The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-21 00:00:00

LETTER HI. ~~' _ -. . ~• THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL. THE LAST MISERABLE ATTEWT TO CAJOLE AND FRIGATE. - TILE LANDLORDS. ienstseften, Afarc‘ill. l e h Lnao.—Your two grounds. that of oriOprodite 1.4 A kill; the ewe of the distress, and that of tors l;qp not fitio,7 the coffee of the distress, I have de groyed is m• first two Letters. So completrit was t his dare, that there appeared nothing more neciloycy; or is there any thing more necessary with mess of wo ol arose. You saw this, too, yourself; or, I Ould not bare h. d to notice the miserable attempt, tai, since .the publication of thbee letters, been r-ade to cajole and frighten the landlords. I allude to ao article, which I am about to insert, and which in s published in The Courier newspaper on Monday sepias that you have published your speeds in the (um of a pamphlet, and that the same has been dune Md. word to his speech by Lord Castlereagh. These Levi , of dell nonsense may. hereafter, if a single one 'Lerida, Gr a while, escape the hands of the snuffs dialer and trook•nsaker, be subjects of curiosity ; bat. enough of them will be recorded by me to antwer all purposes of waits - , the chief of which, in this ease is, , to slam the guild the commit:emus of power being' i t 'Aged is the hands of ignoritet men. To assist these] miserable productions a Treasury Pelle put forth in the pier jest mentiesed, where they are laid to take " s UstesmeeAlke view of the situation of the cone to :" The newspaper, in which this Letter to you v,.1 first appear, is Called " Tue STATESMAN ;" tiie ebitis some perfume think arrogant ; but, is there any couple of the little devils, covered with oil 14.4-Wick, who are a sort of to those who t; Hatt press ; are there, can there be, any couple of tLese who are not as worthy of the name ofsteteemen ai )os awl Lord Castlereagh ? LC Prier having premised that the brace of speeches, tLis" limo of braialess brothers" are extremely well "decided to ealighten the landlords and farmers as to licenses of the distress and the remedies to be &p -iplird,procceds, in way of proof, to give as a specimen sf their cmtents ; and be selects the part where you as ' ant, tbat America is partaking of the distress, and Mitre you also assert that a part of the distress is 'cis; to a /armingof the pahlie expenditure ! When i• I set this cool and impudent repetition of exploded L..sti,r; and when I still see you permitted to have • pera in your bands, my comfort is, that the landlords wed nft:r, that they have suffered, and that they must offer and greatly suffer fur their tame and base U 4311514111. list the Prier next proceeds to make elucidating re :lairs of his own. And; here, Ist one observe, that the Paler is actually of the Treasury. The remarks were 1 srit4co, I am couriaced, either by yourself, or by an un kraal eittierailta, many of which coin op and grow and the stein of a big one, as suckers come op round f.: O -31 of a plum tree where the soil is ride. and air ,* shut lb! pruaieg-knifs is not carefully used. linsbowever, yam do sot actually pat your tame to fib; I shall ascribe erne remarks to one et your min x ; and, thus premising, I proceed at once to the serer, The Sacker asks; " is there any thinking man in this •eseatry that can differ with his Lordship in opinion • • Oat a market is the real want of the farmer ? Admit- tie; tkis to be the case, can any thing be mere absurd 'than the present clamour for reduction? The coo " I:stolen of soldiers and sailors, &c. must surely • create a market for agricultnral produce. What taxes take from one part of society, they unquestionably • to another. If they take from A. the means of ' haying, they place eyval messes at the disposal of B. • Whether A. or B. buy, cannot be of the smallest ins " eortince to C., who sells, provided C. gets paid with. Aye: But, all that the Seeker takes for granted here, limy. I say, that it is not a market that is wanted; aci I say, that the farmer is not paid with apm.* ; and Ns I have proved over and over a thousand times. In mr ratic hareague at Chichester, it is shown how pro dirties will and most go oo whether there be rent and • Petit or not; and, in a Letter to the Farmer's Wien Pole rimed in the Itt,rister of mut Saturday,) I have, ;Elmore particular manner, shown how it is, and why it 6, that the farmer cannot get a price sufficient to pay rb.t st the earl of the year, after having paid the Bel4B etttio,,v;ll the year. I have never said, that the taxes called, or would cause, a dietinatios of consemptiore. I have nese, dreamed of any such thing. On the coo- Ira q I l 'art tesin and again, and especially, in my Letters to the Lcullorda (which, by tile by, the fools do r "" "read, though I said they would sot), shown that the rafts Would nut diminish consumption of food, and this I did in order to destroy the weight of the state- Left, that the excise-taxes had increased. I showed, that these might increase, and the farmers anal landlords dr r-" : 4td al Me sumac time. But we must hear the Sacker again, before we dismiss this matter. "To toy that as superabendaace of corn lowers the " price and 'Trays , listress, and at the same time to tall to Government to dismiss labourers who consume "r; argues a degree of folly which future ages win " hod it impossible to believe. What should we say to " a shopkeeper, who, having a large stock of tea on "dual, solicited all the gentlemen in hie neighbour " hood, who were customers, to dismiss half their set " rants, and reduce the wages of the remainder, in or " der to relieve him (the shopkeeper) from his sayer vh-mimire of tea Jr—This is precisely what the agri• "osists are now doing ; every redaction must ag : mute the ev il un d er wh i ch they suffer; it must di me consumption, and consequently add to excro, and yet they say, reduce." hat, again, it is you, and not I nor any man who is , 11 idiot, who "" say that there is a superaGundnece "l , fes." W e ray no awls thing ; net do the farmers "Y it; nor do the landlords say it ; and, have I not, in % peened let ter to you, proved as clear as day-light. I ti , at th e " pinion is Glee and b east l y ? W hy, then, does Aarker harp upon this? He must have been liter '. : 5 1 .red in th e English Treasury; or h e wou ld thJught of taking his own refuted premises, and, THE SI'ATESMAM patting them into the month of his bppovent, proceed to con Wet the opponent of a wrong coneusion. Nothing , but a tax-eater from his infan c y cou ld k a y o had impu dence like this at command; nothing bat one, who, like, Waltir the base and the bloody, was reared on pension pap, could have found in his nature audacity enough to argue in this sort of way. Bat, the great point with the Sacker is to penned, the landlords, that the taken. off glazes wewhl reduce Priers offstbsi produce! The Devil it would ! What, then, would it add to the produce of the land ; or would it diminish the nisantity of circulating money? Oh! no; but it would knee the atiaber of consumers, by making the Government discharge "soldiers and sailors " who coasouse corm .7---What, then, does the Sucker think that these would not consnnse corn still? Does he think that we mean to cut their throats And the throats of all tke pensioners and placemen, and the bevy, the countless bevy, of pretty ladies, that we have to maintain out of the taxes! No! bless their beauti ful faces, we mean to do wench thing: we only mean that they should take a little healthy exercise, vulgarly called work, and that they should not continuo to con sume and waste the fruit of the labour of others, Let me explain this matter to you, my Lord, for, though a prime Minister, you do not seem to understand it. We shall, by and by, find the Seeker appeal to the fears of the landlords ; but, in the passage just quoted, he affects, at any rate, to appeal to their judgment.— New, then, let us see: there are Mr. Cam:sista', mother end sisters, who have a pension of 500/. a year. They consume, we will suppose, all the taxes paid by farmer Chopstick, including the taxes paid by his labourers, tradesmen, and all others working on, or supplying things for the use of the farm. Now put Mrs. Hums► into a cottage, let her he chargeable to the parish if you like, and let the daughters go to service and work in the fields: take a all the teen of the farmer and his labourers and tradespeople; and will not the farmer have the 500 t. to pay better wages, to pay rest with, and to save as profit ) 1 Yes, this is clear enough, says the Seeker; bat, what becomes of the market that Mrs. Home and her people afforded him? Why, all the la bourns and tradespeople will have more 16 consume Mae they had he/ore, and, besides this, the landlord will have a part of the 5001. in rent; and, sorely, he . can lay it out as well as Mrs. HUNNI ! If this be not clear to you ; and, if you still insist, that it would diminish consump tion sad injure the farmer and landlord to take off taxes ; then, lay Oa more taxes without delay; shake the market that you say is wanted ; raise and spend as much money in nominal amount (and four times as mach in reality) as you did daring the war ; for, according to your doc. trine, the heavier the taxes the greater Me market and the better it is for the farmer and the landlord ! As appertaining to this curious doctrine, which ap-, pears to be the last trick in the budget of cajolery, let us bear what Mr. HUSIIiSON said only on Tuesday night last. It was this: " That taking drat malt tar would ixereare " the consumption of barley, and would thereby relieve the barlergrower; ins' that, any meastite which west " to reduce Me public burdens mist 'avec the farmer, by givlag as ?rodeo"! Ad. you merry, gentlemen, as the mummers say ; for, it must be allowed, that there is delightful harmony in your opinions, however it may be with your songs. Stopping here, for only a moment, just to ask the landlords and the country whatrelianee there is to he placed on the measures of a set of men, whose opinions are as wide as the poles asunder. I will now proceed to the Sucker'. appeal to the fairs, or, rather to the sionsaise, of the landlords. " We might pity the igaoretnee, or laugh at the folly " of this clamour, and let the agriculturists, night after " night, have their way, if some ancient landmark of " the Constitution did not fall a sacrifice, not indeed " to their judgment, for that has repeatedly come to a " contrary decision, bat to their humour. It has been " said the Machinery of Parliament works well. Can " this be the case ? ' Can the affairs of a great nation be " well coudecteil, when Mr. Hams is the mover, within " doors, and l'obbett, without P If the heroes who "fought and bled for their country are forgotten, can " Parliament think nothing of adding to a dissatisfied " population, an additional mass of laboerera trained to .• arms? Can Parliament think nothing of the destruc " tion of all confidence between the Government and its " official servants ? Can it forget that this confidence " materially assisted the Army and Navy through the " war, and that whether we look to Ireland, or Prance, " or even to Norfolk or S"folk, it may again become " necessary? Be/ore a revolution is inevitable, let us " at least rentembl.r, that though winch may be taken " tram the support of an ancient house, and it will " stand when the wind is still; yet, when the storm " comes, it brings with it wide-spreading ruin:' Oh! horrible! Talk of revolittims," glorious revolts " Gob"! But, pray, my lord, what "ancient landmark "of the Constitution" Las been attacked ? Are the second postmaster, the salt-tax, the two lords of the Ad miralty, the crowd at the Board of Control, the 42S naval lieutenants promoted since the peace: are these " ancient landmarks of the Constitution?" "It has " been said, that Parliament works well." Bet, who have said it? Why, Mr. CANNING, and others who live on what the Parliament votes. The Parsons say it, and well they may, when the Parliament has given them a hundred thousand pounds a year for many years past out of the taxes. But, nobody else, I believe, ever said it. However, it does not, certainly work the worse for Mr. Hums being a mover in it; and, as to my being • mover out of it, what the Devil has the working of Par liament to do with my movemews ? It worked Six Acts; and what can it work more with regard to me? Even the great Political Philosopher himself says, " he hopes " we live in a free cosatry. and that men are nut to be gagged"! What, then, can Parliament work ab o ut 7711, 1 want to know? The truth la, I am working you and the Parliament too, and the Seeker, who perceives this, seems to think that Parliameut ought to put a stop to my working. As to the " heroes who fought and Lied for their coun try," I do not require them to he 4,erors, nor to have bled; I only ask that they should haveforeght (out of the kingdom), and I am quite willing to pay my thereof* just allowance to them. But, IJo not see what gratitude I am to feel towards such as wAy of fighting; and, I believe, that if all these were excluded, the sums that the " heroes" receive would be reduced more than three-fourths. Tits Sucker, when he talks about adding the soldiers to a dissatisfies, popalation, seems to forget, that it is the taxes Mat cause the dissatisfaction, and that the ex istent" of the soldiers, as such, cans* a part Of the taste. However, he disguises the main thisg bete. The sob dins, the soldiers themselves, cost comparetiiely little. And, could you not take off three-fourths of the Staff. the Civil List, the pensions, salaries, sinecures and grants, without adding to a dissatisfied pepelation It is the " regiments"; it is thrsefitt battalions; it is the Jews and Jobbers; these are they that devour the taxes. Reduce these • and keep th e a , Idlers for a while, and you will see that ;hey will not be wanted either in Ireland, or in Norfolk or Suffolk. And, as to France, we are come to a pretty State indeed, if we are, during peace, to keep an enormous army on foot to be prepared for another warfor the liottrloits ! This would, indeed, be" indem nity for the past and security for the future." And now, my Lord, what have you left to say? What is the last poor trick? lVhy, to frighten the landlords with the sound of revelation! This has been a most va luable word to you. Worth more than all the other ~di in the Dictionary put together. "Before a revs " lotion is inevitable!"" That is to say, that it will be inevitable if the double post:niaster be cut asunder, or if the soft-tax be taken off; ter, without these, the " an " dent house" cannot stand out the storm ! By " an dent house" the Sackermeans, of course, the boroug 4- house ; and, to be candid, I agree with, him, that Mat house cannot stand without all the means that you now have at your command ; and I now say, as I have always said, that the man who professes to wig!, for a remedy for the evils that afflict the nation, and, at the same time, wishes to support that horse * is either fool or knave. This it is, that insVes all' the present difficulty the wish to support that helms and to have rcnistoo. - Either we may have ; but to !tare both is it'll:invade for two years limiter, anti, I believe, for one. I believe, that many of the landlord, are convinced of this; and I believe, that you knew, that they are so convinced. This it is that has drawn forth the Seeker's appeal to their/ears; but, he forgets, that etre have other fears than those of revolotion, a word, by the by, that has lost m uc h o f i ts power. The worst that a reform can d is to take away their estates. None but idiots dream of that; hut that is the worst; and, when they see, as many of them now do, that they west lose their estates without a reform, it is by no means surprising that this fear should prevail •, that this fear, which daily experience shows them to he but too well fonorled, should prevail over those false alarms, which have been sounded in their ears for more than a quarter of a century, in order to uphold pro fligaty the most flagrant, corruption the most have, and oppression the most cruel anti inate.ting that ever dis graced the character of a nation. am, my Lord, Your Loidsbip's most obedient And most bumble servant. WM. COAdIiETT. EAST IN Dl4 HOUSE , .1 Quarterly General Meeting of Proprieors of East India Stock was held yesterday at the Company's House in Leadenhall street. After the routine business hail b-en gone thron', The CHAIRMAN (T. Reid, Esq.) informed the. Court, that the grant of 2(101. per annum to Dr. Gilchrist, and the reinueeration of NOW. to Mr. J. H. Pelly, were sanctioned by the Commissioners fur managing the affairs of India: MIDSHIPMEN: Mr. Jacasow asked the Chairman whether the 'sng , gestion which he bed made upon a former day, respect ing the neglect of the morals and education of young ' intdshipmen in the Company's service, had beet with, any - e-ediesslien teem lbw Booed of Directors ? • - Tbp CHAIRMAN replied, that the Direetives had been greatly obliged to the honourable proprietor for his suggestion, ahieb had produced a resolution that would, he hoped, meet his object. Thetresolution was then read by the clerk, and eon tained"tertai.s regulations respecting the barna] and nan deal education of midshipmeh, to be observed on board the Company's ships. Mr. JACKSON expressed his thanks to the hoard for the attention they had paid to his suggestion. Those regulations, he was satisfied, would produce the most beneficial effects. He further begged leave to saggest the etpedieney of having them printed; that copies of them might be put into the -bands of parents alimit to send oat their children in the Company's service, in order to satisfy their minds that they were nut making a moral immolation in doing so. IMARQUEsS OF HASTINGS. Mr. R. JACKSON then inquired whether it was or was not true that the illustrious person at the head of the Bengall9overnment had sent in his resignation. The answerer the Chairman admitt e d th a t th e Mar , guess of thrifts had signified a disposition to be re lieved heft the duties of his government. r Mr. S DIXON wished fur a more explicit statement on the subject, lest it might be supposed that the Noble Marquee had retired from disgust,' when, perhaps, ill health Was the cause of his resignation. The thsAIRMAN.—He is coming home, not from dis , gust, but at his own earnest and anxious desire, end much against the will of the Court of Directors.— (Hear, hear!) Mr. R. JACKSON pronounced a handsome eulogium on the character of the Marquess of Hastings. Mr.l). KINNAIRD also bore testimony to his exalted Merits, and said that, then the documents connected with the government of the Noble .Marquess were 'laid on the table of the Court, they would speak more strong ly in his favour than the eloquence of his greatest ad-' mire, could do. • Mr. Hume hoped, when the documents alluded to were produced, that it would be seen from them that the Marquess of Hastings had e‘erted himself In re ' moving the abuses connected with the administration of justice in India. The Noble Marquess had been ; thanked for his military achievements ; but if he had devised the means of rendering the administration of juatice more pure and effectual, he deserved more than It was in ti l e power of the Compa n y t o rep a y . After a rtegalv conversation un the subject of Mr. Hornblower's penalties, which gave rise to some Inci dental observations on the subject, of the 20001. to Mr. Polly (a grant which Mr. Hume strongly condemned), the Court adjourned Use die. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Elat India House. when Captain T. Williams was morn into the command of the ship Princess Amelia, con• signed to China direct. The dispatches for Madras and China, by the ship London, Captain J. B. Sothe by, were closed at the East India House, and deli►er ed to the Parser of that ship. Last night, about a quarter before twelve, a most alarming fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Liat, a sugar-baker, in Little Alie-street, : at half-past twelve it assumed a mast terrific appear ance, their being a scarcity of water, the whole bud) 'of the building was in one blaze, and a r: oufber o' small houses at the back, chiefly wood : fortunately. however, a number of engiets arrived, and water being procured, the fire was got under, but not till tire o'clock this morning, having entirely consumed th. whole of the Large building, and most of the property We have not heard of any lives being 'my, or auy p e r sou seriously hart. MURDER OF MRS. DO.VAITY. On Vestlay evining, by desire of Mr. Taylor, aid the gentlemen fettling the committee, who have so sez lively exerted themselves iii investigating this horrid murder, an officer hum each of the police-Jeuarttnenti in London was present at the deceased's house in Robert= street, as were also the witnesses who rave evidence be fore the mutest and manistrates, for the purpose of be ing altos n the traces of Mood, and all the oiarlts ahnut the ionise, furniture. &c., and the path and way by which the murdereri ;.re supposed to have made their escape.— A most minute examination of the house took place; and many circumstance; were elicited which before were not at all, or very imperfectly, stated. A plan was taken of the building, and of the passage in which the mar:. tiered body was found, as also of the yards and backs of the houses situated in hlillman.plac%, behind Robert. street, into which the murderers are habit') have escaped; The officera are of Opinion, that some person mast have rushed in from the street, when the,deceased; which was a natural supposition, turning her bead to see who followed,. received • tremendous blow on the left check, the effects of which became very visible as site lay • corpse. The officers are of opinion, that t h e Murderer most have worn a long great coat, as, when stooping to cut the rings from her fingers, the skirts of his coat must have splashed in bee blood, as on the wall• are marks which correspond. They also conceive that the murder was not done by an erperienced horse. breaker ; as, from the marks in the cupboards, &hi 'there appeared to have been nn instrument used with any dexterity, but the cupboard was broken by main force. Tne murderer, in making his escape, must hart gone over several walls into a yeri, and from th►nce over a gate into Millman-passage. The officers havin g' made very minute observations and inquiry, and also in. terrogated several of the o intent's, who sure rear and explicit in their testimony, gate oe now state as their °pinkie. The committee shortly after left the house. Bow-STRZET.—The Sitting Magistrate at ibis Office was occupied nearly fire liimrs last night, in die et:imi. nation of a whole family, brought bCfore him by Jef &ries, and others of the Thames Police, on snapicion of their haring been concerned in the murder of Airs. Donatty. The prisoners were Robert Rigby, a jobbing porter, Ada II:Alb, his wife, with as infant in her arms. Plizts beth Rigby, their daughter, about six years old, an•t Mary II ootl sister to Ann Rigby. The circumstances which led to their apprehension Were these:—least Thursday evening , a Mrs. ilanies, who keeps all old clothes shop at No. 9, New Rounph.court, Strand, purchased, fur a shilling, a pair of breeches and a pair of *omen's half boots, from the little girl rlirr heti' Itiglpy. The breeches, which were of light drab kerseymere, very witch worn, had a few spots of blood about the knees, and they were much torn behind.-- On perceiving this blood, the clotbes•woman having heard of the horrible murder in Robert•street —became very much alarmed, and her step-son, who, it appears, is a city officer, happening to call upon her on the fol lowing day, she showed them to hint, at the same time telling hint front whom she bad bought them. tie corm Inunicated these circumstances to Jefferies, and last night he and seise of his party apprehended the whole family at theft lodgings, one wretched room, in Lemon tree-yard, Bedfordbory. Thud three grown prisoners positively denied all know ledge of the articles iu within, and so also did the lit tle girl ; but after repeated cross-examinations, she sai•l her father gave her a pair of breeches to sell to Mrs. llanies, a few days ago; but they were black ones, se's was very sure; and yet, after farther questioning, she said she theuglatabe briesbom predseW were those she had sold. In short, it appeared to us that not the slightest dependence could be placed OD any thing this child said. This Magistrate ordered that the father should try on the breeches; and he did so; but they were not half large enoegh for him. The prisoner conducted himself firmly and thicent throughout the investigation; and basing repeated his t•ital ignorance of the articles produced, he said he should be able to prove that on the night of Saturday sennight ((lie night of the murder) he was at the Crown anil Thistle public-house in St. Martin's-lane, front five o'c'tick hs the afternoon till half past eleven. The Magl orate (G. It lifinstici.t., Est; ), after taking infinite pains in the inquiry, but from which nothing further than what is above stated was elicited, com mitted all the prisoners, srparstelt, to the different watch-houses in the neighbourhood for the nighr. This morning the man named Rigby, his wife, sister, and two children, with a female named Wood, aver; again brought up to Bow-street, in Mr . :lllinsktill's pri• rate room. Jetferies, the officer of the Thames Police. produced a pair of pincers and a screw driver, whim lie hail compared with the marks on the cupboard and other places that had been forced open, and found the marks to correspond exactly. Tito pincers it appeared have a claw on ono handle, which was broken and the marks produced by aneh an instruineut were found in a jagged state on the droners. kc. JetTeries has not been able to ascertain to whorl the breeches belong; bolt they are supposed to hare Fern worn by the person who committed the murder, as tho marks of blood on them appeared as if n•iped from the bands. Failure• are daily taking( place among tile farmers in Suffolk and Norfolk. One in the neighhourhn,.•t of Lynn we have heard of, to the amount of 11,0001. and another upwards of 30,0001. The loss sustained by the 'hippie; interest of Whiteharen, ditrinpr the present winter, in conic , qeence Id the unprecedented bad weather, is estimates at 30,0001. When Lord Norbury was told. the other day. that Lord Bemire (eldest son of the Marq.:ess of Headforq had inert ied Airs. Dalton, the daughter of Sir Jobn Sterenavn, the musical composer--" Faith," said his Lordship. " she has nude a better Catch than ber fa ther ever • CORPORATION AND TEST ACTS. AND ANNt'AL IN. nastxtrr ACT.—Tbe attention of PROTHSTANT Dosses- TRRS is rensectfully requested to an Essay on these sub jects, which will appear in The Mont Alli Repository of Thea:ogy and General Literatare, to be published on the First of April. by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Pa terno4ter-row.—Price Is. 6J. PI DDI NO and Co., No. I. Corahill , reqnest their Friends and the Public will bear in min.! that Two oat .f the... Three remaining Prizes of 2. ) 0,110ill. Stirling see Liable to he decided the Next Day of Drawing, Nuvr Tutm4nae, (March 28,) for one is to be attached to the First-drawn Prize on that Day, and another is td be at tached to the Ninth-drawn Prise abore 2101.; and as there are to be at least 4,000 Nambers drawn, such a•t occurrence is not •ery iirilikev; bat. independent " these. there are 3d other Cap:tais of 2,000/., WllUtl., Ax.. xc. many of w:nch will atto be drawl,. Pr DOING and !inv. some of these desirable thinfs are destined to staged those Who tusk* their purchases at the Lanky Coraer, Nu. I, Corniiiil. C!itcliCS TSB et/UN Rimr.—The Corn Inspect WS ,verarrs are this sleek as falitte , IVII..at 411. SI. ;being 2. lig fess than last return); bariry, ISs. /14. ; Oats 17s. 6J. ; beans, 2Ss.; pease 21s. 311.