The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-05-06 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. LONDON: ?SUNDAY. MAT 11, IS iIL In the linnet of Con:inns last night something like business ass transacted; no verbosity, as has often been the case. In oar whole report of what pissed, we cannot discover a single sentence of she twee►sl apeskers entiecessaty ; and we hazard nothing of a cnntradictinn if we say, that the two Chanwers of Legi•lat in Paris would have been occupied a fortnight to less effect, and with less satisfaction to their auditors, or to those who might read the is. port of their speeches. fin for is the review of the matter pleasing. It has the air of clearing the way for snore important discusslons--those in question, were all oecessetily it, proper, end some even argent points to ha discussed. They constitute the I concerns of the nation, and when thew and others la their road to Parliament have reached it, and have b.• n attentively disposed of, we hope and trot that the Reprtwertatives of the nation will " well and trill)" deliberate spun the S'ATI Or Tilt NA. VON. The for all who lire in the country ; and we mak• DO scruple in telling those who are OfPrlpa final sech ao enquiry, that it would have been better fur them that they bad never 'misted in it. Who can read what passed on the Irish Window fill, and observe what the CUANCILLOR of the Exeunt/en said no the necessity of the contingence of the tax, and tint feel his mind carried forcibly to prospective ml. ',ties ? lie says what is literally true to be sere ; that the tax Wimp to the puhlic creditor. No doubt it does; milers, as be adds, he can find a substitute measure to stand in its place, and yield the same security to the lender of money to the Goteruuteut. Bat are there not minus ways of providing that safety witheot depriving our fel low.crratures of the Ise of that element which is essentially seressary to life end health!! Does not this same CU ‘lecst.t.o a of the Eacti too 'Aorta° speaks so pathetically of the security to the pantie creditor, know that a man, like a veg►table, stands in need of light as well as air to preserve his existence ? Can that country Centimes' have been so often in his bet and g►een-house (whence it is • pity be was ever transplanted to • Parliament Hoes.), and not have observed that • plant in a dark situation becomes blanched, and dwindles away to nothing? If he has not noticed this, be would make a wretched Member of • National Institute.----So it is with human life. Look at the covnienauces of those who sit or work much in very dark rooms--they scarcely vegetate, look pale, squalid. and with week end morbid digestions, linger end die of aneresessts. It may be said then, that thereby one of the objects of the Rev. Mr. M ALTUS)/ is in part accomplished, viz. of fitting or bringing down the population to a level with the means of subsistence. Away with such tamable, each diabolical sentiments.— It is • doctrine that N ..1111011, CALIGULAS, and Pao. atoms only would tolerate. It is distorted malign reasoning ; it is arguing backward ; it is, in short, the very merle of what lb* benevolent Owts re comm►nds and would do. This Gentleman would multiply the means of supply. flit would raise sub sistence to a level with population. He would create food for his fellow-creatures, and not fly in the face of, and, as it were, impugn CRZATION. He would leave that impious work and all its apologies for war i and bloodshed, to the cold devices of malignant per. sons and other mercenary scribes ; and to Secrets. rtes of War, who make a Parliamentary display of hostile achievement, and detail with an cashing complacency the myriads of his fallow-creator's "killed off" in battles and sieges,—with the view to stop the growth of opinions on freedom, and the ea tuition of improvement in civil polity. Away, then, with the infernal battology of cake. toting quarto and folio di►quisittenists to urge on wards fools in power to use and consume their fel low-emigres in a m that, by the laws and precepts of the religion of which apparently they are so tenacious, they are forbidden to everting on the very brute part of the creation. Better it were at once to say of the tat, which gave rise to these reflections, that it is an impost to rid Dublin and other cities of that part of its inhabitants which a►e' super,fluz, and which it Is not knows bow otherwise lo dispose of. We again say, keep faith with the public creditor (though one•hatf of the first contractors of the debt, perhaps, deserved to be put in the pillory), but pre. vide the security in another way then by ermenderlog loathsome fevers, and puffing to death by 'aches, crowds of people in narrow circumstances (the rick can have as much light, air, and exercise as they choose). Provide this security from the abolition of sinecure and other useless places, from diminishing the enormous salaries of the creatures of the Crown, and the Court ; by taking sway the patents from ser vile adherents to ell Administrations, wicked or otherwise, by virtue of which they charge whatever they flesse for the articles furnished for the on of the Crown! If these be the virtues and benefits of a crown, viz. that of enabling its Ministers to grant weals of esclusino to stationers, to charge whatever sees they please for paper, Ake. without competition, 'turf, better they would supply a fools. ail he its room. How a reflecting honest men, with a knowledge of and a respect for the Constitution of his country, which does not, like • dishieste law contract, contaie joggles and subterfuges—how a Minister of Great Britain could make answer upon the aubjert of t►e egregious overcharge spoken of by Sir I. NsWPOIT, that" patents did occlude competition," wears at a less to knew t since such a patent melt be absolutely unlawful, and an abuse upon the common sense, and an infringement upon the pockets of the People of the whole kingdom. To talk then after this of lbe impossibility of ceding a tat, is blistering every ibre of the body politic, but those who are cadre:W(i. use armour) by their wealth. If nothing else can or will be done, why not call upon the over-paid functionaries of the State to do what Earl CAMDEN did, uninvited (my Lord, this is oho best purchase you ever made)? What only one pers o n willing (on a political ground) to ascribe* a part to save the whole? What, none reedy to do it (on a pines grown!) to save their fettoe.ereas o ros from a pestilential disease ? Your Grace of CANTER BURY. my Lord Bishop of DURHAM, where are you ? Nest to the sehjirct of I using light into the d wellings of she distressed inhabitants, and thereby guarding them from disease, is that of providing a wholesome beverage for the hard-working class, in order to pre. serve their strength, end this will best be dna, by amyl:lit:on. The laws aril detestable which oblige the labourer to drink drugged beer, or be forced le go a mile at every meal for his daily supply. This com polslon Is ncca•ioned by the horrid Licensing Sys. Taw. A System which has reached to het point that would startle a Lord VIRULAII, Or any other adro cute for bribery and corruption. We know no. thing of Mr. ticaustopT, perhaps never saw him, bat if his Petition be composed of nothing but truth, another Shylock might say, " fye open your laws, they sill undo your State." If things go on thus unchecked, the country will be left to its LEGISLATORS. its BREIVERS. Durriu.ass, and its Lae/vim; the rest of its present inhabitants will seek an asylum (a greet champ ce wile) in some other quarter of the world, whore its invitations have ,it yet ken tainted with collieries !!! AMERICAN h:LOQURNCR: ` t -.....--- stTnact FROM Tits retrril Or WC Aligns n, In Tim [trivia ors TIM stailwilLE.AW " I ni.y sav, hossmr, that lEr origin of thi, oar is II • 6•1111. %jib ell Alt I . . re. It lir, deep, bey and the power 4 engin r i ri, in the ea twig- ty is minis we have beepeatupiift the miserable nations of there limas. 4 tweed refur them my beert.feli syvapnfhp.• %lift; flints what they were, and look at them as they are. G , eal nations dein tiled dimwits into wandaiiing tithes, and powerful Kings derrsded to beggarly Chiefs. Once the sole pnoiessors of immeasurable wilds, it could not hav• moored into their imsginstinn that there was a force on earth to dist.rb their power. —lt entered lint into their imagination that from beyond that s rest water, which to them was en irrneostahle limit, therm would come a mem or bein g s in despoil them of their inheritance, and sweep them from the earth. Three hundred years have rolled into tt• bosom of eternity since tl:e white man pet his Ingot on these silent shores, and every day, every hour, nod every moment, has been marked with some art of cruelty and oppression. Imposing nn the credulity of the ignorance of the aborigines, soil meowing their fetes by the use of inurement, of death, of inconreivable terror, the strangers grade. ally established themselses, increasing the work of destrectinn with the invokes, of their strength. The tide of civiliettlon, for so we call it, fed from its in. irshao.iltd• sources in Europe, as well as by its own means of sugmentstinsi, swells rap:dly and presses nu ate savage. lie tritest/ from rarest to forest, from mrrsetsist to mountain, hoping at every remove be has lefr enough for his invaders, and easy enjoy in peace his new anode. Kat in vain :it is only in the grove, the last retreat of man, that he will find repose. Ile recedes before the swelling waters; the cry of his complaint becomes more distant and feeble, end soon will be bead ne more. I hear, Sir, of beneficial plans for civilising the Indians, end 'regrind their possessioiss to them. The greet men who make these efforts will have the op. probation of God and their own conscience, bet this will be all their seems. I consider the fate of the Indian as inevitably Wised. He meat perish. The decree of extermination has long since gone forth, and the esecatirsn of it is in rapid progress. Avarice. Sir, has counted their acres and power their force, cud avarice sod power march on together to their destreciinn. You talk of the scalping knife! What is it to the liquid poison you poor down the threats of these wretched beings? Yoe declaim against the Murderess tomahawk ! What is it in comparison with your aims, your discipline, mud your numbers? The contest is in vain, and equally vain are the efforts of a handful of benevolent men against such a corn. bina.init of force, stimeleted by avarice and the templaiions of wealth. When, in the documents en your 1..b1e, I see that in this triumphant march of General Jackson he meets from time to time (the only enemy hi. saw) groups of old men and women, and chiesitisn gathering ea the edge of a morass, their villages destroyed, their corn and provisions carried of, houseloss in the depth nf VI inter.looking for death sdiernattly to famine and the sword, my heart sickens at a scenes° charged with wretchedness. To rouse us from a 9 nipsiby so deep, so irresistible, we are told of the se.lping knife and we tomahawk, of oar sleigh/vied women end children. We speak of these tido*, as if women and children were unknown to Ike lorlians•—as if they have no such beings amongst Them—no sue% near ati.l dyer rrlstions—as if they I belo n ged o n ly in us. It is lint sea. 'floe poor Indian soother, winching in her miserable wigwam, or rest. ins under the broad canopy of Heaven, presses her asked isfsat to her bosom with as true sod fond emotion es the fairest in nor loud, sod her heart is tarn silk eskers angeish if it perish la her sight."— ( Wyoming Herald, April 1) pmst.s. 4/1 , 41 10C11.3 T 444 Mewl !stack 1314 3 per 1 toe Ilea. 71) 1 per Creee. 31 per Cent. ROI • sous,. fete Are. 714 4 per Cad. 901 II DAY AT OM irct.ock. 5 per Go. Ika.v I. se lodes Needs IS 91 p. Long %Ps. 18 is-is Kielseepier Both 9 11 p. Osamu TTIE s rtvric_smAN; The Paris Papers of Sandal , end Monday arrived this morning. in the Chamber of Peers, ea Saler day, after the nomieation of a Deputation to corn. prurient the King on the anniversary of his resters.. the debate was resumed from the last Sitting on else proposition of the Marquis de MAIII2OII, that 110111* other punishment should be substituted for transportation. Count LANIVITAIS opposed this proposition, and that which the Special Commission had substituted for it under this title of an amend ment, the object of which was to solicit a mode of carrying lotto emotion the laws for transporta tion. Ile concirded by mesh% the adjournment of both these propositions. This adjouremeni was supported by the Marquis de PA/Toter, who demonstrated as to the first proposition illetlifficelry of the substitution proposed; mod as to the second, the propriety of leasing to the Government the intro. duction of such changes as the Penal Laws might require in those respects. Count CORNERS; Re porter of the Special Commission, combated in it, name the objections outdo r e his Report. Count Dc CAR Ai give some statement of the number of those conikinned to trenspottation, now confined at Mont Pit. Michael. The Adjournment was tarried, and th► Chamber separated till Tuesday. In the Chamber of Deputies several Petitions w►re presented from Pro. prittein at Thrielosse, praying iodernnierstion for damages sestsitied in the battle of the 10th of April, 1814. They were referred to the Minister of lbe Interior. After some other unisperesni business, the Chun. ber proceeded to the discossr.n of the third Ptojet en the Liberty of the Press, reistire to Jeeruals and polities! viirilitica. M. M. Ihnortr.rr anti firnATRY spoke in fawner of the Projet, es lint.ndet/ by the Commigstan DtluxnU, at greet length, esprosuni his opinion. against many of its with... M. lit !atom at Sow, nAc moved tin Amendment, that Jost nottsis therld be compirlirti to insert the answers of those when. Orr offernied or injured. 66 PARIS, MAT 1 —An Orrlnnosnce of the gio April prescribes a new organization of the burly guards of Mow%ttvw. " The ancient Senators, alto were not cemp►ised In tba first noweinedess of the Peers in Jane, 1814, are Ilium to he reinstated in the whole of the immu. nities which were reserved to them by the Orden. 11111t* appended so the Carstitational Charter. " In p 00000 nee •f a ',Wien of appeoraec•, the Seers Cuevsuen. nntisor TIMARS, CUON tT •e MONTAIILOT. HtYAu•leat, and tole tabors. were this day inierrneated by M. CUM, Ceentelinr in the Cour Royale, as Authors, Editors, or Printers of certain peai.dical pablicatinns, enlisted the Grey Mars, the Liberal, and the Historical Library, rela tive to some attacks directed 'Oast the Swiss regi watt, " The system of rigour so long pinged with regard to the French, who were banished by the Itnyal Or. d of the 14ilt Jul., 1815, appears at length t• have undergone mime moilificateun. " M M. 80w.% y •C LA MIIIETIL, FELIX 1,11- PELLETIER, FELIX DESPOE/119. lIAIEL, and GAS• KEAY, live et pieWlli on the Banks of the Maine, without being al heretofore sehject to a WOO stir. veilience. The last. greatly advanced in ate, has been for some time pest labouring under s malady, which evil. has rendered doubly creel to him. " A German Gaa.tte anionences that the Court of Russia is shoot to withdraw front St. Helena the Commissary whom she had appointed to reside there with NAPOLEOII. This is not the first time this news has been circulated, sod we repeat it without relying on its veracity. " The People of Germany ere making eats's. ordinary efforts to obt•la au ►quality of rights, the •belirion of the feeds' system, and the security of in divides! liberty. The Allies recognised in Prance, in 1814, these three bores of Representative Gofers meat, and the Germans an surprised that the Sore. reign., who have all admir►d the process of know ledge in France, should sow refine its salutary effects to their own eutiPEIS. EXTRACT OE A LETTER PION Pillq, KAT 3, 1819. •' This lathe anniversary of his bisjesty's entrance into his capital, w►ich be has signalized by • new mark of his confidence In the nation. The Press is free, even before the law on its liberty is discussed. —We hail this proof of Iris Majesty's liberality with joy. We understand the sem/elision was mode by him. self to M..,.. Dratot.t.e. and Di Caats,who adopted It with pleasure and es;erness ; thee constitutiesal principles pie ground daily, and in • little time we may hope to see liherty established in France on the most solid basis. The Ultras my, the chariot of the State is in • bad rot, it is tree they have placed it there; bet the strong shoulders of the Deputies, aided by the (hill horses of the Constitution, the present Ministers, are getting it oat es fast as possible. One or two more efforts and it will be as it were, in an iron railway, where it will move easily, end no more dangers will be to be uppreheaded from its jarring. sad jostling.. " We regr►t to state, that Ilse lovely and the in. teresling Madame LAVALETTE, unable to support the repeated shocks her mind has received, is now in s stele of ineotal derangement." Mr. Coutoeett, she Member for Wesfordshlre, it tacos, excited a laugh iti the Noose of Commons last night, by *scribing to the 'scission of light by the Windily Tat the introdering the scroll!. into Ireland. Now had he pet t►e English interpretation to the disease, viz. the King's evil, the gravity of the Members would sot Imes been distarbed. A entemporary Journal, whose (waxen sweridisti distinguishes the two hemispheres of his daily Ilight, the ene marked by the word./fetters, the other abuse, always following, however, the course of the Sun (we, nevertheless, do not mean that luminary, on, the Globe), attempted yesterday to throw contempt on the speech of the greet Mr. GRATTAN, Of though his talents were in the wane. For nearly half a tee. tory has that patriot distinguished himself in the Irish and British Senates, and yet are his fasaeltir, in most enviable perfection. By what kind of 'readers mast that feather-heeled Courier be supported, while it an much resembles his protein), Mercury, iu both assume and falsehood. To - 1 1 ,tp t akeimit drc ras sz-assma Sta,-1 was meek surprised to see in your Paper of hersday last, a most unfair, and, permit me to add, imbecile article. signed " B. F.," purporting to be en Answer to Sir CUA.LU WOLSELET'S Letter to Sir FRANCII BURDETT. I should sot, howeee. , hare troubled you, or that Public, with any 'marl a upon this Letter of B. F., ha•l yes, Sir, had the dour to have published the Letter of the worthy Ba ronet, previous to admitting into your columns RE production of a writer. who has most uajostly erodes. routed to pervert the fair sunsaing of the passages which he has thought proper to criticise. Year extraordinary observations, ton, en this article in your notices to Correspondents ought not to psis without comment. May Ibe permitted, Sir, to ask why, as is usual in similar flies, this Letter wit II et prilliPli without the Emmen previously writing a kind of eelogiem upon it? Your reneatltt, in my opinion, ore calculated to make a much Oaf. erro. aeons impretsion upon the Wilds of those of year Readers who have not read Sir CUARLEI WoJ.agL►T's most able Letter, then the vow luminous observations of your Liverpool Correspondent. ! cannot COIICPifiI IN hot the gaud ioteetiosis of B. F. could be in made*. veering to p t the obeinus meaning of the war. thy Bantam's Letter. But if U F. conceive*, that by detraetieg front the merits of gathers he shall he en. allied to add to lbsse of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT; he may be assured that the character of the man, whom he preposterr s•ty enough designetes by the now at any rate exploded appelistion of " the Pride or Westminster," is fallen too low to be holstered up by the puce efforts of a writer of his description. in the hope that a tens. of justice may yet inducts you its lay !wrote your It.. ler, the Lwtur of Sir CuARLU Wor. , ctau. 1 11.611 merely observe, that your Correspondent muss be profoundly ignorant of the political cherart•rs of the day. particularly t►at class of them that Sir FRANCIS calls Country Gen. tleanen, or he would hare known that Sir Cutouts Wouittur has been "tell ktiown, at least fur the last 20 you., as a sisetich It,dte.i Reformer. - . I am, Jour's, &c. Censer', May 3, MC w. L. .V4Y4L ISTELLIGENCR. DEAL. Mae 5 —Arrived this morning and selloff for the River ' the 161*.g,ia of Dontley. Al•Lorol, from China ; Robert, Junes, from Hari; Harmony, Woodall, Irmo Do nors's ' • Echo, kluwarr, f r om the South Sess; Lady Banks,Clinch, from Bengal; and Rosins, Bell, from Cardiff.—Came dons from the River, the Isabella, Dash, fur Miramichi, and sailed with the Martinis of llistinss, for Bombay ; and the Archibald, Near., for Si. Vincent's. Also came done and frown the York, Tolbert, for Bombay; and the Rose, for Sierra Leone. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 5 —Sailed his M•jerty's ship Taint., under jury •nessts, for Deptford ; Prinre Re• eon*, White, fur Loots° ; and Vicisot, fee FarallonTn. MAT 3.—Arrived I laa American ibip Brahmin, IN'Gragor, tram Batavia, is 15days, board rep Ant•erp. Cows•, MAY 5 —Arrived the French ship Retest, Lepers, Irons Masai., for orders, with same truffles deals in her rigging; 168 de) a passage. LI vcarook, MAY 4 —The Honourable COO. patsy's ship Percesal, front China to London, wee spoke with on the 2901 of April. la let. SI. %Mons. It. in compsny with another of tho Honourable Cos. pany's ships. by the Henry, Stroaghton, suited at this port.—The Lonech, --, from Bombay ; True Briton, and Thome., Kogg. from Beep,. are arrived off this port.—The btaplet,o, Amery, from ►ear., had arrived off Savannah, and ass on shore, but es. potted to be got off'•• ithn•t dstn•ge. NORTH SHIELDS, hi A T 3—The ASO, Taylor, from Mil, with timber sail deals. to this port, wreck. on the Newsand, which ceased her to ma►e so stuck water as to ►ate eight feet in her bold, when she en tered this harbour. The cargo is discharging; bat the pumps were dinged to be kept almost cosistastly going. _ _ DoTER, MAT 5 --AffICPCI off this pod the Wil lie. Shand, illooroo, from Jamaica to London. Count op kisses flarcu.—Thin morning Mr. WARREN moved the Coors fora islet. sh•w curiae why an information, in the .•tare of quo argentite, should not be bled against the person eaercising the office of Mayor of the Borough of Pet►ra6eld, on the ground that the Jury of tae Court Leo, who elves to the office of Mayor, were illegally oteisittated 6,y the Steward, wko is the lodge of the Coon ; and that there was also a person on the Jury who was not competent to serve upon it, lint befog ►esident in the place. The COURT granted the application withoot entering into the arguments very filly. JOURNFIIIIEN SliOnlAILLAl.—.The Josrooymfin and their Masters are new 'tooled in a dispute re specting wages; it is contended on t►e pert of lbe Joerneyoseo that shoplift of the materials, sod also the ;nice of the shoes when ossisufactored, sill well enable the Masters to advance the price of work, which has been for a considerable time too low. The Matters contend that this is not lbw consideration. hat that it is because there is at this time an unusual indult of !rosiness, and many of the hands are out of Loudon; they consider their demands MIN be grant ed. It would be well for both parties if they could settle the dispute to their mutual satisfaction. Whatever may be said against Lotteries, they are certainly, as rondocted In this country, the molts:ulna and dialmi.ionals modes of adrout•ring that have yet been devised by man. fly the straw ions being limited to two or three days, the evil of insurance formerly complained of has !nog been removed. The Revenue is greatly lieliefi!rd by this voluntary tag. Mean every other species of Wit), and which is generally carried no in secret by individuals, is not only en nforlactive to the Revenue, but esposes the wive.- turer to the cheating and superior cunning of his ad. versify; while the fairness of drawing a Lottery is guaranteed by Government, in which, if no ochres. tomer loses, it is but a trifle, and if he is Inmate, he secures an illtleiteDdellie.