The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-02 00:00:00

the probable cause is, that Government paper is a meth
more convenient and more- easily furnished article,
in ease our gold should bi wanted abroad, fo► other
,Sovereigns and half Sovereigns; and there is no say•
ing what quaotity of the essence of corruption may
be wanted before a new Parliament can be obtained
to watch over the interests of the country. it peas.
liarly excites oar indignation to see these foreign loans
attempted to be made lin adequate justification for
every measure, or any measure that may be proposed,
Involving the general interests of the People of ibis
country. The conduct of the Bank too, in p►ofessing
.to be, as the Directors,io Parliament say it is, able
add willing to resume cash payments, yet always
avoiding an act which it might voluntarily perform,
it the statements be true, is a species of coquetry in
which we can see no virtue, and a procedure which
few, in spite of all the esptanations given, win un-
derstand, without referring it to a worse motive.

We observe with satisfaction, and the Friends 4
Parliamentary Reform will join us in the sentiment,
that Sir Rossi/ H IRON has given notice of a modem
for the Repeal of the Septennial Act. The motion is
filed for Thursday nest. We earnestly hope it will
*receive the support which it deserves. No object
can be more laudable, stot change is se necessary
to the vital interests of the country, as the
restoration of the constitutional usage io the election
and renewal of Parliament,'and the destruction by
the triumph of reason and justice of the arbitrary
Act, and series of despotic and injurious encroach-
ments, that have so long deprived the People of their
rights, and the nation of a Parliament of its choke.

Paris Papers to the 29th alt. have arrived. There
is still no notice of the Doke of WELLINGTON'S de-
parture. M. CROQUEMBOGRO, the Belgic Officer
who was arrested at Paris on the affair of the pistol
fired at his Grace, has been set at liberty. On the
28th the Chamber of Deputies proceeded to the con-
sideration of the proposed Loan of sixteen millions
of renter for the services of the year 1818, when
some amendments were proposed, which were re.
served for future consideration. One of the propo-
sitions was a clause for preventing the first sob-
scribers to the Loan from selling their Stock, before
they shall have made their full payments, and the se-
cond possessors from alienating it, otherwise than in
thirds,—one-third in the first two years, another in
the third year, and another in the fourth. Upon this
clause the Chamber postponed their deliberations till
the neat day. The Chamber was also employed in dis.
cussing the Secret Expences of the Bureau of Police,
end on allowing the Municipality of Paris to raise the
loan of 7,000,000 to finish the canal of the Oorcqtre.
There is a report copied from the German Papers,
and which is described as not very probable, that
Russia is to become a Member of the German
Federation, in consequence of her provinces of
Courland, Esthonia, and Livonia. The crew of a
Russian vessel at Constantinople, appears to have
alarmed the inhabitants of that City by committing
various excesses; but on a complaint being made to
Count STROGONOM the Russian Ambassador to the
Sublime Porte, the offenders were punished, and the
GRAND SEIGNIOR appeased.

These Papers have no further reports of the trial at
Albi. A diabolical wretch named Vona has mur-
dered an old Lady named CRAPART, and three of her
daughters, at Melon, and plundered the house of
plate and money to a considerable amount.
The French Stocks are lower-67fr. 60c. The
course of the Exchange is at 24fr.

A llamburgh Mail brings statements, of which we
were previously in possession, respecting an ap-
proaching meeting of several of the British Royal
Family at Frankfort. The Queen Dowager of Wm-
TEMBERG has announced her intention of proceeding

from Stutgard to Frankfurt in the course of
the present month, for the purpose of meeting her
sister, the Princess of IIEssc•[iOMBURG. The
marriage of the Duke of CAMBRIDGI continues

to be fixed for the 7th inst. It is said, that a new
system of taxation is contemplated for Sweden, by

the Committee of the States ; and that windows, all
expensive household furniture, and articles of luxury
in general, are to be taxed. This is not a system
that will increase the popularity of CHARLICI Joao
among the few in Sweden that can afford expensive
furniture. As to articles of luxury there may be
considerable ground for difference of opinion. Go-
vernments have now very odd and arbitrary no.

lions upon these. In Ireland and some other places
even a window is now considered as a luxury, and
taxed or shut up at the risk of the lives of the inha-
bitants of the house. If BERNAnorrE and his States
are desirous of adopting the Typhus Tax, we dare
say there are-those who will wish his Government
all the benefits of that luxury.

American Papers so the 21st nit. have arrived.
The Indians have been successful in some late skir-
mishes with the forces of the United States. The
American Comm! at Havre has notified, that Messrs.
GALLATIN and Emma, the Commissioners sent to
France for the purpose of negociating a Commercial
Treaty, have failed in obtaining their object.
SPANISH PATRIOTS.----A Memorial of Vtacercre
PANOS, of Peru, deputed Agent of the Authorities
I acting in the name of. the Republics of Venezuela,
New Grenada, and Mexico, was presenter! to Con-
gress on the 10th of March. It is couched in bold
and animated language, but its great length pre.
chides the possibility of Our girls% it to oar Readers.

Tlls STATESMAN

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In it the Memorialist complains of the coodect of
the Government of the United 'States, in violently
expelling the Patriots from Florida, and of his in.
ability to obtain any satisfaction from the President
or the Secretary of State, for this violence offered to
those whose interest he represents, and virtually ap.
peals from the President to Congress for a redress of
grievances.—The Memorial caused a debate of three
horns, and the House determined by a vote of na
to SS, that the paper should not be rectived.

SOUTHWARK ELECTION.
Mr. BARCLAY having appealed to the tribunal of
his Constituents for their approbation of his conduct
in Pediment, we wish to call their attentiowto ish
conduct. His pretensions.are--that he has been a
friend to Moderate and Temperate Reform. " That
holding a strong opinion that the Government of the
country ought to be supported, he has not been a
servile adherent to any party, and that he has on
various occasions opposed the measures of the Admi-
nistration ; that he will protect the rights and Ober.
ties of the People, and promote economy and re-
Arenchment in every department of the State."
Such are his professions ; his acts are, however,
en record, and by them we call upon his Constitu-
ents to determine his cities to their support and fur-
ther confidence for seven long years.

On the debate of the Corn Bill Mr. BARCLAY
voted for a measure which has determined that no poor
man shall ever again eat bread at a cheaper rate than
13.1. the quartern,loaf.
On the debate whether Mr. CaoxEn, the Secretary
of the Admiralty, should receive a quarter's IVur
salary, because the country fitted out an expensive
expedition against Algiers, Mr. BARCLAY voted that
Mr. CROKER should add to the public burdens by the
receipt of that extra stipend, and thus sanctioned a
precedent for further profligate appropriation of the
public money.
On the 17th of February, 1817, Mr. BARCLAY,
on a Petition being presented from the Borough of,
Southwark, for the restoration of Triennial Parlia-
ments which had been taken away without thecon-
sent of the People, observed, in the House of Com-
mons, " he hoped the House would not be deterred
by any popular clamour, and he thought Triennial
Parliaments, however specious in theory, would not
be found of any benefit in practice."
On the measure for suspending the /labels Corpus,
Mr. BARCLAY gave his decisive support to Ministers,
and thus sanctioned the establishment of arbitrary
power and the solitary imprisonment of above 50 of
his fellow-countrymen, to whom, as Mr. Biracc.AT's
opponent, Sir RoaEaT Wmon, justly observed at the
Southwark Meeting, no charge was ever commoni-,
cased, end with whom uo accuser was ever con-
fronted.

On the Bill of Indemnity Mr. BARCLAY voted,
that Ministers should alone judge their own measores,
and without hearing the defence of the accused, or the
chugs of the inlayed, supported an Act that deprived
the unhappy sufferers of the right of an appeal to the
laws of the land.

In April, 1818, ow the eve of a Dist°&Owe of
Parliament, Mr. BARCLAY, voted against ■ny
increase of allowance to the Princes, and in
so doing afforded to his Constituents the most un-
equivocal and convincing proof that the prin.
ciple of Reform which he resisted 46 as specious
in theory and not beneficial in practice," was
the only safeguard the country could obtain over •
corrupt Hoose of Commons, and secure the Rights
and Liberties of the People.

Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, the
Duke and Duchess of GLDUCESTER, the Princess
AUGUSTA, the Prince and Princess of HESSE-HOM-
BURG, the Princes of GLOUCESTER, &C. went
to Somerset-house to view the exhibition, previously
to its opening to the Public at large. They remained
abov, an hour and a half. The Royal Party, on
leaving Somerset-house, proceeded to the British
Gallery in Pall-mall, to view the exhibition of pic-
tures of the ancient masters, previous to its opening
to the Public at large on Monday.
Calcutta Gazettes to the 30th November state,
that the head-quarters of the Marquis of HASTINGS
were at Godnim on the 6th November, and at
Terah on the 10th. The rumour that the Bhurtpore
RAJAH bad been called upon to furnish his con.
tingent, proves correct. Twelve hundred Bhurtpore
horse joined Major. General DovKIN on the sth No..
vember. Au inference was drawn from the low
price of grain at Gwalior, that Somoza was about to
move. Sir DAT! D OCIITERIGNY had proceeded from
Goorgong to Rewaree. Major O'Dowszt.x., com.
mending the Silt Native Infantry, has been murdered
by a trooper of that corps. By letters from Bundle.
eund, it appears that a body of Pindarrees had plun-
dered Mowe, near to Chatterpore, and had after-
wards advanced near to Banda, with the intention
of crossing the Jumna. They took fright and fell
back.
The following letter from the Nerbodda shows
that the movements of the Pindarrees are pretty well
understood at that quarter Accounts from Sagur
of the 29th ult. state, that MTIZRAR Box had gone
off for Chatterpore, with a body of 4,000 Pindarrees,
for the purpose of plundering that place and Poonah ;
and that another body of about 6,000, under WAs-
au', Maim:MED, had gone to meet Gen. MARSHALL'S
division, about Hattah, and had on their way laid in
ashes all the villages around. These two Durrahs
came from Basoundee and Burseah, jaghires of Pin-
darree Chiefs. It is said the latter Derrah will try to
make its way through the Ilurtiapoor Pass, upon
Mirzspore ; but I don't believe they will again Itt•
tempt a distant excursion into our provinces, having
suffered so much in the attempt last cold season ; be-
sides, all their jaghires will soon be in our posses-
lion, so that they could turn their plunder to no ac-
costal".

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