The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-02 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN•

You still, find in it kite eFpressipn. of my complete
conviction, awl the most ostensive development of
the rellactions which I have here communicated to
,you with all the unreserre.(l'aboadon) of friend-
ship. I take pleasure in hoping that this overt ore,
and the observations which accompany it, will be
apitrociated by the elevated soul of your Majesty
in the true point of view. The conformity of
our principles gives me assurance of it, and affords a
presage of that system of conciliation, which it seems
so necessary to cause to prevail in that conflict of,
interests, PO the cessation of which depends, perhaps,
in a great measure, the progressive consolidation of
the useful labours of the European alliance.
Accept, sire, the profoundly felt assurance of my
attachment, and of the very distinguished considera-
tion with which I am, Sir, my brother, your Ma-
jesty's good brother, friend, and faithful ally,
(Sits ed) ALLILA %DER.

NEg'r Wcos EWA Y MORNING LOTTERY DRAWS
—THREE PRIZE% OF £IO.OOO.—ON E HUNDRED
PI rAt..4.—rwELVE PIPES OF PORT.

PRICE 01 STOCKS TIII4 DAY AT ONE OCLOCK
Hank Sinek 5 per Cent. Navy 10611
$ per Cent. Ited, 790 India MIMI 95 97 p
$ per Cent. Caw.o(• ;Sin . . Stark
( (unk for %re. 78i Long ►nn. 10i 11-161
4 per Cent. 991 Eacnequer Bilis 17 YU p

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MONDAY. MARCII 1, itl 18.

New York Papers to the 5 and Boston to the
6th of February reached us forenoon T'.ey
furnish an important and elato.r., • k.; .0.1 to Con•
gress from the Serve's.), of the 1 I ea• •. on the mea.
sures necessary for the more effectual as luau of the
laws for the collection uf ,be &fie% ,111. r.ed
goods, w..res, and merchantlize, pre, matt n. ..
.lence
to a Resolution of the House of R• I.re,snts; of
the 2fith of February, 11417. It embrace% aimonst
every object of ma toime commerce; 341111 ie, women&
a new and thorough Reform its the N:istgatitsti and
CAtectiou Laws. We regret we cannot insert it on
account of its length.
..Id story from the Mexican Estranrilinary
Gazette, %%bids has been held %n derisive of the fate
of General MINA, is repeated in the New York
Papers of the 3,1, from the National Intelligencer,
with the following additinn from Vera Out of the
7th of November :—" B-aisles the capture of MINA,
MA the destruction of all his hand, I have to corn-
muoirste to yon another important event ; namely,
that the ring-leader I3s.KGAKA hes jost delivered him.
self up, with all ilk men, to the Royal Troops at
Pu,nie del Key, by availing himself of the Indulto
(Anterrsty) published on the occasion of the Queen
having been happily delivered of a Princess."
A letter of Oct. 2'2, from CoquiMbn, Chili, men-
tions she capture of the Spanish ship Pella, from Ca-
diz, bound to Lima, by the Patriot Government brig
Aguas, on the 9th of that month, and being carricd
into Coquimbo, with a cargo worth 350,000 dollars.
The Bs itish frigate Amphion, from Buenos Ayres, ar-
rived at Coquimbo 15th October, and was to pro-
ceed for Lima.
Letters from Buenos Apes, concur in stating that
there were seven privateers fitting out of the
port. A prize to the brig --, formerly the Regent,
of New York, arrived on the 30th of Nov. with
40,000 dollars in specie, and a cargo of copper
invoiced at 200,000 dollars. Two Portuguese India.
men, valued at fire millions of dollars, had been
brought in, but %PIP given up, and sailed with the
Portuguese fleet for Rio Janeiro on the 30th of No-
vember. Captain Jewett, of the True Blooded
Yailee,was at Buenos Ayres, and it was said had got
the cash for all his prizes. There had been some skir-
mishing on the frontiers, in which the Patriots claim-
rd the victory.

The Government of Spain and the Colonial Pub-1
lic Bodies have fallen upon a new plan to preserve
their trade to the !Wien Continent, and pro-
cure tie means of tilting out the Russian squadron
and the other projected armaments against South
America. Letters from Madrid of the 18th, and
tram Cadix of the 6111 ult. briog the .unexpected
telligence that the Court of Spain had come to the
resolution of estaldiehing four free ports in the Pe-
ninsula, six. Cadiz, St. Andero, Commie, and Ali.
cant, where all kinds of foreign goods will be admit-
ted free of duties, arid allowed to be re•e4rorted
to all parts of South America, on paying only 3
per cent. at the time of being so re-exported. This
resolution has been adopted in consequence of a
strong representation from the Cadiz merchants,
who, by time and fatal experience, have been
induced to acknowledge their error in insisting on the
observance of their antiquated laws of the Indies,
or Colonial regulations; at the same time that they
find themselves compelled to suggest and support
some plan, in order to counteract the shipments made
by foreigners and " other smugglers" (as they call
thee) to the Trans-Atlantic Provinces, as well as
the importations effected by virtue of privileged li-
liceoces grunted to individuals, the whole of which is
alleged to be detrimental to the interests of the Mer-
chants. residing in the Peninsula.
Under the existing state of things in the Mexican
provinces, where goods are escorted from the lending
port to the ca;•ital with 1000 men, Spanish trade is
very email; the remainder of the Continent is sop-

plied. tbroegh other channels. The eaecetioss of the
Project has been confided to the pirector of General
'fazes, a sebnrdinate department under the Finance
Minister, whose dispatch, communicating the Royal
Order to the Cadiz Cons:glade, is in town.—The
intelligence of tl)s arrangement has *Created some-
sensation in this City. To facilitate the transit of
goods to the Spanish Colonies, is certainly an object
of great importance to the British Merchants ;
but, if the Government of Spain can thus act
''towards her revolted Provinces, how is it that
the Government of this country is so slow in
affording facilities to the same Commerce ?
In the same letters it is positively asserted, that a
Treaty or Convention has been concluded between
Spain and the United States, whereby the two no-
' rids; are to be ceded to the latter, either in exchange
of Louisiana ,which, in such case, would revert to the
dominion of Spain, or for a certain sum of money to
be agreed upon between the two parties, but, it is
added, under the condition that such cession or es-
change of territory shall meet the approbation of the
British Government.

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We have received Paris Papers to the 27th instant,
comprehending the Journals of five days, which the
weather had occasioned to be in arrear. No disco-
s, ~ has yet been made of the person who fired at
the D .ke of WELLINGTON. The same mystery still
hangs over toe affair as formerly, though the private
account, slate the truest of several persons under sus-
picion. Some ineisiduals hove been taken into cus-
tody at a distance from Paris, suspected of being
conceitied in the at trmipt, and conducted to tt.e capital.
It is nreiced that the reports front the Nrtherlands,
reepecting Lord KI NN IRD'S having written from
B. doe's to Sir GIORGI: MuirwAY, at Paris, stating
his Lasing learnt that there was a project in centeru.
plation for assassinating the Duke of Wura.twaroe,
ar.- a subject of conversation iu the circles of the
French capital, and it is added that Lord KSNNAIUD
had arrived at Paris.
On Tuesday last the King of FnAece held a
Grand Levee, at which the Duke of ‘VELLINGTON
MINI the Foreign Ministers were introduced to him,
with as much pomp and ceremony as if he had never
seen them before. The Spanish Ambassador the same
day presented a letter to his Majesty from the Da.
chess of Iticce, apprizing him that she had taken
possession of that Stale; and the Prussian Minister
delivered a letter from his Sovereign, announcing the
death of the Margravine Dowager of Ba.ts:ousinuna.-
BAYREUTII. The Chamber of Peers met on Toes.
(lay. Marshal MACDONALD made a Report from the
Committee on the Recruiting Bill. It was ordered
to be printed, and taken into consideration on Fri-
day, to which (lay the Chamber adjourned. The
Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, was occupied in
discussing certain propositions by M. de CAesAtc-
wor.r.rs upon the severe punishments enacted by the
Law of the 9th of Nov. 1815, relative to seditious
speeches or writings. The proposed amendments
were rejected by a very large majority. Nest day, a
Petition from the Municipal Council of Boulogne,
for completing the superb column in the vicinity of
that place, and for dedicating it " to Louts X.Vi EL
the Restorer of the Monarchy, and the Protector of
the Public Liberty," was referred to the Finance Mi-
nister. Several Petitions, complaining of burdens
incurred by the presence of the Allied troops, and
praying for relief, were referred to the Committee'
on the Budget. A Petition was presented from Ba-
ron Micas's', a banker, claiming, for certain mili.
tary men and others who had been employed in the
interior services of the Palace, in the reign of NA.
PO LEON, a sum of 2,000,000 f. which had been gua-
ranteed to them by the Provisional Government of
1814, and by the Allied Powers. The Chamber dis-
posed of this Petition by passing to the Order of the
Day. The proposition of :M. LeisN EDEVILLELEV EDGE
for restoring the rennet d'etut which had belonged to
the emigrants, was rejected, after a long discussion.
The Legislative Body of Frankfort is said to have re-
jected the proposition lately made by a Member, for
proclaiming that city henceforth an asylum for all
persons persecuted or banished on account of politi-
cal opinions. An article of the 10th inst. from Ma..
drid, gives a letter of the 224 olt. from the Governor
of Gibraltai to the Spanish Commandant at St. Koch,
stating, that the Myrmidon had called off Algiers on
the 13th, when Capt. G►MBIER was informed by the
British Consul that the plague still raged will► great
♦iolence in the environs of that city, and had ex-
tended to the westward near to Oran ; that at Con-
stantine the deaths amounted to 90 a day, and at
Boos to 10 or 12; and that in Algiers there had, in
the whole, died of the plague about 10,000 persons.
Not a syllable is mentioned of the rumoured atro-
cities of the Dey.
The Vienna accounts mention, that there had been
a report in that capital of an insurrection at Naples,
in consequence of which the Royal Family had been
compelled to embark for Palermo. It is added, how-
ever, that the rumour appeared to be unfounded.
From Berlin it is stated, that the conditions of
the Prussian loan, which have been published, have
not been acceded to by the Prussian Government,
who hope, it seems, to• obtain better terms. The
Austrian Government, it also appears, by the in-
telligence from Vienna, have determined on borrow.
ing 60,000,000 florins, and have set on foot negocia-
tiens for that purpose with. Messrs. ROTIPCMILD,
Nam) and Co.

The meeting of ii. Allied sov reigns will, it is
now said, not take place till August.
The Count de PALMELA, the late Portuguese Mi.
roister at the Court of London►, was at Psitis; and it
was understood, that before setting out for Rio Js-
'neiro, he would terminate the negotiations between
his Court and that of Madrid, respecting the occupa.
lion of Monte Video by the Portuguese troops.
The Report of the Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies on the Budget, is not expected to be ready
until the middle of the month. The flee per Cads.
left off on Wednesday at 67f. .sc.
—taw—

The French Papers invert the Proclamation nt

king CHARLES JOHN of Swenca, on his acmsima
to the Throne. The advancement of atm of Bow %.
PARTE'S Marshals to this dlioity, and the acbt,oty.
tedgment of Lis being a legitimate Monarch by the
other Powers, cannot be an agreeable event to the
Howe of Bat:stun:l. The new Queen of Swtsti

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is still et Paris in the most humble incognito. It
Hill be curious to see how she will henctfurtterd be
treated by the Court of the Thoilleries.

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The Pattie Correspondence front the Frew%
cspithi is too stoiumnioos to admit of our gismo the
rti cles as they have reached us. We shit emir*
their most interesting points. That " vast anti thorny

question," the prissteclaims upon France, is ouief
the chief topics, and upo►► this subject, among utiles.
matters,
.the copy of a letter fron► the Russian
Fm-
pesor to the King of l'itussta is furnished, dated
Moscow, the 30th October. it appears from this
and other particulars, that innumerable ditrtoultik
occur, and that l'rus.ia is always the most fettucini
of the Powers. This autograph letter is gieesa in
another column.

The Port:, it is said, protects soloist several At-
titles of the 11r4,1 de I.oi on the French Cortordst,
and insists on tt.e absolute and unmodified esecutial
of eat ry part of the 'neat), which M. DE Br.acts
had negociated. This, although a►► unpalatable sub-
ject in Flange, will, it is supposed, he discussed by
the two Chambers at as early a perittl of the Smite
as the other public business may render practicable.
Some of the letters from Paris mention, data.
French Loan is to be contracted for immediately.—
The plan and amount are settled, but we are noose
acquainted with the particulars.

—ow—
The Petition of the elder Mr. EVANS, which has
been presented to the House of Look by Ear,
Guoseceott, is given in another part of this Pd.
per. Either the means by which public symp►tby
is best expressed are exhausted, or the cases of lie
men who have been ruined and suffered so much
cruel indignity in a public cause from the arbkrary
spirit of the Government, have not been tievrek
with the favour they merit from the nation at Inge.
The Legislative avenues to redress have now been as
arbitrarily shut against the claims of the unfortunate
Petitioners, as the ears of the Government were
closed to the just representations of the People, far
the suppression of which the despotism of Ministerial
authority trampled alike on individual right end the
lees of the country. To the Public, therefore,
who still desire to be free, and need not be
told how liberty is supported, the victims of
this tyranny in the Government meet look
for aid agaiust the evils of increasing want and
the effects of long protracted persecution. Sorry
are we to retrenk that the subscription in (avows'
of the Messrs. Evaes, and the too many distressed
and injured individuals who were included in the
arbitrary imprisonments, increases but slowly, and is
yet far from being adequate to the benevolent par-
pose for which it was commenced. In fact, the amount
at which it has yet arrived, were it divided •men
the numerous unfortunate objects whose claims to
national sympathy are thus united, would not go be-
yond a few weeks maintenance to each. Thiscanuat
be all the testimony of British feeling which is to be
made on the review of these extraordinary cases.—
Honour and generosity will yet suggest a mere
liberal and active demonstration of supporting
interest, for the outrages committed upon terse
men are national wrongs, and will remain as
so many stains on the character of the nation till
their consequences are effaced by the general baud
of repairing justice. The conduct of the Caere-
mew, which has thus by • saccession of tiniest acts
courted unpopularity, and that of the Parliaments
that hare given their sanction to such proceedings,
suggest a variety of important reflections, in which
every individual is more or less interested, and maul
will not fail to make, with perhaps warmer feedings
than we can venture to express them. lu the eye of
reason, the personal security and comfort of the
humblest mechanic is as much entitled to considera-
tion as that of the First Lord of the Treasury. Ne-
tt/re has given them the same organs, the same sense
of pleasure and pain ; and though the customs of so-
ciety allow of a distinction between them in cases
where pecuniary situations have place, neither law
nor justice acknowledge any in what regards per-
sonal feeling or happiness. The law presumes every
man to he itoo.cent tilt he is proved to be guilty; ant
upon this principle, it is an admitted rule, that say
severity beyond what is absolutely necessary for se-
curing the person is illegal. lit the cases of these
men it is possible that some of the sererrt►es
of which they complain may be denied ; but enough
remain► incot►tr:tibte to couvict those.. in whose
helots they•wpre, of wanton cruelty. And, notwith-
standing the asertious Ge Mittitters, when •he Soli.'

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reline Act was passing, that they would not use the
power it conferred foi the purpose of punishment;
It is impossible to put any other construction on their
proceedings, than that their object was to punish the
individuals taken up—to leave such an impression
tee their minds as should make them cautious of in-
Surds% the displeasure of Government again, said to
held up such an Pimple as should deter others from
engaging in similar courses.
As human nature is constituted, there is no effec-
tual security against the abuse of power, but a con-
viction in the minds of those' who exercise it, that
they shall Its their turns be subjected to its operation
.—that is, be made to feel in their own persons the
!Sett of those harsh and oppressive measures, which
they devised for the prejedice of others. It k true,
that in thiecoontry Ministers are responsible to Parlia-
ment : but as our Readers know perfectly well what
this means, we shall say nothing more on the subject
here. In a perfect despotism, where there is neither
circulation of power, nor responsibility—the dis-
tinction between the Governors and the People is
complete. All community of interest, all sympathy
of feeling is destroyed, and the security which the
possessors of power enjoy brings out and strengthens
every propensity that lei& to cruelty and violence.
Xn systems nominally free, where one set of men
maintain themselves lung in power, the same effects
take piers 16 a proportionate degree. The ruling
party laterally tome to regard the rest of the nation
tether as subjects than fellow-citizens : they become
less anzioos to keep measures with their opponents—.
leas acrepuloos in exercising severities upon others
•ich they never ripe& to feel themselves : the
ease, coneenience, slid comfort of the rulers takes
place more and more of the interests and rights of
the People, and the tone and spirit of arbitrary ao.
thority is gradually assumed. The prerogatives of
the Crown are carefully secured, fortified, augment-
ed, and treated as something too (tiered to be touched
en any *session; while the privileges of the People
are suspended we often as they offer any obstruction
to the view of the dominant faction. The People,
to be sore, may he allowed to boast and talk of their
rights and liberties in quiet times, when they are a
dead letter; bet in seasons when they will be'
of any use, care will be taken to remove them
out 4 the way. It is its such circumstatires
that the insolence of office is seen in its most
offensive features. A zeal for the prerogative,
under the name of loyalty or a love of the Con-
stitution, takes place of all oilier virtues ; and
hot-headed and shallow-headed mess, recommended
by this qualification, occupy the places from which
honour end principle keep back the persons who are
qualified to fill them. Individuals who have been
the principal agents in scenes of violence, whose
lames are connected with cruelties and atrocities,
which in a different state of things would expose them
to impeachment, are white-wished by the prevailing
spirit of the times, received into favour, anti take
their station in the front rank of power and dignity.
The mass of the community are treated as a nameless
of rabble, destitute of every title to respect or cost.
eideration—and the rulers of a nation almost make
boast of their unpopularity. Such are the political
I Illtinims stud features of the times in which we live;
mottehreleileis-elate iv/4814 wu b missio it in the People
is sore to beget tyranny in the Government. -

Fridar, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held
at the Foreign-office, which sat till half-peat two.
Yesterday, at three o'clock, another Cabinet Council
visa held at the same place.
Yesterday her MAJESTY end the Princesses Au-
006TA and Er,tearsitro, received visits from the Dake
of Yana, and tie Prince of Iltsse.iforanutro, Ste.
On Saturday the LORD CHANCELLOR, Viscount
CASTLEREAGH, and Earl BATHURST, had audiences
of the PRINCE Ittotirr, at Carlton-house.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, and Viscount CASTLE.
BEAMS had audiences of the PRINCE action. yester-
day.
Some accident prevented the proxy of the Duke of
LEINISTER from being entered on Friday evening
against the second reading of the Indemnity Bill.—
Ilia Grace sent it over expressly to be given to mark
his dissent from the measure.
Lord CASTLEREAGH, it is said, will visit the Con-
tinent, in the interval between the dissolution of the
present Parliament and the meeting of the new one.
it is in May, that the Allied Sovereigns ore especred
to assemble at Frankfort, and his Lordship will pro-
bably he there at the same time.
Friday was settling day in the Stock Eschange for
the immense speculation Consul accoent. From the
situation of the market, it was hoped that every thing
would go off without bring attended with a failure.
Two defaulters, however, were on Saturday declared
on the opening of the market; the often very respect.
able jobber in the Exchequer market of long standing
credit, from whom a very good dividend may be ex-
pected; the other a broker of, we believe, not mere
than twelve months standing, who, in order to get
rid of its immense Ball account, supplied the Commis.
Marrero of the Sinking Fond with the entire of their
stock, sad afterwards sold about 100.0001. in the
market.
ST. A ESAN'S ELECTION.—At the final close of the
Pall on Friday evening, the numbers were
Fur Mr. &bottom: 498
Lord C. S. Churchill 262

Majo►ity fur Mr. Roberts - 3ti
How far the voyage of discovery to the North
Pole may prove satisfactory to those engaged in that
interesting adventure, we know not; for our own
parts, we must confess that. we prefer voyaging nearer
home; Coruhill is now our North Pole, and G. CAR-
ROLL our Magnet of Attraction. At No. 7, we shall
prosecute our discoveries amongst the Three Prizes
401k30,000, the 12 Pipes of Port Wine, and the
Forty Capitols that will be drawn NEST WEDNES-
DAY.—ShouId CARROLL be as fortunate this Lottery
es he was hi the last, when he sold SIX Capitals,
including TWQ of h)20,000, our voyage will prove
a golden one indeed.
The Duchess of NORTHUMBERLAND was safely de-
livered of a still-born male child, at half•past seven
o'clock on Friday evening, at his Grace's house in
St. James's-square. Her Grace is as well as can be
ea pected •
The new Comedy, announced for representation
at Drury-lane Theatre, this evening, is written by
Mr. Rues', the facetious author of The itinerant;
or, Memoirs of an Jaen