The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-14 00:00:00

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Prince in the flower of his sit mar have at once tiro ob-
jects in -view—to change the fate of the whole fireek
11on, and to avenge the long prosciiption of a father
-whose flight and exile be shared, ant above all, the
blood of a grandfather, who in his old age was torn from
his retreat on the Bosphorus, and tamest in the midst of
his whole family loaded with chains, stripprd of his.
possessions, and inhumanly put to death by the Porte.
To give as idea of the ability of the Porte to en-
counter the various difScelties with which it is sur-
rounded, these advices subjoin a statement of the mili-
tary fo►ce of Turkey. According to this account, the
grand total is 406.400 men, of whom 113,400 are Janis-
saries, and 50,000 are mariners, though it is added, that
only the half of this mass of force can be considered as
disposable.

Every meeting of the House of Commons bears
some fresh evidence of the determination of Mr. lirsex
to follow up those recommendations of reform and re-
trenchment which he so strenuonely urged at the coin-
mencement of the Session. The exertions of that in-

defatigaLle member are unrivalled, and though at pre-
sent they do not seem to be successful, we have no
doubt that the impression they have produced upCin
the llinisters themselves are deep:um! serious, and that
on a future occasion their good effects will appear.
It is understood that there are numerous items yet in
the Army Estimates which he purposes to contest and
it is not likely that, af:er the expourr..s he has made
and uoeditates, the next E•tittia:rs will be allowed to
furnish him with so many flagrant instances of profu-
sion as he is led to bring to light. In the mean lime
it is mortifying to find the mean spirit of Ministers dis-
pose them to make such improper %use as they
exhibit of the wholesome lessons they have received.
—The economy that lirMe anal his coad-
jutors have ;urged is upon a large judicious
scale, that aimed at henrfies which the pithlir should
I(extensively and sensibly feel. But the appointments
'of the great, from the reduction of which some ya-
luable savings might he obtained, are not suffered to
be touched. The office of the CostMAN oeu-i x-Ctur EY
is as well protected against the attempts of retrench-
ment, as that of the Royal Commander himself; and
all the officers may sleep as securely at their p.,sts as the
Juana AtivoiaTt, without a dream of any danger of
theiremoluments.!isturbing their repose. Yet something
must he dune to satisf c the claluour for economy, and the
minor men or matters, that may be !opt off without
affecting any ministerial interest, can he safely sacri-
ficed for the nation's good. Some clerks at present in
the Admiralty, the Treasury, the Navy or the Victual-
ling Office, whose services are remunerated with
eighty pounds a year, may be dismissed, and reduced
to a state of paupers: public offices may with •
hold their advertisements from newspapers, and
the duties of excisemen, which need to he simple and
regular, may be compounded anti perplexed. Such
changes as these may be made to show that the work
of retrenchment re wired is actually commenced, and
the more effect they have in raising complaints among
the parties concerned, and in exciting prejudice against
reformers generalk, the nature likely is it that the
work will stop, and that those who have begun it in
such an illiberal form will he pleased with its defeat.

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lesterdAy was ray-la!' at the Stoek.Exchange, hop
we have only heard of one person having waddled out.
His difference was 7,0110 f., but he declined paying a
single shilling, although last Account he received a
balance of 11,000/.
By advice. from Madrid we learn that the Spanish
constitutionalists are proceeding with activity to-
wards a ref ono of the tinancial abuses and depreda-
tions under which their country laboured. It appears
that from September 1914 to October 1920, there
went out of Spain for the sole advantage (in some
shape or other) of the Holy See, the large sum of
thirty millions of real.. It 14 now proposed by the
Committee td the ('..rtes that the annual contribution
to Rome shall be limited to the sum of two hundred
thousand real. too arix fhr ncrevsary expenses of
the Catholic rhurcli.”
A Brazil packet arrived yesterday, with letters to
the 7th of February. but does not bring recent ad-
vices relating either to Buenos Ayres or to Chili. The
determination of the King with regard to the affairs of
Portugal, was still unknown : and as the policy of
the Brazil Cabinet was nat.+ embarrassed by obvious
causes, opinions respecting it were various. A pro-
clamation, isstied by General Bolivar, after the
conclusion of the armistice of Trusiilo, strengthens
the impression which previously existed. that this
treaty was the prelude to an adjustment of the differ-
ences between Spain an I Columbia.
An article received by the Hamburgh Mail, under
the date of Lubeck, March :11, informs us that a ves-
sel hail arrived there in four day, from [Aeolian. bring-
ing intelligence that tie new Russian ariff hal re-
ceived the sanction of the Emperor.
The investigation which has been lately carried on.
respecting some charges made against the principal
officers of the Ordnance Department at Sheerness,
was closed last week, and those gentlemen have been'
officially Informed that they are honourably acqaltted '
of the charges brought aciinst then,.—(Kest Herald.)
The Religious world will feel itself greatly indebted
to the Author of the eleg int volume, treating ou
All
Religions and Religions Ceremonies, for the extensive
and luminous view which he has presented of the sub-1
ject. Every Sect and Denomination now existing in
the known world, is not only fully described, but its
chief ceremonies are correctly represented in tasteful
and effective engravings, of which the work contains
100. In every part, the latest authorities have been
consulted ; and the volume may be adopted u a stand-
ard on its very interesting subjects.
The young gentleman of Westminster-school, who
was the subject of the melancholy catastrophe stated
lately, was, we understand, not the son but the nephew
of the Admiral, Sir William Rowley. The father of
the young gentleman is a Clergyman is Whelk.
AWAKING Flat—A most alarming and destructive
In broke oat this morsiag, shoot one o'clook, oe the
=sell of Messrs. How and Shanks. ceselomakers,
Quenntreet, Lincoln's inn Yields, wild) ••••
assioned lb. wbela of the emulsive works
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