The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-21 00:00:00

THE SI'ATESMAM

patting them into the month of his bppovent, proceed to
con Wet the opponent of a wrong coneusion. Nothing,
but a tax-eater from his infancy could kayo had impu-
dence like this at command; nothing bat one, who, like,
Waltir the base and the bloody, was reared on pension-
pap, could have found in his nature audacity enough to
argue in this sort of way.
Bat, the great point with the Sacker is to penned,
the landlords, that the taken. off glazes wewhl reduce
Priers offstbsi produce! The Devil it would ! What,
then, would it add to the produce of the land ; or would
it diminish the nisantity of circulating money? Oh!
no; but it would knee the atiaber of consumers, by
making the Government discharge "soldiers and sailors
" who coasouse corm .7---What, then, does the Sucker
think that these would not consnnse corn still? Does
he think that we mean to cut their throats And the
throats of all tke pensioners and placemen, and the
bevy, the countless bevy, of pretty ladies, that we have
to maintain out of the taxes! No! bless their beauti-
ful faces, we mean to do wench thing: we only mean
that they should take a little healthy exercise, vulgarly
called work, and that they should not continuo to con-
sume and waste the fruit of the labour of others,

Let me explain this matter to you, my Lord, for,
though a prime Minister, you do not seem to understand
it. We shall, by and by, find the Seeker appeal to the
fears of the landlords ; but, in the passage just quoted,
he affects, at any rate, to appeal to their judgment.—
New, then, let us see: there are Mr. Cam:sista', mother
end sisters, who have a pension of 500/. a year. They
consume, we will suppose, all the taxes paid by farmer
Chopstick, including the taxes paid by his labourers,
tradesmen, and all others working on, or supplying
things for the use of the farm. Now put Mrs. Hums►
into a cottage, let her he chargeable to the parish if you
like, and let the daughters go to service and work in
the fields: take a all the teen of the farmer and his
labourers and tradespeople; and will not the farmer
have the 500 t. to pay better wages, to pay rest with,
and to save as profit )1 Yes, this is clear enough, says
the Seeker; bat, what becomes of the market that
Mrs. Home and her people afforded him? Why, all the la-
bourns and tradespeople will have more 16 consume Mae
they had he/ore, and, besides this, the landlord will have
a part of the 5001. in rent; and, sorely, he. can lay it
out as well as Mrs. HUNNI ! If this be not clear to you ;
and, if you still insist, that it would diminish consump-
tion sad injure the farmer and landlord to take off taxes ;
then, lay Oa more taxes without delay; shake the market
that you say is wanted ; raise and spend as much money
in nominal amount (and four times as mach in reality)
as you did daring the war ; for, according to your doc.
trine, the heavier the taxes the greater Me market and
the better it is for the farmer and the landlord !

As appertaining to this curious doctrine, which ap-,
pears to be the last trick in the budget of cajolery, let us
bear what Mr. HUSIIiSON said only on Tuesday night last.
It was this: " That taking drat malt tar would ixereare
" the consumption of barley, and would thereby relieve
the barlergrower; ins' that, any meastite which west
" to reduce Me public burdens mist 'avec the farmer,
by givlag as ?rodeo"! Ad.
you merry, gentlemen, as the mummers say ; for, it must
be allowed, that there is delightful harmony in your
opinions, however it may be with your songs.
Stopping here, for only a moment, just to ask the
landlords and the country whatrelianee there is to he
placed on the measures of a set of men, whose opinions
are as wide as the poles asunder. I will now proceed
to the Sucker'. appeal to the fairs, or, rather to the
sionsaise, of the landlords.

" We might pity the igaoretnee, or laugh at the folly
" of this clamour, and let the agriculturists, night after
" night, have their way, if some ancient landmark of
" the Constitution did not fall a sacrifice, not indeed
" to their judgment, for that has repeatedly come to a
" contrary decision, bat to their humour. It has been
" said the Machinery of Parliament works well. Can
" this be the case ? ' Can the affairs of a great nation be
" well coudecteil, when Mr. Hams is the mover, within
" doors, and l'obbett, without P If the heroes who
"fought and bled for their country are forgotten, can
" Parliament think nothing of adding to a dissatisfied
" population, an additional mass of laboerera trained to
.• arms? Can Parliament think nothing of the destruc
" tion of all confidence between the Government and its
" official servants ? Can it forget that this confidence
" materially assisted the Army and Navy through the
" war, and that whether we look to Ireland, or Prance,
" or even to Norfolk or S"folk, it may again become
" necessary? Be/ore a revolution is inevitable, let us
" at least rentembl.r, that though winch may be taken
" tram the support of an ancient house, and it will
" stand when the wind is still; yet, when the storm
" comes, it brings with it wide-spreading ruin:'
Oh! horrible! Talk of revolittims," glorious revolts-
" Gob"! But, pray, my lord, what "ancient landmark
"of the Constitution" Las been attacked ? Are the
second postmaster, the salt-tax, the two lords of the Ad-
miralty, the crowd at the Board of Control, the 42S
naval lieutenants promoted since the peace: are these
" ancient landmarks of the Constitution?" "It has
" been said, that Parliament works well." Bet, who
have said it? Why, Mr. CANNING, and others who live
on what the Parliament votes. The Parsons say it, and
well they may, when the Parliament has given them a
hundred thousand pounds a year for many years past
out of the taxes. But, nobody else, I believe, ever said
it. However, it does not, certainly work the worse for
Mr. Hums being a mover in it; and, as to my being •
mover out of it, what the Devil has the working of Par-
liament to do with my movemews ? It worked Six Acts;
and what can it work more with regard to me? Even
the great Political Philosopher himself says, " he hopes
" we live in a free cosatry. and that men are nut to be
gagged"! What, then, can Parliament work about 7711,
1 want to know? The truth la, I am working you and
the Parliament too, and the Seeker, who perceives this,
seems to think that Parliameut ought to put a stop to my
working.
As to the " heroes who fought and Lied for their coun-
try," I do not require them to he 4,erors, nor to have
bled; I only ask that they should haveforeght (out of the
kingdom), and I am quite willing to pay my thereof* just
allowance to them. But, IJo not see what gratitude I
am to feel towards such as
wAy of fighting; and, I believe, that if all these were
excluded, the sums that the " heroes" receive would be
reduced more than three-fourths.

Tits Sucker, when he talks about adding the soldiers
to a dissatisfies, popalation, seems to forget, that it is
the taxes Mat cause the dissatisfaction, and that the ex-
istent" of the soldiers, as such, cans* a part Of the taste.
However, he disguises the main thisg bete. The sob
dins, the soldiers themselves, cost comparetiiely little.
And, could you not take off three-fourths of the Staff.
the Civil List, the pensions, salaries, sinecures and
grants, without adding to a dissatisfied pepelation It
is the " regiments"; it is thrsefitt battalions; it is the
Jews and Jobbers; these are they that devour the taxes.
Reduce these • and keep the a, Idlers for a while, and you
will see that ;hey will not be wanted either in Ireland,
or in Norfolk or Suffolk. And, as to France, we are come
to a pretty State indeed, if we are, during peace, to keep
an enormous army on foot to be prepared for another
warfor the liottrloits ! This would, indeed, be" indem-
nity for the past and security for the future."
And now, my Lord, what have you left to say? What
is the last poor trick? lVhy, to frighten the landlords
with the sound of revelation! This has been a most va-
luable word to you. Worth more than all the other
~di in the Dictionary put together. "Before a revs-
" lotion is inevitable!"" That is to say, that it will be
inevitable if the double post:niaster be cut asunder, or if
the soft-tax be taken off; ter, without these, the " an-
" dent house" cannot stand out the storm ! By " an-
dent house" the Sackermeans, of course, the boroug 4-
house ; and, to be candid, I agree with, him, that Mat
house cannot stand without all the means that you now
have at your command ; and I now say, as I have always
said, that the man who professes to wig!, for a remedy
for the evils that afflict the nation, and, at the same time,
wishes to support that horse* is either fool or knave.
This it is, that insVes all' the present difficulty the
wish to support that helms and to have rcnistoo.- Either
we may have ; but to !tare both is it'll:invade for two
years limiter, anti, I believe, for one. I believe, that
many of the landlord, are convinced of this; and I believe,
that you knew, that they are so convinced. This it is
that has drawn forth the Seeker's appeal to their/ears;
but, he forgets, that etre have other fears than those of
revolotion, a word, by the by, that has lost much of its
power. The worst that a reform can d is to take away
their estates. None but idiots dream of that; hut that is
the worst; and, when they see, as many of them now do,
that they west lose their estates without a reform, it is
by no means surprising that this fear should prevail •,
that this fear, which daily experience shows them to he
but too well fonorled, should prevail over those false
alarms, which have been sounded in their ears for more
than a quarter of a century, in order to uphold pro
fligaty the most flagrant, corruption the most have, and
oppression the most cruel anti inate.ting that ever dis-
graced the character of a nation.

am, my Lord,
Your Loidsbip's most obedient
And most bumble servant.
WM. COAdIiETT.

EAST IN Dl4 HOUSE-
,
.1 Quarterly General Meeting of Proprieors of East
India Stock was held yesterday at the Company's House
in Leadenhall street.
After the routine business hail b-en gone thron',
The CHAIRMAN (T. Reid, Esq.) informed the. Court,
that the grant of 2(101. per annum to Dr. Gilchrist, and
the reinueeration of NOW. to Mr. J. H. Pelly, were
sanctioned by the Commissioners fur managing the
affairs of India:
MIDSHIPMEN:
Mr. Jacasow asked the Chairman whether the 'sng-
, gestion which he bed made upon a former day, respect-
ing the neglect of the morals and education of young
' intdshipmen in the Company's service, had beet with, any
-e-ediesslien teem lbw Booed of Directors ? • -
Tbp CHAIRMAN replied, that the Direetives had been
greatly obliged to the honourable proprietor for his
suggestion, ahieb had produced a resolution that would,
he hoped, meet his object.
Thetresolution was then read by the clerk, and eon
tained"tertai.s regulations respecting the barna] and nan-
deal education of midshipmeh, to be observed on board
the Company's ships.
Mr. JACKSON expressed his thanks to the hoard for
the attention they had paid to his suggestion. Those
regulations, he was satisfied, would produce the most
beneficial effects. He further begged leave to saggest
the etpedieney of having them printed; that copies of
them might be put into the -bands of parents alimit to
send oat their children in the Company's service, in
order to satisfy their minds that they were nut making a
moral immolation in doing so.
IMARQUEsS OF HASTINGS.
Mr. R. JACKSON then inquired whether it was or was
not true that the illustrious person at the head of the
Bengall9overnment had sent in his resignation.
The answerer the Chairman admitted that the Mar-
, guess of thrifts had signified a disposition to be re-
lieved heft the duties of his government.
r Mr. S DIXON wished fur a more explicit statement on
the subject, lest it might be supposed that the Noble
Marquee had retired from disgust,' when, perhaps, ill
health Was the cause of his resignation.
The thsAIRMAN.—He is coming home, not from dis-
, gust, but at his own earnest and anxious desire, end
much against the will of the Court of Directors.—
(Hear, hear!)
Mr. R. JACKSON pronounced a handsome eulogium
on the character of the Marquess of Hastings.
Mr.l). KINNAIRD also bore testimony to his exalted
Merits, and said that, then the documents connected
with the government of the Noble .Marquess were 'laid
on the table of the Court, they would speak more strong-
ly in his favour than the eloquence of his greatest ad-'
mire, could do. •
Mr. Hume hoped, when the documents alluded to
were produced, that it would be seen from them that
the Marquess of Hastings had e‘erted himself In re-
' moving the abuses connected with the administration of
justice in India. The Noble Marquess had been
; thanked for his military achievements ; but if he had
devised the means of rendering the administration of
juatice more pure and effectual, he deserved more than
It was in tile power of the Company to repay.
After a rtegalv conversation un the subject of Mr.
Hornblower's penalties, which gave rise to some Inci-
dental observations on the subject, of the 20001. to Mr.
Polly (a grant which Mr. Hume strongly condemned),
the Court adjourned Use die.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Elat
India House. when Captain T. Williams was morn
into the command of the ship Princess Amelia, con•
signed to China direct. The dispatches for Madras
and China, by the ship London, Captain J. B. Sothe-
by, were closed at the East India House, and deli►er-
ed to the Parser of that ship.
Last night, about a quarter before twelve, a most
alarming fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Liat,
a sugar-baker, in Little Alie-street, :
at half-past twelve it assumed a mast terrific appear
ance, their being a scarcity of water, the whole bud)
'of the building was in one blaze, and a r: oufber o'
small houses at the back, chiefly wood : fortunately.
however, a number of engiets arrived, and water being
procured, the fire was got under, but not till tire
o'clock this morning, having entirely consumed th.
whole of the Large building, and most of the property
We have not heard of any lives being 'my, or auy per
sou seriously hart.

MURDER OF MRS. DO.VAITY.

On Vestlay evining, by desire of Mr. Taylor, aid
the gentlemen fettling the committee, who have so sez
lively exerted themselves iii investigating this horrid
murder, an officer hum each of the police-Jeuarttnenti
in London was present at the deceased's house in Robert=
street, as were also the witnesses who rave evidence be-
fore the mutest and manistrates, for the purpose of be-
ing altos n the traces of Mood, and all the oiarlts ahnut
the ionise, furniture. &c., and the path and way by which
the murdereri ;.re supposed to have made their escape.—
A most minute examination of the house took place;
and many circumstance; were elicited which before were
not at all, or very imperfectly, stated. A plan was taken
of the building, and of the passage in which the mar:.
tiered body was found, as also of the yards and backs of
the houses situated in hlillman.plac%, behind Robert.
street, into which the murderers are habit') have escaped;
The officera are of Opinion, that some person mast
have rushed in from the street, when the,deceased;
which was a natural supposition, turning her bead to
see who followed,. received • tremendous blow on the
left check, the effects of which became very visible as
site lay • corpse. The officers are of opinion, that the
Murderer most have worn a long great coat, as, when
stooping to cut the rings from her fingers, the skirts of
his coat must have splashed in bee blood, as on the wall•
are marks which correspond. They also conceive that
the murder was not done by an erperienced horse.
breaker ; as, from the marks in the cupboards, &hi
'there appeared to have been nn instrument used with
any dexterity, but the cupboard was broken by main
force. Tne murderer, in making his escape, must hart
gone over several walls into a yeri, and from th►nce
over a gate into Millman-passage. The officers having'
made very minute observations and inquiry, and also in.
terrogated several of the o intent's, who sure rear and
explicit in their testimony, gate oe now state as
their °pinkie. The committee shortly after left the
house.

Bow-STRZET.—The Sitting Magistrate at ibis Office
was occupied nearly fire liimrs last night, in die et:imi.
nation of a whole family, brought bCfore him by Jef
&ries, and others of the Thames Police, on snapicion of
their haring been concerned in the murder of Airs.
Donatty.

The prisoners were Robert Rigby, a jobbing porter,
Ada II:Alb, his wife, with as infant in her arms. Plizts-
beth Rigby, their daughter, about six years old, an•t
Mary II ootl sister to Ann Rigby.
The circumstances which led to their apprehension
Were these:—least Thursday evening, a Mrs. ilanies, who
keeps all old clothes shop at No. 9, New Rounph.court,
Strand, purchased, fur a shilling, a pair of breeches and
a pair of *omen's half boots, from the little girl rlirr-
heti' Itiglpy. The breeches, which were of light drab
kerseymere, very witch worn, had a few spots of blood
about the knees, and they were much torn behind.--
On perceiving this blood, the clotbes•woman having
heard of the horrible murder in Robert•street —became
very much alarmed, and her step-son, who, it appears,
is a city officer, happening to call upon her on the fol-
lowing day, she showed them to hint, at the same time
telling hint front whom she bad bought them. tie corm
Inunicated these circumstances to Jefferies, and last
night he and seise of his party apprehended the whole
family at theft lodgings, one wretched room, in Lemon-
tree-yard, Bedfordbory.
Thud three grown prisoners positively denied all know-
ledge of the articles iu within, and so also did the lit-
tle girl ; but after repeated cross-examinations, she sai•l
her father gave her a pair of breeches to sell to Mrs.
llanies, a few days ago; but they were black ones, se's
was very sure; and yet, after farther questioning, she
said she theuglatabe briesbom predseW were those she
had sold. In short, it appeared to us that not the
slightest dependence could be placed OD any thing this
child said.

This Magistrate ordered that the father should try on
the breeches; and he did so; but they were not half
large enoegh for him.
The prisoner conducted himself firmly and thicent
throughout the investigation; and basing repeated his
t•ital ignorance of the articles produced, he said he
should be able to prove that on the night of Saturday
sennight ((lie night of the murder) he was at the Crown
anil Thistle public-house in St. Martin's-lane, front five
o'c'tick hs the afternoon till half past eleven.
The Magl orate (G. It lifinstici.t., Est; ), after taking
infinite pains in the inquiry, but from which nothing
further than what is above stated was elicited, com-
mitted all the prisoners, srparstelt, to the different
watch-houses in the neighbourhood for the nighr.
This morning the man named Rigby, his wife, sister,
and two children, with a female named Wood, aver;
again brought up to Bow-street, in Mr.:lllinsktill's pri•
rate room. Jetferies, the officer of the Thames Police.
produced a pair of pincers and a screw driver, whim
lie hail compared with the marks on the cupboard
and other places that had been forced open, and
found the marks to correspond exactly. Tito
pincers it appeared have a claw on ono handle,
which was broken and the marks produced by aneh an
instruineut were found in a jagged state on the droners.
kc. JetTeries has not been able to ascertain to whorl
the breeches belong; bolt they are supposed to hare Fern
worn by the person who committed the murder, as tho
marks of blood on them appeared as if n•iped from the
bands.

Failure• are daily taking( place among tile farmers
in Suffolk and Norfolk. One in the neighhourhn,.•t
of Lynn we have heard of, to the amount of 11,0001.
and another upwards of 30,0001.

The loss sustained by the 'hippie; interest of
Whiteharen, ditrinpr the present winter, in conic,
qeence Id the unprecedented bad weather, is estimates
at 30,0001.

When Lord Norbury was told. the other day. that
Lord Bemire (eldest son of the Marq.:ess of Headforq
had inert ied Airs. Dalton, the daughter of Sir Jobn
Sterenavn, the musical composer--" Faith," said his
Lordship. " she has nude a better Catch than ber fa-
ther ever
•
CORPORATION AND TEST ACTS. AND ANNt'AL IN.
nastxtrr ACT.—Tbe attention of PROTHSTANT Dosses-
TRRS is rensectfully requested to an Essay on these sub-
jects, which will appear in The Mont Alli Repository of
Thea:ogy and General Literatare, to be published on
the First of April. by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Pa-
terno4ter-row.—Price Is. 6J.

PI DDI NO and Co., No. I. Corahill, reqnest their
Friends and the Public will bear in min.! that Two oat
.f the... Three remaining Prizes of 2.)0,110ill. Stirling see
Liable to he decided the Next Day of Drawing, Nuvr
Tutm4nae, (March 28,) for one is to be attached to the
First-drawn Prize on that Day, and another is td be at-
tached to the Ninth-drawn Prise abore 2101.; and as
there are to be at least 4,000 Nambers drawn, such a•t
occurrence is not •ery iirilikev; bat. independent "
these. there are 3d other Cap:tais of 2,000/., WllUtl., Ax..
xc. many of w:nch will atto be drawl,. Pr DOING and
!inv. some of these desirable thinfs are destined to
staged those Who tusk* their purchases at the Lanky
Coraer, Nu. I, Corniiiil.

C!itcliCS TSB et/UN Rimr.—The Corn Inspect WS
,verarrs are this sleek as falitte, IVII..at 411. SI.
;being 2. lig fess than last return); bariry, ISs.
/14. ; Oats 17s. 6J. ; beans, 2Ss.; pease 21s. 311.