The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-20 00:00:00

WA/TAMAN.

age ea behalf of a basher of Landholden of dif-
keel Baronies, who had instructed him to oppose
weeder of Sessions, tending to bertha' them with
tie exposes of the lasirrecdon Act. The Earl of
Carrick here observed, that perhaps it would be proper
test the Magistrates should be left to themselves until
they had determined bow to proceed. On this imi-
tative, the Counsel and all other persons not Justices,
except the Clerk of the Peace, retired from the Jury
Boom, and during their absence, a discussion took
Ow, the malt of which was, that, on the ie-admis-
.4. of Counsel the opinion of a Crown Lawyer, re-
pled to by his Lordship, was read; and on an infi-
nities being given that as the Magistrates bad now
cemminicated to Counsel the opinion under which
;key Retell, it wit wished that all but Magistrates
ihttsW withdraw, the Counsel accordingly withdrew.

Ms mere to the I itTa inst. have arrived. The
provinces are said to be reduced to tranquillity, tiough
tie &ethers of the late plots have not yet been appre-
hended ; and, in the metropolis, order is considered as
so far restored, that if the favourable symptoms
weave, It was intended to re-open the Law-school
at the end of another week. The Journal of Tha-
lami mentions a slight disturbance among pats of
the mils of the Royal Calve at Toulouse, is
continence of their having hoes deprited of their
meal promenade on Sunday the 3rd, for some fault ;
bet by the interference of the police, submission was
obtained, sod some of the most guilty students were
not home. The Catholic Clergy of Scotland, it sr
Pars, thiskiag the persona juncture f ble for the
reentry of the rights of the Church, have just sent
to Prance one of their Bishops, to claim from the
Gerernmeet the property they formerly possessed in
the kingdom, and amongst the rest the colleges in
which tbe missionaries are educated to preach the
faith in Scotland. They bad made the same ap-
ylicatioa to preeediog administrations, abd failed in
all their attempts ; but they hope to be more success-
kl with the new one. A trial has lately taken
Flare is Paris which has excited great sensition in
that elite!. 11. de Beringer, a lyric poet, to whom
his (vestrymen give the title of "the French Arm.
mom," was lately tried and convicted of the public.-
rim d certain songs, which were considered in-
Wig to the King of France and his levelly, and
swum iejurious to public morals. The poet 11111,
welted to imprisonment in St. Pelagic, where he ar-
rived the proceedings sod different documents relit-
hog to his trial for publication, which be did ac-
cordingly publish, Jaded's' in the judgment of the
non—which uniformly recapitulates the indictment—
sereral ohnoxivas songs. and passages°, songs which
had bees pronoeneed libellous, and ordered to be
uspreesed. Be was again prosecuted for this, as a
nahlieatien of the condemned writings, and was
InsOt from prises toe be placed at the bar. The
kftwe was, that he was justified in publishing
tors, se being part of the erre:, or judgment of the
(not; and in opposition to strenuous exertions on
de part of the Crown Lawyers, the Judge,
Hi Jurors pronounced the publicatioa legal,
the accused net guilty. The Coen was
morsel', crowded on the occasion, aid the spec-
tators applauded the decision as a matter of triumph.
It the Cliaasbar of Deputies the Committee of Peti-
fits, hare recommended relief to be granted, out of
t4efonds at the disposal of the Ministry, to the Land-
triers ani cultivators in the Department of the 'Var.
Oohed stated the loss of their olive trees by frost.
Fifty thousand olive trees bad perished, and with
dies a revenue, the tax open which was half a mil-
ky; of francs. The debate on the Project of Law on
of fisieees is going on.
FICIICII Fusee, Misci 16.-4 in per Cent. Con-
;t9f. 15r.; S9f. 30e.; close, 89f. 25c.

_
%drill pipers to the Bth instant have tome to band.
TUwl remain a detail of the proceedings of the Cortese
%Stile reply of the Cortes to the opening Speech of
lir Cyr, which is conceived in the following terms :
• Sessa—The deputies of the nation, united in
Grtn, approach your Majesty's throne, to give that
*timely of attachment and respect which is due to it.
tut derive
Is
i their sincerety sod by those
dse ireofoontributing
means wch
contributing, in
to sib your Majesty,
the
coastitetiaa kaa marked out, to consolidate the li-
bolYsof the felicity of the Spanish people, who have
c"fided Is the their destiny.
" The Cotes concur with your Majesty in Congests-
Vag themselves on the solemn opening of this Cortes,
aPtilbstanding the secret and declared machinations
sfde 'stades of your Majesty and of the country ; and
Itosithstaudisg also the late dissensions which had
twit triple in that want of confidence prodaeed by the
ellses which the Cones pointed out in their message of
tlw liti of Dezember.
"The Cortes lament with your Majesty that these dis-
IPlhiolll should have occurred, and will exert their ef.
fens to prevent, by all the means in their power, their
wiewel. With this view, the Cortes will study to re-
°tithe multiplied and powerful obstacles which have
ate withheld from the nation the enjoyment of
to wirsatages which the constitution ought to afford,
will eideavour to suceem: by acting In accordance
14 the public opinion, without which there ean, be
withercemidetmea ape security, nor power.
untie "The Cortes tits not fear the efforts which may be
:to counteract their jest resolution, by iloPreaolt
. she are ignorant of the inflame of time and
'Zs led, supported by the immense moral force
!ow surrounds and strengthens them, they will
ZITY advisee in the constitutional path, and cos.
'"'"os great work which was prepared in 1812, and
—summed in I 820.
N Th.
Cities bear with perdealar satisfaction that oar
leilihs with other Powers promise a durable peace, and

they treat that it will be maintained by the only meals
which can secure peace; namely, by candy the name
of this great, free, and sovereign nation to be respected
by Foreign States.
" The Cortes are aware that it is not yet time to ex-
pect that the internal state of the nation should exhibit
remarkable amelioration; they are, notwithstanding.
convinced that some mast result from the fulfillment of
the beneficial enactments of former legislatures, and for
such purpose they will devote themselves to inquiries
into the real situation of the nation, and to discover the
evils which afflict it, in order that a prompt and efficient
remedy may be applied.
" The Cortes will endeavour to render themselves
worthy of the flattering hopes m,lich your Majesty enter
tains of them ; and they are confident that your Majesty,
exereisinc your powers for the consolidation of the li-
berties of the nation, will cooperate in promoting public
felicity, which rests upon the bases of freedom and
order, end which cannot exist without the most perfect
confidence between the throne, the legislative power, and
the nation."

The members appointed to present this answer went
forth to eneente their mission. and soon after returned'
The Duke del Parquet, President of the Deputation,
stated that they bad delivered the answer of the Cortes
into his Majesty's hands, and that his Majesty had
received it with that affability anti iticiitinnesa which
were natural to him. The President stated that the
Cortes were satisfied with tie penes'sl execution of
their instructions, and bad heard with pleasure al
account of the gracionsreeeption which hla.ll6l*
had given to the depitation.
In the Sitting of March 6, the Secretary of the
Treasury gave an account to the Cortes of the state
of the nation in respect to the Minces. From this it
appeared that the estimate *I Oa sowing year amount-
ed to 861,691.643 reale, to mever which the ways and
means emanated only to 1161.162,913 real'. Not-
wlthstandiefr the apparent magnitude of the deficit, it
was stated in the memorial, that perhaps the revenue
would be sufficient to cover all the charges after the
retrenchments that might be made, and which the
Government wonld propose to the Cortes.
A letter from the Sehor Secretary of Grace and
Justice, informed the Cortes that Don Manuel de
Bodega could not be installed in the ultra-marine mi-
nistry. and that his Majesty bad pro lempore appoint-
ed Don Jose Maria Moscow de Altamira to the office.

It IS repeated on the authority of confidential letters
from St. Petersburg of the 22d February (the latest
date of any information received by any Minister here),
that notwithstanding the reports so confidently circu-
lated, thi'gs remained at that time in the saute un-
settled state between Russia and Turkey is which
they have so long been.
%Pe understand that his Orate the Duke of Leinster
has withdrawn himself altogether from the Kildare-
street Education Society, from a conviction, that the
plan pursued by that Institution is injurious, instead
of being serviceable, to the great object of the edu-
cation of the poor of Ireland.—(Defilis Munsing
Post.)
PLIMOOTO, MAR -n 18.—By letters received from
his Majesty's ship Pyramus. Capt. F. Newcomb*, C.H.
at Antigua, dated the 7th of February. we are ex-
tremely sorry to learn that the mortality by fever on
bowl that ship bee been very rower among those
who have fallen victims to the band& climate of Eng.
lish Harbour, are Lieutenants Penberthy and Graham.
six Midshipmen. the Purser, Assistant-surgeon, Ad-
miralty and Captain's Clerks. and 31 of the ship's
company. Lieutenants Luckeraft and Lindesay, Lieut.
Tothill, R.N., Mr. Fitzgerald, the surgeon, and five
3lidsbipmen, had all been ill of the fever at the Hus
pita!, but were on the recovery.
On Tuesday seneight his Majesty's cruiser Royal
Charlotte, J. Henderson commanding. arrived in
Leith roads from Shetland, having on board 23 men
belonging to a smegallog carter (supposed to be the
Earl Spencer), which was completely wrecked off
that coast on the /th ult. Previous to her getting on
shore, she had on board 900 tubs of spirits, and a
quantity of tob-eco, 400 of the tubs were saved by
Mr. Strong. of Bigtown, bat the natives immediately
afterwards raffled off from his custody about 200
tubs. the remainder, 140, were seined by the officers
of Customs there; at the time the vessel came on
shore, she had on board 23 persons. one of whom,
supposed to be the toaster, is now missing, but sus-
pected to have secreted himself in the islands, and one
was drowned. The remainder of the crew were re-
gularly committed by the Justices of the Peace. an".
bare accordingly been sent on board the Dover flag
ship.

Last week, at a man was ploughing a field. about a
mile from Trelow , Cornwall, the seat of Richard
Vy►yaa, Esq., the ploughshare struck against an
earthen vessel et urn, and scattered about a number of
coins, which. on examination. were found to be Roman.
many of them of the first Emperors. They are of
►arious sizes, and, in general, in good preservation.—
The number found is upwards if 1600, and the man
who disco►ered them being ignorant of their ►alue,
sold them at a penny a piece to all who would purchase
them. He has since become sensible of his folly, but
too late to retrie►e it.—Many years ago a number of,
strew and shear heads were found in the same field.

ANTIQVITSiIo-LZWITI. MARCH 18.--Tbie labourers
employed i■ the removal of White Hill, are getting
nutably on with their work, in the coarse of which
last week, they diecovered. in several parts of the
chalk rock they bad to dig through, four excavations
which bad the appearance of great antiquity. They
were from eight to tea feet deep, and of the diameter
of full three feet. Two were in a direct liae, a few
paces apart. in the very centre of the high road, a
little without the ancient earthen' Woolsey of the
castle fortification. They bad been filial up. (but at
what period It is difficult to say) from the surface
about half way down, with enema earth, below
which, to the bottom, was a sabstaace resembling
wood ashes. mixed with small particles of lime, and
aseoegst whist were bead divers fracases*. of Rama
pottery, evidently need. whoa whole. for culinary and
ether domestic purposes s also a few dab bones, sad
ethers of mall animals, each as fowls, rabbits, Itc.
With respect to the purposes for which this rock was
thus originally excavated. eves cenjectere does sot
°for an opinion. la smother part of the hill were
fogad a small spear bead, sad the keen' poise of an
arrow. has so mock corroded with rust, that they will
hardly ►ear bridling.

NOR E CONSISTENCY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Liverpool, Much 13, 1922.
Stn-1n looking seer Ricardo's book on Political
economy, to which my attention has been drawn by
1 his late very strange conduct is the House of Coa-
-1 eons. 1 lend In page 20g, the following passage.—"A
high price of Provisions is by no means incompatiblO
with an abundant supply : the price is permanently
high. not because the quantity is deficient, but be-
ams, there has been an iscressed cost in prodaciegit."
Prsy.3lr. Editor, bow does this doctrine square with
I that gentleman's present opinions?—Why, net at all
you will say; for he asserts roundly and positively,
that the present low prices and consequent agricul-
tural distress. arise solely from so abundant supply
of Corn ; and that the aloof the article has nothing to
do with its selling prise.
Well, and traly did Mr. Brougham observe, that
the moat able and enlightened political economists,
in examining many of the principles of that science,
really could see no farther than their noses. Mr. Ri-
cardo was. however, in my humblejudgmeat, right in
his published doctrines, and wrong in his present
opinions ; for in a waned state of things, the cost
of an article will always regulate its selling price.
But having committed himself on the Bullion ques-
tion, by assorting that a recurrence to cash payments
,irveld only produce in land. Ice., a depreciation of
s.
0...„4.4. „pm., to acknowledge his error

on that momentous subject, and therefore attributes
the present distress solely to an abundant supply of
agricultural produce. In hie present opinions also,
there is a gross and palpable contradiction ; for whilst
he asserts that an abundant supply of Corn has made
Corn cheap, he denies that a diminished supply of
Mosey has made Stoney dear. It is not many years ago
since this same gentleman published a pamphlet to
prove, that.to make as article of prime necessity dear,
von had only to make it scarce ; and that the Bank
I of England had aothing to do, but to contract their
issues is order to make their paper as valuable as
gold. Afser having bees one of those whose argu-
ments and writings prevailed upon the " Collective
Wisdom " to pass Mr. Peel's Bill, and God knows,
and the poor Farmer knows, and I also, to my sorrow
too well know, having by that measure made money
sufficiently scarce, and consequently sufficiently deer.
he turns round alma that sage body and says, "0!
Gentlemen, do not mind the scarcity of money, it is
not that which produces low prices, it is a superabun-
dance of Corn: have a little patience,--only wait an-
other year, and let a few of your acres go oat of col-
tivatios, and you will soon find that a scarcity of
Corn will set fail to bring you high prices. It is
sot the taxes, Gentlemen, obit!' cause the present
distress ; niter mind my I d friestiMr. Brenham ;
taxes bare nothing to do with the matter; taxes only
increase the cost of production, and according to my.
doctrines of 1817, the increased cost of production
must ily increase the selling price of the ar-
ticle a
ptoduced ; provided always, Ueetlensen, that you
de not produce tee much." This clever Gentleman;
however, (fur clever he certainly is)froasforgctfellsess
no doubt, omits to tell them, that Is 1817 be had said,
that high Oen are not incompatible with as alma-
dant sa the price is permaaestly high, sot be-
comes doer 'ill ifejtaftor; bat because there has
bees an Increased cost in producing it." Mr. Ricardo,
nevertheless, I have no doubt, is as well aware of the
great and positive effect of taxation in producing the
present di , as Mr. Brougham, if it suited his
parpose.tn acknowledge it; as he well knows, that if
the Landlords could really relieve themselves by di-
minishiig production, they would only shift the hur-
tle. of distress to others; unless be is prepared to
prwe that the labourer is much overpaid, and that the
merchants' and manufacturers' profit, are greater than
the ordinary profits of stock ought to be. Should,
however, Mr. Ricardo's doctrises be acted upon, and
scarcity and consequent high prices take place, I am
much afraid that one of Lord Liverpool's greatest
proofs of general prosperity will souo disappear, I
wean the increased amount of money deposited in the
Savings Batiks. And here, Mr. Editor, let me be
allowed to express my indignation at those writers
and speakers who accuse the labouring classes with be=
ing idle, wastefall and dissolute in the extreme, and
who assert that it is mere folly to allow them to earn
more than will barely support their existence ; as they
are sure to squander away any excess in idle 'strata-
gale. and dissolute debauchery. The fact quoted by
the Noble Earl, of the increased deposits in the
Savings Banks, since the means of existence became
comparatively cheap, gives the lie to those vile calm-
(dawns, and proves, that the labouring cl are at
most, wasteful, dissolute and idle, only is proportion
to other men. Born, Mr. Editor, amongst that class
of society, and having with little education, and with-
out either rich or influential connexions, acquired a
little property, and also something like rank in so-
ciety, and that too without possessing a tenth pact of
either the industry or (economy, and 1 am sere without
any greater command over my vicious propensities
than missy of my Former fellow labourers and ship-
mates, who still remain in their original situations,
I cannot help expressing my contempt for the intel-
lect, and toy indignation at the cold blooded cruelty
of those writers and speakers, who attribute a great
portion of the picket distress to the Poor Rates, and
those poor rates to the idlearss, improvidence, and
seperabandernee, of the labouring classes ; (although
it is acknowledges{ ea all hands that the indrstry of
those classes bas treated more than their netalsers tan
consume,) and who would, Wilsey had sufficient influence
is the Legislature, rob the English labourers of their
birtb-right, aid reduce them to a similar state of
wretchedness, as that which their fellow labourers in
Ireland are sow suffering.
If, Mr. Politer, you consider the above worth publi-
cation is yoar excelleat Mid constitutional paper; by
humming it you will oblige your very humble servant
I aid constant reader NAVTICCII.

Cblitn EZCIIIA.4III4 MAUS 20.--Several vowels frow
the Suffolk mod arrived to this day's market, chiefly
lades with wheat sad barley ; the former article set
!wavy sale at Meader's prices, bat prime salting bar-
ley was la brisk deasaad, sad was readily take of on
till as good terms anon Moaday; the infenor sorts sold
for griadiag at from 16s. to Ids. per qaarter.—Tbe Oat
trade continues very doll, and the lower qualities are
fall K. per quarter cheaper.—la Beaus and Peas there is
no alteration.