The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-21 00:00:00

FI4OM !ATE .11:”ToN P %PER.

WERT IN TR il)E.—The New Na►•igation Act
which passed the last session of Congress, ►cent 41:4
operation on the Ist I ktobcr. By this act the importa-
tion into the United States from the British West
Indic Islands, is prohibited under heavy penalties.

Letters from Bordeaux state, that the Chamber r!
Commune a that City had unanimously repurte.l
favour of an egnaliz.ition on French and American
vessels in their respective ports.

Lett►rs from Batavia of the Lith Aurno, have ar•
rived this morning, but no new from them has as yet
transpired.

The intended public thanksgiving of the Qcarx in
the Cathedral of St. Paul's, has called forth afresh
the acrimony Lf all the ministerial writers. In their
present state of kpleen, and in the triumphant situation
in which her MAJESTY at length is placed, it is im-
possible to expect that any step her 31AJEllrY can take
ran afford them satisfacaot. When it was announced
at first that the QI.EEN designed to proceed to St.
Paul's ou Sunday next, an outcry was immediately
made on the violation of the Sabbath, which her
passage through the city would inevitably occasion.
Nothing suited these hypocrite' pretenders then so
well as a sanctimonious cloak. They trembkd fur the
ark about to be profaned, and fur the sulemni:ies of a
day which were about to be disturbed by the bustle
of the multitudes that would cro*d the streets on
the occasion. Well ; the plan was fresh arranged,
as if to accommodate their wishes. The QUEEN
thought proper to make an alteration in the time of
her attendanee,and prop.wses to visit the Cathedral not
on Sunday next, but on the Wednestlay following. A
new apprehension is instantly excited. It is then
found that the usual good habits and good order that
prevail on a day set pet for the ordinances of reli-
gioo, might have res:rained thJse ebullitions and tu-
molts •vhich take place on ordinary days, when-
ever her ALsjas•►Y appears in public. It is cun-
ningly affected that this alteration is contrived
for the purpose of obtaining af.tl encouraging a
larger licence for the populace. " The grand effort
at mischief," says the oracle of her 31AJESTV.S
enemies this turning, intended for to-morrow se'n-
night, (instead of Sunday next.) has spread consider-
able alarm in the metropolis—alarm for private pro-
perty--and n•tt from any apprehension that the meek
and amiable Csmourcs will succeed in any atteuq t
that may be made to du what remains to make the
comparison between her and CATHERINE 11. of Russia
complae." In language of this base and abominable
cl•aracter, du these venal and protected calainnia-
, tors proceed in their endeavours to insult and vilify
their long oppressed and persecuted Queen. To such
of our readers as are unacquainted with their style, it
may be matter of astonishment, that imputations of
such a malignant nature, and of such seditious and
treasmuable design, could be ventured to be uttered at
the seat of tiovernment, and under the eogaisance of
Courts of Law. Such, however, is the tone which is
1 with impunity supportedolay, hy day, by thesnbordieste
agents of her MAJLIITt s pe..secutors; and if it occasion-
all) provoke resentment as well as sutprise, can it be mat-
ter of astonishment ? if mischief should be wrought
wo any occasion, when the people are called forth to
testify their sentiments, who c;.n wonder when such
excitements are applied to irritate rod rouse their in.
dignation ? We trust, however, that on theroccasion
referred to, the same snood and s 'bet sense which has
so strikingly appeared at the rarities times on which
their respect for her 311,L.resss has been manifested.
will again predomissate and regulate their whole pro-
cedure. 7lre alarm expressed is bit affected; the
danger is nought to deter her' MAJESTY from par-
suing Lev design. In the defenceless state in which she
bravely Came to lace lon accusers, and in which she
passed the stages of her of trials, her thanks
'to the Amorous." is pre-entittentiv due, and nest to
iu she has to thank the people, for the deliverance