The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-03-11 00:00:00

my --; justiee most be done to One , that justice na ybe done to the many, consider attentively the following at tieles of war, framed by the Kink in pursuance of the authority granted by the Mutiny Bill. " See. xvi. Art. xxx. • Whatsoever commanding of ficer shall be convicted before a general court-martiil of behaving in a scandalous infamous manner, such as • is irebecoming Me character °fan officer and a gentle. •-., - assn, shall be dismissed from our service, provided. however, that in every charge preferred against an of ficer for such scandalous or unbecoming behaviour. • the/actor/lets, whenever the sami.is grounded, shall " be clearly specified ;' and again, ' lest this article • night est be sufficiently comprehensive and sufficiently .eapacioes to embraceall possible cases of misconduct, it il l direoted,' Act. ii. See. xxiv. ' But all crimes not capfrel, and alt disorders and neglects which officers . . s 4 ',Wien may he gollty of, to the prejudice of f aodorderiad military discipline, though not sport , jed in tfemsfal roles arid articles, are to be taken cog ' Munro 4111# a- general or regimOotel court-martial,. actordiog-to the nature and degree of the , 'fence, and , • . to.bsc punished at their discretion. • i.•:- • . • "A sweeping clause, that includes in its scope clap , plication, every word, or deed, which may be uttered, • or committed ; that can in any way, and in the re . moteet degree. be connected with militia" interests , . and character; a clause, let it be remembered. that" • • /As tethority to judges selected and nonsked 4 ' • B pi' Crown, and whose interests are essentially inter , .. woven with, and dependant on the favour of the • Crown. • , " Bat the advocates fur the prerogative in dispute' clea,_eitt satisfied that all acts or expressions, andeheir , t • ',.• t tesilieecies, should be made answerable to coorts•mar- ?•-`• • ; -. I that ; they require power to remove officers fur ere -1 l '''''''•• ••• '• ' ' . mimed thoughts—fur presumed feelings—on secret •,• • ••••.!. . .- • .:-..,•, • • .. charge—on insidious whisper—on constructive ans : ' 11 :; : •*>,,.. •.•• ~ .. ~' ' ' picOtme—on false testimony—on slanderous report, or • . 4 .. ~ ~.:•,.-:t..,-,,,... on personal dislike—but these advocates forget that ' '••=';"W. 7 3r'''..V . 'l , - -...,... irs. • - the King has the power, when he ameheededisaffee , tine or prejudice to the service by the employment of • .... • . • . . n officer, to suspend his reactions, to arrest his person stittieprive him of all commend. The King has the " W ....4 N 1 4- ' • 4 ' •-• . , iteir to render an o ffi ce completely powerless —to • % ill 'IL. . - lOW him but the name, or if he chose'', to remove him ~, :s.'' from Ilac scene of imagined danger, to employ him on , foreign stations, granting him but the alternative te . tender hie resignation, and voluntarily retire.—These - 1 ' . 5 • • ', 'Avocet. s forget, moreover, that an officer so suspect. ' '''' ed, whilst he holds a commission that be cannot abase, .. ~. . •.. ~ , from being deprived of ail command, is himself • e."; ;,1. ;......c.: ; , ..,: ~, r ph ..hi e n a ... c d re er w d : u t b b l e e re r f e e a r t e r . a re in g t, ei b r y es no bei su ng eh ex p p r o o se te d eti7 to e ' -i""• N •-. • elie.xietion of the military, as well as the civil code of • ' -.• law. Thus the Government possess a double cheek - ...i' • ' *fed No • .•• : .. 4;:„: ), , ~.. .... 2 • • * right to dismiss o ffi cers, much less to cashier . 1 : ' . • them ; to levy a fine, which can in no nay, direct]) • .o• l lfittle. promote a lawfal object ; and which nee ; ; ~ , A .. ....: can be levied, arbitrarily. by.. the Kiser' counsellors 7 ' •-,.. v . lefffieitt proving, that the object is not the prom- .• ••• . ties sof discipline, but the isdulget'ce of a vindictive - '•••"-". . ;;........- x - vadia r . 4 . - When the Mutiny Bill -diet pesseikalieve „ that epoch, 'moors officers than were isilaired discharge of military duties. There ethers sad half-pay officers. When • c 1 . . ~ :" i filet passed, there was no ;maws, ofikers bed only a life income in welled no property which they bad . whenever they choo.e to leave the profession. " The removal of officers in former times on the ground of necessity, to frustrate disloyal machinations, was, perhaps, therefore, more speciously justifiable upon the pretext, that what the King gave, the King might take away, sod the injury done to the indivi duals was, on the ground of personal interest, less ob - jeetionable and violent ; but it was declared in the .House of Commons, and in the Mom of Lords, In the year 1735, by Lord Chesterfield and Mr. Pulteney, on titeir own knowledge, that George I. was so conscious of the abuses which might be committed under the as snmption of this power, that be had himself assented to the bringing in of a Bill, or introduction oft clause into the Mutiny Bill, ' to prevent any officer being re moved from the army without sentence of a court-mar tial, or by address from either Moose of Parliament.' " In no other Kingdom or state in Europe are Writers cashiered or deprived of their commissions, other that by the jedameat of a court-martial. The Emperor of Austria, autocrat as he is, does not pretend to this power; " and it is a positive fact that the exercise of it in Hoglund has excited the greatest astonishment in every foreign Government." r I.IIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAT, MARCH 9. Today their Lordships met about a quarter to four, when it was anticipated that certain Bills, including the Circuits Commissions Bill, would be received from the Commons, but it now appeared that they had not been passed, by the other House, to the requisite stage. The Attorneys and Solicitors ' Regulation Act Amend ment Bill passed through a Committee, and was report ed without any amendment to the House.—Adjourned to Monday. Abstnet of the Grose and Net Revenue of the Post-oleo of ihe. Wiest Marlow. +il► Merges of Mumogeammit-ead rite per eent. of Colleetlon, (iide Annual finance Ae rostats to the oth January, 1911,) for the year ending Bth Jamey, MI. try., of Gross Receipt. Net Receipt. 1.11114.31 17 173,40 17 1,618,799 13 71 78.818 9 31 1500,129 II ii 111,831 19 011 Ictaaael., Total U. .140016061 16 10 'LOOMIS) 17 L 7, 9011 $ 111 Omit Britain.. ... .. lrelaad ....... .... SIR—As Palliasresttioes.sotappear date taxation. It follows, as s rimier of the farmers most redact it themseltss. as moat as possible. from taxed articles. in this respect. and nnder thepresent circumstances,,is an act not only of personal virtue, but of gennine pa .triotism ; and greater acts of self-denial than this, have been practised by all nations, in different periods of their history, when coder the pressure of esteaordi nary circumstances. We should coosider, too: that in abstinence from a taxed article, we not only save the amount of the taxes upon that ankle, hot al+o tilt" cost price. For instance : let as take a pound of tea, at 81. p.r lb. In not drinking any tea, I not only save 45., the amount of the tax. bit the whole Bs. ; and the same of coffee, wine, beer, &e. &c., which. el together. will produce an immense saving in a large family. These articles, too, are not necessaries of life, and are pill to be injurious to health. Why, then, aboolikee be so anxious about the Parliament's taking off the taw from them, when we can so easily do it our• selves, and cat up taxation, and the corruption which It engenders , by the roots ? This is the best way tu milks j ourselves independent. It is true, that there are whet articles we cannot do without, as salt, a sandles, soap, and shoes. lint even in these, we may greatly relieve ourselves by economy. The times require the exer cise of Ibis virtue, which tends to ennoble oar nature. and exalt our patriotism. 'rite same rule must meal to tht landlords and tythe-owners, who can then duce their rests, inasmuch as their demestic explentalsl will be so greatly reduced. lii short, if this principlel of abstinence, this great moral Warns, were to be ex tended through every branch of agriculture and trade; a political reform would be the ineviiableconseqneece. As to morgues and debts contracted at the time of high prices, there is no remedy but in an Act of Par liament. But let as apply remedi where we etc, I ahall now give a list of tatted article, that may be dispensed with, taken from the Excise duties : Total of Excise Duties Is about ...... 16, 00 " Beer raises about . n.800,000 by 121 to 94. Hops .-. , . . 3500,0U0 Malt ..4.600.000 Spirits, Brills], and Foreign II uoo,ouu • Tea 8,000,000 Coffee and Cocoa MAIM I Irvder and Perry 10.0111,1• • , Wine 900,000 Tobacco and Snuff' ...11,6U0,01111 ,-- icoaknoo Leaves C 7,0111000 This is a striking specimen of what mirht• be dons by the people, If they w0n4.1 be persuaded to drink milk and water for one twelvemonth, athl abstain foi ever, from filthy tobacco and snuff. If people. weskill take such remedies as there into their own hash * esr expenses of thavernment and the interest of the debit would soon find their proper level, and Peel's 811 l PRICE OF STOCKS THIS n‘Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock.. S per Cent. Red. Shut Drtto Ronda 04. 40.. 30s. pen 3 per CLCon 781 79 , South Sea Stock Se per Cent South Sea Old .Aon . 4 per Cents. 6 per Cts. Navy 108} {3 , --SOX— 4'. is. pm 3 per Cent. 1 --Small 32.45.65. pet Long Ann.. Shut , Cat. for Aeet fop. 3 per Cent i India for ditto Irish b err Cent Lott. Tickets 8t99 14 'reject resirii4l4lriplices of the moved st• Iredstesday My the supported by the Duke de 17 thejnrisdiction given relative he Cour Royale, was begativ.eil French rive per Cents.—Toesday, 91f. 1 Or.—Wed oesday. 91f. 35e. Virginia papers arrived this morning to the 10th of February, from which we extract the following : Letters from Havannab, received by the Catboatte al represent the whole coast of Cuba was blockaded lit the piratical privateers. The intercourse between Hr h and Matanzas is rendered precarious and day getout them. A Spanish 74, two gun brigs, sad a sloop of war were off Havannab, bound to Europe. with a great deal of specie on board, said to amount to six millions of dollars. It was thought thin this would be the last money that Spain would receive from Mex. leo, the revolution in that country being considered se complete, two Patriot cruisers being off the Havannah. The United States schooner, Porpoise, has taken fie* more Algerine cruisers, on the !Oast of Cuba, bard' four of them, and kept one as a tender. . [FROM TUE Matti:MY or FIR. 21 WRIT INDIA RIPIEDICTIONS.—At as adjourned m hag of the citixeps, held yesterday, to consider t propriety of memorialising Congress to repeal the striction Acts of Ifild and 1620, is was deiengisid that the meeting should adjourn eime.die. The quee r dell was, therefore, not taken on the memorial, and *isslter rests where it did previous to 6be call. •• • [FROM TOR ORRALD or vas. 9 : 1 Tee HANK'. OF COMMODORE OP TOR NAVY ARO. zientro.—l he laws of the New States not having es tablialied.among Navy Officers any grade above thin of Captain, and great ineuereniences luring, psi food in the are of the nominal title of Commoderi. It is heed, made . hnown, that emends title will be heei 'aftef recognised by the department. istil the samba be established by law. ' • The WA .papers that have come to hand to-day stn unfortunately of the same description asthose we hams too long beets accustomed to receive. Though ao fresh murders have been committed, nor bosses set on fire. the visits fur arms continue, intimidating notice, are still spread abroad, and those:, who, till lately, had ab stained from plundering any of the property they de rub the houses they sure slaughter cattle. The Sp the mean time, are with activity. , men were eon ' !barked fot Xsei day Sloss nor* will* punishment. One of Ibsen sensation 00 the spot, detail. . smother part of our pa per; is order to give our readers an idea of premise nese of the Court, and of its mode of procedure. On the third day four persons were put to the bar, and all acquitted ! One of them was a decent young man, from the race course of Newcastle, who was charged with having been out after the time prescribed ' io the Act. He was proved to have pecuniary busi ness in tow.; sad it also appeared the time pre sribed for being at home was understood to be ' nine o'clock, and that the proclamation respecting it had been often takes down when posted. The Court Is this case stated to the prisoner, that he was se quined, without any stain or impulsion on his cheese eer whatever; but that he was ungsarded in being lest at such as hour, and that it wee twitch to be re... 1 greeted that he tees incoareiieneed mod put to expense —that be was discharged without the stein of being idle or disorderly.—Another person was a surveyor. sod was taken as haves going to settle a dispute be tween opponents of the same clan. The other two were charged with having powder and ball in the thatch of their bosses. Neither of them appeared to know of the circumstances ; and one of them. Mr. William Daly, ■ highly respectable farmer, pos. 'eased proper'y to the amount of there hundred pounds a year, and was so highly esteemed that a wit ness, Robert 11. Manosell, Esq. bad it in contempla tion to enroll him in an association for the defence of the neighbourhood. Oe his acquittal. Mr. Serjeant Toenails told him " be was creditably ac quitted—his character upheld ; that no doubt Captain Drasight (the Police Magistrate)„sae justified under the circumstances of the case, to investigate the mat ter ; that it was not for the miserable and wretched pea. sentry to be incarcerated, while the wore opulent would be unnoticed—No, the law knew no distinction ; be hoped Mr. DALT would inquire after his domestics, for that some invidions ill-disposed character had con eealed for bad purposes, this ammunition, and it lay. upon him to inquire diligently into the matter."—At Realm!' Special Sessions. thirty-one Magistrates ap peared on the Bench. and three persons were found guilty, and two acquitted. In another part of our paper will he found the re port of s trial at the Limerick Sessions. which will give visa to many serious reflections. It is that of MICIMEL CAMIOLL, who war tried for below out of his loom after nn-wet. This man. who is a respect- Ads farmer, bad bees to a meigiihuuring'fair. selling ;rMid CNN. He was anliteil. on his retire e, within a smarter of sena o'clock, and bad btlH onlyMten othentes over the time limited by the bierrreetiiit Act. It is to be olmeried. that person, TH$ STATESMAN. 4. ‘ dheassi 4 the Proje pppsr disp.„4 ti Prods. AP Aaseadinent ier of ntresairy. Coast di Bastard, sod Irito. by abstainiog, Broglie, for taking away add's. Selfadonial, to these offences to tin in no nay, di rect l y° , would soon find their proper level, and f'eel's Din stroyed, now proceed to ro - b the 'et ; and which never alight be suffered to Lice its natural course. That te' 1 Kitten t onosellors, this it must come at last, appears almost certain.— arid " 'hi" away sad leughtel 3 i n n ot th e 0 ro j er . For if rents are lot paid, and wages, and tradetosin's llnitainos at Limerick, is the l. genee of a vindictive bills are greatly reduced, consumption of taxed arti• r t ie o n t h e i r proceedings else must, in the nature of things, be reduced also, th day tliey commenced, ten passed, a b en woo . et though it is difficult to say to what extant ; brew's% is ' ' *X ler Garb to be einll were rap e ni re d f or dig • OS the other band, the mannfacturers, Ors , . tiotosexhi 're 'men un att ac h e d ors, aad the Oevernetent Aeon ems teiiiirpoloissa. lIIIIL Mid .0% . the filthPirlol Theo the Mutiny Bill same more that before.—Your's, &c. s • sesteiteed to the same punish. low of commissions ; Royston, Feb. 29, 1992. 0. FORDIIAM, Jan. cages baring @ached amuck se d a right to repossess, in the service—they P. S. If you will be so good as to insert this is your we btu _ 4"awes tuts '' ar..11 i s as paper, I intend showing in my next letter, in whal . . . '' ' m taxes oppress the tenantry of the country. eerf i 'profession. s order Neve Oaf readen "TIM 91111111111 STATISIMAN" 11l IXCOI ITATISILLX." Cht &tatriisnan, WITS .. 1111 LONDON! MONDAY IVINING, MAGCU 11, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There appears to be .a dead calm this morning in the Market. Very few bargains hare been done, and there has not been the least Urination up to this hone. Consols opened for the Account at 79k. and fur Money 7sll. 3 per Cent. 1044 to JPOREION FUNDS. In the Foreign Markets up to this boor there is lit tle doing. This slackness is supposed to be in conse quence of the payments of the Spanish Loan which take place on Friday in full ; after which it is expect ed all. Spanish Stock will rise. Spanish New... llB to i 01.1 ditto at to i Prussian ... . 9Ol . Danish. Neapolitan . 7O French .09 45 914 Ex-ditidend __....... Private accounts from Spain, this morning, state, that General ft iego has been appointed Prexident of the Cortes, which has caused mat satisfaction to the nation, but, it is supposed, not to the King. The Paris papers to the Bth instant, contain the se quel of the disturbances which had taken place in that capital. Oa Tuesday and Wednesday some petards were exploded in the Church of St. Eustacbe, but in other churches where the Missionaries preached every thing was tranquil. Two Students of Law, and two of Medicine have been excluded, for six coontbs,from the lectures of the Academy, for having taken part in the previous tonsils. Some serious broils, in which the tleodartnerie were obliged to interfere, have also taken place between the students themselves, in consequence of their differ ewe of opinion ; and the lectures of the school of law are saspeaded. Nothlog certain is known relative to Orbital Berthas. One of the bliolutseial repo& Is. that he sad Delos have gone on board of Alp. Another le that some disorders had broke out at Ihroig. Tbn Chamber of Peers were still occupied with the ) ~, . '~•*•. - 196 $ 9 61 9 9 Rate per Cent. on rate For Cent. on Gross Receipt. Ned Receipt. • 134 8 7 181 11 I Arundel least-marlopt. en Tuesday. was ahandaetly supplied with fat stook. The munon was of excellent quality. and there was rather a briskness in the sale of good sheep ; several Leaden deslers being present.— Wether motes from 3s. 6d. to 4.. per stone. ewe mut ton. 36.44. to 33. 6d. perstone ; beef. 3s. 6d. to 3s. lid. per stone; pigs were dearer. Autumns'. Conn Ilaanaw.--Uld wheat, 13/. to 1.11. new wheat. 8/. to 111. per load ; barley la to IW. per quarter; eats. 17s. to Ws. pet quarter. 3e. rod. ie 49. per bushel; pewit. 3s. 6d. to 3s. Yd. per Masi;. Wee/ 3s. fid. pee bushel. ent. in ;Packets accused of the acme for which Catao•• was trial, are banded over, by that Act, to a bench o f B ob, trate, to decide tktir Milt or innocence, tool an da prired of tbobesedt of *jury. What aoaectimalstin of severities are Isere! The Our man is accused —what? of being from his home at e ?sorter wen o'clock. The question of his innocence or is not subtnit•Jd to twelve impartial men, bat to p f , sons who may. not owreasonolely, Le appeased to h biassed spies him.- Alro do not aloft that as ran ter of fact, for we suppose it was otherwise; b ut , name it, to show the nature of this Imorrectioa A ct —But this is not all. A man it to be trusperq f or seven years, for beiog oat of his Louse at b early an boor as .a quartibt before seven o'clock, at though returning from a fair, sad actually es his road borne! We cis suppose a country to be is a state to render such a law oseemary; Ireland may be io thy situation. Bat ignorant sod wicked mast these 6 1 who bare reduced her to that (*edition. Ad kit it b e observed, that, in proportion to the issue severity of this law. ought to be the coition mod Neel aid which it is administaffik . Readers,Oar amh nraar no :for , mbgagfing. flaw latire to this Poraimijko.• wide!) , from mon assiduity hufir name of tlikt Geode*. 1:01110*, of the lloomOoltolliamob t ha , portant swims, to obi pa*. ipo W , ; country is eventwally saved from it . 004 1 h u threatened her, she will -boiodebted Set M; iliftiam is great part, to his isdefatigaithilidlitirs, 6 ,6 6 inflexible integrky awl courage. Takla that the country be., lime nimmtlintadliralt*i that excess of *Ta:votiao is the casMtoli - ligiar eat e r dye and great distresses. The !Ilion of *MO Ire have just spoken, is eat of great raeporti . ate, jest is, to lay a foandation fors modem to Gas Lor i papers sent to tie Cdosiea, frees a *wag Omar. amounting almost to a prohibition. Tbis Setecc an act of justice due to the Colonies, bat %to a 4 is. crease the revenue, by a large latreati ol l ssale,f Kiwspapera. We need sot dweN on theadnatgo slash will aria,. both . t• Canal Britain awl here*. she., foss the usoaseimphsjosed by:ll,ol4' :MAN can he SWIM obvioss. IMlttok that they have sever tochltria4. 11010tert Owls. melees, if it wentsot well knows hivinidellittd they are is all basted conneetsi With ioN.' otter" On Saturday at two o'clock • Cabinet Council aro held at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which hal been summoned by the &target ss of Loolsolerry. The Council wu atiguded by all the Cabinet Widow, who continued in diktimeration till past four o'clock. It is believed that . * Active frigate, eaptais An. drew King, in this harbour. is intended to he fatted to take out to Calcutta the Right Hon. George esasiat, as Governor General to inelia.—(Porturoek Paper.) The High Sheriff of Shropshire has. in taster 10 two requisitions for convening a eoanty iseetisg petition, Parliament on the @abject of agricultural distress, returned a positive Palau!. Porty•tbree Magistrates of the county Kerry at• tended the Special Sessions at Tralee, on Menalapatl unanimously agreed to nwsurrial the Lord Lirateso: to place the endive county under the Insurrectius Act. Seventy four Magistrates signed the applicatio to the Lord Liautunat to place the county Cork nolo the insurrettion Act. Of thirty I motif* 'Petitions, frog Cork, iled within the lost fortnight at the OtSeoln of the Petitioners are incareorated fetch unialtwatt of tithes. The distress near Killarney is verj Oat. tat I. ° ansions were the poor for food, that they fied . 4' g ut its pieces the cow* which were burned st_lblesso4 and were allowed to convoy then 110 w he Co sumption. Yesterday aseraisig sitot3-62111211410.1 44110P0° '" assembled in St. James's Park. to whams a 's aid' for ID! between • Lancashire man , nosed Wilkl• ' recruit in the Ouargla, had a private is the sew ref %. meat, who could ran is less tinmronad the rligg• The soldier ran the distance in sere. :tallow. awl* recruit did it in nine minutes. losotcn, Itiancn 7.—So •• Superabundant" is de crop of Turnips that it is more difficelt to flit "° I than to obtain them. On Wedo-sday Mesig lll Il e crier went round Bury. announcing that to Acres of Turnips in the neighbourhood might be fed off gr llis ' and we have beard of such an err beingrefuted bi" cause the owner et the taraips would not kg *sill' herd CACr Tie"! TO POOtiC4II3I.-02 Friday In I" elderly man of respectable aprarance. west Into fir parlour of Mr. Paroingbon, the s i g n o f the !leo.'" Saville-place. Lambeth-walk. and called Ira Ow ° I porter, which baring drank he left the glass sf Il e bar and walked sway. Shoofly after his 1 10 1" 1 " ° it was discovered that be had stolen a new se el We imar). which had bat a few days before Wail doe*" 4f ...titer est that.htid disappeared is the air 0' A ril This is tb*/di *rime 'Weill a short period A S IA' r•Tr i "PM , . , Sabha of artir:es of li e nor deseriptiow. ~ ~ how sievesly their ispassers eirustaotly are. 010 'allAtlake dotiesAffe,"'err various forties oalhisay spit knew venue which would' creased coissimptioW, •• - 0 441 tithe sit (that le; ere must iruesteolit • , tides whirl would griailpaia t i health. We shsor74. with istielp• 'o79t" Hvr's, is prefacing kia saNaw 414 ['arable adosinistrstios atlive hint t ' and, especially, to tiro Sosevtary (Sle." a i o fact, manages all the cascaras of ' tat department. Issleed, thee* IN a crab* I. Mr Husa's wind, equal to his other ' great esollihic 1