The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

vilsr' , ,-fact man. You will easily believe, then, that I an. Pt 1 lose for words in express the grateful sense which I entertain'ar :the t M.lllf which you bay, jest dune me, and of the compliment which h,,° been paid me by your Viroriby Chairman. Gentlemeo, I hate long peen a sup porter of the cause of Reform. My Worthy Friend ! Sir Foncis has Peen my tutor. lam proud to say, ' that I am his Poltil ; and if I may be accounted sit . apt scholar, my highest ashylyta is satisfied. I _ N. juice to see so numerous an assembly on the present occasion ; for 1 con.ider it s • so indicati o n of the ....-. ' support which the cease of Reform meets with in :Thiedistrict. I wish this wore the case in tiny owes • weiebbnurimnd. Cut, as a matter-of-fact man, I .iment needs say, that, ht my county, that cause does ;toot ineet with lie snore which it deserves. We -bays Indeed itinongvt wili inkling of W hike ; hat .Isimy are supieh awl I ' 'Rx ttilaito aiha,fil. - • 66 Gentlemen, Iha stated, OW I stir a • asaitter-of-fact than ; tea*. 'fitter of fact I • • *hall take titelitterty to Ste Ise. ' On my way . i higher. 1 paschal stimotigh MN ntleiiaiei; with is view of ee/quit** into lits else of Jobe Drat Id ;mon, imsnond, ant. thiesely, *be, as you may knew, *redrew confined in Chester Castle, under a eherge of uttering tie 'Alitioes words. 1 lied that these men were arrested ..within two boors after they ,bed attended a Public -Meeting at Stockport, niters they ere said to here -made certain speeches, which Lunt 'wither justify Neer condemn, as for those epimmlaes they ate to be - 10411 t br, their country. Bat this I will my. that *be bait demanded for these men appears to be Asscessire ; sod we know that email,. bail Is a 'capital grievance, and contrary to the provisions of our Great Charter. They do OM, however, ask that this bail shosid be raised for them. They submit to lie in prison. Bet they are advised to move the Court of King's Bench for a writ, to enable t hem to be tried in Lona", at ■ distance from prejudice. Will yon permit me, Gentlemen, to solicit you to contribute sontethiug to enable them to ..liquidate the 'spinal of the requisite law proceed ings; for we know, as a matter of feet, that law is Jespensive ; I repeat that I do not diicess the ques tion as to the prudence or imprudence, the legality or 11 lily of what these men hire said. That will be decided by a competent tribunal. But I think we *bail not do oar duty if we leave them to perish; -sad, I trust I am guilty of no impropriety, in wishing to aid them in obtaining a fair trial." • Accord's% to the proposal of Sir Charley, a Sob. *caption was entered into for the above porpose, the proceeds of which were banded to the worthy Baronet. 4MSBIC4N P4PERS. trios TOT NEW YORE ADVERTISER, OF TIIE OF srovastatn.] CASE OF THE SHIP PROVIDENCIA. Thit vessel, it will be .recollected, nes seized by the Rovrotrus-ofboare of ibis port, in the mouth of jun., tor, While she was attempting to pass up to lialtioreste. The ProwWelton was the property of 'certain sobjects of the Kill of Spain, from whom she was forcibly taken, while going from Sr. Andero to the Havaonah, with a cargo of cordage, cutlery, &c. by an aimed vessel, called the Maogore, fitted osit at Baltimore, commanded by Captain Barnes, Ord erufiing under the flag of one of the indettpedent provinces of South America. The captors, after putting a prize crew on board of her, ordered her to Buenos Ayres, but owing to stress of weather and other causes, the Prize-master eimeght proper to shape his course for Baltimore.— Os being brought in here, she was immediately libelled by the Consul of his Catholic Majesty, in behalf of /bet Spanish owners, and a Decree subsequently is -sued out of the District Court of the United States, directing both the vessel end cargo to be sold, and the proceeds deposited in the Bunk, subject to the figure order of the Court. The following, we understand, is the figs! Decree of the Judge (Tucker) prowesoced daring the pend jog Term of the Court ;-- " Fiee.sizths of the whole amount to be paid over in his Catholic Majesty's Consul for the State of Virginia, for the benefit of the Spanish owners; the remaining sixth to be retained and held at the dis postal of the Court, es salvage, should any legal claim of that sort he put in within 12 months; but should no such claim be preferred during that period, •or being preferred, and the Court should deem it insufficient, then the sum sn retained to be paid ever to the Spanish Consul, as in the first case. [mow OUR CORRE*PONOENT THE MACEDONIAN . Office of she Herald. Nurf,lk, Nov. 9. This frigate took her departure from our port on Friday last, and from ilampton-roads yesterday.— At a little before twelve o'clock ou Friday. she got ender way from the Navy-yard, and dropped down, tinder easy sail, with a flue southerly breeze, to llampton-roads, where she anchored between one end two o'clock : and with the same wind could bevel been at sea in two boors more, if it had been so de lermitred ; all things, however, were not ready for her final departure. Her appearance, as els glided past the town, and throegh the unruffled bosom 011 our river, presented a spectacle of the majestic end beautiful in the highest perfection. She was greeted with reiterated cheers from the multitudes who thronged the wharfs to have a sight of ibis " living witness" of our naval prowess; and among the nu merous spectators, it was geuerally agreed that the exhibition on the Serpentine River was not to be compared to the object they bad assembled to behold. We noticed a few days since, the eatraordivary dispatch with which the Macedouiso was prepared for sea, which certainly is not excelled by any easter ple in the annals of our Navy : we may add, that every article wanted for her equipoise! was furnished on the spot • there was not a moment's delay in sending to Washington or other places. The Navy Commissioners, we understand, with their usual promptness, give orders for supplies, in case of. a deficiency here; but before these orders coned have been fulfilled, the ship wes nearly half refitted. Iler rigging-was supplied from the rope-walk of Messrs. Moran and 'digging, and was admitted by those who ;rated its quality, to be equal in strength to the pa tent cordage with which she had bees rigged at Boa ten. Her masts and spars, as we here before stated, were idl made at oar Navy-yard, lard put on board •j4 ° . 7 ir 2 - -• ' • • " t. vpr.4ing. T O MI a plaits, miller-of• srATESMAN; in I 2 days after her arrival. The seal end activity manifested by the diffent ntechipika4 departaiente in the Navy-yard employed io refitting the Macedo nian, certainly deserve the highest commendatioa ; and sear, happy to learn that Cipt. Downes and his Officer% have, in every particular relating to the equipzient of their s h ip.. been satisfied beyond their expectation. - • Al L XIGO. • - The following k an extract of a letter, dated, Vera Cruz, Sept. 26: - - " We have had two interesting sights since I closed my last ; the one a skirmish between 45 or 50 fusurgents, well mounted, and about the same num ber of dismounted volunteers (called Patricia:), within- a mile of the walls, whom at length they charged and dispersed, after cutting to pieces anti carrying off shoot half of them ; the other happened only yesterday, and was an attack by, probably, the same party on thepost for Mexico, shoot thiee mites eff, which they detained dearly the whole day urn the scorchiug seeds, carrying eff a few of the loaded mulei, which took adveotage of the convoy,ind killing two and wounding eight of the escort,• w ithout further loss than that done prisoner ; a reinforcement of 100 Men, horse and foes, sallied out from-hence sod returned this morning, having cleared the ravine ih wlitch . the convoy was blockaded, bet neither recovered the pro perty nor injured the enemy. On the former occa sion the insurgents did not lose a man, although they charged to within a hundred yard* of the' walls; on that occasion they had also consideiahle booty, for they carried off about 50 or 60 cows end 35 muskets. it is, however, surprising, that a set of men, who master so extremely weak, should be able to keep the country as they do, and always come off victo rious; from what I can see and pick up, they are diminished in numbers but emboldened in spirit. The ftevolotion of this country dates from the middle of 1810, say about six months after the deposition . of the Viceroy of Buenos Ayres, and still more after the iosurrection at Caraccas ; the original mover was a French General, named Davibar (I am not sure if I have spelt it right), who penetrated into the kingdom on foot from New Orleans, dis guised as a ped.ar, until he disclosed himself to the Vichy Hidalgo; the plot was, however, discovered, and the person of Davibar seized and sent to Vera Crux, and from thence to Spain • but Hidalgo con tinued his intrigues, until fearful of further disclosures he wet induced to precipitate measures. When the insurrection broke out it was like a torrent; in a mo met& all the most wealthy and populous districts were in the hands of the Insurgents—the Intendericy of Vera Cruz, excepting the capital and X.alapa, that of Guadalszara and Guaira:sato, with their seats of Government and Mint., and the whole country reach log from this to the city of Mexico; the first army, co.. , iisting of 80 or 100,000 (the most moderate say W,000), marched to the plain of Mexico without any impediment, but on a mere 'how of hostilities, M. large body of men were all dispersed, Three aid four years back it was difficult to make up a shipment of dollars at Vera Cruz without inclodiwg a quarter era third of the Independent stamp; bet now they have all disappeared." FRENCH PAPERS. PA ins, DEC. It—We are assured that the conse. cration and coronation of his Majesty will take place in the course of the mouth of May nest.—(Journal des Debat..) Lord Wellington will set out on Sunday nest for Landon. It is thought at Lisbon that the Prince Royal of Portugal will return to that kingdom in the approach. ing spring, and assume the Administration ; but this hope seems to rest on a very doubtful fouudstion, for troops are still required for the Brazils, where the King appears anxious to establish a great power.— Portugal remains abandoned to the resentment of Spain and the insults of the Independent cruisers, who rain the Portuguese commerce, and capture its s hips i n the very mouth of the Tagus. The privilege of plsyiug at cards in Sweden most be purchased hi , paying a taz of 21 escudos ; and that of smoking tobacco, incept by soldiers and sailors, by paying a tali of from four to eight escalins a year. An Ordinance of his Bavarian Majesty authorises the Electors of the kingdom to proceed without de. lay to the election of Deputies for the first General Diet of. Bavaria, which will open on the Ist of Jan. neat. Her Majesty the reigning Empress of Rasgis per. posed to depart on the littb from Carisruhe. Her Majesty returns to St. Petersburgh, by Prague and Warsaw. Her Majesty the Empress Mother, on her departure from Weimer, will go to Berlin i where she will stop some daysofter which she will continue her route to Petersburgh. Neither of these Prin cesses will visit Vienna. The Emperor end thelm presses propose to be in Petersburgh before Christ mas Day, which, in tbi Russian calendar, falls on the 6th of 3anuagy; French Funds.—Five per Cents. 63f. Bank Stock, 1486 f. VIENNA, Dec. I..—Wer have daily arrivals here of persons of distinction. Magnates of Hungray, No blemen of Bohemia and Austria, &c. who iatend to he present at the brilliant fetes to be given during the stay of the Emperor of Russia, A camp of plea• sure is also to be formed in the neighbourhood. WWITZBURGII, DEO. 3.--The Emperor of Russia arrived Lers this afternoon atone o'clock, and Bet out sig three, to continue his journey to Maentlerstadt, CONSTANTINOrLE, OCT. 26.--The Porte has re ceived the following details relative to the escape of Prince Karadja, Ilospodar of Wallachia :—He was accompanied by bis wife and son, his two nephews Argiropulo and Vlakutsky, and also by Bojard Mauro Cordate. It appears, that be had long had his escape in contemplation, for be had remitted consi derable sums to Switzerland, England, and Russia, several mouths previously. Th. Porte gave. friendly notice of the Ilospodar's Hight to the Russian Mini ster, tied represented to him the necessity of tilling his moot office. Baron de Strogonof sieved with the Porte as to this necessity; but he observed, that patil the expiration of the severs years' Regency; sti pulated by Wilily, the sane of Hospodar cpald only be eljed qd tnlcrim by a kaimacau. • PRIPitTE CORRESPOWDENCR. (mom AN OCCAIIbIUL CORRWONDENT•) Paris, Dec. 13. The opening of the Chawberi took place amid an assemblage of very brilliant company. Among the foreigner•, of distinction Lord and Lady Castlereagh exited particular observation. When M. de 144. fayette was cilled to take the oath,. movement of cariosity% like an electric shock, spread throughout the Assembly. The speech from the Throne men tioned nothing new, eacept that the King will won 'go through the ceremony of his Coronation—a cur. mutant.* which proves that the negociations con. cerning tbeCescordat are nearly brought to a ter. ruination. There if tta yet, however, no prospect thatit will be submitted to the Chambers in the pre. sent Session. • All the efforts of.the bankers and brokers of Park have been unable to prevent the fall of the Public Feeds. They fell yesterday to 60, although the 1 1 printed •geotatien of the Bank makes them 63. ft was espected that the Speech from the Throne would hive restored confidence; but the stagnation of com merce is still very great in the principal commercial cities of France. hinelrid, Nov. 30. An embargo has been ordered at Cadiz and some other ports, upon ships of a certain size, for the trans port of the troops, which are to be sent immediately to Seeth•Auserica ; the ezpences of every description which may be ;mimed by them will be paid by the ownert of the. ships. There is a very odd rumour in &collides in this Capital, about the arrival of a personage, who, it is supposed, has been sent by the Congress at Aix-la- Chapelle with some commission to King Ferdinand ; end the most curious thing is, that a great many pee ple, who think themselves very well•informed in po litical matters, are very busy in making-conjectures about the subject of this strange message*. We are surrounded here with spiei and informers; no one dares to enramoulcate his opinions to another; from hence flows a want of confidence, which he can not find words to describe. The evils which are pro. duced by the scourge of the human race are of such a kind, that no person, however high his rank, is se. cure against its attacks. A report is whispered, with great mystery, that a plot of these villains has been discovered, the object of which was to implicate dif. fount Grandees of Spain, and the Captain-General of New Cliti;e ; Don Gaspar de Vigodet, in a charge of designing to subvert the ezisting Government, and to sobstitute in its stead an Oligarchy like that of Venice. The number of persons intended to be affected by this infernal plot amounts, it is said, 'to 60, besides several others who are accused of agreeing to co-operate with them. The w hate scheme is reported to have been organized, by per sons in office, who, however, are merely lustre. meals in the hands of the Cl“rical faction, at the head cf which are the Pope's Nuncio, the Patriarch of the Indies, and the loquisitor-General. The state of this country is dreadfol. The roads are infested with robbers to such a degree, that tra• Telling, even for the shortest distances, is unsafe.— The poverty of the People is overwhelmiug, the went of money severely felt, and every thing announces an approaching and inevitable catastrophe. • [There was a report at Aix-la-Chapelle of an autoersph letter having been sent to King Ferdinand front the Allied So vereigns. ib Ohich the SpnatiA King Nal advised In change his nseawires.] PRICK OF STOCKS THII Hank Stock 3 per Cent. Reti.77o 3 per Crnt. ,Conook, Si per Cent. 860 tuns°lo for Acc. 79i 4 per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 5 per Cent. Navy 95 ladia Son& 78 79 Long Ana. 90 1-16 lizeisequer bilks 13 17 1$ p Osmium THE STATESMAN. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IG, 1818. Every thing that has for some time arrived from Spain has tended to pepare us to expect a convulsion in that misgoverned country. Indeed, we are only surprised that such an event has been delayed so long —that the People of that country, who cannot be Ignorant of political right after what has token place amongst them, and whilst all the rest of Europe are shaking tyrants upon their Thrones by the mere force of their opinions, should have bowed their necks until now to the most ignomidions yoke that ever op pressed and degraded human nature, the yoke of at otrce the weakest and the cruelest of usurping Despots, of whom, as a brother Sovereign, even the canting Alliance of Aix-la-Chapelle are ashamed.-- We have now, however, reason to believe, that the reign of that bigotry and intolerance which could dare to insult a nation in 'the nineteenth century, by prescribing to it what books it should read, turf applying the torture to the moat en lightened of its patriots, is about to be brought to an end.--The internal state of Spilt' and of the public' mind, in consequence of this horrid and galling system, has been rapidly approaching that crisis which renders a great , change inevitable. It was reported last night, and even the Cortrkr asserted the circumstance, that intelligence of a very important nature has been received from Spain, relat;ve to the internal state of that country. We have t►nt been able to obtain any particulars of the information thus hinted at, but it is believed that our Government is in possession of facts, which lead them to expect tidings of the deepest interest speedily from Spain. It is understood that one of thejtecret acts of the late , • Congress was to warn and advise ESIDINAND as to his system if government. This King of Load IVEisLANGTOS*I making cannot stand to s very lystem pursued s lipai l , been verging to a state i f disintihrn,,` f rom which it would be Inspnesitail - ter tirt►nseet ettll .. e ms Ministry to snve her. The teem to `tare been aware of this heritable rointr, - iiid ice' Lai FER. DINAOD himself, if , we May judge by his fickleness and his manifold chinges. tie has dischsrgn i d id s Ministers repeatedly, but he finds that new men can. not resters his credit, or heal the r o g rome of discne. tent and dissatisfaction whicis his long been peeving nn the Very vitals of the Ration. Li liaised, Eng. land, and Francs. he has atteseptal 44, ber , ow no. ney, even turns extremely limitl l ll,,.tet nn no 10 44 has he been able to effect. The pr , ieeted sate of Church fAnils has 'falle4--the Vales RIM!, or Es. chequer Bills; have bwinldiacresliie,l and unpaid —no. thing has arrived fromAnserics but Oversew dishearted. ing accounts on a:I sidee,ll4 ex pAltionit Cadia cannot be fitted oat,:everiitiliAre cind cattle Ineveisseeri filled with victims, and 'stela 'thou4nd A the Imo t e . mflies hive been in a 'stile of elite in foreio lands. The new Minister, CASA IRCJO, hap not-bean able to effect so) thing more, apparently no- evens.. mee k SS his predecesors ; and am now leer,• tbar he has tendered his resignation, or, in other word's, he finds he cannot unclog the wheels rf Government, and hence it is very not Courier ' hear that a crisis is in , confides the admiuisi re; quisitor-General, it woe other man would end, round end behold* the Merl:leis D£ CAA iitt, fortevate, if he gets bee mill coseeins. Scarcely any one, and still tele the unfartatude Convicts themselves, who, after entertelolt g hopes of mercy till the moment they were l e d to tt.e scaffold, were yesterday plunged into eternity, could have believed that any Goverment sioNtely ,;0110.1a to maintain even the semblance rifigoesisteney.in the criminal judicature of the c.iont t ry,cmilikeffer men to be pat to death at the is, tOtoment that' others were discharged of the mks. relfettee e , and ors the same evidence. But sods. la-Anr eoi,siste l ls -cy, the justice, and humanity au llalt"gosernment. Whatever may hate•heen the goik of. the .enhepp? 'Convicts executed yesterday, there at Oast et. fated In 'their peculiar caeca circemstances 1,44 cleat te...fistlteee.4 teerefai revision of the eeirlenee by which they .were convicted. .There meted no indecent hem to cut the thread of their mlserrade 'insistence; and if their 'ceivr.tior. was f o und I . have beeie produced by• such evidence as was •üb. frequently insufficient to satisfy the cousrience of a Jury, some sacrifice was due to decency ar.o the appearadce of consistency ; and not a reap in ' the country would have- quarrelled with the ad. risers of the Crown had the Royal flwroy bee" extended to these convicts, or ha 'the taiiitil puuisameot been emulated to transportaties. l'he Bank, from its connection . with Governmeitr, has exercised the most wanton and cruet p-rtialit4 acquitting the greatest criminals while it has lent a deaf ear to the Petitions of those whose cases re** e.. deserved compassion. The Bank has entreised she right of determining whether it would prosecute„ll not. But what is this but a brutal caprice in asset of the most solemn importance, ? Thus Juries 'Air% or are not, to be the instruments of the Bank at lip pleasure. What a degradatiuo of a British Jury. After each a lavish and profuse wave of human life, let Juries look more than ever at the evidence upon which they comsat to hap the shrine of Ilse paper hloluch with human victims. A very general opinion prevails that no one ought to be capitally peuisbed for forgery ; but what most ! be the opinion of the country as to the justice of baegiog men by scurea upon the mete dictum of a Bank /rapeeforlr The Bank is now to give the Public a note...ol . kb different colours— , that of blood wept to he fire pit t railing one; but unless it render its note riiinitabls or give the Public cash also as an 01 , ion ofjirsile section, neither forgery nor the career of blood viii i,• ' be at an end. . •• Ns •It • ----so..—. . • oar s Paris Papers to the 13th lildtVllleeped us. I; ! pears that the French Funds ate not rectories, 1 I .. / • prosperous state. The Journals mention. OW ' , Five per Cents. sunk to 63 run Friday. Theitirtfitf letters assert that the quotations iu rite rapers bare been higher (ban the truth would warrant. The real price on Friday last was so low as 60, althoe.th tit* price quoted was 63. The fall of [lank Stock is UP great, that did not all the Paris Papers emcee in ISO price quoted, we should hare been intim:eel to believe its the occurrence of some mistake. On ,fhersday it closed at 1545 f , but on Os folly eittraily it It'll to 1455 f. The stagnation of commerce to the , I principl towns is stated t o b e general'e n d ' *sawn.. The coronation of Louis XVIII. will ' it is s4i(i, II take place in the course of next M.y. The Marquis f . ere CaiiAltate had, on Friday, an audience of leave of his Majesty, previous t , his departure on hi 4 eta. ' bassy to Vienna. The Dike of Wardanovote was q to leaiis - Paris on &sudsy, nu his rototi'to this cows. try. .M. F(018111 AS IhmeOrt, one of tle exiles ic- - - ...., ' --•" -0-41% .r 1 . -Nig of li h n the of the o' l4 sup r i she e • med Wnworthy of ing received iota the Holy •anrej'Ever sine - turn apr Ki l FFRDINAND, or rather,' MO In he deter. mined tc govern the country *Merits soiiects by 'heir cc orsge and perseverance, had saVdd, n the debased system his ancestors lead purinwJADsiq ii. 'torn' for even tEe Courier to nesi.thle, for unless the King Aims of his affairs •to the In. ould he difficult, to say, %kat dertakp Mein; when be looks fate of the lotil Miniuters; the !JO' may consider himself telt Jock to Codis Ao mood to his - Y_ , , ~~ I. -11 1 1 ~:~ ~- y . I ••;.,; 1 i I: "t ~..~.,