The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-23 00:00:00

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a week to pay to a soldier, and twenty-eight shillings a
week to pay to three fain, labourers, with their families.
The soldier will lay out a great deal more in taxed com-
modities than the labourers will. He will have a great
deal more gin and beer and tobacco than they will ; and
will pay much more tax than they, who must lay out
almost the whole of their money in bread. Now suppose
more soldiers to be raised ; more taxes'to be wanted,
and in such a degree, too, as to take away one of the
seven shillings that I have been giving to the labourers ;
and thereby compelling me to reduce their wages to
about five shillings a week. This money, so taken
away from my labourers, would be carried and given to
another great consumer of taxed commodities: and
thus the revenue would rise though I and my labourers
should be growing poorer and I oorer.—The whole of
the land might have its produce taken away from it by
the government, leaving just enough for the husbandmen
to subsist upon. The embus would rise, in such a
cute; but what comfort would that be to the man who had
lost his estate? This revenue story. therefore, is all a delu-
sion. Its rise is no favourable symptom to the Landlord
and Farmer; but it may serve to convince them that there
is nothing to check the Government in its present course of
taking away their estates.—" Our revenue keeps rising,"
says the Minister. " All must, therefore, be right. You
cannot be in any danger; for our revenue keeps rising!"
Ridiculous as this appears to the sensible reader, it is
what will be said ten thousand times over when the Par-

liament meets. We suppose that before the Session be
over, this delusion will be nearly dissipated ; but it will have
its day, and that day will probably do the business of the
Landlords for the next Session. A sit-sink there will be,
nevertheless. We have always foreseen this struggle; we
have been foretelling it for years ; we always wish to wit-
ness it; and witness it we shall.

cause, of the above rise is attributed to the great Bear ac-
count. At the dose of the Stock Exchange yesterday after-
noon, it furs generally reported that the French Government
had left the affairs of Spain to tho mediation of the British
Cabinet. Other reports say the King of France is resolved
to leave the determination of the question to the Legislativd
Corps, which opens on the 28th inst. It is this moment re-
ported that Bpahish Bonds at Paris are 42/, and left off 434.
Chili, 724—New Spanish,44--01d,62—New Prussian,so4
—Old, 62—New Prussia, 80i—Russia, 794—Danish, no-
thing done—Neapolitan, 731—Peruvian, 70—Colombian,
66 to b9—Spanish Scrip, 205 to 21 die.

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STOCK EXCRANGT, ONE O'CLOC.C.—AII the Funds have
been very heavy within this half boor. It is again re•
ported that LaGarde is going to leave Madrid. Consols
are 771; Spanish Bonds, 441.

Its the private bargains at Paris, on tbe2lat, the Rent is
were 80, and Spanish 41i.

Pads papers have reached us to theTist. init. They
do not confirm the report of the recall of the French
Ambassador from Madrid, but seem to consider that
measure of &decisive character. Whenever it is men-

tioned, it is coupled, by the Ultras, with some statement
of a change of Ministry. Besides, a variety of sperm.
lations of this kind, these papers brought additional in.
telligence from Portugal which we give in another
column and which bas removed the obscurity of
that published yesterday. and has established a
the feet, that England has resolved to stand by Portugal
and not to suffer any attack on its territory or indepen.
dence.

FONDS ON MONDAT.—Five per Cents. opened at SM.
and closed at SU. 10c., for money ; for the account, the
closing price was Mr. BSc.—Bank Shares, I,32of.—Neapo-
titan Stock, 7-4—Spanish Bonds, 44f. to 43c.—Exchange on
London, one month, 25f. 35c.; three months, itsr. 20c.

Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town yesterday from
Sunning Hill, where he had been since Sunday. I a the
afternoon the Right Hon. Gentleman proceeded to the
Foreign Office, where he transacted business fur a con-
siderable time.

On Tuesday night, Mr. Jackson arrived at the Fo•
reign Office in Downing Street, in a chaise and four,
from his mission at Madrid_ _ .

The Chancellor of the Exchequer transacted business
at the Treasury yesterday.
Yesterday, a Connor Directors was held 'at the East
India House, when Richard Thomas Goodwin, Esq., was
appointed to a seat in Council at Bombay, in the room
of tiny Lennox Prendergast, Esq. ; and James Joseph
Sparrow, Esq., was appointed a Provisional Member of
Council at Bombay.
The Right Hon. F. Robinson, it is understood, is to
be the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Right Honorable Nicholas Vansittart retires
from the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, in which
important office he is to be succeeded by the Right
Hon. F. Robinson. Mr. Vansittart is to be appointed
Chancellor to the Ducby of Lancaster, in the room of
The Right Honourable Charles Bathurst, and is to be
raised to the Peerage.—(Courier)
Mr. Jackson arrived last night at the Foreign Office,
with advice. from adrid, which he left on the 13th.—

The Russian, Austrian, and Prussian Ministers had re-
pented-their passports, abd were on the point of leaving
Madrid.
An officer, who crossed the Spanish frontier so recently
as the 12th inst. states of the force of the French army
stationed on the Pyrenees, between Bayonne and Per-
pignan to be eighteen regiments of infantry, consisting
each from 1,000 to 1,200 men ; two squadrons
of horse artillery of 200 men each ; one regiment of
foot artillery of 6110 men ; and five regiments of horse
chasseurs of 500 men e..ch; ;n all about 25,000 men. The
staff of his army is very numerous, and its material con-
siderable ; but it is fair from being well disposed to the ser-
vice on which it is at present employed, and still less to
that future destination which has been marked out for it by
the war faction in Paris. The devotion of the cavalry, it

is understood, may be relied on, but that of the artillery
is extremely doubtful ; while among the ranks of tl:e
infantry the order to march into Spain would, in the
opinion of our informant, bring on serious disaffection.
Yet this is to be the instrument for effecting that which
.100,000 of Buonaparte's best soldiers failed to accom-
plish.
Baiottrox,Jan.22.—We have the satisfaction to state,

that the recovery of the King, though gradual, continue,
to be uninterrupted by any unfseourable change. The
report at the Palm..., to the latest hour last night was
" His Majesty is much better." The King is still con-
fined to his room.—(Brighton Chronicle.)

Tut Duke or YORIL—His Royal Highness was yes-
terday pronounced " a little better." Most of the Ca-
binet Ministers called at York liou‘e to make their
inquiries. Sir Herbert Taylor the Secretary, and Mr.
Difhton, the principal Clerk at the Commaad,,r-in-
Chters Office, attended for a considerable time at York

House during the morning to transact military business
with his Royal Highness.
HORIZONTAL liatnous...-Nothinh• shews in a more
striking manner the advantage of a horizontal road
along a bridge, than the ease and safety with which
horses and carriages pass over Waterloo bridge at
present, In spite of frost and snow. When the number
of accidents which daily happen in crossing► the other
bridges is taken into consideration, it will probably
lead to the adoption of a similar construction in the pro-
' posed new London Bridge. According to the idea of the
late Mr. Ralph Dodd, the horizontal line ought to com-
mence near East Cheap, and the inclined plane termi-
nate in St. Thomas's street, in the Borough.
Oisitzas.—From the inclemency of the weather, no
oyster smacks have arrived at Billingsgate since last ,
'Thursday; and most of the dealers have not been able to
knish a dish tot their best customers; in fact, scarcely
aby have been brought to the London market, and those
only by land carriage. On Monday one waggon load
arrived at Billingsgate, which was eagerly a. ized by the
principal fishmongers, at 4 guineas per bushel, a price
unprecedented since the year 1812; when the River, as
now, was rendered unnavigable by the intensity of
the frost. The demand for the few that arrived was a)
great, that much squabbling ensued ; and serious conse-
quences might have ensued, but for the timely interfer-
ence of a Police officer, who was absolute in deciding
" first come, first served."

A Gentleman, residing- in Brighton. has in his posses-
sion a considerable number of London Gazettes, of a
very early date ; in one of which, dated April 8, 1678,
is the following Advertisement:—" All persons are
desired to take notice, that there is settled a safe and
constant conveyance of letters and parquets by pest three
times in every week, upon the usual post days, to and
fr0..1 the City of London, and the towns hereafter men-
tioned in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex, vie. ;
Epsom, Leatherbead, Barking, Gifford. Farnham,
Godaltnin, Haslemore, Midhurst, Petwortb, Horsehao ,
Arundel, Stayning, Shoreham, WWI telluston, Lewes
and Bastbourn ; so that a correspondence may be had
between all or any of the said places, and no money is
'required till the letters are delivered, I
and
Lam's only such
rates as are established by Act of Parliament.';