The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-17 00:00:00

ill !WAS MITI! V. SAIL or 4X1.IIIII•

•r This erase civil avian, brought by Mr. William
Smith against the Lori of Selkirk, for false 'reprises.
meat.

" It appeared in ',idiom, that the Plaintiff was;
Under Sheriff of the Wester. District, and us such
the bearer of a Writ of Restitution, founded on a
verdict of a Special Jury, at Sandwich, io October,
1815, and granted by the Sitting Magistrate, order-
ing the restoration of Fort William to the North.
west Company. lle was also the bearer of a war-
rant for felony, isieed against his Lordship, Dr.l
Allen, Capt. Matthey, and others, upon se Worts'.
lion, on oath, before a Justice of the Peace. Lord
Selkirk, instead of obeying, imprisoned Mr. Smith in
the fort, from the 19th March till ►e evacuated it in
May.
" The Jury, after some deliberation, Merged a
Verdict in the f f the Plalatiff.—Do wages 5001.
l[alilaa CO r teary."

Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived in town piles-
day, but attar contents are scarcely worth notice,
although aro have not much of importance to speak
of on our home concerns. A letter from a pri►ate
band, received this scorning, containing a few re-
marks on the French Ministry, we giro as (Minns :
—" The French Ministry reminds ea of the fable of
the old man, his son, and the ass—strives to please
everybody, and consequently pleases nobody, not.
withstanding its unremitting efforts. It wisely km
its eyes on AS English Constitetion as a scale! ; and
to give the Members of the two Chambers some ides
of the manner in which its principles were 'approval
by reel Patriots, it orders the translation of Fox's

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Speeches; but •e please certain parties, it siged those
of I'ITT. The meet nominations contain nosily il-
lastrioos Patriots ; but to please the lithos, it d•shed
the cep with gall, in admitting a, me who bad wo
pretensions save those of being the enemies of order.
It sett M. Corru, a worth) and enliihten;d man,
to study the legal invitotions of England; and to
co .nlerbalance the greed he might do, M. Ct.viEst
was sent after him, who, from bib g • very
warm Republican, is termed an esaggerated Una.
Royalist, and after proving geologically that the
Mosaic account of the creation is Melees, is forme
ed bigot, and destroys by faith the deren• stations of
Monet. It pretends to concede the Liberty of the
Press, sod imposes restrictions which amount to •
prohibition. To what are we to attribute these seem.
i.g incensieteacies ? To the ethane* of • factious
too near the Threat not to indeetsce it. We .g
designate no one; bat we will e.k, what la the cease
of the general cessionaries wiarnever it is knows
that his Majesty is indisposed ? The disceseloos oe
the Law of the Liberty of the Press comes gm t..
day. The Committee far esamining it has made a
great many alteration', and proposes the reduc-
tion of the security required to ono half. We
have no hesitation in predicting that the law will
not pass escept ender each inediicarieos a, will
leave scarcely an atom of the origisal Bill is
the state it was proposed." As meek fess Mete
made of Lord WIJITWOILTIeII visit to the capital of
France, as of Gotta:me: arrival at Lil/4al. Not
ono in twenty Frenchmen bat say knosledge of
what passed at Versailles and Trianon in the day' of
Queen Assonsarts, when this Nobleman was Aw-
-1 Wearier there, and consecoently he is lost in mese
at the questions, " How will this Englishmen be
received at Court by our good and virtuous Soat-
aigu ?" &c. As Lord Ogleby had, Se may this
;veletas of gallantry have, " debts of honest' *hick
mast be paid." For as to being w spy, we are as.
aired he will do the French no harm in that capacity,
ma though Opals' B—os—u were his Lordship's
'private secretary.

The Emperor of RUSSIA evinces • peculiar le.
tertst is thespian's's whether the assassin of Kona.
•vs had accomplices or nut. The Russian Mohler
at the Court of Baden has been directed by bit So-
vereign to attend the proceedings of the Commis-
'Jose's In their investigation of the etsir and its
cause. As to a fellow stedent being in his company
a short time before the deed. that has little to de is
implicating such person with the matter. It mass
by the Ilamburgh end Dutch Mails, that some (pet-
rel+ among the militery have taken place at Breese's.
They arose between the different troops that compose
that garrison. Several on both sides sera woeuded,
and a few of the most turbulent committed to atm-
porary imprisonment by the Police.

Oar Readers cannot but recollect t►at about
week ago, we noticed that the Coarier, after having
published a garbled, cad otherwise unsatisfactory sod
incredible account of the finances of the lest quarter,
with some notes of references sad comparisons of this
last to the former year ; had !ha audacity to affirm,
that the condition of the country was Haltering to a
high degree, both with regard to Revenue aid
Tat We should have been glad, as friends to our
country, that this writer could have been made to
prove his w ords. Alas! troth was not the design,
but deception, which might ansoer his own priest*
ends sod interest, or farther the main views of his
employers. Prucrastinationla tbeirehject. They wish
and want to pat off the evil day, when the reckoniog
most come on. Bet out of that delusive stale of the
income and of the growieg trade and commerce of
England, arises • very serious injury to cambers of
individuals, and a vest mortification toassnaoy more
who casks their specelations accordingly. The writer,
no doubt, with his stoical assume', laughs in his
sleeve, and says the Public (which to him 'topes no-
thing of respect) is fair plunder. " Si cull popular
decepi, decipiatur." It's enough for him that he makes
his profit of the transaction, one way or the other.
One thing we do insist °N and that is, that as th•
Courier is dictated to, or acts in concert with, or by
the connivance of, Ministers, through the means of
some of their satellites, its conduct on °maim"
of this nature should be enquired into and chas-
tised. It is too tress to be passed over. If a lose,
after all, should be required by the CHAIM,.
Loa of the EaCilEattart, instead of a tea or two re-
pealed—then does the Journal in question deserve to
be beret by the hands of the common hangmeo.—.
The Report made by the Committee enquiring iota
the important hosiery trade at Leicester, and which
is published in this day's ST4rcsar4w, is afflicting
to the highest degree, and gives so unequivocal con-
tradiction to the daring falsehoods of the Print in
question. Of what materials must the readers a
sock a Jgetnal he composed, if after solicit" as
Funds decline the very day of the pompous detail,
and witnessing their further declension to this very
hoer, they can endure the sight of sect. a false aside!
If the liropo.al of a loan, instead of a repeal of
one or more lases, should, after all the display of
national pro.p..tity, he made by the CIIANCILLOS at
the ExCitirtUrn hi the basin'ss of the Budget, what
mast 1.. 11.• fe.ting of the sensible part of the Cou-
rier's Readers ?

KING AGAIN•I ituoDART AND 011111te...-1141
Cline, to whirlt Sir. HUNT is the Prefecelnr for s
h.! tillle.hed in the Aril) %nNea, ip pooponed
Moodily, %lieu it goads Ent et soaped is t►e fist.