The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-05-02 00:00:00

~^ 9CiIE ATATESNIAN ion , f barracks to keep doen the national spirit in ; 11 t h e populous districts: Much was said of the tote bt tyranny of Bonaparte; but was not the node 000 . pur sued not only following his steps, but even merrunning him in the forniatiOn of a military des. to govern the people, not by law, but by the Itign r • od h ear ! hear! and order I—Were1 —Were not , s [ t i l e soldiers on the slightest occasions called in to keep down the people Did they not commit Mur ders u pon the people ?--[Order ! order! order! — This was indeed a new, and an auspicious era!— [Order !]__Gentlemen might make what exclama tions they pleased, but they should not drown his voice, which was only uttering the truth. General MANNERS spoke to order. lie said, that to assert, that what the lion. Baronet was stating vai the truth)was casting an undeserved slur upon the limy'. Sir F. BURDETT denied that he was making any accusation against those who were compelled to act under the orders of their superiors. General MANNERS desired that the Hon. Dare net's words might be taken down. Sir F. BURDETT insisted, that if be were called to order when in truth he was perfectly regular, the erds of the lion. Gen. ought rather to be minuted. Ile repeated, that the soldiers were compelled to commit military executions on the people. [Bear, hear l] Ile disapproved of the priuciple of the Bar rack system, because it separated the soldier from the citizen ; it was governing the country not by love, but subduing it by fear. The lion. Baronet then meta on to prove the unconstitutionality of a standing army, by reference to the reigns of Elizabeth, Charles I. and James 11. and to the speech of Lord Chester field on the subject in the reign of George 11. lie insisted that the interference of military to quell dis turbances was wholly illegal. He defied the Right Bon. and very Learned Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) to shew him, in the Riot Act, any authority for it—yet every day we saw soldiers turned loose upon the people to destroy thetn.-J-- I !liar, hear!) In this new era, he admitted. the Regent might, perhaps, deem it requisite to his safe ty to have barracks of military near his residence, and Ministers might 'deem it not less expedient to save their guards to protect them from the indigna tion of the natives of Great Britain. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ssas firmly convinced that few men in the House, or' in the Empire, would concur in a single sentianent tittered by the Hon. Baronet.—[Fleet , -hear ! f ar c!! aides.] Did he expect to persuade any persons iu their senses that he Was acting under the dictates of a sound discretion—when at this period of all ethers—when his mind could not fail to be impressed with the disgraceful scenes that every day occurred In a particular part atm kingdom, when he held out, to the people that those measures, the employment of which cruel necessity compelled, were resorted to fot the purpose of crushing the liberties of the subs joct ?—[licar, heat!] --That the military was em ployed not to protect but to subdue the people— [Hear, hear I]-•-uot to protect the lives and proper► ty of individuals from itiondiaries t _ but to sacrifice and destroy them.—tUear, heart] this the tootle the Hon. Baronet thought it right to pursue iu advocating the cause of those who were setting atdefi ance all law, and whom the Hon. Bart. chose to take under his protection, because they were not allowed to burn, plunder, and destroy at their pleasure , all the wealth, ingenuity, and property of the realm ? i f Loud cheers.) —Be (the Chancellor of the Exche- f quer) could without much difficulty, attribute the I speech just heard to its true origin. The Hon. Baronet I meant that the constitution had been violated, and the libettios infringed some few months since, when i Government Was compelled to send a military force to quell the multitude raised by him. Now, he un- 1 derstood why hedlsliked the Life Guards, and their barracks, it arose from some awkward impresoion that yet remained of an unouccessful attempt, to defy and defeat the law.—[Cheers and laughing for some montents.]—Governinent would indeed be permit the; all tights to be trampled upon if such lawless tumults were permitted with Impunity. lie was per suaded that the good sense of the people would con. Bidet whit had jest been said as nothing more than declamatory nonsense, calculited, however, to pro duce the greatest mischief. The Right Hon. Gentle man then, in conaidemble detail, examined the cir cumstances attending the different Barracks proposed to be erected, and concluded by declaring his deter mination to support the Vote, since it would save to the country natty five thousand pounds per annum. Ceneral- TAR LETON explained. Mr. HUSKISSON condemned, in very strong and pointed language, the speech delivered by Sir F. Bur- , dett, ss hich he had heard with pain, though net with astonishment, recollecting his rooted aversion to any thing like accommodation to the Life Guards, who had restored older at a time when the Hon. Baronet was the first to set the law) at defiance. [Loud cries of hear, hear 0 He maintained that the military, sshenever they were called on to suppress distur bances, behaved with a moderation that , was highly admirable, and which even the deluded wretches whom they quelled were the first to acknowledge. He ridiculed some cif the historical allusions of the Honourable Baronet, but expressed his sorrow that I be was compelled to concur with him in -the vote he should give. He contended that the erection of the Barracks, in all the situations required, was inex. pedient, and in some instances unnecessary. The Estimate for them was also extremely excessive, the must rate being only about 1201. for every man and horse of the cavalry, and only about 601. for every man of the infantry. The frontage of the Barracks in Mary-le-bone was nearly one-third of a mile, and the wall to inclose it not less than a mile in cir cumference.—Thinking that the postponement could not be injurious in any point of view, be should sup port the amendment. Mr. BAItHAM said, that although he came down to the House to vote for the Amendment, he had Dearly been induced to change his resolution by the address of the Honourable Baronet, and certainly the Chancellor of the Exchequer had in his comments btien a little ungrateful, since no speech that had ben delivered could have sore benefited him. [Hear! 9541 a lough.] He (Mr. Barham) was an enemy to Barracks, but if may thing could convince him to think that atanary, it would be the pregaissai of such doctrines as he had heird with disgust Oil night; [Hear, hear 1 • The question being loudly called for, the tiOnsie divided on the atttnit 'notion, When the ntinibett were= FF , Ayer in faVoir of the ERte l'MON OF THE HARK ciksm The othlit; Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and thf noultadjOitrited at Twelve o'Clock. ERK/iTA. - la the AistertiNimetie of the Wine hnd Spirit Shire, 59, Linsibl Conduit -street, in.eited in dol. Paper of Monday Ink, For best Coghine Brandy, 5.55: read :355. For Old Pale Sherry (Ili Flits), 535, read 30s, l• Arr. alitiV. Due. 1 .. r • Thiblin ‘: . :. A 2 0 .• . , . . • . . witerfora 2 6 o •I' i • • ' I.lolin '''• • ' - •' 1 O . •'.... Malta 3 • n.e..., • .. . • ~ • • Jar •• • .4, ,•- : _ . . i PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Rank S per Cent. Conk 64 S per Cent. Red. 6:1 4 per Cent. ;51 5 per Cent. Navy 914 Leag. Ana. 15 16 OAT AT - ONE O'CLOCK. India Bond; par 9 p Exchequei Bills pm 1 pir. Dkta Omaium Consols fo Ara. 64* LatreaThkets THE STATESMAK, LONDON: SATUELOIN, MAY 2 ) 11111. ANOTHER FLAG OF TRUCE FROM FRANCE; DEAL, Mmr 1. Arrived last night, after post, a Flag of Truce from Calais, intended for Dover, mistook the port in a fog, and, being obseried by the Officers of his Ma jesty's ship lnconstcnl, a boat was manned, and Lieutenant CLARK went alongside, to whom the French Officer delivered his dispatches, which were immediately sent 3n shore to the Admiral, and for• warded by express to London. The French Officer, after receiving ar acknowledgment from the Corn , mander in Chief (Admiral Formr), proceeded for the opposite coast. DISTURBANCES IN THE COHNTRY. We ars sorry to tifid that symptoms of riot, similar to what have already agitated the country, and which are attributable only to the continuance of the war, have shown themselves at Liverpool, as will appear from the following letter, which we received this morning from a Gentleman resident there, on whose veracity we have the utmost reliance : LIVERPOOL, Aran. 30. Last night a mob of about 500 persons collected at Mr. Mvaaay GLaorrones ropery, where patent machinery is used, with the intent, it is supposed, of destroy ing the same ; but notice having been given to the proprietor, they were induced to disperse 'without doing any material damage. The machinery is estimated at 10,0001. Mr. LA t:, appre , hensivo of being revisited, has placed a guard in the walks. The ropery is situated at a place called the 1 1 Park, immediately contiguous to the boundaries of the town. Letters from different ruts concur in stating, that the great tumults have subsided, but that shocking outrages are committed by small parties of depreda tors and assassins.—Mr. CARTWRIGHT, who so bravely defended his property in Yorkshire, has been fired at on three distinct occasions; but without do ing him the slightest injury. Mr. TRENTHAM, not withstanding his alarming wound, is likely to re cover. The Luddites have had the audacity to pia card the streets of Nottingham in the night, offering a reward for Mr. WI t.sox, the Mayor, dead or alive. lie had committed no other offence than signing the 1 offer of reward of 6901. from the Corporation of Nottingham, for the discovery of the assassin who shot Mr. TRENTHAvt. These inflituited men are said I actually to meet in the streets of Nottingham, in small parties, in the day-time, and triumphantly talk I over their nightly depredations. Every thing was tranquil in Manchester on the 29th ult. The rioters were becoming mere marauders. The Local Militia had assembled, and the public mind was more at ease. In former times, fur instance, its the reigns of CHARLES, or of .I.OlEs, the Champions of Liberty, had to contend with the parasites of power—whether the will of a people, calling themselves free, should I be without resource, subjected to the will of a Prince. The case Is now a little changed, for it is Whether the will of a Minister gall be paramount to the will of the people. No Prince who ever sat s on the British Throne was eter able to effect so much against the • wish of the nation as 'Mr. PITT, We call it the w ish, ; for it would be mocking their impotency and their feeling to call it the will of the people. The " heaven born" Minister was allowed` to run the tuition one hundred millions in debt ; to shed the blood of eighty thousand of its inhabitants ; to throw away the commerce of the Country ; and, above all, to bring famine to the threshold of the dwellings of three-fourths of his countrymen.-- - • Ilis successor, ;In, PERCIVAL, without either the judgment to conceive, or the talents to execute, the destructive projects of his predecessor, affects to adopt his schemes, and, in the prosecution of them, he has nearly completed the work which his worthy prototype so patriotically began. Famine has not I only, in these days, approached the threshold of the dwellings of the great mass of the community, but it has actually penetrated into the interior ; and, as the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted last night is the Rouse of Commons, has given birth to innumerable seditious, if net treasonable, assem bler, Ouotagbottt the Country. Yet v in oppositiog to the *railing distress in the inenufactnring trieta, so feelingly and SO justly attributed, In the bu merons Pet Wont before Parliament, to the Orders Council, Ministers allege that the commerce of our country is improting ; that our eriports are increasing; and tousequeiitly it is impossible that the sufferings of the nuinufactureti can have been occasioned by these nietiSurei; They reluctantly admit that the Manufactures are not in the must prosperous state, :OW that there is some ground of complaint; but they deny that those who ought to form Some idea of the cause of these misfortunes, know ally thing about it. The question is simply this:—There is a large stock Of goods on hand which cannot be disposed of. The Manufacturer has exhausted his capital ; he has Worked up all the raw materials he could prudently -- . - purchase, and has no longer the means of buying I More; of course he thnnot give employment, evert itt reduced wages, to the numerous workmen he for merly kept in his service. To what does the Maim ,factirer attribnte this stagnation in his business ? To the loss of the Anterican market. Why so ? Because he formerly sold Such goods as he has now on hand to the American merchant. Westriglini to Sod that Ow COShmittee of the Monte of c o oMMOrth for investigating the depressed state of trades is daily engaged in hearing evidence; and it irk* be ti great satisfaction to the suffering Minufacturer4 to end, that An opportunity is thus afforded them, dun; ing the sitting of the Committee, to lay their disz tresses before Parliament; It gives as real satisfaction to find, that Goierrii; meat have determined tb extend the PAW India trade to all the out-ports of the kingdom, notwithstanding the opposition shown to this measure by those Who are so obviously interested in its being confined to the port of London. A meeting of the Fast India Proprietors was held yesterday, to which this deter mination was communicated, and which occassioned, as might naturally be expected, much dissatisfaction. The President was extremely indignant at Ministeis for having resolved to confek so great a service on the country, and attributed this to what he was pleased to call the " clamours made by the traders in the out ports." lie likewise endeavotired, in a strain not more consistent with decorum, to show, that I free itn port trade would not be of any real advantage to our manufactures. Was it likely, he said, " that the natives of the Fast would take the goods of the manufacturers of Manchester? or the goods of those of Glasgow and Liverpool ? Yet they petitioned Par liament to open the trade, as a means of relieving them from the pressure under which they at present are. With respect to Nottingham, from which town a petition had been presented, would the manufac turers there be benefited by the projected measure, for they never wear stockings in India ? Birmingham and Sheffield too could hope little benefit." Now, without entering into any argument to show the fal lacy of this reasoning, we would ask the Fast India Company, what injury they can possibly suffer, by the trade being opened to the out-ports, if neither these nor the interior manufacturing towns are to be benefited by it ? The fact is, the East India Propri etors care for no person's interests but their ow n,and therefore, they treat all others with contempt who would expose their unjust mouepoly, and assert their legitimate right to a free trade. — We seldom find any thing in the Courier that merits our approbation. On the present subject, however, the following article, which appeared in that Paper of last night, claims our recommendation, es it contains sentiments aualagous to what we have already advanced respecting the views of the London Merchants, who have resolved to Peti tion against the out-port trade to India. —" At the Meeting styled Merchants, Manufacturers, &c. of the City of London, held at the City of London Tavern, on the 25th ult. we apprehend but few people attended, except those concerned in the East India Company's Shipping, such as ships' hus bands, India agents, wholesale grocers ; brokers; &c. ; and those men, considering their own imme diate interest likely to be affected by the destruction of the India monopoly, have the assurance to place their situation in opposition to the general good of of the country very modestly say to the Public, c If you take from the India Company their exclu siVe Charter, give to us, te.xident iu London, a mo nopoly of the whole of the Indian Trade.' Such presumption and illiberality surely cannot be coun tenanced by any respectable Merchants Or inhabit ants, whose interests have not altogether blinded their judgMent. We have no doubt that, when the ports of India and China are laid open to the dation at large, the capital of the kingdom will not suffer, as it is probable the business will chiefly re main in London, and' be so much extended as to make up for the proportion of the trade that .will be carried on at the out-ports." By the following Official Docntnent, issued at Berlin within these few weeks, it will be seen, that the King of Noma has deter Mined to enforce the Anti-Commercial Decrees of the Code Napoleon, with the utmost rigour 2 BERLIN.—tioTtriCATtOI4I. As the navigation for the ensuing season must now soon recommence at the different ports, it is proper to remind the commercial public of the Or. dinances issued from time to time by his Majesty the King, fer the maintenance of the Continental sys tem, And the strict prohibition of all trade, or other prohibited intertmursa with England, especially theße- gidatiois ofithi 11th Jdne, 1808, sod 4bd Oniißamir of the 28th Aug. 18ifli find Bth. Moroi 1811: More effectually to pretest Xll iftfetripti to *ioiate the taii4 Ordinances, his Majesty has teSolved that guaiii ships shall be fitted out as soon t 3 possiblei iti the principal ports of the kingdom, to see that the laws relative to commerce are duly carried into exe cution, and to guard the coasts against any attack of the enemy; and to carry into the nearest or most suitable Prussian harbour for further examination, all ships suspected in being engaged in any kind of illicit trade, and all persons found Offending against the regulations and Ordinances relitiie to the Conti nental System, must expect to be punished in their persons and property with de utmost rigour: VAN HARDENBIF,EI6. (Hainbargh Correqxmdenten, April 15.) It is said, on the authority of letters from St. Pei. tersburgh, that all the British Nairal 011icers whd have been residing, during the war with England, in the interior of Russia, have been invi ed to St. Pe. tersburgh, and many of them have been engaged i t superintending the titting out of Russian ships of war. A Deputation from the Silk-weavers of Spitellieldi *sited ou thairentaient yesterday, for the purpose of liying before it the situatibn of the trade. Mr; WIiITRREAii, Mr. Biltc, Mr. BitAxo, and Several distinguished Members of Parliament, havd accepted the invitation of the Livery of London, Friends to Parliamentaryßefotm, to dine their map niversdry Meeting, at the City df London Tavern, on Saturday, the 9th inst. The L )RD MAYOR will bold a t °when Co acid Ott Tuesday next. The Livery of London should be informed that the Address now lying for signatures, is a counter Ad drets to that passed at the Common Hall, as frritt the artifices that have been used to of tan signatur numerous Liver,men have signed it through error. Another banking-houte forgery to the amount of 30001. has been discovered at the West end of the town, end the defaulter has fled. The GentlemOn who cinipote the Canada Club, of the City of London, wan, we understand, to expel HENRY from their society, at their next meet lug,, which will be this day. Sir Viceny Grans, it is said, is to sudeed Sir ALAN CIIANRitt (With a promise of the first vazant Chiefship), as a Puisne Judge of the Court °Kam mon Pleas ; Sir Tuostas Pt.bstrit to bOcome Attor ney-General; and Mr. GARROW Solicitor-General to I.i Majesty. It is soni.'what curious that the only rat Which has slunk away from his old companions to get a snug ' birth in Carlton House, makes a conspicuous figure in the outset of the Delicate Investigation, and is I named in Mr. PEacEvAE's Book.—SO much for the county of Chester. N.41 1 4L INTELI.IGENCR: PII.YMUU~ K, azurlifiam. Awass.ll):•• • • Arrived yesterday the Tigre, of 74 guns, frost to itoadi. A frigate is cot up Channel last evening, said to be the Loire, from the West I ndiis. Arrived the Dattemark, of 74 guns, from the Westward ; the Mary, t'ross; Mary, Smith; and Ceres, Thatcher; all from London; the Sampson, Sebour, (ruin Dundalk. The Sterliiig, Castle did not arrive yegeeday, it having proved to be the Tigre. FA ',MOUTH, Aeßtr. 29. Arrived the Charles, Tunbury, from Gibraltar. -DARTMOUTH, APRIL 30. Arrived the Paquebot cartel, from Mortal x, with four ladies and two gentlemen; also ten English boys, taken by the L'Orient squadron. Six vessels were taken by them :--the J ohn, Clegg; and thb Ocean, Dansen ; from Surinam to London; the N e ptune, from Liverpool to the West Indies; a brig, Captain Morrison; from Ireland, do. ; and a brig, from St. Michael's, *ere taken and destroyed in March, by the L'Orient squadron ; and, with the Mary, I)onaldsen, from ti 'Altar to Bristol, found at sea, without any person on btiarci, and carried into Ireland; arc all the vessel• which they cap tured. DEAL, MAY SO. Sailed his Majesty's ships Plantagenet add Sceptre, the former for the Baltic, and the latter fur oil Fluvhing t and the ti.gturad frigate, for Portsmouth. Came Bonn Flom the itiver tho Diana East Indianian, and, re mains. Thursday the State Lottery finirited Drawing: the following Capital Prizes were sold in, 64 ShareS by ItiCllAlto 4 olll, GOODLUCK, and Co. :—NO. 5,519, a Prize of XlO l OOO-11,518, £5,000-11,433, Q;1,000--`2,404, £3OO-10,609, 9300--:010, 1, 4 200 —and 3,238., 2200 ; Tickets and Shares. for the State Lottery, to be drawn the 4th of -June • ate now on Sale at the Offices of Ricumsosost,' Goon. Luca, and Co. corner of Battk-buildings, - COrnhill„ and facing the King's Mews, Charing-croei. The Drawing of the State Lottery took placo 00 Thursday, the 30th ult. at Coopers' flail, _when leas/ 7, 1 2.05 1 a Prize of RO,OOO-2,880, '9,722, and 3,722, £ lOW each-1,288, E5OO-1,109, MO— and 2,873, k2O0 —were all. sold and shared at Messrs. Ilazatte BdaNa, and WA R Elea Office, Royal Exchange. Tickets and, Shares for the en snit% Llttery, consisting of only 8,000 Tickets, ere now oh Sale; the I)rawlng will take place oil the 4th of June next, the King's Birth Day. LosooNozaay, A eau. 17.-r fk preacher of the gospel, mount ' ed on a joint stool, and surrounded by a number of his associated, with psalm books in their hands, held, forth', on Sunday last, in King VVilliams'a-square, to an admiring multitude which h • 00- velty of the scene had collected. Ile thought that be might p sibly catch a few soils amidst the crowds of inconsiderate ti amidst which the fineness ‘ll the evening had called from their habita tion:: ; but alas! alas! as well might he have bobbed for eels in mill-pand. 4 , The gay, licentious crowd" passed tin without hearing " what this babbler might say." In the midst of his exertion the Lanarkshire drums iolledalinust vender his nose, preparatory to their butting the retreat; hot this was not sufficient to overcome the spirit within him, till a jack ass which happened to pass that way, after picking his scanty fare about the ditches, began to euquire what was the caws of so unusual an assemblage, by very loud bravings, to which the boys, who had by this time collected , joined 'their efforts, and, tone ' her with the ass ' raised such a clatter as would have drowne ed the voice of the Angel with the seventh and last trumpet — The preacher instantly decamped with his stoat under one arm, and a bodb under the ether. His text was froin the ;it!' of sr. matttie w ,—. , When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as eke by pii crites are t for they laic to pray standing in the syuageg les, and n the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of meu. Ve ily I say unto you, thee have sk..te , Lieresonoissiav Ikavne.—On the orb ;mt. at Hollinwonil. Peggy, the wife cf Samuel Booth, was delivered of three fine children, all girls, and likely to do well i they have called them Faith, Hope, and Charity. Scarcely tutees sleuths have elapsed aince.she was brought to bed of twins. _._._--, :~ V; ;'M .1 4 S I I )" 1 II sli;• • Pc • r . ' 1111 111 y 11