The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-14 00:00:00

THE srAT33A:t

The Joliet/lag ii of impogtaocee as a- report led tot-tr,
Archbishop, who hart lien previously complained of its the
Liberal Journals, fur interfering', by his Pastoral letters, in
the pending election of the. Deputies
(ram Tlig BIONITEUe OP sUNDAT, SAX. IL—OFFICIAL
rant.) .
ORDINANCE OF THE KING.
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" Long, by the Grace of cod, &c.
" We have caused a pastoral letter of our Cousin, the
Cardinal Archbishop of Ton!onse, to he 1 eid before
which is dated the 15th of October. 1323. printed in that
City by Augestin Mensair. And we have considered that
if it is far the Bishops of our Kingdom to ark of its the
amelioration of changes which they judge necessery to reli•
pion, it is not throtasth the medium of pastoral Weirs that
they can exercise that right, since they are addressed only
to the faithful of their diocese, and should lessee no other
object then to instruct them in the religious duties which
are prescribed them.
" That our cousin the Cardinal Archbishop of Toulouse
has published, under the, form of g pastoral letter, proposit
Lions contrary to pu.lic Isle and to the laws of onr
kingdom, to the prerogatives and independence of 'our
Crown.
" Therefore, on the report of oar Keeper of the Seale,
Minister, Secretary of State for the Department of
Justice.
" By the advice of onr Council of State. we have de.
Glared and declare, ordained and ordain as follow :
" Art. 1. There is an abuse in the pastoriel letter of
our Cousin the Csrdioal Archbishop of Tonleuse, printed
in the same city,byAugustin Mans .it ; in consequence, she;
said letter is and shall remain otipple.sed.
"2. Our Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary of
State forth.. Department of Jastice, and ,our Minister Se-
cretary of State for the Department of the Interior, are
charged each in what concerns him 10;1e the execetion of
the present Ordinance, which shall be inserted in the
Bulletin of the Laws.
" Given at onr Palace of the Tuileries the 10th ofJan.,
in the year ofour Lord 1824, and the `29th of our reign,
By the King. "Louts.
‘• The Keeper of the Seals Nlini..ter Secretary of State
for the Department of the Interior.
"
" Count DC PitYItoNNET.

LisisoN PAPEns.—An article in the 1 isbon Gazelle,
which arrived witb the last mail adverting to the approach•
iivg opening of the British Pariismerut, enters into a long
dissertation on the impropriety of interfering, on mercan•
tile view', between inultp n lent nations and their Colonies.
" %Vho." concludes the Journalist, " Its the right" to
reg-ilate or discuss the nr ans of preserving those
provinces, of improving th it condition, of watch•
ing over heir felicity, of securing them agsinst whatever
may threaten their intern or external security and tran-
quillity, unless it lie their legitimate filvereign, that wise
and tender Father, to whom Providence confided this
power and this duty, together with the legitinytte
prerogatives of sovereignty over all the countries of his
inherited empire." Ellis, of course, is urv.nswerable in
reference either to Ferdinand or John. The Lisbon papers
are evidently under rigid surveillance. This arrival, how•
ever, shows that the report which hot restudied this country.,
through a Madrid paper, of the bre .king out of new
disturbances in that country, have no found Adan.

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PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE OCLOCK.
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Raak Stnek.
3 per Ct. Red SSlgf nitto R ,otit A . •• • . "0.. 41
3 p. et. Cons SIMI Ez.11i11.3.1. 2 67 50
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31 per Cent . ... 991 1 Itittif.
4 per tents
New Fours 1031;1 ---Sunli . V MA pm
Long Ann el 5-161 I Lottery Tickets. ... M. 104
I.np. 3 per Ct . I on. for Acct. —Sin SD Sftli

The'llontiallittal despots are so ig Bated with .their i
punity sied,seecess sines the downfall of Napol .on, r ;
they scarcely condescend, in their public documents, to us.
tie language of.anity. The King of Spain has now is. e
a decree, in which he assumes the province of a modest
conjuror, for nothing less than conjuration can give hi•
decree even a semblance of efficacy. A solemn re mom i•
ordered to be celebrated throughout all Ferdif,ami's damn
nions io America for his person safety. We hrileee
a concern for the personal safety of Ferdinand in the hearts
of the Smith Americans, the King of Spain's dominion;
over SolithAmerlea, are of equal re slity, existing only it.
sistbibas , os, what is synonymons, in the intellect of Perdi•
nand. Bat the. Politicali:onstitotton of the Spanish monarch.,
is by this decrerto be for ever abolished in Ferelinand'e
dominions in Anietlea: I( is Cathie presumptuous to talk
thus of comman.linN futurity by. t!helesale. but this is not
enough sith the most ,Ptth M• j esty —for all
the Governments throughoniStinth America are command•
ed to revert to the state Smiatini inky, the rebellion of
Riego, in 15.0. " It is one thing to Cell. spirits iron the
vasty drep; but will they come?" itre believe that the
South Americans will scarcely condescend tti laugh at
this emanation of Ferdinand's imbecility and presninption.
But the extreme folly of ;Inch a state I aper without
an armed f 'real to compel its dnp ion, inde.er,
ns to suspect that it is intended only at
the precurser of the military violence which Rum.
sia and France, through the medium of Spair, may still
tend to perpetuate against American freedom.
Nut only France, but even Portage', it now appears, is
active in naval preparation, the plea in froth Kingdoms
being that of putting the marine on a respectable footing.
These preparitiont must have relation to united deigns
against Ametica, for the idea of the Portuguese Alio ine
being made rtspectable,is as tittirulous as Ste; ne's story of
the King of Bohemia, who would hive beilt, ships only he
de?paired of Gods drowning all Germany in order to r. ratify
him by bringing the sea to the birders of his dominions.—
Until liberty can give spirit to thePoringueseclorract..r, it
is ridiculous to talk of Portugal possessing any m trite Not

only ships, but seamen are requisite to constitute a naval
armament, and it is as difficult to convert the rnwchins•
slave into a hero as it is to make a Puringuese sailor stood
to his quarters in a naval enga;etnent.

The West Indian intere,ts load strenuously exerted
themselves, during the last Srs•ion of Parliainent, in order
to Ware the Ministry to relieve the staple prodnetions of
the Colonies fro:n those heavy imposts, which it i• well
krewn that the Colonial planters are absolutely unible to
hear. Their efforts were last year unsueeessful, hot there
is prevalent a notion, that they will succeed is some degree
in the ensuing Session of Parliament.

Mach as we may feel for all classes of personsi who, from
a change of public eircumstances, may be ills J below
tkeir ordinary rAnk in the community, we must confess
that if the Miniltry do intend to give that best proof of.
a flourishing Revenge, a diminution of taxes, there are
interests nearer home, that in justice and policy are entitled
to be relieved of their burdens in preference to any Colo
vial interests whatever. The stib].rt ought to be met hy
the Press, in time to prevent any improvident bargain us
the part of Government ; and we know ti•at on the eve of
the assembling ofP.srliatnent,when Nlinist..rs are tr flit king
for their majorities, engagements are entered into Kith
the different interests in the blouse, in order to secure ti eir
support throughout the sesslon. We 'hi refine shall not
hesitate to express oar decided opinion, that any preference
given to the colonists over our agricdtural interests a
home, would be unreasonable and unjust. The %%'estl when
interests are already telieved to the full extent of their
just claims—no relief even to the extent of a total exemp

tion from taxes wouldl permanently support those inter..sts
and finally there are British Agriculturists in the preili, a.
went of the colonial planters as to the depreciated value of
their produce, and who are, on other grounds, entitled to a
prior relief from the excess of taxat'on. The West Indians
are already favoured beyond their just claims by enjoying
the monopoly of every market in the United Kingdom, and
if this will not support their trade, nothing will. It is
absurd to maintain that they can la rye any claim to a prior
exemption from taxes, when the whole country is airead%
compelled by atix on East India sugar, to buy their pity
duce dearer than it could be bought elsewhere. But
with re.pect to our second position, nut a total reltet iron•
t,xation oould suffice to ntaintsin the (01011E1 interes•s ; or,
in other terms, would enable the colonists to briuK tit. it ; to.
duce into theEuropeart markets at a remunerAtine price. For
almost every colonial twat? is deeply mortgaged, and at
an interest of 6 per cent—a ith the supplies sent out from
this distant country, and by the mortgagee at a high cem•
mission. In the islands, all purchases are on a credit sys•
tem, and at an enormous interest—stare labour is, of all
labour, the most expensive ; the Uveole planter is destitute
of agricultural skill,ignorant of the science of basbandry,
and of all the machines relating to it ; the soil, on an 41 e•
rage, is of an inferior nature, manure is not to be obtained
—there are no canals, or rivers, and few good roads, and
no breed of draft horses, so that the extremely heavy pro'
duce is brought from inland pill:lretons to the coast at a
vast inconvenience, and inally the Oriole planter lives in a
state of indolence and luxury, unknown amongst European
agriculturists. We need scarcely observe that no lands
could be kept in cultivation under these circumstances,
althongh the preprietor and tenant were exempt from
*be, tax, and parochial rates. Artist then is to save the

colonial interests from ruin. Let the Creole proprietors

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forego iheir splendour in England, and retnrn to their
native Wanda ; let them live on their estates, study thrift,
impromagriculture, and change their produce froo, Sugar
Ind et.ffee to c.nunratti:les. tkat ray a reasoner .ti,ig
PA"'

If taxes are to be rein wed. let th .40 be taken off tli.!„
ifeet the necessaries of life, and which 11r, Yaw" in hi.,
seellent well( on relative taxation. pr .ves to op i„,.„
griculture in general, P. nd to fill so iiinAtially on do
nds as to endanger their lieinz driven nutof cdtivation.

Mc. Vaux observes (vide Relative T.yr &on, page sgo
hat poor arable lands in England, have t' support a tan,,
ni nuns and disproportionate rare of taxes. Inferic
ilarley I Ind, says this judicious and acute writer, ohirh
rents at 104. an acre, will girl 1 sixteen bushels of wzcissahle
:Jain in about five vests, or three bushels 4:itit a year.
.vhich will malt to 4 bushels, and which, at the dote qt
.)s. 6d. per bushel, amounts to the whole rent of the lath:.
Rot this malt converted into beer, at fmr barrels to the
quarter, will pay $ duty of las.; and allotting thst the
I grower pays in direct taxation only 10s. on coottotedi'i-s
pun based for Ilia labourers, this description of infetkr
amide land, rentirg at 10,. an sere, pays a tax of 30a, p. 7
annum. Whilst therefore the poorer soils at house are
taxed to the amount of three times their festal, it behove,
government to think of their relief, in preference to any
lands so distant from us, o hick no relief can avail under
their preterit system of management,
On the present approarh of the opening of the Parli •
thent, Mr. work, to which we have referred, toil,t
he eminently useful. The author in a clear and forcible
manner (thews the ratio in which, our present taxes affwt
different species of I %ruled property—and those who ar'
connected with the landed interest, or who have to trim tit,
is stance of. the taxei in the ensuing Session, wont:! di well
to s.utly Mr. Vanx nano this puhi•ct. We know of no
author whose views of political economy would be ft)
eminewly iisertil to the %Vest hullo planters in their
present difficulties.

Rv Vie Lisbon 1:411 sever II private !eters. dated nn d.
3lst Itecrenher in Lisbon. cantain romonrs that great
exertions wore making in t to Tarts to refit the fleet, 341
that pint of the lot-, 1•••a'•, eon rsete I for in Loudon, hob
he •u sprehily appr4pristed this s orvire. It w t`f report,. t
tbat this aroisment was destined a sa'nst the Brazils.—
Other letters, however, ssy that this coisedithill is tot is.
tended in art acainat 'he Wasik, butt only to rover the
Cape de l'erd Islands horn any sudden araelt which as
otli .er. so enterprising as Lnr l Cochisne is known to be,
'night • wureive it his ditty to at t-tnpt. The nat. Porhr
g nese fo• re in the l'agns, on the3l ,t Deeendier, (,140.4
of one gm) s' ip, three lu'avv frig stes.snd eight or too
wo:II:yr vessels To think of reducing the lirazAs with suck
1 a force is perfectly absurd.
Yesterhav afternoon, at hotr o'r!o lc, t' e Doke of T.ok,
as Comminfler in I hint, It •Id I. V at Ills oth •t. In o'4
Horse (tattoo, which was attended by (i'ns'tal and uthrr

ofh •ria.
the Chancellor of th• Ext:llegner ha I a long int,rviev
with Mr. Secretary Caiii,log, at the Foreign thlize, on
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The Rtoi!e evress.s m,rb a'hoirutili of the eerraer•
Ainary etrons of the 1, .11:1 to J irnals in for'is'einz
Itvelits of dr. Trial at 11-r. ford, an.i 4h4.11 rte wonder at
the puhlie excite neat Canoed by the I tt- light. It ha.'
even eran•lite i the aero•trot tte a curl isi y. The I
is one of the peen li4rities of J., .11 bull, whir`,
I.trrlZllert4 ire tons at a I to couweheri,i, w hi,
they nateraFy enonitt con‘i icr as arising from a cereal,'
ferociousness of character.

Dierl on Friday night Ilst, at lia:f past ten, Ihert
venor, only son of Viscount ISelgrsve, and infant heir to
the louse of Eaton, aged
A sTi.cm eon Deer Asir 1)-r3 11.—T.le Annoy! Gen •r al
Mr eting of the lisy• rms s this twilit' ion was hel I vs.
tend ,y, at the City of I, ndon Toler's. n,„
Esq. was called to the Chair at el2ven o'clock preciselye
supipirted by a numertilia and tery respect Mr
boar of the Coveruors. After the general sours
routine of hosiness had been gone thronA a rat •
nient of the income and expenditure of the Society wit
road by eie Reverend John .Iflownsend, the Soh l'reasnrer.
Heftier the statement had h trolly been zone throlizti
Yates, the Secretary, more•l that the Alec Jog
Ito ii 111 proceed to the ballot. Upon whip,' a
gentleman, whose mune We understood h • IVilsan,
swished, brf re the goes' ion wvs pot, to know if it was the
a ntection of the meeting to print . stall-meta of Cie accJant
i ley Is Al just beard read.
A I. ni and rather warm tli.cossion followed: after %Ode' a mo-
il in f.r printing the statimpor, sr:s 111Adt. by %Ir. W. 'pi
withdrawn, on the undervoindiA4 th.t the object would he ar
complished by the Cliiimitte ballot was then pri,.
eerkit in, aid twenty one ehil Iren were eleet-r1 into the
Asylum from a list of veee-ty ri candidates. Tile Dumber of
Governors amount, it iv said, to !marl moo.
Yesterday afternoon about flye o'el•rek, a well dresshl
female, about the ago of 23, p vweisinir gr-at beauty, with
an elegant and genteel :Attire.% was ohseihred walking in a
confused and hurried mini er to and fro on lilvelsfriar•
Fridge; suddenly she ealicht hold of the balustrade.,
' 'howled on the top, aed w ••:
.1,14 its the a^t of orecipitatinf
herself into the river, when she was pr• ven:esl by a fend -
man, who fortunately seizing hold of her legs toil otl.er
came to his itc.ittaver, orovidentially rescued her
from &moist iticuitAhle de oh. S;!e was plated in • hackney
en eh anti imme liat4v cot, veyed home ro h-r frirn Is.
V 'ay Thomas it charged with malicion.le
shoosina his wife, node• went a final examination. 'I hr
roport from the Hospital oat d her life was no longer
olZer, bat that the ii•e of the hush wool I he entirely I St.
He t• a. Or lead to find et.) ti hail. It is r,ther an extra'
orditia y t iron th.it w:th the same pistol that Ho!-
lii.Pll shot hin it if-. Jam a S'llllll, the w.tchlimple keel er
:.h.i
o.toltiiitsrii:ece Holliwell had been
the other day, the
in his custody. He it • eoprelv i.sinr• it.

THE BODY Ot THUKTELL
The concourse of persona at the Anatomical Tleatre of
Barth& ..... e,s'a liosittl, to vi-w the remains of Thurtell,
was yester.ley
es as :Jeer as on .Mondry. From a gentleman
who we prent, and who is s competent judge of the'
structure of the human frame, we learn that Thurtell's
for was, by no metul. •0 admirable as it has been re.
presentemd. The depils of the chest is acknowledged to be
strikine ; and the pectoral moscles, having bees laid bare.
exhiltivd their fumrss to crest effect. The thighs, toot
are sinvulerly nitiscnl4r ; hut the legs are not remarkable;
and the arms, so far from b log distinguished for this
character, are, in the nos :r part especially, dispro.
portionally small The featores of the face have, it is
undert•tool, undergone less change than could have ben
expected ; and, it was obsei-ved by one who knew the
criminal while alive, appear like what they did when he
was somewhat kntnxicat st. •I'he countenance betrsys a
morse and stills* character : and this, if we believe report,
was the impression it hail imiri to prodnee. WhenTrturtell
anti Hunt were first taken to Dow Street, • gentleman
inform* ns he was present, m !Townsend the officer being
in attendance b ltst loke.l him if he knew on what account
w
these persons were hrstight up. ••I do not knew," answerml
1.0w"."4. "1013 1. drink the I I oar" (inetusissg Thurtell)
" has Ure 4-cestii irei‘t rascaL" •• .