The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-11 00:00:00

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" On the fat of November, the Captain had an inter-
.view with the Bey, and delivered his !Wets from Sir
Thomas Maitland, demanding a number of pirates who
had been pillaging and -mterdering. The Her mplied.
he was qnite indignant at the sobjeet—intleesi, his men
weie AO divided, he said, and ki llefl by the Oreteks in am•
bush, that he could scarce account for his siee.-711,0
inquiry, it was the • ease, they should be punished,
and restitution made; but •he would not con-
sent to give them op. He 'moires!, 'IV Ally
of the British subjeeti wire to commit acts of piracy,
whether the King of England would deliver them up ?
Upon being answered in the negative, he said- how can
von expect the Porte will deliver these men up to you ?
if the crime is proved. they shall•be puniabed for this
breach of the laws of nations by nor own laws. During
this service several of our mon were placed around with
glasses,fearfal of an impetuous attack from the Greeks,
who succeed In this kind of warfare and spare no one.—
The day before they killed six men, and wounded two,
at the distance they were then from the Castle. Having
c domptete thla affair, the Bey, denying all knoiiiedge of
tle bast °ciao, el vo retarget° Coifs."

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SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1823.

TO THE YEOMEN OF THE COUNTY OF

NORFOLK.

Uphesbxad, 10th Jan. 1923.
ONNTLESISN—The date of this letter demands some
apology from roe to you. It was the wish of many of
you, and it was my most anxious wish, that 1 should go
as soon as possible (and before Parliament meet) to
visit several market 'towns in yont vitality. 1 was
strongly pressed to do the like in Suffolk ; and 1 have
also been requested to do it in Cambridgeshire and
Huntingdonshire, and in Northamptonshire and Hert-
fordshire. Lest it should appear to be idleness or caprice
that has brought me down so quickly amongst these
North Hampshire hills a;; :in ; lest you should think that
1 had gone away, at this important moment, from the
scene which ought to he the most interesting to me,
think it necessary to state to yon, that at the cic4e of
the last Session of Parliament, 1 formed a resolution, to
finish, if possible, daring the prorogation, a work which
1 bad long had in hand, and which, if not finished now,
would, in all probability, never be finished at all.—
This Is a grammar for the teaching of English people
the French language. During the rural rides of the last
fall, 1 have brought this work almost to a conclusion.—
I almost see land ; end 1 am extremely anxious to com•
pieta my undertaking; so that, 1 may, in future, have
nothing to think shoat but those great and important
public matters, to take part in which, and to Jo my ut.
moat with r►gard to which, is now really become a duty to
which 1 am bound.---I thought this explanation

necessary lest you shonlil ascribe to some whimsical
motive my absence from the Eastern counties
wh►n my presence might be of much utility there. To

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do in London that which I have to do is impossible. The
smoke and botheration of the Wan are obsoletely des-
tructive of those faculties ; or, at least, they suspend
those faculties, the application of nhich, and the strict
application of them, to are necessary to the perform
once, in a proper manner, of the above-mentioned task
Having stated these circumstances, I have now to point
out for your observation, a Letter which has appeared in
the Morning., Chronicle of yesterday, signed T. S. NOR.,
OATS, Heihertett, Norfolk, Jan. 7, 1823.—Gentlemen,
there is nothing better calculated to excite contempt than
shapng; especially when the shufEing has been pro-
duced by the threats and bullying of other parties.—
This Mr. Norgate says that be was one cf the committee,
who drew up the resolutions, and that the resolution
which scmaks of the reduction of the interest of the Debt,
dial not mean, in fact, any reduction of the interest at
all ; for the gentlemen says that what the resolution
meant was, that the whole of the interest should continue
to be paid; and that what was meant here by redaction
of Debt was, that this interest should be made less
in time by a Sinking Fund, which would reduce the
capital of the Debt; so that what Mr. Coke meant, and
what Mr. Glover meant, and what this Gentleman
meant was, that the whole of the debt should be paid

either in principle or in interest ; and that there should
be no dimanition of it at all by law ! I will not call this
a wilful falsehood, gentlemen. 1 will give it co name

whatever. I do not know Mr. Norgate. You do•
Call his shuffling letter by what. name you please. Bat,
as to what Mr. Coke meant, the Morning. Chronicle
very justly observes that Mr. Coke's speech " hardly,
seems to warrant a belief in his not nnderstanding the
resolution as we understood it." Mr. Coke, as many of
you can testify, took the resolutions, one by one ; ex-
pressed his decided approbation of each ; and called
upon the meeting to approve of those resolutions by its
vote. Now, what did the fourth resolution say? Why,
this—That the county saw no hope of relief,'• without
" such a reduction of the National Pebt as is required
"by the present circumstances of the country, and by
" the imperative claims of public justice." How Mr.
Wedehouse nndcrstned it is clear enough from what he
said. But how is the country to be relieved ; how are
the landlords and farmers to be eascd by a reduction of
the Debt, if they are to pay off the whole of the debt.
How are they to he relieved,by any measure of this sort
unless there is to he a deduction from the claims of the
fuadholders. In short, it is manifest that Mr. Nor-
gate has, by the boisterous newspapers been bellied
into the making of this shuffle. But how stand
ale. Wndebouse and Mr. Western as to this mat-
ter? Mr. Western calls upon the landowners to
join him in his efforts to prevent the fundholder from
diiving them from their country seats, and appropriating
those seats to himself. Mr. Western explicitly says,
that be is for taking away a considerable part of what

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the funiiholder now receives. And Mr. Wodebouse say
that he agrees with Mr. Western; Lord Stourton (Lord
Lieutenant of Yorkshire, I believe) calls upon the Prime
Minister to protect the land against the claims of the
landholder. And whet do you pray for, gentlemen. in
your petition ? Why, like sensible and jest men, you
pray for an" equitable adjustment with regard to the
•• publiccretlitor nit you do not pray even Li this,
unaccompanied with a cessation of the enormous ease- _
laments of the *Hadar families ind for an glaciation
of all the crown Inds and a part of the church lands to
the liquidation of the debt. Let Attars Annie; reef
prayer is distinct; nobody will attempt to misinterproi
that ; you have nothing to ten-say. You have only to
stand where you are, and you will soon see the whole
of
the kingdom with you.

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