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London, England, 1818-01-19 00:00:00

PRICIIS OF CORN.

Avers:4. Prices of Corn of lio:laud and Wale., he the
()muter of Eight Winelwger Rtodiehr, and of Oatmeal per
hull of ISOM& avoirdnpoiee, from the returns received iu the
week coskil the 10th of Jauuary, 1818.
Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats.
a. d. a. d. a. d. a. d.
85 0 51 0 45 8 28 5

Beaux. Wane, I Oatmeal. Ekter or Dig.
a. $l. a. d. a. d. a. d.
SI 2 SI 9 33 7 I --

GENERAL ELECTION.

[From 7'he Stanford Neors.l

Mr. lkladocks, the patriotic Member for Boston.
arrived at that place last week, and has %dose.
(ineptly been engaged in canvassing his con'titu.
wits. IVe are happy in being able to state, that
the support he received exceeded the tnost sanguine
expectations and all former example, and leave no
doubt as to the result of the next election, when-
ever it may take place. A most numerous and re-
spectable meeting of the friends to the blue (Mr.
M.'s) interest was held at the Dolphin Inn, on
Tuesday night last, when Mr. Madocks addressed
the company at great length, and with much ener-
gy and eloquence, on various subjects connected
with his Parliamentary conduct, and with the pre-
sent state of public affairs. That unpopular and
unconstitutional tax, the duty on windows, did
not pass unnoticed, and • Petition to the House of
Commons was drawn up and agreed upon, which
is now laying fur signatures, and will be presented,
at the opening of Parliament, to the notice of the
House by Mr. Madocks. The freemen of Boston
are thus, by their independent conduct, manfully
maintaining the character they have obtained and
if a similar feeling generally pervaded the country,
we might hope to see the British Constitution once
more restored to its purity, and England and Eng-
lishmen again etijoyitig the fullest extent of public
prosperity and private happiness. In the course of
his speech, Mr. Madocka said—
Brother Freemen—Civil and religious liberty
are invaluable blessings. They are your birth-
might by the Constitution—they were confirmed
by the tolerant spirit of Reformation, and the glo.
rious principles of the Revolution. Whatever tends
to abridge either, is an intolerable grievance—is a
nuisance that ought to be abated. To minds edu-
cated in the admiration of civil and religious li-
herty—to men who have in tiny degree tasted their
benign influence, existence is enriched and digni-
fied by their enjoyment—or rather life, without
them, seems wholly valueless. It was in their
spirit, and under their influence, that your
ancestors, of glorious memory, framed those excel-
ent laws, mid institutions, which have been called
the envy and admiration of the world. Un-
happily, time and the more insidious attacks of
core option lime greatly impaired those blessings,
and put their continoance mid preservation to the
hazard. It is then for men, like yourselves, in
of your ancestors, to aid in the glorious
work of reinvigorating your justly-boasted Consti-
tution, to stop the ',ingress of its decay, extirpate
the cuirliptions which menace its safety, and re-
store it to its pristine health, beauty, and perfec-
tion.

It is the fashion, or rather the trick of those
who lardl the taxes by their enormous salaries and
sinecures. to stigmatise as enemies to their country
all those who seek to cor►ect the extravagance of
Government, by sending to Parliament men of in-
dependent mid constitutional principles. Hem'
what even Mr. Pitt said of the [louse of Commons
IN the House of Co ::::: ions If there had always
beta a !louse of Co 11111 l ons who were the faithful
stewards of the interests of their country—the dili-
gent checks on the administration of the finances,
the steady uninfluenced friends of the people, the
burdens which their constituents are now doomed
to endure, would never have been incurred.'

" So much, brother Freemen, for the net
of having meal of sound constitutional principles in
Parliament. From the want or them, you per-
ceive, and no doubt reel, that taxation is beconne
excessive ; it is to excessive taxation that all the
miseries under which the nation hus been writhiog
in agonies, are to be ascribed. Let the Itepresen-
halves or the flenple compel Alinisters to retrench
unnecessary places, mid reduce the est4blnslinients;
there will he room fur some relief Prow the grievous
SALT DITRS, the inquisitorial WINDOW TAX,
and the poor man's bate, the Lux.' DLit TAX. It
has been well said, that our-half' or our enorMous
debt was contracted in attempts to put &twit 11w
Bourbons, um' the other half in setting them up
;wain. Strange inconsistency ! and while we are
Conbting ur our splendid victories abroad, we are
%tittering a finnancial di brat at biome. Taxation is
tiie parent of t)ri y, and the revenue laws are
but so many iinroads on the (onstitution.
" You have no summon duty to discharge to
yourselves, your children, nod tune country, when
you choose your Represeolant ts nt these Unres. 1k
the neglect of this tiara tttttt lilt ditty, you aril
still greater causerie tt 011 yourselves ain't Wit 61111..
he*. *hail )011 now t mime. The qu► oh ilk- Itelth.le
tur Esiglanad are u! ttttt you. They kiln to every
Independent lirinoln, uI the anxious that
their tali-r, their their giirviitivi-s, will
be attended to ltv ilw Fi et wen. Nine-tenth* of
the people liner iso tole, \\c hat it toykoselltiltly
devolves on the Frill* a froth, ! a pleas-
ing duly et wive to bandit yolltaehtea Witt your
country !
4.• A few turn etru of independent principled in
the Ilutuie of ('uunu..is are or Itatillite seance.
They provoke prevent the doors or Patt-
ilsatuent from !wing dwell MI the fo tilde—anti
I thillutigh the Meillum of die Pie!..4 Ailutiti the public

mind. Thence arises public opinion, and- the
power of public opinion is the only practical check
left on the arbitrary suertsures of government ; fur
it is a power, which, though they dare to revile,
they tremble to disolwv.
" The people, who are so goaded with bixatinil
that respectable portions of the community ore
driven to pauperism or emigration, are Called by
those aho fatten on the taxes, clislf,yht. II ow
finely this bona is thrown back upon the enemy,
by the *-!',lsettcl feeling of the net iiiii on the irrepara-
ble loss of the Princess Charlotte. To the
eternal honour of England, the deep and unaffect-
ed sorrow of every class, proves beyond dispute the
loyalty, the good sense, and the discrimination of
the people. Such was their attachment shewn to the
best hopes of th►e Douse of Brunswick—such the
respect fur the bitty promise of her constitutional
principles, as well as her private virtues, that areser
was grief more general, or sorrow mitre sincere.
Does this indicate any feeling to the prejudice of
that family, wl►o were called to the throne to pre-
serve those liberties which their coronation oath binds
them to confirm ? Does tins indicate such a bad
spirit in the country as to justify the suspension of the
Habeas corpus Act, the dearest of our rights ?—or
is it to be taken from us upon every frivolous pre-
tence, when Ministers find themselves growing till-
popular, or, what is worse, when by their misrule
they have made their muster so? Is the bulwark of
the constitution to be surrendered on the evidence
of hired spits—tax-fed blood-hounds, alto pro-
voke rebellion to feast upon its victims—the worst
of traitors they themselves, who furnish a perfidious
pretext to rob a loyal nation of its dearest rights ?
All that is asked for, and what it is treason to the
Great Charter to refuse us, is the constitution, the
whole of the constitution, and nothing but the con-
stitution—a constitution which, in its unperverted
purity, combines the excellencies, and balances the
detects of monarchical and detuocratical govern-
ments."

QUEEN CIAILLOTTE'S Blain-DAY ICEPT.--HOilday at all

the Public Offices.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON.
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, ISIS.

Dispatches, we understand, have been recently
received by Minister, from Rome, supposed to con-
tain documents relating to an important business
likely to occupy the attention of Parliament at an
early period of the Session. A late melancholy
event is presumed to have removed one great ob-
stacle to this undertaking, but we apprehend there
still remain difficulties in the way sufficient to pre-
vent the attempt. We, therefore, notice the cir-
cumstance merely as a report.

The voice of humanity has been loudly raised in
the cause of the distresses of our Colony in New-
foundland, and Parliament, in the course of last
Session, obeying the call, directed its attention to
this melancholy subject. Since that time the wants
of the Colony have been aggravated by two de-
structive fires, and to avoid actual famine it has
been found necessary to send away part of the po-
pulation. This sad alternative is announced in the
following extract from a letter, dated New Ross,
11th instant :

" The Express, Copley, of and from St. John's, Newfound-
land, is arrived here in fifteen days: she bad on board 230
passengers and their baggage, sent home by the Governor of
St. Johu's. During the passage six of the passengers died
of typhus fever, one since their arrival, and Iwo more ale
dangerously ill in the Fever House here."

The following financial statement is copied from
a Paper of yesterday :

It is understood in the best-informed circles, that the
financial measures for the current year are pretty nearly de-
termined on. The Chancellor of the Exchequer does nut in-
tend to fund any Exchequer Bills, much less take a Loan. The
whole expenditure, it is expected, will not exceed 58 mil-
lions, and ibis will be effected principally by a reduction of

the army to its final wart estahlislitment, ■nd by the saving
of int which will be made by reducing the Five and
Four Cents. The amount of revenue (including every
thing); is estimated at 52,000,000 f. leaviaz an apparent deficit
between receipt and cxpenditiere of six; but it must always
lie recolk <led, that mit of the expenditure neirly 16 mil-
lions will be paid ro the Commissioners for the reduction

of 11 debt ; and the only doubt is, whither six of these
blvin hi not be applied to balance the account between ex pen-
Mturr and revenue, leaving the remaining to millions, with
the accumulation of interest, to the reductiou of the debt.

The country ►hip Wellington, Captain BROWN,
arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday ev g, from
Madras, with the Stith regiment on board, last from
the Cape of Good Hope, whence bilt sailed on the
7th November.

The ship Grace, DA•ti: (with Officers, passen-
gers, hound to South America), which was seized
at Cowes, has been liberated, and a ..cal at the
Nlotherbank, preparatory to procceding liar St.
Thomas's, the first fair wind.—Nbajor I,OC Y EK,
and the other Officers who had engaged their pats-
sage in the ahnve ship, rod were subsequently con-
cerned in u aloe', at Cowes, with Lieutenant SUT.•
TOY COCIIRA N it is ascertained, lusuled for South
America in a brig, a kw days after the fatal event
took place.

111 r, %Vat.sti, the King's Messenger, arrived in
tualt a kw tidy* :lute with dispatches from ltn,zio.

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