The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-23 00:00:00

- 4 , ; e 7 , 4 I • worse state than what they are now. Is conclusion, Dr. Tacker pro.sosed that in.tead of the present meet. Ins!' entering into resolutions, they should present , trquisition to the Sheriff for calling a County Meet g to consider this great question, and apply to Pr 'lament for the remedy. lie would go a little furtht here use Lord CAstlereagb had said that the county A iewww•rwrirldm wan "Iffbinffi Thals an Iht first ; he would,nottonemasd -sopeastft . petitions from every town 1 in tim- musty 4 . them. eoppouled be nor Comity Members. must have weight. Dr. Tacker then stated his motion in forts for convening a County hismisg: CALMAST P. flawavx, Esq. seconded the motion. He conceived that protecting duties were of little am :rice, for it was in vain to bring their goods to market if there were no buyers. The Rev. T. CLaca thought the hest muse tvoald the for the Chairman to prepare a Requisition. . Colonel &Timm* said the Meeting could confiae itself to a petition to Parliament fur relief. . W. Samosa. Esq. said, that it was desirable that so great a county as Devon. the second in extent in the kiegdoel, should come forward and express its opinion in a body. One class of men ought not to be saerificed to the interests of another; and if wgricill garish were expected to lower their rents twenty and twenty-five pee cent. funded and mortgaged properties should be imbued in the same proportion. The Honourable N. FELLowes wished to know from whom the Resolutions were supposed to come. Were - - tlieyfrom certain individuals in the neighbourhood of Exeter, or were they to he supposed to represent the county of Devon ? With a few alterations, they would have his concurrence ; but be thought the weight and inflame of the Resolutions would be in creased by emanating from a County Meeting con vened by authority. Sir THOMAS ACLAND mid that he came there with a disposition to bear and be informed on a subject in which be felt himself deeply interested. By a consi derable portion of those present a County Meeting was desired ? Deriving what little cousequeses ha pos sessed from the freeholders of the county, it would be strange indeed if be attempted to lessen the import ance of a County Meeting; and be was persuaded n-itlsei the Sheriff nor any other Magistrate would ioterpote to prevent them from assembling. Th. Honourable N. PaLLosvet, in the absence of Dr. Tucker, then proposed, " That a Requisition be 'signed by the persons now present, and be sent to the Sheriff, requesting him to convene a County Meet- The motion was carried by a large majority. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman for his impartial conduct. The Requisition was immediately prepared and signed by many gentlemen present, including the Proposer and Seconder of the original Regulations ; and., we have since heard, has also been signed by 'Vide Rolle and Graves, with many other highly re 'erectable and distinguished persons. • &TAM OF THE GOUXTRY. • (FROM THIt NORWICH 11[11{Ulti.) Tice country at last begins generally to awakes to the tree state of things, and even the Ministerial Arousals are now furred to admit, by the universal expression of public feeling. that it will be matter of %rave consideration far Parliament to adapt the de mands of revenue to the changes of price. Taxation it is no looser denied is the all-consuming evil, and however a few shallow - thinkers sill perplex them selves by classing the existing rates of rent and tithes amongst muses instead of effects, it is now come to be generally understood, principally because it is gene rally felt, that taxation is the grand component of ex pense which, while all the other parts of price have sunk, has remained unaltered or rather risen in its amount. Hence the landowner now joins the occu pier in praying rescue from that monster, which when It has eaten up the tenant, must next devour the laud lord himself, and of course his destruction will happen the sooner, became common justice as well as common policy now compels him to forego a portion aid a considerable portion of his income to the fanner. The weight therefore will now begia to crush him as it has done the farmer. That Ministers will make some effort at retrench meat (Lecrese they must) is not to be doubted. But we have ever been of opinion that no remedy Can reach the evil that dues not contemplate a great in crease of production as well as a vast diminution of taxation. The interest of the national debt (exclu sive of the otherwise appropriated sinking fund) swal lows something wore than thirty millions out of a re of fifty-three. If it be admitted that Mr. Iluine's economical provisions could be carried to their extent, ten millions could be lopped off. But there is a de. preciatioo of agricultural production alone to the amount of at least one hundred and eight millions, and probably price may go still lower. Oar com merce is greatly diminished, not only in value but in the actual bulk of artic'es exported and consumed at home. To restore the country then to a prosperous condition, it must be necessary to re-produce a portion of the value this abstracted, for taxation cannot, with. out a breach of faith with the public creditor, be cut down sufficiently to answer the purpose. That is to say, if the production of the kingdom be lowered one-half, taxation must be lowered one half, or by whatever less amount it is reduced, in such a pro portion will the country remain under the pressure of distress. With the reduction of taxation then, we still insist, must be connected some grand design for the abolition of pauperism, or the end will not be effected. A society of which such vast numbers are permanently, or become occasionally the spoilers of the rest, can not go on happily or prosperously. The puor's rate must be abridged, and indetinitively abridged, we are persuaded; but it is vain to meditate any efficient alteration, unless the change be combined with some qatiimal plan for employing those who cannot find subsistence from the ordinary means. Aoy other course will bat add to the list of crimes and to the in habitants of the jails. GIBRALTAR, Dice. .29.—Ateurdiag to a decreeof the Buenos-Ayres Ouvernment, dated the 6th of October. u.t letters of marque were to be from that time issued •without the cause being previously published. All privateers at sea were to leturn as soon as the decree c.me to their knowledge. or they would be considered as guilty of piracy. The privateers continuing to cruise tight swaths. from the date of the demi, were to be Ueated as pirates. • .I.t TO-MORROW. Mondale 13*. after 3.—Evenisg ?Om. aft S. be gul.lefi bet the Iron 4. who benow‘d .1 airy, insalte4 every nowt in L. sense. Bat these. staw...4l-416 ibt dread the jots 0 newt forget their former insu knee. flow, indeed, can they forgd the awful persecutions of that martyred Princess, in wh was conceatrated all the fortitude •f her sea? She was net of that miserable and ambitions class that would sacrifice any thing fur base leere—who would Not make eternal seer upon those she disliked, nor hold bask-stairs' Levees. She was neither unforgiving nor intolerant, and her last prayer was offered up to for give her enemies. Those, her enemies, her perfidious persecutors, are the very men who have caused all oar misfortunes; who, under the mask of sanctity and re ligion, have openly violated both, and whose conduct for the last 30 years has coveted the nation with pan porism, after a shameful sacrifice of human blood. We may well complain of those who hold the helm, and 7rWisave so hog helped to destroy the constitutional rights and privileges of the people. Yet we may, ask, who would have the hardihood to take their places ? Nose but birds of their own (ratter. Their patched up cabinet, with all their new acquisitions, will not molar* long. They will have some trouble to their ausourreas ; the LORD/ of the SOIL begin to feel that there mast be a change, or their parchments will be consigned to the Bulls and Bears in Berths," loonew-lase. The Dublin papers received his morning contain so account of disorden, except among those who are ovt regeouefg loyal. In the city of Kilkenny, as well as in the city of Dublin, the Corporation spirit appears to be aroused against a spirit of concord. The KING's Letter, which was to have rivalled the miraculous power of St. Patrick in banishing every venomous creature from Ireland. seems already to be treated as a dead letter, and dimension and strife assume the places which were to be consecrated to conviviality sad harmony. The dinner proposed at Dublin to celebrate the accession of that King whose presence, • few months before. bad beta bailed with 'ululation and en thusiasm. is new obliged to be postposed, for fear it should be perverted into an occasion of disorder and uproar!!! " To langb were want of goodness or of g race; . But to be grave exceeds all power of face.' .iab . Paris papers of Soaday last here brought us tits report on the sew project against the jot:roils, and' lleglesdeg of the debate oo M. de SeffIVII project spine the press geoetaltr. The folio whit are ex tracts : THE STAT • on,' PRICE OF - it io F ,---t. .c, I ....„„ .1 not the eet• Bank Ston.. . .. I * • •4* - •• *1 -faiiti ne j Peri tee, , SFp Cott.. , . I itOlko . .. ~. 6 . • Y I" 8 S per Ct:Con -7- bi 6 Rooth Rea (Ica ~ loyalty through the cool Bet- 31 per Cent _ ...... ..... 67 i South Sea OW An. dared 'peak plajo sense. Dare t 4 pes.Coalie.ess i15.431,41.1410 0 31...46.115. po 3 per eettlelthiTY..".l o7 l/td i ----,---5001...45.35. pin stool of reprotanee, and ter, 3 peter*.....v. ' • 0 Neal) ..4s. tr . 01 Long Aun. ..4114.2-16 Cos. for Rea he Imp. 3 per Cant 7Bl India for ditto ,„.„ Irish b eer eft. • .... ~. ' 1.611. Tickets ' KC IRs ..........:___ _, ..._ LONDON: IVEDXFIWAT EVEXINO, amitomir !3, ISt!. STOCK EXCIIANUE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Owing to the reports Rhone the uttimefuns of Res ide, the Feuds hare bad a trifling eactuatios. They yesterday got up from 751 to 76:; atorblei pries they now resoaiu sellers. At this period of difficult and danger let as ;squire, what may be done by the guardians of the public, with the aid of the good sense of the Ratios, to restore us to all that superiority this country once possessed. Self-command, and sacrifice of self, in those who have the means of self-iodulgence, must be practieed, that trade may revive. TAXATION oast be redoced ; lIIXNTS of LAND must be reduced, The sacrifices St cessary, are sacrifices that must be made by those to whom, hitherto, every thing has been sacrificed. No employment under Government ought to produce a maintenance beyond what is necessary to plain comfort and decency of appearance; while all offices of high rank and influence, ought to be filled only by man with whom the honour of serving the country shall be held as the highest reward. If splendour is the household establishments of the Crown be necessary. or desirable, all the great officers, whose personal at tendance is necessary to that splendour, should (fur a time, at least) render their services gratuitously. The Muter of the Horse, the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Steward, lee. elionld be men who eau themselves, and out of their own proper revenues, hear the ripsaw of their several establishments. Th. Secretaries, and other great Officers of State, should still more be of the same description of independent persons. The Kama should be surrounded by persons maintained at their own personal charge. The Nobles sad other great land °wears, have doable sacrifices to make, in living on reduced roa die. and, at , the same titoe, cents` the Kix* ;is( the gist?, gratuttossly, not kevidlif tea-' pensive ilotalttlaituseuts, paid by 110 labour. 411dre the pour. Every seedy use druid be baeished places of trust sad power, which should be no lover permitted to be places of emolument, to feed rapailty and lust of profit. Is all this, or any of this, too nisch to ask of our great men and nobles ? If it be, then we say—the country cannot be saved. The great and noble must km what they have, must sacrilege all, of which we only ask a part, and for a time, fur the neces sities of the State. The country Gentlemen do begin to see this. Let those, whose eyes are opened, be firm and stand by each other, and the country will revi►e in it commerce, in its power, and is Its wealth. But let as no longer have aecdy Cutscst, Loss of the EXCHEQUER—nerdy Lotus of the MCA SURT, mocking ns with tales of our prosperity, while nothing but wretchedness and want are seen in all classes but their own and their greedy dependents.— Let us have no Secretaries of State—no Ambassadors, who cannot, themselves, maintain the splendour neces sary to their condition ; and let no Sgmtruass exist in this country. There are Agricultural distresses. Let the land-owners reduce their rents until these have ceased. There are commercial distresses ;—they per• rade every branch of trade. Th ds of oar pope legion are starving amidst plenty of provisions, and with low prices of provisions. Our poor-rates weigh down all oar middle classes, sending them grn.• dually, but sot slowly, to the workhouse. Hot we have all the means of commerce ; we want markets ; and markets are to be obtained still, by competition with foreign merchants, through the cheapness of goods. Low land -rents, with consequent low prices of provisions, and low taxes, can alone give us the power of moth competition. Let all taxes that espe cially affect the poor, be repealed or reduced—let the tax on salt, soap, leather, malt, be repealed. Proper retrenchments in the public Expenditure will empower us to do this. Let retrenchment be made, and we are safe and whole, still. Among the first of the perplexing subjects tcitb hich Ministers, in the ensuing Session of Parliament will have to contend, may be numbered the treatment of the late WSWs remains, and the dismissal of Sir Hostel . WILSON and Sir RonenT flaxen. Nor will it be forgotten that blood was wantonly shed, by those from whom we ought to expect protection. There is nothing low, nothing deg te, nothing wicked, that has not been mixed up with those transactions, which are of so horrid a description, so unconstitu tional and demoralizing in all their bearings, as to shock even the friends of Ministers them selves. Did the public cant any stimulus ta ex ecrate the authors of a long and painful list of enor mities, committed by men for so twiny years, the mention of these circumstances ■lone would be sufficient. But the effects of foul deeds now exhibit damsel% es throughout the country, and the deluded partizans of a delusive system are forced to Actium,. • ; - _ • CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, S , JAL 19. PROJIVT OF LAW ON Tell routm 01 TOIL POHL M. de klartiguse appeared is the tribane.--Tlos committee which you directed to examine the law on the periodical press has appointed me to report. Be fore examining the law, it will sot be improper to take a view of periodical writings considered In Fehr lids to the general interest. Ido sot pretend to dia -1 pate the advantages whieh may be experienced in France by the publication of political journals. In a country in which all citizens take a part in public affairs, and in which liberty prevails, it is proper that the acts of the government, important events, and all useful truths. should be submitted to all persons. This daily review of the actions of authority, this constant summons of power before public opinion, has a real advantage which I readily recognise. But having stated the advantages, it is proper to consider the dangers of public journals. They are g . II) undertaken as speculations of Mtloamy which have profit for their object, and under this point of view the iaterests of these enterprises is sarily iu opposi tion to the g I interest.—(A slight movement.) — The g I interest is connected with public order, external peace, and tranquillity. The interest of journals, on the contrary, is in agitation, in permanent disquietude, expeetation, and curiosity. las realy to acknowledge, that there are writers equally ho nourable and able, whom pens are guided by con science, and who have so other object but the public good; but how many others are actuated by differ eat motives? It is easy and agreeable to speak to the passions ; thee j lists are sure to be read. It must be frankly confessed, because it is a truth which we neither seed nor wish to dissemble, that the pro posed law still restrains the free emission of journals, and does not entirely free the periodical press. Are regulations of this kind contrary to the charter? —lf, t►en, the charter had placed the flee publication of journals above the law, we should have regretted to find this germ of dissolution in a work of wisdom ; but we should have refrained (coin committing a direct attack on the basis of the eJifiee which our vows tend to p . This prohibition, however, is not io the charter. The right of printing his opinion is secured to every Frenchman by the law. That right is not affected by this project ; it relate. only to journals and periodical writings ; and it would be doing violence to the charter to extend to journals, without restrictions, the right consectated by article ti. Having heard that the example of England should be followed, the Re porter said it would be time enough when revolution. and hatreds were effaced, when the institutions sere consolidated by time, and when an opposition was made not by an hostility which daily compromised th. existeace of the monarchy.The . hot ex pression gave birtl I to an expression of murmurs on account of the atta•i • against the existing opposition ; and after 'considers .~ Ic interruption the Reporter proceeded to point oa the nosetficiency of the law of 1812, and the ( ecilitr,i•!, !lids it was eluded. It was wished to regulate y, but it was found that only licentiousness had bee n wspoised. You recollect, Gentlemen, the hatreds which have been revived, and the vengeance% %kith have beets excited. The conflagration was begun, asd it required the blood of a French frisce to emir_ oasis it.—(A violent explosion on the right. Se►eral voices—" They knew well hew to take advantage of that disaster.")—Alarmed at the sight of that bleed, the Government asked your assistance. You granted it, and the Censorship opposed to the torrent a dyke whirls it could Use overthrow. I do not justify the abuse which the Gowernosent made of the Censorship, —(Latsghter.)--Since that epoch, however, France has made immense progress towards internal calm and the termination dour dissensions.—(Violent murmurs os the left.paviog stated some amendments is the first an sod articles, t►e Reporter proceed e d to the third, which states that io case the spirit and general tendency of a periodical writing or joursal be injurious to public peace, to the respect due to the religion of the state, and other religions recogoisedia France, or to the Ring's autborivy, Sec., the fi le t Courts within the jurisdiction of which such journal is published, may suspend it or suppress it. This article d to be considered with anemias,— These words " spirit and 'emend tendency," i t will be said, ■re very vague ; but to roadi e the matter as clear as possible- to these who may Lave to apply the law, your committee propose' to suppress the words 1 ' mend toodesey," sill nothing to the word " spirit ;" and which ern seem to weaken it.—(Laughter.)—The committee Oro thinks it proper that the spirit of a journal 'both! be judged, not by a single paper, but from a series rf papers. It therefore proposes to add to the word " spirit" these words, " resulting from ■ saccessies lof a rt icles."—(More laughter.)—The reporter thee is. insisted on the adeaatage of intrustiag the esecatiae lof the law to the Royal Coons. Some liersoas, hoe• ever, in examining this article, had conceived that it contained a violation of the ts►ast respectable right.. —The odious word " combustion" had been pro flounced, ant some appeared to consider the suppression of a journal as am attack oa the rights of property. There was, however, us eastisoatioe.— The fourth article provides, that if, during the a. josrement of the Chambers, important circomstasees should render the established mason mouseetarib iosofficieat, the laws of the 31st of March, 1621, may be restored to rigour by a royal OrtriniXeCtOSlF teraigned by three blinisters. The Kiag is empowered by the charter to issue ordinances secretary be tie safety of the State. Convinced of thaisselletenerefthe best combined measures of repression, at foramen of crisis, your Committee proposes the adoption of the proposed by the Government. But as a tr• eerily t►at it sbaU only his exercised temporarily and cooditlonally, the Committee propose to add, that the ordinance which establishes the preventhe laws shr:l be discussed in a Council of Alinisters,—(lan: laughter on t►e left.)—Soch,lieotletnen, is the upinios of your Committee. It has foreseen the ditficoltiests be encountered, bet having mu int to consult but that of religion, the monarchy, and true liherty, it has but one hope to form—that of their p tios —(Cries of bravo on the right.) Oa the conclusion of the Report several Deputies ran to the tribune in order to be inscribed fur 'peaking in favour uf or against the project. This number of nano , * taken down to speak fur it was IS, and against it 26. On the President proposing that a day should be fist,' for the discussion. M. de Saint Aulaire ruse to speak on the question of printing, with a view to erase Ae words which had offended the opposition. A tus,si:ie ors scene ensued and lasted a considerable time. Alter a pause, the President announced that the order of the dafwas the discussion of the project relative to the re pression of the offences of the press ; and that M. Cut relies had the precedence. M. Corcelles accordingly ascended the (ribose, amidst the profound silence of the tribunes, which were filled with spectators; but the Interior of the Chamber was not so attentive. The President ea• treated the members to take their places, and t keep silence. S I members called out for a previous vote on the printing of the teport js presented. The President said, he should act consult the Chamber on a point which was perfectlt dear; it was a standing order that the report sher:.: be printed, and this required no dissuasion. M. La Fitte, and several other members of the •iiite, protested against this manner of proceeding, 4 , • after a violent explosion on both sides of the hen" , which lasted for some time, AI. Coreelles was at length allowed to proceed. Ile began by string that a IA tion o;,posed to the r al wishes of the people would 111'r • then the established laws, seal endeavour to make nes onus, no matter how . in order to cement a poet sometimes ridiculous, but more frequently strociatto. Ile then proceeded, hot not without interruption frost •he right, to expose the terrors and delusions employe3 against the public, and concluded by warning th :limber that the people at.d the army will nor; • gain be brought to submit to each jugcling. N. Dup!essis tirenedin thought thst severe oil. ores were now more than ever access try. Ile then segued at considerable length on the necessity of ewer .titin • tit:• dignity of .he higher classes of the State t.d after con luding iu favour of the f roject-- 3 • - _ ,_ s. bt ktatrosuan. -6. aRITItt ITATIIIMA/1" If nuceitroworso - It 4