The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-09 00:00:00

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kern, feel Mt effect of them sooner dab Riey are
ward. They will feforet nothing—nit Of no NW;
lute-lit frertbeti the vessel of the State, to all 'ap-
pearance,, till she founder among the billows that,
Biennia(' bee." This is also a true picture of the
Mate and sentiments of the iniddliug Class of people
theonghont the whole of Scotland. When agile we
tuna our eyes towards insulted Ireland, we there
even from the public journals of that king-
dotn, that the same effects which the war has pro-
duced in this country, particularly on the price of
provisions, have become general In that king-
skim In the Dublin Correspondent, of the 4th
inst. it is said) " we hate endeavoured to make such
enquiries as appeared to ns.the Most likely to lead to
*satisfactory ioformation, as to the question which
hems to be made in Parliament, whether et not there
exists any material deficiency is the public stook of
provisions. We are sorry to believe that the fatiittre
in the potatoe crop) as far as our eniptities hate
gone, is full one third; and we also believe, that)
although the corn ernp has not Nieto deficient in
any alarming degree, yet that the quastlty which is
exporting continually (upon, we tt►Dst ran st host
beneficial principle of Intercourse between all pert;
of the United Kingdom, taking it i 6 a general pOint
of %ten), and that which is consuming in distillation,
svhich is prodigious in its amount, the result from this
taut ahoeeplios of corn isy tholithe -qmwatity%leafs fah
food is greatly diminished, and to such a 4rgree, as
to call for very prompt and cantious investigation ;
and the further probability is, that if the distilleries
be still permitted to panne their present consumption
of grain, the public will snffer all the evils of a real
scarcity." In the Freeman's Journal of the 6th, we
find the following remarks upon the same subject :-
64 We turn from a view of the miseries mused by war
In Foreign Countries to those nearer home, which me-
nace us in conseqtence of the hizh rate of prori3ions.
That rate has been advancing with rapid and formid-
able acceleration fcr the last three necks. That the
public will be compelled to turn their attention to this
subject in a very few days we may safely assert; mad
the sooner some means are adopted for the relief or
amelioration of the poor the better. The matter has
already become the general theme of discussion.—
At the Assizes of the County of Kildare, we have
to state, that Lord CLONCI:ItitV addressed the
Grand A►ry, on the subject of the present scarcity
of provisions. He animadverted with peculiar.
severity on the speech, attributed in the London
newspapers to Mr. W. W. Pots., convicting (in de-
ference, it is supposed, to Parliamentary privileges)
the Reporter, mid not the Rignt Honourable Se-
cretary, of great ignorance in his assertion, and the
greatest absurdity in his conclusions. His Lordship
then eutered into arietail of the prices of potatoes (the
staple article of Irish food) in ell the midland counties,.
shelving, from incontrovertible documents, that the
prices had risen from two, three, or four-pence per
stone; and that even in some districts they could not be
procure:lin sufficient quantity at that enormous price."
--Such is the state of a country which Ministers have
the effrontery to tell us, is happy and flourishing !—lt
may be very true, that Mr. Peace, 11. and his ad-
herents, find their own affairs in a doerishing state,
and that they, of course, have reason to felicitate
themselves on that account ; but this is no way cal-
culated to better the situation of the people. On
.the contrary, from the happiness and comforts of
Ministers flow the miseries and calamities which the
nation is po universally deploring; and which, If
not speedily remedied, must, we are afraid, cure
themselves in away more destructive of public tran-
quillity than any thing which has yet disturbed the
country.

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Taft PRINCE REGEYTit U.AisiT.—Yesterday hit
loyal
Highness the PRINCF. Bt(:)..NT held a Privy
;Council at Carlton-house, soott lifter tiro o'clock.
It was attended by the Lord Privy seal, the First
Lord of the Treasury and Chancel& Of the Exche-
quer, the First Lord of the Adnaralty4 The three
Secretaries of State; the President of the Board of
Contract!, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Earl of
liannOtrair.—,Viseount ginstoure attended, when !
the Patxce was pleated to declare him President of
his Majesty's Most Donourable Privy Council, and
his Lordship took his seat at the Board accordingly, '1
FArlTAtuox was introduced to the Council, and
..worn in Lord Lieutenant for the County of Siail'ord.
Viscount CIFETWYNO attended as Clerk of (he Own:
rasa The Earl of BUCKGSCHIAMSIIIItE kissed hands,
on his being appointed President of the Board of
Contreul. -The Noble Earl had a private audience
of the PRINCE. Mr. PtacEvAL' Mr. ItTnltß, Lord
')fV.I.VILLT6, Lord Mutcsaave, Lord CaSTLEKEAGN,
bed the marl of LIVERPOOL, had also audiences of
Nit Royal Highness.
Bia*.—Tuesday last came on the Election of a
Governot and Deputy Governor of the Bank of
England for the year ensuing, when
lillliam Matiniirgipq. was ehos.ea Governor, and
Willtsin kAq. Deputy Goventor.
And yesterday came on the Election of Twenty,
four Directors, when the following Gentlemen were
chosen
Aksandet Baring. Esq.
Jams Csunpbell, Esq.
Wl%Sam74l)lo, 'Rd Elu
e. l.
1 George ilorrien,
41.....lhaisalhydiessadz Esq.

lvAvAl, INIPLLIGIiNCIL
PORT3N6eIIi; Rinds. 8.
A rerved tise rkriitf I and /Neil- to.hdotter
the lattr► matt hg indelt *atet, Witt getting cm •audrt: She
Come into Inrtopir.

.flailed the Arr.; of 44 gems, Captain Warren, int the bardip:
riles, with the Atn!aiscador and .4eeseu.ry of I,rgat;nn. Messrs.
Liston and Prere, and suite, on to CA/ liko the ilatyur frigate,
Captain Price, with the Fast India raw). tomisting of the
Hart iet, City ctf London. Ann, Sir it Sit.. , Hensley, St:mimeo,
Lord Keith, add lades, fdr Madras and iLsd43l
The Phrebe kips* fs ',Sobered wiUstlie Qttehec coniay:
Went out of harheur the Oashawk and Attack.
PLYMOUTH, Ream 7,
The Orestes sloop of war b hourly expectild to sail for CA=
ruhna; she takes out some of the crew belonging to the Kidd
frigate, which brought a prise to this Port.
Part of the fleet which sailed ram hence a day of tiro since,
for Otterdsey, under convoy of the Alpht:a tchnocer is put Welt ;
amongst them, the' Salina, Barrow; Hope, Jones; and the
ttnusport Ilaatilul, with ttoopS; is Stated to have pat intd
Torbay.

: The Poictiets, Which arrived last evehing. was from the
Westward ; is stated lu Ave brought an account that rite L'Oriene
squadron has got safe into Brest:
Arrived the Betsey; Et...rker, from Suntlerlaad i Nat", Ca-
4, lins ; and Milliam, Fawkener ; both from London; Acorn,
I Llavellyn, from London; Laid Nelson, Paddetcanbe, fried
Portsmotith ; Cores, Leans, from Youghall ; -rid the apales.,l
brig Diligente, Captain Careuga, from Lundon, to load far Co-
runna. Also. the American ship Merrimatk, Cnok, re, -4
i Charleston, bound to Portsmouth, with timber; spokeins t.."
coast of America, his Majesty's ship Maceduniato, Ca;-.t. ( ..r.
din, a hit+ had Geri() dispatches to America, mews. raise,.
i
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' leg to Lisbon : when the American spoke the frigihe; she h
been tire days out.
The names of the transports from Listion, whit& anis .d •,.
* Blindly, ate as follow, via. : —Ckere, Robert and slam. 1.4: ,
Shore, Readinesicßegrat, BUM" Marla, Allaal,Pai 703"P'r-
i Janet Isabel/a, Hope, Harriet, Flora, .0111 AO9: . .
r A I,NIOUTif, APRIL &
I, ArrivedJast night the Lord Hobart packet,. Capt. Hansiltoi.,
with mails from Cadiz, ten da‘s passage; no acsint of cone.
quence. The Dispatch parket arrived at Cadiz trate benc. in
vven days, and proceeded with the Mails for the Mediterranean.
On the I: ft ult. in lat. 39, 16. th- Hobart spoke Lis Majesty's
ship flyaCiulli, Hi guns, and on the .24 rout. in lat. 4% 49, Im.ga
8,9, spoke his Majesty's ship Leoaid..s, 38 pal, la campa..y
with h sMajesty's ships Venerable, 7 . i amiterldadal4, cliaa-
b-th, 71, and Ptantaeenet, 74, under the command if' Adairai
Durham, cruising in search of a French squadron. AL 1 air-.
rived the American ship Merchant, Capt. Hopkins, from Hata.
more; and American stall: Archimedes, Captain Neale --tea a
.Philadelphia, both lades' with dour tor a market; they nei,yer
bring any news of consequehce.

Jeremiah Olive Fsq.
John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
John Pearse, Esq.
Charles Pole, Fin.
Richard /lee Railer, Ent.
John Baker Richards, Esq.
John thoolliprin, liaq.
Joke Joilah !Colton., _ Andrew Henry Thermos, FAq.
Thomas LangleLnille. - . Samuel Thornton. Req.
Beemoo Long, Ii q. Stephen Thornton, lisq.
Fob mezer Mai tha Esq. Sameel 'fiirner, Jon. ble.
Thomas Beare, v.. 4. John Whitmore, F.eq:
• EsliT INDIA !locate .Yesterday a Court of Di-
rectors was held rat the F.ast India House, wh'n tl,e
following Commanders took their final leave of the
Court, previous to departing for their respectite des-
tinations, viz.
(:apt. T. Price, Lord Duncan-Madeira and Bombay.
Capt. T. Pitcher, Broxboanebury ; J. Pearson, Sir Godfrey
VS Aster—Bengal direct.
('apt. J. Craig, Princess Charlotte of Wales-Madeira, Cey-
lon, apd Bengal.
Capt. R. anires, Juliana-Batavia.
The Thanks of the Court were voted unanimously
to JACOS BOSANQUET, Esq. and Sir Heim litcus,
Bart. Chairman and Deputy. Chairman, fur their zeal
and attention to the Company's interests dining the
last year.
A Ballot was held for the election of sic Direc-
tors, in the room of
Charles Mills, Esq. John Hudleston, Fsq,
Abraham Robans, F.sq. G. A. Robinson, Esq.
It. C. Plowden, Esq. 3. A. Bannerman, Esq.
who go out by rotation. Jit six o'clock the glasses
were closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who re-
ported the election had fallen on DttViiff, APRIL b.
Charles (Orant, 1,4 q. Sweny Toone, Fu •
William Audi, I .q. campheli Atari.,rit rinks, E.I. I The Lively Custom-house cutter, Smith, haft seat a smtiggling-
George Smith, F..q. Jahn Jackson, E.g. ' boat, having on :,oard 1O casks of tor. ign Spirits.
The political hemisphere still continues to present i• Primed by for London the Lady Frances, Savidy, from St,
a dark and menacing aspect, both as it respects the • Mary's.
general situation of Europe and our own dotneldie
Arrivoll in the Roads his Majesty's ship Vigo; from Porte.
policy. The latter, indeed, presses more inweedietely mouth; Redpolc sloop, and Pioneer, Irons the Downs.
epos the public attention : it comes borne more inti- i L.,./.th3s
mately to our business and our feelings, and interests 1 ---eme.--
' eirr lienenat -"' wen ins out PaMia IraPatMe• I 4 r A genreSl leen- of the Mennen, event; emstuserce,
at this periodi..
comes before us in. he shape of personal danger. it &c. of this place mono!, prove unacceplittlatat
would be an ungrateful task to review all the per. our
.t ...fieZ I:7l:ll4regeregrerecrointiathn:ot liulweaTl-Tt Gars. It,
verse measures which have brought us to the present form is nearly square; on the south side it is rendered ineccessi-
tthilee by thrdses, from die _height und steepness of the shore t on
alarming crigis ; but it Is important, that th 3 real.
cause of the di?eftse be understood, or in vescri'in; a hour -"al et'otothweardmosrtir I:,ynds'evietralildreforelf .adnbdy 171orlit7Ittashet -
remedy, we may aggravate the symptoms to more flea' point which runs out westerly is defended by a for , wawa co-
;tiers... trheenittrasseeren, aroel 411:4,ir bay., .1t is
ght :de:et defelteduteyiaeocusasei-
t iotence. The unnatural s;tuation in which Eu Opp
has been placed by the fatal and ill-advised breach of are. lar&ee and commodious, end tbe number olvmee :chants who
the treaty of Amiens, must he considered as the most
`mine
piirenftc.amnadiejscaurreelealy be imagined; in fact, the whole city is
prominent cause of our present commercial distresses ; ttbeibLet:rea"tel:;ditionethri bnatgocodu ranitd (I:: 7dr rt
z.
the improvident Continental alliances we formed at The commerce of Cadiz can leave but few hands to indultry
so enormous expence, have entailed upon us a load . Itryl"..liZweter• about Al ribbon-looms, and msc.iiues (or
of taxes, which press most heavily on the middling • produce.ln T',e"re. oareappear ieverat; have
manuafaecotnusiderownlessierfhoireftberir
classes of society ; but this is not all, the result et.yinent is to put their marks on the stockings they receise
rtriomen.NuimeswviLida•
all foreign
fur the. Anieiiherarne set'
of theft alliances placed the Continent at the era
feet of BONAPARTE, and gave him the power of several linen manufacturfi in he neigblinVurhond, but .be manu.
aiming a fatal blow at our Continental corn- fa..ture of sak is ilw-most interesting branch of blistery iu the
•to iith.
eii;bellic surrtousidedtozsiddietalls, wts.h epoootsi
metre, and which the rigour of the present Ad- . 7 ttmn . entriniurtoeas f
ministration. contrived to extend to Amertcs is the centre of the commerce to the West Indies, and to Ame.
—tn these ought to be added, the inconveniences aril- ratrtheTbiTstveleo lesveetr. SpZinadtlararldagrtithe tadkactiladlastgyfretal;ees
I ing from the deranged state of our oirculatitigt7r.
dittos, which are not the less real, because the cause
We learn Prom Dover, that a few nights ago, the is in some respects concealed from ordinary • s ' clogs bustys, csAtithl, indigo, coffee! icsocacg woLolseiit'dif.
(creel kind., chocolate, ke.c-wbich are distributed is o other
: reap n:trasiesirlyer;.ll.irenimei.orettintes fromazost of it
Germtstutthoes
tin tisit;
Skylark brig of war, Lieut. Bonen, fell in with a vation. It was hoped from the sentiments which the . and Dates are not numerous. There were many French ..en,
fleet of praams, which took shelter is a bay ; that he PRINCE REt.r.sr had uniformly.expressed on the ten- some of whom ben capital merchants, but the greater part. /
attacked them is the face of the batteries, and after dency of whit has been emphatically called the • ;rbeereseeitiotrfraiorlizt.hpersuretail
f andealers
of Settivitiejlfithet"lsts.bltan. tstitatv
smart action, drove 15 of them on shore; The brig of 44 Prrr System," that when he came into the computed at bu,ttJU. in tle year 1596, Giulia was taken and
war had one man killed. The official account of the unrestricted possession of the Preroevtives of the i
I"Ltir'crtelrigh by the
erslitiwtd.Adint,wolArl attemptme
was. nanitil;
affair has not yet come to baud, owing, we believe, Crown, he would have called to ;...eorie Hooke, with some Engilea
°his Cossciics tar Duke of Or mod and sh. r
to contrary winds. men who ss nuld have adopted a very differ- ' and Dosch, re seize Cidit for the Midair* Charles t hot after
iiadiug sops
' We are happ7 to announce, that the Court of Di. ent system of policy, and no expectations could
retarued. me troo 'they found the scheme impracticable, and
rectors of the test India Company have come to a have been more reasonable ; but his - Royall
. . .
resolution to restore the whole of the sospentied 011. Iliglassess has grievously disappointed these flattering I The ertsefng Sr. tattering
day is to be celebrated
cars of the Mashes army, we believe, without a single hog** by departing from all that was promised by . with much splendour. It is said the Pewee RE.
exception. his former pr .sessions, and has sacrificed hll early w will sire grand
The T a entertainmentupon..e oc-
The French squadron whirls has escaped from one friends, to an unnatural union with men, white pria- !
of its ports to another, has bad most extraordinary ciples and public conduct was indirect opposition to I "sin".
Mr. President Wrsc, with RArrAELLE MORGNIN,
41i those principles to which he had professed the most
good fortune. At the time they got into Brest, Sir of Florence, and Mr. Suaaesof London, Engravers,
HENRY Next.eand Commodore Keno were off that unalterable
attachment. Under what kind of in-1 have lately been declared Foreign Associates of the
port, with six or seven sail of the line, bat in the his Royal Hi hues has been prevailed 014011. .Academy of Fine Arts at Vienna.
gales of wind and hely weather, about the heist days
thus to extinguish his people's hopes, we shall not ;
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fluence . g
-.went ()CCU lartfcs.—On Thursday evening, meet the ir.5.,..
'.41( M• esough to have at present enquire ; we are however couvinced that' side pluiseragers of Crosweikr and Co.'s coach, which daily rum
posed arc
unperceived. h, the enemy were lucty although no Prince ever entered on the functions of to and i
Irma C_Asiebestar, was seized, sear shorthorn, s. .a ‘ /11.
lent tit of nsanoty, and bits lads, who, with a child, was la
Royalty with a fairer prospect of becoming
We have reason to believe that the contents of Mr. the 41°1 the coach with him, Ma most shocking manner about the (so.
PsactvAL's mytserions Work, end extraordinary of his people, yet, that owing to the successful ewer- mid arms. Tar coachman and outride peassagos, learias Der
tion of the pernicious influence to which we have al- '-sert'a..ns, /et down, and, after mock nlortedielifl: otei-cetd
it:
stepping .I,fulder, will snort be given to the Public.—' TlTtisul:!fl the p.r fruo::;,st)shralahysle.
man,e
two gentleurm got ,aside, arid
hided, the tide of public favour has suddenly ebbed,
further rotaAtief. On the arrival of
Of one copy which.. was .____Purvhased in 1W.9, we can and that no Severeign from the time of RICHARD III.: Peeve ard 444 friar doing
venture to speak freely, trecntlae we mum that it wasthe coach iii Brighton, he was lodged b the poor-house, n here
alowerdegree of
Ism' i every pro. • r rare is bestowed on him.
purchased at a very moderate price (considering to Cs nolttla IV. ever enjoyed
polarity.—(!seed, Mercury.) I. torsnisrion AN rebTflL—ln a school at Youghall, an la-
the enormous sores' which have been given by the A l lathe mister', accidental absence of one
boy being pros eked and strlkingSos-lately occurred
another, On hearinethe coin-
Treasury) under an engagement not to supprees. the ton, w., is the first of its kind, we believe, ever ' plaint, the ranger determined on punishing the culprit; when
pa if called for. ddppedthore—a cargo of salt, for Riga. The yes.. the aggrieved hop iprrrated pardon for the (Wender. Oo being
Tux LATII .70111( HORNS TOPICS, Fan -.We an. '
will a twede ; she has already taken 140 tons of asked why be would interpose to
_prevent a jost example; he
sod .4 I -was ',wine in the new Testament, lately, that Jesuit
derstand that the Life)snd Memoirs of this remark- eek ea beard, and wain, for W tons more. Llisist said *e ohoold forgive our enemies, and I wish to forgive i
able man,together with an ii,ocount of his vowel • .Stsiscroe.e-4 young woman, tuned Annie Reeve, kiln sad begin. may norrileiptuonitede for my sake." This Ociriht. 1.
publications, are .ia progress .for pablicatimi, with so mare than Le years of age, was found dead lit her 1,,1i7d1:1.7,17,ri5ur1th',.17,:,."11 of the poor boy, who w°,,,grenlia etf yr.
. the sanction and assistance of his tetseutrix.
,:bad, telterSay morning, in George.plare, Oxford-, Wstnies. west bane well pleased at the eircuninance. This •
The recent appointment of Colonel lii'Massom to e.t.a*, foss the effects of taking areonle.--This an.: allbastt
Ronslaw"lturinv Me isesa.4t4A ikwystelays. ago, as some Leo we e
the office of Private Secretary to the Patstta ReT lortonota girt, who had left her friends in Yorb‘hirstploegbitig in a geld at nuncio., a !sewn stow which' had ap.
°ate, is one at the first objects to which the antes. ins a few weeks, had expresied ber determination ye pairoily hers qued far building, win=sitisAbydsashare.--
. Twit curiositg aging waited, they it
tion of both Houses of ParlimPent will he cane& (iii bend, of lee to a fetal& friend as loalishoee . dir ' h hey discovered die asPl=l:
Into theca/Pis w v• i
The Earl of Astilaßll3llllAK died
ff.*, WM. Bill Milly last, sod it MIL bees abaseved several days ado of coeiriderable RAT t. By the Sent triad are r.
ing, at a very advanced age. lee •Is MO* alma alalineami• Whim
SR left bar slab so Illecer, kls ronjelmweso Ini. aoopori„„,osomfir --,
Jaw( waist tbh discovery bat omen made. is Omit Inn IMO
ceeeed by his too, Vi*ceeat St. Aura ow 1144 *am itimiage his Jussi4Oit..4l4aswitedrailt ,4141 weeward of ter ,-.1.t• •ted bath dilaneared aviratartllkaallts •
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Sailed his Majesty's hri,t P'elorss, ltt gtitw, with a convo‘ of
transports fur List‘on ; Chesterfield pocket, Hades, with 71:.
for Jamaica, Ac. the Marlborough packet, Britt,
fur Lisbon ; and his Majesty's brig Sparrow, 18 guns, on a
cruise.

DEAL, APRIL H.
Sailed this mottling the whole of the outword-honad coasters
and colliers, tinder cow uy of the Viper clUm..
Arrived the Nary cutter, with dispatches and letters, from of
Flushing.

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