The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-11 00:00:00

aittounkii hugely iu our favour; it nrit, we wookl soak,&Conquest of Mexico, and give it to the Sloth Auhri,
can Independents.

HATTI.—.% free commercial intercourse is kept 4
between the dominions under Christophe and Remit
STAN'S!! SORT!" .I)IRKITA.—The WWI frogs gh,
quarter of the gluhc continues crude and controthets,l.
The Orinoco Cowrier of the 311th Oct., aingouncedshi
Bolivar's army had broken up from New Brands fay
Lower Countries ; that the Patriot cause was sncaight
anti Santa Martha had joined it ;—het from other qui.
Sera, it is stated that Bolivar had been defeated.
PROM HAVANNAII.
CIIARLTSTON, jAN. 7.—We hear no verbal news bi
the United States schooner Lynx. Letters tuentiootlu
when this vessel put into that port, a very considersik
sensation was produced its the public 'Mud, tinders
lief that her object was to apprize the Aaterh an ma
chants of the probability of an hate war bete,"
the United States anti Spain, anti thereby to ernii,
them to withdraw their property from the island; im
the receipt, two days afterwards, of the President's Vs
sage to l'onrress, relieved their apprehensions, ad
caused ranch rejoicing.
New YORK, JAN. IO.—A letter to n rentlemitit in •
city, dated off the Belize, Dec. 7, States—" The I'
States revenue cutter Louisiana, Cartain Loomis, lag
I seized the British ship Frances anti Eliza, of lornahlk
with two clearances, one front Margaret'', sad thejle
frogs Falmouth. Jamaica. The latter subjected het
I seizure under the Navigation Act of April, 1819, ;Aid
prohibits all trade with British West India colonin, •
English bottoms, or even touching at or clearing
from them. She is a fine ship of 350 tens, and 10
There is no doubt she will be condemned. Sim i's*
the ships that left England with troops for the
of South America."

STF:A 11-110 1T DISAFTER.
NORFOLK, JAN. 10.—We learn from Captain MIA
of the ship Ruth and Mary, who arrived here
day, in eleven days front Ilavannah, that the st
Pe&data, • Captain Oliver, from Philadelphia,
to New Orleans, pat into that port in distress
the 25th of December, having burst her boiler
sprung her foremast. By this accident, the int
gineer was so severely scalded that he died in four
after. Captain Oliver was finking damages, ad
petted to be ready for sea in fire days.

The state of Ireland, though not quite so an
our consideration as the state of England, yet km
itself upon our notice by its growing imports'
The Dublin Evening Post, which, the Editors,
is by nit means an alarmist Journal, confesses
predictions of tranquillity pervading that kiva

have' not been verified : and thelsevaral 'pins
information• which we have given in this eft
STATESM 4N, nnexaggerated, ac we sinaee*k
lime, show the absolute necessity of an *lir
tentiou io the Imperial Co%ernment. Co i

of the Irish absentees have been ever rtitedid,
long back ns we can remember any Wog, b
now the exhortation is for the residents to nom

in their houses and not quit them from fear,
thereby leave the enemy to rave at large ore

It is to us surprising that a people like Mtn
calling themselves free, should allow a dope
power or privilege to exist, and even to growl
and extend itself in a manner that takes slip
tence away from the community to the very sheet
of freedom. Were Mr. Honnoush's case nee
religion, we should have very powerful Winds'
start up—whole sects start up to vindicate it; C
being on civil liberty only, people in general as
indifferent to it, though it is of ten times mores
sequence to our children, and our further detail
ants, than whether another Maiwniet sheekle
up in our own dominions, and try to dupe their'
habitants by a newly invented story, howeverpli
sible, or however incongruous. If we allot'
House of Commons to continue to exercise d
usurped privilege, we are not only runsiog
servitude, but we lend our own hands to forged
chains. It will by and by be at our peril dill
complain of the corrupt state or base active'
branch of the Legislature, and yet this is the sl
of all the mischiefs and the miLeries the Edlll
feel at this moment. What man, w hose h
Dot flinty or brutal, can help complaining ofd,d
execrating its venality t if the people edit
thus to abandon those who have appeared S
defence (and that they do is but too evident*
except in our own Paper, no journal scarceirlil
of the outrage), they will deserve all the ecitli
can follow such a supineness, such a dereitild
their dearest interests. What, if Mr. Honed.
to be a prisoner only during the Session of
i honourable House, ought that considorfiado
vent us from denying the unjust, the en
assumption of power! It is a danger es o°4
such an one as ought to call tip the deo
.of every public writer. In order to manna
selves free, we ought never to suffer an
tutional measure to grow loy custom into
it were. If this proceeding were to be
In, as the lex Terre, or law of the land, tbd
such land were swallowed up by the
I better ; for there despotism could not pkg.
descendants for ever and ever. At the
election that is coming on, it ought to b
test to every candidate, tl.at one of his 111
when in Parliament, should be to dell
authority over any other than their ova
This might easily be done—this is the