The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-10-24 00:00:00

'.-------'''--------_ . . iad , f at illethey Zney do not, indeed , plough an d .... aci d rea p and mow ; but, let those who live in the f i r .houses be ruined, and they are all 'mined, too. It is „ t , t herefore, a class, to the root of which the axe of „i s i s sow laid ; bat he whole nation, of whic h h y l on. ii , this prese nt moment, t are only the first upon t e ist of the victims. It is for me, now, Gentlemen, to en. &soar •to make you some compensation for the trouble hsve taken in coming here; not by latterine you ; , voe ' w ay imitating your deluders, but by frankly giving ro s t er opinions as to the matters in which you are most a erp li interested ; which do not affect you distantly; what' are not mere possibilities or probabilities; hot which affect you immediately, and that, too, in a manner the most vital. Every farmer knows that, with present d' art' aed • present taxes., he cannot continue to pay rent , r ues out of his capital, and that great as that capital s oy be, it must finally come to an end. The main t hing, therefore, is for him to make t his mind up as to the question whether prices will rise. My opinion . isthat t hey will not ; but , on the con t rary , that they w ill fall. I leave the effect of seasons out of the question; but evened my opinion upon that which 1 know must take place with regard to the currency. Yon all know that it nth, diminution in the quantity of the currency that has rested the reduction of prices; and you must there fore knew that, if a further diminution of the currency titze place,there mnst be a further reduction of prices. The operation of the thing is this. The law of legal 1 tender wholly Cease{ on the first of May next. That will unquestionably cause an ed demand for gold in esrhange fur paper. That gold must come from abroad; and, in all probability, the far greater part of it iwasediately from France. That being the nearest, and berm! alt comparison, the most wealthy conntry upon die eleatinent. Bringing the gol•i from France will i. ease gold to rise in price in France; the gold here west he kept op to the same price as the gold of France sill he at, or else the gold will leave this country again. —Von see, therefore, that not only must piper be drawn in herein quantity equal to the gold brought in.' let in greater quantity; otherwise the gold here would rontinne at the same price that it Is now, which would rot be equal to that of the advanced price of gold i• France. Than, then, gentlemen, there will be before the first of May, or immediately afterwards, more pounds ;simper drawn in, than there will be pounds in gold I'M oat. Therefore there wilt be a further diminution of the quantity of the currency, and a farther diminution of the prices. This, however, is not necessary in order to effect the ruin of the renting farmer. His ruin is mul r lets.• if he perseveres in paying any rent at all with present prices and present taxes. A very large part of the farmers are placing their reliance on the vague and, in we opinion, groundless hope that the landlords theme seem will interfere. Gentlemen, there are many reas ons oil they should out interfere; at least, while pie km say capital remaining in your pockets. They see clearly enough, that there is no efficient relief to ho ghee without a very large redaction of the interest of the National Debt. Out 0(64,000,000 of taxes collected in th e kingdom, and 54 of which are collected in England alone, the other being collected in Ireland and Scotland ; oat of these slaty-four millions, that which is called the Noienal Debt actually causes the expenditure of forty , millions almost the sar inore;forit whole istii of the edebt, you Army, and will a observe, Itothat all the other expenses. Now, to make an effici , sat *action of this Debt is hardly within the scope of risibility, without resorting to Acts of Parliament that shall touch deeply the property of the Church, and that ••• /kali affect the famine', the relations, the kindred of a tonsiderable part of the most powerful lam/lords, in a Manner extremely disadvantageous to-diem. If the le.bi cannot be reduced ; if efficient relief oilmen be Liven wittingly pradmelag this glfact as M. One fernailiene of these landlords, they will hesitate long before 'Diet * 'am he.tte themselves le a vigorous manner for the tensing of such reduction. To take a simple cam': if I , here a son or two who are receiving more out of the I taxes than I lose by the falling of my rents: if that son 1 or two most lose what they receive by the measures that venni , ' give mit my whole rent, I balance the lose against thegain, and *ling that I gala by the present state of things, I am belie means in baste to change it, though use tenants, one After another, are dropping into the work nee. At any rate, as long as they have capital tint me something, and as long as they have stock spy 'farm of which I have the key, I shall certainly ; , .tereferring a hope test things will come about, to 0 0 the taking of steps which would strip my sone of their Namur*. !knee, gentlemen, that torpidity in the land: hoes Which appears so unaccountable to you. That they will bestir themselves at last, or endeavour to bestir tieniselves in defence of their estates, is likely enough, I think they will bestir themselves too late for their own interest : hut lam very sore they will bestir themselves too late for your interest; and, is short, that they will not teoir themselves at all, so long as yea have capital where s di to p sy them reut,as long as you have stock upon which they Ca., trite. In saying this, I do not impute knavish de tizn or base motive of any sort to the gentlemen who are ()niters of the land. They act as other men would do and r similar eircomstaures ; they consult their own in. terests, which is the course of human nature; which ohms points out 'to man self p tion. Ido not taw (fist if I were a landlord myself I shoOld act very did'erentiv from them t but this I know, that laws should be so coltrived as to prevent one part of the community tram profiting nnjnstl at the expense of another.—We lure heard some of the landlords speaking as if they meant to make a stand for their property. Mr. Bennet, for instance, one of the members for this county, cliti,l/41nr in the last Session of Parliament, discover a disposition • to make snehi a stand ; but then the disposition was enticed in so feeble a manner, that it really amounted to nothing on which any rational mall can place • re lime. On yourselves. Dentlemen, much more than on say hotly else, will your fate•depend. The reliance sloth some men would bid yen have upon the govern ment and on this Parliament as now constituted, seems to ale not a hit better founded than any reliance to be placed npon the landlords. Not that I question at all the sinrere and most anxious desire of both Ministers std Potlianient to relieve you, and to save you; but I latVlol l very great ly the wisdom of the former asp) this lalicalar matter, and I question the practicability of •thrient measures hy the latter in its present'stote. As .in instance of what the Ministers think about three mate hrs. let Inc mention to you a pamphlet, which is ascribed 'a A Air. Ceurtenay, who is in some office or other alder the government, and who appears to be a person tech confided in by our new Minister, Mr. Canning. Jan before the beginning of the last Sesssion of Par' h 'ineet, a pamphlet was put forth by this genikmaa. remaining • sort of exposition of motives on the part of ' lo3 ltnisters. In this pamphlet it was broadly asserted. l:stilie distress of agriculture could not continue long., !io argument was this : .. no business will he carried nn unless it yield a proper profit, the business of farm' t" , es carried on, and will continue to be carried on s ~t t rehire the hto,i eels of forgoing must yield a proper pro- Iv.' Here, in syllogism as regular as ever logician laid .loiro,it i s p rove d t h at you arerece i v i ng a proper profit out . I,Yonr business, and that you must continueto receiveollt ~ lrour lundness such proper profit. Your experience , s''''tirs the a rgument ; i t g i ves t h e li e di rect to t h e r . 'lt t Along with this doctrine has been coupled the .lOrtrine of expenses brig all defrayed by the coots. : !Imr, generally sp ea ki ng ; an d t a ki ng in a l ong ser i es ll years, this is the case ; but it is not the cats at this esoment with the consumers of agricultural produce. To hum that the doctrine does not apply to every ease : "Dement, to be a maker of candles, and suppose toy limp to be full of them. Suppose all at once an addi- STATESI tional tax of a shilling a pound to be laid upon my candles. I pay the tax. My customers, in consequence of the high price, take to burning rashes; my candles remain hoig upon my hands ; I finally sell them for less than they cost tae ; and do those who consume them par all the expense.. Certainly the eater of bread pays ail , the expenses of raising that bread ; but this Is only when the farmer can pay his rent, and pay all Mi oat- , pines out of the prodaree of the farm. If he pay any :et of the oat-goings out of capital already acearna- I ed, which is the case at present, then the con- Amer does not pay all the expenses of raising the bread. Yet, Gentlemen, this is one of the many errors that hare Mime into common use for our benefit through the imam mentality ofthe deep and dark school of Scotch political siettnomists.—Of the Parliament we must speak with re- , serve, if not with revere nee. As far as it has gone in the reducing of team its Acts merit our approbation, and this I give as little grudgingly as any man in the kingdom. But I most say, that in the general tars of its mind I ran discover nothing to excite • very lively hope of efficient measures from 'hat quarter. I was par ticularly struck, the other day, with the late Act with regard to the turopike roads. It being a thing of con siderable bulk, I looked with eagerness to see if I could discover some regulation that could lessen the tolls that a farmer has to p-v. Nuthingappeared to me so natural as that a bushel of wheat, worth four and six-pence Or less) should not pay so bign a toll as a bushel of wheat worth fifteen shilling.. In short, knowing that the late measures shout cub-payments hare made six•pence as valuable as eighteen-pence was before, I anxiously looked for somas clause reducing the present toll of eighteen-pence to six-pence. I looked, however, in vain for any timing of ibis sort; an l found a law, the effect of which, if the law be enforced, must be to add greatly to the tradesmen's bills of the already breaking farmers; because. the law will compel them to cast aside the present wheels, and to have new-ones whether they want them or not. Not a word did I find about lessen ing the tolls which the farmer has to pay ' • but a great deal indeed, about the shape and size of his wheels.— The circumference, the diameter, the construction of which I found described with all the minuteness belong. ing to an arithmetical or geometrical problem. The cy lindrical form, the width of the tire, and particularly the depth of the heads of the nails with which the tire is to be fastened to the wheel. Of the latitude e>J longitude of wheels I found much more than an abundance; bat of the bringing of tolls down to the pro portion of the price of produce of the land, I found not a single word.---The authors of ibis Bill would appear to have adopted a new mode of looking at a country.—Their eyes would appear to be fixed upon the little narrow strips along which the coaches roll ; and not upon the parts where the plough goes,where the cattle graze, and whence come all the food and all the raiment, and all the riches of the natio.. Those little strips, however, do at this moment presents spectacle most instructive to the statesman, though, eel the Caine time, enough to chill time heart in the body 40 every man that remembers what England was. Here we behold men driven from the fields, by time penury of tb. farmer, cracking stones into very small pekes diet there may not be too rude a jolting of the food to tke stomachs of those who are crammed with the taxes. Talk, indeed, of the wild schemes of radical reformers ! Come, then, oar adversaries, end tell us if the world ewer before SRW each a thing as a station of ternarys unable to pay la bourers to till theism!, and compelled to be able to pay them for sitting by the way side. cracking big states iato the size of marbles ! Gentlemen, I defy the world to produce the equal of this; and yet it appears leaky `that this stone-tracking was discovered. In default of qtly a 061.11. 4 41111.01111.8* haws retracted to that avid Wiling them IspOrrome . 101 7 ; 7 1Felesse *Waft thing**, were unavailing,, we must have realised the old exagger ated proverb of dinging stones against the Where, thee, Gentlemen, are we to look fur a remedy 7 Where See we to seeklor the remade ofthope of iseelog better days ? I,!obat very thing whiehlias bees so re probated, m Iskighed at, so seared it by so many per sons, and by very few more this by the greater pert of Pou; 1 mean a reel reform of th e Commons House of arliament! If, Gentlemen, that petition, which we in Hampshire signed on Portsdown Hill, and which is now on the parade of the Par liament ; if that petition had been graciously re celled, and bad been acted upon to 1817, how many farmers, already rained ; bow many more upon the vile of ruin, would at this day have been prosperous Arad happy men! Without this reform, Gentlemen, be you assured. that no efficient reductions will take place; and be you also assured, that without those reductions, you must either cease to be farmers or must be ruined men. And when I say ruined, 1 mean reduced to abso lute pauperism or beggary. I do not mean merely redu ced to poverty in a limited f the word; for, recollect, that lobes a man has fallen, he is not the same man that he would have been if he had been aloft. He does not fall to the bottom of the farmers and stand at the head of the labourers; but he falls to the bottom of the labourers, and bitter as the thought is, unpleasant as I know it is for you to bear, painful as it is for me to say, it is my duty to say it, and I give it you as my set tled opinion, that if you do not quit your farms or better yourselves to obtain a reform of the parliament, thou nods spots thousands of yon who are now farmers, will along with your children, become the labourers of your present labourers, or your present labourers sons. I know, Gentlemen, that this is not the way for me to acquire popularity amongst yool bat I know that to be' honest ants sincere in the declaring of my opinions is the way to acquire a fair claim to your respect; and I know also that in the end it is the way to possess it. It does not become me, stranger in the country as I am, to dictate to men like you, nor even officiously to obtrude on you my advice ; but upon this occasion I cannot refrain from mentioning, that I have seen in the county news papers. that a meeting of farmers took place at Win chester on Saturday last ; that they signed a requisition to the Sheriff to call a county meeting to take into con sideration the propriety of petitioning the Parliament on the subject of their unparalleled distress, ;and on that of a enesable, efficient, and speedy remedy. This re quisitions they b ave resolved to seed to tbe market towns to be signed by. the Yeomen ; and, gentlemen, my opinion decidedly is, that if the yeomen in every county of England will act thus, and will, when they meet, pray, in the language of the intelligent end public spirited yeomen of the county of Kest, fur a Reform of the Parhament and reduction of the interest of the Debt, the thing will be done, you will be saved, and the coos try will be once more happy and free, and relieved for ever from that disgraceful sight, labourers cracking the stones into little bits ; lab , reduced to half-skeletons , thus employed by the way side, while, with full bellies and plump cheeks, they ought to be whistling to the jingle of the plough traces on the other side of the hedge. This brings me, gentlemen, to that conclusion to which I should longago have come, bad I not been enticed along by that singular patience And attention with which you have honoured me, and which I value so much more than bawling and clamour. Conclude, however, I cannot, without an eh lion or two with regard to thihardly pressed and unhappy laho . lien Omen, there seems to be a regular scheme on foot for gettiog something out of this body of persons, wherewith to satisfy the other de mands upon the farmer. He - cannot now pay all the de mands that are made upon him.. Tim wet " oh! he must pay them ; for tiny are for the support of the .10- minion I" The tit tee : " not to pay theta were to sin against Goo, as well As against men!" The rest : "be " must pay that for hero is the lease; litre is the parch- AS. . . " moots and what um will be worm than his contract ?' Well thee, what are the other outgoings? The prier` rates; " Aye, reduce thenrl" The labourers' wages:— , " Aye, pinch him! Get something out of him! Let him have less to eat and less to wear, and less to warm him!" Gentlemen, every such project will fail in the end.— ' Every such project is in defiance not only of the laws of Ood, but of nature herself. The landlord supplies the land ; hat what is his land without the hand of the Is. I 1 bearer? I have so wish to depredate the claim of the 1 landlord; but is his claim better than that of the labour- e; . ? Is the dirt ms which we tread more precious than the sweat of man? Is property in land to be set before ' labour, which, according to every principle of law as i well as of justice and of reason, is the very foundation of all property of every description. Laying aside, how- ! ever, all principle counected with the subject; divesting ourselves, it we can be so base as to wish it, of all those ' feelings whirls nature has placed in our breast, and looking at the matter with an eye of common prudence only, who can think of interest, of safety, of one tiro- limes happiness or quiet, surrounded by a swarm of starring labourers? Gentlemen, look at unhappy Ire land: think of the occupier of a farm, compelled to pass the night with lights burning in his house, with arms readilowled ; with his friend, sad relations collected to., ether as in a garrison; with, the doors barricaded ; with all the avenues rendered i naccessible; with a force distributed in preparation for attack ; and think of the feelings of the master of that house, while his stacks and Ins eat-buildings are biasing, and he daring not to sally out to forest the jousters off his own farm-yard ! Fur myself, I can irately say, that 1 would not accept of the proprietorship of fifty estates upon the condition of leading such a life upon one of tnem for one winter; and I 'think I can safely say, that what I feel upon this subject Is the feeling of von all. The description which I bate just given is no Jescriptioe of mine. My genius has not the merit of inventing a thing so full of horrors. I meekly repeat what we read in almost every news-paper that reaches us from Ireland. Do you, Gentlemen, wish to see England in such a state as that? Every Eng lishman's heart answers " No!" No: GOD At.- 'noel,' forbid that the once happy farm houses of England should be converted Into a scene like this! Well, then, gentlemen, farmers of Wiltshire, do you see any other means of avoiding such a calamity than that of treating the labourers with gestelness anil indite ? Almost through the whole of my life, being au employer of labourers myself, I am aware that they ate trot with- out tit-ir faults any more than the rest of mankind. I am aware that their follies arid vices stand in need of the correction of those whom they serve. I am fvesiOof all this ; but I cannot forget what is due to the triilit., that they perform ; I moot forget the endless tiTexi tion of the commands of God to render to labour itstloe reward ; I cannot forget that it is owing to stelae* . perhaps more than any thing else, that I am not at this day a labourer myself ; and I cannot forget, though I , cast not about religion ; though I make not a bawling about blasphemy. that it is the duty of us all to do Irj others as we under similar circommaaces would ha them dithers do unto ns. tleatlesnen, far the-great tenth's that you save paid to me, cod pgseiamlarly f i the patience and the man;'..estlvinst and bind feeling with which you bare beard whit Piave said with regari to thelVeturers, the only return I have to make you is that of most sincerely wishing, you, WheA without your owe exertions, lam persuaded you will new again en joy, prosperity." , ~~ COLOBIIIIAN LOAN.—The following 4aiket tests M~ addressed by MIL 'Lea to the Controctofit Om the Colom bian Lope:— . "Dedfont, Oct. 22. " Oestientenflre Prnclametidttleroeity the Vice Pteittleitt of the Iltirimblie9l4, dated Bogota, lobe Stine . iarer )Wl2Wlh-ki;elßy attention, has not reaelied me through any authorised channel; but I see no reason to doubt Its authenticity. I attribute this proclamation, In fact, to vet/earnest representations which I have urgettipon the Government on the neces city of preventing, in future, its powers from being applied to pnrpoself not within their due scope. and sub delegated to other persons not contemplated by the Government. " In reference to the Loan negotiated with von at Paris, in March last, I can only refer you to the power deposited in your - hands, signed by the executive antho rity, most complete in its form and tenor, and which has never been revoked in the slightest degree, directly or indirectly. " In unison with the power itself, the instructions with which I am furnished specially direct me to raise a loan in Europe wbesevei it should be Omni/table, and on con.litions which have not been exceeded in my en gagement with yon. " No advice has yet reached me of my despatches which announced the contract for the loan havieg ar rived at liogotm " !laving lento respect exceeded ihe powers granted to me by the Government of Colombia, I Wu only to all, that the Government will be found faithful in all respects to the engagements I bare entered into in its behalf. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen. " Your most obedient biamblo servant. (Signed) F.' A. ZEA. " Messrs. Charles Herring, William Graham, and John Diston Powles, Contractors for the Colombian Loan." A letter from Jacmrl tilajti) dated the Ist alt. says, —"The day before yesterday, some members a the Le-, erislatino Assembly, now in the midst of its session, were r arrested by order of thit) ) resident, together with several other individuals. for w t cause is nut known ; but it is supposed the arrest It 'relation to the late intripies of General Romaine, The umber of persons disa ff ected 'to the existing Govern ,is undoubtedly very ronsi derable; but the financins( President Boyer, the devotion of the soldiery to Mm, and the attachment of the great mass ;lithe population, render it proltable that nothing will disturb tha tranquillity and security of this country. tieneral Romaine's executioo was very sodden and un expected. Au Aid-de-camp of the President was seen rifling at fall speed into Leogsni, a few mornings since, who carried the fatal order, which was immediately ex• ecuted. Romaine was an important personage under Cbristophe, whom he served as a General, and bore the title of Duke of Embe." A Brazil mail arrived yesterday, with letters from Rio de Jauriro to the 20th of Angus' The Prince Regent had gone to the province of Sr. Paul, about 400 miles in Ow interior, to quell some disturbances that bad broken out there, leaving the Princess at the hemd of the 80. vernment daring his absence. The packet left Bahia on the 311 t of August, and Pernambuco un the 6th of September. The letters from Pernambuco state, that a number of black anal mulatto soldiers had volunteered there, to join the Prince's forces; and a notice hal been issued by the intedfdant, announcing his readiness to treat with any persons to convey the troops, anionnting to 2,000 men, to Alagoas. A vessel arrived on the sth front Bahia, having sailed one day after the packet, the Captain of which reported, that on the day she sailed, an attack was made upon Madeira's out-poste, about a league out of the town, and when his vessel got under weigh, the place was in the utmost confusion. 31 High and ilye, the Proprietors of Vanithell Gardens, having received permission, by an addition to their lieense, of engsging professional dancers to ter tribute to the entertainment of the pohlie, will, it is said, among their numerous intended alterolions, erect a build. ing sufficient to exhibit the whole of Old aninsements, I with the exception of the fireworks, oo wet high!s. SIIIPPINO INTELLIOENCE. DEAL, OCT. 23 —krrised and sailed for Ihr fiver. the Ganges, from Madras end Bengal ; Rambler, C,uer. front the South Seas; Loyal Briton, Portia. from St. New Hronswiek.—Arrived and remain, the Grenade. Duke, front Chili for Amsterdam, and Canadian Parfet, Ilodert, from Jantsica.—The Loyal Briton sailed the lath of septenaher, and left the following vessels tiling In cargoes, viz.—Steek tomy. Elizabeth, Zodiac. Fairfield, Henry. and Lord Co:- linwood.—Sailed this morning the ts hold of the outward bound, for their different destinations w.th a fine breeze from S.E.—Wind E.S.E. POR T3llol;TH,Ocr.23.—Arrived the Laurel, Sphinx. tram Virginia.—Sailed the Flora. for Charleston ; Lively. 11o:11- son, for Africa; Marquess of 'bellies. f: 'relay. for Ma dras and Calcutta ; Comely. for New ; John MO I. forJainalca ; Lucy Dawson. Grexory, for .Inntsfes ; et *iv. for Mos ; Traveller, fur Marscaybo. and If. M. ship F.oto on a cruise, ned Iphipenis to the Eastward.—Wind E FALMOCTM. OCT. W.—Arrived the Surrey. Raine. from London for New South iVales; Lady Arsbella Packet from Lisbon in 10days; Friendship, Wirer, from Cuba, la 78 days.—Wind S. W. • 1.• ER POOL. OCT. 29.—The Fiero, Hudson, from New 0. leans for this place, was driven on shore the '2OM instant on Ferlorn Rock, near the Salters, and it was (eared Ihr vessel would go to pieces.—Wind W. OLD HAI LEY—Tate %gismo. --...-- 801 , 0011 Tug RECORPVII. Robert Barnes meg convicted of stealing three live foals, the property ofJames tiOagb, /411 d terileuttd to pay a tine of one shilling, and be discharge 4. Mary Morris was tried, on two separate indictments, for stealing divers articles from her lodgings, and 03 both teas found LniltY. BEIORE MR. JUsTICO P.I3R. Wm. Fry, aged 17, and Philip Weed. aged 19, were indicted for [burg lariously breaking and entering ti:e dwelling-house of V. Patterson, and stealing a p lir of boots, value 34., his property. After witnesses had been heard, Mr. JcsTicc PARK. in summing up, observed, he thought the evidence was nut strong enough to convict them of the rapit.d 01f, , ,er, and it would be for their consideration, whether, as lii.; e was a crowd about the door, the witness might not Los mistaken in the persona Is tusd fixed upon. The Jury shortly returned a verdict of not guilty. The prosecutor after the v edict had been returned, applied to Mr. Justie•Park for his expepees, which we: , . ordered .Me. hie then atited permission to address .i few words io th#ootrt which it Mr. Justice P.,rk sail poi utetsee•seiter ' sir time was valuable. De, hno - Id seer, persisted'/ ld in cotnpliance nit!' the wish or i ,Ilie father of Fry , o desired him to state that lii, sou was a very bail buy. lie was toll to hold hit longue, as the Court were not disposed to hear any thing about him. The prosetsetorlarrever, determined t proceed, till Mr. Jostles P *termed him his et.- pences would not be allowed; Wit/ paiTstea in making ..s long speech. This had the sletithei Effect, : and caused bins to retreat rather hastily from tho,•etneis's 16x, sp. patently much chagrined at the alternative. - _ Ili, Majesty is expected in town to-day, and 1134 star' or two he will depart for Brighton, where, it,kis probable, , his Majesty will remain for some dose. That his Majesty will not dine at fulislhall on tlio • 9th is certain; the CALM stated is the meeting of cer tain personages; but it is understood that he will by new the Mansion House with his presence, whirls• will obviate the difficulty above-mentioned, as it is the eette for a list of the !serums invited to be sent to hi. Ma lbsty. for his opprohauon.—(illornino• Paper.) Amyl( the ittieles in the Hamburgh matt is one of curious madam It is a speech by the King of Swede,' to the Parliament (Stortbing)of Nor Way, on the occasion ot' some di fferrnceem(ooinion between them.. The King tell: the Stortliing fairly, that he proposed ascertain :no le i f paying a public debt, because fie - COnerlie — d it to he thi' hest mode, but that it is their right to differ from bins i• that be a CI know how how to respect their consti coition- sl jurisdiction. and that they will give him no displeasor.• by. frankly speaking their sentiments." Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the Right Hononrah!e Lord Ad:- beret was appointed Governor General of Beogal. Yesterday, a Court of Directors was hAd at the East India House, when Captain John Patterson was sworn into the command of the ship Repulse, consigned to St. Helena, Bencoolen, and China. • i GIPSIES.—On Thursday se'nnight, a party of Gipsies set up a tent in the parish of tirade, near Gelato°, in Cornwall, where they commenced fortune-telling., and the other mysteries therewith connected. The next day, same of the fraternity introduced themselves to a neigh bouring farmer named Laurence Stephens, offering to open for him the book of f.ste, on receiving a swell gra tuity; their offers were dedi tied ; hot during their visi., they took an accurate survey of the premises, fur the purpose of future operations. Stevens kept his cash and papers in a bale chest, the key of which he sta. ire the habit of placing, as he conceived, in a place of al.0! rity ; having occasion to attend a parish vestry, he took seine papers out of his chest, locked it, and put the 1::.y in the usual place. The business at the vestry detained him to a late hour, and on his return he went to rep; tee his papers in the chest, but could not find the key. Sil p posing that he had mislaid it, he went to bed, and in the morning commenced a snore accurate search: 1,” was soon satisfied that the hiding place had been d;,- covered, and the key taken away during his abseilar ; he accordingly broke open the chest and found that bad been unlocked, and fifteen one-pound notes, and tie.: guineas and a half in gold,taken out. Suspicion fell on the Gipsies as the depredators; but on proceeding to their place of encampment, it was found that they had struck their tent, and departed the night before. A pur- suit was immediately commenced by Stevens, and a man named Randle; but the inaurtuders moved with sack weer, that Stevens and his companion did not Coma up with them before they had reached New-bridge, in Devonshire, having travelled in a zig-zag course, Llift miles. There they procured assistance; tonic the ps..- ties into custody, and proceeded to search them, when on one of men was found a one-ponod note. and halta guinea, heist in a particular manner, to which Stry an. was aisle to swear as his property. Five guineas we!, found on the ground near where the men wa. talin in-,. custody; but ist wilich lie denies all knowledge.—ln lb baggage of the party, property to a considerable intone!. was discovereiL)ronsisting of a great variety of children's clothes of a superior quality ; several pieces of cotton goods, a number of gown-pieces, flannels, a handsome gold seal, Sac.—They bad purchased three horses" with saddles and bridles, on their way to New-hridg--, for which they acknowledge to have given 251. The who e party, consisting of two men, and two worn -a, tts three children, were committed to Emter gaol.-- iininey-sweeper who was in their company Wits dis eh ell, it appearing he was nut concerned in the roh. tis k berV.— (West Briton.) - 'there were pulled in the girden of Mr. Twentyiran, of itiooilhouses, an apple or the liiiiil called Tank.% which measured 12.1 inches hy I I i, and weighed lIS oz. Another, a tiolJesi !Luise, I it !iv 11, and weighed 111: us. ; and also one termed The Smith, usually a small apple, which measured II Ly 11, and weighed is os. Front a commit, field pea, grossing in the gerell-n of 'Chimes Fleming, Barbel, London, have bean pulled this season live hundred and fArty pods, containing to 1, . thousand nine hundred - and thirty-four full-grown pen., besides a niiiisher of smaller size, perf.ctly humeri. "f h.- stalk, when pulled up last Saturday, was a ill blossoming.. , Tue Acorn. 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