The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-19 00:00:00

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THBATIt!I ROYAL.. I)I4.I3&T.LAPift.
)1 I S present EVItIVING, May 19, their
Materti•!,' F4ers.ww. will -ireful*
WILD OATS.

A rfrr whirls a New Comir toilet, ealhAl
!EVE LOVE OUTAT THE WIN AT TIIR DOOR, HE'LL GET IN
DOW.
To which will h. whiwt,
FOItT NE'S FROLtC.
t0.,,,,,reaw, The Merehlot of Venice, and Lodolalta.'
folday, The Wheel of Fortune.
The Doors to he opened si bolt past axis o'clock; to be-
la et !tell past eta.
Magri, ; Second Prier s'. 6d.-14t, 91. 111,1 Second
34 Lower Gallery, 13.1 Scould Price, Is.—Upper
Second Price, 6d.

THE ATE EALOYAL, • COVENT 41111)EN.
ill I S present EVENING, May 19,
hr .lesf,vrovvrol
THE BEGGARS' OPERA.
apt. Mrtcheath, Mr. I ocled,m; Polly. hi isi Sisphses.
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will

After which. Csr th • 34 time. a Note num,
TRH PORTVIICE or WAR.
T.. which Will b ndde&
TIIE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
theirday, Venire; Preserved,
oatrs. 7s. $ Second Price Ja. St. 6d. I Secimd
I..—Lower Gallery, $ &coed Price. IL—Upper
Gall•rv. IW. ; Se4iimi Price. 64.
A Private HIM may be had nightly, en application to Mr.
Iraadi.n, at the Boa-othce.

TRIUMP.II OF WESTMINSTER. AND WWII'
ELECTION.

OF

'IWE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY will be ee-
-1 lehra ed at th.• Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on
TESDA Y. May Tl, 1815.
.ilr FR N CIS BURDETT, Bart. M. P. in the Chair.
Tickets. 114.6 d. each, to he had at the Bar of the Tavern,
ar;ut the Secretary, No. 110, Strand.
Dinner on Table at rive o'Clock precisely.
A. CLARK. Secretary.

Iril E Cheap impenetrable ANTI- CORROSI V E
I PAINT (patronised by the Society of Arts) having
pond the test of years. and its anti-corrosive qualities having
been satisfactorily proved, is now recommended with the fullest
confidence, as a cii‘elivery of great public utility, being a beau-
titer antl preserver of wi.nd and irep, impervious to the weather
and not liable tr. crack, blister. or peel off, even in the hottest
climate; it will be found peeuliary adapted for weather board-
isg, awnings, virandas*i green-houses, iron-railings, and all parts
sf sLipping, or indeed for any work exposed to the weather.—
ibis paint combines dura';ility with cheapness, and presents an
oppeantoce equal to am our-ide colour in common use. It may,
liswerer, be deemed saperduens to enlarge on its merits, when
it restated, that the Parieiy for the Encotiragemeat of Arty hod
Sciences. having ihrestigated its proportiet; unanimously voted
the proprietor the honorary rewrod ~1 a medal in token of their
title approbation. It is packed in kegs of 61h. tile' up triads,
uthr sultioined pekes. wiiii prepared drying nil far mixing,
accompanied by such plain directions that any persn' will he
(send competent to VP it :—Hriglit Olive Orem), ILI. per lb ;
tone Colour, bd. per lb. ; Lead Colour. SA. per lb.; invisible
(keen, 6d. per lb. a. White, Id. per lb. ; Chocolate, sd. per lb.;
6d. per lb. ; Yellow, sd. per lb.; Red, 4d. per lb..
Also the muck- ipproyed Aromatic Paint fur the interior of
Imes.
To be had at the entrsur Vfoiles;l4;tild-strtet-rnad and at
Ue Warelunise,ti, Flrydges-street, Covent-garden.

_. repugnant 1 . says, ...
Dimity on the Throne. - -
That the istatteplion shown to the Petition, of the People, by At a very poor inn, In a remote village, Where
the House tif Common., in the ease of the Corn Lnws, and urb stopped on our morning's ride, the landlady kept
mare recieotty by passing the Act for reviving the Property a'ehild's and her- daughters were weaving
Tax, contrary 'to the declared sentiments of a great majority of school,
the nation, conviaces as that the People of England ore not cotton. check ; her sister kept a little shop, and was
fully, freely, and fairly rev...Jewett in the C..Mtnort3 base of reading a translation of Young's Night Thoughts.—
Pirihunpn. t nail that any Petition presented to them for avert- ...Y.
ill/ the caLsities of war, will be as ineffeetuas as the Petitions
Inas was more than we should have expected in a
against the BEI for preventing the Importation of Corn; and, 'Hinge ale-house in England.
therefore, the lohahitants of this Borough, on this acensfon, re-
he --- -liarnern ,ii , the _ The habits of the people more towards the south,

TO MRS. JOI.INSON, at, Yew:non-street.
MADAlll,—ifilving seen in the different news-
papers several cittroordinory case. of the good rffect?..
lle• SOOTHING SYRUP hos la.d on ttfaa's during dentition,
11,e.etrubcdtlemed roe to send the case of my little girl, which. I
think. otter any soother has read, will never be without the
Sirup„ as soon as they find their children are teething. Mine is
&miracle. when Von think of a sere,- nooth child, horn with
h 4, Bed erns servo weeks before she hod strength to cry, you,
as dear Madams& must be tire, whrnshe began to tut her teeth,
*bat she mum sitter ;.satire it to say, that she was near two
seats old before she had any. Duritrg that time she was dread-
folly comittl.ed. When my latsbond bought the.first bottle, she
ant expected to live the day. through. but n,s sooner was
men gura; nabbed, than we perceived her to be eariier, and all
ler teas clime %Wood as y store fits.
I aur, Madam, )'ours, respectfully',
Jan. 9, 184. C. SMITH.
N 0.2. Windsbr-erstirt, Strand.

.l'o he had of the Proprietors, Johnson and Williams, No. 94.
NewmouPstreet, Oxford-street ; and by their appointwent, of
wbary, St. Paul's Chartls-yard. and Dame-strret. Dublin ;
:frilly, Fleet-market ; I) trey and Sutton, Bow C hureh-N aid;
s,I;Lw and Edward.. St, Paul's Church.yard ; Butler, 4, Cheap-
"dr ; Long-lane, S nithflrld; and by all the principal
kdicine Venders to town and coaatry, 9a. u bootie.
CALTION.—He sure to ask for "Johnson and Williams's
+IIT-tic:to Soothing Syrup," as there are several spurious sorts.
N• B. Mn, Johraon eel,..v.e„ the Want Poor, as usual, at her
every Tuesday mat Saturday morning, from nine to tea
o.ick, by bringing a letter from ri le,pecsable housekeeper
',,.ertify that they are-real objects of charity.
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solve not.to Petition the present Part it, but to instruct
Representatives of this Borough to op;sose every measure
which may be proposed in Parliament for raising supplies for
the p otecutine so unjust and unnecessary a war.
Reoslved, That his Royal Highness the'Prince Recent, tier-
ing in the name and on behalf of his Majesty. in oar opinion,
ought to dismiss from his presence and Councils for ever the Mi-
nisters who have been daring enough to advise the entering lain
a contest, hig with the most ruinous consequences, without at-
tempting to negncinte for a salb And honourable Once; and that
be °nett to Slaienittlhe present Ps.riitz?sz the mei
method of obtaining tint stale of * nemieste'ylitt
recrniting the means of the country, ready too snide ex-
hausted, preventing a national bankruptcy, and averting that
melancholy and disastrous elate to which this country will
otherwise he reduced.
Resolved Unanimously, That these Resolutions he published
in some of the Morning and two of the Evening Papers, and in i
the Surrey and Southwark Gazelle.
Resolved Unanimously, That the Thanks of this Toira Hail !
be given to Charles Calvert, Esq. one of our Representatives,.
for his ,onduct in Parliament, and for his re-assurance to as this
day, of a continuation of the same principles he originally set
nut with.
'Resobv-d Unanimously, That the Thanks of this Meeting be
given in Sir Wistkin Lewes, Knight, High Bailiff, for his is-
Partial conduct in the Cb:tir.

C,EORGE DAY and HENRY ARM,
N .. 114. Lasi4ute•rnad, Southwark. REAL JAPAN
LI.ACKING MA NU FACTOR EBS, beg leave in rerom--.
eved to the Public. in general their ..apelior Japan aincling
li• excellence in giving the highest 1114 e and jet black ever be-
b•lrl to Shoes and BOON has been low.: known uud well esia-
blhh°o, and wants an praise frog the Ittnnufocturers, as a siugle
trial 1%111 readily evince.
"Id in qtnne battles at Sixpence, One Shilling, and Eighteen-
pence each. '
N. B. lAdies' half:boots will experience. by the nse of this
v 'sable Blacking, a polish and jet Black far ab,iye any other
,rniinsi,ioo ever offered to the Public.
! utuary and Tows Shopkeen supplied ps usual, upon Six
Lh,t4s credit.

BY HIS MAJESTY'S PATENT.
ROY AI. ANTI-ATTRITION COMPOSI-
A TION. to prevent the effect. of Friction In Steam En-
gine:, Morhisery, Mills, Carriages. Coaches, Waggons, Carts,
Sc. pod by the use of which the Public save in all" cases not
less Otto three hundred per cent. exclusive of saving wear and
tear, time nnd labour.
Sold at No. 40, Charing-Cross. neat the Admiralty, LOB.
d.m ; mid by their appointment, at suoNt Libraries, Medicine
wateiggiuses. Ir managers, Cutlers, Conclunakers Saddlers,
nud Slimikeepers Itt the Hotted Kingdom ; in Duxes, price
6.1.. x. fid., 104. 6d., One Guinea, and Two Guineas each.
The smallest size box contains a quantity sufficient to prime a
four-wheel Carrigige four times. with w hick it will run upwards
thou,andof six mites. and it will answer in the same pro/Jor-
don for all other kinds of work.

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AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS-of the , PRESINT STATE OF FRANCE, ' aspins
i the hemp, prepares to .it herself. The labour..
IM. Aerie, TOWN and BOROUGH of BOUT. WARM. '
M their TOWN HALL, on 'WEDNESDAY, the 17th day of From a work twilled " Notes of a Journey through France, 1
: higher, on ing class
.. here (at Isy, near Paris) is certainly otoeh
May, 1815, pnrsiiant to a Requisioiou signed by a roosiderable 1 from Dieppe, through 'Paris and Lyons, to the Pyrenees, and the social scale, than with as. Every op.
number of reppretam.. Electors, Sir W. LEWES, Ent. HiAk ; hack through Thoulouse, in July, Augusts and Sersleasher, : portunity of collecting information on this Subject
Bnillif, and Alderman of Bridge Ward Withino Hod Father of .
the City of Loweson, in the Chair, the following Resolutions 1814; describing the habits of the People, and the Agilcul- confirms my first impression, that there are very few
were passed with tw, dissentient voices only : lure of the Couotry," &c. By Mr-Birk-beck. really poor people in France. In England a poor
Resolved, That the Inhabitants of this Ancient Town and , —isess— • man and a labourer are synonymous terms; we speak
Borough, recognising, approving, and asserting dose principles: I \
to he jest on which our ancestors acted at the glorious Revolt's.. Atter some preliminary remarks on the appearance , familiarly of the poor meaning the labouring class:
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tine, cannot but witness with unfeigned regret, and with senti-to et lain
of the houses, lkc. at Dieppe, where Mr. Birkbeck I not so here. I have now learned enough p
merits of the highest indignation, weighed down as we DOW are and his friends landed, he proceeds as follows : the difference: and having received the same infortn-
hy the conseqitesices of 19 years of war, a new war about to be . Walking near the barracks I was struck with the anion from every quarter 9 there is no room to doubt
'commenced, for the purpose of dictating to a large and papa- 9
14iUS 11:iti40 out the subject of the Governmentlif their Country, respectable appearance of the soldiers • several were) its correctness.
a measure calculated to lend to emboquences the moat dreadful seated under-the trees, reading. In the evening the I The general character of the French, and the be•
and alarming, by strengthening and uniting Franco against the . meets, the boulevards, the bourse, every convessten' t neficial effects which the Revolution has proditaii,
confederacy of the Princes of Eiirope—a confederacy an likely .
to he broken by the defection of some, and the saldugatiou at place was filled with grouper of people, of all de- particularly .on the habits of the peoples ere ghee
others. scriptions, engaged in conversation. No rudeness in spoken of:
That the reasons declared by his Majesty's Minkters for naafi
Plunging this devoted country iota an interminable mar, for to levity in the females; politeness and • The approach to Rotten_ is noblat-evert4o4o4,- -- the men, no
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Illegitimate and hateful a purpose—a war which we cosseeiiesif cheerful, sincere, good Masser preveltivg one sides.: denotes prosperity and comfort. Since r Noma _
tarried on in the visit which Inn been a" 'weds a" Iten'lli4 diteriittiferelit . thought I, from an ..evening scene in a ' the country I have been looking la all directtlW
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`lvor Ofezternsination—ata not fielded either in truth, *II ~° „ .., , at
Iv, somitorcy—not io truth, because when we contemplate the tannin sea port ! Yet Dieppe is said to be one of •for the ruins of France : for the horrible effects'
Treaty Tiltit, and other Treaties made with France, by Me the coarsest places in France. There is more appear- j the Revolution, of which to' much' is said op' illit
Powers now in anis:ice with England, we have just as much
security for the flithful ohservahre of Treaties bs the preseat ance of enjoyment, and less of positive suffering than I side of the water ; but instead of a ruined c'enntrfs
Ruler of France, as by any of the other Powers now iii amity I ever beheld before, or had.any conception of ; but I see fields highly cultivated, and towns fell of in.
with his Majesty—nut la justice, inasmuch as It is uninst to wage •it is not the sort of enjoyment Which suits my habits; habitants. No houses 'tumbling down, or etwltyp•
war against a single ividividual—and impolitic, became it is s•
evident that the King of France has been universally rejected I question if I could be happy in their way. What :no ragged, wretched-looking, people. I hate ess.
by the people, in favour of his more fortunate rival ; a painstaking unfortunate race we are! So busy...spired, and every body assures me, that agri••
Contemplating as we do the strength of this Island, and the ' about living, that we really have not time to lire ! culture has been improving rapidly for the that
weakness of the force of every other maritime nation in cum-
parison with the naval farce of this kingdom, we are decidedly . and our recreations have so much of vice in them, twenty-five years ; that the riches end comforts, of
of opinion that it is unnecessary at this time to enter into anew ' that serious folks have imagined it impossible to be the cultivators of the soil have beets doubled during
war; and as win cannot be maintained by the Allied Powers
without pecuniary assistance from this nation, by granting sub- peop e ere, thoug ,that per ; anthat
both merry and wise. The lhb in- rind d vast Improvement has taken
sidim for that purpose, we sh al be liecessorY to the deaths of finitely behind us in the accommodations of life, seem place in the condition and character of the common
the thousands that wilt fail in the contest, RDA to alt the other
misery and devastation which such a war will occasion. We
to be as much our superiors in the art of living. lam people. In the early part of the Revolution; more
do, thereAsre,
most strongly protest against being plunged by informed that all the children of the labouring class was done in the promoting the instruction of the
his Majesty's Ministers into a we 4%,) likely to increase the en- • learn to read; and are generally taught by their lower order than the sinister policy of tire late
'ossifies which the last has entailed an us, by producing and-oc- i
parents. The relation between a good education and Emperor was able to destroy ; and, though much
essioaingan enormous itterease of the Public Debt—a restore- .
tin/lase continuance of that iniquitous sad inquisitorial Tax good morals might be studied here to advantage, by . remains to be desired on this point, enough In
called the Pt overt s Tax—au alarming diminution of ore Trade
mid Manafactures—the total destruction •of• Public Credit—an ; i
; the opposers of our improved modes of teaching the ° been effected to show that a well-educated corn-
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abridgineat of our Cmnfirts—and a shameful profusion of the 1 children of the poor. ; monalty would not be wanting in industry or se
Blood and Treasure of the Country, is saPPorl Ma a war fir an i On the subject of Education, our author after- ' ordination. The National .Domaktm, consteilog of
nhlfc.l ^to the principles which 111a1Md his Majesty's i wards ' -s, that at Deville• I the confiscated estates of the church, and the mi.-

grant nobility, were exposed to sale daring this
pecuniery distresses of the Revolutionary (ie►ern-
meat in small .portions, for the accoineiodifien .f.
the, lowest order of purchasers, and five pint
" allowed for completing the payment. TM. 1114.
dulgence, joined to the
.depreciation of onsignast
enabled the poorest description of peasants to
become proprietors ; and soca -they are timent

be then describes - • , I universally.; possessing from one to ten acres.—
Having quitted the Pyresteei, and entered en a', And as the ediCation of the poor was sedeionsly
district where, instead of small fields, numerous promoted during the early years of the Revolution,
villages, and a thick population, are large towns, their great advance, in character as will as condi-
Irftge dkisions of land; and fewer people ; I haie Lion, is no mystery. I prefer the country-character
to remark, on taking lave of my mountain friends, of France to that of the city. Firths former, the
that tbeir•peeerty is stone ie appearance than reality. !good fruits of She ltetoluWa. ease -visible at evdry
....Tbopirsaufrogattsatits, avid- consider as luxuries' step : previous to that ere, in the country, the
some things which may perhaps be among the neces- !-most numerous class, the bulk of the • population,
series of life in the estimation of their lowland ; all but the Nobles and the Priests, were wretchedly
neighbours. They are not an alms taking indigent poor, servile, and thievish. This class has assumed,
peasantry, but laborious and independent, living' a new character, improved in proportion to the
open little, and heedless how ; but nothing of the improvement of its condition. Servility has va.
negligence which is the constant companion of hope- nished with their poverty ; their thievishness, an ef.
fees poverty is discoverable in their fields, on the , fect of the same cause, has also, in a great measure,
contrary, they are cultivated with garden-like exact- disappeared.
ness. Their lands and their cattle show that they As to the present state of agriculture, manatee.
are far removed from beggary and want. In the i tures, and the arts, our author gives the following in-
richer tracts, where their little estates are produc- formation:—
five with moderate Wit, the inhabitants are living in By the Revolution, every oppression on agri.
great plenty end comfort. Those beautiful and far- ' culture was done away ; tithes, game laws, comes,
tile nines which converge at Tarascon, seems to Ste. Since that time, much new ground has been
unite lowland abundance with mountain simplicity. I brought into cultivation, and none of the old
On the labouring class, and farm servants, Mr. I abandoned. The modes of husbandry have ins-
Hirkbeck has furnished the following interesting facts, , proved in many districts, by the introduction of
which we have extracted from his work without any fallow crops and artificial grasses. Roue and its
regard to the order in which they are there placed. neighbourhood is a principal seat of the cotton
On my first landing, I was struck with the re- Imanufactory ; the Manchester of France. These
spectable appearance -of the labouring class ; I see great works have been wholly at a stand during
the same marks of comforts and plenty, every where , the latter years of the war, owing to the scarcity
as I proceed. I asked for the wretched peasantry, and enormous price of the raw material : they are
of whom I have heard and read so much; but lam I now recovering their activity. I was admitted
always referred to the revolution ; it seems they into a cotton mill at Deville, which employs 600
viinished then.—Wages about Lund, 20d.'a day ! people; the neatness and regularity of arrange.
the men ; 10d. to 15d. the women.—Asked some meat, and the decent appearance of the work.
men who were digging in a vineyard, how many, people, bespoke a well-managed and prosperous
_shirts they had ;—fifteen to twenty, " suivant Itt: concern. I thought the machinery good, of this,
personae," was the reply. I have met with this however, I am not a competent judge. Twist is
unequivocal proof of riches in every part of the I completed by four operations from the carding, and
country. The labouring class, formerly the poor,-' tare weaving costs only V. per yard. Women
are no fickle consequence of the national domaing-I who attend the looms earn 15d. per day, eft"
having been sold in small allotments, at very low eleven pounds of bread ; therefore the low price
rates, and with the indulgence of five years for corn- is not the result of low wages; a fact which de.
pleting. the payment. Thus here are few labourers serves the attention of the promoters of Corn
er domestic servants who are not proprietors of land. , Bills in England. It is the opinion here, that the
Lying between the Pyrenees and the Mediterra- high price of provisions, with us, will soon give
nean, Roussillon enjoys mountain gales and sea the French manufacturers the means of exceeding
; breezes, kith the fertility of a southern tiale•, and, ours in cheapness. Leuviers, famous for its line
what adds mach to the delight of this paradise, a cloths, is favourably situated on a beautiful clear
happy peasantry. M. confirmed my general stream, of which full advantage appears t 6 be
observations on this head. lie also informed me taken, for working their machinery: Here are
that it was usual for a youth of 16, to hire himself as several noble establishments for spinning woollen
a domestic servant in agriculture; and, when he er- yarn. Their cropping or shearing machines were
rives at 21 or 22, to have laid 4400 or 500 franks, performing their office with the greatest prepition.—
' HU. or 201. sterling. With 400 franks, he buys a I think they_ are wide awake to mechanical improve.
earthy and marries; his wife has probably a little meats.
portiere. He has an opportunity also of buying . Nothing has a greater tendency to indite° those
15,000 square toises (nearly an acre and half Eng- • who are possessed of a little money, to take up
lisl4 of uncultivated mountain land, rocky and poor, their residencain France, than the low rate at which
but At for vines; for this he pays 15 or 2Q franks, landed property may be purchased there when
I andbeibnies a proprietor ; having a constant resource compared with its price in this country. The fol.
of profitable industry, in winter, when work may lowing statement places this io a very striking point
Ibe se.aree. Wages, in the busy season (which is of of view :
pretty long duration, including harvest and thrash- One thousand acres arable, 500 woodland, equal
ing, then the vintage, and afterwards the olives) 40 to 1650 acres English ; one-third of the- Ible
anus and board, women 25 sous, without board.— cold clay, of little value; two-thirds
The allowance of board Is 31h. of bread, lib. of wheat land ; part dry enough for turnij
meat, besides vegetable dishes, such as barrlco., &c. lease for nine years (which the tenate
and three bottles of wine per day : is harvest and up on receiving a fair price for his stock
thrashing, six bottles of wine. The pound French at 9000 frank., 3751. sterling; and lar
is about equal to 18 ounces English. franks, 661. 13s. per annum, might be
The Shepherd is a wealthy man. His wife showed we understand, for about twenty-two years
us her ample Mores of home-spun linen. She sows 84331. On this estate is au excellent

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pretty good
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would give t. •
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Ind tax 11300
•be bought, as 1
ars I•ar4;hase,
it house, t