The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-06-13 00:00:00

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LONDON.
THURSDAY RYSHINO. JUNE 13, 1822.

STOCK EXCHNGS. AT WELVE O'CLOCK.
King of France's intimation to the Deputation
Chamber of Peers, that "peace will not be
Ain the Bait." was known yesterday on 'Change,
caused Consols to rise 1, bet it has not bad any
effect oa the Market this morning. There
Alberto been little business doing. Consols for
Account are 110/1.

roastax ►UNDS.. •

report his teen circulated that Chili is in a state
dy, bat it has not tended to lower the Chilian
No credit is given to it. as it is supposed to
lotto in sums Bear of Chilion Bonds. Russian
continue in a stagnant mete. All other foreign
samulties maintain their pikes.

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

Hones of Commons, last sight, cense to a do-
on tie motion of Mr. Wasps', mentioned:4a'
yesterday's STATCSMAN. The proposition of that t 101•,
was fur the appointment of • Committee So
consider of the effects" produced by PLIL'S Bill.—
licestassur moved, as an amendment, slat the
• should adopt a Resolution is these words i—
t this Homo will sot alter as standard of gold
slicer, in fineness, weight or denomination;" sad
ameodesint was earried at a ginner past three
ibis morning,o hundred and ninety-tone voices
for Mr. Hosaissos, and thirty na
„y. for Mr.
lonsig. Pm reasons.that "ill WA*** meougli
he ender. teball bore- speak in tin fret pen..,
Save int tet elevens es an aesertiii of- the New
of this morning. that " Commit- Soya, 'Mr:
tna'a Bill must be repealed." My readers know,
Insides several artkles with the same object in
pahlisbed le this paper, I have published two
W 1471•11 give notice hi*
to Mr. Wilton/. . ••
we to the Marquess of LIINSDOWNI. 1130111111 the sots-
ehistrostaness and the wickedness thet there would be
7% Ate repealing of Poet's Bill ; so that the lying old
-eliog of the New rimes bids faiily to surpass his
of the Old Tier* In this tort of way. The same
hireling, and. in the same paper, quoting the addition
thick was made. ea my motion, to the Pesitiso at
bridstone. says it was oa the emotion of " W. Con-
, This is stated•merely to show with what re-
lactase@ the pilliglog and plaoderieg vagabonds look
at this Kentish eireenestance. This old battered
hireling could spell my name correctly enough, when
• object was toted a wilful lie of me ; but when be
,ad reluctantly to record what was done by me at the
Kentish Meeting, be could put in an lt in the placrof
) make his readers believe he was not speaking
same person that be boa so *fun and so basely
mated. I sheald beg the readers pardon for
ing time oa these matters, if I did not think the
were much mute deeply interested is them than
iyself.

Wrman's moiloo may, bay. been
meant; bat ceitaioly. taking into tiew, the ob-

stated in his speeek it was of moil mischievous
tendency ; I mesa, as to the nation at large. It bad
tenuity to bring oat the accursed depreciated paper
It had a ttendeney to produce a new career of
a new career of epoliatio• on the labouring
j audit might have retarded a reform of tie
liameot for some time, unless such reform (an evil
we must all appetite) have bees effected' by
means. This is not the place for gateau!
critical 'way into the doctrines by which the teo•
was supported, nor into those by which it was op-
`. Little more could be done here then to gives
• history of the debate. Mr. Wes-rams appears
, and, indeed, he always did appear to me. to
'holly unqualified fur the task. A mind like Ma,
' naturally seek • leattiog apes what lbs bad
reading ; and, as It suited his pu►pose best, to
Rows sad 9311111 and Local, instead of coming

shop, he lly got floanderieg amongst
Aicable theories, the reading of the extracts
_ire to which produced in the llokse, that
listlessness and indifference, of which Mr.
-wain complained towards the clout of the do.
Theories of money ; essays on the suture of
were unsuited to the occasion; sad almost all
was said in the debate, bad very little to do with
matter; though a great deal came out. which
• be the subject of (attire comment, especially as
laded the molar, set defence of Mr. RICARDO,
said that be wee open It. grid ; and who, as I
hereafter have to show, made a defame that
not have suffered the Jury to deliberate o sew
without deehring bine guilty. • -
question was this, sad deeply this. is it sow
and just to return to a ham paper money and to
e that we gala cued pay 1w gold. That
le only question ; and therefore think that Mr.
11111011 was prefect!), right I. his propoessi mooed-
WIATIR:11 watt the wrong way 'Nowa*
thould have mensidtred that it was not hoe the he
' of the laudiewl aid the farmer that the bast
matey sheald bf brought bask. It letery true
the muse to cosh payments (as far as we have
returned) has bee. the great immediate eau* of
digress tithe farmer sad of the approaching ruin


1 of the landlord; hut. JD Ds ewe intssea. hue 1 test
with a sensible me sasesget Abele timers and Weir
lords that wish fora return to the base and plesdering
paper. To say nothing of the innemerahle sets et
iajnstiee that must be committed by sorb refers;
Oe say nothing of the downright robbery of
' recent lenders or recent purchasers of amities;
~f recent mortrageet ; of tradesmen, Universally. who
have debts in their honks; of servants whn have con.
traded for the year; to say nothing of these, every
man that is not obsoletely infatuated must perceive,
that surto a measure, must, in the first place, pro-
duce universal confusion; and that, is the end, no-
thing bet a miracle could save the country from a
bloody revolution. The wildest of all possible fault"
seems to have entered into Mr. Warrantee bead.—
namely, that which entered into the bead of Sir
Join" &Panicle, and old dander-beaded Drogue
CNA LIMOS abont twelve:years ago, and Into that of
I'Visen Hat& only the Other day, that a nation is
prosperitas in proportion to the greatness of the
quantity of its circulatlig medium; and that the
more that circulating, medium is depreciated the
better. :,if N tit/ It neTT. who, by the by, has
NON dig A that Mr: Steelton was mistaken in his
standard of 'aim., observed. and renteedsti that high'
price of comioauld be most beneficial to the country
and that he opposed the Corn Bill heroine bethought
it would Prevent high prices Wlty; "what wild
blows •Dow ? It is notorious that be releetantly pre-
sented the petition of his eonstitsesti egotist that
Corn Bill. Whatever way he 'might vote. be said In
the debate, that he was neither for it nor against It ;
and he took merit with the Joey at Leicester for hay-
ing differed from the popular opinion on that subject.
But what does the Baronet mean by adopting this &fe-
ttles of Mr. Wis.:Tax ? Cat he not me that
it is the relatire price of corn, and not the
positive price. which we are to consider here?—
It is the price of corn as compared with the outgoings
of the farmer indepeedent of rent, that was the thing
to be dwelt upon here. The former, antler one set
of tireamstattee", may be as well off with wheat at
belf-a-crown a blshel. as he ii, wader another set of
circumstances, with wheel it 'deity shillings
bushel. But there appear" 'to viii been such Man-
dering, from t he beginning to the eitd;ipon this subject,
that to notice it all would 511 OvOlnuse. Illt:Artwoon
very justly and very ably charaeterised the plot isea•
sores of the lionse and deaeribedibi effects of 'them
measures; bet,' while hi Waiatitieitig Me. Peet' of.
wLen holottotticg L d Mil to Bally tq

Neglecting.
the Haus liecesls thst krodace, be Ilts•elf
was in 'cominiSsiOn 'Of a ilintlatiiti Pi; lot a *ord
did be say about' ti,; idle that, Ifni the
`NS* prokmed by Mr. ivire.gOk:wbkb 'Was.
Ither inure nor leas tban the 'ionandsijois'otifl the
robbery abOvecnentiosal, besides depriring the cone-1
try of all standard of valve. Mr. BIRGCGIIMII 801,1
!bat no man coakt be so "senoti-etriekeis" 'as to pr..
ese to adopt so standard of value.; bet, tbosgh Sir
FaaNcis BUIDETT said. that " a deraderd regulated
"by the value Veer*, woohl be perfectly reirmente
" and practicable;' did the Wes ewer bridges**
* bead Dec 01 timer at kast) esiitz the Indisieti nlr

individiaa, corn is; eery eit;iiil _ _
of the amount of asoneylaymiess,, the isMouut urging"
with the market-price of thatiitOrliiiiiinstedity.
Bur, cam Ibis be done pi to fraisaillitis of a whole'
country ? And, can it Iscsisfd St. "'s4adard" too,
varying. as it most from yea;
,tiiieur. kin month to
mouth. and almdst from day to day? . Can this be
called a "standard?" Sir russets BUIIDITT seems
to have hid some notion abont the gratnent re-
gulating and fixing the quantity of mo* lis be in
circulation ; for be said that Ministers. •!maght to
" have a direct control over the issues ei the Bank,
" and not to suffer a single note to be put oat. or called
" in, but by their direction." This is Mr. MIRA'S'.
Lies notion ; and one more wild sorely never entered
Into the mind of mortal man. Jost as if the Otscern-
meat could he able to determine what tramp, of
money should be used in the country ; mad just as if a
.thought of the kind, expressed from the lips of a
Minister 'would not send the notes tumbling into the
Bank as long as they would exchange them by giving
a shilling for a one pound note. Dot this seems I.
have been the plan: to lay aside the golfahogether;
to come ton papermeery.,.• to set ell trading and all
exchanges at defiance ; and to estab.ish, by law. ape-,
per money, being! legal tender,And infix be irtgotity
of that money that should be in circular ; and never
stiffer the quantity to become either gr ter or less.,
We have heard °toad projects enough; bit, of all the
mad projects that I ever heard or read cif; this is the
very modest. To pass klr. Werrirtn's motion with a
project like this avowed for its object, would have been
to enact that which .mast of necessity have exposed
the country to confusion in the neat place, and,
in the nein place, to everlasting ridicule and ton-
tempt.—if Mr. Wittman bad penned another line;.
or if, instead of Mr. IIi:MUSSON'. amendments some one
bed pr posed art eateedenent is these words : Is that a
" dleemelutejle appelested to ingelyelittuke effect..
' which have been produeed.by the ~sum imi.a re-
" tare to rash. psymeets3..aud alio •te eiefdder whs.,
" ther some oftener. ought not to berillgiiiid to roc-
" tiff contracts. anti make them oenspoot with justice
" in reference. to the measures foe morning to cask
" payments; Ind sercially,to biliadrr whether some

blesse re

. _
redaction ought sot to take place in the interest of
' the national debt in order that Hustles way no
". longer be committed under the name of adhering to
••- listless! faith :" if such ao amend:uest had been
proposed, the ,debate Would bare sakes a very
different tars, ...and would ham called forth digit
atteotion a.
.excited that tourist, the absence
of which wan so feelingly ,Iseptotealby Mr.
Bitoyonift. The oesstry is use led osiostet to whits.
to see again those high prices. which Sii Passciri
BURDETT is so anxious ;4:1 see. The country, and no
part of it more clearly this the farmers, am that high'
prices are productive of ruin.. Poll the whole oatioo,
and you will scarcely dad a thoussad perms weak
enough to wish for as alteration in the standard of
value ; bat poll the whole nation up** the rptestios of
rectifying the contract with shoes utim are called the
paddle croditors.-aed you wilt lieditese but tax-eaters
that are mot for tie atrumadvs of that questiom—
Timis, therefore, sas the tiosistio• to haw agi-
tated. This quadrat is entertained and disceined
delly.und heady pmengst all visages of the community;
it is a question to deeply lateresting that 11 fastens it-

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THE STATESMAN.

self upon the mind ; and that. too, is a meaner not to
be got di of by any slight effort that esn be made in
any Trager. Seeing that this is so notoriously the
ease, ft has appeared not a little surprising to me, that
Loot CarrGaitzaort should have gone out of his era)
to stir op this question at the close of a debate, which
was manifestly about to termiente in a rejection of the
motion of Mr WVRTIRM. His Lordship ought to have
seen that there was danger to his cause in agitating
the thing just at this time ; and yet be thought pro-
per to make the Petition of the Closely of Kent. for a
redaction of the interest of the debt. a ground for op-
posing this motion of Mr. Wsernaw, to which the
Petitioners did not it all refer, and to which their Peti-
tion Implied es strong an objection es that which his
Lordihip himself could entertain. The part of his
Lordship'e speech which I have alluded to. I give in the
very words as I And them ie the Ufa Tien* newspaper :
" The present, he maintained, was not as tinge for the
" adoption of any plan for an alteration in our
" currency. Wires the hoes, heard the daily at-
" tempts which were made to shake the pnbltrfeith—
" when, within the last 414 y-tight beers, they saw the
" attempt made, and with success, in • neighbouring
" ersenty—when they saw a was. of whose talents he
" did net mean to meek disparagingly. get into •
" meeting of that meaty end move a clause so he
" added to a petition shoot to be psis/dad to that
" liaise, which clam)* called on the Was* to deprive
" the public creditor of the fair intermit of his dein,—
" whoa such attempts 'were made, he would ask,
" was it w tilbe for interfering with ear tureen- 1
" ey, or was it. sot a time In which the lease was
' called upon to affirm theirfbrowr velem+ the subject ?"
In the first place. I will presume that the words
"get in to" a meeting have been foisted In by the
WALTIIIII,IIIIdr. Ott Mr. COLLTIII. or MOW tack pet*
son, would be ready to.teke the whole responsibility
upon himself. I presume this because I find the wools
in no other paper. With the word " max," I can by
no
means be disposed to qnarrel with his Lordship ;
sad have only to lament that be so frequently finds
fawning lipoid, where he ought to find men. lint,
us
coley having moved a ciente which called on tire
Hiram to deprive the public creditor of the fair intermit
of Ai i debt, Waren* has published as itiferndas
falsehood, and knowlbgly published it, too. or his
Lordship was guilty of what .I shall not. sad seed
out, describe. I proposed tothe ineetiag be prey for a
" jest redaction of the leterrestol the debt," and dosed&
arm deprivier else public creditor of his fair interest?
*nerviest' lean that wilt now deity, that that interest has
bein doubled. lly Act of Parliaineal, over and above the
enormous bonuses annually given under the name of
sinking fund. It le evident to ovary mu that that
which the Long Islead Prophecies said would lake place.
has mires place to ot-settnis estop'. and Is ping on
regularly to ite Commiseration, semely, that the ca-
pital of the present rare of farmers, aid diet the
estates' of the present families of landlords; will be
and most be. ..transferred to thOse who receive the
tapes. and, is great pat; to that odious tribe. the
Jews sad Jebben of 'Cheap Alley. MA indeed. must
per. HUSICISSON be, if he believes that 56 annoys of
taiga as be paid. and that dents eats be at the same
P#6.l.t ikartitiri trkr! it tkfitii. UAL Jisatinsii•ri

wwwswer ; au, ir OR-RelleTlP U. IT tam can DO Tallievid
by Aim, then, indeed, the ludlords may hasten to
take a firellllll leek at their estates. I acs u
aims as any nine-eau-be of theititilmore task of doiltg
jestitie to all parts * Hs this'liada!'ti hat his a tub that
am quite sere mlgt►tlie.•aeeotiptished, sad that, toe,'
is a short space of time. *lies I made as. of t►e j
words "jest milnetion.ef:the kilovolt of the Debt."
it lemma withost duecoosideration. Itmalaotwith.
oat having thought for years upon the subject; and it
was not without y ►eing trilling. to • state my ex-
louses opts the tiecomplishtsr•t of the object if the.
Government would Komi to my advice. Dad sot
the base rich tidbits of Coventry. and the se less hose
and hypocritical "patriot" canvassers in Leedom; bad
sot these bees so besy. the. lest, with their violist*,
aid the last with their most detestable hypocrisy, the
cushy would long ago hare had before it my views.
at any rate; with respect to • a remedy bribe treat
evils that oppress it, and Which. is was truly observed
by Mr. Arrwooo, are only' going on towards their
WA result. 'lt pleased t►e-railrans; hypocrites afore-
mentioned to trust their ease iw the held& of ruse
Modus And 'ELLICE. T 6 them, for me. the
country must loot. • I have done ail- that I have been
able to do, sod in every way that, by body sod mind, I
.have been able to ••make esertlos. I agree with Sir
Paaacla Bu•DLrr. that the Insisters are booed'
.to tee out some remedy; that It is their dirty to rio
something et to resign their plates; that.* they kaiw
•of so remedy, their duty to the people, and more espe-
cially to the 'King, whose immediste servants they are,
calls upon them to make the open declaration; to cou-
lees themselves unable to ad►ise tile King is this
great entergeocy ; and to mated tray fur others that
are ready to say that they Lave a remedy. But. on
the Whet hand, if their opponents pretend to have no
remedy; I do not ray, if they propose none; bat if
they woad to have none; or if they propose mei&
'torte like those 4flltr:'ll,terentet dhoti 4 meat cos
fess that there II no ground for the Ministers quittleg
Itheir places ; aid I fi'ave net the smallest objection to
.say* lipt I t►ink the toiletry safer in their kande. than
.it wouldbe is those that seisselealy cry MU for high
prices, and that Mould 'King as both into the sea of
paper money is order to obtain the.. prices.
To sae. nothing 'in the world is wore clear :—I
het. long thought spun the subject exper!et.ce
proves to me daily more I.d more, that I ander•
stud it well; and to me nothing is mere clear
than that justice might be done to every one: and
that the nation might be settled down In harmony
and happiness, and that, too, in less than the space of
one year. Lord CASTLEREAGH may accuse me SS
beg as he pleases with "doily detempts to :hake the
" pull& filth." I have made no such attempts.—
There Is not a single danger of which I have
sot given timely warning, and it' the •anion
now has a true view of its situation. It has to
thank me for it more than all the rest of man-
kied. Amidst difficalties such ail. I believe. no
mut ever bad befuie to struggle %%la; against a
unrest of ealastay continually issuing -forth front
innumerable presses, and from the tongue. of • swum
of
indefatigable miscreants.• set aid kept in meths.
►y the parse of the skeet cowardry aid malignant o•
men; ageism all this sad against a ten thousand
times greater mass of bestillty than ever was bettor.