The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-07 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

gelid piety, learning, end qoslitios which here be.
area very rere in the present see."
French Fends. April 2.—Fire per cents. 60r. 70c.
Bank Stock, 1530. _

1 NI MARCH 20,--ACCOrdirif 10 a recent esti.
mate wade at Naples, the popelation of the Conti.
oental domains of that State. whirls, at the end of
1817. was 4.971,748 Inhabitants, is at present
5.006.883. The population of the city of Naples is
349,438. _ _ .

LAUSANNE, Maim' 2G.—A poblicition of the
Government of Friboarg, ender dale of the Bth Jost.
immune's that the departure of a considerable num-
ber of micron's destined to the Swiss colonies in the
Brazils will take place at the end of April. It is
asserted that, in other parts of So itserlsod, the nom.
ber of persons who have signified their intentions to
the Portuguese Coosal amounts to above 5,000.

PRICK Or STOCKS THE
Rank Stork
3 per Cent. Red, 7.14
3 per Cent. 41.tinn1.114
34 per Cent.
Cents& far Arr. ;41
I per Cent. 324

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
prr Cent. Navy loaf
India Ron& 38 39 p.
Long Ann. 19i
Eararquer 1110. 3 3 p.
Onnuon

THE ST.A7'ESIII,4

LOPIDOIV :

WEDNESDAY. Ant It. 7, 1819.

The proceedings of last night in the Holmes of Per-
liament, do but confirm all we hare said on the sub-
ject of the connealos between the Governmeot and
the Batik. Well may it be mistakenly conceived by
many that this incorporated institution is identified
with the country, or rather the State, and that the
fall of one most poll down the other. So far from
this is the real state of the case, that if the Govern-
ment or England were to say to that body of traders,
" Geode's's, we have dorm all that we ought to
have done, and more, to save you from the imcoe-
veniences and dilfscully your de►ire of profit brought
you into ; we can no longer allow the whole nation
to It lazed for year benefit ; you most in three or
six months Macrae yourselves as yen can, and we
' must, io the mean time, be uttered of your ability to
recur to the terms of you► Charter, or it will be re-
voked, end the Government will provide a circulating
medium, not subject to the evils which yoot's has so
long produced." That being saki and done, all
would be made easy soon. One of the stones about
the neck of England would be removed, and the
Bank Directors and Bank Proprietors be placed
where they ought in justice to be. This Establish-
meet, which in the first might have done all the ser-
•ice to commerce proposed by it, bat which, of late
years, has inflicted so great an injury oo it, has
been protected, fostered, and favoured as thoegh
identified with the State itself. The laws have
been broker is open for its profit—the proceedings
of Parliament have been pat out of their coons
in the most extraordinary manner, and a Bill
precipitated through its various stages, in a few
hours only, so as to give to Legisislioll a ro.
maotic and ludicrous, rather than a grave and de.

liberstivat air : and all ibis, not to sacs a district from
famine—a town from the infection of typist's or
plague ; bat to save to the Bank a few hundred
thousand pounds in specie, issued in small sow, sad
which the Bank Directors themselves "obtained,
leave" to give in change for certain small notes of
ancient dates, and in mama •f small warrants for
interest on stack in the foods. The very name ditto
thing is as offensive to the eye, as Its proceeding la re.
pageant to reason. " THE Batt& Casts PATIMISTS'
BILL", why, if it were called by its proper name, it
would be Tbs Bank's woe Coale Paymoot Bill. Saab
a trick in the loot.tet would be fatal to a bill of indict.
ment for felony, and be thrown out of a Court of
Justice: nay, such a misnomer in a petition for re-
moval of grimaces, though signed by half a million
of msosfactorses in Manchester, Birmingham, Bris-
tol, or Sheffield, would las declared informal, sod, of

coarse, that informality would prove fetal to its
views. But then these petitioners, theogb we cannot

in reality se his down in that bumble garb, nor
are tbey obliged to style themselves such—thus Di-

redors of the monetary transactions of the kingdom
are rich oleo. They have of their own body talk-
ing partisans in the Bosse of Commons. They
have, through the • ' nee of their paper-maker and
• few clerks, to sign numbers and names, pet Advo.
cater on the Benches of the Senate, to give efficacy to
their naturally weak cause. They have brothers,
cousins, and connexions in Parliament, who an
either swell or lessen the size of a Minister's Meje-
rity : in short, as comptrollers of the monied interest,
and magisterial dictators of the power of the Capital.
ists io taansgieg loans, and circulating Eichequer and
Navy Bills, &c. &c. &c. they are to be treated is a
distinct way from all other sabj►cts whatever—they
finally, is the bulk, constitute a kind of second Jo-
. 1111JA, for whom the sun itself is to stand still. flow
long things are to remain so no man can tell. We
own ourselves sickened at the course of them, and
feel as fully convinced, as we are positive to declare,
that nothing but a sentence of condemnation of
the country on the whole system, can change
it, end avert the rein which it portends.—
.
What deer the Mattis's of LANIDOMX, the eel,
speaker in the House of Lords recommendatory of
the measure, say, when another Peer (Earl Gaze)
expresses a reliance on his rTinion as one of the
Committee? lie rose and wished to state, 66 that he
had not, beam it was not in his power so to do,
pledged the Committee to any particular metier*.

All that be meant to ray was, that theledid suit
the Committee, a disposition to ramesealmiribieppli-
tenon of meant which appeared calculated to brin-
ing • wa►n to the ancient Onadird air eaW/---.'
here is • round about phraseology that would do no
credit to a thicken pleader et the bar of the Old
Bailey. Will the Noble Malaria pledge his charac-
ter as a Senator, his honour as a Peer, his probity of
one of the Committee, that the Bank is likely to pay
their notes in cash ? Mach responsibility rests span
this Nobleman for what he has done to carry this
memorable Bill with the rapidity of an eagle's
wing, into minis so high as to give pain to
the anion eye to trace Its telocity.—We
hope the Noble Lord will escape those remarks to
which his oicestor was subjected on his coonskin
with entails capitalists after the peace he made with
America. As a speaker be sinks is ear fmtimalion.
His longing, more resembles that of the !the? ors than
the Orders of Rome. Bat the fall of oratory in our
Senate of late is an utifavourable presage to liberty.
Poets hate taken precedence of Orators. Poetry
may, and ever did, (lowish under slavish institutions,
bet ORATORY decays with the duties of FREE-
DOM.

The pace of Stocks hsti siried but little for some
days past. This morning they hong down their heads
a little; bet the effect of what has hems ileum in Per.
lisment with regard to the Bank we., as we before
observed, anticipated ere the proceedings were known.
This is one among the evils arising from greet, fre.
quint, and hasty legislation. The cni•i.alist is set
upoo speculation, and snakes a fortune rophliy, or
fails unespectrdly, and pulls others in his The
acquisition of vast sums in few hands, as inimical
to commerce in general, as the possession of immence
masses of land in the hands of a few individuals is
injurious to the freedom of she country.

The Ministerial Papers vaunt of the Improvement
of the Revenue. because, say they, the Awl' quarter
of 1818 'needed that of 1817, by 739,0004., whilst
tint of this quarter 'Meteds the same its last per,
that being 10,249,0001.4nel this 10,4112,0001. Now,
supposing ell this to be fairly stated by tiger's end
making en, is our condition better ? Are we en-
abled to forego a tax by this improsement ? Is our
income surpassing our expenditure ? And, lastly.
is trade flourishing, and are our workmen better
paid earl provided for? If not, all is empty nothing.
Vos el pre/crew nail. Our income is double what it
was before the first Ameriran war : are we the tither
for that? Mr. VAMSIITTART might be posed to as•
aver these qu►stion*.

The sister kingdom appears to move in an affee- !
'innate m skis this. A similar Iti:1 oith sets-
lion to the Bank of Ireland passed the !fosse of
Commons last night, and Heady part postL.
It is very ritraordinery, but it is no less tree, that
the Brussels Newspapers are sent to Cadiz to give
the Spaniards au account of what the Court of
Madrid is doing. These Pap►rs give the Spaniards
the most favourable accounts of their own affairs.
From the Ilenebergh Mail arrived last night, we;
make the fellosine plinths, which contain all they
possess of Keno's! interest :
" STOCKNOLK, Mascot 16.—Greater 'edgily pre-
vails in t►e Naval Docks at Carlserona under the
present Government, than has been the case for
many years. Seven handfed workmen wets employ-
ed there last 'ear, and three ship of the line ■nd a
frigate building.
" FRANKFORT, MARcii 25.—The King of Wig-
TRKBERG has invited all Ike mediatised Princes and
Counts belonging to his dominions to send Deputies,
with fall palm's, to Siatgard, in order to siusseiate
an amicable arrangement tsitb the Royal Commission-
ers appointed for the purpose. It is hoped that ibis
offer will be seceded to.

" EMT FILIVILAND, MARCO( 18 —Since the in-
!reduction of the vaccine, we have a great macrame of
the population, so that in several years the number
of births have amended those of deaths by 1000 or
more. The some is the case in all parts of Germany,
in England, France. &c. Is the kiegdssm of llama-
ver, which hes 1,300,000 inhabitants, the elms of
births are 15,000 lly ; In this proportion, the
images. of the population of Germany may be esti.
mated et 450,000 annually; and if this slumber con-
tinually rises, the population mast be doubled in 60
years or less. Unless the cultivation of the now so.
cultivated land, and the increase of she produce of
the cultivated by a third, should keep equal p.ce,
Germany will soon be unable to keep its increased
population, even in years when there is an average
crop, to say nothing of years of failure, of which ■e
may reckon one In sis or seven. It is to be hoped
that the G sent will do every thing to emcee.
rage agriculture, and prevent the evils which most
otherwise ensue.

" Hkstauaau, Mutat 26.—The English pack►t.
boat Illeaofoy is a complete wreck, and bears sad
marks of the drndiel storm it ezperienced ; masts,'
sails, cordage, every thing is torn away and destroy.
ed. Captain Nottats„ a moat able and intrepid man,
did, from the 16th at I 1 P. /A. till the 17th, towards
morning, every thing skill and courage could suggest,
to withstand the dangers with whirl the raging ale.
ments threatened him, his people, and the vessel,
end so far succeeded, bat et 6ve o'clock the Captain
was meshed overboard, with three sailors, one of
whom was saved. This event is the mere melancho-
ly, as Captain Nasals was only 30 years old, and
iu all respects a man of great merit, who leaves •
wife and four prong children. This statement is
signed by M. Durrom, Agent for Packett, at
haven.

" Lichen,* on London, 2Gth and 30th Much,
33 31-33 Bf."
Our National Debt, is 11. Bank of flogland notes,
taken at tho round sem of 800,000,000, will bo fooled
to amount to the ottomans weight of G9B tool, 2 qrs.
and 0 IN. Allowing 2 cwt. 2 qrs. to each moo, it
would reqeire upwards of 5500 a►le-bodied porters
to carry it away. Two handfed sod thi►ty waggons,
with four horses to each, would scarcely be sofficient
for that purpose.

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Viaselitglas IN
A 44 WAitELN AnCli l.—Many thank., fee
per hied enquiries; I am recovering say boaltit ant
pristine strength of ronstittit ion very fast. I whir I
timid say as much of tint consalescenco of our pot,-
lice' Constitution. Its r lion will, I fest, b •
work of SIMI dos; yet I sin heartily glool to 6,4
them are staunch Patriots wbo will not spate tsbnr rs
seal, nor skill to effect the disked *lifer. A "14.4
time ago se were all ate loss to make Girt abut a:.
tko maitre among do London politician'.

66 I considered it a kind of hydrophobie, .r
politico yheria, and that it was going to ear threeab
she whole kingdom; for symptoms of it apoeavoi
among the Moslernie Reformers, as well se among
the Unirersal Stsffrogistr. In short. len al-
most afraid In approach semi of them for fee•
of catching the inferlien myself. The ohnZe r,-
[Weal hemisphere seemed changed all at once by 1“-
Allaser-11uNT, Coseerr, audWoossa, who won
willing to b•ry peer Sir FIIANCI, ender the tubes of
what they carried *boot this, I asked what they
accused the Baronet of, and was answered ily.orfocs;
my reply was,—" Let us etamine 1016 14 (tersely's
and mot take :he/pm distil of others." I did as merb,,
and so did many of my neighbors ; for we were all
Inn experienced to be led away by flimsy reports of
itewly-haiched, or lime-serving pretenders to Referee.
l am cordially glad to tell yno, that leer enquiries
examirmtione, and discossione, ended in oar MOM/ft
in drink a bottle segesher, on purpose to pas! resod
in a bumper, the toast—

Si; IFl:lhr.s Burdett, the tried Patriut. Garver

Wa reed the SrArtsroN, end ilserafure keeet
what ethers of ottr friends •re *boot.

Your's, sisecerely,
B. sCII—II.

An account from St. Helens try the Torrey Imre.
port, Mates, that the Conqueror had lest 130 ewe in
the liver complaint ; shoot the same newber had be...
invalided from her donne the last 12 months; an 4
she still continued sickly: the smell vessels wore
tolerably healthy. Provisions were very doer at the
Island—tetkioa and rein from 14r. t• 25a. Peck ;
fowls anti decks 10•. In 114. a meisl• ; •salon about
2:. per lb. BONAPARTE was net well ; be it neves
seen escept by a few of his immediate attending,.
Neither Sir 11. Lowe nor the Admiral had seen bias
for the lost six months.

The following if an eat tact of a Leiter from Ca•
diz, dated the 11th nit:—" This day arrived the
Wilton, Pore, from litistol: the Master reports. o+l
he was hoarded on the ith inst. off Cape St. Mac)'..
by an insurgent rchnoner privateer, the Captain r.l
which informed him, that three days before he hart
an action with a Spanish hilt, when many of bre
maw were er °ended. and the First Lieutenant killed."
The number of Members of the French Chamber
of Peers is 206, of whom 9.3:3 only can attend ; the
2sl others being either thiont, cc charged with in.
portant functions at foreign Courts.
TUC CIRCASSIAN !ADV.—IRO addle de Fr 311 C:
contradicts the ungallant observations of the more
i Paris Papers, es to the beaury of this fair stranr••••
who ha • been brought to Esrease by she Peraian Asn-
ba•Hdor. It describes Ire, as pnavessio; • Very V hi.•
skin and cheerfal temper. Iler beauty, sirs 11,
Joarall, appears to us, arsording to the accoents ww
have received, of a nature to be prised *only( all
people, who think that homely coastal' is the perfc4t
harmony of footers*, and the wetness of prop...
lion. lArga blue eyes, long black hair, a slys.:hr
youthful figure, are advantages with which no .41111
can be deemed ugly In Fraser. Bat still she assured-
ly mast racks a strong interest amongst us. A risa.,
without any family, without a reentry, bet life, in
our capital, as every whore else, is passed in ,t..,
most profound seclusion. Esiled to her chamber.
inaccessible to all the world, she does not even ap-
pear at her window, without being covered with a
large veil, and she is not relieved from this restraint
',inept when bee master is out with his people. Shit
then walks about in her apartment wittiest meeting
any one, save the females of the hoist, or tie tom
persons charged to watch her. Hobs chance to meet
she females, she becomes quite joyous with spirits:
Sae plays with the.; romps with them; caresses time ;
but on the least noise she disappears, and shuts her-
self up in her cabinet. Some ladies, asiong them Lady
Somerset, solicited the Ambassador to permit the in.
wresting stranger to pass an evening at their house,;
bet their entreaties wets all to no purpose.

A letter from Manchester, of the 3d inst. says—
" Trade here is in a most w retched state, and present',
if possible, still more gloomy prospects. The olden*
•sported to flow in upon es with the ad f tin
spring have fallen off, and in conseq onsturl
confidence decreases, many hundreds of hands lisle
heels discharged, and some of oar factories, it is even
tiered, will soon be compelled to sosperd their
hears entirely. One great ruse of the decline of
lour wetting branches may be traced to the esteasitl
esporlatioos of cotton twist that hive taken Ow*
within the last few years, which, added to the emi-
gration of our nseehaeics, bag enabled t►e Northern
and other Foreign Powers to manefsetere these de.
seriptions of goods for which they were before conk.
pilled to apply to this country. Had the hlittisttr.
at the lime the demand for twist became so general,
laid a heavy duly on its Importation, the Cotton
fileoufacterers would not have been redeoed to the
deplorable state in which they are now."
The Official Accounts of the produce of the pablir
Revenue for the Quarter ending the sth April, were
read• up la•t night. The following is their substance :
The 104 .1 prudes• of Ilse Quarter. clopered with that
of the correspond mg Quarter i■ the year 1111(, Is de-
listens
Customs. ikdolesd
Iheitieucies nadir varies.. ether heeds
Eaciso—Matra
The total summit of the (I•irrter excerds the s-
cows 050,0001."
Appeal &pewee of the Transportation of Con-
victs to New South Wales and its Dependenriv, and
of the Estahliehmeuts there :
HIS £116.%91 a 71
1917 9:11.5K3 9 bi
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