The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-11 00:00:00

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justiee most be done to One, that justice naybe done
to the many, consider attentively the following at-
tieles of war, framed by the Kink in pursuance of the
authority granted by the Mutiny Bill.
" See. xvi. Art. xxx. • Whatsoever commanding of-
ficer shall be convicted before a general court-martiil
of behaving in a scandalous infamous manner, such as
• is irebecoming Me character °fan officer and a gentle.
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assn, shall be dismissed from our service, provided.
however, that in every charge preferred against an of-
ficer for such scandalous or unbecoming behaviour.
• the/actor/lets, whenever the sami.is grounded, shall
" be clearly specified ;' and again, ' lest this article
• night est be sufficiently comprehensive and sufficiently
.eapacioes to embraceall possible cases of misconduct,
it ill direoted,' Act. ii. See. xxiv. ' But all crimes not
capfrel, and alt disorders and neglects which officers
. . s 4 ',Wien may he gollty of, to the prejudice of
f
aodorderiad military discipline, though not sport-
, jed in tfemsfal roles arid articles, are to be taken cog-
' Munro 4111# a- general or regimOotel court-martial,.
actordiog-to the nature and degree of the, 'fence, and
, • . to.bsc punished at their discretion. •
i.•:- • . • "A sweeping clause, that includes in its scope clap-
, plication, every word, or deed, which may be uttered,
• or committed ; that can in any way, and in the re-
. moteet degree. be connected with militia" interests
, . and character; a clause, let it be remembered. that"
• • /As tethority to judges selected and nonsked 4'
• Bpi'
Crown, and whose interests are essentially inter-
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woven with, and dependant on the favour of the
• Crown.
• , " Bat the advocates fur the prerogative in dispute'
clea,_eitt satisfied that all acts or expressions, andeheir
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• ',.• t tesilieecies, should be made answerable to coorts•mar-
?•-`• • ; -. I that; they require power to remove officers fur ere-1
l'''''''•• •••
'• ' ' . mimed thoughts—fur presumed feelings—on secret
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.:-..,•, • • .. charge—on insidious whisper—on constructive ans-
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~' ' ' picOtme—on false testimony—on slanderous report, or
• .4.. ~ ~.:•,.-:t..,-,,,... on personal dislike—but these advocates forget that
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- -...,... irs. • - the King has the power, when he ameheededisaffee-
, tine or prejudice to the service by the employment of
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• . • . . n officer, to suspend his reactions, to arrest his person
stittieprive him of all commend. The King has the
" W ....4 N 14-' •4 ' •-• . , iteir to render an office completely powerless—to
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ill 'IL. . - lOW him but the name, or if he chose'', to remove him
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:s.'' from Ilac scene of imagined danger, to employ him on,
foreign stations, granting him but the alternative te
. tender hie resignation, and voluntarily retire.—These
-1' .5 • • ', 'Avocet. s forget, moreover, that an officer so suspect.
' '''' ed, whilst he holds a commission that be cannot abase,
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from being deprived of ail command, is himself
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rph..hiena ...cdreerwd:utbbleererfeearter.areingt,eibryes
nobeisungehexpproosetedeti7toe
' -i""• N •-. • elie.xietion of the military, as well as the civil code of
• ' -.• law. Thus the Government possess a double cheek
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right to dismiss officers, much less to cashier
.1: ' . • them ; to levy a fine, which can in no nay, direct])
• .o•llfittle. promote a lawfal object ; and which nee
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....: can be levied, arbitrarily. by.. the Kiser' counsellors
7 ' •-,.. v . lefffieitt proving, that the object is not the prom-
.• ••• . ties sof discipline, but the isdulget'ce of a vindictive
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. - When the Mutiny Bill -diet pesseikalieve
„ that epoch, 'moors officers than were isilaired
discharge of military duties. There
ethers sad half-pay officers. When

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filet passed, there was no ;maws,
ofikers bed only a life income in
welled no property which they bad .
whenever they choo.e to leave the profession.
" The removal of officers in former times on the
ground of necessity, to frustrate disloyal machinations,
was, perhaps, therefore, more speciously justifiable
upon the pretext, that what the King gave, the King
might take away, sod the injury done to the indivi-
duals was, on the ground of personal interest, less ob-
- jeetionable and violent ; but it was declared in the
.House of Commons, and in the Mom of Lords, In the
year 1735, by Lord Chesterfield and Mr. Pulteney, on
titeir own knowledge, that George I. was so conscious
of the abuses which might be committed under the as-
snmption of this power, that be had himself assented
to the bringing in of a Bill, or introduction oft clause
into the Mutiny Bill, ' to prevent any officer being re-
moved from the army without sentence of a court-mar-
tial, or by address from either Moose of Parliament.' "
In no other Kingdom or state in Europe are Writers
cashiered or deprived of their commissions, other that
by the jedameat of a court-martial. The Emperor of
Austria, autocrat as he is, does not pretend to this
power; " and it is a positive fact that the exercise of
it in Hoglund has excited the greatest astonishment in
every foreign Government."

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I.IIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAT, MARCH 9.

Today their Lordships met about a quarter to four,
when it was anticipated that certain Bills, including
the Circuits Commissions Bill, would be received from
the Commons, but it now appeared that they had not
been passed, by the other House, to the requisite stage.
The Attorneys and Solicitors' Regulation Act Amend-
ment Bill passed through a Committee, and was report-
ed without any amendment to the House.—Adjourned
to Monday.

Abstnet of the Grose and Net Revenue of the Post-oleo of
ihe. Wiest Marlow. +il► Merges of Mumogeammit-ead

rite per eent. of Colleetlon, (iide Annual finance Ae-
rostats to the oth January, 1911,) for the year ending Bth
Jamey, MI.

try., of

Gross Receipt.

Net Receipt.

1.11114.31 17
173,40 17

1,618,799 13 71
78.818 9 31

1500,129 II ii
111,831 19 011

Ictaaael.,
Total U.

.140016061 16 10

'LOOMIS) 17

L 7, 9011 $ 111

Omit Britain.. ... ..

lrelaad ....... ....

SIR—As Palliasresttioes.sotappear
date taxation. It follows, as s rimier of
the farmers most redact it themseltss.

as moat as possible. from taxed articles.
in this respect. and nnder thepresent circumstances,,is
an act not only of personal virtue, but of gennine pa-
.triotism ; and greater acts of self-denial than this,
have been practised by all nations, in different periods
of their history, when coder the pressure of esteaordi
nary circumstances. We should coosider, too: that in
abstinence from a taxed article, we not only save the
amount of the taxes upon that ankle, hot al+o tilt"
cost price. For instance : let as take a pound of tea,
at 81. p.r lb. In not drinking any tea, I not only
save 45., the amount of the tax. bit the whole Bs. ;
and the same of coffee, wine, beer, &e. &c., which. el-
together. will produce an immense saving in a large
family. These articles, too, are not necessaries of life,
and are pill to be injurious to health. Why, then,
aboolikee be so anxious about the Parliament's taking
off the taw from them, when we can so easily do it our•
selves, and cat up taxation, and the corruption which
It engenders, by the roots ? This is the best way tu milks j
ourselves independent. It is true, that there are whet
articles we cannot do without, as salt,asandles, soap,
and shoes. lint even in these, we may greatly relieve
ourselves by economy. The times require the exer-
cise of Ibis virtue, which tends to ennoble oar nature.
and exalt our patriotism. 'rite same rule must meal
to tht landlords and tythe-owners, who can then
duce their rests, inasmuch as their demestic explentalsl
will be so greatly reduced. lii short, if this principlel
of abstinence, this great moral Warns, were to be ex-
tended through every branch of agriculture and trade;
a political reform would be the ineviiableconseqneece.
As to morgues and debts contracted at the time of
high prices, there is no remedy but in an Act of Par-
liament. But let as apply remedi where we etc,
I ahall now give a list of tatted article, that may be
dispensed with, taken from the Excise duties :
Total of Excise Duties Is about ...... 16,00"
Beer raises about . n.800,000

by 121 to 94.

Hops .-. , . . 3500,0U0
Malt ..4.600.000
Spirits, Brills], and Foreign II uoo,ouu •
Tea 8,000,000
Coffee and Cocoa MAIM I
Irvder and Perry 10.0111,1• • ,
Wine 900,000
Tobacco and Snuff' ...11,6U0,01111
,-- icoaknoo

Leaves C 7,0111000
This is a striking specimen of what mirht• be dons
by the people, If they w0n4.1 be persuaded to drink
milk and water for one twelvemonth, athl abstain foi
ever, from filthy tobacco and snuff. If people. weskill
take such remedies as there into their own hash* esr
expenses of thavernment and the interest of the debit
would soon find their proper level, and Peel's 811 l

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS n‘Y AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock..
S per Cent. Red. Shut Drtto Ronda 04. 40.. 30s. pen
3 per CLCon 781 79 , South Sea Stock
Se per Cent South Sea Old .Aon .
4 per Cents.
6 per Cts. Navy 108} {3 , --SOX— 4'. is. pm
3 per Cent. 1 --Small 32.45.65. pet
Long Ann.. Shut , Cat. for Aeet
fop. 3 per Cent i India for ditto
Irish b err Cent Lott. Tickets 8t99 14

'reject resirii4l4lriplices of the
moved st• Iredstesday My the
supported by the Duke de
17 thejnrisdiction given relative
he Cour Royale, was begativ.eil

French rive per Cents.—Toesday, 91f. 1 Or.—Wed-
oesday. 91f. 35e.

Virginia papers arrived this morning to the 10th of
February, from which we extract the following :

Letters from Havannab, received by the Catboatteal
represent the whole coast of Cuba was blockaded lit
the piratical privateers. The intercourse between Hr
h and Matanzas is rendered precarious and day
getout them. A Spanish 74, two gun brigs, sad
a sloop of war were off Havannab, bound to Europe.
with a great deal of specie on board, said to amount to
six millions of dollars. It was thought thin this would
be the last money that Spain would receive from Mex.
leo, the revolution in that country being considered se
complete, two Patriot cruisers being off the Havannah.
The United States schooner, Porpoise, has taken fie*
more Algerine cruisers, on the !Oast of Cuba, bard'
four of them, and kept one as a tender. .
[FROM TUE Matti:MY or FIR. 21
WRIT INDIA RIPIEDICTIONS.—At as adjourned m
hag of the citixeps, held yesterday, to consider t
propriety of memorialising Congress to repeal the
striction Acts of Ifild and 1620, is was deiengisid
that the meeting should adjourn eime.die. The quee-
r dell was, therefore, not taken on the memorial, and
*isslter rests where it did previous to 6be call.
•• • [FROM TOR ORRALD or vas. 9:1
Tee HANK'. OF COMMODORE OP TOR NAVY ARO.
zientro.—l he laws of the New States not having es-
tablialied.among Navy Officers any grade above thin
of Captain, and great ineuereniences luring, psi
food in the are of the nominal title of Commoderi. It
is heed, made.hnown, that emends title will be heei-
'aftef recognised by the department. istil the samba be
established by law. ' •
The WA .papers that have come to hand to-day stn
unfortunately of the same description asthose we hams
too long beets accustomed to receive. Though ao fresh
murders have been committed, nor bosses set on fire.
the visits fur arms continue, intimidating notice, are
still spread abroad, and those:, who, till lately, had ab-
stained from plundering any of the property they de-
rub the houses they sure
slaughter cattle. The Sp
the mean time, are
with activity. ,
men were eon '
!barked fot Xsei
day Sloss nor* will*
punishment. One of Ibsen
sensation 00 the spot,
detail. . smother part of our pa-
per; is order to give our readers an idea of premise-
nese of the Court, and of its mode of procedure. On
the third day four persons were put to the bar, and all
acquitted ! One of them was a decent young man,
from the race course of Newcastle, who was charged
with having been out after the time prescribed ' io
the Act. He was proved to have pecuniary busi-
ness in tow.; sad it also appeared the time pre-
sribed for being at home was understood to be
' nine o'clock, and that the proclamation respecting it
had been often takes down when posted. The Court
Is this case stated to the prisoner, that he was se-
quined, without any stain or impulsion on his cheese-
eer whatever; but that he was ungsarded in being
lest at such as hour, and that it wee twitch to be re... 1
greeted that he tees incoareiieneed mod put to expense
—that be was discharged without the stein of being
idle or disorderly.—Another person was a surveyor.
sod was taken as haves going to settle a dispute be-
tween opponents of the same clan. The other two
were charged with having powder and ball in the
thatch of their bosses. Neither of them appeared to
know of the circumstances ; and one of them. Mr.

William Daly, ■ highly respectable farmer, pos.
'eased proper'y to the amount of there hundred
pounds a year, and was so highly esteemed that a wit-
ness, Robert 11. Manosell, Esq. bad it in contempla-
tion to enroll him in an association for the
defence of the neighbourhood. Oe his acquittal. Mr.
Serjeant Toenails told him " be was creditably ac-
quitted—his character upheld ; that no doubt Captain
Drasight (the Police Magistrate)„sae justified under
the circumstances of the case, to investigate the mat-
ter ; that it was not for the miserable and wretched pea.
sentry to be incarcerated, while the wore opulent would
be unnoticed—No, the law knew no distinction ; be
hoped Mr. DALT would inquire after his domestics,
for that some invidions ill-disposed character had con-
eealed for bad purposes, this ammunition, and it lay.
upon him to inquire diligently into the matter."—At
Realm!' Special Sessions. thirty-one Magistrates ap-
peared on the Bench. and three persons were found
guilty, and two acquitted.

In another part of our paper will he found the re-
port of s trial at the Limerick Sessions. which will
give visa to many serious reflections. It is that of
MICIMEL CAMIOLL, who war tried for below out of
his loom after nn-wet. This man. who is a respect-
Ads farmer, bad bees to a meigiihuuring'fair. selling
;rMid CNN. He was anliteil. on his retire
e, within a smarter of sena o'clock, and bad
btlH onlyMten othentes over the time limited by the
bierrreetiiit Act. It is to be olmeried. that person,

TH$ STATESMAN.
4.‘
dheassi 4 the Proje
pppsr disp.„4 ti Prods. AP Aaseadinent
ier of ntresairy.
Coast di Bastard, sod
Irito. by abstainiog, Broglie, for taking away
add's. Selfadonial, to these offences to tin

in no nay, directly°, would soon find their proper level, and f'eel's Din
stroyed, now proceed to ro-b the
'et ; and which never alight be suffered to Lice its natural course. That te'
1 Kitten t onosellors, this it must come at last, appears almost certain.— arid " 'hi" away sad leughtel
3 in not the 0 rojer. For if rents are lot paid, and wages, and tradetosin's llnitainos at Limerick, is the
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genee of a vindictive bills are greatly reduced, consumption of taxed arti• r tie on their proceedings
else must, in the nature of things, be reduced also, th day tliey commenced, ten
passed, aben woo. et though it is difficult to say to what extant ; brew's%
is' '
*X ler Garb to be einll
were rapenired for dig • OS the other band, the mannfacturers, Ors,. tiotosexhi
're 'men unattached ors, aad the Oevernetent Aeon ems teiiiirpoloissa. lIIIIL Mid .0%. the filthPirlol
Theo the Mutiny Bill same more that before.—Your's, &c. s • sesteiteed to the same punish.
low of commissions ; Royston, Feb. 29, 1992. 0. FORDIIAM, Jan. cages baring @ached amuck se
d a right to repossess,
in the service—they P. S. If you will be so good as to insert this is your
we btu
_ 4"awes tuts
'' ar..11 is as
paper, I intend showing in my next letter, in whal . . . '' '
m taxes oppress the tenantry of the country. eerf i
'profession. s order Neve Oaf readen