The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-03 00:00:00

Unstieur de Chat
'Weirs's* out .
will tell us "Thu' t.
this they san in III•glaad;
wiliest us, that they have withdratin from Buse 1 to'
avoid the mutest of thou vrrj taxes WO' they
were the principal cause of being put ow. What le
the mean why wheat is to be bought cheaper on the
Continent than in England ? " There is less taxation
and no tythes." Why do the French, the Dutch, the
Spaniards, the Portuguese, and the Americans, carry
freights for a less sum than the English, the Scotch,
and the Irish? " Because the former pay a less mot
for the materials and labour to hoild their ships, and'
for victuals and wages for their seamen to navikraie
them, than the latter do." Hera again, "Excessive.
taxation" is the "cause." We are told in Scripture
that the Kings of the Gentiles made the Sur-Inger pay.
tribute, bat let their own subjects go free! Our wise
Rolm do the reverse of this! English salt is used
by the Americana. at half-a.erown a bushel. We pay
I7s. 9J. Whoa foreigners had money in our funds.
which they pot there for its greater security ; they
were xxempt from that income-tax, which the English.
moo was obliged to pay; thereby enjoying that se
entity for nothing, which the English man was
&stied to pay fur. I think I have now proved that
Excessive taxation " sets the precepts of Gospel at
smelt, and the comforts of Zeglishonen at defiatice.
I am, your's, la., Mr. Editor,
INDEX.

P. 8.--If you approve of this, I will, in the course
of a few days, send yen another letter, as you per-
ceive I have touched on only one of the remedies.

_ eat . u. ill carat a.
eadostestlY calla the Itica►do System, by paying in
tosioined gold. The Di•retors appeared to him La
have mistake* a circulation of coin for a standard of
raise, by which, hr again repeated, they had lost for
their Proprietors more than a million sterling.
A Peovnirroe asked, in the course of the discus•
'ion, whether the Bank had given np all idea of
adopting • better note, or a better paper for their notes
'than these they now set forth ?
The C1141:114AN answered, that the Bank had now a
plan under consideration.
After some Nether observations it wa. agreed, that
the word •' apnrored" should be otnived in the Re.
solutimar, which was tit n rea:l, That the Court con.
seated to the prop aitiun coutained in the letter of
Lord Liverpool," &c.
The resolution in this shape was put and carried
unanimously, when the Court adjourned.

L.4IV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OR OF CHANCERY—TnuanDAT, MAT 2.

ILIVPARTC CoIIIII.T.

On Topalay last, Mr. Caine applied to the Loan
CHANCELLOR to hear the cati.e of John Comely,
who had been confined in the Fleet Prison for a
contempt of Court, for upwards of three years. He
bad presented a petition to the Vice-Chaneellor pray-
ing to be released about right drys before, which
his Honour directed to stand over for a week, in
order to afford the opposite party an opportunity
f replying to it by affidavit. On Monday, Mr.
CIMINO stated, the case came on again, when Mr.
Heald handed some affidavits to the Court, upon
looking at which, with tut their either having been
filed or read in Court, by which the petitioner
might know and answer their contents, his Honour
had been pleased to order the petition to stand over
until Michaelmas term, thereby prolonging the 'pe-
titioner's confioement for six months more. The
Learned Counsel contended against the justice
or legality of making an order °upon affidavits
which had not been filed, and which, therefore, if
false, would not maintain a prosecution for perjury.
Under these circumstances; Mr. Ching felt himself
bound by a sense of justice gratuitously to come
forward, and bring the case before his Lortlehip.
The Loan CHANCELLOR observed, that no ordefcrono
be made on affidavits which bad not been filed ;rill
as this was a case which affected the liberty of Ai
subject, and should therefore be disposed of with
little delay as possible, be directed Mr. Ching Wok&
doe it at the sittiv of the Court on Thursday.
This dui, however, his Lordship heard the case in
his private chamber. What occurred, tberefoimalrbill
coarse have not learned. Mr. Wetherell was engigni
with Mr. Ching for the petitioner. We andel-staid
that his Lordship promised to read the petition bly
Saturday. The documents are said to contain some
facts of a delicate oatare, as affecting the parties con-
cerned.

COTTINGDOM 0. OICIIARD.
The LORD Cuaxcam.oa. in ethnical to the males
lately made oa the bebalr of a yoong maw wafted
Clarke, who once himself addressed the Court, sad
wbo claimed an interest is some property at Bath
where be resided, said that be hid perused the papers
pet into his heads and found that whatever truth there
might be in the statement, the motion could not be
sustained. If air. Clarke felt himself aggrieved. the
course for him to take we to file a bill, sad bring
his complaints before the Coert in the ordinary way ;
but this motion a.ked the decrees in ilve causes to be
reversed, at the desire of a person who was sot even a
party to the bills, and therefore presumptively having
so interest in them. The jurisdiction of the Court
did not travel to that extent, and therefor* the appli-
cation must be dismissed.

OF 'llll B4TN -10U1INdi.

by smite plarards about the town,
ietention of the inhabitants of this city to
lamest not to licence those public-Inate
which are in the possession of brewers ;—pray, Sir, are
those petitioners aware that the whole powerof rrantiag
their prayer is invested in the Alegi bb ? wherefore
then should they apply to Parliament, hrfore having re.
presented their case to the proper authorities ? f agree
that shoot: they fail in meeting redress from the Magis.
testes, were will then be no other alternative; bat it
seems ridictilons that so notch nnnereseary trouble shenld
he taken to petition Parliament, before a trial be made
to gain redress at home.—Toor's,•&c. A.

PHILANTHROPIC SOCIRTY.—The Anni Dinner
of this excellent Institution, which has for its object the
reformation of criminal poor children and the admission
of the offspring of convicts, was held yesterday evening
at the City of London Tavern, Bialispigateatreet.—.l:
six o'clock about 200 persons sat down to a snutionons
dinner. among whom were several persons of distinction.
who addressed the meeting in able speeches on behalf
of the soviets., which ap!..aears to have effected great
good.—The Treasurer's Helmet afforded math satisfac.
Lion. His Royal Highness the Doke of York was pre.
vented *needing by illness.
BRITI-II AND FOREIGN BISLI SOCIITT.—WeiIuesdAT
tie ovule r .ary Meeting of this Society was held at the
Freemason's tivern. Long before eleven o'clock every
place in the Great Room was filled by persons of the
first respectability. Lord Teignmenth was called to the
chair, anti after the Sem stray had mad the Reporc,
which was very satisfactory, the Earl of llarrowbv. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Teignmonth, Lord
Calthorpe' Mr. Wilberforre, the Earl of Raiford, the
llishop of Norwich, Lord Gamhier, and other gentlemen,
snrcestively addressed the meeting; as I several ayerrr
pride resolutions were agreed to.
Devizes fair was miserably dull on Saute lay
and low as the prices of sheep were at the I.st P.ll
Fair, some of those who purchased then and 6.s'd sow,
sunk as nitwit as six shillings a head on Wethers.....
The prices obtained on Saturday were—T•46,
20s. ; Wethers, 16s. to 236. ; Couples. 21ts. to 286.
There were bat few Oxen and Graziers, and for the.'
there was scarcely any demand. Cheese, 301. to th ;
Skim, Ifie!to 15s.
On Saturday motaing last, Mr. Eccles, a farmer,
at Bellmore, is thy parish of Sutton, near It-tford.
having occasion to go into Bellmore wood in search ~t
his pony. discovered In the said wood a quantity of
soil, thrown spits a besp.and on ',iambit c the pint,
a hole was dug four feet deep, soil foroied in the
shape of a grave. Mr. Eccles was mach &lame! at the
circumstance, testier, as be said, that sumo murdorrr
istenJed it for hits, he living at a lone house near
the soot. As alarm Wag given, hundreds of per-
sons, from all directions, trout to see the place, and
various conjectures arose as to the Intended vicdat
Stroog suspicion, however, rests on • young man in
the neighbourhood, by whoa two ?ming girls are sow
preview, one of whoa had made as appolatmeat to
vest his on Friday evening last, near the place men-
tioned, bat ems singular cause prevented the girl
from fal6Meg her engagement, which cannot be pre.
porly accounted for, ss this reports are so retinas. The ,
hole was is the owl shape of a grave, in 4.0 six
foot' four ignites c breadth across tie shoulders, three
test es* inch I and depth four foot lx inchn. The
place is In a vary saint part of the wood, as two Or
teen. eat Scotch kind, very low and bssltx, aunty
shoot *vet the isp, wad a kW Oar boughs was Mime
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