The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-06 00:00:00

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witrtere Oise .--.436,1f they cos fulfil the revolted
• goolsiiips;', ..jpiey wish to boasempted, they toast
rya rim of '20,000 reale of editor's. The following
gelarsertesides are no longer exempt from service,
',''' Rummy, Priests who possess no ecclesiastical be.
fie;,NoTie!!!!"11 c4etßdigitie Orders, Perstot;Sin
'do employment or the loquisitioe sot having a Royal
api..., Bachelors, Alcades of the Boly Bermeedad
4 (as institetion for the pursuit or malefactors), the Beni
4: • ofollaws, the City Militias, Shepherds of travelling,
-leis of Merinos, and Foundlings. OrderM the
. • ~sting of 17,959 oat of the young mon • unmarried
.10 the service of 1818 have been issued. .They are
so be takeir tatm 17 to 36. The privileged provinces
may fibroid' their contingents by lot ; or in any other
--way that most *convatielit. If the respect for le.
gilillacy in Spain is such es to induce the People to
sabmit to attacks like these tre prone! liberty,
,the Spaniards are certainly dreamt patient People in
Abe world. • .
• . - Tie_French Papers state, that by the late heal.:
, :ASso lo the. West Indies, the harvest and piovisions
• 4;ir ihe . island of Martinique were every where de-
. ..ierveyed; the. pioatations were generally torn up;
-Negroes and cattle perished in imesdase numbers ;
-and the whole presented one common scene or de.
;selatioi. .The Governor bad in abeeeoreoce issued
:o Pruclornatioo opening the ports to foreigliships
for provisions and other articles, as by a Decree in
'.
. Artet,-.1.17M ; sod alsw for doer end other prowl.
- Apbseept-and :skid's necessary for agriculture, and,
*:.(ll:,.`repoir of sir 1.-milts. All articles caws:
its.. 4 1,110 dry. goodwill* excepted. Foreign skips
'll4itie :allowed to export Colonial produce to the
...aunt of the cargoes imported.—The Papers odd,
'..* Abel have ream' to hope that Geadaloupe has not

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aalfered much.
• —ainer—
Mails from Itatabargh have also arrived since yes-
day. Notwithstanding the flattering picture drawn
.ist the late Royal Speech to the Swedish Diet, the
Kingdom of Sweden appears to be in a deplorable
leeedhion. The Addregses of the States to the Kum
" 'declare that the People cannot pay the lazes without
danger of entire rain. Yet it is to be feared that
sew Tares are meant to be proposed to the Diet.—
TlusiDeke of Camaatpcc set out from Hanover on
tbet3d alt. for Cassel, on a visit, oo doubt, to his
moiled Consort, who is a Princess of iltssc-
CASSEL.

The New York Papers that bare been received
Teach to the td December. The New York Ad-
, *Miter of the Ist states, that the Congress had met
illet morning, but do President's Speech had not
• ' alms to band. We expect to receive it by the nest
arrival from the United States. It will doubtles.
have some important slhasions to South American
affairs, probably afford as the necessary inforourtion
on the subject dribs Commissioners sent to South
America, and the Treaty supposed to be in progress
rid) Spain for the transfer of the Florid's. The
Simluole Indians were not likely to yield on the ap.
pearance of the forces seat against them under Ge-
neral Gaines, in conseqrsence of which he has writ.
ten for a reinforcement of infantry and a squadron of
cavalry. The Indians have determined to give op
no murderers or other; of the whites, and were to
attack the troops immediately on their crossing Flint
River. At a late Meeting of the Indian Chiefs there
men 2700 a anion present.

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AlUeda; was yesterday held at the City of Lou-
don 'rarer's, (or of. purpose of taking into coml..
deletion the case of the Distrecsed Sailors who are
sew begging about the streets of the Metropolis.—
Mr. Wmatarnace was called to the Chair, and Mr.
SEXPliatil and some others of the same party in poli-
tics were the principal speakers. The object of the
Meeting is one well worthy of humane attention.—
But sumo feeling+ are escited on the view of these
destitute beings which suggest other topics of consi-
deration. Few would refuse to soften the unhappy
lot of those who are doomed

To beg ohm bitter bread
Through reales their valour raved.—
Bot a painful enquiry arises, why this should happen,
tad why So benevolent feelings of the Public,
weedy sufficiently distressed by calls of a similar na-
tore, and the weight of unavoidable berthens, should
be taxed with the relief of so many thousands of
poor sailors, for whom the public means had already
been &stifled, and to provide for a still larger num-
bee of mendicants, able, and we believe desirous, to
embrace opportunities of earning their own subsist-
ence. There can be no doubt that the Admiralty has
immense lams in its hands in the shape of Drags,
which, if disposed to relieve distressed Seamen, would
teed and clothe all the ol•jects of this class, who are
now walking ghost the st►eets of London in a starv-
ing condition, and in a state of exposure to the
ele-
mests, which excites an involuntary shudder in all
that behold them. Lord COCHRANE very properly
enticed this fact at the Meeting, and expressed
his, willingness t• contribute 10001. provided the
Admiralty would give him his doe. His Lordship
also maintained, what will as readily be admitted of
a fad, that the eon-employment of the seamen ii
owing to the crippled state of oar commerce, and
that the dilapidated condition of our trade is the re-
ask of every thing being so ettormoosly taxed. But
thieves a view of things which the Ministerial sup-
Porten of the Meeting were not disposed to en-
"lnge; they iberefore piled tho cry of 44 oo pa-