The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-15 00:00:00

Witt *tatesman.

MONDAY EVENINO. DECEMBER 15, 1823.
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STOCK EXCIIANCIE. 12 o'CLoca.—Consols opened this
morning at tis 2, at which price they remain; with
little
doing, owing to there being no information of Impoitartee.
from the Continent.
Several Expresses have arrived this morning from Paris,
with Friday's prices of theFrenchßentes,9l..ls.; and Spanish
lionfle,29l to Althongh the Spanish Bonds have fallen
3 per Cent, at Paris, the fall has not had much effect oh our
Spanish market, as it is attriboted,rather to private !picot&
Lion in Paris, than to any news.
It is reported that three New Lists are forming in the
French Capital, for the New Spanish Loan.
Besides the departure of N. M. notschiltl. Eq., we
understand, two other parties have also set off fur
Paris.

Foname Finns.—Spanish Bonds opened at this morning
at VII, 271, 23 to L, with some business; but to no great
went. In all other foreign securities there is little doing.
New Spanish, 191.-01 d, 23 to f.—Colombia, 59 1 to
royals, •li#.

Philadelphia papers hare arrived this morning to the
21st. Nor., but they do not contain an article worth ex
trading.

It is really amusing to see the absurdities that public
writers will run into when they are suppoi ting a cause which.
they are conscious, is weak and criminal. The New Times
of this morning speaks3of the Loan to be contracted in
oar Market by the .lexican Government—'lf any body,"
says the New Times:* can tell who or what the Mexican Go-
vernment is." Now we think that hiaMajesty& the Cabinet of
England ought at least to Le aide to answer this question, as
they,have authorised theSe• retaryof State to sppointConsuls
and diplomatic Agents to this said Government of Mexico.
But it is consistent in the New Times to reprobate a loan
to the free and wealthy country of Maxlco, when it has
searm ly ceased doing all in its power to induce our
know citizens to lend their property to the
faithless Government and exhausted country of 014
Spain. In writing upon loans, a person ought to be most
scrupulously consciencioas. To induce individuals to im•
provident speculations. merely to support a party, may
bring families to want and wretchedness.

Among all the sillinesses of the Orthodox party, we re-
member none so very absurd, and dangerous, as that
now committed by the advocates of the E tablished Faith,
in the columns of the "Mock John Bull," in the ridicule
of the " Metliodisticsil Party." The Saints are now the
weekly butt of that loyal print; and these attacks upon
methodism are doubtless made to please the Ministers of
the Established Church. lint this is sporting with lire;
and in the decline of the Established Faith, the most prepos-
terous sport that can be imagined. Toe Methodists are a
powerful body; and though they hare been meanly ape,
thetic in politics, they can be suite's on religious topics ;
and it is must unwise to provoke them to use a power,
which would be found equal to that of the Giant refreshed
with wine. The leaders of the Methodists have been fur
some time satisfied with the tacit acknowledgement of their
claims to the rank of Ministers of religion; arid are content
to pass muster in that character, by toleration. Many of
them are amongst the most time-serving of all political
sycophants ; and, as a body, if not opi,osed to reform, the
Methodists havecertainly stood aloof from all participation
in the measures to effect it. But let not the Established
Church imagine that their religions zeal is as cold as their
political feelings; and let it beware of rousing the spirit of
the Puritans of Englaed, or the covenanters of Scotland.—.
The" religion, es by law established." is no match for such
a spirit, when it is awakened ; and the cured method of
awakening it, is the course pursued by the " Mock John
Bull," which is absolutely employed an ridiculing them
on the eery subject on which they are most tremblingly
Ave :—narnely, the subject of their foreign missions. •N
doubt there is as much trickery in the olissionary, as its
other Societies. The ostensible mot: yes of much affected•
charity, are unreal; and self-interest and personal ambition
intrude amongst Methodists, as frequently as amongst other
men. Probably, too, their leaders are aware that much of:
their missionary labour of love is a labour of folly, time
wasted, and money thrown away. But the great body of
the subscribers are in this respect well-meaning men, who
are really anxious to spread the doctrines which they them.
selves believe ; and who will never find in reasons of stale,
any motives for neglecting to propagate those dos trines,
and to reprobate the vices, follies, and ignorance of the
Pagan creeds. It is, therefore, dangerous ground to
cope with them npon, to attempt to stay their missionary
zeal, which must be fostered by their leaders, and which is
a result of their very creed. Yet the " Mock John Bull"
ventures not only to stigmatize what it mason impertinent
interference; but even to contend that PAGANISM Nell
is BE fTEIC than METHODISM ; and ought not to be
interfered with by their missionaries. The latter are also
made the subject of this journalist's ridicule, in the most
insulting manner ; by quoting from the work, of a
Oleig, expressly written to discountenance the Missionary
Society. if nothing more resulted from the sending forth
of missionaries, the mere fact of men of Mlle informa-
tion visiting different countries, and opening a correspond•
'nee with the natives, would be of some value ; what-
ever errors they might carry with them, it is hardly possi-
bliThat they should not disperse more than they implanted;
and there is mach to be learnt from an intercourse

with Christian Europe—not merely because it is Christie.,
but because it has, ender the profession of Christianity,
risen to great eminence in the altnowledge of the arts and
sciences. It is silly doctrine of Mr. Gleig, tHat then are
never tb be improved, until they are in,a state fit for im-
provement; while to bang them into that state, is the
first and roost essential improvement; and thleugh the
missionaries may not have hit upon the best methods of
improvement‘ and perhaps confine themselves too much to
what they deem " the one thing needful," they cannot
avoid opening the minds of their hearers to some extent;
and when the mind is prepared for observation, the reason
has room to develope itself, stud the rational powers are
called into action. Mr. fileig pirticularly objects to
" disturbing the established religion of millions in
the East." Then, Mr. tilrig, of course, calls the burning
of widows, the sacrifice of children, the drownings in the.
Ganges, the prostration of thousands under the wheels of
the idol Jaggernant, religion! An established religion!—
He must be a Christian of uncommon liberality, thus `to
denominate the barbarities of this affected worship of the
Deity ! A Missionary, Mr. Norton, having met with I
Malabar feast at Ambit's poetic thought it a good oppnr.
tunity of conversing with the people assembled, owreligi.
ous subjects. lie did so, and gave them tracts, and rea-
soned with them as to what th-ir gods would do for them.
The people were civil ; they listened to him ; and candidly
told him they nodetstood his words, hot nut his application
of them. Such as meld read, accepted his tracts, and tried
to understand them. No one thought of taking an/ offence,
and he finished by preaching them a sermon. Thus offends
Mr. Glsig and Mr. Hook. They say the account cannot be
read without mingled feelings of sorrow and indignation!
They say the Missionary hail not three grains of sense, or
he would nut have intruded upon a ceremony regarded
as ho/p and.saered. They say it was ridiculous to ask them
about 'heir souls, for they could not comprehend that they
shed any ;—and that it was most silly to give as ay tracts
when only a few could read. Now, if no one could have
read the trees, it would not have been quite useless to
distribute them, because they might fall into the bands of
mine one who could read ; those who cannot spread
knowledge as they would, mast disseminate it as they
can.—Aod if the best teachers cannot be obtained, we
must employ the hest that circumstances afford. The
'tallow.. of Mr. 11.11 among the inhabitantsof New Zealand,
are the next subject of laughter to Mr. Gleig and Mr.
Theodore Ilouk. We dare say that much of it
was thrown away; and the natives would under.
stand but little of the hymns that were sung, or the
chapters that were read to them:—perhaps no more than
oar ancestors did when the Monk Anselino arrived to pro-
pagate Christianity in this country; but civilisation met
have a beginning; and if the presence of Mr. Hall only
disposed them to listen, they may in time colts to cotnpre.
bend. Mr. Gleig, and Mr. (look find their fancies greatly
aroused, by a theft committed on time rudder.hanging by
the natives, on the night after this interview. Mr. Hook
woull recollect in it a slight assimilation to the affair of
the dollars ; and Mr. Gleig (who seems to think theft a
natural propensity, a. Mr. Hook thinks lying a justifiable
one) would leave instinct to itself, and avoid all interference
with the lass of nature.

The wonderful invention of gas nicht, has so recommend-
ed itself by its convenience and cheapness, as well as bril-
liancy, that every stranger who witnesses the effect of its
illumination in our shops and streets, is anxious to introduce
it into its native town. Many difiiculti►s, however, attend
the formation of an Establishment of thjs kind, in places
where the inhabitantsarc not conversant with the subject
and to obvi.ite these, a Society, possessed of competent
capital, and talent., has been formed in London, under the
name of Tux GENERAL 6.1111-LIGHT COMPtNY, who are
ready to co-operate with parties in country towns, who
may regnire their advice and assistance. In their adver-
t nement and prospectus, they have sufficiently detailed
t lir advantages they propose to applicants; and the prospect
of their success is so R+tt•ring,tbat their subscription-list,we
understand,is already full.

Lord Liverpool's recent visit to Lord Grenville, at
Dropmore, is reported to be connected with a new political
arrangement, which is likely to becarried into effect before
the meeting of Parliament.
Efforts to serve the brave and inured Greek•, we observe
with great satisfaction, are rapidly extending through the
country. The cause has been warmly espoused at Win-
chester; and at. Cambridge, a public subscription has
been headed by a liberal donation from the Chancellor,
of 1001.
Mr. Secretary Canning is at present confined to his
house, at Gloucester Lodge, by an attack of gout, from
which we understand that the tight lion. Gentleman has
been suffering for several days past.
The Canihridee, 80, Capt. T. I. Mating, being now
fully manned, will arrive here in a day or two, to embark
the newly-appointed Consuls for the South Am••rican In-
dependent States. These gentlemen and their families are
57 in n ttttt ber.—(Portscroeith Paper.)
The Gazette of Saturday, it will he seen by our extreets
from it, contains the lists of the Othrers for the two new
regiments ordered to be added to the Army. They are
numbered the 94th and 95th. -.The Officers are almost
entirely taken from the half-pay, of the veteran battalions.
The men will, according to the courier, be raised without
any increase whatever of the usual rate of levy money.
Men recruits not under fire feet six inches in height, will
be taken to the age of thirty; and growing lads, not
exceeding eighteen years of age, will be received at the
standard of five feet five inches. The bounty to a recruit
for unlimited service, will be 31. -Is., and for limited service,
2/. 12s. 6.1. Four shillings has been added to the bounty of
the recruit, as an inducement to enlist, which sum has
been deducted from the allowances hitherto granted to the
recruiting officer and conducting serjeant, so as to keep
the total charge of levy money at the same amount as
• before.
IsiraorESIENT IN The 1111.-OiursCTUßa or NEST or
ENGLAND CLorile—We feel pleasure in noticing the pro-
gress which this useful article of consumption is making.
Through the meittorn of the Marquess of Bath, a piece of
cloth, of the finest texture, has recently been presented to
bit Majesty, from the manufactory of Mr. John Giblett, of
• Krone; with the beauty of which the King expressed him-
self highly gratified. We have been favoured with a copy
of the Secretary of State's letter to Bap Marquess of Bath,
'on the occasion.
• The Right Honoarable Secretary says—" I have taken
'an opportunity of presenting to the King the piece of
cloth which you forwarded to me at the request of Mr.
Giblett of Frome, and I beg your Lordship will assure
that gentleman that his Majesty was pleased to receive it
very graciously, and to praise in high terms the beauty and
superior quality of its texture."
A Custom House Tariff has come out for the several
ports in the Republic of Colombia. The several descrip-
tions of articles made 'Wile to importation du•ies are
classed under five distinct heads, embracing every sort of
foreign niannfacture and produce. The lowest rate of
duty is on goods imported trom parent States in Colombian
bottoms, and amounts to no more than 74 per cent. The
highest is imposed on cargoes brought from colonies, and
io foreign bottoms; and amounts to 30 per cent. It appears
that England may land her staple mannfactures of woollen
and cotton. from British vessels, at the Custom Houses of
the new Republic, for a duty of 174 per cent.; and in
Colombian vessels, for It) per cent. English iron.
tin, copper, paper, snrgical instruments, and anchors, a ill
have to pay. in British bottoms, IS per cent.; and in
national butt tens, 74 per cent.: while articles of leather,
household furniture, clothes, and hardware utensils :.gene.
• rally, pay is British vessels 25 per cent.; and In Colum-
bian, 17i.

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