The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-31 00:00:00

A ousserom Mail if Op attati—etnen who have'
been actively ',gaged in dispiasing relief to the Dis-
tressed Seamen, took place yesterday at the Ring's
Head, in the Poultry, at which a Report on the sub-
ject of the beneficial effects which have already at.
tended the labours of the Institotion, was made. It
Is apparent from this, and the account we give of the
Meeting, tbet the present eapences of the Institution
are at the rate of eight hundred pounds per week, a
sem so well repaid by its effects, that it will he moat
lamentable, if any deficiency of funds should check
the efforts of the Society, before they shall have at-
Mined their fell purpose.

BRIGHTON, JAN.29.—This afternoon Prince Ei-
TERUAZY, accompanied by Prince Hesse HODIRRRO.
arrived at the Pavilion. The Right Hon. Lord
STEWART took his farewell leave of the PRINCE Rs-
OENT previously to his departure for Vienna.
Yesterday the CHANCELLOR of the &CHEQUER
bad a consultation with the Earl of LIVERPOOL, et
Fife-House, for upwards of four boors, from eleven
o'clock till past three.
Letters from Vienna mention, that en Imperial
Ordinance will shortly appetr, conferring upon the
son of the Ex-Empress MARIA LOUISA' the title of
Highness, and the name of the Doke of Mormirr. It
is added, he will be assigned the first rank after the
Princes of the Imperial Family.
The Legislati*. Body of Frankfort pronounced
ea the 10th inst. by acclamation, the abolition of
the servitude of the inhabitants belonging to that
territory, as well as of all the services resulting
from it.
A letter from Dover, dated Jan. 29, says—r' His
Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON arrived here this
day at two o'clock, from London, and, embarked in
the Lord Duneati packet, Cap. liAmturos, at three
P. M. for Calais."
The claim of the CHIEF BARON of the Court of
Xrchequer, Ireland, to appoint to the place of Clerk
of the Pleat in that Court, has been rejected in the
Court of Error, by a great majority. Baron SHIM
was, we believe, the only Member of the Court who
gave an opinion in rimer of the CHIEF BARON. •
By letters received yesterday from Rio Janeiro,
dated Nev. 28th, we learn the arrival there of the
ship Jane, in 52 days front Valparaiso, the Captain
of which gave an account that the Patriots were iu
possession of the whole coast of Chili,exceptFoletsana,
which was daily espected to surrender. A Spanish
frigate and two sloops of war were cruising off Val-
paraiso, bat did not prevent any vessels from enter-
ing the port. The English frigate Amphion had
sailed from thence for Rio Janeiro, but had not ar-
rived at the latter place at the time the letters left.
The Cabinet has received the addition of another
:Member in the person of Mr. ItuNiNsoN, the late
Vice-President of the Board of Trade, new President
of that Board and Treasurer of the Nary. This
Committee of the Privy Council consists, therefore,
jaw of thirteen persons. Its gradual increase is
worth consideration, not so mach in any constitute.
east point of view, as because, if this should pro-
ceed much further, one great purpose of the in,titu.
tiou of a Cabinet will be counteracted ; the number
will he too great. to /permits, at ail times, a perfect
confideuce of the Members in each other ; cabals will
arise ; Sub-Committees will be virtually formed ; and
the ostensible Cabinet will come to be, like the
greater Council, from which it is formed, a Society
fur formal, rather than for real consultation. There
.are, at least, tb•sre Members of the p, esent Cabinet,
Whose offices do not indispensably require their pre.
seece at it—Lord M ',GRATE, Mf. POLE, and Mr.