The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-12 00:00:00

on
au other view than to support those very mea-1
stal countenaoce that system, which have to-I
fight the country to beggary, while it has en-I
fhe,„,selres, and a handful of men who are linked
irks, iu interest. and share with them the booty. Men
ior„,erly chosen to sit in Parliament as guardians!
to public purse, and the defenders of the nation's
40 mint the griming power of its rulers; whereas
„of almost openly declare, by their scarcely dis-
...:44malnct and language, that they are determined'
oke site KING absolute, and the Piton! slaves; ia-
„obfir own security from the resentment of the ho-
r./ indignant indignant part of the people, as much as the
• it their abandoned conduct, urges them to this,
• estremity. A little more than a century ago,
mouldy we have alluded to (for we hardly dare
• rid: truth on our tongue) acquired the title of
rrit It lanulded the pride of a tyrant, and broke)
;freffs In looking back, then, to what it was at
reel, and in comparing it with what it has very
it, bees, how careful ought we to he in our choice
t*t hands irto wl.ich we shall again trust the autho-
..- ,hat has been so much abused ! It shall he oar
.sus to put our compatriots on their guard. Though
y east and will be done by events, over which in-
0. hare nut, ror can have, any controul; yet
srli retrains within our power to do, to afford a
of restoring something like repntation to a

the choice of it hose members is absolutely and
oronedir rested in us. Let us, then, fulfil this
uttrbrit es stml our posterity with fidelity. and
the reit to lee.

genre :n our Paper of)esterdav, as an extract
!la The thablin Evening Port, a letter front
guattesl, of the 29th December, conveying the
imellicence of the Discovery Ships having,
in finding the North-West Passage, , and
00 !bey bad actually sailed through it from an
Ifim is Baffin's Bay. and come to a wintering
pdtatige near the month of the Coppermine River.
!,:ertnaste:y. it appears. that letters of a later date,
ir+alluntre3l. have been receeived in London, which
treqii;e silent upon this so important a topic. We
loon article from the very place, in Tits STATESMAN
a.•tlitdar, oft •nb•rgnent date, which says not a wore
s',ltliat the whole worlJ is so anxious about.

ieteninv a Cabinet Council was held at the
!rotary of State's Office for the Home Department,
nticln-as attended by most of the Cabinet Minis-
LI, Cabinet Councils have been held every day
ia=az the past week.
The Sybil's Icires were not looked to with more
tati-tv than te MS. pags of the late Duke of
118ittrvoN, under the hope and expectation of dis-
eriag, when they are opened. who was the real
Junks: of whose lashing pen his Grace was aa
consp'.enot.s an object.
We are glad to !earn from the friends of the Chief
'strafe of London, that in oCering himself to
notice of his fellow-chi/hos tura Candidate for a
rarliameyl, be dOes it purely upon it'd e-
Tins assurance contradicts the
trvrt dist his Lordship would enter the list with
predetermination of making the views of
Min:stcrs the goal.
The Dyke de Richelieu is appointed Ambassador
ctraordinary to convey the compliments of con-
kieirsce of his Most Christian Majesty to our So-
terto, on the demise of his revered parent. His
Emlltncy wns to set out from Paris on Monday
lad It is supposed, that previous to his depar-
en, the Pri‘ v Council would at length decide
the details of the new projet relative to the
•,n Law.
A Dutch nail, bringing papers to the Bth Feb-
vary. arrived yesterday, They are chiefly filled
nth uninteres!ing &trouts's of transaetions that had
alien puce at Palembang. It is with pleasure, however,
se !tarn from them, that the practice of vaccine inoren-
knoll making great progress at Macassar. Abate
est thr.usand chadren had hers aJr..ady inoculated, and
:In King of Jlar.issar h;o1 caused all his own children.
"'t sclera! of those of hii relations; to andergo the same
profess. Measures were taking, it is added, to extend
this extol discovery to the Island of l'elebts.
Extract of a letter, dated Philadelphia, Dec. 14,
:—" The poor wretches who have come over
is [bit country arc most miserable off; it is colorised to
tarn repairilif Ilse roads; stoat Englishmen, who
hiq .'crently in Englanii, nod they get Only 7d. a day,
Eid themselves. liun3reds, f may ay thousamfs,
bseel aroi the charitible for a sulisistence. 1, like
mrolf. li.ising g. appearance of belonging to John
ds is (Amity. :oil treqUently asked to relieve niv coon-
171m it is seriously dirresoing to see the situation
sttlitte poor deluded creatures."

limey is occasioned by the accession of the
~,'"qta the Sovereignty of the Order of the Darter.
urelioights Pomp:Anions being twenty-five, in which
lowher the Prince Regent was included. His late Ma-
it," ens Founder of the Order of St. Patrick, and wore
mid his neck the sky-Lloe ribbon with the badge ap-
Prniilot. By the death of the Duke of Kent a vacancy ;
ti ally occasioned in that most illustrious Order.
By the returns of the porter brewers, h appears
'that the consumption of porter in the last sit months,
"1 by one hundred thousand barrels cloak in the six . .
Ift"eirerions ; and' we are credibly informed, that
the brewers are now working only two-thirds of their
"Id 1113otity, the cruisunsption not requiring more.—
dill Tits Gorier tell as now, that this diminution is
erls, to cirri:instant-es connected with the price of
listity, or will he venture to repeat his prediction tlidt
dr oggregate reroute from Molt, Beer, and British
BP+*rits (e.relusire of new duty), will La considerably •
timer is the quarter that is now passing, than in Me
irrespoleding quarter of the last gear f
lIITIOVEMENT IN TRAWL—Within the last fort-
ken there has been ap 'glazing increase in the
If* of Liverpool. There have been four valuable ar-
'ital. from the Kest Indies I from the West ladies, four
"will heavily laden ; ferig.the brazils, eight from
knish America, *weapon 4N from the -United Stateq,
*Pity, ; from Lisbon assilikeAliediterraerea. ten; (mu
fowl. and the routers, twenty-lire, of
ft cossetted with the Inlaid 'navigation of the country.
!Lilletwas other arrivalS• gat dial, eltlisit"L' 1.°14'
IMMO order, haewlioarpresfrod, we saderstand,
110 'Males et -