The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-01 00:00:00

FAIR rLAy.

Lord Suffield seems to have a neat idea enongh of
fair play, especially at county meetings. In his hoE,
and corner meeting, in a barn. he is reported to hats
said, that the High- Sheryfought. to hive dissof red the
county meeting before the petition was passed. Fur
what ? Because the petition did not please Lord Sof-.
field ? There could be no other reason. If a couple of
good strong fellows had cone int 3 this barn, and dis:
solved this meeting with thei rfiaits, it would have been
a proceeding moth more fair than that recommended by
the barn speech maker. Such clandestine proceedings
as this barn meeting must have the effect of proving to
the whole nation that the county petition is really um
answerable.

HEREFORD PETITION. •
We noticed, the other day, that the petition, which
was said to be carried at Hereford, had fallen to the
ground. That the Lord Lieu:mane would not sign it
we were certain ; but, we find, that nobody had signed
it, bnly three days ago ! In the mean while, the petitica
moved by Mr. Cobbett and seconded by Mr. Palmer
we are informed, circa/a/fag throughout tire county fi,r
signatures. This, then, will be a real petition ; and
will, of course, be presented by the county members.
Now, Hien, what are the public to think of " the Rey.
" Dr. Brodie, of Eastbourne, in the county of Sussex,
"and Anna his tcffe, notwithrtamliv her cocerture ;"
what are the public to think of these traders of the Old
Times, who represented Mr. Cubbett as ckfealed at He-
reford ? They swore like troopers, that Mr. Charlton's
petition was "carried by a great majority." It serer
was pet in the negative: It never was carried at all.
No petition was ordered, by the meeting, to be either
presented or signed. So that, the only petition from
that county, except there be a hole anti cot tier one, will
be the petition, moved by Mr. Cobbett.

STOCK EICITANGE, NA LF Twgtve. e'cLocx.—
Several expresses have arrived from Paris. With one of
them was a French Courier ; another was to oar Govern-
ment. Consols opened this morning at 7:4111, since
which, they have remained steady at these prices, with
very little business doing. The general conversation
this morning. is concerning the great failure which took
place yesterday. Both the Jews and Christians are ex.
ceedingly sorry for the unfortunate party, as he tea,
known to be one of the most worthy ch aracters, and had
lost a considerable fortune in hie speculations. Nothing
further has as yet transpired in regard to his concerns
—We nnderstand the French Funds are stated at 78.

FOREIGN FUNDS.—Spanish Bonds opened at 351, 35,1.
Little is doing in the Foreign Market this Morning, nor
is it supposed that any business of msguittille
transacted until after air King's Speenh in ParHainaut. •
ChM 07—Now Spanish, 251-01 d, 40—New Prussia, 71i
—Old, 77—Russia, 70—DanKb, 7S—Nespolitan, ship•
Nothing—Colombian, 61 to 62—Spanish Scrip, 251.

Dutch and Hamburg papers have arrived this morn
in:, but they contain little information except respect-
ing the lave frost. The cold was so intense at flambatg
on the night of tile 22.1. that the theatre was closed next
day, and was to continue so as long as the frost
lasted. A thaw took place at Amsterdam, on
the evening of the 27th, and was so rapid as to
give hopes of speedy relief to navigation and to the
poor,nho suffered much for want of fresh water. The
Etnpe ror of Russia was expected at Warsaw on the 12th
of January; Ills Aides deCamp bad arrived there. 'lle
Commissaries of the second army have invited the con-
tractors at St. Petersburg to furnish a certain quantity of
palse for the Magazines. These papers contradict As
report of disturbances in the districts of Liege and Lax-
emburg. •

Paris Papers to the 30th. ult. have arrived, hut an•`;
nounce nothing to account for the unexpected rise in the
French Funds. Oa the contrary, moat of them contain
little else but " notes of preparation" for v ar. 7he
(potidienne says that the French will have three amies
in Spain.
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TL•NDS AT PARIS, JAN. 29.—Opened at 77r.
closed at 7t f. ; Bank Stork, 1,440 ; 5
per Cent.,6Sf. Exchange on London, one month, '2.5f.
40c. ; three months, •25f.

We have this morning received New York Papers to
the 2d Jan. from which we ex,rret the following:—

FROM THE NEW YORK 4.IZETT2. J VN. I.
Darsay ovMottataa.—Captain Mason, of the Schorr.
er Cherub, arrived at Baltimore from curac,a, saiim
on the 4th Inst. informs that the (My previous to his
sailing. a schoonor arrived in 2 dare from Corn, by will, b
letters were received from Governor Torretbro, giving
information oft Battles having been fought tit. 221, and
24th November, near Salina Rica, limween
Montilla and Morales, in both of which the Cdoolhi,ll
forces proved victorious. The itlyal troops, ie C Joo'.
quence, were obliged to evacuate Maracaibo on the
20th, and that place was taken possession of on the stole
day, by Montilla. The Spaniards,it is stated, suffered se-
verely in the last action, having lost the entire battalion
of Varianas and many officers. Morales, with the rem-
nant of his army, landed at Alta Gracia, awl reached
Mitori on the 29th.

FROM Havawxa.—By an arrival at Charlestown in
five days. from Havanna, bringing date of the 17th ult.
information is received, that the City of Havanna was in •
a perfect state of revolution, the native Creoles having
declared themselves enemies to the Europeans,and it wts
expected the matter would soon come to a serious end,
Mexico.-1n the Diario of Vera Cruz, of the 30:11 of
Nov. is an address from a Connell of Government, by
which it appears that the refractory Congress li4tl [pen
.lissolved by an Imperial decree, and that a rotated cow •
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tins.
A letter from Mr. Topliffe, dated Lima, September P,
mentions, that General an Maktin had returned to that
place, from Guayaquil, in the brig Macedonian, to the
surprise of the inhabitantb, who bad expected never to
see him again. He wai saluted by theßritish and French
frigates, but Commodore Stewart, in the Franklin, de-
clined tainting him.

BarenToN, Fee. I.—A Privy Council was held at the
Palace yesterday, at six o'clock in the evening, present
:—llis Majesty, the Lord President, Privy Seal, Lord
j• ,iverpool, the Duke ekWellington, Lord Bathurst, Mr.
Robinson, Mr. Bathurst, and Mr. Huller,as clerk. The
above Council related to the pricking of Sheriffs, &c.
Yesterday morning, several of the Cabinet Ministers
left town for Brighton, to attend the King in Council.
The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign Office, Downing Street, for a consider.
able time.
There is no foundation for the reports of fresh
changes in the Administration which were circulated
yesterday in the City.—( 41inisterialpaper.)
T
he Duke of York is improving in his health. The
answer to the inquiries yesteiday was his Royal High-
netts is going on very well.—(Court Circular.)
Mr. Vansittart was considerably better yesterday, the
fever having left him, he was enabled to sit up great
part of the day.
Prince Leopold came to town yesterday, [from Clare-
• mont, on a visit to the Duke of York, and remained
some time with his Royal relative; he afterwards went
to his London residence, and from thence to Kensing-
ton, to dine with his sister, the Duchess of Kent.
• The French have at this times very valuable commerce,
• and an immense property at sea! Many privateers are
fitting oat by Spanish merchants, under the Spanish
flag, and letters of marque have been applied for. The
Spanish Ambassador will, it is understood, grant them
as soon as a declaration of war is known, and the
French commerce will be swept away from the ocean.
• . Private letters received yesterday from Paris, and
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, dated January 29, say :—" The Funds, which were ex-
• `lf cted to continue falling, have had a great and sudden
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. se—of course, there are abundant rumours as to the
• canre—one is, that dispatches have been received from
Mail raisore favourable than was expected—that the
British Minister at Madrid has prevailed upon the Spa-
nish Government to adopt more moderate councils, &a.
ism. Such are the rumours, and I send them as rumours.
" PARIS. JAN. 29.—Stocks have risen. and no troops
have yet left Paris. The Grenadier Horse Guards that
were ordered to the frontiers, have been countermanded.
It is said that the French Government have received as-
surances, that a strict neutrality will be preserved by
Great Britain."—(Courier.)
A Gentleman has arrived from Havre, who left that
place the day before yesterday. He had resided there
for some.years. Amongst the Merchants, Traders, and
the Manufacturing classes, the conduct of the French
Ministers had created the utmost indignation. Since
the year 1815, they have gradually been increasing
their mercantile pursuits, when sudilecly, by the com-
mand of the Holy Alliance, they find their prosperity
-.blasted, and their property tasken from them in the
share of insurance premiums against capture by the
skips of the Peninsula, rendered their enemies from no
Other cause than the iniquitous desire to restore to the
- inhabitants despotism, and to restrain the gradual ad-
''l V4llCe of the human mind in the useful sciences and arts.
t No doubt can be entertained that the same spirit exists
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• 4 • wherever oominerce has been pouring her beneficent Ise
, teenceon the people. The Courier yesterday evening
'' ' Oporto, by a private letter from Paris, that the rent. of,
. ' Wend regiments, destined to reinforce the army of ob-
servation, bad been altered, if this intelligence has
• any fonadation, the change has taken place not from
any alteration in the policy which has been so shame-
' fully observed towards the Spanish nation, but because
• the spirit of freedom will burst out in France herself,
unless restrained by military power.
The Altstrian Observer, of the 18th inst. contains a
• long article from Constantinople, dated the 24th Dec.
is hich states, that since the death of Haleb Effendi, the
Janissaries have been very quiet. The Turks are very
busy in equipping nee ships of war, finding that their
• large vessels can do nothing against the Greeks. The
' Captain Paella is therefore resolved, it is said, to employ
in:future only corvettes, brigs and other small and lighter
vessels,under the care of chosen seamen. The Greeks are
said to be preparing, at !pure, a great expedition,
destined to attempt a lauding in one of the islands of the
Archipelago ; it is generally thought Scio, though some
name hletelin or Tcnedos as the most likely to be visited.
The Greeks have, for some time past, had a considerable
number of small vessels in the harbour of Smyrna, and
threaten that city. Regiments of Janissaries are to
march to the Persian frontier. The cholera morbus is
making great ravages in Asia, and penetrated to Syria,
41-• so that the inhabitants of the ruins of Aleppo have been
forced to quit their last asylum.
A merchant ship has arrived in the river from Lisbon,
which sailed on the 22d current. The packet left the
l'agns on the same day, but was obliged to put back.
Ay this conveyance intelligence has been received that
(• the troops, which bad been embarked for the Braitils,
would not permit the transports to get under weigh when
• the convoy frigate made the signal for sailing, but be-
came extremely impatient to he re-landed. 'fhe Captain
states that many Fiench officers had arrived at Lisbon,
, who bad quitted theAreench army in disgust, and who
were soliciting to be admitted into the service of Per-
! tugal.
1 - Yesterday, being settling day for the transactions in
foreign securities, a very great sentation was proceeded,
'among the persons engagaed io them by the announce-
meat of a d 'miller of the first consequence, whose ex-
tensive resources were previously supposed to have
placed bins beyond the apprehension of such a reverse.
fhe name of this gerilleman is Mr. Daniel Moiatta,
ana it is no -more than justice to say, that the previous
knowledge of and estimation for his character caused
the most lively synepathy to be every where expressed
for his mi: fortunc It has been ceased. no doubt, by a
sconfidence in his own judgment that the peace of the
Continent would ha maintained, and which was so strong
as to induce lam to risk his very large property on the
issue. Of the extent of. his losses, no estimate can of
'come be formed,but it is currently believed that in dif-
ferenceson Spaoish'Stock alone they amount to 90,0001.
,lie was a large bolder, Imaides, in every description of
foreign stock t and in the English funds is ,said to have
been ander eagagemente to take on the next accountday
near two millions of 3 per cent. Consols. —(Old Times.)
WAR Astyrcievrxu.—The anticipation of war bits
created a lively sensation among the manufacturing in-
terra@ of this town. There is an unusual bustle and
anxiety in the workshops and warehouses of those con-
nected with the gun trade. It is said, that already agents
' from Spain have arrived to make large purchases io
" guns, trumpets, and a'," which are required for the
service of armies. The markets for all warlike stores
are up.—(liermingLans Paper.)
The appointment of the Rev. Reginald Heber to the
Rishoprick of Calcutta causes a vacancy in that of
Preachership of Lincoln's Inn. Two Gentlemen ate
already named as Candidates to succeed him. They are
the Reverend Dr. Maltby and the Reverend J. W. Cun-
ningham. The appointment i: by vote. and there are
but seventy-one Gentlemen who have the privilege of
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