The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-13 00:00:00

fond a considerable number of &chequer . Bills.— , lie did not wish for any istferntation from the Right Honourable Gentleman as to stay part of his financial plan, which might not yet be matured ; bat under standing that it waithe intention of the Right lion: Gentleman, in ell events, to fund a quantity of Ex ebequer Bills, n e •iirmeoted him to state whether *itch was the fact ? Becausocif such were the perposi of the Right Honourable Gentleman, that purpose should have immediate publicity, in order to pet he eed to the uncertainty and gambling speculation' which at present prevailed in the City. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQU . ER observed, that he had already notified to thO Howe, ' that it• wis net his intention to bring forward aft? pert of his financial plan befUre Rothe ; and he, trusted that it would Rot he thought improper on his part to decline stir premature or impartial dßeclosure . of that plan. - With regard to the.communicstion to the Stork Exchange, the llonoorabfo Member al.. luded, he presumed, to that made by the - Broker of. the Commissioners for redeeming the National Debt. The fact was, that, ouderstanding a general ex pectation presailed, that if Exchequer Bills were. funded,' preference would' be given to those bearing: en interest of two-pence halfpenny a day, he gave' directions to limit made known, that if any fund- log of Exchequer Bills should take place, no such , preference was intended. Mr. Aldermen ATKINi expressed a wish, that •• the Right Hon. Gentleman would favour the House ' with somewhat more of esplanation, in order to re move the uncertainty that prevailed in the , For his own part he could not think it desires 'So fund any Fachitteer Bills, and so to diminish the • floating capital of the country. For how could it be • Oolitic to take such a mea tore as must operate to re duce the price of stock ? Government could raise money at less than three per cent. in consequence of ' the present price of stock, whereas if that price fell' ' eight or ten per cent. it could not have money under; four per cent. Such a fall would, he apprehended, be • the result of funding, at present, a great quantity of Exchequer Bills, and, therefore, be deprecated - any such project as the Right lion. Gentleman was • reported to entertain. Another report prevailed in the Pity, that it was the iotention of the Right Hon. ' Gentleman to propose the raising of a loan for the purple of buying up the: five per cents., end this was a plan which he (Mr. A.) would also deprecate. But at eft events, he thought that no danger could • ' result from the Right Hon. Gentleman's at once ex 'Veining what were his views upon the points alluded 4: " 01 :'to ; aid ho hoped the Right Holt. Gentleman would thartaxPlanatioa, ist order to put an end to the :fie; • actuations of property, occasioned by the present r". to iirdoebt upon- such important subjects. • The kiHANCELLOW 'of the EXCHEQUER hoped 'the House would feel the propriety of his . tolonce with regard to thi *financial plan to he sob ' : usitied to its consideration, Until that plan was fully digested and matured—entil,,indeed, be was actually proposing to have it carried into effect. gr.'GRENFELL approved of the intention of • o)lotkilt Hon. Gentleman sot en make any prem= tore disclosers of his financial plan, adding, that Ms oily object in petting e question to the Right Hon. • Gentleman; was in order to do away the impreacion • in thetity, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad finally **de up his mind as to the fending of Es chequer Bills. . The Bill went through the Committee, the Hew seamed, and the Report was ordered to be brought • up to-rhorrow.—Adjournel NEW DUTIES IN HOLLAND. Entracte from Report of the Director-Central of Customs, in Holland : delivered to the Second Chamber, 29th Jan. ISIS: " Although the regulations respecting goods in transit, es fixed by Art. 162, have been found suf ficient, experience, however, holf proved that the law was too lenient *Ph regard to some articles of trade ; above all, in respect to those of which manufactories and trades are established in this kingdom. Those .iaterested therein have not omitted to make repre /septillion, against them, and it is for those reasons that his Majesty has judged 6t that the transit duti.s do ltsfined Sugar, Cottons, Threads, and Calicoes, Woollens, and other manufactures, should be in creased. 66 Wilt regard to the list or scale of duties affixed to the law of the 3d October, 1816, it has given rise to many objections, observations, and repre sentations, all of which hare esperienced doe atteotiuu and consideration. " Your High Mightinexses will, I trust, allow me to enter into some particulars with regard to some of the principal articles, and to state, shortly the rea sons which have given birth to the alterations al luded to. Tin-plates.—The import doty was used at 30 slivers per 100: this regulation has created many objections, particularly since this article is manu factured to a considerable estent,and excellent quality, in some of our provinces. The enquiries made on that . subject have,confirmed that fact, and the interest of these manufacturers has not made as hesitate to in crease the import duty on this article, and to place the manufactured and tuckered tin-plate work also on an equality with such increase. " The article of Thread, is one which, at all times, makes a junction of the agricultural with the manufacturing interests necessary, in order that the tenltivation of flax may not be neglected to the great injury of the manufacturers. These circemstouces and alleged interests base,made it necessary to dimi nish the export duty en raw thread and twist, and to increase the import duty on coloured sewing -thread, as our dyers are also interested therein. " The articles of -Hides and Skins, as appears in the Tariff, ara charged particularly on the exports tation, so as to favour oar tanneries, and the inte rests of the latter have caused his Majesty to make same alters.tiens. ." Lace, made of thread, has been charged in the Tariff wealth' scale duty only, on account eleur own menufactore being considered of such superior qua lity, that nothing was apprehended from foreign com- Esperience ) however ; has taught us, that • I P ` P: ' •f ,• THE STATESMAN the industry of our neighbours has prodiscad just doobtiipOn that subject, particularly with regurd to lace niattufarsured with machinery. To remove-, these difficulties, his. Majesty has oast hesitated Wig an import duty. on Lace, and t !o 1' such. septillions: b e r, r e yo ur Wi t h gighttne•set, so that this btandi . .of.estional iedeetrf.anik be lapporied *sod toteits "Vet 11 +" • •• : ~'. LONDON: r rItIOAT, lEBRUARY 13 1 1818. Ministers had a short respite last night (rem the caitigetion so- properly indicted upon them, in the examinatiou of their Spy System, and the dagraot diatteterof their home policy ; proceedingsit Which thilesrt - thudderi,"and the honest printinles id the country Net at Once enraged and disgraced. The-facts of working npon the ireitated feelings of an inj ored end famishing-population, by agents of the Police, and miscreants let loose from charges of capital crimes for this purpose, in one part of the country, and tam pering with witnesses In another, were too clearly and hadispetably made out to admit of any other means of everting a disgraceful termination to such an Administration than by a muster of voles from Placemen, Law Officers, and Ministers them selves, with their immediate adherents I It is, indeed, melancholy to observe how. few Mem. bars now 'itemd their duty in Parliament; and to witnets how questions, involving such deep Interests, are carried. Majorities of Plafemen and Pensioners now settle every thing in favour of the Ministry. It matters not how clearly a case is made out against the conductors of public affairs—a majority of sites trashes them•white. A Morning Paper, which pro. fosses itself friendly to freedom, says—" It is to be lamented that the language of some of the Reforming Societies is so inflammatory, because it is made a pretest by certain Senators who do at.- tend, for 'miss( in Parliament so contrary to their language out of it." The lamentation here Is,. we think,' applied to the wrong subject. - It is more than to be regretted, .it is to be strongly condemned, that any one to whom a public trust is confided, should neglect his duty, because tile-complaints of the People may he warmly expressed. Thesriolence which i 4 so uupleasing to the tastes of•aeriain Rat. preseutativec is aggravated and inflamed by this in difference, and the very little attention paid In p neral lochs Petitiona.of the People in Parliament.— The inflamed state of public feeling alarms these Gentlemen! The letiguage of popular remonstrances . does ndt please them . . Who are ltiey that• have pro. deiced this inflammation sod violence ? And-who are they whose conduct is reprobated? Spies and proven Incendiaries, and the authors of the system which employs such means of support. Let us say, that, uoless the People universally express their execration of such a conduct, the task-masters of this oppressed Nation will • see the mass of accutnulated evils perpetuated in spite of truth end justice, be yond even the hope of counteraction. The sites. Lion of the country has burst forth in a manner that has elevated it above thereproach of its official calum niators. It is not for public feeling to shrink into apprehension on this its day of renewed triumph—it is not-fora nation-to forego its rights because it is styled revolationary by the men who fatten upon its , spoilt, and tremble al every indication of resistance to their unholy despotism. Their temple of abuses has been shakes by the weight of their own chains. The fetters have fallen from their innumerable vic tims —and they now seek to shroud their guilt in their innermost seuctuary of secrecy. But the veil is rent asunder, and no arts can cover the enormity of their practices. The nation *ill not be de ceived by the hatknied and contemptible stratagems resorted to in order to conceal the conviction of po litical and moral delinquency ; and if Members of Parliament set any value on public opinion, to which many of them are at present appealiog, they would do well to attend to their duty in the seats they al. ready occupy, for an opportunity will soon occur ' for the Public to express their sentiments, in a more particular manner, on the propriety of Representative claims. It is a very -general belief that a dissolution of Parliament wilt take place as soon as Ministers can get their Money objectsand their own Indemnities secured. In the Hoesiof Commons, last night, Mr. GREN. TELL endeavoured to licit from the CHANCELLOR of the Exctteauta some information respecting the financial measure of the year, and particularly de sired to known lb* intention of the Right Hon. Gen damn relative to the funding of Exchequer Bills.—. His exertions, however, were in vain, and the coun try is left in doubt and difficulty on this most interest. in` point, because the. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHR. QUER has notntatored his financial schemes, and does not choose to afford any partial information. In ilms l une time, the. Public are exposed to all the iects, ; . . - vessietices of gambling spetilatiOnsi ind the conse-1 'quent fleeteetions in the Funds Weed-, the Money 11f Itot. in a commercial country, no circumsta nc e , Magi eo extensively mischievous indicision with evignsi to the floating capital, and tbi injury must of main be Interned in 'proportion .so ite amount of that capital._ Our, Ezehequr may be fairly "Steamed ie eoastitutiog the greelterpert of it in this country, and is capable,•by the management of specu lators. of influencing to a greet eltent all the dens of our domestic Commerce. We could have de- sired, therefore, that the CIMICIUMOR of the Ex anent' had been somewhat moreeztlicit. We think, however, that the funding of bills to a considerable amount-shay be expected : for bad' this project not formed a part of the Right lion..Gett tleman's scheme, vi cannot believe that he would Olt base seized the steeliest opportunity of contredicting the report of "which he had been apprised by Mr.- GRENTELI. is, however, certain, that in case of funding, no pre-1 fervors will be given to any particular class of them . now in ezistence. • The report noticed by Alderman AT"res, , ielative to merging the Five per Cents. in the Four, bits been knig..in circulation, and has for some titian ezercised a considerable influence over the mice of - .the Fire per Cents.: bet we know not whither it will be Nand incorrect. Paris Papers to the 10th Inst. have sensed. The King has 'Mended his clemency to the 74 persons condemned by the Prevotal Court at Lyons, foc seditious movements in June last. Thirty-nine have received a free pardon, and the remaining 35 have had their sentences mitigated. The trial of the es traordinary individual who has attracted so much public attention, ender the assumed . thle of "Charles de Navarre, Dauphin of France," was understood in Paris to have commenced at Rouen on Monday last. Many persons in France actually believe this young man to be whet he styles himself. Ibis plentifully sup- plied with money, and the accounts published of him represent his story as consistent. his ttial is looked forward to wills great interest. The mysterious case of Madame Manson is deferred . till the 11th of neat month, at Albi. In the mean lime, the Mademoiselle "'kart, distinguished over all the women of the Aveyron by her personal charms, and now less ho nonrably known in consequence of Madame Man son's notice of her, ha! been arrested at 'Toulouse . end Rill be conducied to Alb'. Manson implies pretty !mildly thsti/sierret wee the unwilling an( iejled witness of the mutder'at nenears house. The Budget will goon have undergone the retisioi of the Committee, amd be brought into the Chambek of Deputies. The importance of the subject has been for it is the! appreciated by the Members, boasted `they never related their labours during the long and ttdious disiussions on the Law for Recruiting thr t iny. The Project of the Recruitment Law, at .passed by the Chamber of Deputies; was presented to she King on Saturday s by the President and Secre. 'titles of the Chamber, sod was to he communi• Sated to the Chamber of Peers in the course of this week. There is nothing further In the Joornalt Lfrom Algiers, but it is remarkable that the hio niteur of Sunday published the details stated to be commonicated to Sir SIDNEY &SITU, which we govt en Monday from the Journal des Debuts. The Congress of Sovereigus, it is now said, will assembly In the course of the month of May neat. The ,relations between Austria and Bavaria are stated t( be more intimate at the present period than they have been for the last thirty years. in the latter king. dom, it is said, there have been several discussions it the Privy Council, respecting the establishment of t Representative Constitution. Accoints from Lau sanue slate, that throughout the Southeast of France, and the Northern parts of Italy;tbe - greateat abun. dance of corn is found to (mist, and that the price, have conseqeently fallen. .. • • . A Flanders Mail, brings.some article* . of pciliticak and commercial interest. It is '1161,4 from Antwerp of the Gth, that the French exiles hire . receivorl pee mission to return to their country; and an . artit It from Frankfort states, that M. DE Giasarri Ensoy of the King of the NsTuartzarro's, lidd delivered a roost able and luminous speech In the Diet, on thr subject of the Military System of the Germanic Fe. decation ; in the course of which he enfaiced, with kite most powerful argurnents, the necessity of per. fact unanimity and concord, for the great object of keeping up the chain of frontier. Orkresser. . ilr hinted the expediency, or rather the .necessity, in a defensive point of. view, of the restitution.of Alsace. A principle of the'most jealous vigilancek be thOught, should also form apart of the Confederate System, joined, howeeer,- to a fixed deteratination—heier to offer on the odd hand, , nr lo Mier on the (Plot., the least particle of natioual offence. So much for th, awakened symptoms of fear on the pert of the King of the Nrrnaataknos. It appears from the Report of the Hutch Minister to the States-Genenit of Holland, from which wi have given an extract, 'that it is proposed to increase the import and transit duties in that country on cer• tam articles ; which hicrease, it is worthy of notice, appears to be containd to the manufactures of this country only. We will not pretend, 'as the Tunes of this morning does, to instruct the Dutch msnufac• terers bow to insure abetter market, and succeed by ether smut this to augmentation a sixties in ea• . L .. JA A _ . A .......... aziaticzermauzi0 . ..L........ - • ' . _ . eluding Brits fabeiet from thiliCoill4nt. we will merelty 1 spier al ) e l k, '11) Bt iglecrldaf imritib e so ll were not too mu sollected to the o u bats f 1 f . perat.ee of such an espaelie to 'strict far o ((inn tti pockets of the Pe r le to theime d the 8 ste t r there would be much less dingier of the manufactures of this ceentry being eacluded from the markets el ..- , other kingdoms. 3 - .Yesterday the Pearce Rectent held a Levee it ' Cirlton-house, which being the fret this mum, otad • eacremely crowded by N Wily, Foreigners of dn. ; , tinction, cud Gentry. At a garter past two, 1,4 , Serene [Nimes. the Prince of Masse-lioesuac t tr. k ' rived in one of the Parties Raciewe's carriages, % i t ', the coachmse and footmen in their Slate literlea._ : . 't t His Serene Highness *as dressed in his full military • 9 uniform, sod ; was ettended 19 L .rd STEWART. Rho 1,. p presented the Prince In the Pntsca Rtattat at thd f Entre Levee. Previous to*the commencement 011ie t Levee,. after the usual forms of the Pewit Rim s * enteridg his State ammonite, Mr. Rustt, Envoy .F ' trabrditimry and Minister Plectiontentisey from 4 a United States of America, was introduced by • laird Viscount CASTLEIIIIAGB• nil Eacelteney hid d e closet aadience, deliseted his - Credentials, and man ri most graciously received. •14r. S. Assam Saltin e d S ecretary 1 of Legation of the United States of . Artie.: nes, and • Mr. TATLEIR attached to the Legalim a e were also presented- NI the REGENT open their 4. e poiotments. •'- -.. , f. • .. There has - been a - report for some days past that . the Admiralty have given orders for .the immsdiite ' equipment of two ships of the line and same smaller • e vessels. Report says they are,destined to the East. A ,ii The Duke. of. DEFORRHIRE is expected is town, .• 1r for the season, from his-seat, Chaiswiittb. e •Tfie Merqiiii and Marchioness of Lisisnowee left Jason yeaterdoly, for the Duke of BEDFORD'S seat, le Wohuro Abber„ for a few days. ;- 'Lord and Lade G. IL CAVENDISH and family, are • • h expected in town, in a few dap, for the sewn, Hi from their seat, Ilalkeit, Lancashire., d The Duke of Sr. Ar.e.,o4s has purchased the noble mansion in St. James's•squere, which east dm lain • t. . Dike of laws upwards of 30,0001. in erecting, lad ' 1 which, since the dissolution of the Union Club, hat ' /' been ontenanied. It is now undergoing a complete m repair for his Grace's future residence. . . ~ ,d The remains of the. Earl of UPPER CiSSORT were interred yesterday in . the family vault in Beilford. ..- Se shire ; the Duke of Bentolo, the Marquis of LAN. '' at powsre, and Lord Hottaeo, attended thefaaimil. . .. le Lord °MKT died without heir male, Mal Ist is left the estate with the house at . Ampthill, to Isird, • ' ~ HoLtinn.—llia Lordship's Wash'e estates is ire- ' ' I- !sod are left to his two daughters. r • - Attempts are nook ingby some of the Commissioners ,•' e ; of Taxes l to charge- with the Asse-eted Duty upon " Servants, every male !child, about fourteen yeats.of . id age, residing with his own parents, in a tradesman's 4 • family. So that by this• forced construction of the , a Act,. if the father of a emerges family .ks carefUlly training up, his children it, the habila of intlostryg, • Pr until suitable eogageinento can he found, or; if lit* ' 0 of them,, for want of employment, shook, lee-retsm et ed for e few weeks upon his hands, eich child ant d either,he retained in is state of idleness, or his patent' to becomes liable to oppressive tases..lo proportio. to; his inability to pay them. , ~ -.t • " ** • ..' IS • The. Army E4tiniates for the year Iftift i have token ' o printed, by order of the House of Commons. The s.. total number, including officers rod iloo ! commissinit. i. eti officers, is 133;539; from which are tri be dis. ill du cted the troops in France end the regiments fir service in India, amounting to 42.892. There sill Is i then remain, esclaistse of corps, &c. intended for re. '' duction, 90,647. T o this last number is to he added ie corps ordered honie from India. viz. 4,299, and re charges foe corps to be reduced in 1818, viz 4,200, se making together 99,146,i From these again are to i • le be deducted the corps ordered home flora India, 4,299, 1 and there remains to he provided for in 1818, a total le of 94,847 men, including officers. The total es- lo were of pioviding ter this army 'is estimated at re 6,494,2901. 10s. 44. ; of which 5,313 . ,9321. 9s. it to . he defrayed by Greet Britain, and 1,181,0081. 15.4 d. l' by Ireland. The propriety of continuing to keep ea in foot an army approaching to 100,000 men, in time ef • a peace, will, of course, be debate I ; more especially 3 . after the declaration in the.Pitiscs Rtwesresspeech, es that the collies of internal disaffection had ceased 1- by the improvement of ,COIATfreP, and that his Royal Highnesstoniinned to receive the most CM. " dial essurances of the good-will of all Foreign . Powers. • •Dttutte.t.cet.Leid Milli, Miss SMITHSON, the I 1 young Lady who mute a successful debut e te, weeks since on these board, as Letitia Hardy, appeared fat V the first time in the charaCter of Ellen, in The Falls " of Clyde. This part :TM originally performed by Iv Miss KELLY: Miss SMITHSON'S attempt was serf y favourably received. Her toe figure and countenance a eive.a deep• interest to her distress ; and though she is evidently not ,msch practised in 'the attitudes sad to retirements of tantomitate; she promises, to wet in ' that, as well as in the.higher walk of the profession, li which she had before undertaken.** The Houk was , r- very full.. . • - - • 1 )1 ; peers a N r s o to ri es ; have e s u l:e t n ba c n oiner i d git in ili g i o n l i ra s n a d n s d il a ve l e l• a t if n a the P.' ' course of last year. The gold is issued at 31. 17s. * 104 d. per es. and-it now sells in bars it 41.2,.6d. e. per os. or near its per cent. profit.--Whit 1 t, respect to the silver coinage; it is b'lin'd , • that several persons are .-employed in tollectil'il • (') shillings and half-crowns: bet perhaps litikis- eel/ with a view to calling in of the Bunk Tokens on At 'e 25th of neat mont4l.,.aftec .which period the pliebili le them will he 'inlets fol. The present price of silver will ig not admit of theme :fug the legal currency into the • melting-pot; but if the'Ciillectors cap create sosr! .. !V titical scarcity at tlaralatoment "when the tokinii are taken out of circidotiou At is prtmlible that thliy. aolf • find their oceituat in. it. It bas been hereiyfont ' 'e known, that our silver coin .has been collected IA r- sent to the Bunks of Deposit at Amsterdam, Fisto•. 1 , , burg, and other parts of the C on tinent. *hereon is Paying a small egio; it was kept, until silver bole • k IS premium of two or. three per cent'.•in this countrl., 11 when it was all brought ,back.againi*- •' • ~.. • ' New COIRET.—•OO 1119 . 2611 of December Mt,-.Y Posts, at Marseilles, diicovered a new comet In 04 t- t t onstellatieu of ice Swan, . $• i i i I • • pnirn OF STOCKS Tlll6 1) 1 1Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. - Elpak S(9elk 290 • • 5 per Cent. Navy tosii . 6 per l'ea). Red. Mit &>i ladia Hands 96 9) p • slier c o at, treep.oi. R. sj -- Stack 2411 Coarle Ist A e e 110111 A , t.nn Ana. 20 15 16 21 per Ceti'. • • liacliequer Bills 11 25 p • . • • . _ *-,THE STATESMAN. h ~ '+: ~'. A r ~., s ~ ~~