The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-23 00:00:00

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Bactsscts, Arau. 14.—Besides the line of for.
"[Ma ere 'reefing from the Meese In the
North See, on the isotherm frontiers, it is intended
to leise the necessary works to corer the Scheidt.—
'the east side of Ghent *III be coveted to this end by
same forts; and it is even said that Teratoode is to
rtensthered. to the first tine Oodenarde will
bate an important place aseogst the fortresses which
cover West Flanders.

GIIRMIT, APRIL it,— W. learn, free good se/he.
ri y, that s fort is to be erected without this city,
near the Courtray gate. Oise of the engineers is al.
ready •rrived here, and Is larking out to engage a
residence for three years. Oedenarde and Deader.
monde stealth, to Iv strengthened.
Fairaitaroar, APRILII.—It is affirmed that all the
young fte•sian, who RIO stedying I. German Univer-
sities, bore received milers to Mesa them, sad to a.
ni.h their studies in France, the Netherlands, or
Switzerland. It is seppoaml that this .ewers Is to
he ascribed to what has lote;y wormd sill' regard
to M. Sfoordaa.

Boum Arn:r. S.--The Rhenish Papers having
reproached the Prussian Government with doing so
little in the liquidetion and distribution of the b 4
millions of francs, which Franc. has to pay on ac.
snort of the private claims of Prussian subjects, the
Stale Gioults has defended cur Government. " The
Commission of Arbitratirn sitting herr," says this
ar-tfle, " has decided in five mouths above a hon.
c!red cases more than that at Paris did in two years.
Of 34,153,51"..41 francs, respecting which the mini-
nalions have been oe foot since November last,
.10,590,332 francs are already decided upon. It is
true, that the actual payment so the claimants has
been in same instance delayed, by unavoidable cir-
comities:es: for instances, by the necessary comma-
nications between various persons living at great
(balance, from each other, but no complaint has
hitherto been made; sod it may be asserted positively
that the whole stair will be terminated In the coarse
of this year."
/Humus, Arm 3.—The inhabitants oaf Norm-
berg have &kernel an Address to the Chamber of
Dimities, complaining of the decline of their mane.
factures and trade; in which they state, that in
former years, Nuremberg *sported to the amount of
above eight millions, bet that now the trade has de-
clined so much, that the 'sports can hardly be esti.
mated at If million ; that many manufactories,
which employed 160 workmen, can new scarcely
find employment for 60 or SO mss; and that the
manufacturers most bob cease to work entirely, Bo-
hm free importation and exportation is allowed. The
Address further ergeests,that his Majesty will use his
indigence in the Diet to obtain this freedom of coatherace.

LONDON:

VllbAlf. APtilL 23, 1819.

The moment is fast approschlee whew sonseshiwg
like an ectsircisseetent most take plate with regard to
the mysterious proceedings between the &NM sod
the Government. We do not odd the Notion as a
party is the strongmen', Otiose,* its credit sod
interest are both concerned, as to the manner in
which the e litigious! and highly.iejorioas later-
corms shall be done away. W. have always asserted
oar Readers that nothieg good could possibly arise
'from so corrupt as alliance. The °lied with the
most extravagast, but eloquent Minister, in his first
overtures to the Batik, was self-gratiicatine end
self.pvide. He was bent on • war with Freon., to
stop this iodise of hen opinions, sad of sentiments
favosrable• to liberty : for be woo an Allstate*. in
tho worst sense of the word. This he could not
effect without the aid of the Bank, In a me
wlikh by tight forfeited their Charter; bat which
this same Mr. PITT promised them should be safe,
■nd that they should be rewarded " with large
profits :" besides which be urged that the more the
Nation expended in the war, the greater would be
their per tentage, for all the money would go through
their hoods. That was the corrupt proposal, sad
this the base temptation. Now, although the causes
of the present dilemma end mischief will sever he
laid fully open to the Public by the parties, so clearly
am so (rely as the ST/TASMAN has esposed t►em,
yet the effects cannot be looser concealed. All the
private fortenes of the Governor, Directors, sod even
Proprietors at large, If throws together into the
National Treater', ccald not remunerate the Public
for what it has coffered through ibis iniquitous pro-
ceeding for so many years. Besides, millions sod
millions who have died since the fatal 47th of Janu-
ary, 1797, are wholly out of the teeth of reparation ;
set to mention the myriads who have been killed by a
war, fed and protracted by the sinister sod wicked
intercourse between en amities, Compitny of Mer-
chants, sod • vengeful and inexperienced young Mi.
'lister. /le is gone to his account, sad they, it is
hoped, are coming to their.. A Ministerial Paper,
whose title it is disgusting to mention, from its fol.
some and nauseating approval of the moot arbitrary
and unjust measures of a despised mod incapable Ad-
ministration ; whose conductor has been a prominent
particepr a radars of the widely-spend miseries we
bate had, and are going to have more mom to de-
plore, and which is sometimes obliged to utter a
semblance of the troth when falsehood will no longer
avail, says, in reference to the Bank Committees—
" Nest Monday is the earliest day open which the
Committee con make its Report ; bet it is by no
means certain it will be ready to d.. so on that day.
With respect to the Committee of the Lords, we have
reason to believe they have not made so mach pro.
press as the Committee 6.f the Commons. We ender-
stand, they have not yet finished the examination of
evidence, and, consequent , cannot loive determined
upon any specific tri ummeodation to Parliaantot."—
his is, indeed, keeping back the evil day:—but
toms it must, sod a dier afro will it linty be in the
final settling.

The &repent count was opened by a war against
the French by Mr. PITS (who, like Lis father, hand
the very name of a Frenchman!), end the balance
sheet mill terminate with a quarrel between Mr.
V ANSITTMIT and the Bank Directors. A divorce
most take place, and of necessity a rupture will ac-
company it. Tile CIIINCLLLOR of the EXCHEQUER
will want ell the money that the nation can yield him,
as a seperilus •ter mere esisteen, to make his ac-
count good, for he durst not retrench but with con.
sent to mare. If he chants the old air of " Sere
a Penny." it will be like the song of the swan, alter-
ed with his dying breeds.
A contemporary Journal, whose Inferential se
these topics is to be relied ena, strengthens oar *pi-
nioe on this head by saying, that the Bank Commit-
tees of both lions= bad separated before the holi-
days, on is understanding that the Chanson -•ere
to prepare a Report Needed on Resolutions that Co.
vernment shoeld in this year pay throe millions,
and in the neat Ilse millions of debt dee to the Bank;
in which account the tatter should pay in specie, on
the lit of Janney nest, et a certain rate (Els.
per ounce for standard gold), end t►at this rate
should be gradually lowered in the nest two
years to the Mint price of 77,. The Chronicle
then se)s," Ibis speculation went on ell well enegh
till the substance of the intended Report tea tom-
=imitated to the Bank, who, it is said, on the meet-
ing of the Committee of the Ilosse of Commons yester•
day, gave them to understand that the Directors
would ciller the most determined resistance and
opposition to any measures founded epee it. Their
answer is, and possibly with some reason, to Govern•
ment—pay es what you ewe; leave us to the In-
dependent management of oer own again ; and the
time may neither be so far distant, net the diScisities
so great to the ►exemption of cash payments, as are
taticipeted. What Covenant and the Committees