The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

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E. Plummer and F. Magnus. Boston. milliners—J. An-
drew and J. Frewer, Upper Thames-street. plumbers—S.
Pride and J. Ninnis, Liverpool. shoe-makers—J. Gifford
and S. Gifford, Clenham Mills, Netherbery. Dorselshire.
flax-spinners—C. Lund and A. Warmoll, Brewer-street,
Somers Town. grocers—W. Barlow and .1. B. Mason, Wit-
ling-street, wholesale ironmongers—W. Myers and Co.,
Leeds, tea-dealers—G. and J. Milner, Salford, grocors—
T. Hoyle and Co., Irwell Springs, Lancashire, calico prin-
ters —H. Edwards and C. S. Copner, Gloucester, builders—
G. R. Kirke, and A. Jarman, Battersea-fields, tanners—S.
Soloman and Co., Charing-cross, taylors—S. Dance and G.
Smith, Bishop gate-street without, butchers—B. Vacher
and N. Linthorne. Poole. coal-merchants—J. Emerson and
I. Howell. jun.. Bristol, braziers—W. Humphries and R.
Major, Frome Seiwood. Somersetsbire. woolstapiers.

By Recounts received yesterday from Eastuor Castle.
it appears that all the surrounding country is under
water. Egress and regress Iraq only to be aceom-
pii.hed by the use of boats. The Castle is full of
visitors.

I Hrlid IT SEATS.—Friday ,the tartlet seats in the
differ t s •ish churches in Ellinhnr.,rlo, catne on to he
riispose•l of; when the Committee found that in St.
Georze's l'hnrch there were only two sews matt, and
which they had 1,2 W? applications!

Ott MR PIRO4IOII7IIBE *VIOL MON.
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MOM Ttls PANTAILITZIM)
If ever the measure of introducing a Repressatative
Government into a country can be deemed legitimate
and necessary, it was without doubt in Piedmont, and
at the period of which I speak. It wag legitimate be-
cause Piedmont was ruled by an absolute Government
ander which subjects were abandoned to the arbitrary
will of a master, which constitutes in the eyes of all
politicians an illegal Government. It was necessary
helium the Government, arbitrary by privilege. was
likewise so in act, from the instability of the laws, and
the abusive facility with which they could be broken ;
it was aecessasy because this arbitrary Government
was ruining the state by the defects of its adminis-
twine. Unfortunately the want of any institution.
even of an imperfect one, which might have famished
the means of enligkliaing the Gemeament by
peaceable measures, made it every day more to be
feared that the Parlianteetary system could only be
established is Piedmont. through the aid of a revo-
lution; and however legitimate such a revolution
might be, many persons who were impatient under
their arbitrary yoke, yet shrunk from the thought of
lacerating the heart of their Prince, and agitated them-
selves between the chagrin of not being able to un-
deceive him, and their reluctance to constrain him by
revolutionary movements. They might have remained
long in this harrassing and painful suspense, if the
most imminent political considerations had not de-
cided the question at once, and plainly laid down the
line of conduct which they ought to pursue, in order
to acquit themselves at the same time of their duties
towards the Throne, and towards their country. The
manner in which the Allied Powers hail disposed of
Italy at the Congress of Vienne, far from augmenting
the real strength of the house of Savoy, had deprived
it of all preponderance in the affairs of Italy, and con-
sequently of its place in the system of Europe. Before
the French Revolution, the King of Sardinia was the
principal power in the Peninsula, both by the position
and the population of his dominions. The House of
Austiia possessed in it only the duchies of Milan a! d
blantua,altuost separated by two rich Venetian I r.svi
Brescia and Bergamo. Since the Congress of Vi?nna
hich sanctioned the annihilation of the republic of
Venice, one of the most perfidious acts of Buonaparte's
policy, the empire of Austria has almost extended
itself in Italy. by the possession of Lombardy, that
rich and populous district, seeing its hereditary pro-
perty on evert. point of its long northern frontier
Add to this, Oaring and Placentia, placed under the
authority I,lan Austrian General, the gaoler of an un-
fortunate Princess, Modena, and Tuscany given up to
Austrian Princes, and Ferrara guarded by an Austrian
garrison, which leaves Ile states of the church at the
mercy of the Emperor; surely for any one, after con-
sidering this, to say that the King of Sardinia is en-
abled by the mere asquisition of Genoa to counter-
balance the power of /instils in Italy, would be to add
insult to our other injuries. Genoa moreover does
not augment the strength of the House of Savoy so
much as some may imagine. The city requires a
larger Piedmontese garrison, than the number of
inhabitants in the duchy can furnish ; the conscrip-
tion is forced to spare such of the population as are
destined for the sea. The Genoese nobility, depressed,
discontented, and, with very few exceptions, not soothed
by ribbands, and chamberlains' keys, will for a long
time be a dangerous element in the state. The timid-
tiling ranks well-informed, and liberal in their ideas,
cannot accomusodate their spirits ts an absolute Go-
vernment, any nwre than the Mountaineers can forget
the times when the lands paid scarcely any thing.—
Genoa can only become a eoarce of prosperity to time
Monarchy, by a liberal Constitution, the only possible
tie between two people, held in habitual disunion by
the rememberance of long and unfortunate feuds.
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In Piedmont a grand revolution had already taken
place in the public mind. Emmanuel Pbillibert in
removing his seat of Government to Turin, and Charles
Etninahuel 11. by his conduct, had lung shewn that
their house and kingdom were no longer French ; bot
it was not till the reign of Victor Emmanuel that the
Piedamntrse became fully convinced of this truth. A
race of young people who had imbibed the sentiments
of Victor Allied, and a host of brave men, (ruin th,
ranks of Napoleon's armies, concurred to give thi 4
impulse to opinion, and it was strengthened by that
hatred of the Austrian name, which is instinctive both
in the Piedniontese and Genoese; coeval with their ex-
istence, and which will en.l only with it. A hatred
which the Austrians themselves have taken care to
nourish, every time they have appeared among us, by
tile insolence of their deportment, their extortions,
and the hardships they impose upon the people.
Victor Emmanuel has been reproached with not
having availed himself of the opportunity afforded him
in 1611, to place the crown of Lombardy upon his
head. I doubt whether this reproach be just, an.l
whether the enterprise would have succeeded at that
time. What has been said of it, however, both in
Pietliuu,t, and throughout the rest of Italy, sufficientl
shows the state of public opinion. Meanwhile it
would be wrung to accuse Victor Emmanuel of not
answering, by his sentiments, these wishes of the
Piedwontese. Happy times, cherished in memory,
when throughout my 'wintry we were all united by
the same hopes, and all felt called to the same vocation!
Then all eyes were turned toaartis this same Lombardy,
which we called the land of our brothers; we had
then no Piedmont's* deafened with the noise of their
chains, or with their blood boiling at the sight of a
Milanese bending under the stick of an Austrian cm.-
pond. We might differ as to the means of remedying
our internal evils, but we all agreed in the desire, and
the necessity, of retaining that interest in Italy which
formed the mole strength of our State. the only gut.
rant.* of its independence, the only reasonable goodie
of our national sacrifices. We eagerly repeated to ea Is
other the onswers made by the King to the Ministers •
from Austria to Turin; we cherished every word which
expressed how much he felt the patrimitm of the
Italians, and if at that ti ne it had b.4.n ;asked who

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