The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-03 00:00:00

UENERAL ELECTION.

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Is ea mesas requested thol these Candidates, or thi i
Committers. who fa rite. Sr I Th.SW • with their .411
rertiseneents, world girt irstrwetians to hare Mosier.
warded to ws. quo we to reach owr Oiler es the mining
prerions to their intertion.—From the early kw at
which Tar Sr ITESIL4% is runspelled to he pot to prra.
an attention to this molest will obviate a sastorial lona
rottener.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS
Rank Stock 294;
S per feat. Red. OPile
3 per Cent. Cons. etiii
Si per Cant. 78
4 per feats. WO
per Ct. Navy lOW
Long Ann. IN 5.161n5p. 3 per Cent. Ann. 6.5)1

DAY AT ONE OTLOOL.
India Stock
Dittoßonds 14s. 13s.
Old Annuities
E. Bills. 2d. Is. dis.
Ditto Coo.
Ominous
Con. for Ae.Boll
601
Lott. Tickets

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STATESMAN."

LONDON:
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, lOW.
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The Address of Mr. Ilontrousx yesterday to the
Electors of Westminster, who met to celebrate ha
liberation from prison, to which he was sent by s
corrupt House of Commons, will not easily be
forgotten. It was indeed what he pleasantly caili
a great libel on that House, because it speub
great truths of it. It is one of the best cantles
and pieces of advice that can be given to eiecion
in general at this critical moment, and on thee
alone depends the care of securing the freedom d
Parliament : for it is still in their rower to revue
that assembly, which less than a century sod a half
age humbled the pride of a tyrant, and broke the
fetters of the British people. Westminster, it
hoped, will continue to set the laudable example
to the whole empire, of rejecting any man who
would buy the votes of his constituents. Serb
Candidates are mercenary suitors, who covet air
to enlarge their fortune in the way of traMe, at
the expense of their own honour, and the interest
and liberties of their country. Can any metal
man expect to be represented with fidelity by •
Candidate who obtains the suffrages of the electoff
through the weight of his purse 1 Choose Nes
talent at all events. The great DARIUS said, "
l it be in the will of fate that I must be cooquered
and fall, let it be through the hands of as rei
warrior as ALEXANDER !" So we say: if we mat
be enslaved, let it be by men of intellectuel rt"
quirements, which would offer some apoick hg
our unmanly submission ; but let it not be WINO
a Senate composed of such materials as oer last Par-
! liament was composed: two-thirds of whom wen
meagre in capacity, and actually no better than ass"
of cutintal-fractere,sibose influence the miffiell b.°

F

on—
d the Minister directed this way or that way. as
~tedbis interested or ambitious views. There is
w be more trickery played off at present than
more humiliating intrigues, more vicious
roetiens practised than at any one period since
geession of the BRUNSWICI: family to the
roma these kingdoms. A new King and a
ev Parliament form a kind of new epoch in the
~ton of this country. Now, though we would
no electors to avoid those who would art-
sty mendicate their votes, yet it must be acknow-
.,,L,ed that merit is fon./ of honourable distinctions ;
„„I men, who seek occasion to prove themselves
„ton of them. will be less likely to debase them-
on, by prostituting those talents which have
,oed them into general notice and public fa-
vor Above all, we wish to advise our thought-
,,,eleetors to reject the insolent OPULENT. In
class we may look in vain to find the few vir-
No oh:eh are left to stock the nation again !

!Kt have in the article above, alluded with
owe and gratulation to the patriotic meeting of
,esiordas, and to the Address of Mr. lloattousF.
ie asiaaet lay down the pen without declaring
ism Ice view the growing virtue, and the rising in
nig, as by a climax. of the worthy Baronet who re-
paints the City of Westminster, without new
!ors and new confidence of seeing our once en-
itedcountry again happy and flourishing. With
iii attention this well-tried English orator
asi worthy was listened to on observing—
ilea first I enlisted under the banners of Re-
am I found the cause a most difficult one ; but
' apigh I had seen it sometimes advancing, at other
j retrograding, sometimes stationary, and
pia going on very slowly, still I did nut despair,
it I always was at my post, doing every thing
tit lay in my power; because, though 1 might
istoplish nothing, still it was my duty to leave
watt; untried, in order to satisfy my constituents
dat they had not the mere shadow of a Represents-
•_t,,, led while I live, I never will permit myself to
cow weary, as nothing in time or under Heaven,
also circumstance will ever induce me to change."
Ihdeinition or distinction between the armies of
triad the glorious ARMY OF FRINCIPLE, was ex-
slily beautiful and touching. The circumstance
.11 Aides to, is most consoling to the humane
but, and vivifies the almost dying hope in the
astir—that out of evil good often arises. Since
*armies of Spain have so emost unexpectedly
knee the champions of the Spanish people's
*ls, who knows how soon the beneficial infee-
son may be caught by other over-numerous armies
tither couples!!

The Dublin Evening Post, in speaking of the
state of Ireland, says—" We are not at all surprized
that the detections( an odious conspiracy—and the
development, as fir as it has gone, of an atrocious
attempt on the lives of our SOVEREIGN'S Servants,
should horrify and astound the public mind, but
until it is proved, what we hold it to be utterly im-
int:table, that the conspirators had agents in Ire-
land, we shall continue to think and assert, that
the disturbances in the county of Galway are local
is their extent, and in their principle are strictly
Agrarian—differing in nothing from the White Boy
scheme—from the Thrashers, Shanavests, and Ca-
rew* of former times."

Emmet of a letter from Washington, of the 26th
January, via Liverpool :
"Tae qnestion that will be agitated after the Mis-
Kiri, is that of the manufactories, on whose behalf a
Peat effort will be made to raise the tariff of duties on
all woollen and cotton goods, and manufactures of iron,
"el to impose a very heavy tax on all sales at auction ;
awl also to oblige importers to pay cost in future for
air importation.. As measures of this kind will very
tatterially affect our foreign commerce, and the prices
a melee', they mill necessarily be opposed by the
Ssiehern States, but as the Western States will join with
the Northern in supporting them, they will in all proba-
&Mty be earned.

The subject of National Currency is postponed, by
the sith of its friends, until the Report of the Secretary
sf tk Treasury thall be received on the state of the
Raab, in order that the circulating medium flowing
frog them mar be obtained, and particularly until the
fue of ths question respecting manufactures shall be de-
134ed I as on that will materially depend the amount of
the reveene to be expected from commerce; without a
large revenue arising from commerce, it will be difficult
la give circulation to bills, where principle currency and
value are to be I.:priced, from their being receivable in
Payment of duties.

THE FUNDS.
srocK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

The Funds have been gradually upon the rise
ix these few days past, but without any particular
alkw; in fact, there seems to be a complete stag-
halloo of speculation. Consols were yesterday
Else m high as OW, buyers, for the April Account,
sad left of about that price. This morning they
°Pend al 691, sellers, and have since been done at
6q, the market not looking so brilliant, which
leeY be attributed to money not being quiet so
Plelniful, as it has been scarce this morning, even at
4 Per cent.

i'HE

ALJR.VING FIRE AT CII.ITHAM.

A most dreadful fire, at an early hour, broke sat this
morning at Chatham, by which twenty-four houses Yoh''
a brewery ha% e been alrevly eonaunwl. The iee sre,as
still raging n hen our Reporter left the town. Thesi'
expresses Nave bern &sr:ached to London, to leaenfrom
Government whether it will sanction the pu11...4.46am
of the hon•es now interpose between tilt -ffni and
the arsenal.

The inb.tbi:auts are much alarmed at the proopiTt .or
the tlevourio:: (dement reaching this storehouse of tour'
bustibles. An explosion would certainly spread ruin
and devastation around : but, when we recollect the
total impossibility of the flames communicating with the
interior of the arsenal, so fortified as it is, all apprehen-
sions of such a dreadful accident occurring tows% in a
great measure. suhs;ile.