The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-21 00:00:00

SUPERANNUATION HILL Ti,.• CIIANTEI.II/ICUitiIeERaEQUER moved tl.e of the Order for the second reading of t:,is Bill, and that the Bill.be read • second time un After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CIIEQUER and Mr..Hesta, we believe on a point of form, Mr. HUME said, he wished a schedule of the pro posed Resolutions had been added to the Bill. He disap pioved of the making any reduction from salaries of less tiimi BM/. a-year, and should oppose iny such reduction it it should he suggested. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the schedule should be added. The SPEAKF,It said, the forms of the House would not permit the adding of any schedule at present. The tor.diun for the second reading of a Bill was merely to raise a discussion upon its principle. Its detail could be considered only in a Committee. Mr. IiENNkT said, that in the present instance the I.r:nciple of the Bill could not be rightly understood without a sight of the schedule. The difficulty as to ("lin might be removed by ordering the Bill to be re ttllinitted. 'The :notion Willi then agreed to. Lord PALMERSTON presented an account of all f*cers in the Army discharged within a given period, upon whom no court martial had been held previously to tiwir discharge. '1 he account was on the motion of Mr. 111731 t, ordered to Le pri med. TRA DE AND COLONIES._ M. ROBINSON gave notice, that on Friday tie r:night he should subin't a proposition to the [louse re suer:ing our Trade with the Colonies. He therefore . • moved, that the House should on that day resolve itself into a Committee to consider the several Acts of Parlia ment on that subject, and that in the interim those Acts should be entered as read. lONIAN ISLANDS. • Mr. HUME postponed the motion of which he had en notice, respecting the Government of the lonian until the 17th of April. Mr. WI I,NIOT regretted the postponement of the mo tion. At present he should only observe that he was pre pared to prove that the conduct of the Gallant Officer who was implicated in the motion had been such as to deserve the approbation of the country. as it bad already received that of the Government. He might be allowed to inform the House that the last dispatches received from hian,3represented the country as being in a state of perfect tranquillity. I ;Monet DA VI KS said his lion. Friend had postponed his motion at the urgent request of several Members. He should be happy if the result of the motion proved that the Gallant Officer iliquestion deserved the ealogium of the Hun. Secretary. At present be thought it was at least premature. IRISH FIVE PLR CLEFS. . The CHANCELIAM of the EXCHEQUER moved the revival of the dropped Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee on the Irish 5 pet Cents. The House heiug in a Committee, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the success which had at4nded the operation of the Euglisli 5 per Cents. Bill had rendered it desirable that the measure should be adopted with respect to the Irish stock of that description. He should therefore propose a bet of resolutions, the same in substance as those upon which the English Bill had been founded. Ile would not discuss the question whether a Otter bargain might or might not have been made for the public with respect to the holders of the Irish Stock. To impose other terms upon them alight be legal, but it would be harsh ; especially as the legal rate of interest was higher in Ire land tbau in England. This Stock was composed of about nine millions, besides the sum fee which the Bank of Ireland were creditors; bat the Resolutions be was about to propose applied ealy to the nine millions. The Irish Bank were interested in about two millions and a half. Of Ibis, a part was irredeemable, except by spe cial agreement ; and the remainder was redeemable at a month's notice. That notice had been given, and he bail every reason to believe that a satisfactory arrange ment would take place with the lank of Ireland ; and the result of that arrangemeat would of course be laid before the House. At present be should merely move the Resolution applicable to the nine millions, and similar in substance to those agreed to by the House respecting the Eaglish StocL—lle begged to observe that the time ~. i, immediately prohibited woollen goods of the manufacture of thh. country. The same effect, he was convinced, would follow if such a course were pursued towards Rt ssia. Ile was 'friend to free trade, and if its princi ples were nut to be acted upon, he was anxious for the character of this country that it should not cast the first stone, and allow other nations to say that they were only retaliating upon us. For these reasons he thought die 'notion ought to be met by a derided negative. Mr. J. 81:\ Err contended, that protecting antics were granted to manufactures and not to agricultural produce, and that:all interests ought to he alike pro -I teeter,. if those who talked of. free trade were sincere in their professions, let them repeal all prohibitory ditties, if they altered them at all. lie did not conceive that the country could exist without protections against importation, while it struggled under such a load of debt, and other countries were comparatively free.— tier slightly noticing the tax upon imported wool, which fell, be conceivedorn the wool growers, the Hon.' Moldier said that only one-third of the tallow consumed i u this country could be called foreign. 'f he repeal of the tax. however, would, he thought, relieve the poor rather than the rich, and lie should therefore vote for the motion for a Committee, because in that Committee the subject might be fully considered. Mr. PHILLIPS observed that it had been asked why had not the manufacturers come forward in the present state of the country: He conceived that a reference to the Petitions on the table could sleety that they had come forward in considerable numbers. lie thought it *nest extraordinary to suppose that we could not protect our own manufactures against the manufactures of other conetries. The i x upon the importation of raw silk, ;night, he thought, be repealed with advantage, and could he the means of assisting the agriculturists. In deed he Considered that every repeal could be attended with advantag. , to timem ; for in his opinion commerce was time chief support of agriculture. Mr. CURWEN shortly replied. lie thought it hard that an individual haul been mentioned in the course of the present discussion. lie (Mr. C.) had had cotnninni c,mtion with that individual en this subject in the course or last year; but his opinion haul had no influence what. ever upon his own. Ile thought all the principles of the new school of political economy contradicted them selves; and that a dangerous crisis was approaching. — The revenue of the country could not, in the present state of things, be collected much longer; and when the revenue could not be collected, the ruin of agriculture couhl not be far dist tut. Ile should not press the goes titan, as the sense of the House appeared to be against him ; but he wished Ministers to recollect, that although tLe people of this country haul hitherto borne their bur- I: l ens with exemplary patience, they might, when they final their grievances remained unredeessed, be induced to' a ditEcent line of conduct. 3 lie niotiou was then put, and negatived without a division. ',RATHER TAX. •Colonel DAVIES, fur his Honourable Friend whn had notice of a motion for repealing the Leather Tax, pt.stputted the motion from the 24th to we believe, the 1s: of espr . essi for, ...mog dissent had been altered to a date nne month later than that mentioned in the English Rik; ►ut in fact the time woulitbe a little . sisorteri thong's this he believed would lead to no inconvenience, as most .of the holders of this stock resided in Ireland. The Resolutions proposed by the Right Hon. Gentle man were then put nod agroo4 to; the House resumed; and the report of the Committee was ordered to be re ceired this day. tit:PPI.V.-NAVT The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEI4I:ER moved the Order of the Day for the Home resolving itself into a Committee of Supply. The House being in a Committee, Sir JOHN OSBORN was about to propose the re maining Resolutions respecting the Navy Estimates, when— Mr. BENNET objected. It was understood, he ssid, that these Estimates were not to be brought un that night. A conversation followed between Sir J. OSBORN, Mr. LICNNET, Sir O. CLERK, and Mr. Heats, when-- Sir JOHN OSBORN agreed to withdraw for the pre sent all the Resolutions to which there was any objec tion. He then moved the resolution respecting troops ill garrison. Mr. Is E said a distinct account should be laid be fore the House as to the troops im treueitu ; and he trusted such an account would be produced in the Esti mates next year. This resolution and another for the Transport Service were then agreed to. Sir J. OSBORN without wishing to disturb the ar rangement, if his proposal should be thought objection able, suggested that the remaining resolutions might be put and agree•l to pro forma, and debated on the coining up of the Report. He wished to know whether this would meet the con►enience of 11011. Members op posite. Mr. HUME said the proposal could not be agreed to, as many of the resolutions reipireil explanation, which might bo given in a Committee, but could not lee given on . the coining lip of the report. . Sir J. OSBORN assented, and did not press Lis sug gestion. (For confirmation of Debate see last page.) PRICE OF STOCKS, AT ONE O'CLOCK, THIS DAY. ,tent Stock ,lndia Stock. 3 per Cent. lI.A. Shot . Ditto Romig...s2s. 655. pm 3 per Ct. C0n5......, ....SOU South Sea 5t0ck,..... Si per Cent South Sea OW Asa. 4 per Cent 5....... ..... Shut Ex •li int:4 i 21. 4s. s. pen. 3 per CO. Navy .......1041 41 1(10W. 3 Per Cent.. --SOIL 23.3%. Os. pm Long Ann. Shut Small.. 7s. Ss. pm Imp. 3 per Cent . Con. for Aect Irish b eer Cent Lott. Tickets. 121 IS MB: COBBETT AND THE STATE!..3IAN. Mr. COBRIVIT Arts made an arrangement witA Tao Srnrcsys.v Erening Newspaper, instead of Air bringing ost The Evening Post, or The Gridiron. Ilis Commentary es Me Parliamentary Debates appears Dally.—Orders receired for Tux STATE:SY Al by all News Venders. Statesman Office, Wand. N. B. Tom Comartrarto.v Sonday Paper is connected with the Tat STATESMAN. Price id. et)* At/atom's)._ " TEX 121111117 ST/ITUISMI" IS Ain STATISISIASI.," LONDON: THURSDAY EVENING, raacu 21, 182!. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The business of the Stock-Exchange title morning is ream dull, in consequence of which a number of its Members and Brokers have resorted to the foreign Market in the Royal-Exchange, where a great deal is doing in all foreign Fends, but more particularly in the Spanish. Consuls are now 8O fur the Account, and for Money 84 The private accounts from Paris bring the French Funds 89f. 20c. It is stated that the French Govern ment has been purchasing very large sums within these few days, to keep up their Funds. FOREIGN FUN D 3. A great hustle prevails this moment among all the foreign Brokers in the various Spanish Funds, which seem to be advancing rapidly. New Columbia Stock ll3 In LORtIOII. Spanish Bonds Prussian. Danish.. ,, . Mk to 87 Neapolitan ...... 71 to Columbia was dons yesterday as 1(3, and this morn ng at 1121. Exchange on Paris 25f. 15c. A meeting of the Bank Directors was held to-day, fir the purpose, it is rumoured, of determining the question relative to the reduction of the rate . of Dis counts. The result of the meeting had not transpired when our paper went to press. I EXCHANGES. The Exchangesartjustv What is called agalast this country ; and the only circumstance, connected with this fact, at all important to our readers, is, that gold, as an article of merchandise, is of a higher price Acre Man it is i,► F,aarc. The difference is eery little as yet; and it must he pre►ented from growing greater; or, the sovereivis now in circulation will go to France, as they did in the latter part of 1817 and in 1818.— The Bank must stop paying in gold cola, which, at I present the law permits it to do rhea it likes; but as the law compels it to pay is hart of ounces, at Me mist price, all its gold would be quickly drained away, if it would fetch, we suppose, only Is. in a hundred pounds more in France than here. So that, if the Exchanges get mach lower, the Bank must cease to pay in gold, and Paat.•s Bill, which requires it to pay is bars, must be repealed; or, a large quantity of the paper•money still adoat must be drawn is; &oil, if this be done, prices most fall lower them they sow are!—Farmers aod landlords, look at that! Look at that, and let your lips keep their red ! Look at that, Messrs. Gossett and Wonva.er ; as fir the " loyal" member for Serrry, let who likes the job undertake to wake him change colour!—What a pretty thing is here ! The produce of the land tossed op and down TFE STA EQM; by thi operations of Jews and jobbers; and the m utest, or sou-payinent, of rents depending upon the vibrations of 'Change Alley !—What is the cure? A Neel easi4iletioa of all marmoset. There is no, other cure. The flank has, we believe. only &beat two and a key odilliose of gold. This can be kept in the country by no earthly means other than that of lessening the quantity of paper now in circulatitnt ;, 'and that must lower price.. LANDLORDS. .... Those of you, we mean, that have soy brains at all in skull, pray, attend to the immediate cam of this fall of the Exchanges. (t is this? that, in conse quence of the measure for reducing the interest of the Five per Cents. great quantities •f money have been seat out, and is sending out, of the country, to be lodged in/mei:a fvoris ; or, which is the true view of the matter, gold has been 'viral* prier in foreign countries by the purchasing of our fund'pcople into foreign funds. Those countries; therefore, esnd no more here; sad will soon be draining our gold away, unless we draw in more of our paper, anal thereby keep sp our general money to a value something ap proaching that •f other countries.—Thus, this famous adasure for4elierimg the landlords by the Five per Cent. Stock.measure will Gs lag down their prices! PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. Mr. CCRWEN'S wition for a Counsittee to consider of augmenting the duty on foreign tallow, with a view to take off the tax on candles, met with the fate that it d d ; namely, a negative without a division. To take off the tax on candles would be right enough ; hot, to injure commerce and manufactures, and to enfeeble the country, in order to put rents into Cie pockets of landlords, is the principle, the abominable principle, of the Corn Bill. Mr. CURWZN'A great miatake is, that rents are accessary to the cultivation of the land. This is the same great error as that com mitted by Mr. T. P. or P. T. or something, COURTE say. (who, Mr. CANUiNG says, has ten children,) who wrote the Treasury Pamphlet that was published late in January to console the landlords. They ate not at all necessary to the cultivation of the lanai ; and that the landlords will find practically demonstrated, in a very reasonable space of tittle. If Mr. CCItIVEN had read Mr. COUDETT'S rustic harangue at Chichester, he would not have put seals amongst the necessary cost of farm-produce.—May the fate of this attempt be that of every one which shall be. made to get rents by raising the prise of farm-produce! Toe Aster ESTIMATLI were again before the (louse, and gen Mr. Hume made vain. efforts to obtain re duetioes. Sir W. De Caetrittxv observed, that, if 6' the distress were not removed, there must be a re " volution." Now, the Ministers say, if you Ake off tans (that is, if you do remove the distress) there meat be a revolution. So that, according to the two, • revolution we must have; and this would he very hard upon the " loyal", who supported a war of 2Z years to save the country from revolution! However, theidid pledge themselves, and put their names to it, to spend their last *Wiling and shed the /art drop of their blood in the cense. The Ministers will, we dare say, let them off without requiring the last part of the pledge, it'd In this they will have our cordial appro- bation; for, as to their blood, it will become pale enough without any positive opening of the veins.— They are now undergoing a course of medicine that I will be quite effectual ; aid the good of the thing the medicine Is administered by their js icncs. The people, to keep whom down the last drop was to be I shed, are standing by to see tAt physic work:—Some thing was said by Mr. FiCTIE PALMIER and others about that " instil etio.t of the country" ; that "load " mark of the constitution" the Military Academy at Sandhurst ; but, we most notice this to-morrow. It has 'been announced in the House of Commons, that it is the intention of the Board of Trade to intro duce& Bill for evilating the trade between our West India Colonies and the United States, on " a more ad vantageous/rooting for Me Cuknies"! The character of the policy of ibis measure is one of great difficulty, as well as importance. To the Navigation Lamm, England has been accuttooned to attribute the greater portion of het Commercial prosperity and naval strength. We confess, for one part, we have always regarded 'those laws ivith great jealousy, and have not been sorry to see them relaxed from time to time. The intention which appears to exist in the Board of Trade,of relaxing them at the present moment fur the purpose of affording relief to our West India Colouies,we view without anyof the horrors which used to attend the friends of the old :pie -u, whenever it was proposed to make any infringement upon the Navigation Lane. If the Manefae'tres of Britain are fostered (which can only be, by the continuation of low prices in pro visions), and if the commerce of her various posses sions is flourishing, we need never fear oar skipping will fall into decay, although we admit foreign hot toms to be carriers of part of the commodities of that commerce. But :f that commerce is in any way de stroyed, little will the Navigation Laws aysil io give employment to our shipping, or szasnen to our navy. The Commerce of our West India Hands, is in a must deploraide condition. The former distresses of the English Manufacturer, we.e never copal to it. Nei ther do the present Agricultural distresses of Ireland surpass the distoesses of the %Vest India planter and merchant. We acknowledge we do not feel that sym pathy for the suffer togs 1,1 the W e n I n di a traders which we should fur any other class of our fellow subjects. The stain of the blear sod tears of slaves, can newer be washed away from the Commerce of the West Indies. Bxt as long as „England stands is the relation of mother to the colo nies, and they as children to her, she is bowl to give every protection, which law can afford, to their pros. perity ; and, above all, she is bound not to iaterfere with her welfare, by auy artificial systems of regal:. tions and rrrrr lesions. Those which bind and fetter the commerce and industry of our. West India Islands deserve revision, and, we are 'Relined to . think, rery mach relaxation, The Irish papers received to-day bring accounts of the proceedings of the Special Sessions at Limerick. on Wednesday and Thursday last. Oa the former day, four persons were tried ender the Insurrection Act and acquitted t and on the latter, ten-were cc. quitted, and four were lotted guilty of being absent from their dwellings, and one fur concealing arms,.. The last five, with two others. convicted at a former Sessions, were then sentenced to be transported for !even years. and the Court adjourned its sittiag until the Monday after the Assizes.--One of the convicts, of the name of Darcy, a man above the common reek i tr appearance and address, when found guilty, ezhibited keen and acute sortow, prostrating himself in the docks, and imploring the Court not to transport him nut of the country, but keep him a captive in Ireland; fur which indulgence be begged to have whipping inflicted upon him. The Conti told him, the in. diligence sought for could not be given. When he received his sentence, he prostrated himself again in the centre of the dock. crying out to the Unit for " home transportation and whipping." No fresh outrages are mentioned, in the Dublin papers, is har ing occurred in the disturbed districts; but an attem;,t is stated to have been made in a different part of the country—Belfsst—to assassinate one senticel,on Sur: day se'nnight, and to shoot another on the Sod krt. Ntsr York papers arrived this morning to the 216 of February, from which we extract the t.llowing [PROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER, ISH. LATE •ND :11TERESTI:10 raoss THE BRASILE.... Capt Scott, arrived here yesterday (two Pernstathier, which he left on the 6th January, reports :be fo:iow• ing :—After a severe contest the Brazilians had sill• cecded in establishing the Constitution, soJ had cum. pr!;eti the European General, Don Lewis de Rego, with the whole of his troops, to embark tor Earor. Illuminations took place r tranquillity was myna blit=hed, and energetic measures were taking by the Provincial Government for the increase of the Patriot Army.— The Paris papers, which have come to hand to de 10th instant, contain no intelligence of interest re. specting France, and scarcely any thing but specula- tions respecting any other country. An article from Vienna, says that the account of the appearance of the Ottoman fleet in the Archipelago is con6rmed.— This fleet, before it sailed, is reported to have on board ten thousand men. This cords is intended to recover the Morea. Another corps will rdvance the same time, it is said, to the Morea front 31aeed)• nia, through Lindh. A letter from Corfu, dated 9th of February, uy.— " Yesterday they commenced disarming all the people in this island, and martial law is proclaimed." A Supplement to 7.'sc Loadoie Gazette of Tardyr lest contains a ropy of a Report from hient-Colosel Maxwell, of th‘Rast India Compuoy's Service, to tke Adjutant-Utneral of the Army iu Bengal, dated Cm. at Mongrouie, October 1, Intl, relative to a sterns• ful attack, that day, on the Mabarao of Kotah. re follorrinT is the Return of the Killed and Wont !•4 of Lieut.. Colonel Maxwell's Detachment, in the Aeiss: 2 Lieutenants, 2 [headers, 3 Rank and File, 6 Hays killed ; I Major,;•ll.lasildars, 16 Rank and File, l How, wounded. Names of Officers Killed and Wounded. Kt LLCM—Lieut. Read. and Adjutant ("...rk, dth Per,,- ment Light Cavalry. WouN DED.—M a jor Ridge, severely, not dangerous!;', 4th Regimeut Light Cavalry. By the last Hamburgb mail, we learn that the E s. peror of Russia has issued an Chase, Lavin; fur ;,s object an improved administration of the °overawes: of Siberia. Through the same channel we are ins formed that the States of Ilinover havecomplaised of an assumption of power by the Minister! of linrr;,,e IV. not warranted by the constitution of Boom, nor consistent with the public liberties. The Mion , . tees appear, from a resolution of the Stec., to hart made, " without the approbation" of tip= latter, law imposing sans* new military duty upon the P.ot's subjects .that is to say, without a rerrill'z ac k hedged by the eJnatitation ; and from this oppretsic' act they appeal to the " just and paternal sec iturs' of his Slajesty." It is presumed Vatrefore. tilat I:, public officers of Hanover are trot resperisible f w :1.• advice they give, or for the measure whi.h stitute. . - Letters, received yesterdev, both from Rio ad r‘r. pandit:ice, the former to the 14tIt Jaausry. ,sod latter to the 13th February confirm the IiCNIINt " had previously received through :he New l'o:k :. 4 t l " that the old quarrels with the Enrorma troop. hai rived on the receipt of the decree of the Pu.toortt Cortese recallia i r the Prince Elegant: awl :bet fo. ;!.e sake of the tranqtaillity of tits country tt bad bra 4vlerlitiord they almond be sent !owe. It Wm , this •o the ilth, lath, and "sloe pr veiled in the. Illraziliatt earital find 1 i"o troops, seeing. that the poiortar ferliog them, placed tiaccuseves in an attitude of &reeve, :sit nothing serigns ( allowed. Something lor;oi. to be Juno the people. it n solved VW!. louse the Portugu•re the Rartisti ni Kitt detteire, and to r-ly r• "' troops for Iles defence. of the coantr. 1 40 ' 1 Ihieg erectly hs been drum at Pertral.b3co..