The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-10 00:00:00

ITALY.

PARMA. Dec. 24.-9 n the 20th inst. Prince Gustavus •f
Sweden. accompanied by Policr Vinland, Chamberlain of
the Emperor of Austria, arrived in this town. Tice Prince,
who travels in Italy under the name of tlonsbourg received
an invitation to dine with our Princess.

SWEDEN, Dec. 23.—The closing of the Diet took plass
yesterlay, with a long speecb from the King.
There have arrived at Toulouse several detachments of
gendaren s, to do duty on the Pyrenees.

We are propelled by a sense of humanity to give pre-
cedence of all other subjects to a few observations apes
the actin brought yesterday in the Court of King's &nch
by Sir Gregor Mac Gregor, against the Prourie:ors of the
Morning Ile.•ald, for publishing reports of those heart.
rending cases which were brought before the Lord Mayor,
of widows and orphans he bad returned from their
disastrous voyage to the Poyais Territory. The trial has
fully established the truth of those reports, and it 'it s
developed a :scene of traod and inhumanity almost une-
qualled in the annals of human guilt. This Iran, calling
himself Sir Gregor Mac Gregor, or Sovereign of Poyaisis
order to gratify his schemes of personal advantage,
has resorted to the most Missive arts to in-
dove his feitow creatures to part with their property, to
quit their home•, and to repair to an nnwhokeonte savage
ell.] ; even the ravages of disease, and the unexampled
sufferings of widows and orphans, ,heft destitute by h's
schemes, have not induced him to abandon his designs.
His assumption of any right of sovereignty over Poyais,
turns out to haVe been groundless ; and the work in, praise
of the country, by which he induced his victims to part with
their property and to venture i ntoth at wretched settlement is
proved to have been the production of his own pen.
These, aid similar acts of criminality, proved in the
course of the trial, have afflicted some scores of persons to
degree compared to whieli the sadden deprivation of life
would have been positive mercy. Deficient must be our
penal laws, if they can indict no punishment for such
offences. lint we trust that the full exposure
of this whole transaction by the Press, will guard persons
in future from becoming the victims of such unauthorised
schemes of colonisation. The Colonial Office must bare
been well aware, of Sir Gregor M'Gregor's designs, and of
the misery they would inflict upon his deluded followers—
surely humanity should have induced that department to
earn the public of their danger, if its duty did not prompt
it officially to check the criminal (proceedings of the ad-
venturer.

The Kingdom of France has had the Ironor of producing
the first of the political economists, and by the develope •
~sent of whose notions of the freedom of trade, Adam
Smith acquired all his celebrity. Dot a prophet is never
acknowledged in his own country, and while De Ques-
nay's and Adam Suoitlesprinciples of trade are adopting
in this country with accelerated speed, France
continues Ignorant of those principles, and obsti-
nately adheres to the antiquated system of comti►ercial

restrictions.
The King of France bas published an ordinance direct•
ing the formation of a Council of Commerce and of Culu•
nits, which is.to be charged with the" successive 4nfllior'•
ties" of the tegnlations of foreign commerce, and a bureau
is to be formed for collecting facts and data for the infor •
motion of this council. Tae ordinance speaks of project•,
of laws, and projects of ordinances regarding customs.
&c. Btc. Here, then, we have all the jargon and all
the machinery of thsold system. Commercial data are to
be eelleeted into a focus, where a presiding mind (`ome
costlier) is to digest them, aed then in his plenitude of
Information and wisdom, toll arm his endless projects of
laws sad ordinances to force tridefrom, or into whst Awn-
molt by may Ibicsk At, The progress of not iatitutel?