The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-04-03 00:00:00

diwar oue e of such importance, of such e ilarged sitar, ea it now appeared to him, though it bad at. . g e l s Leen a case shocking to henna feeling."•— pr !taw'. that be bad received a comnineication from plc num whence it appeared that he was " eta ...yard to hardships and severity." The Hon pont added, that be had been gives to understand, tie two of tee visiting-magistrates, Mr COLSTON 0 1 Ur. Sewage.% had, by their orders. " increased he evils of Mr. Hum r's siteation." Petitions were re mote& praying for the release of Mr. MONT, Slid Par:iarocotary Reform, froru HotreAtua, from , e tey, fr to billing worth. from Liverpool, and frail g ee kput. —We wool I express a kope that these pie thivaleill be attended so; bat we must say, that we bare eeltiag to found a hope on. By the app 'ready olirdebtenee, on both sides, we think we can per tain t:re iatention of both sides with regard to this wear We on guess at the view which the Mini jeer the matter, and we think, that, even for tkeir sea ioteresta, they take the wrong view of it. We seer.: feria hope, that the day of conciliation is sot bat we are NM, that a time is approaching, w he t prattle &vacillation will be w. rth a great deal. Th e City Petition, fur reduction of taxes and for. ream, est treated in a very cavalier manner by Sir W. CC1313, Mr. WILSON, and Mr. Baronet, three sate( fear of the members fur the city. They denied tut it tees the petition of the Livery, for that out of I i,64,0, they said only about 300 or 400 were present when the petition' was agreed to ! Yes, but the rest O r have bees present; sod, to what would this dottria lead ? For, of the laws that are passed by 4: Parliament+ are sot nine-tenths passed without pethaps a tenth part of the members of either House Wise been present at any one stage of them ? How. rter,if the Livery of London choose such men as these at represent them, this is, certainly what they have to Ilea. We are not to expect a Riorm from the pb,ic spirit of Corporations, which Erma is need of nova reforming theasselveil This Corporation of taloa is by no means an humble Imitator of the grain-HMI itself. 1 1 dop Sir Jowl STLYIS. ILI; which is quite sufficient to establish its character, in ages. It had also the honour of rearing up der mas and the IV in the reign of Charles the Second. It is, in short a and not a little MING, as will be seen, if its temporalities should star be duly looked into. MatI,COACII WOITLCT moved for t committee to inquire into the claims of a Mr. eras fur basis, proposed a scheme for an (Wra p.. Toe Chancellor of the Exchequer backed this NMI, though the project And foiled. The au :on ea, however, negatived; aid, for seat. we have a we to approve of ; fur, as Mr. M r well ob trod, leers could be so eel projects, jobs and roanderirg, if projectors were to b.. indemnified failure. Mach, however", as we dislike the jars and lb* squandering. we dislike the projects still airs. Bus, they are the natural off.pring of a nate of things like the present, which teaches am to look for the means of existence to contrivance, miter than to patient labour and Ito ly ; and a greater INN meet well afflict a community. A " sites. Lim," a something genteel, is what all the world is fspisg for. Work is the Deoll that ail appear to I,ls. Bat, we repeat, that this is the natural effect If the wino. lon a Oinceits Witiows.—From what was said Ile. burro:* and Mr. VANSITTAIIT, it appears, tot the widows of insane officers are to be on a foot ist, with regard to pensions, with the widows of swede/ officers. 1 his appears to us something per *dy monstross. We would go very far in the way ''provision for the wives of those who bleed in fight ist is the filso's service. But, is it not to disho• tier these, to give to insanity what is given to wounds received is battle? Besides, the insanity may be awnlitary, or it may exist Sefore the party enter the ansT Of navy; and, though always a thing to excite essirovios, is a government to be under the dominion • (Mines of this sort, when expendieg the public besey? We reren . ly gave an instance of a sea.officer, *he. Idea on trial fir desertion, pleaded insanity, sad produced a Clergyman of the Church of England Id prove that the offender was not perfectly sane be fore he entered the service! If this provision be to hie place, let us hope, that measures, and effectual senores too, will be adopted, to prevent crack-brained pattern from becoming military and naval officers ; fare if this provision be merle, without such precuts -I.*?, is it not to be expected, that a mesa-room or varrhroore will soon become but a flighty sort of pier ? Stu W. ADAMS —A Mr. G. R. MALIN complain ed, is a petition. that Sir W. Arrows, the eye-doctor, 1 " 4 Printed garbled extracts of a Rerrt of the House, 5..1 prayed th]t the petitioner might be p►rmitted to piblt, odler parts of it. lint, why could not Nlr UALIN do is he pleased about the matter, as the other rpr-doetor hail done? Why petition at all about the ostler The Donee is well employed, indeed, in ad. ming the s.inabbles between Doctors : But, thus it lam he, if it will meddle with every thing. The mi arfelegidarion is an evil of greater magnitude than. at lira sight, it would appear to be. It lets a legions. titre does. Tire cases are rare indeed where even the •+eestive government ought to make itself a party With projectors or with professional persons of any "It; how cautious, then, ought a Jul:l4We to be is *schemes? lint, the mischief is, money is in the 711 P: STATE isestioa, la semi limas or ober; aad beetle the gislatore gets laverved. Time comes the gererwaseet bg eoaunittees, which Is next to s government by dubs. rids Is amoogst the " arta of sinking," as applied j moots. We wish that alr. amigos coold wit. tress the scenes Jurist a sessloo of the Legislature of Peassyleania ! We think be would taro oleic at the sowed of the word Committee for the rest of his life. Uxtraauxs.—The Cheirians, io Constantinople, were .;isputin; about gram and free will, "while the " Turks were thundering at the gates of the city." We need net add, that the Turks took po 'on of it. This, however, Is no warming to no! When it is really a question of life or death to the whole or•ler of things, hers is Mr. W. Sum giving notice about a Bill to make alterations about t►e scruples of the L'ititarizns ! And so we are to be moused with a dispute about " !acre! of conscience," and on the part of those, too, who really have nothing to complain of. IV. defy any man to produce an argument in fa your of Unitarians that will not apply to Deists. All plaralities have been removed ; all eneicsioks ; wad what du they want more ? Do their priests want some of the sidles? If they do, let them say so ; and then we shall know what to du fur Mesa! This is the worst of seem. They are always fishing after something for themselves. This throws them alternately into the hands of the Government, and makes them tools of stale policy. When once a man thinks much of his sect, he thinks little of his country. The sect is his country; and the smaller the sect the more he is wedded to its interesm to the exclusion of those of the community ; because, to be one out of ten is more than to be one out of a thousand. If the Bi:1 of Mr. SMITH could be passed without any one word of talk abort it, we shou:d not care a straw what it was. Is Is the talk, the fads, the bother about it that we dislike so much. AGRICULTURAL REPORT!!! it is peblished! All the rich cogitations are id print! What do we not owe to the Art of Printing! We insert it in another part of our paper. Look at it farmers, and now say, " whether thiage will come .Govt." We hare not the face to say, with the Chronicle, that this report merits the "enema/inn of " the country." We cannot be grave to this extent. Nor, can we, with the dotard Times, talk of its &taro k' effects ; for the truth is that it will have no effect et all, except upon the risible faculties of men of sense. la tkie respect it is a valuable pro , lucuion, cad, before we have done with it, we shall make of it what eau be made of it. The Consesittee have kindly left it us for holiday purposes t for which they bare our best thank*. "' Philadelphia papers have arrived this morning to the sth March, from which we extract the following: •" A letter from WAshington states, it is probable that no Tariff will be finally acted upon during the present session. The Committee of Ways and Means will present it towards the close of the Session, and it will remain till nest year, in order to invite exami nation and inquiry. In relation to the West India re strictions. the plan is none of the best ; bat there is ill be no change of it during the present session. Should there be a necessity Lir a change next year, it nal be Jone with a view to mike our restrictions less heavy on ourselves, and probably more coercive on Great Britain, but not with any disposition to yield its the contest. [lllOlll Tilt PROVINCE Of MEAL) Oar latest accounts are, that CI 1 Long, who fell by mistake into the hands of the Republicans, supposing that he was assaulting a Royalist party, has been not only released with his fifty men, but taken into the Pairiot service with pay, rank, and emoluments. The privates are to receive a dollar per day each. They are lucky men indeed to escape (row captivity and starvation. Parsons who are in ted in speculations in Texas are publishing won dada! accounts of the fertility of the land and the hospitality of the Spaniards, and some of the credu lous people of the Mississippi, who are now living on the most fertile land, seem to be disposed to better their condition by emigrating to Texas. For our part we frankly confess our belief, that we have quite enough of territory beyond the Lississippi.....lt will be quite time enough a century hence to prepare for a second range of States west of the Mississippi. Paris papers to the lit instant bare come to band, including those of Friday, which had not arrived pre vioasly to oar last. The quarrel which we stated to have taken place between 0 Is Somele and Wont, ocea.ioned, as was apprehended a Duel. They were xecompanied by Generals Sebastiani, Parl Gerard, and Digeon, and each fired three times. The seconds thought themselves the more called upon to put an end to the combat, because there was nothing personal against 0 1 Lafont in the interruption of General Semele, of which the Journals bad given an accurate account. The question of peace or wa► betwen Russia and Turkey, still re. mains in a doubtful state, tut the general complexion the intelligence is rather of an hostile description. An article from Petersburg states (there is to believe correctly), that the British and Austrian Mi nisters at that Court have declared, in the name of their respective Sovereigns, that in the event of war, they will observe the strictest neutrality ; at the same time expressing a hops that the Ottoman Porte Will consent to make these concessions and sacrifice. • 4. wileh r aiseri oecessary to the waists name of peace. The atadkiosts 'are exactly those which we have repeatedly stated. Letters received at Trieste from Corte correlsoeate oar former 'musts of the Dew pieta! drat of the Turkish led by that of the Greeks. l'he arrest of the Pledmootese In Paris still goes on and among ethers who have been solject to it is M. de Santa Roes. Meister of War daring the Revolution. To strengthen the ties between his subjects sad him self, the King of Sardinia has sanctioned the re-esta blishment of the Jesuits in his insular kingdom. A report had prevailed is Paris es Friday that an indi vidual belonging to (1 1 Berthon's band had been arrested at St. Calais, in the department of the Scribe. and as nspicions were iseterteined of his ' teeing the 0 I himself, several Staff Officers bad hue sent down to ascertain the fart. It turned out, however. That it was net the General, but a per son sn very like him, as to give rise to the error. One of the journals contradicts the accounts given by others, of elearses committed by bands of malefattont, in the Cantos of Chasny and Coney t but no light is thrown on the state of either Brest or Rochelle. What the real cesditien of the country is bees evinced by what trauspiree la the Chamber of Dept ties. During the tumultuous debate of Timidity, it came out, that the French army consisted of 241,000 men, and that instead of reducing it, it was the inten tion of the Frertcb Government to increase it by no less a number klhn fifty thoretted men in the course of the present year. The city reports of Saturday relative to the French Firagle were somewhat erroneous, at will be seen by the following authentic statement Opened, - • -90 f. 10c.—Closed, - 891. 40c. "OCT. Opened, - -89 f. sc.—Closed. • . 30.:. lIATUILDAT. Opened, • 89f. - - 891. 15c. BAILt Pr Svevnm.—ln one part of Essex, there are two considerable Landlords,oll of whose tenants refused to hold on at any rent at all. Bailiffs have actually beeo put into the farms ! No man is foul enough to suppose fit t one single farthing can, in such a case • he got for the use of the lead. So that, in fact, the estates of time* landlords are not now their.: the landlords are merely the over-lookers fur the benefit of the tax-eaters. This Bailiff-system is amongst t►e possibilities, long ago anticipated by Mr Cobbett, who said, that, if this system became g I. or even common, the tithes would follow the rent ; and that, finally, the landlords themselves would become pen sioner* of the state. HUNDRID Matrix ts.—Meellogs of the B.radre•ds, in Norfolk and Suffolk, are about to take place. in order to petition for redaction of eases and reform. This is an excellent mode of proceeding and, we treat,- the femora will make, and act ups, the resJintion, to quit as quickly as possible, the leads of all landlords who will sot jam is these petitions.— The farmers would be foolish indeed, to place their pro• • •ty in the heat of the ►attle—We shall make a point of being very particular and as early u possible in giving an account of what passes at thew meetings. " The Society fur propagating Christian Know ledge," bate now is circulation, by means of their pious booksellers; F. and C. Rivingtem, no less than six (perhaps sixty)religious Tracts, in any one of which there are lief and calumnies on Mr. Cobbett by name. 'I his seems to be an odd way of propagating " Chris tian Knowledge." Scores of these " religious tracts" represent Parliamentary Reformers as " blasphemers." We should be uncommonly glad to p a List of the Sabec,ibere to this pious undertaking; and to know who the =lagers are. We want the names MI these propagators of " Christian Knowledge." ' Upon the intelligence of a late melancholy neat reaching the " Sister Kingdom," not less, ye are 'minted, than a score of " warm-hearted" youths, tke narrowest of whom measures three feet across the shoulders, were taken is a desperate fit of love ; whs• thcr with the widow or with the bags it woald, pee lops, be indelicate to enquire. Oar readers are aware. that there are to be county me►tings in fluatiagdoashire and in Cambridgeshire, the former to-day and the latter to-morrow. We shall take care to obtain the earliest and most correct ac counts; for, though some people may denominate them farces, we are convinced, that much depends upon the wanner in which these " farces" are acted : if well performed, these " farces" may prevent t agediea. There is also a meeting to-day at Bury St. Edmund's to petition fur reduction of tales and for Reform. fete shall give a■ account of the proceedings in our paper of to►morrow. The public prints say. that the Duke of Devonshire is smitten with the charms of Lady Conynghans's daugh ter. A correspondent asks us in what port we thiok it likely his Orate has felt the blow : whether in the heart or the head? A question of much too delicate a nature for us to think of answering offhand. Yesterday, at half-past two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign °dice, which was at tended by the Earl of Harrow by, the Earl of Liver pool, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Margn.•ss of Londonderry, Mr. Peel, Earl Maws', Mr. Itohlnson, the Duke of Welling ton, &c. The Cabinet sat in deliberation till altar hive o'clock. Colonel Gusta•asoa, the late King of Sweden, has commenced an cc ion for libel against the editor and publisher of the Zeitgenossen, a periodical work con taining the biography of diringoished persons of the present age. Brockhau., of Leipsic, is the publisher. PROOF Or AGRICULTURAL DISTI - 59.-•-•At Truro fair, last week, a farmer who was under the necessity of raising a few pounds, was compelled to sell herloc Need of cattle, sante of them two, sod others tb:ce years old, for the sum of eight pfluudit! It istanderstood that the Ilaym.irket Theatre, whose 41tutner season has bete gradually cot down to almost nothing, is to have in future a clear season of four nonths, without the cooleading el% airy of the great :hearts. THE LATE DUNI. IN SCO , The statement of this not•rtnunte affair wlskle era copied en Mooday from the Ede AlistigA Slaw brio,: from authority. we base avoided givoi whet se cowl which aro inaccurate or eoperfluons. At pre sent we here to add, the report that Mr. booths; Sir Aleisnder's second s having demi, has IWen admitted to bail. Tbr circumstance which led to the lute fatal duel. it is understood, was a sons which stilsysted is th , ' Glasfers Seer*, of the 26th Decemhre. The fol. lowine is said . to be a correct copy of the title, noel two stanzas of the soot. omitting only the name of a Oentleunas who has bad no share in this Moth to its lamented transaction : .A.VD. WHIG SONG. SUPPOSED TO DR WRITTEN ONE OP PPM /*WWI TAPPET NOT IT wars THE FIRST. OR RIND JAVY.I INC Fiera, BUT PDORERLY EV ONE OP TEE ROUSE 011 , STUDER. Tuos—"Sher(flhir." • • • • • There's scot-feeder Svositt, Kent for that fat mow—art. How glegly he kicks any ba', man; Awl —, lang e►irt, man, Whose height might serve weed, me, To read his ain name on a we'. men I And they crack, and we ta'k, &e. Yonr knights o' the pis, pi, Are a' gentimwei, an; Ilk bettfi a limb o' the law, an ; Tacks, !winds, precognition., Bills, wills, and petitions, And Ought but a trigger some draw, man I And they crack, and we ta'k, &c. • o • • ; THE ARM r. (CIRCULAR.) War-Office, March 11, 1 922. Sir,—ltefereing to the Circular dated the 291 b April, 1817, I have the honour to acquaint yea that his Ma jesty has 'wen graciously pleased to direct, that tLe regoiatiou therein laid down, under which the Surgeon passing. in the first instauce, a recruit who may be snit sequeatly rejected. is held lisbleto defray the expenses inearr4l for such it, shall; from the 25th iuel. inclusive, be rescinded.—l have, &c. (Signed) PALSIERSTON. Officer Commanding the Regiment. The Gazette of last night annonaces, that the King has been pleared to appoint a Kobe to be worn by the Solicitors of Scotland ; and the French papers inform as that the Drichess de Berry, in consequence of • particular request made to her, has consented to be Godmothei to a bell, which has been east for a elsurch at Bordeaux ; and also permitted the Doke of liordeaux to be Oodfather to it. So important does her Hoyt) Highness deem the office that she hes di , reeted the Viscountess de Ooorpe to represent her, and the Count de &email to repremor - tho -Doke de Pcirdeaux at that ceremony ! We are eencerned to learn that great uneasiness prr.; wails amongst the work-people in the I mo-works in Moomotathshire and South Wales, on account of the law rate of wages, and want of eMploy. In one de partrneot of these important concerns, at a principal work, we are informed, a redaction of wages from 2s. 4d. to Is. 3d. per too Las already taken place. and several hundred people belonging to this Work are said to have been out of employ for several weeks past, to consequence. These reductions, however, we are assured, from the highest authority, are absolutely Ge e eeeee y to enable the Proprietors of Iron-works to carry them on at all 1—• decent anal becoming confir mation this of the ion put into the King's Speech, and reiterated by Lord Londonderry, '• that our manu factures ate in a state of restored prosperity" (Bristol Mercury.) _ _ A Paul's Covent Garden and the Select Vestry is expected to-morrow evening, when the Election of a Church warden comes on at the Piexia Coffee-house. The Select Vestry mean to regain, if possible, what was w d from them last year. At New York on the Bth ult. bills on London were at a premium of from 13 to 131 per cent. By letters from China we learn, that the General Kyd East Indianian, on her voyage from Ileogal to China, was unfortunately run on shore in the Straits of Malacca. The Chief Mate was drowned ; ►at luckily the I bad not received any particu'ar damage. Liskeard fair, on Monday last, presented a deplov , able picture of the dist el •rate to which the Agri cultural Interest is reduced ;--the sale was dull, and the prices low beyond all precedent.—( Wert Britoe.) Cues-EXCIisNOE, Aram 2.—We have had great ar rivals of Wheat and Barley since last Saturday ; of the former not less than 10,000 quarters, and of the latter 1000 quarters. The trade, this morning, is heavy, end little business doing. The market is moderately spitz plied with Flour and Wheat and prime samples mly bd quoted at Monday's prices, but all other descriptions are nominal in price. poems, Manua 2sl.—Pcsraurriva nat.—Yes terday morning, about half-past four o'cl rek. a fire broke out in the lower part of the haute of Mr. Win ter, grocer, in Dorset-street. which raged with apple ling fury for some time. In consequence of the gains tity of whiskey which lay in the shop and cellar, this flames spread rapidly to the adjoining houses, and Jid much inlori to the roof of the house of Mr. Hughes, publican. A great number of engines at= tended promptly, and were particularly effective.— There was a great dejav experienced for some time, in consequence of a want of water, Lot rulisrquenHy 'here was an abundant supply. 'Mr. Winter's house we regret to say, west entirel► consumed, nothing ha►ing been left .itasding but the bore walls. EICTEN;Ivs Roearav, AND H••a:an ATTEMPT ar ]Cuenca.—On Monday night a most diabolical at tempt was made by a gang of villains to murder a Lady, named Rogers. or Hager•, residing at No. 25. Y Chelsea ; hut it he humanity of • one of the gang. wha , heart billed him in the ex•eo' lien of the horrid d..ed, her life was spared, but bet house was plundered of all the plate and caulk f'