The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-12 00:00:00

011, ;al, lot, NCE out Ii pi cvniy aug t to crow ion's Ile to r al some awq, ,f the• dent, lark in the review which this eminent agriculturist takes of the subject that engages his attention, as doing in finite credit to his heart and understanding ; and as directly coinciding with statements that we have re peatedly made. We will only instance, as confirula tory of the truth of our remarks, Mr. C.'s observa tions on the modes we have repeatedly reprobated as detrimental to both landlord and tenant, practised for obtaining exorbitant rents ; and the indiscretion of the attempt to legislate on so important a subject as the agriculture and subsistence of the country, with such blamable precipitancy, and, at the same time , so totally unprovided with the requisite information as the Mintsters of this country were in the case of the proposed Corn Bill,—a measure which this dis. tinguisheci Agriculturist firmly believes " would ulti mately have proved injurious to the landed interest, as well as oppressive to the community at large." Vet this, or some such measure, is represented as again likely to be proposed in Parliament, .and as likely to receive the unction of the Government of this coun try ! Ve earnestly trust w•e shall witness neither. We have no fresh intelligence from the Continent to-day. The ;Morning Parrs are solely occupied in r-t•iiling the meagre contents of the Dutch Mail, which i; e communicated yesterday. We have made some additional gleanings relative to Continental twitters, from such sources as we have, but we ab. vain from attempting to give to them an importance which they do not deserve. The Spanish Ambassador has been •ery constant During the last %roe!: in his attendance at the Secre tary of States Mice. It is not to be doubt• d, that important embarrassments exist between - the two countries. —i t is also whispeied, that as Mr. CANNING cannot now remain at Lisbon, he All succeed Sir lieges - WELLESLEY at Madrid, unless he should be :canted at home. The Courier contradicts - a statement of Major ( ieneral 1)1: ROTTEN atinci's having been declared President of Lower Canada, and of Sir Gtolwe PRE- Nosx's having arrived at Halifax, on his way to Eng- Ur]. At the date of the last advices from Quebec, Sir (It:out:I: PuEvo_ir continued at Montreal—nor Lad he any intention of quitting the province during the winter. It is I►rohable, that in the event of the ratification of the Treaty with America, Sir GtuaGE mill, agreeably to hi% own desire, be relieved from his command in the Spring. Letters from New South NVales, by the way of Java and Calcutta, have been received in town, of so late a date as the 7th Fehrury last. By these we have the satisfaction to learn, that the apprehension of a destructive mortality among the live stock, in eousegnence of the long prevailing drought, had been relieve , ' by a seasonable fall of rain. Wheat bore a very high price, and the qqaatity in store was small ; but a supply' was expected from Bengal. Al r. COKE introduced the new Staffordshire mode of harking, instead of reading wheat, in a field at 1101kham, last harvest, which answered so much to his satisfaction, that be intends to cut the whole of bis wheat crop next year in the same manner. It is said that a great naval promotion will very shortly take plate in the class of Midshipmen and Alaveis' Mates. comprising all those who have served meritoriously during tile greater prrt of the last war. 'l' he owners of the ruoi and brai!dy, warehoused under the Bonding System, are quite out of spirits, under the apprehension of Excliewr writs being im mediately issued for the payment of duties. Last night about urine o'clock, a fire broke out in a Pitch, tar, and oil warehouse belonging to Messrs. Bansi:s and Co. in the Back-road, Islington, which Incacioned the most serious alarm in the neighbour hood, it being stated that there was a considerable quatity of powder nit the premises ; but which, we understand, was most fortunately removed before the five had made much progress. The wind being high, Ito flames were driven towards the backs of the ad p:ining houses, some of• Welt were considerably d.magod ; but uith the exception of the building in iti}nch tine fire broka out, no others were entirely de rn) ed. A v riser in a derni: g Paper, in observing upon . . the ilea schnn , of ('calico, sass :—" It is to be en acted—that every reputed common prostitute and common street-watkor, who shall ho convicted as tlis orderly and romtnitt ti by the Nla4i,trate as such, shall, it. addi ior. Iti the putti.liment of imprisonment at the disciefion of the Nlagi.-trate, be adjwlged to have a part, or the whole of her hair cut off. That fur a second utleure of the kind, the Magistrate 'hall order her to 11,7;e her head situ:T(l; and that f..r the third offence, which it is hoped will hardly t'v•.r happen, the Magisti ate shall adj ochre bort° have :. heal again shi:::1;(1 1...,r,:i0n51y to tang (Us ,:orged, w hich discharge sh:(11 take place at noon iv, the prostitute not being allo;..:(11 an., co ring. on hat hca(l."—Here is to be rare wink for _ . Romto.—Mr. KE%N again appeared in this part Tuesday, and U:IS as much applauded as on his I , t , t rept esentation of it. Mr. K r . MBLE is announced for twelve nights at the i)uldin Theatre, to commence immediately. Mrs. NI oc Nvat v, one of the few performers, who Thine !It sense and sound, and chose vocal ta i,•,ta particularly excite universal admiration, is en at the Bath Theatre. _ Extract of a letter from Geneva (Switzerland), domed the 19th of December, 1814 :—" I have the i''' , istirrs to ;.dorm you, that in consequence of 1111 4., l';cat ion to our Government from several English residing in and near our town, for a place 0: It a neat (+30,4 has been fitt.d up for the in which Divine Service will be celebrated 4. ".ttlilig to the rites of the Church of England on , A.,ll.as.day text, I.nd every ensuing Sunday. We "Vt"! Lore two English Clergymen of abilities, who Ht• u:qlettaken to officiate alternately. This new has been received with universal satisfac :'",and e all a iso it may rest on some permanent n : indeed, it is not a new thing, for we read records, that in the seventeenth century ; a a ; estabiishaaeut was formed in our city." THE STATESMAN. To THE EDITOR OF TUE STATESMAN. Strt,—That the army at large must feel deeply in debted to his Royal Highness the Commander•in- Chief, for the many salutary improvements which it has experienced, cannot be denied. I That the circumstance of the Officers of the British ; Cavalry (only), paying about double for. their Com ; missions to those of Infantry, and receiving at the same time no more pay, has probably escaped the I notice of most people, from the improbability of the circumstance. The daily pay which a Captain of . Infantry re ceives, including his non-effective of WI. per annum, is tls. 71d.; a Captain of Cavalry receives, after deducting 2s. Id. per diem, for the feeding of his , horses, and at least bid. for the farriery, 12s. per diem, exclusive of the wear and tare of the inhume rableand expensive appointments, stable necessaries, grooms, accidents, and deaths of expensive horses, to colFes obi& no compensation whateretie sgointed, except under the only and solitary case of being shot for the glanders. From this statement it must appear evitlent to every one, that the Bri►ish Cavalry Officer, compared with the Infantry, labours under disadvantages which are not experienced in any other service. A CAVALRY OFFICER. PROPERTY TAX. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] !So un iversal is the abhorrence in which this in quisitorial tax is held by the people of England, that when any man ventures, in the face of his assembled fellow.citizens, to utter an apology for it, or to per suade them of the necessity of its continuance, that man, however insignificant in personal qualities or in social station, acquires at once the inportance of a political phenomenon, and the laWs and principles which govern his course become the objects of in. teresting enquiry. Such a phenomenon is the Her. Mr. MABERLET, who, at the Cambridge Meeting, was the solitary and unassisted opponent of the Petition to Parliament against the continuance of this taw. He who seeks distinction must ' endure its inconveniences—he who, destitute of all other claim to attention, seeks it by the mere singu larity of his conduct and opinions, must be content if attention is .separated from respect. The man who obtrudes himself riq a solitary dissentient from the general voice of a nation, ought not to complain if his motives are investigated with rigour, and his private views or connections scrutinised, in order to account for th , 2 eccentricity of his political course.— Mr. NIABERLEY has no right to he angry if we con fer upon the Cambridge Meeting all the importance of entire unanimity, by stating to the Public that the only individual by whom that unanimity was dis. t .4tiebed, is one from whoa independence of senti i meat ought not to be expected, that he is the son 14 a late and brother of a present contractor, I and that - in addition to this, he is himself an aspirant to ecclesiastical honours.—When such a man volenteers in such a cause, it will re ' quire uncommon simplicity to doubt the motive I which impels him. On the speech delivered by the Rev. Gentleman on the above occasion, it is unneces sary to comment. The arguments it contained, re calved at the momenta very eloquent reply, though indeed they were not worthy of any. One remat of Mr. MABERLEY affords,however,a very conclusive argument in favour of universal petition against this odious tax, though we are persuaded he was not at all aware that it could have such a tendency. Mr. ABEI:LF.Y says, the late war could not have been carried on without the Property Tax, and that there fore we ought to bear it great affection, on ac- I count of the good thing s it has done for us. %Ve, on the contrary ; say, that i the late war could not, neither can 'any future war, for some genetlations at least, be carried on without it; and that by expressing our abhorrence of the tax, we enter an indirect protest against any avoidable war, and do what we can towards infusing a pacific spirit into our own Go , vernment. If no other reason could be assigned for petitioning against the tax, this alone would be suffi cient. We cannot conclude without lamenting, that a Minister of that dispensation, which promised 66 peace and good-will towards men," should have committed the error in logic as well as morals of con ' tending against a petition, because one of its tenden cies is to diminish the probability of future wars. Ti TUE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. SlR,—There is a practice among public lottr-* ',Mists which I much wish to see discantiuued ; allude to the vague manner in which intimations are . frequently conveyed to the public of commercial failures. It is often said, from delicacy no doubt ! when such an event happens, " We are sorry to state that an eminent banking-house, a respectable mercantile firm, or house of considerable importance in the sugar-baking, or any other line, has stopped payment •for a large amount."--Now this sort of dark hint is just enough to create distress and con jecture, without affording any other information ; and it frequently has an effect extensively injurious, for an alarm is instantly excited, in regard to every one in the line answering the description, and names are frequently used that 'ought not to share in the suspicion. In a commercial country like this, and in the present precarious state of trade, the impropeety and danger ofAhis mode of announcement mu obvious. Having of late seen many instances of s, and an example of it having been given no farther hack than yestettlay, I beg leave to suggest, that it would be touch better either to give the names of the parties at once, or abstain from noticing the matter at all, till all doubt can be removed on the subject. I am, Sir, A MI:RCANTILE MAN. To THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sra,—You cannot but have observed that a Dr. Reece, who has made himself perfectly ridiculous in the progress of Jo %NNA SouTticovr's delusion, has published a narrative, with a view to redeem his credit; but which, like the usual course of arrogant stupidity, has only fixed him deeper in contempt. lie has had the indiscretion, not to call it baseness, to betray not only the secrets of his patient, hot also the confidential conversation, and unguarded involun tory cap essions of her death-bed attendants! a con duct most reprehensible in any person, but highly criminal in a medical man, whose first duty is dis cretion and sEenzsr ; for who would suffer a sur geon to enter their house, if they expected to see every unguarded act or expression of themselves or friends trumpeted forth in all the newspapers ?. For my own part I am totally unacquainted either with REECE or any of JOANNA'S followers; but no man can he indifferent to such criminal conduct io a me dical atte.,dant, one too who always supported the deltisiqn of this miserable woman, and who was avowedly her confidential Doctor !! Another medical person, named MaTutts..who is also totally unknown to me, has Vablisheit - another Narrative of the case, considerably different from Itcuct. Now, Mr. EDITOR, as I apprehend the feelings of detestation at seeing this subject, nauseous at all times, made doubly so by the conduct of men who ought to draw the veil of obscurity over it, or con fine their details to their professional vehicles, con tinuing to disgust the Public sense, by exposing all that the grave should hide, are not confined to my own bosom, I wish much to see some candid and in dependent expression of manly indignation at a con duct so unbecoming, quackish, and immoral, pub licly made, that the British people may learn to look upon such publica►ions and their authors, as they deserve.—l am, Sir, AN ENEMY OF QUACKERY AND DELUSION. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DE JA N. 11.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Mer curius, from Dieppe, and remains ; and the Mary, Hunt, from ‘Vnterford.—The Perseverance, Ro b.rts, from Dublin, remains in the Downs with loss of mninmast.—Five o'Clock:—Just arrived the City of Bourdcaur, How, from Bnurdeaux.—The out. ward-bound East Indiamen are detained by contrary winds. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. ll.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Bonne Citniicnne, from Cork ; the Hero , Ball, and the hilt', Hearty, also from Cork; and the Douro transport, from Gnernsey. 11 EMORA SM.;al.—A DINIIIACS OFFICE, JAN. 11.— The 11a4,71 guit-brig is ordered to proceed to Cork with any vessels which may be bound to Bermuda and the Bahama Islands. PLYMOLTII, J AN. 10.—Came in the Oresle: sloop . of war, from a cruize. FALMOUTILJAN. O.—Arrived thePioncer schooner, Lieut. Hill, from St. John's, Newfoundland ; his Mojesty's ship Havre, with nine vessels, from Ports mouth for Cork and Bermuda; the Adolphus Au gusla,from Amelia Island, and remains.—ThePioneer sailed with several vessels from Newfoundland, under convoy of a frigate, and parted from them in a gale of wind, in which she was obliged to throw all her guns but two overboard, since which she fell irt with a large American privateer, which chased her for several hours. SPORTIAG INTELLIGENCE. Sir W. Maxwell's colt Fah° da Puta is the•first favourite for the eteoing St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster; hettiag 10 aid 11 to 1 aviost him at York. The Duke of Hamilturis-Agapatthos is al , t) a favourite Sir M. M. S)kes's horse Prime Minister is . matched with Mr. Watt's crock mare Akitidoea, for 200 gs. b. I. to be rail on the Monday in the York Anttest Meeting. We are requested to Mate, on the authority of the owner of the Croydon coach, that none of the passen gers were hurt on the occasion of its being overturned at Newington. The coachman alone had his bead and I one of his arils slightly bruised. BOXING. Yesterday a pugilistic contest took place at Coombe Wood, between Smith and Sc, oggins, for 501. As Smith was well known, the odds were six to four on him before setting-to (which they did at one o'clock,) and after an obstinate contest of an hour, in which 52 rounds were fought, Scroggins was declared victor : indeed, after the fourth round he had evidently the advantage. ti;nitli, after being carried off the field, preserved a sullen silence, vexed of hi. defeat from never having been beaten before ; he n as_much punished about the body, as well from Ids severe falls, as from the blows of his antagonist, who left the ring apparently fresh. A number ‘of gentlemen amateurs were present, and a second fight commented, between a sailor and a Jew, for a subscription purse, which caused mud) diversion among the spectators, ns the sailor, by su perior strength, put science at a distance, and after 27 rounds, the Jew gave ie. DnUnT.L %NT: Mi WALSTEIN repeat ed her performance of Lady Teazle last night, with increased effect, and was in many parts warmly and dererredly applauded. The Tragedy of Richard the Second is to be soon revived at Drury-lane Theatre, for the purpose of introducing Mr. KEAN in the unfortunate hero of the piece. ! A it...ele4ant silver cup, of the valoe of twenty g u ess, has been presented, by the inhabitants o f Whitehaven, to ANDREW CARR,. R seaman, who greatly 41iitifiguished himself in rescoing a female psi. senger from a vessel wrecked off that port during the ate storm. BONDING S Y,S . TEM. A respectable, but not numerous Meefing. watt yesterday held 'at the City of London Tavern, of persons interested in the VVitie nuet the purpose of considering the propriety nt a repr.. cents tion to the Lords of the Trensor , of the 4itua. :intt:pf the Trade in respect to the deficiency of thl goods imported, on account t' loch Exchequer prosecutions have been threatettetWl commenced.— Mr. Ramsay at a little past one o'clock. was called to the Chair ; and having generally stated the oh.. jects of the Meeting, air. Colson, the SPeretary, without any prefatuo) rrmalks, read over the Rosa. lotions. An interlocutory eotiversation arose between Messrs. Sandeman, Morris,• Watson, 3n(l others,- who stated particular cases within their ots n otnieiva tion, showing the severity of the measures st.liklt had been adopted.—The•ltesoltitions were agreed to, and also a Memorial, vit.L. some further remarks, pointing out the mischiesoutLiondency of the course whirls had been pursued ; and it was ti-terrninod that such Memorial be presented to the I.ltill of the Treasury on the .ptoper opportnnity, at the discre. lion of the Committee. THE FRENCII PRIZS. A Periodical Paper, called the Censor, which had been for some time printed at Paris, was discontinued on the enactment of the law ror regulating ti n s p re s s , but the persons concerned in it have siNoe resolved to publish it monthly, each number containi;iz just the number of pages which are su Ifici-iit to remove it from tile jurisdiction of the previous Cloisorship.— Some copies of the first number of this Journal have reached town. It is full of severe remail:s on the versatility and venality of the Piris No‘t sp.rters,. a considerable portion of which consists or'estracts from a pamphlet. the - author of which is M. Motit gaillard, who, at an early period of the Frenc:i Revolution, published a Political Journal in the French language le London, and - who, perhaps, is now one of the Editors of the Censor. M. Mont gaillard, in 'his pamphlet,. has made the following observations:— 46 What it difference has not been perceived be tween the Journalists of the 31st of Mart-IN and the Journalists of the. lst of April, 1814! But lately those Gentlemen vociferated against the Institutions anterior to 1789; now they proclaim those Institu tions as the chef rtteurrc of legislation, and the only pledges of public . felicity! They, not six months ago, entertained us with essays on the per fectibility of the human mind—they were p►oud of the knowledge of the 1 - Bth'century, mut at this day they are disposed to bring us hick to the age of igno• ranee, of superstition, and intolerance. " In general, the Journalists have been constant ly, in France, since . the . Revolution, the organs of calumny, the mut_shatneless,persecetors of all de scriptions of men—the weak—the proscribed—the unfortunate. Not to re-ascend to the source of our troubles—to those fatal epochs which it is the duty of every good Frenchman to bury in the most pro found oblivion, what outrage, what proscriptions have no► our public prints vomited forth against the victims of the 13th Vendentaire, of the 10th of Fruc ticlor, and of the 18th Brumaire—victims upon which the same . writers now pour oat their benedic tions and their praise ! They base been, for the most part, the vile flatterers of every new Minister —of every new Re►olution, successively complying with the orders, and receiving the wages of the de positaries of tyranny, they have o bOyed its, evoy im pulse, and celebrated its most di•graccful epochs— they have been RCP!, serving despotism and liberty by the quarter; taking their opinions from the port folio of a Minister, and to extract their pattiolisre from his coffers ; for the hypocrisy of patriotism has been the distinguishing characteristic of our Revolu tion." To this the censor in the same spirit adds— c‘ Men will doubtless be astonished, that after having shown such unshaken fidelity to the st•asnger party, the Journals were not abandoned to their own timid Councils, and that it appeared necessary to place them under the direction of Censors. Two soffirimt reasmis may be given for the measure—The first is, that as it was necessary that they seould prose one uniform spirit, and that fundamentally ministerial ; and being destined to spread among the public the ideas, the views, and opiuiona which the Minister wished to put in circulation, it was necessary that there should be men through the medium of whom they might hold communication with the Ministers— men who might every day go to . the unoisterial offices to learn the state of thing—to go there for the purpose of taking instructions—of receiving the wotti of command, anti hawking about afterwards, to the Editor's office at each Journal, the thoughts of the. Minister—the news which they are to disseminate; and the spirit in which they are to write. Such is the office of the Gentlemen who act es Censors to olio Journals. The second roason is, trsat as there happen to he . at many of the Journals some men Of a disposi, tion naturally free and independent—incapable of modifying their opinions according to the turn 01' events nod circumstances, and whose principlesand language night form, perhaps, some unlucky coat rast with the spirit and style of the day ; it was, therefore, indispensably necessary to place by their sides some persons of a more soft and fletihle temper, who might he instrected to exclude from their articles every thing which might apps6r to them of tun frank and anti-ministerial a ( 104 i:4: 6 =m—surf , i; also the office of Messieurs, the Censors of the Journals." The piles having been driven down, Rini Ili, diva is f nearly formed for one of (he piers of the iotrodett Southwark Bridge. It will he neeesvary to hive the ; , preparatory works of unusual strength, far :he l iver is very deep where this bridge is to Ile built, nod the mesons will have to work below the surface of a vast volume of water. New. at the Strand Bridge, ssliern the depth is notch less, the workmen, during the last spriutoiftes, were sometimes i f; fear of being w.helmed from the %eighty rushing of the against.tfte•darn, in which they are employed up, only pier unfiiiiifheti there. The depth of ma much to be considered in all thew cases. • ; t i I f I • t I 1 p , . ? t• ‘ i I 1 %%tiler • lan tick ate, is . - -..-