The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-12 00:00:00

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No prejudices of his associates, some aleitoration in
tieessaidow:of the people might be hoped for; but
Am we onside, the character of the Mialstry from
ow he has deignealtosocept the appointment, and
the geassary with whom be is to act, ear expects.
toss of improvement are very far from sanguine.
Ithe WI quality in the noble Marquess to which
tie Ministerial writers of the day look up, is that
tavaicb, unhappily, recostree has often and in vain
use bad to reduce that distracted country to order.
Oicharecteristic of his admiration of Government,
they, is rigout ; yet in exercising it, he not
ive his own discretion, but take advice pf the experi."
soca part of the resident community. Acting with
oat lis called vigour, and directing it by the
Ilist feelings of the persons at the seat of local go.
esent, have been the sources of most of the wig-
bows of Ireland. From what is hinted, the govern.
totieself has not been wrong, but only not enlight.
wit Oa from wheedle Courier of last night suggested
4isvy expect the nhw Viceroy to be attended with a
Ivy assemblage of 'fresh Counsellors to furnish him
ofieisteilleence and advice. As if the misrule of
Nava were 'disown, and the land-jobbers, and proc-
tors, and the exactions of tythes, and all,
the other
graveness which barren and afflict a numerous, bat ex-
hausted population, bad never been the subject of cem•
?Was l The nobility and gentry of property, says the ea-
pent writer, must, if they seek to secure peace to her dis-
Meta aad surly deserted provinces,_
come forward
in a body, and seriously set themselves to discover
la apply a remedy that shall heal the sores
off the past, and prevent a recurrence of similar
ones in future. But as to any radical cure,
slat is out of the question. Let them, continues
this political quack, instead of cc:intending for
specialities political opinions (such as the Ca-
tholic Emancipation, on which they have set their
hearts) exert themselves only to increase the
domestic comfort of the poor, by the adoption
if expedients. The chief expedient which this
I sagacious writer has himself found out, is the return
the absentee. to their native country ; and if the
Irish laid-owners could but be persuaded to reside
on their own estates, their system of government is
so excellent, that the country would, in a abort time,
become the most tranquil and flourishing part of the

Britiab Empire !!!
While the Bonanox Ministers, who have so often
attempted by their emissaries to create a counter Re- I
volution in Spain, bare sunk under a coalition of
their own enemies at home, it must be satisfactory to
the Liberals of France, and to those Spanish Patriots
*ho nee determined to rescue their country from
bonnets intrigues, to see the content failure of
-of the aeltesnee of the ROYAL RMOROIDOROR Of
Spain. This !pest-ridden Meow% has not bees
idle in the 1e of subjugation. His attempted
eltiages in the Government of the different Provinces
hes bees disapproved of by the people, and have pro-
tined firm opposition from the Corporate Authorities.
The pasillanimous creature, however, festal led on by the
Monkish Ultra', who feel their ill-gotten power falling
away. and their prospects of living on the labour of
the people vanish before their eyes. They see the
bigotry of centuries, and the clouds of superstitions
thraldom evaporating, and the people determined to
ernancipate themselves. determined to prefer liberty to
ilaverys and the rights of their fellow-citixens to the
ustrpation of a prejudiced Clergy : who, like all others
of the cloth, are at all times arrayed against the cause
of liberty. The Courier fancies in its ravings, that
the Spaniards, because they ate resolved to have the
substance, not the shadow, of a liberal Government,
have fur their object the conversion of Spain into a Re-
public. That the people of Spain should prefer any form
of Government to that of the &moven, is not much
to be wondered at. And even a Republic may offer to
them its temptations, especially when they see their
Transatlantic Colonies flourishing under the standard
of the people, and the 1 NQUISITION levelled with
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the dust. These are advantages to Spaniards for
Which they themselves have paid dearly. The indlo
cote and tyranny of Kings in 1 Priests, no longer
bold victims in captivity. Chains have rusted with
the blood of the brave ; but the bonds have bees broken
asunder for the good of the human race. No longer
'are freemen consigned to the dungeon for thinking.
ne edifice of Monkish cruelty no longer 'sista.
Spain has a glorious field before it, while its hopes of
• effectual regeneration are supported by Portugal.
*hose Institutions are gradually and firmly advancing
fikgrottness. The wisdom of the Portuguese is pre-
eminent, and we hope that a union of the political
interests of that people with Spain, will be courted
and eff.cted by the Patriot exertions of both countries.

Arosurao, Nov. 27.—The Russian army of the
South, commanded by Count Wittgenstein, is to have
for its van-gaard MONO Polish ',lacers. This fine
and numerous csvalry is to be under the immediate
'command of the Grand Duke Constantine. The Hal-
perin Alexander is expected shortly to review these

'troops.
VIENNA. Nov. 23 _According to accounts from
various ports of the Mediterranean and Adriatic. the
Celan'lonian corps in the More* has received consider-
- able sums of money from the island of Cephalonia.—
'A great umber of the inhabitants of the island of
Eutte embarked at the beginning of October for the
&lora, though the English have strict orders to pre-
vent it. Even frotn.Corfe itself, where the English
troops are very numerous, a great many young men
have gone to the port of Misolungi, in Btolia, a serve
ilk a corps formed there.
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IRELAND.
(PROM TIN DOMAN MORNING NOM IMIG. .
Oat starests from the Provincial Papers this day
are tow. Portuestely they disclose so sew atrocity.—
The following statement we copy from the Correttpostri• '
eat of Saturday evening :
" EITIAMIDINART Ournatia.—About the hour of
12 o'clock, on the night of last Tuesday, a large party
of the peasantry, well armed, and consisting of more
than two handled peruse. went to the farm of Inch,
*bids is situate between Ballingary and Charleville,
and, in a short time, destroyed a valuable orchard.
They felled one hundred and• fourteen apple trees,
sixteen ash trees, and one elm tree. But devastation
slime was not the object of the Unditti, as they had
broughtwith them, about one hundred horses and cars.
for the purpose of removing the spoil. They partly
effected their design, as they removed some of the tim-
ber from the premises, shouting in triumph. and firiag
glans, as if is defiance of the civil or military powers.
The letter which has communicated this intelligence
adds, that there is a report in the neighbourhood, that
the peasantry are determined not to leave a treestaa4-
ing in that part of the country. The farm of lack is part
of the estate of John Mason, Esq. and as information
was quickly given by his sons, to Major Wilcock., of
the perpetration of the outrage, some hopes were enter-
tained that be would be able to discover some of the
offenders"
We stated on Saturday. that it was the intend*.
(as we were informed) of the Lord Mayor, to lane a
Proclamation. ordering that all public houses in the
city of Dublin. should be closed at eight o'clock et
night. We hosed since shoats) Proclamation was ac-
tually issued, bat we could not see one, nor could we
discover any body else that bad sees this Lord Mayor's
Proclamation. Oar own opinion is, that such a pro-
ceeding is not called for.
la the north, the abominable Toll Extortion has
been the cause of seine disturbance. The unfortunate
peasantry were so worried by the exorbitant demands
of these harpies, the Toll-men. demands not warranted
either is law or in equity, that they have been driven,
as happened in Dublin under the auspices of the Cor-
poration, to open resistance to all payment of tolls, as
the people are unable to distinguish between the legal
demand, if there be any such, and the extortion. We
recollect when, at the Toll-house in Barrack-street,
three shillings and ninepence for toll was demanded
on three doses of reaping hooks, and when an Alder.
man of Dublin bad the hardihood to appear is person
to support the claim We are credibly informed that
many of the Magistrates in the northern counties have
not discharged properly their duty en the subject of
these disputes respecting the Toll system.
We understand, and we have great pleasure in stat-
ing it, that the orders which had been issued for the
erecting of barriers at the canal bridges. and other
outlets of the city, have been countermanded.
We wish the Directors of the Bank of Ireland would
order the cheemax de frill. which wu on etarday
placed at the top of the Bask building, where it joins
Westmorlaed-street. to be taken down ; groundless
alarms are ceased by the appearance of those sort of
preparations, whisk are injurious is their effects. la-
superable ridiculous and foolish reports were in air-
collides during the put week, wholly unworthy of

Wines *Wm,
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The staff of the City of Cork ind a. wader the
eosusand of Adjutaat Bass, have been ordered to teas
the forts at Cove.
His Majesty's Privy Conseil were again in deliber-
ation on Saturday.
On the *abject of the Nenagh affair we find the fol-
lowing letter in The Correspondent of Saturday eve's-

" Sin,—An account of the affray which took place at
Nesagb on *today evening last. between a party of the
Nenagh Yeomen on daty. sad some country people, has
bees transmitted to the War Office, by two llagistrates,
who took information upon the spot; and an investigation
is in progress, the result of which will be shortly made
public ; in the mean time, I beg to state that the
.pars-
graph in The Dublin Morning. Post of this day, giving
an account of the transaction, is incorrect.
" Pecan Rotates, jun., Capt. Nenagh Yeomanry."
The account given in the Morning Post was taken
from letters written on the spot, which, we know, were
not intended to be further used, or published—the
writers, therefore, could have ne motive 'in misrepre-
*eating the circumstances which had occurred. We
have since-seen other letters. which give precisely the
same account.
la addition to other causes of distress which now
afflict the South of Ireland, we learn, with much re-
gret, that the poor are threatened with what to them
would be a *talons calamity, the loss of a large part
of the potatoe crop. This is owing to the continued
wet weather, by which the pits are filled with water,
and the potatoes rotted, or rendered unfit fir use.
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.
We understand the Commissioners of Parliamentary
Inquiry have discontinued their sittings for the pre-
sent. and are returned to England. Probably they
wish to speed the Christmas with their friends, and it
is. we believe, their intention to return early in the
Spring, and resume the investigation with which they
had been charged.
REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.
The Churchwardens and Deputies met at the Post-
011ite Tavern, on Saturday, when the Secretary read.
the Lord Mayor's Requisition, calling an Aggregate
Meeting, on Thursday next, at the Royal a
Exchne.
The Requisition was ordered to be pobilshed ; sgad
sanguine hopes are entertained. that on a moderate,
but fall sod firm representation if the grievous op-
pressieas of this impost being laid bef
ore
Par-
liament.ar-
its total repeal would follow.
the Meeting on Thursday will be *ell attended.

Three thoasaad of the Veteran Battslieu are to be
immediately embodied. The adoption of this measare
ie. sappoeed to have bees the cause of the Doke of
York's sadden Mara from Mr. Peel's, at Lalworth

Castle.
The thirty-ninth regiment left Dublin last week for
the seat of disturbance,
Cur BlslllPlus.—Yesterday, a Court of Aldermen
was held at Gaitalon. Mr. Golf surrendered his
°See of one of the Serjeant Carvers, and the swat
Court was appointed for the we creased thereby is
the bard Mayor's hossebeld. The Coen referred a
petition front S. Fogg, one ef the Marsand, ksimes,w
ben in re-
speet of his being imprisoned in Holl
want t• curate a warrant, to &Committees

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—Aso—
• illtotilad having veered nand to the easion
day aeiaidag, the 84th regiment embarked oa board
the tiSsports which bud been so ithei- la waiting, aa4
sailed fet.. Cork. The Sensirannis and Phonon Rigel
sailed the same place, but the wind shifting woo
after to the S. and S.W. it is supposed the sessile
Witt bate pat Into Falmouth.
Suaday se'saight, between five and six o'clock is
the evening. as Monsieur Morel was on his way Irons
Exeter to Newton Bushell, he was stopped tear the
latter place by two footpads, who presented a pistol to
Lis breast, and demanded bis money. Monsieur Morel,
greatly alarmed for bis life, although he did not under-
stand English, surrendered his pocket-book, containing
551. In notes, with which, after a fruitless search for
his watch, the robber and his companion jumped over
the bodge and made off. The tallest of the villains
had whiskers, and wore a blue jacket and trowsers.
We understand, that the late Mrs. Fortescue,
of 11
Avishays, Somerset, amongst other Legacies, has left
5001. to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.
As inquest was held at the Swan Inn, Great Tor-
rington, on Sunday last, on the body of Mary Stevens,
who was found dead under very suspicions cirrum-
stews. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Mur-
der; and a young man named Philip Chapel, sup-
posed to be the perpetrator, has been committed for
trial to the Devon County Gaol.
The King's pardon was yesterday received for Thos.
Watts, who was convieted of Forgery at the last As-
sizes. bad teceived sentence of death. A detainer,
however; against him, was at the same time received,
for a misdemeanour; but to be liberated on giving
hail, himself in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each,
for his appearance at the next Assizes.--(diffred,
Dec.ll.)

The Gazette of last eight annonaces the appoint-
Inuit of the Marquess of Wellesley to be Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, the Marquess of Coaynghaut to. be
Lord Steward, the Duke of Montrose to be Local
Chamberlain, and the Doke of Dorset to be Master of

the Horse.
It contains also *Prod:matt" proroguing Partia-
lness to Tuesday, the 5 L of February next, when it is
to meet for the dispatch of business.
The Marquess Wellesley, who is to succeed the
Earl Talbot in the Government of Ireland. is ex-
pected is Dublin about the 17th instant.—Richard
Colley Wellesley is the Marquess Wellesley, the Earl
of Mornington. and Viscount Wellesley, in Ireland—
and Baron Wellesley, of lellesley in Somersetsbire,
in &witted. His Lordship was born on the 20th of
June. 1760 ; and is, consequently. now in the sixty-
second year of his age.—Ou the 29th of November.
1794. Lord Wellesley married Nisei othe•Gabrielle, only
daughter of the Monseigneur Pierre Rolland. Her Lady-
ship died without issue on the sth of November.lBl6.
On the 2d of December. 1799. Lord Wellesley was
advanced to the dignity of Marquess, for hie signal
services, as Governor-General of India. in the defeat of
Tipp's°, Sultan of the Mysore, in the East ladies, on
the 7.th of March preeeding.—The other creations of
Nobility of this branch of the illuetrions family of
Wellesley. are as follow ;—Baron. July 9, WC--
Vlseovet and Earl. August 25, 1760—ate t Bares
Wollealty. in England. October Le, 1197.-•-•Tbei
"ffietr Peeesupeive tbe koalas of &elm )44;114 I"
Viscant Wellesley, aid Earl of Mornieiton, In
Ire
land, is the "tight Elea. Wm. Wellesley Pole, now
Lord Maryborough. and next brother to the Noble
Marquees.—(Deblin Mot:sing Post.)
Letters from Zama of the 9th ult. were received
yesterday. They mention the arrival of intelligence
from Pastas, that the Greek troops from Tripoli:2a
had arrived before that place, and were attaeltiag it.
Us their approach, the Turks began to put into ex--
cation a plan they had previously formed for the de.
strection of the tows, which they set on fire at several
places. The conflagration was raging when the Sc.
coasts loft, and all the inhabitants had quitted Patras.
The Enlist' Consul bad arrived at '!.ante. About
1,500 Lalliot Turks bad remained in the Castle,
which, as the Greeks are ill provided with artillery.
is described as sufficiently strong to resist their attacks;
but it was probable they must soon surrender for want

of previsioas.
A Lisboa Mail arrived yesterday with letters and
papers to the 3d instant. This packet brought over
t►e sew Portugaese 'disaster to our Court. M. Oli-
veira, aad the Secretary of Legation, M. Fernandes

Thomas.
Letters were received yesterday from St. Peters-
burg to the 13th ult. The exchange had fallen from
91 to 91. This unexpected fall tended to confirm the
reports that were in circulation as to the hostile inten-
tions of the Russian Court. A very eminent house at
Dantsit had stopped payment to the amount, it is said,
of four millions of guilders. The failure is attributed
to as esteasive speculation in grain, in expectation
of
the opening of the ports in this country. This cir-
cumstance bad caused a gloomy appearance at Desi-
st*, and commerce was particularly dull there.
The mercantile house above alluded to, it is said, is
the beam of Tonnejme and Co.
A letter from Malta of the 13th ult. says—“ The
Rochfort will sail from hence on the 15th, to bring
Sir Thomas Maitland here, who has been detained in
Corfu by the late disorders in the islands. We tams
that he will fulfil his promise, held out before his de-
parture, of altering or annulling the obnoxious regu-
lations respecting the monopoly in corn."
NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 12.-.--PersOns desirous to
contribute to the means of celebrating a funeral and
religious service to the armory of Napoleon. are la-
thed to meeton Tuesday, the 16th inst., at five o'clock,
p. es. at the Orleans Ball-room. It only appertains to
rigid and impartial posterity to fix the place which Na-
pless is to occupy among the great men, ancient and
tea. but the circumstance of his exile and of his
promature death. suffice to create the liveliest interest
in the minds of all liberal men, whatever be their na-
tion, or soot, and to deserve. on their parts, a last
tribute to his memory.
The famous Zodiac of Dendemh (gripe) is tii'
length released from quarantine, and the learned men
of Marseilles have had an opportunity of examining
this valuable piece of antiquity, which is said by cer-
tain penes@ to have existed 4,821 years!—(Frosted
Paper.)
It is supposed that Lord Cork toe has realised by
his nautical exploits in the Pacific Ocean shoat sixty
thousand pounds.

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