The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

lystem pursued slipail,
been verging to a state i f disintihrn,,` from
which it would be Inspnesitail-ter tirt►nseetettll ..ems
Ministry to snve her. The teem to `tare
been aware of this heritable rointr,-iiid ice' Lai FER.
DINAOD himself, if, we May judge by his fickleness
and his manifold chinges. tie has dischsrgnid ids
Ministers repeatedly, but he finds that new men can.
not resters his credit, or heal the rogrome of discne.
tent and dissatisfaction whicis his long been peeving
nn the Very vitals of the Ration. Li liaised, Eng.
land, and Francs. he has atteseptal 44, ber,ow no.
ney, even turns extremely limitllll,,.tet nn no 1044
has he been able to effect. The pr,ieeted sate of
Church fAnils has 'falle4--the Vales RIM!, or Es.
chequer Bills; have bwinldiacresliie,l and unpaid—no.
thing has arrived fromAnserics but Oversew dishearted.
ing accounts on a:I sidee,ll4 ex pAltionit Cadia cannot
be fitted oat,:everiitiliAre cind cattle Ineveisseeri filled
with victims, and 'stela 'thou4nd A the Imo te.
mflies hive been in a 'stile of elite in foreio lands.
The new Minister, CASA IRCJO, hap not-bean able to
effect so) thing more, apparently no- evens.. meek
SS his predecesors ; and am now leer,• tbar he has
tendered his resignation, or, in other word's, he
finds he cannot unclog the wheels rf Government,
and hence it is very not Courier '
hear that a crisis is in,
confides the admiuisi re;
quisitor-General, it woe
other man would end,

round end behold* the
Merl:leis D£ CAA iitt,
fortevate, if he gets bee
mill coseeins.

Scarcely any one, and still tele the unfartatude
Convicts themselves, who, after entertelolt g hopes
of mercy till the moment they were led to tt.e
scaffold, were yesterday plunged into eternity, could
have believed that any Goverment sioNtely ,;0110.1a
to maintain even the semblance rifigoesisteney.in the
criminal judicature of the c.ionttry,cmilikeffer men to
be pat to death at the is, tOtoment that' others
were discharged of the mks. relfetteee, and ors
the same evidence. But sods. la-Anr eoi,sistells
-cy, the justice, and humanity au llalt"gosernment.
Whatever may hate•heen the goik of. the .enhepp?
'Convicts executed yesterday, there at Oast et.
fated In 'their peculiar caeca circemstances 1,44
cleat te...fistlteee.4 teerefai revision of the eeirlenee
by which they
.were convicted. .There meted no
indecent hem to cut the thread of their mlserrade
'insistence; and if their 'ceivr.tior. was found I.
have beeie produced by• such evidence as was •üb.
frequently insufficient to satisfy the cousrience of a
Jury, some sacrifice was due to decency ar.o the
appearadce of consistency ; and not a reap in '
the country would have- quarrelled with the ad.
risers of the Crown had the Royal flwroy bee"
extended to these convicts, or ha 'the taiiitil
puuisameot been emulated to transportaties.
l'he Bank, from its connection . with Governmeitr,
has exercised the most wanton and cruet p-rtialit4
acquitting the greatest criminals while it has lent a
deaf ear to the Petitions of those whose cases re**
e..
deserved compassion. The Bank has entreised she
right of determining whether it would prosecute„ll
not. But what is this but a brutal caprice in asset
of the most solemn importance, ? Thus Juries 'Air%
or are not, to be the instruments of the Bank at lip
pleasure. What a degradatiuo of a British Jury.
After each a lavish and profuse wave of human life,
let Juries look more than ever at the evidence upon
which they comsat to hap the shrine of Ilse paper
hloluch with human victims. A very general opinion
prevails that no one ought to be capitally peuisbed
for forgery ; but what most! be the opinion of the
country as to the justice of baegiog men by scurea
upon the mete dictum of a Bank /rapeeforlr
The Bank is now to give the Public a note...ol.kb
different colours—,that of blood wept to he fire pit t
railing one; but unless it render its note riiinitabls
or give the Public cash also as an 01, ion ofjirsile
section, neither forgery nor the career of blood viii i,• '
be at an end.
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Paris Papers to the 13th lildtVllleeped us. I; !
pears that the French Funds ate not rectories, 1
I .. /
•
prosperous state. The Journals mention. OW ' ,
Five per Cents. sunk to 63 run Friday. Theitirtfitf
letters assert that the quotations iu rite rapers bare
been higher (ban the truth would warrant. The real
price on Friday last was so low as 60, althoe.th tit*
price quoted was 63. The fall of [lank Stock is UP
great, that did not all the Paris Papers emcee in ISO
price quoted, we should hare been intim:eel to believe
its the occurrence of some mistake. On ,fhersday
it closed at 1545 f , but on Os folly eittraily it
It'll to 1455 f. The stagnation of commerce to the
, I
principl towns is stated to be general'end' *sawn..
The coronation of Louis XVIII. will' it is s4i(i, II
take place in the course of next M.y. The Marquis f .
ere CaiiAltate had, on Friday, an audience of leave
of his Majesty, previous t , his departure on hi 4 eta. '
bassy to Vienna. The Dike of Wardanovote was q
to leaiis-Paris on &sudsy, nu his rototi'to this cows.
try. .M. F(018111 AS IhmeOrt, one of tle exiles ic-

- - ...., ' --•" -0-41% .r 1. -Nig
of li h n the of the o' l4 sup ri
she e • med Wnworthy of ing received iota
the Holy •anrej'Ever sine - turn apr Kil
FFRDINAND, or rather,' MO In he deter.
mined tc govern the country *Merits soiiects by
'heir cc orsge and perseverance, had saVdd, n the
debased system his ancestors lead purinwJADsiq ii.

'torn' for even tEe Courier to
nesi.thle, for unless the King
Aims of his affairs •to the In.
ould he difficult, to say, %kat
dertakp Mein; when be looks
fate of the lotil Miniuters; the
!JO' may consider himself telt
Jock to Codis Ao mood to his