The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-07 00:00:00

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bun here are 10 such ; besides many lesser ones. The greater
I sort sire employed In probably not more than half work; ye-
eesiity farces the proprietor to work even at loss, or the works
decay and be Imes his eapital. In two-blast-farmed 6or HOU '
tees or coal are consumed in a week; in a 7 work, probe-
bly 120.) per week. In thecondidastal orders yen to llinniug-
_km, knows of no allusion to the repeal the principles of
blockade of IRK Binuln4hian merchants understand that' on
repaid of Orden is Coined the Non-Intercourse Act ceares ;
and upa that, without farther authority, they would ship for
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LIST of the MAJORITY AND MINORITY,

WINO NOSED ON TES vINECIIIM AllOtrOWN SILL;

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those disturbances." With an jnconsisteney which
attends all their reasoning, when. they attempt a
vindication of the impolitic measures of Oovern-
ment, these same hireling Journals admit, though ,
somewhat reluctantly, that otir Manufacturers
are in a distressed state, and that provisions are high
in price; but they say, that " this is not owing to
the operation. of the Orders in Council." Thus,
while they do not deny the existence of the evil—an
evil demonstrably consequent on the continuance of
the war, they dispute that- a war measure, every way
calculated to produce it, has in any shape bad this
tendency, aid endeavour, in the most shameless
manner, to shelter Ministers from public indigna-
tion, by reviving the cry, which they at one period
found so very useful to them, against supposed Jacobins
and Levellers. It is clear, however, that neither the
nature of the Oath which is alluded tif, the terms in
which it is couched, nor the circumstances which I
have given birth to these afflicting disturbances, can I
warrant, in the smallest degree, such illiberal asper-
sions. The Oath is couched in the following lan-
guage :—" I, A. B. of my own voluntary will, de-
clare and swear never to disclose the names of the
persona who compote the Secret Committee, or by de-
scribing, either by word or sign, their persons, fea-
t res, clothes, connections,' ice. or cause them to be I
discovered, under the penalty of being put out of 1
the world by the first person who may sleet me, and of I
hayfug my name and character eves' held in abhor-
rence. I swear also to pnald: Witbieath any, traitors
.to this compact, and to pursue them for that purpose,
although they should ffy to the verge of the nation."
Now, what is there iu this oath, that has the most
distant reference to politics i The individuals taking
it, swear to conceal—not thepurmes of their asso-
elation—not the object they have in view by orga-
nizing themselves—but merely the names of the per-
sons who compose the Committee, which they consi-
dered it necessary to appoint, for the management of
their affairs. What then is it they propose to obtain
;by the appointment of this Committee ? The conduct I
It( the rioters, as explained in all the Provincial Pa-
pers, affords a plain and simple answer to this.—
They
aim at the destruction of all' machinery erected i
for the purpose of manufactures, which they say
10:ploys fewer hands than before. the introduction of
these improvements, and conseqatently lessens their
• means of subsistence. We cannot Milt, this proceed-
iug 011 any principle; nor is it essential to our present ar-
goment that weshould demonstrate its pernicous con-
sequences. What we maintain is, that the rioters are in
no shape influenced by political cotisiderations ; that
the object which they aim rit is not a concealed, but
an avowed one; and that, therefore, it is unjust, in
the highest degree, to attribute to them murices of
action which do not appear in any way to influence
theta. The ihole of the evidence already taken at
the bar of the House of Commons shows, indeed,
that these infateated aersonsfiave no wish to resort
to riot or disturbances; that their forbearance has
heen exemplary ; and that their turbulent conduct is
the result of desperation, brought on by the want of
employment and the want of subsistence; and had it
not been for the very philauthropie conduct of thei r em-
ployers,who have been accumulating stock for these last
twelve months, in order to-keep their hands employed,
the consequences of the general stagnation in trade
which nom prevails, would have been felt much sooner.
We do not n ish the public to edopt opr assertious
for truths, though, from what is daily passing before
them, they have the means in their poner of deter-
mining the fact. Let them give the Minutes of Evi-
dence &ken before a Committee of the house of
Commons, a deliberate consideration, and then ask
themselves, whether the attempts of the Ministerial
Journals to prejudice the question, by reviving the
cry of Jacobinism, is its nay degree warranted by-the
afflicting disclosure which these Minutes present ?

Paris Papers reached town late last night, to the
2d inst. The news they contain is nearly of the same
description as that brought by the Papers which ar-
rived the preceding day. The movements of troops
are noticed. bat siothlng precise or definite is men-
tioned relative to ulterior obiects.—BosArAarc still
remains at Paris. Au extriordinary.Sitting of the
Conversed,* Senate took piste on the 48th oil. Tiro-
Nobly on the subject of the stairs of the North, and
that, 4;41. the recant overture of the French to the Bri-
tish G overnmeut. , •
It is said, that a Letter is In WWI from the Gover-
nor of Almeida to a friend, dated the 6th ultimo,
which does not mention a mord of the repeated at-
tacks on that place ; hut he states, that fie expected
the enemy to attack him in a few days.
A vessel has arrived. from Boston, and has brought
letters from that port to the Bth ultimo. It is stved
In these letters, that an embargo was expected to be
imposed' ow the following day, and it was ander-
stood_that all vessels exceeding twenty-five tons were
to be lard up in the harbour under certain regukt-
tioos, which wouldsrevent their sailing for Europe.
The number of Mails now due at the Post Office,
front Lisbon, Cadiz, the Mediterranean, &c. amounts
to eleven.
The Slitaliters of LONDON attended yesterday at
the House of Commons, to present a Petition • bat
on proceeding to businestt, it appeared they had left
it behind them in the City. Tkin; however, is not
an unprecedented case. When the Lord* waited on
his MAlmrry, at Windsor, to congratulate him on
his recovery, in 1789, they were in his presence be-
fore they found • they had not brought the Address
with them. This awk*ard situation they were
obliged to confess, when his MAJCWIT, with a era-
I dons smile, relieved them frem their embarrassment,
by preserving them with the topy, which was blame-
411ately read es the original. It is -usual, in soch
uses, to furnish the King previously with'a copy, to
imeabto tin to -frame his summer. - • .