The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-21 00:00:00

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is not Vander Meek's, bat M. Boers, of the
Of that name; well knows at Leide, and filling
-stilted posts in the Magistracy. in 1613,
exercised die faectioas of Secretary in the

City of Zetpheo. He there rendered some important
services upon the arrival of the Cossacks, and received
.• is recempence the decoration of Knight of the Order oil
• the Belgic Lion. The motives which induced his lie
- quit his post in the city Of Zutphen are cot known t bat
. shortly after the revolution of 1813. he lived a long time
. is retirement at Brussels, where he contracted an lad-
: }sate friendship with M. Bouwees, who was 'eroded elt
I.:sse, and who is the youngest son of M. L. K. &sow's%
celebrated, in 1796, fbr the coespienoste part be took is
the politics of that period. flaring the sera*
• of 1819, these two individuals resided at Aiz-la-
• Chapelle and at Spa, and were honoured with the
friendship of & person of distinguished rank there : they
afterwards proceeded to Parts, and so arranged, that
!hey alternately made journies frees time to time to
Brussels, to the Hague, or to Amsterdam, up to the
• period of their arrest, which took Om c about three
weeks ago. A Flanders paper concludes the above
. artiste with the following observation :—We ran com-
pletely traoquillioe the reader upon all these m3:.teriOns
•'Kis. • *dither the peace of Eurepe, nor the happiness of
vecombisry, we fur national honour, nor the respect
inlet' Zit doiresemeet, can in the least degree suffer by
the Wits of tkieelfair.
Cowereertwort,i;Vcr. X —The Porte has this ley
wfrima my iteourelple *ewe from Bagdad. It is ea.
. eoeseed, that the troops commanded by the eldest sem
of the Selig of Penis, have been repulsed with cosi
derable lose. The Tartars, who have brought this sews,
here been preseeted with pelisses of honour, and re/corn-
row( most magni6reetly.
, Fewest Fumne.—Five per Cents., 69 f. 55 c.—Bank
Adieus, 14611 fr.

• By force of low-making in a manner &mice wit-
. noosed in any nation on the face of the globe, es-
pecially a frde nation, the two laws, the Seizing of
Arms and Training to Arms are now in operation,
and which are calculated more than any other to
aubject the people of this ease proud country to
the will and sway of its Ministers. The House of
Peers sat even on Saturday, almost an unprecedent-
ed thing, to communicate the Royal Assent to
these Bills, the one against a man possessing was'
—the other for learning how most skilfully loradfie ii
use of them. For our part, who must speak OW
mind freely , or not speak at all, we have always
considered these resorts of the people as the actual
and intended securities provided by the Constitu-
tion, tacitly understood between rulers, and go-
verned, to keep the former within the limits of
reason in their sway. Every tree man ought to be
allowed to have arms, anti know bow to use them,
he has the disposition and time to ponces them,
a:.l acquire a knowledge of their tune. by wq of
fireittling himself against the attack of se fa-
eleidual, or ageism' the aggressions of tyran-
n:eal Kings or despotical Ministers, so that he
might have recoune to them as protection of
hs property against the midnight robber, or
against the More op: assaults of perverted or
sentipled authority. We consic'er, therefore, tLe
Patillanseut to have done in these instances what
it ha. done in that of the Habeas Carpus: it has',
taken away from the subjects of the State the se-
curity which they are entitled to carry aLout them
at all times against the abuses and arbitrary will
• M the State. Could it ever be intended by men,
b.) rational creatures, that they would enter into a
social compact, and give to a few =cog them
gore power end authority than nuy one, or many
of the multAusle, were to po. see , and not reserve
to themselves mime remedy in the last re:ert.
aeened the ablee of that p'. ter or authority
\u; certainly riot. It was intended that they
should have arms, and the greatness of .the
rember mho should dy to than wris to aeeeeffy
their tee. 'flieir heecal its thi., dreadful nrcnt
Ileet L.!;ty'il to Heaven, as it were, ae to whether
their use 5h in Vie eye of meson and in the
order of nature, he enneidered :str..,..lerottlf or itr:!-
lifientory. As it never was understood that the
peoele should exercise the power of forcine their
neighlaeir to tale tip canna if he chose to submit to
lawless nnthority ; so when they should he com-
pelled to do so themselves, the act implied the
necessity if ronsecrnted by teimhers! Coven].
rnents, indeed. ice the cases of event. forte the people
to take tip ems when they are very !lath to do
su; inch Governments should thni he very
certain of the lawfulness of the 'peal t' arms.'
or they' are absolutely guilty of murder.—'lute
case is far different with the people. Keeler
:s neither their object nor the effect in en emeral
'to arms, under cases like those to whwh we &Linde.
It is to penials tyranny and abuse of power that
they arm, and t' y rise up only from a cenecious-
nets of wrong iatlicted on the great body of the
people; and that the great nnteher who stiffer and
tctl as 'bey do, will consecrate the appeal they
reek.. Talk for seven years or more. you must
come to this point tut last ; if you M euld have bny
security against the abase of authecity. Now, as
all authority tends to abuse, what remedy have the
abated, or what vengeance can they iittlict for that
abuse but this? All other pre:Aisle') against law-
less power is illusory:—to talk of it is down-
right child:Anew. These Acts, thereferee as well
as a suspension of the .llcseas t'orints,.constituto
rth*t the Frenth so svt!t der. ttlinete it, '''lLect•

• ,
I Mcgeste' against the people : in our interpretation
lof i!, HIGH TREASON against the people. The
appeal to arms therefore, against TYRANNY and
abuse of STATE POWER, we call Constitutional ;
when the set is womecmted by numbers. The peo-
ple never will resort to this dreadful expedient bat
from tire swanky: and from this necessity, the
author of lbws Bills in question, knows as wail as
WO do, that the subject has the legitimate right
to fly to onus; but he, like a cunning and malig-
nant Minister, says, or seems to say, Ay to them, if
you can And them!!

The Moniteur contains a long report of a trial in
which a M. Desgraviers was plaintiff, sad the King
and Duchess IVAngotileme the defendants; the
ob-
jeetofthe suit beiug to obtain payment of 1,400,000
francs, the outstanding balance of 11,000,000 francs,
being the gross purchase money of the estate of
l Isle Adam, bought by Louis XVIII., when Mea-
-1 sietir, from the late Prince de Conti, in the yea:
083. The rank of the parties, added to some ea-
! rions que!tions of law, seems to have attached eon-
' siderable importance to this action, to which bis
: Majesty's Advocate declined making any defence.
The case w.s adjourned fareight days, to give time
for adducing some arguments on behalf of Madames
who was mrde a collateral party in the busioess,es
immediate heiress of Louis XV., in whom- was
i vested, at the per:od of the purchase by his present
Majesty, the naked fee, or rondty (nue prepriite)
of the estate of Isle Adam.

A Journal of Cotta speaks of a new Association
among the Students, to renounce the use of brandy
and tobacco.

A St. Thomas paper, of the 15th► of October. re-
ceived at Boston, gives some curious particulars of
the late hurricane in the island of St. Martins:—

From eve o'clock on Tuesday afternoo mmtil The:
same hour on Wednesday morning, it blew with
such a degree of violence that nothing could with-
stand its force ; men; women, and children, bereft of
shelter, with nut a single suit of linen to cover their
nakedness, or where-withal to satisfy their hunger ;
trees torn tip by the roots, homes blown from their
foundations..ume of which were blown in theses and
pond; one house, in particular, situated over the
pond, was taken vp wholly by the wind,whertin was
the manager and sevi.:Bl negroes ; it was lifted
from its basis upwards of twenty feet high, and.
fortunately, on its descent, fill Into a spot which
heti been originally a cellar, end contained three or
four feet water, in consequence of which those in
the house sustained no injuz.
An iron six-pounder, ith iron carriage, was
blown from Fort .%mster.iate, half way to Fort
William, the distance of nhout three quarters of r
mile: a cart with iron ualetree was blown from
Governor Ricl.'s estate to 51r. Dencker's, (about a

NAV.II, I•VTeLLIGHNCE.

Dtm t„, Ditc.lo.—ArriveJ and sailed for the River the'
Fab, (fray, sad Jane, front Quebec; William, Riddock.l
from Tenerife; Active, thermal, and Diamond, Foods!
from Lisbon.—Came down from the River the Faith,

Charch, for St. Vincent's; and DAM Coke; for
Brazils.—Tbe Peace did not sink yesterday as vras

ported, bet Gated off, and the boatsmen are esdeavour-
ins to pt her into this harbour.
PORTIMOCTIE, Dec. ftt.—Arrived the Hope, Grath,,
Lobdon fir Maraoham ; and Prince Leopold,
Wrangles, kno St. John's, New Bruoswick—the latter
with the loss of boats, bulwarks, stanebeons, bowsprit
sprat'', main-top-utast, maim aed main-top-sail-yard car-
ried away, &r. haring crperienced a severe ple on the
lit iwerant.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 19.—Arrived the British Tar, Fish-
ley, from Miramiehi. On time let of December, in lat.
44. 33, loos. 41. 36, she esperieseed a beery gals,
which laid the vessel on her beam ends, and she lost her
deck had. The Bristol, Williams, from Lesion for
Chester, was totally lest near Bonney Island, on the
lath instant.
NOR'!, SIMILftf, Dec. 19.—The sloop Itoestierry is
on shore near Marden Kock, but expected to he pt nt.
The Doiphin, Ittiol, from Dom. was rats foul of by a
brit, which carried away her smipmmes, and drort her
the nook Hi liens, where she bilged. Crew saved,
and part of the wisteria% will be saved.
Sc.aasosocon, DEC. 19.—Arrired the Feeney, Friater,i
of lio4Ton, with &map, after baring been on shore on
Flat:thorough Head.
Lys*, Dec.gslrnt Car!, no!friAls, of Oriel-
weld, from Lisbon, pin on shore on the west side ot
Dungeoess, but is eatected to be got off, if th . weataer
moderates.

The Elisabeth, Ilarri•on, from Boni%ay to Lo erns:
and Teoiseowles, Hamble, from Bengal to Liverpool,
weer totally wrecked at the Cape of Hood Hope, in
October. Crews, and most of the cargo saved.

arArz ')F THE couxner.
•
(From the rettnhergh Feeuiag Colorant.]
We have seen a letter from a gentleman in
Aberdeen, which gives a most agreeable account
both of men and things there. The linen manufac-
ture, daring the present year, has exceeded the'
amount of the preceding one by nearly 700,c00
yardi, while the spinning of yarn and making of
threads, of a much improved quality, as well as
the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods, hero
been carried on with such activity, that all descrip-
tions of labourers have been earning wetes Which
e, them to bye milts ecmfort. Whatever
the diAre•ls in tome tuanufacturit;:districts.
of the Lind hrs