The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-06 00:00:00

LAST NIGIIT.

IN THE LORDS.—The Royal Assent was given to the
Roasted Corn Bill. We have not seen the Rill yet; but
we have beard that there is to he a license for the selling
of wasted-corn, and if ate present system could teatime
for some years, we should not be at all surprised to see
made into an Excitable a..tiele, this very thing, which
was intended to prevent the sale of Enciseable articles.
This has all arises front the thing not being jelled,
at first, by its real name. it is roasted wheat, rye.
beans or peas; and sod► it ought to have been called ;
and not called Breakfast Powder, under the pretence
of its containing something which was a secret as to
the public at large. If this plain-dealing had been
adopted, there would have been neither prosecutions
nor ii a. Any man, however, may prepare the
rye for himself in the same manurr that green coffee
is roasted and ground ; that is to say, he may do it at
present; but if the quackery should, at last, helmets,
article ander the Ego Me, we shall be prohibited the use
of oar own corn, as we are from the use of one own
barley and tallow. We should not be at all surprised,
now that this Bill has received the Royal Assent, to
bear the meal called, Royal Breakfast Powder; or
Breakfast Powder sold, ender Hie Alejesty's Rbysl
License. This would be a pretty complete finish to a
scheme which of igioated for the Radical purpose of in-
tercepting the waters of the revenue.
Tug Tan' Como BILL went Into a Committee, was
carried through by a small majority, and is to be
read a third time on Monday. On the Ministerial
side of the House they took occasion to contend, that
taxation could not ►e the cause of the Agricultaral
Distress ; because equal distress prevaiied on several
parts of the Continent ; and particularly in Switzer-
land, where taxes are next to nothing. This is an
argument which has nothing to do with the matter.
The great difference in all the circumstances of the
two countries, renders each an argument wholly insp.
Pliesble to the case. Lord DACRII said that be as-
cribed the distress principally to the change in the
currency; but partly to taxation.—Lord WERE, trill
you permit us to state the thing to you plainly ? The
whole of the distressis occasioned by taxation. How
can the farmers be otherwise than distressed ; hew
can all el bat tax-eaten be otherwise than die-
tressed, when, with the prices of 1792, it Its. to pay
more than /bee times the taxes of 1792? The cor-
vette!, Lord Meow Is oat" gettingllowarils what ft
ought always to Mai! ken; hot it is, wayeethalings
true, that ere zbange in the vane of the currency has
tripled the amount of the taxes by cansiag the other
classes to give the-tax-eaters three bushels of wheat
instead of one. This then, is the stale of the ease:
that taxes are the cause, and the rause is augmented
by the change in the value of the currency.
IN rut Cosamosts.—The Highgate Chapel Rill was
read a second time by the vote of a majority of 69 against
62. This Bill appears to he a contravention of the trill of
a Founder of a Grammar School. It appears to be a ,
very unjust thing ; and we are very glad to see the
ATTAIRNRF GENERAL oppose it. Tire too famous re-I
presentoires of the county B. NU and Wittrettasn
spoke upon the subject ; bat our powers of compre-
hension are sot sufficient to enable us to say, on which
old* either of them was. if the people in the neigh-
bourhood of Highgate make stout resistance, we think
this Bill will get through the Lords.
Mawr' or NAVIGATIOR.Sir JAMBS MACKINTOSH
asked Lord Casmaacaou two questions : our relat-
lag to a Russian Ukase claiming certsin dominions on
the coast of Asia and America ; and the other relating
to the condemnation of an English ship by the Spa-
niards, for having traded between a Spanish Island
and some South American State, which Spain still
claims as a colony, and of which we have not acknow.
ledged the independence! Bravo! Spain is right;
and Russia is right, too. Lord CASTLEREAGH said that
this Government bad notified to Russia, that it could
not accede to the terms of the Ukase. And
what does the Russian care for that? What does
he care for -this notification ? Will you fire
cannon at him if be do not give up his preten-
sions ? He kaow•s he has the debt at his back and he
snaps his fingers at your notification. A fig fur state
papers without cannon in the rear. A. to the seizure
aid condennetion of the vessel by the Spaniards. It
is strictly agreeable to the law of nations, which our
ship cant d. We are not to be allowed to set
the lasts of foreign nations at defitnce in this way.,
What should we say to a Spanish vessel that we fatted
trading between Jamaica and Quebec Acknowledge
the independence of South America, indeed, and then
you go to war with the Spaniards, if they attempt to
►eize your vessels under such circumstances; but, at,
present, they areperfeer'y justified la so doing; and,
as our pretty gentlemen will not acknowledge new
Republics till the last moment, the trade of the coun-
try must suffer in the mean time.
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Inw Disraiess..—Mr. UM:LSI:RN said that be had
received that day, informatian highly satisfactory, and
had made him quite certain that the subscription,
along with the sid pf Government would carry die
country through its greatest difficulties! If this be
the case most monstrously exaggerated most these
difficulties have been. There is now in circulation a
paper, left at every house in the parish of St. Mary-le-
Ronne, which is under a select vestry, which paper is
in the following words The Officers appointed on-
der his Majesty's Royal Prodamation, will wait
'• upon you, attended by a Beadle of the Parish, ea
" Tuesday or Wednesday next, to receive your bene-
•• velem donations for the retief of our di ed bre-
" three in Ireland." This paper is said to be issued
by order of the Churchwardens, and is dated at the
vestry-room, 30th June, 16'22. Now, what officers"
alf these; and what "procAtaictriim" is Ibis? There