The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-01 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

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of Europe leagued against them, with the most in- Imercial transactions. It is that the little specie there
veterate hate and jealousy in their hosorth,.and tit IA left iis tins country may not be seat out of it, but
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most able end terrific genius who has appeared for that the manufactured product of onr artizans, and
centuries, wielding their energies and directing their the goods of our merchants may supply the place of
efforts for our destruction—in vain ;—they have seen money in the necessary exchanges with foreign na-
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what all these combined againit us could do, and by lions, that the trading interest and sound policy re-
their patienceand exertion triumphedovereveryforeign quire no injurious restriction should be made in this
foe,--end will they believe that this land is in dan- i respect. If the products of our industry cannot be
ger of being starved either now, when the day of i made to supply the place of cash, money must be the
Europe's tranquillity is arrived, or at any future only return that will be tr.ken. And where, will the
period, if we do not shut our ports against the in. Courier, or any other of the advocates of restriction,
troduction of foreign grain,—if we do not volun- be kind enough to inform us, is this money to be
tarily throw back the cep of blessings which peace got if we are voluntarily to forego the com-
presents, and raise .the price of provisions in our coerce of all the nations from which we receive
markets to a pitch which few who have to labour for grain in exchange for our commodities, France,
their subsistence can bear, and the extent of Germany, the countries bordering on the Bal_
which is purely discretionary with the sellers ? tic, America, &c. ? It is well known that our
A measure of this kind they will say, and exclusion from the markets of these countries has
make too great mistake in hazarding such en been in the highest degree favourable to their in-
assertion, is far mare likely to create scarcity and theory, and destructive to the interests of ours;
public distress, than a realization of the fanciful and shall we voluntarily give up the pre-eminence ?
theories and visionary arguments had recourse to, for —We fear we are not all rich enough to re-
the purpose of establishing a permanent high price tire to our country seats, and enjoy otium curs
of the necessaries of life. The effects of lending dignitate, after the war, whatever comforts may have
the influence of Legislative authority to efforts which descended during the last 20 years on the Lords of
must occasion a wide, were it even a temporary in- the Soil. What is it that has occasioned the drain
convenience,-and have evidently in view the advantage iof specie from the country ? What is it that has oc.
of a few, at the expense of the many, need not he, casioned the drain of our best blood—the general
enlarged upon. The scenes in the Borough last night impoverishment of all classes of people in this over-
supply a picture of popular opinion,• in regard to taxed, exhausted, and most fettered of all nations ?
the alteration in the Corn Laws, which, as it re- We repeat that if the price of corn is kept up we
ceived the prompt attention of Government, ate will not merely never return to a money circulation,
need not impresses one fraught with admonitions.= but we will neither have money nor any thing else
We deem it also proper to say, that the dangerous to offer in the way of payment. Mr. FITZGERALD,
spirit so reprehensively displayed last night, is Ike forsooth, gave a triumphant reply to the observation,
from being confined to Southwark. We have this that an artificial currency must occupy the place of
morning observed a most inflammatory placard ian unartificial one if the Resolutions were agreed to,
posted in a conspicuous part of the Strand (at the by saying the most efficacious means of restoring
end of Southampton-street), which will doubtless cash payments, was to prevent that drain of specie
occasion some enquiry as to the author, The con- which importation of corn was likely to occasion.—
stitutional means of opposition to the proposed Now our humble opinion is, that the best method of
law are open—earnestly do we hope and en- i preventing one thing going out of the country is to
treat that Englishmen will revere these sof. I allow something else to do so, when some one or other
eiently to make their boasted means of pro. • must be exported. We apprehend that however in-
tection the channel of their complaints and de.!, dependent the Landed interest may feel of foreign in-
fence, and that none other but such proceedings as tercourse, the nation does not yet do so generally ;
ido them houeur will be adopted for this purpose.— and till our native agriculturists can afford to sell their
Having said this, we add, with pleasure, that we , produce at a reasonable rate,it is rather not very liberal
observe Meetings are to be held this day in the 80. I in them to expect that the commercial part of the popu-
rough, and the parishes of St. Cement's and Spital-
. lotion should be debarred the privilege of exchanging
commodities with other nations for the means
fields, to petition Parliament against raising the price their
of subsistence—for it cannot be disguised that the
of corn; and that such constitutional measures ought effect of making the minimum price of a quarter of
to be taken immediately in every part of the kingdom corn 80s. must be that of totally prohibiting, the ex-
to defeat this most dangerous plan for establishing a port of a great proportion of the manufactures and
monopoly as inimical to the interests of trade and trading stock of this kingdom. And how is that
specie of which the country has been drained to he
the poor as to the natural order of things.—" The•
Petitioners (as a brother Journalist says) must brought back, but by trading connections with those
step forward with alacrity; or else such is the rapi- who can boast the presence of a little more of the
precious metals than we have the happiness of being
dity with which this fatal measure is pressed on, that able to do, notwithstanding the very provident re-
a law tending to fix the price of bread in England strictions of our Government?

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM HIS ROYAL lIICIINIts
TIIE PRINCE SOVEREIGN, DATED FEB. 23, 1815, A.
DRESED TO III! EXCELLENCY COUNT DE TUUMLS Dt
LOMBIZE, COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF JUSTICE,
PERFORMING TIIE FUNCTIONS OF SECRETARY of
STATE.

dispatches which I received yester.
day from Vienna, inform me that the great iutpresty
which have long employed the Congress, have
regulated to the general 'satisfaction ; and by the
unanimous consent of Austria, Russia, Engiud,
France, and Prussia, all those parts of -lielgiuct
which formerly belonged to the first of those Powers
ha►e been placed under my sovereignly, exceinkg
some portions of the let ritory of Limburg and Lutorn.
burg, and under some modifications in re•pcct to
these two Duchies. IVe retain on the right hank of
the Meuse a slip of territory sufliciont to enure to
us the entire enjoyment and the free natimion of
that river; and the ancient Bishoplic of Liege is
among the countries which will compose the new mo.
narchy of the Low Countries. You will realty
preciate the happy effect which those arras ge.ients
will have upon the happiness of the people whom,
Providence has called me to govern, and to whom,
what I have already been able to do for them under
less favourable circumstances, mast serve as a pledge
of my constant solicitude for their true interests.

subject; and as we love to correct the mis-statements i
of ignorance, and to show the fallacy of the still more ,
I. SAILING OF TUC OG I' WA ft it ROUND FLERT3,
dangerous arguments of selfishness and venality, we . P
. ORTssfourrif, FEB. 28.—This day the wind being
will here quote the following paragraph for the pur- from the Eastward, the different Convoys so long
detained, proceeded on their respective voyages ins.
pose of making a few remarks on the sound reasoning
which it contains, from a print which the people of der the folloisiog men of war :---,
IT. M. -hips, Arbor, witb the trade to the C tpe, E.ss twin,
this country with most Christian-like love for their and Snuih Se.,; W :urine, Lacy, Fowl, no ti Ceplialvt,wic;
enemies are disposed to foster with no small degree ry.,6citif,"iri Made,"",."".! In-e.",,e'l Ind e' ; rsi'" to 11110 a
ermvoa, wt.; nal w.,
.ssste as, and hlutitie, truth a
of encouragement, in spite of all its political tergiver- fleet f.tr the Coll'i of Afr.ca; P..is .Ix., tiadze.. and Nnut,tils.
with a fleet fur SOM. Po. toga!, awl the %VA 1...ca1.-an.
Cationsand declared hostility to their interests.
• " Mr. BARING is represented to have said, that
~‘ A Commission has passed 't he Great
to invest herds Justices with the Execiktive Whorl:
if the House perferred an artificial to an unartificial ties of that kingdom, (luring Hie OM ;•OrS ry absence 0 f
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state of currency,they would agree to the Resolutions; Lord Worrwotern, who is expected in England is
but they might be assured that if they kept up the ! the course of this week.
price of corn, . they would never return to a money Yesterday there wits a numerous meeting of the
inhabitants of Uxbridge and the vicinity, at which
circulation' This appears to be one of the weakest Resolutions wete paas.,d against the proposed Cora
arguments we ever heard. Are we more likely to Bill, and a Petitions to both Houses -of Parliament
return to a money circulation in England, by sending was unanimously agreed to.
Ihe Gazette of last night offers a reward of two
our money to France to purchase Corn ? Mr. FITZ• I
hundred guineas for the discovery of the person or
inastm, the Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, very
persons who threw Mr. John Smith over Butherglea-
jestly observed, in reply to this part of Mr. BARI NG'S bridge into the riser (Ay di . '
Speech, that ' the most effectual means of restoring 1 The trial of Donlan, for the murder of his aunt
cash payments was to prevent that drain' of specie and brother, with which the French Papers are till d,
which an undue importation of corn was likely to occupied two entire dais. Ile was convicted, and
sentenced to death. His fellow prisoner Girotsarti
occasion, and which had been a main cause of the ,
unfavourable balances against this country.'"— I was acquitted.
Mrs. (isnsten, we are sorry to state, is very ie.
(Courier). riously indisposed at her house on the Adelphi Ter-
Now the impudence and stupidity of this attempt . race..
to pervert argument, and misrepresent fact, must• be
notorious to every one who knows any thing of cern-

We are concerned to state the dangeroot WNW
Of Alderman Ilinvey CORM, which, is is
will doprive the City•of London ototsti•of IM

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best Magistrates sad Representatives.
THEATRE.—Last eigns Me rem
LEY, a young; provineis+ ereetssroesv of much cele-
brity, made his firm appraraneie oss the lam*
boards in the character of Douglas, Although this
character is not one of great pieteirsinns, and data
not dental'd a display of the highest descriptioe of
talents, it is yet sittlicien.ly attractise to have been
chosen for the debut so many a candidate for
theatrical distinction, and we are happy to say, that,
in our opinion, Mr. PENLEir acquitted himaelf with
great credit in this his first essay on the Metropolitan
stage. His figure is rather tall, his face not without
expression, and his voice, though slender, very clear,
and capable of modulation. The play wasgiven out
for repetition amidst cries of bravo! from all parts
of the House;
In the case of Mcatets and t OLNIAN, in the Court
of Chancery, the Loan CliAnceLtou said yesterday
morning, that the award could not stand, and that
he should give his reasons on Thursday or Saturday
next.
Considerable business was yesterday done, in the
city, upon Frankfort on the Meyn; and ma EL.
change was opened oir that place at the rate of 134
which is expected to improve.
We are sorry to hear that an account has been re.
ceired from Bourdeaux, stating the death of Mrs.
Peeut, late of the Strand, wife Of J. Naar, Esq.
of the Morning Chronicle. This Lady was bier
esteemed for her amiable character, domestic virtues,
good sense, and elegant manners. She was moonlity
delicate in her constitution, and having reason to fear
that she was in a decline, she went to Lishcou some
time ago, accompanied by one of her daughters.--:
lier health was so much restored by the air of that
place, that • she was on her passage to this cunntry,
when she was unfortunately taken by an Alge,ine
vessel, and though she was *reefed with great kind•
ness, the, disappointtnent and agitation arising from
this capture gave such a shock to her weak flame,
that after her arrival at Bourdeaux, she con retied to
decline till she was, last week; &ally released.frons
her sufferings.
SPECIAL COMINIisTON.--'this morning, at nine
o'clock, at the Old Bailey Court-house, Frilliaon
Sawyer, charged with the murder of lin rrlet Gasket!,
at Lisbon, was put to the har.----The Attorney-
General addressed the Court, and moved that the
trial should be put off, in consequence of the ab-
sence of a material nitness,
.The Court atli.surmel
the trial to the sth of April, and the Prisoner rises
remanded. •
CORN EXCIIANGE, M %RCN I.—A c insider:ll,le
quantity of wheat was left over from Mond tv's mar-
ket, and having fresh arrivals this meriting the siiles
were heavy at a decline of 9.5. per quarter.-- Barley is
Is. per quarter Lower, a tolerable 101ge quanVe.
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rearing to.day, for which there is but little dente .e-r
Oats• are dull sale at Monday's pliees.—lti peitit
beans, and other articles there is no alteration.
Yesterday the remains of the-l Ate Duke of Donssr
were conveyed in procession through London, on
their way to thelamily seatstt Knole. An immense
number of carriages,of Noblemen and Gentlemen were
in attendance. The body will lie in state at Knole
before the interment.

i3O/11)01.4 • Printed told Vtitihole, tilt, I) t.utncl,. tst t:t
STATSSIKAX OFFICE, 87, t-tireet.