The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-20 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOR TO•11ORROW. after S. —Naming, 43 ■la. after 3. PRO OF sTorks THI Bank Stock 22161 3 per rent. Real. mil 3 per Cent. Con. %het. si per Cent. 7814 4 per Coats. Si ik pr Ct. Nee) shot. 6 per Cent Ser,pt LoolAnn 1713-10 IS Imp. 3 per rert SS DAY - Ai c 'C LOCK . Irish 6 per Cent. India Stock Ditto ponds —s. ?ss.—s.par. South-Sea New Ann. Ex.Bills4d. par. Is. °anima for the payment Rank for Account Con. for Acet 701 71 701 Lott. Tickets 111. Ss. Cbc ktattOinan. ITIstI it %Te 111421" IS I•COltroRATIO WITIS " Till STATESMAN." LONDON: WEDNESDAY [YINING, DECEMBER 20. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Fends have been a trifle better this morning. Consols for the Account haring been done at 71, which is now about the price ; the market looking rather steady. Though the Alarmists of recal to our minds the Alarmists of the year 1793, there is no small difference in the character of the different times. At the eolussencement of the Revolution in France, the friends of liberty in England rejoices] from sympathy at the favourable prospect that had opened for the ame lioration of mankind; and the adherents of antiquated abuses, apprehensive of the spread of political reform, took an early and determined resolution to resist its I , lw: r e 's. Some, perhaps, were actually afraid, and others mode oo they were afraid. Placemen were apprehensive they should lose a prtion of the gains they derived from established extravagance and cor rnption; and churchmen felt some serious concern— on the subject of their tythes. The former proclaimed the State to be in danger, and the latter affected to tremble f w the Ark. Associations were formed in every parish to issue forth their declarations of loy alty ; mobs were encouraged to burn and destroy the sin ellings of the friends of freedom; and spies were employed and rewarded for betraying the unsuspecting intercourse of individuals, and bringing t.• punishment on the charge of sedition any excep tionable word th.st was uttered from the fullness of an indignant heart. The enlightened few who saw the evils coining thus upon the nation, in retirement lamented the ilelnsion that prevailed, and the Dic- 1 tators of political opinion set their feet upon the neck of opposition. In the present day, we find, indeed, a striking change.—The men who now step forward to repel the current of popular sentiment, are quite as bold and arrogant and tyrannical as those who ruled and triumphed in the days of the public humiliation. They employ the like language as before, but they Thew a different spirit. Their tone is high ; bat their confidence is lowered. The parties who now seek retirement are not the friends of frentioni, but the friends of Court nod Conrtiers. Whon ;those who would pretend to sup press the public voice assemble to send forth their mandates, they are, in fact, compelled to suppress their own. Their meetings are all of a clandestine hind, and discussion is out of the question. What a •orry set to lead or overrule the sentiments of an awakenenesl and spirited nation LANDING AND W %REHM:MING AMERICAN PRO DUCE AT OUTPORTS. Treasury Chambers. Nov. 93. GrAvi.t.stax—The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury have had under consideration your representation relative to permitting cargoes of Ame rican produce on board American vessels to be ware housed under the regulations of the Act 43 (leo. 111, chap. 132, 1 have it in command to acquaint you, that my Lords entirely concur in your sug gestioe, that the order of this Board of the Pelt of September last, should not be considered as autho rising the landing and warehousing of Tobacco, except at the ports approved for that article, and un der the provision of the act 29 Geo. 11. chap. 68, nor of Cora, Meal or Flour, except under theprovisions of the Act. 31, Ueo. 111, cap. 38, and 55, tiro. 111. cap. 26, nor daily articles of American produce not eaume rated in the tables of the warehouse Act, nor at any port which has not been approved for the warehousing of each goods; and that in case of the arrival alt any of the warehousing ports of the kingdom of Auset 4 .-an ,easels laden in whole or part with l goods which are not allowed to be warehoused under the provisions of the warehousing Act, or the Acts for warehoueing tobacco, corn, meal and lionr, mit goods should only be permitted to be warehoused ander their Lord►hips' special orlers for a limited period, an for exportation only. (Signed) S. R. LUSHINOTON. To the Commissioners of Customs. Accounts from Madrid of the 4th instant, state po sitively that the ratification of the Florida Treaty bad Irft that city by a use/stager. who was to take ship ping at Bordeaux. Letters have been receluesi from St. Helena to the Nth November. His Majesty's ships Shearwater and Leveret had arrived there from the Cape. The Owen Glendower, Capt. the lien. R. Spencer, had also ar rind there from South America. The latter sailed again Co the 341 Nov. for South America. YeslenlAy was the last Seal after Term in the Conti of Chancery, The loud Chancellor entered the Court at half-past tea o'clock, soon stet which be addressed the Mar is the following toss :--“ If i GANA: ilea COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council assembled this day for the dispatch of business. The Lord Mayor having taken the chair, directed the Officer of the Court to read his 3lajesty's Answer to the AddresA of the Com mon Council presented on the 9th inst. This being done, Mr. Fir/Lt. rose and made some spirited and severe animadversions on the temper of his Majesty's answer, and concluded by proposing to annex to it the regret of the Court that his Majesty should have been so ill advised as to return such an inconsiderate answer. The motion was seconded by Mr. Eieke. Mr. T. N. Williams moved an amendment, which was seconded by Alderman C. Smith. The Oxford University Address was yesterday pre sented to the King upon the throne. Lord Grenville, the Chancellor of the University, and the two Uni versity 3lembers; headed the procession. There was a numerous attendance of heads of houses, and, includ ing members of all the different degrees, about 360 persons were present. After the presentation of the address the King held I a Privy Council, at which the Duke of Wellington . was sworn in Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Hampshire, iu the room of the late Earl of Malmes bury. His Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of Liver pool, Viscount Sidmouth, and Viscount Castlereagh. The Court broke ►►p about five o'clock. Soon after the King left town in 1113 travelling carriage, for Frog more, on a visit to the Princess Augusta, escorted by a party of light horse. The Theirs this morning, in the following manner, maintains the assertion it hail previously made rela tive to the state of his Majesty's health :—" We stated on Saturday last, with regret, that the King has been seriously indisposed, and hail lust thirty ounces of blood on two successive days. A contradiction was given to this statement, though in such a manner as to convince us that our account was true. As others, however, may not be equally acquainted with those qualified expressions of contradiction u Lich to our ear convey a perfect confirmation, we think it proper to re-state that his Majesty was as indisposed as we men tioned him to have been, and did twice undergo the operation to which we alluded." Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guild hall, by the Lord Mayor, for the dispatch of general business. The Lord Mayor laid before the Court, the Answer of his Majesty to the Address as agreed to at the last Court, which was read, and ordered to be entered in the Repertory.—Sundry Brokers were ad mitted, and others sworn into that other, and sundry Coal-Undertakers were also licenced.—Several out standing bills were ordered for payment, and the Court was occupied at considerable length in petitions presented to them. At Manchester, it appears, there have been two sorts of meetings, both to address his Majesty ; one a Public Meeting at the Manor Court Room, where every person might attend ; and the other a Private one, at the PoliceOMt-e, where little more than a hun dred persons could gain admission. At the Pallier Meeting the Address, unanimously agreed to, ea• p . the deep and unfeigned concern of the Meet 111g. that 111 'beim yews% Ms stip, hie Majesty's Ministers should hare " precipitated an investigation by which public opinion has been so much outraged, public tranquillity so much hazarded, and the loss en dangered of any portion of that strong and affection ate, but rational attachment to our political institu tions, which constitutes their best safeguard, and the greatest glory of the Ruler of a free people." The Address of the Pt irate—Polire tepee Meet ing or Junta—which, with a decency and modesty quite charateristic of a certain class of gentle men in Manchester, actually purports to be that of " the Boroughreeves and Constables of Man chester and Salford, together with the Magistrates, Clergy, Merchants, Traders, aiol Householders of these Towns and their vicinities ; this private, smug gled piece of imposture, carefully avoids saying a word in opposition to the sentiments of the other meeting, respecting the prosecution of her Majesty, but treats his Majesty with a most furious tirade against the whole body of his loving subjects, abusing them " as base and seditious," " wicked and auda cious," " avowed and inveterate enemies of the State ;" as indulging in " frenzied clamours," " op proloious calumnies,' " domineering insolence and li centiousness;" as, in short, in a state of absolute " delirium!" Edward Baynton Sandy., Esq. High Sheriff of Oloucestershire, has refused to call a County Meeting, to consider the propriety of addressing the King on the illegal and unconstitutional measures pursued by his Majesty's Ministers, in the late Parliamentary pro ceedings. The Requisition was numerously and most respectably signed. Lords Duck and Sherburne were at the head of the list of signatures. WILLIAM Pomsum BY, Esq.—On Monday, at Bishops court, died William Ponsonby, Esq. only Son of the dis tinguished Statesman of that name. Among the many instances of untimely death daily mentioned in our obituary, there is none we are convinced, will be more sincerely lamented than the one it is now become our painful duty to record. His health had bees for many months back in a very declining state, and indeed s•sre weeks before his death, all rational expectations his final recovery had been abandoned. He died sit deg in his chair. Captain Holt's match to go on foot 300 miles in five days, and to tonch on tea counties, was won on Sate, day night, by the arrival of the Captain at Hansmire- 1 smith. He bad 44 miles to do on the fifth day, from Dorchester, Oxon, and he did it i■ it hosts, and upon the whole was not much fatigued. The match ranks amongst the lint pedestrian feats. ' Dec. 13.—We are concerted to state, t►at the reports from various parts of this county are albrasing to the peace and safety of the inhabitasts. heard of throe murders having bete cow Merest parts of the comity of lllthesay, last week. Oa Friday night, sem see the hoes of Junes lienelaa, • farmer, at whom they boat with wattles is a dasod• aid othbOtl bosh Nees to the somas THE STATESMAN, Yug deer Hoiidt4;, 1 mill sot ialto soookojofph shrilling to tti daft i•grtiser, bet Woe ahem megn it Wo hayt loon hat e 4fi4 ,.e "Ma IripolbOit ootheo et. Or emitted to Me m olls 44040 to Ile i ttlehtiro sir empostiii. W. within the lam 4-w aistlines to Aces auk as Impaeolse to thin broke foto the I.lll "Wiftrof IleSedlieett. - 4.*8 sot. howorot, Talbot's leek. t he 'felt 110 - *IRIA. has roil *tots of Her hi alat•W o • , Aide! 4 Nowt, of 4it. soar- • • • 1.1 ! = • .1, ' ' . "GOVERNMENT MEN."' The Government Men. the Ministerial papers boast, are now carrying all before them. " They were used to do so," said an honest tar, " in the place %%here I last sailed from. They would gu in gangs, and enter into what houses of entertainment they liked, and not al low any other kind of persons to do or say but what they pleased." " And pray what place is that," inquired a stranger, " in which they carried on such sway ?" "Why, New South Itiales," replied the sea man." " Are Gorernment men allowed to act there so tyrannically ?" rejoined the inquirer. " Are they the civil or t►'n military officers ?" " Officers!" ex claimed his plain-speaking informant, " no, they are the blackguards you banished there for the liberties they took with your property and peace at keine." " And have such fellows ?" demanded the other, " the " presumption' to take the appellation that is assumed by the arrogant slaves of Ministrrs here, as a little ho norable distinction ?"--" Why yes ?" replied the tar, " and you would run some risk of haring your head unshipped, if you spoke of those fellows there by any other name than that of Corer/most men The columns of the provincial newspapers are, at present, as much occupied as those of the metropolis with details of the unprecedented number of de predations committed within their respective districts. Improvidence and depravity undoubtedly drive many a thoughtless wretch to th:s desperate course of liv ing ; but the stagnation that has taken place in trade, is also to be considered as an additional cause that now augments the swarms of vagrants through the country. On a permsal of a recent Liverpool paper, we observed in an advertisement of the Church wardens and Overseers, a list of no fewer than 45 men who had absconded from that place, and left their wives and families chargeable on the wish. CUSTOM-HOUSE, DUBLIN. We are sincerely rejoiced that we have it in ooi power to communicate intelligence to the public, tthich will he received with unmixed satisfaction by all parties. A general system of retrenchment has been long silently in progress, and to a much greater extent than we could have any idea of. The office of Surveyor- General, held by Sir George Shee, with its Clerk., &e. is, we understand, to he abolished. Sir George will be superannuated on a pension. The country collec tors, in future, to lodge their monies in the Bank of Ireland, instead of with the Receiver, as heretofore. Perhaps this is one of the most rational measures that has yet been adopted, since it will simplify, as well as secure, the public money. The Office of Storekeeper, held by Mr. John Clan• dius Beresford, at a salary, it is understood, of between two and four thousand a year, and for which Mr. Johu Claudius held a patent, will share the fate of Sir George Shee's Office. The patent, we understand, will be purchased up by Government, or has already been purchased. There are two Landwaiters' situations already va cant—which it is not Me inttation of Goversdrieret to fill alp. Several other offices will be discontinued, and the duties transferred to different department•. la short, a general retrenchment is in attire ope ration, and promises to lead to the most satisfactory results. But much more remains to he done. It is well, however, that a comtnencernent has been made at last.—(Doldia Evening Post). ASSAULT. [FAWN! TIM MAHAN EVENI!Ct; PO5ll On Thursday morning, at half-past ten, Mr. Wallace, who hail been the leading counsel in the canse of Coifs and .SPNuntara, and had stated the plaiwiff's case on Saturday last, was met in Sackville-street, near the corner of Henry-street, by the defendant, Mr. itichard M•Namara, and a person wearing mustachios, whose name is yet unknown. After a word or two spoken by Mr. Richard M`Nainara, intimating. that what he was about to do was in consequence of Mr. Wallace baring. in his statement, spoken as lie had done, of Mr. Pel`Na mara's wife, he instantly, and without any request of explanation, in satisfaction, gave Mr. Wallace a violent blow in the left side of his face, and. while staggering under the blow, gave him several blows of a whip, with which he was armed, upon the brad. 'I he violence of the blow had driven Mr. Wallace toward+ the door of Mr. Borke's house, which Was distant about three yards from Mr. Wallace when he received the first blow. When recovering from the effect of the blow, I.e was at the door of the house, when seine person from within came forward—Mr. M`Nainara, and the person who accompanied him, both fled too ards Elephant lane, from whence they, in a few minutes, escaped. It appears that the waylaying of Mr. Wallace, and the commission of this unparalleled outtage, hail been medi tated from the Sunday preceding, but no intimation, of any kind, that Mr. M'Namara had been offended at any part of the statement made by Mr. Wallace, had been given to him. The whole had been kept a profound se cret until the moment the crime was perpetrated. At the time the outrage was committed, there wore seven other persons, besides the two by whom it was actually comm.tted, waiting at a short and convenient distance. for the purpose, we doubt not, of the escape of the offenders, had there been any attempt made to secure them. Mr. Wallace was met by two gentlemen of the bar. Immediately after the flight of Mr, il`Naniara, and pro ceeded with them to Court, when, after a abort consul tation with some of his friends, an affidavit of the facts was made, and a warrant granted by the Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Since that time the utmost exertions of the police have been made to arrest the oftnders, but, unfortunately, for the present, without effect. The 'fronts, on which the Luke of Brunswick beat his march to Paris, still seen' to sound with a hollow and warning tone amongst the Holy Alliance, and their heads must indeed be as empty as the drums of that vaunting general, if, with the convictions which re sulted from that fainousespeilition,they should at length resolve upon the commencement of a new revolutionary war, by a march to Naples. France, Sardinia, Spain, Naples ; even the papal territories and the Venetian States (which in their present unnatural and compelled slumber have their disturbed dreams of liberty)—these, altogether, present an aspect to the remaining despots of Europe, which terrifies them from any direct and open attempt to crush the spirit of liberty in Naples. The despots are reduced to the necessity of lying still and waiting for some favourable opportunity which may be produced by their agents, I those conflicting inte rests which cannot immediately be made to harmonise with the general welfare, during the first occurrences of even the most moderate revolution. The priests of Naples, of Spain, and of Portugal, although many of them, to their honour, are among the most enlightened of the champions of freedom. are undoubtedly in general averse to the new order of things ; and there moat be a vast portion of superstition remaining among the igno rant of the lower orders, which may be probably worked up by the active instruments of bigotry and tyranny, into irritation and discontent. This way also be the case with a small part of the army; and perhaps the aristocracy of these countries, however it may hate the cull tyranny of the old courts, may feel a strong reluct ance to the admission of the rights of the people. These things afford to the Holy Alliance the expectation, that If they are patient for a time, something may turn up l i n their favour. Out of these fragments of the old .4„ 100 eial diaOrdirt " they mg , indeed, nnfortenstely, be warranted in expecting muc h; but we trust that that real 1" social order,' which must ultimately be the result of the well organized movements that ate taking place In the south of Europe, will entirely disappoint them.— (Liverpool Mercury.) Attempts &remaking to stir op throughout the king dom a series of Addresses to the King, as a kind of set-off against the numerous congratulatory Addresses which have been presented to the Queen, and when we THE P4NORAII.4. --.10.- consider the vast 111111$ of money which are at the dis (ramie A CORRESPONDENT.] posal of the executive, we only wonder that the Addresses . The improvement in the art of Panoramic painting. to the " fountain of honour" have not been more nosserous. The little bodies of Addressers to the King may with great propriety be said to be an additional who are seen in T/,c Gazelee,eotne forth from their lurk- feature in the advancement of the Fine Arts, while it lag-holes with what from other men we should consider increases the Inxuries of refined taste. To the travel falsehoods, but what from them we consider dreams. ler, it affords the highest gratification, recalling those They give characters of their countrymen without meet- scenes which have been viewed with delight. Here he log in open meetings, where they may discuss their opi recounts to some admiring friend his perils and fa • *ions and motives; they meet in select vestries and con tigueo, or points to some lama spot the birth-place of ciliabules, where they can only behold the reflection of 1 their own intellectual and moral images— • genius, or the Theatre of sanguinary wars. To as joys " Knave nods at knave, each jobber has his brother, rile mind it affords a stimulus.—Who that has seen the " And half the vestry just reflects the other ;" views of Roar., of irtnicc, or of Narmis, now exbi ood while the tax-gatherer compliments the supervisor, biting at Messrs. flaunt and BIM/OMA in the sad the pensioner cheers up the expectant, they foster Stan d, but must have felt an anxious desire to have themselves into the conviction that it is only in their precise combination of troll paid self-devotion and job- visited the classic regions of anti q uity, th e arc hit ec t ura l Wog patriotism that public or private morality is to be beauties of the great em p or i um o f li tera t ure , an d Aund. Loyalty is only to be reared in a close meeting, to have seen the gaudy pageant of the Vene tia! must be made palatable, like endive or saccory, by I tians, the humorous frolics of the Carnival, the splendid monuments o f r ep u bli can greatness , or w i s h e d excluding the light of the sun. What but such a train of discipline in the love s,f themselves and hatred of breath • to the ever balmy air of the no of NAPLES i• their neighbours, could have produced such specimens rank, raving absurdity, when they venture forth into We never pass by the inviting announcement of a the day? What but such a habit of careful exemption new view, without indulging oar curiosity. The in from the rubs and checks of matter-of.fact, could make j structive and venerable exhibitor, who explains these the most ignorant of brutal men believe that the diffi- pictures, is no less amusing. The precision with which he points out whatever is worthy of notice, the amities with which the country now has to contend, arise from " the malice of the *disaffected," from sedi- historical anecdote be attaches, the intimacy he op tion, or what the Courier calls, by an improvement of pears to hold with the surrounding objects, etekoo-note, from blaspAeray f Have the disaffected I all tend to wthography, wisely adopted for the sake of varying a Impart agreeable knowledge, mid render panoramic made the debt, or Increased the taxes, or depreciated exhibitions a high *coerce of intellectual enjoyment.. the currency, and then enhanced its value ? Have they Mat firth the clumsy Bank-notes, or hanged hundreds I Tna FALL of CARTE tog Batoos.—The snperh der forging them? Have they b r ought th e country to I structure of Carthage Bridge, which called forth the admiration of all who visited it. was completed i n Ja each a state that low prices are thought a curse rather unary, 1819. Suddenly and unexpectedly it. fell into than a blessing ? Have they 1114 the management of the immense gulf over which it was e rected th e after the police or the prisons ? Have they filled the streets with pickpockets, or made the prisons the nurseries of tame? Did they begin the proceedings against the noon of the Id of May, 1820. This bridge was a Win? We should think, from specimens we have single arch of iron, which for its extent and height ink of some of the loyal meetings, that the " truly re- stood unrivalled in this country or in Europe. The . table," as they are pleased t o call themselves, . arch consisted of nine ribs, its chord 352 feet, and aid answer-Yes.—(fl ed.) 1 height of the railiotg above the water 20th feet. The On Saturday hilt was married at Bowdon church, the Rev. l i er en si gt i b os o . f the i lin esect 7l4 feet. rd at lt egann was impor ß tan ive t r. in .t i l t ie s Cheahlre, by die Rev. Prebendary Slade, leading through the north and west Noe &seas Law, eldest son of the Lord Bishop of „ Berge mew —. Peat% et Lmily Charlotte Grey, eldest daughter of the I part of the Meta of New York.--(liess Jersey Paper.) Earl of Steadoed said Warrington. Cons-Bxenasson, Doe. 4t. —What Wheat remaincd A meeting was held at Taunton, on the 4th of th is over y oga u si d a y s sup * .not heavy sale this Beath, to take into cessideration the best m esas of impr op t i lt maw to its anterior 5:21y, but what teas 'ng relief*. dal Ewa/ditches, who his. so 'evenly di otollialend Ma= prance. Tine Barley sold I het there wawa demand by tbu gotjery of Maria eke* and "try " ail rod terms moo "'lathy, the portico - ins of which are too ve il known `fee dko ordsei mu . murk neap In small quantities for Ned meadow A sibeees has, la =sew ;emot e ailkag ews , at It. tont. per qr. The Use erode es m ss bean, and is le. per qr. cheaper . roar" boom opomid. and is reeillf kl lbws,' lib* be Wavier ems. Bear and Poe are la. pep qr, lower. br . moneturty beeelleist to Me inferbilline bowleg newt at nerbet this week that titers is a demand "Maly. for. :.. ~- .-~ ~. r. ~. --~- 4.1 _ . rd.. • • PP'