The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-21 00:00:00

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.

Mr. CCRWEN'S wition for a Counsittee to consider
of augmenting the duty on foreign tallow, with a
view to take off the tax on candles, met with the fate
that it d d ; namely, a negative without a division.
To take off the tax on candles would be right enough ;
hot, to injure commerce and manufactures, and to
enfeeble the country, in order to put rents into Cie
pockets of landlords, is the principle, the abominable
principle, of the Corn Bill. Mr. CURWZN'A great
miatake is, that rents are accessary to the cultivation
of the land. This is the same great error as that com-
mitted by Mr. T. P. or P. T. or something, COURTE-
say. (who, Mr. CANUiNG says, has ten children,) who
wrote the Treasury Pamphlet that was published late
in January to console the landlords. They ate not
at all necessary to the cultivation of the lanai ; and
that the landlords will find practically demonstrated,
in a very reasonable space of tittle. If Mr. CCItIVEN
had read Mr. COUDETT'S rustic harangue at Chichester,
he would not have put seals amongst the necessary
cost of farm-produce.—May the fate of this attempt
be that of every one which shall be. made to get rents
by raising the prise of farm-produce!
Toe Aster ESTIMATLI were again before the (louse,
and gen Mr. Hume made vain. efforts to obtain re-
duetioes. Sir W. De Caetrittxv observed, that, if
6' the distress were not removed, there must be a re-
" volution." Now, the Ministers say, if you Ake off
tans (that is, if you do remove the distress) there
meat be a revolution. So that, according to the two,
• revolution we must have; and this would he very
hard upon the " loyal", who supported a war of 2Z
years to save the country from revolution! However,
theidid pledge themselves, and put their names to it,
to spend their last *Wiling and shed the /art drop of
their blood in the cense. The Ministers will, we dare
say, let them off without requiring the last part of the
pledge, it'd In this they will have our cordial appro-
bation; for, as to their blood, it will become pale
enough without any positive opening of the veins.—
They are now undergoing a course of medicine that
I will be quite effectual ; aid the good of the thing
the medicine Is administered by their jsicncs. The
people, to keep whom down the last drop was to be
I shed, are standing by to see tAt physic work:—Some-
thing was said by Mr. FiCTIE PALMIER and others
about that " instil etio.t of the country" ; that "load-
" mark of the constitution" the Military Academy
at Sandhurst ; but, we most notice this to-morrow.

It has 'been announced in the House of Commons,
that it is the intention of the Board of Trade to intro-
duce& Bill for evilating the trade between our West
India Colonies and the United States, on " a more ad-
vantageous/rooting for Me Cuknies"! The character
of the policy of ibis measure is one of great difficulty,
as well as importance. To the Navigation Lamm,
England has been accuttooned to attribute the greater
portion of het Commercial prosperity and naval
strength. We confess, for one part, we have always
regarded 'those laws ivith great jealousy, and have
not been sorry to see them relaxed from time to time.
The intention which appears to exist in the Board of
Trade,of relaxing them at the present moment fur the
purpose of affording relief to our West India Colouies,we
view without anyof the horrors which used to attend the
friends of the old :pie-u, whenever it was proposed to
make any infringement upon the Navigation Lane.
If the Manefae'tres of Britain are fostered (which
can only be, by the continuation of low prices in pro-
visions), and if the commerce of her various posses-
sions is flourishing, we need never fear oar skipping
will fall into decay, although we admit foreign hot-
toms to be carriers of part of the commodities of that
commerce. But :f that commerce is in any way de-
stroyed, little will the Navigation Laws aysil io give
employment to our shipping, or szasnen to our navy.
The Commerce of our West India Hands, is in a must
deploraide condition. The former distresses of the
English Manufacturer, we.e never copal to it. Nei-
ther do the present Agricultural distresses of Ireland
surpass the distoesses of the %Vest India planter and
merchant. We acknowledge we do not feel that sym-
pathy for the suffer togs 1,1 the Wen India
traders which we should fur any other class

of our fellow subjects. The stain of the blear
sod tears of slaves, can newer be washed away from
the Commerce of the West Indies. Bxt as long as
„England stands is the relation of mother to the colo-
nies, and they as children to her, she is bowl to give
every protection, which law can afford, to their pros.
perity ; and, above all, she is bound not to iaterfere
with her welfare, by auy artificial systems of regal:.
tions and rrrrr lesions. Those which bind and fetter
the commerce and industry of our. West India Islands
deserve revision, and, we are 'Relined to.think, rery
mach relaxation,

The Irish papers received to-day bring accounts of
the proceedings of the Special Sessions at Limerick.
on Wednesday and Thursday last. Oa the former
day, four persons were tried ender the Insurrection
Act and acquitted t and on the latter, ten-were cc.
quitted, and four were lotted guilty of being absent
from their dwellings, and one fur concealing arms,..
The last five, with two others. convicted at a former
Sessions, were then sentenced to be transported for
!even years. and the Court adjourned its sittiag until
the Monday after the Assizes.--One of the convicts,
of the name of Darcy, a man above the common reek
i tr appearance and address, when found guilty, ezhibited
keen and acute sortow, prostrating himself in the
docks, and imploring the Court not to transport him
nut of the country, but keep him a captive in Ireland;
fur which indulgence be begged to have whipping
inflicted upon him. The Conti told him, the in.
diligence sought for could not be given. When he
received his sentence, he prostrated himself again
in the centre of the dock. crying out to the Unit
for " home transportation and whipping." No fresh
outrages are mentioned, in the Dublin papers, is har-
ing occurred in the disturbed districts; but an attem;,t
is stated to have been made in a different part of the
country—Belfsst—to assassinate one senticel,on Sur:
day se'nnight, and to shoot another on the Sod krt.

Ntsr York papers arrived this morning to the 216
of February, from which we extract the t.llowing
[PROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER, ISH.
LATE •ND :11TERESTI:10 raoss THE BRASILE....
Capt Scott, arrived here yesterday (two Pernstathier,
which he left on the 6th January, reports :be fo:iow•
ing :—After a severe contest the Brazilians had sill•
cecded in establishing the Constitution, soJ had cum.
pr!;eti the European General, Don Lewis de Rego,
with the whole of his troops, to embark tor Earor.
Illuminations took place r tranquillity was myna-
blit=hed, and energetic measures were taking by the
Provincial Government for the increase of the Patriot
Army.—

The Paris papers, which have come to hand to de
10th instant, contain no intelligence of interest re.
specting France, and scarcely any thing but specula-
tions respecting any other country. An article from
Vienna, says that the account of the appearance of
the Ottoman fleet in the Archipelago is con6rmed.—
This fleet, before it sailed, is reported to have on
board ten thousand men. This cords is intended to
recover the Morea. Another corps will rdvance
the same time, it is said, to the Morea front 31aeed)•
nia, through Lindh.

A letter from Corfu, dated 9th of February, uy.—
" Yesterday they commenced disarming all the people
in this island, and martial law is proclaimed."
A Supplement to 7.'sc Loadoie Gazette of Tardyr
lest contains a ropy of a Report from hient-Colosel
Maxwell, of th‘Rast India Compuoy's Service, to tke
Adjutant-Utneral of the Army iu Bengal, dated Cm.
at Mongrouie, October 1, Intl, relative to a sterns•
ful attack, that day, on the Mabarao of Kotah. re
follorrinT is the Return of the Killed and Wont !•4 of
Lieut.. Colonel Maxwell's Detachment, in the Aeiss:
2 Lieutenants, 2 [headers, 3 Rank and File, 6 Hays
killed ; I Major,;•ll.lasildars, 16 Rank and File, l How,
wounded.

Names of Officers Killed and Wounded.
Kt LLCM—Lieut. Read. and Adjutant ("...rk, dth Per,,-
ment Light Cavalry.
WouN DED.—M a jor Ridge, severely, not dangerous!;',
4th Regimeut Light Cavalry.
By the last Hamburgb mail, we learn that the E s.
peror of Russia has issued an Chase, Lavin; fur ;,s
object an improved administration of the °overawes:
of Siberia. Through the same channel we are ins
formed that the States of Ilinover havecomplaised of
an assumption of power by the Minister! of linrr;,,e
IV. not warranted by the constitution of Boom,
nor consistent with the public liberties. The Mion, .
tees appear, from a resolution of the Stec., to hart
made, " without the approbation" of tip= latter,
law imposing sans* new military duty upon the P.ot's
subjects .that is to say, without a rerrill'z ack
hedged by the eJnatitation ; and from this oppretsic'
act they appeal to the " just and paternal sec iturs'
of his Slajesty." It is presumed Vatrefore. tilat I:,
public officers of Hanover are trot resperisible f w :1.•
advice they give, or for the measure whi.h
stitute. . -

Letters, received yesterdev, both from Rio ad r‘r.
pandit:ice, the former to the 14tIt Jaausry. ,sod
latter to the 13th February confirm the IiCNIINt "
had previously received through :he New l'o:k :.4tl"
that the old quarrels with the Enrorma troop. hai
rived on the receipt of the decree of the Pu.toortt
Cortese recalliair the Prince Elegant: awl :bet fo. ;!.e
sake of the tranqtaillity of tits country tt bad bra
4vlerlitiord they almond be sent !owe. It Wm, this
•o the ilth, lath, and "sloe
pr veiled in the. Illraziliatt earital find 1i"o
troops, seeing. that the
poiortar ferliog
them, placed tiaccuseves in an attitude of &reeve, :sit
nothing serigns (allowed. Something lor;oi.
to be Juno the people. it n
solved VW!. louse the Portugu•re
the Rartisti ni Kitt detteire, and to r-ly r• "'
troops for Iles defence. of the coantr. 140'1
Ihieg erectly hs been drum at Pertral.b3co..

LETTER HI.

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THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.
THE LAST MISERABLE ATTEWT TO CAJOLE
AND FRIGATE.-TILE LANDLORDS.

ienstseften, Afarc‘ill.
leh Lnao.—Your two grounds. that of oriOprodite
1.4 A kill; the ewe of the distress, and that of tors-
l;qp not fitio,7 the coffee of the distress, I have de-
groyed is m• first two Letters. So completrit was
this dare, that there appeared nothing more neciloycy;
or is there any thing more necessary with mess of
wool arose. You saw this, too, yourself; or, I
Ould not bare h. d to notice the miserable attempt,
tai, since
.the publication of thbee letters, been
r-ade to cajole and frighten the landlords. I allude
to ao article, which I am about to insert, and which
ins published in The Courier newspaper on Monday

sepias that you have published your speeds in the
(um of a pamphlet, and that the same has been dune
Md. word to his speech by Lord Castlereagh. These
Levi, of dell nonsense may. hereafter, if a single one
'Lerida, Gr a while, escape the hands of the snuffs
dialer and trook•nsaker, be subjects of curiosity ; bat.
enough of them will be recorded by me to antwer all
purposes of waits-, the chief of which, in this ease is,
, to slam the guild the commit:emus of power being'
it 'Aged is the hands of ignoritet men. To assist these]
miserable productions a Treasury Pelle put forth in
the pier jest mentiesed, where they are laid to take
" s UstesmeeAlke view of the situation of the cone-
to :" The newspaper, in which this Letter to you
v,.1 first appear, is Called " Tue STATESMAN ;"
tiie ebitis some perfume think arrogant ; but, is
there any couple of the little devils, covered with oil
14.4-Wick, who are a sort of to those who
t; Hatt press ; are there, can there be, any couple
of tLese who are not as worthy of the name ofsteteemen
ai )os awl Lord Castlereagh ?
LC Prier having premised that the brace of speeches,
tLis" limo of braialess brothers" are extremely well
"decided to ealighten the landlords and farmers as to
licenses of the distress and the remedies to be &p-
-iplird,procceds, in way of proof, to give as a specimen
sf their cmtents ; and be selects the part where you as-
' ant, tbat America is partaking of the distress, and
Mitre you also assert that a part of the distress is
'cis; to a /armingof the pahlie expenditure ! When
i• I set this cool and impudent repetition of exploded
L..sti,r; and when I still see you permitted to have
• pera in your bands, my comfort is, that the landlords
wed nft:r, that they have suffered, and that they must
offer and greatly suffer fur their tame and base
U 4311514111.
list the Prier next proceeds to make elucidating re-
:lairs of his own. And; here, Ist one observe, that the
Paler is actually of the Treasury. The remarks were
1 srit4co, I am couriaced, either by yourself, or by an un-
kraal eittierailta, many of which coin op and grow
and the stein of a big one, as suckers come op round
f.:O-31 of a plum tree where the soil is ride. and air-
,* shut lb! pruaieg-knifs is not carefully used.
linsbowever, yam do sot actually pat your tame to
fib; I shall ascribe erne remarks to one et your
min x; and, thus premising, I proceed at once to the
serer,
The Sacker asks; " is there any thinking man in this
•eseatry that can differ with his Lordship in opinion
• • Oat a market is the real want of the farmer ? Admit-

tie; tkis to be the case, can any thing be mere absurd
'than the present clamour for reduction? The coo-
" I:stolen of soldiers and sailors, &c. must surely
• create a market for agricultnral produce. What taxes
take from one part of society, they unquestionably
• to another. If they take from A. the means of
' haying, they place eyval messes at the disposal of B.
• Whether A. or B. buy, cannot be of the smallest ins-
" eortince to C., who sells, provided C. gets paid with.
Aye: But, all that the Seeker takes for granted here,
limy. I say, that it is not a market that is wanted;
aci I say, that the farmer is not paid with apm.* ; and
Ns I have proved over and over a thousand times. In
mr ratic hareague at Chichester, it is shown how pro-
dirties will and most go oo whether there be rent and
• Petit or not; and, in a Letter to the Farmer's Wien
Pole rimed in the Itt,rister of mut Saturday,) I have,
;Elmore particular manner, shown how it is, and why
it 6, that the farmer cannot get a price sufficient to pay
rb.t st the earl of the year, after having paid the Bel4B
etttio,,v;ll the year. I have never said, that the taxes
called, or would cause, a dietinatios of consemptiore.
I have nese, dreamed of any such thing. On the coo-
Iraq I l'art tesin and again, and especially, in my
Letters to the Lcullorda (which, by tile by, the fools do
r"" "read, though I said they would sot), shown that
the rafts Would nut diminish consumption of food, and
this I did in order to destroy the weight of the state-
Left, that the excise-taxes had increased. I showed,
that these might increase, and the farmers anal landlords
dr r-":4td al Me sumac time. But we must hear the
Sacker again, before we dismiss this matter.
"To toy that as superabendaace of corn lowers the
" price and 'Trays ,listress, and at the same time to tall
to Government to dismiss labourers who consume
"r; argues a degree of folly which future ages win
" hod it impossible to believe. What should we say to
" a shopkeeper, who, having a large stock of tea on
"dual, solicited all the gentlemen in hie neighbour-
" hood, who were customers, to dismiss half their set-
" rants, and reduce the wages of the remainder, in or-
" der to relieve him (the shopkeeper) from his sayer-
vh-mimire of tea Jr—This is precisely what the agri•
"osists are now doing ; every redaction must ag-
: mute the evil under which they suffer; it must di-
me consumption, and consequently add to
excro, and yet they say, reduce."
hat, again, it is you, and not I nor any man who is
,11 idiot, who "" say that there is a superaGundnece
"l ,fes." We ray no awls thing ; net do the farmers "Y it; nor do the landlords say it ; and, have I not, in
%peened letter to you, proved as clear as day-light.
Iti,at the "pinion is
Glee and beastly? Why, then, does
Aarker harp upon this? He must have been liter-
'. :51.red in the English Treasury; or he would
thJught of taking his own refuted premises, and,