The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-19 00:00:00

Etc utherpool Otanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1833. IT is stated in the best informed circles, and by those who are in the confidence of his Majesty's ministers, that there is no longer any doubt of the intention of government with respect to the East India trade. They have resolved to put an end to the monopoly of the Company, and throw completely open the trade with China. Certain ports, and of course Liverpool among the rest, will be licensed upon certain con ditions. These conditions are represented to be of the following nature, but subject to further consideration as the interest of the parties concerned may dictate or render expedient. In the first place, the imports from China are to be deposited in ware houses specially secured, built within the walls of a dock, pro perly guarded, and under the King's lock. In the second place it is Proposed that the duty on tea should continue as at present, ad valor-am, taken by auction sales, similar to those of the East India House. The four London docks, it is said, have already agreed, each in its turn, to have quarterly sales. Tfie sales at the outports are to be regulated in a similar way , but held at such intervals between the London quarterly sales as would give at least a monthly sale of tea at one place or another alt over the kingdom. We understand that the East India Company have a sufficient stock'of teas in their possession to meet the consumption of the next three years. How they come to have so much remains for them to explain, for by the act of parliament, they are only bound to hold a stock equal to one year's consumption. This, however, being the care, the trade cannot be fully thrown open before 1836. Tea might be warehotised for exportation before that period, but this is all. There is some difficulty as to the protective arrangements to prevent smuggling, but it is in con templation to fix a minimum of tonnage for the size of the ves sels employed in the China trade. This is an outline of the ministerial plan; but our immediate readers will perceive, that it cannot be carried into, effect, so far as Liverpool is concerned (and we might say the same of Green ock), where we have no warehouses within the walls of a dock. If ministers insist upon this arrangement, these warehouses must be built; although we cannot see how tea should not be as safe in a private warehouse as wine, rum, or brandy. LORD SANDON has succeeded in inducing the House of Commons to consent to the admission of counsel to examine and cross-examine witnesses before the Com mittee on the Liverpool election. This is merely an act of justice. The freemen were entitled to the assist ance of legal advisers, but this simple act of justice which 13 awarded to the worst criminals, would have been denied the freemen of Liverpool, if Mr. Ewart had been per mitted to exercise a veto upon the proposition. He stre nuously opposed the motion. He joined O'Connell and the rest of the Irish brigade, in obstructing the defence of the .accused, and he would, if he had had his will, have converted the committee, composed, as it unfor tunately is, of thirteen of the most ignorant men that ever sat in parliament, .into a sort of star chamber, to condemn the burgesses of Liverpool without the slight east regard to the rules of evidence. Lord Sandon, we say, has defeated this singular effort on the part of the liberal member for Liverpool, to make .the allegations of bribery the instruments of oppression. The witnesses will be under the protection of counsel learned in the law, and we are much mistaken if evidence be not given of a very different nature from that which is expected, and which will surprise and annoy those who are the originators of these invidious, we had almost said iniquitous, proceedings. Lord Brougham may not have expressed an opinion to Mr. Shepherd with respect to the enquiry, but we are informed that he has stated to another friend, more in his confidence, that the "necessity for enquiry into the Liverpool election is the most sar castic commentary upon the Reform Bill which has yet been made ! For this the Lord High Chancellor of Eng land has our hearty thanks. LORD 'ALTRORP is incurable 1 He is not only beyond all hope of amendment, but is in that unhappy condition which every tedious day and lingering hour render more helpless and pitiful. On Thursday last he and his church tax bill broke down together, the bill being postponed, or rather withdrawn, and the noble lord pleading ignorance as his excuse for violating the forms of the House of Commons. The " talking parliament" has,. therefore, wasted its breath for two nights in vain, and the measure, if brought forward again, must be introduced de novo and its fiscal enactments be based upon the resolutions of a committee of the whole house. Our readers will recollect, that on yesterday week the bill was read a first time, and although the house was not in pOssession of its details, still ministers resolved to read it a second time (* . the following Thursday. When the Thursday came, however, and the preamble of the bill had been considered, it was found to be a bill to impose taxes on a certain class of his Majesty's subjects, in which case its mode of introduction was irregular, and contrary to the standing rules ,of the Commons. Every money bill must originate with a committee of the whole house, or in other words, must not be introduced by ministers, or by an individual, but emanate as it were from the house itself. These forms not being attended to, or ra ther an attempt being made to disregard and violate them, the Commons thought proper to vindicate their dignity and enforce their rules by compelling Lord Althorp to postpone the bill under the pretext of searching for pre eedents. Lord John Russell made.some frintless,efforts to save the credit of ministers. He called to his aid. the police bill, but he might just as well have quoted a pas sage from his own ill-fated play of bon Carlos, for the Speaker on being appealed to by Dr. Lushington de cided that it was a tax bill, and being so could only ori ginate in the way we have already described. No wonder that England is the sport of the profane, and the laughing-stock of Europe ! .The Whigs have now been in office for more than two. years, and yet of the many measures they have introduced not one has been carried without undergoing as many alterations as the beggar's coat, on which party-coloured patches had su- . perseded every vestige of the original superstructure. We do not even except the refoun bill. That which is now the:law of the land is as different from the first bill propounded by Lord John Bussell. as the noble lord is from his illustrious ancestor who was hanged. Blunder has followed blunder, without intermission, like the waves E LIVERPOOL STANDARD. of the sea. The tinker has presided in the cabinet, and' for every one hole he mended he has made three. Lord Althorp's budget, Mr„ Stanley's Irish arms bill, Lord Pal merston's protocols, Lord Durham's mission, Lord Go derich's orders in council, Sir James Graham's expedi tion to the Scheldt, Sir Stratford Canning's mission to Madrid, Lord William Russell's adventures in Portugal —all have been failures, or blunders, which, had they been committed by a corporal in the marines, would have subjected him to the infliction of two hundred lashes un der the superintendanee of Sir John Cam Hobhouse. In our last we considered the justice of encouraging Don Pedro's buccaneering expedition against the legi timate King of Portugal—we will now proceed to con sider the Policy of it. Its real intention is evident enough, The expedition is a revolutionary one, headed by a revolutionist, who rebelled against his father, plotted against his newly ac quired subjects, was expelled by them, and now wants to 'get possession Of another kingdom for himself, under the pretence of securing it for his daughter. Selfish however as his Views are, unworthy as he is of any respect, he is a revolutionist, and therefore he is em ployed as a cat's paw to forward the revolutionary move ments of the present. age. The policy thus far therefore is evident enough: but what is its policy as far as British interests are concerned ? The success of Don Pedro's invasion could only have tended to the aggran, dizement of France. Since the • days of Cromwell the Portuguese have been our most faithful, as they are our most ancient allies. To the extent of their means they have always been our best customers, taking from us manufactured goods to the amount., we believe, of £1,400,000 a-year. It is one of the few wise sayings of the astute Palmerston, "That with Gibraltar our own, and an ally at Lisbon, we might face the hostility of France and Spain. This opinion too has not been con fined to our ablest statesmen, it was shared by our ablest eneiny Napoleon Buonaparte." See his speech 'June 1, 1829. This alliance France has always envied us; of this she will rob us if she can; and in this as in every other point, Lord Palmerston has played the French game till he has made England the laughing stock of Europe. Through the medium of his agent, Hopner, he has in sulted and exasperated the Portugese people beyond forgiveness. And with Captain Glasscock and his 18-gun sloop, he has bullied a gallant army fighting for. its inde pendence against a horde of foreign mercenaries in a manner that ought to make a British officer's cheeks blush with shame; and for what? To place a minion of France upon the throne of Portugal, and swell the triumph of a revolutionary faction that has always evi denced its hostility to British interests. The self-called constitutionalists hate the British. " The constitutional government," says Mr. Stapleton in his life of Canning, " violated without scruple its engagements with Great Britain by imposing on British woollenS double the amount of the stipulated duty, and absolutely prohibiting the importation of British corn. Moreover, such sig nal bad faith occurred in its diplomacy, that Mr. Canning could not regret the revolution which transferred the power of the state into the hands of the King." Vol. 2. p. 199. • Old Solignac, who, to signalize his courage and piety when in Portugal before, attacked a procession of peace ful devotees,• who were going to the shrine of our Lady of Nazareth, near Caldas, and robbed them of their flags which he Sent as trophies to Junot; this old free booter of the imperial school had no doubt his secret in structions from the court of the citizen king, and if suc cessful, would have been the first accredited ambassador to the mock court at LiSbOn. BUt theSe dreams are. at an end. The Portuguese nation will triumph, and Don Pedro must return to Philip sober, so console himself in the best way he can for the woeful disappointment of the sanguine expectations which Philip, when drunk, with revolutionary triumph, encouraged him to entertain. All that has been said about dissensions in the cabinet has proved true, for Lord Durham has retired, or rather has been expelled from a council in which he was a fire brand, and which he would have blown up had he been allowed to remain. The pretext for the noble lord's retirement—for it is nothing but a pretext—is one of the most shabby upon record, and shows with what facility the Whigs can in vent a falsehood to cover their embarrassinents. Lord Durham lately of Dover, lately of St. Petersburgh, and lately of all the principal towns of Europe, is said to be in such a state of health as to render him incompetent to discharge the arduous duties Of Privy Seal. This is the first time that we ever heard the term " duty" applied to the business of the almost sinecure office filled by Lord Durham, which business we: were innocent enough to think consisted of nothing more than the trouble of re ceiving his salary. If there were duties to perform, how came it that the-noble lord was allowed to absent himself from England for several months in a useless mission to Russia, carrying along with him his whole family and suite at the expense of the country ? It is not complained that these duties, whatever they are, were not as well executed during the travels of Lord Durham in foreign countries as during his sojourn at Dover and other places. Family misfortunes, however severe, do not in capacitate a man from signing his name; and it should be borne in mind, that these misfortunes cannot now have the poignancy which they must have had during the dis cussions on the reform bill, when the calamity was green, and the gush of sorrow nearest its fountain. We heard nothing then, during the natural season of tears, of the contemplated retirement of Lord Durham, although the noble lord had the bad taste to allude in Parliament to his six bereavements, and trumpet them forth to the world as so many sacrifices which he had made for the good of his country. He bottled up his grief at that time, in or der to keep it for a better opportunity, and without any scruple availed himself of a splendid outfit at the cost of the nation, to perform an act of diplomacy which has never been and never will be explained. But if the revived sorrows of the noble baron have ren- dered him incompetent to discharge his official and sine cure duties, why is this incompetence rewarded with an Earldom Q ,LoYd Durham, of the creation of Mr. Canning, is now Viscount Lambton and Earl Durham, of the crea tion of his noble father-in-law, Lord Grey. What has Lord Durham done to entitle him to such high honours ? He has, at the most, made three or four angry speeches in the House of Lords,—he has favoured some of the bludgeon journals, with secret information,—he has in trigued fur the office of Governor General of India against Lord Munster,—he has endeavoured to oust Lord Pal merston,—and for this he is made an Earl ! Is this the way in which Lord Grey stands by his order ? Public services should be rewarded; but Lord Durham has per formed no services that should entitle him to either pen sion or dignity. We know of- no man whose career has been so tainted with factioh. With a cankered disposi tion, a mean spirit, and an insolent demeanour, he has trailed hiS obnoxious principles in the very kennel of ra dicalism. He has been a very Hecate among the destruc tives, adding more potent and repulsive charms to the re volutionary cauldron than any of his compeers. He was desirous to ride with the wildest portion of the movement party, and would have precipitated the country into all the horrors of anarchy and confusion, towards which it is progressing fast enough, without receiving any impetus from John George Lambton, Earl of Durham. However, the excuse for the noble lord's retirement is worthy of the party. We forgive them, merely because they cannot too soon rid themselves of these movement gentlemen. Lord Goderich, we suppose, will be the next martyr of incapacity. Lord Durham's incompetency is only assumed: Lord Goderich's is conspicuous. The former has made himself responsible for none of the mi nisterial errors : the latter has rendered himself ridicu lous by his colonial blunders. It is the same with Lord Althorp. He and Lord Goderich merit immortality in the same doggrel rhymes ; or, painted on a sign -board, they would swing in beautiful harmony, like the two kings of Brentford smelling at the same rose. Our hopes of reform in the cabinet, are, on these grounds, not unreasonable. When the lesser evil is re moved, may we not anticipate the excision of the greater evil ? It would be cruel to pluck the feather from the c ap of Lord John Russell. He is too small a creature to do much harm. But Lord Althorp is a mill-stone about the neck of the administration. He is a greater dead weight upon the country than the naval and million' pensions. If not removed, he will sink the ship and swamp the ministry; but if, by the united efforts of Lord Brougham and Mr. Stanley, he could be thrown over board, the gravity of the noble lord is sure to drag him to the bottom, and it would be a fortunate circumstance if he should drag Lord Goderich after him. ALTIIOUGH it is probable that the affairs of Portugal may not be very deeply interesting to the generality of our readers, still, as Don Pedro's expedition, now rapidly approaching to a disastrous close, is a part of that exten sive conspiracy which is carrying on against all the an cient monarchies of Europe, under thq pretence of esta blishing liberal institutions, we think it may not be in expedient or uninstructive occasionally to revert to the subject. With respect to Don Miguel's legitimate right to the throne, we conceive that no unprejudiced person who knows anything about it can entertain a doubt. It is the fundamental law, the magna charta of the Portuguese con stitution, that no foreigner can inherit the crown. In the cortes of Lamego, convened by Don Alonzo Henriquez, the founder of the monarchy in 1143, it was expressly decreed, that no foreigner should ever ascend the throne. This decree was confirmed by the cortes assembled at Coimbra in 1385, when Don John was elected king. In 1641, when the Portuguese, having thrown off the Spanish yoke, had proclaimed the Duke of Braganza king, the three estates were summoned at Lisbon, and in these cortes it was decreed that whenever the sovereign should happen to succeed to a larger kingdom he should, nevertheless, continue to reside in Portugal, and that if he had two sons, his eldest should succeed to the foreign kingdom, and his second to that of Portugal. This, then, settles the question of right. Don Pedro, when viceroy of the Brazils, revolted against his father, and set up an independent empire, and thereby became ipso facto a foreigner ; .renounced his allegiance, —ex- . patriated himself, and forfeited all his rights to the Por tuguese inheritance as completely as the Duke of Cam bridge would if he were to renounce his allegiance to William the Fourth, and proclaim himself independent king of Hanover. In like manner as James the Second ceased to be King of England by desertion, so did Don Pedro cease to be heir apparent to the throne of Portu gal from the moment he renounced his allegiance to his father, and assumed f' foreign independent crown. Hav ing forfeited his own rights to the succession, of course he can convey none to his children,—no after-disposition, extorted by his perfidy from the imbecility of the late king, can annul the-constitutional law. He can no more make the Princess of Gran Para Queen of Portugal than he can make her Pope of Rome. By the Portuguese constitution, therefore, Don Mi guel, the second son of the late sovereign, is the legiti mate king of Portugal, de jure ;—but he is, also, king de facto by the choice of the nation. In July, 1828, the three estates of the realm, assembled at Lisbon, solemnly decreed that the laws of the consti tution excluded Don Pedro and his descendants from the throne, and that to the king their Lord Senhor Don Mi guel, the first of that name, the crown of Portugal be longed. The nation has confirmed this their decree by an almost unanimous voice; and what whig, who pre tends any reverence for the revolution of 1688,—what Briton, who pretends to acknowledge the right of the House of Brunswick to the British throne, can dare to question the 'sacred determination of a nation's will ? If the English convention had a right to transfer the crown of England from James the Second to William the Third, the cortes of Lisbon had a greater right to declare the more legitimate title of Don Miguel the First to the Portuguese crown ; and that a ministry, professing and calling itself whig, should encourage and conniv e conspiracy of a set of stock-jobbers and foreign ries in their invasion of a peaceful nation, occui the maintenance of its constitutional laws, is 19ev additional proof that the whigs, when in power, a t e to falsify every profession, and break every pledg e they have made when out. • -;11 LONDON LATEST NEWS• Saturday Evening, Half-past Sever' M. Dedel, the new Dutch ambassador, has arrivt don; but it is reported that his interview with Lord 1 e has been so, unsatisfactory that he will speedily Nt u ' This rumour, whether true or not, has had some effe ct sols, which have fallen to 88b sellers for the Account: The same cause has operated upon the Foreign . 5 ' 3 , caused Belgian and Dutch Stock, whi c h had aclvO t . former to 90, and the latter to 48, to recede, the find and the latter to 474. Russian Bonds are 1034 I; an 73 3 7-14. Brazilian Bonds have been in gre a t request, 63 1 to 64 1 4 . - - - In consequence of a paragraph in the Times, a felon (Thursday,) stating that Don Pedro's expedition failed, we have had a panic in the Scrip, which fel l and, although we have had no confirmation, still OP', at 61 to 6 dm, Spanish Stock has been in great denia l ' . report of some plan of recognition being on foot gain' The Bonds are quoted 19a We have received particulars of the result o f the , upon Guyaquil, which we noticed some short time ha in g threatened with an attack from an insurgent fore had revolted from the army, a nd m ur d ere d a ll the officers, to the number of fourteen. It appears they of to within a few leagues of the city, and threatened t° sack the place, if resistance was offered ; but, hearwg. aggerated accounts of the state of defence, they su b j retired up the province and dispersed. For three wee, shops had been closed, and the women and c hildren b` all directions. The place, at the last advices, Nvas but business had not resumed its wonted activity. Very great fears are entertained in the city for the the Calypso packet, from Halifax, which sailed for P 5 the 29th January, and has not since been heard of. is posted on Lloyds' books this mornin g , w hi c h hat!`, the 19th of last month ; but no accounts of the missOp have been received. Forty guineas per cent. were r e t o her at Lloyds' to-day. It is feared, from her being i packet this season; that the number of h e r p as senger more than usually numerous. We have received late advices from the Mauritieso'i great dissatisfaction had been caused at the receil' t ot Goderich's dispatch ordering the salary of the preside. o 4 Court of First Instance, and of the attorney and so licl o ral, to be lessened. The island was quiet, and the st l4 ol were going on with the usual activity. P or t L o uis be l , a free warehousing port, vessels of ev e r y na ti on , with g' any description on board, could land them in entrepoic'o expected that the trade with India would greatly illpe consequence, and that the island• would probably Weil to for Indian produce, now that the Americans W e i ; l to come there for their coffee, pepper, &c. thus saving pense and danger of the longer voyage. / i) The accounts from the Cape de Verd Islands sta „ 'd great drought, which had reduced the inhabitants to s ~bp lorable state of destitution, had been succ e eded by s li t be rains that the crops had been again destroyed, and reduced to a most deplorable condition. By the advices from Hayti we learn that proposi o been made to the Haytiau government to estabiish intercourse between the different ports of the island. jector, who is an Englishman, offered to maintain a _,s sel for two years, if certain exclusive privileges Wet" him. The following may be of some interest to our 0 1 readers:— " Treasury Department, New York, Comptroller ' : " Shall merchandise, as manufactures of cotton, cu in the 3rd section, on which, by the new tariff, there P. ration in the rate of duty, but t o the cos t or va lue of '; estimating the duties, 10 or '2O per cent, is uo 1(?°1, added after the 3rd of March, be received in deposit law, and the duty charged on the 10 or 2() per cent• added, be refunded after the 3rd of March next? " From the language us e d in the 18th s ection Of th relation to a reduction, or a return of duties paid shall be subject to no other duty than if the sa ive , i ported respectively after that d a y,' a ll u di ng t o the 3r 183.3, I am of opinion that goods imported beforeA placed precisely upon the same footing as if they ha u bt ported after that day, and accordingly the question to be answered in the affirmative. (Signed) "JOSEPH ANDERSON, ConW BIRHS. On the 16th instant, at Leamingto T n, the Lady . of the ll` Matthie, Rector of Worthenhury, of a son. ;1 On the 6th inst. at the Rectory, Chorley, the lady of tile Master, of a daughter. o fl On the 3d inst. at Astbury Rectory, Congleton, the hub Thomas Jones Crakelt, of twin daughters. IYIARRIED. On Thursday, the 14th instant, at Leeds, Archibald W 3 , 101 Esq., of Edinburgh, writer to the signet, to Frances, Darcy Lever, Esq., of Leeds. On the 6th instant, at St. Bride's, London, Mr. WiTp engraver, late of Liverpool, to Mary, second daughter 0; Esq., law-stationer, London. Tb Same day, at the Colle,giate Church, Manchester, Mr. u' i o Dealtry, of Hagmontingham, Lincolnshire, to Sarah Fr 3 e , daughter of Thomas Whitelegg, Esq., Timperley, Chesb" , ) HOn the 24th ult., at uddersheld, Mr. John Clay, so licito r only surviving daughter of the late Mr. Clary Aspinall, 1•, 0 On the 18th ult., at Kirkby after an incessant courtsli t, eight years, four months, anti Les days! Mr. Ralph Gawil l '')lj linhurat, near Broughton-in-Furness, aged 69 years, OS g Jackson, of Kirkby, formerly of Ilawthwaite, of the nit Monday week, at Backford, Mr. John Hardman, of to Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. Griffith, of Mollington. Same day, at St. Philip's Church; by the Rev. T, C. B. Vasconcellos, Esq., of Maranham, to Eliza Huglol', of Mr. Jahn Hughes, Clayton-square. Sam? day, at Childwall, Mr. John Cross, of Little 81C °r Miss Iligginson, of Halewood. DIED. On Thursday last, at Ins brother's house, Everton, Charles Eyes, merchant, universally respected. 0 On Tuesday the 12th instant, Miss'Whitlow, of Noah's.-.. ton, near Manchester, aged 68. On Friday morning, the 15th instant, Mrs. Johnson, ate Samuel Johnson, Esq.; Roscommon-street, Everton instant, I On Monday the 11th at his seat, Buckminste Grantham, William Lord Huntingtower, aged 65. His I. 0 the eldest son of the present Countess of Dysart ; has isle William (to whom the title descends,) and ten other chilo c,,c On the 24th ult., at Alderley, George Keay, aged 27, 4 ,c,' Thomas Keay, Oakley, Staffordshire. f° On Monday last, Micha e l Wri g ht Whitehead, Riehmoo` P Oig. ft e land-place, formerly of Preston, aged 68. • On Thursday . last, age d :32, very suddenly, Mr. Robe 0 of Blind Hardwick, near Pontefract, 'brother to Mr. White' I in the Willows, tO SP ii On Friday last, Emily, the infant daughter of Lie' Paenter. R. N. game day, Mrs. Whittaker, Dale-street, aged 44 veo:ri j. a : 4 On the 2nd ins'., aged 4P, !hien, ire of Richard Woo` i ;, brook, Maeelestieid, and sister to the late Col. Niehols° , oo l . )0 0 , , Lord Iluntingtower died of an apoplectic fit, .0 0 . be 0- t he 11th of March, at Buckmiuster Park, his seat, v o . s s rt. Lincoln, in the 68th year of his age. His lordshiPoyo, l est son and heir apparent o f Louisa, C o Unt es s of 71,or'sat was created a baronet by beorge 111., and becati le i a te e ritl ingtower in 1812, On the demise of his uncle„ th ° ,irc o ,,,e o Dysart. 11l health induced him to lead a life of rei eN s. r ie ci he has oflate years resided on his estates, w herq e is ; c o large sums in employing the neighbouring poor. , i e ed by his eldest son, the Hon. Lionel '1 ollemu", ' s o ° ,tel Eliza, daughter of Colonel Tome, by whom he l ui f The late lord has also left five other s o ns and four TO COELRESPOINIDENT' Ve stl./. ERRATUM.—In our report of the Liverpool Select ing, for,D. M . ker, read Win. Mc Ice:, Esq• i° the 0 1 We exceedingly regret that we could not ma ke ri amusing letter of our friend "Quiz." Per We sympathise with him who signs himself a t hel If the freemen cannot see the Standar d in s oixie d the haunts, they, we are sure, hare both the scuse au difl to go where they arc better served. .werto " Mercator" on Taxation is receiv6e, and wi I b e next. • LIVERP OO L :—Printed on Tuesday s and Fridays, in yawn John Street, and Published at No. 7, iii. h-street , f'.(tra e ef l . SAMUEL FRANCES`:, Stationer, Or No. 7, Anson-strem-__, s Advertisements are also recei ved in London by geooli;0. 0 ' & Co., Warwick-square , Newgatu-street; and- Mr. m Fleet-street.