The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-12 00:00:00

wes—and it is e.timated that the export of the prey
seat rear from New Orleans and the neighbouring
rrts, will be about 110,000 bales. Thus exhibiting
le minuet produetion of 397,000 bales of one single
owe, the value of which is not less, probably, than
timely millions of dollars.

This is an astonishing circumstance, considering
that about thirty years aro this article was almost
unknown here. It acquires also additional import-
rice, when it :s considered that in its transportation
abroad, and is the return of its proceeds home, this
article employs an immense quantity of shipping,
thereby furnishing the means of a livelihood to a large
umber of our useful and enterprising eitisens.—lt'
maw also be safely asserted, that the Treasury of the
united States will receive the sum of sic millions of
dollars, in the duty on goods imported in payment
for this article alone.
Extract of a letter, dated Port-an-Prince, 10th April,
igs—lt is now a rainy season, but the coffee is coming
isoka of excellent quality. Mountain coffee, of the best
kind, sells at 31 sous, that is 18 cents.—There are now
104 in this harbour SO or 100 vessels, some of them
ins trance.

It sampated that there are in Port-au-Prince, 20,000
web, 7,000 mulattoes, !,000 white people, the latter
nada% of ail nations, but chiefly of European French.

Ile British Admiral, Sir Home Popham, is expected
here every day, an 3 great preparations are making to
receive him. In despite of the prejudices of the people
of lansaica, he entertained the Haytian Deputies there,
at a British Admiral, in company with Lady Popham.
You see here portrait-painters, music-masters, &c.
troy Europe, and they are all patronized and flourish.
Bat they who can work with their hands, particularly in
tilling the land, must, with prudence, acquire independ-
ence. Carpenters, &c. receive, not unfrequently, the
wages of five dollars per day, and do not work
bat a part of the day.
The National Palace has been lately decorated with
the richest furniture from Prance and England, in the
selection of which, great taste has been exhibited.

The convening of the troops around the metropolis,
rid the reports of camps to be formed upon the neit, h.
!miring heaths, of the River Fencibles to be arranged
apon the water, and of cannon to be planted near the
place of trial, for the protection of the witnesses against
the Queen, present such a collection of objects of
terror as had never been contemplated by the peaceful
citizens of London. Why these dreadful notes of
preparation? Are they suggested by the apprehen-
sionspee eftertaised from the sentiments of the Iwir-
are they annpuneed for the purpose of e cillk
as alarm ? That such extraordinary pretibrations

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corm take place without producing extraordinary
se rations is obvious but of what na re. theseipieL,
Sty be, it Is not so easy to e.
minds they will produce servility, incothers tation ;
but in all they cannot fail to producellirconviction,
that the atroatest measures are intetided, and the
most awful /clink is kept in view. It is impossible,
n'terly impossible, under circumstances like these, that
the public either will or can be initialled with the tenor
of the proceedings. To Englishmen, constitutionally
jealous of their riOits, wbo are accustomed in every
county town to are the military decamp upon the
kiproach of the Judges of Anise, that every species
of controul and influence should be removed from the
judgment-seat, it cannot otherwise appear but that the
a-ray proposed is incompatible with the impartial un-
ein'iarrassed and independent tone essential to the ad-
ministration of justice. More, much more, it cannot
but be believed, is meant, than strikes the eye or ear.
The investigation of the ednduct of the WIEN that
took place before, was without parade, but with due
solemnity; and the resalt was as satisfactory, as the
scrutiny was strict. The Consort of his present MA-
USTI, was then but PRINCE of WALES—he was not
even Hamm But had the influence and controul that
are now in the hands of her adversaries, and that are
now about to be employed against her, exercised in
the manner that is now to be feared, what would
bare been the issue of the inquiry which then pro-
nounced her innocent ?

We observe, with concern, that Mr. Serjeant
`VAconars, in the Trial of Major CARTWSIGHT and
others, at Warwick, said to the Jury (according to
the report of the trial in the public papers), " although
i: had been held, it was their province to determine
every thing, be tra•ted that they would rather con-
tent themselves with deciding on the fact, without
meddliag with the few of the ease. The education,
habits, and studies of the Learned Judge, who then
sat on the Bends, rendered him more fit than they
were to decide on the Law ; and he therefore hoped,
that in spite of every attempt to nose the Judges in
their own Court, they would confine themselves within
their own province, and not trench upon his." Here
the Learned S/111111A.NT (if those words are his) gives
advice to the Jury to abandon the most important part
of their duty, and to commit that to the discretion and
mercy of the Junoe. We would not have the Juries
" nose the Judges in their own Court," nor any where.
But we would wish them to perform that duty which
the Law has assigned .to them, and for which they
were tt more fit," according to the opinion of our
Ancestors, than the Judger, for the ugliest we *hall
hereafter *Relic And abort all, we deprecate the
attempt of Counsel to revive the exploded and ser-
vile doctrine, that Juries are not the Judges of the Law.
ire trust, there is seine mistake In the Report we have