The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-06 00:00:00

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PP.;:CEP, 31Aacti 15.--7 he jusliel.l tro,s•e.".nws are
rt.!. n•st %nuleinitahititata
ars.• s•Tisrr /daces, isir fitvirg atolea, tioc,At.
sJi I !.n,s :$. laigr. sin:snit.). 01 ,amine.
• ing ir•'" Or r Ilse :grainiest ve..0.1 the liorra
1 so•• ;11i4 1.. t ssf Ina eu.nst most be euivin,eal

••: •:.•' ••L of p•• •;•• i• lb sacred, anti that the mis-
t r• of those n:..i !tar •Liiiirreek nate not he
ia-
,:.. • ti l•y strarkirg• "tid pluudeting the semets, and
1•• a 1:cost• go o :situ 114 "'burl-
.y . an oar: ••• &nun nuittorr amt
I! I.i •-k * stranded Ameriran brig
t''.••• •••:•••• 1 • . !•eensol.l for 4.1:10 Dutch
-•. 'fl .• ship .•. hull% and it is
t' 11 •I 1 'it Ina. , • t ofiil.•
•l• 7.• %%CH .• • ..•f this tuottli s.):::e
—1
it 'lli Lingl!..; . '.latta:•lzell, rear riot !i.
i• • -is r wimp; ".th:les, and carried ; way
t 1 1....1%e:i.r5. flue of them, Mr. jeweller,
ierwot•ls released, hariug honnti hitoself to have
pias•ors pail at Fond' for his runst.so. M. Sa-
ba:in', who tomtit:nth the it ,:nan arallief.ers ..n the
11-soitier. immediately • "it -to., I the rol..oers ni;ii a tletarlt-
aste••t into the Neapofltan t..rritury. :'mint;
*We ter eseare, they re1....5..1 the t...tveller•, and pre-
) tred to defend thesoseles,: nil obi.:;:iste combat c.s.
sued. in which of Sonnino„ the ehlofol the kw-
ANL, wm, killed is) M. "%eoa•i3i. heapproacii 4,i MOO,
and it itir tiy rain. Cirl.tired lilr ‘,.•.*!••• of the (Ikon..
Two of t.it Is were supposed to he severely roton•hol..
their r•oaks, which sere h Ft 111 nre rieree.l with
wally halls.' The head of itinaldi has brill expose.! at
Prunnerie. A ren•ard NM I erowas has L•ett given to
tht detach:smut of carabiniers.

nottestor.llmten 3.—The English lieneral. A. Ir-
.vine. coming from Bologna hither with his family, was
atta..ked and rubbed on the road; hut the police was so
active that the robbers were itt 4.41 the twat day. and the
greeter part of the sto!rn preterit. recovered. The loan-
Imve keen 1.. furl !abort. for lire.
Lowe' Euta, Maitca Ztt. —the Itanoverian jr;urnals
font ai o the following statement :—We hear that, in the
vesent bossism of the ,tssesobly of State, it will 1w pro-
writ to abolish tithes, or at least to substitute hir then,
r tax of another kind. The advantages arising front
Ibis measure could not fail to have a gmit influence on the
agrirtilteral prosperity of our kingdom. tor it is. in fart.
almost a holly as agricultural country, the nianutarftwes
Lc!ng in conspariatte insiguifirant; and as there is a
great extent of heath and waste land, which no one ;.'
let ventured to cultivate. Arrange of the great expense
which such an enterprise would minim (the
Ord land-tax most be added) the abolition of thew int.
jests will much facilitate ntidera'aings of this nature.
and the Diet will merit the gratitt:Je of the country if
they carry this plan into rxecti.ion.

ON THE DECISION OF THE MISSOURI

Q rEs rt fi

((nom TMII SAIMPOIIIII ADVERTIStIt

Deprecating, as we nand sineerely hare, and most sin-
ccrely do deprecate, that unhallowed spirit of division
and discord, and every evil work. which had began to be
manifest in the late discussions relative to the admission
of Mi.souri, we should be inconsistent with Our own
principles, did we, by any tone of insult or exnl•ation
aid in p4tructing the onlfsOF ditition which this
question has caused. The conspeterft4trilinnals have
decided—they hare decided, M any rate. in a manner
consonant with the Constitution. It is not
that they were bowed, by that instrument, to impose
conditions on the sovereign power of a State, to be ad-
mitted by their act, pursuant to the Constitution. But
'it is alleged, and to our minds most conehisivelv proved.
that they have en right, by that instrument, to decide
any thing more than the question of admission or nom
mintission—nsy, Illore, that they have no moral r;ght to
decide in favour of non-ashulanisio. _ _

It would have appeared ftkir presumption, while the
controversy was pending, to have obtruded our remarks
un a su: ject, under the closest and most ambitions scru-
tiny of theceinbined political wisdom of statesmen se-
lected from different parts of our country. As it has
now been decided, we may he permitted to express our
pleasure at a decision which a.. believe to be right end
entreat. Nay, it may not appear impertinent to suggest
a single point of view, in which the idea of restriction
appears to us very absurd, because the more firmly we
are convinced the decision is correct, the more proba-
bility will follow of a cheerful, and, in the cud, a gene-
ra! acquiesceoce in it. The suggestion, we would re-
tie*, has, we know, already been male and enlarged
non. I larppearii to us, however, to have force, though
it h3s not novelty.
We ask, then, whether there is another single condi-
tion or restriction, which ingennity can con ore ap,
whirls it will be pretended Congress have • right to im-.
pose on a state asking admission, other than what the
conititntion itself imposes? Have Congress a right to
require that a state shall Impose a property qualification
on voters, or the coutrary ? !lave they a right to re-
naire the establishment of a !state religion, or to require
in In *any wards (however reason may require it) that
religion should be left free, and no legal provision made
for its Support? flare they a tight to iusist on a free-
kaki cinalification, as in Virginia ; a general suffrage as
its Maryland ; or a possession of personal or real pro-
perty, as in Massachusetts? In a wont, is there another
single reqiii%ition,` except this Slave Restriction, one
which it *ill even be pretended Congress may lawfully
impose, in the internal regulations of a State? If there
be Ito other instance in which this power by inference
eau even he imagined to be vested, by what train of rea-
soning is It proved to exist in his solitary case? and as
a eenserpvnee from these suggestions, we may ask the
very important question, stated by •Jiailtr• Cooper. It
Missouri, to .lay, is admitted into the Union, under a re-
%friction; and as a sovereign state, to-ntorr,w, chooses
to abrogate it, is Congress ronapetelit to try her for her
conduct ; :quilll her constitution; turn her senators out
.of the hall ; and shut the doors in the face of her re-
present ati ves ?
Bat we forbear to pursue the subject. Our object is
. rather to advocate acquiesence in the result, than to re-
new the controversy.—Thank God, it is at last deei,ledi
and, as we believe, decided right. We mist a spirit of
harmony will succeed the spirit of division, which has
• beats hot ton apparent. We do hope also, that the rage
for " ma..ts speaking" wiN subside ; and that the period of
application to real, effective, important baldness has ar-
:iivrd. There ere certainly.(snet our Legielators ought
tO 11.0 W it a great deal ixtis4 than we do), several im-
portant measures, which shatfld at least be maturely con-
sidered and decided upon. "
Yesterday the dispaTeTesfo7.lli. r::111 and Madras,
by the ship Woodford, were dosed at the East
India House sand delivered to the Master of that
ship. ,
Lord gpfbeer, dtijing his stay It Naples, pur-
chased the Anperb lflitary of the Ike de Cassano:
it has been pet on 'hoard .ti English vessel, to.be
conveyed to London.
The Lord of the lira tat of Plymonth has granted
-E n efl iblc view of groped ii that 134rottik.
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vt tc eructed t lisudibMt view Tow n

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