The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

TITHES.-ST. ANDItEw'S PARISH.

Yesterday a meeting of the inhabitants of the parish
of St. Andrew, Holborn, assembled at OK Inquest-room,
to receive the report of the general tithe committee, re-
specting the hill which has lately passed throtigh Parlia-
ment, the object of which is to extinguish all tithes and
Easter-offerings in that parish, and, in lieu thereof, to
provide a fixed stipend for the rector.
Mr. Churchwarden WlLsost having taken the chair,
Mr. SAUNDIRS proceeded to read' the report of the
committee. It commenced by stating, that the bill fur
giving a fixed stipend to the rector recei►ed the Royal
Assent on Friday thenth of June, by which a tenniaa-

FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1823.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.

The proceedings in the ease of Chief Baron O'Grady
were last night resumed,and the resolutions as to the facts of
the case were agreed to. It does not appear what the House
will further do oo this subject. The matter is said not to
be grave enough for an Impeachment, or for an address for
the removal of the Judge. And, indeed, one point taken in
his favour is very strong; nataely,that otherJedges have been
In the habit of encreasing fees by their own authority, as
well as Baron O'Grady ; and that It would be hard to select
him as an object of punishment for an offence that is com-
mon to the profession. This proves the necessity of a Par-
liamentary enquiry into the general system of fees, which,
if they have no better authority than the imposition of the
Judges, are illegal, and ought not to be paid. The espenee
of the Courts is principally occasioned by these fees; and
we have often had serious doubts of the right of the
parties to impose them. The Judges are 'mid liberal sala-
ries ; and, if they are not adequate to their wants, they
should be made so, without reference to fees. it is an
odd contradiction that the public should buy the time of
an individual in the gross,. and then pay him for it
again in detail. A yearly salary of so many hundreds,
and then a fee for signing his name, are strange anoma-
lies. A plain man would suppose that the public were
entitled to all the service the individual could perform,
when he had wade his bargain to serve the public. The
only defence of such a system that we ever heard of
was the plea, that courts of law ought to be expensive,be-
cause people are litigious, and if they could go to law
for a trifle, they would be always crowding the Courts.
But this argument would go to the length of closing
the Coot's altogether: and perhaps if they were altoge-
ther closed, as little injury would result from the denial
of law, as from the sale of it at a price so greatly beyond
its value as it sometimes costs.

The circle of the liberties of the world is narrowing as
fast as the Members of the Holy Alliance can direct thei
power against them. lirberever they can strike at the
semblance of freedom, they do so without any hesitation;
and yet there are people who tell us that we have nothing
to do with the matter, and ought to remain quiet and int
different spectators of what they may chum to do. Mon-
strous as this reasoning is, there are too many, who, if
they do not openly adopt it, act as if they held the opi-
nion. It may sound strangely, to talk of any foreign dic-
tation to the people of England, as to their institutions ;
hut, we could ask, when popular freedom is destroyed
every where else, what is to prevent it from being, we
will not say destroyed, but what is to prevent it from be.
ing attacked in England ? Every body knows that the
very name of liberty is hated with a most perfect hatred
by the Potentates composing the Holy Alliance. Every
body knows that they are indefatigable in• their endea.
Yours to root out all traces of self-government. What
hive they done is their own dominions—at Naples—in
Pi ed mont —W n rtemberg the Swiss Cantons—wherever
their influence could reach ? They have been bitter per-
secutors of every principle which favours the public free-
dom. The Press, of course, has been the pat ticular object
of their hatred, as the most efficacious means of raising a
moral bite and cry against them ; and if they should be
able to establish their favourite " Monarchical principle"
upon the Continent, have we any reason to suppose they
will be satisfied? Will not English newspapers gall
them as much as German newspapers ? Will they respect
our institutions any more than they respect others;—
What predilection will they have in favour of our liber-
ties? There may be some difficulty in the attempt to de-
stroy them. The thing would he impossible, if they had
not friends in our camp:—but are we;not aware that the: e
are men in England, and high in power too, who
would be delighted to reduce it to the slavish submit-
sin of a continental state? Do we net know that

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thee are many traitors here who would rejoice to see
the remainder of the Six Acts converted from a dead
letter into a living and alive curse, by the agency and
ander the auspices of a foreign force? That there exists a
general conspiracy of the crowned heads of the continent
against the rights of the people is indisputable; and
hence the necessity of the people, of all those countries
where any freedom yet remains, to make common cause
against these crowned beads. Whenever they are op-
posed, the rights and interests of the people are defended.
Whenever they triumph, the interests of humanity suffer.
No terms can be made with them. They fight for We
extermination of ail rational liberty; they ral,,e their
hands against the common rights of every individnal
and the hand of everyind!vidual should be raised against
them.

The Spanish Ball takes place to-niiht, notwithstand•
ing the attempts of a certain party to prevent it, by a
mean attack upon the distincuished characters who rove
undertaken the management. It was supposed they
could be laughed out of their liberal ex►rtions, but they
have very properly despised the paltry annoyance. It
has been said that so little could be done, that it was not
worth doing any thing. This may do for reasoning
with some people. But the Spanish cause may depend
upon the possession, or the want of a single musket ; and
nothing is unimportant that may prolong the contest for
a single hoer. A very numerous attendance is antici•
psted ; and the accommodations are on the largest scale.

French papers to the 2nd inst. hate arrived since Wt.
last. The Moniteur contains a long Bulletin from tree
Major-General Guilleminot, which details, in some re-
spects somewhat differently from the former accounts, the
operations of the two French corps bearing upon Cadiz.'
It is now admitted that- the Constitutional farce under
Lopez Banos, which had not previously been stated as
exceeding fifteen hundred men, amounted in reality to
between three and four thousand, well provided with ar-
tillery, and that its movement upon Seville was combined
with one on the part of Villa Camp, who had advanced
as far as Utera to join it, when the approach of Itorde-
soult's column compelled him to retire to Ronda without
effecting his purpose. It also appears that the contribu-
tion raised by Lopez lianas from the Seville Counter:
Revolutionists ; had not exceeded 200,000 francs; beside,
shoes and clothing wanted for the use of his troop•, and
did not fall into the hands of the enemy, who was only
able to overtake his rearguard from whom 350 prisoners
were ramie. At the Got., when this took place he was
marching towards Huebla, where he expected to embark
for Cadiz. Finding himself, however, closely pressed, he
a represented to have thrown himself among the moun-
tains in the direction of Badajoz, which is occupied by a
powerful garrison. Bordesoult's vanguard, it was mien.
lated,would be on the 23J tilt. on the coast opposite Cadiz
which, it is admitted, is occupied by seven er eight those
sand men of the revolutionary army, though it is pre-
tended that it is destitute of subsistence, and that no pre-
parations are made for defence. It is also stated, that
Bell asteros, after sending three battalions to garrison
*Scant. had moved with the remainder of his army in-
t, the kingdom of Murcia. No mention is made in this
bulletin of the state of affairs in the North of Spain, ex-
Sept what relates to a cannonade from the batteries of
St. Sebastian, which was thought to have been a prelude
to a sally from the garrison.—Such are the statements
contained in the bulletin, which, in several essential
points, give a direct contradiction to those which the
same Major-General had previously made. In his 13th
Bulletin h e had officially announced, " that the Consti-
tutional troops of Villa Camp and Lopez Banos,
drawn back towards Ronda, having 'teen informed of the
odious manner in which the King had been temoved
from Seville, had dispersed themselves, and abandoned
their Generals ;" while in less than a week after, he, in
this new bulletin, states that Lopez Banos, whose army.
according to his previous assurances, had disbanded
itself on the 14th of Jon., appeared on the 16th mitts
about 4,000 troops before Seville, carried that place by
force, and maintained himself there two whole days, not-
withstanding that French divisions were in its neighbour-
hood. With the same disregard to consistency, he here
states that VILLA CA]tl•A had advanced his cavalry
to Utera, after having stated that his wholti army
also, had dispersed itself. Though Mina is unno-
ticed in this curious bulletin, he is still alive. The
Journal de Toulouse, an Ultra paper, reproaches Eroles
with having, by his misconduct, allowed the escape of
that enterprising commander, in defiance of the remon-
strance of a French ColoneL Whether front some 'Dion,-
derstanding, or because he can do nothing better, the
Chief of the Faith has g'en op the pursuit, and stood
still at Belver, Zabala, another Chief, who wished to
change sides from the Faith to the Constitution, with his
followers, has been arrested and imprisoned at Segovia.
Mina, it appears, far from seeking refuge in the
Seu d'Urgel, has been moving about with his accustom-
ed activity and freedom. The Journal des Debate briefly
says that "Mina is marching towards Lerida," and sills,
i` that Marshal Moncey, having received the reinforce.
'newt which he expected, would advance with Isis while
corps towards Barcelona, which would he invested 41.104;
the Gth or 7th inst,"

Nuts, JCL( I.—French Funds—Fire per Cents. SF!":
65c.,—Bank Stock, 1555. —Neapoli-an, 741.—ExchInge
on London—One Mouth, f e. t three ditto. •l."f 4.5 c.

Bayonne papers, which have been received this morn-
ing. to the 27th ult., bring nothing new from Spa'''.
though the Madrid Gazette of the 23rd had been brought
by an extraordinary courier, and some letters of the
same date. One of these letters says, that there were
some persons in that capital who do not feel quite easy,
being apprehensive that the Irench corps now there, is
not so strong as to secure the city against a coup de nia:n
Nut the Constitutional troops of some of the divisions.
which have r. treated before the French without fighting
M, Martinez Rosa, forme. ly Mi, ister, arli,ed at Ba-
yonne, on the 25 b, from Madrid. He flees from Spain,
it is said, in consequence of bei 'g 'spaced to the hatred
of party. The papers are chiefly occupied with an ac-
count of the arriva of he Duchess d'Angouleme in that
city, and of the proces ions and illuminations that took
place on the occasion. She made bat a short stay there
and set out on the 2tith for St. Jean de Lua.

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