The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-18 00:00:00

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ofoool4, end that the pergolas thus pledged
other is the capital amoented to 40,000.
Another day's Paris Papers have reached es. The
Deka of Wusa.moiott is fah' to have had a long
voliimstion with that Decal' A amouLtma on Sunday
`jut, iilll4lol coaetershandid the preparations for his
*rave from Patio, which was to' have taken place
bit the morning of that dist. According to the
tolligence in Oleo Papers' from Spain, the prepara.
tipaa for the dispatch of Ile espedition from.Cadis,
had been reseed with gold ectivisy, io consequence
of the remittance of toneiderable some 'from Madrid,
towards which FERDIIIIAND had cOntributed from II
bjs privy parse. Con*t Dur. Minim. is said to
Piave been appointed reaptaitt•General of Peru and
'Chili, with verrutenive powers ; and to have been
'Mowed the choice of lis Staff and Field-Officers. A
pectee was expected IP be 'speedily forthcoming for
augmenting the Spanish army of the line to 70,000
men. exclusive of for Regiments of Veterans, and
the Royal Guild, which is to be increased'to 5000.

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A communication If some interest to the money
market reached London yesterday morning. It sp.
liars, that after lone discussions amoogst the con-
tractors and principal capitalist% of Paris, .the resell
of *hitt was made kiown to the Duke of NVEct.tars.
Toy and Lord C.OTLEREAGIt at the Doc Di'
RICHELIEU'S, it wail
*finally agreed between tbe
French and Foreign Mieisfers, " that the last loan
shoeldr be definitively reduced to IS millions of
renter; to be paid in 18 months ; and that the re-
maioder of the principal, viz 100 ailllions francs,
should be paid in cash by France herself, in nine
months after the time given to Messrs. BAWING and
Co., Which Weeds the term of fins/ payment to
months."
A further communication from ,Paris, of a day
later; which we iesert, fully confirms the above, de.
•iatiosi from the Treaty of Ala-Is-Chapelle; with the
addiion, that the payment of debts to individual fo.
reignite, is, as well is that to the foreign Govern.
meek pdsrponed for a term °Pik months ; not Cons.;
ineneing until the lit July, 1819, instead of the
approaching Jewelry. 4 .

Yesterday, it one o'clock; Mr. if tsx, Chief
Cashier to the Bank of England, mode his appear-
II
ance in the gtock Exchvnge,for the purpose of giving
dodo to the pertlev who bad petitioned for an exten-
sion of the term for redeeming their deposits of om.
ninm, that the Directors declined compliance with
their application. This unexpected intimation had
the efect of lowering the funds a half per cent. The
hllders of omnium mill therefore be compelled to,
concert it into stockot the regular period. It is sup-
posed that the quenliq of omnium thus pledged
amounts ta•nearly 6,000,0001. Twenty per cent.
been paid Wan it mild be reared as de-
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the /subscriber,

Lore, STEWART, the British Ambassador to the
Court of Austria, arrived at Vienna on the 2d of
December.
The Duke.of WELLINGTON and Lord CASTER-
Repoli, immediately oo their arrival, will proceed to
ikighton.
His genes, the Duke of GLOUCESTER left Frank.
fort on the 7th, for Homburg.
Letters received from Hareborgb, dated the, Bth.
Inst. state, that owing to the wind having changed
to the S. W., a complete thaw had taken picas, and
the navigation was therefore no longer impeded by
the ice, whieh had accumulated during tin ttiset on
the 4th god sth.
&tract of a letter from the Agent to Ll'''. tt
Gibraltar, dated 2311 ult. t--" By letter, received
hare from Tunis, by Isis Escellency the Teniiien
Ambassador, it is announced that • contegiosidis.
es.e has made its appearance in that city, but it was
mot ascertained whether it was the plop'', or a fever
isbnitee to that stated to have raged there a few years
back. By the last accounts from Tongiera, received
bete on the 17th inst., the plague still iliNtlinsod to
rage with great violence; the number of deaths from
the 3d to the 18th last. inclusive, aetneated to 272.
It also rages at Mains, end has extended itself to
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village near Laroche, named tied el Gerbil'. At
Tetuan and 114equinez, a disease is raging, supposed
also to be the plague.
SCOTTISU 110sPITAE.-- The St. Andrew's Anni-
versary dinner of the Corporation of this Charity
• took place at the London Tavern yesterday. The
company began to assemble about five o'clock. At
half--part six, the LORD MAYOR, as chsirman, Sc.
campanied by the Steward., entered the room, and
the company sat flown to an elegant entertainment,
enlivened by bagpipes, and other musical attractions.
In the coarse of the eeenint, the Chairinan captain-
ed to the compare/ the objects •.f the Charity, and
the Secretary read a gratifying Report. The nom.
ben relieved last /ear amounted in all to 3338, and
the sum expended was nearly 25001. It would be
needless to state the objects, or to recommend the
h
purpose of the Charity, as both •had been so fre-
quently before the Public. The sum collected last
night was upwards of 4001., which, though not
coming up to the contributions collected on other
occasions •of late, was greater than those collected
on occasions previous to the distresses of 1815 end
1815.
The ftlerthioness of HasTitros has signified to the
Chairman of the Court of Directing, her intention
frf returning to Bengal, and that she has selected
their ship, the Waterloo, to atk he voyage in.. Her
Laaystrip and family 'lilted th ship in the East
lildia•desilcs placid') morning.

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To rev EDITOR:7r iii 'STATESMAN....
Sto,-11 have been considerably surprised by W-
hig that year able 'Correspondent; TIIICITUY TatlP
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MIN, es declared himself to be an opponent of that
species of Mona, which makes Universal or Gee,-
ral Segni'e its great basis. Ilia asgenseets, how.
ever, have not convinced me of its absurdity. I shall.
bate the liberty of making a few remarks upon hit
Letter " on the Distresses of the Labourers 'mill
lkinenfaetorers."—" It Joon the ground of taxation,"
Up your Correspondent, " that many uphold, this
estravegant eatestion of the right of Suffrage, andit
le exactly on that ground that I oppugn it. 'They
'my that what concerns all slioal3l he debated and dr-
tided by sit—Quod tanril omnes tractefur ab omni-
bus. This, no doubt, is 'mond constitutional doc-
trine; but theO-I contend that taxes ought not to be ap-
plied to all, and that such a meesure is not only un-
jest bet impolitic." Now, in answer to this statett;
*sent; I ;eroeld wish to know how it is possible trit
yievent taxes from falling: upon industry, or Ms'
the Labouring Classes. The different orders of then
in a civil community are so intimately connectek
that what affects - onis class must Isacesserily
its; some degree affect all the. riot..--The'
pillti that ere directly laid upon :the Witeleiri AV
landlord, &c. win indirectly fall sport the tenant,"
the tenant, &c. I, as a fanner, for example, could
eve to each of my present number of labourer, soma,,
thing additionl each day, or could afford to employ 1
en additional number of them each day, provided')
the money which is now taken out of my pocket by,
the Goiernment was left in my hands for such useful
and benevolent purposes. it is the poor man that is
taxed through the medium of the rich ; and it is the
poor man that suffers by nudes ! Upon the groom,
of (elation then it is evident that the Labouring
Classes are entitled to the right of voting. But sup-
pose, Sir, that I am mistiften in this view of my
subject, and that one class of men can be taxed with.
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out effecting Hie interests of other classes, yet there
still remain other grounds, and those very strong and
powerful ones, shy Universal Suffrage might to be
recommended and establi'hed. The real property of
tith poor—their domestic comfort and their lives, all
depend upon •the laws of the land which they in•
habit. Are they Dot therefore naturally and essen-
tially concerned in she making of those laws ? or, in
other words, have they ,nt • natural, just, and in-
herent.right of voting for such persons as they shall
deem to be fit and proper to be entrusted with the
all-importsut office of a Legislator ? Unless it can be
said that the life and happiness of a poor man are of
Do value hi the scale of creation, the question most
be-answered iii the affirmative. In short, she liber.
qt., security,-end morality of-the People, depend o
Much upoir :the nature of ilia constitutiou of (ie.,
vernment under *kith they live, that it is groilsty
absurd-to suppose, that all min are not interested in
the 'dream' of their.Uipresesitilivel. . 1
Time hi auothir gloat iinor lite which yogis Cold
•loss illatereLlWArilierl. • " Those greell
:iis hob' ahllTlVitieliT arid others, wilt
Adverse! tuition 6' just and constitsa.'
Abele project erUnitertal Seffrage." This
'to absurd for serious observation. One of
offs of Reform is to relieve the People al
mts
k intolerible burdens. The very noterre 1
that is contemplated necessarily tends
. . 'ore, because those Sinecures, unmerited II
Aide* &c. &c. ertrich now swallow up the profits
and wages of the People ejll be totally annihilated ;
and it is not se .be imagined that the People
will voluntarily elect those Members year after
year, who use every melons and exertion to
render them as poor and miserable as they are now.
But there still appears to he a very great fear in the
mind of TtitoTily Tatrammr,• that the poor shall
only be deed it, instraments by their masters for the
purposes Of ,iejestice, partiality, and corruption.—
But how standithe case at.preserat ? Is not seder
Weems exercised in the 'most odious manner,
throughout every portion of the community, and
whet is better calculated in-Alre present'state of so-
ciety, to counteract that lenience, than the esta-
Illbhment of the Ballot which.' forms one part or qua-
lity lif Ant Iteforra which your Correspondent pro-
fesses to 'hold in abhorrence ? Here thee is the ef-
fectual remedy for the disease of wide, influence.—
And as mankind obtain mere knowledge, which a
genuine Representative Government is calculated to,
give them, by the annual recurrence of Elections,i
and by that freedom of speech and writing which- wall
flow from it, then it is to be hoped that the Ballot
nifty be dispensed with.
I know, Sir, that this great subject deserve° a more
able sad ample investigation than it has nose received'
'trim me, but at the same time I could not suffer Midi
errooeoes ideas to pass by without some few re-
marks being made upon them, at the presort so-
oteutoss crisis, when our only bopeof salvation, Is
to be found in Radical Reformation!—Your'6. F.
Dec. it, ISIS.

MINIMS CATALAN I has finally resigned the direr.
lion of the Theatre liglien, of Paris, of which she
has held the management for three years.
that period Madame CATALAN' is supposed to bh
sustained a loss of 800,000 fr. This celebrated API
intends shortly to proceed to St. Petersburgh by wat
of Berlin, Warsaw, and Moscow. It is said, tbs.
on her return from Russia, she will ratite taker estate
near Florence, ber native country.
A new census has lately been Nike throogitost-tbe
several departments comprising the French Monarchy,
whereby it appears that the total populatioe amounts
to 49,347,388 souls. Of the departments, that of
the Seine, comprising the capital, is of Course die'
most► populues, Paris containing 713,764 Poets...—
The entire department of the Seigle contains 806,481.
The scenery of the forthcoming Pantomime, at
Covent garden, has been finished some time, and the
machinery, which is said to be extremely ingeulees
-I ready- The Drary.lane Christtinee
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Wolk
•Piili:llVrELL/OSNCIi.
DEAL, Dic. 11.—Came down from the Biter last
night end sailed the England, Bray, for Bombay ;
Sarah Ann, Wilson, for Cape of Good Hop*; Pro
tersbargh packet, --, for New Orleans; and
Ocean, --, for Alicant.
PortisnOUTlTl Dir Careen 17.—Sailed the Hope,
Rees; Resolution, Roberts; Sincerity, Bedrock;
Briton, Pounds ; Sovereign, Dawson • 'Voyager,'
Jacks; and Ann, Harrison, or Losion,--:Went
out of harbour, the Defence, Borodino, Albety,
%Vyton, and John transports, with troops on board
for Cork, and brought ep at Spithesd.
Irausoirs.s. Ciac.-15.-6•Sailed the Tigre, Po well,
for Smyrna sod Constantioople. •
its. Ives. DIG. 15.—The schooner.cseorge, Davis,
of Plyrampth, from Liverpool to Havre, pot in here
the Gib instant, by contrary winds; sines which,
owing to very strong gales of wind, and a heavy
serf within•the pier, the weasel has received consi-
derable damage in her bull ; at present, it is not
certain whether she an be made sea-worthy with the
-cargo etnbaard or not.
rtntArecti Dtc. 15.—Arrived they Happy He.
turn, Woolcock ;And William, --, om (Andes ;
Bristol Packet, Itichartl4, from Bristol ; and several
atleert, and reneln wiad.beend.—Saild the Ade-
nosh!, ---, from Dublin for Landon; end Dal.
auld'Sqs salutri,.es a veils..

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.To jonN 110BUOUSE, Esa,

SlK,—Obeerging by the Public Journals that you
have beers put in nomination as a fit person to repre-
sent the City of Westminster in Parliament ; and if
Mete also appears in those Journals a Requisition to
Captain Sir MURRAY MAXWELL, to stand forward
again as a Candidate for that Representation ; and
you having accepted that nomination, and Sir M US-
RAY provisionally acceding to the Requisition, I am
induced to submit for your consideration a simple
plan for the partial aoppression of Impressing Sea.
fearing men into the Navy, in the event of hostilities
(for it is maintainable upon good grounds, that a
total abandonment of the present system, however
oppressive and enconstitatinn4i, in the esistitig state
of the world, would be compromising the best ist-
teresta of the British Empire), in opposition to any
scheme already matured or in the course of formation
by your opponent, who, at the last Election. laid a
homey stress ass claim upon the segfrages of the Electors
of Westminster, " for having is contemplation some
mighteachento of doing away aith the impressing of
seamen, provideditbey placed him iu Parliament."—
Whether ibis was a sine qua non, is not known • but
as yet no system has been developed to that effect,
which is a sad refloetion to any Englishman, to make
his own bioptic ao long the depositary of an muck
good, and to the great mortification of the British
Peer, all of whom that belong to that service are
pqoasliy (Jepir ous of information. whether it pertains
to die Admiral of the fleet or the Fore-mast-man.—
The plan. proposed to you, Sir, is very short, but
very regornetitative, it runs thus, via.:--`` When
,seafaring Men are wanted for the Nary in time of
ear, grants beauty to a seaman, equal to that for a
good inn for a crack regiment, and TAuoteers for
the former 'service will not be wanting." It must be
understand, that the.boutity will vary according to
the quality of the men required. This plan will be
[Quad to be attend in theory and good in practice.
A NAVAL OFFICIA.

TUB NEW CORN BILL.

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IrTIV tOrtiti in their *ld systems, It I. added, 144 a secret
it •aslmoiatien had been formed to support iclieng• of
and that the porta.s lbws pledged to each

hod been paid balers it could be rece►•eu a. .m. -. 4.,-...r ij . .
imilt, sett it* last lostakoent, which guest. slaws bi ' - `"'"; -4-
toid by the/subscriber, and is due on the •• ltit•of reillunue"
February, amounts to 20 per cent. • The total :snm f I_l_,Pfatt.ers (st 9
advanced by the Bank ir therefore .3,600,0001:,Thelegl.1:1:- u"14"1
oubsed&ers are note Mildred .to reinibersOthis mini in Z9l: by 100
three Aott istatllsonts pet cent. on tilkiViitl of ".Lll7"t Ivolll
Joionorf, lift 9 ; 30 pert. on the 29th of Joasz`• .4,17,..re5t1t:
ivy ; and the remaining
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cent. oar the 12th of '7'.:i.P'"'"" Yi
Fetroary, seven days bo re the finottonversion •f o' .-"e 4
to toot *of
the loan into stock. &c,
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