The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-09 00:00:00

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in gold and silver. He began by giving him three 1,...
raw, two seven-shilling-pieces, and three Planing., tor
every hunch of notes of boar poonole He went on in this
way WI be bad exhausted his store of this sort of coin;
wool then was compelled to pay the rest incA,.e I elg
Now, then, we beg our readers to remark, 1:11,,t Meier
ofne rt May comes all this pretty shuffling and cutting
will be over. The tender of the hundred pound note
was good ; the clerk could not refuse to take it, because
the Law of Legal Trader is, at present, in full force ;
bat, on the first of May Pees 's Bill puts an end to this
' law of legakender, and then people will have a right to
demand payment of all sorts of notes in the current go:of
and silver coin of the realm, of standard weight awl .
etas. Then it will be real cash payments. It is not vet
sash-payments; and what we request our readers to ob-
serve, is, that the real cash payments will cause a larger
reduction of the circulating medium, which will ice% ot-
ab'y bring prices down much lower than they now are,
and of this all Tradesmen and all Farmers ought
to think well in time. There are few people in the
world so perverse as to wish to be rained rather fine
act according to our advice. Sons: such there are never-
theless, and much joy we give them of their election.
We wish them to be as happy as an body can be is
work-goose or an alms-house. To persons of a dispooi-
fion less pertinacious, We recommend the getting and
keeping of gold by almost any means in the world that
are honest.—lt is ear firm conviction, that. six hundred
pounds in gold will purchase •• tolerable good farm (le
kandredacree, house and buildings, before this day three
years. We do not say prime land ; but about the average of
arable lands in any of the southern counties. To anyone,
who isdi %posed to stare at this opinion, we would beg leave
to put this question: does he think, that there is, or
that there can be, any other criterion whereby to jsdue
of the price of land, than the price of the produce ofthat
land, No one, out of Bedlam, and going about with-
out a keeper. will hesitate a moment to answer this ques-
tion in the negative, that is to say, to acknowledge, that
there is no other criterion. If this be the case, then;
and if the price of the produce be now, and continue to
be, lower than it was in the year 1790, mast not the
price of the land be as low, or lower than it was in 1790.
In most parts of the kingdom. the rents are sot now re•
teived, except in small part. The nominal rents, Indeed,
are four times as high u they were in 1790; but is it
sot impossible, that these rents ahonld not come don n
in exact proportion to the fall in the price of the pro -
duce. To affect to believe the contrary is not a mark
erroneous judgment ; but a mak of downwright imbe.
cility of mind, discovering itself in an utter incapacity
to give or to compare ideas.

DINNER TO " POOR BYRNE."—We understand
that It has for some time been is the contemplation of a
few gentlemen to give a public dionser to this late object
of Priestly vengeance, and that it is now determined to
hold it at the Horne Tavern, Kennington, on the mewl
of No RRRRRR next ; which day has been deemed the
more peculiarly appropriate as it is the anniversary of
the day on which was indicted on Eyree the most atroci-
ous part of the most atrocious sentence that cute ass
passed. We are told that Judges are not infallible; that
they are not gifted with any extraerdimers means of fie.
log oat the truth; that they cannot literally probe the
heart in search of it. Then they should not cut so deeply
into the flesh when they have to award punishment.
Tickets for the dinner will shortly be prepared, sad
may be had at the Horns Tavern ; the White Lion, St.
Alban's Place ; the Vernon's Head, and York Minster.
North Audley-street ; at the offices of the STITESNAN9
297, Strand; and at No. IS3. Fleet•street, London;—
price 6s. each.

SUPPEESSION or THE SLATE TRADE.—A society
at Boston (New England), formed to aid in the sop-
pression of the Slave Trade, has, at a recent meeting.
suggested the expediency of an auxiliary colonization
society. The evils arising from the rapid relative in-
crease of the Black population in some portions of the
United States, is becoming, it appears, every year
more serious. It is contemplated that the time cannot
be far distant, when the numbers of the Blacks in
some of the states, and their power, will predominate
over that of those who bold them in servitude, uoless
some mode is devised of diminishing their cambers,
ur some provision made for removing the surplus pot.
tion of them. With this view, the American Casei-
n ion Society was formed ; and as it is believed that
some of the proprietors of slaves are desirous of eman-
cipating them, and that many will be thus emancipated
as soon as an asylum shall by suitably prepared for
them, and the means provided for transportiag them
to it, an idea Is thrown oat of establishing a colony
of free people of colour, on the coast of Africa, fur tie
purpose not only of giving vent to the redundant black
population, and relieving the United States f.om the
danger and disgrace to which it is at p sahject.
but of rendering the blacks themselves instrumental
to the entire suppression of the Slave Trade. li, says
this Society, a colony decidedly and actively hostile
to the slave trade can be maintained on the coat of
Africa, and especially if sevc rat could be supported on
different parts of that coast, much might doubtless be
done to aid cruisers in the pursuit of slave ships. by
furnishing supplies, and by giving infarmatiou of their
places of rendezvous.
Tux " 1110 TE" AND TUE " BEAM."-10 some pa-
pers, says the &goo Ce.rtioel. we find is mentioned,
with great indignation and horror, that the bifida
Turks at Swains, &c. have aired Greek WOUJCD.
boys, and girls, for isle at their shops and bazaars.
And yet in the same [American] papers are to be foes I
advertisements, with the thfillit s of prufessiug Ciirirtiens
at the bottom, such as this t---" For sale a Negro
Family, consisting of a man, t is *ite, and 6 children.
either together or single. s may suit the purchaser.--
fhey are sold fir no Lei., but to raise utoecy.---a-
vire of A. B. C. 1.).&e.

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It is said that the tun. e t.t r tiler Secretary of
State ill Mr. Canning's d..partrucut. .. c.. t by the re-
signation of &al Cisurribisor, is to be tilled up by Mr.
flame, who is to be the senior. and Mr. Bad:house,
the junior Secretary. and a Mr. Ellis is to he Mr.
C.'s Private Secretary, in the room of Mr. Deckhouse.
Gord llinoinir was offered e Under Secretaryship,
.05 hi.. I.or.lAtip decline ). 'or by aecepting it
must bare vacated his scat iu Parliament.