The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-21 00:00:00

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10112t4111 MARZICT.

Chip, dY; 40 70—claw spesish, Si sethleldese—
New Prussia. 761-01 d, 714-Itaula, 714—Denleb, 78—
Neapolitan; 74e serip—Cooteblan.47—Spanleh gulp,
is the foreign market there wee a good deal doing. Spa-
nish Ronda opened *tide to I; Mint down to Mg, up again
nun.

Paris papers Lave 4 been received to the 19th instant,
but contain no intelligence of any public interest.
Private letters state the Renter on Tuesday to have
closed at 80f. sc.
____

Bayonne papers to the 14th instant, have been re-
ceived this morning, which rate that the Landaburian
Cleb at Madrid had been shat up since the 23d instant
►y the indirect orders of °Decrement Two cruisers of
tits Defenders of the Faith have lately disturbed the
commerce of the Bay of Biscay.

Yesterday evening, at six o'clock, his Majesty arrived
in town from Brighton.
Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock, a Cabinet Coun-
cil was held at the Foreign Office. which sat about two

hours.
Mr. Walsh, the King's Messenger, arrived in town a
few days since with dispatches from Vienna.
It was yesterday very confidently reported that Sir
Thomas Plower retires from the Bench, in consequence
of delicate health, and that Mr. Courtenay succeeds him
as Master of the Rolls. It is also said that Mr. Murray
(eon of the Gentleman of that name who officiates far the
Cosatitational Association) hopes to be continued in his
present situation of Secretary to the Master of the Rolls,
even after the elevation or Mr. Courtenay to the latter
office. To these rumours we may add one of Sir John
Leach being the probable successor of Lord Manners,
as Chancellor of Ireland, whoa the recal of this Nobleman
can be conveniently effected by Ministers.
The Old Times of this summing states, upon what it
asserts to be good authority, that letters have been re-
ceived from Paris, addreseed to a person of rank in this
country, with the imporiant intelligence, that " the
" Duke of Angouleme s departure for the Pyrenees was
" deferred for stx weeks, or till the end of March."
Various rumours mere circulated yesterday evening
about the House of Commons, as to the nature of the
relief contemplated in the Chancellor of the Rxcheqaer's
" Budget," which will be brought forward to-night. One
report was, that the Chancellor will recommend to the
Haase a reduction of Fifty per Cent. upon the Windows,
sod Fifty per Cent, upon the House Assessment Tax ;
bet the most prevalent rumour wag, that be intended to
pproroppoee reductions of the whole of the House Tax, and
Half of the Window Dudes. The produce of those taxes
according to the estimates for the last two years, are
stated to be as follows:-
1921.—Net produce of the Assessed Taxes (Great
Britain .26.139,4119
Bet Ditto ditto 0,031,9n
The net produce of the House Tax and the Window
Tax is not given in the Annual Accounts; the above
sums are returned in conjunction with the Land-Tax.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will, tonight, slate
what Ministers estimate to be the expenditure for the
current year, and the supposed income; but It is not ex-
pected that be will propose any vote till a future even-
ing.
Within the last two or three days, seven ovens fur
baking biscuits have been employed at Deptford; and
on Friday morning IN additional ropemakers were set
to work at Woolwich.
Doecnsesoa ELECTION.—By an Advertisement in the
Dorchester Gazette, which we have received by
this morning's Post, we learn that Mr. Banks* has de-
clined contestiog the County of Dorset. From the cyan
of the nomination, belays be cannot help observing that a
much greater diversity ofopinion exists among the Frees
holders than be Imagined when his canvass was begat%
I sad that he feels disposed rather to make a sacrifice of
Ms own wishes, than, for the sake of any object of per;
Arial ambition, to increase an irritation which ap.
tears to be excited, or to disturb the general tranquillity
and harmony of the county.
LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTS' MBETINO.—.-II is expected
that the meeting of thin county, to petition for a Reform
la Parliament, will be held early in April.—(Stamford
News.)
WINCHESTER, Fits. 19.—Yesterday Sir Edward
Hyde East, Bert. was elected M. P. for Winchester, inl
the room of James Henry Leigh, Esq. of Stonleigs
Abbey, who bad vacated his seat in Parliament. Sir R.
H. East was proposed by the Marquis of Chandos, sad
seconded by Charles ()risme!. Esq. of Kilmision.
CHICHESTER ELECTION, LAST Dia.—Tuesday after.'
noon the poll, to use the expression of the day, died a
natural death, far want of persons comity; forward to
poll within the hour, though there were many in the city
on either side who bad not yet voted, and Mr. Poulos
was declared duly elected; the numbers on the gross
poll being Poyntz 292, Webster 194, exclusive of the
doubtful, or St. Pancras votes.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS ACT.—A public 'meeting was
held yesterday in the Egyptian Hall in the Mansion-
house, for the purpose of " taking into consideration the
operation of the present Insolvent Act, and the propriety
of petitioning Parliament for such a mmlificattoo or re-
peal of the act, as shall be deemed adviseable." A peti-
tion was unanimun.ly agreed to, praying for the repeal of
the said Act, or for relief from the evils occasioned
thereby.
Loan PORTSMOUTH'S CAM-4h. Sergeant Pell yes-
terday concluded his reply, which, from first to last, oc-
cupied six hours. He then called Mr. France, his Lord.
ship's Solicitor, whose examination continued the re-
mainder of the day.
AFFECTING OCCOERENCE.—Last night about half-past
eleven o'clock, a genteel dressed young man and a yowls
airman, walking together in Wellington-street, Waterlooi-
bridge, were overheard to differ. The female exclaimed, she
would drown herself, ran down the bridge steps and plunged,
into the river. The young man foil .wed, and being a good
swimmer, secured her at toe first barge, and swam back with
bee to the steps ; but, had it not been for the prompt assist-
ance of Capt. Price, of the army, and a friend of his, both
must have been lost. She was taken t) Mr. Stanton'a, sur-
geon, in the Strand, where every attention was paid to her,
and af.erwards removed to a public-house in the neighbour-
hood, where she now is in a fair way of recovery. The
young man, we are informed, is the son of an eminentistock-
broker ; the young woman was a dressmaker, very re•
spectably connected.
Coax-EXCHANGE.—There is a good supply of all
sorts of Grain this morning at market. Prime Wheat
sells freely, and fully supports the terms of Monday.
Superfine samples of Maltiog Barley are rather dearer.
There is also a good sale of dry. Beans, but not much
business doing in Peas. Oats in good condi.ion sell
freely; but other kinds go off slowly at Monday's
prices.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Feb. 21.—There was a very
scanty supply of Oxen this moroiog at market, as well
as a short supply of sheep I The prices of all descriptions
of Cattle are much the same as last Monday's market.
Pr I
SPORTING INTELLItiENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERS ALL'S —Faa . 21.
CIARZT.-3 to 1 agstMoses-7 to 2 agar Postbama.
agst Swap.
Deasy.-8 to 1 apt Emilio-7 to 1 apt Faaallo-10 to
I apt Web.
DONCASTIR 11,r. Lrala.-101 to 1 apt Sherwood-11 to
1 apt Mr. Powlett's two-18 to 1 apt Mlu Fanay-18 to I
sot Tinker-19 to 1 apt Patois Royal-22 to 1 agst br to

1-15 to

TO MR. CANNING.
at ale. HOStMON'. MEW AT LIVIIIPOOL.
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Ste-1 have seen,in the Liverpbbl Advertiser:a corrected
report of a part of Mr. Huskisson's speech. By the bye,
this Liverpool is a famous place for the fomtalling of pe-
tition discussions. You have figured away there very fre-
quently to some tone of notoriety. Your friend seems to emu-
late you in this respect. He did not bring out any red lions
upda the stage, to be sure; but he brought out something
quite as curious as red lions, So curious, indeed, that I
certainly should have thought the report to be incorrect,
if it had not appeared in the form in which it does. Let
us insert this curious extract, and then make a few re-
marks upon it :
"The retirement of my esteemed and honourable friend
"is no common occurrence. The critierl circumstances of
" the country have demanded his powerful assistance. The
" peace and happiness of Europe are endangered by an
" aspect of circumstances of as threatening portent as the
" French Retolotton. Upon the temper and talents of Mr.
" Canning has devolved the task of guiding and repelling
" the elements qf strife front the country, and, if possible,
"from Estwpc. It has behoved him to oppose firmly the
" principles of aggression avowed by the Powers hostile to
" Spain ; and in this opposition do I cordially concur.
" It will ever be a principle with me to assert, and as far as
" in my potter maintain the independence of every ustion,
" and to oppose hostile machinations by other Powers
" against a Action's ilsternal peace and freedom. lam
" not called upon to argue for the Spanish Constitution,
" which I may not understand ; but lam assured, in main-
" twining their right, to aim at the attainment of rational
" 10d regaillaed liberty ; the melons and manner are rattlers
"iw which themselves only ore concerned. The Spanish
" nation Is making an experiment in liberty to which I sin-
" cerely hope success: she transgresses no boundaries of
" international law; and if the principle of interference
" with her in such case be admitted. there will no longer
"'be safety to any nation—to ourselves. A crusade against
" principle* of internal polity were an event, the conse-
-44 of which, upon the pence and independence of
4. rwtrld, could not be calculated or foreseen. lam tic-
"mined of countenancing principles different from those,
" which I have now asserted with respect to Spain, because
" the Ministry, with whom I have thought and acted, moved
"the war in 1799; but they are very different cases. By
"the latter revolution, or circumstances growing out of it,
" Parliament and the country believed the peace and se-
" rarity of this nation endangered. In the case of the
" Spanish Revolution, Parliament and the country are
" nnaniesone In discarding all such ideas. The exertions
" which this country made in the late war to save herself
"films the yoke of Bonaparte, have weakened and exhaust-
"ad ker. I have much pain in hearing here, and in other
" pieces, that the debt contracted for the prosecution of this
"necessary struegle, the country is absolutely unable to
pay. I deny this. The country is capable of discharging,
" and will discharge, honourably, her engagements. This
" is not a time to hold suck language. calling in question,
" as it does, and thereby in some degree weakening, politic
"credit. In England, credit is power. We know not how
" soon we may be obliged to have recourse to U. England
"Is powerful enough, by her own internal strength, in a
" patriotic and vigorous population, to secure herself from
" any danger that might threaten her ow her shores ; but
" without having recourse to the power which she derives
" from her credit, she might not be able to maintain that
" station which she has long held in the world, if, unhap-
" pity, the cloud that layers should burst over Europe. It
" is not, therefore, the part of the wise orpatrlotie to utter
" any thing at this critical moment against that great
" bulwark elf our power—our credit ; by which, in times
" that are past, some more remote, some recent, we have
" been enabled to support the feeble, to raise the fallen, to
" maintain the character of the benefactress of the nations."
I did not think the swath and gentle Mr. Huskisson
could take such high flights as to talk of your being
leaned era; "to repel the elements of strife from the
Country and from Europe." Hogever, we will not
wastoeur tilos upon the nonsense. The sense of this is,
that pow fin+ oppose the principles of' France in making
war upon, Spain ; and that those principles, if Frmitted
to be acted upon, will not leave even ourselves in :afety.—
In this Mr.Huskissort cordially concurs; awl, of course,
he mostb• for war; for, how are the French princip'es
Ito be prevented upon being acted upon, except by our go-
ing to war? It is a pity that Mr. Huskisson told us that
there was any body to accuse him of inconsistency, in
eating now upon principles different from those on which
be acted with the ministry in 1793. It is a pity he told
us this; became the defence he sets np for himself is
founded in falsehood. He says that Parliament and the
country believed the pesceand security of the nation en-
dangered by the French revolution in the year 1793.
The Parliament and the country believe no such a thing.
The government went to war to crush freedom in France;
to throw disgrace upon all changes in government, and
to prevent Parliamentary Reform in England. That was
the true cause of the war. Our government received the
most solemn assurances from the French King first, and
from the National Assembly afterwards, that tuey wished
for nothing so much as peace with England; anti that
they never had countenanced and never would counte-
nance, any thing hostile ;to the King of Englund and
his government. It is good enough to hear Mr. link
kisson acknowledge, that England is weakened and ex-
hausted in consequence of the late war ; but he sta'ee
that which is notoriously not true, when he says that
that war carried on to save her from the yoke of Bona-
parte. The war was carried on seven years and snore
before Bonaparte had any thing like political power
Before,in short, there was a consulship at all. How, then,
dares Mr.Htukirson insult the country with this st item -nt?
Hekuows full well that see broke the peace ofilmiens. He
know. fall well the shocking pretences tinier which that
peace was broken. He knows, in short, that we began
before the last war, and that, too, in spite of all sorts of
concessions on the part of Bunnaparte. And yet he tells
the sots of Liverpool, that the war um to preserve
from Buonaparte's yoke ! However, all the rest is trifling,
compared to what this your worthy friend and successor
lat Liverpool says about the Debt, and about our ability
to go to war. He has, with pain, heard it said that the
country is unable to pay this Debt. What is his answer
to this? Why, a mere swagger, and nothing in the way
of argument or proof. "This is not a time," says he,
"to hold such language." Who made a judge of
that ? Who made him our political censor? It is for us
to judge for ourselves. He tells us that such language
tends to weaken " public credit." If by public credit
he means loan-making and paper-money, how does he
know that we do not think it good to weaken it, and
where is his argument to show that it is an evil to do this?
Credit Is power," says he. Lean-lobbing is power;
and too well we know it. We have felt the effects of that
power for egreat many years, and it is the hope of every
good man that we shall not feel its effects mach longer.
—Now, to our fancy, this is the time of all times for de-
livering one opinions freely upon the wasteful expendi-
ture, the equaoderei millions and hundreds of millions of
the late war. We.want to prevent such squanderiugs be