The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

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The Howie esialSi4C6".. ed 'LI the House of 11
in heir the Royal -11= giieet• to several .13
end Private' Bills (for whichitee the* Lards' Bei
On the return of the Speaker, the following Billt
Were reed a third time, and passed:—The Deke'oi
Kent's Annuity, the Irish Greod Joey Presentment/9,
the Foreigners' Smoggling, the Scottish Distilleries,
the Workmen's Wages, arid the Watch and Ward
Bills. The undermentioned Bills were reported:-
110 Irish Fever lloopi.el. the Lottery, the Militia
'Pay, the Irish Assessed 'lazes, end the • Irish Bark
Restriction Bills. The National Debt Commissioners
and 'the Tobacco Importation Bills, were read a'
I Decried time, and committed for Menday.
The Ulnae went into Committees on the following
Bills:—The Madder Duties, the Silk Bounties, the
London Coals, the Irish Excise Lietnices. the Vinegar.
Duties, and the Irish CoMmercial Exchequer- 0111.'
Bills.
The Report of the Committee on the Act of the
57th of the KitiA relative to Ihe Duties on Salt, was
brought up.
The Resolution for Reducing the Doty on Rock
Salt, used for the purpose! of Agficultere, from 101.
to 51. per ton, was agreed to, and a Bill ordered
srcorditugly.
Mr. F. ROBINSON obtained leave to bring in 'a
Bill for the 11.tter Regulation of Navy Prize Money.
• Mr. TIIOItNTON brought: in a Bill to liegeteo
the oat, of Bread by Bakers vissiding more than ten
miles Distance from the Metiopolis.—T:ie Bull was
read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time on Monday.
On bringing up the Report of the Committee of
Supply,
Mr. CALCRA FT repeated his objections to the
Grant of 15,0001. for- tbfa porchase of Ground at
Hounslow, as an exercising ground for cavalry. , He
could not hut consider it as a waste of money.
The Resolution was.then agreed to, es were the
other Resolutions.
The other Orders of the Day being then disposed
of, the House adjourned to Monday.

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:IAMPDEN CLUB,
AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEET-
-cm- ING of the CLUB will Me held at the Freemasons
Tavern, Great Quern-street, Lincoln's inn-fields, TO-MOR-
'BOW, on matters of very great importance to
.the object of
the institution.

The Chair will be taken nt Fou► o'Clork.
25th May, ISIS. THOMAS CLEARY, he.
••• Dinner un the Table at Nal4 1 five u'Clotk.

PRICE OF STOCKS TIII9 DAY Al' ONE O'CIA)CK
Bank Stork 179/ . '4 per Cent. 96/
a per lent. ((ed. i7ll h.per Cent. Navy 1071
1 per Cent.Con.ols Mb hiditt *nod, 98 100
31 prr Cent. 871 Long Ann 40 3-16/
Luton's fur Acc. 781 Escnequer Bid. IN 21 p
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LONDON:

lIIONDAT. MAT 25, IRIS

EXTRACT OT A LETTER FROM TILE AGENT AT LLOYD'S

AT BUENOS ATltEs, DATED FEB• 15•

" The English ship Mary Ann, HADAWAY, from
Monte Video to Valparaiso, sent into Lima by the
Vengeance Spanish frigate, has been condemned with
her cargo. The Hydra whaler, of Plymouth,
which was also sent in there, has been released. All
the ports in South American Spanish Colonies have
been declared, by the Viceroy of Lime, in a state of
blockade ; Callao, the Island of St. Mary's, and
Chau,. excepted. A brig privateer, Chase, Master,
with 60 men, but without papers of any sort from
this Government, supposed to have a commission
from Artigas, has sailed on a cruise: she was former.
ly a Spanish vessel, captured and condemned here ;
she has no register.

The Meeting at the Crown and Anchor on Sitter.
day, to celebrate the Eleventh Anniversary of the
return to Parliament of Sir FRANCIS Bunnerr for
the City of Westminster, what is justly styled the
triumph of the Purity of Election, was the most numer-
ous and respectable assembly of the Electors which we
have witnessed, upon such •n occasion, for a long
time, end the spirit which pervaded, and was es-
pressed in the sentiments of the Meeting is most
honoorable to the independent feelings, the dis-
cernment and character =of that mast respect-
able body of Freemen. We regret to per-
ceive that but * very imperfect report of the
speeches and proceedings of this important Meeting
appears in all the Morning Papers, which we have In
some instances endeavoured to correct. We shall
add in this place such particulars and remarks as may
tend to supply these omissions. The names of the
distinguished persons whn were present, the occa.
don and object of the Meeting, the interesting toplca
discussed, and the time in which they come to be con-
sidered, give peculiar force and claims upon our at.
tension to the sentiments and opinions delivered upon
this occasion.• Besides the Members for Westmin-
ster, Sir F. BURDETT and Lord COCHRAN; there
were present Major CiRTWRILIIIT, Sir ROBERT WIL•
EON, Mr. BRUCE, W. A. MADOCILII, Esq. M. P. the
Bon. DO.FC:LAS KtristAtaD, Mr. Alderman Croon-
Bettritr, Mr. HUNT, and a number of other
distin-
guished public characters. It will be observed that
various other Members of Parliament, and some No-
blemen, namely, the Carl of Syron, had previously
intimated their intention of being present, but,for the
reasons assigned in theletters of apologyto the Meeting,
this did not take place. The sentiments, however, of
these abcentces, it is imp:snout toremarks

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the Meeting, and itAleirtaweyamg to Ctb-
these, approvers of the 4104:10111. of
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GILEENT IlisAtecerce and WALTER rAATICEtS ES(I, of
YerirshireTthe latter et "which Genleman tretuatT
declined a teal in the House of Commons, because :el
conceived it impossible, from thecorrupt system carried
on io and out of that House, tndo any good to his Con-
stitoents. The most important features in the pro.
ceedings of the fleeting- was the intimation which
Lord Corona-NE gave of his intention of gasbag
abroad, consequently of his resigning the trust of one
of . the Representatives for Westminster ; and the
*bereaved degree of unanimity in the minds of the
iceding men and the Meeting in general on the sub-
ject of Reform, with the questions which it involves,
namely, Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments.
It is true, that when Mr. HUNT attempted to speak,
considerable reluctance was manifested to hear bin.;
but it is also true, that when he slid obtain a hear-
ing, it was chiefly to remark the • growth of that
unanimity on the great topics in question whirh we
bavembserved, and to propose himself as a candidate
in the place of 14,0 rd CocaitSNE. .
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Upon thkeeressity of Reform, and that of the moot
radical kind, there can now, we think, he. tyos
0 . • :,
little difPreoce of .o tiiirtv Ifiroughoot tile Nia•i...fl:
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The country needs aa itquires it, and it mutt come,
The issue of the trintiol
,for the repeal of the Apples,-
nial Act, shows that noshing rail he parried of the
House itself, till they know *aorl feel that the Friends
of Reform are so agreed and united, that they, the
Parliament, must yield to the just and constitutional
wishes olthe, People. I; is for the nation to perse.
eerein its,jpstdetnands, and to re-echo the elves-
sjonif its t:%htoi until the House of Commons is
convinced of tiii,•Or the faction who held the Peo-
ple and tile forms of theColtstitution in thraldom to
their unjust views, shall be deprived of the power
with which they have so illegally invested them-
selves. The `treat bulk of the Nation '.have come
to a Sense of. the necessity of Reform, to preserve
the ground-work of national prosperity, which
ground-work stilt exists. If there be any rfa'nger, it
wow consists i 9 withholding the just demands of the
People ; and if there be any men distinguished '
for talent and station, who still derhut in joining the'
rooks of the People, or one public duty more ire.'
perious tbsn another, it is the duty of. those who are
testified by talent, weight, and esperience to felt ill
with the wishes of the People, and evert their powers.
to give direction sod effect to the prior), of limit-
countrymen. The 'dorm which agitated the country
tome time ago has now no real ground of founds.
tion. Men now perceive the arts resented to,
So entrap them, and keep them under the iron.
yoke of a inclines yid despojic power, which,
as Sir FRANCIS BURDETT justly observed, is e'er.'
risen with all the additioiral arts of Corruption to
keep both the Crown anti the People in :-übjection to
their own selfish vieel. The Potion will not,
cannot, always hear this odious thraldom.—
The progress of knowloolge and of troth is slow,
but the march of orations is steady, and not to be
repressed. Neither the Government, nor the 80.
roughmongering faction, who are now lording it
over the Crown and the People, can he ignorant of
the national desire, or pretend that the wished-for
Reform is confined to a few. Thee cannot, thei
dare not now say, that it is in Spa. fields atone that a
wish for Reform is heard ; the knowledge of men's
rights has indeed descended to the loops, and the
poorest 'of Society. It has penetrated to the in-
nermost recesses of the dungeon, and broken the fet.
ters of arbitrary power. We now also see, and
we rejoice to witness it, these right confirmed by the
acknowledgment of characters, whose SPBIIOII4 MP in-
terposition in favour of them and humanity, may do
much to save the country from the dangers that
might otherwise be apprehended.

We have received the French Paperi to the
inst. The funeral of the Prim* of CONDE was fixed
for this day. Ort Wednesday the King held a Coun-
cil of Ministers, which lasted for five hours. M.
PORTALIS has Bet out for 'Lome, to set on foul new
sregociations respecting the Concordat. The public
mind in France has, strongly expressed itself against
the spirit of
.dominstion manifested by the Clergy,
bat the Papers are not very communicative on this
subject. The negotiations for Concordats with
Hanover and Prussia, are said to be cousid: rattly ad-
vanced. Those with the other Protestant Slates of
Germany do not appear iu so favourable a train. On
the 4th inst. the POPE was to have announced °reap-
pointments of several Bishops in the states of the
Church, and sixteen Neapolitan Bishops. lie had
refused to confirm the nomination of several Bishops
by the King or BAVARIA, objecting to some MI ac-
count of their doctrinal errors, and to others on the
score of their morals. The revenue of the Reuse
litotes amounted, - last year, to 6,000,000 of
scodi; hut the expenditure exceeded that sum.— I
The foreigners who visited Rome during the last year
had expended there about %,000,000 of scorn. A
number of new buildings are erecting upon specula-
tints, and the ancient mistress of the world is about
to assume a more modern appearance. Nearly all the
chiefs of banditti had surrendered themselves: the
last who came in was the noted Cesaris, whir had the
bolduess, last vitt, to carry off M. CIIATILLON from
LUCIEN BONAPARTE., country-house, 'near Freacaii.
of the.conspirat ors in the territory of Ancona,
,s and Macula., Gad been liberated.