The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-10 00:00:00

GAME LAWS.

I see, that, in Berkshire, ahont a third part of the pri-
soners are poacher?? Sir FRANCIS Iluttotrr, who is
one of the Game-Lam Committee, may, perhaps, 1°13'4 a
little into this. People are certainly not disposed to pay,
any longer, so much motley to keep the game for those
who will not suffer them even to taint' it. Why are al
the people in Berkshire to be taxed fur the preserving of
the game to about fifty or sixty persons? This nevi-
can be suffered to go on much longer. The laws *nest
go bark fifty years at least. The THING must be soft-
ened by some means or other.

YORKSHIRE PETITION.

We hear, that this Petition has actually been signed
by more than seventeen thousand freeholders! The
.1 dying ember:" that Mr. CANNING attempted to ri-
dicule, at Liverpool, have, then, produced a blsr:e at
last. This petition will, we suppose, be presented now
soon. As to the /feet of it, that will be nothing, jot
now. This petition will lie on the table, however, to
bear witness for the people, and against the boroug-hotoa-
get. The reform will take place ; but, not until the
Debt and all the corruption that hangs to it be well
shaken. In short, things will be ready to go all to ploys
before the Boroughmongers will begin to think aim*
yielding. But, at any rate, here will be this petition .o
bear witness aeainst them. Here will be proof, that the
people of England wished for peaceable reform
This petition is a prowl thing for Mr. FAWKES.—
What an undertaking! Yet be has succeeded, and
completely too. At the contested ;election for the
country, when Lord Milton was returned, about twent,!-
three thousand freeholders wre raked together by
means more active, urgent, extravagant, and corrupt,
than ever were before heard of. And now, eighteen
thousand of these same freeholders come forward, with-
out any paying or pressing, and call for Parliamentary
Reform ! Nevertheless, nothing would have been stone
in Yorkshire, had it not been for Mr. hawses. There
ean be no fire without a spark first. Mr. Fawkes has
been this spark; and the county and kingdom ose him
thanks.—The noroughmongers will not like this. They
will n.,t, perhaps, fear it; for, long impunity has made
them bold; but they will net like it. It will make them
look a little serious. It will, as we said before, Gear
witness against them. The longer reform is delayed,
the worse it will be for Boroughmongers ; and the worse
it ought to be for them.

MR. WILBERFORCE.
The Chronicle of this morning says:—
" Nothing grieved us more than to bear a man like Mr.
" Wilberforce, who has exerted himself so much and so
" successfully in putting a stop to one set of abases,
"lending the authority of kit name to sanction another
" set of abuses, the cause of incalculable mischief. We
" allude to his declaration in his place in the House of
" Commons an Wednesday the 20th ult. that ' whatever
" blemishes might have arisen, either from the lapse of
"time or other causes, in some parts of our Constitution,
"our criminal tow had justly excited the admiration of all
" nations, and required few, if any, amendments.' It is
" hut charity to suppose Mr. Wilberforce profoundly into-
" rant of the law in other countries, and to have been flawed
" by some of the assertions which drop 'from time to time
" from thoseintsrested,inducing a belief asks then atmcd."
Now, we can tell the Chronicle, that, if it will bust talk
in this way about Mr. WlLDanyonce, that is all he cares
fur. Give him credit fur candour, for good intentions,
fur having done good ; do t'ais for hint, and he will de
just the very thing that the Chronicle wants him not to
do; that is to say, be will give the authority of his name
to this criminal code, or to whatever else the thing wants
to have upheld. We, for our parts, never give him credit
for good deed, good intention, or any other good. If he
can get the credit from any body else, it is enough fer us
to see hint take it : we never gave Min any, and we ate
afraid he never will merit any at our hands. We take
such assertions as this about the criminal law, and ex-
pose them; we laugh at them, or reprobate them ; but,
we give no ereditfer then,: we do not presume, or teach
our readers to believe, that they proceed from the purest
motives in the world ! We expose, the fact, and leave the
world to judge of the motive.

Paris papers of Tuesday have been received. Some of
them announce in most positive terms, that a telegraphic
despatch has brought intelligence to Paris of the army
of the Duke d'Angouleme being in full march on tie
Ebro. They assert, that on Sand.y morning, at five
o'clock, mass was celebrated along the whole line, and
that immediately after the army was in motion, and the
passage of the Bidassoa was effected the same day. The
Journal des Debars, however, states, that the army did
not cross the Bidassoa till Monday, the 3th. The same
paper contradicts the report which had been published
in the French journals of the preceding day,of the Duke
de Bellnno's return to Paris. The Journal de* DeGats
states, that the Marshal was to cross the Bidassoa, in or-
der to assist the entry of the French troops into SpaTn;
then to. re-enter France, in order to inspect the corps
collected at Perpignan ; then to return to Paris, to re.
none the portfolio of the %Var-office ; but that he would
not return before a fortnight or three weeks. The same
paper contains the Older of the Day, issued by the Duke
d'Angouleme on the 3d of April. It is as follows:
" ARMY OF THE PYRENEES.
" ORDER OF SRC DAY.
" Soldiers,—The confidence of the King has placed melt
your head in order to fulfil the noblest of missions. It is not
the spirit of conquest which has made as take up arms—a
more generous motive animates us : we are going to replace
a King on his throne, to reconcile his people witn him, and
to re-establish in a neighbouring co
tueuntry, which is a prei
to anarchy, the order necessary to happiness and safety
of the two kingdoms.
Soldiers,—You will respect, and cause to be respected.
religion, laws, and property: and you will render easy the
accomp.tshment of the duty which is imposed oa me—of
maintaining the moat rigid discipline.
• " LOUIS ANTOINE. ,
(Countersigned by) •"
Count UUILLEMINOT:
" Head-quarters, Bayonne, April 3."
The Constilationriel and Courier Francais of Tuesday,
contain Spanish news up to the Ist of April inclusive.—
AccoUnts have been received of the King's progress up
Is the 2.7 th ult. when he had achieved tho passage of the
Sierra Morena, and entered A mlalusi3. The joornee, it is
l said, imin'eves the health of the (Peen as well if the

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King, and both appear gratified with the marks of at
tschment that are shown them on the road. The Espec-
tador of the 31 it announces that it has published its last
number at Madrid, and that its next number will be dated
Seville. The most perfect tranquillity prevails at Ma-
drid. The Count d'Ablsbal has published a despatch,
announcing that a column of the troops of Bessieres has
been completely defeated. The journals of the 30th and
31st contain some reports of Generals Mina and Gallas-
teros, who are following up their successes against the
enemies of the Constitution.
The French Fonds left of at four o'clock at 82. 75.—
The Spanish at 34.

A Flanders Mail has arrived this morning, and
brooghtthe followingarticle, dated Semlin, March 20:-
0. Since the arrival of a second Tartar at Belgrade,
in six days from Constantinopl., nobody of the former
city doubts of the conflagration in the capital.—The
Turks, who have arrived, openly speak of this dreadful
event with their usual indifference. According to
the accounts given by the Turks, the arsenal
(l'ersana), as well as the cannon foundry, is burnt,
besides many houses belonging to the Porte,
which were sitoated on the side of Pers. The number
of the houses burnt is estimated, probably far beyond
the truth, at 70,000, by others at 40,000. The greatest
misfortune, however, is certainly the destruction of
the arsenal, which deprives the Porte of means for
completing its new naval armaments.—There are va-
rious reports at Belgrade respecting the cense of this
fire; some ascribe it to the Greeks, others to the Ja.
nissaries, or to the soldiers that returned with the fleet.—
They relate at Belgrade that during the conflagration
the Sultan tore his beard and exclaimed :—" This judg-
ment from God on account of the Christian dogs !" We
send them, adds the writer, as reports, till the arrival of
the next letters from Constantinople, which will clear
the matter up."
Another letter from Semlin, of March 21, states the

number of houses burnt to be from 30 to 40,000.
The Brussels Oracle, of April Stb, quotes the accounts
from the Algerneiee Zeitrug of the fire at Constantino-
ple. It adds--" hitherto the letters from Vienna make
no mention ofsucb evrnt,whicb give reason to doubt, the

accuracy of the intelligence. The Austrian Observer,
of March 29th says—" As the letters from Constantino-
ple of the 10th of March, are expected every moment,
we shall soon know what to believe on the subject." To
this the Brussels Oracle, of the above date, subjoins.—
"The Austrian Observer, is still without any accounts
from Constantinople, re any part of Greece and Turkey."
The Greeks, it appears, are masters of all Unsay,
except Larissa, and the Albanians continue to espouse
their taus•. The of Patras and of the Castle of Le-
panto is supposed to be at hand.
In Poland, such is the scarcity of corn, that the Lieut.
General of the kingdom has issued ordinances forbidding
the distilleries to work after the Ist of May, imposing a
duty on the exportation of grain, and allowing the ha.
portation of it, duty free.

Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's, at
Genoa, dated March 29: . _ _

" The muter of a coasting Teasel arrived here, from
Cette, reports, that on passing the outer Roads of Tou-
lon on the 22d instant, he observed two line of battle
ships and three frigates, at anchor there. It is re-
ported that 15 ships of war of different rates, are fit-
ting out in the port, and that orders bad arrived to
arm the batteries on the coast, for the protection of
the trade against cruisers. The Beet of this State is
preparing to fit out."

STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF PAST TWILLVZ O'CLOCK.--
his is settling day, and the Market is in the greatest
confusion, owing to the news brought by the Expresses.
The present turns out to he another great Bear Account.
Consols opened at 74i, and immediately got op. They
are now at 75k. The business doing is very great. Up
to this hour we do not hear of any defaulter.
FORSIGN Ft:NM—Spanish Bonds opened at 211.
They bare since been done at 291, and are now at 294.
We have no rumours of any sort, bat the general opinion
is, that the Spanish Securities must get better.
Patces or Volution STOCKS.—Russian of 1822, 714;

Neapolitan 68j; Old Spanish, 36 ditto; New Spanish, 40
30.29 k.; Prussian, 791 ;Colombian, 548.; Chilian, 661.

Mr. Croker left this country at the latter end of last
week. and is now in Paris. It is supposed that the object
of his mission is not unconnected with the appearance of
a French fleet in the West Indies.
By the Bayonne papers of April 1, we have received
the following :—A very rigorous decree in seven articles
has been issued by the Government at Madrid, which
renders the property of those who are drawn to serve in
the army responsible, and if they have none, that of
their parents, in rase they delay to join the corps for
which they are destined. The students at the Universi-
ty of Itergara, are said to have all enlisted as volunteers
in the militia. We must say a word of what has passed
between the troops of Santos Ladron and those of the
Pat riots. It mitt be owned that the Constittitionalists,
deceived by a guide, fell into an ambush, when they came
to levy the contribution in kind which the Cones have
decreed. Colonel Salcedo lost coins men, but this is no-
thing in comparison with what is stated in an official re-
port of the agents of the Army of the Faith printed at
Bayonne ; according to them there were 250 killed, 700
prisoners vilten, among whom were a Colonel and 50
other officers. The fact, however is, that the detachment
eonsiated only of 400, who rallied under the walls of
Itampeluna. Waggons are arriving here heavily laden
with materials for the bridge, which come for Strasburg.
This will cost lbo,ooo francs, whereas it might have been
done for 30,000. We hear from Sr. Jean de Luz, that
680 men of the army of the Faith have left that place
and passed the Miasma, fur the purpose of protecting
game deserters and some young men who come to enlist
in the Army of the Faith. They were attacked by the
Regiment Imperial Alexander, and have returned teach
weakened.
By the arrival of two Hamburg Mails, since one last,
we have received the following :
Brocenot,u,Nlancu 25.—The Police has not yet disco-
vered any thing tending to find out the author of the
forged lost letters. It is said that Mr. Forselles, his Ma-
jesty s Consul-General in Finland, likewhe received one
of thole letters.
Count d'Agoult, the French Ambassador at this Court,
is going in the same quality to the Netherlands, and we
learn be is to be succeeded here by Count Talleyrand,
the French Ambassador in Switzerland. _

Hosea 2tl.—The Motion of Von Hartmansdorff, in
the Chamber of the ,Nobility, to petition his Alajesty to
be more sparing in bestowing the rank of Nobility, was
rejected, after some debate, on the 19th.