The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-28 00:00:00

when the the houses of our inoffensive and Illustrious
fellow cbristians and fellow subjects were to be burnt
to the ground. But in what don all this clerical
solicited. for Religion as exemplified in the ifr
stance before "Si consist ? In regard to the grates
and virtues of the Christian life ? In glorifying the
attributes of the Creator, by striving to imitate the
example et his diffusive benevolence? In following
the steps of that Divine teacher, who was meek and
lowly of heart, and taught his Disciples to deny the
world, to sacrifice all selfish and sordid affections, and
to do unto others as they would have others do unto
them? Is this the religion of St. Andrew's Hol-
born ? 0 ! no. Nothing of the kind appears to
be thought neeessary. All the ohjeet held in
view is the outside of the platter, while the inside
is full of corruption. The one thing needful there,
seems only a reverence for the building, called a
clinmh, a worship of the stocks and stones, which
men only who are desired to be like stocks and stones
themselves, are expected to pay. It is this blind, su-
perstitious, and hypocrital spirit which every where
through the country is cow attempted to be armed
against the progress of knowledge, the general sense
of rectitude, and the popular claims of right. But
the attempt cannot succeed.

A respectable provincial Bank, it appears by an
Exeter paper, has keen under the necessity of sus-
pending its payments. This misfortune is ascribed,
and probably on good grounds, to false and malicious
reports. it cannot, however, fail to be observed, that
the restrictions of the Bank of England discounts must
occasion much embarrassment to all provincial Banks.
These must of course be compelled to limit their ad-
vances and the prudent measures they take to retain
their credit, may prove the very means to bring them
into suspicion. No small proportion of the failures in
the country districts, and of the stagnation in domestic
trade, is ascribed to the refusal of accustomed accom-
modations. These, however, though personally se-1
me, and, for a season, generally distressing, are not I
the greatest evik that arise from the measures of the
Bank of England to prepare for the resumption of rash
payments. tf He immediate effects of these at-
tempts,
or rt sine of the necessary consequences of
the pervious gskbetitution of a paper for a metallic cur-
rency, has been a rise, proportional to the accommoda-
tion-paper withheld, in the value of the medium that
actually circulates, and a corresponding depreciation
in the money-value of all the articles of trade. Hence
the loud complaints of farmers, as may be known by
the Agricultural Petition in another part of our paper
to-day. These persons are now compelled to sell their
produce at two-thirds, or sometimes only half of the
average sum it okained in former years. while their
rents and taxes continue nominally the same, and eves
proportionally enhanced to the receivers. This class of
people would be fealty objects of commiseration had
they not been formerly as vehement in their efforts to
promote the origin of these calamities as they are at
present in urging selfish and sinister modes of redress
for the grievances under which they labour. Inde-
pendent of these pernicious consequences of the ex-
tension of the paper system, there is another, which

the suspension of payment in such an establishment

as the Devonshire Bank occasions to be very widely
and severely felt. From the confidence which country

people have been accustomed to place in the stability
of those of whom they have personal knowledge.
• rother thanfilirof an institution at a distance, with
which they are imperfectly acquainted, they
are always more disposed to be holders of their local
noes, than of notes of the Bank of gngland t and on
The failure of a country Bonk, that class of persons who
have peter been indebted to such an establishment fur
accommodation, become. in proportion to their pro-
perty, the greatest sufferers by its explosion.

Private letters of the highest commercial authority,
from Paris, received yesterday, mention, that the King
of Naples bad at length received the permission of his
Parliament to attend the Conferences of the Allied So-
vereigns at ILayboeb, to which he bad been larked.—
The Preach papers, some days ago, noticed that a
secret consomaicatiou has been made by the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, to the Neapolitsa Parliament. It
would now seem that the object of this message was
to lay before the Parliament the Remonstrances and
Injunctions received from the Allied Sovereigns, ac-
companied by a request to know whether they ought
to be compliest.sith. The Paris betters state, that a
positive refusal was at first given; bat on a woad
consomnication being made, with farther elneidations
and additional date, the Parliament gave their consent
that the King should attend the Conferences, to which
he bad been so strenuously invited.
This fart, saes one morning paper, if confienieds
meet prove of the most serious importance. The mere
promise to appear on such a citation commits him to
the joorney—snd, if receded from, will be seised as
,lea ground of mortal offence by the armed poteatates,
who would desire no more favourable pretest for en-
forcing their designs against the people and liberties
of Naples. lf, on the other hand, the King should out.
venter* beyond the frontiers of his own realm, it is not a
matter of speculation or suspicion what use would be
made of him by his Imperial and Royal brothers. Pissed
in their beads, be becomes the puppet of their will. He
west speak 'hammer league they dictate. He most re-1
tract witalever oaths be may be eedoseil loseserverate were
takes by Wu antler ~Mos. He oseeteigs whatever re-
ji reticles may be posed Ambito agalbst his whiqrpy peo-
pie. lie must publish whatever proelantetiosseasy be ap•
iprored by his sovereign protectors. selling* WI",
rebellooisiojoinisg shoat es lay dews their asektri—eled
portlier the Perliamest—assolllig tiM ossetieredes‘l

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