The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-14 00:00:00

ST.4TE OF LIVERPOOL [FROM OUR COMISSPONPIAT THAI' PLAT[.] Amongst merchants :11111 dealers of almost all de.; scriptions, a general gloom and despondency seems to! prevail; some important failures are anticipated in' this commercial town, on Ng to the universal depre-I elation of property. Cotton is selling at .20 per cent.l V , . Agricultural produce is almost as cheap now as it was thirty yteta since. Amongst the shop-keep-I •ts, (some few ready money dealeis excepted.) the greatest distress prevails : and Christmas is looked forward to with great at: joy. The general voice of; the merchants imputes this awful and general &pees siva to Loral Liverpool's sanctioning .Vr. Peel's Bill. The hat oc made by the enormous pressure of taxation is inconceivably great; and numerous are the indus trious families who struggle hard to keep their shops open ; whilst the farmers talk of nothing but being reduced to a state of indigence : of course they em ploy as few hands, and pay the lowest possible w a g e s which carries famine and misery into the labourer's spatter. Wheat weighing seventy pounds the bushel, sells for seven shillings and sixpence, and even less. If a landlord makes a seizure for 2110/. it desolates a large establishment In make up the money, and re quires as much stock as in 1 4 12 would have produced three times the seem. 't he accounts from Wales art also deplorable ; and the Yorkshire clothiers and farmers are reported as being plunged into the must teicting distresses, arising from the same depression in the value t,f produce and manufactured goods. Every day inanufartured goods are exposed to sale twenty or twenty-five per cent. under the cost price; and the pawnbrokers, who are mute numerous in Li verpool than in any other place of the same size in Groat Britain, are overcharged with manufactured goods. The state of the poor-house, and of puors' rates, are already known front the petition presented by General Gascoyne to the lions, of Commons. Many mechanics are out of work; and it is said that e nlist?. makers can be had at less wages than labourers! The poorest of the populace are too frequently seen half naked, with the strongest marks of famine in their faces. Hundreds of men, women, and children, are sees every day picking up horse-dung in the streets and roads ; a wretched employment, especially in winter time, and they do not average four-pence a-Jay by their labour. it shews at once an industrious dis p..isition, anti the frightful ravages of poverty. It is natural to suppose that crime should increase with want and wretchedness : the prisons are unusually full, and the streets strarts with juvenile depredators. Amongst the greatest capitalists, a degree of ills way awl consternation prevails, greater than prevailed, carer at the most disasterous period of the late war. Confidence seems at a complete stand, and the news of fie great failures which have occurred in London, are regarded as fearful presages of similar calamities here. An appearance of gloom and apprehension was appa rt nt on 'Change yesterday anal to-day in the counte nance of most of our merchants. in the midst of this despondency, a few interested in!olerants are endea►ouring to get op on Address to Me Xing! the real object of which is, to evil fo► Merehester Lose+to &Wind the past measures of Ministers against her Majesty, and pledge the ad dressers to support than in any mew attrntids they may p:e3se to wake against her. It is generally believed attempt has been made and has failed. Liverpool, Dec. It CONFUSION AMONG THE LOYALISTS. A Meeting of a select few of the seltnamecl Loyalists of the Ward of Ilread-strret was livid yesterday, at the ti.tracen's Head, Friday-street, at half-past one o'clock, Mr. Dorm of Wat'WE•street. was called to the Chair. — About 25 were then , assembled. Mr. BURKA rose, and stated, that the Meeting was as s..mbied to sign a Loral Declaratioe, which bad been carefallv prepared ; sad as they were not met for dis cussion; he trusted it would meet with their approbation; l:- should therefore propose that Mr. Wolfson (of Cheap- ,ide) should rear' it to the Meeting. Mr. Dot tlllO,l observed he was but an indifferent ruder ; however, lie was prevailed upon to undertake Itiltio tie t On concluding , he observed, that nothing • more AIR but for those present to sign, handing it for t p se to the Chairman. I' von this, Me. Liwsiscx, of Bread-street, requested to be in- I formed, whether this Declaration was to he published. m expressive of the sentiments of the inhabitants of Me Ward of Bread-street, adding, that there were several parts which he considered decidedly objection- I ?lite, and requested the Declaration to be howled to him, t o point them out. The CHAIRMAN again repeated, they were not met for discussion. Some conversation here took place, which ended in a reirest, that Mr. Dudgeon would read It again, which being done, Mr. Lawatses repeated Mn objeetidect, and stantgly censured the mode by which it watkateempted to put this docnnient forth tote world, se the sentiments of the Ward; observing. that instead of a small sieedng got up in a corner, it would have hewn more duotoes to have astembled the tirstit n od e , the s anction o f t h e Alderman: but the preletit'bodst verified the salting " that seen loved &ahead railm! thin . field. haulms theft deed! are All r idir etilscrudrel by moving " that the litutillg do saw tteljours,"in which he was supported by several Individuals. Upon this alt issleseribable geese of eonfusioa Mai place, during which the Chairman left the Chair,while some of the select fsly gallium.' it was a reinSW meeting. and so person itad . any occmion to sign, who disapproved of the Deeliiation : others vociferating that several present had Mee uninvited, and Met* cos seipmently intruders. ' Thelteeloss document-ballet now 4•• • side table. the invited few roustieseed sigsing ; and Mr. Bate, of Ohespeitie.uswisdeil tlm ferry by awe tog " that Wisdom's do now pat as thole hats," spa which the Meeting separated. . .We understand that one of those natural euriositlrs, which some persons area to believe does ant .exist. cUled a Mermaid. has arrived as heard the Bersers. J. C. Rose. wow new lyirg In the Thanwew deem Sew eneks. is Itsusatra. It is of a prefect Moulting free the heed le the middle, mid the felt vOlisideS pf a all of a eels reessnbling the dolphin. IL M. S: Carron. of fro guns, was Wally look lith July. en the coast of Juirtnant. the imam lad It of the crow Arewasti. THE STATESMAN. MOD WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE io•moRROM. Moruina. 31 min.after9.—Esening. 51 min. after 19. It 1Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. Irish 3 per Fault. lnJia stork Ditto ?tends —s. 254.—s.pas. South-Sea New Ann. Er.ltitl+•ld. 24..115.par. 3 '1 dis Ditto go. smell Gnomon I pm. 01 1 pm. Con. fnr Aect 7trl Lan. Tiekets YU. 3s. (IF wrot KS TIIIM Husk Sti.ck •.:121 3 runt. Red. per I'rill. ( • .•n. shag. 3, per Cent. 7SI t• per Ceuta. Win 3 pr ::t. tinr))• shut. 6 per refs. Prept Lone tore. 17 13-18 IS I Imp. ('e n 1. if ebe *tat,Oman. " TR! Olt irt, , n ITATIVIWAI " 11 INCORPORATICD WITH " TR! STATESMAN: 9 LONDON: THURSDAY !MINING, DEC/3MM 11. STOCK F.XCII %NOE. ONE O'CLOCK. The Funds rallied a little yesterday afternoon, and Consols left off at 701 for the opening. This 1111 l mint they opened at that price, and hare continued so during the early part of the day. Private letters received this dad• on 'Change state, confidently, that hostile measures have been resolved upon by the Continental Potentates ! Letters from Liverpool received this morning, state, that the ship Cortes, Captain 1k Cosh., had arrived otf Holyhead on the 1 I th, from New York, which place she left on the 19th of November. Letters and papers by her will be in town to-morrow. She will bring the PRESIISZNTX ,Message to Congress, which was expected to be delivered on the 13th. Paris papers of Sunday and Monday have come to hand this morn Mg. TimerAu, Xnr. 27.---The Pulses Rossi. of Prus sia, with the bientAlenerail de NANYtmati, and oilier persons of his suite, left this place •n the 2-Ith for Berlin. Count de Illtraowsat, Ueveraoc of Moravia and Silesia, arrived here on the 25th. . 1 Nuar.Net ite., Dec. 3.---Letters front Vienna an pounce it to be the intention of the EMPYIIIIR of firs , t t to proceed directly to St. Peter:burgh. Ne vertheless, the day of his departure is not yet fixed ; the must impenetrable veil continue' up to the present moment to rover the negotiations. All reports hitherto spread are without any foundation. VIENNA, Nov. 29.—Recent Intelligence from Con stantinople announces that the Government of the Sub lime Porte has refused to recognise the new Nespoll- Gin Government, and that the Letters notifying the changes at Naples to the Port.. had been racially re turned by the Divan emopreifi. In the mine of the present week a great number cf troops ha* arrival here on their way to Italy. The Emperor has node isnaserons promotions in the army. Ile'hateappoioteo tea Ilejor-generals, foe the moos part arrusiliog to so., siority in the service, as Cot. Commandants; Baron De Vcirst has Leen promoted to the rank of Liettt. General and Commandant of the Division in Italy ; ha Is expected to take the command of the Vast-guard. A great deal is said respecting the inspoetatsee of a Imission with which Count de DenN t has been charged to the Court of Naples. A great diversity of conjec tares has arisen on the subject. I NSTRUCK, DIP.r. I.—A private letter front Rome con tains the following report of Affairs : We are still in a state of uneertainty with regard to the events of which Italy appears likely to become the Theatre. It is, how ever, certain that foreign troops now occupy the Papal territory. It is asserted that a party of malcontents is formed at Naples, who are desirous of excluding the present tarn from power. The Papal liovernmest continues to csercire a strict 9,n-et-Wafter over persons suspected of a design to disturb the public traoquillity. At Rome no disquietude prevails. DIA tati o, Nov. 29.—Tranquillity has sot been in the least degree interrupted here. Addresses pear in from all points of the kingdom, expressive of the at tachment of the people and of the authorities to the constitutional system. The counsellors of state that have been recently nominated, took the eadis of fidelity, Ise. yesterday. It is reported that the political Chief of Madrid, 31. Itunt.tars, is about to he replaced by the Marquis tie C2IIIIALMO. The Monk &motor!: lately died at his retreat at Ronda: he was Fuentsaan's preceptor, and one of the negociators at Bayonne in 1809. He followed the Kieft to Valencap ond.durinr. hie captivity, be was detained in France. The follettior • changes and nominations have appeared ih so Akio! elitPr: l e inastattat-geamal Dos Pe*. dellt - flits= itstna to be Inspector-general of the Militia. Vint. Nseral BALLASTEROII who is msde Ottenaellor of State. 1/14 Postext. is replaced is the Foreign Ministry by M. 'Comma. Lient.-Oeneral hioaewot Mardtals Coo; late., VELAIICO, EPPINOIA, are neasittated Hovernors of the Baleares Islands, of the Provinees of Esteatia- Jura. Arragon, and of Old Cestile. Maiskals Horns, RAMOS and Astro ARGlrtlith arp appsintal *Prenatal of Malaga and of San Lomat. de lbanreetlli- ft is as be lamented that M. Orisons is, a pip. ty and moot octopi a oemsnmet.! of this notoritt for the list would then Iseemopirte. Justice had bow tend in a remarkably /amatory maitak la the /oar the two prisoners taken in the &forbear/ og They have hem tried and ettadenneed WAS* bp i Council of 11m, and the sentence blleacclitteif pews to the Captain-lieneral d tlialArgie•at y a m s . ilelikflise hill spews'. Daasotiet Raw- 3i.—Veterday ootritbig de4ringesiii gi mia .AN an, sister of tie liieg skeletal% ail INV deftly in conwoinenee of an inflAmmation in the intes tines. She I% as in the year of her-age. Burs!: c is, Itrc. 7.--The anniversary of the birth of the Prince of 0a.% NGE was celehroell here on the roth with accustomed solemnity. Yesterday after noon a Courier was dispatched from this place by the English Legation to Vienna. A Conrier also passed through the town on his way to Holland from Paris. A Chief Clerk in the Post-Office of this city has been convicted, by the Court of Assize, of de taining several letters sent from Antwerp to Vienna, and taking diamonds, bills, Bcc. out of them. He has been condemned to 7 years hard labour, and a fine of 1000 fr. Ills name is A ttxtmn O)&7'2E. A letter from Naples contains the following pas sage : -•" The publication entitled L'Athiro delta cos. tituzioite, has taken a review of all the States of Europe; it complains much of the Neapolitan Am bassadors at Foreign Corsets, and says:— We had de msntled of the Pa INCE VICAR GENERAL to recal them, and to deprive them of their honours and their titles. We had afterwards besought the Kuxo himself to write to all the Sovereigns of Europe, to assure them of the perfect harmony which prevailed in the king dons of Naples, and of the necessity for the Revolu tion which has been effected, hut it appears that the effects produced have nut answered our expectations. —(Gazette de Fremee.) FRIVIrts Fit :ND/I.—Fire per rents. 79 f. 85 c.—Bank Actions, 1.115 f. We copy the following from the Board of the New England Cofee•house _ _ •' I.iterpool, Dee. 12. " Sailed the Magnet. Ogden. and the Edward, Hulsey, hods for New York.—Wind E.S.E. The Amity, Max well, from New York, was spoken on the 7th inst. off Cape Clear, (all well) by the Scotia, from Jamaica; the Esther, Wilson, for Philadelphia, on the !7th ult. in lat. 46. 19. long. 30. with loss of main-top mast." RITRACT OF A LETTER FROM IT. THOMAA, OCT. 2. 1. The piracies which are daily committed in this direction, are becoming worse and worse. Our trade here, and indeed to all of the neighbouring islands, is extremely hazardous, let it be under what flag it may.; for there appears to be no respect paid to any. The American tioyernment have been repeatedly apprised of t►e shameful depredations committed, and they seem to lot it pass as an occurrence of no consequence. In every other sea, we hear of their cruisers; but in this quarter. where they an most required, t►ere are none." It is now almost a month since we beard of the arrest of Joss Faux. for High Trauma. This maw, it will be recollected, was charged with being impli cated in the Cato-street Conspiracy, and two hundred pounds reward bad been advertieed fur his detection. From these citcninstances it bad been inferred that great importance was attached to his apprehension, and this idea was increased by the remark that was reported to have been made by Mr. Btax,c, when PA LIN was taken to Boa-street. A day or two afterwards. it was expected that he would have undergone an exam urination before the Cabinet Council, and the offiem who apprehended hint were, we were told, in waiting the whole of the Monday following, for directions to convey him to tte SECRETARY or STATR'S oMee fcr that purpose. Since that period, however, we hate heard no none of P s LIN through any public channel. After repeated endeavours to acquire information, in the neighboarhuod of the office of the Status - aim Or STATE, we were led to understand that he had never been disturbed by any removal since he was first safely lodged in the House of Cor rection. In that house we were informed he was placed, ou his commitment, in one sir the • State apartateuts," and provided with every meow utodation that the nature of . his situation would admit, and not watched constantly, as his supposed colleagues had been, bet only visited at intervals. Had the at tention of the public not been absorbed by the more important objects which bad been daily occurring, the cirenmstances attem:ing the apprehension of Paws, mad the subsequent oblivion in whisk his ease lies buried, win& Imre become the subject of much earlier animadversion.- In a hat manner cue the conduct of the Secivtatir of the House peplums be accounted fur, in not &undoing a map coaleaktad us such 'nighty charge? Was Palau Wawa* thepurpeee .of slaking see Impression. aulihneliodlioisli. epee. Ilt•b1114611 . commotlittiliiffiidids of the timid respcctins the popular densanitesannwis thew of the Qualm The apparent ittMioMie_t,eitdinged important culprit is eseemilegllrsitritetimait sal so muds the more, flit be trek; aiMlillote heard It sop. posed, that PA LIN Wright *ea 11401401141 y applabootiwil 4 months before be was attain) , tablela. Where* meek , mystery prevails, the nsird is apt to bleiteast nopluittwa. and especially when all the eirmostanren of the' &gritty of EDWARDS, to the C 0111411,00 1110191irity. see taken into the ircititst. We hate talteo wkst polo we could to inform one abide . epee the eohJarl, sod to beep three, as smell as possible, free Mrs prejodiee ; but the sob/ lenewledge..oo emeading sue inquiries. we hare hekts gold. Altai* wary NOS to perplex owe judgment of-tlse aid . PALti,ltitiar• - tr elitaY!! . at *, 1111 ; is the yard of ti•s! below after the ' THE QUEEN. !s . ' o lk Her Xtjesty having, ;tido those feelings whirl' 14.. raw her as it woman awl a goren, tal c het. a painful interest in the ease of the unhappy female who was doomed to stiffer death on Tuesday st.'nu:ght, proceeded sufs r as to apply to the Mac, as the fountain of stirrer, f ur a mitigation of the sentence of the law in the isretehed culprit's behalf. The folLuittir is stated to be a Copy of a Letter from her Ilaj.•.:ty the QIIITII t his Majesty the King, in her own !rind-writing:— "The Queen has beard, Stith pain, that a female condemned to suffer death on Tuesday, fur the utfenre of passing forged Bank-notes. " (ler Majesty cannot refrain from presutning to re. commend this unfortunate person to the mercy of th e King. Iler Majesty does nut enter into any judicial discussion; but, from the particular nature of tbis of. fence, and the very peculiar state of the law respectite it, she is encouraged to hope that the earnest app ea l which her feelings have prompted may not hare been made in vain. " Drendenbargh-house, Dee. S." Lord Sitlinouth's answer was, that the warrant for the execntion was in consequence of an order in council, and that the King could not interfere. We confess we do not clearly comprehend the meaning of Lord Sidmouth's answer. Does it pre- fess to intimate that the King could set suspend the execntion of the warrant of the Council? If a fresh order of the same kind was necessary for the suspension, would it have ken &Micah for a council for that purpose to have been called? Official etiquette is a cold-hearted plea fur the delay or neglect of an urgent duty of humanity; and official responsibility, like official sensibility, he• comes fritted away to nothing when divided among a body of Councillors. We remember to have heanl the late Mr. Serjeant Kemp relate, in private compaor, a ease in point. The Learned Serjeant bad, in offici ating for Lord Mansfield as Judge at Kingston As sites, condemned to death a female, for haring been a third time convicted of counterfeiting halfpence. Af fected with the enormous disproportion between the punishment and the offence, the Serjeent was sotioitsty disposed to save the wretched culprit's life. As sak stitute for the venerable Chief Justice, he had the power of shewing mercy to footpads, to highwaymen, and even to murderers ; but to offenders of the Nam , Innate woman's class his privilege did not extend, because the offence affected the King's prerogative. lie determined, notwithstanding, to de all he could is the poor creature's behalf; and therefore strongly me morialed the Pt ivy Connell in her favour. His utmost exertions were, however, made in vain. The woman ;I was actually hanged, with the fall consent of his Ma ' ; jesty's Council, for baring, as the Learned Serjetot ' observed, only converted ignore sheets of copper into '! circular pieces! THE PEERS. The majority of the Noble Peers who sat in jsilp mint upon their lawful Queen, seemed to act as if the Plebs had neither right or sense to investigate their characters, or Imes their conduct to motives. The late Hari of Stanhope had a very different standard. He used to tell his brother Peers they WHO a reunify behind the educated aid cultivated of the middlitg classes. When the important business relative to a proposed equalisation of the orcighte Mid mecum et the whole empire was before the Lords, they them felt that neither illuattions birth, nor the King's all.eirso bling hand could confer learning, KINK!, or gangs. Their Lordships could not move a step without the aid of scieutlic men of humble birth : sad even then, with all the tuition the men of views could give, the Lords made not a few blunders. Upon which, Earl Stanhope said, in his usual tone and manner, " YOU see, my noble Lords, what poor, feeble, Imbecile creatures we realty an, when put in the trite and weighed against own who bare to make their fortunes by their %rare*, science, and talents. We think a great deal too much of ourselves, my noble Linda. Too see that' all the hereditary dignity of that house. is not able to disco ,ter, to define, or to apply a remedy fur the defects is our standard." Lord Stanhope spoke thew words *trout 9 years since, and no man can controvert the frog of his assertions from any thing that has since oc curred. • . ,M2XlllSl:7o,2l.—This morning at 10 o'clock, seen• bag of the ultra loyal inhabitants, consisting of alma 4 persons, woo held at the King's Arms raven, is Parish of St. Margaret Westminster, for the pm of joining la an Address to Lis Majesty 1 tits. tin the Chair. Niao4entbs of the permits r' Drat were half/my (Sheers, Magistrates, Tax-gatheres. llergynien, and others initnediatelv under their lab mice. Tho Address was proposed by a " Air. Brim" ' Me free-Cflor."wad seconded by a perms when we could not learn, and was carried by a y. The reason of die meeting belay held to lag was to noble the Government Clerks to steed el lillhalrepoeticewerio by 11 o'clock. . . A fags. !flatfoot of a. tsisoadetataarliag Wows tbtd Stolisit lair the Emperor of Austria, at Twyllas• has beam generally circulated during the hit Iblr days. Prince Metternich, the report myll• seas made .a go-lsetweee, to obtain an explanatios fit the comities seltich gave offence to* the Ciespord Heads. it 'shit s' that his Lordship had shooed himself from 41: ceiforeaces, and thereby .it carted suspicion tiliiia did sot altogether ayra" of their liberal pally.* - Ws give the above Isido. vouching fdr its saatheaticity. One thing, bowel*• appears to he ceftala. Lord Stewart has &dial taking any, furtgor share Is the datiberadoee. I nter adirkthist a Courier bat Won dispatched from lit Court a vlagai i i41,..401, to demand the teal st his Lorai6it,7. Oar u.l4.et, it is In he hoped' Pi ll Sod that it has too mss already on hard se 6 0116 " think of bevel this wintry lathe latrines lis li @Cloaks woe/ s. 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