The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-02-06 00:00:00

asKsorto. We do not see tkecasko yet, to r,-pent of the
opinion we have lately expressed respecting tie tem-
per sad designs of the Country tientleuten; and we
trust, as toe important business of the Session pro-
ceeds, we chall have cause of triumph in recording. the
conduct of that important part of the legislative
On them, we firmly believe, depeods the question—
whether this country shall regain her ancient state of
prosperity and happiness, or shall sink below the de-
gree of wretchedness which embraces the greater part
of the continent.' We shall watch their proceedings
with great amidst>, ; but.not without a very strong
hope that England will find that Parliament has, at
length, effectually done its duty.
At present' it may be veil to confine ourselves
chiefly to an examination of the character of the
Ktsta's Speech; and we 'lsiah we could mention it in
terms of loss disrespect than those we mast use. it
nterstly glances at the miseries which aMict this coun-
try sod Ireland ; as if to leave the public in worse
than doubt respecting the true nature of the remedies
which are to be applied to these ills ; and it speaks of
the Meteor Foreign Affairs oith a coldness which
Englishmen-were not wont to feel when a contest was
actually on foot, in which the cause of Christianity,
sad the liberties of as interesting people were concern-
ed. Ministers have put words into his MAJEET I'S
mouth, which make him appear indifferent to the
Christian cause, when alluding to the sufferings
of the Greeks; and like an enemy to freedom,
speaking of the resistance which the Greeks oppose to
their ruthless tyrants. We too mach fear, the re-
proach which was lately cast upon Louts XVIII. that
he had preserved peace, by compromising the charac-
ter and honour of his country, in the affair of "St. Pe-
tersburg and the Ottoman Porte," will be found
applicable also to the Mini f a Monarch, whose
political position would render the sarcasm still
more bitter to him. With respect to Ireland (odor.
tuuate Ireland !) there is no developement of the mane
proposed to heal her wonads, bat what are too pain-
fully ominous of new injuries, and accumulated lair
role. The KING says—" lam determined to use all
means in my power for the protection of the persons
and property of my loyal and peaceable 'ob-
jects ; and it will be fur your immediate coa-
siderstion, whether the existing laws are 'effi-
cient for this purpose." New measures of cosi,-
Mon are in preparation for Ireland, and are al-
ready announced in Parliament! It has been long
know% to every reflecting Statesman, that measures of
conciliation aloft could touch the generous and brave
hearts of Irishmen ; and the same has been ackaow-
'edged. ITN by oar obdurate Ministers. What, then,
does this threat mess ?—Nothisg effectual, or
even explicit, it even promised, to meet the Agri-
cultural Distresses of the Country. Some quackery is
intimated, bat is aotpermitted yet, tolls*, itself openly.
ikofiscari era loiather the fel ly of the litchespsevisor
scheme. And what otbeeebiles game do they am,
substitute for it? No matter: for teething will Mil
bat REDUCTION or TAXES, Tibia they would ant pro.
mist. Indeed, nothing essential respecting the far-
ther redaction of the expenditure, appears is any part
of the Speech. On the contrary, the Estimates are
stated to Irv* been " framed with • attention to
economy, which the circumstances of the country will
permit." No hope of retrenchment in the civil list,
or in any other of the wasteful establishments of the
State, is held out, even faintly or for a moment.
Nothing but despair (as far as the Speech goes) is
left to a people who, from the depth of their misery,
looked up to the Throne for their deliverance. We do
not stay to offer much on the don, that " consider-
able improvements have taken place in our Commerce and
Manufactures." Such as these are. they have resulted
chiefly from the altered position of South America,
and are no result of the wisdom or policy of our
Government; and if our foreign Commerce is im-
proved, so much the more easy will it be for Or
vernment to spare the taxes whose reduction has
been so earnestly recommended.

Prints letters from Paris state, that on Saturday
the French Five per Cents. left off at SSC 50e.
Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, a Cabinet
council was held at the Earl of Liverpool's house,
Whitehall.
*fuels papers to the let instant, give a favour-
able account of the affairs of the Greeks and Ali*Pacha.
The Gazette of last night announces the changes
made is-the Boards of Admiralty and Custrol. Mr.
W. R. Keith Douglas has been appointed a Lord tK
the Admiralty, and the names of Sir U. Warreadvo
amid Sir O. Clerk are omitted. This reduces the nos-
her of the Lords to sift.—in the Board of Coutrul the
new appointments are those of the Right Hon. C. W
W. Wynn, W. H. Freemantle. Sir (I. Warreader, and
Phillimore. The names omitted are those of
Lords Binning and Walpole, and Mr. Sturges Bourne.
Mr. Canning, it is understood, is detained from
Parliament by an attack of the goat.
Among the novelties which appeared in the Royal
Procession yesterday. one, which could out fail to
strike the mind as well as the eye, was the escort of
the Horse Guards Bine, instead of the customary
accompaniment of the Life Geards. The First Regi-
ment of the latter lined the way by which his Majesty
hail to pass.
Ton LAYS Hoannattzs.--During the hurricane of
Saturday night, his Majesty's ship Northumberland,
broke from her moorings In the Medway, and was
driven with violence on the banks of the Isle of Unit,
but was warped off the shore without damage. The
storm appears to have visited St. George's, as well as
the British Channel; and. according to the Ottblio
papers, to have rendered the former unnavigable
'Several melancholy aecillents hen occurred is comae-
fiance, both in Ireland and Ragland.