The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-01 00:00:00

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the district, on the application of tke alcaidr to whom I
it appertains.
.64 The Commander-General, ad interim, admo-
nishes the wives and daughters of those who have
followed the enemy, that the place most suitable to
their situation, and the honour of their husbands,
will be & convent. TMs decent retirement, at the
same time that it will ensure their individual -tran-
quillity, will afford them frequent opportunities to
address their supplications to Providence to recal
them from the ways, and restore them and their mis.
taken husbands to the pith of honour."

rt..TTIOM THE GIBRALTAR CIIII.O3tELE,.or STH SEPT.]
From Consul AMATLEG, dated Carthagena, Au-
gust 25
44 beg leave to refe- to lay last letter of
the 18th inst. and have now to add, that yesterday
the Board of Health declared that a contagious dis-
temper prevailed in this city, two persons having
died of the yellow fever. The sick., in the Lazaret
are 1t in number.
" To Col. Iteromoto, Gibraltar."

It would puzzle the head of a NEWTON to con-
template or analize the over-grown, unwieldly, and
complicated enormity of our Ntrtos.tr. Des;
which, like Medusa's Head, shakes its tremendous
visage over our fading resources, and defies human
Calculation ; while its legitimate offspring, paper
eltension and met depreciation, are, like the she-
dows of night, extending their visionary and delusive,
progrest, as Gold, the Sex of our national prosperi-
retires from our hemisphere.
The system of paper elteesion and paper depre-
dation are so curiously interwoven, that no state
conjuror can either separate them or stop their pro-
gress. As gold disappears so it increase's in value;
and in the same proportion as it disappears and in-
creases in nitre, so must paper increase in circula.
tien and depreciate in value; it is easy, there-
fore, to foresee that the ultimate fall of our i
flUanCe must be the natural consequence of the
progress of these systems, if a timely remedy
be not applied, end that remedy must be
Pracz—for if the measure of Peace be not shortly
resorted to, we shall, in all probability, be obliged;
to obtain it on the most disadvantageous terms ; as!
the regular depreciation of our circulating medium
must shortly incapacitate us for carrying on the war
at a distance from our shores, not so much from the
want of men as from the want of money to pay
them ; the loss of trade will recruit the former, but
the latter we shall not be much longer able to supply.
It is now believed that our Ministers have been them..
selves the Guinea Buyers, though they have passed
*law to punish the Underlings in that traffic. This was
a state trick, the covering and veil of which is now
drawn—money they must have to pay their troops on
foreign stations,while money can be found in the coun-
try ; and did we not know, from private information,
that the money-buying system was nearly spun out, we
have an ample evidence of the fact, in our Govern-
meut being under the necessity of sending Bank
Pap:7 to pay our troops iu, Canada ; this they would
not have done, if the clandestine mode of obtaining
'old had not failed. Let the same system be resorted
to for the payment of our army in the Peninsula,
and the Noble Commander may say to his troops, as
the French o.licer said to his companions at the,
siege of Frederickshall, when Costars the Twelfth
was killed by a cannon hall, " The game is up, and
we may go home!" The Spaniaids and l'ortuguese
will not take our. Bank paper in payment for wicks..
of food for the support of our troops ; nor will the
Americans take it, providing the merchants of that
nation are permitted by their ow it Government to
carry corn, &c. to the Peninsula. Then, when gold
fails to purchase the necessary articles for the supply
of our array iu that quarter, the war must cease there
Also; and we shall theo be reduced to a very de-
plorable situatioqr either to offer or receive terms of
peace!

Letters from Gottenburgh, of a very recent datc.,
Mate, that the Swedish troops in general are in tlic
iciest condition and the beet state of discipline. Sis
thouband of them had been lately exercised at Tar-
Jetta, and attracted the admiration of several British
Officers that were present. Preparations were mak-
ing on board the Videory for the reception of the
Caowv Pam% who was to be at Gottenburgh on
the 20th.

The ship of war, the Mine, from Vera Cruz to'
Cadiz, had been spoken with off the Western Isles;
baring on board for merchants, about two millions of
alollars, and 33D,000 for Government.
Yesterday a vessel arrived from Bilbao, which left
that place about the middle of last month. The let-
ters received by this opportunity state., that the
French had made no farther attempts to retake
Gilboa.

The following i,,the amount of the British Naval I
Porte up to t:ii•rday :—At sea, 103 ships of the line,l
12 from !O in .14 guns, 124 frigates, 106 sloops and I
yachts, H bombs and tire-ships, 127 brigs, 37 cut-
ters, 49 schooners, gun-vessel?, lugger's, &c. total
566.—1 n port and fitting, 29 of the line, 7 from 50
to 44 guns, 30 frigates, 37 sloops and yatchs,
brigs, 8 cutters, 12 schooners, &c. ; total 140,
Guard ahips, 5 of the line, 1 of 50 guns, 3 frigates,
5 sloops, &c. • total 14.—Ilespital Ships, Prison
Ships, &c. 26 Of the line, 2 of 50 guns, 1 frigate, 1
sloop; total 30.—Ordivary and repairing for Ser-
vice, 68 of the line, 10 from 50 to 44 guns, 69 fri-
gates, 31 sloops, &c. 6 bombs, &c. 13 brigs, 1 cot-
ter, 3 schooners, &c. ; total 201.—Building, 30 of
the line, 4 of 44 guns, 17 frigates, 4 stoops, &c. 4
brigs ; total 59.--Grand total 1,022.

SINECURE PLACES AND PRiVSIOXY.

A ertrea or EA CUARLES SEDUM IN 7EI 1111110/1 01

_
ICING WILLIAM*
Lt Ma. SpEAILER,—We hale rerided for the
Army;—we her provided for the Navy;—and no*
at last a new reckoning is brought upon us. We
must likewise provide for the usTs. Truly, Mr.
Speaker, it is a sad reflection, that some men should
sallkm in wealth and places, whilst others pay away
in taxes the fourth-part of their revenue, for theism.
port of the same Government. We are not upon
equal terms for his Majesty's service. The Courtiers
and great tlyicers charge as it were in armour; and
feel not the tuxes, by reason of their places. The
Prince is pleased to lay his wads before us ; and I am
I confident expects ouradvice upon it. We ought, there-
fore, to tell him what pensions are too great—and
%hat places may be extinguished during the WAR
and ecarac car.Aurrir. To say no more, tome have
places of 30001. some of 60001. per annum each ;-
1 others have SOM. per annum, Sm. Rm. Certainly
public pensions, whatever they have been formerly,
are much NI) great for the present want and calathity
that reigns every where else; and it is a scandal that
a Gorernated so sick at heart as our's 'is, should
look so well in the face. We must save the public
money wherever we can, for I am afraid the war is
too great for our purses, if things be not managed
with all imaginable thrift. When the people of F.ng-
hind see all things are saved that can be saved ;—that
there are no exorbitant pensions nor unnecessary
places;—and all is applied to the use for which it is
given :—we shall give, and they shall pay, whatever
the reigning Prince may want, to secure the true dig-
nity of the State and the welfare of the eastry. I
conclude, Mr. Speaker; let us save the King what
we con; and then let us proceed to give him what
we are able."

We hope the Address of Mr. WHITBREAD to his
Constituents will be printed on a sheet, and posted in
every populous City and Borough throughout the
kingdom. We wish also that the lists of the several
divisions which we published in the course of the last
Session were reprinted, so as to display the real
pretensions of the Candidates who offer themselves
to populous districts. They ought also to be made
acquainted with the names of the patriotic Members
who are to be opposed by the Household Ministry,
for the upright and disinterested votes they gave in
the last Parliament.—Such as Mr. RICHARD Sn ARP,
who loses Castle Rising, because the Steward of the
Household wants a man of more placable principles.
Above all, we trust, the Elective Body will suffer no
man to represent them who will not oppose the unprin-
cipled scheme which is in contemplation, to deprive the
people of the opportunity of exercising their fran-
chise again on the event of the demise of the Crown.
That ought to be a sine qua Icon with every Elector
in the kingdom.

We rejoice to see that all the populous and hereto-
fore corrupt Cities and Boroughs are in want of
Candidates on the present occasion. They are
writing letters, and sending up deputations to invite
men to stand, in hopes of setting the floodgates of
bribery and dissipation loose, as its former times.
Bat the day is past—and the answer that they
conStantly receive if you wean honestly whet
you say, you cannot be at a loss to chyle from among
yourselves some intelligent, plalu,and upright mao,in
whose hands you may safely confide the trust, and
who being elected without expence, will have wo plea
fro striving to advance his own interests by support.
ing Ministers in unnecessary wars, or Jn the profli-
gate waste of the public treasure."
We are itifornewl by a Correspondent at Oxford,
that the Erectors of that ancient and loyal city are
at a loss to know how to act on the present momen-
tous occasion. They are unanimous in their resolu-
tion to return to Parliament men who possess, in an
eminent degree, strictness of principle and soundness
of judgment ; but they are by no means satisfied that
these invaluable it sideeala for times so pregnant with
event, are sufficiently conspicuous in either of the
candidates who are now soliciting their support.
Nothing is of so much moment to a Prince as re-
putation, and none more so than that of being a re-
ligious observer of his word and promise, but espe-
cially of his oath, without which he could never be
trusted by his subjects or neighbours. When a
Prince fails in point of honour and common justice,
it is enough to stagger his people in their faith and
allegiance. Princes, by their example, have an at-
, tractive power to draw others after them ; both their
rirluet and their vices spread themselves over all
their dominions, and are, iu some measure, eternized
by imitation.

Elkliteen years ago, forty-eight•Petitlons in favour
of Reform, signed by many thousands, were in one
day presented to the House of Commons, and or-
dered to lie upon► the table, where, it is supposed,
corruption has eaten them up, as they have never i
been heard of since.
Some more letters from America were received
3 estcrday. They are chiefly filled with accounts of
Vie State of Parties, which are represented as running
very high, and in the Northern States as threatening
nothing short of an absolute dissolution of the
1.11 ion.
" VERMONT, Ave. I.—A great change in public '
opinion is taking place in this State ; the unprofit-i
able contest into which our beloved country has been.;
plunged by the weak and wicked policy of Jerrea- ;
soN and Manson is almost universally condemned.
Many, who six mouths siuce, were the most zealous
land determined advocates of democratic doctrines, !
Itow cry out boldly against them. A change of melt•
is the general wish ; and you may be assured, that,
at our September election, the freemen of Vermont
will do their duty, and a complete revolution in
every branch of the State Government be effected."
Major Nicow, of the Royal Marines, it is ex-
pected will be appointed Aid.deeCamp to his Royal
Highness.
On Monday night the 21st, or early on Tuesdays,
morning, some evil-disposed person or persons wan-
tonly and maliciously hamstrung 24 rams, belonging
to Mr. Wm. Habitual,' of Bandon, nut Neviark.
it appears to have been date by somebody acquainted
will► the ground, es the sheep were in two pastures,
at a eensideethiediblienCe fres sub ether.

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