The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

The Journal de Toulouse (theanative town of the Minis-
ter of Finance) contains the following :
We learn from Paris that the retlucti•rn of the interest
of the public debt from 4 to 5 per cent. is more talke I of
than ever. It is said that the French Government will
raise a fart len loan at the rate of 3 per cent. the pr•eluce
of which will serve to pay olf such creditors of the state as
prefer to receive their capital. It is calculated, that he
this operation the Government will reduce the natio•::,l
debt 50 ruiliions rr annum, and that the plan will have
the advantage is f augmenting the value of propp:!•,
with abundance of cash which will he in sir. -
hitiutt. It is likewise remonted, that a ri,a;
Book will be opened for Indemnities to be grante I t:,
grants. Accordine, to the new plan, there will be reas,e
upon the I nte:eAs a draw-h telt, wt.ich will serve fend
holders in the place of land-;ae, end be equally ,fratual
in itivet'mq them with the elective franchise."

The King of Sweden has nominated Prince 0 tar to be
Vice-Roy of Norway.
A clerk in the War Office has just been taken into ca.-
torly upon a charter o: having. obtained lite sinatnre of
the Xlini•ter to enable persons to procure patents of 31e.
her, for the Legion of Honour.
The Prince of Hohenlohe Srhillin;rsfurst, at
Lucerne or. th- 21st olCmo, in the eighty-first year of

his Age.

By the iloblrt Tatra Gazette of Sept. 1, rcceivel this
mart.ittz at the New England Coffee Muse, we learn that
on the ~b.tre day, the ship C .mmoi!tare Hayes, Captain
Moncritff, had arrived, with 216 male convicts, for that
settlement. Site had else on bold, the Steff of the 311 n •
(entry, (the 11 u

Its the paper of the 18th of Angest, we are informed that

a general meetly g of the respectable inhabitants had

place, at which an abstract of regnlalions for a lt.ok had
been agreed to, as large proportion of the sharer sobs-ribrd
for, and an application made to obtain a charter fur the
same, from the Governor in Chief.

The liberal spirit that appears dawning on high plvrt,

is certainly among the best signs of the tints, ati.!

we hail with inexpressible pleasure. That powerful rr.ju.

dice, which Lad sa long dung to venerable errrri and

antignated forms, seems no.v to be happily on the v ant.
It is a politiesl phenomenon of rare occurrence, even in
England, enlightened as she undoubtedly is, to see a

Secretary of Stat•, rising day after day in his place in
Parliament, listening with patience to the complaints of
dte peei,le, and candidly acknowledging owl of them ti
he a eil fonnird, and milling badly for redress. These

auspicious changes are the triornphs of the Press,
f►r the liberty of which, a free people should cling as to
We are led into these remarks by a
discussion which took plsee yesterday in the House of Com-
mons, on the Petition of Mr. Stapleton, a Yorkshire Mso.

Bring.

trate, presented by Sir F. Burdett, complaining of persons
committed for supposed offences to prison, being compelled to
work at the Tread Mill, previous to trial. Sir Francis, with

his honest characteristic energy, conten led that such a prsc

tlce, was quite as Illegal as it was inhuman. This eeprecerts•

tion of the cake wag met by Mr. Secretary Peel, with a fret k

and candid acknowledgment, that hie own opinion on the sub-
ject, differed very little from that of the Hon. Baronet—he
went further. and declared, that he bad not a too-
ment's doubt, as to the inexpediency of placing per-
sons on the Tread Mill. before they had been found
guilty of any crime. This is an extraordinary occurrence,
to Lind a Secretary of State questioning the humanity of
a practice sanctioned by a great majority of Magistrates
in the largest County in England. On the same day,
Mr. Mune brought forward a motion for the appointment
of a committee " to inquire into the state of the Law, an I
its consequences, relative to artisans leaving the king lutu
to reside abroad—into the state of the Law, and its conse-
quences, relating to the exportation of machinery—to en-
quire into the state of the haw, and .its effects, relating to
the combination of workmen for the purpose of raising
wsges, or fixing the hours of labour, and to report the
evidence with their opinion thereon to the House." The
appointment of a committee for such purposes was awn.
swerably demonstrated by the Mover, in a speech replete
with calm reasoning and cogent argument. In support u I
his motion, hr voted the authority of Cr. Adam Smith,
who gives the following opinion on this suhject. "fle
property which every man has in his own lah:mr, es it is
the original foundation of all other property, so it is the
wing sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of
poor man,
lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to
hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity
in what manner he thinks proper, without injury
to his neighbour, is a plain violation of
no
most sacred property." With this opinion, and
with Mr. Hurne's Motion, Mr. Ilusklssen, another
Minis
ter, entirely concur-R.—On subjects like these, of
portance In domes le policy, and so vitally- connected with tl:e
real happiness of the great body of the people, a triumPli
such a cause is more honourable to an English Nlinister, thou
the achievement of ten thousand victories such as Waterloo.
primary la-

Weilnrclay night, Mr. Williams, the King's Messenr•
left town with despatches from Earl Bathurst, as S-
cretary for the Colonial Department, for Colo, in re-
ply to those received a few days ego, announcing tar
sudden death of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Mait-
land.
Yesterday Mr. Secretary Canning transacted business a:
the Foreign Other.
Thomas Jervis. Esq. is appointed Puisne Judge of Cies.
ter, and Horace Twin Esq. is nominated Counsellor to
admiralty and Navy, in the room of Mr. Jervis.