The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

STA'"FgVIAN

To ra EDITOR or ras sntrEsme,v.

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Slit,--As a steady and faithful advocate in the
cause of freedom and humanity, you cannot but have
noticed with concerti two very alarming symptoms of i
the deteriorated condition of the fortune of your
country. Among many others which excite the re-
gret, and, I may add, the shame of the true Patriots
of Old England, one is, that persons who have lived
in credit as tradesmen and artizans, and being una•
voidably reduced to very straitened condition and
contrivatice to obtain subsistence for their families.
feel no disgrace, ,irtd sca.cely any repugnance, to
throw themselves and their children upon the parish!
It would surprise or shock the Public at large, if
the overseers of parishes, as is done at Brighton and
other places, were to publish the names of all who
thus seek for and obtain the means of prolonging
their wretched existence from their opulent, or less
uecesitous fellow-parishioners.
The neat circumstance, and not a less important
one, is, that many of the prisoners in our jails, view
with complacency, and almost with exultation, the
near approach of transportation to Botany Bay ;
where they expect by their labour to obtain a more
competent subsistence than they can possibly earn in
England. Nay, we read in 'ha Newspapers, that a
short time ago, a delinquent, on whom the seateuce
of transportation for seven years was passed at the
Old Bailey, exclaimed, " I thank your Lordship,
thatis juNt what I wanted and wished for."

These circumstances, so menacing to the bonnet
and safety of Great Britain, were spoken of in the
preseuce of one of our Members for the County
(whose fattier represented it many Parliaments),
and he was ready to confess that they were very ill
omens of hts country's fate, and rendered a timely
Reform an Indispensible measure to the very exist-
ence of the Sate itself.

I therefore call upon the Honourable Gentleman

to countenance and orge the remedial measure in Par-
liament, for such grievances as in private he so rea-
dily acknowledges to be requisite. What man is• so
hardy and unfeeling as to deny that so:nething very
essentially. wrong exists in the State, when its Go.
vernment cannot find employment for the labourers,
who in fact constitute the growth, wealth, and stab'.
lily of a nation.-1 am, Sir,
Your bumble servant,
xI REP.

Bloogoabory, Nov. 46.

NAV.,IL INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL. Nov 22.—A rr iv, d and sailed for the River,
the S. len, is.iv, from the South Seas, with 2.1.100
barrels el alr roi oil ; and Euretts, Sioddart, from
(I.leber. Castle down from the River, the Ross,
Harrison,• for Jamaica; Sir Godfrey Webster, fot
Jamaica ; the Tigrea, fur Jamaica ; St. Ann's, fur
Uoider o , for B 4 Outdoes ; Pe PPPPP f•
once, fee:Waist ; 111.44, for the Mediterranean;
tivroick, for the Mediterranean; and remain in the
D 4 von with the ~at ward•hosed as per lair —V eg.
lordly arrived and sailed for the Riverthe N..uttinq,
VFits n, frui.i Bengal ; tailed 23d of Mayo and from
h• .9tn _ _ _

P ART MOUTH. N .v. 29 —Yesterday •Rived
higj- s i,.a Piiiniose and Ttrian, foss
shales station —Passed by the Hannah, Pearson;froni
g.tet.ec, and landed ',imagers here.—Sailed hi. Ma.
j••ty's ship Ilyperinn, ou a male; and the Pique,
mitt* E -tit ward —Csme into Harbour his Majesty's
ithip Racoon; to be paid oft —T.l.day, arrived the
Lontlon trernport, frnmKnysa, with Government tint.
bee ; ssilF4 from the Cape of Good Hulot, the 28;h
4ep plotter, in company with the %wen Chador.,
Taylor, en•' pares: from her the 3d Nr. in ht. 14.
N. long. 27. West, all well ; on tlie 13th Nov.
spoke the MaPculis of Angleaea, from Calcutta, in
lat 3`2. N. 10,t4. 29. W. all well ; London was
bnardeil the I:th Nov. by a Buenos A v rean schooner,
mounting 14 guns and 125 men, in lit. '27. 50. N.
long 30.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Rosario, on a
cruie.—Pas:ed by the Ellen, —, from Miramichi;
she brought home the crew of the Lydia, ifirdy,
which vessel foui.dered the 6th Nov. neat the Banks
of Newfoutall ud._

FALstool u, Nov. 26.—Artived the Francis Free..
ling packet, with a Mail, from New York, in 17
days.
PENz tract, Nov. 27.—The Friede, Meiling, from
St. Di taiogo to Bremen, was spoke with by a pilot-
boat the 21th inst. hating lost her foremast and bow-
sprit on the 14th inst.
RAMSDATE, Noy. 28 AND 29.—Came in several
vessels for shelter, and abort 20 sail of transports,
from France, with the Waggon Train.
,BaistoL, Nov. 2n.—The Pilot, Webber, from
Newfoundland to Whoa, has put into this port in
distress, and with loss of Captain and Chief Mate,
who were washed overboard.

The ship Alligator, Godend, from Virginia to
Cork, put into Kilrosh the 23d inst. very leaky,
having had 14 feet water in her hold at sea, and
obliged to throw great part of the cargo overboard.
The Gallant, Blythe, from Liverpool to London,
was driven ou shore a few days ago near Porta ferry ;
very little of the cargo is expected to be saved.