The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-06 00:00:00

TILE STATESMAN.

the public. In this proceeding we have reason to
praise the moderation of not enforcing a law so long
after its publication. The law will affect those ►rhu
have more than one servant, and who have carriages.
There has been also another tax laid upon merchants,
and a certain class of ►workmen, who are here evils:dent
to ►chat are termed patentees in France.

to such objects a' are likely to furnish matter for the
deliberations of the next Swiss Diet. He particularly
recommends to the Canons to take into consideration
thee state of the Mint of the Confederation. Though it
might not be easy to introduce an uniform circulating
medium for all the Cantons, it is at least desirable that
this should be accomplished as far as regards foreign
ruin, which at present has a different value, in different
parts of Switzerland.
FUENCH FUN DC—Five per Cents. 71E—Bank Ac-
tions, 13SO 1.

111.41,T.1.
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TIT following is an extract of a letter from Mal-
ta, dated Nov. 10 :
We are now without Admiral, Governor, or Liente-
n.int-O•verunr. General Layard was superseded, in
the beginning of October, by Sir Manley Power, who
imtnelliately got leave of absence and went to France to
fetch his lady, anal is not yet n1+1111(.41. Sir Thomas
31aitland arrived here last month, after an absence of a
year. Alarming accounts of insurrection at Santa
Ahura occasioned him to leave this almost immediately
for the lonian Islands, where he seems lilted, and by all
reerwswts front that quarter, there Is no likelihood of his
milli for some time. Indeed, it is thought that he %sill
have his Ilan I:. fell there ; but it is very distressing for
this island, many causes in the high Court of Appeal
having bee❑ printing fur years. When hr was here hr
could not find time to hear them, and there are most
many prisoners waiting for trial in the Admiralty
l'ourt, particularly the pirates, of whom you doubtless
have heard. There is no question as to their guilt, as 1
models and they have all confessed ; the Captain and
Mate throwing the blame on the seamen, and they on
their officers. Two have been admitted King's evi-
desire. Their trial has been ordered for the 2fitli tilt. ;
but Sir Thomas's absence has hitherto prevented it.
" Every thing is kept secret herr respecting the insur-
rection. Soda Alatira, 1 hear, is full of troops. sisal
they say all is quiet at present : let us hope that there is
no smothered Pre under the embers. Several executions
have taken place; illllollK the sold-eters were two priests.
Many have tied fur the contineut to seek refuge under
Ali Parka. The bishop is in ras'otly with several other
people. The itistirrection has born caused by overbear-
I mg. taxes. Every inhabitant has been disarmed ; guns,
swords, quirks. daggers, all taken ; sisal it is supposed
that similar measures will take place in other islands.
air Thousas writ ~if to Santa Alattra, but did not land.

A very remarkable and significant sentence fell
from the lips of Louis XVIII. on Saturday last,
upon the congratulations offered to his MAJESTY
by the Chamber of Deputies on the new year, a
ceremony much more attended to in France than
in England. His MAJESTY remarked, "We are
at peace with all Europe, but we have an enemy
to combat, namely, anarchy ; our situation, how-
ever, is unaccompanied by danger whilst 1 can
rely upon you as you may rely upon me."—
Th:s observation of the KING will, no doubt, ex-
cite much in the way of commentary, and so, in all
probability, wit: &by distinguished manner in which
the Marshal DAvousT (Prince D'Ectottatt.) as
one of the deputation of Peers, was received by
Mo,.IIIIEUR, from the manner he proposed to treat
all future petitions complaining of the unconsti-
tutionality of banishing regicides. BEONAPARTE
will lay down the paper for a moment, which shall
record this transaction of DAVOUST, in order to re-
flect on the circumstance.

In The Courier of last night is an article, dated
Manchester, Jan. 4, taken, as it is observed by the
above paper, from The Manchester Herald. It
begins thus—" Wo have received from the Bo-
rougbreeve and Constables an advertisement for '
insertion, calling a Public Meeting to consider the
hest means of affording relief to the necessitous
poor in the present inclement season." So far, •
very well. The article itself observes—" This is I,
as it should be." It then proceeds to make com-
meats on the generosity of the one party, and on
the demerits of the other: laying, however, the
pristine sins to the account of the Birdies! Orators •
and Newspaper writers, who, the compounder of
this farrago of stuff says, inculcated " hatred
'mid malice, and all uncharitableness, not only ;
against the actual Government, but against all
ranks of society, and every description of per-
!sons, excepting only the silly victims themselves
I whom they had induced to join the standard off
uproar, in the wickedly-vain hope of participating
in the universal plunder which they contemplated."
Without spending time in estimating the erudite- I
cress in the composition of one of our provincial
papers, and remarking on the judgment of a
London F.ditor in copying his production, we will
proceed to what in a more particular manner
offends our eye and disgusts our taste: though we
ought, en passant, to acknowledge that the article
is free from one incongruity—which is, that it
does except " the silly victims themselves" from
the persons to be plundered.
But the offensive expression we alluded to is,
that, after commending the proposed means of re-
lieving the necessitous poor, the Commentator says,
either in his own words, or of those who suggested
the measure itself, that " never was a contemplated
I work of mercy better timed." The writer speaks
of the hatred and malice, &c. on the one part—
now, if here be not impiety and insult in the other,
we know not what is such. We do indeed apply
the word mercy to the attribute of Royalty; but
to tile Manchester Magistrates, ii is downright
impious.

DUE.

rep►essing' of art etc aid mess ; the moderation of
lazes and tributre, and the like."

Treating of population, he says, " neither is the po.
pulation to he reckoned only by smother; for a smaller
nosraber, that spend snore and earn l•tr, do wear ion ad
estate sooner than a greater nosonter that lire lose and
gather usurer therefore the multiplying of nobility and
other degrees of finality, in an over proportion to the
common people, loth speedily bring a State to necessity;
and so dotla likewise an overgrown Clergy, for the,
bring nothing to the stock."

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STOCK EXCILINCE. ONR O'CLOCK.

The Funds have been extraordinarily unsteady
these two days past. The highest price of Conz
sole for tlx Account has been 01, buyers; and afki
various fluctuations, they closed yesterday at
nal, sellers. This fall was occasioned by ration.;
reports, the principal one was the diminution of
the revenue to a very large amount, which, com-
bined with a great .kmerican house selling, check-
ed the market, which otherwise looked remarkably
brisk.

This day being n holiday at the Bank, there has
been no money transactions; but, nevertheless, there
has been a great deal doing for to-morrow, which
will be the first transfer duy in Consols and Navy 5
per Cents. ; the price of the former opened at 66:
for the Account, and have been done at 691; the
price is now about 69. There seems to be still a
probability of a further rise, as the dividend money
will be in circulation during this week, which,
with other circumstances, may induce the public:to
buy ; there has been no particular reports in circu-
lation to-day, except that the revenue is very defi-
cient, and that a large quantity of Exchequer Bills
has been paid into the Treasury instead of money,
but these can only be surmises; under all these cir-
cumstances the Stock Market looks extremely well

Extract of a letter from a young a young officer
on board the American frigate Congress, to his
friend in Washington :
Rio Janeiro. July 14, 1819.
" Von will probably Mir to hear something of this
place. The coast, as you approach it, is grand beyond
description. The mountains are of immense height, ex-
tending as far as the eye can reach up the country. The
Brazil coast may be truly called iron bound ; I believe
there is not in the world such another.
" The town looks well front the roads where we lie.
which arc about two miles of It is regularly laid out,
but the streets are narrow and the buildings closely
crowded. Soave inhabitants are said to be of ismnense
wealth : but it seems to nee they must be miserable, for
there is scarcely any sociality among them, and their
homes are neither well hunt nor well furnished.
" The Portuguese are the most superstitious beings in
the world, the country being ruled hr Priests, whim
they believe to he sentlrom 60.1 to paidon their sins. I
have visited their churt lies, which are snore splend d
than any buildings in the States, and saw many deyotees
kneeling before golden images.
" The King and Queen disagree; they kart sops ate
palaces, carriages, and guards. The King is bound up
in religion, disliking all shows and parades. The
Queen is dire. tly the reverse. There are three Prin-
cesses, all very pretty; one of them quite a beauty. I
have been too at the theatres, and saw dancing Which
surpassed all I had ever seen. A few days since a man
in business here killed his partner ; he instantly flew to
a convent, where be is now secure; no officer dare enter
it ; the ;dace is sacred. It is supposed he will remain
there a short time, and then be pardoned by the
l'riests : this 'hews what the people are."
The following is an extract of a private letter
from Halifax, received yesterday. morning:—
" Halifax (N. S.), December 4.
" We have bid accounts still of the continuance of'
fever at Bermuda; so much so, that Admiral tiriffiths
does not think it necessary to risk the health of the
squadron, by proceeding there immediately. His Ma-
jesty's ship Mersey, Capt. ('oilier, sailed for Bermuda
this morning, in order to oh.ain the necessary informa-
tion. 'fhe Carnation. Captain Hall, and Bihlette, Calk
Treeig, are already there. Remain here, the Newcastle.
tirifhtits, Captain Fanshaw, and Cyrese,
Captain Toyer.
" The determination of Captain-General the Earl of
Dalhousie, to reside here until the. Spring (when he
proceeds to Canada), has given great and universal sa •
-
tisfact
PINANG, JUNK Ht.—The Indiana, Cornwallis,
We cannot but marvel at the wonderful stoicism I. Mary Anne, and Marchioness of Wellesley, are
that prevails generally among our public writers f n
i now at Sincapore, where every person was engaged
at this time. Although they admit that the pre-1 n landing and mounting the !wavy ordinance, sent
from Penang, for its garrison, consisting of Asia
sent distress among the workmen in the manatee- '24-pounders and twelve 18-pounders, with sbu
Tories and the labourers in the field, and that they dance of ammunition and warlike stores. After
adopt with a becoming complacency all the means this duty bad been performed, the ships named
which are held out for their relief ; yet not one in I were expected to return to Penang with the rev
mainder of the Ist battalion of the 20th, that bid
ten exhausts a single word in allusion to the origi- •
been at Bencoolen.
Ral stases of so much calismity, and the justness Extract of a letter from Liverpool, Jan. 3:—
and propriety of punishing their authors, or, which , " The Anna is arrived, in nineteen days, and these-
is! tl.e same thing, their abettors and followers. To tis ity that prevails amongst a certain set here, in••
see men who have brought their country to the dicates that they have rn insight into the
hnt's Speec which is hourly expected. Presi-
:
brink of perdition, stalk at large with all the pomp de • —neeted' if they
• were not acquainted with its warlike tone, they
of office, while they are incarcerating the honest never would, in the present dell state of thew,
patriot in prisons for complaining of the miseries ' purchase so largely as they are now doing. no
and mischiefs they are creating, cannot but harrow Americans make great complaint against Lord
up our very souls. Some of these great nen should Cochrane, and will insist on our Government iv.
be brought to trial, and punished according to a terfering'
Extract of a letter from Mr. Goodland, Mash"
their deserts. Lord BACON would have acted a of the Expreiss packet, dated Bristol, Jan. 4:---
very different part from Lord CASTLILIZAGII ;or aOn Sunday, the 2d inst.. I fell is with the whew,
Lord SIDMOU'rH in the same situation. That Friends, of and from Picton, bound to Ureenork, with
all her bulwarks stove in, and without a poised of tr.-
Nobleman says, in one of his essays— visions on board. lat last had the satisfaction of
" Concerning the materials of seditious, it is a thing her 30 lbs. of bread and half of a cheese • dories whio
well to be considered; for the rarest shy to prevent se- I was very near losing two of air men sad beat. 1 es-
ditioa. is to toe away the matter of Mews ; for if there Peel he got into Cor
Congreve k about to
kle'terdaY•
be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall It is said that Sir •
take out a patent for guns, which are to &whams
come that shall set it on fire. The matter et niftiest a conical shot with unprecedented precision. Ae
is of two kinds, meek poverty and meek disoatesitesest, would rather the inventor had discovered the
The rebellion* of the belly ore the worst." meat% of sustaining human lib, by multiplying the
" The rouses and motives of seditious are—sates. al- acts of produce or h eniog those of waste and ex•
thitheaS of lotus and cnstoms, breaking of priviiegeo, traiegeeeieL it was said that the isvessor of the
general Wreaks. eiventeesiene anleareAg Permit. guiHodde fell the first victim to it. It is not tree,
and whatsoever in gentling the peopk joineth sad knit- and we should have been sorry if it had been : bat
tsth them in a common cause." we shohltl have felt no regret if the investor ae
si Amongst the ramifies and proration/ he ranks the gunpowder had been the Ant bkwn up by it. •

,YOB BS( HIRERS ro viz MANCHESTER
N FER ERS.

In the entire history of Petitions, Addresses, and
sahieriptions, never has there an instance ever
teen witm>sed, vsliere indeocudence of character,
std Ministerial influence, have been put into ap-
roidion andwapno. sition so plainly as ill this case be-
;ore us. The publication of the times has been `a
3 toy jndirions thing. and will do more than a
dozen ebs:::..s upon the evils of corrupt influence.
The total number of subscribers is 2,026, exclusive
nt a list containing nearly lUD names, which, by
ore malicious and evil disposed person, was stolen
fron the Town House Tavern,
The Committee have thought proper to precede
the list of Subscribers by the following short but
appropriate Narrative
In the minds of all Englishmen who wished this
rApire to he the land of freedom and of equal laws,
the *heious events of the 16th of August, at 'Manches-
ter, earned the strongest feelings of indignation and
t,tiorrenee ; and Cie utopialihed approbation bestowed
by his Majedv's Ministers on all the actors and abettors
of that Vooicy and lawless scene, deeply alarmed the
the Constitution, and called on them to pro-
friends of
test agaiust such an unheard-of and wanton violation of
the timid right of petition.
me first politic meeting on this subject, was held
at Westminster ; and the second, at Norwich, was eon-
yard by tli Mayor on the 16th of September, in conse-
quence of a most iimuerous ant respectable requisition
hoist been presented to him. The meeting was ex-
ceeded in nember by only one within our recollection.
The business was opened by the Mayor, the Resolutions
*ere moved by ,Captain Money, and seconded by Mr.
Jobe Taylor.—A person whose name was then known
rely tr a rery few individuals in the City, though he has
time been annothwed by the Li•udon 1.-orrice as " the
of the purple and orange party in Norwich," was
the only one who came forward as the advocate of the
41aechester Magistrates, and ti.eir Ministerial panegy-
rists. Whether this person was reputed by his followers
to the honourable office is not e vain, but it is certain
that every possible exertion was made use of to second
his endeavours. Ile had no baidiers on the hustings, hut
is various parts of the Hall were seen clusters of the
loyal" marshalled under varous leaders. Unable to
atter a single word in reply to the facts stated in the
resolution', the strength of their opposition was exactly
proportioned to the strength „ftheir lungs. rut with
all their roileavtiors they formed so contemptible and
pitiful a minority, that the grater part of them left the
tall, and the leadeis of the 'esp.-elite gangs of noise-
makers were left to" wage the th' unequal war" almost
by themselves. The Address was moved by Mr. Bright-
Weil, and seconded by Mr. I dward Taylor; but before
this " the leader of the por tle and orange party" had
Neck his colours and shrere off. The Address and the
lesolations were carried amidst the shoots of the peo-
ak, and it was resolved, on • he nudism of R. N. Gurney,
b‘, our rierllrist Member. that a Subscription should
Ito *limit into, for assisti-g the wounded and maimed
Rakers at Manchester, ant' for enabling them to obtain
legal redi-ess for their on t sq.
" Lists were distributed in various parts of the City,
anal persons of all classes eagerly contributed to the fur-
therance of so humane and so constitutional an object.
These are now collected and laid before the politic.
bombe isaceuracies may be found in the names, which
from the naoiher of signatures is almost unavoidable,
but in general it is presnineil the lists will be timid cor-
rect. '1 hey are amply si:ffitietit to prove that the Citi-
zens of Norwich have not confined their sympathy to-
wards their iejured fellow-countrymen to mere words,
but that they hale bees lesions to contribute their
share of assistance towards the mitigation of their suf-
ferings. Souse of the rontribntions are anonymous.
These sre principally of individuals who from fear of
incurring the loss of employment and support from the
advocates of Manchester law, hare feared to enroll
their raw% on our list There are many instances ef
men (conitl their names be disclosed) who, though in-
worm! or compelled against their better judgment to
sign the Declaration, have Eiveu their mite in support of
the reuse of humanity and justice.
"Norwich, Dec. 14, 1619."
In iO-111OrrIM'S STITESVAN we propose to take the
subject up noire fulls', to its conclusion.