The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-31 00:00:00

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case was one. of great hardship ; the poor ease who
had lost his barge, had no other quarter to apply to,
and had a strong claim upon the charity at least of the
Court.
Mr. Dixon opposed th e petition. What a door would
it throw open to the admission of petitions for relief
from all those who met with any accident or loss in
going wilier the bridge, if this petition were admitted,
or the idea on which it was brought that the sufferer
had a claim for remuneration upon the Court in any de-
gree countenanced. lie was willing to subscribe his
three or four or five sovereign towards the relief of the
unfortunate man, but he should oppose the grant of a
shilling•from the Court.
After seine hanker conversation, the petition was
withdrawn.
Mr. OLDUAL seeing the Chairman of the Bridge-
house Committee, said he wished to know pods him
whether any decision had taken place upon tho# plans
submitted to the Committee, and with respectto w hich
so much public anxiety prevailed ? it was extremely
important that some determination should be made
early upon the subject, and some plan laid before the
Court, in order that they might be prepared when the
subject come before Parliament, to say what or whether
any share would he taken in the erection of a new bridge
by the Corporation. Surely the Committee bad lead
.adlcient opportunity, with the aid which they had
received from men of science, to have made an election.
Mr. Oldham expressed his fears that if great-care was
not taken, the whole might degenerate into a job.
The Outing/or said, that as far as the Committee was
concerned, he could answer for it that no job need
be apprehended. They had been engaged diligently in
the examination of plans, bat the thief difficulty they
bad met with was in deciding upon the nature of the ap-
proaches, and there were besides great difference in the
estimates as to the expense of the approaches, which the
Court muss he aware formed the chief obstacle (hear,
hear !). However there were but three questions which
had been referred to the men of science whose aid had
been obtained, and when they were answered, the Com-
mittee would determine. Undoubtedly, they would be
able to bring in their report on the sitting of the next
Court, (hear, heart)
On a former Court day the butchers and tattle dealers
frequeoting Smithfield Market, had petitioned the Court
to allow chains to be extended across the different ave.
noes of the market doriog market hones to prevent the
interruption of their busimess by the carte, coaches, and
other of-Weirs, which greatly disturbed and deranged
the market. A counter Petition was ynterday presented
from a number of wholesale traders residing in the vici-
nity of the market, stating that the most serious appre-
hension would be given to their business, if the measure
prayed for in the former petition were adopted. The
Petttioners prayed that if any alteration were made, it
should be to rail off a thoroughfare through the market,
so that carts might in future pass with less interruption
from the cattle.

The Petition was referred to the Committee of General
Purposes.

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LONDON:
FRIDAY MINING, JANVART 31, 1823.

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BOURBON WAR.

We were quite prepared to bear the government paper*
studding and equivocating as to the intended conduct of
the Ministers with regard to this war. We were pre-
pared to hear the creatures making use of double mean-
ings and sentences out of which no man can pick sense.
We were prepared to hear the advocates of an humbled
ministry and an humbled system make use of all sort of
,expedients for disguising their own degraded state and
the shame they have brought upon the country. We
rare prepared to hear the hirelings of the press say that
they were determined to remain neutral, while Fraoce
was marching to take possession of the Spanish fleet and
of Gibraltar ; or, at least, whilst she was marching with
that hope evidently in her mind. We were prepared for
411 this: but we were not prepared for hearing one of
the impudent hirelings say, as the Courier of last night
says, that he was the only one that foretold that war
would be the result of the negotiations at Verona. This
is said by tailor Stewart and barber Mudford, in their
paper, the COUR= of last night. These two tradesmen
say, " while all. our contemporaries were either Jeclu-
ing that pone& mould be preserved. or were changing.
"their opinions with every variation of intelligence that
arrived, WE 'steadily contended that there was no
frmiddle course left." They say that this was their tone
om the day when they announced the return of the
,Duke de Montmorency from Verona. -Hereupon the
tailor and barber say that this circumstance "justifies
" them in recalling with feelings of satisfaction the
161 course that they have pursued."—The tailor and bar-
ber choose to forget, that the STATESII 4 N did not wait
for the return of the Duke de Montmorency from Ve-
rona ; but proved, long before that, that the chances
were in favour of war ; proved that the Holy Brother-
hood wished for war ; proved that nothing could restrain
them Indus our Ministers had money to give them;
proved that the French Bourbons must neccessarily
desire to go to war ; proved that it was impossible that
the holy fellows should be disposed to prevent this,
unless we hail money to give to the holy fel-
lows ; proved that we had no money to give to
the holy fellows; proved that the holy fellows would
urge the French on rather than pull them back;
proved that it was nonsense to suppose that the Frenc
soldiers would have any objection to a war against
freedom ; proved that it was nothing to them whether
they run their bayonet into the body of a priest or that
of a philosopher, provided that they had a prospect of
plunder ; proved that, us to the wishes of the people of
France, they would like any war that should tend to the
injury or huinßiation of England ; proved that the
French peopled would join their government mast cor•
dually in any enterprise, promising them to effect such