The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-19 00:00:00

10 . Faxes, JAN. 15.—Five per Cods. 85f.
18,0c.—liaok Adios', 1585 f.

Norfolk V. (Virginia) ripen arrived this morning
to the 10th of Desember, hem which we estract the
following :
Joint Resolution of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen
and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk, passed
the 17th illy of December, Is2l.
The Court cancer with the Comm Hall in the Re.
solo'loas mode this day upon the subjeet of the repeal
of the restriction of the Navigation Acts passed by
the Congress of the United States la the year 1818,
and of 1820.

Rasobrati—That the Act of Congress, entitled an
Act concerning Navigatioe, passed t►e 19th or Apri.,

1818, sad the Act of Congress, entitled an Act Sui..
plementary toneeralag Navigation, passed on tLe 13th
May. 182111, which establish the restrictive system hy
which British ships Sr. prolsibited from bringieg the
odof Bri • Col • Pord, d
pr net t • Us 00101 into our WU, and
taking away the agricultural productions of our State
sod other staples of our commerce in return, are highly
iajurions tot hu interests of this Borough sod district,
aed mintrea7lM an policy of the United States.
It is resolved unanimously, that the good people et
this Borough be. sad they are hereby, recommended to

hold a Public Meetiag at the Town Hall. oa Friday
*ext..
11110S1 it. htlirlTlNt
The Mayor of the city. eerier dab of the lei
that the crust weather wig its bad prevent,
k days prrt king letter.? ty. hat had 1...
Mowed effect of checkieg the prep; e*.. the
speptiag the chiles, and lei til ars tom city e,4
- Ws.'•
PROX sv. istdr. 3.
We ben after a emsg‘ (passage, and vs
Stead here the piratical uht which :ebbed the o,;est.
packet. It is sail Captain Mites, has reirsametille
Goverser to allow him Be take the y irate crew to
United States ler trial. This piratical ship
originally the States' brig Prometheus. which ram
denied two- since.

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NEW GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO.
Dos Jean O'Doenejn, First Regent, and Cattalo
0 aaaaa I ad interim.
-- Peres, Bishop of Polite. Second Regent.
Umbers' Iterbide, Third Regent„and Consimakr
in-Chief is the field.
The Miaistess are--
Forsige Relations—discus.
Nat—Oeseral erns.
Finance—Tbi fiscal of the liudieseht.
Navy-..-Apellaca, late Viceroy.
Grace sad Justice, or, lotto

Mexico.
Soperinteadant General, under wlmsenhargs is the
Mist—The Oyedur Fagogs.
Of this sew oligarchy there ue two pumas who it
Crooks; the others are Bstropeans.
Pero:. the Bishop of Puebla. was President of
Corms la Spais when Ferdinand VII. returned.
is a high-toned churchman sad politician. sod
the chief adviser of Ferdinand to abolish the Corm
fur which service he was rewarded with the tic
bishopriek in Spuds!' America.
Alone. is also a Creole, a mu of amide/
capacity, bat accomaiodatiag politics.
The dual, who has charge of the finances, war r
of the OrmleMa who deposed the Timmy Iry
la HOS—.4•II-velso proposed sad sigood the decree
tboriziog that all lunrgeots should. es being Wit
be, without trial of any hied, shot.
This sew scheme contains in itself the seeds of
dissolution. la Mimic*, the erneeeies of general It
and independence are the landholders. who d''
out of a population exccediag sit millions. sp`r"
to 4,000 ; the rest of the population are eiehjava
tile selfishness of those csvetons wreteises. who
laud in sterility which they cannot cultivate.

The project of law proposed in the Chamber'
Deputies, for suppressing t►e liberty of the prase.
equally alarming to the friends of freedom la EGO
ts to tbmw in France. " The press is like the giri
breathe." It is an element essential to a free esieng

aad it is an elenteat that is the cosassoa property dee
station that has either become or seeks to be rsltr
rood. A free prose bad heretofore bees art.
privilege aad boast of linglisks;n ; and the into
which they have witnessed upon It it► thrir d
eaystry. wake them sensitive ta every sigeritt
shackle it is another. la coatstrits where 1.113'
no private iaterests preferred to t►ase of Or-
where shore ars no pririltrigad classes 100