The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-10-03 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE AFFAIRS. SITTINGS OF THE CORTES.—Sarr. 16. It appearing that there is a deficiency of corn in the kingdom, the Agricultural Committee propose to admit foreign cora t.v be deposited I t the port of Lis4on:- 1..-nv merchant shall he at liberty to import foreign torn (Trigo, whale) into the port of Lisbon for the next three months, subject to certain regolati,ms, 11. When the average nrice of Portuguese corn is SOO rear, foreign corn shall be admitted as follows :- 1. When the average price is between S(N) and 900 res., foreign corn may be sold in equal proportions with Portornese, that is, half of each. 2. When the average is between 900 and 960 real', too-thirds of foreign corn may be sold. When the average exceeds 960 real, the whole quirdity sold may be foreign. SEPT. 17.—The Committee of the Constitution pre sented its opinion on the steps yet to be taken in mew ing to, and publishing it. They propose that bin Ma jesty shall repair to the Palace of the Cortes on the lot of October, to take the oath in form, and that the Pre sident having presented to his Majesty the Holy Evan gelists, be shall lay his right band on the book, and say, 1 ;wept, and swear to observe, and cause to be ob served, the Political Constitution of the Portuguese Mo narchy, which the Constitutional Cortes of the same na tion have just decreed." Se rreatnca 19 —The opinion of the Committee pro posing a decree in seven articles relative to Brazil (which has already been printed) declaring the sets of tie (government of Rio null, recalling the Prince Royal. was discussed, and gave rise to a very long and ani • :,ted debate, the continuance of which was adjourned to the next sitting. be Cortes having approved of the opinion of the Committee of the Constitution on the application of sonic deputies of Brazil, who desired that their functions shun!.) he considered as terminated, because the province that sent them did not agree. which opinion was found ed on the circumstance that this disagreement (diaaidcn ;€l) IV4II not certain, and therefore they should retain their functions till these provinces should name other iliTutics to the Cortes. convoked at Rio, the deputies proposed to defer signing the Constitution for the pre sent.—(Lisbon Paper*. Sept. 20.) PUDLIC 310N11T.-MYSTERY. (/11031 TUZ LCINSTI JOMINAL.) We understood, from unquestionable antlittrity, that e memorial, sanctioned by the respectable names of the Grand Jurors of the county of Kilkenny, was, at th. last Assizes, forwa:ded to his Excellency the Lord I.i. utenant for a loan of 10,011/., to be advanced from the sum approptiated for the relief of the poor of Ireland, or some other fond. The avowed object of ti e loan, if we have been rightly informed, was for the purpose of re-establishing the Merino Factory, anti thereby sff.rding employment to the industrious nor rof i's neighbourhood. This application, on be of the county, both at the time it was forwarded to the rastie, std up •to the present hour, has, by all the parties concerned in promoting it, been kept a profound secret. The information of which we are in possession reached our Orfiee in a circuitous way Rod accidently. If the Merino Factory is in Wore to b.• considered a National Establishment, anti not in ti r light of a mere private concern; if it is henceforth to ire carried on at the public rxpence, and not with IN. money or on the credit of private proprietors, we are at a loss to cnneeire why all proeeedings relating to the institution should he made so profound a mys tery. If the measure of a public loan was likely to he attended with advantage to the county of Kilken• isy, why not call a county Meeting for the purpose of a tall, deliberate, end impartial investigation, prepare troy to a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant? Would 11.:s have been at once the least exceptionable, most lot; restive, and most respectable mode of layico a tepresentatien Lefore the Government? At sncl. v meeting a committee could be appointed to re crier evidence, and to report spots certain essential l points—the existing state of the establishment and its national utility—the sum necessary to enable it to reserve business with a resonable prospect of success —tie number of industrious poor to nhom it was fikely to give employment—the terms proper to be proposed to Government for the loan, w ith the ',Ante ef the security to be offered for repay ment —and though last, not least in point of im portaree, the Cutnruittee could report to his Ex celsncy the person or persona into whose hands tl e money was proposed to be entrusted, and in whose same the business of the manufactory was in future to be carried or, and could respectfully !suggest a mode of accounting - , at short and stated letters's, for all sums retrived and disbursed and of pnblisoing these accounts, properly authenti reed, in the Dublin and Provincial Newspapers. It is Dot merely a few individuals who are con crepes/ in this matter; the public must now feel a l deep intertst in every thing connected with the Alt rine Slane factory, for already have sums amounting ' in the whole to not less than one hundred thousand poised' sterling been •htained from the people of this country for its support. Tie items, as far as we have been able to a fain them, arc as follows: —Sixty thousand pounds bas been extracted from the gutty of Ibis and the neighbouring counties by the tontine scheme. The unfortunate peasantry have, without their consent or knowledge, been com pelled to contains 10,0001. in the shape of (Lowy assessments; and the Government of the country has a4ranced, by way of Loan, the sum of 30,0001. ; fur should it be forgotten, that the unfortunate ptoprietors and their numerous friends urt have sunk nearly as much inure in building, stocking, and working the establishment. Surely, thee, it teapot be considered a sapertluons pre caution to require a public and solemn investigation on the spot, of all circumstances connected with, and bearing epee, the Merino Factory, before another venter• of 10,0001. shall be risked in the same bottom. But would a single advance be sufficient to set going, and to support in fall and profitable operetion, this in teresting and highly important establishment? We apprehend not. We are credibly informed that to effect that desirable object would require from Govern. ramt, for some years, an annual supply of 29,0001. We are fully aware of the importance, in every point cat view, of affording troplortnent to the industrious c: - f the community ; but we, for our part, feel touvinced that employment of a useful and perma nent nature in a manufactory is only to be given by the ordinary and legitimate course of private enter prise and private speculation. By a public establish. went, kept afloat by occasional grants from the Tree sory, some temporary employment will be afforded to a few favoured individuals ; and the still more favour. THE STATESMAN. et! personages nho are entrusted with its menet:me"' may possibly be enriched; but it is only under the si,iifol and judicious care of some entermisirg pri vate capitalist that we expert the Merino Factory tug become a profitable establishment, and that we hope to see permanent employment given to a considerable portion of our industrious poor. MCI ARR. cer.. .I~T. '"•-• I Dolltto -- I — O .• If o!l‘r d • 0 O Waterford 2 0 ITarabro' 0 O G. & Jersey - 0 I Frnnc«- - O !Ashen 0 0 N:anders - 0 I Gottoalsarst - 0 0 America - - 0 PRICE OF STOCKS, AT ONE O'CLOCK. THIS PAY. ll,nk Stack ....._ sor Ct. Rod I it:ttn Ennis 49 31s poi. I per Cc: Coss Si per Cont. j Sown SIN OW Ass 4 'ter Coats New Fours 19121 ! 100:/. S '''' r : bverCent. 1797 ..----6619. O. Os Os p.. Long Ann i Small be 7s. O. pm. lap. II prut... .. Hy- b per Cent LONDON.. THURSDAY RUKSIND. OCTOBER 3, 1522. STOCK EXCHANGE, TwEr. V 1 O'CL3rX. There is scarcely any business in this market, anatoe fonds remain steady at 8144 fur the Account, and Slii for Money. There is a great hustle in the foreign market, and much business doing, particularly in OM and New Spanish Bonds, Chili, and Columbia. All descrip tions of Foreign Securities are on the rise, and in great demand. Chili Stock (paid up). 82&—New Sosnish. 771 New Prussian,Sttf—thd.Sti! ex.illy—ltoseic.l:B—Donh.h,Soj —NegroMau, 771—Columbian, 6i j SS—Scrip, 87163. gociations had been opened with Portugal, but that they were nearly 'brought to a conclusion, and that the result would be the march of a strong Portugnese corps to the frontiers of Spain,to assist in relaying the rebels, and if necessary, in repellieg invasion. A ilk tinguished Portuguese indivitlnal had, it is said, left a drd on tb- eveningof the 13th for Lisbon, hearings ith hint the olienalant of the Spanish Government. Tree in -1 tettsts of both countries, it is added, hail been teci: m noderatoed and skilfully conciliated, and the decision of the Poi taguese Micistry was expected to ha l.nown within tea days in the Spanish Capital. The King had appointed a new Political Chief for Barcelona, and had selected a military man, General Don Fer nando patron, to hold that office, on account of the difficulties and dangers of the times. The cause of the arrests which took place sometime since in that city is now explained. Thy were occasioned by the sudden appearance within its walls of a bundle of Pruclamatiots i'sued by the pr, ended Regency of Urgel. These Proclamations were immediately burned in the public square by the Ilanrman's hand', In presence of the civil and military authorities, and in the midst of the shouts of the people, whose in dignation could only he appeased by the arrest of the individaals suspected to have introduced the factions appeals within the city.—The terri torial 11.8 defi mit:rely pro nonnced sentences egaiost time person. aceated of the conspiracy - at Burros to carry off the King. and of whom almost all belong to his Majesty's household. The pain of death pronounced by the Tribunal of First Instance on Don Domingo Basso y Morro, Manuel tle Rot., Francois Barrio, Denis Cameo, Isidore Astorga, George Erespo„ and Ferdinand Caguizacea, is coos mated into ten years imprisnatueot in the galeres ; the laymen are to truck, the ercleeiasties are to be sent ta time hospital of the galercs:—AlM. Arlega and Ordaguez are exiled for eight yeses to the Ba- ' learic islands. General Echavarri is exii.ol tor two years from within 20 leagues of Madrid. MM. Ramirez and Ferdinand 'l'yrso have re-entered into possession of all th,if rights and honours. Sir A'Court was expected at Vittoria on his tray to Madrid, as Minister Plenipotentiary at that Court froth the C net of Britain. The olsj•ct of this mission appears to be of importance, and in the 'stir-mm.l°n of some people is deemed an indication of a more liberal policy with respect to Spain.---The ac counts from the frontiers ouly deteit trifling actions, in which, notwithstanding- the boastful . tions of the Royalists, it is evident that the friendtof the Con stitution and of order are continually gaining ground —According to an article from Vienna, given iu these papers, the opening of the Congress has'been post poned from the Ist to the 15:It inst., " on account of the change which has taken place in the British Mi nistry." The some article contains a strong corrobo raticn of all the accounts lately published of the our- Cfllll aof the Greeks. It states that Chourschid Paela, whom the :lust, jun represented as time Con queror of the Morro, " teas at Larissa raisiag Loops." Now this coincides exactly with the Grecian report of his defeat and flight to that city; and his " near troops" corroborates the statement that he had lost his former army, and had reached Larissa with only 301)0 men. But the Vienna article goes Istill further, and announces that Choorschid had set the Greek Bishops, whom he held as hostages, at li herty, with directions to repair to the Mores, and " to 'Wirer to Ittelifor - eins - In the Sultan's name, the same privileges as those cr . :eyed by the Sertions, if tliry troold lay down their aroma, and submit without delay." The priaileges enjoye.t. by the S-rvians are those of notional existence, of self-government, and in fact. with the exception of paying tribute, those of almost total independence. Terms like these would never be protfvred to a people whose strength was broken, I whose coantry wis occupied, and whose cause (to use the expression of some of Our coteutpororice) " was at an end." CNCU ri*NDS. SEPT. 30.—Fire per Cent. Consols opened at 931. I oc. ; highest. 93f. 20c.: closed ist 93f. Stock, 16461. 23e.—Nespolitan Five per Cents. 774.—Fikehance on London, one month, 25f. 50c.; thms ditto, :251. 35c. Mv'i t e Qk tAtP k sgitalt• 02a7 • S " T:IC IHPf q. STA . ' 1 4 :, , ttORPORATiII WITS "111 ST:TVIMAN." FIRE IN LONG ISLAND. New York papers arrived this morning to the 25th of August. The New York Gazette ..f the 22d of that month, contains the following account of the fire, which was stated yesterday to have taken place at New York, but whi .11 now appears to have been iu 1l Long Island, and, though extensively destructive, not of the magnitude reported:—Abort eight o'clock, last evening, a fire broke nut at the treat depot of naval stores, opposite the Coffee-house Slip, on Long Island. In a few minutes, several stores erd sheds, tilled with naval stores, &c. were in a vivid blaze. hel' illumination was sublimely grand, and, on the city side, attracted an asseniblaxe of thousands of spectators, who filled our wharfs and stores on the river side ; and hundreds were seen on the hills, in :he rear of the flames. Ihe wind was very light, from the S.S.W., and the flames received but little aid, which was not derived from ihecombostibility of several thousand barrels of naval stores, which, like the lava of Mount Vesasius, spread a most bet-- resting sheet of tire over an extensive wharf to the river, and presented a most splendid blase to the sur face of the paler. The storms were principally owned by Mr. Henry IVarning. and were rented bt t_lerattlf Waite and Merry, who bad in storage the property of numerous individuate. Since the above was in type, we learn the rre:rrty destroyed includes 'Thomas Armstrong's porter home ar.d the yard, M Vandever's porter-house, J. Tut tle's dweiling-house, and the stores of Warning. It is supposed that the buildings contained aiiont 140!1 hales of cbtton, and 12,000 barrels of r•.atal stores. The naval stores may be estimated at about thou. sand dollars, and the cotton at about 56 thorsand dol lars; making a loss, incliding the buildings, of about 100,000 dollars. brick Store of Is.ssrs. Warn ing anal Illentbaly. Nil of cotton, it the only building which was not laid in ashes. It is net known haw the tire originated, but presumed to be the work of an incendiary. fly these papers we learn, that the fever still conti nued at New York, and one ease having sppeared ont of the bounds of what is called the infected district, had increased the alarm in the winds of tho inha bitants. NORTII-WEST-DISCOVERY-EXPF,DITION. BY LAM), UNDEIL LIEUT. FRAMMIN: MONTREAL. Ac). U.—Through the politeness of a gentleman, who has just arrived in this city fro,:. a distant post in the North-west territory, we have received intelligence that the expedition which was fitted out by direction of the Adinir.tlty in the summer of l Sl9, nyder the orders of Lieut. Franklin, was on its return to Hudson's Bay. The expedition advanced as near to the Copper Aline River in the following year as the approaching winter would permit ; and in the spring of the last year baring embarked in canoes, which they bad carried over land with them, they descended that river until it discharged , itself into the Hyperborean or Frozen Ocean.— The Expedition then proceeded in the execution of its ulterior object; namely to explore the coast of the Pular Sea from the mouth of the Copper Mire River, round to Hudson's Bay. This, however, it would appear from the information we have been able to collect, it could no further effect than by surveying a few huodred wiles of the coast, to the northward and eastward ; the winter having set in towards the en! of August, with such severity that it obliged the party to retool n. Several deaths had occurred, among whom Mr. Wood, nine Canadians, and one of the Csquitrous. is stated that hum the o6ervations made in the ex• peditiun, the mouth of the Copper Mine River differs Icy several degrees of latitude (row that laid dcm n by !kerne. We have this morning received Paris papers to the Ist instant. They hare brought intelligence from Madrid of as late a date as the ;9th ult. All was tranquil in that capital, where the proclamation lately issued by the King, and the exertions of the Ministers io place the army on an effective footio;, and to sob due the insurrection, had created much satisfaction Notwithstanding the contradictory statements which have appeared is papers under Ultra influence, It war still confidently asserted at Madrid, ,not only that as- BLOODSHED IN FRANCE. The •nen, who have jest fallen victims to the Boor. bons, are, probably, not a fiftieth part of those %he rill fall in the confer of another year or two. It is nonsense to mak• an out-cry about it, unless our words were steel or bullets. The Bourbons will " rate& it" (as the soldiers call it) at last; but, in the mean while, sense men mast ; blood ~tart finrr ; for, as to submittingto the Bourbons e(mtentedly, that is what the French still serer du.—Some blame the Bourbons for endeavouring to bling thing's 5 icA to the old mark. Bat, the Bourbons, like all other creatures. seek their oam prescrtmtim ; and, they feel that, if the people br free they cannot exist. It is most likely flirt the' struggle will go on between them and the people, no t 4 tiler• he, in some shape or other, a 7' lit I'l4 i t Rep land: and that would settle their affair for them in grand style.--. 11 is forename for the liaorbons, tltit they hare no debt worth speaking ef ; so that the pro. plc, compared with are alsnoet tax free. The frVO lati"nary government got rid of the old debt, that hav ing first destroyed the "Id government; and very little deli: is now existing. So that the people at Ise/pare roar, and, of cows,, not mutinous. There wants. however, only the occasion, to blow the whole Bourbon thing to piecet—The Bourbons owe their restoration to the Jill and igranny of NA r/LEtiN, oho was the greatest traitor to the cause of freedom that ever existed, awl olio richly deserved all t mortification and degrada tion that he had to endu e). Thisa who could link iiiineelf on to the des ria.i deserved any thing thit ever the dlustrian could invent. He deserved Coeld tarn and L044 . C. lie haul tt in his bower to sweep all I tyrants from tl:e face of the earth. Tile valour shit 140 A of Frenchmen had put this power into his bands ; and he basely betrayed the trust, seliicb , as far as he was able, the liberties of mankind for the gratification of his own vanity and pride. It was good fur Vrance to get rid of him, at any price. The fellows son 11,. got now have no fools to avi,,4i.e thin : there is no taint in them to balance against the aallit.iry hatred that is felt towards them. Nothing is so bad as • ty rant that the multitude ad/the. '!'here is little dangei i• a tyrant, if he be a despica6k, Leastla so!, wham th. people laugh at; for, though I:e, ur tba ruffian. about him, may cause a few heads to be chopped of now-ankl•then, the people see all in a true light: they are not n ale to be in love with tyranny for tbe salo of theinne of the tyrant. We were rather surveil 4 to see, in the Morning Chronicle nu observation of Oils sort: that Mr. CANNING Wed not a man to gi-e ^ou . ' , mance to these h!nodydeeds of the Bourbons. IViir,•,a do not see what he has to do with the matter at all. Her, we remember, that he jer.s!VZ..4l, is a speech in Perna. meat, the employiog of Edreartle. We remember that, and we remember, thet he AV, the other day at I.; eeepet , ,,, exult In having &piled the ref.,,mer s i s !silt ! ;L. a RP' • 'reed al; the world knows. Why. then. wausiii Choweriele say, that " none of the liberee at Paris believe these "executions to be ocre,alle to Mr. CANNING?" The executions in fidglincl never appeared diragrera;ir fo him, es far as we are able to perceive. IV' well re. member his express and full approbation of the (mil ing of Etitoa,ds; and, since we ha-is known hint, we have never heard frozen his lips, or seen from his pen, one single sentiment that would induce us to believe, that he ever di I, or ever will, disapprove of any act of ity committed towards any man, opposed to that species of sway, of which he has invariably been a supporter. Let us nat, then, wilfully deceive tie, ' selves: and, above all things, let us not, by pens '• less praises besmwed on this man, prepare the way f r Lis d•/?slid, us spin. We shall be very glad to see hi n doing what is right ; but, that for, we Q;; , .n hit-i S• • 1-; ,x‘ : .011 As CARTIAREAG:I, or Oa Doctor, (in tile respect we are talking of), and no Gettr. TIIE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. TM. 4. zrretrst Cnptaio of the age" is zone el' Ito the Congress on the Continent. That giglishman mast he a great fatal, sal o does nct see, that we hate not, and never hsol, any business with the Continent. f; i., however, no matter t 3 us what cur Government may attempt to do there. It cannot now std to its power ore, us by any thing that h can do on the Cor ;ti tient ; and that is all that we have to look alter. ft cannot, by any negocia•ions there, get m o re f aze , 071 10 . 1 lie. We remember the saucy fangleaffe of the tit eaters, and even of some of the stupid-payer'', after the Waterloo alreir. We remember how J i.:rre tie whiskers lookeii! There is scarcely any pueishotent sufficiently great for those, who wore their ribbons in their hats s,ith 4 ` °rave Bone on them, or who hated the trfate ecoleades. The savage j ty, nbieh these wretches repressed at what they deemed the crashing of freedom for ever, deserves any panishwert i that can be inflicted on them ; and punished a petty many of them already have been! The peor.hotee minds gaping for the rest! When the Perms and Landlord, and Farmers meet in their Select Tea tries, to consider of sybat they shall do to peewee a remnant of their property, let them look into the be t., of the Church ; and, there they will find, still d no. rated with rib'auns, the spits, on which they navel oxen and sheep, on the joyous occasion of Liberty ha. ink been, as they thong Is t, stifled for ever. There thee will see these emblems of " triaaeple oeer t'w " lias" Then let them torn to the " deal might" of ,ire millions three hr,leirrd thousaadpealde a iaar.— ,t is about a ninth pail of what they have to pay fee that roasting, leo,et; abut a ninth part of that wk.., which we always told them they woati hare N, pay for those glorious victories over Jacobins and Le yellers ! The puhiic can never too often look at t .. way in which one pretty gentlemen deceived themse've s . 'They did not see, that the recleaning mast come at la,!. They had gone on so long Urn:rims- and toxin; and prorpe: that they had no idea that this same Chita; could lead to the very event that they had, all the white h,en labouring to avoid i' namely. a rero!:etion!-- They had so long been bawling about reenlothm and striving against it ; so long been calling epos the people to spend their money in war, in order that they might si: down and enjoy themselves in perm. oaf that they wholly forgot, that the akin thing, in reeolalions, was the takial,• of the reople's money and esta:es away and, far indeed, were thee fronk.perceiving, that this was to be the e:.11 of all their glorious elfartsl They were, indeed, toll of this often 'slough ; het, they would never listen. This teal revolutioa has come, however. .1 revolnzion r • ready far nacre complete than that of Aneeira ee Fra4eer for, what signifies it what yon tali the thing' Of what consequence le it to me, whether my estates 'be taken away an act of confisration or an act of taxation,' If the taxing law. and cash laws do take :sly estate away, what is it to me, what comfort do I derive from the proceeding not being called a cox!. cation ?—As to what the "Greatest Captain" sba:l do at the Congress, it is of no consequence at all vs the people of I.:4;:tai;d, whose affair is at home, and which affair, do the pretty gentlemal plat they will. draws tawa,ds its elcse. That C:036 meat be facet: • able to the freedom and consequent else and bappite so of the peepie ; and, therefore, we may be perfectly at ease with regard to the movements of the •.ti eite , t " Captain." I.7bbaclutl by lag': No:ca, he can 10 no thing that we need care a straw shout. Portugal, it appear.., has caperiLneoil, wbat core of onr politiciasN Inns% consistently tlo•ir Py+trui, reckon a NessinA , -3 deficient harvest. The Ores, therefore, hare rcsilve.i to admit foreiTn coin that kingdom, a,-co:,::ng• to a scale wLirlo ce::lb.• fa in another of our colnihns. This roioitiliJn ma, a cal r:nt• for the foreign corn that Las Lcentottiil is !It hondeil warehco.es of itrita:n. A pirliccion has been made l y the principal twigs hrokera, to the Committee of the Sleek Exchange. hi be admi•ted as Memh,rs, for the pirpose of mono• ier bitsiness there, in the i , ..reirn and it it sail the answer will ba given on Sawnlay. A vessel booed to Ilsruhnrg from Bahia bat puff np Chanael, awl acenrdin; to the advice, foal wi board of bor, it would appear that sus sailed .." or about the tritli July; bet so meation whatever is made of caul there of any espeditiall. c lki‘ l'rom Lisbon or Rita de Janeiro. 'Elie importation of hemp this season, to ilic lit of October, amounts to 9,t!17 tots from St. Petersburg. .nd 1.:,63 tons from Rigs. In 12121,. th e i mpel -whs. ;'or the same 'wrier/ am-ranted to 1.559 tons from S . l'eterslori L T, nod If_ toms from Ries. Darla!: th whole of I:321 impiqrstion of hemp from St. Pc• crslanrg amounted to 6.7d2. and Irma R i g a t ' 1.17; tuns. Of bristles, this srs'nn, the quantity imported to he lot of Oetnirvi is 902 cask,. [hiring tile eriud, in ls2l, there were only 561 molest aid the (dal yttontity for the seisms 1621 was 1.031. f~