The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-06 00:00:00

T . . w i t r t ere Oise .--.436,1f they cos fulfil the revolted • gools iiips;', ..jpiey wish to boasempted, they toast rya rim of '20,000 reale of editor's. The following gelarsertesides are no longer exempt from service, ',''' Rummy, Priests who possess no ecclesiastical be. fie;,NoTie!!!!" 1 1 c4 e tßdigitie Orders, Perstot;Sin 'd o e mployment or the loquisitioe sot having a Royal api..., Bachelors, Alcades of the Boly Bermeedad 4 (as institetion for the pursuit or malefactors), the Beni 4: • ofollaws, the City Militias, Shepherds of travelling , - leis of Merinos, and Foundlings. OrderM the . • ~sting of 17,959 oat of the young mon • unmarried . 10 t h e service of 1818 have been issued. .They are so be takeir tatm 17 to 36. The privileged provinces may fibroid' their contingents by lot ; or in any other - - way that most *convatielit. If the respect for le. g ilillacy in Spain is such es to induce the People to sabmit to attacks like these tre prone! liberty, ,the Spaniards are certainly dreamt patient People in Abe world. • . • . - Tie_French Papers state, that by the late heal.: , : ASso lo the. West Indies, the harvest and piovisions • 4;ir ihe . island of Martinique were every where de . ..ierveyed; the. pioatations were generally torn up; -Negroes and cattle perished in imesdase numbers ; -and the whole presented one common scene or de. ;selatioi. .The Governor bad in abeeeoreoce issued :o Pruclornatioo opening the ports to foreigliships for provisions and other articles, as by a Decree in '. . Artet, -.1 .17M ; sod alsw for doer end other prowl. - A pbseep t -and :skid's necessary for agriculture, and, *:.(ll:,.`repoir of sir 1.-milts. All articles caws: i ts.. 4 1,110 dry. goodwill* excepted. Foreign skips ' ll 4itie :allowed to export Colonial produce to the ...aunt of the cargoes imported.—The Papers odd, '..* Abel have ream' to hope that Geadaloupe has not a' - aalfered much. • —ainer— Mails from Itatabargh have also arrived since yes day. Notwithstanding the flattering picture drawn .ist the late Royal Speech to the Swedish Diet, the Kingdom of Sweden appears to be in a deplorable leeedhion. The Addregses of the States to the Kum " 'declare that the People cannot pay the lazes without danger of entire rain. Yet it is to be feared that sew Tares are meant to be proposed to the Diet.— TlusiDeke of Camaatpcc set out from Hanover on tbet3d alt. for Cassel, on a visit, oo doubt, to his moiled Consort, who is a Princess of iltssc- CASSEL. The New York Papers that bare been received Teach to the td December. The New York Ad , *Miter of the Ist states, that the Congress had met illet morning, but do President's Speech had not • ' alms to band. We expect to receive it by the nest arrival from the United States. It will doubtles. have some important slhasions to South American affairs, probably afford as the necessary inforourtion on the subject dribs Commissioners sent to South America, and the Treaty supposed to be in progress rid) Spain for the transfer of the Florid's. The Simluole Indians were not likely to yield on the ap. pearance of the forces seat against them under Ge neral Gaines, in conseqrsence of which he has writ. ten for a reinforcement of infantry and a squadron of cavalry. The Indians have determined to give op no murderers or other; of the whites, and were to attack the troops immediately on their crossing Flint River. At a late Meeting of the Indian Chiefs there men 2700 a anion present. _--~*- AlUeda; was yesterday held at the City of Lou don 'r a rer's, ( or of. purpose of taking into coml.. deletion the case of the Distrecsed Sailors who are sew begging about the streets of the Metropolis.— Mr. Wmatarnace was called to the Chair, and Mr. SEXPliatil and some others of the same party in poli tics were the principal speakers. The object of the Meeting is one well worthy of humane attention. — But sumo feeling+ are escited on the view of these destitute beings which suggest other topics of consi deration. Few would refuse to soften the unhappy lot of those who are doomed To beg ohm bitter bread Through reales their valour raved.— Bot a painful enquiry arises, why this should happen, tad why So benevolent feelings of the Public, weedy sufficiently distressed by calls of a similar na tore, and the weight of unavoidable berthens, should be taxed with the relief of so many thousands of poor sailors, for whom the public means had already been &stifled, and to provide for a still larger num bee of mendicants, able, and we believe desirous, to embrace opportunities of earning their own subsist ence. There can be no doubt that the Admiralty has immense lams in its hands in the shape of Drags, which, if disposed to relieve distressed Seamen, would teed and clothe all the ol•jects of this class, who are now walking ghost the st►eets of London in a starv ing condition, and in a state of exposure to the ele mests, which excites an involuntary shudder in all that behold them. Lord COCHRANE very properly enticed this fact at the Meeting, and expressed his, willingness t• contribute 10001. provided the Admiralty would give him his doe. His Lordship also maintained, what will as readily be admitted of a fad, that the eon-employment of the seamen ii owing to the crippled state of oar commerce, and that the dilapidated condition of our trade is the re ask of every thing being so ettormoosly taxed. But thieves a view of things which the Ministerial sup- Porten of the Meeting were not disposed to en "lnge; they iberefore piled tho cry of 44 oo pa- i ' t,:~r I r ,f . It is 11 Wks!' se ltsedly i that aor thing diseasiiion-wee impossible. Them Geetlemes. 'wearer, Seek IWO* Meat uo44lbsegit &else te Mate .o 'Os ihtlfibi of the 1 3 0 4gailfist for its disitis Was to ilk .o• *al the suffer's; is sseratine, The einesat the oiei^atneot ' ail" I deli songdii4 . I tor caort thinks it it good deal. That Gentleman obierved in proof of this, that thaw were thirty. Wee thousand seamen on the Greenwich Hospital leeks. This issertioa without some.esplanatiwisi teesid 'delede thousands. In the bid pla — r;elti 39;000 consist of 'pastes sad marines ; secessilly, they are supported, not by any foods of Goversallit, bat out of those funds which have been sad are secs mutated by dictictions from the pay of every depart ment of the Navy—by allowances from the pay of ,the men themselves when iu service—and by the large estates in Nerthomberland end else where left. for such specific purpose.--k shneld also be knowe,.as has frequently been urged in Parliament, that by a more judicious manage meat of the Greenwich Chest and property, a much greeter body of men might derive benefit from the funds devoted to Jim relief of those connected with the Government sea service thee now ezist on it. These funds and benefits were provided Inag before the country was blessed with the extreme care sod watchfulness of the present Ministers to soften suf fering and protect nor liberties. The Meeting adopted Resolutions for opening a subscription for distressed sailors, which has been commenced, and another Meeting is to be held on Thursday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to consider the most advisable steps to be pirsued for the imatedisti relief of the destiture;' and the ultimate Suppression of Meudicity in the Me tropolis. • r BRIOUTON, JAN. 4.-At two o'clock this after noon, the Bishop of EXETER read the prayers and divine services of the day, before the PRINCE RE GENT,the Nobility, sod the Household, at the Pavel lion. His Eacelletscy Prince ESTERPIAZY, the Aus trian Minister, arrived this afternoon at the Pavilion, and dined with the PRINCE REGENT. Yesterday morning, his Royal Highness the Duke of You left the Pestilent for London. Prince LEOPOLD having determined to finish his journey from Claremont to Came in one day, rose B efore five o'clock yesterday morning, and soon afterwards set off with his suite. He arrived at Staines about seven, and proceeded with all conve %int speed through Bagshot, Overton, An dover, Salisbury, and Blandford, -towards Came, where he was expected to arrive at nine o'clock. HENRY CHARLES LITCHFIELD, Erg. has re signed his situation as Solicitor to the Tseasury ; and GEORGE MAI:LE, Esq. the late Assistant, has been ap pointed his successor. CHARLES BOURCIIIER, Esq. a Gentleman from the Home Circuit, has been ap. pointed Assistant Solicitor. FROX ST. HELENA.—The ship Seneca, Captain CLARKE, arrived at New York on the Ist olt. from Canton. She touched at St. Helena on the 25th of October for supplies and water. The English cur. vette Friendship made the Island at the seine time. The crews of the vessels stationed at the Island had for many months been living on nothing but salt provisions. The Conqueror, 74, the sloop Ma coon, brig Leveret, and nine small transport ships, were the only vessels there. Things were all quiet with regard to NAPOLEON, and he was in good health. His Secretary, it was said, had been sent off to the Cape of Good Hope. He is accused of at tempting an illicit correspondence with some person or persons in the teem. As there is some foundation for nnport that the French Loan has been deferred for a sbnrt time, our Representatives will thus he afforded an oppor tonity of checking that unfortunate penchant ezist jug in a certain Cabinet for assistance of foreign ob jects, which, in our humble opinion, should never for a mowed stand in competition with our dealer I interests at home. Sir JOSEPH BANKES transacted business with the Admiralty Board on Saturday, supposed to relate to the intended voyage towards the North Pole, on die- . coveriev. The ships, it is said, are to have two years' provisions on board, and are also to be sop plied with warm clothing, tte. for the use of the Officers and men. Sanguine hopes are entertained of a passage being discovered to the North Pacific Ocean. DEAL, JAN. s.—Arrived this morning and sailed for the River, one ship and two brigs, particulars unknown ; on. of the brigs lost an anchor and cable in the Downs.—Five o'Csoca : Arrived three bye boats with passengers from Calais, drove to leeward by the strong westerly wind. Dowws, JAN. b.—A water-ask was picked op here yesterday, marked " Pigeon," supposed to here belonged to the vessel lost on the North Sand Head on Monday night last. Po RTSMOUTti, Jou. 5. Sailed the Grecian, on a cruise. SIIEERNROS, JAN. s.—The brig mentioned yester day, as being on shore on the Blythe Sand, is not an American, bat the Hibernia, of Waterford, bound to London—she was still on shore this morning. GRAVESEND, JAN. s.—Arrived the FA, Forrest; and Isaac 'rod, Smith, from Quebec.—Sailed the Chance, Minter, for Antwerp; and Lindsay, Towner, for Madeira and the Brazils. The increase in the REVENUE most be as pleasing to every lover of his country, as the increase of for tune is to every lover of himself. The first has hap pened—the second must happen to many in a very few weeks ; for the One Hundred Capitals in the present State Lottery, cannot fail to enrich adventu leis, who, by making their purchases now, have a nosh greater variety of smashers to select the Three PAM of £30,000 from, than can possibly remain for those who defer to bay until the approach of the *swing, which is iced for the 4th of March. In addition to the Scheme, and exclusive of the fall Jimmy paid by Government, the Holders of the 6rst drawn Blanks, on the three days of drawing, may receive Twelve Pipes of the choicest Port Wine, for one or tern thousand years, to be selected by themselves, and for shares in proportiondrec of any Custom or Excise duty 'Olsten'. 1_ LIFRAPOOL CONGEST= MEE l'iNG. . Afiiir interning thanks, Dr. tAittitt procietta to sods rmisarks ma that wystrat of ttpionogii biaaarly attempts to napes* which had ptOcured him the highly raised compliment Obith had just Wed paid him On a tartans °cession isit bad detailed to the Cob.' amide Society facts relating to tha character and, coadietwf the btaCkitaceli spies mad their empiOyets at a seer groat, and fiend, a sal .weariadaie lmp* ; but it inlaid tent he 'limitary at present to astaapy so much tiott.—The late tupoittra of fir: Okoor had-made his task comparatisely easy ; inns• mach as it had done away with math of tint incre dulity which he had formerly to Contend dtainst•-:- After the admissions is the Report of the Secret Ceetioittee of the Howse a Linde, it was do loneer possible to dssebt the existence of that APll.fangled species of espionage which he had formerly beets it such pains to describe; ind be was happy to per. ,ceive from what had passed this evening, that thir mere mention of the name of a spy was now sal. ficient to eache the disgest sod abhorrence of all who heard it; whilst the mysterious Green Bags, which had been introdeced with so much solemnity and stage-trick into the two Houses of Parliament, now sereed only to gin poist to the verses of a comic song.- It might not, however, be deemed unnecessary to say a few words. in Ramer to thew• who argue that Mr. Oliver could not have dune much mischief. or perhaps would not have been employed at all, if a disposition to rebellion had not existed in the country previously to his mission. There was doubtless some troth in this, as far as regarded Mr. Oliver peroonally ; but it should be recollected, that he was not the first of his trade.—Tbis subject would meter be well understood, nor its importance suf. liciently appreciated, unless it were constantly kept Is mind that Mr. Oliver bad many predecessors, and ninny fellow-labourers in the same vineyard. The way had been 'stewed for him by men who were ' no less active than himself—by men who had served a regular apprenticeship to the business of plot-making; woo for five, some for fifteen, end some fag for oven five-aud-twenty years; and who, therefore, whenever a green bag was wanted, could easily pre. pare materials proper for filling one, which mate riels Mr. Oliver would of course find ready to his hand. It Was well known that some of the veteran Lancashire spies, who had long preferred secret ser vice-money to weavers' wage-, bat whose characters bed been a little blown upon in their own neighbour. hotwl,had lately been serving their King and cou utry,by acting occasionally as itinerat.ts : and whenever they went a cruising, some mischief was sere to follow.— Some of them had their motions watched like those of a barometer . " Alt !" said their neighbours, " 4 Catarcopusis is gone from home again ; we shall soon hear of fool weather somewhere or other !"-- And, in fact, these patriots (who might easily be dis tineuished from their disaffected neighbours by the superior sleekness of their skins) were missing for an unusual length of time, just before the explosion of the Oliverian conspiracies.—There was but too much reason to suspect, that the late human sacri fices at Derby had been bright about by the same means as those which so much disgraced and afflicted Lancashire in the year 11312. In Lancashire, he had always believed, this blood-thirsty, treason-hatch ing spy system bad its origin ; but it was not, on that account, lessinteresting to the Nation at large, since it was found, that what was at first barely to lerated in the Courts below, would soon, if it were but sufficiently hostile to the liberties of the People, become fashionable in the Courts abovealp-And here, continued Dr. Taylor, is a striking instance of that disposition to encroachment to which our sttentien has been already called by oar highly respected Chairmen, end which, as he says, it will require oar utmost vigilance to counteract. The first time I beard spy-witnesses brought for. ward in the Courts of Lancaster, I had the satisfac tion to perceive that their evidence was listened to with great jealousy and very evident disgust, by the Judge wins then presided. He cross-essmitted and brow-beat the witnesses with great aternnsss, awl he gave a very 'reeve, sod what I thought a well-de served reprimand to their employers ; begging in very forcible accents, that he might hear no more of such practices. On a later occasion, when wretches of the same description, some of them, indeed, the same individuals, were brought forward as witnesses, I had the mortification to observe that they were epoch better received, and the thei‘presiding Judge even ventured to give some littleprsise to the zeal sod activity of those who had bused them. Again,at the York Special Comtaissioni a Learned Gentleman (now a Judge) took occasion to applaud in mock warmer terms the metiee of employing .pies which bad already been established in Lancashire. He went farther, and affected to ridicule as absurd and visionary the antiquated, and, as it were, antedilu vian notions of those who bad expressed a loathing of this practice. It appeared, however, that this Gentleman was not prepared to peep rise aoy but " spies of the old school," for says he, 1. 6 if a mew pied to incite another to commit a crime he is with. out esceptiuu the most infamous of mankiod."— When Le gave utterance to this sentiment. how little mast this Learned Gentleman have known of those Lancashire practices which be had just been apes plaudits& ! How ignorant meet he have beets of the character and cardiac' of that individual Lancashire missionary spy, whom he was just thew introducing loth@ notice of the Yorkshire Jury !—At one your former Meetings, Gentlemen I detailed to you the result of some enquiries 1 had made into the character of this man, and some of you may, per haps, recollect that he was, like the sappoeitious character which the Learned Gentleman was affecting to contrast him with, absolutely drenched in infamy and in crime. But to proceed with the system of encroachment. The next step that fell wader my observation was a pretty bold owe. His Majesty's late Attorney-General having occasion to bespeak the good opinion of a London Jury in (swear of a , spy-witness, thought it prudent to gaols as a jollifi cation what bed passed at York and at Lancaster; but, mark the ascroachment! Gentlemen, be Ten tared to go beyond his precedent—he was prepared to tolerate spies of the New school—he thought it Wight be allowable , in sone particular Mtn, to seed Ott spies for the purpose of leading or 1 . 6 . Waiting" -~,., r - . to trios: 6• only." continues be, wish beci.obing - :y, ...sty 66 We most taketere that the spies we thud employ ire men of the-hairy test chetae.er, when 1%1,4 conduct is abate all - ouspiciob ! !"—lt.- se this L .• nett Gentleman would go about the task of inelocit g and of these filet rate Characters to undertake an office : which the other Learned Gentleman sayi would ren. dee him the molt inhumes of mankind, is fir be my depth to conceive ; but I suppose that this ivy 'rapidity is dialog to my not having been bred e. lawyer ; end I will, therefore, leave these twd ' , Learned Friends to settle their difference of opio:ora Ito their eWn *ay slot, however, without Seine fear that their decision will be is teems. of the new school. it is to be hoped, lidweverobst the 66 porticeler easel' In which this new School is admittiole, Will be pointed out to us, leit the system of encrtikehisent should lead other Learned Friends to lei* adding to these particular eases, and the is ovum reedits" shobbi be entirely lost .1 ht of. According to the morality of the nevi.. System, it would be perfectly right and proper, that the Lae catlike spies, *ben they fell in with Mr. Oliver; should ezbibit themselves before him in fall coalmine, with piston; and blackened faces, abd topics of 110 ' ; lawful oats, and Scythes laid straight ith' pole, and all the psniphernilia of their profession, and shoold pass themselves opon him ea reel *whiniest Re: formers;—and it would also be right and proper, that Nr. Oliver should play the same getne. In this Case they would both report to their em ployers that they had had a successful cruise,lend had at length met with shat they bad been so long in search of. The country spies would say, they had at letsgth met with a Geotlhinan rioter , a delegate from the great traitors in London ; whilst Mr. Oliver might very honestly Mate to hie employers, as we are told be did to the people about Nottingham sod Derby, that be bed fallen in with men in Leneashins and Yorkshire, " who could hard! , be kept down, they were so ensioos to begin." This was precisely' the kind of language in use among the Lentaihire spies, when labouring in their. *creation; dad the adoption i 4 this langoage by Mr. Oliver, min to me, that be was either their pupil or their dope.— From them only could he learn the wonderful tiles he told of "immense armies pouring from the north, and sweeping all before 'em!—garrisoning Notting ham !--occopying the passes of the Trent!—seizing the Magistrates as hostages !—levying contributions ! —burning the barrecks!—and disarming the sol diers !! !"—I have been in the habit, Gentlemen, of hearing huff of this sort any time for the last twelve or fifteen years, and I know that its warlike charac ter is owing to the circumstance Of the band of spies having been selected, in a great measure, out of corps of local militia; their mock-military dialect bas become quite a Slang amongst them : walking, they call " marching—standing still, they call " balting"—renning away, " dispersing"—and re assembling, 66 rallying ;" —a dolma men cannot bus collected together, but they have their " sentinels,' and their " look-out parties," and their Captains of tens," and their " rear-guards," and their " pirquet guards," and many oils& things too ridi culous to mention. In short, they hare mere diii lions and more officers than ever they had men, like some country theatres that have more characters than performers, or like the Grand Orange Lodge at Menchirter, which centring to hive ten stebardt out of a dinnering party of only eight persons. Them has, indeed, Gentlemen, been so much re. semblance and apparent connection between the mo.; none of the Orangemen and those of the sham-riofer: —the late conspiracies in benceehire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire have all been so thoroughly ridico. tons—there has been such an sir of whimsicality throWn over the whole, and the ridiculousness has been so much of one and the same character., that I cannot divest myself of the idea that the whole Ina originated at one and the same place. When I first made known to the late Mr. Whitai. bread, in 1812, the mencemes of the licilton spies. I had the satisfaction to leans from him that I had not over-rated their importance: for that 1 had thereby enabled him to do away with the only mat. ter in the Green Bag of that day, which his friends in the Secret Committee had deemed of much conse quence : much of the matter contained in that Bat they lied seen through, clearly enough, bat he ad mitted that the tales about armed men with blackened faces had somewhat puzzled and alarmed them, end had given the idea to the Committee that something very diabolical was going forward—and so indeed there was, as subsequent events, have shown. It was to me, at that time, a carious end somewhat in teresting question, whether my Lord Castlereagh had been himself • little puzzled by these diabolical do cuments ; or whether he bad produced them only for the purpose of puzzling the rest of the Committee. — Some of my friends were from the first of the latter opinion, but I did then, and do still, incline to the former. Knowing the craftiness of the spy-mongers, and knowing also that the commonications I inside. procured for them " a gentle rap on the knuckles," —seeing also that many of the spies were itlione. (lively omit back to their looms, or pet upon half pay—and finding that the peace-disturbing powers granted to the Magistrates, by what was Wier( wily celled the Pesos Preservation Bill, were never acted upon-J.4am these, as well at other considetations,..l did then, and de Still, lean to the opinion, that some at least of his Majesty's Ministers bad been themselves imposed opoe, and thit having been set right, the issecof Secret Service Money into our part of the country was pet a stop to, or considerably lessened. I mid not then, tier eau I yet, •on any other 'apposition, account for the Immediate cessa tion of operations on the part of the spies, and the consequent restoration of peace to the neighbour. bowl. I must confess, however, that the bite decla. rations of my Lord Castlereagh have somewhat al tered my views, and I now ilswr tbot the system of epionage is to form a fundamental festers of the re mainder of his Adoiniatraties... , ' Many of those, however, who usually support Stinisiters, have es premed their abhorrence of thirrolitglisting, and un gentlemanly, and impolitic precrieei• Sod there can be so doubt that it will become a very premitteet sub ject of investigation and enquiry, dathiag the nest Session of Parliament., On this 'recount, Gentle. men, 1 crave your patience, if I dwell a little longer on the subject than I might otherwise (Mot se m. Dry. Mr. Deegial observed, last summer, in the Howe - a 1 i • , 14 T 1 • . . 4 If ' 1 • , t . .. t. ? ) 4 . I , y • .! i, 1 , ? . ; n. li ... ; , i ; .. • 1 i 1 I . ; II ~`~