The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-16 00:00:00

TILE STATESMAN

i to Mr. VAXSITTiIIy—I prophet has no henbur in
hie emu country. We know of no tat that can b•
I skl upon the People that woold not diminish the
amount if soma other.

The last accounts by the Spanish Mail inform us,
that proceedings hid lately been followed up, and
sentence of death pronounced, by the lligh .1 ribenals
in Barcelona, on no less than fifty Spanish Officers,
implicated in the conspiracy of the unfortunate Gen.
Gacw. 'no eentence bed been referred to a con.
'siltation with the King. From the period of the
discovery of the conspiracy op to t►e present lime,
these unhappy victims have been immured in den-
, geons, and possibly their fate has ere now been re.
solvcd upon, in consequence of the recent occerrences
at Valencia. And yet Spain is going to seed oet an
espedition against South America, while all the late
attempts at redress, and a change of things within
herself, have originated with the military ! !

The 13111 for totally doing away the use of Climb-
ing Boys was throws oat by the House of Lorde, and
the Public are (henget* left to *semis, their
Lion in the employment of boys, or in substituting
the use of machinery; and their consolation most be,
that the frequent diecussioas will have awakened
people to a Inmane consideration on the cats of this
unhappy class of children.
It will be seen that the House proceeded again on
the Question of Privilege ; it appeared not necessary
to send a Messenger for the three nts from Ire-
land. The matter will now he brought to a decision,
after the perusal of the weleinhentiq evidence.

Though nothing could be more opposite than the
subject of the Sweep Chimney Bill, earl its cause of
failure, for calomel is et white as soot Is Mick, yet 1
a dose of the former administered to the Noble Lord
who took so prominent a part in the debate of last ,
night in the Hasse of Peers, operated so powe►-
fel as an elteregire on the hearers of the story, that
their previous feelings gave way, and the laminable '
costes was left to be proceeded
Advice, from the Brazils state, that up to the end
of Februarys great number of persons were still con-
fined et Pernambuco, charged with being concerned
its the lase revelation ; and as se time had been fixed
for their trial, it was likely they would remain far a
much longer period in prison. A few, it is said, had
gained their liberty, by paying certain semi to Mi.
'ideals who had tbees in custody. Orders had been
sent by the Government to the Collectors of the dif-
ferent ports, to be more particeler is the quarantine
regolatioss ; sod the Health Officers bid, is conse-
quence, been much on the alert. At Mannheim, the
Collector, d'Azrznerca, bad enforced his iostruc-
lions to the utmost, and bad detected wetly instances
of smuggling, more especially by Masters of ships
from the United States, as the clearances predicted by
them were made out in such a way, that the reel de-
scription of their cargoes could not be ascertained.
Letters have been received to the 'nil ult. from
Gibraltar, by which it appears that the plague on the
coast of Africa, instead of diernishing with the cold
weather, was increasing to an alarming exteut. The
only information with regard to the ravages corn.
mined by it, was brought to the British fortress by
the vessel appointed by the Governor to sail at stated
periods, as no private trading ships were allowed to
have soy communication with the Barbary coast.—
According to the latest advice', gee or two hundred
persons died daily of the disease.
The Ea:pi-roe ALLIANOIR gave a gracious recep-
tion to the Deputation which was appointed last sum-
mer to proceed to St. Petersbergh ; ■nd his reply to
the Memorial which was protested by Lord CATIII.
CART was of a conciliatory character. ft was shortly
after this, that his Imperial Majesty sot out for Aia-
la-Chapelle, whither a second Memorial was sent,
called for by the observations of his Majesty upon
the first. With respect to this second Memorial, it '
was stated by Count NESSELRODE, that his Majesty
being absent from his capital, and at a distinct' trom
his Ministers, cud all the ►ecords and documents
connected with theme, it was not considered expe-
dient to Isy it before the Empero►. At the sates time,
the most positive assurance was given, that it sbeeld
be submitted to his Majesty immediately open his
return to St. Petersborgh, where Count Noseutoot
himself did not arrive till last month. in this site-
atiou the wetter stands at present.
A sort of wa► of Custom-houses appears to be
carrying on in Germany between some of the Ger-
man Powers and Pressia. The latter baying recent-
ly established regulations on her frontiers, which
are harassing to the commerce of her neighbours, a
system of retaliation against the commerce of Prussia
has been adopted by Hanover, Brunswick, Hesse,
and other States, which is to continue le force until
the Cabinet of Berlin shell find it ezpedieut to modi-
fy the harshness of its Custom-boose !AIM
The population of the Austrian States amounts to
2.1 million; ; and it is a mortifying comparison, but
not less tree, that mere crimes are committed io a
single English county in 12 months than through
the Austrian Slates in two years. The mode of pu-
nishment is ►asd Moor.
ily a law recently passed in the kingdom of the
Netherlands, which is to take effect after September,
Swedish ships, importing any other than the 'tredve,
of Sweden, will, with their cargoes, be subject to
seizure nod confiscatioe. This law is in retaliation of
severe restrictions in Sweden against the Dutch nag.
The proviecial Papers abound with accounts of
Public Meetings, for the purpose of Petitioning
against' the proposed Doty nn Coals, and fee the
repeal or modification of the Insolvent Act.
There has been a general cessation of labour da-
ring tie past week, upon the Sheffield end of the
nits-n(lrd new turnpike-road leading from thence to
Glossop, and ultimately to Manchester, in cense-
qe-nce of prices being demanded for land consider-
exceed!ng the original estimate. It is now is,
contemplation to apply fur Parliamentary aid to cra-
b!, the Coransissiniters to divert the road from the
Cowmen-0 originally contemplated, and introduce it
through Broad-Isue.---(Boncasfcr, 4c. Gazette,
March 12)

To rus EDITOR or rigs STATESMAN.

your *leading Article of last Monday
( March 8), you advance. doctrine relativists the Bask,
s bids, coming from a professed Radical Reformer, is
really startling. Yoe assert, that " the Bank might
stand, though the Government should fail!" and
vice versa, that it to sly, that both ■re ens.
pletely independent, eve of the other! This, Sir,
is the doctrine of the Borooghmoneers' Press, end
it is congenial with every other doctrine oe public
affairs flowing through that polluted channel; but.
when the ST.iTLSTWV:Ir becomes the champions of such
' a dogma, permit me to say, that it behoves his to
suppo►t it with much more than mere naked

As many of your Reeder, hold the very opposite
opinion, namely, that the esistenee of the pretest
system of Government depends upon the credit of the
liank-note ; and as you are pleated to term such all
opinion a 4, osonosirositg in political argemeat,
arising from the grossest ignorance or perverseness!"
perhaps yes sill condescend to p►ove the soundness
•f your ease( lion, by giving some satisfactory reply
to the following simple queries, sod their accompany-
ing observations.

By saying, that the Bank might stand, those, the
Goverment should fail, is it meant that if the pre-
sent corrupt system were swept away by a National
Revolution, the Bank (freed from the hardship of a
Restriction Act) would be enabled to pay in gold
and silver, end on deinand, its e. 5 or 30 millions of
notes now afloat, and at the same time carry on its
usual traffic? If not, bow east it be said that the
Bank might stand, t►oegh the Goveronsent should
fail

Circemstanced as the Bonk now is, what meaning
is stlacbed to its failure ? If a White of the Bank
mean • general and positive refuse' on the pert
of the People, to give away their property is es-
change for its paper, is it not obviate, that were
such an event to occer, the present ”steue
would drop lifeless to the ground ?—Does
not taxation constitute the sole income., of Go-
vernment ? Are not tales of all kinds paid es-
ctu•ively in paper ? lf, then, the Bank should fail,
if the Public Wyse its notes, is not Government ren-
dered, io all reepecu, a bankiept —a beggar ? Ilas
it wherewith to purchase • single dal's fend for
those who now 'semis* its functions, and enforce Its
mandates ?

The Bank might stand though the Government
shoold fail ! Good God ! were Government to with-
draw (could it dare to withdraw) its protection front
the Bank to-day, who will believe that the Bank
could stand a ten epos it entil the evening of to-mor-
row Look at the proceedings of 1797. At that
memorable period, a ran of only four days prodeced
sock a panic among the Directors of the Bunk and the
Ministers of Government, that they were compelled
to lake advantage of the intervention of the Sabbath
and upon that day to pass an Order in Council, pro-
tecting the Bank from the demands of the note-hold-
ers ! they proclaiming to the world, that the stability
of C °imminent depended upon the credit of the Bank,
and that the credit of the Bank rested only on the se-
curity, and consequently on the existence of Govern•
went.

Were any thing farther oftener, to prove the fell
conviction of nor Raters themsel►es, that the credit of
the Bank is the basis of their power, we have only to
look at them, at Government, sendi.ig •cross the
Atlantic, and Wittig on the artists of America to as-
sist a Company of Merchants in England in render-
ing its notes inimitable! We have only to consider
the circumstance of a itsgel Gommission being ap-
pointed, and devoting lime, money, and i it,
to the task of inventing a mafioso( making promissory
notes for a particular Company of Merchants ! This
' circumstance, Sir, speaks treenpet-tongued, that the
Bank mild NOT stand, should Governess.' fail,
and via verso!

&ippon A. to bo a Merchant. obese outstanding
debts •mount to 100,0001. ; whose real property

may be 10,0001., but who bolds bills of B. (a greeter
Merchant, end one universally trusted), exceeding.
suppose, the remaining 90,0001. and upon the credit
of which bills his own are take*. Now, wi9 any
one in their senses say, that, in this case, were B. to
fail, to be deprived of his accustomed resources fur
meeting his hills, the credit of A. would remain un-
altered, sad that be coald still carry on his bu4iness
as usual ? No, no ; his creditors, finding ►im unable
to meet their demands, 'fold sows seize span
whatever real property be possessed, and divide it
amongst themselves.
Does such a case apply to the *stied before es ?I
According to the statement of Mr. Manama', dur-
ing the debate of Feb. 1, the Bank holds from 45 to
30 millions in lischequer Bills ! These Bills, with a
very small proportion of specie, coostitate the Capital
of the Bonk, upon the strength of which its notes
are issued. The Eschegeer Bills themselves repre-
sent the income of the Boroughonongers—Tosafion.
New, Sir, is it not clear, that st,ould the People
peremptorily refuse to submit any longer to the ar-
bitra►y imposts of the Borooghmen, their Eschews
Bill, are instantly reduced below the Mae of the

reg. Irene which they were made ; •ud. in such ell

•
event, what becomes of the boasted capital of the
Beak ? Who should then protect ibis Company of
Merchants against the clsmoar and rage of the
wretchrd noteholders? and who, viewing the sib.
jest in Ibis light, will assert, that though the Itortiegh
tyrants should fall, the Bank might yet stead
Pray, Sir, recousider the subject, and give some
reasons for thvestreordinary doctrine (extraordinary
from a Radical Reformer) which yen have laid down.
lbe iosertioo of this letter may, lichen 'Wet a

itply frost some Cedreependeist, show opinion user
happen to coincide with your own on this subject.—
, At ell events, Neu ere certainly bnend to prone yn*
ale correct in asserting the?, the railer. ut the Beek
dues not now 'twelve the destrection ut the Befeeitt
Gore assent.— I ago, Sir,re'..ectielly,
M.r.kkMail. IS. 11419. P. w. D.
Thus we have. at the desire of ear I 'orrinpundeas, platinised kill
Letter, which hat itforded or rathitatet ion, r.inee we we that • wk.
jert at owl prewar euse,rquessee least overt.mked by ow iltroares.
We remits of the vitae °potties a. hei.ire expermed, sod well
lake the Ant eips;oriontly (probably to-entierow)rit Orin oar
wawa. for it. In the meantime we shoolit be ism that sant
cc aim", .r hoer to .a...boald shortie the RA uICA L H ...FORUM*
lu his hopes or a better sy-ten of imerainent. %re we rite,
that neither Mioi.tert oar flank Disecass ran Sod comoLtiim
am earns* In what we adraured. The unnatural. the eon-
' devanable part 1.1 the comma ma heftier. die Government and the
Hank tats amen undoubtedly tram the feel urrapl tom et Ike
Pursuer, and the grow awake of doe Inner ste•ertheleis •
casual admit that their hart &minim are sasepatah;y ...ten
together. tkauph oe meter meaty Homy that they might sat, I.e
anr even by probability. fall ineethet ; they a e
toindetvi, hat not riewparaitly matted. Tie Ratak dor. met tali:
itself amoi sable tarns 11;zeliequer bill ear the Goterssibeat tor
a Kash bill.

I'RI NESS AND PLASANTS VILATIRDISI
the purpose of showing respect to the situation of the
labourer. the Dike of SAIE•GOVIA appeared et •
tall in the town of Altenburg, dressed after the mea-
ner of the neighbouring peasants. U. borrowed foe
this purpose the 1161,0 of a paa•ant„ to whom Ise seat
a silver cep, with his name, his arms, and the fol-
lowing inscription Honour to the Waal men.
eery and costume."
Coyest REDNAULT DE St. JEAN &ANDREW, II new.
aside Peer of Freure, arrived in Paris on the 1041
lust. at nine in the evening, end died neat morning of
the goat in his stomach, at two o'clock.
The Sieve DELACOUR, of Paris, petitioned the
Chamber to appoint a Commission to utentivie imp
the effects of Somosmbulism.—( Lameller and plow-
dits.)—This Petitioner spole of Animal Magnetism
as the greatest Wait which the Divinity has coo-
fused en man, for the core of his maladies, by im-
parting the focally of seeing ell the details of living
bodies--( Universal laughter)—to esculein their
diseases, sad the remedies best adopted to them.—
Meer DILAEOUR SINS desirous that an eneblishavent
for the reception of Somnambulists should be formed
in the capitol, cemperied of enlightened men, (livened
of ell prejudices, and anzioos to relieve the sick.—
( taegMer.)--The Chamber passed to the Order of
the Dry.
Tux RICIITI or WOMEN.—Dams GARET, of
Calais, pard for a Project of Law, authorising the
wives of soldiers' not heard of, to marry again.—
The Chamber passed to the Order of the Dry ; as it
Jid else on she Patina.' of Sitar Jorraoi, for seek-
ing the arensouy of marriage a religious rite.
Upwards of 70 persons emigrated lest week from
the perish of Portse* to the United States. They
embarked for Havre. Several of them ere mechanics,
who have recently discharged themselves from his
Majesty's service. Ti.ge are nee eeeee ily valuebie
men. It any be s woke whether some other in-
divldeals, who more in an higher sphere, might oat
be better spared. Those, for @sample, whose ear-
bitent sinecures and unmerited pensions render ne-
cessary the very Militia, the rewire of which
deprives indostry of its reward, and drives frees
their native shales the persons whose departure we
are regretting. The Gazdie of Saturday night an-
nounces the appointment of a new Judor hued
of the Admiralty, end else of a new Lord of the
Bedchamber. 'rhea are twelve Lords of the Bed-
chmber. What do they do ? Each of them, al-
though paid by the year, does duty only ea
month, and that is merely ■ nation duty. Some
retrenchment, under these great heads of expellee,
might have contributed to keep these valuable
emigrants from the parish of Pulses at home.—
Bet it is absurd to arc, that Ministers will ever set
about soy thorough system of retrenchment or ea-
nosy, whilst the state of our Perliameotary Repre-
sentation alien continue In render profusion sed
corruption the avowed and only means of se-
curing a majority in the Legislature. So long as a
few itoroogberongers retain the power of dispos-
ing of the liberty, property, and Wes of the
whole People, so lung must there be en extra.
valiant espaditere.—The remedy for thin and
every ether political abuse, consists in a Radial
Reform of Pulisment, without which, es Mr.
Pirs, in the early and honest part of his ca-
reer, declared, " no honest man can be Minister."—
Why then, do not the advocates of retrenchment
joie with the Radical Mortars in their demand of
the only measure by which their professed object au
be really obtained! The answer is, we fear, too
obviate. The Whigs, though sincere esoegb in their
dislike of teeing power and profit monopolised be
their adversaries, ate not perhaps at bottom quite so
indignant at the modes by which their power is held,
end their profits wrung from an impoverished and
miserable People, as to wish rudely to pat an end to
a system from which they hope themselves as.. day
or other to drew esti iment sad Satins, by drainieg
the lest penny.
On Tuesday lest, pursuant to Pablic Reqeisition,
there was a Meeting of sbe R•rman Catholic inha-
bitants of Haitkrornhees, County of DeWitt, to peti-
tion the Imperial Parliament for a repeal of the
Penal !Avis. And on Wednesday • numerous and
highly respectable Meeting of the Catholic's( Lath,
was held in Deedalk, for the purpose of preparing a
Petition to Parliament, fur the repeal of the Petrel
Laws still affecting them. Sir EDWARD 13,LLEW,
Bert. was called to the Chair. Several Resoletioes
were proposed by Mr. TA tree and Mr. FITZGERALD,
end unanimously 'dowel
LoeDOM Ctraca.—.l he Committee of the Hate
of Commons, to whom the Peeking of the Londrrn
Clergy, under the Fire Act, for so increase of Tithes,
ens referred, ramp, we understand. to e Resolution,
on Friday, that the Petitioners had failed to prove
the allegations contained to their Petition.

Throe Mister, of vessels hate, been convicted in
tb, penalty of 101. each, for hariog lime on board
their reaael, in the flail Dinka, century in the Act
of railsament ; and alcg a timber Merchant, in the
penalty of 51. for so freriote timber to float ist the Dock
longer than the time
flats.—Wednececir vic..rniog a fire was diicovrred
at the Nunnery, Io Itinetagh, near Dublin, which
eitrirety cnncemed the Ci.apel of that liestitelion. 1111
also the Pri-et's vectinen:v, Communion Olt', Am
The &miles are estimated al epwards of 12b01.—
Some 'opines arrired ton his to aye the Chapel, Let
prevented lie vattircion .j the Ore.