The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-06-04 00:00:00

TUE STATESM,

a passport to the approbation and future sopped of
its constituents, by voting Reform the most enrlees-
tory thing that could be proposed to that Mesa;
end, as Mr. CANNING said, that " no evil pro-
St.
wailed, and no remedy was necessary ;" for, " when
was it that Parliament acted more effectaally for coax
the benefit ,of the community;" and %, what order SP'
of men were there now that were not virtually M
represented, and whose interests were sot defended v
belier than by any other form of election." Yester-
day the pure and Honourable House, which defends
the interests of all orders of society so well, repre-
sented or not represented, gave us another practical
proof of its disposition to maintain the *aim set up
against Reform sad enquiry into abuses, that " an
evil masts, and no remedy is necessary." The fate
Mr. BROUGHAM'S motion for a Royal Commissioe
to enquire into abuses in Charitable Institutions, the
resistance given to this measure in the Han of Lords
having rendered an Address to the Crown necessary
for accomplishing the object of the Bill, affords this
eacalleot and appropriate illustration of how virteal.
Iy, that is how effectually the interests of even the
most helpless order of the community are protected.
Abuses and plunderings the most flagrant and Noti-
ceable in the funds of the poor and of infants de-
pendent on benevolence have been unveiled, and re-
lontary disclosures of the utmost importance have
been daily pouring in. The House has been called
upon to stand between the living and the dead in this
respect; but instead of following the example of the
Prophet, and staying the plague which corrupt ad-
ministration has engendered end tolerated so long,
it stays enquiry, and holds it monstrous to think,
that examination should be made into such affairs!
If this shows not that evils do exist, and that re-
formation is necessary, we know not what evidence
would convince such men of its propriety. Though
a sham acquiescence is sometimes made in the
justice of a measure when that cannot be de-
nied, proteits are never wanting to defeat it, if it
threatens to have any effectual operation on the sys.
km. On this occasion, danger, the convenient bog-
bear that is, set up io another shape against Reform
in Elections, the danger of establishing a precedent
of difference of legislation between the branches of the
State, was employed against the motion, and this, or
more powerful apprehensions, with the exercise
of lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. CANNING'S oratory
to show that the interests of the question could only be
injured by setting up the authority of the House of
Commons against the House of Lords, and that they
bad batter consider the previous question, or any
other subject than that, completely persuaded the
majority of the House that the Lords were in the
right in amending the Bill into a nullity, and Mr.
BROUGHAM'S motion was lost by 54 against 29.
As might be expected, the official men being so much
alive to their honour, some of them considering
themselves slandered, yet spurning at enquiry, the
debate seems afterwards to have taken a very acri-
monious turn; bet whatever zeal may be manifested
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II by these sensitive Gentlemen on the score of their
reputations, or whatever connection they may have
`with the characters of others, plain and certain it is,
that it is the determination of the Legislature to stifle
enquiry in these as well as other monstrous abuses.—
Mr. BaouGuast gave notice of another motion
neat Session, for a Commission with greater powers
than those given by the present Bill ; but unless the
new Parliament shall be more disposed to admit the
necessity of Reform and enquiry into abuses than the
present, that Gentleman may save himself the pa-
triotic labour of esposing to such an assembly the
deformities of pvotected, criminality, and perceive
that the professions in favour of right and the mo-
derate reforms, that refuse to touch such crying
evils, mean nothing end can effect nothing.
The French Papers to the Ist inst. have come to
hand. The Court of Cessation had rejected the ap-
peal of the murderers of FuaLrms, who were there-
fore left for execution. The Date of WELLIIMIAMIN
was in Paris attending dress balls. It is stated wish'
some appearance of regret, that the French Govern-
went has excluded foreign subscribers from any share
in the Loan of 14,600,000 1. in consequence of the
very great Dauber of French subscribers. The price
which has been find for the 5 per Cent. Anoeitiesis
66 f. 50 c. affording a bonus to the subscriberstat the
last Saturday price quoted, of 2f. 53t. Tlie NIGSi•
mum for which any of the bidders has been allowed
to subscribe is 150,000 f. and the minimum 2,500 f.
An article from Madrid, mentions the receipt of
intelligence from Mexico to the 10th of January last,
stating, that Los Remedios, and all the other forts in
the mountains of San Gergorio, had surrendered ;
and that of the 1000 rebels who garrisoned them, be-
tween 600 gad 700 bad been killed, and 300 had
been made prisoners, including the trailer NUOTA,
GOMM MUM, two brothers of the rebel Tours,
kW of sisters, and a number of other females.
The ravines were filled with the slain', among whom
was found the Chief, Astacreo-Caus• All the
WY and baggage fell Wee the hands of the Itoyel
troops. On the ltd of December, Geom. Nemo
mrrprised and captured at Los Dolkirs,
Chief Boar°, with all his follower,. irst th,
s.
it the province, there only remeimmiAolo-,,
body of 200 rebels,, widths" yeasapsinedsk
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