The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-11 00:00:00

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Aitacme PaPer asks, 4g epos whit litineitle of jostle"
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srafrarnald ask. has the Bank abstained front ,burst
lierell,the svidenee is their powers in eases of fort
leery t What coneeivabtematire eae they have had
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fee est bringing forward, en every (mention, del
ageing Clerk ?" The same "Journal reprobates III&
evidence of the Inspector afire Baakk, given upins
Ml ("ger trials, as insufficient; and asserta,,that he
neghts have disclosed the private iftarks by *SA,
he knew a note to be forged ; for that, otheillh,
`' the Jury most have conticted upon suppo.ition*
not trim.evidence;" though the same I,urnai ftia
previously said, that such . disclosure could only
serve to warn, and render the forgers more discreet.l
That the Juries who condemned without the covivie.
lion of their own senses, decided upon supposition 1
,or belief, and not upon right evidence, was what we
ventured to assert yesterday ; hut to whet a horrible
inference does this lead, with respect to all the nem.
tions of late years for forcing Bank of England notes!
for certainly, upon that" supposition," if it is no more
than a supposition, hare many lives been foifeited.—
The Ccurier, however, is still blundering among
errors and misstatements when it speaks of the late
littietitafs, arid the motives which weighed with the
Juries, and would be derisive with all honest men.
The Jury acquitted AVilliams on Saturday, because
they disbelieved the evidence of Underwood, a wit.
news every way infamous. It was in Connor's case
tharthe evidence of the forgery was deemed unsatis-
factory. On Monday (inward was tried, and the
Signing Clet-h, as well as the Inspector, was prodUced
to prove the forgery. There was therefore no doubt
that the note was forged, but the Jury did not be-
lieve that the prisoner knew it to be forged, sod the
Judge was evidently of the same opinion. With re-
spect to Dye, brought up on the same day, Mr. ger-
jeaut BOSA PIQUET allowed of his acquittal, on the oc-
knowletigroent that he had no other evidence to pro-
duce but that of Underwood.

The French Papers to the Bth, and Mails from
Flanders and Ilamburgh, hare arrived. The Paris
Journals announce a partial change in the French
Ministry. Count COI! YETTO, the Minister of Fi-
nance, has resigned, and M. ROY, Member for Pa-
ris in the Chamber of Deputies, has succeeded trim.
The state of the Funds seems to have rendered this
change in the Ad.ninistration a matter.of expediency.
The 5 per Cents. on Tuesday last were 08f. 50c. The
Moniteur announces, that some exaggerated state.
ments have been conveyed in private letters from
Lyons to the capital, respecting certain seditious
cries and movements which had been observed
in the (sipper city, whilst the Conscription Law
wee carrying into execution throughoet the de-
partment of the Rhone. The accounts thus re-
probated by public authority were, indeed, of
% sufficiently alarming nature. It was said that
busts of BOA CARTE •nd his son bad been borne
triumphantly through the streets, amidst the spplauses
of the Federes : that the Marseilloit llyma -Ca•ira
—Les Aristocrats a la lawlerne, &c. were sung io all
directions; that the Carniagnok was publicly danced,
and a Clergyman threatened with death : finally,
that the Magistrates bad overlooked and permitted
these offences, which they chose to regard as trifles
unworthy of restraint or reprehension. The above
story is declared, in the Paris Paper, to be no better
than a series of gross misrepresentations ; no excess
or impropriety having in truth been committed be-
yond a few seditious cries by detached individuals,
for the most part drunk. The wonder is, according
to the Journalist, that such a law as that of the
Conscription should have been carried into effect,
for the first time, with so great success; and with so
little difficulty, or danger, or hostile demonstration.
The Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord CASTLE •
RE %MI, dined on the sth inst. at the hotel of the
Spanish Ambassador, the Duke of Fcarramo-Nu-
NEZ. The Duke of AncouLemt arrived at Lisle on
the 3d inst. The Emperor ALEXANDER was expected
to arrive at Vienna on the 12th inst. The Germanic
Diet, at Frankfort, will not reassemble until the 7th
of next month ; but the Committee appointed at
Ai:As-Chapelle, for the affairs of Germany, will
meet in a few days.

The parties recently arrested at Brussels are said
to have been engaged in a plot tending to ezcite a
civil war in the Netherlands; bet the particolsrs
were not expected to transpire, until the completion
of the preliminary proceedings, which, it was sup-
posed, would still occupy two or three weeks.
It is stated in the Ifsmburgh Letters; that in con.
sequence of a formal requisition, made by the Spa-
nil!) Minister at liambnrgh, a great number of young
men who had rendevonsed there, in order take ship.
ping for South America, to join the Patriots, had
been arrested when just on the eve of embarking.
Two ships that were waiting for them, and on board
of which a considerable number of ♦olunteers had
contrived to get before the order of arrest was issued,
put immediately to sea, and got clear away. -

Yesterday, about half-past one o'clock, the
Penns Baum'. left Carlton-house, for Brighton.
WiNDSON, Dt.c. 9.—The Princesses AUGUSTA and
the Duchess of Gr.ouccsrmt are living in great se-
clusion in the Palace. The Princess SOPHIA is so
much better as to be able to take an airing in her
carriage in the Park, w hen the weather is 4ufficienrly
fine. This morning Lord GIIKATEI. accompanied by
several Gentlemen of the Corporation, commenced
his canvass, to succeed the late Mr. Diseaowa
in representing this borough in Parliament. his
Lordship was received by the Electors with every pro-
spect of success, and no opposition has yet been of.
feted to bim.