The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-23 00:00:00

many individuals belonging to the productive classes of
the community, and especially to these who bad engaged
in speculative adventures, either or farming or trade.—
That restoration must also be accompanied with embar-
rassment to the land owner, in proportion as his estate
itencumbered with mortgages or other fixed payments.
assigned upon it during
_the period when land and rents
were raised to an *Mirk, value, in reference to the
impaired value of the money in which those encumbrances
were contracted.
"From the cessation of public loans, the probability
of large accumulations of capital, and the constant ope-
rations of such a Sinking Fund as, in the present state
of our finances, may henceforward, during the continu-
ance of peace, be regularly appropriated to the reduc-
tion of the public debt, your Committee trust that the
rate of interest of money, may, in a short time, be so far
reduced, below the legal tua.antoun, as to make those in-
cumbrances a lighter burden neon the landed interests
of the kingdom. It is an alienation which former in-
tervals of peace have produced, at periods in many re-
spects less favourable to its attainment ; and if, in the
present instance, the want of that alleviation is become
more urgent, your Committee venture to hope that, from
the greater accumulation of capital in the country, co-
operating with the effects of a positive and steady reduc-
tion of the Public Debt, this salutary result will also be
more speedily brought shout. They look forward to
this mode of easing the encumbrances of the landlord
with the more anxiety, as, amidst all the injury and in-
justice which an unsettled currency—an evil, they trust,
never again to be incurred—has in succession cast upon
the different ranks of society the share of that evil which
has now Wien upon the landed interest, is the only our
which, without inflicting greater injury and greater
injustice, admits (now that we are so far advanced
in the system of a restored currency) of no
other relief. The difficulties, great as they unfortu-
nately are, in which it has involved the farming, the
manufacturing and trading interests of the country,
must diminish in proportion as contracts, prices, and
labour, adjust themselves to the present valor of money.
That this change is now in progress, and has already
taken place to a considerable degree. k in evidence be-
fore your Conittsittee. They are satisfied that it will
continue until that balance is restored, which will afford
to labour its due remuneration, and to capital its fair
return. And, although they deeply lament the derange-
ment which the fluctuations pf the last tell years in the
value of the currency, have occasioned in all the trans-
actions of life, together with the individual loss and
suffering unavoidably produced by the return to a fixed
standard, they are satisfied that this was the only coarse
which it was in the p,' er of Parliament to adopt, as
well to prevent the continuance of a derangement,
ing, as it must have led, to the aggravation of those
losses and sufferings, as to manifest to the world the
inflexible determination of this country 6:jolly to ad•
here to that good faith of which the m oral character of
the people, is the sure guardian, anti with that
character, placed our greatness and our power open
the foundation, hitherto unshaken amidst all our vicis-
sitio!.-a, of public credit and national honour."
June IS, IS2I.

IND EP ENDENT EI ECI ;MS fur SOUTH!! ARK.

The Third Anniversary of the triumph of the Re-
formers of this respectable Borough, Irj% yesterday
celebrated at the Burns Tavern, Kennington—Sir B.
Wnsos in the Chair.

After the toast of " The king, and may be never
forget his declaration, that the Crown is held in trust
for the people," was drank with such demons:rations
of loyalty as it was• naturally calculated to inspire,
the health of " 'l•he Queen" was drank with rtitlin..i
astic applause ; as were several other popular toasts,
among others, 4"lbe People—the only source of legi-
timate power."
Air. BALL proposed the health of Sir Robert Wilson,
after an ardent eulugium upon his political princi,,,les
and general conduct.
This toast was drank with three times three and
great applause, which was considerably increased upon
Sir Robert's offering himself •to address the Meeting-.
The Gallant Officer, on returning thanks, adverted Li
a variety of popular topics, particularly enforcing the
necessity of Reform ; and upon the subject of his late
rote respecting tie grant to the Duke of Clarence, he
said he knew, that he had differed from many of his
own friends, and he feared from the majority of his con-
stituents. But he had stated before lie had given it,
that he did not consider the grant as a new proposition :
if it had been he should have objected ; but lie viewed
it as one registered on the Journals of the (louse, and
which had awaited only the pleasure of the Duke of
Clarence to be ratified, upon the p:esumption that ct•r•
tam conditions would be fulfilled. On this occasion
the Gallant General acknowledged that his feelings al-
ways inclined him to give his vote in favour of the
Royal Family when doubt existed. He had never con-
cealed—he had always avowed his obligation to the
King, who bad, at the time of his confinement in
France, and without any communication with him, ge-
nerously granted to the mother of his children a most
liberal maintenance and provision for t.io of them,
which allowance, on his standing for the Borough of
Southwark, lie had felt it Isis duty to relinquish in
their names, that his independence might not be affect-
ed, or be the object of suspicion ; but it would not-
withstanding, flaw 01 become him to levy war against
the domestic establishment of any of the I(oyal Family,
when not compelled by an imperative sense of duty,
and especially when be thought there was a fair claim
on the liberality and honour of the House. •
The health of Sir Francis Burdett having been
drank, the Hon. Baronet nrged, with his usually im-
pressive force, the principles of Parliamentary Re-
form, without which he felt that the country had no
chance of recovering or maintaining freedom. But
he hail no doubt that this measure would ♦et be at-
tained. The Hon. Baronet vindicated the charac,er
of Sir Robert IVilson, against the animadversions to
which the Gallant Officer had been lately subjected for
a particular vote, in which ►ote, however, he (Sir F.)
did not concur; although he was not at all disposed'
to grudge the Royal Family a liberal allowance, pro-
vided they were willing to promote the rights and in-
terests of the people. But as to Sir Robert Wilson,
looking at his whole life, and regarding him, not as
the soldier of fortune, but as the soldier of liberty, lie ,
could net attribute any act of his to a sinister motive.'
Acquitting the Gallant Officer then of corruption, he
could nut condemn him for a mere error of judgment.

Mr. lloutfousa and Mr. C. HeTeRINSON followed
in the same strain, both bearing testimony of the purity
of Sir K. Wilson's utotiyes; and the latter in parti-
eular, in consequence of the signal humanity of the
Gallant-Officer, at an early age, in Ireland, when than
country was the scene of tonere and desolation.

Wheo Sir K. Wit.sors, with leis friends, was about
to retire, thaSant tkPrer said, he rose to take
leave, feet he timid not without expremking his arknow-
ledgutents to his constituents r the and maid%