The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-09 00:00:00

LONDON:
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9. 1821:

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
This being Lord Mayor's • Day, the Bank is
shut, but the Stock Exchange remains open.
The Market appears to be !mooing. Consols, which
left off yesterday at 78, have been done this morning
at 77U for the Account. We have no reports in cir-
culation to account for this depression, but the heavi-
ness of our Market is attributed to. the operatigns in
the French Funds, where, it is understood, the specu-
lators were gteat Bulls in Stock.

To those persons who have hitherto been accus-
tomed to feel an honest pride in the generally re-
ceived opinion of the manly and independent character
of Englishmen, the contents of the Ministerial journals,
fur some months past in particular, must have been
nauseating in the extreme. As to judge of these alone,
the inference must be, that that free spirit, which had,
at one time, raised us to be, really, "the envy and ad-
miration of surrounding nations," had left us, and that
our only ambition, now, was to rival the dull slaves of
Germany, and even to enter the lists with the wor-
shippers of the Indian Idol Jaggernaut.
Of all the papers which attempt to prop up the fall-I
lag cause of darkness and despotism, the slop-pail
stands pre-eminent, and it would be difficult fur any,
but those whose hard fate compels them to wade
through its filth every morning, to conceive it possi-
ble that Englishmen could exist, who could write,
and still less that any body of Englishmen could be
found, who would voluntarily read the disgusting con-
tents of that dementatingjournal.
It is, nevertheless, but too true, that the rotten
system by which we have been so lung deluded and
plundered, has generated a sufficient body of state
caterpillars to support this paper, notwithstanding its
daily outrages on decency and common sense.
It should appear as if the supporters of the systens.j
having become at last sensible, that their endeavearal
'to drive back the intellect of the nation into that stag'
of barbarism and ignora'oee which atone could
them a chance of continued existence, had arranged 4
plan, with the aid of the corrupt press, for creating
that very confusion which they affect above all things
to dread; the first step towards which is the brines*
his Majesty's Person and Government into hatred aid
contempt, and they seem to fancy that they have found
the ready means of doing this.
The part assigned to the corrupt press, seems to he
to disgust every independent-minded and rational nun,
by the most sickening and fulsome adulation of the
KING. We will not stain our columns by a repetition
of their flattery, alike degrading to themselves and to
its object. But only observe, that in describing his
Maigsve's progress through Germany, they appeared
to represent his mere appearance as instantly dispen-
sing the 'utmost bliss to all around. The sun Shiva'
forth with redoubled slendonr, the miserable in
happy, the ragged clothed, and the hangry satisfied,
and all this the simple result of is MAJICSTeII sheer-
ing his benign and. majestic countenance. VII4IIO
asseeive if aa means se ellettual as thew, to allhltdie
the minds of Englishman from his itunpreli ponies
sad "'magmata attPrigsoo.4lllkllllo.lloerwidi
.inomigelli. as to 81,11.11911!" list 1111".
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