The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-10 00:00:00

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Constitution of t fete people, and which could only
be tolerated in the hour of extreme danger, from be.
coming a lasting hurthen on the country, a source of nett, Dm 9.—Arrived and sailed fri• the River the Hannah
power and undue influence to corrupt men in time East Indinman, from Bembay.—Put bark by contrary whist,
of peace, or an inducement to the renewal or pro- tee Misdates, for Bermuda; Dancombe, fur Pool-mouth; aad
longation of war, and consequently. misery to the the Ater ell* for Fabeetok- ,
people, when tranquillity and prosperity ought tot.,,P"Tillt°l7B' bac. 9.—Arrived his Majesh's ship Allies,
shed their blessings on the nation. -. • Wein the !rails; bee convoy Is supposed to have fumed by,gse
"•A_!, the Ther.--Sailed his Majesty's ship Snap, for the Downs.
PLTlfittrllf. DDC. 8.--,Arrited the Bridget, Robinson, (rota
Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the v 0»
reign Office, and in the evening Mr. Mull, Amy Mood t Odeus (a Russian), from Russia; the Frecch sloop
Messenger, was sent off with' dispatches to Lord Igraine Marine, from Cherbnrgh t and a few colliers. front
GAMBIER, Mr. GOULBURS) and Dr. ADAM, the the leorth.—At rived the Glasgow frlfgate, from a cruise ; and
Commissioners at Ghent. I the Active, Stepheas, front Cork.
Eady yesterday morning, Mr. PEGLER, lOW, Teas4t.- DEC. 8 —As the wind has been the whole of Ilds
Messenger, arrived at the Foreign (Nice, with die- A
-ay oiroOe from she Stroh-West, mitts thick weather, and RS
, patches from Lord CASTLEItEAGW. A Messenger was nu pal a the West India convoy have returned to Vetray, we
I expected to be sent off last night to Vinton. are is hopes they have reached Falmouth or Plymouth; shoed/
Sir ALEXANDER COCIIRANE sailed from Halifax the
this not be the ease, we fear some part of them most have
i letter end 54 October, in the Tunnant,• of 80 gone, sairred damage; as it blows quite a gale of wind.
I for the Gulph of Mexico, to superintend the expecli-
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I tion that had been. ent against the territories off the The Jannet and Peggy, Morgan, and !Immix,
mouths of the Mississippi : the troops that were or- Fearon, from Liverpool to Newry, were lost on the
dered to embark at Jamaica are supposed to be 3d inet-off Carlingford.
! • destined to assist in this enterprise. i The Mary Ann, from Liverpool to Waterford,
" PARts, DEC. 2.--The order for recruiting the ° was abandoned by the crew on the sth instant, near
I French army, which I announced to you some days Aborpay.
l ago, hag, 1 understand, been put fete
_immediate}'
,ThKeerseserance, Mullet, from France to Hull,
execution. ft will he recollected, that on the re-or- struck on the Bernard Sand, near Yarmouth, on Wea-
-1 ganization of the army in the course of kcst summer, uuday—most of the cargo saved.
an immense number of old soldiers as well as conscripts The Anna (a Russian), from Archangel to Ar-
received permission to retire to their families ; but !breath, was driven on shore on a bank in the White
I were to hold themselves in readiness to se-assemble, October,
I Sea on the 12th of with loss of authors,
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and join their regiments, on the first summons.— , cables, masts, rudder, and boats.
The measure above alluded (o, therefore, cannot I The Margaret, Sacher, from London to Quebec,
I properly be considered a new levy, being only a : foundered at sea 2Sth.September—crew Saved:
recal of such a proportion of the furloughs granted I The Unity, Richards, front London to Bristol,
as would make an addition to the troops on active ' carried away her mast and bowsprit off Berry Head
service of 80,000 men. One half of these have al.. the 3d inst.--deserted by the crew, and it is sup-
ready joined their corpt. On the specific objects posed she immediately foundered.
of this increase of force on the part of the French 1
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Government, it would be vain to speculate...-. 1 . - -
The Rev. RosenT— • Motiessoe, of Canton, the I
The meaning of it must he referred to the negocia. I
I Trattsiator of the New Testament into the Chinese
lions of the Congress ; and it is perhaps designed to
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language, was stated by mistake in our Paper of ,
influence in some degree their issue. It is quite fa.
M.. yesterday to be a Missionary of the Berle Society,
miliarly talked of at Paris, that the reason why
TALLEYRANO has not appeared to interest himself , instead of the Missionary Society, at whose expense
he
with en much warmth on the fate of Flanders as on was educated and sent to China, the former exe
that of Poland and of Saxony, is the perfect con-
recline all their funds only in printing• and circa.
victims entertained by France that she can take
pus- latiog the Scriptures. To the honour of :air. Nlott- 1
etioe and of the Directors of the India Company,
swains of the Netherlands when she pleases, and that
we are happy in being enabled to add, that on the
it would he both superfluous and imprudent to crake
a premature parade of anxiety shout that which she is Cot:spiny being informed that Mr. Muni ICON had
able and resolute to seize uon at some future da
effected the compilation of a Dictionary, in three
There were no political p
upon
found upon Lard
folio volumes, the Directors sent out a suitable per-
OXFORD, none at least of a culpable or offensive de- I sun'•will,paper and types, to print this important
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scriptien ; and his Lordship was in conaequesteeork at their own expence, a measure which every
one must approve, as eminently conducive to the in.
almost immediately relented. Some letters from the
Priestess Boreliese to her sister are said to have been forests of both countries. We are happy to hear
also, that Mr. Mortessort has dis
f in the keeping of tee Noble Lord; and their contents patched one of his
assistants to Java, with large quantities of Chinese
Once more the Common Council of the City of nnt being held ill high reverence by the agents of
Testaments, Tracts, and Catechisms, for circulation
Gevernmset, a e hy this time pretty well circulated
Loudon have set a glorious example to the rest-of the : 'among the Chinese at Java.
kingdom, by the step they have taken to give effectual i through Paris."
1 BON %FARTS: printed a very splendid Dictionary in
1 The following is anoitteset of a priests letter front" 000 tare solvate (.D.,
„chiners,,, Latin, sodstretith,.
opposition to the continuance of that most oppressive ee • ere than I ram, bet wows oewilling to- beli ere that the die-
m,* several copies of which have already reached this
litsd degrading morteere, the Property Tax ; and ear. i ammo, intelligence which it erns,„l.4 1, roriert,
country, and is considered as a
natty' w
do e hope that this salutary and energetic trust it will be entirely false. The W
Paris Papers of it most valuable work.
We believe, however, that bat 250 copies of it were
example of resistance to a system as harassing and the sth are silent on the subject :
hateful to the people as repugnant to the British . • " PARIS Dec. 3.—A report last night states, that ow. . -
printed, and it most, therefore, be of little general
a person ha arrivet row the United States, after a
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Constitution, wlltbe followed by similar meetings in The obstacles opposed to the introduction of Ga-
shed passage, and informed Mr. CRAWFORD that
all the different- counties, cities, and towns in the reigners and foreign literature into Chios, are most
DaunuoaroVsarmy was entirely cut off from their
country. We refer to the ample report we have given ' retreat, and had capitulated.—Sackett's Harbour . forcibly exemplified in the case of Mr. M A SNlmG,who
of the proceedings which teak place yesterday on safe." I has made considerable progress in the Chinese lan-
guage and custom,. This gentleman had been for
this subject at Guildhall. The Resolutions against i " Decemuea 4.—The report I hinted at yester-
many years endeavouring, but in vain, to make his
the renewal of this arbitrary and rigorous measure, i day, of DRITHAIOND'S aritt/ hiving capitulated, rests
on way from Canton to the interior of China ; but the
itti which hil long born. with oppressive weight on Ru these
o , ffn Nineldwikk Y
Chinese, with their vigilant and instinctive jealousy,
' sse o1011:TtoF. Mr t t
aa letter from
stating,Mr
the coeknityo and laid open the private cir- • that he had such information from Buffalo ; second,
kept so strict an eye upon him, that he found the at.
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et:firstling* individuals, were. moved by Mr.. on the report of a passenger here, who says, that tempt to be utterly impracticable; he therefore pro-
of ceeded by sea to Cochin Chins, but with no better
WAlTifita* in a speech wherein that Gentle- when he left Philadelphia there was a general re.
-success- the people of that country being tinctured
matt strongly, and in the ablest manner, urged juicing for the event. Another passenger (a Scotels
with 0
the game specierof political jealousy and caution
John Bull) says, such was the report, hot that many'
the unequal pressure of the tax, and the evils re- with their •h 1 neigh ours. Determined however to per.
salting not believe it.—But he farther says, it was pro-
salting from the inquisitorial mode of collecting it, poser! in Congress, to build twenty ships of the
severe in his object, he proceeded to Calcutta, and
which, as the resolution expressed, is no less partial iine.o thence to the northern frontier of Bengal ; here lie
1.1 fortunate enough to penetrate into Boman,
and oppressive in its operation than repugnant to 1 The old General Officers have expressed much dis- we,
t ere he met with,and
the free principles of the Constitution _partial and , satisfaction, in consequence of being ordered to ceded in engaging himself to the Commander of the
oppressive, inasmuch as no distinction is made be- Winchester Castle, on Sir JOHN MVRSA%'s Court- Chinese forces as his body physician, accompanied
tween Annuities, the precarious and fluctuating . Martial. They remark, the great room at Chelsea him as far as Lassa, in Thibet, and was just on them
incomes arising from Trade and other uncertain Hospital would hare answered every purpose, and of departure thence, and on the point of realising his
would have saved a claim of three shillings per mile
sources, and the Incomes derived from fixed and per- hopes, by proceeding along the sipper regions of Tar.
backwards and forwards for their travelling expeoees. lacy to the capital of Chine, when an order was re-
eminent property ; and repugnant to the free prier- This, however, will be a small item in the Army E
I- ceived from Pekin to resat the General, and to send
riples of the Constitution of the country, inasmuch traordinaries. back immediately to Bengal the European physician
as it establishes an etlioac and inquisitorial tribud On Saturday and Monday last, several bakers of whom he had been guilty of entertaining about his
sal of Commissioners, before w hom individuals • Fulham, Hammersmith, and Kensington, appeared . person. So difficult, 'lotto say impossible, is it in
are compelled to submit to the most degrading! before Mr. Grantee, Magistrate of liammersmithd the most remote corner of this extended empire to
exposure of their private concerns and circam-
!by summons on information, and were convicted in elude Chinese vigilance.
stances, and against whose arbitrary decisiops, how-
• penalties, for having bread in their possession very Th. cause of Miss WALSTEINIS sudden departure
much deficient in weight. A certain baker of Ken- being removed, bythe convalescence of her mother,
ever
sicklier ever unjust, they have remedy nor appeal.— sington had two-penny loaves deficient in weight wits w
Maas ar.stats will resume her engagement next
It was well observed also that the continuance of from three to four ounces each. O,IP of the Ham.; w it at
wee it, Drury.lane Theatre.
such a system, under any modifications, more espe- : mersmith bakers was convicted for bread deficient I
i Yesterday a Meeting of the Creditors of Messrs
tinily at a time when the people are anxiously look- in %%eight, and also paid the penalty for hating t MAIDWARINO and Co. took place at the Guildhal
ea liquid iu which was a reat ntity of alum 1
ioe for relief front the burthens and privations of war, deaf qua
. 0 ! Coffee-house, previous to their attendance at
sto adulterate flour, found n is Prera's".— Guildhall under the Commission. As it was es-
end with equal anxiety anticipating reform and re.
Another
t at a discussion would arise on the subject
treatment in the national expenditure, most be Laying a large quantity of volatile salts found in his ~
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, of the Chairmanship of the Middlesex Sessions and
highly irritating, and no less dangerots to the State • kitcheu, adjoining his bakehouse ; and it appeared ' the Fonds of the
County, the public notice
than harassing and oppressive to the people.• The i before the Magistrate, that he frequently used it for 1 for 'the Meeting excited some interest. It torn-
, cakes and biscuits. The Act was rend which sub- i
41;seussion a tech ensued tended to show the unani- ted oat, however, that the Meeting was only a
. jests to a fine not etceeding 201. nor less than 51. or ! partial one, consisting of those Creditors inte-
mous sentiment a trash prevails regarding the impoliey
to six amatlis-imprisoweseet. lie was convicted in !rued • .
in the appointment of particular assignees,
of the measure of prolonging this hateful impost.— the penalty of 101. All the bread which was for. : , which appointment was intended to be opposed
One angle heed only was raised to oppose the Re- feited was sent to Fulham, Kensington, and Ham. ,by the others. After some brief conversation of
solutions, and that only when the first question nas mersmith workhouses. and given away to the poor? no interest to the public, the parties proceeded
credit of several great
put. The Resolutions declaratory of the sense of as the Act directs. To the
,before the Commissioners, where a number of new
other bakers of Hammersmith, their bread was found debts were sworn to
of the Meeting on the illegality, injustice, and bane- / assignees were voted
' over weight. !for.'
•One list consisted and the
of Messrs. COTTERELLI BRAD,
fil effect's of perpetuating the Tax was afterwards ,
N., NAsu MO is said to have gone over to Paris, dan
- - kAnt4rlollli UNDERSUELL ; the other of Meters. Joni
iat vied unanimously.; and a Petition, embodying
,to have purchased all the furniture; clocks, mirronr, Ulric •
Mame, M. A. RORINION, and W. Rio-
t !le propositions contained in the Resolutions, adopt- • vases, and .ortinments of Mitimaison. The reins .irter.. The collecting of the names of the voters
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et!. and ordered to be presented to Parliament. lof Mr. NASH, if allowed to develop itself to the full tempi:4d the Commissioners a considerable time he-
Naw is the time for the country to speak out, and' extent in London, at Richmond and elsewhere, may t'yorid the usual hour of adjournment, and the majo.
I reclinequestions hereafter, to answer which to the stetstie! -
, wits- is favour of the three first-mentioned
g;be additional weight and energy to those voices, P . .4
t satisfaction of the public, may require more spun. Gentlemen. Nothing transpired before the Com-
e Well have been raised in the cause of justice and I - •
s taneous adroitness than was lately displayed ota rsusissioners out'
of the ordinary routine of bosiness'in
reason :—now is the lime for one -great and I
. subjects of a similar description. , e.. lebnilar eases ; but we .understand that the whole of
united effort to prevent exaction and an inquisition A grand Christmas Pantomime is pteisarieg at :the money belonging to the county is safe, an :1 has
sal, h probes but to wound the peace and prosperity Drury-lane Theatre, which was fully rehearse yes.:'iisen transferred under proper security, to different
ilt 1
or familiess which is repugnant to the spirit and the terday. ands.

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• if we have not of late edam led to this 6pr:tient
fehject, it has not been from any inattention to the
queittion since !act we presumid to bring it under the
consideration of our 'Readers. We.sere induced to
peatpone.outinrther remarks, only until the sebittt
• shoOld be brought more fully before -the public, by
the piintitig-Ot the &flout's of f;vidence, taken tics
fore the Conitnitteei of the Lordaand Commons, to
whom WETe referred the. truipotipoti Patjavitts submit-
ted* to 'Parliament, !piaci any 'alteratittian the Cott
La* T 1 et oi4e,acesan4•the tspnria„, with which
:It is actlittiPaided; wt have sem had an opportunity
of •exarnining, and it oillbe'..olsr object In *WS, awl
in some futuretirliete,, cleaily and incontrovertibly
to exhibit the iseight and tenttitm
.of thooe
. tient. with which, in the ensuing Sessie,it ofNow.
moot, it doubtless iill be attempted tOlititt4tinelhe
decision of the important question, nate at istme'br-
[tireen the landlitilders of this kingdom on the one
pert, and the great mass of the population on the
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In perusiegthia'bedy of evideecei lhb most cata
Rory observer must. he Murk with the 01111,1. iiseal-
thinly by wbich, in almost every instance,„ She quota•
Pons and answers appear to have been.dietated.-.1-4
Besides, h will not fail to 114 riotirwel, the eel*
den, e does not embrace the. whole of *lheettse. Kt-
specting the effect of the high price of writ on the
wages of labour, no eritleuce at all is•iiiren before
the Select Commi:tee of do !louse of Commons, area'
the subject is very inadequately investigated by the
Committee of the Lords. A still more i nportant
head of enquiry—the effect of high' prices on the
comforts and happiness of the inferior classes of
; the people, is altogether passed ever bx•the Commit-
' tee of both Houses. .If we conic! egrie—with Mr.
• Milne (Chairman of the Select Costemittee of the
Commons) in the opinion which'ile eaPresses in his
lexaminaticn before t!.e Committee elite Lard,' that
the price of labour is always in the ince** .ratio .of
I thi price of grain, tor in other worda,the higher the
price of grain, the lower the prim of
I indeed, the situation of . the or Ineehan!e*
under a system of high prltios; tieeld„he most data
plorable.. With reflood means, it ,could be-necess
Cary to provide.for increased demands upon him....
Mr. Milne reasons thus :s:" Supposes" says he,
" there are in any. one parish 10u labourer', who
are able to do the work of that parish, if provisions
rise, those labourers will do double work • of cootie
there being only a certain demand for lahour, the
labour falls." Now if we are to supreme 50 of thorn
doing double work, it is plain there would be ne.
I work for the rest to do, and that they must either 4
to the poorhouse or starve. This infallible comm.
lgoence of his doctrine, Mr. Milne, in the afmndance
; of his zeal to show that the high price of ' grain has
no tendency to advance the price of labour, appears
entirely to• have overlooked. Lord Lauder:lsle, who
is also examined as to the connection between the
price of grain and the wages of labour, is of opinion
that the price of labour is regulated by the proportion
the quantity of it *white demand for it, and
'that the priced grain does not affect the price of
labour. But even upon this principle, the high prim
of grail; must fall with aggravated weight upon the
labouring classes, for while if is admitted to produce
no advance in their rate of wages, it will indisput.
ably cause a dimiuutlon in the quantity'of their em.
ploy ment, anti consequently operate. against JO*
with a twofold force and effect. It follows, that
neither upon the showing of 1114 Lordship nor Mr.
Milne, can the Legislature, with any decent regard
for the interests of the great body of the people,
make that alteration in the system of our Corn Laws,
which is calculated to produce a permanent enhance.
. meat of the prices of grain • and the people them-
' selves must be lamentably Indifferent to.their own in-
llerests, if at any time they should, without the moat •
i'strenuoos and persevering efforts to prevent it,
permit a system of monopoly pregnant with so
much mischief and injustice, to take effect iu this

country.
Another omission in the evidence, which we must
also impute to a leaning in favour of the landhold-
ers, ts the subject of the,,____,lmproveri. and improving
currency of the country.. While gold was at 5%. Rs.
per ounce, the advocates of the Corn Bill were, per-
petually clamouring on the depreciation of the cur-
rency, and contending that 804. per quarter for when'
had, in consequence, become a worse price than 631 f
was before. Now, however, when the price of gold
has fallen to 41. 7s. per ounce, and when of courses
with reference to this standard, the value of our pa-
per currency has risen about 24 per cent. not-a word
do we hear of the improved situation of our farmers
and landholders. If a depreciation in the value of
the circulating medium were to be urged as en ergo.
ment in favour of the proposed Corn Bill, surety,
upon every principle of justice and fair reasoning,
improvement in the value of the currency eght
to have been adduced as an argument against that
measure. We are particularly surprised that this
sect should have escaped (lie observation of Lord
Ltruderdnle, as the elaborate and really very melan-
choly calculations, which a temporary depression in
the value of the currency led him to introdue into 4
late pamphlet respecting the Corn Laws, must have,
been fresh in his Lordship's recollection.
It is not, however; of such omissions in the evi-
dence, that we have alone to complain. In the re-
port of the Committee of the (louse of Commons
we find a fact-in&peduced and strongly insisted upon,
which, as far as we have observed, is not borne out
by any part of the evidence, and which certainly
has no existence. "11.1 s a fact," they observe,
" not andeserviek the attention of the [louse, that,
a considerable duty appears to be levied on tell corn
exported from the Baltic. Your Committee hare
reason to believe Bret this duty has been greatly in.
creased on some occasions, when the wants of the
errantry were most pressing. Indeed it cannot (elope
observation, that revenue being the object for which
a duty is imposed, and the .prices in the Baltic being
governed by the prices here, the scale of such a duty
'clinks of being increased in proportion to the de-
gree of scarcity and consequent high price ekisting
in this country." Now we take upon us, without
the fear of contradiction, to assert, that the export.
alien of co.n-from the Baltic is not subject to nny
duty, nor is the exportation of corn from any other
, quarter that know of non subject to a duty.