The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-04 00:00:00

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ilowns lately occupied by the Allied Armies, is
:policed • with peers! expressions of joy ; at Video-.
deones the event was celebrated by illuminations for
:three miccessive eights. An article from Aisle.
:Chapelle smuts, that the reports contained in the
'Brawl!, Papers, respecting the projected whinges
of territories between. Prussia end the Netherlands,.
hare no other foundation than the making some sp..
*ovum.. respecting the right to one district, in
.which ere some mines of calamine, and of which the
property has hitherto been undecided. Some hardy
political speculators in Germany already prophesy
another Congress, which they say will take place in
the year 1821.

An oracle from Cadiz mentioning the arrival in
that Wronr of the valuable ship La Preciosa, from
Lima, adds, that, notwithstanding she has brought a
lage cargo of merchandise, with 302,240 piastres in
specie, a great stagnation is still felt in public affairs;
money is very scarce ; and that the course of (=hangs
is absolutely nominal.

Several Resolutions respecting Labourers' Wages
passed et a Meeting of the Magistrates of the lien-
dred of Ploughley, hoiden at Bicester, en the llth
el November last, have been published, but which.'
we have been prevented from noticing by the length
of the details of the late Royal Funeral. Their ob-
ject'is to discountenance and correct the pernicious
practice of having the wages of labour paid partly nut
of the Peon' Rates, by causing those who employ
work•people to pay them a full and fair remunera-
tion for their exertions. To effect this object, they
ascertain the portion of time constituting a day's
labour, and declare the amount of wages that ought I
to be raid as a compensation for it. These regale-
tions,
of clurse, refer only to the ordinary agri.
cultural it.boureft, or those whose work for the
most part regal:ft nothing move thin the exercise
of physical strength. It is indeed' aftbject of sorrow
and surprise, that a necessitycceld have existed foil
-having recourse to such an eepediest... Labour is theei
sole property of the industrious -poor, and we ail
hardly imagine an action mere ongeneroas and crest
than to withhold from them the fall recompense of
their exertions, The Magistrates whir tat it Wester
mey, that 66 et the present time a Ma Sad his wife
'caunot reclaim less then 7s. 6d. a-work to preside
them sustenance, feel, rent, and other fveCaila•
ries, and for each of their children under ten
years of age, not les, than is. 6d. tr.stek.".
They also say, that if a labourer- cermet at tallsod
fair wage. earn this sum. be meet reign:* *ester.
ference from the parish. From this 0.5 eie town:
dude, that at the present time labourers receive
something less than this sem by their labour, and
that the deficiency is made up by the parish, or, in
other words, that a considerable pert of the labour
employed by certain individuals is paid for oat of the
public purse.
With respect to the weekly sum stated by the
Magistrates at Bicester, as necessary for the snap.
port of a labouring man and his wife, it is impos-
sible to express a decided opinion, because this can
he ascertained solely by reference to the prices of
all the necessaries of life at tl•ct place where the rain
of wages is declared. While the price of a gear.
tern loaf, however, is eleven-pence or'a shilling, we
cannot contemplate the probable sitestion of the
poor creatures, triho are compelled to drag on exist.
once *pouch a stem, without esperiencing painful
feelings;. they appear to have no alternative be.
tweet' starvation and robbery; and what terrors can
detection and pestishment have for mess whom de.
spair has rendered callous to either, and who in their
otter hopelessness can see no means of escaping their
present evils but by resorting to secret fraud or open
violence.

'Lord CASTLEREAGH left Aix.la•Chapelle on tile'
Ipth of November, returninc to London.
Demerara Papers to the. 9th of October arrived
yesterday ; but they argliitally destitute of any im-
rgyrtant or interesting iptell igen ce.
So great was the anxiety of some individuals to
witness the departure of the funeral procession of her
late MAJMY from Kew, that ten guineas were offer-
ed for a paltry room in Breetford. without success.
Minute guns were fired on Wednesday, from ten
o'clock in the morning during the remainder of the
day, from the Queen Charlotte, the flag.ship of Ad-
miral Sir GEOSOIL CAIIPSECL, St Portsmoeth. All
the shops were shut, and no business was done in the•
dock-yard. The bell tolled a funeral knell during
the greeter part of the day.
The Duke of GLOUCIVITER will visit Paris in a few
days, apd his return home is not expected to he nro.
,tratted beyond Christmas. The death of the Qt:EEN
bee altered all his Royal iliehnois'a plans.
A large Portuguese ship, laden with, wi, *feel
manufactures, &c. from Oporto to
priseso one of Artistries privateers' was
a few days ago at Mount Desert; The
Frenchman's Bay, sent an armed vi
possession of her.
Joillt WILLIAMS, better known by
Anthony Pasquin, died last week of a
at Brooklyn.
A Junction Dock is Aloe to he fel
.the Old Dock and the Humber Dock
order to accommodate the increased
shipping, which belong or tracks to that

titled to pre-eminence amongst his orighhouts, it will •
only be netesssary to make a few rriticel eaposures
of some of the bleotl-ra in the first paragraph of • his
... . .
• letter, and point oat the artful drainer in wl irip*lss....
'endeavours to pervert the meeniok, of the imodi a
Ors 1 .
title-line of my *diet..
* His lettervommeeces with three hackneyed tatiii* *.
, words, which, however, I should very m.:ch like toss'
Ns compelled to parse throogls their mood, numheri
erase, and gender ; liut the whole paragrepl, is so de‘
`le:lo4e a specimen el fine sr riling, that I shall Insert
•it entire, for the mental improtement of his friends.
" Audi aileron! purtem is a matim Omitted by all
descriptions of ;;ecsons except knave, and fouls. feta
partiality in a Public Journalist is the not* 'lomat
quality to truth; cud as you, Sir, have opened sour
columns for the admission of our parish panties,
*roar insertion of the present (whet ?) otll prove
your adherence to the former, anti your title to the
latter."
It will he readily, perceived that the word present,
in the last sentence, is an agjectice standing Without
• a substantive; I will, how ever, supply the deficiency,
and you, Sir, will then find how much the writ-
ing will be improved; my enwndarion is—•t your
insertion of the present NON,ENSE." Then conies
a phrase, finishing the paragraph, which, I conies",
puzzles me not a. little, to underatend, namely,—
" sod your title to the latter," meanittglythir tills to
truth I have heard of a title to an es/stets title to
a, book, and so on; 044 etexer before beard of a
title to truth. E'er), man is entitled to have truth
spoken of him, hut this sentence seems to mean, if it
mesa any thing, "Nat you are to have truth given to
you ; en article of •whlih, I am of (Tinfoil, my name-
sake has not any srest quantity to Tire, if we may.
judge from his attempt to perrort the mean-
ing of the title t' err commissars: ton, u hich is as tot.
10w5..." • Abuses I.P.'slDl4( .the . late Parish Art."—
Quoting a part of my Letter, he proceeds to say,—
" Now, Sir, in stating this to bran ' Abuse OF the
Act,' my angry neiglith lir," &e. You will readily
perceive by the two words, Abuse, and of, printed in
capitals, that • this profound reasoner has et tided his
great abilities to clistige the m,,doi,rg of rov words,
thereby making me.complein of so Abuse 0 V the Act,
which would be nonsense, in pt-ce of so Abase
'shittier; or sanctioned by the Ail ; for who ea .t be
fond bird', ettooth to assert, that one mars (~nil,
Illiii wain iovahopa a servant of servants) shirts ire .14
'Olt& to six times she !mother of entre at a VI s ry ',
114eetiorg, .shifti ii allowed en his.fellow-liAristoon r,
si ith'bit as iittowitigisit stab faristarOaro !'ir east,* nod
to berg poli'kutl a use of • ittetatiest eiviilll4l*--. .sfi -
Wqre I to proceed with Lirj.Vseetttion .i 4 his •t.uter ''',
performer**, and: pilot oat wt Wats *3 i5a5p,,,,e„,,,, i„ „11%.
and blenders, Ishoeld fill. several colua.r,r of year
saleable set; the fitst -paragraph i-. howevert' a
seifteient :aPecinsiw
.Of his ilia erstoness .arla A*,
ingenuousness. ,low few days, when I .iselit_'ilive
.mere leisure, bauble
I spay, perhaps, yes WM, jt
:letter on theColltduCt of our so hilltiv 1111. eitOZ
Weary Clerk, 'those evidence hefose ow., -0,-
1 Committees of Pal lienient wili sive thokah4e* vrnty „t
specimen of the gratitude of tbiacervant.,.(sbeA:tok' •
of Christ Church, and off the indegioariliAlf sitifrft .1
th,ae Persons by whom 16 :ii*lfige. ,4erfee in,,,ins
Mike. By this time, sir, you will, no do-bl, hcre
!concluded, seeing how very anxious sonny persons
' ere to acquire consideration aid ractosiee Privileges
in our parish, that we are a coe.munity composed of
leery heterogeneous 'Lair/141v; that tie stiootoacy of
lemons and the aristocrary of ignorance lied wealth,
are in constant collision ; but I assure you tuck is
not the case: we have very little genius amnogai us
to create envy, and what little, we do posses., gives •,
us no troeble, Wits the aspiring of our bloc.kbeada
that sets us in a ferment. The following are 'wise
of the hens arable end useful. esspinytnests by
which far the greater pest of our inhabitants
acquire an hoopla living. So,v •of us are ver) me-
ritoriously elf ployed in oviti.4 col), shoes, and
talloia candles (I wish the latter u ere s ,meti fres bet-
ter). Others are dealers ie :,use u,eful articles,
'writs, common, and special original. Some cry W‘oll
for lighting our fire.; others eel uelks and sr..volings.
Our teeth are d, awn, and we se bled and blistered
by several.
,Some sell coal, n.aoy inkle, broad cloth,
buckram, and stay-tape. Others servo es with deli.
does hot roils for our breakfasts ; bet, uttfortualueo
ly (yliiee-vie have bad to pay 17001. for the pa.sieg
of an Act of Parliament, egaittst the votes of three
101- mo Ve!rtses, to s aks, 80001. for she purchase of less
than 1 hree:quartet s of an act r of land, sod lot i he mak-
ing of a few imprutenierits of t bechorch.ya rd), many of
us are not able to purchase these delicate as pendsges
to our morning's repast.' We have .its,. ter. worthy
bed and bill-brokers ; Calf Auld pork-butchers ; and,
at yoo will already (I, ear of x.d; have sere
too dearly. very espert language-butchers. Some
of as print bills at an hourisnutice„ Of fibek• "h"
the Committee is sitting at the Cross Ker's- P"" our
neighbours, o hich we make them pay, for, by Act ()
Parliament. You will now poi able to fors. 'a rest",
good estimate of uor respretaldlits, and you vr oulti
confer a favour on me. as well as on Ma zq oil"rs•
if ) rio would bey why oue of its Avail have °sly out
Weatly Vote, and aitnthr-r "all tyre dz.
NiEßclutoU, he nes stated on-
rev ; bat, when I ion omit t:. co
~ey, he is slot to blame me IA
•iirsouti. i
to alter mySignaterc, asniv ni •
y (wales. one; bur I will per It
be again I vlagintist, by sato-
'RJEND TO I fliteliTY,
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