The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-26 00:00:00

. . - ,• . ' . .;.v r ledge for his own benefit is the object of our echo caging universal freedom It is not ueres.• ry even to show that the poor, on that worm, are required to make any nice discrimi nation bet• pen two candidates, both of them men of knowledge; wisdom, and good character ; for in that case bow could they choose amiss ? But it is to in.O solt•otir irowirrelpiditigs, to tell us they are utterly incapable of distinguishing between gond and bad. But who, Sir, more than yourself bath jotniffed the capability of the " lower ils-..es" of our day to elect with judgment, disruption, and beneficial er. fart ? • Have you not, Sir (p. 113). told us that ihe general diffusion of knowledge has made a great change in the political state of man ? The lower classes base now more intelligence than the highest had a century ago. But in proportion as the People are enlightetied, they must become mote ca pable of itherte. They need less restraint." • And (p. 146) yon add. " Every change. -must be safe, and a here it is called for by the public reason, most be desirable, where the physical and moral force of the Mats &reconcentrated in the same persons flora whom the change Is to proceed." • ‘,Now, Sir, you pest knew that for a Constitu tional Reform Is the National Representation, on -the basis of Universal Suffrage, there bath come forth far more "public reason," and from a far louder public voice, than for any other State Reform, at any other period was ever experienced. if this, Sir, be indeed an operation of reason, arising net of the nature of man, you teach us to be lieve it accords with " the appointment of God ;" (p. 100) for you say that when the People " have reason on their side," then " the voice of the. Peo ple is the voice of God." (P. 142.) And (p. 147) you very properly remark, that 4 .4 where Government undertakes a Reform in cir- Comstaoces similar to those which you here men. tioned, or where it has previously molded the pub. tic opinion to its views, that Reform must be in the bigbest degree safe. " As it would be conducted by the general force, it could not be ceuoteracted by partial turbulence; and as it would be seconded by the public sentiment, the most important changes, which would take place in such an auspicious concurrence of circumstances, could bare no obstacles to encounter." What then, Sir, remains, but for Parliament now to take into its consideration the thousand Petitions of last year, sod the tens of thousands now again be ginning to poor in ; to say whether those Petitions do, or do not, truly state " an inherent unalienable right" of the People; and to legislate according to that right, be it what it may.' As cordially thanking you for your testimony in favour of Aunual Parliaments, and your admirable vindication of a free Press, as I have freely condemn. ed what I esteem your errors touching the constitu tional @swot of suffrage, I subscribe myself, March 9, 18.8. JOHN CARTWRIGHT. LONDON: • FRENCH PAPERS. • • PART% MAaCti 22.—The following are further de tails relative to the fire at l'Odeost : .The Doke de Berri transmitted WOO francs to the Grand Referendary of the Chamber of Peers to be distributed amongst the firemen, soldiers, and ethers, who had most exerted themselves. • The 1-gion do Nord were employed at the fire till ten o'clock at night, and manifested the greatest zeal. Several soldiers were slightly wounded. Several of the military prevented the steeling of valuable articles,_ and others esposed themselves to danger to sate individuals. Two women were saved with great difficulty by the courageous exertions of a ',Deng man. • . A Grenadier of the 2d Regiment of Royal Guards was killed by the fall of a part of a well. M. Valville, the Prompter of the Theatre, escaped with great difficulty through a window, by the prompt aid of persons without. • The Actors of l'Odeon will, it is expected, obtain glieinission to play at the Saloon de Llovois and st the Theatre revert, concurrently with Madame Cs talani, whose tease expires the Ist of May. The loss of scenery, dresses, and other property at I'Odeon is estimated at 500,000 francs. • The accounts of the origin of the fire are at present involved in great contradiction. The Duke de Richelieu, the Spanish Ambassador, and the Swiss &troy, had yeterday a conference with the Doke of Wellington. • Ae embargo is said to have been• laid in the Ports et Spain, on all the vessels of the United States of America. On the Bth instant the lightning struck the Church of Camden (Manche) daring High Mass ; it entered the Church, and some of these present were slightly bort, but none seriously. A Physician has been exiled from Prague, and from all the Austrian States, on a charge of assisting at Masonic Lodges, which are prohibited is that Empire with the greatest severity. ~'Peso per Cents.—Satorday, Es. Div. 65 f. 95 e. MADRID, M•RCII, 10.—The expedition • from Cadiz will, it is generally thought, proceed to the Rio de la Plata. Mr. Meade, the American Consul, is still detain ed is custody. • Nunewaxao, Marren 14.—Important dispatches from the Emperor of Russia have arrived at Vienna. It is believed they relate to the journey of his Im perial Majesty into Germany, and indicate the pre. dee period of his arrival in Austria. The King of Prank will not return from his, jeer. wary to Hossia till the middle of July. and come ! quently the Gmagrees of Sovereigns will not take place before the end 4.4het month. • AMERICAN PAPERS. WASHINGTON FEB. 11.—A Bill has been reported in the House Of Representatives by Mr. Forsyth, from the Committee to whom wig referred so mach of the President's Message as related to the com mercial intercourse between. the Unitid States and the British West India Islands. It is entitled " A Bill supplementary to the Act regulating Duties on Imports and Tonnage," &c. and is an *tacit:spy of the Bill which was_ brimaht into the Boum by the same Constipate* in the last Session, and which •n. der watt so mach discussion ; bat was laid over as r •, , THE STAiI ESMAN. _- • • And Trappit bad passed into a law, bp Aka:rums departyieOts of the 164 inst.. 7.-www.-_ • Accounts from Bombay state that the foreek /an; to Which*" the , Painter - A oPpoied - an irmy 40,000; was part of tbe.aimy ander the comisand Colonel Sums, of the 714 Native Infantry. SMITE' bad pierioasly marched farther into (trier towards Candeith, leaning ibis force as THE STATESMAN. of Observation upon the PEISHWA'S movement Poouah. The Officers woonded are, Lieut. CONER, lst battalion td Bombay Native infantry, Captain PRESTON, Bombay European' Regimerry, both severely. Hopes are entertained that the report of the two Officers taken prisoners_ having been shot by order of the "'EMMA will prove nnfotinded. The official details of the events that preceded the battles in the Punnws's territories have not yetbeen received, having been sent by an. All that was known at Bombay of the events after the boffin was Use surrender of Poonah, and the - flight of the Persaws to one of his strong forts to the southward, whither be had removed his wives and children. It was knows that TRSISISUCKJII DAINILLIA was with the PICISIVIVA. THURIDAT, MAUCH 26, 'lBlB. No Paris Papers were to be published on Monday IRO, on account of the solemnity of Easter. The Journals published on Senday morning, which have come to hand, present us with the report and details, though in an imperfect form,grif the Budget, which had been delivered on the preceding day. This im portant document fills three-fourths of the Mani. tear. We can only briefly notice, that the gene. tel espenditure of 1818 is estimated by the Mt. nister at 993,244,022 francs, or about 41,380,0001 sterling ; but blanks are left for the amount of the three important items of—let, the Debt ; 2d, the Ordinary ; and 3d, the Extraordinary Etpendlture. —A Loan is proposed, equivalent in its -amount to 16,000,000 of rode:. The alterations made by the Committee in the Ministerial Budget, are stated in a separate column, and, in some cases, bear the stamp of much jealous Vigilance on the part of the Members who composed it. The reports, I reabatim of Messrs. Rot and BeucNoT, are pro-'I mired in a supplementary Monileur. They are de scribed as being able and voluminous in an eatraordi. nary degree. The report of M. Rot occupied no leis than two hours and a half its the reading, and that of M. BEIIGNOT four hours. In the Report reads by M. Rot, it was proposed to make redac tions in the departments of Police, the Interior, of War, of Marine, and other savings, in all to the amount of 22,250,000 francs. The Committee on the Project for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, had gone through the preparatory examination of it, and appointed the Baron DVIPOLIGEIATI their Reporter.— It is conjectured tl►at, after the discussion of the Budget, the Members will begin to leave Paris, so as to reduce the attending numbers below the proportion , necessary to entertain a public question, or to pass a Legislative Act ; and, in that case, it follows of coarse that the Concordat mast be postponed to another Session. France will therefore remain with. out a Concordat for another year, and in this state of things she will have different kinds of Clergy, the Clergy of 1788, the Constitutional Clergy of 1791, the Clergy of BONAPARTE'S Coacordat in 1801, and the Ccergy of 'the new Concordat. The recruiting of the Swiss regiments in the pay of France having been for some time suspended, it is - now . alleged by the partisans of the Ministry, that the said anspen. iion has arisen from financial eaust►s alone. But the Minister of War has assigned another reason, namely, the wish of Government to assimilate the Swiss troops to the national forces of France herself, by adopt. ing the same mode of organization. General Salm was to mote in puma on the morn ing of the 20th November. It is distressing to think, that the British Asiatic possessions have noother solidity than what they can obtain from the constant exercise of military power, and that the continuance of our empire,. is to be marked by an endless train of conspiracies *old bat- Iles, followed by proscriptions, confiscations,' and stormiogs of cities. From such a• empire, what can we hope to reap besides the barren laurels of bloody and expensive victories. It is an unpkasing fact, sufficiently' indicative of the conquering policy that his been pursued in India, that when British mer chants resorted to India solely in their mercantile character, without possessing one foot of territory, the trade was iu the highest degree profitable to themselves, and useful to their country; while now, that they have acquired the rights of sovereignty over an enormous empire, and have perverted the interests of that empire to purposes of patronage and the pro motion of individual wealth, the profits of the trade and the revenues of the country are hardly sufficient to defray the expences of the Company's service. .1 ••- , ••■1.1.--. , 1 . The private advice. from Paris state that lion, the Mistier, who is Braised of having attempted to murder the Duke of WILLINGTON, was betrayed to the Police by a woman of the town with whom be had cohabited. It appears from the accounts thus furnished, that the plan of assassination, fortunately defeated, was not the fruit of Prench politics or paties ; the immediate perpetrator was, it is said, an °bac . ere miscreant, not allied to, nor coon *ensured by, nor co-operating whh any acknow ledged body of Frenchmen ; and there is reason to blieve that his abettor. and employers, so. far as has yet transpired, were 'desperate and forlorn as himself. , Letters by the last Mail from Holland announce, thut the proposed alteration is the Duties upon In- It is stated in the National Inlelligencer, the O. cial Paper of America, that the Goeernmeot is prer ceedinK to prohibit the intercourse between the British West India Colonies and the United States. Ibis measure for countervailing the British poky has of course excited much attention. Some extracts from American Papers, to the 22d of February, are in. serted in 400tber column. The arguments advanced for Reform inParliamrnt, that is for Reform to the dictates and spirit of the Constitution, are unanswerable, and unanswered by any other logical attempts than she miserable so. phistry of a reference to form, and the usual abuse of the characters of the Reformers and their Petitions. Proofs and refutations are nothing to these wholesale calumniators. Like Mr. CANNING, they think that to sport with the agonies of the victims of suspicion, is to assign sufficient reason for denying a whole People their just and constitutional demands.— These revilers of the People are fond of im peaching the popular body with want of wis dom ; but it has been clearly demonstrated, that if the great body of the People had not been wiser and more temperate than the Administration, we should have soon realised that very catastrophe which Ministers are continually deprecating. In re. gard to the coodoct of Parliament itself towards the Petitions of the People, it is a fact too clearly evi dent, and cannot be disputed, that the most trivial formalities have recently.:peen so mffh ag. so fre quently required itilParliament as a sae qua non, or itidirpensible observance to the redress of any grief once, that people of weak minds are apt to think that they have NO RIGHTS but what are subject to the heavy penalties of form. This is truly obstacle—it would sop pose that the British Constitution was made op of man ner not of matter, of shadow not of substance. It would indicate that no matt could have access to what belong. ed to himself, if in the possession of another, bat Re seeding to the way iil which he sought it. Is it thus' that an injured man reqeires satisfaction horn the laws, on the head of his oppressor ? Ilas he to area or win by obsequy what he is entitled to dr. mood. " Such ceremonies are highly necerrry," says the Minister, who feels it his interest to dispose of a disagreeable question as readily as may tor, 1 '“ they are required by the Constitution." It is truly astanisbiog that every Sessiou of Parliament succeeds the last bet to show the insignificance of the People. They inform es with all gravity that such a Petition fur Reform is not coached in proper terms—it is not of the proper dimensions. - As if a person should say to his neighbour—" Yow owe me a bill, Sir, I will thank you to pay it." 66 No, Sir, the law re quires that you should address me In different lan page on such an occasion, rims should use a lower wee of voice and take yoar hat off—l cannot pay you, Sir." Such at present is our glorious situation ! And that Constitution, which lass stood the test.of time, about which so much blood has been spilt—that Cots stitation which has been the admiration of all Carve and the boast of every Eoglishesee, lie NOM poppet , thing of form, which no body can •ezplain bet a Mi nister, when it suits his purpose , to do so I But be. side. those ridicules' formalities,_ there ass others of 'goal consevenCe.' Acts of Parliament ere very dear ! A petsoo heel i ng board that an Act of Portia. mast for some public pa rposi, which it is net necessary to _mention st resent ; cost 7001. very naturally asked; SPANISH COSIMISNCIAL AND RELIGIOUS POLICY. One of the expedients fallen ripen by the Spanish G o . vernment to enable it to fit out the Itessiaostpsadro a , is to 'allow the Mecham, peresiision to ship os hoard two 'boomed boos of nierchandize, at low &tie', thi s receipts of which, it was espected, would alforii considerable aid. The curet 4eninatioe isnot told to use merchants, but they are given to sedenta u d, that the force will be so overwhohniog, that t o Mn ; ever point of the ultramarine dominions it is bonag, resistance on the part of, the patriots mast be M R ._ The scheme however does not meet with greses o p pars . The fate of Moatuo's expedition, so .cs l arger than any Spain can now and out, is got fagots's. The Spanish Clergy murmur a good deal, Th eta think that the henedictions of Heaven o n Its in s . pano-Russian 'enterprize cannot • he second, airless' the Heretical character •is taken from the ships by a. solemn baptism, which ceremony, it is thought, sill take place previous to their putting to sea I We . learn from Basle, that the death of the late . King of SWEDEN strongly affected his nephew (the Ex-ging GustAtut). The event was announced t.. Ai m not o n ly by the (Imager Queen, hut by letters from the reiguing Monarch, CHARLES Joust, whim measures seem impressed with the stamp of modera tion, wisdom, and d:gnity. EXECUTION IN IRELAND On Saturday se'unight Janie: Tobin, Patrick Morrissy, and Williner Leary were executed in front of the Comity Jail, pursuant - to their sentence at the late Assizes, for burglary and robbery in the house of ,Captain Johnson, Of Springhill, and for tiring fat him with intent trt maim stud kill him. Since their 'conviction, and, partiCalarly, as we informed, at their execution, they evinced the most becoming pe. thence and resignation, fully avowing their guilt, and acknowledging the justi• e of their sentence. We omitted noticing on Tgesdoy, the great degree of perfection which has been attained in the mode of warming seed regulating the lean - scrotum of Goleta.. garden Theatre. In no part of this large building does there esi-t oily variation sufficiently great to cause an unpleasant feeling. This Plan, it should he understood, consists in depressing as 'well as in rais ing the temperature, and also ensures 'a regular sup ply, of pure fresh sir. Its all buildings - wherein large sucliefeces ate assembled, and remain for any length of time, these ire points of the greatest importance. THE Flit E IN SA [Mitt] It Y• Df.—The devastatimos committed by the are which broke out in the obLetehliihrd. ?arena. called the Kerley-mum, in Sulighery s tiburt, Ekes street. which we noticed yesterday. have hens more exteraivit than was at' Arse imagined. It -titivate out abollt two sirt..t yesterday morning. '1 ue house is owned by Mr. Komi, who, 'as before stated, was from home sin business. Mrs. Knott, hoer ,finale servants, and a female 'loiter. were rousetfrom their. ,deep by the tire reaching their apartuseins. They Ord as tory !arose from their beds to the top of the house, as the chance of desert - Wing was impossible, the whole of the lower pail tif the premise being in names. Most talunately for them there was a way oat of a garret-window to the top of the loose, antl.• after passing over the adjoining building, they succeeded in get iling into the window of the wexedwelling, and an escaped.— ' The Are continued to rage with great fury, uotwislistanding the prompt arrival of the mimes from the Hope, Not wire ,Union, and the Hand in-Hand, until the old tavern was pniitely destroyed, and the roof of the house occupied by the Pinyon book mid Homily Society was burnt or, and Mr. Williattet's *sum en the other sideal.m received consider We WO'. Great anxiety was fora considerable time entertained for the valuable and extensive premises of Mc. .11uppit Honsnr, as the ire Mid completely reached La the bottom of one of hi. warehooses.and toil 'for *beetling of Mr. Dosser himself, ably assisted ts% a faitistal :sad perrevetia , g servant. they would in all retattillity hose bees destroyed. Mr. Honour, who was among the Geer/to-4 to assist his neighbour, asserts that nothing co Id exceed the ries-- Hoe of the firemen, nod he tatiribules to their promptitude energy, in w ell as to an immediate supply of water, the M 1 I% tam of a considerable part of the aeighbuurhood. 'The cause of the Ire has sot been ascertained. The Marriage of the Princess ELIZABETH sad the Prince of HEssz-llomoutta does not take place tar the Sixth, but on the Seventh of April next.—Thu Grand Masquerade and oplendid Filmy Bell to be given on Monday, the Sixth of April, at the Kit.g's Theatre, Ilaymarket, its honour of their approaching marriage, perhaps gave rise to the report. The hose., we understand, have heels already its the greatest de limited, by persons of the highest rank and fashion, to view this novel amusement. Private parties in. numerable have been deferred, in consequence of she test number of pre.engagements to this superb en. tertainment. For particulars apply to Mr. SAS-, 62, Pall-mall. CAUTION TO BREWERS.—A drayman, belonging to Messrs. Coombe: and Co. brewers, was lin.ll by Sir John Kamer, at the Town-hell, Southwark, its the sum of 40s. for letting flown beer into the collie of the Duke of Clarence poblic-house, afeettillakiemP of eight in the morning. • —so% Yesterday as Captain Jones, of irork.streif, was driving a one-horse chaise slung Osford-stroet, the. animal took fright, and rail with •considerable eery towards Cs veudisle -square and along Moo timer.strert, where he became quite unmanageable. Ott toreeing round one of the corners, the vehicle came in coutavt with a coach, and was upset. Mr. Jones was MCI* its-. jured by the fall, and was carried bowmen a hackriey chariot. The chaise was much damaged. Lost night, about eight o'clock, as a Gentlemen, and his groom were driving rather rapidly, is a yer lofty gig, down New-streer, Covent.garden, they came in contact with the wheel of a cart, lade* with vegetables for the market, by which the gig and how were opset, and they were thrown violently out upoo the foot pavement. The Gentleman, who-was delv ing, fortunately escaped with some slight bruise. Thu gig having fallen on the searairle, be broke Lis fall materially by clinging to the off sidit of it, as it Went over, but the groom lay senseless on the paw went, and was carried its that mate to Mr. Bayles, in liing-street, where he was bled. The. violence of dieted seemed germ to have disordered is iutelleel, ac on opening his eYes,.ho bad no intellect's's of the previous circumstances, and strenuously insisted ilia( he had nut been in a gig the whole of the day. deserting more statorocoosideration. Fini saki /via of Ark porteti n efg....4okeities tlsciltmAce onforci 'ocelot Cat I'r tootirs.vaiNng the . lirl!isb ... I CoUnseal palioy.-IK iid ptilligrocer.) . °" w e Mr. Newton , iroria lit tosivilttoo'of Corniarco . . __ • J• • :I I • ,• as t;;; s t• How much does t he Government charge fce en A n of Parliament ?" A question certainly Customsgo t very easily answered. Bet 11 may with more Astir, b e • enquired, for what were Parliaments instituted?... Not certainly to reject Petitions requiring right, bad *of 4000 to rectify wrong--not to annihilate reason, to banish ono y o f plaits, unvarnished truth, by laboured, arbitrary, a n d nina un meaning formalities, that bewilder the ieolgtaati Colonel ek . end seek to blot out from nur remembrance that srm., plteity in ewe laws whieb•precured them the este en : ) the of the learned and the good. it is beneath the dlk. a Corps- pity a great nation to require empty fo es a . trients i n question of right or wrong. Our Constitution is nt. FAL- stranger to formalities—it is 'dike silent in what woo. Infantr Petitions she.&ld be couched—whether signed l e i y; thousands or twenties.. Legiment, _ •nd Matiefacteres, al 66 to con- ontil the 30th Jane, MO T the fourth paragraph of the first section of the Act ' to regulate the Duties en Imports end Tonnage s"' which was t trice rind and committed. Mr. Newton likewise reported a Bill " to increase the Doty on Iron in bars and bolts, Iron in pigs, Castings, Nails, and Alain ; and to disallow the drawbacks of ditties on the exportation of„Gunpowder." The deities to be sobstitoted for those now eliding are, on Iron in pigs 50 cents. per hundred weight; on Iron Castings, 75 cents*, per hundred weight; on Bails, four cents. per pound; on Iron in bars end bolts (excepting Iron manufac tured by rolling) one dollar per hundred ; and on Alum two dollars per hundred weight. The Bill was twice read and committed. A Bill has passed both Houses of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and only requires the signature of the Governor to become a law, enacting that the number of passengers on board any merchant vessel' arriving in the port of Philadelphia, shall not mood more than one to every two tons of said vesselso— There are some other regulations prescribed, rela. , Live to provisions, &c. which bad become 'Necessary from the inhuman manner in which some of the Coin. menders and Owners of foreign ships treated their passengers. These Papers contain an official account, translated from the Spanish Papers, of the execution of Mina, which, it is said, took place on the 11th ult. per. , anent to the order issued by the Viceroy Apodaca, on the 3J, after be had received the Christian as sistance. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 5 per Cent. Navy 106 i 1014 9 per Cent. Real. India Hoods 90 p S per Cent. Consuls 78 771 -- Stock _ Cu" tun!) for Acc. 78jj 71$ 4 per Cent. Long Ann. Exchequer Bill. 14 16 p