The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-25 00:00:00

THE STATICS NI APk

CASIMIR PERISR and other Depeties, that this sem
had been noceeetitetimully palmated wittiest the
previews eenseet of the Chamber. Seale a costs., if
regularly followed, weeld destroy all responsibility
on t►e part of the Ministry. The Chamber finny
agreed to the grant, rescuing the question of respen.

Oa the great of a rem of 1,200,000 francs for pey.l
merit made to England, in execution of the Coeven-
lion of the 3d of September, 1817, M. Buratto', de-
Mended some ',planation of the natere of thisTreety.
All Treaties, said he, are laid before the English
Howe of Commons; the Chamber of Depoties of
Fresco have the tame rights. M. LAIn. esplaioed,
that this Treaty had been entered into to defray a
compromise •dilk dit English Government for pro-
perty =plant*, their army ahlet Boordesez and
the Soo*, . lb* invasion in 1814. M. Dosou.ts,
to gratify the Chamber, reed a copy of this Treaty
from the tribune. M. Manual. insisted, this from
the words of the Treaty it was impossible to tell wbe-
ther private property bad mot been re.perchased, and
if that bed bees the case a gross injessice had been
done to the &stern Provinces, which had suffered by
the investors of 1815, sod had received co kind of re-
lief for their heavy lesser. The credit was granted,
however, end eft,/ di.pn<ing .1 some other *Melee,
she further consideration of the Projet edjoeroed 1111
Saturday.

PAM', MAT !O.—M. LAFAYETTE yesterday pre.
rated to the Chember of Deputies • Petition from
Grenoble, numerously signed, tolicitieg lbs reeal of
tbe sail,,.

The Council of State at Geneva ore •Memed. le
considering an amelioration of she IA iv of Elections.
It is known that this sligarchical law was established
ender lbe empire of the eatraordinary events of 1814.
Public opinion now requires a more liberal system,
aed Ike alterations ander consideration are as,oeaced
to be (*operable in tint respect.

A ass• Commission is employed hi organising a
system of oviform discipline to extend throesh the
Unitenities of Germany.
The dreft of • Conetitotion. protested by the
Paterct fitment le the States of Hanover, meets with
witch opposition.

MAT 21.—This day the Court of Gentles
decided the suit instituted by HARTY DC PIUMW
apnea, Officer of Infantry in the Royal Gourd, who,
Is ceneequence of the melarte.holy malt of his doe
with M. Da Si. AOLAITZ, had been indicted In the
Court of Anises by the Cour Royale. M. Louisa,
Counsel for the second, mainteioed that a duellist
could not be considered as an nimble secordieg toe
very recent decision of the Court is full assembly, is
a case absolutely simile,.
The COUNT, after bearing the Arrocsirs-Gtes-
sat., tinselled the accusation of the Goer Royale,
mad soldered the case to be taken bt4oll NOS other
Court—Another appeal of the SUM mature was
equally soccessfel.
At:coon.. from Rowe state,_ that the Coast Dc
Famcwar., Ambassador Extraordisary from his Most
'nth's! Majesty to the Papal Court, hes received
from Rio Jaaeiro his Nomination to the functions of
f Poasvost. and ALIAARTA.
Feeds—five per Cents. 80 f. 85 c.—Bank
505 f.

Joan en's opioions on Fissile* have, sine* his
Men folly acknowledged end received. The
be slid of the opinions of Sir S. Rowir.t.T
Iminal Laws—they have been adopted and
Now, is it necessary that Sir FRANCIS
should die, that his new and wholesome
should smite the acclamations of the Par.
well as of the People ? We hope sot. A
(and why sot a Prophet) otay sorely be
in his lifetime.

inset become of this "'tended empire,

To risEDITOK or THE ST4IISSMA N.

Sra,—le every age god clime, the Pions emitter,
in the eyes of a contemplative sled, like a liege le-
viathan on the ocean of human existence, morose&
ed on all sides by smaller monsters of the mighty
deep, infinitely mete foredoom and contd.', is pro.
poetises. their strength is inferior to the Majesty of
the Melt, sae deaterreas blow of whose erstnipefeel
tall would et once dish the sharks and blood-sackers,
who feed en his Immense carcase after distraction,
into atoms too well to be risible in the trembled
waters of this soirtirsal conflict. Besides lb. distract-
leg tubs and galling harpoons, which are thrown in
the face and levelled at the back of this imaginary
whale, or popular gudgeon of the political sea,
the peer brute frequently carries More than one
loses in his belly, who goads the pregnant
salmi to some safe haven, for disgergensent of the
traitors within, among the nettle end ether fish with.
out, who are waiting for their espected share of the
petrid prey ; which, whew limiting as a helpless mass
on the surface, becomes a fertile soiree of corropt
food, not only for the hungry finny race, bet the
greedier fowls of heaven. To carry this allegorical
prospects, a little nearer real life, end the general
history of mankind, I have only to add, that the
People are always beset with legions of vompares,
beleaging to the very leder of the alphabet that
1 constitutes their oats initial, ender a variety of
denomiestions, the whole of whom are personsges
ob. hew, been, are, nod will he, either from eater.,
choice, or weedily, open or concealed enemies to the
greet body of their fellow-creator's, not in one coun-
try, but over the whole globe, from its first forms.
lion into civilised states ; though, Cod forbid, this
1 treacherous hostility should last to its later end with
equal success. At the top of the specie's list ere
priests, princes, popes of course, followed by place-
men, pensiorterr, poets, players, printers, peepers,
publicans, peculators, Oldies, parasites,
pimps, ponders aced prostitutes, parlianseets, pleaders,
pick-pockets, peers, painters, puffer', prey ears,
pleralists, psoode.pstrints, pretenders, phlioso-
pliists, professors, pedagogues, prosecators es-,
ojkio, paper-beakers, pirates, plaedererr, per.
jurors, partisans, pegging, petroes, persecutor.,
parse-bearers, presidents, pages, pipers, protons,
is es muftis lest, not leen, Privy Cove.
calms. After glancing at this precious group, well
met tbet the plebeian hive Is in a prdts
picks among its literal droves and herons, enough to
tern the commee-wealth tepsy terry in spit* of their
queen esothee end ell her working peavey. I do not
pretend to have (gassed the People's fees esetbodicelly,
Nor tint any general rale cats well exist wittiest various
esorptioss, of which I shall avail myself, if even
" the Printer's devils" should think they are placed
in blacker compaey then they detente, as some of
that fratereity base proved the greatest friends of
!the Comesons in this reeler, and I dare say will
melte". ao to the end of that aleph. r of sect.
deals which mast soon croon "" the Lib.srty of
of the Press" with laurels all Its o•o. hhou'd
yourself or Readers hate any cariosity to know under
what particular letter I can be arranged, as a well.
wisher at least of the Plebs, it can easily be satisfied
by this declaration, that the how, where, when, and
what my pen indite, ere entirely regulated by " the
movie/ of the spirit within me," consequently, though
metals O. P., I may subscribe myself, in this canter,
Year's, sincerely,
r Blighty., May lt, ISIS. A. Q.