The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-27 00:00:00

REVIV.IL OF TRADE IN AMERICA.

Extract from a private letter, dated Philadelphia.
Dee. 22, 1519.—" t have great pleasure in informing you,
that affairs on this side tile Atlantic do not now wear so
gloomy an aspect as when I last wrote. Trade hegira
to revive, and confidence among the merchants Is
considerably restored.—The return of Spring will, I
trnst, put matters on a still better footing, and expand
the channels of commerce. Nut h, however, depend'
on the line of policy which this Government may
adopt towards South America; we have every reason
to expect that our Executive, tired out by the bad
faith and thieanery of the beloved Ferdinand, will, ere
long, declare in favour of the Patriots; awl although
they may nut choose to identify themselves, in an orgn
manner, in the quarrel between the Colonies 4nd the
Mother Country, they will remove all restrictions as to
the supplying the munitions of war, and whatever other
necessaries the Insurgents (as they are termed by some)
may stand in need of. This would indeed be bailed
with joy, from one end of the Union to the other, as it
would_ micts an inexhaustible field for lucrative com-
mercial speculation ; and could net fail to peorriag•
highly beneficial to England, in every branch of her
extensive minnfactures.
" Notwithstanding the forhearance that has hitherto
marked the conduct of our Executive, as it regards the
contest between Spain and her Colonies, there not an
American, from the highest officer in the Government
down to the humblest labourer, that does not in his
heart favour the cause of the Patriots, and execrate the
Wog that seeks to subjugate them. Our last account.
front the Patriotic armies, dispel all fears of the ultimate
issue of the contest, and afford every rational grow
to anticipate that it must terminate favourably ere the
close of the approaching year. The Patriots are gaining
an accession of strength on all sides, while their uppo-
nenta, on the contrary, are daily becoming more feeble
ami insignificant.
" Notwithstanding *hat I hate *aid art to the im-
proved iapect of affairs, I must caution you and prot
friends nut to be too sanguine in your expectations, nor
too lavish in your shipments for the Spring Mgket.—
Commeree, though considerably revived, is stilt weak
and feeble, and Jill require sometime to attain her for-
mer rigour. Motet all, avoid the error by witch so
many became severe.sotfitners within thetas& two yews,
do not assist in glutting the markets with coarse and
inferior goods, ar inch, maler present circumstance',
will not pay freight and ditties. The finer fabries of
hod woollen and cotton roods, linens, stuffs, Bitailliff-
ham tod.4hetlleltl ware, are now in better request than I
fir a cantiderassle time past ; hot inferior articles, of all
kinds, site quite unsaleahle ; and sus+, I anderstiod. is
the case at every other eraircantite depot threhcheet tie
!Rause."

LONDON:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1820.

We have received several flks of American
Papers this morning, to the following dates:—
New York t, the '23d ; Boston to the 21st ; Phila-
delphia to the 22d ; Halifax to the 15th ; and St.
John's, New Brunswick, to the 7th December.
Earl DALHOUSIE has further prorogued the
General Assembly of Nora Scotia, from the 20th
of December to the 13th of January, by a Procla-
mation, issued on the 11th of last month.

EPROM THE NEW-TORII COMMINCI tL ♦Dyles-ism OP TIM
21ST OP DSCINIZIL]
" NA TVIIITOCIIIIP, Nov. 3.—Captain Beard, command-
ing the United States troops on the Sabine, arrived here
this morning, and confirms the report, that a detach-
ment of 200 of the Spanish Royal Cavalry had encamped
on tie opposite side of the river. The! had manifested
no intention cf crossing the river, but inquired the mo-
tives of government in stationing a force beyond the
Rio Honda."

The Secretary of the Treasury has communicated to
Congress the annual report from his department. It
appears there will be a deficiency in the revenue for the
present year of about five millions of dollars, to supply
which, the Secretary ie.:Tests the propriety of loans,
an additional duty upon various articles of import, a
tax on auction sales, or an issue of Treasury notes.

[PIIOSI TUC BOSTON PATILIO7 07 THI 20711.1

Advices from Havannah as late as the 24th Nov. con-
firms the account we gave on Saturday, of the defeat of
M.Lirrgor at Rio de la flambe. 1114 Gregor is represented
as having exhibited the utmost indifference as to the
fate of his wounded followers, many of whom, it is
added, might have been taken off. When urged to give
orders for their removal to the shipping, that they might
not be left at the mercy of their enemies, be replied,
" No assistance can be rendered them: it is the fortune
of war."

A letter from New Orleans of the 10th ult. has
been received in Norfolk. wbich states that the yellow
fever had subsided ; that upwards of three thousand
persons had been cat of by it during the past season,
and that most of those wiso)sail recovered from this dis-
ease had since been attacked by the fever and ague.
11r.-Liallatin, our late Minister to France, is shortly
expected to return In the United States.

Every day may vve expect to bear oews from

.Spain, which eannot fail, we trust, to turn out
beneficial tb mankind. Thete are those aho
think it not impossible, that, if the mutiny and in-
surrection have bases so extensive as they have
been imagined, we may be honoured with a visit
ftom his Most Catholic Majesty. Of this we have
no idea ; for although our own Court might na-
turally enough reel some sympathy for the bereft
condition of a once great Monarch, yet his unpopu-
larity would contribute to make him an unwelcome
guest to the rulers of any State in Europe. To
America he cannot flue With any colour of reason-
able protection, unless he should throw himself into
the arms of the Prince of the BRAZILS.

But this is an unprofitable, and, to many, an un-
interesting speculation or question ; it not being
worth consideration what may become of a fugitive
or banished Prinee, who hes made the happiness
of his people so little his study.
It has been the serious wonder of menkind how
a few men have possessed themselves of so many
attributes of sovereignty, and of power,: and this
circumstance has occasioned millions to bend the
knee to them, as of divine origin. Let reflecting
persons, however, only think for a moment, what
an artful man, fully clothed with authority, above all
'other men may do, when served by a few devoted
self-interested Ministers. Let them only tonsider
what has passed in Great Britain, during this
wreign, (tom ptir:NSOting in one House of Parliament,
and creatatru-making in the other, and they will -
cease to feel surprise that power so easily magnifies
in the hands of an artful or ambitious ruler. It has
made np the chief business of the lives of Kings
and their subjects, to arrogate undue power on the
one hand, and to regain it on the other. In vari-
ous ways have Sovereigns defrauded the people of,
their just rights; atone time by a boldness which
has intimidated them, at another by a well pleyed-
oft hypocrisy. XIMENILIP, one of the Kings of a
valuable part of Spaio,beoame the idol of the Cos-
Wiens, by an apparent purity of manners, by his
charity and munificence. The people, not suspect-
ing him, left him to make what attempts upon
their liberty he pleased, and to keep in pay, out
of the revenue of his benefices, asereenory troops,
and thereby augment the regal authority, by which
the people became entirety objected to his will.—
The single cireemstasee of eer fisithisti guardian:
f doe people's rights, and our reputed keepers of
Filet public purse, ailOwiag the vast 1142013 of money,
totter the moo of *vita ti Adosivaity, to be put
at l
irw.acitspoiol. of the Wog, agora upon them a
eri 17 be whieh so proishosent eta be ads-

paste. This money arises from captures of bhip,
and treasures taken on the high seas, from states,
before war is declared against them : a piratical
proceeding sufficient, one would imagine, to call
down the vengeance of just Heaven. Rot re.
course has been had to this step—so unlawful is
the code of nations, and in the express opi:ions of
such publicists aSGROTIcs, PUFFENDORNP.
The proceeds formerly were applied to the repair
ships and furnishing materials and supplies for el.
hausted arsenals. Now of late these ill-gotten tea_
sures have been placed in the Bank, and drawn oet at
occasion requires, by Royal drafts, or eign-aulnua,.
to reward obsequious persons who have done t!',o
Court or Ministry favours which merit such retool.
pense. Oh, the crying shame of such proceedia,
Can we wonder that wretches are found to do all
sorts of work, when it is known that three or
millions of money lie at the beck of the Sovereip
Or can we wonder that we are so often involved ;a
war (and war without declaration of it too') when
these are the profits and the sweets of it I j{-bp
can have forgotten—who can ever forget, how
many Spanish officers and Spanish sailors weft
I sent to the bottom of the sea, and how many d
their ships, full of treasure, sent into English pony
without their having a suspi&on of hostility trot
Great Britain t Here was profitable work for
Commissioners ! Ah, Englishmen, how have yes
I been bamboozled ! The very follies of our Priam
of the Blood have been created as it were by thew
knowing that their Royal Papa had these *gen
plumbs to give them, if they could find or put is
Majesty in good humour. We should like a
know how much the King's private fortune has
been augmented by a pasting of any part of the
sums of these droits to its amount. This is by eo
means an impertinent, but a proper national inquiry:
and that man is no friend to the liberties of his
country who can object to it. The origin of tha
kind of property is immoral in the highest degree
nor does it appear unnatural to suppose that a
sense of basing yielded to its 'temptation ay
Rave contributed greatly to overturn the wits at
a good-hearted King.

A very ill-natured article appeared in The C.
tier of last night, impugning the conduct of bis
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussr.x for attendisf
the Norwich Meeting, to celebrate the anniverun
of Mr. rox's birth. The Duke made a most appro-
priate and affectionate allusion to the indisgesitis
of his Royal Brother and the reasons which senrd
his mind to attend that Meeting, exalt bim
opinion of efery friend to his country. Bet the mac
malignant part of all this is, that the atinvnjowsn
omits that part of the patriot PR/NCR'e speett eiedi
fully explains his reasons for assisting at the above
celebration, viz. a second account of the favourable
state of the disorder of the late much-lamestal
Duke of KENT. Nov, as to the Mike of Sem
seeming to take a part in the burden of a song
which threatened the downfal of tyrants, we
should not esteem his principles as we do, if we
thought he could regard with complacency the
acts of a tyrant, though perpetrated by his very
brother. Then, the fiery mention of the nano
of Mons. EGAttre (the late Duke of Orleans), is
the same sentence with that of the Duke of SCasll,
is such an insult as we should suppose would never
be fbrgiven by any former reader of that insolent
and abusive journal. Mons. Egalite, as he sillily
denominated himself, was a very weak Prince, and
had a personal resentment against the Sovereign,
his relation! Is there any similitude in these cases!
Oh, shame on such conduct : and this it the free-
dom of the Press on that side the question !!!

The most important port of the inforraber
from Spain communicated by private letters is the
following:—
" Sir Henry Wellesley, the British Ambassador to
Madrid, wishing to forward to Euxiand dispatches re-
garding the disaffection of the Spanish army, rrilentet
plied at the Post-office in order to transmit thins t
the regular channels, tint he was informed by-Me Post-
master that his request could not possibly be compfier
with. Sir Henry Wellesley nest Riede opplicatioa, is
person, to the King of Sksain himself, from whom Ite
ceiveil a similar answer.'
If this intelligence. be correct, of which we bans
but little doubt, we may easily conjecture 14011 "
the political state of that kingdom, and of bow sir
certain a nature our further news hem its capild
may_ be for some time to come.
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.—The Mentors „i
the House of Commons originally received wages
from their constituents, the rate of which was, is
the reign of Edward ill., established at 4s. a day
for a knight of the shire, and 2s. for a citizen or a
burgess, which was paid for the number of, tho
the Parliament sat, including an allowaeoo fur their
going from and returning to their respective boars, ie
stooling to the distance, and was continued to hereof's!'
at so late a period as the Parliament after the Reser&
ties. The b.ditor of Gloat:ilk's Reports has gives is
hilt/tram the copy of a curious agreement in lags ??'
tween John Strange, the Member for Helmick, aid his
electors, wherein the Member covenants, " Whether thr
Parliament hold long time or short, or whether it fee
tune to be prorogsed, that he will take for his wag!
wily a code and half a barrel of herring, to he on'
mold by Christasas."—Two shillings a (ay, the Ow
sacs to a begrime, was so considerable a stun irtflasielli
Coes, that there are say instances where bettM
'petitioned to be ottetimii form sending Membentall.
liament, representing ►that they were mimed in MOW
iig bridges or ether public works, and therefore MOW
teesir such an estraordieary expense.-filar aacelMN
Hale thought what vast stuns would is our day hi lo
petaled by the Members in *UM/new that hawser, al
vecifrrriAg of which in their's cost so*mmett.

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rot-RT OF CHANCERY.—(Tats DAT.)

„ran OF STARLIS RILATITI TO DEANE, A
lIIMOR AND WARD or THE COURT.
yr WITIOIRILL read several affidavits on both si
OA Mr. !UAL!) replied.
"rb, Imo caallogia.ou then said, if it appeared that
L.suirtioss of Mr. Stables were proved, there otrulJ
"20stifsipt of Court on his part. I nould rea.l
'lobo!, of the affi.larits, and when the Master pre-
kis report he would give his decision.