The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-06-04 00:00:00

V ~ ;1 .j f REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA. THE HOLDERS ut ad DEBENTURES issneri by .11 se. as Viee.Preshient of the R.•p•tb!in of Colombia. ratabeted from Nu. I to 600 (both inclusive), and dated London, the Ist of August, 1920, may receive payment of the with the interest which will then be due thereon, on Monday the Ist clay of July nest. at the race of Messrs. Herring, W. Benham, and J. ►). Ponies, the agents of the Colombian Republic. Freeman's-court, Corti:all, Lon don ; and the holders of the aforementioned Debentures are requested to tube notice that the interest thereon will tense front and eller the said Ist day of July next ensuing. Paris, April SO, 1822. F. A. %EA. PRICE OF STOCKS. AT ONE 0'C1.04,;b.. 'lli IS DA Y. Haat Stock 218f4 India Stock. 0391 3pr Ct. Red 7Bll Ditto Hoods 401. 423. pne. 3 per Ct. Como.— .. 711111 South Sea Stock 31. per Cost VW South Itea Oki Aoo . 4 per Cents 91 Ex.Bill2dj . Is 9541 , wow. s 21. dm . pm. New Fours. 3 perG/ist i —64lU. .. .. pm. LostrAwe • .. .--Such s. 5. pin par Imp. IlprCt . Con. for Amt.... .. 791 80 Irian 6 ear Cent Lott. Tickets ---- Vitt ttontan. " TRH BRITISH lITINISMATI" U INCORPUHATID WITH " THL ITATIMI•N." LONDON: xo[fo•T 'VINING, JO Nlf 4, 1822. STOCK EXCHAIJVOE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This day. Consols are shut fur the payment of the dividends, is eossegnenee of which there is very little ' business doing. The Russian declaration of war, io the papers this morning, has not had the least effect on the market. It is supposed to be a trick played off at Paris, to depress the Russian Loan. Had the above document been authentic, the City Chancellor would have been in possession of it, long before it could have been publicly known. The reverse, however, was the fact; for yesterday afternoon, the above gentleman on learning at his office, that the Brokers were baying the Russian Bonds, instantly repaired to 'Change, and bid 81 for a hundred thousand of them. This manceuvre had some effect, and raised them to about 82, bat there not being many purchasers then, any more than this morning, they lowered again.—Coosols for the Account are 80 to i ; for money 794 to I. FOREIGN MARKET. The S:ock most in demand is still the Chili. There Is somewhat more doing this morning in Spanish Old and'Neet Bonds, but in all other foreign securities the Market is rather slack. It is not decided as yet who are to have the Portugal Loan. Spanish, Old - - - - 6041 New New Russia - - - ETA to 89 Prussia, - Dauish - - : Rh Nespolliaa - - - - 7ti to 79 m Co:ubla - inn New PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. Nothing in the LORDS worthy of particular atten tion; hot in tether place a good many topics of a■ interesting ware, which topics we shall notice la the order in which they followed each other during the sight. LIMO:SING Srssex.--A petition was presented from . a man I. Norfolk, who had been rained by having his license refused to be renewed, in conse quence of the interference of the parson of the pariah. When will something be done to prevent this descrip tion of men from zneclling.witls every Mime PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—ME. COILS presested a petition and remonstrance from the Hundred of North r Greenboe in the county of Norfolk,compleioing of tax ation and praying for Reform. This appears to have been a stinger. The complainants give a strong pie tire of the harrassiogs and cruelty of taxation; and complained that a the produce of that taxation was " lavished to obtain corrupt majorities in that House; " majorities, which, at all times, were willing to sup •' port the me:sores of any Minister. however corrupt " anti tyrannical ; and to oppose every motion that " hail for its object to lessen the burtbens of the peo " ple." They further stated that " the produce of " the taxes was also employed to keep up • military " force in time of peace, solely for the purpose of " sobtluing the constitutional spirit of a justly indig a Rant people ; and that the petitioners looked with " abhorrence on the nominees of the Peers and other Borough proprietors sitting ■nd voting in that " House, against the liberties of the country, against 4A eta real interests of the Crows and of the people." r-omark above all others to make here is, that this temonstramee comes, not from radicals ; not from jacobins ; not from manufacturers in the north, who • are ace Ned of being misguided by demagogues; but from the "menet& and occupiers of load" in that county of England which. above all others. is famed for its skill io agriculture and for the great masses of property collected its the hands of the occupiers of land. It canes from a county that feeds itself and other amities into the bargain; it comes, In short, from men whe have immense quantities of property at stake, and it speaks now precisely the same language that was spoken by a million and a half of reformers la 1817, who. on account of this very language. were &teased. by both Houses of a design to destroy all property—Mr. Faseman/La opposed the receiving of this petitios. Mr. Cuaw • ss defended the petition, and said that it could not be denied that seats in that Hone were bouglst sod sold. If the House wished to preserve its dignity, he said, the way was to remove the costs of imputations. the truth of which could not be denied.—Mr. limas very sensibly observed that the petition was in error where it stated that Moog was squandered to support the iefistenes of the Mime. It was net to support that indeence, be said, THE NESNIAN: ' bet to sipped the Masse. of the Borough faction. LAITLII/tItAOH said that the petition was not oily in the tone of remonstrance hut of insult. Mr. Ca V COS'S' and Sir R. WILSON supported the petition.— Mr. WYNN (another of the (tttanvi•Las) opposed the petition,aud said that its allegations amounted to justifi cation of a rebellion; and that if the facts alleged were true, &tat business had the !base to sit there? Now, Mr. eellll EN had positively asserted that the facts were troy, and so had Mr. CONE. So that we may leave this question of Mr. WYNN to be answered by those who, with Six Acts. Wore their eyes, dare venture upon giving the proper answer. Sir Joon Ns",-.eoet went a great way in logically establishing the allegations. Mr. Peet. said that if they were to he told that that Hasse was filled with a parcel of placetnen and pensioners, who met there for the purpose of supporting a system of tax. ation end corruption, there was an cad of the priri leges of the House.—Mr. Jo II N SMITH (Carrington) " Now to this, now to that side, leaning." said the petition was right an that it was wrong; but that, he wished the petition to be received. It was finally rejected upon a division, there being 89 against it and 55 for it.—But then Mr. Cosa came on again, with a petition from the county of Norfolk itself for Parliamentary Reform. He said that, after the rejection of the former petition, be could hardly suppose that that which be was now presenting would be received by the same persons. This petition, after givinx a desoription of the House of Commons, still stronger than that given by the former petition, had this passage, which the Reporter says was received with loud cheers :—" Any Minister who is base eooegb " to assist io harrying on such a system of thivern• " merit deserves the execration of every'honest man, " as a traitor to his Sovereign, and an enemy to his " country; the safety and the glary of the Crown of " England resting not upon a rotten system of For. " ruptioo, but upon the uninfluenced support of a free, " enlightened, and loyal people."—Yet. this petition was ordered to lie on the table and be printed, with out a single voice being raised against it.—Thee, then, the ronnties ; the occupiers aid owners of land, are at last brought to see that their only chance of preserving any part of their property is, in adopting measures agreeably to the prayers of those worthy objects of the famous imprisonment Bill of 1817. The fact is this ; the landlords and farmers sow see that the masa of the people will never mood to a reduction of the interest of the debt. Boles, that mass be previously restored to their rights; they now see, that they most lose, the one their capital and the other their estates, unless the people have their right of voting at elections. This is what pats them in motion. And a very justifiable motive it is. The people on their side; and inflict, larly the Reformers in the north. bad resolved some time age, to petition this sew House so most bid eireessetesees most alter opinion I end we are of opinion. , , that the reformers of the north will find it wise to Join the owners and occupiers of laid in petitioning for reform when the Parliament shall meet again. If we should have the pleasure of seeing another meeting for Reform upouPertsdo wn-hillove shall not see,we imagine, yeomanry cavalry corps drawn up io the' valley, prancing about and brandishing their swords. If the petition agreed to upon that Hill In 1817 had bees listened to, the great number of farmers that hare been totally ruined would not have been reined ; and the great number of landlords that have already lost their estates would not have lost those estates. As an argument for passing the terrible imprisonment-till of 1817, Sinseocan told the Lords that be bad sub mitted all the cheap publications of a certain descrip tion to the law-officers of the Crown : and that be was sorry to say that he could find nothing in them to prosecute with a chance of success ! There is not a just man in England who does not bear this In mind, and make the cause of the writer aimed at his own. I Well ! Those cheap publications ; those publications that SIDMOUSU was sorry were not criminal in I the eye of the law ; those publications, the legal innocence of which was made an argument for the passing of that terrible Bill, inculcated the same truths that are now thrusted into the teeth of the Parliament by the owners and opulent occu piers of the land ; only the inculcation was in lanl guage infinitely mere measured and less offensive to the pride of the Parliament. Let no one is futile have tie folly and the baseness to talk of Loma,. Orders. In all times and in all countries where groit and salutary changes bare taken plater, the labouring ela Aare led the way. The historical truth of this assertioe, as well as the causes of this being the case, were /aid fully before Lord Him in those three let ters addressed to him is the Political Register in the fall of 1820. His Lordship was thee told, that no change of a good tendency had ever had a begianing except with the labouring classes; and it was pre dicted there, that if the farmers saved a remnant of their capital, and the ancient families their titles 'and a remnant of their estates, they would owe that Beira tiondo the exertions of the labouring cl . Ilis- Lordship must now, we think, be satisfied with the truth of all this. He mast see. and we are sure that he does see, that unless the labouring classes obtain their rights, and that to their full extent, too, there will speedily come on such ruin, inch trouble, such turmoil, such confusion sod uproar, that all must go to pieces like a ship upon the rocks, agreeably to the memorable prediction of the Register in 1817. We. for our own part, biota, and know well, what is felt and what is thought, and what is wished for, throughout the whole of the kingdom of Egghead and Scotland ; sod we are perfectly satisfied, that if the Boron/ h int n do not give way, and that, goalie a very short spate of time, they, above aU others, will Lave to lain • nt their blind and long condoned obstinacy. If any of them imagine that they can deceive the people by Tavern dinners and big ta!k, they ere very much deceived themselves. ft is not the babble of despicable rump committees that intrigue for hire to get the sons tf tat-eaters thrusted into the Howe, and call it purity of election. It is not any humbugs of this sort, or any empty vapour about LAVAIATTIES and the °reeks and the devil knows what. It is not this that will satisfy the people, who want to see as their representatives a set of men chosen by themselves, men of sense, of is• dastry, of pal, and animated by a feeling which would constantly make them set every- thing at nought, u hen compared with the happiness, the safety and the greatness of their country. This and this only trill satisfy the people, and with this and nothing short of it they ought to be satisfied, for without it the country meet be a miserable heap of ruin earl be• come an object of insult aid of scorn with all the rest of mankind. The other topics of the night (for night it always is) we must teams ■ntll tomorrow. • Paris papers to the 2J instant have arrived. From the protracted state of the negociatiens between Rus sia and the Porte, and the want of official information respecting their bearings, a wide Gehl is opened for spoliation and the fabrication of intelligence. Pri vate letters from Paris, as we stated yesterday, an nouneed. it was said, that the present opinion in that capital was that hostilities between the disputing par ties were inevitable; and the Coastitritionocf contains, under date Frankfort-snr-le-Mein, May 2S, a docu ment, which was probably the foundation of the ru mour. This document purports to be a mote addreseed by the Emperor Alexander to the Allied Powers, but does not present itself in an authentic shape. _The Editor thus prefaces the article:— " Yesterday, at noon, a packet, containing the an nexed doom:sent, was put icto the box of the Coasfilu tioaar•l. It is written in French, and is not the manu script of our general Frankfort Correspondent ; it bears no signature, no evident sign of authenticity ; we give it eltactly as it came into our bands, and shall merely observe, that we have no more reason to think that this document is genuine, than we have to suppose that it is apocryphal." From the douhtfal eh trader under which the docu ment appears, and the contradictory intelligence which we have occasion to , we deem it unnecessary to give the article at length It is dated St. Petersbarg, 2J (11th) of May, 1922, and after stating the princi ples by which the Emperor has been influenced in the aegociation with the Ottoman Porte, and the m is which the latter has declined or eluded the just de ;wands of the Emperor and his allies, this document tl us concludes :—" The Emperor will not re his objeet--•the eremite of treaties. This execatiow, leefesed to 'enecillateer rebel% be will obtain, with the sit of Divine Providerice, by means consistent wit► the dignity of his Crown, the magnanimity of his allies, the courage sad ardour of his subjects."—The question able shape in which this article is presented is, how ever. rendered more than dubious by the intelli gence which has subsequently arrived. At a late boar last light as express from Paris brought the .letetriano6serrer oftbe 22d alt. which announces that advice. of the 10th front Jassy direct, bad arrived at Vienna, stating that the order of the Ports for the tins of Moldavia had been publicly made known there os the bth, and that on the following day, in consequence of this order, 2,900 of the Asiatic troops commenced their retreat. There remained in July one thbosaad five hundred men ender the com mand of Chursebid Ahmed Aga,whiela were to form the rear of the retiring arusy.---The news from Sain is satis factory. In the capital complete tranquillity prevails, , and in the provinces the factious are compelled to disperse before the troops. Letters of the 20th ult. state, that the Spanish tiovernmeht had concluded a treaty with that of Portu g al, by o hich the latter tm! gaged to supply Spain with troops in case she should stand in need of them—ln France preparations were; making for the meeting of the Legislature and the opening of the Session, which was to take place this day. It is supposed that it will be of short du ration, and the intention of the Ministers inclining the Chambers together so early after the close of the last Session, is said to be the wish of patting an end to the practice of applying for an advarce of half the amount of the taxes at the beginning of the year, by making arrangements of a snore general nature. The number of conflagrations once more increases. Twenty limo were burnt dawn on the 23d alt. at the village of Reason, in the Department of the Meuse, and in other places considerable daa.age has also been occasioned. Faaxcu Fusns, Jun it I.—Vice per Cent. Consols opened at S9f. 80c.; lowest, 89f. 65c.; closed at Md. 70c.—Exchange on London, one numb. 25f. 35c. ; three months, 25f. 15c. The King left town yesterday for his Cottage on Windsor Forest. His Majesty, we hear, will return to Carlton House on Monday next, fur the Levee and Drawing Room. On Friday the King will proceed to Brighton. It is not the intention of the King to remain there longer than the time nee ee aa y to show the interior of the Pavilion, and give a dinner to the Prince and Princess of Denmark. The Doke of York left town yesterday for Hatiands, where his Royal Highness will remain during the As cot Heath Races. His Royal Highness will have nu merous dinner parties daily during the time. A wag gon load of ice has been sent from London there fur the occasion. The diamond cross, lost by the Counte.s of Jersey, it is understood, bas been found. is was picked up. it is said, at the top of Lansdowne-passage, in Iteri,e, lay-square. An inspection, the principal stoue was subsing ; bat, fortunately, a ser►ant being sent with a broom, the identical gem was also disco►ered. 'f he (crass is valued at a thousand pintas. The finder re eel ved fifty. - SHIPPING IH-FiTi-LIGB POITIONOVTR. :IT Z 3. Arri, d the - Item .ransport, (Fora Chad an; David Scott. fi,oo the Downs, for Madras and Rangel. Saileddhe Regulus tranennrt, for Chatham, and the Barkworth for !spill. —Wind S DIAL, Justa3.—Catue down from the River last night, and sailed, Blucher. Douglas. for Dirbadoes. Arri re d and sailed for the River, the Windsor, Ilaviside, ( ran China ; 7 o'clock crone down sail sail d . Alhion, Borth_ wick, for Alevandria, remain in the Downs, H. 11. S. Severn, and E. I. Pilot Yacht, Diligence.—Wind N.E. Cowes, .luxe 3.—Arrived the Bridget, Leslie, fron t Calcutta, in 130 days e waiting fur orders.--Wind R. Pri►ate letters received from Lis eon, and dot d the 18th ult., mention that the Portuguese Governm e r t were about to send a lar.t military force to Bahia, according to some accounis, as many st 12.000 men. Notices had been stuck up, inviting shipowners to send in tenders, containing the terms on which 'they would agree to charter their vessels for the above destination. This rumor, is adop:ei by the tire, not by virtue of any specie power re. ceived from the Cortes for this purpose, b it i n con fortuity to a determination entered into when the last advices arrived from Rabin. to leave its •faire entirely to the King nod ►is Ministers, w►o, it would seem, seam existing eireoutstanees, bare cos. .idered this the melt advisable to adopt, ill order in prolong t h e on i on with Portugal, and prevent a civil oar. It is thought that it is the kteetios of the Portnguese tioveroment to rattail sh a kind of& pot at Baltic, as being in a central position. Part of the troops, about 600 men, compelled to emberitat Rio Janeiro, had arrived in the Tares, the remainder having been obliged to go into port on souse part et the coast near Pernambuco. Letters were yesterday received from Bakis, dated April 10, which mention that every thing was quiet there. The Portuguese troops, the European party, had the complete ascendancy ; and the letters 'abided to, add, that there was little danger of their losing it, as the Local Militia and Brazilian troops of ti t s line bad been disarmed. Dutch papers to the Ist inst. contain nothing of 1.. portAnce, except extracts from s Message of the King of the Netherlands to the States General at the Hague, recommending for their adoption a no w - outdid operation, something similar, in its princi ple and detail, to our reduction of the Navy 5 per Cents.—By this his Majesty expects to realize a saving to the nation of four millions of florins. Acecints from St. Petersburg of the 10 It May. it.te that his Inq.erial flighnees the Grand Doke Nicholas, bad left that city on the night of the 3J of May, in order to repair to the army which is assembled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.— The Grand Doke Michael passed, on the 25th of April, through Pskow, whence he continued hie journey to Widay, on the road to %Vilna. On Tuesday last the members of the Newcastle and Northumberland Pitt Club dined together at the As sembly-rooms. The Chair was filled by J. 11. Coul son, Esq. and the Vicmchair by J. L. Loraine, Esq On this oeess:on only 43 gentlemen dined together, and we hope that this will be the last time we shall have to record such a meeting. At a time, when the effects of Mr. Pitt's system of govegoment are felt in such an appalling manner. la Gm grrevoss bulbuls which his extravagance has inflicted on the country, It is safely high time to refrain from exultation. The events of the day may well make the most devoted of his admirers waver in their faith, and are saffivient to render such meetings little short of insult to their suffering countrymen. It is, besides, heartily to be wished, that all such dinners, whether Pitt or Fox. were discontioned.—(Neweeetle Chronicle.) Dauer-Lewi Tezene.—The performances of last night were nominally for the benefit of Mr. Kean. but (to the honour of that gentleman's feelings) in reelity for that of the suffering Irish peasantry. The enter ' tainments commenced with an act from Massingeea Play of the I:onsai Actor, in which Bean finely vindi• cased the character of his profession ; which was suc ceeded by the Play of the Mountaineers. Kean's per formance of Genii-ion was altogether excellent ; and the other principal parts were also sustaineJ with con siderable effect. The audience were oat:serous and respectable, but theexpected overflow di 1 not take place. V4VIIIALL-GARDENS.—Tbe delightful slimmer en. tertainments for which these Gardens have been so long remarkable, eonimenced last night with great im provements. A crowded and brilliant company as sembled at an early hour, which increased as the even ing advanced. We do not profess to enuaterate in our brief notice all the changes that hare taken place un der the sew Proprietors, but we can state that the ge neral effect was splendid in a high degree, and that the contrivances to divert the attention, by variety of attractions, were attended with complete success. —Four new Cosmorama, have been constructed in differeot parts of the garden—a whole;engib trans parent Portrait of his Majesty, in his Coronation robes, stands at the termination of one of the walks —a splendid new cbandel!er decorates the trotatola —the illuminated colennade bas been newly and tastefully decorated, and a reflective prosTenium, called Hrploploxieroptron, lined entirely tt ith looking glass, and representing a fountain of real tracer--illuminated revolving pillars, palm tree', serpents, and variegated foliage have been added to the iist of the many objects which delight the eve. There is also a Sceaic be atre, with moving figures. The Rope Dancing, by Monsieur l.onguemare's troop, excited great attention and applause; and the phatovmagoria drew consider able crowds when it was announced. It will requir however, to be more elevated i n order to and every one an opportunity of seeing it; but as we tlud. stand that the managers are themselves aware of this defect, and intend to remove it 6s next night, we are scarcely called upon to notice it as an objection. The proprietors !tore been particularly anxious to offer to the frequenters of the Gardens every possible comfort and convenience ; new cloak rooms have been erected, aed most respect able females appointed for attendance upon the ladies. To conclude, we shell merely observe that else per. fortnances were agreeable throughout; and that the company, who seemed delighted, twinned to a late hour to enjoy the attraction and itativity of the near. Lood 4 : 113 Prielnd, ISA Pahlisited at tbe °Male '• Tau Kill ritSMIIN" god" TN. CONISTITYTION" (Sunday Paper.) No. 2197. Stragd, by ROVARDNI.I. LL.B. to whom MI communications, Orders, ti, aro repeated 15 be addressed. 7 1