The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-03 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

prayers of the righteous are said to do much also ; and
- the Quakers hope and pray for war without ceasing.—
The debates in Parliament, have a great deal of effect
upon prices just at this moment; the wheat fell at Mark
Lane yesterdayffee shillings a quarter. About half-a-
crown of this may be ascribed to the issue of Mr..lll'Do-
nald's motion; and the other half-crown to this blessed
sun, which the Quakers must curse most heartily, Let
the Parliament continue to resolve to stand most gal-
lantly by and see the French take possession of Spain ;
and let us have this sun, or something like it, for about
three weeks, and I pledge myself that the Quakers will
not hare to congratulate themselves npon their specula-
tions. However, the bare circumstance of a rise of priceis,
sufficient to cause the ruin of many thousands of farmers.
—They will think that things are coming about ; and
even if the wheat fall down again to its lowest pitch,
they will think that things may come about; and that
the currency has nothing to do with the matter. It is
monstrous, to be sure, to believe this ; but we must be.'
lieve it, for we see the proof of it every day. The man
that brings a wretched lamb to Smithfield, and sells it
for twice as mach as lie sold a tine lamb for last year,
does not reflect, and will not reflect, that it has cost him
more than to ice as much as the tine lamb cost him last
year. He nil! not reflect how much worse his land is
than it was last year, arising from causes which have
enhanced the price of his lamb. He will not reflect on
any thing of this sort, nor even upon the number of
lambs that he has lost from the severity of the weather.
He went reflect in this sort of way: the high price
pleases him ; and he think.' that things are coming about.
Thousands upon thousands will be ruined in consequence
of leases taken last Lady Day, upon the presumption
that things are coming about.—A rise of price at this
time of Me year, followed by a fall of price after the
harvest, is dreadfully ruinous to the farmers in general.
Those oho have something left to sell; those who can
hear that sweet concert, "two flails and a cuckoo
even those gain nothing by such a rise ; for they must
pay for labour, through the hay-time and the harvest
according to that rise. What ruin, then, to those who
have no corn left to sell ; to those, who have to
pay high wages to get in a crop that is to be sold
at a low price, and who have sold their former
crop at that low price.—The rise of prices has
quite staggered the Farmers ; has made them not know
what to think about their own affairs. Three weeks good
warm weather, and every appearance of a continuation of
peace, will put them to rights again ; but, perhaps, the
complete blow-up and the general outcry may not take
place for nine or ten months. Next January, however'
which was the time that I always pointed out as bring-
ing the thing to trial, will let the stock-jobbing press see
what my prophecies are made of. War speculations can
have an influence only for a time ; and as to the relief
which short crops bring, that relief must differ but very
little from rain. To the equitable adjustment we must
come, or to convulsive revolution. Lord Stanhope has
moat ably described the state of the case, and lie is euti-
tied to the thanks of every man in the kingdom.

Dutch and Hamburg mails have been received this
morning. An article from Vienna, dated April 14, says
—" It is reported that M. Le Tatisebef will shortly re•
turd to St. Petersburg. Nothing has transpired relative
to his negociations. We now hear nothing of the de-
parture of the King of Naples. It is said that he will
wait here for the result of the war with Spain, which
will doubtless be soon ended." An article dated Tunis,
March 22, (extracted from the Danish Commercial Ga.
zette, states that Tunis has concluded a treaty of peace
and commerce with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, by
which that State is to be placed on the same footing
as the most favoured nations.---Besides the merchan-
dize of nriotts descriptions imported in the ships
of different nations, we are shocked to learn by
this communication that a Sardinian vessel brought
Christian slaves from Smyrna ; and what still more ex-
cites our shame and indignation, that an English vessel is
stated to have conveyed Christian slaves from Constan-
tinople ! The article proceeds to state that several Chris-
tians at Tunis have in vain interceded to mitigate the
fate of the Christian slaves. But very lately an Eu-
ropean ship arrived there with 100 Turkish soldiers
from Smyrna, who had with them twenty Greek
children and four women as slaves. This ship, like
the preceding with similar cargoes, was escorted by a
frigate of the same nation, as far as Smyrna. An
article, dated Smyrna, March 11, from the Oriental Spec-
tator, says that the week before, notwithstanding the vi-
gilance of the police, a Greek was killed, and three
wounded: the neighb)uring villages have likewise felt
the effect of the levy of troops, and their passage. Fear
and alarm have succeeded the tranquillity previously en-
joyed. The Greeks were quite retired, or retreat into
their houses, as soon as the arrival of• a Bayrak is an-
nounced. The evening previous to the date of the ar-
ticle, the Pacba received, by an express from Constan-
tinople, the firman which confirms bite for another
year in all his offices; the Turkish populace testified
their satisfaction by firing pistols, &c. The Oriental
Speetatur, which is strongly prejudiced against the Greeks.
pretends that the corps of 160 men, taken to the Morea by
Kephallos of Olympus, is broken up, and the greater part
of thews returned to Europe, cured of the illusions which
had seduced them, and made them inconsiderably quit their
country. This paper, of which the numbers hare been re-
ceived up to the end of March, does not yet mention the
surrender of Corinth, which, according to the Alipmeine
Zeit nag, took place on the Itith of Feb.

French papers to the let instant have arrived, but
without bringing any important news that can be relied
on from the army. The Journal des Del oats asserts that
Saragossa is taken, though the news is not official."
The fact is that neither the Noniteur nor the Etoile re-
peat it, though the report had been current on the Es-
change, and was said to have proceeded from the Court.
Private letters say that Mina had concentrated his forces
on the right bank of the Ter, in Catalonia, but that be
would soon move to the Ebro. In that case the French,
if they have occupied Saragossa, may be soon compelled
to abandon it. It is stated that the head-quarters of the
airily will remain at Vittoria, till the sth of May, and
that the operations for advancing will not recommence
till after that period. The age and state of health of
' Marshal Mousey, it is said, still not allow hint to sup-

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port the war in Catalonia ; and that the Duke de Bel-
Inn° will take the command of that part of the French
army that is to act in that part of the Peninsula.

PARIS, APRIL 30.--TRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents.
opened at SR 50c. ; closed at 851.—Bank Stock,
1,537, 50.—Neapolitan Five per Cents- 731.—"Ex-
change on London, one month, 251. 70c.—three months,
251.50 c.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TwELve OTLOCK.—OOII3OI6 opened
this morning at 781 f, and went up to 4, with a brisk
market, and some business doing. An Express from
Paris has brongbt the French Funds, from S. 50. to 86.
The print. letters from the above Capital state, that Sa.
ragossa, was taken on the 26th ult.: but do not bring
any further information of consequence. A report still
prevails that a negociation is on the lapis, between France
and Spain, and that our Government will be the arbi.
trators.

FORCON Ft:NOS.—Great bustle and much business
were going on this morning in the foreign market. New
Spanish Bonds opened at 3JI, and rose to 36,-out went
down again to 352. The cause of this sudden rise in
the above Stock is not exactly known. Some persons
attribute it to the great scarcity of the above Stock,
and others to a pending negotiation between France
and Spain.

Chili, 68k—New Spanish. sn—New Prussian, S4l-otd
Prussian, 83k—Russian, 771 to 73—Danish, S7—Neapoll-
tan, 724--Colombian, 6.)i.

It being generally understood that his Majesty was so
much better, the inquiries ceased yesterday.
The King has been graciously pleased to confer the
Grand Military Cross of tiuelph on the Earl of Fife.
A letter from Spain states, that the French have put
the town of Vittoria antler contribution of 5,000/. sterl-
ing, notwithstanding all their promises to the contrary.
M. San Miguel, who commands at Figueras, and whose
noble answer to the summons of Marshal Moncey has ex-
cited such universal admiration and interest, is the elder
brother of the Minister. His name is Santos San Miguel,
and not Sauty, as given in sonic of the papers of yes-
terday.
It is generally reported in the City that a letter has been
received by the Levant Company from his Majesty's Prin=
cipai Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the contents of
which entitle the Right Honourable Secretary to the grati-
tude of the friends of the liberties and civilization of the
descendants of the ancient Greeks. During the whole of the
contest betwixt the Christian and blahonsedan inhabitants of
what is falsely denominated European Turkey, it Is known
that several English Gentlemen have been found to violate
the Grecian t lockadee. and to supply the Turkish armies
with all the necessaries requisite for the subjection of the
Christians. Latterly repeated complaints have been made
to his Majesty's Government on this subject, and the conse-
quence has been a letter from Mr. Canning to the Levant
Company, enjoining them, as rumour says, to direct all their
Consuls in the Levant to observe the most strict neutrality
in the contest betwixt Christian Greeks and Mahomedan
Barbarians.
The last accounts from Pottugal stated that Amarante
had been driven into Spain (the kingdom of Leon), and
that, according to treaty, the Portuguese army were al-
lowed to pursue him off the Spanish Territory. It would
not be impossible, therefore, that the Pursuers should
fall in with his Protectors, and that the first serious en-
gagement which took place in Spain should be fought
between the Portuguese and the French. At all events,
this pursuit wFII have unintentionally brought • strong
division of the Portuguese army close to the seat of wart
where it may render important services to the cause of
the Peninsula. If, as it is highly probable, and as it is
generally believed in Portugal, the French Ultras excited
Arnarante's rebellion, in order to prevent that kingdom
from being able to help Spain, the effect will have been
directly the reverse, and the attempt of the traitor will
only have served to cause an earlier muster of the Por
tuguese forces, and a more rapid advance towards the
seat of action.
According to arrangements made at the Quartermas-
ter-General's Office, the King's Dragoon Guards are to
move from Manchester, Sheffield, and Nottingham, in
June or July next, for Scotland, and to be replaced by
the Royal Diagooos, from Cambridge, Ipswich, and Noi-
wich.
The town of Liverpool was on Wednesday placarded
with handbills, offering a bounty of 41. for recruits who
might be disposed to enlist for the Colombian service.—
In consequence of this information, Government has
sent off directions to have the provisions of the Foreign
Enlistment Act carried into effect against any individu-
als who might be guilty of a breach of its enactments.—
This Act makes it a misdemeanor in persons either en-
listing or persuading to enlist into the service of any Fo-
reign Power.
The Beef Steak Club of Dublin had their fourth din-
ner this season in Dublin yesterday se'tiniglit. The Mar-
quis Wellesley and Lord Manners were present. These
two distinguished personages mutually expressed them-
selves in a spirit of kindness and conciliation towards
each other. Lord Manners, on returning thanks to the
company for drinking his health, said the presence of
the Marquis was not only an honour, but also an act of
justice to the Society. His Lordship also took occasion
to observe, that the concord of sweet sounds, and not the
discord of politics, was the object of the Society.
PORTSMOUTH, May I.—We are gratified to learn, that
there is a certainty of his Majesty visiting our port du-
ring the summer. He will embark in the Royal George,
the officers of the Apollo being appointed to her, and the
officers of the Royal George have most of them other ap-
pointments. The mooring ordered to be laid down will
be at Spithead, Cowes, and Southampton water ; it
being the King's intention to keep in smooth water
within the Wight, at the recommendation of Sir W.
Knighton.
The paragraph which has appeared in several newspa"
pers, purporting to give the contents of the late Mr. Nur
lekens' will, it is now said, is most incorrect, and the
amount of the testator's property greatly exaggerated.
On Sunday night, the sentinel of the Royal Guard,
who was posted on the Place tin Carousel, near the'
Louvre gate, perceiving an individual lurking near him,
called out several times " Who goes there ?" and order-
•ed him to retire. The man, however, continued to ap- '
proach, and the sentinel fired and killed him.—(Ga-
.rette de France.)
A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at Guildhall,
which was attended by the Lord Mayor, 17 Aldermen,
the Recorder, Sheriffs, and City Offit.ers. His Lordship
came in State upon the occasion of swearing in two new
Aldermen. His Lordship having made a It-port of the
Election in Langbourn Ward, John Key, Esq. attended
by several of the Common Council and principal inhabit-
ants of the Ward, was introduced to the Court in due
form, and took the oaths and his seat. The Lord Mayor
then reported the Election in the Ward of Farringdun
Within, when John Crowder, Esq. was in like manner
attended, and presented, and took the usual oaths and
his seat. Mr. John Jackson was admitted, and sworn •
Coal Meter in trust for the city.—The Court were occu-
pied at considerable length upon a Report relative to the'
appointment of Receiver of the Orphans' Dues on Wine.
Mr. Alderman Cot was appointed to the vacant situa-
tion. Precepts for a Common Hall, for the Election of
Officer., were directed to be issued. Courts of Conserv-
ancy were appointed to be held for Essex and Kent on
the 12th,and for Surrey and Middlesex on the 20th of
June next. The Chainfierlain reported the state of the
Orphans' Food, when 13,400/. of the outstanding debt
was directed to bo•paid off and discharged.

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