The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-30 00:00:00

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Meg we with to suggest, in older to do away all
rekaising animosity in the public Wad about the
awkward proceedings at Manchester on the lath
of August; and this the two Houses of Parliament
„weight do in a very short time, and have the Royal
Assent given to the various Acts together. It
world put the Senate on the looting of that of'
Itome, in the best days of the great Emperor Ti-1
seams, when he affected to refine the supreme
authority. It is only to issue out an Act as the
Romans did a Decree, " commanding that every
thing which his Royal Highness the Patrroa Ra-
QM? of England shall do, by the advice of his
present Ministers, be deemed well done !" If the
Viscount's alrenation be true, that two of the lye
Bills have operated wonders already, this could not
fail to effect marvellous things indeed!!

Extract eta letter, dated Havaanab, 24 dOet :-

1" I have bet very little to communicate to you re-
specting our political situation. The inhabitants of ,
this island are looking out for a war, without
'knowing whom they are going to contend with.
las they are grinding their old swords and cleaning
their guns for action. The troops lately arrived
*with the new Governor, are dying off rapidly,
add I calcelate at present but one third of three
thousand lately arrived et for doty.—Poor expe-
dition ! The Governor has issued a Proclamation,
forbidding the running at large of dogs, under the
penalty of three dollars, which is to be paid by
the dog. The law, it is said, was the result of •
Illiceth's consideration of BERMAILDO O'GaAHAM, •
MIMI Counsellor at Law, and author of the new
Comedy, " lai Clerige mess dettelkods."

We regret to learn, by advice. from Halifax of
the lath of November, that on the I Ith of that
month, the Naval Hospital in that town wis con-
sumed by fire, owing to the carelessness of one of
the nurses, who, unhappily. fell a victim to the
flames. Fortunately there was but one patient in
the hospital, and he escaped. The loss is esti-
mated at 48,000 dollars.

ST. Priam', (IlanTrxruva), OCT. 30.—His
Excellency, the Governor of St. Lucia issued, on
the 21st inst. 0 Proclamation, of which the follow-
ing are the principal features:—
The !sort of Castries is °pee for the space of see year
freer this date, to the vessels of all nations in amity with
great Britain. In consequence, vessels as above speci-
fied may istroJnce into this port of Castries, free of all
defies (eseept tonnage ditty of one dollar per tee), rice,
hrails, curs, lour, vegetables, and all kind provisioos,
orses, males, limber, and materials for Indlasig t it is
permitted to vessels bringing sack specified artklea, to
re-load with any rittantitv of colonial pads they choose,
subject to the ditties stolid; nine lines pale/shard of
ram, sin hares per hogshead of molasses, two Fines per
1001 b. of sugar, three litres per 1111 k. of eau, two
litres per 1001 b. of cocoa, four here. per 11111111 b. of mutes.
A Delaware paper says, one of Cobbet's sons was
in this neighbourhood a few weeks air, when he
observed that a revolution was in tram, to be de-
veloped early in lone, 1820; shortly beton which
time Ms father would arrive in England, to take a
part in the scene.
By a letter from St. Thomas's, dated Nov. 6,
we learn the following particialan of South
America:—

" Oeneral Bolivar had dispatched General Angualse.
with 2,500 men, to take Santa Martha. Bolivar is W-
ilily engaged in organising the army lately raised in
New Unmade. The number is said to be 8,000. A
parties of the looney which was taken at Santa Fe has
reached St. Angostura, and some of it bad arrived at
St. Thomas's. The doubloons of 1810 are usessally
heavy. This money ha. given new life to the Patriot
cause. Their army is in a pleatifal country. and well
supplied with provisions and forage. It is the opinion
of our Correspondent, that, if the Patriots do not quar-
rel, or if strong reinforcements to the Royalist army
do not arrive from Spain, Morino and every hostile
Spaniard will be forced to leave Vesesaela in leas than
sit months.

" General 3forillo, at the latest dates, was at Tina-
rrhere hr bad entrenched himself. Sines he kft
St. Fernandez Jr Apure and Clialllllll, those places had
been taken by the Independents.
" General 31erino, with about 2,0110 aim Is road at
Mat n, in the province of 'nuiana. Bersawiee is at
Margarine, organizing the 1,300 Irish troops, of Dews-
reoz's corps, who have arrived there. These troops
are to smite ender General Meriso, and march upon
Garaccas.
" General Pare is said to be &drawing from the army
of Bolivar, with about 6,000 awn, to attack Morino, who
is supposed to be inclined to retreat epos the fortified
tows and harbour of Porto Cavelle."
The public and private property of Prince Paul
of Wertemberg has been for a long period se-
ted by order of the King, his brother. His
Elr
;stililHighness has received intelligence that this
inseitire had Seen reversed. He has likewise re-
ceived a letter of convocation to attend the open-
ing of the States in his quality of HeirPreruniptive
to the Crown on the 15td of January, 1010.

Mrs. 1111ftnnorr, we hear, is engaged for the next
Season, at Drury Lane Theatre.
Major•Oeneral Sir Hussey Vivian has arrived in
Glasgow, to take the command of that district.
At a Meeting of the heritora of Inveresk, and in-
habitants of Mune'burgh and its vicinity, called by
the Magistrates, and held in the Town Hall, on
Monday the 20th inst., which was both numerous',
and respectably *Mended, a coaskierable number
enrolled themselves to serve as volunteers with-
out pay, and as special constables, as circumstances
may require. At the same time a very liberal stab-
, scription was entered into to give assistance and
employment to the labouring and asesseitoss poor
of the palish.
On the 211€1 instant, lames Thompson, Esq.
1111114mnd, ordered thirty-one carts of coals to the
poor Operatives and others, in the village of Partick
—a most seasonable donation at this time of the
yeat,'lnd worthy of imitation.
DOB& Paurswrae.—A sneming between Captain
p—w--y and Mr. 8--o—n, a medical gentlenean, was
prevested Isidro( pima as Wormwood *nibs yester-
day morniog. by sabers of justice. The Gapodo was
taken of the grouse* was meastrod, sad be was left
upon his Imam to enter Late bail.

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Felt TER STATESMAN.
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Flit ADDS AND COVNTITINILN have not out of v Laity
seasmid the signature of the celebrated young Roman
historian. becalm I expect to be raised, as he was, to
places of trust and honour; bat because I was born
under a veigo which has given so much scope to am-
bitious and corrupt Ministers, that I think, from my
cosacieace, many of the evils which my namesake wit-
nessed in the days of Nsao sad Donman, I may lire
Wen la this. Not that I think either the present Mimi
or the present Recitav were ever tainted with a particle
of the cruelties which marked and stained tie charac-
ters of the two Roman Emperors. No, on the contrary.
the Sovereign himself, who has lived long enough to
show his settled disposition, is to be ranked among the
milder Princes who have wielded the sceptre of these
realms. His son, indeed, has not suMeiendy displayed
his character and mind to show the full bent of them ;
he is, nevertheless, not to be suspected of harbouring
half the vices of the two Roman tyrants; nor his brean
the receptacle of their perversities. unless his inexorable
temper towards an wahappy Papules. (now a voluntary
wile) may be taken for the bad owl. But it is no
longer the nature of the Prince which stamps the destiny
aid happiness of the people of Meat Britain; for a!-
though the Sovereign is individually 'superior in power,
rank. and authority, to any of Ms Ministers, or all to-
her—his attributes placing him above every thine
bat the law; yet before he ascended the throne had
evil-disposed servants contrived to fetter his will; and
this was dose from those (well may they be deno-
minated) crying. pecuniary aecessitimunder which his
early profusion had placed him. His Royal Highness
was nearly in the cooditiou of his early companityn
in pleasurable dissipation—Mr. Fox, whose pecuniary
cogeseles and compulsions, as by fate itself, furred on
him the inevitable consegoeace of dependence. The
one. therefore, in gratitude made himself over to the
Whigs, whom he had however no reason to dislike, as
the other lent himself in chagrin, or some other in, It
motive, st the time his wants were supplied, to the
Ministers, whom he had reason to dislike. The supply
however came from the people, the people who are now
in rant imploring his sympathy and emporia ; so-
thing came from those formidable men is power but
words and long speeches, whose effects were praises&
by that same influence which is rapidly undoing their
helpless country—a country which, without too strong
a metaphor, may be said to lie bound sad chaioed at
the feat of men, whom for years it was the pleasant of
this Prince to deride and condemn. Alas, Princes seem
as versatile in their opinions and affectibns as common
men!

Bed, my countrymen, I will not waste my words and
your time, in fruitlessly deploring what is past and irre-
coverable. You may remember what I said in my former
letters, of the gradual, but certain approach to despotic
rule. II observed that Ministers had so artfully wa-
stages' matters, as to involve the Prince himself in the
demerim of their advice and conduct. Ido not by this
involvement mese se soy. that to the pp/
Sovereign ant the people were for a moment dissolved, so
as that they could resume the sovereignty and sit in
road notional inquest on their distress and disastrous
prospect, that they could or would measure out the Mlle
potties of reseetsnent against him as against his Minis-
ters; no. that would *either be constitutional nor just.
They should have better advised their Prince. They
had more experience. If they had nut they were traitors
to take offset upon them. These men might be arsenal&
to impeachment. They might lose their heads ; and,
through them, their Prince might lose the &freedoms of
his people!! Here is the diletama—the dilliculty to
the Prince how to act. I believe, from my soul. that his
Royal Highness js conscious that the Goveremmeat is
going wrong ; and that it is not probable these Misiaters
can being it into a right way, but that his good or
yielding nature has been surprised into a promise of
protection at all hazards. Without this they never
would have ventured so far out of their depth. They
look to—they depend upon the Royal life-boat wbeeever
the wreck happens. This circumstance, and this akar,
can account for their having stuck to office so long be-
yond all comparison of time, and sinister incidents.
which. for their unlucky, or inauspicious aPti suc-
cessive effects, have been enough to drive, hereto-
fore, twenty Administrations from their posts. Bet
there they are, on the right Land of their Prince,
sad under his protection. What then is to be dose?
yea will say. Why, as soon as one privilege or
right is taken away from you, exert, with more etre-
ouonsoess, some remitting panchise. The Parliament
has already fotfilled, in part. what f prophesied. They
have augmented the army. This is a sorry sight! aid
in time of profound peace also! and what is this dons
for? Why. to prevent the people from asessabliog i■
large bodies ; and what do they assemble for? Why, to
consult bow to make their grievances, reel grielmoces.
best understood by those who have the power to remove
them in the whole, or in part. They do not most to de-
vim the means of placing a Pretender on the Those,
there ovoid diets be reason fur passing severe laws foe
their dispersion, and depriving them of the temporary
use alarms. Bat these soldiers being citizens also (for
so the Chief of the King's Bench has said, when it
has suited his purpose to say so), they may Not do all
that is expected of them by those who call thee into
action. By such a trial mad liNure, the Prints It sever-
Useless safe (though his Ministers would not, far ought
to be so). What will be done then? Why, these de-
spotically disposed Counsellors will advise his Royal
Highness to call epos some of his Hanoverian troops

to ;id sad impel. our own reluctant British troops
to the terrible hot. Is that ease, his Royal High-
sets will be no hare safe, for be will lose the aN
feedos of esiUioss, who sew hare no idea of the pos-
sibility of things being pushed to such dreadful' ca-
usalities! The progress to this appears inevitable, ex-
cept a national bankruptcy, or SOWe other unexpected
callosity, which, by a violent shock, throws the nswieldy
mains of Oorenusent of its axis, and which, frees its
massy estaboresseessea, many on taught daily to expect.
What, nosier seek ea aspect of affairs, you will Asa say.