The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-09-21 00:00:00

THE STATRSMAN

tanner, now contrail with Government for all they
slaighter. We therefore often kill • bullock fur the
sake of the hide, for other purposes as well as shoes.
,particularly for making traces for the oxen ; Liited,
raw bids is seed for all purposes in lieu of rope, line,
at.toalbet, and all peckagre are secured with it, cut
kilo strips; erten the thatch on houses is put on with
it ;in fact, it is used for general purposes A great
many settlers ha►e abandoned their land, and others
are gone to their trades or as lahoorers, but they can•
sot leave this district, nor even the nighbourhood of
their locations without ■ pass from the landrost. If
a settler is found in any other district without aea
lonial pass, he is Immediately taken op and sentkack
tastier an escort, and confined in the Fronk. Many
settlers have, and many are now obtaining permission
to return to England. Some are gone, and many are
on the eve of going. Indeed, nue and all are disgusted
by being deceived in the prospects held out, particu-
larly so by the land not yielding wheat to their in-
dustry, though labour and eipenite are bestowed upon
it. Tue climate is certainly very fine aid healthy,
yet we want flour to keep up the Ea4lishman's consti.
Union. Rice, continually, is a had substitute for it.
the English Poor-house fare is much preferable. It
is true, sheep are plentiful, hot It is impossible to live
always upon meat. As to bread, I have not tasted it
fur the last three months, and when it is to be bought
at Grahame, Town, it is sold et 21. for 3:li. What
would Ilse people of England say to this? Starvation
stares us in the face; all bate expended their little
11111.11111 in bringing the land into the present state of
cultivation, without realising a single shilling It is
as old saying. and it is verified here, that English-
men are fond of law and litigation, and it has been
the uni I case with the settlers, there having been
every Court day from twenty to thirty most frivolous
cases among them. Should the next mason mat prove
more produ.tive, it is the intention of the settlers is
Ibis itistrivt to petition Government to be sent home
gratis as paupers."

Wtte *tateontan.

" THE SEITISH S AN" IS MCORP* AAAAA " TEL
STATESMAN."

LONDON
{•TURDAT EVENING, •iPTZJD 21, 1822.

Thls day being a liuli,l2y both at the Bank and
Stock Exchange, the only husinee., which is but little,
tr.insac ing in oar lands, is on 'Change.

llAte PA- s.r 'I %yam,' o'CLocx.-1. try Tittle has been
done ap to this hour in foreign socuri:ies, which all
remain steady in price.
Chili, 841—New Spanish, 63 to 70—New Pros-
also, s*;-041, 001 to 91—iestssia, S7.3—Danish, SO
Neapolitan, ni—Columbian. tkij—Serip, SC.

And, is the face of all this, be is a Tama to say that
the Old Devil's notes are not legal knurl
As to the seeded point; tire compulsion to endorse
notes when yoo pay them away. To be sure, if you
have your notes to pay down on a man'a counter, seri
he has not actually delivered you the goods, be may
'natch them op, and say, that you shall net have them
till you have endorsed the notes that you are thou.
to pay in. But, if it ha a debt, ohieh he is about to
discharge, he may tender you the notes tot endorsed;
nod, if you do not choose to take them, you may begin
your action. and he will pay Me notes into Court, sod
leave you to go on paying costs, as above, till you be
as grey as a Hanover rat.

If you make a Gargein to give a man a certain ■um-
ber of pounds for any thing, no matter what: suppose
it be a house. He comes to pay you before you have
given him possession. He pays you down the sum i n
notes of the Old LsJy. Endorse them, say yes. I
won't says b•. Then, say you, I will net pat you is
pu ion of the house. The devil ye■ won't, says
he. And, away he goes and sets the tormeotors upon
you.

Bat, sly you, hoe do I know but these notes may
he forged. Very likely, says he; bat, I will leave
you to prose that ; awl, if you prove it, and also
prove that I have given them to you. then I mast give
you something in lien of them. That is all.
Suppose me to ►e etas ins. My bill comes to five
pounds. I tender the landlord a tag for five pound..
lle asks me to endorse it. I won't. Can be stop me.
or can be seize my 4a„oge y At his peril be must
do it. Many times I have been, under similar eircnui-
st asked to endorse the notes; and I never did
it. To get some meet from a woman in Newgate
Market. I once endorsed a notme " Humdrum Humbug.
b.:spire, No. 2,1110, Portmantquare ;" sod, looking
very carefully at it, she took it and put it into her
hook; but, if my man had been gone only out of the
market with the meat I would nut hays signed it at all.

At the Old Lady's shop they compel people, and al-
treys have compelled people, to endorse notes, though
there is no law for it, and thottzh it is impudence equal
to that of highwaymen, Bet, here it is a matter of
money-changing; and, as far as relates to changing
gold for paper, the Bank people bare a legal right
to say, we will make you endorse the notes, because
it is at oar o:rn pkasure, whether we give you gul•I
or not, In exchange for paper. But, when the ex-
change was of paper for paper, they bad no each
right. Now they hive each right: for thou,:h
the la• compels them to change their 6.ltes,
it does ntt yet compel them to give gold in
exchange for them. Therefore, when yet go to them
fu gold, it is matter of convention : we will give Ton
gold, if you will endorse, else we will give you paper.
C. D. was, therefore, perfectly right. Bank, Be
rough-Bank, notes area legal tender ; and, there is
no law to compel any one to endorse a bard: note. Ir
he choose to do it for the sake of getting goods not yet
delivered, or, for the sake of getting change, that is
qni e another thi 'g.
But, why plague ourselves about questions of this
sort now? The first of May nest pits an end to th
%hole of the farce. Psit.'s Bill puts an end to the
Icgal tend, r. If. after that day, a man tender you a
bank note of say description, in payment of any debt,
and if you happen to have an exhaits'ed quid of tobae.
co in your mouth, you may twist it out and slap it on
hie filthy rags, and then clap the Sherirs paw upor
his shouller for the debt; and, if the base wretch
pay isito Court, he must pig in gO.J, or pay your cos•s•
The Bank and all Bankers most give you gold, In ex-
change for their notes. And I will undertake to bring
the 0 d hotly herself into Court if she refuse to pie.
me gold for her notes without my endorsing them :
This we must see on the first of hay next ; or, we
must see the GRIDIRON. It is made; and it is wide
',lough to take, cross-ways (hike a herring), a man six
feet high.