession had not conferred either upoh himself or Isis "Pa" mach honor, he was what is commonly termed "rather toe •HARP." On his way to a certain assize town, this hopeful ion ' s chaise was stopt by highwaymen, and he was robbed of a very considerable sum of money, mot his owe property ; bat, alas, the property of a CUSH?. baintlettiOßS, always very malicious upon lick oc casions, threw out her "dirty hints" that this young gentleman bad not been stopt at all, or if stopt, bad not been robbed ; bet had availed himself of the ac cident to ennde paynient to Ai* client. On the following day, the Barrister, this young geatlentan's "Pa," made a terrible parade of this marvellous family stair to every soul he met s but, quite unconscious of those "dirty insinuations " that were in circulation. Having told this dreadful disaster to Innumerable persons, he at last met with Counsellor P-1 a "dry " wag, who was completely " up" to the weakness and vanity of his friend, and to the "sharp practice" of the Attorney. Ha Parsons," said the father, " did you hear of say sou's robb.ry P" No." said the other with affected amazement, 4* my God! wno did etc rob," STATE OF THE COUNTY KILKENNY. 01 TOVIIIIOAT.I We deeply reptile observe, that the state of a popu lous and extensive quarter of the county of Kilkenny, presents unequivocal indications of spreading disquiet. On Tuesday a meeting of the Magistrates took place in this city, when the circumstances of our internal condi tion were brought under farther consideration. The out rages noticed in our last, and other equally alarming manifestations of an insurrectionary spirit among our peasentry, suggested the expediency of an earlier meet ing than bad been previously arranged ; and we under stand that the aid of an additional Police force, under the Peace Preservation Act, will immediately be applied for. We have not room to enter on a view of this tlis tressing subject. Too true it is, that the application of a strongly coercive policy, has at length been absolutely essential to our domestic safety. Facts of a most ap palling nature, as affecting the tranquillity of the County, have been, we understand, already disclosed to the Magistracy; and it is impossible to determine the limits of that daring and insurgent spirit which is this moment in action around n.! The Report of the Com ' mittee of Magistrates, will he received by a General Meeting this Day, when decisive measures will be re• iolved upon. Should the treaty for Harcourt Honse be com pleted, and the Queen reside there, it is said to be the intentios of Government to gi.e her a Guard of Honour. Mr. Mess it is reported has already remitted home to Mrs. Kean eleven hundred pounds sterling, as the early set prodoce of his dramatic harvest in tl,p Cui ted States of America. A grand public dinner was given to him at New York, by the principal inhabi tants sod theatrical amateurs, a few days before the last ship which has arrived in England sailed from that city. Sir W. Scott, it is stated. lies dangerously ill, at his house in Grafton-street; he is attended by Sir H. Raiford, and Dr. Bernie. A few days hark, his life was despaired of ; on Monday last a more favourable change took place, and yesterday the answer to the numerous inquiries was, that Sir William was some what better. FiIIAMII/ORT. Jos. 21.--In a commercial letter from Naples, it is affirmel that the best hopes are enter tained there of the issue of the King's journey to the Congress at Laybach. That the tranquillity with which the Parliament continued its deliberations, had a favourable effect on the public mind ; and in con:e quine of this, commerce began to revive. In another private account from the same city, written, as it seems, by an impartial person, it is stated that the desire of consolidating the existing order of things, is chiefly ,to be found amongst the mountaineers of the Ahriman., Apulia, and Calabria, where a spirit of in- 1 dependence appears to prevail, similar to that which formerly reigned in Tyrol and Spain. In the capital it is added, they talk of seal, but there is lees una nimity; they are also destitute of good means of de fence; the soldiers are in general inexperienced, and the officers without ability. Bosun, Jas. to.—At the last Warsaw fair, the Orand Doke Constantine had 8,000 pieces of woollen cloth Onrchased of the Salton, and Posen sneesiselsts, for the clothing of the Russian and Polish min Poland. 'Neptune, Ricb, from Savannah, which ran on sherd nth Friday evening, upon Pluckington Sand, Liverpool, was got off on Saturday night, after dis eharfitig a loasiderable part of her cargo, and car ried taw dock. stk i~ fa- COURT OF KI.NO'S BENCll.—Tata Ilosx ! tin CARTWIRMHT, TVOOLIER, 19" •ND MADDOX. The blurt, OD its eattaace, called eis the ATTORNEY- Os*mut., who said be bad to thew cause against a rule , fur a new trial obtalionl by the defendants in this cause last Term, on the ground of objections to the summon ing of Mr. Peach, one of the Special Jurors, and also to the condatt of the Mister of the Crown Office in strik ing the Jary. The Coon inquired if all the defendants were present ; . when Mr. Lewis, being in custody, did rot appear, nor did Mr. Maddox. A Oentlenian at the Bar said, that Mr. Maddox ilia not appear, because it was understood that the defend ants need not appar front day to day, and his wins was in such a situation that lie could not triter. her. The ATTORNIIT-IitNIRAL then prhceeded, and eon- tended that no neglect of the Sheriff or of the b4suniun int; officer could be a growl l of chalienge to the arrey, and read several affidavits to chew the officers had no in tention to prevent the attendance of Mr. Peach, and de fended the eondert of the Master of the Cr own-"Mre. Mr. DEXMAN, here rencired the production of an af fidavit, which the chief Baron in his report of the trial had desired should he produced in Court. Thia was not fortheousing.and*the Attorney Geueralconteuded it was unnecessary to the argument, in which the court scented to coincide, and Baia that might probably be obtained. ink half an hour. The M44114,f1t64;f1WZR3,7, then proeeetled, and ads.. . milted that the mode of striking thelney era; objected to We late. /de read several affidavits from the erift, offiters, Irons the Master of the Crown-office, j denying' the agegations. of the defendants. That of the Mister of the Crown-office stated, tbst., of the forty-eieft indivilnals whose mutes (voiles) the list sulstnitterl in -hint; be had nrvet before seen or hearitthe names of mere than two: One of these indivialurla owl had been seen by high, and to that one he had nester sunken more than once. The Learned Counsel cootead e I at some length az'ainst the different grounds upon which the nett trial was granted, and was followed on the 3..111. !AO by the So r.trtYon-1 lEN 1: R A 1., who cited the dpininni of several high legal authorities, which went to establish that the Master of the Frown-office had the right of setecting any MUMS, aronriling to his own diercretion, trons thee list preaented to him. He was ready to alinit, bolst erer, that if any prt,of of partiality could he adduced in 6:- exercise ur that right of diScretion so vexed in him, that would he soffielent -ground flit settiv aside the trial. flat the affidavit. which bad been put in, entirely removed 311' 'lonia which might have settet ed upon that heat. lire Learned Connerl-wit.' proeeed ing iu his argument when oar Reporter left the Court. EXECUTIOX Tills MORNING. • This morning Gee unhappy' individuals suffered the sentence of the law. We noticed several females in the throug absorbed in tears. The arr. Mr. Cotton Attended them. blur:in, who is Jew, agreeably to the practice of his reunion, had suffered his black beard to grow a tonsitieral•li• length. Ile was accompanied by two Priests, and they joined each other in prayer in the Aphrew Langtiage. -Johnson, a youth ahont Inyears of age, of prepossessing appearance, was brosght into the press-yard crying. He was very.fersent in his prayers.— i t "" l "P tii lumadiki lit ii.11.1/CWiltiresolute at hut, but ultimate!) , prayed fervently. lie was no more . than 1S years of age. Davies was a prepossessing lad ; he was convulsed with grief, so much so, that he was deprived of ittterance. Ile was only 13 years of age last February, but had been guilty of many crimes. In eunsegnenee of his youth, his case was represented to Lord Sidineutli ; but nothing could be done for the prisoner, v it was deemed necessary to protect the public from the attacks of daring wipers. Tobia was a title lookingp, young,roae, of gentlemanly appearance ; he told the Sheriffs that he forgave his prosecutors, a nd hoped they would die as happy as he should. The prisoners when conducted to the scaffold, behaved with great decorum. The ropes being adjusted, the fatal signal was given, and the ur happy creatures were launched into eternity sod died instantaneously. The whole of the culprits, rare Martin the Jew, confessed the justice of their sentences • but he up to the very last moment, pnakWely declared his in. nocenee. White, whose family antnevions are highly respectable was reprieved at a late hour last night. Sir F. Burdett is to appear, to-morrow morninr, in the Court of hing's Bench, to receive jml►►ment. It is understood that the worthy Baronet intends to produce nearly two hundred affidavits respecting the Manchester affair, which (if permitted to he read), with the arguments of Conn Tel, will probahly occupy the attention of the Court the whole of the day. Copy of a Treasury letter relating to duties erec neously charged in deficiencies of Exciseable articles exported from the ducks in the port of London since the 30th May last : " Treason's , Chambers, 2.1 December. " In answer to the representation of the 4th instant. in behalf of the merchants of Lundou engaged in theex portation of spirits, relative to the duties on deficiencies of spirits in the warehouses, I am commanded by tl e Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury to a - timint you. that my Lords have been pleased to autho rise the Commissioners of Excise to return any ditties received on deficieucies of earheable articles exported from the docks in the port of London since the 30th of May last. (Signed) " Haaatsorr." At Grantham Sessions, which commenced on Thurs day, the lfith instant, M r.i Robert Litchford, Attorney. of that place, and nine others, were indicted for riotous conduct, in breaking windows and committing other misdemeanours, on the 14th November last, when an il lumination took place, in consequence of the abandon. mein of the Bill against the Queen. A true bill was found against the whole of them : and the Court was occupied from an early part of Thursday till half-past four on the following day, in the examination of wit nesses, &c.; during which much eloquence and wit were displayed by the different advocates, particularly by Mr. I silents of 'Newark, who with Mr. White was`ir the prosecution, Mr. Wells, of Huntingdon, with Mr. Mew nevi, advocated the defence. The Jury, after a short deliberation, found all the defendants Owilty.—The Ma gistrates having thus vindicated their authority, passed upon the offenders the fine of one shilling each. (The fees, and the expenses which the parties Incurred in *Mr defence, will, however be considerable:) Mr. Wells cal led no witnesses, but in a 'porch of two boars endea voured to extenuate the offences, and indulge/ in much sarcasm end personality. The individuals whb took their trials were, Robert Litchford, Omit., John Frost, Henry Breeton, John Wilcox, Oeorge Prow, Thome Bennett, John Truffles, and Thomas Diabbard. Wilhite Mesta pleaded guilty. COVI-EICKANOI. Jaw. Er —There have been no fresh arrivals of any grain since Monday, bet t emeltterahls quantity of each remained ones from this monsinell market, for which there was little or so deateakae only whet prime sag sdos of wheat and barley could bed oty end soh:* &stalest' Monday's prices ; bat the Wert°, igeetities were enealesbie.—ln Peas, leans, and Oats, there is little or no stowage% ia pekes, bet she Wet of each were oseesidtagly lyary. -^_ . - s i : ~ -. .--...i...:-A, is , .1 I t ‘ .we*, I . I