The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-31 00:00:00

111 1 -77 70 s W V * 2 '. j . ..r ; 4 ;' 110 - 14444.4.4444 • • • • •• • • • • • •'. aides this, be left the prison at night, and had to sleep and sup out of its ellosventat . before he emu tnenced his journey. Thus the real ansoint . of his funds for the performance of a walk of bore than 140 miles was seventeen shilliegs.—whioh-in chided also his compensatioi ' tot -Vkt months ' confinement, and treatment tp whit!) a felon would not have been subjected! !le Thu treatment of all has been, nearly as liberal ; and yet theTourier pre tends to my tilt their application . to th e Courts is " fospertaissete,” and 66 unneasseg :" that it 11 part of 4 system to bring the judicial authorities into contempt !Be it so—hut whose is the ?Stern ? the Ministers, for autjecting the Court he shame.' fit necessity of liet*ftoot shale delinquency ? or time' of the men, who this .injured proclaim the*: wrotige,- - end demand rediess ? It is 'the Ministry that have toady " the meanest peasant in England, nut only • a match,' but more than a match for the Jinrd chief Jostles of England !" The man who is Wronged, is AY superior not . only of those who base Wronged him, bat of those who• holding the power to do hens right, poison the arrests which his enemies base aimed at him. The case of these injured men will be mihroitted to a Public -Meeting at the Crewn and Anchor on Monday nit, at 12; and there can he no doubt, but the Public will take them under their protection. 111 • • FLANDERS MAIL. • AN. 27.—Letters from Vienna ay, that an Imperial Ordinencv will shortly appear, which will give to the inn of the .Duelvess of Parma the title of Highness. end the name 'of . the Doke of Medlin, and will assign him the first tank after the Princes of tl.s Imperial family. Prince illism of Prussia, who has passed seven months with the Imperial family of Bassi', arrived on the 15th at Berlin. The hat letters from Spain say, that the Algeiines have nine cruising in the Mediterratteau and at the entrance IWO the ocean. Grt Env. J.tv. 28.—The eiportalion of our Bas to ,England teal. caused the spinning of thread to flourish to such a degree in Scotland.. that our manufacturers cannot sell at so low a price as the Scot hc. It seems that the latter spin by machinery, and that without some legislative measures, which the nation has long called for, this important branch of our industry Mill evspe from us to enrich foreigners. %Ng rola, 13 —Op .10. 10th of this month our le g istarise Body pronounce() he abolition of the servitude of the inhabitants of the country which forms our territory, as well as of all the services re sulting from it, without any indemnity. This Decree vas passes) by acclamation, in a moment of that noble enthusiasm for all that is great, just, and hu mane, which, whatever may be said, characterizes our age. Thiq spirit is incontestably the malt of public opinion, which could lint have made itself heard but with the aid of the Liberty of the Press. GERMAN PAPERS. --41 w ITANovta, JAN. 13..--His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will returts.to Cassel at the tatter rand r , f this week. The marriage iv said to he fixed for the 24th of February. Their Royal Highnesses will a ft e rwards go to England to pass the saintlier.— Miss s de Heileman, daughter of the late General of that name, is one of the Ladies of Honour of the Ft incesv. Swyrizer.ANts, JAN. 16.—The Ex. Conventionalist Llurence, who was arrested some month* ago in France, has obtained from his Majesty, Louis XVIII. the favour of being allowed to retort? to France. lie lived near Grenoble whets the law forced him to leave bis country. - lieusstt.v, JAN. 29 —The Directors of the Trade of the Levant and of the Navigation of the Mediterra nean, have just announced, according Ina letter from big Nlajest y'•Cor= ul at Gibraltsr,dated 31st December, that VICNACIfEIfSI Van 13raam, who is at Mahon w i t % squadron, has received orders to send some yes. eels to cruise between Cape tit. Vincent and Cadiz, In order, if necessary, to protect our flag aga in s t the Insults of . the Insurgent privateers. VIENNA, ,JA N• to. —The presents which Sr! an nually given by the Contracing rowers, upon the conclusion of treaties of peace, marriages, and other conventions, which have been accumedating for some years, have been now divided among the Officers of ehe Privy Antic and State Chancery. The report that salt and wince° are soon lo be paid for in cash, not in paper, is still kept up. FRENCH PA PERS. Pa lag, Jim 9.6.—8 y ft letter 'of the 3.1 instant, the Minister Secretary of State for the Interior in forms the Prefects, that the Cniincils-General of Departments are to be convoked immediately after the promulgation of the Law respecting the Budget for 1818. A letter from Rhodes of the 17th instant stales, that Madame Ma l igns' appeared very sorrowful, and seemed to have renounced the idea of pleading her own cause. She appeared to look forward with tan. easiness to the opening of the trial.. Yesterday the King held a Court at theThoilleries. which was numerously attended. The Ptince de Talleyrand, the Ministers. Marshals, were present. The equipages of the Duke of Wellington arrived on Saturday from Cambray, at his hotel Bee des Champv-Elysees. Ilis Grace is expected here this afternoon. The rause of the Doke of Orleans o. Jullien, came on again on Saturday. M. Do pin was heard in reply for M. Jullien. It was then adjourned for eight days. • Malatesta, JAS. 19.—Acc•rding to letters from Frankfort, M. de Steirntesch willproceed there Noon, as Austrian Military Pknipoteritiary ; Field-Mar shal de Wrede,as Bavarian Military Plenipotentiary; and Lieutenant-General de Wuellworth, iu this sawn capacity, from Wirtemberg. A Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ger. manic Diet is also expected shortly at Frankfort. LUUEC, JAN. le.--Letters from Sweden state, that the Opposition in the Diet of that kingdom has not acquired any consistence, and .that its Mortice is next to nothing. WW,P.Tf !!!4"•~• ~.. Trffrgi' FRANKFORT, JAN. 20.--The proposed basis for the military coniingeot, which subject was .taken ittto coosideratjoe by the 'Diet 'yerefday, i• 2 pet: cent. open the population. . , .. ARBITRARY - IMPRISONMENTS. A:PIIBLIC MEETING will he held at the Craws • and . Ainttir• Town. "Strand. ha DION DA Y N EX F, the 4d ..f. Febesary. at Twelve o'Clikk e Sir .FRANCIS BURDETT. Bart M. P. la the Chide. for she porpow of ()prolix,: a GEN ERA f. SU BSC RI P fION far the AShIsT SPICE of Mpwr.. EVANS, Mr. BEN BO W. and rnrh OTH Elt SUFFERERS under the HABEAS COR PUS SUSPENSION ACT, no shall appear to a Com . gouge (m et ' r i , he ismiointeri) entitled to Public Approbation for th-,r IthoWnrer to Ministerial Pert:i'vation. lotbeweass time Sulo.eriptions will be. recri ved by the following Gentlemen:— Mr. s.irauel Brook.. 110. Strand t Mr. Alexander Callosity. 69, Holborn; Mr. J. C. Hitchio: 9. Alderinoollary Postern ; Mr. T. J. WoMer, Suo-stieet, Bistiopsgite ; Mr. Thom.* Band, Croaked-lane; and by THOS• ("LEARY. See. pro tem. Alfred-place, Bedford-4 , osm • The Chair will he taken IttOgle o'clock precisely. PRICE OF STOCKS.THIs DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 487/ 5 per Cent. Navy 10411 i 3 per Cent. Re*. 7941 "India Bonds 106 107 p S per Cent. Consols ;811 -- Stock NO Consol4 for Acc. 79 791 . Long Ann. 401 4 per Cent. 9811; •4 Eieltequer Bills 18 47 p- • THE Bi. - ATES39[.AN. ' • I; y .2... WNDON: • . . iipttlear $l, 11111 F .• • We received this forenoon Philadelphia Papers to the let instant. They were brought by the Mercury, Captain SINGLETON, arrived at Liverpool from Phila delphia. The True Ainerican of the 30. h ult. stales, that General GAINEs had arrived at Fort Hawkins, having left Fort Scott on the sth. " One object in visiting the frontier at the present moment (say. this Paper), was probably to hasten the movement of the troops from this State, who took up the line of march &Liars o'clock on Sunday. We understand that General GAINVI contemplates visiting the troops at Point. Petro (destined to take possession of Amelia Island), before he returns to the Indian Nation. If so, we should presume that Fort Scott was not only Sikora ,against an attack from the savages, but that °tenets, operations would cease on oar pelt, till he rejoins the Army (which will be as soon as. the Militia . arrive), when he will put an end teethe* little war' in that quarter." Mr. lltteca offered, in the Senate of Pennsylvania, on the 18th ult., the following Resolution, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States., Resolved by the Senate and House of Represents. titres of the Cuminnuwealth of Pennsylvtoia, in Ge nera Assembly met, That our Settators in Conce‘s be instructed, and our Members in the House if Re presentatives be requested, to .use their .entlestrours to have a joint Resolution passed, recommending the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States to the. Legislatures of the several States : " Congress shall have power to pass laws appro priating money for public education, for construct ing roads and canals, and improving the navigntiou of water-courses.—Provided, however, That no road or canal sltall be conducted in any State, nor the na vigation of its waters improved, without the consent of such State.—And Provided also, That whenever Congress shall appropriate money to these objects, the amount thereof (except for public education, which is left to the discretion of Congress) shall be dis tributed among the several States, in the ratio of Re presentation which each State shall have in the most numerous branch of the National Legislature. But the portion of any State, with its uwn consent, may he applied to the purpose aforesaid in any other State." The ship India, from Calcutta, on her outward passage, the 10th March, touched at the Island of Tristan de Cunha, where she found the British flag flying, and a number of troops from the Cape of Goof; Hope. They were fortifying the place, and had erected a number of brick buildings, from the bricks of their own manufactory.—(Nets York Mer cantile Adertiser.) We have received Calcutta Gazelles to the 7th of September, nhich Contain some important Intelli gence relative to the projected military operations in that quarter. The bead quarters of his Excellency the Most Noble the Governor-General were on'tbe '2Bth of August near Miriapcire. Letters'fraoitlre Dekhin state, that the Madras troops were in march towards the Nerbudda, from which it was inferred that in the ensuing operations these troops would take the duty of securing the ghauts in that (wirier, so as to leave the Nagpore subsidiary force disposa ble. Sir T. lIISLOY, it was stated, would proceed direct for Ellichpore. Col. WALKER had beert,ap pointed to the command of all the Cavalry in tho Dekhin. The 3d ind 6th Regiments of Madras Cavalry bad been rtlered to the Nerbudda. By the advices front Madrid to the 15th, we find that accounts had been received in that capital, that General MINA, ow the 4th November, was posted on the mountains of Xamiltepeque, thirty leagues from Mexico, with 4900 men. The Viceroy was very short . of pfovisions. From Gibraltar it was said, that General MIL Ns bad proceeded on to Buenos Ayres. Accounts bad also been received .front IA GUira; stating,that in Carafe's only foot Insurgent Negroei had availed themselves of the late Amnesty, prea cleimed by the King's order; at,d in Mexico, only a Captain of a pa;ty. of Indians, in the *laity of the capital. THE STATESMAN. The effects of the late Spaid, on,theldetear.of her Trade, Imse already commedced in the Councils and, ports of that from Cadia of the; 9th of the learn, that ap unused' desyect . ..,...lsti Tested itself in fitting oat a Trans•Mantic expedition from that pert. 'Three vessels of =war, and two 40- gen -frigates, were preparing to tekein troops, to be conducted round Cape Horn, for the coast of Chili. The Paris Papers to•,the 27th instant, have been received. The equipages of the Doke of 'WELLINGTON ar rived at Paris on Saturday; and, according to the Journals, his Grace was expected there on Monday. It appears, however, that the Duke did not embark at Dover till Thursday afternoon. There is nothing to indicate the effect which the late defeat of the Ministers in the Chamber of Peers, in the rejection of the Project on the Liberty of the Press, is likely to produce; but it is not unworthy of remark, that among the persons present at the King's Levee on Sunday last, were I'rince TAL LEYJIAND, and all the esisting Marshals of BONA. eattxxs creation.—An Article from Berlin states, from an official estimate of the Loan of three mil lions which Prussia is to raise in England, that the interest will be about 81 per cent. . These Journris again allude to the intended meet. ing of Sovereigtia, which, it is now said, is to take place, not at Prague, but at Dusseidorlf. it is again stated from. Stutgard, that a new As sembly of Doputies of Wirtemberg is to he con. coked, to which the plan of a Constitution is to be submitted. By the Flanders Mails we have Papers from Bras. sets to the 28th, and a variety of German articles through other channels. The prices of grain have fallen in Flanders, and a further decline is expected when the corn from the Baltic shall he brought to sate. The People of Ghent complain that they can not manufactute thread at so low a price as they eau import it from Scotland. This superiority on the part of the latter they attribute to its use of machinery in spinning, and therefore they recommend some Le. &illative measures to counteract it. The proposed basis for the military contingent of the States of Ge:many, which subject was taken into consideration by the DA on the 19th instant, re. qui s a levy of .2 per cent. on the population of that great country—we presume the male part of it is alluded to. The gross population of Germany is a bout 30,000,000, of which 6,000,000 will be nearly the nuantter of males capable of bearing arms. Two in every hundred of these would constitute an army of 120,000 men, the tenet amount of force the • Army of the Confederation was designed to,muster. The Emperor ALSAASDER, it is eapected, will leave Moscow •in March, for the southern pro. winces of his empire: • The marriage of the Duke of CAstattinGE with the Princes of lixssa is said to be fixed for the 24th of February. The Royal Assent will this day be given by Com mission to the Bill for restoring to us, in one im portant particular, our Constitutional Liberties.— We believe there are few persons in the country who are not surprised at the sudden repeal of the Suspension Act. From the satisfaction expressed at this measure, the Treasury Prints, rather oddly,' but truly, remark, 44 it might be supposed that the thole of the People had been in chain", or confined in a dungeon." This is a pretty good illustration of the light in which the Suspension Law was viewed by "the whole of the People." "Suspension ! chains and slavery!" We trust, however, that the People will not !re deceived by this trick. We have said it is for the more speedily arriving at the absolution of an Indemnity Bill. But there is another prudential reason for this newly assumed rrwoect for the Con. siltation. Ministers, it is outlet" ood, have deter mined upon a dissoloti:m of Parliament in the course of the present year ; and hope by this unexpected set of grace, to countervail in the public opinion the original guilt which attaches to the causes of this ; unconstitutioual act, and the ' arbitrary manner is which it has beets made t%operate against , the per. .aonal righisasaiibrerties of tile People. We Parnestlyn hope this expedient will not avail them. It is for the great body of the electors to 'consider, whether any circumstances transpit;d on the State Trials, even in the solitary Instance where conviction followed . , to justify the violation of the. Constitution—and whether the subsequent liberation of the far greater num ber of the Stile - Harmers on their own, or without any recognizaneel, showed that Ministers had been possessed of . information - egainst those per. sons, to warrant their confinement, -at a distance from their families- and businesses, in the cruel manner which the -affidavits we have submitted, end the details 'in' this city's . .9r.eicsAt4ii, so strikingly pourtray. It is not merely one or two of therm cases- wlsicb.walsibit -instaneee-of .estreme hard ship—they ere all fell ortiantoiCaii4 appsrently unnecessary cruieity, ender the- guise . - of precaution, that we hesitate - io horrid to ski/actor:is,. such acts' of oppression as oar feelingi.wolddliiktafe. The if 6davits we have -given `ref.- ResEaT'. CLIFF, and `MITCRELL, with. the case of Mr. FRANCIS W'Aub; A lace-maker at Nottingham. as stile(' in, it Petition presented to the lime of Commons on Thursday; by' PMc!TM ~, 4 9 14. I r;i! 11.04,4 ~;. ~. ~. and pretioiksly details" by e - %iiieuffere seem to be ietirpedmenslof what ethers 111 c, These unfortunste awn were torn from helpless a, numerous families, dependent en their labour, f support, by the authority of police officers, at without trial or specific accosation, chained, a doomed to long imprisonment is damp, cold, ei solphureens dungeons, to the imminent duller theit Husk — Aft& esiogiiisie is this . t purpose of Ministers answered, they are capricious liberated, but not discharged, without one judici univiry into the charges against there. These perste it is evident, are not what they have been repreente they were quiet industrious people, minding th own businesses, indulging their leisure hosts the perusal, of speculations on the happiness nations, and only °hangings from the °mdal complaints ,which poverty and distress compell them to otter. It has been proted that they were the ignorant desperadoes on whose minds the loci diary agents of rebellion were likely to work m successfully. They have shown that the lower ord are neither so ignorant nor so desperately.-wicked their calumniators have endeavoured to prove aim the whole mass of the British People. Is it to endured, that the iodostrio*Upart of the commit should be this stigmatised for venting its last ec tof d in a l e n s g ri e c r s plaints' hit Gin justified, tint tech me' as the / & awe* for a tfieeretical in Anyspeculation,po in harmless, self, and not to be comps red speculations and plans of philosophers which h never attracted Legislative censure, should be drag from their homes and their famines, ruined in tl businesses, and reputations, and immured within walls of solitary cells fur twelve months on sus pretence, or rather on no pretence whatever, their liberation is a proof that they are not charge in truth with any crime. With respect to Eva eggs, it appears that they were originally to up on the oath of some person. That person, ever he is, ought to be brought to light. 1k been the cause of much unmerited suffering to cent men, and of the infliction of disgrace the jurisprudence of the nation, which not con wipe away bat his detectioe sod punishmen Thu Ministry should he made to say, what wen acts of Treason of which these sufferers were sect and to promulgate the testimony on which founded their suspicions. A number of their tel subjects have been loaded with infamy and pow and set at liberty, without being brought to act for one imputed crime, or enjoying an opporto if they are innocent, of proving it, and setting selves right in the estimation of their families, frig and acquaintance. There cannot he a doubt th crime be not compromised, Ministers have abused trust, or been most culpably credulous. These are either guilty or innoceut. That the later i COW it now the geneial impression. If could have been brought home to them, it v have been long since. If there are re! grounds of suspicion, it is dee to the country velop them, that the well affected may be on guard. If there are none, it is due to thel themselves to say go. If they have suffered onj compensation ought to be mado, and the dial informers, on whose false testimony they wet prisooed, sent to condign punishment. Nation nour,es well as justice, demands some such proc as this. What recompence can the mere repeal old mission to inflict cruelty afford to the unhappy of its capricious exercise? or what satisfactic the mere cessation of outrage prove to the a for a flagrant and wanton violation of-its most rights I The only means the Maple now pot avenging their wrongs, is by the enbiassed m of their Elective Franchisei end We. trust that General Election, those will be rememberet 1. • L 'wed in Parliament for the Suspension. In Ito this important matter, and the defy whic devolves upon Electors, we have plessi I directing the attention of oar Readers letter in our other columns by as bar and independent writer.—We hope th vice thus. given will produce a doe effect British People have witnessed the dreadful en moisures which could 'tot have taken place he "rights been properly protected, or the counts ly _represented in Parliament. The sappe r `Solitensimi Laws, and the .defenders .of musk, be &loitered and .seiectod --4 t fOr those who claim to be the Reptesei of the People to say whether they will again sech measures, or accede to their justifiteci”ll. foi the British People to take care that they v! Mew Representatives who will not pledge the „to oppose such a system. The experience last year will long remaia as a lesson *Representatives bow they suffer themsel build their condect' on green bag interim It reaming 'for the Represenstatives of ,the say, whether the liege sad likettistra their I tresilt are again to belt the disposal of sue the present Ministers, and their insurret Spieh whether they will not pot an the system of Spyism at once..---The of - this e'Ystent is a history of atrocity, danger to the country :wherever it has 131 played. its justificatinn Is the justification in its worst Cot me, and its nature! and inseam! is . the diffusion of duplicity, treachery, to teeter, and misery. The encouragement c , s pe higher classes must subvert all moral I in the lower. It is the proper engine of only. From this island let it be Wished 41 a pestilence, whose operation is-to blast al fruits of our envied Coostilution, and tr the reign of . terror, where only confidence tent- ought to abide • !ono Negociation Abolition - of the Stit! ced their develop . hat Power. By letters I be present 'month, we i ie of ,c_tivitphas mani- IS