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

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'risouin which he was so justly incarcerated, to the-i Notwithstanding tho.sileoce of the Paris Papers
enjoyment of the responsible situation which he noirj.ol the Debi ei Ws:jammers:es affair, it appears the
fills. • • the iireenistanet of the shot is closely attended to by
We have already mentioned that plots of a sled. the French Police. We gise in anether coletnn; tht
larly"detestable nature had been discovered at Mae. copy ofa letter from a respectable private source; *hie
chaster, tainting also, there was strong reasonsto may be read in the absence of other information.
suppose, some parts of the Police of that place. A There is still a suspicion that the design was haithe '
public investigation of the circumstances believed to in Belgium ; and one of the statements on Ibis head
lurk at the hottom of the transactions that have is, that Lord K --INNAIRD tarried with him to Pari-
transpired, and which are still held to impeach the one MARTINET. who was the keeper of an hotel at
characters of some of the deputies in police authority,' Dijon, and a violent Bonapartion. From this man
has been generally demanded, but this has not yet been his Lordship is supposed to 'hare received the intelli•
granted. A sort of Secret Committee has, however, Bence which he communicated to General MURRAY.
been sitting on Ilse green begs of the parties ac-
relative to the design against the Duke of Wet.-
cused ; but the information that has been sub- LINOTON. A Bonapartian then revealed the plot
against the greatest foe of BONAPARTE! Soon after
milled to the Public in this respect sloes not
appear to hose been yet very satisfactory.— Lord KINISAIRD'S arrival at Paris, a M. De qua-
It has not allayed the agitation that the late dig. QUENcoURG, a Belgian officer, was arrested, as be
coteries were calculated to excite. The Manchester
was leaving his carriage, at the door of the Opera-
Observer, which has laudably and materially assisted house.
to elicit the facts and particulars of the mysterious
end hateful practices sought to be investigated, af-
'ords us the following information :

On Thursday lest there was an extra meeting of
District Magistrates, with the Bnroughreeve and Con-
stables of Manchester, at the New Bailey, who as•

ft will be seen by our Stock List, that the prices
have declined a half. per cent. this morning, but we
have not heard of any particular cause beiog as-
signed. for it, except the amount of sales being
larger than usual.

Mr. %VYNN's proposed Bill for regulating Elections
was lost last night Witte Commons by a mejotity of
SEVEN ugainat the third reading.
Tile LORD ADVOCtir of Scotland has aerated Hs
seat in Pat liament for Yarmouth, Isle of %%lot, and
is to be elected for the Burghs or Ewer and Wester
Asistruther, Kilrentoy, l'ittenweem, and Crail, in
room of Sir IJ. CANILICHAEL ANSTRUTHER, Bart.
dekea red.

sembled for the purpose of deliberating on the Ina'
opinions obtained, touching the case of' the notorious
Ilindley. About one o'clock W. D. EVAN%, Esq.
our daily Magistrate, attended by the other Meg's.
hates, with the Constables of the town, came into
Court, and addressed himself publicly to the au-
ditors, on the result of the deliberations which they
had just closed in the Magistrates' room. 'this ad-
dress was animated, interesting, sod particular ; ant
was received by all present with the strictest atten-
tion and most profound silence; and that is the ut-
most we can say for its reception.
From the statement made by the worthy Chairman,
it appeared, that there had been at least a difference
of opinion amongst the Magistracy, touching the
liberation of Ilindley ; that it bad, however, been
concluded, by a considerable majority, to discharge
Hindley from jail without putting him upon trial.
We cannot here 'omit to state, that one of the Ma-
gistrates, who was in the minority of voters, end
whose conduct has been manly and uniform from the
first of this business, protested to the last moment
against the liberation of Ilindley, without first
bringing him to trial before a Jury of his country-
men and compeers. We have been told that this
Magistrate was Wra. MAttatorr, Esq. whose manly
and spirited conduct on this occasion will not -soon
•be forgotten by the inhabitants of Manchester.
, After all the particulars so minutely stated by the
Worthy Chairman, it still appears to us that !heron-
duct of Ilindlcy, and his connexion with nor Deputy
Constable (NAnIN) does, and for the present most
remain doubtful, °incase, equivocal. and mysteri-
ous; and we still maintain, that nothing can fairly
wipe away the stein and imputation cast upon the
character of our Deputy Constable, but a public in-
vestigation ; and as a public officer, invested with
high authority, Iris character is of the utmost cause.
quence to the inhabitants of Manchester, of every
denomination, high and low, rich and poor. With-
out this, we feel confident that the Public never can,
and in fact, never will, ha satisfied, under the
pozer of so important an officer. The public mind
has been highly agitated, and its indignation and
alarm justly raised, and this indignation sod alarm•
cannot possibly he allayed without some satisfactory
ground of future sour dy.
'the worthy Chairman, in the course of his ad-
dress, alluded to the advertisement published by the
Boroughreeve sod Constables, sad the pledge made
by them to publish the result of the then pending in-
vestigation ; which pledge, we are happy to find,
will be red.emed, and the promised result laid be-
fore the Public at an early thy. This publication,
we are confident, will be read by the Public with the
highest interest.

Yegterday, about one o'clock, her MAJESTT,
'Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, and the Duelie.s
of CitoucesTut, took an airing over Wes.minster-
bridge to Clapham, snit returned over Battersea.
bridge by the King's-road to the Queen's Palace.
Yesterday the Prince of Iltssx-Hostavitc paid his
daily visit at the Queen's Palace.
Yesterday being the Duchess of CUMBERLAND'S
birth-day, the same was observed in the morning by
Hof King's Guards, at St. James's Palace, mounting
duty with the grand birth-day colours. The Duke of
SUSCEX, the Prince of fivst-llostovact, the Pres.
sign Ambassador, with his full suite of attendants,
and a number of others, waited upon her Royal
Highness,. to pay their respectful congratulations
upon the happy relent of the day, which her Royal
Highness received most graciously. In the evening,
the Doke and Duchess gave a grand dinner, upon
the occasion, to the Pomo REGENT, the Prince of
llEsse-lloweueo, and a relict party. Their Royal
Highnesses had also a numerous party, at nine
o'clock, to celebrate the day.
The state of Prince Lecreoce's health, says a
Morning Paper, we learn, with regret, has declined
still further. Tne air of Clme having been found less
mild, than is requisite fur the restoratien of his Serene
Highness, he toss been advised to remove to Wey.
mouth, where Gloucester Lodge has twin prepared
for his reception. In the coarse of the spring, his
Serene Highness will probably visit the Continent ;
but, at present, he avoids fatigue.
The Finance Committee's Seventh Report is en-
tirely confined to the expenditure of the Army
and of the Military Departments, the items of
which it gives in the mode of a recital, made by
SID office of accounts to one of examination and su-
pervision. It enters upon no comparison between
exigencies and means, takes no review of the rea-
sons bys which expenditure is to be justified or cen-
sured ; and, in short, never once touches urn a ques-
. tints of political economy. The proposed expendi-
ture may be right for ought that we ere prepared to
say, but the Report is a strange thing to be tendered
by one deliberating Body to another. The War-
Office could have sent op exactly the same infornia-
lion to the House of Commons, and much of it has
indeed already appeared in totter shapes. It is less
cdpinus than the information stfoodeil to the House
last night, by the Coamces.cort of the Etctirourn,
mud less satisfactory. A clause of the first pa,a,;raph
is perhaps the most important, which that the
numbers en the present Army Estimates below those
of 1817 are diminished (only) by about 2,tXX) men,
and that thin reduction takes place in the troops sta-
tioned in Ireland, the remainder upon every other
home and foreign station continuing nearly up in the
former establishment. The F.-timites for 1817 were
3,351,3771., and for 1818, 3477,37-11., being less
its the latter year by 74,00'i1. 10s.; but what is more
singular still is, tnat the Staff fur 1818 is more that'
that of the preceding year by 3,7531.
The Charleston Papers to the 3Uth January, inform
us, that the new Spanish Viceroy of South America
has notified his inability to maintain the kingdom, in
consequence of the disasters which his partisans had
experienced on the plains of Casseeare ; that Mont t.r.o
had threatened to execute one of his Generals, fur
having retreated with five thousand men, before
three hundred Independents ; that on the 6th of
October, the Independents had defeated the Boy Wiese,
and captured the proviece of Pamplana ; that in
Carthagena the Spaniards were preparing fur an ex-
pected siege.
The Yaws from the loath Sena, by e Gentlemen
front Panama, inform, that the Indeprodent army of
Chili, had landed in Pero, to join the powerful
armies from Buenos Ayres; that the Royal Army in
Peru had been routed, and that the Patriot armies
were in triumphant march for lima ; that Casi, had
already become independent, which had excited great
alarm in Lime ; that the Ports of Lima and Guaya-
quil were closely blockaded by the Patriots, whose
vessels hid appeared off Panama, and it was sup•
posed their flag will Ay in triumph (rum Cape Horn
to the north point of Venezuela, within six months.
Yesterday a very numerous Meeting of the Ms-
giatrates of the County of Sauey took place, at the
Sessions-House, Horsemoneer-lane. Amongst them
were Lord MIDDLETON, Mr. Hoi.wt SUMNER, Mr.
SAMUEL THORNTON, Mr. SWAN, &C.—The Report
of the Committee appointed to enquire into the ne-
cessity for removing some sod enlarging others of
the Prisons of the Coenty,' .hattiog been read and
agreed to, a Reining-OW tissnrade— to borrow a sum
not exceeding 40,000[. for such purposes ; to pay
the toasty sates arctis be asorigord.

We find, by the accounts from the Hague, of the
25th ult. received by Mails from and Flan-
ders, that another chaing,e has taken placer in the
Dutch and Flemish Ministry. The Prince of ORANGE,
for some reason that does not appear, hag once more
resigned the Ministry of War, and the King is said
to have accepted his resignation. The warlike
Prince, however, retains hi* military employments,
and it is said that there is to be an Aolic Council of
War established, at the Lead of which the Prince is
to preside. Count oc GOLTS, kiho had on a previous
occasion fallen ender the displeasure of his ltoyal
nighties*, is named a member of the first Chamber of
the State. General PIPER, fermerty Intendant-Ge-
neral of War, is appointed Secretary of glans to con-
duct the War Department; end Gen. D'AuswEme,
charged with a certain subdivision. of the War-of-
fice, is to commorricate immediately With the. King.—
Some importance has been attached on the Conti-
bent to these Ministerial fluctuations, and a good
deal of cariosity has been set afloat to ascertain the
.precise motives iu which they have originated.
The Project .of Law for enacting penalties on the
publication of articles containing insults • against
Foreign Powers, has been rejected in the Second
Chamber of the States-General, by a majority of 39
to 36.

The Heiman of the. Cossacks, Count PLATOI7,
lately died at Novotscherkash. It is mentioned as
highly indicative of his great celebrity, that in Eng-
land the men, women, and children crowded to !PP
him. So they did to look and laugh at old BLUCUERII
mustachios and odd figure ; and so they crowd to
Potato's Menagerie, to admire the very civilized
company whom that celetrited person has also con-
trived to bring together.