The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-02 00:00:00

, _pomm=;s= LAW INTF:LUGENCE. • COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Met 1. MANDAMUS TO THE GOVERNOR AND DIM , . TOILS OF THE BANE OF ENGLAND. At the sitting of the COW!, Sir A. Pitocrre said that a Rule .had just been put into his hands for a Mand.risss commanding the Governor and Directors of the iltakof England to proceed to divide among all the bientsis.ra of the Corporation all profits pre . I yites to the 19th Margb last. The Rule had been obtained on the last disy of the sitting of the Court, yesterday being a holiday at the Bank, as well as in Weetusinster.hall ; and as it was drawn op for to. 11101KOW. it was obvious that the Bank could not be • prepared with an answer by that day. The applies. tion was made on the affidavit of a 'Mr. Gundry, which he (Sir A. Piggott) bad not yet bad time to teed, Much less to consider what answer it required. The Batik might be called spots to give it some re. ply. to obtain information, or to communicate some to the Court. The interval between the present end the nest Term was very short, as it commenced on the 22d inst. ; and the Bank would, no doubt, be seedy to show cease against the Rule on the third day of the Term, the 25th of May. The rime). stances were such, that it might be said that the Rule enlarged itself. Lord Excespottovou acquiesced, and added, that It was easy to-conjecture that the Bank could not be prepared with in answer by to-morrow. Sir A. Plnaort observed, that the motion was one of extreme severity : the Bank of England had ex isted for 123 years, and this was the first application of the kind ever made against it. It was then ordered that the Rule should be en. larged until the 25th inst. the Bank undertaking to file such affidavits as were necessary, a week before the day appointed for showing cause. PRICE OF STOCKS THII ilankaStock 489 3 per Cent. Retl.79if 3 per Cent.Consul.Boii l'onials for Ace. 801 4 per Cent. 97 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 5 per Cent. Navy 1071 India Bonds 96 98 p Stork Long Ann. 20i 9 16 Exchequer Bills 18 21 p THE STATESMAN. LONDON: II ATUIDAY, DI AT 2, 1818. We have accounts this morning from Kingston, Jamaica, stating, that the Buenos Ayres privateers were again becoming netnerous in the West India seas ; in the neighbourhood of St. Domingo there were no less thee seventeen of them, all said to be Americans, but sailing under the protection of the Buenos Ayres flag. One of them is the Republican, which lately, says the Kingston article, came into port to refit. There is, however, reason to believe, that these pirates are of various nations, and they -adopt whatever flag suits them. Our communication from Lloyd's adds, that an insurgent privateer, of four guns, ■nd 140 men, fitted out in America, commanded by Brown, was cruising off the Hann re) ; and soother, called the blorgiana, from Amelia The important question of the Bank Restriction was folly discussed last night in the House of Com mmons, in consequence of Mr. Titus Ws motion for a Committee to enquire into the state of the cur rency of the country, and the propriety of the Bank of England resuming cash payments. Mr. TIER* NET'S speech upon this subject was highly interesting, and will be found to contain much valuable and ne cessary information. The reply of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and the whole of the debates, are also well worthy of attentive consideration, as affording an ample exposition of the financial state of the country. We wish we could say, that the picture drawn even by the most favourable representations was a satisfactory one. But it will not bear a close examination. The House, at a very late boor, and after an animated discussion di tided, when the motion was lost by a majority of 164 to 99. The Bank Restriction Bill was imme diately read the second time. Thus, then, though the country has lately been pet to the espence of 75,0001. for defraying a gold coinage of eight millions, the chief argument for which was its necessity for supplying the Paper Cur rency, it is resolved that paper shall still constitute the circelating medium—that the Bank of England shall still continue its sj stem, without Restriction, of sending abroad its pennyworths of paper for twenty shillings—of issuing millions upon millions, and making the country responsible by the lives of its inhabitants for the genuineness of any note that hears the insignia of that establishment, without being compelled, in return for its promises to pay, to give any thing but its own manufacture in eschange ; and the Governburnt and the People, by this and such =mores, are to rest upon the chance of circumstances for the security of credit and property, and the re tention or return of the Coinage so lately and Pt. pensively effected, all of which become subject to a medium, enlarged or contracted as the caprice or in terested espedients of iedividuals may dictate. One event is certain—the country can have but little chance of retaining a gold coinage .18,000,0001. this year, after having so lately witnessed the total disappearance of the four millions so lately coined and issued. We allude to the four millions coined in 1817, the *spews of which, by.the-bye, was only 40,0001. We cannot conjecture the intention of Government in coining so large a sem of sovereigns and half sovereigns, during a year wherein they have resolved that paper shall cogitate the circulating w IYm. Bat 11 L 1. the probable cause is, that Government paper is a meth more convenient and more- easily furnished article, in ease our gold should bi wanted abroad, fo► other ,Sovereigns and half Sovereigns; and there is no say• ing what quaotity of the essence of corruption may be wanted before a new Parliament can be obtained to watch over the interests of the country. it peas. liarly excites oar indignation to see these foreign loans attempted to be made lin adequate justification for every measure, or any measure that may be proposed, Involving the general interests of the People of ibis country. The conduct of the Bank too, in p►ofessing .to be, as the Directors,io Parliament say it is, able add willing to resume cash payments, yet always avoiding an act which it might voluntarily perform, it the statements be true, is a species of coquetry in which we can see no virtue, and a procedure which few, in spite of all the esptanations given, win un derstand, without referring it to a worse motive. We observe with satisfaction, and the Friends 4 Parliamentary Reform will join us in the sentiment, that Sir Rossi/ H IRON has given notice of a modem for the Repeal of the Septennial Act. The motion is filed for Thursday nest. We earnestly hope it will *receive the support which it deserves. No object can be more laudable, stot change is se necessary to the vital interests of the country, as the restoration of the constitutional usage io the election and renewal of Parliament,'and the destruction by the triumph of reason and justice of the arbitrary Act, and series of despotic and injurious encroach ments, that have so long deprived the People of their rights, and the nation of a Parliament of its choke. Paris Papers to the 29th alt. have arrived. There is still no notice of the Doke of WELLINGTON'S de parture. M. CROQUEMBOGRO, the Belgic Officer who was arrested at Paris on the affair of the pistol fired at his Grace, has been set at liberty. On the 28th the Chamber of Deputies proceeded to the con sideration of the proposed Loan of sixteen millions of renter for the services of the year 1818, when some amendments were proposed, which were re. served for future consideration. One of the propo sitions was a clause for preventing the first sob scribers to the Loan from selling their Stock, before they shall have made their full payments, and the se cond possessors from alienating it, otherwise than in thirds,—one-third in the first two years, another in the third year, and another in the fourth. Upon this clause the Chamber postponed their deliberations till the neat day. The Chamber was also employed in dis. cussing the Secret Expences of the Bureau of Police, end on allowing the Municipality of Paris to raise the loan of 7,000,000 to finish the canal of the Oorcqtre. There is a report copied from the German Papers, and which is described as not very probable, that Russia is to become a Member of the German Federation, in consequence of her provinces of Courland, Esthonia, and Livonia. The crew of a Russian vessel at Constantinople, appears to have alarmed the inhabitants of that City by committing various excesses; but on a complaint being made to Count STROGONOM the Russian Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, the offenders were punished, and the GRAND SEIGNIOR appeased. These Papers have no further reports of the trial at Albi. A diabolical wretch named Vona has mur dered an old Lady named CRAPART, and three of her daughters, at Melon, and plundered the house of plate and money to a considerable amount. The French Stocks are lower-67fr. 60c. The course of the Exchange is at 24fr. A llamburgh Mail brings statements, of which we were previously in possession, respecting an ap proaching meeting of several of the British Royal Family at Frankfort. The Queen Dowager of Wm- TEMBERG has announced her intention of proceeding from Stutgard to Frankfurt in the course of the present month, for the purpose of meeting her sister, the Princess of IIEssc•[iOMBURG. The marriage of the Duke of CAMBRIDGI continues to be fixed for the 7th inst. It is said, that a new system of taxation is contemplated for Sweden, by the Committee of the States ; and that windows, all expensive household furniture, and articles of luxury in general, are to be taxed. This is not a system that will increase the popularity of CHARLICI Joao among the few in Sweden that can afford expensive furniture. As to articles of luxury there may be considerable ground for difference of opinion. Go vernments have now very odd and arbitrary no. lions upon these. In Ireland and some other places even a window is now considered as a luxury, and taxed or shut up at the risk of the lives of the inha bitants of the house. If BERNAnorrE and his States are desirous of adopting the Typhus Tax, we dare say there are-those who will wish his Government all the benefits of that luxury. American Papers so the 21st nit. have arrived. The Indians have been successful in some late skir mishes with the forces of the United States. The American Comm! at Havre has notified, that Messrs. GALLATIN and Emma, the Commissioners sent to France for the purpose of negociating a Commercial Treaty, have failed in obtaining their object. SPANISH PATRIOTS.----A Memorial of Vtacercre PANOS, of Peru, deputed Agent of the Authorities I acting in the name of . the Republics of Venezuela, New Grenada, and Mexico, was presenter! to Con gress on the 10th of March. It is couched in bold and animated language, but its great length pre. chides the possibility of Our girls% it to oar Readers. Tlls STATESMAN ...•'"" 1111 + In it the Memorialist complains of the coodect of the Government of the United 'States, in violently expelling the Patriots from Florida, and of his in. ability to obtain any satisfaction from the President or the Secretary of State, for this violence offered to those whose interest he represents, and virtually ap. peals from the President to Congress for a redress of grievances.—The Memorial caused a debate of three horns, and the House determined by a vote of na to SS, that the paper should not be rectived. SOUTHWARK ELECTION. Mr. BARCLAY having appealed to the tribunal of his Constituents for their approbation of his conduct in Pediment, we wish to call their attentiowto ish conduct. His pretensions.are--that he has been a friend to Moderate and Temperate Reform. " That holding a strong opinion that the Government of the country ought to be supported, he has not been a servile adherent to any party, and that he has on various occasions opposed the measures of the Admi nistration ; that he will protect the rights and Ober. ties of the People, and promote economy and re- Arenchment in every department of the State." Such are his professions ; his acts are, however, en record, and by them we call upon his Constitu ents to determine his cities to their support and fur ther confidence for seven long years. On the debate of the Corn Bill Mr. BARCLAY voted for a measure which has determined that no poor man shall ever again eat bread at a cheaper rate than 13.1. the quartern , loaf. On the debate whether Mr. CaoxEn, the Secretary of the Admiralty, should receive a quarter's IVur salary, because the country fitted out an expensive expedition against Algiers, Mr. BARCLAY voted that Mr. CROKER should add to the public burdens by the receipt of that extra stipend, and thus sanctioned a precedent for further profligate appropriation of the public money. On the 17th of February, 1817, Mr. BARCLAY, on a Petition being presented from the Borough of, Southwark, for the restoration of Triennial Parlia ments which had been taken away without thecon sent of the People, observed, in the House of Com mons, " he hoped the House would not be deterred by any popular clamour, and he thought Triennial Parliaments, however specious in theory, would not be found of any benefit in practice." On the measure for suspending the /labels Corpus, Mr. BARCLAY gave his decisive support to Ministers, and thus sanctioned the establishment of arbitrary power and the solitary imprisonment of above 50 of his fellow-countrymen, to whom, as Mr. Biracc.AT's opponent, Sir RoaEaT Wmon, justly observed at the Southwark Meeting, no charge was ever commoni-, cased, end with whom uo accuser was ever con fronted. On the Bill of Indemnity Mr. BARCLAY voted, that Ministers should alone judge their own measores, and without hearing the defence of the accused, or the chugs of the inlayed, supported an Act that deprived the unhappy sufferers of the right of an appeal to the laws of the land. In April, 1818, ow the eve of a Dist°&Owe of Parliament, Mr. BARCLAY, voted against ■ny increase of allowance to the Princes, and in so doing afforded to his Constituents the most un equivocal and convincing proof that the prin. ciple of Reform which he resisted 46 as specious in theory and not beneficial in practice," was the only safeguard the country could obtain over • corrupt Hoose of Commons, and secure the Rights and Liberties of the People. Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, the Duke and Duchess of GLDUCESTER, the Princess AUGUSTA, the Prince and Princess of HESSE-HOM BURG, the Princes of GLOUCESTER, &C. went to Somerset-house to view the exhibition, previously to its opening to the Public at large. They remained abov, an hour and a half. The Royal Party, on leaving Somerset-house, proceeded to the British Gallery in Pall-mall, to view the exhibition of pic tures of the ancient masters, previous to its opening to the Public at large on Monday. Calcutta Gazettes to the 30th November state, that the head-quarters of the Marquis of HASTINGS were at Godnim on the 6th November, and at Terah on the 10th. The rumour that the Bhurtpore RAJAH bad been called upon to furnish his con. tingent, proves correct. Twelve hundred Bhurtpore horse joined Major. General DovKIN on the sth No.. vember. Au inference was drawn from the low price of grain at Gwalior, that Somoza was about to move. Sir DAT! D OCIITERIGNY had proceeded from Goorgong to Rewaree. Major O'Dowszt.x., com. mending the Silt Native Infantry, has been murdered by a trooper of that corps. By letters from Bundle. eund, it appears that a body of Pindarrees had plun dered Mowe, near to Chatterpore, and had after wards advanced near to Banda, with the intention of crossing the Jumna. They took fright and fell back. The following letter from the Nerbodda shows that the movements of the Pindarrees are pretty well understood at that quarter Accounts from Sagur of the 29th ult. state, that MTIZRAR Box had gone off for Chatterpore, with a body of 4,000 Pindarrees, for the purpose of plundering that place and Poonah ; and that another body of about 6,000, under WAs au', Maim:MED, had gone to meet Gen. MARSHALL'S division, about Hattah, and had on their way laid in ashes all the villages around. These two Durrahs came from Basoundee and Burseah, jaghires of Pin darree Chiefs. It is said the latter Derrah will try to make its way through the Ilurtiapoor Pass, upon Mirzspore ; but I don't believe they will again Itt• tempt a distant excursion into our provinces, having suffered so much in the attempt last cold season ; be sides, all their jaghires will soon be in our posses lion, so that they could turn their plunder to no ac costal". ' ' IVdritL IN7'ELLIGENCE. Dkiit., MAT I.—Sailed the whole of the Spani t h transports, with the Russian Officers and sailors, Russia, noder the command of Rear.Adenirsl Mau er and Commodore Ihntitton.—Arrived and sailed - the River, the Fame, Dale, from Calcutta ; Ad m ., tote, Stokes, from Leghorn ; Goodwood, NO**, from Oporto; Richmond, Clark, fr.im Bengal ; nerve, Bridson s from Liverpool ; and Donegsl,Co o m ney, from Belfast.—Cease down from the River - remain In the Downs, the Hibernia, Thomas, , Dublin ; Belford 4 Mason, for Hanks ; Norfolk, Posd, for Miramichi; Sappho sloop of war for East Indies; Coldstream, Colwell, for Cate a tt i and Boyne, Fergosou, for Bengal. DOTER, MAT 1.-.--Arrived the Earl of bia s Barker, from Joimilca, sailed the 15th of Fehrsary, on the 7th of March spoke his Majesty's ship ima go , booed to Berfitudr, in let. 34 41:. N. loag. R• 9. w. PORTSMOUTH, MAY I.—Soiled the Fly, n on and Malta, Bream, for !donate Creek; aid Nelson, for London. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Passed up Chime+ Ajax. --. from Ceylon for London. 4 FALMOUTH, A PRIL 29. Arrived the Lord Ham packet, with a Mail from hinnies, in 42 days. SCILLY, Avon. 22.—Came in the Ajar, trots ton ; Cambria, Jenkilison„ from the Hotanoth; on the '24th, the Medics; Mosley, from &ai m all for London.—Spanish ship Uniais, Cadiz to Portsmouth, spoke by the Ajas ; Peter, Ellis, from Liverpool to oo the bit April, in hit. 20. 38. S. tong. 18.2. W.; on the 9th of Much, at the Island .1 Ascension, the Royal George and Dorsetshire, all well ; spoke by Maid'', on the 17th of April, in lat. 47. N. lonc 53. W. audibe ship Border, from London to Quebec, all well. APRIL 27.—Came in the Amelia, Bettiot, London to Fyal.—The vessels will all sail next Cowin, MAY I.—Arrived the Anna, Thompson, from London, with stores, and to take troops ' Albany barracks to Halifax. MARGATE MAY 1.--Came in the Hope, Ft from Teignmontit, having been on shore on the Sand. The cargo of the Thetis continues to be ing, but the vessel is now full of miter, and no entertained of getting her off. The Iphigenia Spanish frigate, from Vera Crag the Havannah and Cadiz, pat into Campeachy tt February, leaky, and has been condemned as utiles. worthy. —Specie, about 3,000,000 of dollars, !Bede& The entertainment, intended to have been giver. he PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-house, pm, evening, has been postponed to Monday. At two o'clock yesterday the Merabers of Royal Academy and their friends were admit,' view the imbibition • about three o'clock the Pt REGENT, accompani ed by the Marquis of ANGI and Mr. CBARLES LONG, Wilted. The REGEN' trained in the different rooms near two hours, appear. d highly gratified with the whole of the The Courier of last night, in noticing se applies. lion m.de to Mr. CANNINO,- to offer himself *gale for Liverpool in case of a dissolution of Patliar intimates with great navels!, that Mr. CANNING fess the honour on Liverpool in condescending' present that borough ; nut that he receives it ing the object of the electors' choice. Than the Courier :—" The really free and independest electors of Liverpool Moe solicited the honour et being again represented by Mr. CANNING, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament!" Liverpool, therefore, which " was not born reit, and has not greatness thrust upon it," may be said to have achieved greatness, if it gets Mr.CANNING for ite iie presentative. But the University of Word, to his great discomposure, would net accept the Right Honourable Gentleman, whose services are said to shed a lustre on poor Liverpool. MR. VANSITTART VERSUS THE JORNERIL—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER says, that hisscheres of Finance would have succeeded but for the artifices of the Jobbers. "All the imp,. tments might be traced to the machinations of that class of men." Noe if ever there was a person who more than another countenanced and nursed jobbing, it is the pretest CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. Without having any intercourse with the Stock Exchange, we may es quire, as mere observers, hew the fact stands. Was it the Stock Exchange that lowered the Funds in Nu 'ember and December last fromB4 to 78, or the CHAP CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S own party, who pow seised the early knowledge of his intentions? And has he not now set all the Jobbers at work, in conse quence of a scheme which favours jobbing-oaq, pro. 1 1 motes and directly leads to it ? For it may he short ly said clearly stated, that instead of chasing sway the temptation to gambling, he has let loose the Bear*, and given them food and strength with which to beg and squeeze the Bulls —or, in other words, with width to play against the Fonds. lie hos Oung into the market above sixty-five millions of light scrip, with which the Jobbers have to speculate against the real buyers, which may be made evident to the meanest capacity by the following statement : The gratuity of 9 per Cent. Consols to be turned 14110 a se p er Cent. *sock, will create of light Molting scrip, as only 10 per Cent. are to he paid on it t and 11;u-broiler Hullo, to be funded In Console and Re (laced, will create 63,000,0 0 All light scrip, as the final payments are not to let made till February nest ; and yet he talks of bis schemes being defeated by Stock Jobbers ! Yesterday a Meeting was held at the Freemsson%. Tavern, for the purpose of raising a subscription in aid of the National Schools. The Duke of Yoga was in the Chair. There. were present the Arch bishop a CArivzitaune, the Bisnop of Loonoes Lord HAtteowey, Lord KENYON, Lord BROWN* LOW, Sir T. Acwoiss, Mr. Wizszaeozcz, &c. A subscription having been opened, the Duke of Yoes said, he had been commanded by the ,PRINCE CENT to put down his Royal Highness's 'lame for 5001. and her MAJESTY for 5001. The Duke of YORK subscribed 100 guineas, the Archbishop or CANTERIIURY, 1001. &C. &C. 1. rw NI)ON s Printed and Published by D. LoYsti.t., sf 3T4T4umax errICS I No. Fleet-o4m'• • I .1 1 ,44 llHer 1 foe kale out* and ,1., folk, r lie alto; oin e airy, Nin o 1. 6i. honk Wes eithe wY - ; Sod lii ; the hit of at 9th Royal y the 14. it Next, free ,t tide, s from Ferns e East it lend- bops rot to the 3d onset. Bode& ten br terdop of the tied to o at NCI Mgt GA iNT ft. 'll, lad bees. I .gala lOtectl, G CON. to re+ by be- it with . owlettofbr. in the timed, Iles not o bate its Rt. to hit Right said to whelp?' artifull ?traced Not/ if another pretest hating nay en- . Was in Ns- ' CRAP ho poi- • ? And 'copse- ky, Pro' e abort- g sway I Btu', to how Is, will ing into it scrip, inst the to till 11,000,0 1 X1 • 4,0 13,C 40 3,000,0 1 1 / _• • ho ems' E