The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-10 00:00:00

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citizens, as also the equality of all employments, by
totallreoppressing the exemptions from taxis which
lure hitherto existed. It declares that all citizens
wbe profess either of the three Christian Creeds, have
eqtial rights to, civil and military offices.
Sevitrai of its articles guarantee individual liberty ;
it declares the responsibility of Ministers and all
agents of authority ; abolishes for ever all confisca-
tioni; establiebes the principle of the liberty of the
press; 14 ennounces that the modifications of which
this pr pie is susceptible depend upon the deci-
sions l'hiels the Germanic Diet will adopt on this
head •, it declares inviolable ell engagements made by
the State towards its creditors, and provides, that
the institution of the Sinking Fund shall be perma-
nent.
The first Session of the States will commence on
the Ist Feb. nest.
A lI•LA•CIIAPEILLE) SEPT. I.—The number of
foreigners who bad arrived here op to the 27th ult.
was 1,918.
The equipages of the Emperor of Austria have
arrived at Cologne, and are expected here the 4th
inst. Those of the King of Prussia set out from
Berlin on the 21st ult
Ou the 7th of this month, religions and military
ceremonies are to take place at Strashurgh,for the re-
ception and consignment to their final abode of the
mortal remains of General Kleber. A special in.
'Halloo has been addressed to the retired and unem- ,
ployed officers, who will escort the body from the
gate tithe lowu to the Cathedral, and who will pay
this last honour to one of those Chiefs who so often
led them to victory.

PRICK OF STOCKS THI
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Ceut.Cousola 76i 75iii
91 per Cent.
Lonsols for Ace. 7611 75i
4 per Cent.

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
5 per Cent. Navy lOsiii
India Hands 84 86 p
Long Ann.
Exchequer Bilk 18 20 p
°maims 21 dis.

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10) 1818.

The Bulletin of the Quezm's health issued this
morning at Kew Palace is as follows:
" Km PALACE, SEPT. 10.—Her MAJESTY has
passed a good night, and continues much the same as
yesterday.
(Signed)!

" FAMILMAN,
" H. HALFORD."

The plan adopted by the principal Monarchs of
Europe since the winding op of the French Revolu-
tion, of meeting at short periods in great national
Congress, for the adjustment of their disputes, and
the arrangement of their affairs, is something new in
the history of nations. how long it will last, or
what will grow out of it, we pretend not to conjec.
tore. If Kings were liberal, and their interests and
inclinations alone were not the sole objects of con-
sideration, some good to the People might be ex-
, peeled from such periodical assemblies of the Poten-
tates and Statesmen of Europe ; but experience of
the disposition and views of Royal conclaves and the
servility of Ministers, has left us little room to look
for such results from any of the political Meetings
that now take place. It would indeed be a gratify-
ing event if the vision of universal tranquillity could
be realised, and peaceable discussion and amicable ad-
justment, take the place of the bayonet and the cannon.
If the "'HOLY LEAGUE" should produce such a
glorioui result, it would merit its sacred title,
its authors be entitled to the respect of the world,
and be sore of the admiration of ages to come.—
Then might we anticipate she approach of the
period, libels 66 swords shall be beaten into
plough-share', and spears into pruning-hooks, and
when nations shall learn war no more," But, alas !
it is not from the supporters of Despotic Legitimacy,
from the King, that role by the sword alone, from
the enemies of human Liberty, the oppressors of the
French People, the Governments that deny the
right of the Germans to Representative Constitu-
tions, the destroyers of freedom in Poland, the
partitioners of Saxony, the restorers of the POPE
and the Inquisition, the Allies of FEnnimano of
Spain, and the envious opposers of South American
Independence, that we are justified in expecting de.
cisious in favour of the rights and happiness of man-
kind. They will of coarse talk much of their re-
gard for popular privileges, and the peace of no.
tions ; but woe to the confiding minds that allow
themselves to be doped into slumber and submission,
by the hollow pretences mod professions of the in.
tripling Confederacy. Certain it is, that there is a
great portion of the population of Germany that
will not be then duped; and as to France, nb.
thing. is more evident to all that have visited
or know any thing of the state of the pub-
' lic mind in that country, than that the French

nation will never return to the condition which the

Legitimates, who have made war upon their liberties,
desire to see them reduced—that the long and ruinous
war urged by the Coalesced Powers for this purpose,
has failed io its object, and that Lours only reigns
by the sanction he gives to the improved order of
things, sad the established principles of the Revolu-
tion. Priestc►aft and Kingcraft are as much, though
'silently, abhorred in France at this day as in the first
period of the Revolution, wbtcb gave to Kings and
Priests so terrible a lesson. Nor have we any reason
to wonder at this. The system that occasioned the
awful irreptioa of popular iudiguatiou has not been

much improved out of France; an thesis' of the
Crowned Confederates are the as ever. Hat
let-them beware of arousing the al
lug lions In the
human mind—they tread upon vat °s, lop rashly
—nations will not always submit to be fettered,
and pillaged, and barnbooaled with sounding. non-
sense.
We are glad to find by the latest accoonts from
Manchester, that the agitation and disputes among
the Spinners and Manufacturers are subsiding. This
is in a great measure to be attributed to the liberality
and good sense of the Masters. The private letters
inform us, that the Masters of the Spinners bate, Is
general, promised that, on condition of resum-
ing their labour, their wishes wil, in part, be
complied with.--Messrs. BARII,CS and SWAG
LOW, of the Oldham-road Factory, bad prevent.
ed ,a turn out, by agreeing to raise the wages of
their workmen to what they received two or three
years ago. The majority of the Manufacturers have
consented to give the Weavers an advance of 4q.
iu
the pound. 44 It is a most melancholy fact," says
one of the letters, 66 that the average earnings of this
useful and industrious class of persons, for a long
time back, bas not been more than eight shillings per
week." The Manchester Herald states, that the
whole of the Spinners, belonging to Mr. Davin
HoLT, proprietor of the Cborlton New Mills, re-
turned to their looms on Monday last, acknowledg-
ing that they had no cause of complaint, and that
they deeply regretted their past misconduct. It was
confidently expected the example of the Chorlton
Spinners would have the most favourable influence
upon the rest of the refractory body, and that its
the course of the present week, all . the mills, would
be in full work again. Many of the Masters had re-
ceived applications from their men, soliciting to be re-
instated on the same terms as before the 44 turn oat."
The burial of the man who was shot during the at-
tack on Ancoats' Cottnn.twist Company's Mill, oc-
casioned some unpleasant feelings on Sunday night,
bat no actual disturbances took place. The verdict
of the Jury of Justifiable Homicide ha ...Wide a deep
impression on the minds of the working classes; and
the determiristion-of the Magistrates to carry into

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effect, for the, preservation of the publk peace, the
measures announced in the Public Caution they had
issued, was fully known. The conviction of the
combined and riotous workmen at Chester, before
Mr. Serjeant BEST, had also been productive of sa-
lutary relight. We observe that BAGULEY, JoUN•
BON, and DRUMMOND, have again been laid bold of,
and sent off to Chester, to take their trial at the pre-
sent Assizes. The offence now imputed to them, it
is understood, took place at the late Meeting of
Weavers and Spinners at Stockport. A Ministerial
Evening Paper states, that on the person of BA-
GULEY were found a flask of gun-powder and many
balls. Our letters say-nothing of this circumstance.
Of course, the usual attempt is made by writers of
a certain class to connect the Manchester distur-
bances with politics and Reform opinions; but we
think nothing is more unjust than this. In the
midst of much assertion to the contrary, we bate
not been able to convince ourselves that the present
disturbances have any other object then to raise
wages if possible, and we consider this state of things
quite alarming enough for every palate, considering the
danger and mischief which attends on a conflict so
disastrous to manufacturing prosperity. The per.
petrators of the mischief are blameable enough, but
there ire those who are equally deserving of con.
demnation, for in _their measures against general pro.
sperity lie the causes of all disorder and public
misery. .

Paris Papers to the 7th instaot, and. Mails from.
Hamborgh and Holland, have arrived. The Army
of Occupation is not expected to leltve France be-
fore November; but it appears that preparations are
already making for its dePaitire. Part of the horses
belonging to the English Artillery will, it is said, be
sold, and it is thought not unlikely that the French
Government will purchase them... The horses of the
Russian Train, and even the • Artillery Neil', will
also, it is supposed, be boogbt op by the FrenCh Go-
vernment. One statement says the British and
Russian troops will return home in October. After
the review of the. Austrian troops by the Duke of
WELLINGTON, the several corps returned to their
former cantonments. As soon as his Grace bad re-
viewed the Wirtemberg corps, he was to set off
for the Bavarian Head-quarters at Sargaeminm, end
from thence directly to Sedan. The Paris Journals
were in error when they stated that he was going to
Colmar. The new Constitution of Baden suppresses
the exemptions from taxation heretofore enjoyed by
certain privileged classes, and places Lutherans,
Calvinists, and Homan Catholics, on an equal foot-
ing as to admissibility to Civil and Military Offices.
Several of its articles gOaratitee individual liberty ;
it declares the responsibility of Ministers and all
agents of authority ; abolishes for ever all confisca-
tions; establishes the principle of the Liberty of the
Press; and announces that the modifications of which
this principle is susceptible depend upon the decisions
which the Germanic Diet will adopt on this head ; it
declares inviolable all engagements made by the State
towards its creditors, and provides that the institution
of the Sinking Fund shall be permanent.
The Budget of Sweden is fixed, till the seat Diet,
at 3,7t1,318 Banco Dollars per annum. An Ordi.
awe, it appears, was recently lined frotaCarlton•

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of Appeal atvaell; in ilnover,-by ski,l,_
WA Catholics, as tea as th femora of the
Religion, are declared tntslig4.4„„„it . 141161‘14
The French Five per Ceirts, with isej4tte
dividend since the nd of March last, closed he
turd.), at 77f. 75 c. but the same stack, til,b Iht
dividend from the 2td of September instils deists
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By his Majesty's ship Hyacinth, it relied ht. Parts.
impy,o,r4uatsih6hoifpreoaß•nriloytshsieoninKm,ivaceyra.pl:l.lai:thiee,i
cwciteggmlye,aberan:if:hintdigiltitt.
ship Andromache, Capt. SIIERirp, eft4pd
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50 guns, and 400 men, bad also arrived at titneho;
port for Use Patriot service.
The 35th regiment of infantry, commanded hyth
Duke of RICHMOND, now stationed
ezpected leave England for Quebec, nest sontis
Letters•from Bourdesut, dated the Ist jut. aim
Lion a rise in the price of grain of almost e,pr, ak
scription throughout Guyenite, and several Wee.
tural districts of Languedoc, occasioned by the very
large purchases made on account of foreign ,pals.
tore. Some rain had lately fallen its the skink, ,
Bourdeaoz, which had been partially metal
Ib at the
great evil of the long drought was p remedri grid
the owners of the vineyards will reap vet,
.lootharvest, comparatively with what tits, ►„rt.,*
the grape having been in several quarters literally
burnt up,
The Ilosise of Assembly of Bahama are said 1,1),
preparing for the consideration of Ministers k his.
tory of the transactions, in which the noun haslet%
opposed to the Attorney-General sod the Chief Jas.
tice of that colony. aestt
St. Domingo is likely to become the theatre of .a
very sanguinary contest. Ceutszoeue seems deter.
mined to obtain undivided sway over the *hole
Island, while BOYER and bis adherents seem as ear.
nest in preparing for the expected attack.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. B.—The remains of the late
Commodore Sir James LUCAS YEO, of the Royal
Navy, Knight, K GB. K.B.A. were this miming
-interred in the ground iaf the Royal garrison chap',
with military honours due to his rank. All (he galls
pff d.pty„belonging to regiments and corps in Ports.
mouth, Gosport, and Hilses, attended, with a pima
of black crape round their left arm, shine theelbew.
Admiral Sir GEORGE CAMPBELL and Lord Howls
brought up the rear of the procession of maul tea
military officers.
OYSTER BEDS.—BRIGUTON, SEPT. B.—The lesg
continuance of a calm -.ea has enabled our fisher's,'
to make a more accurate survey of the beds of oysters
discovered off this coast about two years ago. From
repeated trawlings they have calculated, that for se
extent of 70 miles S. E. and S. W. this body of shell
fish lie in prodigious quantities. The shortest breadth
is seven miles. The oysters caught to the S. W. are
of excellent flavour ;several speculators havemedeed
the line of coast, in order to find a spot tOT totals.
oyster beds. Shoreham harbour is mentioned la*
most desirable spot, as the bed of the river consists
of a firm black sand. From the facility of cva'v
conveyance to the metropolis, it is likely the*
now source of trade will enable the proprietors('
supply a vast proportion of the consumptioa el
oysters in the London market in the course of aoetkt
year.
It is said to be in contemplation to employ ace.
Lain number of Naval Officers, with men undertheir
orders, for the purpose of preventing the landings!
contraband goods, and to be stationed at such dic
lances along the coast, from the Isle of Wight WO
Isle of Sheppy, as will enable them to keep up atm
stint communication.
The improvements in St. James's-square are oto
going ow with more speed than hitherto—therelos
been some demur about the expence of enclosing and
planting the area, among some of the.Proprietorsof
the houses in the square, which at one time thrums.
ed an application to the Court of Chancery, bolds
dispute is now amicably settled.
FEMALE PATRIOTIsit.—The courage and ability
so eminently displayed by Miss Toot Eit, at the late
Assizes for Cornwall, seem to have been justly ap-
preciated by the greater pert of those " whose Pao
is not blame;" and to bare led to many discussions oa
the comparative virtues and talents of the two sexes.
Among other anecdotes of the sex to which the fair
Defendant belongs, the following, as it does not ale
pear to be generally known, may perhaps not be as.
interesting: In the famoukSbip Money Cause, which
lief so justly iMinDrlSHlled the name of HAMPDEN, the
;rent-majority of the Judges decided (as is welt
..kseesiete) against the laws of the lend. In the mine'
rity, however, was the celebrated Judge Caoozz, welt
.known by his Reports. It appears from Witercoct
(who speaks of his own personal knowledge), " that
tbe Jodie,. Intimidated by the threats of the Coeds
had at one time resolved to deliver his opinion fer
the King, from which purpose he was diverted by his
:wife, who told him, that she hoped he would do tee-
thing against his conscience, far fear of any dingo
or prejudice to herself or family ; and that she wad
be contented to suffer want, or any misery with hies
rather than he should chi or say any thing against hie
better judgment. Thus encouraged, he sumcnosed
op the resolution to perform his duty, and resales
his name from that infamy which so deservedly ire
wolves the memory of his colleagueb.—( West Brilot)
The lan'sented death of Mr. GRANT, of Mile-trod,
in the prime of life, it is to be hoped, will put In
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end to the cockney mode of defending gardens and
ornamental shrubberies by " men-traps and sprlst
guns," from which many distressing accidents hoe
happened. It is
just as illegal to place those
engines in pleasure grounds, a 4 it would be in gel
inclosed field of coat or turnips, which some yol.f.
ago, we recollect, was done by a gamekeeper of tes
late Lord BEItKELEY, whet' the man was at las.t

caught in his own trap !
Mr. Wane, the meritorious Leader of the 13seill
at Corent.garden Theatre, has rebianed his situation,
a department which he has filled for nearly twenty
years, with the greatest credit to himself and sstiP
faction to the Pablie. IL is said that Mr. Wafts has
thus seceded in consequence of his dissatisfsction
et some of the recent I..,ll.:gements- made for lte
orchebtra.