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Eiberpoot Atantiarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1833. PROSPECTS OF THE COIINTRT. — We have very recently appealed to history, for the purpose of showing how de structive to the interests of all classes, but particularly, perhaps, to those of the people, impetuous and revolu tionary movements have been found. Deeply impressed with the truth and importance of this proposition, we might sustain it by other examples not leis cogent than that which we lately submitted to the consideration of our readers. Our position is, that, though a defensive "evolution may be productive of the most splendid results, an offensive revolution—a revolution projected and carried on at a time when the government is already, by a natu ral process, in course of steady and substantial improve ment; uniformly proves fatal to the hope's of the benevo lent and philanthropic persons induced to participate in it s , and ultimately forwards the views of that most worth less part of the community who have for their bread that which is the poison of other men—the trade of agitation. Such, we maintain, was the revolutionary movement which commenced in this country in the year 1831, at a time when practical improvement had long been steadily progressing, without any violent or irregular impulse. The inference we draw is, the necessity not only for hearty union, but for energetic action, on the part of all those who are interested in the peace, the property, and, above all, the spiritual prosperity of this country. Now let us look around us, calmly as we may, to esti mate the power of those elements of disorganisation which we, as Tories, profess to see and to dread, and their probable effects, as regards the ensuing session of Par liament. The question of the Corn Laws, although it may here after become one of paramount importance, may yet sleep for a little inasmuch as all the Tories, with about one half of the ministerialists, and all the Irish repealers and tithe extinguishers, would resist any material alteration. But when its day does arrive, it will be extremely formi dable, and may lead to much bloodshed. The question of the Currency may also become formi dable from similar causes, while we have so many persons wanting money, whom it will not be difficult to delude with the fallacy that increased currency is increased wealth. Violence may arise out of both these questions, from their seeming connection with the comforts and sub sistence of the poor. Considering the pernicious effect of Ballot in Rome, at a stage of its social existence analogous in many respects to this period of our own ; that the example of America, where property is so differently distributed, can be of no authority here ; and that there are probably near 130 de cided and noisy ballotists in the House of Commons, we must view this question 'as an element of disunion and disorder. Everything connected with Ireland must be classed in the same rank. The tithes are a mere pretext, and a very shallow one. There is no part of the produce of the soil expended so beneficially for the people as the tithe; in asmuch as the clergy are residents, extremely charitable, and the consumers of home prodnctiOns. The mine of faction is deep here, and we are not near the bdttom of it. The extinction of tithe would not even throw oil on the flames. The Church Establishment of Ireland alone binds the Protestants of Ireland to us : those Protestants alone secure the connexion of the islands. Should the movement proceed, we fear the gradation will be as fol lows, and with no long intervals :—Extinction of the Church Establishment —Repeal--; Separation—Foreign interference. Now let us look to . Jamaica and the West Indies. The planters and the abolitionists are alike exasperated : real improvement cannot proceed without peace and harmony of feeling; that harmony is farther off than ever, as the recent intelligence from the Mauritius and Jamaica too clearly proves. " Well," says the • zealous abolitionist, " subdue the planters, and liberate-the slaves, by force: , Suppose it done': £7,000,000 of annual duty on West In dia produce are cut off—more than one-sixth of ourentire shipping is thrown out of employ—the marketwhich takes £5,500,000 of our manufactures annually, is destroyed— great effense is incurred in the military enterprise. Doubtless all this and much more MUST be undergone, if it be for the negro's good. But what is the result to him ? Emancipation by blood and violence—St. Domingo over again : moral advancement and temporal prosperity re tarded for an indefinite period. We have not yet closed our painful catalogue. Let us look at home, to the depressed condition of our labouring poor—to the baneful operation of the beer-shops and the factory system. Is there no deep-seated evil here ? Are there not other and portentous moral evils pervading all classes of society, and threatening to bring down upon us the anger of the Almighty ? Now let us look to the Dutch War. We scruple not - to affirm that we have herein offended - against the laws of God and of man. But look at it in a pecuniary point of view. .The Scheldt, open before the "settlement" of the question by the capture of the citadel of Antwerp, is now closed ; but the object of. the siege was, to secure its be ing permanently open. So much for settlement. Is then the Dutch war finished? or is it barely and inglo riously commenced ? Lastly, we turn to the Revenue of the country. We have here to specify several causes which have afforded unusual aid to the revenue during the last two years, and ought, therefore, to have produced, on the whole, consi derable increase. 1. Two most productive harvests. 2. General elections, which, miserable as they are in many respects, still ought at least to benefit the revenue, by the large additional consumption they cause. 3. The statnfttiLike Belgian manufactures, and consequeniirpSpr4 -tr(la , tirival from the continental markets.:-''ii4i. ''7:22.-I;lirr f 4. ThZpt is r tte* ."',. : y- I 'opulent consumers in Eng. land, whii rum ... 1 ,i. l tmes have spent their money abroad. *" .., j 74,)",,, , - . .;e: We on% 1 `i__/iik- -- s • ciFopulation, because this has 0- been regul .Arr. -- . ion. Let us then take the revenue of the . rs previous to the last. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. see-saw, like that of the Directory of France : he is an honourable but a clumsy man—he is not "up to it: " he is too honourable to play his part well, and toe weak to refuse to play it at all. So his acts and words vary ac cording as Lord Plunkett or Mr. Blackburn may happen to be nearest his elbow at any given time. It may appear matter of wonder to some, that O'Con nell should desire to have him removed, when he has play ed the Liberator's game for him so admirably. But the fact seems to be this. Directly the civil war in Ireland breaks out—alas ! that we should be speaking of this, too, among our probabilities ! Lord Anglesey will be a formidable man to the rebels from his bravery, experience, and skill. O'Connell sees that we are now drawing near that point— and, therefore, he wishes his Lordship to be removed. God in his mercy grant, that these may be but vain and airy speculations. The ministerial organ of Dublin, the Evening Post, justifies the ejection of Captain Hart, and not only jus tifies it, but insults that gentleman for voting as he did against a repealer, when he " eat the bread of the Go vernment" and " received the wages of the King." And this, too, while my Lord John Russell at one end of the kingdom, and my Lord Howick at the other, and hundreds more of the offspring of whiggery in the inter mediate space, are denouncing the iniquity of any land lord's attempting to influence a< tenant. We cannot now enter into a discussion of the general principle, but, disgusted as we are by the conduct of the whigs in reference to this very question of intimidation by ejection, we offer a few short remarks to show, that if it was hard for the Duke of Newcastle to eject a tenant at Newark, far harder is it for the Government to eject Captain Hart: yet the whigs revile the one, and ap plaud the other. In the first place, he voted not so much for Mr. Lefroy as against a repealer, and Lord Anglesey ought to know, if Lord Plunkett will permit him, that he was guilty of great ingratitude in what he did, inasmuch as the Orange men did their utmost throughout Ireland to return whigs in preference to repealers, and lent them a support with out which we believe scarcely one of them would have escaped defeat at the hands of the O'Connell party. In the second : if we are to suppose the admission of any other motive besides conscience as the arbiter of a man's vote, the case of Captain Hart was much harder, because the service rendered to Government is just bought and paid for, little more than a connection of pro fit and loss, while the conduct of a landlord towards his tenant in general, and certainly that of the Duke of Newcastle, as is notorious, in particular, is one of libe rality and indulgence, so that gratitude may well be ex pected to have weight. Thirdly : tenants who have been ejected—and few in deed and far between are the cases—have commonly been men who by their station, and the necessity for ma nual labour, have been precluded from political informa tion and thought, and who, therefore, could scarcely be said to hold political opinions, properly so called, though they might be the subjects of prejudice or passion; but Captain Hart on the contrary is, by his station, a man who must have the means of studying public questions, and with whom, therefore, it is at least more arbitrary to in terfere. Fourthly : a tenant is ordinarily of the same mind with his landlord, not from corrupt motives, but from community of interest, as well as habit and attachment; and he for the most part lives under the same landlord, and, therefore, he is not required to change his opinions periodically.. But we may have a change of administra tion every year, and surely it is rather hard for a man to be called upon to change with the administration, be cause this, in such a case as Captain Hart's, amounts, we fear, to a direct violation of conscience. Lastly: it is asserted.that Captain Hart's office had no connection - .whatever with politics. If sa, so much the worse. Be that as it may—for we cannot state it as matter of fact—we have said enough, we conceive, to expose the iniquity of tin whig professions as regards the freedom of voters. Signally indeed has it been exem plified in this town. DAY OF THANKSGIVING—There has been, perhaps, no one act of the present Ministry which met with a more ge neral approval, by the rightly-minded portion of the community, than the setting apart a day for national prayer and humiliation, during the prevalence of the awful disease which has so , recently visited Our land. It is, however, a matter of deep regret, that since the re moval of that disease, no' day has been yet set apart for national thanksgiving. As a christian people we did well, when the Lord's hand was upon us, to humble ourselves and seek by prayer the removal of his rikhteous . judgment. And now that our prayers have been heard, and the pestilence is banished from our shores, is it reasonable—is it con sistent, to withhold from God the expression of our thankfulness ? If, like the cleansed lepers, we return not to give glory to him who has healed us ;—the hand that has healed, may smite us yet again. There remains sin enough to make us tremble for our country; and if God's purpose in the late visitation has not been accom plished—if the people repent not—there are other judgments—" the famine and the sword," which may fol low quick upon the pestilence. Most earnestly do we call upon our friends, and especially upon the ministers of re ligion, to exert the influence which they possess, in the proper quarter, that an early day may be appointed, for national thanksgiving. Other nations have already ren dered this reasonable service, and it has been well said : " If there be one nation on the face of the earth which more than another ought to be foremost in the acknowledgment of God, it is Britain—Britain, whose shores have been for ages encircled as with a wall of brass, and protected from the in vader's sword—Britain, into whose lap have been poured the commerce and the treasures of the world—Britain, whose career in arts •and science and every useful department of knowledge has only been eclipsed by the glory which belongs to her as the first Protestant nation in the world—the depository of the truth of God amidst the darkness and superstition of a benighted world." LORD SANDON.—A paragragh has appeared in several of newspapers, originating, we believe, with the Record, in wl it is insinuated that our noble and excellent representativ influenced in his views ai to the rights of the planter by lordship's father, the Earl of Harrowby, being a proprieto. West India estates. It seems, that the anti-slavery gentry alone to get credit for disinterested and conscientious mote' The fact, however, is, and we are authorised to state it, neither Lord Harrowby nor any member of his family is n or has been at any time, possessed of West India prope i Lord Sandon has no bias upon the question but what is dicta by justice, humanity, and sound commercial policy. . - - GENERAL SIR BANASTRE TARLETON, Bart., Governor 01 Berwick-upon-Tweed, and formerly Member of Parliamoil for the Borough of Liverpool during seven sessions of Po liament, died on Wedriesday, the 16th instant, at Lent• wardine, in his 79th year. The following memoir of the gallaal general We extract from a Magazine ' of the month of Marth, A.D., 1782, at which period he was in the zenith ,of his fame," "This gallant officer is the second son of the late Mr. John Tarleton, an eminent merchant at Liverpool, who designed big for the profession of the law, and gave him a suitable educe , tion; at a proper age he was sent to Oxford, and from theneg he removed. to London, where he entered himself a student el the Temple. He continued his studies for some time, but it it said, not with that assiduity which is requisite for success lo such an arduous and sedentary walk of life. With a lively ge uius and a volatile disposition, he was soon drawn by gay corn' panions into the vortex of fashionable amusements, and by, 0 1 eager pursuit of them, exhausted his finances. In this situ& tion he turned his thoughts to the military line, and being i n tii mate with several gentlemen of the army, expressed a desire ta go over to America as a volunteer. A request of this natur l from a young gentleman of his promising appearance was red' dily complied with by the commander-in-chief of the army, to whom he was recommended, and he embarked with one of thi annual reinforcements sent to Sir Henry Clinton; but we aft not informed exactly as to the time of his leaving England, 01 of his arrival in America. However, he soon gave such signal proofs of his aspiring genius, and personal intrepidity, thali hi was appointed to a command, and the first laurel fie gainet, was by surprising and taking prisoner the famous Gener& Lee, who, at the commencement of the war, deserted hi! commission in the British army, went over to America, ant entered into the service of the American Congress. Fe! this gallant action, we believe, he was raised to the rank lieutenant-colonel on the American establishment. In the yea' 1780, his military exploits were so rapid and so extraordinary' that. we had scarcely any advices from Sir Henry Clinton (!I Lord Cornwallis in which his name was not mentioned, and hi' corps distinguished in a very honourable manner. It appearl, by Sir Henry Clinton's letter to Lord George Germain, date , Charlestown, South Carolina, May 13th, 1780, that on the 81 1 of the preceding month, Lieut.-Col. Tarleton greatly contribn ted to the taking of Charlestown, by forcing the rebel miliut with his cavalry and legion infantry, and gaining possession d Biggin's-bridge, over the river Cooper, by which means thi supplies intended for the town, and all reinforcements from tlit country, were cut off. It does not clearly appear in the dee patches, nor by any public accounts, what the precise idea of legion is in the armies of America. They are not such hill bodies as the Roman legions: they consisted of 6000 men, an' were composed of citizens; whereas Tarleton's whole ford seems not to have consisted, at anyone time, of more than 3 , /' men, part of them cavalry, and part infantry ; called the legion we suppose, from being volunteers; and this legion was occr sionally mounted and formed into a body of light-horse for put'' suit. Accordingly, we find that he was detached, upon the sue' render of Charlestown, to scour the country, and had the brave to attack a superior body of the enemy's cavalry, when he t and killed about sixty; the rest fled on foot, and lie got pot' session of every horse belonging to the corps. On the 30th May, after an almost incredible march of 105 miles in two dO 4l from Charlestown to Warsaw, he defeated the rebel force cod!" manded by Colonel Burford, which so greatly exceeded b it corps, that the number of the killed, wounded, and prisoners, Cr ceeded that of the whole force with which lie attacked the eneior But the most astonishing of all his achievements was, his d r feat of General Sumpter. Lord Cornwallis had gained a coo'', plete victory over General Gates, near Camden, in which Tali ton had a principal share ' • this action happened on the 16th J ' August, and on the 18th, Colonel Tarleton, who had march to find out General Sumpter, came upon him by surprise Pi noon-day, and defeated his whole detachment, which consist, of 700, of whom he killed 150, and took 200, yet his whole fortj amounted only to 330 men. In the victory gained by 1.11 Cornwallis over General Greene, at Guildford Court-house, of the 17th of May, 1781, he is again mentioned in terms of tir, highest honour,—'his appearance and spirited attack enti tl , ' •buted much to a speedy determination of the action.' To sul l up the whole in a few words, never were so many gallant as tions performed in so short a space of time, by any officer in inferior command, in any age or country—and so young—C al he is not quite twenty-eight years of age. He was one of th glorious little army which disputed every inch of ground melt their great commander, Cornwallis, who, for want of timely inforcement, was obliged to surrender at York-Town. Colonl Tarleton has received several wounds, and having lost two ° his fingers by the stroke of a sabre, he rides with one hand 1 his pocket." Year ending Jan.s, 1831—Total revenue..£s4,Blo,l9o 1832 ..£50,990,315 On this we are told there is an increase of £546,169, for the year edning Jan. 5, 1833, which increase, according , to the London Standard, appears to be owing to the arti ficial elongation of the year, by the bills being made pay able at sight, instead cif at twenty days. If this be true, instead of an increase there is a decrease on the year. But if not, taking matters at the best, our income is now less, by above £3,300,000 than it was under the Duke of Wellington's government. Is this a statement satisfac tory for the present, or encouraging for the future ? Doubtless it is difficult to persuade the Radical jour nalist, who flourishes amidst the general desolation, that this is otherwise than it should be. Nis advice to the people is, to continue in the course of agitation.• They may, if they will, estimate its probable result—a gradual declension in every branch of prosperity, until we attain to the happy consummation of a national bankruptcy. For, if the projects of the movement be pursued, the re sistance, they may be assured, will be obstinate and un remitting, and the conflict will probably break up the foundations of our social system. If in the midst of these dark prognostications, in this default of human means of defence, we look to Provi dence as the hope and strength of England,—why, then we have Mr. Hume, posted in the House of Commons by the electors of Middlesex, to tell us, that any Ouch re ference is " cant, humbug, and hypocrisy:" CITY OF LONDON MEETING—The plot thickens—an immense assemblage of the Electors of London, , took place on Alonday last, at Guildhall. The proceedings were of so striking a nature, that we invite the attention of our readers to the report that will be found in another page. First, we' have a supposed tory Lord Mayor courting mob popularity, at the ex pense of his well-known political sentiments—not that we blame him for consenting to call the said meeting, when so powerfully urged, nor do we quarrel with him for presiding on so glorious an occasion, (though half inclined to do so) but we cannot extend our approbation to his gratuitous boast of having out-stepped the limits of his very liberal pledges, and in that exact measure, stimulated the already too prone disposition to agitate questions of so dangerous and vital a character. Our main cause of quarrel with the Lord Mayor, is, rather, in his having neglected the first opportunity that was afforded him of dissolving the tumultuous assem blage, when, after various orators had declaimed in fa your of the subject matter, Sir Gregory Lewin in vain attempted to obtain a hearing—because, forsooth, he was supposed to disapprove of the objects of the meeting. If the Lord Mayor was sincere in professing his impar tiality, the best proof of it would have been in his refus ing to allow resolUtions of such importance, to be carried in so unfair a manner. The resolutions themselves and the means used to carry them, will not surprise most of our readers, however much they may astonish and per plex. our "final" Government. Little did its mouth piece, Mr. Stanley, dream of the abuse that was to be so ungratefully showered upon him and his colleagues, when.at Lancaster he lauded to the skies this very con stituency of London, and boldly appealed to the return of its members for a confirmation of the wisdom and finality of his pet measure ! One of those four gentlemen cer tainly did Y'enture to remonstrate—but on what ground ? Because the leading object *of the . meeting was to peti ' tion for measures that he considered would shake the basis of our social fabric, and substitute a demoralizing hypocrisy for the manliness of Englishmen ? No—he adopted a much more gentle tone. "Trust in Ministers" says Mr. Alderman Waithman—" they have done much, do not embarrass their comfortable possession of office, and rest assured, they will iri due time do all you wish !" Such is the purport of this final gentleman's remon strance ! So infantine an attempt, although probably sane tioned . by the Government, met with the fate its folly and its temporising purport so well deserved. The resolutions were triumphantly adopted—the Go vernment defeated—but alas! to the verification of all that has been long foretold them, by those who depre cate their imbecility. INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS.-Our readers will perceive that Captain Hart has been dismissed by the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, from his situation in the household, for supporting Mr. Lefroy (for whom he voted in con junction with Lord Forbes) in the County of Longford, against two repeal candidates. • That is to say, an Orangeman—to call him by his most unpopular name—friendly to the integrity of the empire, is more hated by Lord Anglesey, than a repealer who is sworn to its dismemberment. • This, alone, were enough : but this is not all. It is alleged by the Government of Ireland, that Mr. Lefroy was objectionable, as a member of a political club. As if that Government itself had not been supported through all its struggles by means of Political Unions! As if scores of its adherents had not gained their seats in Parliament, both at this and at the last election, by the agency. of Political Unions—nay, to consummate all—as if Lord Anglesey himself had not declared in favour of Sit 'George Rich, the conservative candidate for Dublin, against the repealers, though Sir George is not only a member but actually the treasurer of the conservative society of Ireland ! Such is the consistency of this unhappy nobleman. His conduct in politics, from the time when he appealed to the sword, in the House of Lords, against the Catho lic claims, up to the present hour, has been, what he would have known it to be, if his campaigns had been military instead, of political—a series of blunders. Others have eaten their own words; but he likewise has the fa culty of eating his own actions. The truth we believe to be this : he is an uprightand honourable man, straight forward in his views, but very liable to influence from without: he is now connected with a see-saw administra tion, excessively supple and pliant towards the rebels and traitors, though generally rigorous enough as re gards the friends of order: the policy of his govern ment, in Ireland, has been and is, that of the bascule, or LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'Cloek• I in This has been the settling day the Consol Market, avd c !i, ;; has for a length of time been looked for with anxiety. It pass [ ; over, however, much more quiet than was expected; for a O , though we have had several defalcations, none of them a re i t, any extent. The fluctuation since the last settlement has e',l 1 ceeded 6 per cent., the lowest quotation having been 824, a% ' the highest 89. The_quotation for the N e w Ac co unt has heed j 87, with the dividend deducted from which it f e ll t o 84 31j ,,, ' I finally closed at 86$ 87. The Account has proved as was ;' 1 1 pected, a Bear one. Exchequer Bills left off at 43 45, and 1 dia Bonds at 31 33. India Stock closed at 208 1 - 9 1 1 , and BO ' !: 2. 2 Stock at 193142. Great animation has prevailed in the Foreign Bonds, ell'`.:: 4 cially the northern securities. Russian Bonds were I done 2, i, the morning at. 1034.4, and closed at 1031; Danish at 'l . , 4 , 13 11 i and left off - at 721; Dutch at 431 44, and closed at 431 4; a t e Belgian at 771 78, and closed at 771 78. Some reports had ; il again been current that a negotiation to settle the affairsJl ?: Portugal is on foot. Portuguese Bonds closed at 491 501, 3 , e , the Scrip at 41 I dis. Spanish Stock has been on the aAlvan' o d leaving off at 161 i,• Brazilian Bonds left off firm at 501, s,. e t 0' Greek at 29 to 30. We have nothing to notice in any ow security. We find by the accounts from New Orleans to the 2d De e d . ' that the cholera had certainly disappeared, or, at least, that t o thing approaching to that disease was of so mild a nature aid; yield to medical treatment. Freights had rather advanc e /,' %d. per lb. was asked for the conveyance of cotton to Lis s e pool, but, as many ships were expected, it was thought this 1 1,4 would soon be reduced. The amount of cott o n re ceived at 'l% i . Orleans from the 23d November to the end of that month, s ( A 13,059 bales, and during that period 3,273 bales had been de a d for Liverpool. The stock on hand on the 29th November 0 ; i 33,247 bales. The demand was not brisk; whi c h w as attribe,'", to the advance in freights. The Mississippi had begun to 0 1 and on the 30th Nov. was 11 feet below high water mark. h i We learn by accounts from Bayonne to the 13th instant, • the terms of quarantine between that place and the frond . . had been much abridged. Vessels and individuals proceed l e y j from Bayonne to Spain were allowed free egress, and on ' l l t sels arriving from places where the ch o le ra h a d been, oul , quarantine of.four days was imposed. We find by the accounts from Buenos Ayres, that the g vernment of that republic had determined to restore the fo.ri; f cations of the Falkland Islands, and that a sloop of war wll ip i 1 garrison of fifty men, with their families, was about proceet thither. ti' i i We have generally had a great scarcity of news to•das, g o the prevalence of easterly winds haS kept out many vessels $ posed to be in the chops of the channel. Accounts from Jamaica, of the Ist ult., have been recei s i) 1 1 by way of the United States, but they do not furnish us s * any intelligence of moment. , 4 TO CORRESPONDENTS. , . We thank A POOR FELLOW for his obliging communicatioa ; o r t the evil of which . he complains, with regard to the penny " a fi t: rooms, continues to exist, we shall feel it due to the public, it , to the principles which we advocate, to correct the fault el ' tually, and, most probably, in the manner which he .sugyest' IC, ./fAitus will favour us with his name and address, we du.' happy to communicate with him on the subject of his letter. re ol, PLAYING AT "BANDY" in the public streets is certainly a g olg. nuisance, and we bum that many persons hare been set/ 1 hurt by the awkwardness of the players. We forward t he t ", plaint of our correspondent o n thi s su bj ec t t o th e prop!'" ai , tli° - ties , and we have no d ou bt th a t di rec ti ons w ill be given +' ; Police to put down the practice. ___--1. LIVERPOOL ;--Printed on Tuesdays and FridaYs, in Union Build° John Street, and Published at No. 7, Iligh-street, Exch ange ' SAMUEL FRANCEYS, Stationer; of No. 7, Anson-street. 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