The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-19 00:00:00

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

Van Diemen's Land papers to the 10th October have been
received. The bank had contracted its issue of paper and the
discounting of bills, which had occasioned a pressure for money;
this is stated to be occasioned by the acts of the local govem-
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this is stated to be lorcucleasssionttitegdocbc;stilolneeadetas.T•feisti•uersieutfaolr
gn,i)ovrei 71.;
(meek abuse; but, even, as regartied these Whees, itn of William- refused to taite the 0
equence, prevented from taking his seat !cliteo72l.ls were in progress, particularly with respect to the issued unless grounds existed for apprehending that reprisals legal auncinix—casuisti,
would. take p lace.
in s-settle affected by the measure ? The crown had no right to go to mew.. -
statute of the 7th and Bth of Wit'. vy'ut-governors of souse of the West India islands. seize the shipping of the King of Holland order to the, The real question was, flow was the interest of
.Great Britain
arrival of the Tribee fhe fir,'
Act that the solemn "Ina, toant. „as to be one Governor for several islands, and the
Affirmation and Dee'j his—"overnor each island was to be an efli • Lieu-caw:lt officer. Belgian question. This country, he contended, owing every
could not be clearly proved that. by so doing the interests of
Americon ship direct horn the United States, war a' car •o of
goods, which was to be paid for by the produce of the NCit''
called Quakers shall be accepted instead would effectata
£16,030 or £l7 000 ear. thing as it did to the freedom of her commercial intercourse war, or to make peace, or to lay or take_ off. an embargo if it • •-•
usual form goes on to say that such P",r° •,riles-
t departments as savingin that of the Admiralty, there had been with foreign counts ies, ought to be the last to establish a prece-
England—herchief h r deeus• e# latanetn—was
merce of
such oath 'atli , rm, in the presence of Aln" "derable redu .t. that the sentiments held b himself dent of such a nature ; a precedent which, if followed in other England would be advanced. How was it bete ? The coin- , • •
feature in the newspapers. The establishments of Copt. Payne
L ions so. y, and Mr. Weller, at. New Zealand, had been • - entirely destroyed
their statements. Now, he considersdl, it not estroy, the commercial instances, would tend to weaken d had a right to ask why the
clear and distinct aspossible
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*otte- Graham, and others, when in opposition, were not for-a large commercial community, he .
severely injured by this embargo. Representing, as he did, a
.gentlemen had arrived safe at the Bay of Islands. Mr. Nellyn
by a party of New Zealanders at Kaffea, New Zealand. These
; that it u non, they. relations of the country. Ile did not mean to touch upon the
were in ottice.
xlisest and most distinct Belgian question, upon which he should otter no opinion. His 1
terms, what wer', e "el Wm! IA MS •Iddressed the house under as he stated interests of his constituents should be sacrifi.ed to some theore-
tic point of international law, or for the direct advantage of a the Van Dienrin's Land Company's surveyor, Committed suf.: legislature at that period. (Hear,
.beero etieubPeouliar cir'cuMstatnces. Ile had never sun lit to be Majesty's government might be right, or they might be wront,
withbut really dthe Ist c
as no doubt in his mind that the indulg (!e,, er of that assendo• He had been sent there against his
respect to that question, • to issue an order in interests e on September.
•`' people who rejected our commerce, and to the manifest injury •
of our oldest ally and best customer. 'I he of Englisii
iive his affirmation to all cases where an 0".1t-•`„sent. (Hear and laughing.)"lle had never seen his con- council, signed Charles Grevitle—(lair—for the seizure of Accounts from the Swan River settlement had been received
merchants, her shipping interests in particular, had been sacri-
the shipping of his Dutch Majesty, whi, had committed no pre- to the I2th September; the season had been very f - • h •
ainura
cessary, extended to his sitting in that '-"ts (ifilmotle. ra I - d I
•te laughter) until ie went own to t lank • ficed on every occasion in which ministers had come in contact
eat fu wins aggression upon us-i-for this was the position on which . there was uo alteration in the state of the colony.
fur the confidence they had reposed in him. They had
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