The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

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it—the terms of accommodation are modified.
Zeremptory destsand for such a reform of the re-
,tesootation, as alkali guarantee to the people the as-
:once in future of an absolute and certain pciwer of
restratht upon the ambition, the corruption, the folly,
0 the violence of a ministry ; such a resttaint, in
start, as shall pteclude, so far as human wisdom can
plunging ngthe y into
ireclude, the possibility of
'expensive wars, or of sqtandering its wealthcountr in pro.
ovate or useless establishments. These facts render it
on exceedingly didicult task, adroit, practicable, and
scrupulously as the present men have shewn them.
itism for them either to avert or to meet the
ooger and the necessity. Besides the common evils .
6f an unsuccessful administration of finance, they
base to encounter the exasperation of the agricul-
tural doses, to demonstrate the power these have to
endure the pressure and the justice of doing so--they
have to assuage the fears of the monied interest, and
to maintain public credit against the shock it must
"stain io the event of the landed property advancing
their claims in force—glad lastly, they have to repair
a revenue clearly inadequate to more, even at its
mot rate, than just keeping the balance equal
Pr -
• I,,tweeo income and expenditure, making no pro-
-„ision whatever for the contingency of war. We
easel imagine a situation more difficult than that of
the,fisaneier ;11 so is to do all this, upon his exhausted
4reilit aillinl' t a people with whom his repeated
fsilures havi left him not the smallest share of tours-
/lone.
There is a mystery—to speak in the mildest terms
barging over our foreign policy, which discredits
siettlepsrsment of government scarcely less than the
'Ass we have enumerated discredit its finance. During
the iae disturbances in Italy, it is plain ws were
'either prepared to desert nor to support those °pi-
llions, which Ministers feared to disavow. The hand
of Deeessity was upon us, and we were content to
wade the declaration of principles, which, whatever
lemur or dishonour lay upon the alternative, we
vet neither dared to assert nor to deny. Ministers
dreaded the spirit of the country they had contributed
to isupoveiish, while they leaned to a cause and a
league they hesitated alike to abjure or to defend.—
lons they lost credit with all parties by proving their
weakness. In the mean time the Home Department,
low as it had fallen by Manchester, by Oliver, and by
Franklin, has yet found a lower deep through the
abyss into which the events attending the Queen's fu-
ll seal have plunged them. But the King's visit to the
sister island has raised the regard of his Irish subjects
towards his person to a pitch that may well, without
(disrespect, be thought extravagant in outward
Isaac His Majesty is, however, represented to be,
and be must be anxious to repay their deuson-strations
of loyalty, and Catholic Emancipation is reported now
to le bis earliest desir .1 affording the roost popular
weans. To this end lie is said to meditate the forma-
tive cf a Cabinet who are united upon this point—and
tbst so soon as be returns souse appoiutinents to this
Wm. will take place.
Such are the real grounds and the assumed reasons
1-e the changes which report has so long and hitherto
sii.a so little reality anticipated.

Our cutemporaries appear to think the new commer-
cial regeletions of the Portuguese fortes arbitrary
anti unfair, but at the same time they make no allow-
auee for the Portuguese feeling sore at our heavy
duties imposed upon the importation of their produce.
This is not to be wondered at; and it need not he ex-
pected that in One of peace where every maritime
country has its shipping to employ, that England
can command a commercial preference such as she en-
j•iyed when her navy commanded the ocean. The
only tiling England can do to support its shipping
sad manufacturing interests, is to establish an equali-
sing scale of duties with other nations, and lessen the
charges upon the entries of British shipping. Until
that is effected, jealousy must exist, and speculation
become an uncertainty.

The cause of the tireelcs excites much interest at the
west end of the town : it is the topic every where, and
asahscriptioa is raising at the Club Houses.
Letters from Patras, dated the 9th of October, have
bees received. The Turkish fleet, consisting of 60
vessels, was then before that town, but no confirma-
tion is given of the account lately in circulation, that
the plague was on board these ships, or that the crews
were in want of provisions. 1 t appears that the Greek
ships destroyed at Galaxidi, in the Gulf of Lvanta,
consisted of very few, if any, armed ships ; and of the
remainder, the crews had previously been transferred to
the Greek fleet, so that that event is not to be considered
so disastrous to the Greek cause as it would appear i
from the unexplained statement lately given. When
the Turks had effected the destruction of the Greek
vessels at Galaxidi, they landed and attacked the
tow's, where they put to death all the inhabitants that
fell isto their power. The Turkish fleet was preparing
to sail froin Patras in order to attack the Greek fleet
ogHydra. Patras is represented at the above date as
being in no danger of an attack from the Greeks.—
There were, in fact, no troops of that nation in or sear
the Place ; and the Turks were so far in possesison of
the country surrounding it, that they bad succeeded in
getting in a large portion of the crop of currant', on
which the trade of Patras principally depends. Concern-'
tag the operations by land in the Morea, these letters
are entirely silent. No mention is even made of the
taking of Tripoliza by the Greeks, an event which
has been frequently and confidently stated in the
French papers; and as the letters from Patras are from
a very respectable source, they render it more than
probable that it has not taken place.
A Ministerial paper referring to these accounts,
sates the Greek fleet destroyed to have consisted of not
less than 70 sail of vessels, and that of the Turkish
s ;flatiron, six were Algerine men of war. It adds that
the advices above mentioned are wholly silent as to the
alleged cosamencensest of hostilities between the forces
of each power on the bias of the Prutb.
It is said, that by a Convention, the continuance of
the Austrian army of occupation in the kingdom of
Naples is limited to ten years.
Cum.—The Governor of Chili has transported most
of his state prisoners, and some criminals, to the Island
of Jun Fernandes, where they intend planting a co.
Joey. A few troupe and a Governor, and souse of the
women of the town, comprise the whole population.