The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-05-20 00:00:00

meneftweateres--T. *Beteg and F. 841*, George.stree‘, linaover-aqtare. tailors—lt &betel! and J. Lsy. Oldbury. ^ 4.1-1 mliriwkssers —W. and F. Britton. Uri atol,linen-dra pees —J.l.aelte and D. Clark. At. J,fin's-agnare. ClerkentgeN anne-mennfeetarers—A. J. sad M. !visor!, Carlisle. stem. hat-ntanalheturees—T. Franl.tin and .1* Pratte. Jebilee p!aee. Cowonerel al .read, ea rpentiee —T. Hewitt tad H. Was IVP.. Nt. IDeasitow's-hill. Lower Thant...street, stationer% --'l% Jerrold and R. J. White, Ilettehester, stotton-menu. carnivore—J. and A. Wilkinson nag C..loittaker. Kiagy • ton-Oponifen.atercitants. *wettest Paten nip crime IN exactas, Mtn wata%. Meat. sse. IM.—RyO 21.1 s Ad.—Reana. Ob. 11.4.-Oett, 174. 41.--Rerliv. lie. St. —Passe. 41%. lid. TM Avenge Mee of Brown or latnaeorado Roger, com puted FnO the Rename wads in Cie Week ending the IS% day of May. ISM, Is Us. 100. per ewt. - IMPRRUL PARLIA3I r. • ghtlfir OF COMMONS.SRTIIRSAY, Mar HI The employment of the Poor, in Ireland Bill was read a 'emui time, and committed for Monday. therßeport of the Committee on the State of Ireland Was received, and the rearmlntion for authorising the Lord Lieutenant to advance 541.000/. to he expended in public works, was agreed to. and a Bill ordered accordingly. Sir GEORGE BHA. moved for the appointment of a . Committee to confider the laws which regulate the Linen Trade of Ireland, and .to report to time House thereupon. Mr. D nRowNE considemi the objector the Right Hon. Oentleinan's motion as most useful but doubted whether any good world Iniga from bringing it forward at this late period of the Session. After a few words from Mr. S. Rice, the motion was agreed to, and a Committee appointed. Mr. CANNlNOpreseoted a petition from certain mer— chants of Liverpool, praying that a duty might be im potted on the importation of foreign butter. 'Fhe Report of the Vagrant Laws Amendment Rill was received, sod ordered to be taken into further considers. tton ON Monday. On the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Irish Malt Thity repeal Bill being reach, Mr. MITCHINSON objected to the provision% of the Bill as to the drawback to be allowed to the distiller for stork in hand. Ity these regulations, the allowance %%sold he reoluccd from sixpence to fonarpeece farthing per gallon, which reduction would constitute a loss of at least ten thousand pounds, upon the stock in hand is Ireland. Mr. I,I*SDINGTON ssid the Irish distiller had a great advantage over the English distiller in the spirits sold far home consumption. Sir GEORGE DILL said the fourpence farthing to so wl.i. Ii i t aw he Hon. Member alluded, was duty on malt • soml spirits exported to foreign parts, and that sum was i dr...whack. The Bill was then read a third time anti palsied. Mr. DAWSON presented the Report of the Commis sioned' on the siltation of Ilehester Gaol, which was laid On the motion of Mr. 1117NTill rho', accounts were ordered of the nnantity of British and Foreign spirit% consumed within the kingdom, and the same is accounts of the quantity exported from it during the brat year. On the motion of Mr. Dtwsov, an Address was or dered to hit, Majesty for certain extracts from the roe' respondence of Sir Thomas Maitland with time Colonial Departineet. Mr. LUSH' NOTON gave notice that on Moaday he would move for a Committee on the ditties open the we% -wortittion of certain articles into the British Colonies of ymth America eel the West !tidies. Time other OrfileiC of the Day being disposed of. the Hose adjourned until Monday (this day.) AVERWAN PAPERS. i ~ li" N^. I `, .: ~J SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Sematz, FRIDAY, Ara i. 12.—Mr. Durham, from the committee on the suppression of the Slave Trade, On compliance with a . resolution of the 15th of J weary last,) made the following report, accompanied by a resolution, whirls was read:— The committee on the suppression of the slave trade.' to whom was referred • Resolution of the House of Re presentative. of the lath of January last. 'outlining them to inquire whether the laws of the Dolled States prohibiting that traffic have been duly executed ; also into the general operation thereof, and If any defects exist in those laws, to suggest adequate remedies there („r; and to whom many memorials have been referred, touching the same subject, have, 'recording to order- Lad the said resolution and memorials under considers, lion, bog leave to report: — That ender the jnat and liberal construction pot by the Executive on the A cts of Congress of arch J. 1819, and list of the 15th of March, IS2O, inflicting the .pas. nishment of piracy on the African Slave Trade, a foun dation has been laid for the most systematic and vitro. tous application of the power of the United States to the suppression of that iniquitous traffic. Its unhappy sub le" when captured, are restored to their country, agents are there appointed to receive them, and a colony Willa offspring of private charity is un its shores, in which such as cannot reach their native tribes will find the means of alleviating the calamities they may have endured before their liberation. When these humane provisions are contrasted with the systm which they superseded, there can he but one sentiment in favor of a steady adherence to its support. The document accompanying this report, and marked A. states the number of Afrieans seized or taken within or without the limits of the United States, and brought there, its their present condition. It.does not appear to your committee, that each of the naval %reed the country as has hem, hitherto smsplopod in the execution of the laws against this traffic, could have been more efficiently used for the interest and honour of the nation. The document marked Elf is a statement of as names of their commanders ordered upon this service, with the daises of their departure, fe.c. The first vessel destined for this service arrived upon the coast of Africa in March, 1820, sad is the few weeks else remained there, seat in foe adjudication four A meri ran vessels, all of which were condemned. The force which has been since employed in this service has made five visits (the Alligator having made two cruises in the past summer), the whole of which have amounted to a service of about tea months by a single vessel within a period of near two years; and since the middle of last November, the commencement of the healthy season on that coast, no vessel has been, nor, as your committee bas been informed, is under orders for that service. The committee are thus particular on this branch of their inquiry, because unfounded rumours have been in circulation that other branches of the public service bare suffered from the destination given to the in considerable force above stated, which, small as it has been, has in every instance been directed both in its , outward and homeward voyage to cruise in the West In dia seas. Before they quit this part of their inquiry, your com• mitten feel it their duty to state, that the loss of several of the prises made in this service is impntable to the size of the ships engaged in it. The efficacy of this force, as well as the health and discipline of the officers and trews. conspire to recommend the employmentof no smaller 1 than a corvette or sloop of war, to which • it would be expedient to allow the largest possible com plement of men, and If possible she should be accom panied by a leader, or vessel drawing less water. The vessels engaged in this service should be frequently re. rtod to Alta 'riddle of 141 describe.' the Glove trade. by the lewd ab r ova 'Kenai .seisareassader therm. They are enable irosT/rirariiirnserchants, tlie . 4 airririn tapir*, MO seamen which heretofore aided in thii.traie, hive Wit doued it altogether. or have sought shelter .saicr 'Nags of other nations. ft is ascertained. l i n e rbeer, that the American flog, which heretofore coveted so large B• portion of the slave-tradr, has wholly disappeared from' the coast of Africa. The trade, notwithstanding, in creases annually under flags of other nations. Wince has incurred the reproach of bring the greatest &tree toter in this traffic prohibited by liar laws k but it is to Ise presumed that thi• results not so mach from the avi dity of her subjects for this iniquitous gain, as from the safety, which. in the absence of all haa ird of capture, her flag affords to the greedy and unprincipled silver' turers of all nations. it is neither candid or just WS* putt to a gall int and high-minded people the exclusive• commission of crimes which the abandoned of all um lions are alike capable of pereetraiine., with additions!, wrong to France terlielf of using her Bag to cover aid protect then. If the vigour of the American sway hag saved its banner from like reproach, it has done ouch to preserve unsullied its high reputation, and amply re-' paid the expense charged upon the public revenue hr . & system of laws to which it has given such hononrabla effects. But the conclusion to which your Committee has ar• rived, after consulting all the P% itiPllCe !hi-1 their remit I is, that the African slave trade now prevails to • great extent, and that its total suppression ran never be-1 frets' by the separate and efforts one,pr more states: and as the resolution to which this report refers requires the suggestion of some remetty for the, defeats, if tiny exist, in the system of laws for the sup pression of this traffic, your committee beg Mara to call the attention of the house to the report and oc&rispany.' ing documents submitted to the laat Congress by the Committee on the Slave Trade, and to make the Ake a part of this report. That report proposes as a remedy for the existing evils of the systems, the concurrence a the United States with one or all of the maritime powers of Europe in a modified and reciprocal right of search on the A frican coast, with a view to the total suppression of the slave trade. It is with great delicacy that the committee have ap proached this subject, because they are aware that the remedy which they presumed to recommend to the con sideration of the house, requires the exercise of the power of another department of the Government, and that objections to the exercise of this power in the moods here proposed have existed in that department. Your committee are confident, however, that these ob jections apply rather to a particular proposition fur the exercise of the right of search, than to that modification of it which presents itself to your committee. They contemplate the trial and condemnation of such Ameri can Mavens as may be found engaged in this forbidden trade,_ not by fixed tribunals sitting in a foreign coon try, but by existing courts of competent jurisdiction is the United States; they propose the same disposition of the captured Africans now authorized by law, and at least of all their detention in Acuerie.; • 4 . They contemplate an exchange of t tett shall be in all respects reciprocal—al 05* we deriving its sole authority from a treaty, "mold exclude the pretension, which no nation, hostever,bas presumed 60 set up, that this right can be derived from the law of potions; aal farther, they bare limited it in their cow torption of its application, not only to certain latitudes and to a certain distance from .the coast of Africa, bat to a small number of vessels to be employed by t e` Power.and to be previously dasignMa Tbme at search Art restricted, it is believddoroold ensure the co-operation of one great maritime power in the pro., posed right of exchange, Sad guard it from the danger of abuse. Your committee cannot doubt that the people of Ame-, rie.a hare the intelligence to distfognisb between the ries: of searching a vessel on the high teas itt time of war claimed by some belligerents, and that mutual, re stricted, and peaceful concession by treaty suggested by your committee, and which is demanded in the name of suffering humanity. In closing the report, they recom mend an adoption of the following resolution, Resolved,—That the President of the United States be requested to enter into such arrangements as tie may deem suitahle and proper with one or more of the mari time powers of Europe, fur the effectual abolition of the Slave Trade. I. *.4 YriacieOc; Oritriirotuntiry of t►i province. Yectan sod ...... The.Coogreas was trauquilly proceed tOgatating the "mutiny of til l wawa parts It the yoriblic of Colambi* is divided, am, title? tending to give permanettey litho new Wags. Tito advice& free ;he city of Caree r* the likh March. The roylists held Puerto but the place was closetrinvested, and de. ertions were daily taking plain, width report the Spaidsh force within the city to be minced to the ut most extremity. An arrival from Menlo. bad brongbt intelligens.e of the installation of the Congress there on the 28th of Feb., but no news of importance.— There isle every prospect that the supreme power would be conferred on !turbid,. In the affair of the landing of the French detachment at Samara. is St. Domino, an account very different from the esplana des of Tht .illoiiieenv, is given by the American papers, as we *hewed by an extract in TUC SI•TEJS• wax of Saturday. The French troops are there sated, after having lauded with part of their fotce and sea tidied a repalse, to have bombarded the place from their frigate, and wholly destroyed it. The massnre, there fore, adopted by the President Boyer, of laying as embargo on all foreign vessels, seems to be justified hie iatentions Levis, been to make Preach property on the Island answerable fur the injury sustained at Samaria. TO TilkEDI fun or' Ida 4 TATESM.IN. ---. 501..-1 saw in Vie Times of this morning a long ad vertise:tittle of a Meeting in St. Saviour's, Southwark, sie nod.). W,Carter, Hon. Sec., to Petition against the Catholic claims.- At that meeting, I am told, then were not above fifty persons present ; shoot 30 of whom were in favour. and shoot 90 atraiest the thing. It was got tap, I am informed, by a Reverend Ordinary of a County Gaol, aided by the famous John flutton, who, not will ing to he seen in all the jobs which he manages, puts forward Isis partner on this sod 4 i wilar OCLaiiool. .fhe whole history of the working of these Church and Meg Creatures are of a piece. At Clapham, a few months ago, there was a vacancy for Master of the Workhouse at that place. There were several candidates. The one approved of most by the 'inhabitants, was a man who bad been a smell shopkeeper in the parish many years, not rich; but of* most excellent character. The parties who' harged the county 1722/. for recovering 871 1 . some little titneogo (as noticed in your paper of the tlth of April) clikrged this poor candidate with being a Dis senter, awl therefore alleged that be was not eligible. Ile was, however, elected ; but a resolution was passed obliging him to tittered the Parish Church: &Lacy; May 17. Mt. J. M. TO r airß EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Son,--:At the Meeting at the City of London Tavern, on Wednesday last, for considering Mr. Oiren's plan for relieving liditish agricultural and martufactering la bourers, Mr. Owen's plait was violently attacked by a persoo whose argument and eloquence consisted in the veliceiont repetition of a single sentence, " it is all vi sionary " So cogent andurgent,llolrefer, did this man a cePidion, Moe , Js• repeated it "is season and oat of season ;"'atol, itliFffElpillle Sir iVm. De Creapjg ev, Pb. was accurately descrileing the state of distress of the sleep keepers in Loddon, as well as of the agricul total classes, lee tiredly declared that t• there was no distress in the emsetry l" Malty persons imme diately ecoulred who this bell speaker was. Some of the pipers described him as a Scotch farmer ; pri vate infuttiopmates him to be a Scotch gardener. In fact, I ha rued that this person had Wes em ployed in that capacity by the Earl of Liverpool, and the employment is the hot-houses of his Lordship ap pears to have heated the pour man's brain. As an in stance of its effect, I am told, that the next day after the 'nesting he started off on a journey of discovery as far as High Wycomh, to be confirmed in his opinion that that there was uo distress in the country. On leaving the coach to consult a husbandman whom hesaw at work in a neighbouring field. the following conversation en sued :—" Arc you in distress?"—" Whatst ocean, Sir." " Why, what waves do you ge_t ?" —.. Why, Sir, eight shillings a week."—" Have yod a family ?"—" Yes; a wife ash four children."—" A wife and fon, children, and eight shillings a week, why then I think you have enough!!! " —Like master, like man. A lah rrrrr with 1 These papers also contain a report respecting /he i five in family, having Is. and 2.1. each for subsistence, Navy of the United States made to the House of Re- c w a e n i t i sot s b i e lis saV i l a t r o d hr e & I st v each as Lord o,mi lore'arseorroasl, the presentativer, by which it appears that there has been built and equipped one ship of the line ; that there May 18;1822. other to say the co n u r ntry la is e i e n a pros condition. 0! have been built and launched three ships and one fri- : - .......-z - ....-- --- gate ; ready to launch, one ship ; nearly finished The Norwich papers have from an ship and two frigates ; half flubbed, one ship ; pre. thority, that Mr. Coke It is r no more pared to be put on the stocks, one ship and three fri- ords who of his rents. and we have hen gates, and materials nearly collected for building one have come to the same determi rd Sondes, ship, three frigates, and two steam batteries. The in our own neighbourhood, we he re to be among same Committee also reported a Dill to f a , 1 the number Tie reason of ' 's obvious. What peace establishment of the United Stat "is rent is the lanaisl pro prevides far the establishing the grader / affords to the etiepier, of the blowy, and to strike off the Navy I. an the fifth ctober into the 8 Mattire.Continandants, SG Licuten. of the tax d thus enables geoos, I I Surgeons Mates, 4 Pursers, id the slime rive his stipend 38 Boatswains, and a number of Mishits or diminution. Lord rpool, in his twice read and committed. These pape Agricultural question, expressed some discussions in a committee of the within tardiness veined by landlord. in low presetitatives on the 28th of March, opot -eats, and was as of the recognition of the independence the want of patriotism which this :Atm- Spanish Provinces. The question being ested. Wonder is often affected w en first resolution, it was carried in the affimiarive n,p u sorprlze is felt, and there were:those present who could majority of 159 to 1. The sewed pies:ion was mug. have hinted to Lord Liverpool it would be time nitoottsly carried. On the following day, the above enough fur th e lun dell Pr o p to abandon the majority tvu jemmied to 167, by a practice which is moiety of his income, if need a mild then lw, when permitted in the American legislature—that of allow- the Secretary of State's five thousand per annum is re in. open a motion being made fur the purp os e, suc h domed to two and a half; when the government of membe n not to be present at the division Weimer Castle shall b e s omet hin g better than an ex to have subsequently recorded on either side. cse for a rest-charge upon the people ; when ao The j c ut of Congress stood fixed for the yil enormous standing army shall cease to be a greater Bth lustant,aad the next assembling fur the 4th of terror to the liberties of the people than to oor ester- Ntlittpr. Some journalists have taken alarm at sal foes ; when the idle, the profligate, and corrupt I the rture of the Russian Euroy, M. Poletiea, eon. whether placed or pensioned, shall receive so more-- ceiving it to have originated in the proceedings rola- and they cannot we!! receive hisa—than their deserts. five to the South American Repablics, but The No- Till thesis times arrive, we shall cooinge to think that auisal lietelligexcer Motes it to have been the intention Lord Sondes and Mr. Coke, and all who can reason of that Minister to return home keg before the gees- upon the consequences of their coudecr, will persevere tine was agitated. Advice. of the II th of March in their resolve, confichist as they must feel, that so from Maracaibo. escudo. that the Columbian squadron long as Ministers can by craft or violesee maintain under Commodore lielloche had arrived for the per- the present system, and continee to exact HAMM for pose of blockading CUM. The Maracaibo troops the Onlinkuarnee of themselves and their adherents, no 1,100 stroog, and Irish Legion, 0 50 strong, under. seneihle diminution of our barthens can be hoped for, Major Ferrier, had also crossed the Gulf of Alto Gm and that the landlords will be the sponge to be cia, to proceed against Coto. Some skirmishing took squeezed as long as the sponge is willing or able to yield any thing.—(Stawford Neer.) eri' : Pvinsett observed, that the above report was the act of a bare majority of the committee (of which he is a member), and wished it to be distinctly understood, that lie could not lend his sanction to a narasui e which he considered calculated to injure the best interests of the country, The report was laid on the table, and ordered to he printed. ,f fie the „„i rIIC numner. „. Bin ever portion of of an Ades tar, evidentl; dst 6 t:ap my falls or ants, 21 ble grasp 4 ch ip !, iceman ant ipwen. It t Ong delay or „ fu►eish, speech on the A Ho u p a IV: sorption at the I , e t h e " e w es Icing tbelr rents :e of t►e late prudence, on the g put opep the tante manifested Waterford - 0 0 G. & Jersey - 0 Lisboa - - 0 csotteeiwore I Honand 11 : 1 ! * 1 Hsimbro' -41 I lance - . I F s Cid 4. i MCI: Or STOCKN. AT ONE O'CLOCK, Tilji D‘y . __ _ CO. (4ng iii : i few DittoJisomis s. *lB4Oll boa .. .. Wlllgib lips 0.1 AN ...... .s p r y.. Cents ....... Oat `EvIWIi- per Cts. %Ty !IOW. $ 11. IS ' 11 . tb'• L pirr aaA Cpecario.. .. ft .... .. . a. s. . 24 p" . Coo. for Awl 79i q. Iris , . ear Co.it Lott. 7Ed4es .10. CM , Stattontait. " THC saurian STATtlillitle . I%C.OIIIIIIIIATILD MTh • ?IL swavismur." • LONDON. IiONDAT MAY 20, -~- A: SIY)CA . EXCHANOR, rirgrxx rrriqcp It ie snppesed that to-mor►ow, being Senliagli i • will pro►e the present a great non Aceoent, as 6. 4 „ f to i are given (et the Continuo.tee for the tiett.— The Jews have boss porehaising largely for the a tt ., front whicit it is isferred that annie, other F ula Scheme is about to be proposed by. blinierers. Tarry have been souse good t.ur►re this maturieg, an I Vv." Fonds remain steady at 79 to 79*: and t,r net. count 781. The Budget Is expected to be soon Isto.:41:: forward, aid to appear favourable. roe LION Vtli.6. . _ The above market is ratber flat this morning, it is probable, to 1500 Spaoisiti Bonds which ar. t ,, he delimit* this day. Private letters gnat c.. tietenfolnee that Foreign Stooks are on the rise. t i rth• Olid• • 6,lfr Prussian Banish Neapolitan .. tlDi its damask. Olst Columbian. Wt New ditto In another part of onr paper will be fossil Coe espy of a letter from Staffordshire, on the subject of th. from trade. From this it will appear, tbit, oat of 77 furnaces, only 37 are,ist ahoiergire state. Tlipstate of those in Wales do one appear to be mock bettor. The cease must be Waal of deiseuiefr awl Ai\ ye have reason to henget, arises, is ootneriegree,,,froin tae partial laws, with regard to the sidenieeion of foreign iron into Fresco sod iota the Sweriene Slater. With France wo have no freer, of ersasaserre. Her, there. fore, we cannot complain of for those laws sod regale. tions give to Russia and Sw• los a decided pre ference in her ports ; but, es to the United Storrs of America, we haie reason to esiftosin ; for our treaty with them atipalates, that sysalpaii bo treated as the moat Angara statioe. By waves* *mmaius the United States get rid of this stipolatfott he far as re gards our iron, betweito which and the iron of the Rassilas sad Swedes they make a diffsreoce of date of about 04C 14C1 1 / ; lillat be is say, they excited, *or iron. for we capitol send it with that difference of duty against us. itj4. slot does oar goperneicat do I is the case? Why. nitwit to the 'ajar', or, rather make-our manufactorers submit. They have made representations to the government; and the go-Pree mpt has made is re/aerostats - oas ; but, these having au diet, it as go netantlier ; it nor can it talk of wart nor dares it to adopt say re tatiato..y roceserres ! This is the state to which the Borough-system Ilea hronght itself. It has fairli wound itself up by its own movements. In the meanwhile here is no very striking proof of theife riah big. reale afore wan Vert ai co. here we tr.., the state of the iron trade; and, though we should h• by no means sorry for it, we abiptlii, If we could come at the truth, find, that, even the rottoa-trarte is not in a much better state. The low price of provisions keeps the °pc-afire in a state of ?Niel ; but, the cow's-lords are little better off than the landlords. There are no projl . J, at any rate, in the cotton-trade. This may be of little cone ‘quence to the mass of the cation ; bu-, it contradicts the repeated assertions of the Miniveis. These assertions were false. No doubt of their fahe• hood. But, why did any one ever believe them ? Why believe any thing they say, unless they produce the proof of the truth of it ? The endless falsehoods they have told, ought to be a warning to us fur their natural lives at least. We have beard, that thMsters mean to get the Parliament separred by the middle of Jane. If this be true, they cannot Intend to carry Inward their project of Lc., , al Tea der ; fur, that would take that. Mr. Ircarcite:'s proposition cannot well be intended to be carried. The thing is inapeeashle. So that thing* will, in all human probability, go on in the present way fur aaolker year; and that year will, we imagine, put matters in such a state as to be irrctriea• able, except throszh the means of o greef else.:; e, of which a reform of the Parliament %rid he only a part. The discussions, which we have had to witness of We, have strongly tended t.) cordirm the notion in that persuasion which a great majority of it has long so tertaitatil ; namely, that there is no hope of any re lief at all from that ginner, witlont a aforia. It is quite surprising to peiceive the chile in men's winds with regard to rho Horst: V Cu,..droar. In:creit there is none united ; end as to the reel fecFlog the: does prevail respecting the liouce, it is much snore easy, to insagime what it is, than it would be sale to dere. ik what it is. In short, almost ail tem MU dote to the hedgers and ditchers, now kiarr what that :louse is. What description of persons compose it ; bow they are put there ; and what are their prieci pal motives. motives to which, were we to attempt R. describe them, we should certainly du prat iajaatiee ; seeing that neither longest nor pea can come up lo the subject. What is to be the produce r t fuhir tree(, who can tag. No wan Can geese; fur even the Ministers annual:a know nothing at all of the matter. The man, who, when going out into the road, tossed the reins of tt.e bridle upon his hurse's mane, that the horse might take bias to the chnech to he married, or caul him guile contrary way, wit nut more onileci•lud ihan our Mia . t. ters err at this moment. The oeirr day they were Act upon small ante and P,7•21 trinkr projects. Now, as ee anderstand. these sr, girt" op. We do not VOnfl, lee ibis; foe, Goo forbid, that we should vouch fir ag Oing respecting their iotentions, ens after cloy 4 ~i L_