The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-25 00:00:00

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, FEentteny 25, 11415.

The French Papers or IVednesday last, and Dutch
and German Journals arrived this morning. They
reiterate the previoni accounts of the conclusion of
the labours of Congress, except some very subordi. '
i.ale affairs—that Congress which has so much
iiiiaopcinted the wishes and expectations of the
(fiends of liberty and justice. An article from
states, that the King occupies himself
nf:Hy in forwarding the views of Prince DJ.

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GENE BEAIMARNOIS, BONAPARTE'S near relative ; and
the statement is' reiterated, that all the Imperial
Powers are inflamed with a most virtuous indigna.
Lion against the piratical States of. Barbary, and
that they long to see England setting the example of
commencing a war of extermination against these un-
licensed marauders, that they may therein the spoil I
Virtuous and disinterested Princes ! England and
Christendom is much obliged to them.
The Course of Exchange continues to rise at
Vienna. The last accounts from thence are of the
11th.
The statement of the Dukc of SYLLLTNGTOY being
seriously indisposed appears to be untrue. It was
expected that the general pacification wouldbe sign-
ed on the 14th or 15th, when the clouds of uncer-
tainty which have so long hung over the affairs of
!Congress would be dissipated. No doubt but the
whole of the mischief will soon be out.- Genoa, Po-
i
laud, Saxony—we have beheld enough

Dispatches have just reached Government from
America, brought by his Majesty's ship Clinker,
arrived at Portsmouth, in twenty-nue days from
Halifax.
The remainder of the Resolutions, moved by air.
Roamsom, were discussed in the House of Cr-
mous last night, and the Report of the Committee
was ordered to be brought up on Monday, when
the Bill will be regularly brought iu tolerably
quick march for such an important measure, it must
be allowed, considering all the circumstances,
Evidence, &c. on which it is founded.
By proposing to lay restraints on the importation
of grain, the Legislature agrees to tolerate an evil,
for the purpose of balancing and counteracting the
influence of other evils. Fatal necessity! and mast
'pernicious policy! Consider to what this prin-
ciple would lead—to the toleration of abuses of the
most mischievous tendency,—to the adoption of a
cure that may prove worse than the disease. This
is another example of the indemnity system, which
is giving one man the power and authority to convert
to his use the goods of thousands, in despite of all
the established laws of justice; and to draw the bond
of slavish coercion around millions whom GOD and
Nature have declared free. -

The object of the plan which the landowners are
, now precipitating with such earnestness through the
Legislature, is neither to reduce the price of corn nor
to encrease its quantity, but to enable them to desive
the highest possible rent for their land. Does not
I the manner iu which this measure has been hatched,
and is now carrying into effect, sufficiently indicated,*
motives and intentions of the framers? And whilst the
objects of those immediately interested are not lettie
be guessed at, by the declarations which they now
make in the fulness of theca. strength—what is to be
l thought of those guardians of the public interests,
• who, in defiance of the tlwusen►& of Petitioal~
Inow load the Legislative Board; give the sessitlen.
of authority to the sacrificing of nine-tenths of the
population for the advantage of a frw, who have un-
feelingly lorded it over the poor for twenty years
past? When we heard of the dark Divan at Fife.
I House, we exclaimed in the prophetic language of the
poet of mystery,—

" Of daritargs •isibk en much be lent
As Wry, show, half veil the dread intent !"

We trembled for the honour and independence of
St. Steplien's—we trembled for the few remaining
comforts, the new born and fondly cherished hopes
of the tens of thousands who in this land of boasted
freedom and philanthrophy must continue to eat the
bitter bread of sorrow, and ask in the agony of des-
pair, why is it ever to be moistened only with their
sweat and their tears? The late sittings of the Hones—
till half after tizo on Thursday morning, and Milner
on that of Friday, and the resumption of the‘diacus-
Dion again last night, when so short a delay as only till
Monday was given for bringing up the Report on the
Bill, evince a solicitude either to discuss the point in
all its possible bearings, or to take time so mush by
the forelock that not even the Ides of March (if they
may be supposed to have any influence on the
next crop) shall be permitted to approich without
being provided against. It was not with this provi-
dent celerity that legislative measures were adopted
for the purpose of keeping down the price of Corn
when Government were purchasing it, and sending
it not of the country at a most exorbitant rate.—
But we have entered on a new era. The pleasing
novelty of tha new age. however, *will not efface the
remembrance of that which is gone by.
.'rbit hard-
ships imposed upon the manufacturers and tradesmen
for the last twenty years—the patient, though pain-
ful endurance on the part of the labouring poor for
that long period, of a situation the avast difficult
and distressing—when between the farmer charging
whatever he chose, and their employer allowing only,
(because he could not afford more,) swelr wages as
barely sufficed to sustain life, the sufferinis of these
classes were grievous indeed, are too indelibly re-
corded to be soon forgot, and prove better than a
thousand arguments the fallacy of that most 'unfair
doctrine which insinuates that the interests and
comforts of the majority of the members of the
State ought ever to be at the mercy of st protected
few, who have no other title to this4klasiee favour,
than that which should make a Goversitletlitclutioert'
of adding to their power,—having id ebeir holds'
the sustenance of others. No Government Oughtlio.
legislate restrictively, but in cases where It is clearly-1
evident that the effect of such restrictions-meet be,
the benefit of the whole.. Some proptictort tell us

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THE STATESMAN.

" That bounty thou bast widely spread,
" That bounty let me bhare."

that the proposed restrictions en the importation of
Corn, are devised solely for this purpose. .IVe hesi-
tate not to say, that that friendship 'which would
deprire us of a present and attainable benefit on such
a pretence must be deceitful. Allow the public to
enjoy that•abundance which Providence has provided,
and teach them not to look on that bountiful hand
which extends the blessings of life, as if it presented
a poisoned chaliee.

Though it must be allowed the subject has been ,
fairly and candidly discussed, without any infusion
of the baneful spirit of party, and that many of the
specious sophisms advanced by the advocates of re-
striction have been ably exposed and refuted both
in and out of Parliament, we do not think the (lan. 1
ger and injustice of the violent proceeding, which is
again to subject the country to the severest priva- 1
tions merely because landlords and tenants cannot
settle their respective interests, and claim indemnity
at the public expence for what ought long ago to
have taken place, have yet been made •sufficiently
manifest. But the task of withstanding the strides
of corruption and oppression is neither a profitable
nor a pleasing one. We shall, notwithstanding, not
desert our post, conscious that when the cause of
justice and a people's rights are at Sake, he " who
deliberates," or is silent," is lost" to every dictate of
honesty and independence.
Having said this, we revert to the claims whictrthe
1 agricaltinists make, like the rest of the great suf-
ferers by the late roar, to iiidemnity. And with
1 these modest pretensions ringing in our ears, and
1 knowing how many of their speculations which have
I turned out ruinously, came to be attended with an
I unfortunate result, WP would ask what greater
reason is there far the Legislature interfering
tin behalf of such persons, in order to pro-
vide fur them an indemnity at the public expecte°,
than for its doing the same in favour of the
adventurers to South America, whose speculations
failed from a similar want of sufficient foresight ?
Nd) body ever dreamt of legislative relief being af-
forded to these commercial unfortunates'. We canno
help considering many of the persons who deserted
the field of commercial adventure when their efforts
in their own proper sphere were most necessary for
the general good, and madly " entered on a field un-
known," exactly in the light• of such rash and unfor.
, tunate speculators. It is well known that the num-
-1 bee of inexperienced persons.who wished to be far..
mere at the time of the nation's greatest commercial
difficulty, far exceeding the natural order, and the
address with which land-holders and their agents, used
! to intlame their competition, provoked lessees to go
beyond the bounds of prudence; and hence the greater
1 part of the mischief that has happened. But a dis-
ease of this kind finds its cure in the disorder it pro-
,
i duces: and surely it is better that a fern of such spe.
:minion who have adveneed the rent of land above its
natural level should receive a check, than that the
!public at large should he made to suffer indefinitely
to repair the natural effect of such rashness. The
general welfare ought not to be voluntarily sacrificed
with the vain view of preventing this inevitable re.
I suit. And here let us tell all those who think that
high rent is a means or a proof of the prosperity of
a country, that the wealth of society must increase
before the rent of land can be fairly or permanently
raised, and that the latter will always be the cer-
tain cause of the former. The country must be
proved to be in an opulent, and not in a ruinous state,
' as it is at present, before landlords ought to com-
mence the screwing system. But this screwing and
' scourging method will not always do, though it has
I lately, we blush to say, been recommended with all
t the powers of eloquence in the British Muse of
Commons. _ The consequences of this ' system are
1 not thwart so pleasingly obvious as have been de-
-1 pitted. When a farmer is depressed by an over-
' stretched rent, his mind is embarrassed, his funds
I are diminished, end his energy is paralized ;
land being deprived of the ability, he scarcely
feels the disposition to do justice to the soil,
i and to draw the greatest possible return from
' it. A listlees despair accompanies all his opera-
tions, his labours are imperfectly executed, and in
the end his circumstances are ruined, and he leaves

the farm in a neglected and exhausted state. The
landlord who, from avidity to augment his rental,
puts his land into such miseraule occupancy, not
only injures his own personal interest, but is an ene-
my to his country, by depriving the public of the
more abundant product which a more liberal con-
duct and superior management would bring to
market.

It is the same with short leases, which the pro-
prietors too often grant, in order that they may
have frequent opportunities of raising their rents,—
But neither capital nor improvements are the fruits
of such policy. Let the owners of land adopt those
methods which are the natural,means of improving
their properties before they attempt to throw the
whole weight of cultivation upon the public.
The public are accused of taking a narrow view
of this subject, and of looking with an unfounded
jealousy on the measures deemed necesssry.to in-
crease the nation's agrkalinal prosperity. We will
reply to this by reminding such as think in this way
of ,a historical fact. We are told, that on the first
carrying of the turnpike roads into the distant
counties, such was the apprehension of the land-
holders in the immediate neighboarhood of London,
that they petitioned against the measure on the

grounds of the injury to their estates, by promoting
such a concurrence in the supply of the Eendon
Market. Yet by this very extension of its resources
has London so increased in opulence, that its over-
tlowings have raised these neighbouring lands to a
value infinitely beyond any thing they could ever
otherwise have reached. So much for mistaken views
of Nags! •
Just such may not be viewed the present proceed-
ings of the Landed Tnterests•in their misapprehension
and false alarm of the more extended supplies of
Britain ?

We will close these hasty, and at the present time
not unnecessary remarks, by sa3ing the British pee.
ple ought again to awaken from their lethargy, and
in a firm and respectful manlier agnio humbly repro:
sent tl:eir wishes to their Legislative Representatives.
Let them remind them that they. are only met
' there to express the wishes of the people, anti to ac.
gislate for the general good alone.—Move all let it
be represented, that now is.the period for taking off
burdens and restaictions, instead of increasing and
perpetuating them—that the country is already orer
taxed—already bound toe much in the*fetters of in•
jorious restrictive laws, and suffering already too sc.
verely under the baneful influence of overgrown mono.
polies ; and far gone as the nation is in erroneous
policy, and d rai nedas are its resources to the depth that
we shudder to behold, by a scandalous and wisteria
expenditure, the vox 'populi will yet prevail, Aid,
Imply, our country may yet " flourish great and free,
i the dread and envy" of the world.

We understand it is settled• that previous to the
Dike of CUMBEIV.ANo'S marriago, a Message is to
be brought down to the House announcing to Portia.
meta the intended event, and desiring to make an ad.
ditinnal establishment on his Itoyul Highness.

Lord WHITWORTH is certuinl) coming to England,
but, we understend, will, if his health permits,
turn to his Viceroyalty, in Ireland, the foaminess(
which important office will, of course, be dischmol,
cluring'his absence, by Lords Justices, created for
the occasion.

The Princess of WALEs has. asked fora skip of war
to convey her home to Great Britain from Naples,
and has been informed that no vessel could be conve-
niently spared at this time from the Mediterranean
station, to accommodate her Royal Highness.
By he immense swarm of Knights n Welt, like my-
riads of gnats on a summer evening, the prolific breath
of a late Gazette has hatched into new life and unex-
pected dignity, a Correspondent says, he is reminded
of a curieus-Anectlote in the history of CLIA !ILES the
FIFTII. Passing through Fenn, the Emperor Was
complimented by the Podesta, the Mayor and Alder-
men of the City, who tarried around his horse in ex-
pectation of some mark of Imperial beneficence. Ea.
compassed by the crowd, and impeded in his progress,
the Monarch, playing right and left IrMi_ his sword,
dubbed the entire populace, and eackused-; "Oesnes
estole Equitea !" r ,
The East Middlesex Millitia are oft ftsdritarth
from Liverpool, and may be expected isktisioridnity
of town, early in the nett week, tts ps
•In the 'cleentru•of Barcelona the InquM' • a
bey, and lately some of the Inquisitors bring at the
play, observed one of the lady dancers with very
short petticoats. The next duy they sent their bailiff
to fetch the poor girl to their prison, and possibly
she may now have to dance epos de cerde.
In the melancholy procession which accompanied
the remains of the late lamented Duke of Dorset from
the Castle of Dublin to the sea side, for embaikation
on board the yacht for England, Lord Airmen, Co-
lonel INTssrponr, and the Rev. Dr. SpAnt, were chief
mourners. The pall-hearers were, the Duke of LEW.
STER, Earl of WESTMEATH, and Viscount POW Eng.
COURT.

The prime of the (pattern loaf at Exeter is Did.
—in London it is 114 d.—and yet both wheat and
flour are sent to Devonshire from Mark-lane.

Flour rose last week ss. per sack at Canterbury,
and a proportionate rise in bread was expected ; but
the Mayor having fixed the assize from the average
price of wheat, instead of flour, bread fell on Thurs-
day, in that city, sd. in the peck loaf. This pro-
duced a general consternation among the bakers, who
affirm they are now considerable losers by every sack
of flour they hake.
A Continental Paper says, " The Austrian Go-
vernment has just issued an Ordinance permitting the
importation of foreign beer and ale, which had been
hitherto prohibited. The mischiefs arising from the
monopoly of the Austrian brewers gave rise to this
measure."

The Bank of Amsterdam, formerly so celebrated
in the commercial world, is about to recover from
its long misfortunes. The Burgomasters of that ca•
pital have lately published a notice, in which they
declare, in the name of the Municipality, " that
the city of Amsterdam guarantees the fonds deposited
in the Bank, under the security of all the property
and revenues of that city."
The following is an eztrect ef-&-leiter from Rnole•
received through France :—" Spies and &mania.
tors traverse Rome in whole troops; but nei her
these secret agents, nor the POWs Bulls, are able to
defend his Sacred Majesty against his enemy Mu'
RAT, who has made him tremble on his throne. The
inhabitants are under constant apprehensions that the
Neapolitan forces will, by a rapid march, enter the
gates of Rome; and what must be our confcsiou.
when ropes and Cardinals, Preachers and Friar.
Monks and Mendicants, fire all huddled tcrOlicr r:i
the gaols of the city."
Counr-MAnzt.i.z.—A General Court-Martia' ‘3“.
held at the Horse-Guards, Whitehall, on the 20'h
December, 1814, on Seijeant Thomas Sandalv,
the Ist Regiment of Font Guards, for dcsertien.
embezzling the sum of Vitt. I Go. with which he wa'
intrusted to settle the arrears of pay due to the col,•
pany to which he belonged. lie was found volt},
and sentenced to be transported for seven years, GS A
felon. The sentence has been confirmed by 0"
PRINCE REGENT.

Before a Lady resolves to show her bad log to
,s
man of honour, she should recollect what Sir .•
Falstaff says--"
Honour bath no sicifl in surg,