The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-12 00:00:00

then, are the hissers so part of " the country?"
How strange it is, that sea can see more danger to
our liberties and happiness in distributing six millions
a year amongst Ws millions of those who produce the
whole, has in distributing seventy millions a year
amongst soldiers, sailors, their widows and children,
aid amongst plassen, pensioners, sioecure people,
tat-path cod fundholders What a strange co.
position mast be the mind of such a man! Why, the
Tar gatherers alone swallow nearly as much as the
poor. Waterloo, or army sad navy bait-pav and pea-
hens, swallows nearly as mach as the poor. The Par
sons and their families twice as mach. And, if these
do nos endanger the "liberty and happiness" of the
country, why are they to be endangered by the taxes
raised for the poor ? The Settler of the World " con
g regulated his honourable and learned friend"
(Dulcet wand!) on his evil, and " bad great soli:-
" faction its fiodiog. that the object of it was, to bring
" bark theNystern to what it was origiaaLy intended to
be." What, then, did Queen Elizabeth's Act in-
fra!, that there should be Select Vestries? No, not.
this will not hold water a moment. And, asto bring-
ins the whoa back, the noble Settler ought to know,
that other ti,ings 11101 i coos back firet For, as long
as Jerasalros and Waterloo. and the Horse Grardi
and lrhitehall poll forward, at the rate that they now
pull, the poor-rates cannot go far back. say Mr.
Nin.sv what lie will about the danger to the
'• liberty and hoppinoss of the country ;" and,
both these worthy perasnsgea may hereby receive
from under our hinds the positive assurance,
that the Labouring Classes io England will ne-

ver have the ea-tieMe unction adosioiiiered to them!
If hote parishes, its Ireland, we are told by Sir Joan
IFeweoa•r and Mr. FITZGERALD. bin her) reduced to
the verge of the grave by famine ; that the priests
have prepared them for death, as if in the last mo-
=vats of bed-death; that is to say, the priests have
received the confession* of the sins of all the people
tef the parish, have given absolution, and given them
( which is the last ceremony) the eetrente unction, that
is to say, Lave anointed their bodies ; and afl this, too,
while Irelakd teems with abundance of food; while
corn and meat in va:t quantities are daily coming from

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that country to this; and while we positively slats,
that the Mitre from Waterford alone states, that
trelre M d flitches of bacon were shipped last
reek...talc freethat one port !—Undte our bands we
givell:asrt.aftaAull and Mr. NoLAN the 'lost po-
si '` sessee, that the' labouring classes in Eng.
Igtsve
is f take the extreme unction, let wbat will
happy ch less under circumstances like those
stated ahore.—No, no The estieene unction wools to

Se administered to things very different from the
Lahonring Classes ; to places, pensions, establiTh
meets, and the Debt, rulgarly called national.
These call aloud for the extreme unction; though,
really, it may be wanted for the landlords and farmers
of England. And this would show, in a very striking
point of view, the Catholic nature of the thing.,
Catholic meaning universal; and, if applicable to the'
Irish, who are dying from want, and to the English
who are dying from over-much, it must fully merit its
.bigh-sounding epithet. But, as to the English la.
tourers end twist:no, what restive subjects they
noels! be ends r the bands of the priest! Only think
of a coal-beaver or carter or ploughman, desired to
lie down to receive the extreme unction ! Only think
of the coppice-cutters and hoop•sh f the villagr
of Batley, for instance, and the book-and-crook buck.
rotted Waltham Chase and the Forret of Bete ; only
think of these, and all the women and ;ids and boys,
having it proposed to them to hare some oil put over
them to prepare them for Heaven. while the barns
were foil of corn and the farmers' racks fall of bacon
and their sties full of pigs! If such a proposition
were to be made to them, all that we have to say, is,
that tee should not like to Le the Priests! Ua, no;
Mr. NOLAN. You can do nothing with this matter,
in the way that yt-u have taken It up. You begin at
the wrong end. Give the extreme unction to the debt,
and some other things ; and, then, the poor laws will
go lock. They are precisely like those that they relate
to- Let theta alone, a good deal, and they will do
pretty well ; but, the Devil Isitoself cannot drive them.
Mr. WISTLIII,'S iiIISOILITIONS.WO have no room
for this large sni•ject. It is deemed worthy of a more
staiclli sort of notice ; and will, in our paper of next
Monday, be discussed in a Letter to Lord MILTON,
who took a conspicuous part in the debate.

The detest of the Royalist troops under Morales,
in the vicinity of Maracaibo, whith had been placed in
doubt by the letters from St. Thomas's, has been con-
firmed by the arrivals of yesterday. Advicea from
Maracaibo direct, mention the fact in a positive man-
ner; and letters of the 221 May from Kingston, Ja-
maica, further state that 5410 of the Spanish troops
that surrendered themselves nrisoners on that occa-
'ion, Lad arrived at St. Jago tie Cuba, having been
allowed free permission to quit the country. Accord-
ing to the American pipers, which tire intelligence
from Caramel of the 17th of May, Morales had form-
ed the intention of surprising Maracaibo, and with
that vii w reused two divisions of his army to cross
the lake from the Puerto' in boats obtained from the
frAing. One of these divisions, commanded by Cul.
liallasteros, and amounting to upwards of 300 men,
was winplettly annihilated, not a single man escaping.
On learning the result of this action, Morales com-
ment:A his retreat from Los Puertos, and reached a
plw.- about ten leagues from Pedregal, whither he was
C.ll ,• 1, and completely defeated by the republican
commanded by Colonels Penang°, Mayes
Var,sas, and Torres.

The decisive battle mentioned a few days agn, by
which tile province of Quito has fallen into the hands
of the Columbian Republic, was fought abort the 19th
of April, at a place called Pa,tto, lying between Po-
payan and Quito. General .lurgcort„ the comtnander
of the Royalist force, who lost his life in the action,
appears to have been cotnpletely out-tnanceuvred by
the President, Bolivar, who managed to place himself
in his rear, and completely cut off his retreat.
On the subject of Morales's defeat, the Jamaica
mail contains the foliating
Mae/team, May s.—The whole of Morales's fort e
Las capitulated, and 500 of his men are to be em•
balled to-morrow for Cuba. So ends this last tapir
ing effort of OA Spain in this quarter.
By this time the finish has most probably been put
t,. Columbian freedom, for it is currently reported and
:.elieved, that Porto Cabello, tits last refuge of the op-
r!s.ours, has sarrendered to the Patriotic army.