The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-03 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

of thanks were tbes unanimmisly passed to
Oamp, to the Churchwarden, and to the
stler which the meeting broke np.

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F ~MO TII PUBLIC MUTING.
is saireequence of the death of a near relation of
our Chief Magistrate, deltaic,- prevented a more early
assembly of the inhabitants'on the great question now
before the public, till Tuesday last, when, in com-
pliance with a Requisition, signed by 45 burgesses
and other residents, a meeting was held in the Town•
Hall, to vote i* Address to her Majesty, on her recent
triumph ; also to vote an Address t* his Majesty.
praying him not only to restore her Majesty's Rama
to the !Aire, bet also to dismiss his present Minis-1
tars; and flutter, to site an address to Alderman
Wood, for'the active assistance he had rendered her
Majesty, during the whole course of her eventful
trial.
The MATOR having taken his seat. sippasigtelit
_Henry Hughes and Josiah Hatton, Esqrs.
and Robert Evans, Esq. Chamberlain, read the Be-'
quisition. and hoped that every penes who wished
lo deliver his sentiments would receive an attendve
booing.
Mt. HEATH rose and said, it would be en insult on,
good make of those friends who surrounded him,
Were he to take up theft time in descanting on the I
cease of their present meeting, which was for the prop.l
poseef expressing those feelings of congratulation
and respect for her Majesty, which were echoed from
one extremity of the kingdom to the ether : he should
therefore only
,ressest the Chief Magistrate to read the
address now prepared for their approbation.
This being romplied with, and seconded by Mr.
hams Smarr, it show of bands was called for, when
it was declared be the Cheirman, that it was voted
inanimonsly, with the exception of only two.
An address to the King praying his Majesty to re-
store the Queen's name to the Liturgy, and tat dismiss
his present Ministers from his presence and counsels
'for ever, was, after a few preliminary observations.
moved by the former Speaker, and seconded by air.
swift; which was read by the Mayor, and on a
show of hands being demanded, carried in the like
unanimous manner.
The Addre,s to Alderman Wood was then intro-
duced by Mr. Heath, seconded by Mr. Henry Hughes,
ind carried unaninionsiv.
The meeting might he deemed oneairnorsa, for the
two persons who did not hold up their hands, came
into the Hail only with the intention of witnessing
the passing scene.
Mr. HEATH concluded by observing, that on nil pnb-
lie occasions it was usual to pass a vote of thanks to
the Chairman ; he therefore felt a pride and pleasure
in proposing their sincere and cordial thanks to their
much respected Chief Magistrate, Thomas Uri ifin
Pltlll-
Esq. not only for his readiness in convening
the present meeting, but also for the valuable assist-
ance rendered by him to the Burgesses, whenever they
claimed his assistance.
The several propositions made by Mr. Heath were
received with long and continaeil applies., after which
the Meeting adjourned to add their names to the re-
spective addresses.

Waterloo, which ealy dosages( the livery of dares.
• • • • The debased Neapolitan followed
the example; aid' the Portuguese felt his bum-
bled situation. end aspired to be a freemart.l
Anarchy bid its bead--confneion shunned the steps of
the patriots; and the tyrants cursed them. because
'bar trees, leers tot Monied svith homes Mood. Let
as turn from these enemies of the batman race to the
great (eature of the pest year in our country-the ease
of the Queen? a erne Imperilled la history. It is a
farte to talk ofdelicaey and decency is courts, where
too often revel the vilest of mankind. The Queen's
calumniators do not hate her from a love of virtue;
if she were Queen regnant. and as black as eaten, they
would offer up before her their adoration. Were the
King as vicious as the Queen has been described, they
would pretend to venerate him, laud his virtue. and
rank hien above the Troilus and the Antonines. Hat
of all the occurrences of the past year, that which
is most to be lamented, is the state in which, at its
expiration it has left the country. This lamentable
neadition is the effect of the Pitt and Tory system,
begot by pride on ignorance; and rapine, glory,
poverty, and despair, are its brethren. It is high
time to extinguish it. To save their country all
banks should unite; and, forgetting the evils which
Ns partisans of that system have heaped upon it, try
to mitigate its sufferings, and heal its bleeding
wounds !-(.ltfred )
DOM ESI ICCONDITION tithe UNITEDSTAITES.
The following extract of a letter from an English
Gentleman at New You, is transmitted to us by a
correspondent, who informs us that the writer had
travelled many thousand miles over AMERICA some
years back ; and that be has also traversed Exotax
FRANCE, tic. very critically. Ile is gone forward, it
is understood; from New You to INDIANA, &c. and,
we are assured, that from his known judgment and
veracity, his information is deserving of credit :--
111 r DE 4R rRIENDI wish I had some of you h ere
to share with we in the pleasure I feel at having
brought myself to an anchor in this happy country.
In this delightful city I find all my senses abundantly
gratified-1 bear, feel, see, taste, and smell, to my
heart's content-..-1 want to see all my friends again,
and I hope to prove to you all, that it will be your
i duty. your business. and your interest to cross the
bread Atlantic. to take me by the hand.
To you, who have fortunes, the subjoined tree and
correct list of the prices of most of the necessaries and
luxuries of life, mill prove clearly. that your for-
tunes are dopoled, the moment you land on the soil of
this prolific and gigantic continent of Freemen, ands
wise institutions. Every day adds more conviction to
my mind, and senses, of the vast advantages en-
joyed by these happy sons and daughters of Co LI: SP
NIA, and I hope to stand justified to you all in not com-
ing again among you.
Heft is no such woeful contrast as a SAINT James's.
and a Same Giuts's ; nothing like the insolence of a
profligate aristocracy, or the terrible degradation,
arising frosts the absolute privation of the plainest a..
ternaries of life; all the good things of this bountiful
region, are within the reach of all, with a very male;
late share of labor and prudence.
As I have said a great many things to my brothers.
which I consider as talking to you all-you must be
',intent with this at present, and the good news that
follows, that is, the glaring proof of whit I have be-
fore stated, tb it your fortunes are doubled,• the moistest
yon get firm landing upon this soil. '"*"
The following prices are what any housekeeper
may purchase at retail, from the over abundant eLt-
m %IRE 1, Ike.
Flour per barrel .e I . 2s. 6d. ; butter, per pound 74d ;
cheese, per pound, Id ; lump sugar, per pound. 7id ;
raw sugar, 4d ; ditto. white as snow, 6d ; honey, 64d ;
beat French brandy, per gal. ss. 711. ; rum, per
6s. 9,1.; porter, per dosen, 4s. 611. tine tur-
keys ready fur the spit, per pair, 4s. fil. ; wild
ducks, per pair, 2s. 74d.; rabbits, per couple
Is. Id.; Geese, each, 2s. 74d.; large fowls, per pair,
3s. Id.; Eggs, eight for 6441.; rice, per lb. 21d.: fine
Newtoun pipping, per barrel. 55.; Large keeping pears,
ditto, 7s. 7id.; Fine cranberries, per bushel, ss. 6i1.;
Quinces, very large, 100 for 3s. Id.; nuts from the
hickory tree, per bushel, Si. 6•1.; potatoes, per bushel,
13. Id.; sausages, per lb. 6d.; tripe, per Ib. 6d.;
liollands gin, per gallon, 51.; home-made gin, 2s. 5d.;•
oyster*, remarkably large and fine, 1410 for 25.; tine
hyson tea, per lb. 591.6,1.1 prime joints of mutton, per
lb. 4d.; beef, very line, per lb. 5d.; fresh pork, ditto,
M.; salt, per bushel, 4s. would candles, per lb.
raisins, ditto, 44.; currants, ditto, 9i1.; best
bread, ditto, I 111.; port wine. per gallon, 13s. fill.;
sherry, ditto, 9r.; Tenerife, ditto, Si.; genuine milk,
per quart. 14,1. Inferior parts of beef almost at any
price you bid. I know nut but the meat generally
looks as well as that of England.
No butcher is allowed to hiow up his veal with his
Wroth; and 15 dollars is the penalty for this nasty
trick.
The whole tribe of roots, fruits, vegetables, sallads,
tee. are all surpassingly fine. abundant, and very
cheap indeed. Of fish, no region has such a variety.
or such an abundant supply.
cannot go into a description of these ; the mackrel
is the only one of all the tribe, that resembles yours,
as far as I know.
A livery servaat. is a poor degraded animal I have
sat yet seen; a few such are imported, and the Carin-
thia aristocrat, sometimes brings such a thing with
him, hut the dignified pride of republicanism, disowns
Ibis base badge. If one of these poor unfortunates
makes his appearance, be is viewed with pity, and the
people in the street often ask him whose Werra SLAVS
he is, and the domestics at hotels, and boarding I
houses, will not set at the same sable with bins, unless
he takes off his Amish tropplags.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
Suss-The public have long been held in painful
-expedition of some iusprovensent in the paper tires-'1
lation of the country. The feelings of humane nand
sympathising individuals have long had to bear with
dangling and demoralising scenes of ilseeution, ba-
aishusout; awl incarceration, and the industrious
tradesmen Old shopkeepers, whose boatmen ley them
open to continual imposition and frauds. have been
under heavy conteibetian to Nippon a system, raison

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in its nature, and destructive in its Imsdency. The
1821, will complete a perild of four
fin,istofsijnacneuy.
aartransaction the most important, as it
involved a qnestion affecting the right and liberties of
the public, took place ; it has however been brought
to issue, and the derision clearly proves that an over•
grown and powerful body, cannot make such unwar-
rantable attacks upon the character and liberties of
Englishmen with impunity. It shows too, how much
may be accomplished by the exertion of a single Indiri-
&nal t and Haub important events have followed, upon
the resistance of one individual, to such arbitrary and
illegal attacks, bow much might be obtained by the
union and exertion of the public at Lege. The time
has now arrived when the people have a right to ex.
pect something from the hands of those men, who
have lung held an absolute controul over the paper
circulating medium of the country ; something most
be done to avert the impending storm ; if 24 Directots
cannot accomplish an object so desirable, let them re.
sign the task, and leave it to more able and practical
men. This shows, that men may be calculated for
the counting-Bosse, and but ill adapted for judging of.
and carrying into effect, any scientific and messier
improvetnent. Ido assert, if six, or even three, emi-
nently great scientific men had been appointed to each
a labour, we should not now, et a period of four years,
have to complain of such culpable and criminal ne-
glect. In April, 1817, Mr. Brougham presented a
petition from Mr. Brooks, complaining of the injury
done him by the Bank of England, and setting forth
the misebievious effects of such an immense forged
paper circulation. A commission was afterwards at
pointed to consider the hest means of prosecuting the
forgery of Bank notes. This called fortis the senti-
ments and experience of tawny scientific and able met ;
and it is much to be regretted tl:at a combination of
such talent was overlooked and disregarded. Its ef-
fects would long ago have been proved. Some check, at
least, would have been given to this iniquitous trade,
the credit of the Bank u ould have been preserved ;
but, above all, some valuable lives would have been
saved, and many weald hare been preserved from
ruin and destruction. The gilded pill has, unhappily.
proved fatal to Isuudreds, whose character bid fair for
usefulness and respectability, and who never would
I have fallen from the path of mural rectitude, butt fur
the allurements and delusive appearances accompany-
ing such practices. Had the cause been removed, the
effect would have ceesed to ft:a.m. The fault then
must attach to those, whose duty it is to remove every
temptation out of the way, to prevent crime, rather
than punish it, and to preserve the character and the
morals of the people seem the possibility of coustami-
nation. But I will not enlarge; much more might
he said ; volumes have already been written upon the
imperious necessity of effectual n:easures being
adopted,; the legislature has been appealed to; and
the public voice has been raised in the hope of effecting
an object so desirable. After a public and disgrace-
ful defeat in the Court of King's Bench, 22ti June,
1618, the Bank professed to act with more liberality ;
bat time seems to efface impression of such a slight
and traniitory nature; an I that powerful engine, the
press, must he again brought into action, to arouse
the dormaut feelings of those who absorb every ether
consideration in that of gaits.

PRICE OF STOi E.l
Risk Stock Itl
3 per Cent. Red. 701 701
1 per Cent. Con. shut.
14 per Cent. 704
4 per Cents. PS 71
b pr Ct. Navy shut.
6 per Cost Iler.pt
Lustig A.'s. 18 I-16
lop. 3 per Cent.

A. P.

‘Y Al ONE O'CLOCK.
Irish 6 per Cent.
India *Stook
1/ittolionds—s. 2114175. pm.
Routh-Set New Aim.
E1.R111196.
Mantas for Money
Book for Aecouut 911&
Con. fur Aeet 711
Lott. Tickets MI. to.

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To-roaaow,
Morning, 60 min. after I.—Evening, limin, after

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LONDON:
WILIINESDAY averetxo, J•mrsay 3, 1821.
slum EXCHANGS,ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols yesterday left off buyers at 711 for the
Account. This morning they are a shade worse, being
about 71f sellers, nothing of any note has occurred.

we have, this morning received Paris papers to the
Ist inst. The Chamber of Peers in the Sitting of tint
26th nit. voted the following Address to the limo in
answer to his Maassvv's speech on the openiug of the

Session :

"Sits,—Your faithful subjects. the Porno: Franee,bring
to the foot of the Throne of your M Aursti' the Omerelrerridleir
respect, of their love and Rik devotion. 'They have sym-
pathised with year griefs. They participate le your cease-
bedews. The usourulag of your home has spread itself all
over Framer, and the day of leer bappicese bar proved le it
a public fete.
" Providence seems perticulatiy to wet* over titling's*
Throne, cud reserve to herself, whenever she Wettest Ito
care of repairing its rulna..Tbis is not the fret time not, by
It miraculous Interposition. she has pimples. •.11 the race ef
Site as IV. mid Loots XIV. Bet never before was her allisci
so visible. Near the tomb urea which we lamented *aloes
*f a PRIMCB. greet. eves ea his death-bed oho hes plowed
Me cradle of a Royal infest, whose birthllllllllMnifested the
heroic virtues of its mother. . .
" This Infant. whom Heaven has g4MNI Is. and mil"
Heaven has formed of blood so gempeceo. V,* "P
wader your fostering eare. In the midst of cur beeedktiono.
for the glory of France, mod the prosperity of mu del-

cendants.
" internal peace. and our limitable relation with dm dif-
ferent Powers, form new motives for hope and secerit),
Europe sees es tramqoil after so maay so ors's, and what chiefly
boson Freese. is the eireumstaace, that every thin, "111
voluntary. both In reword to the gilt you made es of' the
Constitatiestal Charter, and to the oath which a grateful
station took to observe it.
Time, whose march we most neither precipitate *or ha-
••
pede.—time will attach es more end more to ear Sew insti-
tutions ; for the benefits of them will eontimially develor•
elormanivee. Already, according to the words of your MA-
' !eery tidy smokes we hope that be tetediAroffits4
made in Vie SieefeniFfigetern wiU ream/ the advisable.
we aatteipatied.'