The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-06 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

utmost hostility against and utter disregard of all mercantile re-
lations. there is but too much reason to dread that, even in
the event of peace, the British merchant would in vain seek"
those channels of trade in which his enterprise was so long and
so earnestly successful.
" That this meeting do presume to think much national and in-
dividual benefit might result, and uo poss.ble injury arise to the
East India Company, were their trade to be limited to supply
the United Kingdom of Great Britaiu,with the products in China,
Bengal, and their own territories in the Peninsula of India, leav-
ing the widely-extended field of Asia, Africa, and America,
otherwise open to the exertion and use of British industry.
" That, since the United States of America, and other neutral
and foreign nations. are permitted to trade in the territories of
the East India Company, whom it is well understood they mate-
rially supplant, in furnishing the British Transatlantic dominions
and colonies, w itli the products of these territories, as well as
supplying, to a considerable extent, the Brazils, Spanish Ame-
r'ca, and every market on the Continents of Europe, Asia, and
Africa, they are permitted to reach, it would seem just and pru-
dent that our own subjects, if not allowed to enjoy a decided
preference, should at least perssess equal facilities.
" That, were several existing Commercial Restrictions, and
exclusive privileges, independent of, and connected with, the
grants to the East India Company, which, however consonant
tin, might have been with the views and understandin, of the
times when they were formed, are now only obsolete, but un-
worthy of the more enlirbtened knowledge and accurate min-
i oeptions of this advanced sera, distinctly removed, there is every
i reason to be persuaded, an advantageous field for the exercise of
British industry, might be opened up to the Eastward of the
Cape of Good Hope, and Westward of Cape Horn.
" That not.only present circumstances in regard to the foreign
commerce of VA, coontry, bat the approaching mow-atom die-
cus.ion, which the tenor of the Charter of the East ladle Com.
parry mast render necessary, straggly suggest the propriety of
Petitions to both Houses of Parliament being immediately drawn
• up, on the basis of these Resolutions, and presented on the °pea-
r ing of each Session.

The circumstances of Mrs. MARTISN house, in
Bury-street, St. James's, having been assa►led, as
lately stated in our Paper, by ho.tsebre:►kers, through
the indiscretion of the servant-maid admitting one of
the gang into the house, who pretended to court her,
will serve, we hope, as a, 'lesson to all house-
keepers to interdict alt visitors in their respective
kitchens. If servants are desirous of seeing their
friends and relations, the better way will be to allow
them in their turn, or when they can be spared, to
go to see them; and as the danger becomes more
evident of _allowing servants to have visitors, as
well as their employers, and that at their em•
ployers expense (for these visitors always cat and
drink plentifully when they come), we trust the eyes
of people will be also opened to the folly of maintain.
ing a croud of strangers iu succession, whom a very
gross negligence on the part of house-keepers have
allowed to visit their menials. The folly as well as
mischief of granting this unnecessary indulgence to
a class of people very apt to abuse it, and not al-
ways very grateful for having it, has become go evi-
dent to several families of high respectability at the
west end of the town, and in some of our diseint
counties, that it is expressly stipulated with all -er-
vants, when hired, that they are not to receive any vi-
sitors in the kitchen, or allow them to enter the house.
Thejustice as well as policy of this regulation is clear,
when we reflect, that visitors to our servants cannot
be admitted into our houses, without depi iving us of
that labonr which they owe to us, or without enter-
taining these visitors at the 'silence of their masters
or mistresses. There is likewise something farcical,
as well as dangerous, in servants having parties be-
low at cards, while their employers have a party
above. It is a well-known fact, that servants out of
place—servants discarded for crimes, are maintained
by their associates in place; and, finding a home
in our houses, become fully acquainted not only
with the interior, but with the plate-closet, and
where other valuable property is deposited. Hence
the facility with which house-breakers, with which
many of our servants are connected, accomplish theit
object and make their escape. As, therefore, the
danger is no less evident than the absurdity of allow-
ing servants to have visitors in the kitchen, we trust
that the laudable example of a few who have prohi-
bited this, will be adopted by every housekeeper,
and proper employment found in their houses for
their domestics, without forcing them to the necessity
of looking for sweethearts,and having card parties to
amuse theoseliii bed time.

The PRINCE REGENT will give a grand dinner to-
morrow, it Lich% her Royal lfightiess the• Princess '
CHARLOTTE of WALES'S Birth-day, when she will
enter into the 16th year of her age.
Earls GREY and LAUDERDALE had a conference
of two hours with the PRINCE REuENT, on Satur-
day.
Lord Hem. txn gave a grand Party Dinner yester-
day, at Holland House, which the Lords GREY and
GRENVILLE, Mr. G. PONSONDY, Mr. TIERNEY, and
five or six other leading Oppositionists attended.—;
Neither Earl lilomt, Lord ERSKINE, nor Mr. •
WHITBREAD were present on this occasion. A Spe-
cial Meeting of the Opposition Members is summoned
for this evening.
Yesterday the Earl of MOIRA entertained the
Dukes of NORFOLK and DEVONSHIRE, the Earls of
SiUPFOLK and MOUNTCASHEL, Lord ERSKINE, Sir C.
Htsrtscs, Colonel D4srt,e, General KEPPEL, tbe I
Hon. Wm. MOORE, and R. B. SHERIDAN, With a
grand dinner, at his house in St. James's-place.
Yesterday Mr. %Yam:asap left town for his seat
in Bedfordshire.
Yesterday Lord Guestviux arrived at Camelflard-
house, from his seat at Dropruore.
The Cabinet Council held on Friday was summon&
ed by the Marquis WeLursi.tv. Another Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign Office on Saturday,
at two o'clock, which was summoned by Mr. Pzacr.-
VAL, for the purpose of filially arranging the Speech
to he submitted to the PRINCE Reciame this day, in
Privy Council, for his approbation, to be delivered
lin his name timuorrow tlt the opening of the Session
of Parliament.
We understand that Sir EVAN NAPEAN is to be
' thy new Governor of BoesbaT.

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We are informed that a great shipment of ammu- PRINCE DE iIitEMBERG ..4ND GENERAL
nition, small arms, sabres, and pistols, will immedia- BRUNE.
tely take place, to be cosigned to the Admiral of —woe—
in a post chaise for Exeter; lien. ; ;rune
our fleet in the Mediterranean. Some thousand stand The Prince de Aremberg, Mom. Causil, Secretary, and
of arms are also shipping for Lord WELLeseeoe. , Role, Coemitsary of sear, left Plymouth (where they liNaTil.
follawed in the I age coach; on the outside of
The transports, eith the 7th line battalion King's landed from Lisbon),
German Legion on board for Sicily, are ordered to which were five
sail with the first convoy.
I: fira..irdotaigedfiTliefforarateteeomdbean,tsliprobeeeceede the
ed
tlo)tichntewaLry, M. Cal
saineolr,,Ntht.eiptia,f;
i domtics of the Prince. From Exeter they proceeded .. i .r.
The ells deters American ship, at Liverpool, wife!'
themereside ace, Geceral Brace goes toithertinue:ksel: brought the ParsiDENT'S Speech of the United States
,appointed
Montgomeryshire. The Prince, we are luformed by e
is now waiting at the above piece, to convey the i
PRINCE REGENT'S Speech to America.
The appointment of Serjeant at Arms; to the Housell gelha:tiaen:erany 14y0h!thfwalasaispletraran'daceede,tios exhiintreansaedlyG:trnaeralhle,
of Commons we find is not in the gift of the Speaker., I very lightly of his present condition, and much PM
of
but of the Lord Chamberlain ; so that it cannot be politics.—'she war in Sonia he considers at an cod, but
disposed of until that high office is filled, Lord J.' fbr the Guerillas and the presence of the British army i of
THICNNE continuing to act only as Deputy Chamber- fthe latter, however, he says i. Is at the option of Bonaparte to
lain during the vacancy. 1
m°sl incredibly strong fended; in this in.inion Gen. Blue
the manufacturers of camblick, in Norwichrhave 1 (who is a most intelligent mast), coincided, and further state...
raised their order from 16,000 to 22,000 piecesthis I that the Emperor's purpese against England is bett.:r anst.'red
season. I by far, in the resent state of Minis la Spain and Portugal, :
The Board of Trade on Saturday gave notice of a ; keeping a ltritiAt army there, sehlek CWOPt so eat.rtnnus an •
new arrangement with respect to the Licences grant- ' pence to thilnation. and, in his opinion. " without haii.v ....,
ed for the commerce to Norway. It has been deter-
importcnt object in view." They both agree in every respect with
mined by their Lordships, that none will be issued for i the statement of Marshal Soult, to the French Government, ex-
, cept in the particular of the dnie rsioo of Castanons army, which
imports front that country, excepting to such ships as
' they do not deny
take exports from hence of British goods, to the value , talica.____They-
is false,ackno and also in the number of prisoners
tape their surprise to be stns_
of 51. for each ton of their bulk. I /malted, when, :nine froni their pillows, and stelae the
The Extent issued by Government will, it $* Highlanders in time -streets of Arroyo Moth)°, rushing in
thought, sweep away nearly the whole of the remain- with bayonets fixed, and driving all before them, is hen the
lug property in the banking-house of BOLDER°, very 'Spaniards who had the night before declared to assist them,
i.v silt nonort, and Co. including some lodgments, were seen throw ing their hats and crying out " Vive Englitairr."
which involve peculiar hardships ; one to a consider- General Brune had two horses killed under bim in this affray,
able amount of money lodged for the purchase of an while endeavouring to disengage the troop'. They speak in
estate, which, not being paid on the stipulated day, i very contemptible terms of the Spanish soldiery, but say, that
is legally considered, after that period, as the pro- the boldness and ' courage of the Guerillas is truly astonishing
, —and shorn all the regular armies in Europe would never be
perty of the house. able finally to subdue. They express a great wish that the Bri-
Government have prudently, under the authority , tish soldiers were deprived of their bayonets, and in that case
of the Alien Act, sent the Baron Kreoursr, the i alone do they expect success in a general engagement, where
friend of Dans:afro RT SEDLET, and who was impli.; there is any thing like an equality of numbers; and ssLile the
cated with him in the transaction with the Marquis' British are commanded by such a very superior officer as Lord
of Ilueoeone, out of this kingdom. Was this eau- Wellington, which th sy acknowledge, though with regret, to be
1 the case to a degree. Gen. hr..ne, szts, more than his own cot-
dable example followed in a variety of instances, the
dition, be laments that of the troops of Girard, which he uneq ui vo-
country would soon experience the benefit cf it, by cally detiares to have been the finest, both for courage and supe.
getting rid of many foreign impostors ! riorny of discipline, of any in the French army. They speak in
The equestrian statue of the King, in Berkeley- Use highest. praise of the exceeding kind treatment they met at
square, has, wititin the last year, been gradually giv. the bands of General; Hill, Erskine, Peacock, and indeed in-
it% uay, till, more lately, it has beon retained in its variably so of all the British Officen through whose bands they
position by various supports and props : but it has have passed. When the Duke D'Areroborg came on board the
Merntaid, to be conveyed as a prisoner to England, he was ac-
been found impossible to sustain it any longer, and
companied by an English Officer, to whom, in the course of
workmen have been employed to take down the
statue. This circumstance, associating itself with the conversation, he observed, " That Ilona was the second city of
the rt., •i, r t; :pia." The English Officer seemed surprised, and
actual state of our beloved Sovereign, has become the observed that that could not be, as Rome was in Italy. " A
topic of conversation iu the neighbourhood. was se," replied the Duke, " but the Emperor, by an Edict, hes
l'he Nottingham Papers of Friday teem with ac- annexed it to the Euirre." Shortly afterwards, when the NW.
counts of atrocious depredations, and footpad rob-
maid was getting under weigh, the English Officer took leave
the Duke, or
and said to him that " in two hones he would be is
bevies, which are daily, or rather hourly, perpetrated
E•iglend," the Duke could not comprehend this, until the offi-
in the surrouudiag country. Celt added that " The lung of Great Britain had eansavel Ms
Letters were received on Saterday from Oporto to seas to his elsmittion;."--(P•rtsmouth Paper.)
the 18th ult. which contain limiting new. They men-
tion, that the Allied Army remained in cantonments, CORRUPTION IN I'HE STATE,
and that Lord WELLINGTON intended to visit Lisbon. Tat CAUSE or IMMORALITY ass REVOLUTION&
Full blown cowslips were gathered in several parts --ao,
of the country on Christmas-day. It is not to the nature of things that a eleeersinent, sustaining
itiself entirely by the mesas of Corraption, dwelt! produce good
It is stated iti the Paris Journals that the report
of peace having been concleded between Russia and ctireverensCe forin
corruptionsite me petenta-lift, destroy all
virtue—all private faith between man and man,
Turkey, is without foundation. I and Lae duration of such a Government will continue no longer
The Catholics of the County of Limerick are to i totn-the fraudulent ream by which it is supported, of the terror
meet on tee 6th inst. and, we understand, Revell- lit 'untied- Yet its subversion, without a revelation in the me.
Lions are prepariog with all practicable expedition for rats of the people, wit only substitute an anarchy in its place,
deplorable than the despotism it has banished. It is to the
calling together the Catholics of every County in ; more
Ireland.—We have also the satisfaction to inform rem steaond Frenchal o scandalous
Nrapacityobiiit antLpirtofcsion
and of tau. French
wCiouthrt.theand of
Readers that it is intended to bring forward Resole. profligacy of the highery orders of the et„sca',.., and wit to tee
tions in favour of Catholic Emancipation, at a meet- philosophical pursuits of men, whose rases did honour to
ing of the Corporation of Stationers, to be held on their nation and to the age we live in, that the Revoludon in
Tuesday next ; and we sincerely hope every other France is to be attributed. Sycophants. hypocrites. and term.
Corporation in this City e ill speedily imitate the ex.. tare asserted the contrary; but those only are enipable for tne
ample.--(Dublin Paper.) ; consequences ernick have resulted from that greet event, who,
No Person, under any circumstances of suspicion, iby tne abuses they coneeitt, d, r nil ..“li uuemoidable, An at-
should he permitted 40 prowl the streets • the guar- temptgra its been
pt pityade by
of Mr,
the thimeeseir:a and
and coins t. ilost
nfound v:oriefrto die
dians of the night should be properly armed' and offi.. of legitimate liberal discussion with a licentious contei.ipt for
creed, and in sufficient numbers to carry the objects all virtue and decency. It is necessary to resets the age from a
of Preventive Police into due effect. It has been re- slander so atrocious. Pt is become a duty to assert the right, and
Commended, and we think with great propriety, that illustrate toe advanetges arising from the exercise of n.e mind,
every man should be oblird, once a mouth, or that things so &seinen. In their nature, and so remote iron. each
oftener, to deliver in to certain Officers cr lelegie. i other as licentiousness and virtue, should be shown to have had
trates, in each parish, appointed for the purpose, Ili, tno connec ion. That they should have been Wended together,
must be mattero of regret to the loversi of scieure, and a far
name, residence, anti occupation ; that all house- ithe
keepers and landholders shall, to a certain extent, grreeneatraerito
pipuseineuss•hotociprefkeirringmd to tthrveir toowexpediency, and
interests,
be responsible for the conduct of their inmates and ; find thenuelves me objects of a clamour exceed against them by
tenants whose characters may appear dubious; and theTerial, cme servile, and the profligate. Puna hints are meant
that strict watch should be kept over all public ,as an admonition .0 t Misters, woo seem
.to consider their ap-
, pointoients as hierely for the purpose of giving them large.n.la-
houses, suspected to be the resort of disorderly per- Ties, sinecures. and.pa roller to prov:de for mneir dependents.
sons. These regulations and precautions would not It is the cupidity of such men as use have sera di-grace our Pah-
fail to answer the desired put pcse ; and until some :
vtiec Counet,ils,
.neocued withionq tititeeviciiticranits,ceanadild,eitill.rpa, Litei,t.
n• faocregeos:
such system be adopted, it were rain to hope for the ' teary. Let it be the care of Parliament to stop the career of
security, peace, and comfort of 'the community. , guilt and folly, before such a resource becomes our only means
of defence against foreign siin!egetion.
A Morning Paper says, that " The Speech of the —_ --
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PRINCE REGENT, to be delivered to-morrow by the ; SURREY THEATRE.—On :iaturday Miss MAT,
LOAD CIiANCELLOR to both 14, uses of Parliament on . from the Theatre Royal Brighton, made her first ep-
the opening of the Sessions, still not prove a very
pearanco before a London audien
elaborate one. After espreeing a sincere laments- ce, in the character
of Leonora, in Blood for Blood. In person she is
tints for the continuing indisposition of the Sove- handsome, and her countenance expressive ; but she
reign, it naturally embraces i ongratulatory
allusions appeared so intimidated on her entre as to be almost
to our late naval and military successes, and au ardent I overpowered, and was scarcely audible ; but, being
hope that the common enemy of Europe may even- cheered by the kindness of the house cm so recovered
tually be driven back from the Peninsula by the i
united and increasing her-ism of the British troops, herself, as called forth repeated plaudits and bravos
from all parts of the house, and in the subseeuent
and their patriotic and gallant Allies. The congaed scenes her superior abilities triumphed ove her diffie
of Batavia by Gen. Sir S. AUCHMUTY, and the bril- deuce, and in that passage where she says,
liant victory obtained by General lItLL, are pastiest-
" Heaven watches o'er the good man's life,"
tarty noticed. The disturbed state of Ireland, from the house was electrified by such a burst of applause
the late Catholic Meetings, is not alluded to, be. as testified the general opinion of her promising (a-
muse it still remains under judicial investigation.— lents.
We do not understand that any serious opposition is A letter from Jamaica says, that the following de-
intended to the Address to be moved in either House ; cision has excited a strong sensation in that,colony,
although a systematic one is declared against the The principals of a mercantile house, who had a(1-
Ministry, and that to coMmence immediately on the vanced large sums of mosey to a planter, ott the
expiration of the RE.aNCY Restrictions. mortgage of his estate (to the amount, it is said, of
The Ilamburgh and principal Dutch Journals of 30,0001. sterling), took the legal measures to effect
payment of their claims. The Defendant, in arrest
the etle ult. denounce the following persons, residing
of judgment, put in a plea that the transaction was
in England, and promise, at a future period, a longer
list: usurious, insomuch as the terms of the mortgage
„fomenting Me Secret bound the planter to send the produce of his estate
'Proud. to the mercantile house for sale, by which they had
their cemmission on the sales, in addition to the le.
gal Interest of their loans. The Chancellor, the
Hon. Governor.Getriral, admitted the plea, and de-
clared the transaction usurious. The Plaintiff was
in cousequedce non-suited, and all his advances to
the planter Lost ; besides his being farther rendered
liable to o *vrolleauti9lit la 4 1
oiteinal coon for usury.


• itst:
List of Brokers hi !Chemed, epneenowl in forwarding the Secret
Cowneowitotioss with Holland.
$6 Jobas Geo. the goo victualler, bore at Amsterdala, and re-
tiding; St. Cabalists's, sew the Toyer of London ; A illton
One's 100 eePet; No. 19, Alaosell-street, floodstan's-lieldt ;
Hamer: woes a tie reed Syreo.at Rbtokwall ; .Cabr, a Saw,
I await' eft* 81;11; 4ticaltrier, at &whit* Roper, lie*, and
Smith, all satlves of Hollsod, is Lemansstreet. Goodman's.
Gelds; Grasa(Jr, olborwise aelkd Waffelbal; bor. of Ratlenlata,
5 formerly a bewail baker al Paris: Owmana, owner of the ship
Kars, an, Mr% Oriellikl Of St* VOW) W toe!wain fa
intaaltalgark _ .

OUTLICES gIIISBURGIL ""1

wre regret to state, that on Tuesday night, being
the last of the year, and, on that account, devoted by
immemorial =age, and the custom of the place,, to
innocent festivity, the streets-of this city were dis
graced by a series of ots, outrages, and robberies,
I.:!herto, we may truly say, without any example.—
Puring almost thvopliele of the night, after eleven
o'clock, a gan of ferocious banditti, aimed with
bludgeons an Other weapons, infested sor of the
lt,ading str ,
and and knocked down and robbed,
otherw most wantonly abused,.almost every
~erson wh had the misfortune to fall in their
o ay. Afts/r they bad fairly succeeded in knocking
down tissfie of whom they were in pursuit, they pro.
Itad immediately- to rifle them of their money
end watches; and the least symptom, on their part,
'.t anxiety to save their property, was a provocation to
outrages,, which were persevered in, until their
':,:s were endangered.. One person we have heard
el, ..bo, after being kr.ucked down, made several at-
tempts
to preserve his watch,vv hen he was so ab used and
kicked on the head, and -in the breast and stomach,
that he was glad to escape with his life. Another
gontloansis, in the saw unhappy preslicament, sUQ
cecttql in preserving his watch, though it was pulled. i
so violently that the chain was brake, which, toge-
ther with the seals, he lest. We have heard of
many other instances of outrage, but it is unne--
cessary to enter farther into particulars. These
outrages, we understand, were chiefly committed
by a band of idle apprentice boys, regularly orga,
sized for the purpose, and lurking in stairs and
closes, from whence they issued, on a signal given,
in large bands, and surrounded and overwhelmed
those who were passing by. By the vigilance of the
Magistrates, who were on the streets, or otherwise
actively engaged in the duties of their office, until
about five o'clock on Wednesday morning, several
of these rioters were apprehended on the spot, some
of them with the stolen articles in their possession,
and the most vigilant it quiries are going on, with
a view to root out this nefarious combination against
the peace of society, by bringing to exemplary jus-
tice the perpetrators of these outrages. A reward of
100 guineas has been offered for the discovery of the
offenders. Among other depredations, we hear,
that about 70 of the public lamps were broken.—
( Edinburgh Paper.)