The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-27 00:00:00

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evidence that there is disaffection io the country, and
that large war establishments ate requisite to preserve
order and obedience to the laws! Economy is now
justly esploded from State inazims,:for " it is by oo
means the only beneficial mode of insuring so in-
crease of national prosperity," as Dr. Slop attempts
to show. Dot nofortonately no one will be kind
enough to reveal the best mode of insuring this
national desideratum ; and hence the poor CHAN`
tELLOR of the Excwvaure, like 66 the hare with
many friends," and the still more perplexed country,
tie as much at a loss for the means of increasing pro-
sperity, after minding economy, as ever. Public.
distress, sod the Minister's Budget, exhibit sear!.
proofs of this, shearer may be-said of out national
reseerces. ')I1( •;:.17,‘". •

We have received Paris Papers„to the 24th lost
The discussion in the Chambei of tleputies on the
Project of Law for Recruiting the Army was rimmed
on Thursday. Among the principal speakers were
M. BEUGNOT and M. iiCOII,RVOISIER. ftli, WI M.
DE 11018CUAISEAU and M. I.lsmottv against, r the
Adoption of the Law. The fourth anniveretiy of
the Martyrdom of Louts XVI. was celebrated at St.
Denis with much pomp and .tereasony:, A letter
froth Count CAKRA Sommer.. datechCayenne, the
18th November, 1817, poblished officially • I it,.
Monilcur, announces the taking possession of French
Guiana on the Bth of shat____. month. ; A letter from
Vienna of -the 12th, Ipss *the follosti* lutetesting
passage :—" It is mentioned as verriemprlesot news,
that the Cabinet of London has- magi* stotifieations
of the greatest political leterest to ,5r Court, re-
Llative to the affairs ,of Spanish ,America." It thus.
appears that the Cabinet of London cannot abstain
from interfering in South American matters, not.
withstanding its declarations .of ,neutrality. This is
the only political intelligence of any moment we find
in these Papers, escept that an intervinw of the So-
vereigns of Austria, Russia, and Prassis, is again
spoken of, and the Emperor of AUStRIA will make
a visit to Dalmatia in the approaching spring.

Another Flanders Mail has also. arrived. The
Duke of C.II4IIRIDGE'S union with the Princess of
HESSE CASSEL appears to be the subject of general
conversation on the Continent, and it is even stated,
that his Royal Highness has received official congra-
Watkins open his proposed alliance, and that the
Ladies of Honour who are to be about the person of

the Princess are already appointed. The Duke, it is
added, intends soon to pay another visit to Cassel,
where his marriage will be celebrated in the middle of
March ; after which his Royal Highness will visit
England.

Intelligence, it is said, has been received of the
surrender of Amelia Island to the forces of the
United States. 'Dais account was brought to Liver-
pool by the ship Armatita, from Savannah, which
place she left on the 27th of December. It states,
that " the American forces had taken possession of
Amelia Island is the name of their Government, and
that Commodore MIRY and the troops under his
command had been made prisoners of war." This
we were led to expect, and thus our doubts as to the
name in which this possession would be seized are
i removed.

We have entered at great length into the Report
of the proceedings which took place yesterday at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, on the sobjeetof the late
rise in the price of Porter. We, along with some
of our Correspondents, who delivered their sentiments
at the Meeting, have, HI before this, attempted to
draw public attention to the principal causes of the
system 'w hich establishes the grievous monopoly in a
en houses, the effects of which are so severely felt.
The speeches of Mr.Beaustowr and Mr►ScsULTU,who
have most ably sod judiciously investigeltd the sub-
ject, will tend very. materially to correct the present
system of Licensing, the greatest evil in this general
grievance. The suspicions expressed, and in some
cases stated to have been lamentably verified, that
malt and hops form but a very inconsiderable part
of the beverage, or composition called Porter, are
well worthy of attention and, investigation. The
Editor of the Morning Chronicle sebjoins a remark
to his partial report of thedisclassioras at the Meeting,
that " it oeght tobeenquired Whatis the present price
of the raw materials, together with the expense of
brewing, compared with these of former periods."
—The Editor of the Chronicle pretends to know no-
thing of the case, but thinks that 66 a cry against
a whole body of tradesmen, without coming to
particulars, is unjust, e.pd when countenanced
by Magistrates obviously dangerous.".— We
We pretend to know nothing of the motive foe such
deprecations, but we are disposed tolthiuk that Mr.
BEAUMONT; who seems to have taken no small trots-
ble in collecting statements of the rate of markets for
a long period, has satisfactorily and amply answered
such remarks, for he proves that even were malt and
hops actually used, the expences of the Brewer, at
this moment, are less than they were 112 months sinee,
when the beer was cheaper. • Of this st•ttemeistl SO in•
teresting to the labouring classes, it is of advantage
to all parties that just notions should he enter-
tained. We are glad to find Ceutlemen of respecta-
bility engaged in this affair ; indeed to such it almost
exclusively belongs, for' to them, as to their 'lateral
guardians, -must the Labouring Poor look for the
protection of theit tights. The price sad guilty of

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the malt liquor' are of no less importance to
poor man than those of Ms bread. If, oppressed
by the heavy bend of wealthy 'monopolists, he
possesses no means of correcting the evil ; it is
vein to tell him that If he dislikes the price or the
quality, he may abstain from using either his
porter or Ms bread: he cao find no substitute for
supporting life; and in many cases be must take such
• porter as is offered to him, or go t• a great distance
for a wholesome article. The great evil of the pre-
sent system, as we have observed, consists in the
arbitrary powers enjoyed by the Magistrates,of grant.
lug Licences to individuals for selling Matiiiircoli,
Groat capitals will always command a certain),lll•
leence, and it has unfortunately happened ad mein
be seen from the avert of the Committee, of the
House of Commons on the Police of the Metro-
polis, that the Licensing Magistrates act too much
ender the authority of the Brewers; who have by that
means obtained possession of nearly all the Public-
houses in the Metropolis. This establishes the mo.
oopoly of which the Public complain, and• this
•grievahce ought to be redressed by Parlimment,,if
by no other means,.by subjecting the retail trade of
malt liquors to no other restraint then an investlga
ohm by Jury iuto the characters of all personskoisi:
gaged in it. • • ir.r.
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Weystouvit, JAL Lecnrotro )t this
week taken his usual routine of recreation at Came,
and on the neighbouring
,Downs, and Wended yes-
terday to have extended his ride to this town, but
was prevented by theunfavourable state of the view
ther. The health of his Serene Highness-still eetili=
titles to improve in his retirement, it is in the eerie'
temptation of the inhabitants of thii town to e•ect a
monument in their new church to the memory of her
late Royal Highness the Princess Cnancorre, who,
about two years since, laid the foundation stone of
that structure. A design has already been token. At
her last visit the Princess resided here from July,
1815, to Jan. 1816, and had so endeared herself to
every heart, that she was adored by all ranks.
Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL ha .1 a numerous
Parliamentary dinner of Peers, at Fife-house. Lord
CASTLEREAGH had a party of 41 of the Members of
the House of Commons, at his house in St. Jatne,'s-
square. At both the Ministers' dinners the PRINCE
REGENT'S Speech for the opening of the Session of
Parliament this day by Commission, was read.
THE KING e. WALLER O'GRADY.--.DUBLIN, Jae
21.—The Judges yesterday sat in the Court of Error,
for the purpose of pronouncing judgment in this
important case, as to the right of the Chief Blinn of.
the Exchequer to appoint a person to the office of,
Clerk of the Pleas, vacant by the death of the Earl
Of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. or whether the right warli
vested in the Crown. The Judges were engaged in
delivering their opinions, when the Chief Justice of
the King's Bench was attacked with sodden, and, we
fear, severe indisposition, which caused an adjourn.
meet, without their coming to a final decision on the
question.
CLERKSHIPOPTHEPLEAs.---Dustim,JAN.t2.--Yes.
terday this important case again occupied the Court ,of
Error.—Mr.Justice FLercnee, Mr. Justice MAYN r,
and Mr. Barcu M'Cr.rccsNe delivered their opinions
upon it, which were favour of the Crown. It is
supposed that Sir WILLIAM SMITH, Mr. Justice'
DALY, and Mr. Baron GEORGE, will pronounce their
judgments this day, which will conclude this case io
the Court of Error.
The Honourable Captain WALDECRAVE and the
Honourable Miss Cr:scrim, niece of the late Mar-
chioness of SLIGO, are expected to joist hands, in the
course of the ensuing Spring.
DEAL, JAN. 26.—Came down from the River his
' Majesty's ship Prevoyante, for Portsmouth ; Castle.
reagh, Evans, for St. Christopher ; Percy, Smith,
for Jamaica; Maria, Bolton, for Cadiz; Sicely,
Copper, for Gibraltar; and several others, particu-
lars unknown.—Put beck the New Bragansa,
Cornelly, for Constantinople.—Arrived acid sailed
'for the River the Liberty, Meall, from Charente.
PORTSMOUTII, JAN. 26.—Came in .several out-
ward.bottid vessels, which sailed from the Duwes..oat
&turtle), last, among which are the following ships:
viz.: the Wanyead, Young, for Madras and Bengal.;.
Ocean, —, from London for Plymouth, for troopsi
tor Gibraltar ; Pomona, Staves, and Amelia Wilson,
Striton, from London for the Seuth Seas; John a .d•
Ann, Robinson. for Havannab ; Ceres, Mathes! iv,
.Indus, Callieln, and Quote, Fiott, for Jamaica ;
,Maria Teflon, Kinnard, for the Isle of France;
Ulyssus, Davison. for Tr'este; and several more cost.,
log in, but too late to save post.
° FALMOUTH, Jan. 21 —Sailed the Doke of Kent
;Nickels with Mail. for Lisbon ;and the Pallas, Philp,
for Gibraltar and I.le of France. •
Imacomee JAN. 25.—Arrived the Blocher,
Spence, fromlierbice, bound to London, having ex-
perienced most violent weather, all her sails except
•,main and fore ail are gone, bulwarks washed sway,
and has been out 53 days: spoke on the I.3th of Us.
camber, in lat. 16. 39. the Concord, of Aberdeen,
Ifrom Lyndon to St. Domingo, out six weeks, andAp
distress, having only •a maintop sail left, and all her
bulwark gone, having bad a gale of wind front-the
Westward for ten days; it then blew very bard.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 26.—Several trading vessels gilt
sailed from hence yesterday, have pet hackie-Ws
port to-day.
WHITEHAVEN, JAN. 24.—Pot in here, living
sprung her main yard, the ship Dahlia, 'of and from
Dublin, for Jamaica.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 21.—The Country. Smith,
from Riga for London, has arrived in this Bay short
of provisions, sud with loss of threeanchors and cables.
having been driven by the ice out of Elsmere Roads.
—The Pomona, Helder% from Whitby for London,
with oats, has pot into this port, wills eight feet
water in her bold; she sailed from Whitby yesterday,
and sprang a leak at sea.
GRAVESEND, J the Jane, Walker,
from Jersey • Margaret, Rondale, from Seville;,
Commeece, Scott, from' Charente ;'
from Bourdeauz ; and Liberty, Meall, from Charente.
—Sailed the Mald'on, Hodge, for Grand Canary;
and Viet Gebroderi, Prins fog goitgidiga,; •