The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-14 00:00:00

,THE STATESMAN;

HA TTON -0 A UNIX .—.Yesterslay little Waddington
enured the Justice-room. and made application to the-
Magistrates for an order to visit John Osborne, one
of the Birmingham Radicals, who *.s in durance in,
the House of Correction, pursuant to the slntet.ce
of
the Court of King's Bench, for libel.. • '
The Magistrates informed the little man that his
application could not be complied 11th. as the Gaol.
Cusnmittee bad ordained that for the ,future visitors.
should only be admitted to the prisoners imee a stmath.
Waddington butyed to the Magistrate, and was
leaving the dice apparently mita disappointed, when
it was intimated to their Worships that the new rigs-
'atlas would not bein force till Monday nest.
Upon this statement. the Magistrate granted him
as order. and be left the vice in good spirits.

TAJOTION AND CASH PAYMENTS.

[PROM Till BRISTOL SIRRIVRT.I
After a careful consideration of the voluminous evi-
dence taken before the Agricultural Committee of the
last Session of Parliament, we should have been at no
loss to account for the complaints which landlords
throughout the country are now beginniuttd make,
even if we had not previously, from our own private
sources of information, been fully prepared to expect
them. Prepared to expect them did we say ? How
by possibility it could be otherwise, from the pats.*
of Mr. Peel's Bill for resumption of Cash Paynten,
we never could devise. Nothing bet the most dis-
graceful ignorance, the grossest prejudice, or down-
right infatuation (in any one who gave himself the
trouble to consider the subject duly), could expect any
thing else. And yet this was cheered in the House
of Commons!—This was the measure, according to
the declamation of Caetlereigh and Canning, and the
humdrum of Old Van (after confessing that they and
their predecessors had been in fatal error for morn
than twenty years), this was the measure that was to
restore the Monetary System of this great empire.
which had been totally deranged by their fully for
nearly a quarter of a century, to a healthy and flou-
rishing state ! Sagacious contrivers, thus to look fori
financial salvation to a measure reversing the order of
things. which they themselves had supported **that
period ! Wise and prudent guardians of the public
purse, who exulted in a measure, the full opera-
tion of which infallibly adds hundreds of millions
to the redeemable ralue of the Public Debt! Scut-
pulous administrators of justice, who thereby decreed
that every debtor in the kingdom should pay back
double what he borrowed! and that the taxation,
which remained the same, should require the farmer,l
the tradesman, and the yeoman, to sell twice as much
of his respective stock or goods as was necessary to
pay that same amount of taxation up to the passing
of this Act!
That there was an absolute necessity for a return
to Cash-Payments at the Bank we admit. It was
madness, or something worse, that possessed " The
Pilot that weathered the Storm." which is now raging,
and which has not yet attained its height, when he and
Sidmouth, and the wary Scot who burst his accounts,
and then laughed at the farce of public inquirer.-it
was worse than madness in these hearea-born Minis-
ters to suspend Cash-payments at all. Bat when, for
upwards of twenty years. they had been Suspended,
—when the price of produce and manufactures and
rents was accommodated to the necessary circum-
stances resulting from this suspension,—when ban-
dreds of millions had been added to the Public Debt
in mere paper promises, which were prohibited from
being paid by Art of Parliament,---and when tbe re-
lative situation of debtor and creditor, throughout the
country, had been for so long time regulated thereby,
—to return to Cash-Payments without first equitably
accommodating all these artificial differences, Which
in lapse of time bad grown into customs and
usances, was to effect the greatest revolution in
the property of a country ever known in modern
times. From tbitr great,. all-pereading caosooariee
tge revulsions in whieb, as lie. Baring Mad its
the House of Comotithil, " had reduced capitals of t
and 300,000144 120 and 150,0001. Prom this Anse,
operating in diminishing the price of agricultural pro-
duce (in the same way as it does upon the products of
trade and manufactures more than one-half,) thousands
of farmers and yeomen have been ruined ; and frets the
same cause, also, the landlords of the country are at
this moment being deprived of the greatest portion of
their incomes, and their property being transferred to
the Stock jobber, the Oovernment-contractor, and Jew-
broker; so that, without a speedy and effectnal Worm
ofthe whole system of Oovernment, the final ruin of
all who possess no other property, or who do not rank
amongst the very great landholders and aristocracy
of the country, is inevitable.
And whence comes all this distress and misery, tut
because the present Ministers persist in levying the
same amount of taxes on the country, and even boast
of an increase, when all property, real or merchandise-
able, is reduced more than one-half, perhaps two-thirds
in value, and is still reducing in elect proportion to
the continued diminution of what is.called the circu-
lating medium, or paper money ? In 1604 the Landed
and Agricultural Interests felt a pressure, sod why ?
because (in addition to previous bad harvests) the
Bank of England, which was to hive paid in tub
within six months after the peace concluded in March
1802, began to be apprehensive that they could sot dr
lode their creditors with empty promises moth logger.
and therefore drew in a portion of their paperoneeey,
which began to be smartly felt in 1804.* But the War
had now begun again; a Bill had been passed to put
off Cash-Payments till six months after the sod of the
new war ; the paper-money came tumbling Got I. coon-
earner, and the quarters loaf, which io Lontlesthad been
reduced to 90: in 1803, banes the harvest of 1804
had risen to a shilliag, and by December iu that same
year was sixteen-pence! So. that high view were
again establisbeCat the expense of the awry, and
the landlads antfirmere-mesporaelly relisseil4
• In 1814, preparations- for pluming, to _Cash-per
meats were Brain' made by the Basks coniiitunat on
the peace ; the paper-money was again withdrawn,
and, necessarily, down fell prices of: produce ; but
ntber suspensiou.bilis came, and the distress of 1813
and 1816 was relieved by a re-issue tipper; sinew
when the Bank of England has had oat at one time
promises to pay, whicbo righteous Ministry ordered
theinnot to pay, to tat Imo vet of thirsty-tiro !
At length the fatal period to this trickish, and in the
end certainly destructive, system arrived.. Ministers
became astonished at their own daring, sad, In a fit of
compunction, imbecility, and presumption, brought
forth Mr. Peel's Bill foe the resateptien of cash-pay-
meets : the thirty.-two millions „are pet. now twenty
millions, and that twenty will probab'y he reduced to
fifteen by the 616 of April next. The country Bankers
have resltteed.theit circulation in a =eh, ,greater pro-
portion than the Beak of Inglaild, which *Wit of
•coarsioilways be ; sot that in all probability amass-of
paper-moneyi more asti oral *the toemivat of lie--
half of the annul twit* bat bees withdrawn, and the'
prices of agricultural produce rediced two-third.; sod
yet the same amount of taxation is endeavoured to be
levied upon the impoverished county.
Farmers, Yeomanry, and Gentlemen of Englaed.,
here is a true picture of your present situation, and of
its immediate cause; persist but a little loafer is sup-
porting the present Ministers and their system of cot-

ruption and inthitility, and your support will speedily
he of little consequence to any Minister, or any
system of politics!

PRICE OF STOCKS TUIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Stink Stock Lodi* Mock 242
per Cent. Red 771 i 7 Dam ',Ands —s 71s. 70s. pn
per Cent. Con 78} 7j S.:nth-Sea Mock
Si per Cent. S 7? Routh Sea Old Ann.
6 per Cents. 984; .I Ez Bills 241. 1000/.45. bs.p.
b per Ct. Navy II la 101 --MI. Os. 4s. 65. pm.
3 per Cent. I ---iimall 6s. Os. 4s. pm.
Long Ann India for ditto
Imp 3 per Cost. 104946 I Con. for Acct 71414
Irish b per Cent. Lott. Tiek•ls 22/. 144.

NMI WATT! AT MINTON- 11 ft DS! .re-ileanovr.
Morale*, 12 sta. aftsr&—Ereohar 29 min. after G.

LONDON:
WZDNIIIIDAY LYMPH), NOVEMBIER 14, 1821.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is nothing extraordinary on the Exchange to.
day. Consols at present are from 78 to sellers.

Charlestown papers arriired this morning. to the 11th
Oct. and Quebec to the 12th, from which we extract

the following :
" Extract of a letter from Cape Hayti, Oct. I :
Since your friend left this place the transactions at the
Custom-honse have been very vexatious. Mr. Appeita,
the Collector, was called on business to Port-au-Prince,
and a man by the name of Tassey, left to officiate. The
first thing to establish his consequence was to order
all vessels then at anchor to be searched for money.—
An armed force went on board the ship Enterprise,
from Philadelphia, the Captain of which vessel lately
died, and took 1,700 dollars. They then proceeded to
a brig, and after searching every place and not being
successful, they took a writing desk and carried it to
the Custom-house. Next day Captain Townsend was
sent for, when be opened the desk which contained
about 700 dollar, in gold, which was deposited in
the Treasury. The Agent wrote for both sums to
the President,. The Authorities then ordered the
1,700 dollars to be given up immediately. The
decision on the 700 gold I hive not yet heard. A
schooner a few days ego arrived, belonging to Phila-
delphia, with flower and gin. She was seised for
having gin on board, which was condemned. It
would be wise not to visit this part of the Island
until the Laws and Regulations are better under.
stood. President Boyer is much esteemed by • all
foreigners; he encourages trade as much as possible,
and if were there more men of his principle in office,
business would be done with more satisfaction a►
`be Cape.

Qyznec, OCT. 4.—The brig Roy
Captain Scott and part of the crew and possengera
of the brig Earl Dalhousie, of Greenock. (Mm Port
William ; says he lost the brig on the sth September.
the east end and sonth point of Anticosti. Left
about 140 men on the Island that could not be got uff.
PIRACY.
CHARLESTOWN, OCT. 10.--A letter was received in
town by the schooner Eliza, from Metopes''s, giving
an account of the capture and robbery of _three ves-
sels, near the entrance of that harbonr, by a barge
filled with ruffians, fitted out expressly for that pur-
pose. The vessels were a brig, Captain Smith, of
Bristol, the captain and crew murdered, and the vessel
burnt; schooner Milo, also of. Bristol, captain and
two of the crew illurdered, vessel ordered off; and
the sloop Collector, of Rhode Island, the crew unmetcifally beaten, and the vessel plundered of every thing
valuable and set on fire ; fortunately the crew lad
sufficient strength left to save themselves in the boat.
Three boats were immediately armed by the American'
in port, who went in pursuit of the villains, but "'-
turned after an unsuccessful search of thirty-eln
qrs.

'-Rob

-*A"akitiou

Though the letters from St. Petersburg and Odessa,
referred to in another column, express confidence in
the preservation of peace, an article from Vienna,
dated Oct. 28, state, that two days before " an impor.
Cant piece of intelligence was circulated with the
greatest rapidity at Vienna. It was said the Porte
had declared war with Irtaisia.' This news may not
be authentic, but it is not impossible. ,Such a decla!
ration of, war would_be4de this Russian Administra
des *behest means of coacludiag the negociaiions;sl,
Russia would then be obliged to defend herself. Ores*
activity prevails amongst -oar diplomatists ; the girt
rival and departure of Con/ions are incessant ;
nothiaepositive is known; and the rumours in eirear
lotion do' ot appear to deserve any credit." Othet
letters from Oermany, however, the French papers as-
sort, give hopes that through the intervention of the
Ambassadors of Austria and England, the Ottoman
Porte Would consent to give Russia the satisfaction and
guarantees whieh she requires. Other letters assert
that Prince de bletternich, had, during his stay at Haw'
over. agreed with the blarquess of Londonderry to make
to Russia some proposition of a nature not to be refused.
In Naples and Sicily, the Austrian measures have been.
adopted for preventing. persons from proceeding to
Greece. It was expiated even. that there would be an
probibitiimoneniast all communications with
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absolute
the Islands of the Awl:aping°, the Mores, aid Epirus:
'The surrender of Tripolissa to the Greeks, is again
stated ID au article from Calsmats,, dated the 3d of
August. The,' fresh vessel's are stated to bare
,sailed from Marseilles for Greece. taring on board 1511
young Germain. Three French passeugeit who Wesel
&and on board were compelled to relaad.-4 chaste