The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-26 00:00:00

1.1.17.447111 M ", . • . 7 - 7-”lorr—mou linsjority, we Wenn* tn, think, is not favourable to such a petition. Mr. Cone liken ' authority of great w eight in such a matter, and he has been told two refs ago, in the Address of the Norfolk Agricelte ral Safety, delivered by WM. JARY, Esq. at Balk ham Sheep Shearing, that the GENERAL PRINCIPLE tioLtts 15, THAY IT WOULD DI FOR THE /ARMEN, FOR THIS COUNTRY, AND FOR ALL NATIONS, THERE SHOULD MC NO CORN LAWS AT ALL. — ph. COKE adulated this to be true by his reception of the Address, and indeed his conduct in Parliament lit the time of wain the last Bill, was such as to Warrant the amnion in the Address of the Society, which we have no doubt was drawn by one thoroughly aequainted with Mr. Coz.E's sentiments. Bet there is one fact so strong against the Peti tioners, that we cannot dwell too much upon it.--le the course of the last twelve Months mons Tani Ong (MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND Q UARTERS OF cons, the produce of foreign countries", have bees brought into the port of London alone. Such en importation has been added to oar own growth dor. ing a plentiful year, without producing any very •se.. sloes or sudden effect upon the market. Nearly 100,000 quarters have been introduced week after week without creating any depreciation of price. In the mean time the supply of English growth, during a year of plenty be it observed, has not esceeded, if it have equalled, the amount brought into Mark-lane during the year of comparative scarcity. These com bined facto p r ous...lat, the inadequacy of the home supply-2d, the power which the farmers as a body poesess, either in their own or au acquired strength of purse, to withhold such supply at their pleasure -and idly, that not even the enormous infirm of the present year has been yet sufficient to reduce the price scarcely below the rate at which the ports are opened. The inference to be drawn from these facts is clear; if the foreign supply . be further impeded by any restriction, the pace would immediately rise to the sterna snap restriction ninnies'', as the mail- Mum ; but further, it is probable art extreme glade. stion would eventually be occasioned, inasmuch as a high price here would afford such a chance of 'nor moos profit to the foreign grower or the importing merchant, that whenever the ports were open (and that they must be open at some time the importation proves) the influx would be prodigious and immediate. These arguments arise out of the simple considera tions of supply and demand. But other and very important truths are to be drawu from the way in which the manufacturing interests are affected by the price of subsistence. An esportatiou of manufacture to nothing short of the value of ,eight millions sterling (probably considerably more) has been added to the employment of the manufacturing districts this year, ' • by tit, intp.trtation of grain and Soar. Combine the szcisiou of all the branches of commerce connected with these purawev of our goods (and it if now idle to talk of barter in any other shape than that of labour tot labour), and what would be the imme diate effect.; upon l'oor's Rate and tevenne? But add to tt4 evil of short employment the nest most grim oat of all distresses—a high price of subsistence, and who will compute the tersislirsilon of national suffer lug and rational complaint The total amount of the manufactures (official value) exported in the year 1816, was co more than 36,714,5341. The total of @sports, including foreign arid commercial merchandise, 51,260,4671. Thus al most one-sixth of the whole foreign trade of this country must be employed in the payment for foreign grain. The manufacturing population was, during the war, at least equal to the agricultural. !ince the Peace it has greatly increased, and it must continue to increase in an augmented ratio, provided a high price of subsistence does not shot us out of the Con tinental and American markets. The Court and the Country must alike feel the benefit of this increase, because an enlarged production from laboJr will facilitate the collection and deorease the burden, (though not the amount) of tales, by dividing them over a larger field of industry. It becomes therefore ■ paramount consideration with the State to take cars that a provision of subsistence be surely made for the additional citizens rising into life and activity, and this can be done so as to meet the occasion only through the vehicle of a foreign supply. In comma. don with this means we have advocated the endeavoor to segment domestic production by new settlements of the unemployed or redundant poor upon the waste soil, and it is an espedient highly desirable. But lot It never be forgotten that in the situation England stands with respect to capital and coals, to scientific power, to navigation and commercial knowledge, it is impossible to confine or restrain her growing mane factures to this island. She must, from all the cir cumstances conneclad with her natural and acquired advantages es well as her natural and acquired wants, she Magi enjoy a vast intercourse with the e=ternal world or she must sink entirely. It appears to be a matter of imperious necessity that an importation at least equivalent to the growing demands of a growing manufacturing population should be met by external produce, and this necessity must always tend to re. golata the English by the foreign price. Esciude foreign corn, and such etc! usion will infallibly be fdlowed by the emigration of commercial and menu !seta/lug capital, knowledge, and indostry. There are few persons at all acquainted v.;th the subject who will not allow that England owes her individual wraith. and her power as a its (e t to the cultivation of these 'EU. r - T t — .Jd ,r •••==.4 .---••••••••...W"... THE STATESMAN NAVAL INTP,' L LIG ENG& DEAL, Dec. 25 —Soiled this morningtheradymion, Menu, to the Northward.—Remains the Clarkson, Ross, for DONEfifill. RA lineAft i Dec. 25.—Came in the Crown, ---, from Ilfracombe for London ; and piston, from London for Penryn, for sheittar..-The two boats having returned without seeing or hearing any thing of the brig Effort, we pow cosseted' that she beat off the Sand and sunk in deep water. We hear that a boat belonging to her, a binsacle, and two water casks, supposed to belong to her, have been picked up and canted to Dover. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Alice, —, from Limerick.—Sailed, the Charles, Pain, for Lon don ; Two Brothors, for ditto ; Camille, Rob son, for ditto ; hope, Lowe, for ditto ; Tandy)+, Par rot, for Poole. FALMOUTH, DILC. t3.—Artiwed the Unity, Mor. dock, from Valencia, in 33 days, for London.— Sailed, the Demerara packet, Vonables, for De. mama. COWS!, DEC. 4 15.—Arrived the Kende'', Worn', feom St. Übe% with sails damaged, and is coolie( ifito harbour, being leaky.—Sailed the Janes, Harris, foe the Motkerbank, baling taken in troops.—The brig, Ellen, Gordon, will probibly sail to-morrow. SHgRitHEEs, Dcc. 25.—The flaring, Lemh i .hound to New South Wales, with convicts, is strived at the Nore, having pat back to repair the damage she re ceived on the Brake Sand. DEC. e4.—The sloop Charles and Mary, of and for this port, from Wisheach, sank in Chapel Tunnel, on the Lincolnshire coast, ott Friday last.— Crew - sared. HARWICH, DEC. 25.—The Badger Revenue cutter, Lient, Mercer, has brought in here two lugger boats, with 105 casks of spirits on board, and 16 men. The Friendship, Farrow s from Glasgow, is strand ed io Buctush harbour. BONAPARTE AND SPAIN. The following estrects from a letter addressed to one of the Editors of the Gazette de Prance, by the Marquis D'Almenare, throws some light on en in teresting period of the modern history of Spain. "The Couttsello , s of the King were all accused by Charles IV. and by hiS Court, some of a conspiracy against his person, some of having marked out for themselves high places to be occupied on the decease of hit Majesty, although he was still living and-on the throne,. ()theta of Itavitig abandoned him in the popular aedition of Arangeez, and all of having a hatred to Godoy, the favourite of the Sovereign. " Leaving out the question of the motives of these charges, it is only necessary to prove that loch were made, and that the persons accused trembled at the bare idea of Cbarles'a restoration to the throne. . . . 64 Charles IV. mime to Bayonne, and whether by the instigation of Bonaparte's agents or voluntary, he demanded the crown. " In this crisis the Counsellors had to choose be tween a submission to Bouaparte's inurpation and the Government of Charles. M. Faceiquiz, Ferdi. nand's preceptor, advised by him and all those per .eens about his Majesty, represented the matter thus, as he tells us in his book : " If Bonaparte supports Charles, we are all un done ; let us go to Bayonne-1a us lose no time— let us hear no ono—let iv give to Bonaparte all that his ambition can ask, and this is all we can do to prevent our destruction. " Bonaparte, who knew that the dread of an exemplary punishment in the event of Charles's re. storatinn, had a powerful influence on the minds of the Counsellors. commanded Murat not to acknow ledge the new King, and be himself actually wrote s letter to the King at Vittoria. which, contrary to what it ought to have done, produced the effect of hasten ing the King's journey to Bayonne—that fatal jour. ney which has brought down all the disasters of our country--the political opinions with which we are agitated, the Peninsular war, the death of more than a million of men in the two keinispheres—the separa tion of America and Spoilt, and which has finally plunged our country lute an abyss out of which it is next to uo impossibility it can ewer escape. " I shall slot name all the authors of this state of things ; they are well known. Bonaparte's ambition Is not their excuse. He only wanted pretests for his usurpations ; his ambition was understood by all Edrope, bet the History of Spain should develop those pretexts, and furnish to Kings and People a moral lesson. " I repeat, the fear of punishaseet operated so strongly on the Counsellors of Ferdinand, as to ren der them deaf to all advice, and to the most generous oilers, and this was so strongly prevalent, that upon their arrival at Bayonne, where the King abdicated the throne, they took care to solicit an amnesty, w hich was grouted them !!" The Marquis then proceeds to request, that the Editor would examine the documents which be sends, that be may be able to understand the secret of all the unhappy proecriptions which have taken place. Lord HOLLAND has given. a signal proof of the stable friendship that cleated between him and the late Sir SAMUEL RD/SILLY. Immediately after the death of that great man, his Lordship took the three youngest sons of his deceased friend under his pro tection, whom his Lordship intends *delimiting and bringing up, with the sane care and affection as if tbe were his own. A Correspondent in a Morning Paper Motes, that in tke very room where the body of Weller (who had just lieen executed for uttering forged notes) was laid in the coffin for interment, a negociation for other forged notes took place among bis w retched asso ciates and advisors: The annual election of • Chairman, and Deputy Chairman, for the Eagle Insurance Company, took p l a ce on Thursday, when Sir WILLIAM R A WLINS and Sir Jouw Paesurg, But, were severally re elected. SIR PHILIP FRANCIS, KB. . . --.4"......... . TMs gentleman was born in Dahlia, on the Ind October, 1740, Old Style. Dr. Francis, the trans lator of Horace, was his father ; his grandfather was John Francis, Dean of the Cathedral of Lismote, is Ireland; and his great.graodfather John Francis, Dean of Leighlin. The maiden name of his mother was Roe, a descendant from Sir Thomas Roe. Sir Philip received the first rudiments of his edu cation in Ireland. In 1750, be came to England, and was in 1753 placed at St. Peers school. In 1756, Mr. Henry •Foz, afterwards Lord Holland, gave him a small place in the Secretary of State's of fire. Mr. Pitt, who secceeded Mr. Fos, patronized him, through the recommendation of his secretary, Robert Wood. By that patronage he was appointed secretary to General Bligh, in 1758, and was pre sent at the captors and demolition of Cherborgh. In 1760 ht was made secretary to the Earl of Kintsoul, Ambassador to Lisbon, when the Queen of Portugal was married to her uncle. In 1763 he was appointed by the late Lord Mendip to a considerable post in the War-office, which he re signed in the beginning of 1772, in consequence of a difference with Viscount Harrington. The greatest part of the year 1772 he spent in travelling through Flanders, Ceernany, the Tyrol, France, and Italy. I —ln about half a year after his return to England, Lerd Barrington did him the justice to recommend bins to Lord North, by whom his name was inserted is an Act of Parliament passed in June, 1773, to be a Member of the Council appointed fur the Government of Bengal, in conjunction with Warren Hastings and three others. The records of Isis long contest with Mr. Hastings, the Governur-Grneral, ate preserved in the Bor ks of Council, the Reports of the Committee, an d in the Journals of the House of Commons.— This quarrel had previously occasioned a duel in India, when, on the 17th Avg. 1780, Mr. Hastings shot Sir Philip through the body. lie left Bengal in December, 1780, pa►sed five months at St. Helena, and arrived in England is October, 1781. On the I dissolution of Parliament, is 1784, he was elected for Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight. Since that time his Parliamentary life has been be. fore the On the 29th Oct. 1806, his Ma. jeaty, at the recommendation of Lord Grenville, was ;Aimed to invest him with the Order of the Bath On the 294 of the present month he expired, after having been reduced to a state of Wiese debility by an excruciating disease ha the prostrate glands, with which he had been for several years albcted, end from which his age precluded all chance of recovery. lie has left a son and two daughters, Mr. Philip Francis, Mrs. Johnson, and Mrs. Cbolmondeley.— When between 70 and 80, he married Miss Watkins, a daughter of a Clergyman. lie had been many years employed about an bisto. rical sketch of his principal coterripoteries. The new dramatic Romance, founded pn a part of INA LTEtt SCNTY'S Poem of Marinion, under the title of Fladden Field, announced at Dram-lane Theatre, is the produetion of Mr. STEPHEN KENII.I, and not of Mr. ROANE, as reported. Mr. end Mrs. BA itz mix, of dramatic celebrity, arrived at New York on the 15th ult. ie the Pacific. They sailed from Liverpool on the let of October, and their passage was not only tedious, but boisterous, as the vessel sprung her foremost on the sth of Nov. and got into port without it. Mr. GILMIAN, some few years ago, one of the Magistrates of the Bow-street Police-office, and a Member of the Committee for the management of Drury-lane Theatre, died on Thursday morning, at his house, in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn.tieldo, after en Morris of above five years. The Court of King's Bench on Thursday adjourned to Thursday, the 7th of January next. LOUD MAYOR'S DO NATI ONS.—Yestorday being Christmas Day, the Loan MAYOR ordered the pri soners in Newgate, Ludgate, Whitecross.street Pri son, and the Compters, each to receive one pound of meat, one pint of porter, and half a threepenny loaf, in addition to the increased allowances of bread, meat, and coals, given by the City of London. The inn yards of the Metropolis were the whole of Thursday and the morning of yesterday in a continual state of bustle and confusion, unloading and deliver. log the immense number of Christina, presents from the country ; and almost in every street carts and light waggons were to be seen completely filled with tarkies, chines, and game of all sorts, forwarding to their several addresses. The three sons lately delivered at one birth, by the wife of Mr. TuoviAs BANZIIDALIS, of Preston, have ail fallen a sacrifice to the smallpox. A poor man, named JOHN CROSS, a boatwright, of Marsh, in Lincolstahire, has within the last fifteen days lost his wife and six fine children, by that dread ful disease the imnU pos!—This is a striking in stance of the folly, we might almost say the wicked. nese, of not adopting vaccination. In the course of the last mouth 80 persons died of the small-pox at the Hague, where it carmine's to make great ravages. SurcKET Tugarae.—Notwithstanding the short time this house has been closed, it re-opens with ne less than three new Pieces, each of which report pro nounces equal to any of the author's most favourite productions. Mrs. HORNE, Mr. T. P. Coolie, Mr. Grottos'', all from Drury-lane; Mr. Fatru, a very promising provincial actor, and several new candi dates, are engaged to perform in the numerous dra mas said to be forthcoming. DARING RoeasaY.—Dering the fog on Wednes day night some thieves surrounded a little cart which was going along the Edgeware.road, and having sod denly cut the harness and unloosened the &Maul from the cart, one of them mounted it and rode away with it towards Orford-street. Wednesday night the Linn and La mb public-house was entered through the first oor window by robbers, who broke and rifled • number of draw ers, desks, &c. and carried off property to the amount of 501. and a 101. Bank of England note. They obtained entrance by means of the lamp-post, which was immediately under the window, and it is ',opposed that persons passed at the time they were unfastening the window, but the rebbers were con cealed by the fog, and they carried off the property unobserved. LIBRARIES IN AUSTRIA. A Veen' Paper contains the following !Maeda lag account of the most remarkable Libraries in the Aestrian Monarchy. The Imperial Liberary in Iri4 testa contains 360,000 vols. of Printed B inks 12000 vols. of Mannsctipts ; 6,000 vols. of Works lel the Fifteenth Century ; a collection of 300,000 Es ravings. 'Ns University at Victual has entire than 110,000 vols. The Library of the Academy of the Knights of Theresa, 50,0'30 vols. Amon* the most respectable priests Libraries are that of Ilia gmperor I that of the Duke Albert, of Sale. Teaches, of 60,000 vols., 00,000 Copper-plates, and 4,000 Drawings: that of Prince Liehtsit4 stein, of 30,000 vols. 1 . those of Princes Estero hazy and! tebwartzenberg,of Counts thatch, Fe. leky, Fries, and Apron?. The Benedictine Con vent,-and the Dominicans, prisms considerable Li braries., In Prague, the Imperial Library comtaiut 1 1 10,000 vols. of printed books end MSS. The Li brary of the University at Pestb edetales 50,0001 that of Grata 100,000. the rittbile Library at Kla+ genfert is estimated at 40,000 vols. The Library of the University of Olniutt contained, in the toilet 3d,000 tots. and has since been considerably enlarged by 30 Libraries of dissolved Monasteries is MOtatil. The Convent Librettos, at Klosterneu. burg. contains above 1.6,000 vols. and many MSS. of the thirteenth century. The Consent Library at Kreimonster, that at Molk, and other Convent Li braries, still 'listing, contain consideabla literary :relief's, particularly in ancient MSS. --. THEATRICALS EX FRAORDINARY. IMPERIAL THEATItE.—PALACR-TARIX His Majestj's Servants Most respectfully heg Inert to inforua the Nobility end Gentry of the United Kingdom, that this Theatre Kill OrLs on Thersday s the 14111 If Jaortery neat, with a tie* OCCASIONAL PROLOGUC. To be spoken by the ;sandpit Minuet its Gti ?how taco Costume. After which Mill be brought Wean% a Crinciolet. tory, Congratulatory, Consolatory, POlitical, Pro , . saicat Pasticcio, coiled ADDRESS, written by the Author of the Prologue, to be tecited Ivy 'lmo Gentlemen of Provincial Celebrity, Wort their brat appearance. To conchal* epitis that pl 4 Farce of •• THE DIVISION ; or, The Attu hue • by the whole Comptay. During the recess, in addition to the- oetablisised company, the Treasurer of the I orposial Theatess oar spared no eapence to watering a somber of oew performers, porticularty•iii the ooessi line ; end the Director candidly admit4ln site wards of his brother Manager of Covent-garden, th to consequence of his great liberality its collectheP N autneroin a coma pasty, 46 the Public have right to expect a dramatic erstertaindent worthy of the Metropolis of the Bri• ash nation." The Theatre has also ham newly decorated sod embellished ; and for the convenience of the audience s a new stair and an additional door, leading to the Croxn.gailery, hive been constructed. order to give a seecession of novelty to the per. • formances, the Stage Manager, who has jest arrived from the Continent, has purchased, at en immense espence, some of the most ternaries end popular Dramas from the Imperial sad Royal Theatres of Russia, Austria, Prussia, and France, to be adapted to she English stage, under the direction of a Board of Translation, established in Dawning-street. Some of them are already in active preparation, with spa propriate scenery, dresses, and decorations. By particular desire of his [loyal Highness the Prince Regent, the Grand Opera of the CAIIIINET is now in rehearsal, and will speedily he brought for ward; *ills some of the principal characters newly cast. The names of the sew performers will be duly announced. For the general accommodation of the company, Mr. Bellamy, the Restoratear of the Theatre. will furnish the usual refreshments, with the best Minot, at moderate prices. VIVANT REX ET - - ------ Hoax.—Several Solicitors in the City on Weifeel. day received a letter, purporting to come from the Km Dr. Wir.sort, of Lawrence Poentney.hlll, who is Rector of St. Mary Alderman', and one of the Ma.. tern of Merchant Tiy lore' School, requesting their at. tendance epon him, as be wished to &Assail them upon a misunderstanding that had taken place be tween him and the parish of St.Mery Alderessry. Se veral Gentlemen to whom Mr. Wit.sorr was koown, and others who were pinions to be Introdeted to so respectable a connection, accordingly waited on him, land to their great mortification foetid out the its- . position. It appears that the Doctor was sirvid the same sort of trick last year, end had applications from all the WWl', tinkers, &c. in London. It is sup. posed to have originated with some idle school-boys. Indeed we cannot help thinking that the best way to suppress so very puerile, sod et the same time trou blesome' mode of annoyance, world be, in all cases, to treat the delinquents as boys (whatever their real age might be) and apply to them a sound dose of birch. Wednesday evening, daring the fog, a cart be.. longing to Edw. Durant, Esq. of Tooting. Surrey, was passing threngh Whitechspel, it was robbed of a. trunk, containing wearing apparel and other articles to a large Reorient, with which the thieves made their escape. • A remarkable circumstance lately happened in Glasgow. A fox was discovered in a timber-yard in Clyde.streejt. The workmen were immediately collected, and measures adopted to effect Ma seizure, but for the time he made his escape. Intimation was then given to some Gentlemen, who delight its the sports of the field, when he was comely, and carried off to show his swiftness elsewhere. It is thought that the fox had been about the timber. yard for three weeks before he was discovered, as the remains of poultry were found lying, and he had been often seen, es other 46 sky-larkers" are, by the watchmen. of these mighty guardians assert ed, that he had heard a hen meking a noise, at the time revnard was running off with her from the 'Lope. work Entry. ,t. - - ,ff- • a„ - < •. 4 'F r . i ir` 7l . -,~ , I 1 r . r 7 F 7 '' < • • » M• r ..~ I 1 . ,