The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

UNPARALLELID WICKEDNESS. KFROU cosnerr's WZSXLT ntUDITen. Or SATURDAY, DEC. 21.) In the STEMMA'S of Monday last, having to extract Mr. Thomas Attwood's very able Letter from the Farm ers' Journal, we took occasion to observe, that we saw with pleasure, that the Journal appeared disposed not only to repent of its past enormous and long continued sins : bat that, by the aid of Mr. Attwood, it was really endeavouring to make some atoacmest. It has always been our fault to be too ready to praise and to forgive. We took for • return to the path of virtue. that which appears to have been a mere stumbling in the commis sion of sin; for, we have now the mortification to find that this reprobate newspaper; this raiser of the farm ers; this vehicle of the quackeriee of Webb Hall ; this breaker up of families; this diabolical, Ole hardened journal, was, on the very day, too, that we wereexulting in its apparent redemption, committing new sites, barb. leg new arrows of malice; and even letting them ISy at onrselves.—Nevertheless, enormous as is the sin, tom- reprobate as is the sinner, we should have suffered the , flintier to pass, if the articles to which we allude did not contain that which affords matter for comment that may be of great public utility.—Mr. Astwood sends to im in serted io the Farmers' Journal of Monday last, • Post, ript us that iltter which we have before mentioned„ s v.l which ne Inserted op Monday from the Parwers'. .I.urnal sJ the )Monday before. In this. Postscript Mr., Attwood Rodeos two things; Arse, his omission to state coe of the causes of the depreciation of the currency pre vivo* to 1797; and, second, his not having made an ex ception with regard to Mr. Cobbett, when he was be st.wing a general censure on the prep.—We shall speak of these two points; and in doing this, our readers will perceive the proofs of which we have just spikes of the reprobate character of the Farmers' Journal. As to diefiree s the causes of depreciation before ninety-seweig Atwood mentions • 111 r. Roosts, olio, it 'Wars, has written upon the stbjeet of the currency ; and tells as that one of the misses of the de re,iation of the currency, previons to 1797, was the of assignats in France, by the revolutionary go. vernment, which necessarily threw a part of the French gold and silver money into England.—This is very true; an d, if Mr. Attwoml bad done me the impost to read the Rustic Harangue at Hentiagdos, about this time twelve. month, be would have found that I there particularly dwelt upon this elrentastaace. Lord Fitswilliam had, Jost before the time when that harangue was made, made a redoction of forty-five per cent. in his rents, bringing them down to the standard el 1792, because, said hie I,3rilaltir, the prices are now what they were in th e year 1792. In giving my reasons why the prices of 1792 would not be the prices after Mr. Peel's Bill went into full effect, 1 stated that France bad now got her ern money back offal's; and that therefore, we could not expect so large a portion of currency to be afloat in England as was afloat in it in 1792. However, as I have never read the publication of Mr. Rooke, and as it was, probably, written before the Rustic Harangue at Hun tingdon was uttered, I claim no particular merit on this score, and have only to add, that I am happy to perceive that others entertain upon this subject the same opinions with myself. As to the second point; Mr.Attwood's exception with regard to me. when be was levelling a general censure tiro the press; the readers of this paper have seen that' I did not omit to notice it is the article published on Ponds!. lam very glad to see that lie has acknow ledged the omission before he could possibly know that it had been noticed by me. He will, too, I think, when he bas read the STATLIWIN of last Monday, perceive that he has committed a very great mistake with regard to the press in general. The press has, Goo knows, sins enough to answer for ; but as to this matter, the sin has been that of ignorance, and not that of mercenary mo t;ve; for, Mr. Attwood may be very well assured, that the press has been a very great loser by Mr. Peel's Bill. Aviculturist distress is very great ; but we could Con vince Mr. Attwood, by giving hint an anecdote or two, resperting the affairs of some of our contemporaries, and seine of them, too,that havecarrimi the highest heads, that w wrpaper distress yields to distress of no other descrip tion in the kingdom. However, this is beside our sub j.•ct. Mr. Attwood, upon reading over his letter in pint, perceived that be bad forgotten to make the above mentioned exception with regard to Mr. Cobbett; and. thereupon. lie sends to the Farmers . .. Journal, in which his letter first appeared, the following sentence:— " Of course, I except Mr. Cobbett from a general con .' sore upon the public press. His labours on behalf of " the country, upon this great question. have been inde " fatigable and invalnahle."—Now, this was not out. Yvircous in the way of praise. It was but bare justice; though it was quite enough. It was, indeed, a great deal too mach for this sinner of the Farmers' Journal; this wretciied deluder and ruiner of the farmers; and, therefore, lie tacks on to the bottom of it the following string of vituperations and falsehoods. '• If there. were net other, and we hope honourable ez •options to the censure here cast, Mr. Attwood's nu merous letters, and the above postscript, would hardly shore got into print except as pamphlets. We may petit:Marty mention the sedulous and anxious exertions of the Rev. Nr.Crutwell. although we did not think his plan well digested ; and we beg, with all humility, to refer to our own conduct. who, whether wisely or not, have never omitted any proper opportunity of bearing our full testimony to the destruction involved in the pro gress of the currency system. If Mr. A. will be so good as to turn hack to the leading articles in our Journal in the latter part of the year 1811, he will find that we were then busied in proposing (perhaps by ex teaordinsry olives) the lirridation of Mat debt which, as prices had •tank, and poverty had encroached upon us, most ctherwise overwhelm all prosperity. For the merit of Mr. Cobbett—he catches at all the passing sub jects of the hour, and in the furor of his clamour, calls Om all his mon: it oroliably will not be a week before Is; will swear that all which has been said ion tithes, has been hegue and enforced solely by his unmatchable pen. For the compliment paid him, Mr. A. runs great danger, in onr opinion, of being abased: fur it is one of Cobbetes peculiar whimsies. th a t ii any man coincide with him in opinion, he will tarn round and contradict it. One thing we would pnt to Mr. Attwooil, by which be may try the worth and meaning of Mr. Gobbett's ex ertions ; that is.—When it is fully proved and confessed that the Cash -Payments Bill has ruined us, not solely, but doubly at least, will Mr. Cobbett propose a mode of remedy, or will be agree with Mr. 'Miaow!, or any other, •••,* Z.lter4 • ~~_ .~ .... -- ~... _ r wlw~ K ...... 1 ey ...., .. y MP THE STATESMAN. in a media* of carrency to be proposed, or a standard of value to be adopted ? Nu, not he. Mr. Cobbett in sists that the cash-payments system is our total and cer tain ruin—and he declares that it cannot 6e rescinded ; that the ministers neither will, dor can, nor dare, repeal it. Such is the species of his exultation, and such the Satanic pride and joy of Mr. C o bbett."—Eurrost. You might have spared yourself the trouble of writ' ing "Rditor" at the bottom of this; for no roan in the world ; none of all the beasts that went into Noah's ark, nut one of all the reptiles; nothing that God ever made or suffered to exist, except the Editor, the miser able quick of quacks; the underling, the lrbackuon of that Sydrophel, Webb Hall, could have put such a parse graph on paper.—ln the first place, as to the publication of Mr. Attwood's letters, what newspaper in England would be so b-astly as not to see its own interest in publisiliog them?—As to the Reverend Mr. Cruttwell, how does Mr. Attwood include him in his censure on the press? And as to tby "owe conduct," thou worse than the ass of la Mancha I what has thy conduct bees but that, which might have been expected from an impostor whose very bosinese it was to delode the farmers on to their kiln; tad to prevent them from making any one I .exietlei tending to pave themselves? Yon talked of Mx liquidation of. the Debt, did you! You talked of ineryirpt . iff; did you f• of paying off that, to pay the in iteteei of which has been found sufficiently ruinous ? Mow was any thing to be paid off, without taking the ieelittliei frets the landlords and the capital fermi the !frintritri? Irt.2 tallied about this ; and this was your merit! Tell me, wretched sinner, bad you ever the courage to propose a reduction of the interest? Had ,you ever the courage to propose a disbanding of the ; army; had yon ever the sense or the courage to propose .any tine. thing by which any real relief could be oh ,tained ? Now as to your charges against me; but, be . fore I come to them, let me look back at your baseness with regard to the cultivation of the Swedish turnip.— In answer to a correspondent who asked you if yogi knew of my one who bad tried Mr. Coldiett's plan of rattiest's% tintSwedish,trrnip. which plan your cor respondent had read In •.ehe Year's Residence you said, 4 . We know something of America and of Unbbett too, and have sot much faith in either," or words to that effect. What ground had you to justify this observation I have been informed that you, impudent quack as yew are, have said, tb'at ftow knew me in. Atterica ; end I know the King:. but never did his Majesty speak to ma. and I metier spoke to you in the whole course of my life; so that you are impostor all through. Bat aril, iu say, that I catch et all tit; passing subjects of the baud, and call them ell nay own. Yawns falschnotl item Oteicero addition from any exaggeration in the terser bot,this is a falsehood so directly opposite to the notdt ifoos troth. that it seems to be peculiarly your otro,—, So fey from Claiming what belongs to others, I at al ways mom scrupulous in disclaiming every merit :asp cribed to me which does not belong to me ; and, *belt yon came to see the STATESBI•N of last Monday, where in observing uprao Mr. Attwood's compliment to myself, I took such pains to show that it was not dam to me but to Mr. Paine; when von came to see that paper, you would have blushed, if blush could have penetrated through your hide,—But, now we cams to your caution to Mr. Attwood. You tell bins to take care that. I do not turn round on him and contradict him, merely bey cause he coincides in my own opinion! You then pro. pose a test, by which to try the merits of my exertions. This test is, or, rather, the tests are, will I propose a remedy. Beast! .1 have proposed the remedy; dis tinctly proposed it in a Petition to the House of Com mons. 1 did it io 1918, in order to guard the Parliament against such a measure as that of Mr. Peel; against adopting such a measure without concomitant- mew sures.--Hare I not proposed it also; or, at least, rate gre.tt leading measure of a remedy. In the proposition is !licit was proposed to, and adopted by, ' the County of Kea! ?—The other test is, will I " agree with Mr. Attwood, or any other, in a meditent of curren cy to be props.-d, or in a standard of value to 6e adopted?" No," sty you ; and no say I. Bat what does this prove ? Only that Ido not agree with Mr. Attwood ; that is to say, that Mr. Attwood does not agree with me. 1 will agree to no new swindle. I will scree to no robbery of yearly servants ; no robbery of tradesmen, no robbery of Savings' Banks people anti Friendly Societies, no robbery of people that have recently lent their money. No base hy pocritical scheme of fraud by which a new and numerous class of persons are to be ruined ; no vile, no atrocious assignat-projeet, which must inevitably throw every thing into confusion, and disgrace the character of the nation for ever.-1 propose, I have repeatedly proposed, that contracts should be rectified, private as well as public ; that justice shall be done to every man ; t hat public property shall he applied to purposes of liquidation as tar as is consistent with the safety and dignity of the throne ; that where wrong has bern done, right shall come and take its place ; that, sacrifices be ing absolutely ne c they shall be made by all and not by a part; that our difficulties shall be looked in the face and grappled scilh ; and, lastly, that my life shall be taken from me if any part of my proposition shail be found impracticable.—Thiv has been the nature of my proposals ; end because l will not give them up in ex change for a swindling aseignatproject; heeatwe 1 will not give up a proposition, which to execute repliers seal: resolution, and every public virtue ; becanse 1 will not give up that and condescend to become a you, cun ning; sod tame cheater, you accuse meof exulting in the miseries alai? country; Indeed Ido say that the cash-measures have been the immediate cause of the ruin : 1 do say that the 13111 cannot be rescinded ; that the Ministers neither wit/ nor can nor dare repeal it: I do say all this; but do I say nothing else? Do I say that the Ministers can do nothing but repeal this Bill? I say they con ; for I say they can retorto the Parliament and reduce the interest of the debt, reduce thearmy to next to nothing, reduce the salaries and grants, rectify contracts; and do every thing necessary to the rerun atioa of the nation's happiness. And what do , oar do, thou foulest of all the reptiles from the ark of Noah ? Why, in the very paper from which I quote the above, you say that they rum' reform the Parliament in time to afford the landed interest relief. It they cannot do that in time, they can do nothing in time. That they may do in tits course of a month. if they sill; sod of this your de laded readers may he well mewed, that, until a reform take place, no relief will Ise given to them.—Not do it in time I Why, the Parliament can work pretty fast, when it likes. It did not take many days; only - about fuer ; to pass a Bill to authorise Sidnsoutls and Cartkreagh, or either of them, to shut any of us up in soy jail in the kingdom, and to keep os there as long all they pleased. •withont letting us know who were oar aecneets or what we had done to merit being laid by the heels. It took only four days to do this; and SMosooth stated, as an argument in support of the measure, that publications were abroad, in which he was sorry to say the late -c4l.- ' errs could fi nd nothing to prosecute with a chance elf success! Again. only last winter, the Parliament acts. ally took but eight-and forty hours to bring in anti to pass a law, which shot the Irish people in whole dis trict', up in their hosier from sunset to sunrise. on pin of transportation,for Meen missiles' absence! And that authorised the transportiag of people, without trial by jury? What ! Can the Parliament work so hard as this, at times, and must it be for !lotion ags in passing a law fur reform? Why, altogether, there are more than a thousand law makers. And could not the as bolethou• sand pass a law in the space of a week f What an mesa lent tone to take! Here we point oat a remedy; awl the men who oppose us begin by setting it down as rah* for granted, that our remedy cannot be adopted ; and I then abuse us, and Call us perverse, became we will sal join in their abominable ',simile. which is, besides, cal, culated either to produce confusion ' or to rivet our shamus for ever !—A reform might be made. and the: whole matter justly settled in one month from the time of the nieetiog of Parliament. If this be not done, .lea the consequences fall (and they will fall) on the heads of those who oppose the reform ; for, WITHOUT REFORM THE. INTEREST OF THE DEBT CAN NOT BE g i g 1..) MA D. Let every Boroughnionger mick those word over his fire-place. Let him paste them upon the forehead of each of his perjured agents. For my part, I would rather see every inch of lend in the kingdom.transferred to the Jews, jobbers, dead weight, and to the pleceluen and sinecure people, than use a re duction BEFORE a reform. Ob no! Begin with reform. Let us all have something to say in settling a lower in which all are concerned. One word in additition, in the way of caution to those farmers who continue to read this miserable jour nal. It is now right as to the runup!' the distress; but it is just as great a deluder as ever, as to a remedy. It thinks it to he its interest to flatter the hopes of the farmers and landlords of getting high prices again. it possibly may think (for it is capable of thinking a thing-that is stupid) that there is sock a thing as ode bfishing a depreciated currency. This is Mr. We No elk scheme. If attempted, it would only work the ru i a di ff erent shape, and finally produce a convulsion a country. But is there the smallest chance in the w d of Mr. WESTBRN succeeding in his project? There is rot; and yet this beastly journal is holding out this hope to its readers, and, therefore, as far a' it is success• fel, it mast amid to their ruin,and would, if possible,make an eddition to the magnitude of its own sins. A r 44" • P°ila. • W2lisind 0 O 441 . 30,20/ - I O Ms** I . O o..“oll4sei r - 2 OF 1511)42r DD t. 0 Holland - 0 0 timbre 2 Fmnee - • I 1 Flanders • 0 0 11rAz 1 0 PRICE THI Bunk 5 3 per Ct. NM—. 791 1 3 per Ct. Coos shut 3) per Ct 9ll, 4 per eeras 91111' New FOUrS shat 3 per Ct. 1797 Loll Attn. per Ct 'lrish 3 per Ceuta. DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock . ..... Ditto Hoods SM. ses I. pm. South Sea Stock... South Sea Old Ann 79 Ez.Bill.2d. Os ' Mut. 44 es pm. 4n. Os 01 pm. Small es ea Os pm. Coo.for tect . .60t LoUeryTickets.... YU. 194. tatit *tategintan... " TIES ttlllto STATESMAN " IS ININSIPORATSU RITE N TIES STATESMAIt." • ItoN TOZIIiaT EVIIIM44I, DECIIIIIIR 21, 1322. STOCK EICIANGE. HALV•IPAST TWELVE O'CLOCIL-.- I Collllolt opened this morning at 80 44 with so me business doing. They got up to 9041 and lowered again to 4. — Up to this hour we do not hear of any express having arrived from Paris, which may be accounted for by the Stock Exchange at Paris 'Ting shut on Snnilays; but had there been any important information in Sunday's French papers, they would have been in London early this morning. Various are the opinions in the City on the return of the Duke of Wellington. By some it is imagined and reported that the King of France lies given him a Carte Blanche to settle the disputes between the two Governments, upon which lie has returned fir furtheriestractions from our Government ; after which lie will proceed in person to Spain to cnnsnit with the Cortes to adopt such, measures as may prove agreeable to the French Government.—Consols remain steady at 804. Fonsism FUND/I.—This morning the shove market has been rather brisk, particularly in New Spanish Bonds, which opened at 55, were done at 551, and afterwards went down again to 66. All other Foreign securities remain sta tionary. Chili, 7.24—New Spanish,s3 —Old. RI to Gi—Ressia, 1384 New Prussian, tto-o.d. rtbi to 85-11braish. Dt—Neepnitt•ii 774—Colombian, 081--Peruvian, 774—New Spanish Scrip, 94 die. Paris papers have been received to the 22nd instant, but they throw no certain light on the momentous points at issue. The Journal des Debars continues its articles in favour of peace, while the Etuiie, which, as our readers know, is the chief organ of the war party, charge■ the Josertted des Detests with taking up the pacific side of the question, with a view to influence tile funds—and the letter Journal retorts by charging its adversary with a direct interest in the fell of the funds, which its articles are calculated to produce. At the sane time these journals mutually reproach each oilier, with (what very probably is true) &hosing the press for the purposes of stock.jolibing,theQuotidimuse,with great simplicity, flys " it is affirmed that the Syndics of the Exchange Brokers, having presented themselves to his Excellency the Minister of Finance, to solicit from him some information on the real state of things, M. d e Villele replied that the present situation of Europe required great circumspection on the part of sr. dilators. It is added, that his Excellency cis avowed all participation whatever in the articles of the Journal des Debate, which 'had been at tributed to him by I journals." The Vio /moot de Uhateanbriand arrived in Pattie from Vienna,on Friday morning, and the Duke of Wellington left Paris for London very early the morning of the Der _ "'l.' • dry. It appears, lay the Paris papers, that his Grave thought of making a longer stay, for he had, it is said, accepted I invilati ‘no, whir is his prompt departure compelled bhu to retrotrace.—These papers contain a highly interesting article relative to the Greeks, whirl, is corroborated by the German Journals, as well as by Private letters. From tbeseaecoonts it appears that the. Greeks have again succeeded in setting fire toe Turiri.4 fleet. The intelligence is thus communicated in a t ot ,., from Trieste, dated December ti :—.4 Ow November 10, two Espariot vessels, accompanied bye fire ship, entered by night the port of Teuedos, where the therms Get was lying. l'he tire ship was directed against the Ad miral's ship, which was set on fire, and ceasmneicated the flames to two frigates lying elope a it. The final result of this unexpected and terrible erect is not yes known, hut the terror and disorder caused in the whole fleet was beyond imagination." In the Preach papa r the conclusion of the following paragraph appears to bring a cor.firmation of the aews:—." Veneta which have arrived from Goostantinople." says so official Report of the Magistrates of Pars, " announce that the Grand Turk has yarned to be Isehearled his favourites, Haleb.E.deadi and and that he has changed the whole Ministry. These veste:s saw in passing Teneloa the era coveted with the wrecks ef enemy's bes-els."—list this brilliant action is net the only success of the Greeks. Oner Vrioni, it is cadet. stood, has etperienced a signal defeat at Mimalonghi, the consequence of which, it is said, will hr the libeta tion of Westeen Greece from all hostile attack till the expiration of the winter. FI4IINCIII FuNDS. Dec. 21.—Five per Ceet. Cans opened at fitlf,64oe.; cloud at Sof We. —Neapolit..n l'n per Cents. 77. —Exchange an London, one sausco, . 41c.: three mentlis. Cif. 30e. BOURBON WAR. The Courier of Saturday night hlo.rs the bhst of war aspin. Whether this last Paris wren be intended to pelt down oar hinds, that the French may make a per_ elate in them, in oral r to sell out stein when they s►nd over a pacific dispatch, we cannot tell. If we were French Ministers, we should carry on this game for a month or z weeks, till we hal money enom4h to repay the try bete of 1S15; and, perhaps. money enough to carry tit army to Madrid. However, the (Owner say% that it heueperts that it is upon the eve of het is g intelligence cf great, perhaps decisive. importance to communicate, to tbe parsons, the tax raters, and the stupid landlords that read it. In the same string of paragraphs it observe*, that whatever may be the refelt, " ,eery OM in E• , • s. rope will be (tarnished with the most clear Ind sitive conviction that the whole conduct of the " tish Government has been guided by the most de , •;' as and anxious desire to preserve peace." Amines *re would have bees enoegh fir us. We would bare dispensed with the deep desire ; but we must say that we think this a very ominous paraeraph ; very etnirr's for those who bold what is called volt ; that is to my. witless they sell oat immediately : fur, whenever we 8..1 those notozions tools of the government making irate► 'bestations, it is oar invariable rule to held these rarest'. detest° be false. Not that we believe that oorSlinistris I bare been eager for war between France and Spain. We ',believe the contrary; but we believe tb s at they lire bade no exertions at all; precisely betatea lb* Mire "'Gelid not listen to them any more the* they ten to a eat. It would appear from these 'Faris papers, that the French are left by the Allies to du is bat they please with rt gard to the war with Spain; aid we repeat fcr abort the fiftieth time. that we believe they will iuvalle •Spain. We think they will get to Madrid and Cadiz. — Whether they will finally sweet I in subduing Spain, i: is impossible for is to gi►e aoy thing like an opinion.— Another stir in that quarter way bring hack the Revoln• Lion into France. If it do not do that.it may excite a ►it le stir here; and help the lame tiOlt over the style. are sure that it cannot fail to give a shake to flatten end Old Sarum : and if it do that it will do more for tie liberties, even of thecontinent than all the new consults . tions that have been yr: mid'. or talked of. It will over. set the Bouanoss ; or, it will go far towards convincing every man in England that the deht cannot be suffered to remain round our Recto without total degradaties.— The debt cannot be l:ached without •rvtcbteg the bo roughs; and these, with us, arc all is all. TO THE EDITORS PAPERS OF TUE LONDON NEWS. O,NTLI S►R!, I have a very anxious desire to come to a Motive( un derstanding with yogi, upon one point; namely, WHETHER THE INTEREST OF THE DEM' OUGHT TO BE REDUCED? Yon and I know, that I never have been able to bring you to a—y thing like plain declaration on this subject. For friary years, yea abused me with great virulence fur proposieg sack re. &mien. You langlted (or, rather, grinned) at toy pro. pheciek as you culled them ; you sneered at what yen called my wild doctrines. Sometimes you, as if by cos • man consent, kept silence fur a long time together. You seemed to shake your wise heads, like Bustatsa in the Critic. At other times, ohms furnished ak: what you deemed the ntea-ts of showing what you were kind enough to tall my prefia:e prirciples, yon opens i those n,outhaof your's strain, stared with all the eyes you had, presenting, in your prus!e, the jaws of a no:i. Of Lt., you have got into a s!-..te that may be rat!.. ( that of botneration. Those who reed your surprisinelv voluminous pendactiotts, h ive been wholly at a 10 "• even to sufluise nhAt you would be at. Hints ntew sr'l then escape you. You mention the weight of the F eb. pc debt ; you give accounts a the loin of the landlor. and their tenants; hut still, you lurk about astional ho nour and national faith. TAM'S yon would reduce sorer• tinier; and yet again ye.' would maiotairs the 'bitter which cannot he maintained withont the Wm. Yon differ very widely from each other in opinion, and, not unfrerinently it happens that e.,cli of yon differs from himself two or three times %Wain the compass of so many days. You seem to be animated, at different times. by very different motives ; and you very often seem to exchange motives as often as you change opinions. In one thing, however, you have all agreed, and have beet steady and nniform in your conduct ; that is to say. you have always avoided cowing to the poise with me• with regard to this great question. The sole object of this address to you is, to endeavour to briar; you to that point : to make you speak oat ; and that, too, if pos sible, in pita,. Eaglish. l ant, hod Lula been, for the EL ~.~, l 111 his de tie r.I *ll fro tb us ba ,r f) C ,1