The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-07 00:00:00

THE S'rATE.S.

looms, and every other branch of our manufactures;
to reduce the enormous weight of taxation, which
the nation so heavily groaned under ; in short, the
!Awe was blazing with brilliant prospects. Peace
ass the universal object of general congratulation,
and not a cloud appeared to darken the bright
trmttment ! How have these happy anticipations
been fulfilled ? Let our daily increasing list of
tialiktept3, the gloomy countenances of our met..
,t!iets, the palsied state of our manufactures, and
~nt the decline of the public funds,—let these
roofs of " national prosperity" answer ! We
.1 that the late protracted war has so driven
to the nations of the Continent to the re.
ly of their own resources, that we are success.
fe.iy tivalled in every branch of our manufactures,
side our commerce, which, during the war, owing to
oar maritime superiority, we were enabled to force
upon the world, now that the great high road of the
is again opened, is rapidly verging towards a de.
c!iue and fall ! At home, what domestic relief have
„ • in estwei? The universal opposition which the
bye id.,a of the continuation of that odious impost,
the I 1,1, has experienced, has fully shown
that the 'cobalt will not tranquilly submit to its re.
impnsition : but we know that the demands on the
puld'e perse will be this year much greater than the
Let, %%hile its resources are ittfinitely decreased.—
It is welerstood that bills from the Peninsula are al-
read► drawn by Sir RODENT KENNEDY, who is
`• wiading up," As it is railed, the accounts of the
lee ear, to the amount of near e'eht millions ; and,
it is said, that, at least, 12 more will be necessary
to meet the demands whi, will he made upon us. 1:p•
wards of GO millions'nf ui,ftr.eled debt is in the market,
which must be in some way provided f.ir. The ex.
pence of the American war still continues to increase
rather than diminish, for we hear of daily embark-
ations of troops, and shipments of Stores for that
country. Half a million per month is tegularly re-
mitted to Germany, and must continue to be paid
while the Congress remains sitting; upwards of
75.000 men sr.' in pay in Holland, and as we see
by Port news of each succeeding day, that army is
constantly receiving reinforcements! And how are
we to meet this At one blow, thirteen millions are

their efforts, and are entirely occupied in creating
new orders and decorations, ridiculous to the in-,
ventors, and contemptible even to those en whom they
are bestowed. The rage for military uniforms and as--
tinctions has superseded every regard for that increase
in our commercial relations on which our national
greatness, indeed our very existence, as a great
power, so entirely and substantially depends !
Let us endeavour to check this evil before it has
taken too deep root to be easily got rid of. The at-
tention of the whole nation is most warmly excited
to the approaching meeting of Parliament—its pro-
' ceedings will be looked to with anxiety, not only by
all the Kingdom, but all Europe ! certainly some-
thing of importance must be done, or ruin stares us
in the face ! it is useless quibbling, and turning,
and twisting—the day of settlement is rapidly ap-
proaching, and it must come! and the dissolution of the
Income Tax is one certain measure to facilitate its ap-
proach. The war people say, with truth, that with-
out it we could not have so long carried on the late
glorious, just, and necessary war !—No ! nor with-
out Loans! But mark the lessen thus taught. If the ex-
penditure of the nation was alwa)s, from necessity,
obliged to be raised within the year, w c should care.
fully avoid entering into eat racagaticies we could not
support ; we are now arrived (or are very near ar-
. rivitsg) at that situation, and one year of peace will
' prove incontestibly, that we must either reduce our
enormous standing army, disband our sinecure
placemen, and bring our peculators to book, or
the whole system of the fund-holders will fall to the
ground, and either a military despotism, or a very
altered Government, will he the certain consequence
of that great, but unavoidable convulsion—a National
B4tikruptc}

The beloved FCILDINAND has got upon a new pur-
suit—that of a wife. He is almost in as great dis-
;
i tress as CELEBS : hut, Ladies, though a King, he
wants money. The following Letter from Ma-
drid, of the I 9th ult., gives a picture of the difficul-
ties which stand in the way of his hymeneal happi-
lieSS

taken from the Treasury by the death of the Income
'fax ; the amount of the Custom Duties will mate-
rially fall short of the. produce of last year, owing
to the prodigious decrease in ft tralle,which
the bid ax of foreign articics it:to all the markets
at a much lower rate than we can afford to martu-
t .cture them, has ::::turally occasioned ! The amazing
cmiz• Ilion to the Continent, by so materially lessening
rho number tf espensive resibitts, will of course pro-
ikce a praportinnate of the Assessed Taxes.
The depreciation in the value of the late Loan, which
is now at a diAtnunt of hr.!) per cent.: all these cir-
cumstances occasion as awful a prospective as any
Nlinicter, be his talents, and his fortitude, and his re-
soarces ercr so great, had yet in his siew. But
when we look at the men to whom the task is con-

" There is to be a wedding, said Eseoletviz, when
he carried Off FERDINAND to Bayonne, and the same
is the story now. It is asserted that the ' Beloved
FERDINAND entertains the design of entering .t second
time into the holy state of marriage, and that there
have been conte s and parties on the person who is
to be the happy bride. We are told that BAR..
D IXE, our Ambassador at the Court of St. Pe-
tersburgh, intimated the advantages that would re-
sult from a ronnection with a Russian Princess ; a
proposition which was listened to at first with at-
teution, because it was likely to bring with it power
and security. But on reflection this would not do,
for the saints who surround FERDINAND took the
alarm, lest the Greek schism should be introduced
with the Greek devotee; or if the mist► ief were not
so great ()I a public nature, that this private calamity
would be iev dyed with it, their powerful influence
over the mind of the King would be destroyed.
4 4 Under this embarrassment, as wedding there
must be, it was suggested that two Princesses of Por-
tugal, daughters of the Infanta, Donna CARLOTA,
would make good wives for his MAJESTY, and his
brother Don CARLOS. This notion has given satis-
faction, and the most Reverend Father FR. BER.
N A RDO DIAL, has set off for Brazil to open the ne-
gotiations ; and although he has waited at Lisbon for
some days the return of the ships, it seems he has
gone e ithout them by one that was ready for de-
parture. :Matters proceed just as heretofore ; that
is to say, bad as bad can he. Imprisonments are
I continued, and the atrocities with them. Sometimes
they speak of pardon, but generally when they hold
forth such expectations, it is but the prelude of some
new act of oppression. To complete our miseries,
we have the lug uishion established in full authority,
which was the only thing wanting to our utter anni-
hilation."

tided of encauateting these exigencies, how is the
picture darl,erted ! Whether Mr. VANSITTART, or
Air. llc.l>issost, is to be at the helm of the
(pier, we can see in neither of them ability sufficient
to hone that they possess the means of extricating
us. Clinging like the drowniag mart to the straw,
they have, to the last moment, indulged the hope
that their darling impost, the income Tay, might
)et be endured ; and from the letters which
Lord LIVERPOOL has had the imprudence (to say
the least of it) to write to such men as Mr. (l Lan.
STONE and Mr. Haar Dam, we may safely con-
ade, that even to this moment it is unde-
cided on, whether an effort to revive it shall
not be attem:pted : and if not, not a prospect
appears, that any thing like measures to pro-
vide any substitute have been ever thought of!
Lord CASTLEREAGH, whether he is unable, or un.
silliug to encounter the stor m w !rich is rising at
Lame, or whether the difficulties at Vienna have so
thickened on him, that amidst all the golden raree
show of the Ice Cart Exeursion, even the aid of the
DJke of WELLINGTON has become necessary ! in
tither case he is not, it aii.ears, to meet the ap.
prenchina, reunion of the Gram! Inquest of the nation.
And what serious questions there ate to occupy its at•
tention ! objects of more momeut tlezu perhaps have
ever been discussed since the Rev elution. We have
reached a new sera—we are quite a different nation
to what we were in 179'2 we were then a trading
one, a military mania has now seized on us—we
Isere then called a nation of shop-keepers. The
!hop is now on the point of being declared bank.
rapt, and we are become knights errant ! Ex-
ito ler pomp has succeeded to substantial interest,
pa4eantry and parade to industry and application,
Dusioas's Evolutions to COCKER'S Arithmetic, and
tie paltry playthings of the Kai,hisGrandCrosscs,
ta the solid and substantial character known and re.
3aected as it former ly was all over the world, the rich
ind respectable English Merchant ! Whilst our rivals,
with all their natural advantages, are giving vigour to
tteir manufactures, and seeking fresh markets for
their productions, we alone see. lost in a perfect
tiathy, and are neglecting to seek out and secure
new channels for those which we are hourly losing
ba competition. Deceived as we are by the facilities
which have so long attended our borrowing system, we
scrim to have forgotten the overwhelming burden we
have imposed upon posterity and ourselves. In vain do
rife remernher that our ancestors, by trade and com-
merce, raised the splendour of Great Britain to its
. once 11;;.5 state of exultation S we seem ashamed of

Yesterday Admiral lltr.r.osm.r. replied to the de-
fence of Sir Jowl floluititay; after which the Court
proceeded to deliberate on the judgment they had to
pronounce, which will not be made known until it
has been laid before the PRINCE RECENT for his ap-
probation. For the Report see our last page.
A circular letter has been addressed by Mr. PEEL
to the Magistrate► of the principal ports in Ireland,
stating what has been already made known here,
that for the purpose of enabling the merchants and
manufacturers of the United Kingdom to avail them-
selves of the earliest period of the opening of the
markets of the United States, directions have been
given to the Governors of Nova Scotia, New Bruns-
wick, and Bermuda, to permit British vessels ar-
riving at any of those places from the United King-
dom, with goods intended for the United States, to
proceed to the ports of those States as soon as the
Governors shall have received due information of
the ratification of the Treaty on the part of the
American Government, and with a ♦iew of enabling

the rn,rchants to dispatch vessels to the colonies WIT IN limn LIFE.—A northern wit, a few days
above-mentioned, there to wait the ratification of ago, accompanied a dashing family of fashion on a
the Treasy, it has been recommended to the Lords , visit to a museum of curiosities in tke City, where it
Commiisioners of the Admiralty to appoint convoys is the custom of the keeper to open a box containing
from the United Kingdom for Nova Scotia, New , a human skeleton. A Lady of the party, remark-
Brunswick, and Bermuda, at the earliest possible; able for the number of her lovers, shrank with fear
period that the season will permit. , at this unexpected display of frail mortality. " Don't
Sir CHART.TS LORAINE, the High Sheriff for the be afraid, my dear Madam," says the wag, " If you
county of Northumberland, has coiled a meeting at can guard yourself from the dangers of the flesh,
the Town-hall in Morpeth, to petition Parliament , I'll protect you from the bones."
against a renewal of the Property Tax. i The LORD MAYOR inspected the Meal-weighers
In comp!iattre with a Requisition presented to the returns and ordered the price of bread to be raised
High Sheriff, lie ails appointed Monday, the 13th half an assize, which is one penny in the peck loaf.
instant, for a General Meeting of the Owners and I Saturday, as Mr. JoNE•, of Princes-street,
Lei-
Occupiers of Laud in the County of Kent, for the , tester-square, was returning from Croydon-market,
purpose of taking into consideration the distressed 1 about nine o'clock, in a one-horse chaise, through
state of the Agricultural Interests, and to adopt; Streatham, a man, ha►ing the appearance of a gentle-
such measures as may b" thought expedient for their I man, rode up to him, and offered to accompany him.
relief. At the head of the list of signatures to the i The offer was accepted, and on their arrival at Brix-
Requisition, are, the Earls of Guizettoan and ton Common the stranger presented a pistol, and
Dadr-uvr, Sir JOHN lIONETWOOD, &C. robbed Mr. Jones of his pocket-book containing a
Orders arri►ed at Plymouth on Friday to pay off, 51. note, his watch, and great coat. The robber then
all ships of war at that port under 20 guns. i gallopped op the lane towards Norwood-green.

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On Westlnedsty last there was a remarkably full
Meeting of tll+ inhabitonts of N:,wcasile, at the
Guildhall., pursuant to pub!ie'adverlisometst, to_taktt
into consideration the iiropriely of pt it the
Legislature against the continuance of the Pl4,p...rty
Ta x.

The 1 asiness of the day wag (Toned by 13Ests.tmtst
SOR3BIE, ESq. Mayor, who briAv clatecl tto,a,
compliance with a Regoisition, ::,cl-mllo4 tire Han*.
of many respectable (Iptitipmen, iohabitalati of tl:;1
town, he had convened the Meetito,A for the p.:rpotti
set forth its the _

.10 ILK it ivnEtts6,, Esq. I tie 3 m”ved undry•ll.(?Ro-
lotions against the continuance of the Property 'Fos,
which were subsequently merged its the Peti;ino.
Sir M. W. Itinaxy, Bart. M.P. arid CUTHBERT F. E.
L ISO 41, Est'. M.P. were present : they both spoke at
considerable length agninst the continuance of tke
tax ; but Sir M.W. Ridley-, in particular; denounced
it as It source of revenue most obnoxious, and most
cruel and unequal in its operation. Sir Matthow'i
speech was delivered in a very argumentative and
eloquent manner: he relivrtod!y received the tnost
battering testimony of approbation by the' loudest
bursts of applause. ' I- 4
Mr. 'Pa:uses also reprobated th 4 ftbeiiii; not
in so decided a tone as his worthy collerioe..
An effort to introduce* a counter Petition was
Inavie by W. LO RA I KX. Esq. who, it seems, delivered
se -excellent speech on. the occasion.
His motion was seconded by Mr. Alderman Sstriii,
but it was negatived by a gredt cnajotity.—(Durheoe
County Advertiser.)

The domestic events to be coneete 1 (tom th
French Papers to the 4th instant are Worthy of atten-
tion. Tkev principally illustrate the gradual ame-
lioration which carries comfort and happiness,into all
the raniniiii:.;olis of society. The Moait,%ur2orthe
ad contains a long report from La CrCtliP, .chmliaring
the state of that department on the Ist of, Alay-, 1814,
and on the first of January, ISI 5. It appears that
the levies of men have been reduced three-fourths, the
requisitions of the last Government are ie a stets
of liquidation, and two-011,1s of 'the amount al-
reads reimbursed; the military on full
.and half-
pay are regularly pail their Minn -inces ; there is
hut a trifling arrear of the communal expenses;
and the Government has already turned its thoughts
to the promotion of agri-ulture and manufactures,
even in this distant part of the kingdom. lit
some other places a distemper has prevailed among
the cattle, which has occasioned the de. 'ruction of
many of them by order of the Government, with in-
demnity to the owners at the pub!i. expe:tce. The
increase of mendicity in Fiance anti the adjoining
countries is much complained of; and a M. Merril.:
mentions the extraordinary fact, that in the course of
a twelvemonth the l'elice of Bavaria ca,e..4!
than 32,000 individuals to he arre,!ed, of whom
6853 were beggirs. It is getter:ov orid.....stbeti,
that the wages of labour are high in F mice %Oh re-
lation to the price of food ; hut we observe it inci-
dentally mentioned, that the wages of a mason's la.
bourer in the department of Calvados were only 12
sous (about sixpence-halfpenny) per day.
By accounts that have been receive!. from,Jamaica,
brought by a Captain express, who arrived yester-
day from a port of Scotland, it appears that the
homeward-b,,und Jamaica fleet, according to the ap-
pointment of the convoy, was to have set sail front
that island on the 2d November. The Prinre..s
Mary packet had not arrived at Jamaica, but. was
hourly expected. The ship Sir J. H. Craig, [vett,
Master, and the Brixton, had arrived out, being a
part of the Cork fleet.
Sir J. GRAHAM, Bart. M.P. for C4rlisle, has re-
duced the rents of his tenantry in Cumberland, in
consequence of the reduced price of grain. In one
case, a farmer recited a farm at '2201. n-year, which
the worthy Baronet has lowered 501. besides return-
intl him the same sitm for the two last years.

Mr. Conic, of Whalton, with that liberality which
distinguishes him, has abated his tenant, Mr. WAT.
som, of Rip Hilton, 1001. per annum in the course of
a nine years' lease, and now for the last year of the
same 501. more, being a reduction of upwatds of 3U
per cent.

A Alerting took place on Friday last at the Sara-
cen's Head, in Chelmsford, of the Occupiers of Land,
to take into conside3,,tion the necessity ,rapplyiog to
ParliameNt for a revision of the Corn Laws. Several.
Resolutions were entered into, and a Petition agreed
upon.

In,gestrie Hall, in Staffordstire, the noble seat of
the Earl of TALBOT, was much damaged en Tuesday
last by a fire that broke out on the premises, a::,1
which raged for about two hours before it could be
extinguished.
A letter from Trent, of the 18th ult., mentions the
mutiny of three Italian regiments, marciing through
that city into Hungary. They declared that they
would not quit the city unlesq organised under tho
banner of " Italy Independent." It was feared they
would go to the mountains in c Mate of insurrection.
VIENNA, JAN. is said that an Au6triart
Officer, named Itieeowursini, while horiting near
Swinitza, discovered a cavern, which having explored,
be found an immense treasure, consisting of gold acid
silver coin, awl gold in ingots. The whole he va!nea
at more than 23 millions of tlorin4, of which, how.
ever, the Treasury Chamber has claimed the•pnases.
lion.

A certain innkeeper, not a hundred miles from
Knaresborough, being surcharged to •he Incornl
Tax, had recourse to the following osp.•di.•nt to oh..
hitt redress :—On the appeal day he caused a good
dinner to be served up to the Commissioners., skc.
for which he made a regular s:n•c•hrtrge. This ma-
noeuvre had the desired effort ; both parties cued out;,
for '' 0 P." OH Prices became the order of t•to
day, and thus this
.ditlieult business vi as accommo-
dated.

An ingenious chemist-near Briool has discovered
that a st.ong decoction* of the common heath, will
tan lenthor without the use of balk.

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Two female servants in the fainily of the rail of
Couttvows have been c. mmifteti to Wexford gaol,
or, su,picion of having a !ministered poison to two of
his fnotmen, in consequence of which they both lie

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