The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-29 00:00:00

OF BANK AFFAIRS.

Though nothing moss has be►n don•
meth remains to be said enolicially. The more w•
think of this stopendess concern, the more convinced
ire we of the necessity of superseding it in some way
or other ; and elthoogh we feel convinced, as we
cannot bet be, on reflection, that the Bank has been
a severe teeing piece of machinery, operating to the
eetrea•at part el the Uni.ed Kingdom, and injeri.
nerdy aff►cting the Int/rests of the last and lowest
inhabitant in It, by enhancing the price of every
necessary of life, yet we are net for visiting
its whole Proprietary with the sins of its Di-
rectory. The conduct of it• Governors cad
Managers hes forfeited sit claims to the indulgence
they regaire—it cannot be granted them without
a crying injustice to every men in the sespire,
save and •acept the Bank stack-holders. The
whole establishment ought to be impartially examin-
ed, sad • price set upon it ; and since it is called,
though arrogantly so, TUG BASIL Or ENGLAND, let
It be the Bask ad England. We propose this, not
le maelstroms( or enmity to its Directors, bet in pity
and justice to the Injured People of this country,
whose seaming. are Miswrite likely to send/setae
many years more, and that to no perpeee, es
far as regards the permanent credit and solidity
of the tstablishroont.-niece were it possible that
the Bank could ever convert its paper into money
Oho Wee is all illusion), its bonsai and straight
forward profit could tent support the establish.
meal. We have meson to believe and to agent, that a
few of the principal personages concerned in this iscer.
prorated mosey Company, would bested to be hand-
somely arid honourably freed from it, and removed
from the du:gorses responsibility, which, it drily
contemplated, must be monied in the light of the
undertaking of the Farmers-Geseral of France;
the invidious pert of whose trafsc was, that
its mills esaremeed with the distresses of the soon.
try ; or, le ether words, le the eacressed tuition on
the People. Whet honest etse of consideration, of
imperials, and of r•fleetloe, therefore, would not
gladly seek en exoneration from sn terrible a risk
so soother failure in promise god pc/foreseer :

Itagetiod Olga morning the Peri' Papers
legoideremedeWeeloestley. In tho Chamber
oli'llissedils the Ripen on the Prtief respecting

poolsboorot of offences committed by Nooses of c

Press, or. are; fiber mode of pebileatiols, was pre.
meted by the Marquis De CATeILLAN• The follow.
leg paimiges its it predated gismo animadversions:—
"At tile stage which Wes have reached in France,
ft would be almost useless le disease the benefits or
inconvenience of Trial by Jere. The whole People Is
attached to It, and it would be MI atillPpt to make
their °Melons retrograde, to eedeeesser to institute
say other kind of procedure. Tired of Military
Commissions and Special Tribunals, they wish in
criminal cases to be judged by Judges, who, being
completely independent, always milting with so-
ciety, bound le it by all the ties of custom and in.
tritest, and free from all technical forms or lathiest.,
are best adapted to understand these fugitive signs of
guilt ne innocence, which depend on circemstances,
sod are like them incessaetly changing ; Judges, in
fine, who can seek for troth, without feeling there.
aches fettered by legal farm. France knows, that
without the Tii.l by. Jury, there reeki he no
Liberty of the Press, and that, without the ,
berry of • the Press, iery proba'ily Trial bs
IJery weel.l-msen dintispealr. Is net Sell pa.
perleoce of the lost fen years embolh I. satisfy us
that the deri•inn of these affairs should be tab-at
kfrom the ordinary Judges? Erpry thing proves the
necessity of entrusting such cases only to Jut ies. By
• series of vicissitudes, and •iti.librtr I combinations,
the chasing of Juries has fallen into the Lands of the',
Prefects. Against t his change the complaints are uni.
venal. Ler, therefore, measures be adopted In
the impartial nomination of Jeliti, let their nember
too lie augmented, in order that the challenges by
the accused may he nemernet, easily made, and even
arbitrary. With these amendments,and some why's.'
which it weeld be wives to detail here, we should
fully enjoy all the advantages of this inatitatioe at
once liberal and steady."
" The M 1,1161111 of the Unctuous required Ike(
soppression of the reproaches directed against the
Prefect., we wee of whom he thought had glee, the
least occasion far them. After a short debate the
Report was ordered to be printed, the passage re-
specting the Prefect. being expunged. The Chamber
afterwards proceeded to a scrutiny on the whole
Prqieg. There were 133 votes is its favour, and 34
far its rejection.
" On Teevlay, the Projet for the abolition of the
Drat d'Aubeine was adopted, as was the Projet con-
cerniee the transit through Masco. lo the Chamber
of Depaties, on Monday, the Projet on the Budget*
daring the fear last years, was, on the scrutiny,
adopted by an Immense majority, sod en Tuesday
another Mimesis! Projet was under consideration.
PARS., MAY Y!.—The King, this morning,
transacted bs,iwess with the Marquis Dcssocces, Mi.
Dieter of Fattiest Affairs.
" The Prefect of the Card bat written a Circular
le the Mayors of his Department, recommending
them so abstain from any Infringement on the liberty
et conscience, and free invitations to hang oat
tapestry on the (rents of their houses on the occasion
ef the Fete Dire, where there are a varlet, of yeligi.
etas sects.

Oa Thertday everting Dr. WI Lsos and Dr. nddif
mot at Kaarlasten Palace, upon thesis!, of the Du-
chess of km. Yesterday utortiinc, soon after Mae
o'clock, 'bey east agala, when they issued tke
learieg Delletlas—
Palmy. Mar
" Her Royal fliglineso the Durhen or Kane has hod a very
Rod Ned, sod the Royal Johns mortars to do orh.
(mhmed) "J. WILSOL—D. D. DAVIS."

le case the Governmeut should (which we mod
sincerely recommend) take the Rank and its Stock
isle its own hand, which it has a r to do, if
thought to promise benefit to the nati at large, by
its deviation from the obligations and Injenctlnna of
Its Charter, the case of forgers and forgeries will be
less 'Meting to the humane mind. They will, it is ,
to be expected, rarely occur; end Me heavy pa.
aishment may be indicted and brims with lest regret
when it is considered that the delinquent suffers for
a crime perpetrated against his reentry's welfare,
which readers it ten times more heinous than one
committed against a few merchants.
Ike following Interesting letter from Spain con.
tains some important information. It seems that the!
Spanish Government intends to forma two separate:
armaments of the ships collected at Cadiz, some of
which, it is lammed, were to bate quitted that port
the beginalug of this month :
" CADIZ. MAY 3.—Every one here had sepposed
that all the ships ioteeded for the expedition would
have sailed together, for the subjugation of the re-
, yoked Colealea: this now does not appear to be the
ease, as orders have just reached this place from
Madrid, directing the immediate departure of the ful.
Weise ships with troops for lima :—the San Totem
sod Alexandre moo of war, carrying 70 guns teach,
sod the Nueva frigate, of 50 guns. Time, they soy,
will get away, if possible, by the Bth or 10th of this
imenth. With regard to the ether vessels, it is im-
possible to tell what is their destination, or when
they will sail." t '
Mr. SINCLAIR, the new Mem r the County of
Calthavas, among his other qua , boasts of
possessing an unbowed seat in Par However
Nattering this mast be to his own 1 , it Is
net very complimentary to the its of
Scotland, which in general, are at,
tile, sad as unsaleable in the money as the
County of Caithness.
Smarwouvae Es.cenon.—The en the
Represeetation of the shove Dereeg id en
Tuesday eveoing, whew Mr. MT anted
duly aimed. T 11411681 state of the a Vol.
lowa a—
Mr. M mom . .
Mr. Corbett . . .
Majority for Mr. Myn' 97
A foreigner viewing is a fashiesable crowd a mem.
her of Ladies dressed in the present odious hump.
back style, estelaisnerl, " What beautiful women ! %la
a pity they are.se deformed." " Deformed!" said a
friend, ',end you dare say this to their faces
" No." rejoined the other, "only to their backs!"

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it is Impossible teitatid making. few remarks, a WA
',cite very different ideas and /elections, composed
of the oarless sod the ludicrous. Of tie former WOG
tin ampression of the Loup Cmanc►itoa, that it
ressesable to eapect " some slight segaing taort be
endured in the country after so arduous a roan , r,••
etc. Slight suffering! ilearres, how lint. citi
that Nobleman know of ; or how little mast In. feel
for, the thousands and thoosindo of Iti, pour corn.
trymen half.sisrved for want of employnen•, to
talk of slight seffeting.
Nest Is Mr. NEL'. proressiog the Oneida of
Mr.Pirr(eilphilosephical at load as 11411,11( French-
man), sod hoping (hat 11•ey a ould Inn; coatings to
gelds the Ministers of (hit country. This ran be as
other than to guide the ..mossy to Its abielete rein!
A great Standing Army Pass port of Mr PITT'• prin.
ciplet, end that most 0.1 up the re+eurc•s of En!.
land. and dligest every patriot Englishman. Of
eh. Isoglithle put of the entertainment was the
drinking the ►ealth of his Herd flghneis the Dike
of Tong, (ow great Gpanmarider and Cmgveret !)
tad fistt.twing the toast, with the glee, "
rises Apollo ;•• whether this last was •ccilent,
or a sally of waggery, we knew not—bet to
hear dmig Nohlemen awl Gentlemen talk this,
a stranger to Great Britain'. Hawks and sailor.
legs might think there was net a political Brier.
weep to be complained of. The President and the
Chancellor, with Rf•y thousand a year, are indeed out
of the reach of seffe.ing ; a mojewity of the c tompsny
pleeeepre toe, with, perhaps, half es much income,
ems eutertsin het very flied notions of a littering
country. Mr. Caarw•atauT, of Aynhn, also (not
the Patriot of that name, our readers may he el.
sired) spoke of the merits of oar Ministers for fol-
lowing the step's( Mr. Pm (perhaps If they lied
done so io a body we had been in a better plight);
bet fearing net lobe thought serious in what be said.
nor takes !Murk* for a disciple of ♦uouo. is
Meng contributed to destroy the greet Psthen, he
pledged his conscience thet kir believed them to de.
serve praise—" Ainsi ea le masts."

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