The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-13 00:00:00

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expected. I asguredly have nes correspondence Kith
Otance. It Was very unexpectedly that the @stow
Which I havi• Stated xis corrimenitoted to me. That
I hale stated It; It with the iioCerOst Wish thit, .if
possible, the greatest iriipProlitig evils to my took-
Tax and to Euitoismigia be averted, itehat be still

SIR,--I most request your attention to as error of
the Press, and also to an inadvertence of my ore*.
The error of the Press in my letter (vide October 7)
is, Nobility without Legislative privileges, which
should be, with.
" Nobility without Legislative privileges," in the
great outline of a Constitution, may be better or I
worse, according to circumstances ; but, iu general, j
may be taken to an little more good or harm than a
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mere knighthood among ourselves. But how the Sta,—Through the medium of yout independent,
Nobility, with Legislative privileges, is constituted, and much read Journal, I pray you wilt permit me
is an object indeed. And it appears to me to have to advert to a circumstance of much interest id the
nearly the clearness, simplicity, and importance of public purse, and intimately connected with the dll
a political axiom, that where the Crown is hereditary cipline and economy of the Naval Service.
!here should be no part of the Nubility composing I I allude to a very old custom in the Navy, and
a Legislative lludq which is not hereditary also.— well known therein, under the trite appellation of
The order of Bishops is an exception of necessity.— 46 (;;apple Bar;" I am unable to gratify the learned
Anil a Bishop cannot, in general, look either to a as to the derivation of this term, but as it is of mech
Bishopric for his son or a lay Peerage ; but a lay more consequence to be made acquainted with the
Peer, for life (Ink, would be under obvious expec- meaning than the origin of things, I shall endeavour
iunion of converting that so limited and uncertain to make op any want of the latter, by a very plain
itenure into an inheritance. It is worse in France, statement of the former.
where, since the end of June last, such Peerages as Capple Bar, then, Sir, means neither more nor
Louts had made for life, in 1814, have been declar. less than a disposition on the part of certain persons
ed forfeited, without trial, by simple ordonnance.— to appropriate the labour of the crew, and public
But, the general ground of objection is sufficient, property, to their own private uses. It usually Oa..
without this anomalous circumstance. sists of household-furniture, cabioet work, trays,
My own inadvertence is this :—ln stating the ex. tea-caddies, mats, white lines, green baize, cots,
temples of antiquity, of dividing the Legislation into paint, glue, bread dust, &c. &c. &c.
two branches, I should have said senatorial and po-
i It were to be hoped that the bare mention of a pm-
pular, rather than representative. For, although lice so very reprehensible, and so contrary to every
•in the Spartan Eiihuri and the Homan Tribunes some rule of propriety, would be enough to cause its en.
I faint rudiments of a balancing representative power , tire abolition. But old customs, however detrimen-
t are to be traced, popular power in the ancient States tat, unjust, or absurd, are not very willingly re-
was direct, not representative. Where it was e'er.
signed in the Navy. It must be confessed that were
cised by certain classes, those classes were of the' this practice general, the injury would be infinitely
richer, and not elect. dby the people. And in the greater than it is ; but in ever se limited a degree it
best and purest instances it was exercised by
the operates as a very bad example, as well as injurious.
people at large, which could only continue while the
,' ly to the interests of the nation at large. To such a
number of which the male adult population consisted pitch was it carried at a former part of our history,
was moderate, so as to be capable of being convened that it was not uncommon to see ploughs, wheel-
in one assembly. The representative system has helm's, carts, waggons, and gigs, prepared on
arisen and become such, progressively, in modern I
ooard his Majesty's ships. Now, Sir, with due sub-
time; but the necessity of dividing the Legislative mission to those Naval Patrons of Agriculture, a
Power in great communities into /too bodies was well ship, and, above all others, a man of war, is not the
known to antiquity, and has been beautifully stated,
I most fit place in the world for such a display of their
by OM° especially*.
I industry. The easy pliability with which one irre-
Of France, at present, I speak with the pain of evil),
is jusesjled, and generally followed by
w 1.:: h a man ought to speak arid feel who is sensibli- another, het long been proverbial. This has proba.
that nations are so many limbs of the great body ist Imy led to the circumstance of some having extended
social humanity, to be regarded with sympathy both I
the science of Capple Bar to the employment of
for their own sakes and in relation to the
w hole' and artisans and seamen at their own houses on shore,
who reflects what France so lately was, an I what she
in toe
very pleasing avocation of fitting up country
now is, and is every moment in danger of becoming. houses, building walls, making hedge-rows, pruning
I I have, within these two days, seen the extract of fruit trees, planting cabbages, digging potatoes, kc.
a letter from a late Member, end a highly died.. &c.'-If ttorpt•per wetbaltr be' disposed -to Inter-
. guished Member, of the Chamber of Peers in that fere for the purpose of potting an end to the practice
unhappy country. In it, he expressly compares .in question, it will experience no difficulty whatever
whet is called the peace and tranquillity of France,' in discovering where, and in how many instances it
which the friendly interference of our own Govern.'
meat and that of the Allies undertook to preserve,) has taken place.
I am, Sir, with a rueful countenance,
if the Man were removed, to the peace of prisoners . Your's, &c.
in a dungeon, after the gaoler has rivetted their chains I
SIR BLUNDERBUSS FLWELLANT,
and distributed their daily morsels—or of Africans, Oct. 3. Of thr. Dot Cliu.s.
In a crowded slave ship.
He adds—" The result of all these peaceful trans-
actions 1 cannot foresee. We are slaves indeed, as
much as a station can be. It was our own fault at
first, no doubt. What slaves may do in time Ido
not know. lam afraid our total destruction will be
the consequence, either by the Allied Powers, or kg
ourselves."

To give the name either of the communicator of
this extract to me, or of the writer of it, would be
obviously improper ; but such is the opinion of a
person every way too well entitled and competent to
judge. And who has had and has* great stake in
the welfare of France.
Am I right then or strong in my declaration,
long since made and repeated, that in this long and
dreadful war, if we failed, we very nearly ruined
ourselves and the rest of Europe; and that in the
removal of BomArAitTe, and the forcing of the
Bounsons upon the throne of France, if, against
probability we should succeed, we should only have
gone still farther and worse on the same road. And
whatever else becomes of France, ought we not at
least to wish that she may at length acquire to her-
self that consistency, and that fair and solid base of
stability and freedom which her Constitution, had
she not been disturbed by foreign force, was so capa-
ble of giving, and of maintaining.
I am, your's, sincerely,
Trostemi-hall, Oct. 10. CA PEL LOP FT.
P. 5. If it be asked why so strong a statement is
laid before the public of the situation of France; I
answer, because there is no judging of the future, if
we shut our eyes to the past and the present. As
far as all irritation, not necessarily connected wish
such a war, is concerned, our army has steered in
France clear of it. That any part of so exemplary
an army and that its great General should have been
employed in the removal of the pictures from the
Louvres and the ether great works of art, where-
soever to be conveyed, I must ever regret. For the
rest, we constitute, unhappily, a part of the Con•
I federate Powers. This is saying sufficient to convey
an idea how deeply interested we are as to what is to
be the future system with regard to France ; and
whether good or evil has been the result, or is to be

possible.
There is a infant Ertydeol- to he *corrected s fat " political
reforasailisa" read " imfoi•nustion"

To ?az EDITOR or tar STAtESIMAN.

It is understood that the excess of the Itrvenue for
the last quarter is two millions three hundred thou-
sand pounds.
The two first prizes of sculpture in Paris have been
adjudged by the Institute as follnws :—The first prize
to M. J. E. RAMEY, native of Paris, eighteen years
or ate, pupil of his father. The second prize to M.
T. Massa, also of Paris, twenty-one years of age,
pupil of Messrs. ROLAND and DAVID.
The fair of Frankfort has terminated. It has been
on the whole a very poor one. There was nut any
brisk trade, except in woollen cloths and leather.—
Discount bas risen during the last week seven per
cent.

The prices of spirits, town drawn, may be stated
to he on the decline.

The extreme poverty of the Spanish Government
' has recently given birth to the following expedient :
—A qoantity of quicksilver, to the value perhaps of
200,0001.6 deposited at Cadiz. The colonies, where
i the mines of the precious metals are situated, are io
great want of this article to assist in the necessary
processes. This quicksilver, for the porpoise of rais-
ing, money, has been offered to an English house at
Cadiz, for a certain reduced price to be paid down.
The English trader is then to procure its conveyance
to Urns, where it is to be sold, at a stipulated ad-
vanced price, to the Government there, reserving a
large profit to the merchant. In addition, he Is to
enjoy all the privileges of a native for the import of
a cargo front the Spanish settlements. This pro.
posal has, we believe, been rejected, advantageous
as it appears on paper, on the ground of the no.
torious want of good frith in the Spanish American
Government. There are quicksilver mines in
Spanish America, but their produce has been more
• than wholly absorbed by the gold and barer mines,
en that Spain has been under the necessity of per-
; chasing vast quantities to export thither. • The con-
sumption of quicksilver must hate been enormous
hitherto, as, by their common process of cold
amalgamation, they lost fifteen ounces for each mare
of silver.
It gives as sincere pleasure to state, that Mr. and
Mrs. Petit, of the Hotel de Paris, at Dieppe, whose
dreadful and cruel treatment has been detailed be-
fore, are not only surviving, but hate been pro.
Flounced by the surgeon attending them, as in a pro-
mising way of recovering from the horrible wounds
they have received. Mr. Petit, in addition to other
hurts, has both his jaws broken. Several person!
are in custody, besides the black waiter before al-1
luded to.
Military Schools, on the plan adopted at Madras,
veto be established at Gibraltar and other (Ani-
ons *road.

• This neeesAty of a IN fold d vision of the Leastwise:
nsd has n.t e-capetl the President ADaiss, in ha orrr
Of the ASIIIIIICAR COaIiTITVTIOX.