The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-18 00:00:00

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An article in the Journals from Madrid intimatm
that the Spanish Court intends to exert some of its
own strength upon its own war in South Americo!
It was lime to mice a few appearances of this mkt,
when the Official Note is on the point of soliciting
alma at Aix-In-Chapelle. The present statement it,
that Count D'Aossnat, the Commander of the Es.
pedition et Cadiz, iv declared Viceroy and Captain.
General of Buenos Ay res, the focus of the South Arm
limn Revolution ! This Office, if we mistake not,
will prove a sinecure to Don ADISITAL. " It is
hoped that the Expedition will be ready to sail in
November nest"—the Expedition, for which pre•
petitions were begun in November last !

The subjects which came before the half-yearly
Meeting of the Bank Proprietor., held yesterday,
are of great interest to the Public. It is most im-
portant to remark the statement made ky the Chair.
man of the Meeting, that no objection masted with
the Bank Proprietors, or would be made by them,
to the resumption of Cash Payments, and thanks' '
Restriction originated with Government, and eat
with the Bank. This declaration, taken in cod.
nection with the extraordinary increase of forgeries
and punishments for that offence, as well as with
many of the other evils that afflict the coentry, af
which the Paper System is the roof, is VON
thy of general attention, and ought to be
kept in remembrance, when the CHANCELLOI of
the ExCIIICQUER nest cornea out with his nowt,
professions, and pretexts, for continuing the measure
of restriction on Cash Payments. The charge die-
peding or protracting the resumption of the whole.
some and necessary measure of paying in specie W
thus openly and publicly laid to the door of Gaeta.
meta, and we desire the nation to take notice of it.
The daily spectacles that now shock humanity, sad
the consequences to society—flowing from that fruit-
ful source of guilt and misery, the Paper System of
expediency, render this topic one of most melee•
choly interest ; and tke Investigation et it% iv I
duty which public justice eight to perform.
The proceedings at the Oki Bailey vim
how intimately it is connected with individol
and public happiness. On yesterday alone, so het
than seven persons, all of them very yoswg, were
tried or pleaded guilty to charges connected with
forgery. The subject of the nemerous forgeries was
adverted to.inr.the discussion yesterday, and sees
very proper ieinarks were made upon it, but still the
nee/wary information was not afforded as t
the wane of detecting, preventing, or remedy
ing the treit.•---.411 the. information elicitedow
merely 'a confirmation, by the Chairmen,
whethed been stated in the House of Cnmrnoi',
that the funition of *electing prisoners for trill
in cases. of forgery, and determining the amount
of- the rewards for detection, was exercised by
Committee of the Directors. Nothing 1189 stated
as to the progress made by the-Commission appoint.
ed to enquire into thelest means of preventing fat.
genies; though various ingenious methods of prevea •
l•
ing, or at least rendering that offence extremely
cult of mention, have been submitted both to the
Commissio', and to the Bank. One of the Pre'
prietors soggested that tine one and two pound rtotd
should hi withdra telmecirculatiOn ; but this re•
""dlf *al Aeciareil bOAChairman to be impossible,
&lug ths &pa Rregraiceion Ad remained in force ---
This is the, real carae!,4l. the mischief, and this in-
formation is 'sufficient a ;point out the remedy..
of lizter•strived, on the at Cs.'
bray, 'not,king thit the Duke of WELLIIG-
TON Ned tr...n*64lre' has headquarters to Vsll"l,',
riennee. Aids.de-Vautp were sent to invite his
Royal Highness to tfi,seview, co toe

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NAVAL L LICENCE. •
DEAL, Srer. 17.—Arrived and remain in the
Downs wind-hound, the Union, Johnson, from
Bengal, last from St. Helene, nailed the 27th July ;
Nestor, Theaker, from Calcutta, sailed April 27,
sad from St. Helena the 29th July ; the Layton,
Taylor, from. Calcutta ; Sappho, Grice, from de. ;
John and Hobert, Swinton, from Jamaica; Aurora,
Griffiths, from Limerick; Albion, Aldridge, from
do.; Endeavour, Humphries, from do. ; Mariner,
Ballantyne, from Berbice; and the United States
sloop of war 'Hornet, Cep,. Reed. from Copenha.
gen for America.--Some of the home wa rthbound ships
that arrived yesterday are still detained by contrary
winds.
FIVE CeCLOCK.—Came down from the River and
'ailed, the Iris, Jones, for Bombay.
-DavEtt, Sat T. 17.—Arrived off this port the Dow.
son, Dormer, from the West Indieand Ms; Dischess of
Bedford, Lacey, from Jamaica ; argaret,
--, from Beenos Ayres.—Came in the brig
Valentine, Hancock, from Seville to London,
basing cut from her anchors in the Gore, in a gale
of wind from the N. W.—Arrived in the roads,
where she has been supplied with anchors and cables,
the Edward, Whittlridge, from Sumatra to Antwerp.
Posrsmoutts, SErT. 17.—Arrived the Hope jun-
brig, from a cruize; and Laurel, Newman, from
Jersey.—Sailed the Rover, Nichols, fur Shields;
end the Bork, Quaker, for London.
MARGATE. SEPT. 17.—The Thetis, Denham, 62
days from Jamaica for London, rode out the gale
last night and is all well this morning.
STIVERIVESS, SEPT. 17.—The Queen transport sr-
&ell from Chatham and sailed for Deptford.
Snips SPOKEN wiett.—On the 10th Aug. the Mar-
garet, Allen, of London, in lat. 3. N. long. 21.15.
W. ell well, bound to Batavia and Calcutta.---Sept.
31, the Margaret, of Glasgow, hound to
Demerara, in lat. 49. N. long. 8. 15. all well, by
the Nestor, Theaker, arrived its the Downs from
Calcutta.

We received Nova Scotia Papers to the 15th eh.
Halifax was declared a free port by the Proclama-
tion of the Governor on the 13th of August.
The following is an extract of a private letter from
Bala's, dated 20th August, 1818 :—" Several Ame-
rican vemsels have arrived within these few days, the
consequence of the operation of the Free Port Act,
will lumber, grain, and flour. Trade, of course,
revives a little, and expectation is ardent. The Elec-
tions for Representatives to the House of Assembly
are nearly closed; it is a doubt whether the new
Members returned will tint in numbers exceed the
old ones. Very animated and spirited canvasses
have taken placeithrough the different counties and
town; anti have caused more bustle in the province
than has beets remembered for many years."
The ship Union arrived off Portland the 16th inst.
left Madras the 22t1 March, and Columbo the 18th
wipril.
Extract of a letter from Manchester, dated Sep-
tember 16:—Yesterday a person named Pilkington,
and one of the name of Kaye, were apprehended at
Bar), on a warrant, charging them with sedition,
and sent off to prison. Kiltington ism person Of con-
siderable talents, and made a conspicuous litgere, at
some of the meetings for Reform, at the time of the
hlstiketeeriltg expedition. lie was one of those who
were confined under the Habeas Corpus Suspension
Act, mud liberated without trial.
Madame BECEENDOOF is seriously indisposed in
consequence of her incessant attendance on her MA-
JESTY (Wring her illness; no other female attendants
but Madame and Miss BECKENOORT being admitted
to the Royal Chamber. She is visited daily by Mr.
MANDE, of Arlington-street.
The Duke of BEGIN/RD arrived in town from his
• seat Woburn Abbey ; yesterday, his Grace left town
for Cashiobary Park, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of ESSEX.
The Journal des Debais states, that Prince Ilia-
-mimeo lives in a very retired manner at Aix-la-
Chapelle. With the exception of a promenade which
he takes once a day with his Princess, the whole of
his time is devoted to official business.
From a report of the Newry Fewer Hospital (Ire-
land) it appears that the typhus has decreased consi•
derahly. The cases are fewer and less virulent.
Saloom:4c M ATCII.—A match for 100 guineas, of
a novel nature, took place on Tuesday, het weep Capt.
CI RA Nt, of Heston, near Hounslow, and JoNAs LONG,
a keeper. The match was who should kill most head
of game in eight hours, within ten miles of ground.
The sportsmen started in contrary directions ; the
Captain taking a direction from Burnhem, Backs,
towards High Wycnnsb. LONG crossed the river,
and shot towards fienley-upon-Thames. The Cap-
lain bagged nine brace of birds, and three hares ;
sod Lung six brace and a half, and four hares, by
which he lest the match.

On Monday neat, being St. Matthew's Day, ac-
cording to annual custom, the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, Sheriffs, and Governors of the several Royal
Jlo pitsls,will attend Divine Serviceat Christ Church.
After a sermon by the Rev. Joust Remelts PITMAN,
A.M. they will proceed to the Great Hall, at Christ's
Hospital, where two Orations will be delivered, In
Latin, by Fftcoustics Iturr, 111 ENGLISH, by G.
BROOKES,. the two senior scholars of the Grammar
School.

The Derry Journal am :—ts We are sorry to
learn, that some of the deleterious staff, 'Dandle.
turgid to imitate and mix-with tea, which for a length
of time has been so abundantly diffused in England,
and some parts of Ireland, has at length made its ap-
pearance its this neighbourhood. A parcel was seised
last week by Mr. O'Neal, and seat to the Excise
Ogice.!'
A certain Dandy hussar regiment, which long
baked in the rays of the rising sun, bus undergone en
eclipse since that bright luminary arrived at the
unith of glory. The regiment alluded to is on its
Inamh to '
.he West of England, and the Royal favour
is now transferred to the Lance, which it is thought
will be a more pictutesque ornament to the /Vim
l'avillion.