The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-06-08 00:00:00

THE *TATESII A N

case is this, there are a parcel of uses that
sonic call Rena:died preerhere, and some call
them Methodist. in the Church. Tine are a race
more industrioue than the others, who read their ser-
mons and confine themselves to the mere form of the
Church. The Evangelical. preach bootee sermons.
pray extempore, and bear a strong renashlance to the
most stately of the Methodists. They are, in georrat.
great favourites in populous places, where people are
mewed up in small compare. and where they pose
their brains in half dark rooms. They are favourites
with the women, generally, whon hearts are more
susceptible of pious impressions than those of the
other sex. In short, they are gaining ground very
fast. There are two opinions as to the effect of this
upon the system grxerally. One opinion is, that by
taking the Methodists in their own way; by fighting
them at their own weapons ; or, in other words, by
making a church possess all the requisites of a Metho-
dist meeting-house, the greater part of the people,
and particularly the women, will be held to thelharcb,
which is the most commodious buildiag, and which
will, of coarse, be freqnented by all pe spire, best
fortune and figure —The other opinion is, that if tie
Church go this length ; if it adopt the Evangelical
plan it must not stop there; that the Methodists will
still keep a head, and that the Church must follow;
till, at last, all becomes rant and roaring nonsense;
and that, therefore, it is hest to make • stand sow;
to go on in the old dry way, and to tint to three
things, the Law, the Tythes and the general indifference
of the men, in all the country parts particularly.—
We, who own no tythes, can give • very impartial opi-
nionupon the matter; and we most say, that though
we lingh at Bishop lassies eighty-nen questions,
we think that the evangelical plan would sooolttin-
ble down the church, even if it. temporalities were in
a state of touch greater security than they are.—lf
we were disposed to enter into the question as a ques-
tion of religion, we should be certainly on the side of
the Bishop. It is his business to e.romine before be
licenses. Aud we know well how strictly we should
examine a candidate for a seat in Parliament if we bad
the power. If Le be not ttiexamine, then, indeed, he
is a pretty licencer ; and it had better be declared
at once that be bee nothing to do with the mat-
ter, and that any ranting raving fellow may be
sent to insult a parish with his nonsense, while
the Rector is spending the amount of the tythes
in London or at Paris. It has always happened that
when there has been great and imminent danger to
the very existence of an establishment, the persons
most deeply concerned in that existence have been
enraged in squabbles amongst themselves about some
trintig -elrentestaates In ilms-.4aoste of managing is.
Thus we see the liandlurds of the kin;rlom busy as
bees about the management and preservation of the
partridges and barn that ;a So ant 6., alibi, near
their estates, while they have, for more than twenty
years paid not the smallest attention to thee lasts that
were gradually at work to take from them the estates
themselves. And so it is in the case of the Church-
The Church is built upon its revenues; and at a mo-
ment, when there may he great doubt as to the con-
tinuation of those revenues for only a few years, the
persons most deeply concerned in the matter are dis-
puting about nice points of doctrine and discipline.
The dispute will, in all probability, be terminated in
much about the same manner as that of the two
mastiffs io the fable, which, at the end of the battle
for a bone, found the bone carried off.

IN THI COMMONS there were petitions of Brewers
and Publicans in Lancashire against any alteration in
the Licensing Law. To be sure ! They want no
alteration in a law which compels the poor weavers
to swallow what they please to give them, and at their
own price; and we must say that those who do swal-
low it are very little to be pitied. The Publicans in
London, however, seem to be of a different taste ;
and after the treatment of Mr. Maim, well they
may. We do not believe, however, that any efficient
alteration will be adopted. Tbe licensing of public
houses is too closely connected with the root of the
system ever to be materially altered, until a Reform
of the Parliament shall take place.

Mr. WYNN'S Bill fora new mode or *cling mem•
bees in Yorkshire was thrown out up,a, division ;
but it served to give WIL/ICIIVORCI. that friend of the
blacks and that deputy upon the memorable message
to the C,Nres, an opportunity of observing that it was
a happy anomaly in our happy constitution, that some
Members represented ;great counties, some great
cities and some small towns. lie did Trot mention
Gallon and Old Sarum. but. he doubtless, meant them
amongst the small towns.—We are glad, however.
the Bill was thrown oat; but we are muds more glad
that the Landlords must now lose their ratites, unless
we have an efficient reform of the Parliament.

The Gish Police Bill, that is to say,. a Bill to put
into the hands of the Government the power of appoint-
ing Constables as well as Magistrates, Mr. GRANT.
Mr. lixouctitast and some others opposed this Bill.—
Mr. Aninciromnix said, that " hr formerly beard it
" stated that the Marquess WeLt.caLer had pursued
" the seine plan of Government io ladia as BUONA-
" PARTE did in Europe, and be thought this Dill WAS
" not calculated to remove tke impression." This
does not square very well with that opinion expressed
of the Marquess, at the beginning of the Session, by
Sir Faarrcts BURDETT, whose confidence io the Mar-
-1 guess's liberality and humanity was so great, that lie
was eager to sake his breast the repository attic tre-
mendous power of martial 1.. w over Vie Irish The
Government are going very far; but still, they stop
very far short of the point to which Sir FRANCIS was
,willing to come.

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New Turk Palms, of which the following am r'
tracts; arrived this morning to the 17th of Noy :
We learn that when Captain Weston left St. S tiv
der teanquillity lad been restored between the Bra-
zi ian and Esropean troops, and the new ti mot
from Ramps bad been established without any further
opposition. COON MAXILLA.
Captain Hobble, from Manilla, informs that all was
tranqnil at Manilla between the natives and foreigners,
and it was very healthy when be sailed. It was snp•
posed that the crop of sugar cane avoid he stint ibir
year, in consequence of the wet weather and the sick.
ness which prevailed last year.
Barausso re or Couuness.—At length, says the
YotioNal Intelligencer, Congress bas terminated the
brat Session of the Seventeenti Congress. The S►nate
adjourned at a little after 2 o'clock yesterday, and the
House of It-presentative% at a little past 3 u'clock.—
(13M May, New York Gazette, Monday.)

Paris papers to the 6th inst.. repeat the intelligence
'that the Turks bad. early in May, commenced the eve-
enation of Moldavia and Wallachia. An article from
Bach , dated May 11, states, that whilst the Ft-
ropeans rejoice at thkdeparture of the Turkish troops,
the Greeks are in the deepest affliction, as it removes
the hopes which they entertained of a war between
Ramie and the Porte, which they considered neceseart
to the consolidation of their independence. Two of
the Boyards, who hail been sent to Coasiantinople,
are said to have beets appointed llospodars of the eve-
coated Provinces. The others are kept as hostages,
in order to prevent a fresh insurrection. Fifteen hun-
dred Janissaries were to remain at Bucharest to main-
tain order.—The moat important article, however, in
these papers is the Address, voted on the 24th ult., by
the Spanish Cortes to the King, on the state of the na-
tion. lu this document, which is of considerable
length, the Cortes paint, in lively colours, the ca-
lamitous efforts of the King's own party, to deprive
the people of the benefits of the Constitution ; they
condemn loudly the appointments which he has made
of men, to the command of Provinces, who have been
guilty of all manner of enormities, and they call On
him, in language not to be mistaken, to concur honestly 1
with tbe Cortes in carrying the Cowie ution into effect.
The conduct of the Priests, they thus describe:—They
preach against the liberty which oar Constitution
parable's; and sacrilegious and perjured, they fana-
ticize and stir up the people, form regiments of the
weak, whom they seduce, and mix with banditt.—
With the incense in one hand, and the sword in
the other, abnsine their influence, arming them-
selves with their audacity. they rush on to stir up
to insurrection, oppress, pillage and burn cities; to
cause streams of Wood to now, and to convert
an-
happy Spain into a dreadful theatre of civil war,
in the deceitful hope of annihilating for ever the
National Glory, Liberty, the Throne, and the Itepre-
sentation." To re-establish order and to save the Con-
stitution the following measures are thus pointed out
and urged :—" Tito Cortes anxiously request of your
Majesty, in order to put au end to the fears by
which we are assailed, and to prevent the evils
which we have indicated, to order that the national.

anditia be immediately augmented lied armed through-
out the kingdom: fur citizens armed in defence of
their homes and liberties, are the strongest pillars
stAbe Cozstitution. Let the permanent army be
organized wi h equal zeal and rapidity, that army so
deeply entitled to the gratitude of your Majesty, and
to that of the country, and who,e exploits and virtues
excite the admiration of the universe. At the same
time the Cartes hope that your Majesty will inform
every foreign Government which, whether directly or
indirectly, would take's part in our donsestic concerns.
that the nation is not in • situation to receive laws
that she possesses power and resources to cause her-
self to be respected, and that if she knew how to de-
fend her indh•penJence and her King with glory, it is
with the same glory and with still greater exertions
that she will always know how to defend her King
and her liberty."

Some fresh paper: relative to the lonian Islands
have lately been printed by order of the House of Com•
eons. They were ordered so recently as last month.
but they relate chiefly to transactions which took place
early in the year IS'2l. It appears that a petition was
privately circulating in the island of lante last March
twelvemonth, and that the representative of the Lord
High Commissioner there, Sir Patrick Ross, being
aware of the circumstance. seised the petition on the
person of M. de Rossi. the Judge of the island. The
petition simply complains, " that every power
is placed in the absolute will of a single person, which
could never he the intention of Rinse who
fixed the destiny of the islands;" and all that
it prays for, is " A Legislative Assembly freely
chosen front the Notables of the island, which
shall make such changes and modifications
that the authority of the Lord High Commission',
shall not exceed a sedately and benevolent superin-
tendeaces sad that the people shall enjoy a rettional
liberty and moderate independence." 'f his is the gist
■nd hoiden of the petition ; and these reasonable com-
plaints and just hopes, Sir Patrick Rues and Sir Tho-
mas blai.land call " seditious, libellous, and treason-
able!" Ott the petition being forwarded by the
error to the Senate, the Senate immediately sus-
pended Count Elabariari and M. Rossi from the situ-
ations they held under the Government, in conse-
quence of having been the two first to sign it ; and
as the Count was a member of the Lee'slatite Assembly
for Zante, that Assembly also suspended him as a
member of that body.

We are extremely happy in being able to state,
that Mr. tiregury is considerably better.—(Dialits
Xorniig Post. Thursday.) .
William Ousting. Esq. nominated by the Lord Mayer
at the Court of Aldermen un Tuesday last, fur the
office of Sheriff, bis paid his fine to ' be excused
serving the said office.

On Wednesday lost, Monslenr Lefevre, a Litbogra
phic Ptinter, in the employ of Mr. Clister, of Wel.
lington-street, leaped from the top of the ballustrade•,
over the centre arch of Waterloo Bridge, into the
Thames, and swam to the shore, without the slightest
inconvenience. The Cline individual declares, he Is
willing to perform the some exploit) from tue three
bridges, successively.
From the heat of the weather this week, seVeral
horses drawing stage coaches and other conveyances
have died on the roads in the ce;ghbour`mod of Sunn-
i ford.

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SPORTI.VG INT.sLL,GENCE.
ASCOT HE tTH RACES.—Faieav, it:xe 7,
The Woklngham Stakes, of bet twit (handicap) rot
year •Id+ sad upwards. The lest Wet quarter' of the
New Mile.
Mr Haworth nd Netherileld. 3 yrs old. 7st. Alb... t
Sir W. W. Wyatt nJ s.awdoa, Oyes old, Ct.
Woe by a mark.
Tb. following started, bet were nut placed.
Mr. Page ad Matilde, 4 5 rs old. 94.
Mr. Howarth ad Alpha. 9 yrs mid, Oat. 111 b,
Lord Dun• ich lid Spinetia. 4 yrs old, Cot. Alb.
H. R. H. the Dyke of York ad Pavturella, 4 sr,. est. 4/.4,
Mr. Neville nd Souvenir, 4 yea old, 84 4th. •
Mr. Norther nd b. c. Monk, 4 yrs old. fist.
Lard J9bn Fitzroy nd e. by Phantom. 3 yes old, 7st.loth.
Mr. L. Charlie. ad Zaire. 3 yrs old, 74. Alb.
Mr. Howorth nd Netherield. 3 yrs old, 74.61 h.
Captain Roue nd Zorilds, 3 yrs old, 74.
A Plate of 30!. for all ages ; three year .Id%. 74. 41h.. roar,
Ist. 9.b., five, 94. 311)., six nod aged. 9.t. 711., !de-c•
allowed alb. The best of Three Our Mile Heats, tie CA
Mile. s
Mr. Fielde's Yukio. 3 yrs old .. sI t
Mr. Brathwaite's Car.teulo, aged I
M.jor °nubby Doris b. e. Curp. 4 yrs old .. 33 er
Mr. Farrall's PotesiLie, 4 yrs 4 er
Mr. Whlteker's Fontana, 3 yrs old .. 3 4 Jr
Cardestio won Out first heat uy a neek. vasioo woo Oar
last beat. by a reek.