The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-13 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

the industry of our neighbours has prodiscad just
doobtiipOn that subject, particularly with regurd
to lace niattufarsured with machinery. To remove-,
these difficulties, his. Majesty has oast hesitated Wig
an import duty. on Lace, andt!o 1' such. septillions:
ber,re your With gighttne•set, so that this btandi.
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rItIOAT, lEBRUARY 131 1818.

Ministers had a short respite last night (rem the
caitigetion so- properly indicted upon them, in the
examinatiou of their Spy System, and the dagraot
diatteterof their home policy ; proceedingsit Which
thilesrt-thudderi,"and the honest printinles id the
country Net at Once enraged and disgraced. The-facts
of working npon the ireitated feelings of an inj ored end
famishing-population, by agents of the Police, and
miscreants let loose from charges of capital crimes for
this purpose, in one part of the country, and tam-
pering with witnesses In another, were too clearly
and hadispetably made out to admit of any other
means of everting a disgraceful termination to such
an Administration than by a muster of voles from
Placemen, Law Officers, and Ministers them-
selves, with their immediate adherents I It is,
indeed, melancholy to observe how. few Mem.
bars now 'itemd their duty in Parliament; and to
witnets how questions, involving such deep Interests,
are carried. Majorities of Plafemen and Pensioners
now settle every thing in favour of the Ministry. It
matters not how clearly a case is made out against
the conductors of public affairs—a majority of sites
trashes them•white. A Morning Paper, which pro.
fosses itself friendly to freedom, says—" It is
to be lamented that the language of some of
the Reforming Societies is so inflammatory, because
it is made a pretest by certain Senators who do at.-
tend, for 'miss( in Parliament so contrary to their
language out of it." The lamentation here Is,. we
think,' applied to the wrong subject. -It is more
than to be regretted, .it is to be strongly condemned,
that any one to whom a public trust is confided,
should neglect his duty, because tile-complaints of
the People may he warmly expressed. Thesriolence
which i 4 so uupleasing to the tastes of•aeriain Rat.
preseutativec is aggravated and inflamed by this in-
difference, and the very little attention paid In p-
neral lochs Petitiona.of the People in Parliament.—
The inflamed state of public feeling alarms these
Gentlemen! The letiguage of popular remonstrances.
does ndt please them.. Who are ltiey that• have pro.
deiced this inflammation sod violence ? And-who are
they whose conduct is reprobated? Spies and proven
Incendiaries, and the authors of the system which
employs such means of support. Let us say, that,
uoless the People universally express their execration
of such a conduct, the task-masters of this oppressed
Nation will • see the mass of accutnulated evils
perpetuated in spite of truth end justice, be-
yond even the hope of counteraction. The sites.
Lion of the country has burst forth in a manner that
has elevated it above thereproach of its official calum-
niators. It is not for public feeling to shrink into
apprehension on this its day of renewed triumph—it
is not-fora nation-to forego its rights because it is
styled revolationary by the men who fatten upon its
, spoilt, and tremble al every indication of resistance
to their unholy despotism. Their temple of abuses
has been shakes by the weight of their own chains.
The fetters have fallen from their innumerable vic-
tims —and they now seek to shroud their guilt in
their innermost seuctuary of secrecy. But the
veil is rent asunder, and no arts can cover the
enormity of their practices. The nation *ill not be de-
ceived by the hatknied and contemptible stratagems
resorted to in order to conceal the conviction of po-
litical and moral delinquency ; and if Members of
Parliament set any value on public opinion, to which
many of them are at present appealiog, they would
do well to attend to their duty in the seats they al.
ready occupy, for an opportunity will soon occur'
for the Public to express their sentiments, in a more
particular manner, on the propriety of Representative
claims. It is a very -general belief that a dissolution
of Parliament wilt take place as soon as Ministers
can get their Money objectsand their own Indemnities
secured.

In the Hoesiof Commons, last night, Mr. GREN.
TELL endeavoured to licit from the CHANCELLOR of
the Exctteauta some information respecting the
financial measure of the year, and particularly de-
sired to known lb* intention of the Right Hon. Gen-
damn relative to the funding of Exchequer Bills.—.
His exertions, however, were in vain, and the coun-
try is left in doubt and difficulty on this most interest.
in` point, because the. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHR.
QUER has notntatored his financial schemes, and does
not choose to afford any partial information. In ilms
lune time, the. Public are exposed to all the iects,

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vessietices of gambling spetilatiOnsi ind the conse-1
'quent fleeteetions in the Funds Weed-, the Money
11f Itot. in a commercial country, no circumstance
,
Magi eo extensively mischievous indicision with
evignsi to the floating capital, and tbi injury must of
main be Interned in 'proportion .so ite amount of
that capital._ Our, Ezehequr may be fairly
"Steamed ie eoastitutiog the greelterpert of it in this
country, and is capable,•by the management of specu-
lators. of influencing to a greet eltent all the
dens of our domestic Commerce. We could have de-
sired, therefore, that the CIMICIUMOR of the Ex-
anent' had been somewhat moreeztlicit. We think,
however, that the funding of bills to a considerable
amount-shay be expected : for bad' this project not
formed a part of the Right lion..Gett tleman's scheme,
vi cannot believe that he would Olt base seized the
steeliest opportunity of contredicting the report of-
"which he had been apprised by Mr.- GRENTELI.
is, however, certain, that in case of funding, no pre-1
fervors will be given to any particular class of them.
now in ezistence. •
The report noticed by Alderman AT"res,,ielative
to merging the Five per Cents. in the Four, bits been
knig..in circulation, and has for some titian ezercised
a considerable influence over the mice of-.the Fire
per Cents.: bet we know not whither it will be
Nand incorrect.

Paris Papers to the 10th Inst. have sensed. The
King has 'Mended his clemency to the 74 persons
condemned by the Prevotal Court at Lyons, foc
seditious movements in June last. Thirty-nine have
received a free pardon, and the remaining 35 have
had their sentences mitigated. The trial of the es-
traordinary individual who has attracted so much
public attention, ender the assumed.thle of "Charles
de Navarre, Dauphin of France," was understood
in Paris to have commenced at Rouen on Monday last.
Many persons in France actually believe this young
man to be whet he styles himself. Ibis plentifully sup-
plied with money, and the accounts published of him
represent his story as consistent. his ttial is looked
forward to wills great interest. The mysterious case
of Madame Manson is deferred. till the 11th of neat
month, at Albi. In the mean lime, the Mademoiselle
"'kart, distinguished over all the women of the
Aveyron by her personal charms, and now less ho
nonrably known in consequence of Madame Man-
son's notice of her, ha! been arrested at 'Toulouse.

end Rill be conducied to Alb'. Manson implies
pretty !mildly thsti/sierret wee the unwilling an(
iejled witness of the mutder'at nenears house.

The Budget will goon have undergone the retisioi
of the Committee, amd be brought into the Chambek
of Deputies. The importance of the subject has been
for it is the!
appreciated by the Members, boasted
`they never related their labours during the long and
ttdious disiussions on the Law for Recruiting thr
tiny. The Project of the Recruitment Law, at
.passed by the Chamber of Deputies; was presented to
she King on Saturdays by the President and Secre.
'titles of the Chamber, sod was to he communi•
Sated to the Chamber of Peers in the course of this
week. There is nothing further In the Joornalt
Lfrom Algiers, but it is remarkable that the hio-
niteur of Sunday published the details stated to be
commonicated to Sir SIDNEY &SITU, which we govt
en Monday from the Journal des Debuts. The
Congress of Sovereigus, it is now said, will assembly
In the course of the month of May neat. The
,relations between Austria and Bavaria are stated t(
be more intimate at the present period than they have
been for the last thirty years. in the latter king.
dom, it is said, there have been several discussions it
the Privy Council, respecting the establishment of t
Representative Constitution. Accoints from Lau
sanue slate, that throughout the Southeast of France,
and the Northern parts of Italy;tbe-greateat abun.
dance of corn is found to (mist, and that the price,
have conseqeently fallen.

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A Flanders Mail, brings.some article*. of pciliticak
and commercial interest. It is '1161,4 from Antwerp
of the Gth, that the French exiles hire.receivorl pee
mission to return to their country; and an
.artit It
from Frankfort states, that M. DE Giasarri Ensoy
of the King of the NsTuartzarro's, lidd delivered a
roost able and luminous speech In the Diet, on thr
subject of the Military System of the Germanic Fe.
decation ; in the course of which he enfaiced, with
kite most powerful argurnents, the necessity of per.
fact unanimity and concord, for the great object of
keeping up the chain of frontier. Orkresser. . ilr
hinted the expediency, or rather the .necessity, in a
defensive point of. view, of the restitution.of Alsace.
A principle of the'most jealous vigilancek be thOught,
should also form apart of the Confederate System,
joined, howeeer,- to a fixed deteratination—heier to
offer on the odd hand,,nr lo Mier on the (Plot., the
least particle of natioual offence. So much for th,
awakened symptoms of fear on the pert of the King
of the Nrrnaataknos.

It appears from the Report of the Hutch Minister
to the States-Genenit of Holland, from which wi
have given an extract, 'that it is proposed to increase
the import and transit duties in that country on cer•
tam articles ; which hicrease, it is worthy of notice,
appears to be containd to the manufactures of this
country only. We will not pretend, 'as the Tunes
of this morning does, to instruct the Dutch msnufac•
terers bow to insure abetter market, and succeed by
ether smut this to augmentation a sixties in ea•