The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

1 TEE STATESMAN.

L•desirour of obtaining votes in the House of Commons,
t..ahould have formed a coalition with Mr. Horrocks,
a Gentleman of entirely opposite political principles
i to his own, I observed, that being a rapid orator, he
bad, probably, forgotten to explain hieing upon
: that point, and that I would pause to gin bun an
opportunity.
• "He replied, that he 6 had entered into the
,-coalition, regarding Mr. liorrocks as a more fit
•vperson to represent them in Parliament than Dr:
Crompton.'
• 66 I immediately cried out, 'We have him, tre
e have him; hen knows I was not applied to till loog
after be had formed the coalition, and that I was sent
for to blast it.' A burit of indignant disepproba.
tion resounded through the Hall, which you may
'better conceive than I can describe; hot you, Mr.'
Chairman, may form a pretty just conception of it,'
. when I tell you, it exceeded even that burst of in.'
dignation which took place at the Eachanev.hall,
• when you and others so successfully *trued ti.e coo-
: duct of Mr. John Gladstone, now Member of Par.
• liament for Lancaster, on the subject of his cor.
• respoudence with Lord Liverpool, respecting the'
Property Tax. Such were the political proceedings
t 'of Mr. Hereby, although in private life a Gentle:il
*even of the greatest respectability. I conclude,
I Gentlemen, by again thanking you for the patient
attention' you have given me.",

LABOURERS' WAGES Is AMERICA.
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The following, is iiv*hed f..t(*! the literal copy
of a letter from Thomis Pord, late a- Eisi Methly,
but now of Norfolk, Virginia, to his son, accompa- ,
nied by a statement of a very singular nature.
The letter. which, it is said, reached East 'loath!,
,on .the 3d of October last, states the arrival of the
writer in. Norfolk on the 19th May preceding, his
hiving coinmenced. working as a bricklayer on the'
22d May, at one dollar and three-fourths per day,
and afterwirdi earning three dollars a day :—" 1
don't think;" he says, " of getting more thin two
dollars and a half per day for.tiiwto come ;bero is
plenty, of work at two, dollars pet' day ; .1 can get
piantteurtiiitstetifor tliet . . . ;.•. . .
. . man need be afraid of coming to
^ larica, if hews work ; there is plenty of work ;
lvtiarOurers may have 4s. 6d. ter day and his board ;
6s. for shoeing a light horse; a pair of pelts is from.
3s. 6d. to 41. 6d. Workmen are all well paid for
• their work here, and every man that works can keep
plenty of grog in his house. The inhabitants are
about three parts negroes, which the white men buy
and sell as a farmer will a horse in England., jam
sorry to say that the negro our in Virginia gets mere
to est and drink than the peer•white man its &stand;
most of these masters that owns the negrortaltave nn
work for themi 10 they go oat to work, load and on-
-ad vessels ; they gat 311.,,e1id. per deyspetd.their.
.d and apint of rum ; they carry 94. per week to
masters ; whit is left is their own."

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?Monk y that Government had re.
dispatches -from gpaill. The is
Cabinet Caudell, it is andershrod,
to attend the Putact at Brighttanii
mystery is .
in circulation. Ono pretty generally
on account of the channel throagb
hich it -was derived, asserted that a general and
simultaneous retolt had broken out ; that the sol•
diers of the line, sent to oppose the Guerillas, had
joined and made common cause with them, and were
actually marching on Madrid, from whence the Royal
Family and Sir HENRY WILLESLEY, it is eddel, had
fled and taken refuge io the Escurial. Cataloglia,
Galatia, and Biscay, were.sippobed to be the pre.
winces in most generil 'milt. Of course, we give
the stateMewt. as a mere report, which nothing ant
has transpired to.day has confirmed; but, as we ob.
served yesterday, we have been long prepared for
something of the highest importance from Spain.

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The French Papers to the 15th have reached 0.
Lord CAMEREAGII was espected to take his lei,
of Louis XVIII. on Sunday, preparatory to he
return to this country. The Duke 1)MIGOULI,1
returned to Paris on Saturday, from his Wow.
tion of the fortresses occupied by the Allid
troops ; and -the following day the Duke Of
WELLINGTON left that capital. The activity of
the War Department is unremitting. The
nister has issued orders that the Legions of n.
[entry shall be raised to their full complemera—
Those of the North, of the Lower Rhine, arid of
Meurthe, are to repair to Paris, in order to recere
a more regular organisation ; their complement%
to be 1500 men ; and they are hereafter to me
as a model to the other regiments of the line_
Among the fresh instances of the earnest wish of le
French Ministry to give a prominent character ad
increased force to their military establishment, my
be quoted the Report of the Commission charpd
with the inspection of the fortified places, and whb
atteuded the Duke D'AmciouLcase on his toot.. Th
Report declares ii to be the opinion of the Membe
of the Commission, that it is necessary to replace i
lnew fortresses those which had been ceded by tb
-Treaty of Paris. We are nocetWtare of any Fren
fortrestO,,,pf importance having. been ceded by II
Treeigellecked to, with the exceptiou of Landau;
that, foe the defence of the French frontier in chi
ditecittnti ft would only be requisite to erect a sing
fisitress: We apprehend, however, that the intentit
of .the French Government is to tient a whole li
of fortresses along the hurtle, towards Switzerlati
the most vulnerable part of the 14.reseh territory.
On Saturday the French 5 per Cents. which had he
as low es 601. in the course of that day, are stet
in these Papers to have again risen to 83 f. 50 c.
which they are laid to have left oil'. if the plies

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tr,eit large upon hi, Parliamentary conduct, and in an. Ave .1.1.1 area
si•swer to Mr. Myers, who did me•the honour of pro. - i__.' ' T1'.1!%:1
I ,posing me, and who had ()Netted to •him„fsf. fill 11.0100ein
$ taking a greater share in the debanak". To
c9rOmons, .4 refliah .f tit: . bola trii 1
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.... list sir gielifitat
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„he Electors, after a far pron. ' • ~. ' "••• ,ne, .own ra4iUm ii
chnrpressed my saaptise, how Mr. llornhyferho was so credited
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