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•IP! I i5evie..........--- , This Day was Wished:Price as. nrflE EIIiNBUR H QUARTERLY k,E I VIEW and MAGAZ NE, No. lii. for Deeember. cosyrzur Of TICS sysruzia. PART I. Review.-1. Zouch's Memoirs of Sir Philip Sidaey-2. Huta bnliles Statistical Analysis of New Spain-3. Essays un the Peasures received from Literary Consposition-71. Mrs. QOM Mt l the Supermition of the Highlanders-5. Pastes: on Milkier/ Policy, &c.-6. The fterusal ; a Novel-7. Jackson. Travels in Africa-6. Kerr's History of Robert the Brure—.9. VAC gill's Account of Tunis-10. The Reviewers Revitired-11. I:roller's Memoirs of the latter years of Mr. Fox. PART IL • Original Commonicatiom.7-On the Entin Dr.ieerativeVerb— pictisce of an Luce Farmhouse at the end of the 16th century, in verse—Reports, &c. 'l.o' The Index to Volume I. is unaenid.thly delayed. hut will be elven separately with No. V. which will appear early ia April. Edinburgh :—Printed by rind for D. 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A .. 1,000 6 1,11,54 8400 8.717 • ....I.OOJ c. &c. Sce. I . FOREIGN IN. TELLIOENCIL Letters from St. Thoinas's arrived yesterday to the 14th of December. By the same conveyance a Pro clamation has been received, issued on the Ist of Sep tember by the Legislature of the province of Cumana, on joiuing the new order of things at Venezuela. The Proclamation thus begins : _ _ " Brave colonists already established in oar province! a d ye worthy and fricadly inhabitants of North America. of the Antilles, and of the civilized globe ! The Government of Coma na, funning an interesting part of the Confederation of Vene zuela, has finally broken the shackles of that unrelenting des potism, which for three tedious centuries, has oppressed us n ith a system of the most unrelenting tyranny." The new Constitution, on the model of the other revolutionized provinces, is then set forth ; and the people are invited to share in it. To individuals desirous of dedicating themselves to agricultere, are offered lands in proportion to the means they pos sess, without any other exwnce than that of survey ing them, and the trilling fees of recording the grant. The planters who establish coffee estates are to be exempted from all taxes for 15 years; and to those whe may dedicate themselves to the culture of the sugar cane for 10 years : all the utensils tq be free from duty. The Proclamation concludes by stating, that— " Artists and mechanics of every description, and professors or th? liberal arts, whose talents may conduce to the diffusion and improveinent of useful know ledge, will be cheerfully re ceived by the' Goverment, who will endeavour to place them jn sitnatiml adequate to their merits. The details of the Con stitution are too long to find a place in the present Prod:um/- lien) let it mince, that it is founded on the purest principles adopted is the codes of the freest and most enlightened nations. (Signed 4 ' ' "GR A t! ' Secretary." GIatIALTAR, DEC. 25.-1 landed here yester day, and was greatly surprised to find that the Spanianls bad retreated under the cannon of this fortress. I%tilasteres had * smart affeir a few day* ago with the French, whom, after being joined by a great number of Guerillas, he attacked, but through some unfortunate movement, the French completely divided his army from the Guerillas, and got posses- ! pion of an important pass. Nothing remained to the Spanish General but to cut his way through the ene my ; which he effected, and rejoined the Guerillas ; bat I am sorry to say, not without the loss of two hundred meq. The French have in our neighbour 7 hood between 17 and 18,000 men ; a force which is much too great for the Spaniards to contend with at I present. Tarriffe experiences a heavy bombardment. l We are now sending to the aid of the brave garrisoni troops and prosisious. Great apprehensions are en tertained for the safety of Valencia. We have no certain news from that quarter lately, but many re orts are in circulation with regard to that important city. Business Is very dull ; goods selling at half the prime coat, owing to the gates being still shut." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, .144 c. 24. The LORD CH. C ELIA) it moved. that the wrib et errgr dePeadiag in that HutFe, which had not heat entered for hear inc, either in the last nr present Session, and in which the primed eases bad * been laid before their Lordships; ppranont to their Ordrti should be referred to*tbe Committee to which ef= cars a nni/ F !fifCfrillice' !?, d . t r" A perm Mist the Secretory of Stories (Mice, wreata an necoant tie coutparmive peptlaties et Greet *halo ist 1901 if s ! 44:—/..4.10 . ...V. fI a' ` r.,n,• TTIE STATESMAN. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir ARTHUR I GOTT beenfat* & up a Petition from Antigua, r elative to the S Tof that island. Read, and ordered;Flt lie on the Tab . ' to • PRICE brought Sir GNARL in a Bill for the Improve ? , mcnt oftlf Navigatldn of the River Thames. . 1 31r. T t RN Y moved for aka of the several SUM applied in aid of the Clvii pist Revenue. and f r a specification of the p arte , from which they were derived , JelilBl34 to Mi. I f A Petition was brought u g and'reid, relating to some u,ndi selted claims of the American lm_yallsro. Th e CHANCLLLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that be had no authority from the Ptince Regent to express either dis sent or affirmation on this subject. On thc motion of Mr. DA VIES GIDDY, the Order of the Day for the consideratiop of the Wouon-Basset Election was and postponed till the 18th of February?: AXTON brought up the annual Bill for thecontinn -1 anc disc rde h r a o. r fil e thedi , malt, tobacco, arid bind duties. Ordered to be read 1 a third time (this day). A Petition from Barbadoes was presented by Sir ARTHUR PIGOTT, read, and ordered to lie on the Table. DISTILLERY BILL. MR. LUSIIINGTON brought up the Report of Distiller Mlery Sir JOHN NEWPORT regretted that it had not been earlieria his power to call the attention of the House to one clause in this Bill. He was go enemy to the general subject and scope of the measure; but there was one part of it on which he wished the House to pause, and consider it in all its bearings, before they adopted a Resolution, which, according , to his view of it, would lead to the most pernicious consequences. The clause to which he alluded re lated to the prohibition of intercourse, by which the exports were to be suspended between the ' two islands. He observed, that there was a striking con trariety between the body of the enactment of the Articles of Union, and the schedule attached to it. The eighth article expressly forbad any bounty or prohibition; and it was in a great degree on the faith of that article that the compact had been form ed. It was not, then, with a view of inflaming, but rather to preclude inflammation, that he should urge that the question ought to be fairly and fully consi dered, and that a salutary enactment should not be put away, as by a side-wind; by the annexation of a Schedule. Ile begged the House to consider how far this principle of prohibition would lead. Sup posing it should be thought advisable to cramp and confine the manufacture of linen in Ireland, the effect of adopting this principle would be, that the linen trade would entirely cease and deter- ' mine, Be was aware that this was an extreme case ; yet he was justified in putting it, iu order to shew 1 the danger of drawing this present measure into a precedent. The Hon. Members would consider, that this question was an object of discussion, out of the House as well as in it ; and that the Irish could not but observe, that the Imperial Parliament was com posed chiefly of Englishmen, in the proportion of 558 to LOU; and that it was in the power of this majority to destroy the e ff ect of the original compact, and , ' thus, in the words of the proverb, make the weakest go to the wall. Indeed , it was natural and to be I expected, that Members would entertain prejudices favourable to that part of the kingdom to which they belonged : and if he (Sir J. Newport) could not be struck with this circumstance,how much more weight was it calculated to carry out of the House? lie de precated, therefore, the mischievous principle which should suffer advantage to be taken of a schedule to the destruction of all the advantages held out by the Act of Union. It was from a firm conviction that he was doing his duty to his country, that he de sired that the House would fairly and fully meet the question, and provide some legislative remedy. He would add but ode word. Let not Ireland have oc casion to say, that she has been frustrated of one great advantage which had been held out to her by the Act of Union, and which he had the authority of Mr. Pitt for stating, was considered as a grand equivalent for the surrenders which were made by i Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to state, that as Sir J. Newport's objections went merely to one clause, he should, before his re. ply, wait tb hear what other objections might be urged against the Bill. Mi. SINCLAIR objected to the Bill on the ground thatit intrenched on the agricultural interests of Scotland. _ _ Sir G. CLARKE rose to move the introduction of a clause to the Bill. Ile wished to call the at tention of the House to what appeared to him to be an erroneous calculation in two provisions of the Bill. On the supposition that 100 gallons of sugar_ wash would pfoduce 21 gallons of spirits, an impost of 7s. Bd. had been laid ; such was the calculation of the English distillers, who, at first, however, men tioned 22 gallons as the average produce ; but the Scotch distillers estimated the proceeds at 2-1 gallons : so that if 24 instead of 21 gallons should be pro duced, a difference would exist in favour of the Eng lish distiller. It was the object, therefore, of his clause, to propose some measure to 'ensure the ply ment of the duty where the produce exceeded 21 gallons. He then proposed the-clause, but was in formed by the Speaker, that this was not the proper time for its introduction. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed, that though the inexperience of Sir G. V,larke had led him into a mistake, with respect to the forms of the House, yet he had thrown out some remarks which were worthy of notice. His statement of the calculation was perfectly correct; yet it was not till after a considerable agitation of the controverted points, that the charge alluded to was adopted, from a firm conviction on the part of the I House, that the estimate was fairly made. He thought that all the reasoning, which went to ;wal -1 mend the Scotch system in part, would favour the ! adoption of it altogether ; yet he himself conceived that it was far more desirable to extend the English 'system to Scotland, than to apply the Scotch system I to England; and he shquld advise the mode of col lecting the duty on this manufacture to be the same lin both countries. He considered the subject as one of too much detail to be argued in debate. 4 Com mittee was the referee fer such minute investigations, which would only embarrass the measure in its pre sent stage. With respect to the objection of the honourable Gentleman (Mr. Sinclair) that the land , holders of Scotland were unfriendly to the plan, he I could assure that Honourable Gentleman , that more applications bad been made to hi" front Scotland thus from ally other varter, for the Iptiodeetion of this Bill : . Wit respect to the obserVationa ef Air John Newport, he felt indebted tp him for the bond ripe 'weer of his proceedinp lie had sisidrottd . . Admiral Dp COUltelf is to po relieved In his eoni mod on the Prpzliptiation, hy Admiral Di citlox, I hi wst will Shortly sail for Rio Janeiro foe that pur- pew! no with to obstruct the Bill, but had, from a sense of du, called the attention of the House to a principle, as he conceired, of the most mischievous ten dency. He hoped and thought, that the Right His, storable Baronet's fears were unfounded. Indeed, the case which he had put was confessedly extrava, gent. It was not probable that it should be ever thought politic to prevent the impartaiiml of linen into this country from Ireland ; but even then the case would net be analogous, unless flax should be postponed to some other article, and cotton should be altogether substituted for Ilnan--a supposition which it was not within the reach o f probability to conceive. He then observed, that in the. last Session he had felt this Bill would net meet all the difli 7 culties of the case ; yet it had clearly appeared, that if, while a particular species of manufacture was prohibited in England, the import and free market of a similar one from another country should be al lowed, the English manufacturer would justly feel himself aggrieved at an enactment which would so materially affect his interests. These considers, tions, together with the circumstance of the former abandonment of the interruption of the intercourse alluded to, would, he hoped, convince the Right Hon. Baronet that it was not the Intention of his Ma jesty's Ministers to extend the principle which ap peered .to the Right Hon. Baronet to be fraught with such mischievous consequences. Mr. nuTcuquoN said, that the Right lion. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had by no means answered the argument of his Right Hon. Friend (Sir John Newport), founded on the violation of the 6th irtlele of the Union. The case put by his Right Hon. Friend with respect to the linen trade, had been called by him an extravagant one in supposition, and in practice almost impossible; but was it so difficult for the Right Honourable Gen e tlemaa to conceive the actual occurrence of such a case ? Was this case, indeed, so impossible to his conception ? Was he so ignorant or so forsetful of the history of his own country, or of Ireland's wrongs, as not to know, that at no very distant pe riod, at a period celebrated in English annals for facts supposed to be glorious to the English name, that a message was received by the British House of Commons from King William, recommending to his faithful Commons to take every means in their power' to put down the woollen trade, the then staple ma nufacture of Ireland ? When the Right Hon. Gen tleman talked of the absurdity of supposing such a case probable, was it not fair thus to remind him of what things have been, and what, if British interests should require it. yet mu/ be. In one case, the woollen trade was the most important trade that Ire land then possessed. The linen tradeis now her staple manufacture. When the one interfered with the trade of England, it was destroyed. Why may not the other also be destroyed, if it should so happen that It ever became obnoxious to Britain ? It was on the principle that he argued; and his Right Hon. Friend was right when he told the House, that there was no protection for the rights of Ireland, if a vio lation, however small, of the articles of Union was thus to be compassed by a side-wind. The principle which in both cases he wished to insist upon was, that experience had taught Ireland how unjust Eng land had been, and could be to her when English interests required it; and that no violation of Irish right, with regard to any part of her trade, should be suffered ; because what was done on a smaller, might, according to the principle at least, be done on a larger scale. As he had made one historical al lusion, he could not refrain from mentioning to the House, also, that, in 1782, when an extension of trade was about to be granted to Ireland, petitions innumerable were sent in to that House, praying that Ireland should not have a free trade; and almost threatening, so earnest were they in remonstrance, a rebellion, if the propositions favourable to the trade of Ireland were adopted. [Here the Chancellor of the Exchequer smiled.] The Right Hon. Gent. migbt smile, but his pleasantry would not charm away facts; and he defied the Right Hon. Gentleman to con tradict him. From Glasgow, and the northern puts of England, these petitions were unusu.ally . violent. The Hon. Member then made some observations on the suspension of 1806, to the same tendency as used by Sir John Newport, and complained that Ire land was not fairly treated by the British Minister, either in 1801, or at that peliod. The Minister af ter the Union, in fact, found that the trade of dis tillation had been carried on by Ireland with some advantages ; and, as in the Imperial Parliament, the British party was the stronger, he soon found the means, as he had the power, to take these advantages away. The stand which he took against the enact ment of the present Bill, was, that it established a principle which might, though not immediately, yet ultimately, prove ruinous to his country. Sir JOIIN NEWPORT explained. Mr. HERBERT said, that were it not for the Union, Ireland would have been ruined, by its be coming some time or other hostile to England. He deprecated the idea of the English party being con sklered, as wishing to take advantage of their strength in that House; and he was quite sure, that no such advantage ever bad been taken. The Amendments to the Bill were then read a se cond time; and the Bill, as amended, was ordered , The ship Ilindleion, from Charleston, arrived is to be read a third time to-morrow. .' , 'lturda last •• she brie s letters and the Clyde on „ y g Sir G. CLARKE then proposed a clause to the Bill for appointing receivers, and regulating the Papers from Charleston to the the 18th ult. These duty ; the clause was adopted. had been a shtick of au earthquake there on the i5O, The Bill and Amendments were then ordered to be and another the day following, but no lives w 're engrossed. lost, nor any property destroyed. The latest Cltarlr" POPULATION OF IRELAND. Sir JOHN NEWPORT gave notice, that on On Papers state, that warlike demonstrations si t, Tuesday next be would move for leave to bring iu a continue in America. Bill, for ascertaining the extent of the Population of Ireland. V We know of nothing which ought to be more ileoo The House then went into the Committees of Sup ply and Ways and Means ; and the War Taxes for regreled than the way in which the Debate in the House of Commons, on Mr. BROUGHAM'S Motion, ''e- the year Were nted, to the amount of 20 millions, • • e d It part of which t o b ra e defrayed by Exchequer Bills. i .s p ecting the Droits of Admiralty was terminat • HIS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD. i is one of the leading and most i m p ortant features' The Papers with respect to the Expenditure of the the British Constitution, that the KING can have to Civil List, moved for on Monday by Mr. Tierney, i e fl ec ti:•e or controul over the public money, ltb were brought up by Mr. Wharton, and ordered to lie on the table—Adjourned. i out the,previous cqnsent of Parliament. Weretbis not 1 the .case the Sovereign could make war when 00 ONIMIN.•••••• - 7 as sr. cainst whom •he pleased ; he o lest, iced it. wish t 3 The Proprietor of the STATESMAN takes this op. portunity of addressing hintsey to the ad •ertisi ng part of the Community, many of whom are little acquainted with the nature and extent of the rip. caution of Newspapers, and who, from long habit or otherwise, often prtfer those of snout circuit ! . tion, to others that are very exlersive. It w ou l d be a painful task to point out the exact number of each Joar•nal printed in London, but it might be advantag,cous to those who have property to dispose of, either by PURIAT SALE . q/* PRIPATE CON. 7 RACT, to make themselves acquainted with it. Of there has bean a complete chang e in th e system of Newspapers. During the lad ten years the Evening Papers have obtained geed circulation, and, in many instances have Stir, planted the Morning Papers; they are, in led , now generally read, both in Town and Coen. try, especially in Reading-Rooms, Hotels, Cf. .fee-Houses, and Public-Houses, where th e STATESMAN is almost universally taken in, and, upon a moderate computation, has not leFc Mari 2'zoenty Thousand Readers in London, exclu:i 4 of the Country. PRICE OF STOCKS MS Rank S per ("eat. Cons. 64 3 9.1 3 per Grit. Red. 63i 4 pot Emits. MI 5 per rent. Navy 940 Loup Aga, 16 7-16 DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK, India &aids 171. 18s. Exchequer 8143345 pr. Ditto Omnium dis. CCIIISQIS for keit. stt e Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON': THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, Isl 2. Cadiz Papers reached us this forenoon to the Icy inst. by which we learn, that Valencia had net stir rendered on the Cth December. Reports prevailed at Cadiz, that the French had made an attack upou the Spaniards, in which they were repulsed, awl driven from some important petitions with the lore of 14,000 men. This appears most absurd, as the loss of Sucncr is made to amount to more than the force actually under his command, he having, as ex pressly stated in the . Cadiz Papers, " weakened his army, by sending a corps of from five to six thou sand men to Arragon."—General BALLASTEROS has been again battled by the enemy. He had " ad vanced upon Ogen for the purpose of reconnoitring, and was attacked by a superior force, which obliged I him to fall back with the lose of 300 men—the greater part dispersed." In a letter to the Governor of ll braltar, dated 18th December, he states, f' in the action of yesterday my troops fought with deter. mined bravery, and the enemy did every thing in their power to kill me, but it pleased GOD to pre. serve my life, and I defeated them completely in every point." Ta,iffa had rot surrendered on the 24th December, but the Cadiz Papers state, that " a place of little or no consideration,' attacked by very superior forces, cannot fail of being taken, unless the enemy's attention is called to some other point. — We much fear that the rigorous resistance intended to he made will answer no other purpose than that of sacrificing victim: worthy of a better fate." The nish General GIiEiTA is dead, and has been succeeded by O'DoNrful.. FIFTH ARMY, Dac. 19. The Intelligence we receive from Head-quarters the sth Army is as follows :—The Duke of 11Aousl (MAamox.r) has removed his head-quarters to Tel• vera de la Reyna, where some forces are collected. General FOY has suspended his march with the troops under his command towards Valencia, halting os the sth inst. a league from Toledo. Our Allies hail placed Almeida in an excellent state of defence, and provisioned it .--(Conciso, Dec. I;) Mead-quarters, Valencia de Alcantara, Dee. 10. Senor CAST ANOS, in letters receivcdyeteraay,sayg , that Lord WELLINGTos has been for two days indis posed, and in bed ; and that the party of TsstraAxo, in the vicinity of Madrid, had taken two flue strings of mules, of which one had been presented to Senor CAsvAsos, and another to Lord WELLINGTOM. Bnovoktitm emphatically euires! 1 public money upon a favourite . mistress; he nii waste It mean a trotitite Minister; he tr;glit • c •.• ~rw TO CORREISPONDENTS. " The GHOST of C.;ESAR" Sh:111 make it appe.arance, as spon a s e f e ake lay some of the !Inlay ipirits of St. Slephen's Chapel We are to much in arrear to Correspondents, that we are afraid we canaot give immediate insertion to " A WINK,* gaily. by ISIERCA ANT." Arr. Mails. 1 2 . Cadiz 0 0 . Guernsey 0 • 0 Due. . IF w Ijk,L :~-=: VfiL i