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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
TnUftbDAY, NOVEMBER 2G, 1812.

The Courier of. last night contains a most extrant-
diaary article respecting the proceedings of the late
rent, and the prospects of the new one. It is
high seasoned and well:: prepared for the purpose in-
tended. As a specimen, we need only extract the
followiag passage, which is one of the greatest libels
ever published upon the understanding of our coun-
trymen :—" Never, perhaps, was the task so easy.
" to any Administration as the task of meeting the
" new Parliament. At what a time, and under what
" ri:cumstances, do Ministers meet the new Patlia-
" ment ? At the 'num.:de of England's glory—at
" the highest point of elevation whiels this country
" ever reached ! ! long will the p :ogle of
this devoted country stave themselves to be imposed
upon by such wretched hireling Journals, who, while
Melting upon their credulity, are secretly enjoying
the StICZ:FS of their prostitution!
The public at cention is particularly occupied, at
the present most important crisis, with speculations
as to the probable conduct of the New Parliament,
and its consequent eifects on the Pm see nu; esTs's
Government. To us, we confess, no difficulty ap-
pears in forming a decisive opinion as to what we
may expeet. It is necessary only to take a ref rospee-
tire view of the events of this year, to look nt the
state of the various parties into which political men
arit divided ; to ins estiga:e their various feelings, in.
terests, and conduct, and a tolerably accurate con-
clusion may be drawn. A short statement will ex-
empliry this. The present Parliament may he con-
vid Ted a% divided into four distinct parties, all actoat-
ed 11; eilier.nt eolthes ;1:1,1 Frireiples, not one of
Vlich accords with any of the oil,o+ s. First, the
Ath.inistratiosa, conspontided, as it is, of shreds and
It:ltches, of men, who, in fo;lner times, would have been
eonsidered unworthy of !Le most solbaltern post in the
s a rin os der:l:taw:Ws which they arcs now tile ell;efs :

it is dill:cult io tleseribe them at all, with any distinct
chamfer, politically applied. Their principle ob-
ject appears to be, the preservation of their places
tad the contiletance of the war, as it gives them the
„xpenditure of a larger sum than ever this nation yet
?reduced ; end being, of course, the source and
.q Bans of corruption to au unnampled extent, is ne-
onsarilv their favourite measure. Ignorance,. bigo.
irs, atd intolerance are their predominant features;
and in tits contemplation of these three words, all the i
inferior I-entitle:ol°ns of their characters may be disco- i
rered.The next in n umber athl in weight is titeWhig and
some of the Pm party tr.itcd, which is denominated
the Oppositian. This party will he very formidable,
and muster s• . Ong in talent and in power, and is the
cue to which the Ministry consider themselves chiefly
appost.d. The nation, however, looks upon them
itit jealousy, and view their opposition as a struggle
for rlace and power, in consequence of the large
pensions and sinecures enjoyed by some of them,
who have ample private foam'es of their own; and
it might be h°th prudent and just in them to resign•
that which is wanted for the exigencies of the State.
A third party, and certainly formidable, for it is
the most ambitious, and the most persevering, with
en adequate possession of talent, is that formed with
so much industry and zeal by the IVELLEsLEys.
The ambition of the Marquis IV ti.i.tit.Lv is prover.
bial. Was he in the same relation to the Crown, as
the late Duke of °Rue.% !ea was to that of France, a
parallel might, with no great inaccuracy, be drawn
between them. He is well seconded by those out of his
o.vn family, to whom he has attached himself; and
ith the aid of Mr.Ca N NINO, and of tbeParliamentary
power he has contrived to possess himself of, the
vneoor. Administration therefore feel some *pine.
beesion from him: The Wet.t.avt.urs have, indeed,
great means of annoyance;-.-the Times, their mouth-
piece, occasionally gives strong proofs 'of this ;—its
denunciations come with a voice that speaks in a
tone of threat, at to consequences of the most fearful
nature; nor was that contained in the publication of
Mond4y the least plain and powerful. It proclaims
that the Marquis Vitzta.xsxxx "asusi " fie invested
with the Government, for it he is sot:-and here; in a
climax of high sounding worth, is detailed a tirade of
p0t....-Nuences of very awful import; but net the least is
lign which implies the possibility of the Marquis W 74•-

LINGTON abandoning his army to its fate, at the moment
when his services:if ever valuable, would be ',he meat
so; when reverse seemed to portend to follow reverse,
and when this General, in possession of the entire
command of the Goternment, with more powerful
autharityuancE subject to lesssecaraul, dim the Com-
Mander-in-Chief must necessarily be more useful
than any other Officer could have the means of being
in a similar situation, who evidently would feel
more responsibility, and consider himself more
subject to render an account of .his actions. From
the WebtAstears, therefore, we have much to appre-
hend, and what have we to expect from them? roes
the declaration of Mr. CANNING, that he is the
apostle of Mr. PITT ; that he wishes te be consi-
dered the renovated spirit of that man, whose mis-
chievous counsels set all Europe in a Maze, and to
whose measures, th.e present miseries of this devoted
country are chiek to be attributed; does this profession
promisegood to the people? The question will answer
itself. To this party, therefore, we arc convinced
the country looks with suspicion, arid the PRINCE
cannot but feel rietestatioo at thow ebullitions of
pride and ambition with w !kb, dui ;og the late ties,ro-
elation, they so completely emblazoned their import-
ance. From a picture so replete with disgusting cow-
-1 templation, we turn with Co t»placeacy to the fourth
party. We know not how to designate it, nuless we
call it the Party of 11;e Peo,:le. In this Party is
comprehended all those who belong to 'nine of the
other three, who hold neither place nor pension—fl
who advocate nci;her war nor oppression—who are
equally remote from Ligutry and irreligion, and whose
only object is the country's good! It indeed., a la-
mentable fact. that such is the power of corruption, so
extensive are the means, and so active the employment
'of them, in the present wretched state of the na-
tional r,Treseutation, that this Party is not of strength
sufficient to cope with its opponents, for as it is the
enemy of corruption, tyranny, and oprression, so
do contendinz interests compromise their differ-
ences, to cunibat its exertions, and to suppress its i

energies.
We have thus endeavoured to submit to the na-
tion a fai!hful statement of do different Parties
into which the new Parliamilit is divided,—
and we conceive that its operations will be
in strict conformity to the principles and objects
which we have described to actuate Mill of them.—
We have, therefore, but little to expect from an assem-
bly so constituted. In the wranglings which will occu-
py their time, their rout mil crintination and recrimina-
tion, their stroggies fur place, their union against the
people, we see nothing which can promise a termina-
tion of the au ful horrors that threaten us. There
is but one remedy, and to that sooner or later
recourse must be had—lteform ; within and with-
out. Peace, reform, and economy, must sticceed to
war, corruption, and profusion. It may be driven
off, but the day of retribution must art ire !

The following enumeration of the topics which
are to form the consideration of Parliament dur-
ing its ensuing Session, presents an epitome of
the exiting state of the country, in its relations,
foreign :,nd domestic:-
1. The conduct of the Spanish ear,-not in rela-
tion to its external management upon the Peninsula,
tho excellence of which no one doubts ; but with re-
ference to our domestic coancils,—is among the first
subjects for disewsion. The peculiar cirrumstanees
of the Sicilian armament will, of course, couple it.
with this. The Sicilian armainen,t ! a meature,
which Ministers will hare the peculiar aoanlago of
displaying as wholly their own ; and of which, the •
execution has not, as iii other acts, of which Lord
\VELLINGTON has had the direction, remedied or
improved the original design. In this we see how
Ministerial Councils would terminate, if enforced
with the same talents as gave them birth.

11. The conduct of our foreign relations, ac affect-
ing the war in the North of Europa.
111. The primary canes and sub;equent manage-
ment of that with America.—These form other gene-
ral heads in the Fo'reign Relations of the country,
which must come under review timing the ensuing
Session.,

IV. The Catholic Question:
V. The East India Company's Charter. These
are subjects of British or home policy.
In relation to the Ottholie Question, we have
learned that it is the intention of Ministers to redin-
tegrate, if we may use the word, the discussion : or to
take up the subject, as if no progress had been made
therein,—no resolution adopted in the Lower House,
—none rejected in the Upper by a rnajoi ity (of only
one proxy), which was, in fact, equal to on adop-
tion. There is as much wisdom, therefore, in this de-
termination of Ministers, as there would be in that
of a man, who, havitig a long journey to perform,
should order himself, at the conclusion of the first
day, to be conveyed back to the place from whence
he started. It is the recorded resolution of, the lost
Houle of Commons, to take the Catholic Claims into
'consideration; and whether they are rejected or
granted; they ought accordingly to be at least con-
si4esed. •
Mho attention of Lord BUCKINWIAMSIIIRE has, we
are informed, been directed, during. the Recess, to
the collection and arrangement of a nest mass of ma-
terials, relating to the East India affairs, and the re.
newal of the Company's Charter. The foltowing
are the chief points to which these documents`must
.have reference, sod which ore marked oat for dis-
cussion

. • 1. The trade, and the degree of participation which
is to be granted to the public, both in that to China,
and to India.

2. The Company's Army : whether it is to remain
as it Is, or to be transferred to the Crown, as pro-
posed by the late Marquis CORN NV 41.Lpe
3. A. more rigorous controul in the Ministers of
the Crown, not only over the Company's political
and military affairs, but the extension of that con-
troul to the Commercial and Home concerns (eve-
dally the estailishnieets at Canton and the East India
House).
4. The confirmation and improvement of the Civil
Rights and Pi ivileges, granted by the Governments
of India, during the last 20 years, to the native in-
'habitants of the Company's Government.
5. The establishment of the College of Fort Wil-
liam by a legislative provision, and its extension to
the settlements of Madras and Bombay.
VI. The last, and by far the most important and
complex question of domestic policy, relates to the
istate of .our finances; to the condition of public
credit ; the taxes ; but especially those of Ireland,
and the income-tax here : the present commercial
system also, but more particularly. the licences. And
%; bile we are upon the subject of money, we cannot
help urging the necessity of a strict enquiry into the
application of the five millions (including the Army
Extraorditturies), given as a vote of credit, at the
conclusion of the last Session. Row has it been ex-
pended ? Where has it appeared by its effects? Cer-
tainly not in Spain; where Lord WELLINGTON had
only 20,000 dollars in his military chest on the 16th
of June ; the army being then four months in ar-
rear : and even at this moment, there are some
officers and men no less than six mouths in arrear.—
But has Sweden or Russia shared our bounty ?-
11f so, what has been the effect produced by it ?
The former Power has embarked and disem-
barked her troops at our expense: and the
latter has rescued herself, and overwhelmed
her enemy, by what must be esteemed the greatest
military achievement ever performed, but in which
we had no share,—the destruction a the city which
that enemy had selected for his winter's residence.
how, then, have the' five millions been spent Some
!men have been said to "do good by stealth, and
blush to find it fame :" hut it certainly must proceed
from an unlucky dexterity, never known or prac-
; tised till now, that others shall he able to expend
sa large a sam as five millions, in such a way 'that
the application of it cannot be seen in any one par-
: ticular by its effect and consequences. This mal-
adroitness should therefore be disclosed, in order
that it .stay serve as a caution to deter, if not an ex-
; ample to follow.

It may be proper to add to the above enumeration
of subjects for Parliamentary discussion, that an en-
quiry will most probably be instituted into the found-
ation of an indecent report, widely spread, that an
alteration was intended in the Act of Settlement.
Wht.ther Ministers ever seriously harboured such an
intention, we cannot certainly aver, because no act
has as yet been consequent thereon ; but we have, at
least, strong reason for suspecting so, when we know
that their adherents in Cornwall, Essex, Ireland,
and also in other parts, spoke of the measure as in
contemplation.

Paris Papers to the 16th inst. have been received,
from %. hich have. given a few extracts. They
state, that 500 portable corn-mills, of a new con-
' structiatt, b;ave.becn expedited to the Grand Army,
and that the army clothiers were in full activity pre-
. parieg suitable habiliments for the troops (luring
their stay in winter quarters.--It is said that
the Poles are giving every facility to render the
winter-quarters for the Grand Army capacious, se-
cure, and abundant ; and that in the ensuing spring
i the campaign will he opened with vigour, on an en.
larged scale. A variety of reports are now in cir.
Irritation respecting the retreat of 130NAPARTE ; and
it is probable, though he has been compelled to change
his plan of the campaign owing to the extraordinary
circumstance of the burning of Moscow, that he will
emit avour to conciliate and exhilerate the spi.
rits of his 50,000,000 of Lorin; sn?jects, by
an-
nouncing-in his next Bulletin, that even the temporary
• reverses in his vast military designs are subjected and
directed by immutable laws, and that what he is
losing in speed he is gaining in power.

A letter from Palermo says, that Lord Wir.r.tast
BrsvrisicK shewed to a great Personage a dispatch
which he had intercepted, addressed to Bosae.twr
centaining an accurate account of the British force in
tl.l Island of Sicily, and stating how a descent might
he made with certain success, ns the writer's party
would be prepared to join them. There was no pos-
sibility of denying the letter, as it was in the hand-
writing of the person to whom it was shewn—and upon
this the final resolution was taken- of removing the
person from the island.
We understand that it has been determinedlo sub-.
ject America to the inconvenience which must result
from a stop being put to her export trade, and that, in
:consequence of this decision, all applications for li-
cences to import American produce are refused by the
Board of Trade. _ _

Government this morning•received dispatches from
the West Indies, dated Oct. 19. . Their contents
have not been made public.
Private letters, by the above conveyance, state,
that the American and French privateers continue to
commit great ravages in the West Indian sees, not-
withstanding our vast naval superiority in that
quarter.
Admiral Lyszte is to ltaTe the command at Gibral-.
tar, in the.soouher Commodore Pinnioss.

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Orders have been issued from the Admiral's,
partment, for the laying down of 12 new frigates in tl:e
different yards in this country. They are to he hwit
on n similar plan to the American ships of the, same
description, and carrying a greater number of guns.
Several additional frigates, are under orders for the
coast of America.
Part of the Russian fleet is hourly expected at
1 Chatham, where orders have been givot, that the
Officers and ships compatiki nviy have free e 4,,;;
into the Deck-yard, in like manner as those of our
own ships.
The Woorlbrlc has arrived from Gottenhort
which port she left on the 16th instant. No 14,s'
had rec•hed that pace from the armies near
but the most flattering expectations were iodciest.
A letter from an Officer, serving with the
(lois of We.I.LINGTON, states, that tut garrison
Burgos, to great bravery, added extraordinary i..
gvnt!ity in its defence. Among the various desi,,..-
svh they invented, was that of placing a Luc,
beam, flat on the top of the waft, which when 6,,
troops mounted to the escalade, was let down, and
swept them before it.

The Earl of MOlit.t and the Cluritess of LocaoN
have left town for arittington, his Lordship's seat
in Leicestershire, where they are to rmaiti for a
fortnight, in order to arrange private affairs, prepa.
ratory to his Lordship's departure. Of five chil.
then, the three eldest are to accompany their parents,
and the two youngest to remain for some time at
home.

The Wart/Vic, of 71 guns, is intended to take oat
Lord NlotnA to India.

In relation to Lord Mot RA'S recent appointment,
there may have Leen some inaccuracy with respect to
the exact words used on the occasion; but the pub-
lic may rely upon it as an unquestionable fact, that
his Lordship's appointment not only was not sug
gested by Ministers, but was objected to by them;,
being made by the PRINCE RWENT himself, who
would not listen to the ohjecticms of his constitutional
advisers : but persevered in the appointment in typo(
sition to their wishes.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the undermentioned 06.
cers were sworn into the command of their resin.
tire ships, viz:—Captain Wool), Marquis of Frd,
lington ; Capt. C.l IiNEUIE, Baring ; SA 'MIL ANDS,
Rose; J.Amtsoti, General Stewart; for Madras and
Bengal.—The Court a,!jou rued at six o'clock till to.
morrow.

of some of Sir SASH:no
' tili,:toitgieldlyn
11,7 held it, l u
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againstrist ol,atthide
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lift:.
vill;.:(tIt
c:lhsa
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fti,Nel;erssorust.iD4:fv tbsuibne andry Patitytirtectsitt
°in.g.— (Bath
tr.eittytri,rncioil. for that
Paper.)
Toesdav :norninsr, at 11 o'clock, Lord GWYDIR,
as L..ir..1 tligh Chamberlain, Sir Taos. Trawastri
as Usher of the Black Hod, a Yeoman Usher, and
12 Yeamen cf the Guard, attended at the
House of
Lords, aecorilin., to mist oat, since the days of Glitj
Faux, to examine the vault, wafer the [louse: the
last cellar they came to ;s occupied by a wine men.
c:tant,—some of the insp2ctors t tsted the contents of
the pipes, to ascertain that they did not contain gun.
powder.
The Serieants at Mace, and others who attend in
the procession, nod are saismed in tne ceremony of
th • !i.tvereign's towline. Parli.tment, recoived ordere
yesterday to be in readiness for next A•Latiday or Tues.
day.
The Rouse of Lords is expected to produce a
most brilliant spectacle on Nsotsday, in a crowded
circle, consisting of the Peers in their robes, with
the Peeresses and their daughters, and numbers of
other Ladies, in full dress. Great interest has been
made by Ladies of the highest fashion for places;
and it is expected that this opening will be the grad.
est that has taken place for many years.
The Lounge of Bond-street has commenced for the
winter. There was a tolerable shew of Fashionablee
yesterday ; but the Officers of the PRINCE RaGENT't
Regiment, the 10th, in full uniform (according to
orders), so far outshone the usual loungers, the latter
appeared like a cloud—while the Officers, from the
brilliancy of their costume, shone like stars in the
firmament. had there beets but one °dicer, he might
have been mistaken for the last Comet, from the
length of his feather. Amongst the ordinary loungers
we perceived Lord YARMOUTH, Lord BUIRYMORE,
Mr. SKEEPINGTON, and Mr. CAVENDISH BRAMAN'.
A Court-martial is to he held at Piymouth, oa
Mr. P. WasasEst, Midshipman of the S.alvia cutter,
for stabbing a Corporal of Marines, belonging i.o that
vessel, witlihis dirk.
The Duke of LElNsrrll was last week presented
with the freedom of the City of Dahlia. His Grace
entertained on the occasion the Loan Mayon, itc.
and several of the Nobility nod Gentry. •
It has been determined to aimains a Special Coe
mission for the trial of the persons accused of the
murder of Mr. House %LI, and of the Luddites ma
confined in York Castle, -0 t the nisTber of Lo.i,veesi
40 and 50. The tri:,ls will mise place in about three
weeks.
Miss SMITH, we under:heti, is to make her first
appearance this tiel,,nti, at ties Drury Theatre, oa
Tuesday next. its the character of Isabella.
• Mr. .
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M°PR "". Kin: Richard), when St
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ing at atorAiels, nas ntoott.: the Ltgatees of the :ate,
Lord CHEDVE3:ITII. The donation wail),:nk,, gtil
M 4. observations on books, on SaaxsecattE, Ste. tc-
sides some money.
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On the nrirriage or Mrs. Fel'EN to 5171
WA MVO-, it has been observed by a (`
thP 1,14 is or a certain age, she is not