The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-14 00:00:00

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••• The tbirtreixtis number of the Pamphleteer (a,
feWrdeftetent) preseourns with the following latent,
. ,i• it *ratios : • •

---1.•'66 Me erpediney and necessity estriking gaper/
• if As NATIONAL DIST, with eistereefientren seeprate4
geniality with the lent nomad* isjery.—(Origisal.)
This **ties arguments .reties?, sad ought la be cent
4neing. not that we are sabgniaostedegh to illpect this
• set il be so. Of the whole atnou alb( the tries noise which
the country labours, two thirds. be Arnim p ill
. . "eat of disinterest of the Natioaal debt. The i> dhte
'7 -• himself pays one third of the interest be receives,and liters-
• Setif the National debt were destioyed in tote, middle
taws of coarse which paid its interest were taken off,
.the fendhokkrs real loss would only be one third. The
author, however, proposes to redoes the National debt
Si we half; sod startling as the proposidoeustiyoppeur,
the arguments by which he advoeates the measure, ean-
. • not be read without admiration of their ingenuity, and,
an eager longing after the good that they bold out to.
'the nation at large.
1. " The Letters to the Right Hon. Lotd Byron, 4
• the Kn. IV. L. Bow/es."
• These letters are now published with coasiderabk al.
iteration aid additions. The timeliest that awakened
the controversy is familiar by this time to the public ;
Ire fancy the greater part of it will only wonder that
there should be a question about the matter; hot if there
\ells to lie one we are not at all surprised that Let
id
should advocate the cause of art in
that of nature ; nor are we much surprisTraribe
should have done it ill ; advancing paradox for argu-
ment, aid flippaacy for wit. We -have keg hoes eel%
tein that there was one thing be could not do, vie.'
write *Amniotic piece at once regulares a asatilosition„
arid interesting in stage effect. Of this be has convieced
the world at large ; and be Mean equally eager to shew
them that he is not more happy in managing a contro-
versy.
3. An Essay on Criminal Jurisprodenew,with the draft
raja new Penal Cede. By J. T. Barber Beantwont,
• gr. 4v.
• These valuable remarks are continued from the lent
siensher, andpresent no with new modes of pualebusest
in particular that of imprisonment, in which the suffer.
ing is proportioned to the offence, and in general being
summary, severe, and short, it is prohable that the of-
feeder will be as much benefitted by its wholesome cor-
rection, as the country will be by the saving of expense
entombing on peeferring the infliction of oat months ins.
prlsoaineet in solitude and darkness with food and rai-
ment merely sufficient to secure the body from ittjari to
the twelve months of idleness, immorality, and in s;di.
clone indulgescies which are now generally assigned as
the nominal penalty of misdemeanour or crime.
A Letter to C. IT MU, Esq. by Captain R..
-,. itrt B. Bronghton."—(Original).
This letter is ih reply to Mr. Hail's letter to the Pres!.
dint of the &wird of Trade, in whirl. he, in bin charac-
ter of Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, hid sea.
ipply opposed the admission of foreign grain without
pa ing an adequate duty; Captain Broughton on the
otrary defends it, and speaks in the warmest-teems of
knor Say's notion, on that, and every other breach
political. ecoooniy.
pe
. ."...4 Letter to the Right lion. Frederick J. Robin-
:* its, Pr 'dent of the Board of. Trade on the present
.. state ofAgriculture. Agriculture."—(Original.)
lii this letter the excess of our agricultural produce,
Vie -dinsiention in our consumption, the effect or the ins-
;ll.9ristion of foreign corn, and the expediency Of prevent.
)nt it, or of laying a duty on it to be repiated by the
atke of British produce, are ably and impartially dia.
rectiurs *ado* of attaining a lung and healtklid
#'l e, wild Me means of etorreetiteg e fuer komititutioet. 1*
tt.Learie Centro.
, in is the thirty-third edition of this celebrated tria-
l*. It is translated from the Italian, instead of the
Feencb, from which we have generally been accustom-
pillo era it put into an English dress, and we need
soiree?, say that the style is much benelitted by ibis one,
remove from the origins! language.
I. !. Brief Observations on the Copyright Bill: at.
„tempting to prove its injustice toward. gram* sad
ii. teaVeney to injure the caste of Literature. In a
ktter to the Bishop of Norwich."—(Original.)
Among *Hier etfects to be peculiarly lamented from the
operation of' this act, is the check which it gives to our
typographical arts, in which we have arrived at such
diignlar perfection, except in the art of printing on
vkluin, to any progress in which it acts as a decided
etabitre6.

h. " Protection to Agricultnre, or Universal Roan.—
Farther considerations on the Corn question."—ori-
final.)
This essay, is continued from time thirty-fourth smo-
Tr of this work, and advocates the throwing open
e rno rts permanently to the importation of foreign
ale of all kinds.
. Firthr rennfrks on some passages in seriptarre, re-
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led, to marriage and divorce, with reference to the
4iwphlet under that title, in No. 34.—(Original.)
"tringe, and we may say revolting differences of
opinion on a late important question of this nature,
among time chief dignitaries of our church, first suggest-
ed this well written essay, which in a tone of becoming
eeireestnesa. elearlyshews that thedivorces so frequently
easoctionot by our Parliament, particularly including, as
they do, permission for the offending parties to marry
I•ih, are as contrary to the law of nature and the word
ifod under the Christian dispensation, as they are
filmic-silo the purity of individuals and the happiness
Of inciety.
it " A Mier to Me Right Ron. Lord Byron, protest-
rior against Me immolation of Gray, Cowper, and
, Comptes/4 at Me shrine if( Pops."
it is somewhat new to Lord Byron, we suppose, for
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(mi to find himself on the side of the vanquished, in
as melt, whether the vehicle of it be prose or poetryy.
es, however. he -bra: long sighed for novelty in ids
thew* of sensations, perhaps even those attendant on
tlefisot, may on that account have charms for him beyond
umy liemeiritate•tasted in the flattery with which he
has beentso liberally stored, we wonder not to satiety ;
sediertaiq,tve ate from this specimen of his antago-
imilirjower, that' lie could not have received correction
'Falb a ?care ePntle, yet vigorous band ; and we with
heirrlity thil?is Lordship's attacks on such men as
Ora Gewill6r.vhd Campbell, may end in big imitation
aitbossurity.eftlsbir verse...sod their ability to write on
Ow thehoes Bow sheer immediately connected with
tiesimstonridisti firation.
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At foar mecjockpms 'toriii Ayafternoon an alarmipg
fiems kroke.oitt ims the oil.warehonse of Messrs. John
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