The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-22 00:00:00

#1 \ their Prfr"Y. . ' Boum taft.ltuaatocr supported the Petito.... „• Bp observed, that of coarse, they could not slier coosotilletion of the public debt ; but they gave T3telief•th.foreigners, they opened tobscriptions in be half, of the indigent • the. King had sacri fi ced a put ' al/ itii Mune for the support of those faithful see. • vents who abandoned every thing to follow Petitineers were all either aged or infirm; whety They received did rnotonsoent, in a etejority of cana l , 20b trance a year : and it was asserted that their 'somber did not exceed four thousand. He proposed defer the Petitions to the Minister of the Interior., t• II was ogre's, to. • - The discossion on the Recruiting of the Army was ' thus renewed. M. Bravos said, that the nation, nn less than the ildeveviement, deilred - se Aroty.not for purposes or ...• • *oequest, but tends. without an Army so great Pee. Idesean or de east. '''"The name of a French Army, always imposing is 1 _404 of late disasters, kink Wising in it terrifying to Jhernanirv.' The remeasbrances of glory which it re.. ala—ofthat glory o'f which we shall .know boar 10 • rut the inheritance, shall. never be associated 'aught but the preservatioo of peace and the de . . • tenceorthe frontiers. • Tlte Son coaditionfoehavitig ti good a rmyis,thst it be _ • •iestionel, a tortha i foreigners obould be excluded from If; that all young Freuchmen should be summoned do RV ranks; and that in default of voluntary enrol • inents, ballot should be adopted. ' • What is there in tbe word conscription that should lfright es? It signifies nothing more than a romocha . -tki I operation , registering citizens according to the '_age prescribed., Mei' the Legislature has abolished the Conscription, can it also abolish the obligation of Inilitary service? Take heed lest the unpopularity of the word msy . lead .you to sanction an unpopular action. The Legislature designedto abolish only the creel right of carryieg Off every year an indefinitenomber of young sun frum their families; of consigning this sanguine pooh to 'privations, fatigues, famine, a hundred limes more murderous than the sword of the enemy, whose blows were at least mitigated by the ;Regions if glory. Let, us not then create a distinction in 'terms which does out cast in fact. Referring to the right of the Crown to nominate to sank, you refuse, it is said, to a King of France vital was granted to a Consul. It is that the Con ' mutate, the creat;oa of violence, appeared ,to the tuition only a Military Magistracy ; that in the Con • sal was only seep the General of an Allay ; that the Consulate was a new right,-of which the limits were i sindeterniined. Besides, it was net France that granted •this right to the Consul, he assumed it him• ittr. The eastroples,giren by him ought not be urged 'in a Constitutional Monarchy. limitation of power ip)utioos to the Royal Prerogative. - :Theopompus, King of Sparta, vas reproached, in creating the Ephoria, with having weakened the Royal power. " You will leave to your. children," said some one to nasa l " but a limited setherity.".. " Yes,' he 'replied, " but better se cured and more lasting." Could a Prince judge by himself the merit of 10,000 °Vets ? Certainly not ; especially when the Sovereign does not make one camp of his king. 'dem —when his• Palace is not a tent-:-.-nor his throne repaving on bayonets. The Member then proceeded :troupe on the neteasity of an mutual vote of the -erety, and with that snorndosent wed for the Project. Ma DS CArthottavt. —By -what fatality does it -happen ober the tried Mewls of the throne sheeld find -themeekes placed by -their duty under the cruel ne. -easily of appearing in this Tribune fo attack the Pro ject of the Law • presented to us by,the Ministers? AO the law proposed to us is contrary to'tbe Charter of the Constitution and the Royal Prerogative. I knew, Gentlemen, the species of discredit which .certain traumata men have sought to cast on several among us, when they .find us demanding the ,literal and rigorous fulfilment of the Charter; but deaf to all their vain clamours, insensible to their' false imputations, we shall continue to invoke respect ,lo the Charter, to follow scrupulously its letter and . .spirit, to repel all infractions end abas es, and to ea. 'press our hopes and our fears with wisdom, modera tion, courage, and frankness. Born Defier the Republic, the conscription had made frightfol progress and dreadful ravages under the tyranny. I( need net to siiisiepthem. Its es istence is incompatible with legitimate monarchy. (lot what is the new mode of recruiting now pro. :Posed but an attempt to restore the.conscription ? I thereford'vote for the present against the law, well persuaded that, in the present Session, the Ministers can present us a better form of law, even by the de bates in this Chamber. ' M. CAmticaJoinAN.—The general object of the paw appears to me to be traced by the first condition of the social compact. Two principal Powers govern the destinies of Vampires—political power and poll• tical strength. If one constitutes the right, the other constitutes the fact; and frequently the strength which , **eight to .be only the means of esecotioe, be comes the tyrannical end supreme regulator. . For the formation of an army triply loyal sod na. them!, four points are necessary. Sammons ought , to be the basis—the law ought to regulate the mode ..-40 Autry of Reserve ought to form its support— sod, finally, a good system of advancement -should be a necessary completion of the entire. After es aminieg each of tiesa , points, to prove that they were to be found in the proposed Wm, the Member concluded for its adoptieti, with the Amendment le favour of annual votes. . At five o'clock in the - mains the debate was ad journed. . "a) t \ • Five per Cents. on the ; lid; Of 4aOsen wee, Attioiss • 454.31. WM) V IV SIP t• TUUIII4IIAIri JANUARY 22, IslB • .. Tten Mails from Flanders have arrived. The King . ItT 0. tuk ft ETU ER Lla DS has ordered-this (WWI en of two regiments of Marines, to consist of 2000 each.—An article from Constantinople states the perils! railer, of the late Russian Mission to the Court of Persia, 'respecting which some apprehensions bad beta enter. loaned. It up, the late Russian Embassy to the Sovereign of that . country hat.nsit been attended with 4lte advantages which bad been espected f i t , vm it, and that the Persians, linable to s forget the cestdons made 'St the last peace, try every imaginable means to 'oc - over the ceded Provinces, in order by Ibis to recover from the precariosts situation in which they are placed by the proximity of the Russian frontiers io the Royal residence of Teheran, which is scarcely fifty German miles distant from them. The Persians, Oka the Chinese, time seenrpo be on their guard .against encritachmenis. !The design of the Bossiest Court to ester* its power In-the East is thus farther confirmed. But can the Persians resist, the Appeal that generally follows the refusal to listen to socb stegoclations ? The Persian frontier was in great danger when IJoWAfARTa invaded Russia, and Sir 4 Gojts Alust.av's .knack at patching up apiece ,elloiged the Rassian .army on the Persian frontier to turn -its hostility against the French. The Russian Court has now no'such, perplexities to contend with, and trifling obstacles will not low impede her mighty march. •, Some Charleston Papers have been reteived, which repreatet that the forces of the'United States were far advanced towards their Snuthern Conquests, and that - a day had been fised upon for the seizure of Amelia Island. ,In•the mean time • Representative' Government of nine Members has been formed at Amelia island. The Election of the Representatives hat Wren announced in a Proclamation by AtrltY.-.- We learn from the American Papers, that the Dis trict Attorney having prnented to the Grand Jary, bills *Oust the . British Officers imprisoned in Phila delphia, on the warrant of Judge WAtuirtoTon, as stated in our columns some time age, the Grand Jury, on the following day pronounced, that there appeared to be no cause for their detention sad trial. Paris Papers to the 19th have arrived. kb pre.. bible from the number of Members in the Chamber of Deputies who support the propriety of annually voting the Army, that this measure will be carried. The discussion had not closed on Saturday, and was ezpected tolast till Tuesday. The Papers of Sunday are without interest. We yesterday informed nor Readers that Mr. Eva ss and his son were released from prison en Tues. day evening, without either of them entering into the recognixances required of them, or any other stipu lation. Mr. BENnow, of Manchester, who had been confined on a similar chanty, was also libeiated at the same time. These unfortunate persons had the firmness indignantly to refuse submission to the let, ten sought to be imposed upon them -in the midst of society, after they had suffered a protracted im .prisonment of many months on charges . which had no foundation but in the malignant designs of the enemies of public liberty. The conduct of the per secutors of innocence in this instance is, if possible, still more shameless and unjustifiable than any of those many cruelties and violations of personal and public right which their most daring delinquency has . exhibited. It is said the ErMOE§ mean to bring an action against Sir 'NATHANIEL CONANT for wrongous imprisonment. They have certainly a right to expect a legal'aCquittal of a crime with which they have been charged on pretence of lava, for we cannot say either legally accused, arlagallylinprlidned: &Wadi is eist merely the act . of the Magistrate. It is true the EvAssks were in prison on a charge of Iligh Treason before the Suspension Act took place. If this was a regular and legal proceeding, it follows that the accused ought to be legally acquitted. The liberation under the phwers - claimed by the Suspension Act is a sub terfuge. Hut it is the Minion.' who ought to be broUghl trial for sotho:ising, by their illegal Cir culars, them cruel and iniquitous commitments. — The whole country.cries•eisetne on such baseaggres sinus, and the brand of eternal infamy will mark the unfeetint.pertinacity, the absurdity, end inconsist ency of such State proceedings.Thetwo ETA Oaf were among the earliest victims selected by Ministers upon their own decimations, when it was found necessary to Colljete ip a plot. These aCColatinns were founded upea:d*Niial absurdities. • Mr. CANtruies fertile fancy m e . l#Ohcean bilmtbeiis of parish com unitiee;,Apoi sting themselves and enjoying equal right4,4 o . forosidebts 1 14 nlassic vision of tbe rests,. Hillevi deb. Agrarian I'm, of dividing anew the land and property orthali•bentry among revolutionists and 1 the tittered uset 4 thi poor'ETANSM were fixed on as the prtpaga4o jthis and tremonable Rossoysteet.tilez were committed on the eetb of - Imagined, than where an innocent man is unjustly accused, and yet debarred of the opportunity of proving his innocence; where oppression and igno. miny are heaped_opon his bead, and yet deprived of the means to psioish his aggressors ; where he is in. milted, and dams not retaliate; is reduced to po. witty, and refused compensation.—We earnestly hope a Bill of Indemnity Will not be allowed to screen the Ministers and their Agents from the con. sequences that ought to attend such insulting inhu manities. Guilty, dreading men are ever fond of eascting bonds and promises; and it required an indelible spirit, under every . privation, to avoid falling into the snares laid to ensure , More obligation. But the State harpies, the Mi. lister' and Secretaries, who have become the Jailers Mt their i fellow.citisens, have in this case been disap pointed of their prey. Does not this circumstance prove that all the other men from whom recognizance, were elected, ire ell injured and knotted ? Either the ETANSES were fit persons to be at large, or they were not. If they might be allowed their freedom, why were recognizance: proposed ? And if they might not, if there was a single ground upon which they could bi openly iciused, why are they set at liberty. This ise.dilemone, from which the liberation will not free the imprisoners, and on the horns of it let them hang. What trilling with the sacred dignity of British law is this, to detain men in prison for a series of months, during which you may bring then, to trial at any time, and then to acknowledge the innocence of your victims, by setting them it liberty ! But how does Lord _l DitouTtl'S act of liberation beer on NATHANIEL CONANT'S charges upon oath?-- flow are these Gentlemen to reconcile their sets To say that these charges go for nothing when they cannot be substantiated, is using words ton week to designate • deed of this sort. The consequences of these secret and foul accusations have been too serious to allow such transactions to pass without investiga. tion, and toe mark of execrating contempt. The hardships endured by the individuals who hare taps been made the victims •f Ministerial suspicion and vengeance, ought to !WSW these martyrs to the pubs lie sympathy, and rouse the British People to prevent Ministers and their agents (enjoying the power of wantonly and arrogantly indicting so many cruelties on onoffending men. ere - As financial measures, including more demands of • • provision for fresh Itoyal Marriage Settlements, test . the Crown should be without an Heir, are expected to be the principal topics at the opening of the Par. liamentary Session, we may be allowed to die& public attention for a moment to an old subject, set an unimportant one, or one which has ceased to be felt by the inhabitants of this country. We meats., the enormous sumo of money voted by Parliament fie the liquidation of the Prince of WALES'S Debts, sal the allowances still continued, granted in coast ` (pence of the Marriage of his Royal Highness, fens which so many blessings have sprang. The Readei will find a separate article on this subject it another page. It will astooishi some primes to find, that the payment thus made to his Royal Highness on the score of his marriage, amounts to no less than One Million Four Madrid and Nitiety.five Thousand Pounds, to October last ! ! This is the amount of money understood to be paid by the heavily taxed People of this eshausted coon.. try, in an annuity of G 5,0001. imposed upon them, to enable the Prince of WALES to live with his wife.—. It is pertinently enquired from What fund tlaef 35,0001. per annum is derived which enables her, • Royal Highness the Princess of WALES to live, apart from her husband in a foreign land, end MP hope the question will be answered. We hare nut heard that the PRINCE'S large annuity, granted with the prospects of heirs from the marriage, has been given up as an act of justice and feeling. now more necessary tiratrever. The Princess of is secured by Act of Parliament in a settlement of 50,0001. per ann. should she survive her hoshand.-1- This matter of insuring the succession appears a costly thing. WINDSOR, JAN. '2l.—Yesterday the QUEEN and ' the Princess ELIZABETH took en airing to Frogniere. This day her MAZES?! and the Princess ELIZABETH rode out on the Maidenhead.road, and returned to the Castle to dinner. The Princess AUGUSTA took an airing on horseback in the Park. ' The PRINCE REGENT is expected to hold a Privy Council on Saturday, to prick the Sheriffs for the present year. His Royal Highness the Doke of You is mach better. Yesterday at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreiga-Office, for the purpose of arranging the PLUNGE REGENT% Speech. •to bib de 'livered at the opening of the Session of Parliament. The Cabinet sat till about half-pest four.' AS ~ ~. Both Houses of Parliament have bens Eat hoady, prelims to the commencement of thai - :11mhion; on Tuesday next, when a very full attendance is expected of Peers and Contemners. • i SEIRJEASTIS INN•HALLo—MODSON v. SCARLETT, Esq.—la this action, which was for sisoderous words used by a Counsel in his address to a Jerry, the Kole ler a new Trial was, after very tows ills: cession ) this morning discharged. ... Pieter, Johanson, tram Pat back tbeschooner George Dayoh, Jacksoa, for Charente. TawsUvula, JAR. 20.—Arrived at this Bar, the Shannock, Webbe, from Newfoundland, in 16 days. STARGATE CREa, JAR. St.—Arrived the Argo, Jackson, from . Smyrna Fame, Moore, from Alt..; and the Richard and Ann, Martin, from Allmon. Dona, J AR. 21.- 7 Arrived off this port the,brig Kingston, of Salisbury, Batchelor, from Smog to Antwerp, out 36 days. n. A MSG ATE, JAW. 21.-6-Captain Chartie, of the ship Cigars Mills, from B6.ntal, landed here this ere o i ng for an anchor, which was sent off immediately. MARCAn t JAN. 21.--Arrived in our Roads yes. terday and proceeded for the River, the Charles Mills, tram Indic —The brig reported yesterday to he the Noctou,' on- shrirtl on the Fairness 11 ,, ck, is the Acteon, Fulton, for Berbice ; she-got off last night's tide wittiest damage, and remains at anchor in our. Roads.—Arrived In our roads the Contest, Gommitt, from Demerara, and has landed letters. lianwicrt, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Cistlereagh, Macdonough, with Mails and Passengers, front Ilelvoetaluys. GRAVE3F.ND, JAY. 21.—Arrived the Jane, Owens, from Oporto ; Harriet, Collins, from St. Michael's; I Cadrnus, Dent, from the Isle of France ; George, Mayes, from New York ; Mary Ann, Clare, from Calcutta ; Cambrian, Sheriff, from Berbice ; Janet Donlon, —, from Demarara ; Brilliant, °pent', from Unfits, and se►eral others.—Sailed the John, Visits; for Jamaica; and Juliana, Ogilvie, for Batavia. Yesterday a Court of Directors Wan held stifle East India-house, when tho following Commanders 1 took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective destination', viz t--Captain M. 'bout:Toss Moira ; and Captain H. A. Mum moon, Castle Iluotly, for Bengal and Chine r • Ca pt. W. CAMPBELL, London, and Captain K. BALSTON, Princess Amelia, for Madras and China. The ship Perseverance, of 1:200 tons, was taken up for one ruyige its the Company's service. MUTINY IN TUE BENSON lIIMAIIAN.—from 0/11 Madras Courier of the Pith of August :—By cotta news of the 24th ult. we les. sr, that the Meat Noble the Governor-General reached Moorahede. bad on the 19th alt. The fleet had met oath no ac. cident ezcept the sinking of one or two of the hag. gige.boats. We regret to state that very unpleasant accounts have been received from the homeward.bound slip Benito% Captain Bemuse. The Captain was obliged to pet into into Port Louis, for two very substantial reasons—mutiny, and a disabled ship. From what we can learn, the passengers may esteem themselves most fortunate in having reached port ie safety ; we have seen letters stating that the Benue was in • most crazy condition, end so completely shattered, that it was not espected she could be rt. paired so as to render her sea-worthy. After leaving this port the pumps were kept continually going till the ship reached Port Louis. To add to these mis. fortunes, a most serious mutiny broke out amongst her crew on the '234 of June. One of the men, it seems, struck the Captain during some altercation, upon which be was ordered to be put in irons; ibis was positively regatived by the crew, who imme diately struck, threw the irons overboard, went be. low, and refused to da,amy more duty daring tim voyage. The passengers were consequently coat• petted to artist in performing the duties of the ship, aiot to keep regul ir watch till they providentially niched port. Caplan BETA AM is prosocutiog the Mutineltro; the Grand Jury had fnui4 true bills against five if them, and their trials bed just commenced when our accounts close. The following are tho• particulars which we have been able to collect respecting the liberation Of the State Prisoners from Ilorsemonger Jail Tues day evening, between four and fire o'clock, the two Eetesrs, father end' son, were liberated by special arder from Lord Storrouww, loget her with it Mr. 13Exaow, who had been confined . under a similar charge, and who, we believe, is a shoe.maker, and resided formerly at Manchester. Mrs. EvArts, wha has been in the daily habit of visiting her son sod husband, went on Tuesday to. Horsemonger.lana Prison, end at foir o'clock, When she came away, had 'not the slightest notion that either of them would be liberated : .•bot a very - short time after she had ar rived at hoMe;• both her' [unbend and her son, who had been confined about 50 weeks, returned. We endentand, that • very short time after four o'clock a King's Messenger arrived at llorsemongar-lane Prison, with official orders frdm Lord SIONOUTII to 'liberate the State Prisoners; and directed to the Go rernor of the Jsil. The Governor in person thee went to the two EVANSZI and formally delivered the orders he had received. These orders were immedi ately complied with, and they quitted the prison.- - • An action he, es we have above stated, to be hewer , diately instituted against Sir N. CONANT. We on. derston4 young Mr. Ev.uss is to conduct his olto cause." A. : Comity Mooting to consider the propriety of prtionting a tetition to Parliament for the repeal of the Duty tio. ii(lt o was convened at the Crown Ins, NorthWieh l - Clieshire, on Tuesday. An a. manure, 'Oft hie been proved .by the most ezperienced 00 6 imlturista hi that district, to be of very great value; and its Oxiellence ar an article of food for cattle, it , gerferally ocknowledgetf. ~•. Th*F 65t. 904 ',-. . A,. .' ^Ai\ ' • . . IIAP" , 'I I I4E STATESMAN . . . - - • . • - . 11.0.41; INTRI O LIGE NUE.k.7: . CHASIBEK OF DEPT/Tin, Ata.l7. mt . *, of STOCKS Ttltit ,DAY AT OMR O'CLOCK. lame ern individual, charging Irk , ti ~ • Ka iuucli 490; • \ Tltelltflogiffrnidt it - 4iii'eroilt:' the bake of 3 . i. K et t 4 , ig n ev ol or asti r 11. ,be anaietyor . . sc . . o. ' ( \.... \ , 1 1 : 1.. 40Cti i A ‘• • Itictinilin 04.61inister of War the Keeper of t,/ se . ,pi I ? -- 1 . stork -:' .s, ,' .. rsons o( I " . • 9 DCAL, Jw. I. me evai Wont AMart th e Seats, and the ore •Kines : •Comiebeienets were i 4 a . i Stg e ri 1 1 t t w ig s I r a : rib ' :7 *: ' ' II i - Atyp ou wa s k , y e • til -the Mil niv f o r Boons .-Sailed the t roduced. •-•-• dili • as: :41 ' . , . _________ c o on . / • ti . fotaml trial. They a 'new sent back Qoeini t t fol. APaieroin e outer. and M. VALille made G Report in tbi outs a ~. ;, . -- . —.eititeetie v ikabittetetEby their met int colliers for eir differidithilti at o Roam * the imistito of Petilloos. - - —.......... .. - , - ..t. , IB7e .i fTSSAL4 _ jogeral It' ks'antNent of the department of the . I •,;.. 1 . • tit in wee Ned b long rivations, rest of tbeo rd-baund. t%. /. • trirl, 7 /4 , btd 4. .. r P . . .Rtit, .101 • libitire' ' in a Petition s of the extreme pe. -- . - 7 -- ----"—'---.`— - L. mid injured in property by long absence from their r atr i smt prip t jut, in.—A rr i ve d Ik e ihr_s o ,„ , ..,.=.1..i? .tAi _• new dm" iiiii6iitek_c•mens•Ree adm lona two., - ' - ...Z.:a.' • ,--....Lor i riknv :: • - ---;;;;;="-- ' A rnoie distresiing case can haidly be Etariaa7l7eiit London for Bengal ; and jeep I- -. 2....m..m.••••• inc..% Lk •anisally 1):,.... Imilkansann_ from Aiastorttaas far Ravirladha