The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-05 00:00:00

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for the last 6 months, that the Westindia seasare infested
with a number of piratical teasels, the crews of which
are ripe for any thing; yea, notwithstanding, we do not.
hear of any vessels fitting out to protect our commerce
in that quarter."
Capt. Colby, at Newbury port, from Aux Cayes, in-
forms; that the piratical boats, the principal rendezvous
of which is at Cape Tiberoon, (at the west end of His-
paniola) are very troublesome, and bursas the foreign
commerce they fall in with, as well as annoy the native
vessels. *small sloop, belonging to Jeremie, bound to
Aux Cayes, was lately fallen in with by them, and
robbed of slOO cash—but very few vessels, of any
description, escape their vigiliance, and whenever they
Laird a vessel, they are sure to rob if she has any booty.
Every thing remained quiet, in a political point of view
and a general depression of commercial business. Coffee
was worth 27 dollars. Capt. C. adds, that the brig
Syron, Pope, which bad been blown out of Jacmel,
and bad left the Capt. and 2 men ashore, Lad arrived at
Arcain, and had sold her cargo.

CALCUTTA, JAN. 26, 1821.
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=TRACT OF • LITTER.
By the accounts we see of the state of things at home,
England seems to labour under some distresses, which
do not appear to be likely to pass away of themselves,
but to require some decided and energetic measures to
be resorted to, while they may have some efficacy of re-
medy. There is always in the politic regimen of mild
and constltational governments, an apprehension of ap-
plying vigorous remedies, which' too commonly has
made the resourse to them too late to be of the service or
defence desired from them. Superadded to what seem
to be evils deeper seated, you bare bad the sinistrous
efforts of those into whose hands the Queen has unhap-
pily fallen, to produce some national disquiet or corn-
motion. The coolness and strong good sense of the
largest portion of the British people can, we make sure
here, be much and long relied on ; yet ?arty vehemence
and collisions, like the intoxication of liquor, or the sti-
mulating delusions of opium will, for a time, cloud the
intellect, and confuse and warp the judgment of too
many, inviting disturbances, violence, or convulsions,
which the actors or inciters would shudder to contem-
plate in anticipation, and would blush deeply to reflect
upon. When the fermentation which has been so indus-
triously excited by the case of her Majesty shall have
subsided with you, other embarrassments(as they of late
appear to us here) will remain, which are not of a qua-
lity so temporary. Circumstances which should give
restored or extended employment to your manufac-
t nrers would partially, and for a time, relieve much of
the suffering which has been felt among your working
classes; and discontents and riotings would be allayed
in a corresponding degree. But it appears idle to ex•
pect with confidence that the general improvement from
this means alone, could ever be of such amount as to re-1
store the population of Britain to the ease and forgone
comforts of a high demand for all their labour and pro-
ductions of the field, the mine, the loom, the anvil, and
so many others.
Chance, of the ordinary course of events, undirected
and uninfluenced by wisdom or policy, must not be
relied on for the restoration or support required. Jo-
sl;cious effort and sound regulations alone are capable
of freeing the country from the pressure under which
it appears to us to groan.
I f time extension of foreign trading be considered
with you, as a means suited to alleviate the pressure,
and ease the difficulties of Old England, which we
read of here, we imagine that India can furnieb bene-
ficial openings to this class of remedy. The use of ar-
ticles of British production and export is gaining
ground rapidly here ; English printed cottons are now
carried in considerable quantities as far as Iltaipootana,
and find a ready sale, if they be of handsome patterns.
Before the road, now perfectly secure, through central
India, was rendered passable for valuable commodities,
time market was but limited ; that condition, as well as
the arrival of too many ships together, occasioned so
many cargoes at one time to be upon hand at Calcutta.
The warehouses now are so far from being overstocked,
that before the arrival of two vessels from England, in
the last fortnight, all European articles were exorbit-
antly high ; mustard flour sold for os. a pound ;
cheese, 10s.; ham, three half-crowns per lb. ; a com-
mon round hat. three guineas. These, undoubtedly,
were prices arising from an unusual scarcity; but it
surely cannot be so very bad a trading, which admits,
even incidentally, of such an exaggeration of price and
profit. Your dried hay will hardly soon come into vogue
here, to take the place of the dried leaves of China.
Some moisture bad reached it on the passage, or some
alight fermentation, which injured its aromatic flavour.
Government bonds are now at six per cent. premium,
though. they bear but half the usual or legal interest
of the country. This is a tolerable evidence of the
credit of the Company and the Oovernment. In all
other respects there is great and increasing prosperity
is Ilindostan. The augmented cultivation of the
Upper Prom laces within these two years is surprising.
0,,,* The expression of public feeling, and the reports of
our Metropolis of June to September 1820, being before
the British at Calcutta when this letter was written.

A letter from the Cape of Good Hope of the nth of
July says—" The Locust, a vessel which had been sent
to survey the river Kowie, has returned, and reports it
to be navigable for small craft nearly to Bathurst. There
is found to be good anchorage for coasting vessels up in
the basin, with from six to eight feet water on the bar at
low water. The tide rises six feet."
Government have satered into a contract for ten
thousand load of mahogany, for ship-building, on ac-
count of the high price of oak timber, aid its liability
to the dry-rot. Many of the Spanish s'tips built at
Cuba, were built of mahogany, as well as cedar. An
old ship of that description, which had been take.
from the Spaniards. and afterwards stationed as a
guard ship at the Nore, was broken up about the time
the turnpike road was formed from Battlebridge to
Hampstead. Her timbers happened to be used for
posts, Le., on the road side. and gave occasion to the
adjacent inhabitants to boast that their road was
adorned with mahogany rails. Some of the posts and
railings are sti:l rstutaisiog. though they stood exposed
to all weathers for sixty years.

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SMAN:

SIR RODRRT WILSON.,
Sir Robert Wilson's demand for a Court Martial was
reported, as we stated yesterday, to have been met by a
refusal. The following Is the Copy of a Letter from
bis Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, communi-
cating the refusal :
Horse-guards, Sept. 25, 1921.
Sift—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your • let-
ter of the 20th instant, end having laid It before his
Majesty, I have it in command to acquaint iron, that bis
Majesty does not judge it proper to comity with the
wish expressed in it. 1 am, Sir, your's,
(Signed) Faavantcx,Commander-in-Chief.
To Sir It. Wilson.
On receipt of this answer, a Copy of the Correspon-
dence was immediately transmitted to his Constituents,
accompanied by the following Letter :
TO THE ELECTORS Or THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.
Paris, Sept. 29.
Gr.vTLIDIEN,-1 feel it to be my duty to put you in
immediate possession of the following correspondence
between his Royal Highness the Duke of York and
myself.
-The measure which the King's Ministers have advised
his Majesty to adopt, and persist in roaintaining, is one
that gives me comparatively little concern, on account of
my own interests; but as it involves qusestions affecting
all the elementary principles of justice, public safety,
and liberty, 1 pledge myself to the discharge of every
duty these considerations impose.
I must, for reasons with which yon mat hereafter be
made acquainted, remain in Paris until the arrival of
the next mail, but I propose in every event .to be in
England at the end of the ensuing week.
1 am, Gentlemen,
With great respect, your obedient servant.
(Signed) ROBERT WILSON.
It is said that Sir Robert Wilson will set nu- for
London on the 211 or 3,1 of October, and that his
friends in England are impatient to see him in that
country, in orderto repel the accusations made against
him during his absence. The General is still as
completely ignorant as be was the first day, respecting
the causes of his sudden dismissal. But this mystery
will be soon developed, for public opinion was never
more decidedly pronounced than in this affair. (An
English Courier has arrived with despatches for Sir R.
Wilson.)—(Courier Francois.)
SOUTHWARK MEETING RELATIVE TO SIR ROBERT
WlLSON.—During the course of the business before
Mr. Alderman J. J. Smith, yesterday, at Guildhall, a
deputation of three Gentlemen from the Borough of
Southwark waited upon him, as the acting Magistrate
of the Borough, to learn if it was his intention to at-
tend and presideat the Meeting to be held at the Town-
hall this day, for the purpose of considering the pro-
priety of entering into a subscription fur Sir Robert
Wilson.
Mr. Merman Smith received the Deputation with
every respect, and said. he certainly did not consider
it his duty to preside at the Meeting ; be was not an
inhabitant of the Borough, lout only the acting Magis-
trate ; the Meeting was not called by him, bivt by the
authority of the Lord Mayor, by whose permission the
use of the Hall was also granted. lie (Alderman S.)
bad no authority to sanction or refuse the keeting
bet, in his capacity of acting Magistrate n't Ue dis-
trict, it was imperative upon the persons calling
the meeting, by the late Act of Parliament,
to give him six days' notice of their intention to hold
such Meeting : this they had done, which, as far as
he was concerned, was all that was required of them.
The Act gave no authority to the Magistrate to pre-
vent such Meeting ; neither was his consent required
for the holding of it ; nor was he directed by the sta-
tute to be present. They would therefore appoint their
own Chairman ; he should, of course, be at the Town-
hall about the time of the Meeting, upon the regular
business of the Justice-room, and should therefore he
at band, and ready to perform his duty, if his services,
as a Magistrate, should be in any manner required.—
The worthy Alderman then took occasion -to observe
that the requisition presented to the High Bailiff, aed
which he had refused to accede to, differed very essen-
tially as to the purposes of the Meeting from the no-
tice with which they had served him, as the Magis-
trate. He therefore thought it right strongly to re•
commend to them not to introduce any extraneous bu-
siness at the Meeting; bat to be exceedingly midis'',
to keep strictly to the business mentioned is the notice.
They were, no doubt, aware that the Magistrate had
the authority by the Act of Parliament, and might be
called upon, to dissolve the Meeting, should any im-
proper discussion arise, or be persisted in and he, if
called upon must do his duty and dissolve the Meeting.
The Alderman repeated this rccomineakition, and
delivered himself with so much earnestness, as to leave
the impression that some hint had been given him, that
bis services in that way would be required, as he used
the expression, " I am fearful I may be called upon to
dissolve the Meeting" wore than once.
The gentlemen of the Deputation thanked the Alder-
man for his caution, and promised to use every exertion
to confine the discussion at the Meeting to,Alie tipsiness
stated in the notice to the Magistrate.
The Deputation then bowed and withdrew.
APPLICATION TO THE LORD MAYOR FOR LEAVE TO
HOLD A MEETING OF THE IRIS:IDS OF SIR ROBERTI
WILSON IN THE EGYPTIAN HALL:
As the Lord Mayor was sitting in the Justice-room
yesterday, Mr. Ryland and Mr. Richardson waited upon
his Lordship to request that be would grant the use of
the Egyptian Hall for a Meeting.of those Citizens who
were desirous of expressing their sentiments upon the
extraordinary dismissal of Sir It. Wilson. The circum-
stances of this case of uncommon hardship, were they ob-
served, familiar to his Lordship. who was also, doubtless !I
well acquainted with the general feeling upon the sub-
ject. and of the proceedingsof the constituents of Sir R.
Wilson.
The LORD MAYOR said, in answer to the application,
that upon the last occasion of a public meeting in the
Egyptian Hall, namely, upon the meeting of the Mer-
chants, Bankers and railers of the City of London, so
disgraceful an uproar had beau raised is the Hall that
he had made a declaration that be would prevent the
possibility of the recurrence of so offensive a scene dur-
ing his Mayoralty by withholding his consent to grant-
ing the use of the Mansion-house for political meetings,
or any others, except those for charitable or religious
purposes. His Lordship said he had constantly Wain-
tabled this determination, although he supposed there
were many who objected to it in whose political senti-
ments be completely acquiesced. He had been under
the necessity of giving a negative to several applications
for the use of the Mansion-boon on political occasions,
and he regretted that he lay under the same necessity to
the present instance.
Time Gentlemen then informed his Lordship, finding
that he was determined to adhere to the remanded' be

lid taken taken at the period alluded to, thet they should at all
events feeUt necesearyilson in the tCihoty, old a meeting of the Friend s
of Sir &W at some one of the taverns
or public.rooms.
The Loan MAYOR expressed his foil azocurrence in
the &Nett of the Friends and Constituents-or the Gal-
lant Individnal, but said, as the Chief blacistrate of
the City, the impropriety of his taking an active part in
any of the proceedings would be evident, Ms Lordship
approved of the idea of calling the Meeting in the man-
ner suggested. The Gentlemen then left the Justice-room.
We must say that the dismissal of Sir Robert Wil-
son is one of the most unjustifiable, oppressive, and
arbitrary acts recorded in the history of the country.
In the late war Sir Robert rendered the most impor-
tant services. He was presented, subsequently to the
battle of Bautzen. by the Emperor Alexander, with
the Cross of the Russian Order of St. George, as a pub-
lic and honourable testimonial of the Emperor's ap-
probation of his conduct on that well-contested field.
And the Emperor, in a letter written with his own
hand, referred to this occasion in these words :
" When I decorated you, in the face of my army, with
the badge of St. George. I did justice to the inde-
fatigable zeal which, during the whole of the cam-
paign, has constantly attached you to the advanced
guards—to the brilliant valour and devotion of which
1 have been an tit-witness at the battle of Bautzen ;
and, finally, to the many other proofs of intrepidity,
attested by all the brave warriors of the combined
army." Similar testimonies to his transcendent
merit were borne by the King of Prussia and the Em-
peror of Austria. And Prince Schwarsetibe g. thr
Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, offiti ill
declared to the English Ambassador, that be consi-
dered the success of the Allies in the great and deci-
sive battle of Leipzic to hare been signally p:omoted
by Sir Robert Wilson's judicious disposition of the
Austrian cavalry, and by his conduct on that glorious
day.—And yet, because title excellent officer, who i•
as humane as he is brave, chose to beg of a broth,.
officer that he would prevent his soldiers from firma
on his Majesty's unarmed subjects, he is to be dis
missed from the Army, and deprived of that pittanci
he had earned by 20 years of heroic, assiduous, ant
successful exertion.—(Scotarnan.)
The following letter has been sent to Mr. Weather-
' stone, of the Borough, the Chairman of the Commit:et
for calling a meeting to consider of a subscription for
Sir It. Wilson --
Ste—Understanding from the newspapers that the
distinguished General Sir Robert Wilson is distnisse4
the service without a trial, or even an accuser ; and find-
ing that the public are proceeding to indemnify that pi-
triotic and noble-minded tientletnan for his pecuttiar)
suffering on the occasion, may I request you to entet
nay name for fifty pounds for the above purpose.
I am, Sir, respectfully, your very obedient servant,
(Signed) J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT.
To George Weatherstone, Esq. Chairman of
the Southwark Meeting, &c.
Oxford, Sept. 29.
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