The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-10 00:00:00

STATFSMAN:

cil for Trade and Plantations, for the information of
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. The Go.
Tailor Oroposes, preaioos to' hit departure, to spear
in the Hon. Beulatuln Lucas, as Commander in Chief,
unless that Gentleman declines the oi%ce."

their Cuurehti, to do so instantly ; and in case of
non-corniiiiance, the Magistrates where they reside
are to cause them to be arrested and conveyed to
their several Convents by main• force. By another
Decree, he orders the Council of Castile not to ac-
knowledge, and to consider as null and void all
Bulls of the POPE, which are not conveyed through,
his Majesty's Ministers at the Court of Rome." I

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THE STATESMAN.

Too longhave the eyes of the people of this coun-
try been fixed with expectation upon external cir-
cumstances. Thoy have suffered their imaginations
to wander abroad in search of vanities, confiding in
the profession; of those who " keep the promise to
our ear, but break it to our hope," till comfort
after comfort has been suffered to eXpire under
the fangs of insidious domestic destroyers, and
the fancy, like a bad house-wife, fears to return
home, and trembles at the view of the ruin which
her unmindfulaess and the power of the ravager has
occasioned. It is now time, however, to leave
those " jugglers who palter with us in a double
sense," and attend to objects and interests that more
nearly concern us. Happy should we be would
truth allow us to paint our internd affairs in such a
light, as must have the effect of reconciling.thelseart
to domestic contemplations—but the case is other•
wise. Yet we must learn to look upon the dismay-
ing prospect. The feverish dream of heated ambition,
which sought to build its palaces on the ruins of
every thing dear to human nature, has ceased for
a time to embroil the nations in war, and to urge
the work of human slaughter from one end of the
world to the other; and Reason, which returns
when every other happiness is flown, is now
speaking in intelligible accents to many who
would not hear her voice before. To too many,
and, alas! to thousands who should never have
shared in the over-charged cup of calamity, she
points a precipice that will no longer be shaded by
sophistry. Peace has indeed come to the aid of the
millions who tottered on its brink, but too late to
have the effect which could be desired. The powers
of the body politic have been cruelly racked to their
utmost tension, and now the mere prospect of relief
brings a fainting-fit, almost as fatal as the oppres-
sions that have weighed upon k so long.
It is worth while, now that we have time to consi-
der, and thought is necessary, to give a pause to
controversy on the subject of the terms of the Peace
with America, leaving the disputed point of national
honour to be settled by that impartial power which
strips every thing of disguise, and attend a little to
its real and probable effects on the comforts of the com-
munity. Of mortified feeling we have had enough,
and we wish we were doomed to listen to no other
lamentations than those of wounded vanity. But it
is speaking a melancholy truth, which, lovers of
peace as we are, we sincerely regret to utter, that
the peace has wounded deeper than any dis-
grace the nation has suffered under the guid-
ance of the indiscreet bands that so franti-
cally plunged it into a war, where victory was
ruin, and wasted her resources on unattainable ob-
jects. The effects of this sudden stoppage, when
hopes of the highest attainment were imparting a
buoyant impulse to the spirits of the innumerable
multitude who now depend upon war in this country,

or are under the necessity of seeking an indemnity
in the restrictions which it brings, in respects that
are advantageous to them, for the burtheus and pri-
vations which it occasions, and has long occasioned,
to them and the country in others, is seen in the pa-
ralyzing influence it has upon the Agricultural inte-
rests.

We could pursue this topic farther than might he
pleasant, with refere►►ce to its consequences to the
empire at large, and the means of averting or remedy-
ing these alarming evils ; bat we will close our obser•

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rations at present by making the following qllO.l.
' lion from the Dublin Evening Post, inucfroive of
the state of the agricultural interest of Ireland.
" Almost in every county in Ireland the Tenants
have declared th..ir inability to meet the demands of
their Immlloids. Some have already lowered their
rents, 10, 20, 25, 30, per cent. but it is supp,s.j,
that those under lenses from the year 1801 and up.
wards, cannot afford to bold, eten -if there was a
I depreciation in their refit cif 'at per cent. 110T10,,
iwhich three or four years ago brought 601. may now
:be easily procured for 401. Oats, in the country, is
for seven shillings a barrel, anti 11tsef and Mutton,
! which a year ago was tettpence and a shillin4 pee
pound in the interior, is now at Si. an-I eld. There
is a most ntfarious' effort making to keep up the
Dublin markets, but it cannot long continue. Now,
when he 'receives such miserable return for his in.
dustry, it is totally impossible for (he farmer to tily
hii rents. The fact is, that emigrat! on, and to an
alarming amount, will soon take place. France hul,ls
out many tempting advantages to the annuitant. These
advantages hare been embraced, particularly by the
middle order of the English Gentry. It is corn.
puted, even now, when the Peace has scarcely
been of silt months' duration, that England
already loses at the rate of five millions annually,
in absentees. But to the Irish farmer—to the Irish
' middleman—to the manufacturer—to the artizan—
and even to the peasant, if he could afford his pas.
1
sage, America presents a prospect the most tempt-
ing, indeed. The land only wants hands to dear
and till it ; it can be had in some places at the fee of
, :
a dollar or two an acre. 'No doubt, that acre would
• cost many dollars to prepare it for grain ; but two
crops would pay the purchase.money and the labour
etpended on its preparation. The farmer must hare
a little capital certainly—bet he can sow with the
satisfaction of being certain that he shall reap, and
stack the entire prodece in his haggard, without any
fear that the parson or • the proctor, the grand jury
' jobber, or the parish conetahle, will subtract, from
the fruits of his industry, tithes, to support a system
which he bolds in religious abhorrence—or taxes, .to
feed the cupidity of the village tyrant. This subject
• is full of matter; bat we shall dismiss it for the pre.
sent. We cannot conclude, however, without re.
marking, that the etistersce of a great Republic,
within a month'S Joarney of Europe, is a blessing to
humanity, and a comfort, even in thought, to the
'Meted, the oppressed, and the persecuted of all ua.
I tions."

We have given n brief minute of tl.e proceedings
of a Meeting of Land Owners at Lewes yesterday.
We shall probably make some observations to.mor.
tow upon the Resolutions adopted on this occasion.

The Gazelle of this evening is expected In contain
a further Ordinance,. which 'was signed at ii:i„hten
two days ngo by his Royal Highness the PRINCE RE.
GENT, relative to the new Carsles of the Order of she
Bath, according to which fifteen of the moss ditdin.
guished Officers in the East India Company's ger vice,
will be advanced to the dignity of K ii;ghts Comman-
ders ; and a proportionate numbr-r of Wirers he.
longing to the same army, will he admitted into the
third Class as Companions of the Order.
The marines of Plymouth division are weekly re•
ducing to the peace establishment; we understand
the number to be kept is 5000 effective men.

A requisition has been sent to the High Sheriff of
Hants, requesting him to give public notice of a
Meeting, in the course of next week, to petition
Parliament on the subject of the Property Tax ; and
the inhabitants of Winchester have made a requisi-
tion of the same kind.
The Duke and Duches of BEDFORD arrived at
Leghorn in the beginning of November. They sere

The Commercialists trading to America will nit- I compelled to perform quarantine upwards of a fort-
finally rejoice, and doubtless be benfited by.the re. night in the Lazaretto, and on their liberation set
establishment of relations of amity with 'so, largea out for Florence.
The workmen employed at the 81, 21,-mills. A'
portion of the world, connected by such strop has „ Portsmouth Dock-yard, are working in extra hn Irs‘,
of mutual dependence and natural affinity as . are '.l t wget ready blocks for the service on the Lakes ,7
Great Britain and the United States. Yet there is a LCanada. The 52d Regiment embarked last week
most frightful and general stagnation of bissinestrfor America. The transports are ordered to C.k,
even in this respect, not only in theineteopolis, but i fOrtoneoy ; and it is rather expected that they will
in every part of the cooutry,which the peke hi. not !not proceed any further on the voyage. Upwards of
, • ' TOneil of transports were discharged from lessened,Govern-
but rather increased. But look at its viten...
,onent•sersice, at Portsmouth, during the laQt week.
sire operation on the interests of Agriculture, which) Ministers thus appear to blow hot and cold at the
are those of the tuition at large. We fervently hope 'Munsitime.
•
and pray the gloomy anticipations that are so gene- Another regiment is ordered to Plymouth, to take
rally entertained will vanish with lengthening days rshipplii for Halifax, which is to be or board by the
and brighter. skies, as these iiilvaitea in the pori.l' middle of the present month.
•:" • 1 • Adrices reached us yesterday from Smyrna, to the
tictl as welt as the oateral world, " inspiring
ardent hopes and pleasing egpectatiaul- but at present lend as they are Wholly
• , 15th, and from Constantinopleto the 21,t Norember ;
silent as to any pestilential
theteis'too mach reisortitill• to fele the :Operation „disorder., either in the one or the other, we hope
of those evils so much to be dreaded, and froiniltpcb, !that the plague' has disappeared.
by the cessation of the exhausting and unnattal con- I The !rade of Harre is much increased since the
tests in whiCh we heivesbeen'Aso long engaged, we had ' peacewit/r Frante• • The long war had reduced its
hopes of escaping,—the evils attendant upon national i population from 25,1i00 to 15,000, and many of the
, respectable tridesnien were under the necessity of
bankruptcy and national convulsion. We need not 1 working on the Pier for their daily bread. The
instatrce the innumerable' failures among tie traders t town now wears a considerable appearance of bustle
in grain, as consequences of the late changes, and i and business. TNe value of proper( v is in many in-
(we speak of the matter with reference to its effects) stances more than doubled, and the population is
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as one cause of the public distress ; nor need we fast increasing. The export trade of corn, the
1 fitting out some large merchant vessels for the Vest
point to the state of the markets and the appre-
Indies, together with the general commerce bet weett
hensions and embarrassments of the farmer,to show the I the two countries, in n hich Havre often serves as a
extent of the danger that menaces ;he general com- : depot for Paris, have caused this town to be
fort ; for when we shall have to pay for that in : benefited by the peace, as any town in Frauci
large ship has been recently fitted out at thi
foreign countries which we ought to grew in our .
' for the.receptista.of slaves ; and the number
own, and a total ruin hae'engulphed the supporting
interest of the country, the very reverse of what is de-
goes of corn which have been exported to (hit
try, Spain, and Portugal, is almost incredible
sired is likely to happen. I Fingal American ship Is still at Havre, waif

erdira of the American Commissioners.
1 Berao.—This day the LORD MAYOR 1e!
i the bleal....weighere returns, and ordered the
Bread to be lowered one size and a half, wait)
in the peck loaf.

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