The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-07-06 00:00:00

MEE. Or STOOKS. AT ONE wca.0044, THIS DAY. R -nit Itt neve 21.11 Vi ! ludla Stork. 3441 4 Pr C. r?" 0.... 80 214 SO i llitto Ponds s. • 81s pm. • n.• Cr; i• o n s .. ..7911 i gouth Res flYucA.l AA per ('.nt.. • 91 90/ . South ften Old A... 4 ye, rentsgni , Ex.lllllod 1 .. as 4, as pm. New Fours • 99,11 101 W. A norront.l797 i stritx 4s 7, pm. 114muum,. • - 80 7 10, --- ---Fmall Ss. As. u,. fu g % I pry,. . -.. i 1.--- 1A.% A Por C.iit Lott. Mites 214. lA% Vitt *tateolitan. " Tt R HMI= STATISMAN " ATRD WITH " TIIR rrArnim tn." LONDON PATCRDAT EVIVINC, JCLV 6, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE. TIE ELI - E O'CLOCK. The Sfarket appears heavy, and some considerable •••;. • t• ace Ivor% made is consequence of what pas!ed in •`•.• Homo. of Commons last night concerning Russia. t'nnsols at present are 79 for the opening, sod Re (lvrea SO. Consols for Account, I itrle bn•inees iq doing in the Foreign Market this n•aroing. Very little of the lliqsent dividends pad y. oerday have come into the Market. Exchequer Hills are in demand. • Philadelphia, New Orleans. and New Brunswick rPr•CFR arrived this morning, by which we learn that tl.e Marks-, at Port-au-Prince was, on the Bth of May. in a very deplorable state. It was expected that the relarn of the President, with the troops, would have hail * • favourable influence on commerce, bat the ex• yeetsfions have been disappointed. On the 13:h of May, considerahle damage was done to the shipping. at St. Thomas, by a thunder squall. The St. Thomas and St. Domingo Packet had her top-masts splintered, and two of her 1: Ili much injured. At Havanna, there were, on the 10th of May, 100 it'll of American vessels. The day before there were three raises of Yellow Peter in the town. The pollee of the place is so wretched that an American brig war attacked a f.w nights before, while at anchor, by a boat tilled with men ; but they were repulsed, and three of them wounded. Paris paper which have arrived to the 4th inst. state that troops coatinne to march from all quarters towards the Spanish frontier. An assemblage of two anuses(' men of all descriptions, collected on the Frew h tide, had lately crowd the frontier, under the pompons title of " Army of the Faith," after die. arming a post of 50 national guards, and had pene trated to the vicinity of Estella, which the Spanish Constitutionalists occupied in force. General Lopez Banos, adds the a: pe letter, had canned all the p in its re .:t to be orenpied. and it was expected that it would either he forced to surrender, or surrounded and destroyed before it could scatter itself in the mountains. article of the 28. h ult. from Frankfort, is that the Seim!, of Persia marches in person at the bead of a formidable army, towards Bagdad, accompanied by hi three son., and Mahn. Mires, who resided some years ago in I.m.don as his Ambassador.—The new Custom Duties cootione to engross the whole attention of the Chamber of Depeties. FRVNeII FUNDS, JULV s.—Five per cents. opened at 91f. 55r., closed at 91f. '2sc. ; Bank Actions.l,s9Bf. 75e. —Exchange on London—one month, 2ff. 50c.; three innethe, 25f 30e. PROCEEDIXOS IN PARLIAMENr. Pnopo , rd from Yeateiday.—(Houta or Coat. 1,0N11.)—In a little sly corner of the report, hardly to be seen, even with our spectacles on, we bunted oat, after we had closed our commentary of yesterday, e short paracraph in the proceedings, stating, that the [loner was in a Committee on the Small Paper- Alone?, Bill; and that " the CHANCILLOR of the En " CNIQIJER (un 1.1 I e anggelliOn of Mr. RIC•RDO and " Mr. firms) consented to give up the clause, ;Who " rising the Count y-Bankers to pay their note, either " in Enid or in Bank of England nate; and to leave those bankers on the footing of other Debtor:."— This is odd enough; for, as our readers saw, it was only on Tuesday last, that Mr. PAaCoa GRENTSL, upon perceiving no such chose in the Bill, said, that he should more the issue :Hum of such a clause, if Mr. VAN/UTTAR T did not insert it before-hand ! What,. then? Did the latter insert it ; bud did he thus ex pollee it upon the suggestion of M . Mass mid Ricer no? And, was this done without a wordicom PA,enit, whose artieity is proverbial, and who elsoMed it in conspicuously at the time of parsing Si, .refs ? " Oh, infirm of purpose !"--.Was such a thing ever seen or heard of before under the name of limns- mint ? As to the regret ; that is to say, as to the fact, that the Country Ragman are to have at/option; but are to pay their notes in gold, if the holder , choose; that is all we want. To authorize the Bo rough-Bank to make small notes after May 1523 is, in foe, a part repeal of Pates Bill; and a total de parture front the spirit of it ; because the 'Hedged in tention of the Bill was, to return to the ancient stand ard of the kingdom; and because one of the stroog grounds of the measure was, the necessity of putting an end to small notes, in order to do away the horrible hatigibgs on account of forgery. This new measure, be 4 he pretences for adopting it what they may, is intended to keep in ci rculativn more Paper•A/oney than it was, when the Hifi of PaLL's was passed, intended to keep in circulation! It is an attempt to shuffle out of the effect, of that Bill. But, we, for our ptrts, do not mind the Semen Paper Money Project. What we object to is legal-tender, and, if this new Bill do not repeal Pteh's Bill in that respect, we are ssti-fietl. IVe do not, however, quite like the phrase of out little CHANCEL LOR ; namely, that the country bankers were to be placed on the "footing of other Debtors;" for, it may be intended to pot all dt.Gtors on the footing that they were before the posting of PEAL'S Bill, that is to say, to tender payment in Bank of England notes, and thereupon to screen. them from legal process, except at the expense of the creditor ! And, after all, we shall be agreeable disappointed, if the new Bill dd not con. , tain something of this sort. We mast bow, however, brand-hy ; for, there must be an Act; sad an Act is generally a thing capable of being understood.— If no l gal tenth,- be enacted, this Bill will do nothing as to the end for which it is intended.— it will assist but very little in keeping out the paper money. After next May. the country-rags will disap pear ; and prices will come down a great deal lower .#.•• t . . • t , , 1 1 THE STATESMAN: than they are stem. The estates will go on waist from the present Owners to the Jews and Jeltherss pad a complete revolutitinin property, will be effected.— Same Wok that this is good, and we, speaking com paratively, are by no means prepared to say that it is bad. We hate Maeltreorm ; but would rather have him for a Berooglinsooger than the Norman. The Norman is a more haaghte and imacdent master. We I thonhl do better with Olorekrorra. Give hies e.l, and he will let yen be tiniest but the insolent Norman will not. He will have your all, soil insult you ince...tautly into the bargain. Ho will t..ke your earnings ; rat up your very potatoes, and hang you like a doe, if lie can, if you grumble. hirekreorm would not, at any rate, insult us with his boutings about high-ldood berefore, if we be still to Lye Boroughmongers, let them be of the .11nekworm hree.l by all means. has bcomeno proclamation in the Oaten& There has been DO proclamation posted up at Whitehall. We have baud of bole sad comer addresses and petitions• and we shall have on Monday to soda one of these' brought by KNATeII sum. from some hole or to Keel; bet of a hole and proclamation, we ge -1 ver before beard. And what Is the beadle to go round for ? What is the instrument he is to carry in his bands? And bow do these 'Meer. know that they are to. receive benevolent donatioos ? This is a very strange affair altogether. lk is begcing from door to door for the relief of a nation, which is certainly a pretty fine spe cimen of the " Envy of surrouotling nations anal the tt admiration of the world!" As this is possibly to be a general thing, and may reach Keasiorton, we will here give the answer which HNC/Meer. and Beadle will to e certainty receive from us ;—" Gestleueen. we o know of no such officers; we know of no such pro. " elamatioo ; we know that there is plenty of food in Ireland, because corn and wheat in immense guan o. cities are sleekly brought from that country to this; " we are convinced that the distress, which we " deplore full as sincerely as you, arises from want of money, which proceeds from rents and .4 tythes spent out of Ireland, and the heavy talcs imposed ape the labour of its people; " and as we receive no portion of those rents, " tythes sad taxes, we should thigh it not only on " reasonable but unjust to give our money to make " up, is any degree whatever, for what is taken " away by those rents, tythes, and taxes; and that, " while we always contribute nagrodgiogly towards " the legal utaiotenance of the poor in our own " country, whatever little we may have to bestow " in the way of benevolence, ought in justice to go " to those 'offering objects in oar own conutry. " Peculiar ctrcumstaoces denoted extraordinary tier " tions of compassion at our bands." This will be our answer, word for word. Now, to retort' to the Debate, what said Mr. Damvis Baowyr, who is an Irish Member? "It was a very evtraortlioary circumstance, that the people of " Ireland were starrier at a time when food " in that country was as aka:dame and cheap se it ever " had been. This was a state of things so very strange " and unexampled, that he could not noderstend it. "The accounts of the distress mast either be Nag " gerated, or there was a mystery in Me sabjeet which he conld aot penetrate. He repeated, that lie never " knew provisions cheaper or more abundant than "in Ireland at present—a monstrous export of pro " visions from Mai eanntry wet goiag on, while every " day brought accounts of the people dyingof famine." This is just what we have bees saying for this mon;h past. Mr. Baowrsr does not understand it. We think we have pretty folly esplaised it io the above answer that we Weed to give to the Church Wardens of Kensington. Mr.! Veiny FITZGIIt AL° expressed his regret and ,surprlee at whet had been said by 'lr. Lieowse ; sad Mr. Bahsystit replied that lie did not mean to say that Ow *OM were exaggerated, but that he could set help expressieg his 'orris@ at the unexplained mystery of is rifle perishing for food. in the *Adige!! abandancr :—lro agree with him that this is p herriMe fact, bet's* spiny. where we see the causes of it so plalify irlitore oar eyes.-11e. Houk• nenx is quits deceived. This misery may be plait tern' over a little; but If such be the state of the la bouring classes; if want of money amongst them (for that is the want) he inch as it sow is, just after hay-making, and at the begioning of harvest, what is to be their lot at Christmas ? If whole parishes be now receiving the extreme unction from the Priests : what is to be their lot, when the ,snows of December come to aid the famine of Jnly ? However, the Go vernment has not been carried os by **shins and ra dicals, it has b. en carried on by the when of Si: Acts; aid with them be the cont./themes. Several other topics remain to be noticed, bat we most postpone them until Monday. When, also, the hole and corner petition from Kent will be noticed in a letter to the freeholders of that sensible and public spirited county. We understand that it is in contemplation of certain Freeholders and inhabitsats of Norfolk to reqnrst the High Sheriff to call • County Meeting. for the expres. purpose of petitioning. Parliament to raise a pest tc- Action of the Salome! Debt. Ws understand that it is the intention of the Rank ers in this city and county to reduce the interest al lowed by them from 3 to 2& per Cent.—(Sortrien nererry) Letters were received vesterday,, from St Yours• burg, to the 16• h ult. l i ne bring no political new., and the Ktchange w.as steady at our lest ythrtaticto, nine 15 16ths. It was already InoWn that the object of the late ►isit of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino. to Bros ?els, was the marriage of his eldest son with the eldest daughter of the Count de Sar►illiers (Joseph Bona• parte). This marriage was celebrated on Saturday last, at the Towo Hall sod the Church, with the usual ceremonies. Tue Ktse's COVRT.—Yesterday. at three riclork, his Majesty held a Court at his Palace in Pall Moil, which was attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury. the Lord President of the Council, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master of the Mint, the President of the Board of Controul, the Loid Chamberlain. the Lord Steward, the Treasurer of the Household. Earl Harrington, Hold Stick in Wahine,, the lodge Advocate, ►he Recorder of Bombay, F trl Warwick, Mr. V. Fitzgerald. &c. His Majesty lido a Privy Council, at which the Earl of Warwick was introduced and sworn in Lord Lieutenant of the County of Warwick, in the room of the late Marques:. of Hertford. &one new Official Seals were approved of by his Majesty in Council. The Duke de Monchy was introduced to the King by the Marquess of Co. nyngham. Mr. E. West was introduced to his Ma jesty by Mr. Wynn. President of the Board of Con troll!, on his being appointed Recorder of Bombay, upon which occasion his Majesty was pleased to con fer upon him the honour of Knighthood. His Ma. jesty gave audiences to the Earl of Harrowby, Mr• Peel, Marquess of Londonderry, Doke of Montrose, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, and Mr. Iteeket, the Judge- Advocate, who laid before his Majesty the proceed ings of some Courts Martial. The Court broke up about six o'clock. London : R•dited. Printed. and PubL.bed at the Oiee of " bra, EA11•14" " The CO'SSTITITION . (SPNailli Paper. No. 297. Stiond. by R. WARDELL, 1.1.. p iu Mom ell ethommeleetioas, 01 d,-rs, &e. art fa:rested to be cldresse4l. LAST NIGIIT. IN THE LORDS.—The Royal Assent was given to the Roasted Corn Bill. We have not seen the Rill yet; but we have beard that there is to he a license for the selling of wasted-corn, and if ate present system could teatime for some years, we should not be at all surprised to see made into an Excitable a..tiele, this very thing, which was intended to prevent the sale of Enciseable articles. This has all arises front the thing not being jelled, at first, by its real name. it is roasted wheat, rye. beans or peas; and sod► it ought to have been called ; and not called Breakfast Powder, under the pretence of its containing something which was a secret as to the public at large. If this plain-dealing had been adopted, there would have been neither prosecutions nor ii a. Any man, however, may prepare the rye for himself in the same manurr that green coffee is roasted and ground ; that is to say, he may do it at present; but if the quackery should, at last, helmets, article ander the Ego Me, we shall be prohibited the use of oar own corn, as we are from the use of one own barley and tallow. We should not be at all surprised, now that this Bill has received the Royal Assent, to bear the meal called, Royal Breakfast Powder; or Breakfast Powder sold, ender Hie Alejesty's Rbysl License. This would be a pretty complete finish to a scheme which of igioated for the Radical purpose of in tercepting the waters of the revenue. Tug Tan' Como BILL went Into a Committee, was carried through by a small majority, and is to be read a third time on Monday. On the Ministerial side of the House they took occasion to contend, that taxation could not ►e the cause of the Agricultaral Distress ; because equal distress prevaiied on several parts of the Continent ; and particularly in Switzer land, where taxes are next to nothing. This is an argument which has nothing to do with the matter. The great difference in all the circumstances of the two countries, renders each an argument wholly insp. Pliesble to the case. Lord DACRII said that be as cribed the distress principally to the change in the currency; but partly to taxation.—Lord WERE, trill you permit us to state the thing to you plainly ? The whole of the distressis occasioned by taxation. How can the farmers be otherwise than distressed ; hew can all el bat tax-eaten be otherwise than die tressed, when, with the prices of 1792, it Its. to pay more than /bee times the taxes of 1792? The cor vette!, Lord Meow Is oat" gettingllowarils what ft ought always to Mai! ken; hot it is, wayeethalings true, that ere zbange in the vane of the currency has tripled the amount of the taxes by cansiag the other classes to give the-tax-eaters three bushels of wheat instead of one. This then, is the stale of the ease: that taxes are the cause, and the rause is augmented by the change in the value of the currency. IN rut Cosamosts.—The Highgate Chapel Rill was read a second time by the vote of a majority of 69 against 62. This Bill appears to he a contravention of the trill of a Founder of a Grammar School. It appears to be a , very unjust thing ; and we are very glad to see the ATTAIRNRF GENERAL oppose it. Tire too famous re-I presentoires of the county B. NU and Wittrettasn s p o k e up o n the subject ; bat our powers of compre hension are sot sufficient to enable us to say, on which old* either of them was. if the people in the neigh bourhood of Highgate make stout resistance, we think this Bill will get through the Lords . Mawr' or NAVIGATIOR.Sir JAMBS MACKINTOSH asked Lord Casmaacaou two questions : our relat lag to a Russian Ukase claiming certsin dominions on the coast of Asia and America ; and the other relating to the condemnation of an English ship by the Spa niards, for having traded between a Spanish Island and some South American State, which Spain still claims as a colony, and of which we have not acknow. ledged the independence! Bravo! Spain is right; and Russia is right, too. Lord CASTLEREAGH said that this Government bad notified to Russia, that it could not accede to the terms of the Ukase. And what does the Russian care for that? What does he care for -this notification ? Will you fire cannon at him if be do not give up his preten sions ? He kaow•s he has the debt at his back and he snaps his fingers at your notification. A fig fur state papers without cannon in the rear. A. to the seizure aid condennetion of the vessel by the Spaniards. It is strictly agreeable to the law of nations, which our ship cant d. We are not to be allowed to set the lasts of foreign nations at defitnce in this way., What should we say to a Spanish vessel that we fatted trading between Jamaica and Quebec Acknowledge the independence of South America, indeed, and then you go to war with the Spaniards, if they attempt to ►eize your vessels under such circumstances; but, at , present, they areperfeer'y justified la so doing; and, as our pretty gentlemen will not acknowledge new Republics till the last moment, the trade of the coun try must suffer in the mean time. . . Inw Disraiess..—Mr. UM:LSI:RN said that be had received that day, informatian highly satisfactory, and had made him quite certain that the subscription, along with the sid pf Government would carry die country through its greatest difficulties! If this be the case most monstrously exaggerated most these difficulties have been. There is now in circulation a paper, left at every house in the parish of St. Mary-le- Ronne, which is under a select vestry, which paper is in the following words The Officers appointed on der his Majesty's Royal Prodamation, will wait '• upon you, attended by a Beadle of the Parish, ea " Tuesday or Wednesday next, to receive your bene •• velem donations for the retief of our di ed bre " three in Ireland." This paper is said to be issued by order of the Churchwardens, and is dated at the vestry-room, 30th June, 16'22. Now, what officers" alf these; and what "procAtaictriim" is Ibis? There OLD BAL •THIS AItIItNING. nawwav ROMIIIRT.—KgreeTs Gifford, • aged It:, I Wm. Block, aged 17. were indicted for stealing a watch, Bm. front the person of 31r. Hatfield, on the King's highway. The prosecutor deposed, that as he and his brother were proceeding arm in atm down the Hackney-road. ,e suddenly felt his watch goons of his fob, which he immediately made known to his brother. John Hatfield stated, that he seised hold of two per sons, who were near them at the time, our, of whom ew card, but he could not identify either of the prisoners as the persons. John Attree stated that lie resides in Hackney-road, when fi ning home on the night stated in the indictment, he heard a cry of " Stop thief," and saw a gentleman with the prisoner Black in cnsto.ly. The witness picked up the watch which Wadi three down end got away. He pUrsneil him, and @ever lust sight of the prisoner until he was stopped. Witness 114 , 1 no doubt of Li. identity. After Black had thrown down the welch the first time he took it tip. but findinat he was closely seed he again threw it down, end the witness got poswa. sion of it, and delivered it to the prosecutor. Joseph Gibbon said, that lie was passing down Hark net-road, and observed a chain tight, and an attempt made to hustle the foot pawiengers. H. saw the pri soner Black seised, when he threw away something, which proved to be • watch, which thelast wituem picked up. The constable belonging to Skaretlitch wmelskonse, produced the watch, which the prosecutor identified as his property. Several witnesses gave the prisoner Gifford a good character. -The Jury found Black Guilty Death, and acquitted Ofiford. The Recorder informed Black that he was a Isqrdened thief and must expert to leave doe country for fifes anti advised Giffaed to keep better company in future. TYR EATIN/ NG A MTN rss. —Tier pruserutor of lilark stated to the Court that fitark's Otter was in the Court yard, and threatened to hail a asuatlerbalt at his bead, and used other violent language, and he hoped for his safety the Court would interfere. Old Black was immediately taken into custody and brought into Court. The Recorder ittenmanetl him to his private room for an explanation, when it turned out that he should say, he wished a atunderbolt might fall upon the prosecu• tor's bead. The Learned Jndre after asruitable adtuonidoa allow ed him to he set at liberty. John H'illiams and Isaac Nora,. were indicted for assaulting Robert Hendry, on the King's highway. and stealing from his person, a watch, value 30.. The Jury found them both (lent, of stealing. SHIPPING INTELLIGE.VCE. DEAL, 3CLY a.—Arrived this morning and sailed for the River, the Sisters, Bishop, from Demerara.—.Sailed the Coldstream, Stevens, for Calcutta ; aoil Phenix, 3lynton, for Bombay—the Wier put back . — Wind S. W. _ • - PORTSMOUTH, JULY 3.—Arrire , l the Gilbert, !fender from Honduras, and sailed fur the hirer; and the Jane, APClare, from London. fur Jamaica.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Phaeton, forthe westward.—Wimi MEAT M.%RKET. (Exclu►ively for the STATES3I4N.) S3ItTIIFIELD MAMMY, JULY 5.-131UN1 Sheep and Lamhs at Market; though Mutton' was shorter this list market day, the trade was very heavy. The prirs much the same as last Friday; uine stone, ?Oke. ?raker,. —Lamb trade lower; Ate stone of good Laub fort MIA Many poor Lambs unsold.--Short Market el - Beef: trade very doll.—Wether Mutton, Is. 10:1. to ? t. per atone lies• Lamb, 35.; Best Veal, 2s. to 2s. 61; thso4l Beef, 2s. 21 - - - - The accident of his Royal ifiAliness the Dike of Sussex wili, to all probability, he -prndnetive of a te dious confinement. The tendon ilehillee if so vio lently strained by the fail of Isis Royal Highness, in Descending from his carriage, that it is deemed essen tial to abstain from any exertion until the flexibility of the teodeo shall he perfectly restored. We hear occasionally, with much concern, of per sons who are compelled. from the diminution, and in too many cases the annihilation of their incomes. to re since their establishments to a degree of painful aml humiliating eronoirty. Among others. we regret to state, is Sal'. K. Lethbridge, Bart., one of one coerty reprrseutatites, who but too truly predicted in Parlia ment the destiny which awaits the landed iuterest, who is onw,in consrsuence, about to give a practic.,l illustration of the misehiefs, to avert which his carols were so perseveringly directed. Sandbill Park, the patrimonial residence of the Pon. Baronet, is to be •a cated, anti he retires to a habi,iatiou of Luxboroogh. better suited to the hninhier lotuses to which be must accommodate himself. from the prmers• state of tile tinirs. considered, this is a eircum stance to be regrereil ; hat, as a gn•ouon whirls points to the erriain fate of a eery lar t ee, efficient, and most valitable class of the community, the eirbot is preg nant with the most dismal forehorlings. It fell to our duty some years since, to rep at the incidents of a day spent by a large military body ■t Sandhili Park. where, ander the ample abode of the mijestie trees which adorn that lovely spot, several hundreds rote regaled by the lion. Baronet with his lunspitaliti" while a numerous assemblage of officers partook of sumptuous liberalities within the walls of his mansion. Verily. the proverbial iogratitusie of Ministers seems but to truly asserted ; for the country gentlemen o►e but sorrily requited for their honour-title hot ton a•- dent loyalty soil public services, and their firm bar i. - cautious roofi•leuce in those ht• whose measures thrt• are now left the victims of a /1 , ! intros policy. V a l u e. teer corps and local militias, it is trim, are not at pr sent wanted; hut that ti vet:or:mit must Ist of very viestionable wisdom, which embitters the lives of so many thousands who hare h•en mom zealous in it:- holding it, soil whose p at;on is still essential to the resources of the slate. Like the fo tuentimte.l by Shakespeare, in the jaw o r the ape , th ey seem t have been "Ii at mouthed, to be last swalluwed.'•— (Trentoe Cqwrier) Tne %V neat harvest has already commence.' in this enun.v, in a 11.1.1, the property of the Corporation of San.lwirli, in the inin.ediate vicinity of that town. The tutting began on :ilondat• lart, and a sample of the corn will he product tl at Mark-lane, oa Jlenday went. The harvest will, by no imams, he general in the neighbourhood for a few Jars to come. The crops Are most abuntlaal.—(k, Ikr7lti) I