The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-02-27 00:00:00

IVEIV CORN IIILL.•

The two following lotters._one from Mr. VAN.
ettrnew,, and the other free Mr. Camara, are ad_
droned to the A:Mt-nit:era Gentlemen, who hold
their sittings et the T , Is Old Palecelard

Bareaing-rtreet. Jan. 45.11119.
am dltetted ht the Chou...llor of the tacMarerto
ackonortedie the receipt of the kite. whirler:to hare addrerrod
to be at Ciminero, .4 the hiretiag of Airiestßonds. la whirls
you roan-4. a copy ..f certain Re lotions 'thick bare been
rypeed to by ,h,• Gentlemen comparing that Meeting. nod
las nppa,t to the 00,14 of their application In Perliameat.
" la reply in which. I am directed by air. Vaarittart on Sr.
quaint you. 800 the sense of his Mejesry's Mleistera wpm the
general aewttnr h..ving beets so unequitecall, expressed is Ow
Neese or Coaminns. on Friday hie. by Mr. 'Mobilises. lt *sly
Miele for liins 1.0 refer !no 10 I het statrariet. as/ as ti:arreei
ant any porticolar point abler the Meeting say frel it Nero.
retry to submit to the cotakleraiina *Vibe Goveramead.shitadd be
Mae heart,' throttles the medium of the Board of Coutail fee
Trade aril Firrtgli Pisamitiota, of which Mr. Vansittart is a
I ktrenlier.ned where it sill receive every etternderatiou to whit!
It b eatltled. " I have the banger le he. SIN
Your mat eb
J. eillen. Ser.ael
C. EREELING.

" To George Webb Hal, Eq. Chairman, Ste."
•• India Board. Jas. 45.
" Sta,-1 hn•e had the liniment le receive your letter of this
day', date. including • ropy of inert•la Itesoletteen agreed teat
a Alerting or Agricalturiwe on the 14th lest. as the grosses WI
their intended appliettien to the Legialatere.
•` In weer! to which, 1 beg Inge to ref..e yew le the declare-
lion made by the Pre-West of the Board of Trade, is the 110e.e
of Commune, no the 4311 inst.. as coataisieg the seat inseam of
his Alajctry'A lioerrotacot a ith revert to arty alteration its tote
Cote Laws.
" I bate the Wooer to be, Sir.
•• h Do room Weediest I.toolde Serrate,
" GEO. LANNIhG.
" Geo. Webb Hall, E. Chairman, Stc."

The Politicians of Preis have not been so agitated
and warmed by any °ceramics sinew the return of
Levis XVll I. as by the motion of M. °MOREAU'S!
ins the Chamber of Peers. It oar book of Whigs
and Tories be out of print, the French have plenty
of puLlications full of lbw spirit of those distinc-
tions. lica.wrie CONsTANT, a Member of the
National Convention, is at this moment the greet
delineator of die political partisans. The Doke DE
FITT•JAMiI, DR CUATRANDRIANT, M. DR
CAM, and Bout'' D'ANCLAI, another old Con.
rentionalist, are the greet levers of public (Tiniest ;
and the tardiness of vomit:tin the Charter, and
the unfisedisess with respect to the jest point to
which the elective franchise should be Wended, is
' the felchrom on which them levers act.
Most serious alarms were prevalent on the Rept
F.:change yesterday, in consequence of the letters
received that morning from Liverpool, stating the
ocinsmerciel distresses of that place. The smasher of
'Whim there end elsewhere, in consequence of the
magnitude of the speculations Into which men enter-
, ed, from the facility with which paper geoid be dis-
counted, is daily segmenting; Ind the dread of its
Went threw a gloom aver the City, sects as has not
been witnessed for years.
The Dyke of GLOUCESTER, in his late •isit to the
Hospital for the Blind, at Paris, was accompanied by
the Duchesses of COURLAND and Ntso.
Yesterday morning dispatches were received at
Bed BATUURIT'S office from Malta and Gibraltar.
and also at the Admiralty, from the Commanding
Naval Officer on that station. The Aid surveying
motel, Capt. Stamm, had returned from a complete
esamination of the shores of the Adriatic, in which
he bad been assisted by some Austrian officers, seat
for that purpose from Vienna. The Weymouth store-
, ship was to bring home a cargo of timber for the one
I of the dna-yards, from Trieste.
The King of Wirrsatemto has abolished the pit.
eishment of the gauntlet In his army.
About seven o'clock en Thursday night last, while
. William Fisher, labourer, of Stamford, was employed
!In thrashing his mother's gleanings io a distant pert
of the town, some persons, one of whom is supposed
to have aloud sentinel, broke into his house, sod
otter forcing sit different leeks in the interior, sec-
eeeded in taking 71. in goateed bills, and varying
away various articles of wearing apparel, linen, and
some fond. &mit loose characters, reputed rogues,
poachers, and ceche'', are suspected. Vigilant mea-
sures are ha consequence adopted, which enceinte"
the inhabitants generally to hope the offenders wilt
be brought to the tribe's! of speedy jestiee.—(Sfam-
ford New.)
On Wednesday last, a brute In the 'imps eta man,
wee &Wog a team through Holbesch, whets, on a
midge, he struck the leading horse so hard a blow
is OP head with the thick and of his whip, that the
poor salami fell down fiat upon its side. The poor
harmless beast, though not maim-loos of any fail',
bore its creel usage with patience, and seemed, by i,s
guiltless looks, to implore mercy, but alas ! its strength
was gone : oppressed with paio, it sunk down, we
(thought, to rile no more! In a short time, however,
the poor animal was so far recovered, as to enable its
merciless driver to leave the scene of his worths.
cruelty. We sederstand tie team belonged to Mr.
Tinsley, at Penny-hill, near Relbeach.
DISCOVERY Or AX ANCIENT CITY.—A French
traveller, now in Egypt, has discovered at a distance
of street nine hours' journey from the Red See, se
ancient city built in the mantels', between the 24th
and 25th degrees of latitude. There are still SW
houses in ezistence. Among the reins are found
temples dedicated to various divinities. There are
eleven stators, antligarleas ruins of others. Ile has
also discovered the ancient stations that were sppiet-

ell on the rouse thrnegh the Desert, from lFe
Red Sea to the Valley of the Nile. 'l.lPoi !latices
are at register distances of nine Pining h.!vittea each.
This route is undoubtedly one of these trarei.rd by
the commerce of India—a commence which nes to
flourishing at the time of the Legidee, and eerier the
first Esipetors. The situation is 110111 ascertained
rf
she emerald mine, of which no certain kotswledss
rtes had for severel rtes.

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IMPORTANT PUBLIC AIIIRTING
AT WOLVERHAMPTON, TO PETITION AGAINST
THE TAX ON INLAND COAle

On t►e 19111 instant, a numerous and very re-
spectable Meeting was held at Wolverhampton, to
petiole* against the proposed TAI en INLAND Corms.
Sir J. WROTTISLEY, Bart. in the Chair.

R. FATIO, Esq. reed the draft of a Petition, de.
tailing the silent and importance of the osansfactores
of the nation, which required a great consumption of
inland Coal ; the depressed state of those ussnefac.
tares from the tom preset, by which gre w.ry alone
enabled to contend in foreign markets; and which
prices already afforded to the poor mechanic so mi.
',rabies pittance, when in (all employmestos to re.
Ore, in eases if large families, the aid of perish re.
lief. After verities other details, the Petition cow-
elided with eipreesing the regret and astonishment
of the Petitioners, that such a grievous and ittigoitoss
iseastsre should be projected in a tiro• of profound
pence, sad when his Majesty's Ministers were boast.
log of tire prosperity oft be concur, and the rtnu num.
VW STATE Of TEE

This Petition was received with very great ap-
please.
Sir J. Wornrsonss concurred warmly in the spi-
rit of the Petition, which was called for by the
strongest necessity. He ob•erved, !hat out of the
cases for the County of Stafford, raised with so much
diflcelty, mod et the 'spots of such misery, there
was the place of Receiver-Gem-rat of the County,
worth from 10001. to 15001. per annum, which was
a complete tinearre—being possessed by a person
who resided out of the kingdom, and who had ageet-
ed or ender.let the office to another party who did
not resi,le within the Ceeniy.—(Cries of shameful!
and lord opplaose.)—A national saving of upwards
of 50,0001. a year might be made in the reduction of
places of this kind, which were witboet the shrdow
or pretension of use, and which had not the plea of
rewarding services rendered to the State. Ile con-
cluded by noticing former efforts to raise a Tao on
Inland Coal ; and the ignorance of the completes of
the country which such intentions indicated:_

Load applause followed upon the Worthy liereast's
speech.
Mr. Fatten observed, that Ministers might hold
out the smallness of the tai as a delusion ; but the
jealous spirit of commerce mast keep such an ism.
iial article of common use, free from the touch of
impost.
Mr. W. WALKER begged leave, as an Overseer of
the Poor, to observe to the Meeting, that if any one
argument more than another would show the ion.
policy of the projected tee. end bow ill the manufac-
tories of that town and neighbourhood mold beer
any further border's, It was the circomstence of 80
or 90 pounds bring weekly 'speeded upon the poor
of the perish, as owl-pay, exclusively of what went
to mitosis t►e poor in the workhouse; a consider.
able portion of which sum was paid to make up the
wages of the workmen, many of whom were receiving
but eight or else shillings per week for their labour ;
and it must be evident, that those who had families
most enders the greatest distress, but for the assist-
ance from t►e Nor's Rates.

Mr. Ltwts said, that a Minister most be unaccount-
ably ignorant of the priecipal means or the com-
mercial greatness of this country, who did not see
that oar mines of coal were the diamond of our com-
mercial wealth. To las arch an article, were to
Lill the geese in order to get all the golden eggs top-
then Let them strike this fatal blow at the univere.el
commerce of the State, and then as. where they will
collect their fifty millions of tales from :—( Loud ap-
plause.)
The Petition was unanimously agreed lc
At this Myelin, a letter from E. J. Littleton,
M.P.lor the county of Stafford, Wee reed, who,
with a highly commendable attention to the interests
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of his Constituents, hod, with a dozen or more other
eosotry ilembers, addressed a note to Lord Sid-
mootb, sigwed by their respective oases, calling for
so Implicit answer on this subject of the apprehended
tas on Inland coal—in order duly to apprise their
respective Constituents of such a m being in
contemplation. To this no answer was returned.—
Tbe inlere■ce was but too °Delos'.