The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-19 00:00:00

11 1' ~;~" ~_ I LONDON: 1011111 AT t►ZNIYO, MARCH 19, 1922. • .vairo PRI:E EiF STOCKS, AT ONE O'CLOCK, TRL4 DAY. 14111311kethed .• • • . Il d is Meet. ''.• Aller.lnt'. 3 per Cent. Rd. Shut Ditto Bonds SM. Ma. 3 per Ct. C0n5.......90/ 791, South See Moth . 3'. per Cent 'South Sea Old Am ~.,1 . ,... 1 11' peer Cents.. • ' • Shut 1 ix•Billtd ? si is . ' 4 , & pi, 8 per fits. Navy 104 31' 10 00 1 . S ' • ' a per Coat ------300. Os. %Jo. pm Lose Ana. Shut I ----Sata 4 11.", Bs. pm Top. 3 per Cent ' Con. for Acta 2: 1 4 31 M Irk .% 5 eer Cott Lott. Tick'''. 111111111WAIBIll AT LONMN'IIIpOE /O.IIIOItROW, , 111141r111e II o•e►oek.—EreUlßß I m. after COt atattilman. " firma . irrnesum• Is I SITS " TIM •lITATIBINAX." ' --ago-- STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a great deal of business doing this morn inz, and Consols have been done at 8011 for the ac cent. aid 84 for Money. The briskness of the market is attributed to Government paying off those persons who have dissented from their plan, at an ear lier periorithan was first appointed, which it i's ex- P•ctrd will cause many to purchase again in the Con s,pls, not knowing what to do with their Capitals, is several Stocks eve, at this moment, closed.—The Five per Cents. are 1Q to 104. FOREIGN FUN DS.. ' X great activity prevails in the foreign market this morning, and it is the general opinion that Spanish Stock will rise to 70. Prussian, ate atptesent . 00; Banish. Neapolitan 7Ol to Spanish (now) PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. Two matters, each of great importance, were before the House of Commons last night! first the price of porter; and second the efforts of Mr. HUME in the Lusomittee of Supply. The price of porter, our readers will recollect, was brought under the notice of the House by Sir JOSIPIR Vomits, oa Friday night last, for which it will also recollected, that we offered the gallant slap-dash Knight ar •ofeigsed thanks. Mr. CA EVERT was brought out on that occasion ; and he gave die reasons why the reduction of the Malt Tax should produce no rare tion in Me price of beer ! We exposed those mamma pretty completely on Saturday ; we showed clearly the enormous gains of the brewers, derived frill' their monopoly of Public Houses ; and we cow defied by earnestly calling upon the people, itittall parts of the country. to petition for an alietatioo of that monstrous system of Keene- Ing publienhenisee which poly; and which really has enabled the public brew ers to be a set of oppressors upon a level with the Ausdls and Zemindars in the East Indies; while not a few •of them pet forward pretensions to patriotism and love of liberty, and while the really worthy peo ple of Middlesex think they have pined a great triumph in electing one of them in place of a Bask Director:—we beg our readers to look at Mr. Hue.. nissim's speech of last night; and when they have read that speech with attention, if they do nut give us credit for having produced Me sreci, they will at least give us credit for having been the first to seise by the throat this monster of monopoly. Mr. Him tos-ors oh d that he did not think the people would submit to such a proceeding as that of keeping . ttp the price of porter after the reduction of the malt tax. But, what are the people to do, how can they help submitting? It was much more sensibly eluerveJ that the House was bound to i.iterpose, and we, for oar parts, have little doubt, that this ape-ch of Mr. BUNIEISSON will lower the porter a half penny in the por,—Mr. BUXTON, who we find to be a brewer. and about whom we were long making . enquiries in vain to know who be was; this great pi ()lessor of the new science of prieen•discipliae, oh. served that nothing could be more monstrous, than that the sum about to be taken off the malt should go into the pockets of the brewers; but (for he had a but) " it should be considered, that the brewers had " now on hand a large stock of beer made from malt •' which had paid the full duty ; and, therefore, a rea " unable time should be given to dispose of it." Mr. BUXTON must know, that the gains of the brewers for the last three years have been enormous; he must know that they have already received a hundred times as much of over-gains, u they can possibly lose by any stock in hand which they may have, and if he does not know it we de, that the halfpenny a pot ought to have been taken off long enough ago. Bet, the most important part of Mr. Hca nts,ox's speech was, however, that which re lated to licensing public-houses. He said that there certainly was a combination amongst the public brewers is this respect; and be added. " that " ovary effort ought to be made by Me Magistrates •• to encourage free public-hooses. even at the expense •• of refusing licenses to those in the hands of the " brewers." The object in view isvery right, Mr. Hue =sox; but if you think that it will be accomplished by leaving it to the Magistlates, you have only to look at the conductor the three Magistrates that were the other day indicted and convicted in consequence of what they did as to refusing a license to that public spi►ited and most meritorious gentleman, Mr. Marrs. Recollect, also, that brewers are very frequently Magistrates them• selves; Bmkers,too.very frequently: powerful toes, in abort, gainst whom the mass of the people have, as things sow stand, no chance of protection. If the Parliament +... . ,; no, THF. Jaen a mind to Hinkley ; for this is a matter for tbe Kites to propose, let them do something of the son that is done in America; and particularly in the -male of Ne r York, where, though there are me Ezeiorasil to tor on anyrcense; yet there is a name necessary to the keeping of a house of public eatertaiamene, which is there called a were. For, it is deemed to be a segiect of duty in the Bove, gamut, not to take care, as far as it can, that such houses should not be kept by persons likely to suffer them to be scenes of bad moral conduct. Therefore, the party tvishieg to hop a tavern, mast have the previous approbation of a ma jority of the Lond•occopiers lade Tomas sip. It is sot left to the justices of the peace, in the Towashipsl nor to the Quarter Sessions. This would be to make it a Invitee liable to the indoeare of political er personal partiality; and, iadeed, to the iettenee corruption ; for a license is a *log worth money.—To leave it to the voice of the tows/ship at large Outbid int young fellows and people of all detcriptioos,) would not be right ; because, tjais is a matter where the passions would have a great deal to dol and where, from the general taste of youth and drottibt leasness. the selection ought to be legged itt die With of persoee naturally steady from their habits and pur suits, and deeply iu t ted in the murals and welfare of the Township. If the Ministry will propose some thing of thiamin here, we are quite certein that they will excite great gratitude iu the breasts of the peo ple. We protest &pima any power, as to this matter, to be lodged in the hands of the clergy. any more than in other land-holders or other occupiers ; I it is now the custom of Magistrates in the coun try, to requite the recommeodation of the yeti- Jost Minister. Nothing can be reo.e danger ous than this. The public brewer has only to get this Minister on his side; and then he is the Lord of the parish. We have known some instances of oleo strolls injustice and cruelty to spring from this source. Nothing can be more easy than to adopt an effectual measure fur preventing partiality and corruption In the licensing of public houses. It is a thing loudly called fort and we shall be amongst the Iris to ellferN to the Ministers the tribute of praise that It will merit. to the Committee of Supply Mr. Homo premise& several reductions in the Naval departnseat; oklof which were negatived ; and, Weed, the House memos to have contained but ninety-six members. 1111e14; much more the affair of the landlords than it Is of sg. Hume, as a matter of interest; and, for oar WM. dm more we see token away by Seamen. or rather Sea officers, and by Staff people sad Barrack mle sod Military Olfieners of all deice iptives. the I .oliii tee aro, pleased. We wis/a — they may p an ins , tie the rents from the landlords; and this th ? will do, males. the Landlords join the people *Waite a Reform of the Parliament. Bat, Mr. Hoeflee cap sures are not the lees important, and bis media with the people net the less great, on account of *a. He stated, for instance, that four Amitelreet eisdittenty eight Andekipmen had bees promoted to the rush of lieutenant since the peace; though (and now mark), there were only four Innidred and eight afloat. He ascribed thlito interest ; &odour readers know very well what the 'word interest mesas! He talked of moving for a list of the names of these 428 midshipmen.— We wish he would, in order that the country might see how large a number of these 423 'meritorious indi viduals belonged to families, corporations and be roughs, to whom and to which this happy eieuntry is already so much indebted.—Mr. Hone said that be knew that in these promotions " there was " a Parliamentary influence exerted on Got* eider of " the Douse"! We are glad that Mr. Ilona said this. This was • stroke at the regiment, as Sir Faarecie Minoan used to call it; and, that both Dot talioue will turn their fro on him there Gam be no doubt Were it not to be prophaned we would compare him to the middle personage on a memora ble occasion; except, indeed, that we are afraid that neither those on his right nor those on his left will ever be bailed by bias as worthy of approba tion. Mr. &Lice, who made a conspicuous figure the other day amongst the Jews at one of L abelle cha rity dinners, said that it was with greet polo that be had heard saveril of the motions of his s. Friend (Mr. Iluma) that night ! What, be astod " was the " country come to that state, that young amen, tater " 15 or 16 years of severs ari ineritorioei service " were to be told that it was impossible to afford' " them any remuneration?"—le the Ors! place, Mr. &hate, • man is not very young after I. or 16 years of service of any sort. Its the next plan to sesame ud meritorious service is • dowasight begging of the question, which so Christie. dispotaat ever ad wits to be a legitimate anode of ergo' ng.tist admit it (for the sake of argentent)„aad what weepy open earth be sides this ever promoted 428 Naval Otfficers in eight years of profound peace. Here is, in this promotion, besides the hundreds upon hundreds that existed before one Lientenant to every Mlg's ship in existence, above the streegilt of ten pest. But, mark the monstrousness of the thing ; here are 428 Lieu tenants added to the number that related before, when Ithe number of seamen is leas dila 2140118. Bet, what do we want more than this feet; Oat • Navy oi l 10,000 seamen and marbles, now, is a•seascin of pro found peace costs, within one million of money, as tooth as a envy of a huaired thouesol wawa mut pietikos cost le the year 17b2, when w• had to coo teed with the navies of Spank, reapers Holleed, and with all that the Aimerisans could master; sad when we time tarrying our maritime wee is every r 14 the (Hobe ! What do we want more than this to Vases us to applaud and support Me. Ilcuz And, at to may partiealar admiratios that w. ought to feel towards this particular branch of the service as you call it; as to any particular gratitude that we ought to feel in addition to the enormous saes that we pay ;' we are very far from wishing to make any subtraction from that gratitude; bat, while we recollect, and wish not to beget the victories over the French, Spaaiards and Dutch ; ant are not so hue as not to recollect with some degree of shame the figure that our Navy made when it came to he opposed to the Americans. We cannot forget Lake Champlain and Lake Erie; mar cap we forget our captured fri. gates taken into the Ports of New York and Boston sailer that hg, which Mr. CANNIING denominated, "a bit of bunting with thirteen stripes eying at a mast " head." There was, to be save, neither Line nor Unicorn, nor White Horse, nor Rose, nor Thistle, nor Crown; but, as Captain CUMIN sail, "the fire was tresseadwas!"—Wit will relate an anecdote of a mid shipman of our Nary. He bad been sent into the Dalawarr with some men along with him, with a car 'tared vessel which his Captain had ransomed, and for which ransoming that Captain ought to have been moat severely punished. However, the midshipman and his men got on shore and deserted. The Ante- Ricans made them prisoners of war, took them to Phi ladelphia, gave them provisions and lodgings if they bad a mind to stay in the city ; out at the same lima gave them leave to rue shout like wild cats. The midshipman got acquainted with a young fellow of Lancaster County, went home with Lim, and liked 'the Yankee life so well, that he forwed the design of settling, and wrote home to his Mends for money. Nut being able to get it hi this way he cam* for it is person, and went to Halif's to Admiral Orttverrits to get the Admiral to give Was a passage to England oa beard a K1N4 . 11 ship, which the Admitsl very kindly did, but, in Mt coolie, of a deeerter. This bright youth was tried fet his life on board the Queen Charlotte in Poets -an* harbour, shout two years after the peace. 1111 4 mid!, a Ckrgegrava of the Chereh of England, swore aims his trial, that he was considered to be de f icient ber i poiet of intellect before he went into the service. the .nth of which appeared to be strongly corroborated :hi Imo sd the letters of the young Commander whisk was produced in Court. However, he wee ,found guilty of desertion mad sentenced to bopot to death. It wash, bare been a sbameladeed Mapill the blood of.paoW creature; and, accord- TharetillirhpiliMa4bmoratasca ILIGINT par • le view) this was a emeasenefer of Men This was as Officer of the Zaglish Navy! This was one of those to whom *e•hottoar of Esgland was intrusted in the war with the Amerietna, and it was stated at the trial that Sir Wss. Cuatts bad got him into the Navy!—The Americans do not promote in this way; aid we wish Mr. &Lira to recollect, that, notwith standing the matchless espleits of their Navy,' they have not made a single promotion since the peace. Yet they have beets building ships ever since ; and who ever lives to see another war with that country, will, we are coo vi need, sec but too good mamas for believing that those Navies are the most efficient, which have the smallest number of Officers, and that that Nation is the wisest that keeps ■o more cats than catch mice. LORD LIVERPOOL The Courier of last night contains an attempt, nut to answer Mr. COBBITT'S Letters to this Noble I.lrd ; bat, to take a stew grocid in defence of taxation against the attacks that some of the landlords seem disposed to make on it, Onr paper of to-morrow, or next day, will contain a Third Geiger from Mr. Cos- Bler7 to LORD LIVEnpOoL, is Which the former pledges himself to show, to all hit insane persons, that this new grossed is no better than the old groom!. This article of the Courier- evidently is of Tres:oil manufacture ; and, as such, it is of importance. The landlords have beets cajoled. They have bees made to believe, that things will come round; that the system eau gO on; diet p;ices will rise; and they have bees told, at the seism time, that all the "horrors" of brealtiag op the barracks, of the military academies, of the staff, and of other" hula tiracins of the country," mast follow a reduction of taxation. This is what Las preserved the sail-lux and the doable postmaster. Bat, if the landlords find (as they will not, perhaps, this s • Mon), that prices cannot rise, they will begin to pat their estates in use scale and t►e " isistitartieuu of the country" in the other. However, upon the Vole, it is, perhaps, best that they shonli soar all to go se. till they get no rents. We are, ►y as messy, sexless to see them relieved in any degree whatever. The main part of the burden is fast rotting on their shoulders ; and that is the it place for it: Sierra Leone Gazettes to the middle of January bring the following : Goveraoe Gram bad °posed an intercnnrse with the King of Toolahas, by which the British will ipso bably derive lucrative 'rode and Afri. as dierovery.— Tkis 'thief:lons is ably a few days journey from tin Niger. The following deaths have lakes place on the OW Coast; Blasi sia. the patch tinvernor; Accra, lioreroor-Geaeral of the boorish ttleuirosts; ..ad & venter (honks, of the INclita aettleraeet. • A dope redo. had arrived at Sierra Lewitt from Almo . %haat Rader. Kies of the Toshiba% at the head ••• *Lich iris a Prises and a blabosisian mg hi e wife: This singular man came all the way fres B.:ypt to the bleedings° nation with import ant formulas of the Olography of Oriental Africa. He bad passed thre•gb Toolbars°. aid seas of as Gratin that the Niger and the Nile were the saute river. The French aid Portages, vessels carry os as active .I.rs trade. Paris papers to the iftls instant have arrived, bat motels no intelligeoce of importance. No fresh die. tarbance ►ad occurred is the capital, but, accordin g to one of Friday's papers, the reports of the re-esta. biishmeat of tythes and feedsl privileges, and the rr. version of the sale of national property, bad inspired so such disquietade is the vicinity of Lyons, that al Prefect of the department des Soothes du Rhone has deemed it expedient to cootradiet thew. by a circular addressed to the Mayors ander his jurisdiction. Tie last advice. front Coastantioople, of the 11th ult., are pacific in reference to Kaseia, though it is understood the Turks are making great efforts in their marine to oppose t►e Greeks. Saturday's Paris prices of the Preach Five per Coats. haws aot arrived, bat a little bashes. has bee t doss is theta here at 89t ioe. - -- Yesterday, at kaltpast.two o'clock, Mr. Hue, the Chief Cashier of the Bank, gave notice to the mem bers of the Stock Exchange, in the Dames of the rust Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the E s . cheqaer, that all those persons, holders of the 5 per cent. stock, who have dissented from the plso for tie reduction of the interest, may, on giving notice ea w before the 30th instant. receive the amount of tbeir stock. at par, in messy, on the Stb of April, with the quarter's interest then due. Me. Hue alms state, libel those person. wb. have dissented, and wise de. cline receiving the amount on the sth of April lie ;valet off on the sth of July. Those persons who Is. tut extended privilege of declaring their diiseut 4111 the let of June, will likewise be paid o.t on t..e, sth of July. It is understood that the paymests in anticipation will be made by the CAnissiooersof tie Sinking Fond, into whose names the stock so pail of wilt le the first instance be transferred. Yesterday, a Deputation of the Livery waited cn the Lord Mayor, with a requisition, most numerously and respectably signed, for a Common Ball, to taco into consideration the present distressed sitestion of the country, and the best means of promming melt ta ry Reforsaas the only certain resemssof redress. His Lordship received the lientlemen with great pe.ite. nes,, inquired the day that would km s agreeable in theis t and immediately acceded to their wishes be st, pointing next Thursday week (Jr the Common llsti. Lauri-Lassa TIICATRE.—AICkiIIi'S c•ititetly of Tie Afea of Me World was last night revived at this Theatre, for the purpose of exhibiting the versatile talent! of Mr. KRIM is la eltratter of Sir Perii,m, postpone. tiM to sorrow. oar whore agnate murk§ oa the performasca, and content ourselves with *hem inr, that so great was its wafts, that at the emelt. 'ion of the play Mr. Klux was loudly and repeatedly called fur by the audience, and reatived ..a &dation( and unanimous tribute of applause. Toe Muaoaa OF MSS. Doacavvv.—Last sled a sister of the late Mrs. Donatty's husband, and sae Davis a Jew, with whom she cohabited, were knight from the neighbourhood of Rosemary-lane to the Thames police Office and underwent an elimination; but evidence was adduced to prove that they ere at a public-house there, the whole of the evening c. 3 the murder was committed. Nothing relative to dog subject has occurred of importance at Hatton Oudot to day; bat the officers are us the alert, and hare strong hopes that the perpetrators will not long e:ade jotoice. COaONEIt'S INVE3T.—Yesterday an Inquest was held at the General Abercrombie, Friar street, Slum 'rad, before Shelton, it-q. Coroner fur tie comity, on the body of John Morgan, a tank•maloo, of Dudley, who was killed on Friday last by tSe berating of a water-tank, at the lies Works is IN: lington-street.--.Thoulas Mees, who was fellow writ man with the deceased, described the wry in they were employed, in endeavouring to pot on the tank an iron hoop that bad fallen off, otos the water beret sad carried them both away. When be (Men) came to himself, the deceased iris grossing. and he died before the Doctor game.— It. Mono). Esq. Deputy Chairman to the Company, described is a very clear and elaborate manner the dinsessioas and substance of the twit. The w e ight of water was aboet 752 toss, and the ironwork Flirt of the tank mere shoat three-quarters of an inch :o thickness. A convenation tins tetak plarr, by which it appeared that the gas had gothic; whatever to do with this fatal 'morello -.- This fact was give° is evidence from a qursci4i , " l4 by vs* of the Jury, who said he put it to correct ea; erroneous impression which had been made eit ttitl public mind. Edward Evans, surgeon, Jowl ti to the state in which he found the boa' . , sod the Air!". without any hesitation, final( a verdist of " .1"" dental Dinah." NETTING AT TAX rEtsALL's, MA N's 's• 13111111 Y.-1 I to 2 gist e. oat of Byeorec —l l 'o :! 1 !" 1 '-'• out of Aquiline— 13 to 2 'est e, oot of siet , r t . ,ta 14 to I apt e. out of Cecilia-201) le 7 .it e •ea v. U-r• fOSSI. O*. s.-6 to I opt Pasline— I I to 2 'psi C. -jut e ovt. DONCASTER ST. I.COER.-11 to 1 tigst to I 3,e Ajax-111 to I apt Newhyth-100 to It seigt to 0 *sat C. oat of Illoodsoe-9OU to 9 ogst Dtipure-9,1 to 9 age Theodor*. DIED. Os the 16th last. at his keine is Briphton, stns ad ern , age, and after a Wag illness, 'Mons. Else, E , q. is , ' at Leicester-square, one of his Majesty's JusiLes of the Hee for the roomy M Midd e,rx. On Saturday. at his residence in. Sion place. Rath. ac'd N. afteralsoutesexamplett sulfeitirs. as hoe with u'iconaess sae re.iuttation.'ealeb 11 it ie.. Part. V.R.K. the father of Captain P.m, auw eogaied in ea seethes% sixpeditioa of diseertey. er Loodoo Bditwi , Prettied, gam p er a ii t e i . 0 the 4)...er " Tot ST AT LON t'4" at A. , t:ostrtt /44r 4 "0 4 ", Avert. No. 191, Str-zed, appetite St, tligetit'st, by it W AaDitt.L. 1.1 0., to whom sit 0011...eetbvs - Onion, ate. at* requaetett to be ad4teola. imum