The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-14 00:00:00

, 7 how Vier, Goiernsseat men, and regularly voted for all t h e est imates, and Mr. Gooch was made the Chapman. His Hon. colleague could tell them better t►an be could the names of the gentlemen on that committee. It might have been expected that he himself, as a large' landed proprietor. and the representative of an agricul tural county, would have made one of the members ; bet that compliment was not paid to him. Indeed, if It bad, he should, es be told Mr. Hooch. have desired his name to be struck eat. for be never wished to hold oat any hopes to hie constituents which be knew could not ultimately be granted.—(Cheers.) The com mittee beteg formed, all the petitions on agricalteral distress were laid upon the table without diseussloa. If be bad attempted to bare said one word upon oral, be would have been met by cries of "Wait till the report is published;' and when did it appear? And of what nature was it ?—a ministerial report brought in at the very close of the 'mks ; thus env leg the purpose for which it bad been origimally is troded--nassely, the prevention of all discussise. He grind say, that if be had thought that he should have sat in such a House of Commons for 46 years, he would have washed his band: of it, on the very day on which be entered it. Mr. B. Wooer:oyes then came forward, and was re ceived with ronsiderable applause. He observed that is steam himself to their notice, he should begin by observing that be was folly sensible that their only hope of relief was to be found in the shape of miti gated taxatioa.—(Loud cheers.)—He was also equally aware that this &aeration came rather late from a man who bad advocated every means* that had made taxation necessary. Be that, however, as it might, he should submit to every charge of inconsistency that could be made against him rather than advert at pre sent to the particulars of his past conduct. He then stated his views of the causes of the present distress which the county of Norfolk felt so severely, and said that if be was of opinion that if an effort was made to relieve it, it ought to be made simultaneously by the proprietor and the occupier of land, becalms their cause was common. He thought that a temperate remon strance, as to the general state of the empire, and the particular pressure on sgricniture, must be beneficial; but be feared that the present remonstrance was much too violent to do any good. The Hon. Bentham* then declared that he had not (as had been asserted by a Rer. gentleman) voted for the three millions of additional taxes; that, on the contrary, he had voted against them.—(Cbeers).—He professed himself hos tile to imposing duties on foreign coin, which was lay ing the world under an interdict.—(Chars).—He condemned the Agricultural Report for its stupidity and absurdity, and for its chaotic coafssion of ideas. After stating that he agreed with the resolution for re pealing the malt duties, and also those on salt, lea ther, soap, and candles, he proceeded to observe, that be could not agree with the resolatioas relative to the necessity of Reform is Parliament. For his own past, be could say as well as Mr. Coke, that be never de ceived his constituenta.—(Cries of " You have, you have : Coke never did.")—" Show me tho man," con tinued Mr. Wodebonse, " that dares come from the crowd, and say that I have deceived my constitattots." Mr. N. Ramon, of Yarmouth, them stepped for ward and said, I say you have deceived them : and will trove it, if you will answer me one question ho nestly. Yon told ■s (here an interruption from Mr. Wodehouse's friends)—l auk yea, whether, though you voted against the malt duties, yea did not vote for the establishments which these malt duties were to support ? This was a deception ; sad 1 tell you so to your fate. If, when our representatives come and beard us to our faces, we are not allowed to catechise them as to their conduct, we ha►e nothing to do but quietly bead oar necks to the yoke.—(immense ap plame )—One mien of the distress suffered is the country was, that fir the last 20 years the country re tie nits had, inst ad of dispensing blessings to the tenants on their matt s, been dancing attendance at levees, and playing the part of sycophants at Court.— (Loud cheers.) Mr. W01)101011.1 then continued, and observed that he had certainly voted for the establishments alluded to by Mr. Palmer, bat it was on • thorough cootie tints of their necessity : and he had t►ought the taxes for their support might have been raised on other arti cles than malt and soap. Lord SMICLD, just before the meatiest concluded, reminded the freeholders that they had all been born free, and enjoined 'bean never to forget that the freedom which bad been gained by At vigour, activity, and de termination of their ancestors, might be lost by their enpineness.—(immense applause.) After a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff, who courteously acknowledged it, the meeting was dissolv ed at five o'clock. DARLESTON AGRICULTURAL PETITION. The following ii a copy of t►e Petition from the Agricultural Associatiou at Harlesteo, to ►e pre sented on the meeting of Parliameat to the House of Commove : To the Honourable the Commons of the United King dom of Omit Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The bumble petition of the several owners and meapiers of land, in the parish of Redenhall with ilarleston, in the county of Norfolk, and other towns finite neighbourhood, whose names are hereunto sub scribed. Smarms—That your petitioners, filled with grief and dismay at the unexampled distress which now fills the country, again approach your Honourable House to implore your immediate attention to the sufferings s.f themselves and of the whole agricultural community : that by an immediate revision of your Honourable Commits yen may (err it be too late) save the country flow die perils which otherwise but too surely as sits it. That altbonvh your petitioners were not sanguine in their expectations of great benefit, from the select Committee appointed in the last Session of Parliament to take into consideration the depressed state of the agriculture of the kingdom, (constituted as that Committee was) yet, from the incontrovertible evidence of distress adduced before it, your petitioners hid hoped that some measures of relief would have been paroled or recommended by such Committee, but in masich they are grievously disappointed ; nor does the • report, notwithstanding its length and labour (as far as your petitioners can comprehend) afford &demi any hope a relief from tiler estretinge. Text yosertitioners conceive it now to be setter ~'d of the demist demonstration. that *it agelemitttro st this highly" lased eauntrf samba eveltio a word don with the productions of other eitentrien, admit• ed into this due/free. or at veil %adequate dullest and that one great cense of he prestut &Pm"s iP the ruinously low pleas of grain. aseasional byfortign importations prior to and in the year 11319. That the acknowledged perversion and abuse of the average system on which the cora law, are founded. leads your petitioners to deprecate either' continum* of it by any attempt to improve it, convinced that such system is incapable of affording that protection to the British grower to which be is justly entitled, and that the only means of affording that protection is a permanent dotty on foreign agriewlteral productions of every description. clod to what is directly or indi rectly paid by the British grower. That your petitioners have long believed. but are sow must feelingly coovinced. that the great and paramount cause of their distsese is as orrnassivs AND OrnnintaLMlna TAICATION, which Canna. longer he supported--a taxation which, with giant strides, have already reduced a large portion of the com munity to pauperism, and which, unless very largely and very speedily reduced, threatens the destruction not may of themselves bet of the country. Your petkioners therefot• earnestly implore your Honourable House to mice their case into their im mediate consideration, and afford them that relief which their distressed situation so imperatively calls for.—Aad your petitioners will ever pray. &C. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock. 3 per Cent. Red.... 761 7 ell ' Ditto Bonds s 90e. els 3 per Ct. Cos. Mil I Soeth Sea Stock 31 per Cent 07/8 South Sea Old Ars. 70 4 per Cents gel 1I R. Bill td. 10001. 46 6 0 . pus 6 per Cents. Navy... 1013 a i 5001.4c.— Fa. p. 3 perCeaL I —Smell be. 7. pm Long Ann l9 7-154 ' India for ditto Isp. 3 per Cast i Cos. for Acct....—.. ..7714 Irish b eer Cent Lott. Tickets l9l. lk Int atattiffitan. " WS Marlin STIITIIIIIAII" IS IXCIIII •T4TtSWAN." wmi " won LONDON: momort JANUART 14, 1922. II EW 111111 L AND COML 1101.711, J•M. 14. Lavanrooc, Jae. 12.—Arrived the Cortes, from New York ; sailed the 26th alt. ; mu detained at the month of the change' six days by contrary geed.. She spoke the Columbia, from S b, for this port, yesterday. The Magnet was to sail on the 18th ult. The Isabella;(lAeds) from Baltimore, Rebecca Sims, from Philadelphia, aid Oglethorpe, from Savannah in 3 days after, wind W. N.W. 'MIXT 01 • LITT IR FROM NEW TOIL From the Owners of the slip Comet. Griswold.— We are anxiously looking for the ship Comet, wllleis we daily expect. (This is a costradiction to the ac count published in our paper. of the arrival out. of Tweedle. the Government defaulter.) Now York Papers arriveelthis morning to the 17th of Dec. from which we extract the following:— EPSOM THE NEW TORN GAZETTE. DEC. 15.] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. WIIVIDIAN moved the following resolutions:— Resolved, that the Secretary of State be directed to lay before the House copies of any communication* re ceived at his office. having relation to say misander standing which may have existed between Andrew Jackson, as Governor of the Florid's, and Fromentin, a Judge of the Court therein. And also in relation to any delay or •mission on the part of the •Seers under his Catholic Majesty. to su der to the of. and commissioners of the United States duly authorised to receive the same. any of the archives and documents which relate directly to the pro perty and sovereignty in and over the said Florida*. and also in relation to the means adopted by the •Seen and commissioners on the part of the United States, to obtain possession of such archives and do cuments. floss resolotinas, according to tbs rules of lb. House, lie on the table one day of movie. EARTUQUAIII.---A small shock of an earthquake was experienced at Salem last Tuesday afternoon, it was of short duration. Os the motion of Mr. SAWYKR,--Resolved, that the Committee, on so much of the President's message as relates to the suppression of the Slave Trade, be in structed to enquire into the expediency of continuing is force for a further time, as act passed t►e 3d of March, 1819, which ►y the act of the 15th May, 1820, was extended to two years. and entitled an act "to protect comments of the United States, and punish the crime of pi racy." Os 'modes of Mr.FLOTD,resolved. that a Committee be appointed to esquire into the expedi ency of occupying the Colombia river and the territory of the United States adjacent thereto, and of regu lating the trade with the Indian Tribes, and t►at they hare leave to report by ►ill or otherwise. Draws TOM NATIONAL ADVOCATE, DSC. 14.] ROYAL BLOCKADE. The New Orleans Paper of the 12th November states, that the Spanish authorities bad declared the whole coast of Columbia, except Porto Cabello, la a state of blockade. Their naval force coasists of one frigate, two brigs, five schooners, and six or eight pi ivateers they hare eaptared six American vessels which were going iato the Republican Ports with provisions, as well as a British cutter from St. Thomas, and a British Merchant ship from Barbados., all of which had been carried iota Porto Cabello sad condemned. The market for Americas produce was very dull both at Carson and St. Thomas, owing to the blockade of the ports on the main. The Paris papers to the lltb, arrived since our last. contain the following frees The Mealiest :—le cease• queues of the resignation of the Duke de Cams. Am &wander from France to England, and of the Dike .da..Aildii=v An.aseabe de Narbeane Net. Maples. the ICI • 1u1ua11111.81.60411111 shi;,...pdosed tb• Virenits de Chateaubriond; Peer et !none. Meister . of Salts, to the eiabseliy to Leaden' i s is 4 die Cootie de Serve. Minister of State, member of thcc-ablather of Deputies. to die (loamy to the kinds. of doe Two Sicilies. The Gazette of Augsburg annosaces, under die bead of Trieste, December 28, that letters had arri►ed In that city confirming the intelligenceof all the fort of the Peloposnesus being occupied by the Greeks, with the exception of Core.. Is the Moves their success is eeetinaally i ing. Account, from Madrid come down to the 3d of Ja nue ry, but contain nothing new. French Funds, Jan. 9.—Five:per (.'eats. 85f. 33c.; Bask Actions, 15401. The Dublin papers recei►ed this morning. we are sorry to find. continue to be soul occupied with a de . tail of mileages. The object of this ►iolence is almost solely with a ►iew to the taking of arms. The lion. Judge Moots was to be at Limerick on Saturday last, and then adjourn the Special Commission to the lltls or 'Ml.—These papers contain a long account of the dinner gi►en by the LORD Mo►oa of Dublin, to the new LORD LIIUTUNANT. The entertainment passed off well. The proceedings at the Norfolk County Meeting, with an account of which a large portion of our paper is this day occupied, will be read with an interest cor responding to their importance, and all the genuine friends of the Constitution must be gratified at the triumph of public opinion displayed on the occasion. The enemies of the people, cannot call the Earl of Auszemat.e. Lord SCP/111" and Mr. Coat, dema gogues, Jacobins, and radicals; even blr. WODItHOUSI, a cream of the Ministers, ebewed powerful symp toms of ratting.—He attributed our distresses to the weight of taxation, and offered a recantation at the shrine of public opinion. This is a pretty home thrust at ministers. It gives a colour to the eppreaching ses sion, and may be looked upon as verifying our predic tions for some months past, and eves within the last week. The declarations of the Noble Lords and the many great Land Proprietor'', are unequivocal. We rejoice at the Resolution in favour of Retorts. It must come, and we hope aid trust it will be carried without the wicked interference of an expiring Junta, which have in so many instances spilled the blood of Englishmen, associated for the recovery of those rights guaranteed by the British Ceastitation. That noble fabric was the envy of the world until undermined and rendered nugatory by the most weak and reprobate set of meta that ever directed the affairs of any country. We have long foresees and foretold that the sacrilegious attempts of those political swindlers to bring this Go vernment to a state of despotic rule, would bring the people to a proper sense of feeling, sad would ulti mately urge them to demand and obtain their just and unalienable rights. Our expectations will wen be accomplished. A Ministerial paper has given an extract from a private letter from Vienna, dated Dec. 9.7, which states that the reports which have been circulated during several days put, respecting the possibility of the maintenance of place, are, unhappily, devoid of all au thentic foundation. But h may be regarded as certain that hostilities will lot commeace before the Emperor Alexander has add d to each of the Sovereigns a Manifesto, containing the motives which have deter mined him to engage in a sew war, and an exposition of his moderate projects, if Providence favour the Inc ens of his enterprise. The Treasury Minute regulating the redaction of salaries is the Public o.fices, lately noticed, is said to have been finally settled, and will be published in a few days. It ordains a redaction of fire per cent. upon present salaries, and of ten per cent. ■pun all increases; and in case of death, the representative of the party deceased to have the benefit of the asperse nation fund. This indulgence is sot to be grained to any new appointments, and in case of vacancies in the several classes of clerks, they are lot to be filled up by seniority, bat by merit, at the recommendatiou of the chief of the office. The Officers of the Storekeeper's Department are among the recent dismisssals from office. The Right Hon. Robert Peel arrived in London on Thursday, from Lulworth Castle, Dorsetsbire, to receive the appointment of Secretary of State for the Home Department, upon the resignation of Lord Vis count Sidmoutb. On Friday and Saturday the Right Hon. Oentlrma transacted business at the Secretary of State's Office for the Home Department, where he was received ►y Lord Sidnionth. Ma. Hosts.—la consequence of the Mayor of Liver. pool basing declined calling a meeting, for which a requisition ►ad been presented, to consider of the pro priety of voting an address to Joseph Ileum Esq. ex pressive of gratitude to him for his public services, a meeting of the requisitionists baa been convened, at which, it was remitted that a Public Meeting should be called, in souse convenient place, for t►e purpose of addressing Mr. Hume; and a Committee was ap pointed to carry the Resolution into effect, and to an nounce, en an early day, the place and time of meeting, David Hume. Esq. the Professor of Scots Law in Ike University of Edinburgh, has received ►is com mission u Baron of Exchequer, in room of the late Sir John Stuart. This event ►as exeitel some anxiety in t►e public mind with regard to the aeminatios of a successor to that eminent lecturer. We understand that the following gentlemen have bees mentioned Thomas Thomson, Robt. Forsyth, and Using Joseph Bell, Esqrs. advocates.—(EdieburgA Star.) The Concentric Society of Liverpool met on Mon dag last. Intermixed with several excellent speeches, were many appropriate toasts, among which was the following suited to &Christmas season : May Turkey be roasted by the fire of Liberty, and be well basted hby Greeee.".. ITALIAN OPtia.a. TM King's Theatre Wined on Saturday, in a style which gives Ana promises of a triumphant *clips.— WelAler leedV44l the well merited cauiplimmt, 6f har ing the earliest possession of this favoured seat of music. Hu charming " Nozze di Figaro," was the Opers.and Its characters were supported as follows : Count Namara - - Munroe A rsitoccrrt. B are dens - - - Cherub's** ROSALRIN%CIitADOSI Camden Naas*. - ROSSI. SV/0111114,4 • • - - Madame CAMPORESE. It will be seen that with one exception, the cast is as penal, and the established favourites exerted all their powen to render the Opera effective. Signora CAR DORI will prove a high acquisition to the company. She is represented as making a first appearance, and if that be really the case. we have seldom witnessed so sm.- coastal a one. The full power of a voice, is never de ►eloped npon such an occasion, and in consequence we cannot pronounfe definitively upon its extent, ..l • though we fear it' to be limited. But the charming expression and purity of taste displayed by this lady, will always reader her singing no less an object of attraction. than a soutce ofdelight, to all the lovers of the beautiful in masic.A new Ballet was produced wilt soccer.. The House was crowded to an uncommon extent, con sidering that it was an opening night. OLD D4ILRY.-_—Thrs Mons:No. Elizabeth Clemente was convicted on an indictment charging her with feloniously intermarrying with James Towasead, her former husband being then alive.—S, n. tented to sin months imprisonment in the House of Cur rectio a. Clusrlu Fred. Scuts,* genteel looking lad. was in dicted for stealing a book, value 3s. the property of James Lowe. _ The prisoner, it appeared, was a clerk in the employ of the prosecutor, who is a respectable Solicitor in enan eery-lane. S I Books having been missed at various times, and suspicion falling on the pt honer, he was d•s charged. About a month afterwards the partner of Mr. Lowe met him in Fleet street, and in consequence of in formation he received, took the prisoner to • shoetnak•r in Breams-buildings, to whom he bad sold the books I in question.—Gailty. ll'. Bentley, was convicted of breaking and entering the coach house and stables of N. W. IL Colburn, of Hill-street, Berkley-square, and stealing therefrom se- Tarsi articles, his property. , The capital part of the charge was not made out, but the Jury found hint guilty of stealing only. He was then called up for judgment and received sen tence of transportation for 7 years. A simple looking fellow stepped into the witness boT, and addressing the Common Serjeant said, be hoped his Lordship would allow him his expenses. COMMON StILIZANT.—For what? APPLICANT.—For losing my watch. Corson Seaxsatir.—Did yon go before the Gran! Jury and give your evidence ? Applicant.—Yes, my Lord, I went to Hicks' Hall. Common Switarsx,—Wbere, and hew did you hose your watch? Applicant.—At No. 27, Crown-street, SoLo; Martha Harris took it out of my Locket. COMMON SIIIIIJIANT.—What is she? Applicant.—(confused)--My Lord, she is—she lives there—l don't know what — w hat--- COMMON SCROZANT—%Vhat, what?—Why ,he is a prostitute. and yea bad so busineis there; go away with yon—you area great booll. for your pains. The applicant appeared very reluctant to leave th Court, and seemed much chagrined at the onexpecte result of his application. The mirth occasioned by his awkward appearance. induced him to Suit the Court rather hastily. unniabling nut his disappointment with a countenance truly ludicrous. AGpCULTUTAL a numerous and re spectable meeting of the Highland Society of Scotland, held on Tuesday last, the Bth current. the Earl of Wemyss in the Chair ; on the motion of the Rizla Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bars. seconded by Sir James Ferguson, of Kilkerran, Bart.. the Society unani• moody resolved—" That it be an instruction to the Directors, to take into their early and most serious consideration, the distressed state of the landed and farming interests, with authority to them. to take such steps as the eircesistances of the cue may require, with the view of obtaining effectual remedies for those dis- tresses." NzaT.—On Tuesday a dinner was gi en at the White Horse. in the Horsy Fair. in compliment to the Bristol's hero, Win. Neat; after which a handsome silver tankard was presented to the Champion, and the evening spent in the most convivial manner...—(Brie. tol Mercury.) At a meeting of the master carpenters in this city yesterday, it was agreed to reduce the pries of labour 6d. per day.—(lbid.) StveralFreach Literati have recently visited Lon don, for the purpose of arranging the publication in London, of a Monthly Miscellany in the French language. It is to appear on the Ist of March, an•t it will be devoted to all that is new, elegant, and use. Cal in the current Literstore'of France. In availing. themselves of the British Liberty of the Press, poli tical feeling will be studiously avoided, and in public details, facts alone will have place. Readers of the Preach !engage, in all countries, are likely to seek such a work as a standard of information. We are requested to state that the New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal for 1821, containing Poems and Lectures on Poetry, by Thomas Campbell, Esq.—The Journal of Jonathan Kentucky.—Dobrado's Letters from Speie.—Walks in the Garden, and upwards of 200 other Original Articles, in Prose and Verse, on subjects of Literature, Philosophy, Morals, Manners, &c. may now be had complete, with Titles, Indexes, &c. in 3 vols. Syn. price 2f. 2s. neatly half-bound; apd thoae who desire torments this Work from its commencement, are requested to send their orders, without delay, to their respective Booksellers or NOWSIDOIL It may also he regularly transmitted abroad, by applying to the Gentrel Post Other, or to any local Postmaster. On Wednesday, Peter Augustus Beaman, and Francis Gautiez, or Gander, convicted of the piratical seizure of the ship Jane of Gibraltar, and of the murder of Captain Johnston, the Commander, and James Paktum, one of the seamen of that vessel, on the 7th of Juakleat, suf fered death oe Leit'a Seeds. hour-11hell AMON, Jax. 14.—Our market was willzp. plied with Wheat this morning, principally from Kest and Suffolk, yet picked samples obtained Ss. pet qr. mars than OD this day week, but the demand was very slack for the inferior qualities, although last Monilare Mices were obtained for what was disposed of.—Fine alting Barley fully supports last week's prices, but the ordinary and stained samples were very dull sale at from 17s. to Ihs. per qr.—Oats are ls...per v. cheaper, fba arrivals being very large, -f —they Peas are full Is. other articles there is no SMITHPIOLD-SIARKST. lent Papp!) , of all descril morning, and the prices co than last week. .',- • t • 1 e, and chiefli oflaferior r qualty. per p. lower.—ln Beans and alteration. Jay. 14.—There was ao excel- iptions of cattle at market hy of all kind of cattle were lower