The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-27 00:00:00

I ',lux Si STOCKS, AT ONI O'CLOCK, THIS PAY. feet Med. • 1 India Sleek. s par Coo. led Jet I Woe leads Ms. pet. s , ir ne cost ...... AIM NO See& Sea Smolt. . kilorPi nt See* See OW Las 6 per Costs— .. .. ..... Slott lik•Bilkid 1 i peg Cts. Navy— ...lONA' 100ei. rbf. to. pal. i Forced!! sem ..• •Ss. Is. pe Log Ass flint -----—IiIIMIn.. ilk 6. PM lip. II per Cent (101 Co.. isv Aeet Wiii Irisl b err Cent t Lott. Tickets. £II4 IS ESA WATER AT LONDOW-1111l111411T0-11011111111W. liondaii 43 m. after o.—Eveetsi II et. after & ..• ON secoont of the great inerrant of the eirentaHene of Its STATSSJIAN Shiite the arrangement *ilk Mr. Col arr. U hoe been devised expedient to remove the Ojlee le were Central Sad more Convenient Premises, 10.197, Strand ; and that no delay I. the delivery ./ tk Payers may be occasioned by the additional daily We. farther museum are in contemplation. Els btattlinum. fin serrIDIF STATBSII/130" HP INOOIIWORAIRD LONDON: iiiDNUIDAY ZVILNING, MARCH 27, 1822. STOCK EXCUANGE, TWILVE O'CLOCK. Tiers is a good deal of busiaess doing this users log. Consols are 801 i for the &coast, and 80i for wrap It appears there is a great twitchy of, A o aey ; for yesterday afternoon near a half pet Cask ass Ores for Money for the confiscation to the sett Attoapwlay, the 11th of April. We nuderstaed that ti:: ,kers of the Jewish penman, sold largely your dly; hit it had so great effect on tbe market. 1011111 GN lIITOt Se. Tire Market is, as astral, in a continual bustle, and S r aisli Stock is much sought after, both in London cal at Palis. Private letters, from the latter city, die morning state, they are greatly in demand there ; •bleb, no doubt, will cause the Spanish Funds to rise io our market. Dudek.. Nespelltee ...... 711 Spanish (New) French W. 9Se. Columbia Ex-Dicitlend New Coluiubia B4. EXCHANGES AND PRICES. Ice Lye noticed the state of the Exchanges once or tsar had, we once more beg our readers lot to rely esplititly on the state of the Exchanges, as published u. pie nrwspapers, which show. the price as ',lard oat 'Cl4a3ge, which is the nominal price ; and 'Aid', very fregueutly differs coisialcrably from the real pries, u actually naliociated, that is to say, which takes place is the parcitaused sale of Bills on tue 'Change.—Th• state of the Exchanger, at Ms time, is such, that we cannot believe ft prosible, that any additives! paper can be pat ,oat, without drivipg Aegold oat of the country. flow, therefore. it ens lAostgit of to issue Exchequer Bilis to purchase up en, to raise the price of that commodity, we k noir mr; and, indeed, we think it impossible, that prices held int ogaria rise; Bevis to say, out aa aieeagol 'treasons, sod provided gold•payments be soatlaueri. &s tiff* omatfary, we think they bare far told, yet, dose} they are (take one sort of produce with an after) lower than they were in 1712! lily we think Out they will go lower, and remain lower, alas in 1792, we seed not, at this time s:ate. We merely wish to metiers those whom it may confers. NEWS-PAPER DISTRESS. Raving oft,. had to deprecate the endsavoars of mina oar contemporaries to comfort the entering people of this country, by assurances (true or false), that the people of oths.r countries were :leering sleo, are art not, of course, about to preach patience to the farmers and landlords, on the ground that the news prlers are suffering in degree, equal, perhaps, to the asst sufartunate of agricultural districts. The " sof -1,47" of the Old Times has, fur more than four *whs. bees, we noderstand. of a very serious na tio: and, as its readers (who are growing more and err siker) must, last week, have observed with pain, it ncrually fell into a convulsive fit, commonly raiird a "gratis Supplement" !—ln short, we are in. formed, ao.l we be:ieve correctly, that every news paper in London has recently experienced, and is new expeneneing " distress," except the STATESMAN ' which we have the pl to say is increasing in prosperty. W e can, however, truly add, that this pleasure arises much more from the proof that this affords of the return of the public to a taste for sound principles and plain sense, than from any particular advantage likely to accrue to ourselves. La this view of the matter we have singular satisfaction I. learn me (which we do from good authority), that the most ma r''''l signs of " distress" have made their appear as2eto those twin brothers of bombast and bothers km. the Old Times and the Courier. Oar neigh .4oll:, the Tramper, i s man if est l y prepar i ng to take to lit heels. Is short, if common sense should, after a snag 4 le of so many years, gain the victory, thew. Lad many other Tertiaries that we could same, must 6 %age their very nature. or must absolutely perish. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. ritt C4assoso nothing dune. Only 21 /fern ier' appeared, and the House adjourned. h Tat LORDS there was very important matter, is oa‘equenee f a motion mid. by Lord Keno relative to the civil lint. Ent, before we proceed to that sub- St% Which is one of great intereet, we must not pass Wet a notice given by Lord Garr, that he should' after liel idsYs, bring forward the question of the die . l'etryth e eoentrs. His lordship first asked elle Mir wrT " Tin einem Welker Hai bed tended le prepeae es die tee& bevies answered. dist Ceemempee sittioss s bet. dom. of so particular measure far in cantamplation. Lord Oast said, hope is any thing that that Committee would a.; that the measures which had bees adapted were hilliog sad sogolory, and that his couviction was. that redaction of tozeo was the only seems of greed lag relief; and tha►, therefore, on as early day after the holidays, he should bring the subject before the Housa.—We aro glad of this ; for we shalt now see, something worth looking at, at any rats. CA N DA.-.—Leird Gm presented a petition from this Colony, compbsking of distress °fall *arts. sad pray ing that its corn. slaty free. might be sent into our ports! s' riot la emsjusiors !" was one of the wild exclamations in France, is 1793 ; and, really, it would seem, that our pretty fellows have brought us to nearly the same poise; for, turn which way we may, present distress and distraction and threatening confusion and convol•ion stare os in the face. CIVIL Liez.—Lord Kisto introduced the subject in a speech of considerable length and great ability, sod particularly great point. He concluded with a mo dem for reduction of salaries and allowances. Lord- LIVIETOOI opposed the motion, which was supported by Lord HOLLAND (in a very able speech too); but, uotwithetaadieg all the good grounds, that we are going to 'mice, on which the motion stood, it was ne gatived without a division. Lord ELLNNHOROLION said something also, which we shall have to notice Lord KING judiciously eonfitted his main attack on the diplomatic expenditure. His point was this : that, in 1792, our Ministers at foreign courts cost us 80,501 g. a year; and that in 1821, they cost us 280,0001., which, of course, is intended to be the standing charge. His Lordship entered into particular isstances, and, in going through these, mentioned the case of Mr. H. W. W. WYNN, of fames. Dresden notoriety, who is sow gone to Switzerland with a salary of 4.5001- at a place where we used to pay our Minister 2501. • year!—This is quite enough to satisfy the country. that, without a ebastge in that body who vote away the money, all the landlords and all the industrious classes in this country must be retired to a mere sap cienry to sustain life. There is absolutely no remedy but this. His Lordship mentioned too, that this thrifty scion of the Grenville trunk, received, while at Dresden, 5,414/ for loss of a library which was mei dentilly consumed byffre! Good God! But, it Is useless to fret oneself. This thing must have an old It nester can go en in this way. I;et us, however, al ways boar in mind, that this sort of expendi ture could sot take place, if the Hogue of Cons omme did not rote AU Sauey, • To that Howie it is that we are iadeked Ibr the whole of that of which Lord limo complained, and of whi ch he arm is torrid a ifictire=i l igliiigileiviirMr is I mind, too, that this enormous increase of salaries and allowances is to cautions at a time when the distress of the country is acknowledged; and at a time when the prices of produce are lower than they were in 1792; and. at • time when, in foreign countries the Ministers assert, that prices are still more depressed than they are here What defence had the Ministers to offer ? A parcel of common-places about the neces sity of keeping up our dignity in the eyes offereira ers, and a "solemn declaration," on the part of Lord LavearooL, " that not a single one of these appoint " meets bad annexed to it • sum exceeding what was " necessary ;" which declaration, " rams" as it was. left the matter just as the Noble Lord found it.—This Noble Lord did, however, make a peck in the way of defence. He said. that the Finance Committee of 1816 (or 1817) had ted these charges. • Ili, Lordship knows, 1 suppose, that it was the Ministers themselves, and not Lord KING, that selected that Committee ! What, then, was any decision of that Committee to Lord King P What answer was it to his Lordship, or to the distressed nation, for whom he was pleading ?—Bot, Lord Livsnroor. (in answer to as observation of Lord KING, that money had risen is va lue) let slip oat, that the extent to which depreciation had beets carried was well understood in 181 7. I n. deed! Then, as far as his Lordship of LtvsapooL is concerned, there must have been, since that time, a groat falling off in the understanding as to this matter ; for, that he does not now (or did not the other day) understand the extent of the then depreciation, Mr. COSIISTT has most clearly proved•in his first letter to his Lordship. Lord ELLINDOROUGII contended (in apparent opposition to the motion of . Lord KING) " that of all the different species of ex " peuditure interred by Government, that now before " them was the meet necessary; for it was informetioa ; " it area dispatch ; in short it sr al Serer Service Money... We would first remark that this corresponds perfectly with our commentary of the other day. When you want a reduction of expense, be that expense what it may; it is not only opposed ; the expense is not only stated to be necessary; but to be the most necessary of ail the expenses of the Government. But, Lord HOLLAND gave a perfectly good answer to this descrip tion of the uses of diplomatic expenditure, in the ob eervation which barnacle, that the expense of Lord CAS ZZZZZ AOH'S minion to Vienna ; that the expenses of 1164 mission alone (and we know it did not last a year) soot more, by two thousand pounds, than all the &Hummers to all the different foreign ministers of the Coiled States of America. This is not only tree; hut it exceeded the amount of those allowances is a _ ally filled than oars have been by the Clarearties. tito Stewarti, the *yin% the Cath cart% the ffstlas Bevies, *arrest, the ATerria and the rest of think ? As to ear owe °plaid's it is this, that if thert-stentld be a distiladea of taint aid If the lessence of all our diplomatist* pet together for the last thirty years were collected into one it would sat present say thin equal to the knowleage awl the talent at writing of Mr. Jarrnaeolt himself; who, be it remembered, re ceived les! ,than one thousand pounds a-year as Am bassador to Treace; and who, while he we President of the (Jolted States, while he was the Chief Magis trate of a' Nation containing. tee minims of people . even when be was in this office, and bad ten Ambas sadors to represent Lim at Foreign Courts, his salary wee betfloereonsood two kowired and fifty pounds *part that Is to say, only a little more than owe itiWrdof peach all Lord CLANCARTY now receives as 'ear Anthissador is Holland ! Alas! what do we want wtiti teltrnist for the American labourer receiving a Veldts the Euglithjabeorer receives a dollar a-day, though provisions are lower bet they are here However, (aid this e never lose sight of) thus it must be a Refortnof the House of Commons. wed, as bb Lordship soy }.it,. Lifihssiorri oil 14.1 Claim*. dio Adios& pdas iot buJimimmoii IWO 11 " 8 "h Crairioril; Cloy, obi ski rib hue quarter priced II let our I until tlit SCOTCH FAIR-PLAY. Looking hate The Morning Chronicle of this lay we were rather pleased to perceive that that paper was lending Its habil to expose the absurdity of Vie Cox. tier, when it contended that it was n y to keep soldiers embodied, as eretootere for the formers.—As we were reading os, we came to a quotation, begin sing thus, tit...fallacy and absurdity of thlt reason ing. (says Os )" the whet, think you, reader ? Why ne States:non, to be me, which son. reined Mr:fovearr's Letter to Lord L1V111,41011. on the sobjec, Oh, no! Nut Tug STATICINAIf; bet The " Seolintax!" And then on goes the Scotehmae to gut and garble but to retain the substance of the observations in Mr. COSIIM'e letter. This Is very low. It is very miserable ; it excites, The CAroxicle may be well assured, feelings and Opinions very little 'to its advantage, The Scotch writers have all been wrong upo'n the sabjedt of the currency, from the year 1910 to the preseeddai. Let them get right as soon ter they cam;. WO-they attempt to plunder, let them rocollectllsal **dash is in good bandy, and all I. ' ready. • ' "'stem pipers arrived this storming ht..** 27tIs of February, hff which we bare the following'ilitact of a litter r red at New York attrAMl - 111114teowir' Or , thirty days from Callao, privately despatch. ed by Lord Cochrane to the Goveromeot, with a small part of the specie (50,000) dollars, be took from Gene ral San Martin, for the purpose of opening the way for his charges against him. The Protector despatcl.. ed another schooner an the same day with despatches. This is becoming a very serious business. Cochrane manages well, but I think ha has too many against him. He now confines himself to hi, ship, fearing that if be trusts himself on shore the Protector might put him in prison, as he did an inferior officer who was engaged in taking the money. Tosonaar Honw.—We shall, with all convenient speed, get the papers (now laid before Parliament) re lative to tbia paSlie servant," and lay their con tents before owe resders. There is to be a public dinner at .11o; trich, on Fri day next, to which, we understand, Mr. Cobbett is in vited. We shall have a report of the proceedings in nor paper of Monday next, ur, if practicable, of Sa turday. A correspondent informs as of the following sin gular occurrence, which took place a few days since, at a parish near Bethersden, in this county :•—•• A vestry of the parishioners was called, in consequence of a great number of the poor applying for relief, wheo they were pot up to auction for labour, and knocked down to the highest bidder. The Clergr man nn this occasion presided, and performed the part of an auctioneer. Such W 45 the ■pplication for re lief, that the best price fir the most able young wen was only fourpence per day."—(kentiah Chron) We understand a petition to his Majesty is in the Course of circulation for signatures in behalf of the unfortunate convicts for illegally assembling with fire arms at Marsh Bay.—(ftiti.) Robert Jones Adeane, Esti the High Sheriff of the Counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon, has convened two meetings of those Counties; the former to be hell at Cambridge, the 4th of April next, to present a Peti• tine to the House of Commons for a Reform in Parlia ment; end the latter to be held at Huntingdon, on Wednesday the 31 of April, for a similar purpose, and to submit to the Legislature the very alarming state of the country. Stan.►.—LocKS O. TII6 BISHOP or NORWICH A cur:us and important cause was tried an Saturday, at the Norfolk ASlllitol, relating to the Rectory of llil gay, a living of considerable value, in that county To this living. Dr. Hewlet, who was the real defendant in this cause, had been inducted by the Crown, on the ground that Dr. Locke had first simociacally obtained the Living, then ha•i simoniacaliy sold it, and had by like means regained possession, all rebid. the &Alia ill alerted, and thereupon issue was juined. After evi• deace was adduced to establish I be several points. and the Learnrd Judge had •sutttuteJ up, the Jury having .retired for n short time, returned with a verdict 1.4 the defendact, thereby establishing the acts of simony. Tlift STA a, led permed ei My ilb• ; sabJeet ; sad Lord Levee- eiheiroitr e llAW there was I Committee esembrettrie a ast ibi that. as to Misoelf. bakes. Visited ststn, gild i hr Arimateral relief bail Aleut. Wllstls Crai g art said, that be lea me Dot bees more ally COHN EXCIIANGt, MARC t! . 41• We have hsd swab arrivals Wiled. since Momfar, from Yorksh.re, aid tLe bJsiasss this morning is ea reeding:), doll, there being au shun market, anti but few buyers. At present the prices may be quoteri similar to those of lasi utiisy New White Meat 4545 ' Top price. Old Now Rod ....S./4.i 'Fla price. Old :Ai Flour Ws. T. intro. Beers autl rtlAb, Boilor., ,241. to Ai,. fiffifiNIMMINIIIMPSIIIMEEEP . 1 ALA/WINO OUTRAGES IN move. • :. --.._ , We lemdllif id Wale that a dialealistel spirit similar to that which has been nsanifeited it% other parts, is the deetraetkosetilienaing stock by are. has shown itself is then mmonsty. About eight seclork in the evening of Twiny Wald/64 a straw stock antaining 60 loads k • standing in the yard of Mr. Raker, of Des Court, .k. near Grammad, was discovered to be on fire. In a few • wastes the eases became truly awful ; but the wind , fortunat blowing from the buildings • and the other • stacks. a id the prompt arrival of several engines from Graveseed, Northileet, and Rochester, ttre fire was cow- filled to the stack in which it originated, and which was totally communed. From all the ieformation that can he obtaieed, there is too mach reason to apprehend this it was the act of an incendiary, and that the object in view was the ilestructioti of a threshing machine which was in an adjoining barn. The man who lirst discovered • the fire. pereeited in the stack a light about the aim of a lantern, and I. a moment the whole side of the stack was la a blase. In a few minutes afterwards Mr. Beenehley, who resides at Denton Court. in passing through the yard was ran against by . a mean, who dropped a light and made off; Mr. Ti. instantly extin- t gnashed it, and on going to the spot the following morn- I tag, be found a tobacco , pipe, but little used, broken in • pieces. On Saturday night another stack consisting of stubble, ataeding about half a mile free the above. and belonging to Mr. Jarvis Noakes, of .Shorne, was discovered to be on fire and totally destroyed. This 1 appears more to have been set on fire to meaning alarm than any thing else, as a Ist a stack of why a , short distance off, and mi ht ed.— • . We cannot speak tea lire irlaesity tisabraith the esteem' eargineeimesived 4,meilm plasm, artalifha Orval , t exertions used by timeseji ries hsholsitanteag amens the flames and preserve the remaining property. Thi4 . m part of the county is at perserat in 'great state of 111141 rill, a every exertion is making to lint oat the misereante, • i anal liberal rewards are offered fot their appreheasian, f ~. , which *0 trust -will lead is vieteetisma.—(Mafetemee 1, Jour/eel.) 1 ),I POLICR REPORT EXCILIORDIatiIIit . ;.• 1 i —ie.... 7 .- [IMO)/ TUE LICIIIIS moat:solo eusg, steapor l- , I ", .---- We have received the following stakemealetia • . • Ifialf s, • e . • " AP 1 i•e!•.,, singular occurrence.— • . 1 ~ u . • j AtARLBORS'%III•STIZaT ellikei:-T , The hatelpiblegiee came on at this Office, tselitardati.bilere Mr. Laeglilf • Ting Magistrate. Nr.111114711.144 respectable= ~ .. .., ..' (an Enilishmatee sad tot a bit 'demean in his Mejestferreivicej appliel„ . .with sensonimilkiatat sad preferred Lipopiplaist against alterseedillait PRI ... . 1 sti who called himiel ( Pitt, "lies antes, alias dwail M•brattough. Mr. Mitfitell stilted...! it Italie, been time night before in cainF4N to rith Mends in ii respectable neighbour's house . ..g's, of••SmitirrillOst.,) Uhl ng • some poster, the pnsonitr; frith; °them-Mum in, aid in a few mines after au alteecatioa to plage 4 . in- whkh !. the prismoW bloat ' - it seemed. by some '' portion mita(' $ ~ m . 4 ., , . arbich t ilepher re, I seated, as Wl' ... 1. 4 / ', sin a pp ly. tq • , i t himself; that Mi.' • .._,." . ...' ' bad th li ,i • protection of • • ".. . " w `if s '. ' • Ibilteretiif,, !'rs - 1± meat, eta. per week' need' a 'Mei . - . 1111•InT BALL, witiclo lat soli e e raid from liasecimilrelillandi 40 1 11. upon which' Mr- dosseurlea he would sir.. it nu il il to him ; the poi . .;sodnplied, gad bi (Mr. Mitchell) brought the sat into thosireet, to interrogate him farther.. - pillaragr then Jeclpred, that lit. was 4 at the murder of hitt, Terrince--titst be hteatne an app- prover, and had hissesele hanged for that tmorvidafecf. .. He again stated, that he had- the pmeentiop amid 'pay of Goverosameet, sad aligned., &her • her •erasa4 eov; he 1 , said be lodged with a ib 4 ..4eoelop, Plo. 1. Parbemtreet, • Mr. Mitchell then adriped_hdas. ate leo aleratombistfiet.-- ---- - s • • ' I slam, but th e Jmaiwgrregyeeraggel e ,...ersd fiallowiil Zr. .......:A.— i Mitchell back, into tbe—taktms; trite% . the arzittiseat - --- , -'am2- --- recommenced, and a considerable share of increased in- solence on the . part.of the prisoner; he boasted of., his . 1 various explo its done in the capacity which he now avowed, and of the protection which he enjoyed. A young gentleman of the name of Dempsey, who was in the room at the commencement of this affair, bad the prisoner. charged on the watch' Ihr the expression he .. used, and to compel him to give-farther account of him- self. Mr. Mitchell's statement was fully and satisfac- I torily sustained by a gentleman of the named Manly, m a well as by several others. The Magistrate inquired 4 what the prisoner had to say, when be (the prisoner), m ~I'. with constderacle confidence, said, that he nil, sent by " Government. Mr. Long.—What - Government? i The Prisoner.—The English Government. Mr. Long.—Name the persons who sent you. Prisoner.—Major Wilcocks aid Mr. Barrington. 'm i . The Magistrate said that be would send him before 1,, ‘ the Recorder, and ordered that lie should be forthwith indicted. A difficulty here arose as to what he shonld be t indicted for ; and the prisoner having manifested a de- sire to be sent before time Magistrates of the Head Office, i by whom, lie said, he would be recognised and known, and from whom he said, he expected justice, the Magis- trate accordingly referred the case to the Head Office, and the prisoner was forthwith sent over in time custody of a police offi,•er. The parties having appeared before Alderman Dailey and Major Sur, at the Head Office, the same statement was again reesnitsilated, when Alder- man Dariey exprea.ed himself highly gratified with the conduct of Mr. Mitchell and his friends, and expressed his thanks to them on the occasion, by assuring them that they, the Magistrates, would take good care of the prisoner.—We give the following description of this man's person . Edward 51`Donougla, in height, about five feet five 1 i inches, rather stoat made, has dark brown hair, mil heavy eyebrows, and smooth face, with rather a promi- nent chin ; he speaks with a strong Munster accent, and is about I'd years of age. We wait with no little anxiety for the development of 1 this very curicus business. , -- m i The Royal Coburg Theatre eosin! for the Winter Season last nig!it, when is appropriate Address was ' delivered hr Mr. T. P. Cooke. '1 lie present season of Drury-lane Theatre e . .a. , . on S imorday inert, the house having "c-n 07,..n to • stipalated two hund r ed i nights; and the Prforrn.r.! most eith- r renew their I 1 engagements. or quit the l'heatre. I. liter the close of the Theatre, the int..rior is to nr..l rru a variety of 1 1 I ° 1 alterations and tastaol dr.-orations previous to its re- opening. 1 Many of the crops nt w , eat have !h.. .I^pesrance of f ' May- instead of 31.a....'i io the tar:g:ll,,urhotel of Win- chester. A