The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL §TANDAhIi.

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leidifig (Prussian 'and, Oldenburg, iagi;), These foreigners
hive th be paid a much higher rate Of freight thah is usually
given to the British ships."
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the, trade of England embarrassed or is it not ?—is
England at war with Holland or is she not ? The. answer
to both of these questioni on the, part of his Majesty's
Ministers will probably be in the' negative; and Yet while
our ships are roiling in our harbours, and we are at
peace with the King of the Netherlands, the vessels of
Sweden and other states are made the carriers of British
good's to Holland, at higher freights arid charges. than
have hitherto been received, or would be exacted by our
own merchantnien: Is not this an insult to the under-
, clerstanding of every . man of sense in the kinploin ?
We are not at war with Holland, -says Lord Palmerston,
• tad yet while our ships are interdicted frdm entering. the
Dutch waters; in retaliation of the embargo imposed
fipon the vessels of Holland, our inanufactUrera are eon!-
, veiled to pay increased charges for the transit of a di-
minished quantity of exports, conveyed in , the ships of
'neutral parties. What a satire is this upon the pacific
policy of his Maje§ty's Ministers !

(FROM THE GLOBE.)
We point attention to some distressing accounts of in-
cendiary fires from the Windsor Express and Bath
Herald, and of a feW of theik very melancholy conse-
quences : not but that if any of their guilt perpetrators
were convicted to-morrow, we should be indulged with
the whimperings of mistaken humanity as to the cruelty
of hanging them. There are philanthropists who deem
every victim to justice a martyr; just as there are reli-
gionists Who regard every repentant malefactor about to
be hanged as a species of saint. We know not, indeed,
where all this is to end. We hear of politicians who hint
that incendiary fires improve the condition of the pea-
santry ; of humanist's who place the perpetrators of them
in the minor class of criminals; and of devoteeS Who
dispatch even the blood-stained murderer directly from
the scaffold to heaven. That our criminal code requires
reform and classification no one will deny, but that it i's
to be altered by every sort of maudlin extenuation Of
crime is as contradictory to reason as it is to the interests
of humanity itself, when duly considered and properly
understood.

(FROM THE STANDARD.)
Two letters are in progress of circulation among the
more mysterious political persons at the west end of the
town. These letters rest still in manuscript, but we
hope to get hold• of one or both ; and in that case the
public shall have the same instruction and amusement
from them that they afford to the favoured few to whom
they have been exhibited.
The first in importance of the letters is one addresser)by Earl Giey to the Duke of Portland, describing the
miserably disorganised and distracted state of the Cabi-
net, and supplicating his Grace either to interpose his
presence, as hay is used to prevent frail crockery from
being smashed by violent collision—or if, as very likely
the Duke would not like to place himself in such com-
pany and in such a position, imploring him to take the
reins into his own hands, form a new government, ac-
cording to his own fancy, or do any thing else that may
promise to avert the calamity of a Conservative admi-
nistration.

The second and more amusing letter is elder by some
days than Lord Grey's, which was written in the latter
part of last week, but it is of less public moment; and,
therefore, we trust its author, and the gentleman whose
conduct forms the subject of it, will excuse our placing
it in the second rank.

It is an epistle of great length and animation, ad-
dressed by Col. Jones, late candidate for Mary-le-bone,
to Mr. Hume, the present member for Middlesex, in
which the Colonel, in the most angry spirit of indignant
loyalty, rebukes the republican tendency of his. late
friend's conduct ; renounces all private and political con-
nection with such an anti-monarchial person; and, if we
are rightly informed, enriches the correspondence with
extracts from Mr. Hume's letters and conversation, which
that cautious gentleman might not wish exposed to the
0-are of vulgar observation. We have not seen either
letter, and we therefore can describe them only as we
have heard them; but our authorities are what we deem
to be good, and the above we believe to be a faithful de-
scription.

(FROM THE ALBION.)
In answer to a question asked in the House of Com-
inons last night, by the Marquess of Chandos, whether
it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to
bring forward any measure respecting the West Indies
during the present session, Lord Althorp replied, that
he had already,stated that he hoped to be able to propose
a measure on that subject which would be at once safe
and satisfactory—that would bring the question to a satis-
factory conclusion. He could only repeat that reply—
further answer he was not prepared to give.
We must infer from this reply of Lord Althorp, that
Ministers have not yet come to a decision as to what the
'Measure which is to be "safe " and "satisfactory," is
to . be, notwithstanding the rumours which have been
prevalent for some days of the nature of their plan. It.
has been confidently stated as their determination, that
the principle of universal-emancipation is to be at once
declared, but that the application of the principle should
be made only periodically, in classes, so that the whole
of the Slave population should not be free until the year
1837; and that this measure should be coupled with compen-
sate on to the owners, at the rate of £5O per cent., or -one-
half of the price which Government assumes as the value
Of the slaves One with another. This value they estimate
at £3O each, and consequently the sum of £l5 would be
the amount granted for each liberated slave.
The total number of slaves of .all descriptions in our
colonies is estimated at 800,000, and the sum total of
compensation to be' provided On this
.vieWr. Of the Subject
Would be I:12,000,0W Sterling, which sum report adds
is not to be given in cash, but by the assignment of an
equivalent amount Of a Three per Cent. Stock to be
created fOr that purpose, and the payment of this com-
pensation to be made anhtially in the four years, at the
time when each class of slaves is to be declared free.
Such is the outline of the plan which rumour states
has been determined upon. We neither pledge ourselves
for its accuracy, nor, in the 'othethancl, See any reason
*to discredit it.

In this, in all other 'questions 'of state policy, the
Ministry will truckle to the outcry of a party to a certain
'extent, at the sacrifice of the true interests of the country;
and under the'pretext of doing justice by giving an
inadequate coniperisatiOn for the violation of public faith,
On which property; and Capital' have been embarked, will
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conunit the grossest act of wrong on British Merchants
and Planters whiCh the history of our country can furnish'
an aample of.
But the mischief will not stop here; 'While the burdens
'Of every elaSs of the community will be increased to pay
the interest 'of the sum to be appropriated as limited
compensation to West India proprietors, the export tfade
of the country,*arid, conAecpently, its intetnal prosperity,
ti ill reeei%;e'a fatal shoCk from that suspension of shipments
;to the Colonies which will naturally ensue. fromthe alter-
ed relation in which they will stand. Asiagnation In all
our manufacturing concerns will, we predict; be the
itu-
'mediate consequence of this measure; and its authors
will find no recompense for the injury done to the
Colonists in the altered condition either of the black
population of the West India Islands, or the
ng manufactur-
i population of the Mother Country.

THE iIAGAZINEg.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

In England great events never fail to call into active
life those master spirits which might otherwise remain
dormant. To prove this assertion, we need mike no
other reference than to the articles in the last number of
this most exCellent periodical, on "Tithes," on that me-
lancholy and eternal subject for discussion, " Ireland,"
and " A last Address to the king, Lords, and Commons—
fiTrin one of the old Constitution," from which we sub-
join extracts

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" I appeal to all conjunctively, and to each separate
estate of the realm. May they Well consider their real
position, why they are so placed—not for theinAelves
atone, but for their country, and through their country for
theinselye. They are responSible to God and their conn-:
try for their high trust, and may they exercise it as men
who must give an account of their stewardship. I make
my appeal to King, Lords, and Commons, for they still
exist in form, and I will commence with ie last, as that
estate from which aggression is universally threatened
and expected." * * * * *

" But there you are in Parliament assembled, though
many think established by a tyranny, to legislate for us,
and we must submit.

" I know a very large part of you to be pledged
to obey the dictation of societies, the leaders of which
in times of wholesome Government, would have, been
tried, perhaps hanged, for treason. From such of
you it would be madness to expect any thing good; a
Waste of words to remonstrate. You are, however,
miserably deceived, if you think your own safety one
jot more secure than that of those you may be willing to
doOm to destruction. You yourselves form too many
competitions, and out of your class these are more
numerous, ad finitum, to supplant you in the career of
democratic ambition. The ready way of supplanting is
by setting aside, nor will your rivals be nice in the man-
ner; and when you fall, you will meet with no sympathy,
but the execrations of the people as the perpetrators of
evil." * *
"But there is a very large body most deeply interested
in the preservation of the Church in all rights and privi-
leges, whom, as the tide runs, it may be dangerous to
injure,—the poor. How will the cry, "Let those pay
the Church who want its offices" suit them ? They now
have all the advantages, and they are many, without pay-
ing .onefirthing. They have resident clergy 'spending
their incomes ainongst them, ready with their means,
their example, and their personal attendance, who are
at the sick man's beside, and then the eye of the poor
man bleises the clergyman. You will perhaps say that
you mean not to 'effect a downfall of the Church; but
look well, that your confidence that such downfall will
not be effected by your measures, be not founded in mere
conceit. Where is the necessity for the "perilous expe-
riment ?" Who are they who demand it ? Not the
tithe-payers, but the city demagogues and unionists, who
pay nothing, and desire the mischief, because they have
no religion, hate it with a deadly hatred, and cry, "down
With it! down with it, even to the ground!" detest the
pure unoffending clergy, as the unjust citizen who con-
demned to death Aristides, because he was allowed to be
just. They know that The np-tooti-h-g- religion will pre-
pare the way more surely for the democracy they do
mean to establish. Will not the poor consider themselves
robbed with the clergy, robbed of their dearest property,
their rights, a word of so large acceptation, and so wildly
misapplied by the demagogues ? for the diabolical at-
tempts of the press have not yet rooted religion from the
hearts and affections of the agricultural population. You
Say Younhave no such intentions; but are •you sure you
are not under masters who have, and will do their utmost
to drive you to this accomplishment?"
"I confess, it fills me with fear, it creates a sickness, a
loathing of the profession of political principles, to hear
the daily discussions on " What will the reformed House
of Commons do ?" However insane the schemes -conjec-
tured are, and even admitted so to be, no one seems to
&min of the existence of any legislatorial check, in either
the House of Lords or the King. This is fearful, as it
is an indication of two things, an admitted irresistible
power of the movement party, and the apathy, or cow-
ardice
rather, of the community that can tamely bear it.
But so it is, and yet the House of Peers have their duties
to perform. Will they perform them? What does ex-
perience tell me ? Cover it as you will, the proudest
have submitted. They have been too careful of their
" Order," they have preserved it for some present pol-
lution, but I cannot disguise it, that they have taken a
stain upon themselves, and yet have scarcely preserved
their order from pollution, certainly not from insult,
which, sufered, is akin to it. I, as bearing allegiance'
to the constitution, have nothing to do with their order,
but as a constitutional body of protecting power. The-
'moment they consider their order their caste, it becomes
'nothing to me. If it have no power to protect me from
popular fury, or the encroachment of sovereign power, it
is simply an exclusive class, and my pride rises against
it. If they submit to a republican power, will not the ho-
nour of their mere order be justly contemned ? I admire
the spirit of the Earl of Caernarvon, entreating to be re-
stored to the civil power of a commoner, being stript of
that of a peer, The one has, at least, the dignity of an
aspiring and active ambition ' • the other, thus stript, the
humiliation and impotence of degradation."
" With sentiments of respect and loyalty, I now make
tny appeal to his Majesty." *
Under a system of agitation raised by the ministry,
your majesty's best and greatest subjects have been as-
saulted ; their houses barricaded against the fury of mobs;
castles and mansions of your .nobility have been' attacked
and burnt; and the second city of the taitish empire in .
part sacked, and in dreadful conflagrkion. All this, too,
in the name of your Majesty and reform. This must be
charged upon your ministers.
" Your Christian people fear, that the same Ministry,
with their intended Church refoim, will actually effect
the church's downfall. The wisest and the greatest per-
sons in your dominions have declared, in both Houses of
Parliament, that the monarchy itself is in extreme peril.
The first outcry, during the sitting of this reformed Par- '
liament, may demand the church. 'Does your Majesty
think that the infernal Cerberus, with his many. sleepless '
heads, will be satisfied with one sop? The truly loyal
fear diat the sacrifice of your crown will be ultimately de-
manded. It is already denianded. 'Perhaps the daily
published seditions do not teach your Majesty. 'The
papers, the pathphlets, the almanacs, the 'prophetic' mes-
sengers, where may be seen coloured, conflagrations,
massacre of troops, and Death sitting triumphantly under
a republidan 'banner, upon the crown, the Sceptre, and
the bible. Such' things are; and too 'unbends to Men-
tion. They have their object. They are unnoticed—
have free scope ; and the minds of your Majesty's' sub-
jects are poisoned, and, of the weak, prepared for' violent
reVolution;as the fiat of destiny."