The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-02-02 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

ready done the most essential service CO the cause of free-
dom—not perhaps so much by the conduct of her people,
or by the acts of her government, as by her mere exist-
ence—in peace, respect, and prosperity, under institutions ,
more practically popular, and a Constitution more purely
deameratie, than has ever prevailed among. civilised men
from the beginning of the world—thus affording a splen-
did illustration, and irrefragable proof, of the possibility '
of reconciling •tlie utmost extent of freedom with the
maintenance of imhlic authority, and the err:first order,
and tranquillity, and security to private rights, with the
most unbounded exercise of political ones. What else,
indeed, can furnish so conclusive and triumphant a re-
futation of the pitiful sophisms and absurd predictions
by which the advocates of existing abuse have at all times
endeavoured to create jealousy and apprehension of reform ?
You cannot touch the most corrupt and imbecile govern-
ment without unsettling the principles and unhinging the
frame of society—you cannot give the people political
rights without encouraging them to be disobedient to law-
ful authority and sowing the seeds of continual rebellion
and perpetual discontent—nor recognise popular preten-
sions in any shape, without coming ultimately to the abo-
lition of all distinctions, and the division and destruc ion
of all property—without involving society, in short, in dis-
orders at once frightful and contemptible, and reducing all
things to the level of an insecure, and ignoble, and bloody
equality. Such are the reasonings by which we are now to
be persuaded that liberty is incompatible with private hap-
piness or national prosperity, and that the despotic govern-
ments of the world ought to be maintained, if it were only
to protect the people from the consequences of alloeing
them any controul over the conduct of their rulers ! To
these we need not a-swer in words, or by reference to
past and questionable examples—but we put them down
at once, and trample them contemptuouly to the earth, by
a short appeal to the existence and condition of America.
(Great applause.) What is the country of the universe,
would now ask, in which property is most sacred, or in-
dustry most sure of its reward? Where is the authority of
law most omnipotent? Where are intelligence and wealth
most widely diffused and most rapidly progressive? Where
is society in its general description most peaceable, and
orderly, and moral, and contented? Where are popular trt-
, melts least known, and the spirit and existence, and almost
the name, of a mob least heard of? Where, in short, is
political animosity least prevalent—faction subdued, and
at this moment, even party, nearly extinguished, in a pre-
vailing fueling of national pride and satisfaction ? Where,
but in America? (Immense applause.) America, that
laid the foundation of her Republican Constitution in a
! violent, radical, sanguinary revolution—America, with her
fundamental democracy, made more unmanageable, and apr
par. n ly more hazardous by being broken up into I do not know
' how many coetederated and independent democracirs—
. America, with Universal Suffrage, and monthly or weekly
elections—with a free and unlicensed press—without an
established priesthood, and hereditary nobility. or a pre-
manent executive—with all that is combustible, in short,
and pregnant with danger, on the hypothesis of tyranny,
and without one of the checks or eateguards by which
alone they contend the benefits or the very being of society
can be maintained ! (Peals of applause). There is some-
thing at once au.'acious and ridiculous in maintaining such
doctrines in the face of such experience. Nor can any
thing he founded on the novelty of these institutions,or the
pretence that they have not yet been pat fairly on their
trial. America has gone on prospering under them for
forty years—and has exhibited a picture of uninterrupted,
rapid, unprecedented advances in wealth, population, in-
telligence, and concord, while all the arbitrary Guyon-
ments of the old world would have been overrun with
bankruptcies ,conspiracies, rebellions and revolutions, and
are at this moment trembling in the consciousness of their
' insecurity, and vainly endeavouring to repress irrepressible
discontents, by confederated violence and terror."

Advice, from Malta of the 20th of December state, that
the. British squadron, consisting of six ships, was to sail
for Tunis on the following morning.
The Allg.emcine Zeitung contains the following letter
dated Marseilles, announcing the sailing of the British flee
from Malta for Tunis:—

" MARSEILLES, JAN. 13.

" Letters have been received from Sicily, accerdin.r to
which the English fleet which had as•wmble.l at Malta had
sailed from that island for Tunis, under the'
command of Sir lir:111am Moore, tt ithout suffering itself to
be detained by the offers of mediation made by Ibe Porte.
As no doubt is t ntertaine 1 of u‘e authenticity of these
letters, we may expect to be saortly informed of the result 1
of the expedition.
The following is an extract fro:n a letter received by the
packet from Lisbon :
" 'ratans, Jas. 16. 18. A.—The British ships of war'
Windsor C'astle, 46, Capt. Charles Dashwood, and Glasgow,
46, Capt. B. C. Doyle, remain here: it is supposed, for the
purpose of befriending the King and Royal family (by
taking them away) should another political convulsion oc-
cur, and put their persons in danger. This is by no means
an improbable vent, when it is considered that the late
counter-revolution was brought about by the intrigues
and double-dealing of ()emplane, the present prime Minister.
—I perceive the London papers have noticed the grand
dinner given by Sir Harry Neale to the king and royal fa-
mily of Portugal ; but it has not been stated yet, that the
Commander-in-chief of his Majesty's ships in this quarter
(who is remarkable for his dignified mind and manners)
and the Captains of the ships of war here, waited upon the
royal guests et table. Admiral Sir Harry Neale, Bart.,
0.C.8., stood behind the chair of, and waited upon the
king; Captain Samuel Warren, C. 8., and Captain Hon.
It. C. Spencer, behind, and waited upon the two Prin-
cesses; Captain Andrew King, behind, and waited upon
Don Miguel; and Captain Sir Harry Burrard acted as
butler! But, V temporal. 0 mores! Don Miguel, after
being so gallantly honoured, actually went below with the
first Lieutenant of the Revrnge, and drank grog and
smoked segars, until he became (lite glorious.'
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 28.—Very alarming news for
the Government is in circulation here.

It is, in the first place, affirmed that the Greeks have re-
conquered the Isle of Scio, and that they strongly menace
the town of Smyrna. On the other band, it is certain that
the Turks have been forced to raise the blockade of fdis-
solunghi, and that they are at the last extremity in Patras.
This intelligence has produced such a sensation in the
Divan, that the Ministry has fallen. The Reis Effendi is
succeeded by Saib Effendi.
The Sultan has ordered the Captain Pacha to put to sea
immediately, notwithstanding the disastrous state of the
fleet. There is a total want of money, sufficient cannot
be collected to march the troops which it is desired to send
to the relief of Smyrna.
P. S. The Grand Vizier is exiled to Gillipoli, and he is
succeeded by Galib Effendi. In a word, it is the moderate
European party which is now in office.—Augsburg Gaz.
The Gazetieof Saturday gives a contradiction to the
reports lately current of the grant to Sir Rabert Clifford of
a peerage being conrined to himself. From official autho-
rity we learn that Letters Patent have been directed to
be passed for granting to Sir Robert, and the heirs male
of his body, lawfully begotten, the dignity of a Baron, by
the title of Baron Gifford of St. Leonard, in the County of
Devon.

Baron Gifford hss selected St. Leonard's near Exeter, as
the family appendege to his title. This is a pretty but obscure
village, where the family of the Baron originated, and where
they possess an estate.—After many consultations by his
Majesty's Ministers on the subject of the Noble Baron's eleva-
tion—to have restricted the title to his individual life, was dis-
covered to be without precedent, and besides would have been
considered invidious and objectionable on the score of hide•
pendenee. The patent of creation, therefore, gives the title
to.the_heirs male.

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

DEs.t., Fehr-tort; I.—Wino S. toW.—Remain with tr•o hr',..;
name unknown, the S-.larin, Hearn. for Janvtica ; Slat iha'
Dominica, lion,. r, for Madeira and St. Vincents.

Powrsmor a It, February I.—Wind S.F.—mai:id the Mr.e.
queen, Walker, for India; and Joseph C reen transport, far
fork.—Arrived yesterday the following outward bound vpsieli
from the Downs, viz.—Juno, Elbe, Stag, Cambria, „I,An
Turner, Barbadoes Planter, Medway, Postimalus, and Wm.
I.u.thington. _ _

FALNIO( Tu...lartiary 31.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Ear;
of Selkirk, Walker, from Newfoundland, in 19 €l:ls.—Sa;,,:
the Stammer Packet for Lisbon.—Put hack with damage .!,t.
Lady Mary Pelham Packet, for the Leeward 14:811(1S,
COWES. February 1.--Sailed the Lord llungerford and
Duchess of Athol, for India ; Sneaton Castle, Browo, fir
Charleston; Ann, Whitmore, for Cape Coast Castle; aid
Comet, Moore, fur Savannah.

LIVERPOOL, Januery 31.--Arrived the Thns. Burrovs
from Trinidad ; Antigua Packet, from Bahia ; Unttos.
D'Cost, and Duchess of Gloeester, King, from New you ;
Briranza, ()berry, from Virginia ; Ida, Aldridge ; True Blue,
and Thos. Gilstore, from New BrunswicE ; and William end
Helen, Rowland, from ldre.—Captain Cargill, of the brine,
arrived here with melancholy accounts of several shipwrecks
between the 2.lst and 25th ult., principally between Chetecen
and Cape North,viz.—Nerina, of North Shields ; Wy ton, of
; Assistance, of Liverpool, and Commerce, of Bri.tol—
most of the crews were saved.—The coast was strewed with
the wrecks.

The following Naval Officers have been promoted :
Captain Conch, of the Persens, off the Tower, to the rank
of Post Captain. Lientenants —George hillier, MoMd.
Adams, and Saunders, to be Commanders. Messrs. hel-
lack, Riley, Morley, Carpenter, Thompson, Gregory, Hills,
Barn, Totnkins, Peasne, Garrett. and Bli 4% et, Midshipmen,
to the rank of Lieutenants. Captain Mends, to continua
the Blanche frigate of 46 pins, at Chatham.
NEW Yoast, Jan. 7.—We learn by the packet ship Sa-
luda, which left Charleston on the 3d inet. that the oew
steam boat Thomas Lowndes, from Charleston to Ham-
burg, tauk fire 30 miles below the latter place, and burst
to the water's edge."
Viet. Admiral Sir L. Halstead, K. C. B. in his Majests's
ship Isis, Captain Thomas Forrest, C. B. arrived at Bart, .
does, on the 7th Septetnher, on his way to Jamaica, in 40
. days, from Spitbead, all well, and found lying there hit
Alajesty's ship Eden, Captain John Lawrence, officers and
men in perfect hea!th.
Three of five pilots who were out from Appledore, laok-
ing out for shits, were drowned last week. 'l'heir
George Bowden, -- Meek, and Michael Jones. It ait
pears, that in returning toward the shore, in a dark night,
their beat struck on a pile of Limestone, and sunk. The
two men who escaped, floated on their oars, and after being
three hours in this perilous condition, were washed on
shore _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The Royal Escape, lighter, with stores for the Dmckvard,
arrived here on Monday. The Royal Escape is the oldest
vessel in the service, and was so named as having been
the identical one in which Charles 11. made his escape
after the beta, of Worcester, in September,l6slThe hiag,
after wandering about in disguise for several days, was
sheltered in the house of Colonel Windham, in Dorsetshire,
from whence lie found his way to Shoreham, in Sussex,
where this vessel was lying, in which he embarked,
and was conveyed to Frescamp, in Normandy.—(Plymouth
paper.)
A letter from Havre, dated Tuesday, says,—" We have
had General Mina's first Aide-de-Camp (Colonel GUl-
laghatm) here for some days. He is in treaty for an Ameri-
can Vessel to carry the General and his suite to some part
of South America. She is to proceed to Cowes, where the
General purposes embarking. Colonel O'Callaghan was
with the General during the whole of the Spanish struggle.
—(Hainpshire 7'elegraph.)
MARRIAGE IN HIGH Ltre.—On the 23th ult., by special
license, at Ilebburn Hall, William Henry Lambton, Esq.,
brother of John George Lamhton, Esq., M. P. for the
county of Durham, to Henrietta, second daughter of
Cuthbert Ellison, Esq., M.P. fur Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
It is with pleasnre we le trn that a requisition to the
Mayor is now in the course of signature, requesting him to
convene a public meeting, for time purpose of promoting
a subscription in favour of the Greeks ; and we have no
douid our worthy chief magistrate will immediately cow-
-1 ply with the request.—(Liverpool Advertiser )
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SOUTIIANIPTON, JAN. 31.—A meetino of the Lieetpled
victuallers of this town. was held at the Star Inn, on Wed-
nesday, when they resolved on a petition to the Douse of
Commons, praying for a repeal of the additional Duties on
Excise Licenses, granted by the 55th of fleorze 111.
being double the amount of the duties previously paid.—
The Petition is entrusted to Mr. Flemming, County
Member.
On Wednesday, Earl Bathurst, as Secretary of State for
the Colonial Department, laid before the Cabinet Council
the voluminous correspondence relative to recent events in
the West India islands, which occupied the attention of
the Cabinet upwards of three hours. On Thursday the
Council was similarly engaged, and for the same length of
time. On Friday the Cabinet was occupied in arranging
the Speech, to he submitted for the King's approbation for
opening the Session of Parliament.
DUEL.—Early on Saturday morning a meeting took
place near the Regent's Park, between B. M.Esq. and Capt.
P. of the Navy, attended by their seconds, when Mr. M.
received his antagonist's ball a little above the left knee,
but it did not lodge. The parties left the ground ou

friendly terms.
DUEL INEVENTED.—Capt. F—w—er and Mr.
a gentleman of fortune, met at Thaxted Green, Middlesex,
on Saturday morning, at day-break, to decide a dispute;
but, after the measurement of the ground, two officers
appeared, and they were suffered to depart, on their ho-
nour to find sureties to keep the peace, which were en-
tered into.
The Literary Gazette has the following respectinZ the
late Joseph Marryar, Esq.—He went on the ',Howley morn-
ing into the city from his country-house at Wimbledon,
and whilst in the act of writing a frank, in his mike 11
Mansion-house-street, he fell on the Door, and expired,
without speaking a word. It appears from the medical re-
port of the gentlemen who inspected the hotly, that an 00
fication. not merely of the valves of the heart, but of the
coronary vessels, or of those vessels which supply the heart
itself with blood, was the cause of his decease :—a
whichmnst have run its course fur souse time without au,-
picion of its existence.
CORN-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, FEB. 2.—The quantities of
corn that cause in last week were tolerably good, and this
morning there is a good fresh arrival of Wheat, Barley and
Beans, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk. but there are not
many Oats fresh in. The Wheat trade has been in a state
of so much animation since last Monday, that 3s. to 4s. per
quarter advance has been obtained on the terms of this day
se'nnight ; but as the price of Flour v
is not
advance, there is therefore ;rather more slackness in he
trade than at the early part of this nsorning. The matlt
sters purchase Barley so eagerly, and there being orders to
ship some for the North, that 41. per qr. higher has been
obtained on the prices of this day se'nnight. Beans are
also further advanced 3s. to 4s. per qr. higher. Boiling
Peas are also risen 3s. per qr. higher; Grey Pease are B'.
to 44. per qr. dearer. In Oats there is a farther advance
of the price of 2s. to 3s. per qr. on the terms of last Monday.
Rape Seed is 21 per last higher.
SMITHFIELD MAMMY, February 4.---There was a short
market this morning of all descriptions of cattle, but m
particularly of Calves, which
which were exceedirgly few In nuns-
ber ; and owing to the frosty weather and a thin market, the
prices of all kind of cattle have advanced.—Beef, of good
quality, obtained as high as 4s. W. per stone.-Nfuttoof South
Doan, sold as high as 4s, Bd.—Good
Calves, 6.. 4d.