The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-28 00:00:00

led the iIgATEN-1101124, the glorious legacy of Prosti tote despots and their imbecile journeymen. We see (,e bold Vetimanry of England in a state of beggary ; ise parish palaces crammed with decent tradesmen and losers ; Ireland, the right arm of the United King dom, driven to distraction, by tyranny, misrule, rack volt, and merciless tythe dealers.—The ruling ruffians I who hare so long goaded that people to resistaace, now are openly insulting and abasing the representation of 'Royalty. and even using epithets the most abominable to the KING himself. The persecutions eluded on, in that u nfortunate country, for tythes alone, are enough to osier the Parsons an abomination instead of a bless i to the people. With such a combination of public cslareilies what can Ministers expect ?—A majority no doubt. They will not give up while a stick of the (Attie holds together over their heads. But it is either folly or madness to suppose things can last as they are. We shall as usual hear a great deal about people need not hope for any S ta te necessity ! The w ires at the bands of those who have dose so much m ischief. But lop off the useless salaries and sinecures sail where will then be their majorities? Wise, is oar last number, we invited the friends of f ree dom is be of good cheer, we seem, from succeeding . n . arr enees, to hate been prophetic in our language. No day passes, without accession of strength to the pod party in the country, anti accumulation of dis grace and confosiorif to the evil doers who have brought the country to the very brink of destruction. The scan that are developing at the Victualling-office are, is this poist of view, of the most important na ture. It is Dow acknowledged, oc all sides, (except the perverse people who lire on the spoils of the na tion) that retrenchment in the public expenditure, and csateinent reductive of taxes, can aloes produce the halm which is to heal the agricultural and all the other distresses of the country. Our enemies, the sonnies of freedom, cry out—" Where can you mike mow retrenchments ?" They said so, relative to the 'Wattles sf the army, mad yet, they could still further Morose military establishments, sad did still fur ther redoes them. The same persons sow exclaim— re would reduce our national establishments to the lowest scale of the flaked States. We say as; even the poverty of Englasd, great as that poverty is to which you have reduced her, Lies pot demand that homilistiag sacrifice. But there is still room for reduction in your establish meats and expenditure, leavieg splendour enough to adorn the greatest theme in the world. Bat it is not esly in the reduction of expressive es tahlisbraeuts that owl is to be feusd to enable the Goreniment to recluses the taxes. Such mosey is to be found also, and In a superior degree, le the abolition of fraud and peculation* is those who administer the affairs of the country. The millioss that are given away, or permitted to be stolen, by vile peralations of public men, if saved, as they ought to be, would immediately reduce the taxes that rest epos industry and the poor, is the degree desired. It no appears that in the single department of the Vie loading-elk& 14111 1 110 6 bill"b8"e41•••"11fir _ laic% in tot now dwell sabjeeL The emom'tttal In that office are In the course of WOOS& I tion, and we will not anticipate aaJ i‘ . lllsl l frightfal melte of that enquiry. iffid the instance of the Victatalling-eflice evinces that relation to an enormous extent exists in our public departments, and we are Dot too bold when we ear, annihilate those peculation. and you will at once produce a Yana which is to enable you to abolish the tales which most press on the poor, and upon the poor a!ricoltaral populatioe. The taxes on salt, soap, candles. leather, malt, Sgc., may be thus wiped off in oar iastant. This is the true remedy for agricultural distresses, and all the other distresses with which this nation is overwhelmed. In the discovery of the seat of a disease lies the great skill of a physician. With rut skill, and without common honesty, the men who hare the management of our public affairs bare falloo l spen a knowlecize of our disease, or rather have begs compelled openly to acknowledge what they before hues'. So far, then, we are right; and it will go hard with us if we do not come, wholly right from mita thisdetestable labyrinth. Sot it is not only lathe detection of crime that we have bees fortunate. &rely day (as we have said) gives accession of strength to the good and virtuous of the mules. The late Fox dio aer in Norfolk, is a proof of this. We are not going to eulogise the Winn FACTION. They have lent thole bind to the dismemberment of our happy constitution. They have been profuse in the public expenditure, they bare been profuse among the profuse. They have shared le plunder and have been eminent in their distribution of plueder among their dependants. Yet at such a dinners' thatwe have just mentioned, men will throng who are distinguished for their public virtues; and they do thus make some compensation for the crimes of their associates. It is a soothing thing to see such dinners thronged as was the late dingier at Norwich. It is consoling also to find the PITT dinners declining es th ey do in every part of t h e country. Excepting este digni fi ed o r b ene fi ce d C lergy, some Government Ceatractors, and some Lords of the T yor Bed' thaininsr, or some such Lords, you find nobody now at a l'ir I dinner. The Pirr system has fallen into utter decay, and stinks in the nostrils even of its ad liemils The Country Gentlemen, who were so long duped by the PI TT system, and its follies and vices, hare sinHenly awakened as from a long and dangerous dream. The topics which graced the tables at a Purr dinner, have laded away, sod nobody has courage to gabble them over, as heretofore, in the intervals of their Bless, s. Elea many eminent men who were made the lion..st dupes of Mr. Pitt's followers, have nut only I-en their error, but have come forward in the fullness of 'heir hearty, openly to acknowledge the error. We do not mention ti , dividnals, though the mention of inch individuals would be an honour, to their names, notaith , tan.lia; the deepness of their former mistake. We revere their good sense and integrity in the tic k or% ledge:tient of their absurdities, and we hope to see their numbers increase daily. Indeed, we are sure limy will hourly increase. Ihe country le emerging from a train of almost fatal errors; and it is emerging in time to save itself. To the country, to all the honest in it, use still say—be of good cheer ; you are passing the sea that opens its waves on each side before you. and you will pass safely on dry-land.—(Conetifution Sentti!„ l'erpr ) COURT OF KING'S RSNCIL—Tars Der. This morning, on Mr. Je,tice BATLEY coming Into Court, the Grand Inquest for the County were sworn. fhey were afterwards briefly addressed by the Learned Judge, who took occasion to express his satisfaction at the very full attendance that was. given by the Gen tlemen of the out-hundreds. The Leaned Judee did not know the circumstances of any case that would be laid before them, but adverted to the practice of publish ing exparte statements of the proceedings before Corn-, net's Inquests. His Lordship stated this, he said,' with a view to prevent the practice in future ; it hav ing a tendency to prevent the accused having a fair trial, and in his opinion amounted in law to a misde meanor. The Jury baring withdrawn, Wm. Marsden was brought up. in custody of Mr. Walter, from Horse mongerfane prison, to plead to an indictment, charg ing hint with conspiring, with various other penults, to remove a quantity of Nos Pimlico, to the great pre judice of our Sovereign the King.—The defendant pleaded not Guilty, and will be tried after term. LEWIS V. WALTSR. The Souctroaozsrasat. obtained a Rule to shew cause why a new trial should not be granted. it will be recollected this was an action tried at the sittings after last Term. The defendant is proprietor M . " The Times" newspaper, and the action was to recover com pensation in damages fur an alleged libel. stated to have been published in a report of a speech of Mr. Serjeant Oxszow's, at the Kingston Assizes, in which a want of fairness and integrity. in the exer cise of his profession of an Attorney was imputed to the plaintiff. A verdict was found for defendant. The COURT afterwards proceeded to dispose of cases' in the peremptory paper. By an extraordinary conveyance, letters were re ceived yesterday from Madrid, dated the 14th inst. They confirm the important intelligence of the sub mission of the whole of Andalusia to the Government. That of Seville was announced in the French papers of Wednesday last, anti the submission of Cadiz was communicated to the Cortes in their Sitting of the 14th, in a despatch signed by Jauregui hitt.self. He had resigned his command Into the bands of General Ro marate. whom the Government bad appointed to sewed him, declaring at the same time that be would have done so sooner, had he not feared to compromise the tranquillity of the province. It is remarkable, that the sabmission of Cadiz took place before the intelli gence of the resignation of the Ministry at Madrid had reached that city. The party of agitators. who had proclaimed disobedience to the 0 went, is now ascertained to have been very small, and it is the ge neral sentiment of the people, tired by the excesses daily committed, which has forced them to the only alternative—that of obeying. A letter from Hamburg received en Saturday user Cons, that in consequence of the want of snow, the in tercourse of St. Petersburg with the 'lnterior is, for the most part. impeded, and that, in consequence, many of the Provinces of Russia are in want of rain. Quer.; may not the want of mow bare also occasioned the wait of ammunition on the basks of the Ptah, • sad • want of decision in the Russian Emperor'. mind it " 1 41 47 4.416. he wry tollliesithrolholesi use is assts" Minh Itew6;;dl - ; wb eh ;leiZl colony be in a state of extreme distress. Among the lower orders, it is said, there are few able to support themselves; sod the members of the opulent part of the community are so small that relief was impracticable. Many, it was feared, must perish for want. Meetings of the inhabitants hail been held, for the purpose of raising subscriptions, and the Governor Lad intimated to them that a sum equal to the whole raised by the colonists would be contributed by the Government. Memorials have been sent to Eng land to claim the interposition of the Legislature. The advice, are to the 6th onstaat, the vessel which brought them to Liverpool having performed the voyage in the short period of 17 days. A letter from Captain Watson, of the Lord Cathcart, dated Valparaiso, Oct. Y. states his having been again detained, is consequence of despatches received from Lord Cod' Mt& Tea A ustv.—A detachment of shout 80 me. of the Royal Dragoons marched from Radipole barracks to Warminster and Frew on the 24th instant, where they were expected to arrive on Saturday last. Among the reductions in contemplation by Ministers. it is said the office of Comptroller of the Preventive Water-guard for the Suppression of Smuggling will be abolished, and the business of the office divided between the Custom House and the Board of Admiralty. The former, it is added, will have the arrangement and sta tions of the boats, sitters, and boats' crew ; while the latter will have the appointment of the officers, which consist of Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants of the Royal Navy, the patronage of whose nomination is in the Treasury. Preparations are making at the Pavilion at Brighton for a grand ball to-morrow, is honour of his Majesty's accession to the l brow. His Revd Highness the Duke of York is expected to he present, with a large circle of Nobility and Gentry. The King will coma to town merely for the purpose of *inning the Podia- I went in person ; after which he will return to Bright" where he will remain until after Raster. The Duke of Sussex, during his late visit to Nor wich, slept at the Palace of the Bishop of that Diocese. In the report of the meeting at Huntingdon, there appear, Mr. Cobbett sap, to be many things which be uttered, and which be therefore disavows. He is made to talk of that as "a lovely country," and to put Mr. Dickenson in Sasses, and to impute to him what he really did not say, even in Somersetshire. Mr. Rennie, on Friday, commenced a course of Phi losophical Lectures, at the Russell Institution, where he was attended by a numerous and select audience, who appeared highly gratified by the intellectual treat that he bad provided for them. The lecture being an introductory one, Mr. Rennie, in a very masterly style, reviewed the present state of the sciences, ani madverting with considerable force and felicity on the mode now in use in scientific ises of culling the Lexicon for a Nomenclature, of terms of art, which, instead of disseminating knowledge to the world, ren ders it unintelligible to any but the pedant and the blue stocking; applying these observations particu larly to Zoology, Botany and Rotyroology. The Lec turer, to relieve the occasional dryness of his subject, interspersed it with many amusing and instructive anecdotes. His favourite writer appears to be Lord Baton, on whose learning' and philosophy lie passed a well-finished eologions. The Lecture-room was crowded to excess. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. The third Sussex district Meeting of Nobility, Clergy, and other Owners and Occupiers of Land. con vened by public advertisement, for the pupal of taking into consideration the agricultural distress cf the country, and to consult on the propriety of peti tioning Parliament for relief, was hell at ►he White Horse Inn, at Stovning, on Friday last, for the Rape of Rrarnber. The meeting was highly respectable, and the company assembled about half-past twelve, when Sir CHARLES BURRELL observed, that he thought the Member for the county present, was the most pro per person to preside. Ile accordingly moved "That Mr. IValter Burrell be requested to take the Chair; and the proposition was carried, with the greatest ap planse. Mr. W. BURRELL complied with the wish of the meeting; and after reading the advertisement by which it was convened, said, that it was not for him as Chairman, to point out what measures should be pug sued to obtain the desired relief; but. be coeld assure them, he felt as much as any man for the unexampled distreseet of the great body of the agricultn. ists. He hoped that Owners or Occupiers of Land in the Rape of Breather would state their opinions upon a subject of such eitel importaice to their interests. The Rev. J. O. CUALLIN then rose, ■nd stated that be presented himself to the meeting with much diffi dence, as there were, is that room, many gentlemen, much more competent to the task lie had undertaken, than himself. On that occasion, however, no one could have much to say, as agricultural distress was nal rersally acknowledged. It was not•only felt by the farmer, bet by the labourer and the mechanic. The Legislature bad also acknowledged it, but had pointed to ■o redress. except time and patience; which meant littlest's, in his opinion, but that they must all come to ruin. He was no politician. bet be could not see why the same protection should not be extended to agriculture which manufactures and trade enjoyed. The Rev. gentleman concluied by moving the first resolution. which contained the Petition to Parliament, as follows: The bumble Petition of the undersigned Clergy. Owners and Occupiers of Land, in the once prosperous Rape of Bramber. a district embracing a Sixth Part of the County of Sussex, S ,—That many of your Petitioners have com pletely reached, and others are fast approaching to, that state of penury and ruin, foretold by the Agriculturists in their g I petition. presented to your Hou. House in the last Session of Parliament. That -uch distress is consequent on the great depre. elation of all agricultural produce. That this proposition was fully proved before a select Committee, appointed by your * Hon. House to esquire into the truth of the allegations contained in the raid position. and that such Committee have acknowledged in their Report the justice of your petitioner's claim for relief. That strange u it may appear. no redress has as yet Web afforded to your petitioners , except the recommend able of time and patience. 4.-That your petitioners are fully convinced, that tbese remedies will not alone answer their prescribed ends, but Blast inevitably plunge them into greater distresses and More general ruin. net the labourers asd iseebasica dependent upon _ retitloners for their 'Mowery fiseptel are pwr- laav bruommteeturewf fonsiitltionerintter alihair.4 inability to find theta adequate employment, and that inch distress is not limited to them, and the owners and occupiers of the soil, but has a comparatively Injurious effect 'upon the internal trade of the conntrc, as almost all shopkeepers can testify by the diminution of their reedipts. !• '! Tliat your petitioners submit to the justice of your lion. House, the expediency of extending to the agri cultural interest, an equal share of legislative protection against foreign agriculturists, (who contribute nothing to the exigencies of this country) compared with that which has been granted with equal wisdom and liber ality, to the mercantile, manufacturing, and shipping interests of the united kingdom; and to which the com parative excess of borthens borne by the landed interests fully and equitably entitle them to lay claim. That your, petitioners strenuously urge to the consi deration of your Hon. House, that their embarrassments are seriously augmented by an impolitic and premature attempt to return to cash payments, under the enact ments of Mr. Peel's bill, previous to any endeavour to liquidate even a part of the national debt, In a currency of similar value to that wherein it was contracted, by which means the pressure of all money contracts, and of parliamentary and parochial taxation, has been greatly enhanced, whilst the means of payment on the part of the farmer have been greatly reduced, which is fatally shown by the sudden reduction of all agricultural pro perty. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your Bea. House will forthwith take their present emba M 1 state into your most serious consideration, and will adept such measures for the immediate relief of your petitioners, as shall enable them to discharge their !Aw ful obligations to the state, and to the national creditor, and as shall restore the agriculture of this country to web a state of pristine vigour as may prove beneficial to the community at large. Sir CHAR Lts BURRELL said the moderation of the petition which had jest been read, he was convinced mast satisfy all who had heard it. I t was not neces sary for him to say much upon the oceasien which had brought them together ; but as a Member fur the Rape ofilimmber, he considered himself peculiarly in- Isios=He knew, that as much had been done for shy at large as human laws were capable of doing ; but be did wish that every advantage should be extended to the Agricultural Interest that ' lre that could be consistently granted with a due re gard to the welfare of the other el . f the people. Some of the evils which existed, were certainly not owing to the errors of government, but to a sudden change from war to peace. War caused an uanaturAl deraaad for supplies, and consequently, au increase in their prices ; and inclosure bills had so multiplied withia these few years that as immense number of ex tra acres had been taken into cultivation. The indi viduals who had invested their capitals in that man ner bad a fair and just claim upon parliament, to take their distresses into immediate consideration. The country also had considerably beuefitted by their ex I anions, for at no one time had six weeks consuinp tion of foreign corn been brought into this kingdom ; and bad it not bees, therefore, for an increased cattle& tion, starvation must have ensued. He firmly believed, that in addition to the burtheos which the long war had entailed, much of the dist • now felt was attributable to the measure which had been adopted for lowering the currency ; for in proper- Cu tle lessening of the circulating medium, had the mein of payment been lessened, while the 'me lees. of the State were stationary. During the war It i' e Funds were as I.was IS and 49; now, n ly bad their price greatly inrrensed. hut a 2.re ,t inrrea. • had also taken place in the value downer. f h.;e who had the misfortune to he morteagees, peculiarly felt this evil, as great difficulty must he felt in pas ;us; in terest. He consider that to Mr. Peel's Hill ni inv of the difficulties which now exist were attribatable— for the Bank of Er eland haul endeavoured to meet tlitif issues. and hat nor from II to 15 thillions of gold in their possession. n hich they haul no p siibility of getting into circu'ation ' The great ilk-A:Pion of gold from the chanties of commerce was not only felt here, bat foreign countries were also embaraseed by the diminution of the eirenlatirg medium. The Bank, anxious to remedy this evil, if possible, had offered to send free of °teasee sums of polil to the amount of 3,0001. to country u unkers, hot they could not find the means to purchase it. He had heard of af. c relative to gold, which o tarred at Chichester and which he would mention to the meeting. A person there took 34 eoverelens, and II of them. though of the proper weight, were not north more titan ss. each, being' made principally of platina. This might be disco vered by ringing them. is hich the person in question bad failed to do. Sir Charles concluded by observing that, the resolutions were such as he thought every centleman who beard them mist approve uf. The evils had been partly occasioned by souse Acti of Per lament which in theory were certainly good, .but in practice evidently had ; and this being the coat, it was necessary to retrace the sieps which led to them. lie hoped the meeting would be unanimous in its prom& jogs, and returned thanks for the paticoce with which be had been beard. J. M. LLOYD, Esq. M.P. said he came there wid political view, bat merely to meet his fellow-eufferert, He thought the Petition should only state the dies greases which were felt, and leave the remedy to Par liament. He would be sorry that the unanimity of the meeting should be interrupted, bat he did not think any good would result from this or soy other district petition. He should, however, hare great hopes of a county petition placed in the hands of his lion. Friend, the Chairman. As long as the question was contemplated by those at the bead of llo►eromeat, not as Moister*, but as Members of Parliament only. no benefit would arise, as the commercial interest pre ponderated too much in the house ; but he was persuaded if a County Petition was presented, it would meet the attention it deserved. He meant to speak with respect of the Peers; but it so happened, that almost every Peer in this county, (and they were men whose talents and virtues threw lustre on their rank) had approved of the measures of Ministers. Ministers then owed them some thing, and if they would attach their names to a County Petition, be was convinced it would be attended with success. He had anticipated the result of the Agricul tural Committee in the House of Commons—the report was evidently framed by the friends of Ministers. • Though he felt so anxious for a County Meeting, yet he would exert himself to the utmost of his abilities to fur ther the object of this. Sir C. HUMUS. said a county requisition was not the object of that Meeting, which-way, as the adveetieement stated, to prepare a petition from the Rape of Bramble to Parliament. • The geographical situation of Sussex preelded the bolding a meetlnglitb advantage so is to collect the sentiments of the whole county.' if Ti were held at Lewes, for instance, the resolutions passed would be the resolutions of that town, or at most of the Rape of Lewes. Besides, the question had been dis cussed at a Meeting held at Lewes, a short time since, at which the Earl of Egremont prisided, and the op.- nions of those present were its favour of District Meetings. After a few words from Col. LLOYD, the first resolution was put, and carried unanimously, as were the succeed ing ones relative to the presentation of the petition, &c. Thanks were then voted to the Ch.iinnan, and the Meeting dissolved soon after three o'clock. The Dinner after the Meeting was most respectably, bat not numerously, attended. J. Dennett, Esq. pre sided, and the remainder of the day was pleasantly spent in desultory conversation on the subject they had met upon.-(Susses Advertiser.) MARKETS. CORN-ENCRANGE, JAN. 28.—We had a plentiful sup ply of Wheat, to-day, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, but the chief part was or very inferior quality, and but few sales were made; but prime sampßa fully support tho prices of this day se'nnight.—The arrivals of Barley were tolerably large from Suffolk, hut very little of it was fit for the Maltster's use, which caused ready sale for the little that appeared of fine quality, at last 'Moo day's priccs.—Tbe Oat trade was exceedingly heavy at a decline of Is. per quarter.—ln Beans and Peas there is no alteration. kNGI.ISR. a. 1 Small Deans .. 23 25 s, Tick ditto . 20 *3 Oats, Potatoe 2O lib Ditto, Poland .. 20 24 Ditto, Feed l7 20 Floor, per Sark 60 bb Rapeseed. per Last 321. 231. FOREIGN. Wheat, American Dautsie • Baltic. Red Hamby,' Red . • 1. 1. Wheat. Kent, and Essex New 34 60 Old Suffolk, (New) 34 58 Old Norfolk, (Old) 4O S$ Rye.. 46 CIS Barley l7 28 Malt 39 38 White Pens 2B 29 Boilers 3O 32 Grey ditto 2l 23 1 SMI CILPIELD MARKET, J AN. 28.—There was a very great %npply of all descriptions of Cattle at market this morniug, and last weelc'n prices were obtained with dif ficulty, the market being dull and heavy. To sink the offal per st. of Sam Reef.— 21. 81. to 3s. 4.t. 1 TATTER AT NI . Mutton.. 2s. Bd. to Si. I. Ressts Veal .... 4s. Od. to ss. td. rives tiO Pork .... 2s. 6d. to 44. 0.1. Sheep sal Lambs 17.700 Lamlt.... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Pcis HAT•MARKIT.—No alteration in the price of flay.— StrAw and tlover as per cur last. Hay.... S/. Os. to 41a. 65.1 I Straw —l/. Si. to 1/. 18s. Clover 41. Os. to 4'.135. SoUTHASIPTON, JAN. 26.—There have been an la. l acono number of French vessels at this port during the week, for the pnrpose of buying up all the her r;ngs. nhich they salt and carry to their ow n country. Our tight-men obtain on an average trout 3a. 6 I. to is. p•r bushel, and so great was the draught last nesk, that one wan is said to have cleared upwards of SUI. There is now selling here, good heel .t 54d., mutton 54d., veal 6.1.. pork 54. per pound turkeys 75., geese 15 . tech, fonds from 21. Gd. to 4s. the couple. . g 4 1 11 • . 4 u• I ••• t • Y• • . I - • ; tHE STATESMAN. Y' ~