The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-06-06 00:00:00

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attain ? Let thew answer this question, or bold their
brawn toogaes about sorplas population.
Lit Ntour (for sight it was), there was nothing
is the Lord., at all worthy of oar notice.
la the COMMONS the report was received on the Bill
relative to the" vegetebk powder". We have nothing

to say upon it, but merely to caution our readers
against being deceived by those fine names that this
Bill Sums to tend to give currency to. In Norfolk,
in Surrey, in Sussex, in Hampshire, in Berkshire, in
Hertfordshire; in short, wherever we have bee.,
we have seen the roasted rye dour made au of
for this purpose. The grain itself does not cost
more than a halfpenny a pound, and the whole
expense o. a pound is not more than one pew. If it
had been called rye flour from the beginning, there
never would have been any prosecutions or any fuss
about the matter. ►Ye are still afraid, that if the
MINIS go on, some tax or other will arise out of this
term vegetable powder. At any rate, those, as we said
before, who do not deserve to starve, will surer pay
nicepence, tenpence, or a shilling a pound for coffee,
while with a very little trouble they can have a better
thing fur a penny a pound. In a great town, where to
get the raw material is not so convenient, and where
there are not the same conveniences, perhaps, for rout.
log, people in general must purchase the thing ready
rowed and ground ; and, of course, the manufacturers

and dealers most have their profits as iu all other
transactions in trade. The thing is left open to fair
competition. There is no to:, mid can be no mono-
poly ; and where Weis the case, every one has a right
to charge what price he pleases. But, speaking as
economists upon the subject, we repeat that it mast be
a lazy wretch indeed who has thaconvesiences soil who
will not take the trouble to grind five or viz pounds of
wheat or rye ones in a month.
lassie CROWN LANDS.—IS is DOS the grand field
days in the House of Commons that ought to be most
narrowly attended to. Short polices, and little things
that scarcely occupy a line in the reports are frequently
of the mostimportaner. Thus a Bill was brought in
last night, and without a word being said about it,
read a fir.t tune, for the " sele of quit reale and
" Crown-lands in Ireland." This is a matter of far
greater importance to us than any Bill about Attie** ;
yet this occupies lo the reports only one single line,
while the debate shoot Aliens occupies sis. whole co.
lamas. Here may be, fur any thing that we know to
the c•totrary, a transfer from the public of as much
real property as wools' go to the paying off of a very
considerable part of the National Debt! Could we
sit silently in that House and beat' leave given to
tiring in such a Bill as this, without first having
before us a very particular account of the several
parcels of property ; of the real value .of smith
parc.l; and without enquiring very strictly in-
deed into who were to be the sellers; when
and where and how the sale was to take place; and„.ip
short, could we have the impudence to csll ourselves
guardians of the public purse, if we left uosifted into
any one circumstance, howe►er minute, relating to a
transaction so well calculated to awaken our vigilance I

and to impress us with the necessity of active perform.
anee of oar duty? flowerer, toe shall ece how this
thing goes on ; and we shall also see whether the Bill
be suffered to go through without any elecidAtine of
the 'abject.
The Irish !resurrection Art is, it appears, to be re-
newed; that is to say, a power is to remain, where
the authorities think necessary,to shut the people upi
in their houses from samset to sun-rise, and to entho-I
rise a Bench of Justices of the Peace, with al
Sergeant at Law amongst them, and without trial by
Jury, to condemn people to transpovtation; and as,
our readers have seen in all the public prints, a mro
was lately condemned to transportation fur being coral
of his house fifteen minutes after the time limited by
the Act. Yet Lord ARCO/BALD HAN/LTON, Sir JOHB
NRIVPORT, Mr. HUTCHINSON and others wanted an
enquiry into the state of Ireland. What enquiry do
we want more than the simple feet of the existence of
each an act ? Dues not onc card describe the state of
the Irish ; and who is so stupid as not to know what
that word is? Indeed two words may be necessary:
that which we hare alluded to and starvation ; or else
those who describe the state of Ireland are the brazen-
est liars that ever moved a tongue.—What more do
we want, then, in the way of enquiry? Mr. Hurcit•
INSON called upOrt the Ministers topaz their shoulders
to the wheel. The wheel, indeed! They have pat
their shoulders to the wheel, or we are very much mis-
taken. And a pretty heavy wheel the Irish Gad it we
fancy. It is the wheel that makes all the trouble.
But Mr. HUTCHINSON wants them to devise some glee%
teal means of securing peace and tranquillity to Ire-
land. Mr. HUTCHINSON may be well assured that n..
such means will be devised, until the Parliament be.
really reformed. And it is quite as well to say no-
thing about the matter, until the blessed Bill of PEILI.
shall have produced that reform.

Ikherter Jail.—Sir FRANCIS DUMMIES! mooed fur
the production of the jail journal, which Mr. Puts
objected to, be be jailor was under prosecotiois.
Mr. Ihoconsu seemed to concur in this opialsos, abd •
recommended the withdrawing of the motion, which
was accordingly done.
Tue Astern DILL fur another two years was brought
in by Mr. Paas and sanctioned by a division of one
hundred and eighty-nine against ninety-two. The
object of this Bill every one understands I and when
we see Lawyer &ARIA= opposed to it, we at. 112-

lensed to think that any opposition that we can give
wholly recalled fur. Lord ST . tOO, could no
sit still and bear something that Lord CAS TTTTTT GU
said in defence of this Bill. Bearing in mind wha!
Lord STavt.cr said about the. Grand Juries, and
about the imprisoned Reformers in Lancashire, we
do lot think it incumbent upon us to juin his
Lordship in opposition to the Allen Bill; 'bow
which we think mach less than we do shoot
Sir Acts. We wish with all our hearts, that
the country was is such a state as naturally to
keep all the mongrel tribes from our shores; thringh
we by no means approve of the motive from which this
Bill first arose and from which it is continued. At
any rate, it is a matter of not a millionth part the
importance to us, as Is the Bill for the sale of quit
rents and Crown lands in Ireland• There was a Mr.
Ifortace Tu tea made a figure upon this occasion, in
defence of the Bill ; he said, " it was idle to say that
" this measure was introduced solely for the pnrpose
" of gratifying foreign States by giving up obnoxious

characters. Who could for a moment credit sucks

"a■ assertion? Who would waste tie tines of the
" House In endeavouring to refute it ? Bet sup-
" posing this to be the ease, where was the isnosease
" evil arising from it ?" Mr. Lawyer HORACE Twins
appears to be of the true breed and to be upon the
true scent ; but he cornea It little too late : the
THING will not be what it has been, Mr. HORACE
Twist.

Letters from St. Petersburg, received this morning,
I are all of a pacific tone, and state the exchange to be
oo the rise.

RETRACT OF • LITTER PROM 81)11(01 , MARCH I

Peace and prosperity crown the efforts of the new
Government, which is busily engaged in works of itn-
provemtat. in forming schools and libraries, &c.; bat

I am sorry to say that oar neighbours. the Porta.
game, are not quite su tranquil. The only news we
have here from that quarter is the freqeent military re-
►olts at Monte Video, and the arrival in this river of
a French squadron, bound, It is said, to the Pacific.
The commander of this squadron thought proper to
address a letter to our Government, in which, under
instructions from his Government, he asks the sup-
pression of Privateering ; and the answer given by
oar Government was, that Privateering had already
been snpp d. So this aff.dr ended without any fur-
ther iutercourse between the partiVs.

Advices from Newfooadlind. describe that Colony
to be is a state of extreme distress ; among the lower
orders, it is said, few are able to snpport themselves,
many it was feared would perish for want. The Go-
vernor has intimated that a sum equal to the whole
raised by this colonists. would be contributed by Site

go►ernweat.—r(CCaadu Paper.)
Parlupapen to the 4th lama! Wire arrived. hat
witimslit soy fresh intelligence from Russia or Tat key.
Letters, however, from Leghorn, spin annotate
that boners have been engaged ialloreoce for the
Emperor, of Russia and Austria, who are expected
to attend a Congress there, about the middle of July.
file subjects appointed for deliberation and decision
in the conferences of that aperably are said to be the
relative state of Greece and Turkey, and the settlement of
the affairs of Italy. The intelligence from Spain 11
is somewhat interesting. A private letter from Ma-
drid of the 23d ult., speaks of fresh advantages gained

the Insurgents in Catalonia, and states that in

*4oe sitting of the 22d, the Cortes rejected by a majo-
rity of 82 to 48, the Martial Law proposed by the Spe-
cial Commission, to repress insurrection. The ground
on which it was opposed was nut it• exces4ve severity.
hut the facility with which, in the hands of a Mi-
nistry hostile to the Patriots, it might be turned
against the latter. The disrwision on this important
subject was very aitilyed, hut the Patriots triumphed;
the two-edged salmi," as it was termed, was refused
'lO the Government; but the Extraordinary Commiesio■
was instructed to propose other measures, and it was
announced that In a few days a project of law would be

Omitted to the Corte', " as energetic and severe as
the former, bet the application of which could only
reach the Servile, and the foes to Liherty." T;Je
Cortes hen also passed a resolution, declaring " that
,they hioaseekiiitlt tovereigia displeasure, the neglect-
ea state in which the Government has left the Navy."
As article of the Erith sit, from Pampeluna re-asserts
that the icing has ordered ea army of 30,000 men to
march immediately towards the provinces bordering

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the Pyrenees, and that 1* is to be dividel into
Yee corps, to be commanded by Generals Balks-
terns, Espoe y Mina, and the Marquess of Liman. T:.e
OtotidieAtie sap, that " notwithstanding the laws for
the repression. of the Press, nrcerola, Ferriage,
Tiiimilo, and several other pamplets, preach, with ve-
hemence. the dethronement of the King, and the dis-
missal of the Ministers, whom they charge with being
compirature against the Constitution. These Jeureals
!invents* reproduced ell the atrocious calumnies against
the Bourbons which were in the numbers of the Coe-
' ere. published during the hundred days." The pcli
:Intl intelligrace from France itself is unimportant.—
The celebrated mineralogist, Abbe May, died in hi.
horse at the Jareiiit dee Plantes, on Saturday last.
Passes Tonne, Jame 3.—rive per Cent. Consol.
opened at .89f. 95c.; highest, 90f. 10c.; closed at 911.
5c.--Itscharge on Loudon—oce swath, 25f. 3k. ,
three ditto, 25f. 15c,

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AVG"

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SPORTING INTRLLIGRNCE.
ASCOT HE ITH RACES.—WED.esDaT, Jou b.

Rie
Royal filtrhnoss the Duke of York'. rate of SW. for
all ages; throe )rar olds., Sat. 71b. ; fear, Set. gat ;
list. lath.; six, and aged, 9.d. To start at Cie Iti,ta•me
Post, •ud go once round and a I)istartee. Ti. wianer
be sold for 3.93 guineas, if demanded within 01 quarter or
an hour after the race, the onager of the seetma Mow
be.ng drat entitled, Re.

Rio Royal Highness the Duke of York's b. e. by Peetior,
Jam by tioreerer, 3 yrs. old..(Buyee)
.........
rs Hr. Uthosite's Cardenlo, steel

Won by a neel.
The Albany Stakes of Au gs. sailf forfeit ; for thre• year old Colts. SW Mb.; and Fillies. tist. :::1•.; the rinser
of the 20U0 guineas Stakes, perky or Ottits, to carry 4.3.
'atm—The New hl I le.
11. ft. 11. the Duke of York's h. e. Moses. (Good;sor),
I.ord Easter's sttamtarJ
Mr. West's ch. f. Angelica
Won by a length

, .............. s

The Bwinley Stakes of 43us. each, fur three years olds, 7it.
41b.; and four, Sit. luib. Fades allowed Slb. T./s
last wile sod a halter the Course.
Mr. Ramsbottom's Sir Muldibrend, 4 yrs. *id (Buckle)
Mr. Ssuiler's Pamorella, 4 yrs. eid ...............
Lord Darlington's Adolphus, 4 yrs. old ................... 3
Woo by two lengths.

The Wiakteld Stakes of 8.0 as. each, half forfeit; for Colts.
bit. 71b. ; and Fillies, We. Lb. ; thca three years
New wile.
Lord legremoat's e. by Frolle (Arson) .
Mr. Bsisso's b. c. Mywic
Mr. Nortbey's C. by Phantom $
............
Mr. litiwidard's b. c. by Hapbosard .
paid.-IFoa by a lenglb.

Information bat been ►eeeived from Lisbon, by war
of France, of some importance. The dates of tat Lei-
ters are to the 20th ult. It seems that the Portspele
Bovernment is in much apprehension lest the proviaces
of the Br.sils, like other province. of South America,
should attempt *fierily to throw off the yoke of the
moTnia cuing-ray, if fresh reinforcements are net sent
out from Portugal, to keep the people in subjection.
The present advice' mention, that it has been deter-
mined to transport to Rio Janeiro four thossami or five
thousand troops, who will act io concert with the
forces at Bahia. "er. Deputies who arri►ed at Lisbon
some time since, have, we understand, one aid all.
protested against the armament contemplated, which
they have declared to be nothing -less than a declare.
lion of war on the part of the King of PortugaL

It will be recollected, that an ascount appeared
nearly two months ago of the sinking of a great depot
for grain at Amsterdam. We penult the following
statement of the quantities of produce eared and lost
un that occasion:—Sated, 310 lave of wheat; 92 do.
of linseed ; 213 ditto of rye; 242 ditto of barley;
191 ditto of oats; 15 ditto of beck wheat ; total,
1,263 lasts. 104 quarter. eels. Lost-484 lasts of
wheat; 120 ditto of linaeeil ; 461 dime of rye; 1;6
ditto of barley; 381 ditto of oats ; 34 ditto of buck
wheat: total, 1,656 lasts, of 104 quarters each.
The prorogation of Parliament will, it is under-
stood, not take place before the middle, of July. The
business before it might easily be terminated earlier;
but it is said that Ministers wish to prolong it, fa -
order to pretest the Kiag fees goiagg abroa
~,bo moot do, till tits sesajost Co. - '
mown Atli% mod • iti;-frtieeirre4 is 01l 'sea 4
are considered extremely
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dill/coda gala of the country: 'tr,t. ' .
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After the division on Mr. Dariapoiro 7 • mint
on the third reading of the narigstio• bill. . Way
night, sod whilst strangers were exclude rum the,
gallery, Mr. Davenport moved that toe wor/i“ thrown's.
silk" should be struck out, which was agreed to with-
oat a division, SO that the article of thrown silk is ex-
cluded from the operation of the bill.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India Hoot., whoa the following Commanders took
leave of the Court previous to :a-parting for their re-
spective destinations, viz...—Captain Jim Pearson, lie-
sera! Hewitt ; aad Captain Broukhay, Marchioness of
Ely—for Bengal direct.
Such is the stagnation in the tradeof sugar, coffee.
and rum, that hundreds of labourers have lately bee*
dismissed from the West-India Docks for want shr who-
,
ployment.
Parre„tso IN Sasses.—Dy a pothion presented
to the House of Commons from Burwash in4seses,
we learn that the pnpolatinn of that parish, *bleb is
entirely agricultural, is about 1909, and nearly half ate
receiving relief to a great eaten; and a great number
entirely oat of employ, sad euisarraupported fro the
fonds of the parish ; consequently, the Poor-rates are
enormously high, being upwards of twenty-two. shit-
Hags in the pound on the foil value of restate of the
land. The following statetneut sheen the progress
of the is , during the last 6fty years:—
Sums collected for the Peer annually :—Year 17;2.
438/. ; 1;82, 545/. 2s. 10d.; 1792, 6361. 145.; 1824
4,1491.65. 61—Tbe erect of this berthes on the parish-
ioners of Burma!: may be easily conceived. At this
time theme are no fewer than 5? defaulters is this single
parish.

There will be a conjunction of Venus aed Saturn
early next Tuesday morning, when they will so oraity
approximate an to appear lu the eye not more than
about 12 minute:, of a degree apart.

Oo Monday last, at St. Paeans Church. F. 01
Braco-porii. A herdftenshichito Heied, third (Lauf
Young. gsq. Percy-straitt.

DIED.
On the 6th last. at hls house ira iltantord-street, Gn,r;e
Chandler. Esq. aged "ifs.

On the 3,1 Inst. Mr. T. Arnett, °raisins-lane. Chrap,i,lT.
in Lis 7161 )ear.
On the ah insL at lls house at Casstwtrwell, ICED R.
Ifattoe, Esq. in the 83:1 year ut Ids age.
''On the fitn ult. at York-buildings, New•road, Dr. R.
Gordon, late ['apace. n to the Forces.

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