The Statesman.
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THE STATESMAN.

besides the lose of indolence, there was also a charm in
a state of dependence on so holy a protection as that of
the Church, which made the receiving of alms a:spear
not so degrading as, under other circumstances, it must
have been. It is not, therefore, surprising that the
number of idle, sturdy, and yogrant poor, increased so
much as it slid, even in so industrious a nation as
Englam!. Nor is it wonderful that, at the period of
the supl•ression of monasteries, there should be thrown
destitute and incor►igible, upon society, crowds of lusty
mendicants, who were inveterate in the abject habits to
which they had be ,) fil long inured. . The evil was
1i felt in society, but legislators, overlooking the
cause oleic% had thrown such a man of poverty upon the
hands of the State, seemed rather to consider how
they could provide new temptations for that indolence
which hail lost its original support, than to cut off any
prospect of relief but what was to arise from the legi-
timate source of honest industry.

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TLTIMV, JANI ARS' .1, 1820.

In the absence of Parliamentary proceedings, it
is difficult to adopt subjects sufficiently interesting
to engage the attention of our readers, whom we
well know are not of the dandy breed, or slip-
slop quality, to be amused by a story of Lady
CR !MET T---'a ,Inshing appearance in going up
Pall-mall to Carlton House, in her Ladyship's
new chair, with her two nrcitmental footmen be- I
hind her : whose exact height was live feet ten
and a half, with not the thickness of a gold leaf
between them in measure. Not that we think
the proceedings in either house will, tinder the
same regimen, ever excite the same notice again
which they have done—we mean as far as reve-
rence may he blended with that notice: we arc
sure that they will not. They have done too much
injury to the feelings of the British people.to be
beloved or esteemed. They have wholly lost ours:
and it will require snore million to deport our-
selves in a manner so as to avoid the invocation of
that power which they will be able to carry about
them as long as they will have a political exist-
ence: and which they will doubtless be more
ready to exercise than ever, when they discover
the true light they are held in. The one House
has long been doing too much for itself and too
little for its eonstituents ever to be trusted with
entire confidence again and the other has shown
a most unjustifiable and odious readiness to fall
into the views, the passions, and the fathomable
schemes of an upstart Lord. while the enormity of
the act could only be softened in its asperity by
being the production of a Peer, whose creation
wes invisible from its remoteness in antiquity.
The proceeding, ton, has the appearance of having
been prompted by malignity: it certainly has been
accompanied by a detestable pride. But tyrants,
whether of the petty or other tribe, oftentimes,
nay, generally, add insult to outrage. Ours Las,
in his place in the gjeal Council of the Nation, ap-
plauded himself (as he advised the PRINCE RE-
GENT to applaud the Manchester Magistrates and
Yeomanry for the slaughter and maiming of the
16th of August), he has displayed a self-exult-
ation, that his obnoxious Bills had already ope-
rated wonders by the great terror they bad in-
spired !! That they had occasioned a conster-
nation all over the kingdom we will not delay;
for, till this instance, it never entered into the
imagination of any man but a Parliamentary-
man, that the Court, Council, and their majority,
would venture to set about making laws for abro-
gating parts, and those chief parts, of the CON-
STITUTION of their Country. We should hale
rested assured in our own minds, that whatever the
upper House might have been induced to do, out
of gratitude and respect for those who can create
and extend titles, that in the Common* House
we had friends enough to join in the well-known
motto or exclamation—" &to perpetua," when the
unhallowed bands would begin to pull down this
venerable palladium of an Englishman's liberties.
This it is which urged us to declare that we slundd
despise our countrymen, if they could be made
more submissive and silent on their wrongs by pro-
ceedings so &Trading, so unjust, so insulting, as
those which may be presumed to have arisen from
the Home Secretary of State's partly barbarous
and partly babyish proceedings, which necessarily
include the extracts of letters from A B—B C
C D—up to the top of the gamut, and down to the
foot of the alphabet. No; our countrymen are,

no doubt, astounded for the moment, as we were,
but we are well assured they are not such coward
as to resolve to accommodate their hacks to bear all
the weight their oppressors would put upon them,
an.: tamely submit to all the arbitrary mandates an
upstart race of despots would prescribe them.

The patriotic and sensible letter of the majority
of the Oldham Inquest, to the Coroner, inserted in
our Paper of yesterday, cannot fail to impart satis-
faction to the lover of justice, and the enemy to
murder, whatever may be his political professions,
or hit opinions of the merits or demerits of our pre-
sent men in power. Ileaven forbid that an inquiry
into the cause of the hidden and sudden death of a
fellow-creature should he a matter of indifference
with a Briton! wherever that happens, worse than
" Chaos is come again." The age of Satan will
return ; and murder will stalk abroad to the dis-
may of every heart but the savage one! No; let
us leave an inquiry: a HI, fair, and impartial in-
quiry.
" justieig, rest cerium."

In the Chamher of Deputies, on Tuesday last, a
Report wrs n.uJe of a petition of the Sieur Marie-
Duplan, an Orrcer of the Legion of Ilonour in Paris,
complaining of the reduction that was made in his
pay as a member of the Legion.

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General Foy said, that Captain Marie-Duplan, the
petitioner, was a brave Officer, who lost a leg by a can-
non shot at the battle of Salamanca. Nearly 14 years,
he said, have now passed away since the creation of the
Legion of Honour. Alms)int . power has, not then effaces,
the forms of the Representative Government. The law
of the 29th Floreal, year X. was freely discussed before
the Legislative Body. The new institution was called
to be prolonged to future r and a dotation was as-
signed to It. Already advaucsol in glory, even on the
Slay of its birth, its sta• at once gleatu.ed with a lively
splendour. The Legion of Honour held its ground by
its own funds, and by its material establishments. It
marsised at the head of the social interests for its
own especial object, the strengthening of the re-
sults of the Revolution. The law of creation had
proportioned the number of titn!aries of each rank to
the dotations assigned, but the unmeasured develope-
ment of our military power soon rendered it insignifi-
cant. A crowd of incrative employments were at length
reserved to the Legionaries; the public schools received
the sons of those, who, dying on the field of battle, had
left the head of the State to he the father of their child-
ren. Asylums were opened for their orphan daughters,
to p eeeee re them fr the corruption of morals. The I
war overthrew Napoleon, who was raised and aggran- I
diced by war. The King, remounting the throne of his
ancestors, judged, that a new order of things was ince-
riably established in France, by the voluntary or forces
part which two entire generations had taken in the
events of the 25 last years. The King solemnly conse-
crated for himself and for his successors for ever, the
material and in interests of the Revolution ; the
material interests in acknowledging the sale of the pro-
perty called National, the immoral interests in reeog-
suing the order of the Legion of Honour.
The guarantee mentioned is the 12th Article of the
Charter is a personal proof of the Royal beneficence of
Louis XVIII. By that the King wished to mark the
high esteem in which he held oar institution. The
Orders of Saint Michael, of the Holy Ghost, and of Saint
were founded by unpopular Princes.—(Violent
murmurs.)

lienerai Foy, with relimenre—" Yes, very nopo-
pithr. fur they were Louis XI. Henry 111. and Louis
XIV."

M. de Catutelbajac—tt We acknowledge no one to be
unpopular but Napoleon."
General Foy continued-11e said, that the Legion of
Honour, which had been hitherto given as the price of
Wood, and hail been lavished at once upon men who
had de eilered only obscure or unknown services. on men
who had nev,T !wen warmed by the fire of a bivouac.
Ile declared that the reduction of the pay of the Legion
of llot o ir appeared to him a bankruptcy, and a fraudu-
lent bankru,►tey.
The Chamber remitted the petition to the President
of the Council of Ministers awl the Committee of the
Budget.
BERLIN, DEC. 12.—We learn that Jahn is very
diligently at work in his confinement, on a history
of the Thirty-years War; and it may be reasonably
expected.that he will produce something excellent.
Ins examination is said not to have been brought down
later than the year ISIC, respecting whirls period and
the union then existing un ler his direction, many
of the members have been examined ; among these
are —Zeune Starke, Turin Grasshof, and also Jandke,
who at that time gave information of it. That such
a union existed is proved! ; and thus Mr. Shemitz is
justified, who asserted it : whereas those who boldly
denied it are proved to have been in the wrong.
Bat whether the union hail at that time the same
dangerous tendency as that which arose (according
to an English Journal of the 16th of September thus
( year) in ISMM, is now to he male out from the pa-
pers. The book of the constitution of this union has
been accidentally or designedly destroyed. It is to
he conjectured that it was wholly directed against
Napoleon, and had in view the desirable union of tier-
many, without any intention of having recourse to
poison or the dagger. Dr. Rodiger, who was released
some slays ago, has been again arrested. It is said that
a clue has been found towards the discovery of the cor-
respondent of the English jostrnal, whose articles of
the lOth and 16th September have not been inserted,
as far as we know, in the French, Netherlands, or Ger-
man papers, though they throw much light on what are
called the secret intrigues. The deputation of the so-
ciety of German merchants and manufacturers has met
with a most friendly reception at Berlin, and has reason
to hope that the Prussian government will promote
the intentions and proposals of the German merchants.

FRANKFORT. DEC. 21.-1:le Gazette of Munich
contains the followino. article:—" It is certain that ,
a plan has been formed to establish a printing-
c—ce at Strasburg; that six German compositors
had already arrived there ; and that it • was in-
tended to print in that city all such works as can-
not be published in Germany, on account of the
late Resolutions of the Diet at Frankfort It was
alsi intended to print a newspaper of the same ten-
•leriev. %.Ilich would afterwards have been circu-
ilateti on the right bank of the Rhine. We have
'now received certain information that the French
Government, far from tolerating such a project.
Ihas prohibited the executioa of it, and that posi-
tive orders have been received on the subject from
I Paris."

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TRH FUNOS.

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STOCK ENCIIANGK, Owe o'Cloe.

The Funds still continue to rise. Consuls •
the Account were done yesterday as high as 6,;. •
. which they left off. This morning they opened
that price, and in consequence of their being
of money stock for the day, they declined at G
hut have since resumed their former pricz% '0 •
market looked very favourable towards a fart
elevation.

A failure of a firm of hitherto great respects', *.
lity was made known on 'Cliairre yesterday—it
supposed to a very considerable amount. A dim' -
pointment of expected remittanci.s, to repay most;
advanced its England for the Sluth Arncric 4
cause, is said to be the occasion of their suspytt..-
ing their payments.
Mr. John Green, of the firm of Birch and Greeo.
of Sheffield, was formally outlawed on l'uesda•
last at midnight, in the hay-market of that towa.
for not appearing in the limited time before the
Commissioners, under a commission of bankruptc:..
DEMOURIER, the once-eulArated French Re-
publican General, now in t!,, k,;11) year of his a 4.•.
is at this time in London. :.eel siWag to an art;• •
for his portrait. This vetertto, iu the course of
numerous campaigns, has Imo v minded at let..!
twenty times.
BRUSSELS, DF.C. 30.—8 y tha accOlMiS we To. -
ccive from the Hague, it appetirs that very want
debates are expected in the Seclaid Chamber ki;
the States-General, upon the ello!)ters of the new
codes which have been laid her:l-e it for examina-
tion. It is observed that public opinion is not ver
favourable to those parts of these codes which hats
been hitherto published.
MEINENGEN, DEC. 2t.—ln this city, where pab-
lic opinion had so clearly exprersed itself respect-
ing the injury done to the town aid country 1w
the increase of the pt tlr 00711.114'1"CP of the 3(4,5,
limits have been fixed to its fintlinr spreading by a
Ducal Onlinanee. sir this Orilinalye, it is decree
that the nneteher ofJe !no-remota.. es•ahlishments nue-
existing shall not he rewired Hitless peculiar c!rriite-
stances should occur. and without pernii ...ion from the Cc-
verntnent. The Jews are still allowed to deal in mannfo• .
tured goods by retail, so far as it is iwt cow rary to the
vileges of the Guilds or Companies. nail existing Ord:.
names. Retail trade in colonial pro dnee is prohibited t
all Jews. They are forbidden to hawk goods about to sell,
as well in the ctanutry as in the towns, they only m"r
hawk about goods al fairs, and one day 'oefore and after.
No licenses to trade will be given to foreign Jews.

IRUN, DEC. 25.—The Kin. of RN& has ordered
a corps of 5 or 6,003 chosen tl'oops to be dispatcht d
im nediately to
.join General MoriHo. Orders have
bean sent to Cadiz. :old it is supposed that this
6r.1 part of the expedition will sail about the 2fitli
of January. Lis impossible to form an idea of the
general astonishment caused in ail Spain by the
forged orders for the march of the regiments of
Militia. The Mime:lse rewords offered in the
King's name to him who shall reveal the authors
or this plot, have hitherto been without effect.
Meantime it is certain, that resolutions layout-at:le
to a great part of our exiles had been taken, awl
were on the point of being published, which are
now deferred, because this inconceivable manceuvre
is attributed to the party of the Liberals.
Extract of a letter, dated Edinburgh, Dec. 27,
1t3!9-" The quie!est flare, and the most devoi.t
in outward appearance, I hove seen for long, is
Clostrow, as we saw it yeaterdav daring divine
service. The calm and depopulated appearance its
streets exhibited whilst church was assembled,
was most strikia,,.. and even at " grim Tollcross"
itself we saw nothing indicative of its reported ter-
bulent state, say:: a-so!dier or two, without order a
without arms, were sauntering here and there. I
could not help feeling that these were strong proofs
that infidelity is not so much abroad here as is ap-
prehended. and that the result of our own observa-
tion would be far more comfortable and cheering to.
our minds than the gathering reports from a dis-
tance. Neve,. in nor hest times could Senday have
had the oppvaratice of bring mlre rz.vectfully re-
0-arded."

One hundred and thirty new dramatic pieces
(says a French paper) have ar.pearcd at Pa►i
dtarinz the year 1319. In the preceOing year ona
hundred and forty-nine were produced.

Sitiings appointed in Middlesex and London. be-
fore the Hon. Sir Robert Deltas, I(ot. Lord
Chief ittstieo of his Majesty's C.-7i of Common
Pleas. at NVetniinater, iu and after Hilary Term,
1820: