The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-05-07 00:00:00

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deficiency of their Worldly wisdotn, their integrity
tit lesst stands unimpeached, and their inst claims
to the respect aed confidence of the public urgers-
tionable.
But on this !wild it is needless to enlarge. since
we might venture to rest our C311%e on the good
sense and impartiality of the public. Such. indeed.
has seemed to he the liberality of the are. that,
instead of multiplying our disabilities, we might well
expert an enlightened legislatore, by one liberal act.
to sweep away those Tes: laws which yet disgrace
the statute book, and feed like an odious excrescence
on the strength and beauty of the constitution.
Since your llonourable House, S:r, has so far over-
come Protestant jealousies, as to viva a Bill for re-
lieving Catholics front their disabilities, I cannot
imagine how it could refuse a similar concession
to Protestant dissenters. without renouncing its at-
tachment to Protestantism, anti its initial concern for
the rights and interests of all peaceable and upright
subjects. If the dissenters should now claim a re-
peal of the Corporation and Test lams, and if some
who displayed notch eloyienve anti zeal in stt;:-
porting the Catholes should be found among their
opponents, common sense would oblige its to ascribe
their vote in a recent case to motives less pure and
elevated than the love of justice, or a regard for
the rights of conscience, or a desire to relieve a
whole body of people from unnecessary privations
and unmerited reproach. The trite friend of liberty
will respect the liberties of all men alike, and be
anxious to secure to all denominations their due
share in the civil and relit•ious rights of society,
althongh they may net have the patronage .f large
estates, nor possess any great measure of political
influence, air move in the higher circles of rank,
fashion, and royalty.
But iP Parli meet, in case of such application,
emelt% plead the ..nritplity a those laws, or con-
zither theta as all integral part of the constitution, or
allege the equity of refusing privileges so long
alienated, it would be a manifest injus:ice, an tin•
constitutional innovation, to abridge our rights or
multiply our disabilities by the enactment of a new
law. 'I he religions liberties and civil rights of dis-
senters are as clearly defined and as firmly established
by the constitetion, as the privileges anti emoluments
of the episcopal eberch and its parochial clergy
and an infritigetuee; upon the one, however slight
and insinuating, 51,0111.1 be resisted by all good
citizens with as umels promptitude and energy, as
an attempted abolition of the other. If tie legis-
lature would reject with scorn a proposition to de-
prive the Church :is by law established of its cus-
tomary dues, ought it nut to repel with the same feel-
ing, every attempt to deprive other churchee of their
existing eligibilities and legal rights ? And yet the bill
in question proposes to enact. that. notwithstand-
ing the it ttttt eine number of schools to be esta-
blished, not one diventer shall be deemed eligible
to the office of parish-schoolmaster, even slicoild
the dissenters in any case form three.fourtlis
of the parishioners. Perhaps this may be designed to
reward the laudable interest they have taken in pro-
moting the British system of etineation, in consequenee
of which some few dissenters have heroine toasters ..1
British schools: If the religious persuasion of the
teacher %Wield be left one of question, a•al
moral and intellectual qualifications alone provided
for In the said measure, the choice would doubtless, fo:.
the moat part. fall upon those who were known to be
attached to the established church ; while in a few
cases, where the dissenting infltierce preponderated, a
person of that persitasion, if otherwise sufficiently
qualified, might be chosen to the office. But it would
be of no consequence to the argument, if we supposed
that not one dissentitor candidate in a thousand would
be elected, because their exclusion in such a case
would not arise from a legal stigmatizing dis,otali-
fication in consequence of their dissent, but from the
superior merit or interest of their competitors securing
a majority of totes. 'They do not, therefore, contend
for the office, which bus neither honour nor emolument
to awaken jealousy, bet for the common right of eli-
gibility, if the testimonials in their favour or their
known competence should in any case ensure the choice
of their fellow townsmen or parishioners. They have
no wish to obtain advantages denied to others ; but
they will not consent to be put down from their just,
level in society, merely on the vomit of their disi'
senting principles. Indeed, Sir. there is s•ttnething
su uncalled for, so i niquitous in thus proposed teritis.that
the whole body of dissenters are bound in principle to
oppose its enactment, or if carried into a law,S to i
mit-
m-
pede its progress. and procure its abolition. b
sing these objections to your candid consideration,
I am. Sir, with great respect,
I Your most obedieut servant,
,bey T. It.

--
Extract of a letter dated Quebec, Feb. 251. 1821.
" Since the intimation that the Home of Assembly
would be prorog►ted, great diligence has marke.l its
proceedings. The mode of transacting business. by
referring almost every snhject on its introduction to
&Committer. anti afterwards referring the bllls to a
Committee, protracts the basin'ss at an earl• period of
the session ; and if, as in the present, any extended en-
quiry occupies the at!entionof the House for good part
of the session,naany public measures of importance nowt
inevitably he I ist, for want of time to take np the re-
ports of Committees. to whom Bills have been re!er-
red.—The important measures at present before the
house, are, the l:it•il List, the Bedford Election, Report
of the Committer on Crown Lands. (a most able docu-
ment from the pen of Mr. Stuart the chairman.) the ap-
pointment of a resident agent in England, incorpora-
tion of the Banks, &r. Esc., upon the last the house
were in committee of the whole this morning. and the
various elanses passed with very little discussion. On the
quesstiou for filling the blanks, in the clause provid-
in; for the punishment of passing counterfeit notes.
Mr. Speaker made some very pertinent observations in
favour of imprisonment fur a term of years being in-
serted. The (motion relative to an Agent comes on to
night,---the report of the land Committee, on Friday,
and the Bedford Eleetion, on Saturday nest. A very
animated debate took place on Mr. Neilson's Resolu-
tions. relative to the censures of the Legislative Coun-
cil aid kis Grace the bite Duke of Richmond. which
on & divides passed. 34 against 2."
The Mary. Monteith, from New Orleans to Barre,
which was on shore on the 27th ult. on Uarralstown
Strand, was got off by assistance, and cattiest into
Kinsale on the 29th. very leaky.

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LONDON: .
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1821.
Intelligence has been received this morning that
Patras one of the Week Islands is in a complete
state of insurrection and that the Consul and his
suite were on board a vessel in the Bay, and at
the time the letter came away, above a hundred
houses were on fire, and the Ureeks and Turks
fighting

STOCK EXCHANGE. ONE O'CLOCK.
The Fonds are rather upon the rise, chiefly from
what Lord Lox yoN oEatzv said upon the Russian
troops, with regard to Spain. Cons,.lb hare been to
731 for the Account; the Market still looking well.

Ne.v York papers have arrived this morning to
Stlt of April, from which we extract the following ar-
ticles
[FROM THE PHILADELPHIA PAPER OP THE 4TH APRIL.)
Pao). HATTI.—The schooner, Weymouth, arrived
yesterday in 12 days from Port-an-Prince. Edward
Wyer, Esq., who went out in the Ontario sloop of
war, on a mission from government, has returned in
this vessel and proceeds for Washington this morning.
The Ontario proceeded with W'yer from Cape
11aytiett to Port-au-Prince. A correspondent of Port-
an-Prince has enclosed us a paper of the 18th March.
i The island was vet in a convulsed state, but it was be-
lieved the government possessed sufficient energy to re-
store it to perfect tranquillity. President Boyer with
his staff was to leave Port-au-Prince on the 23J for
the 1\ otthern Department, sad would not return till
the end of July.
lrsou ME ENGLAND COMMERCIAL AHIEII7I3[2.
APRIL
Fnom Tun FRIGATE MACRDONIA:4I---1I tie time
Captain Downes was at Lima, Lord Cochrane was still
cruising oil the Port and declared his intention of de-
stroying the Town of Callao on his next attack. His
treatment to American Vessels in this neighbourhood
u ti.,t complained of, although several had property
board belonging to Spaniards. The American and
British merchant vessels had dropped &two the har-
bour after having been tired upon by the forts..

Paris papers to Saturday hare arrived. The co.
accounts they bring relate to Moldavia and Naples.
PARIS, MAT 3.—" According to accounts from Teme-
swar, of the lith of April, the army of Prince Ypsilanti,
it is stated, by the news from Moldavia, amounts to
50,CtX1 men, and that they have reached the banks of the
Danube, %t here they are stopped by the innndations.—
This delay, however, enables many volunteers to join
them. The Prince, it seems, has published a PrOC4IIIII-
- couched in very modest terms in the Turkish len.
gusge, promising the Musselmen security for their per.
sons and property, if they are quiet. It is said the
Turkish farmers are inclined to favour the Greeks, being
*Subject to the same tyranny as they are.
N sebcs, Artist. ti.—" We learn by accounts from
Nlevista, that General Round has d been force to *bats-
lion that city. The Prince of Collereale, who is appointed
by the King Governor of this division, tai addressed a
Proclamation to the inhabitants.
" The Provisional Government is at present engaged
in disarming of the inhabitants and in watching the
Carbonari. The execution of the first measure is rather
dillicoolt, most of the inhabitants of the kingdom have
hitherto %hewn no inclination to comply with the order
for giving them np. The Austrians caused the adoption
of this measure, hecatose many of their soldiers had been
awissinatetl. The regular troops obeyed, and delivered
up their arms ; they are quite resigned to the order of
disposing of the whole army. except the National Guard.
The journal of the two &cities says, that the Austrians
are beloved beyond measure (oltre modo) by the Nea-
politan people."
By Spanish papers which have come to hand Since
our last, we have received the following statements of
the disturbances whiclt had occurred :--
M A onto, Arm". 20.—1 n a letter front Seville of the
14th ult. we find the following passage:—" A short
time after the arrival of the Post with the news of the
reverses of Naples, the sound part of this population
were in motion, and proceeded with a band of music to
the Consul-bowie, and demanded that, as the persons
disaffected to the Constitutional system insulted the
guard, they should he arrested and obliged immediately
to depart, in the sante manner as those of Barcelona.
This watt, in fact, carried into execution; the persons
included in this measure being the following :—Arece•
diano de Niebla, the EI-Inquisitor ; Esperanra. the Ca-
non Stem. ; Carvajal. Colonel anti Serjeant-Major of the
Provincial Militia; Blois, and several canons.
A mail from Oviedo is arrived, and it is stated that
several suspected persons hare been pointed out there,
wills the demand that they should be obliged to leave
the city ; to which, it appears. the Authorities con-
sented.
We learn that in the-seeret Sitting of the Cortes on
the events at Valencia, the question did not regard the
criminality, or the inset:awe of the representation of
the Municipality, hut lonely to transmit to the Go-
vernment to take such measures as the nature of the case
demands.
It seems that the exantple of Barcelona has been cog
tagions in other cities. We bear of certain primal wit