The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-11 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

escape the reek, en wild they split, we must ■void
their sifters.
" Hew different has been the treatment of Gees.
rat Jackson, and that modest bet heroic yam* men,
I native of one of the smallest States is the Going,
w►o achieved for his country, on Lake Erie, env of
the most glorious victories of t►e late war. In •
moment of passion ►e forgot himself, and offered an
set of violence, which was repented as soon as per.
panted. Ile was tried, and suffered the judgment
pronounced by his peers. Public justice was thought
net even then to besati%fied. The Press and Congress
look op the subject. My lion. Friend from Virginia
(Mr. Johnson), the faithful and consisten, sentinel
of the law and the Constitution, dapproved, io that
hiatuses, as be does in this, sod moved an enquiry.
The public mind remained agitated and unappeased
seal the recent atonement, so honourably made,
by the gallant Commodore. And was there to be a
distinction between the officers of the two breeches
of the public service? Are farmer services, ►owever,
eminent, to protect from even acquiring into mat
misconduct ? Is there to be no limit, so prodeetial
bounds to the national gratified.' He was not dis-
posed to censure the President, for not ordain a
Court of Enquiry, or a General Court. Martial—
. impelled by • sense of that gratitude, be de-
termined, by anticipation, to •:tend to the Gam'
that pardon which be had the undoubted right to grunt
after sentesee. Let es, said Mr. C. not shrink fres
our duty. Let us assert our constitutional powers,
and vindicate tl..histrement from military violation.
" He hoped Gentlemen would deliberately survey
that awful position ea which wo stand. They may
beer down all opposition ; they may •tee vote the
General the Public Tanks; they may carry him
trionspbietly fhreueh this Hoes*. But if they go, lo
my humble judgment it will be a triumph of the prin.
triple of insoberdiustioe—a triemph et the military
over the civil authority—a triumph over the powers
of this Hosse—a triumph over the Constitution of
the land. And he preyed most devoutly to Heaven,
that it might not prove, in its ultimate effects end
consequences, a triumph ewer the Liberties of the
People."
(ream Tug AOSIOIA OP ►s.l. 4•)

" I miderstasd that the scree of this stock of the
Beck of the United States, as calculated epos by the
Directors cod Speculators, was 173 per share. If it
had rise° to this enormous price, all the knowing
I ones, by agreement, were to sell out, in which case
101 l the sufferers woeld have been widows and orphans
and honest mod industrious men ; as it has turned
oot, Weevil has chiefly fallen on the evil doers them-
selves. For this blessing we mar, and I do return
Ithanks to 11 ; thanks to Brutus, who, as an
instrument in the hentis of an Almighty Power, cue-
I tioned long since the good and inner:mit, the upright
guardian and trustee, from percbasios this stock—
crested to to defraud a free People, to latter epicures,
Ito create sinecures for particular Moods of the Bober.
;
setion.—Tbe Worts in Baltimore are only in esti-
cipation of those that ere to take place here; for it is
I impossible f.r the large stock-holders and stock.job.
hers to pay up their stock-notes : they are only lin-
igering out a miserable existence by their endeavoars
L to hold out. Eves the cashier, who, it is said, has
; pledged some of his precious stock in England, will
have to share the fate of his fellow cashier in Haiti-
! meta Whet, the Royalists in England see the Re.
port of the Committee on the Bank, how it will
shake their coafideuce, how it will loosen their
created by an attorney, mid hew sees
will they be eager to get the mosey advaaced, by
selling the stock et any price it will command in the
English market. I write this for the impose of do.
Wring basest folks from WOGg the stock of this
market, at any price : it is the reduction of cor-
reptios.
" 1 am a. maw as Benin Ir t"
[MOO TON flaw YOUR IMMO) POST Oa res. 3.]
" Hrs. Park, Lama Weed. *A Jas. 1819.
ss Sia,—The state of England is et this time a
matter of greet interest to all commercial people
here, end especially each as have debts or credits in
England. The facts are these—ea the 61h and 7th
of December, the Juries at the Old Bailey Sessions,
in spite of the decided reatemitraeces of she Judges,
refused, to four succeeding instances, to coneid for
uttering forged Dank of Engtend Notes. The Beak,
upon this, withdrew the other Indictments. Lad
thus is that famous outlet of paper money without
any protection against forgery. The parties arraign.
led and so acquitted had sold large quntities of notes
at a low rate; and the country began to be stocked
with this sort of paper money. The Courier of the
Sth December exclaims, • thus is this great Corpo-
ration set of the protection of the law,' which is
I very tree.
" My letters to the 11th of December anticipated
a speedy blowing op of the whole thing ; and iodised
it is difficult to see how that is to be avoided. At
any rate, here are very interesting facts for all those
who have pecuniary concerns with England. I, for
my part, would not give a York sispenee for a leo
pound Dank of Englund note!
" I em, Sir, you most obedient and most hem.
, Me Servant,
(34:214) " WILLIAM COSBLIT."

may be concerned, a few farther observation '
wilds may induce the undecided ft) beware 44 enter.
rug upon so hazardous an adventere. By so doing,
we are rendering a service end a kindness to these
who are ignorant of the danger and responsibility
they incur ; and if, after this warning, they will rash
late the danger, they have only their own gambling
disposition, or fool.hardy rashness to blame.
la the first place, it is rather against the antici-
pated advantage of the enterprise, that an @pyrites.
lion to the French Ship-owners failed, through the
interference of the French Government. It is well
ascertaioed, that the Merchants of Boucles's' had
I formed a (mitred with the Agent of Spa's for that
supply of transports, which is now sought for in the
port of London, sod that they were obliged to annul
that contract by their own Government; which must
base seeded in this case from a regard, either to the
commercial security of its subjects, or to the honour.
able maintenance of its own neutrality ; evincing on
the former supposition, its belief, that his Most Ca-
tholic Majesty, could not, or would not fulfil the
stipulations of his engagements; or showing on the
latter, its opinion, that by assisting hies with skips for
the cooveyance of his troops, it was, in fact, dreier-
* war against his enemies. The F:nglish Govern.
sent, acting on a different commercial code, inter-
pose no obstacles in the first instead*, to any use or
obese which its Merchants may chose to make of
their property, esrept in the single instance of shim
engaged in the flare Trade; bet laying down the
rules en which they maystpect or renounce puttee-
, flea. *Rows them to pursue their adventures for
their own interest, and et their seri peril. Now let
es
see, in the secood• place., what are the pro:sable
advantages which our Ship.owners may be expected
to reap, and what are the r)sLs to which they
'apse their countrymen, by sending their ves-
sets to join the Cadiz expedition. It reseal be
unknown to any persona in the least acquainted
with the subject, that the Amore, of Spain are
in a situation to offer no great security to those
who are simple enough to rely upon her engage.
ments. She has become bankrupt both iu money end
credit, and all the resources which she has at her dis•
passel, though brought to the hammer to-morrow,
would afford bet a Hien dividend on the debts she has
incurred, or the lawful claims which she most admit.
The long delay of the projected expedition, arising
entirely from the want of funds for its equipment, the
starving condition of her troops and civil nts,
and the state of the vales reales, are sufficient proof*
of her inability to fulfil the oueroes conditions of any
new contract, without a manifest breech of her old
engagements. And do the shifts to which she bas
resorted of late, evince any of that spirit in her nit-
wit Government, on which one can rely for pay.
meat, even though she bad the means ? The
money given by this country, in satisfaction
of the claims of her ••• subjects, whose ves-
sels were unlawfully captured by our cruis-
ers, employed in executing the Abolition Law,
was transferred to Russia, by an arbitrary mandate
of the King, in payment for the inefficient squadron,
now in the harbour of Cadis ; and the claimants
were thus defrauded of their jest rights. The same
injustice was attempted et Paris, with regard to the
liquidated claims of the Spanish subjects on France ;
the Coen of Madrid sending an order to the Spanish
Conant, to whom the funds, In satisfaction of them
were entrusted, to place them at its disposal, for
the minify of the contracts for transports, then
entered into at Boordeses, bat afterwards annulled.
Perhaps these latter funds are now held out as the'
tempting security to the British ship.owner and
if so, we would ask, is it likely that a itar‘y, which
begins its operations with such a manifest sioirtids
of justice, will fulfil its engagements with go.
faith? However adventageocs the tate of freight
may appear to be, is any thing beyond what is to be
paid in advance likely to be paid at all ? May not a.
Government se needy as Spain find a thousand sub.
teasers and flaws in the contract, in which it may
resist its complete felfilment ; especially If it sees the
Espedition fail, and finds that all the previous ex-
ponces have been incurred in vain? Besides, as Spain
will not engage to make gond any loss in case of
copier,, the ignorance meet be so high as very mach
to redoes the advantage of the rate of freight, while
it shows the gambling spirit with which that high
height is offered.
Bet, supposing, for a moment, that the credit of
Spain was as good as it is kouw• to be the coo-
trary—supposisig that her resource+ were undoubted,
end that every real promised would be punctually paid
at the stipulated time, there are risks and dangers
connected with the 'sedition of the contract, that
ought to deter them from the undertaking. Let
them for a moment consider what they are doing.
They are sending net their vessels from British
ports, sad beyond British protection, and placing
them at the disposal of Spain, to become part of
an hostile armament, against a People with whom we
are at peace, bet with whom Spain is et war. When
they are arrived at Cadiz, they are no leery under
the British flag ; they are hired by his Catholic Me.
jest, ; they receive on board his Majesty's tromps;
they set sail ender convoy of his Catanlic Majesty's
fleet. The planks of the ship, sad the composition
of the crews may be British ; bet they divest them.
selves for a time of that character, and become to all
ideate and purposes, Spanish and Belligerent. In
short, they cease entirely to be neutral, and become
as hostile es the troops they y, or the fleet, of
which they form a part. Whatever &retrace of
opinion may exist, as to the kind of store., or qua.
lity nf mews, that neutrals may carry for the use
r of one Belligerent, without forfeiting their chewier
of neutrality towards the other. Troops, surely, never
were a species of cargo which they could be allowed
to carry ; nor could the transports of one Bellige-
rent, be ever considered as neutral by the other, from
whatever quarter those transports were nbisined.
The character of the vessels, therefore, which ere
taken op in this port by the Spanish Agent, to make
part of the Cadiz expedition, is not that of ries.
trality towards the South Americans, Lut that of
hostility; and if met by an Independent squadron,
while carrying Spanish troops, either in the high
sea, or when about to pour them on the American
shore, they may be captured in the same manner
as if they belonged to his Catholic Majesty.—
The chance of their being so captured, before
they can reach the River Plate, or in that River,
dif that be the destination of the espeditien, is

my great, slice it is well known that the Inde-
pendent Governments of Barnes Ayres end Chili
possess a more powerful squadron than Spain can
bring against them; and If a voyage round Cope
Horn, in order to laud the troops its Peru, or CMS.
be the object of the Spaniards, their hazard is infi-
nitely Increased, from the great number of lade-
pendeut striates stationed "Nog the cows, and the
Impossibility of keeping together a large number of
ships In passing Cape Hem Nor is the risk of
capture the most formidable evil which they have to
encounter. The Spaniih Governmeet, with in.
paralleled folly and inconsigtency, at the very time
that it is remoiting over Europe for the • ' &ere
of neutrals, and endearnering to charter their
vessels to convey its troops, is multiplying the
dangers to which the crews of these vessels ate
exposed, by Its own sanguinary Decrees against those
who shall be fouled lending • "ocular assistance to
lAke Independents. Artist Catholic Majesty, in
a document published iu this country, with as oaten.
cation which ought to have been reserved for a better
cause, has denounced the penishonent of death 'egotist
all thine •Ite jniu the ranks of the Independent,.
sir lend open aid to their cause. Will nut such a
Decree, if eseceted in any one isomer... /smoke
retaliation on the past of the Independents; and
what, in case of capture, is then to become of lbw
Captains end cress of British vessels making part
of a Spanish expediting against them ? Why, ac-
cording to the rule laid down by his Catholic Ms.
jetty, they may all be hung tap c t the yard arm!—
, Though the Patriot Authorities would not probably
wish coolly to execute such severity on British sub-
jects, taken in the tanks and pry of the Spaniard.,
as the Spanish Decree threatens to British sub-
jects aiding the r the Patriots, still la ha is to
check the rage of the cruiser., exasperated by the
example of their enemies, and justified by • goalie-
eery Ordiesuce of their own Government? Bet it
may be supposed that the British Government would
interfere to prevent arch egresses, and to punish such
cruelties practised on its subjevis.

It would be RCM, than folly to expose the tiro of
men on such a presumption, even though there was&
strong probability of interference ; hat the least con-
sideration &ilt convince any reasonable person, that
no presumption of tlejkind exists. That 13rbislt G..
',foment has declared its neutrality, and prohibited
its subjects from engaging with either of this Belli-
gerents. If they en•rr into the service of either, they
therefore contravene its orders, and deptivethemseltes
of its protection.

After chase weighty considerations addr•rsed to the
love of gain, and the strong instinct of self-presents.
!ion, such persons, upon the score of humanity and
liberty, ought to reflect that they are lending their aid
to pour hostile armies on the shores of a friendly and
unetrending People—they are prolonging the horrors
of civil war—they are endeavouring to murder nation-
al independence--they are inflicting deep wounds on
the Commerce and Trade of their own Country, for
the chance of a precarious gain.—Such an eddressas
this would have no weight with men olio merely look
at immediate advents'', and who, in sending their
vessels to join the Csdis Expedition, evinces spirit of
inordinate speculation, that *veld charter them to a
Slave Trader, if they did net capes. themselves to
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ins creation of so many new Peers by the King
of Fe txcc is the subject of conversation all ever that
kingdom, end no doubt of torprise throegiteet the
whole Continent. Whether as to the nature of the
act itself, or to the names of the persons Ass en-
nobled, the proceeding is of a new and wouderfut
rank. It is not possible to say at this time, what
main r o urged Louts XVIII. to take the step,
which, viewed is say light, is fraught with portentous
matter ; but it Its certain that since the moment It
was first resolved on, the names of Mousteus, the
Doke D'AmoouLtass, and Doke am BERRI are uo
mere spoken of than if they had ceased to eaiet.
It is said in the City, that the Minister has
" reckoned without his host," in respect to the <it
millions of balances in the bands of the Bank. 'lltat
matter may, however, and must M soon made clear;
it is only " goiog to book," which i 111 pet all doubts
at rest._

The comical of Sir It. flnownetoo la likely to
undergo a public lovestigation: we trust it will be
fully javtified; bet the behaviour of the Corollas
and Prn-Conssis lo the distant provinces of the Ro-
man Republic, give the first emend to that most
powerful of States.