The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-15 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

Gemmel Mins aid Rotten, have chosen, Pram* as doifl
platter refaige from the ferocity of Ferdinand. Such a Beier.
ties of an asyleviipalts emphatically the 'plaice which
the liberals of Spain entertain of England, and the policy

of *sr administration. They prefer an open enemy, with
whom they have been combatting sword to sword, to a
deceitful friend, who has been affecting to wish them
success, and to lenient their misfortunes, while se-
cretly hiding and abetting in the means taken for
their destruction. The speech of Mr. Canning, at Ply-
mouth, was admirably calculated to excite the batredand
disgust of every friend to liberty in Spain, and particularly
whetieontrasted with what be bad before stated in the Mouse
of Commons. Did he say, in January last, that an inter

fereoce in behalf of. Spain would be Quixotic ? On the
contrary; he deseribett .her u certain of maintaining her
own canse. His great argument was, that Spain was not
In need of any assi4tatice. " A large army will be starved
in Spain, and a 'small one defeated," was a phrueln the
mouth of every Minister, and of every friend of every Mi-
Meter. They said there was no occasion to interfere—that
France ; woald be soon 'taught the invasion was as

dangerous as it was unjust; and that We should husband
our resources because our interests were not endangered.—

Now Mr. Canning comes forward, to my that it would
bare been Quixotic to interfere ; which, besides •being a
1141sebood with regard to SpaitY, is a libel on Great Britain,
of whose resources be•occasionallp speaks in anehryeiglity"
terms. It is saying that we could have added nothing to

the defence of Spain—that with our assistance, the idea of
defending Spain would have been as Quixotic as if when
Spain was abandoned to her own defence—that, :n short,
England resembled a cripple looking on at a burglary,
or a murder, neither able nor willing to interfere, and
not even courageous enough to give an alarm against the
thieves, or the assar.ins.
.This is Mr. Canning's portrait
of the Government of whtcjt he is so conspicunus a mem-
ber. This is what be thinks of "dm envy and admiration
of the world;" and it is no waiter of surprise that other
countries should agree in the opioirin of. our. louden
Secretary. The Spanish Liberals, therefore,-neturally
imagine that England will be the next prey •orthe
,fiely Alliance ; and, finding all idea of a resistance to
'despotism in Europe. wild and 'visionary, they4o at onye
to France, where they know that policy will spec n-tbeir
lives. and perhaps seek to conciliate them to, aid le the
'ulterior designs of the Great Nation. We shoUld mach
like to hear Mr. Canning describe the difference between the
actual "cootinental system," which now exists, and is in.
creasing in the vigour of operatioci, with public opinion
bits favour against Ragland, and secured by a necessary
communion of interests among Its • authors—
With the inefficient system Attempted to be esta-
blished by Napoleon, against the feelings of the
people, and in opposition to the .interests- Government
whom ue forced to bkoite his agents. This would
afford a fine scope to the talents of the Foreign Secret-
ary. •With what an abundance of admiiable
would the subject furnish him! And then for the
i exercise of his talents for sophistry, what a nice jesuitical
distinciitnimight be drawn between the horror of bevies
been.rnised by "a Corsican adventurer;' and the wing.-
, tage4f being destroyed by the legitimate drseendant of
half-a-store Russian Czars !

The Morning Chronicle sad the Courier
ther there is any difference between a Whig at
The Cori-ler says there Is none. "tertZ
.Chronicle, "except your lithig bappeni)
" tye," says the Courier. " but then he is no Whig."
"No," says the Chroniele—" certain!, he is not ; for a
Whig. to be any thing, must bee Reformer: for if be is not a
Reformer, be certainly does not differ 'from a Tory!" The
I , „
reauers of the oTsTcsmAs will probably ask the Whig, why
he wears an unmeaning, or a disgraceful epithet—why he does
, not avow himself only end solely a Reformer !

t.oting
Tory.—
f," says the

Mr. Bowring has been refused pertnission to go to Paris
for a few days on particular business, which required Isis
presence. The French Uoverntneot, then, is at scar with
Mr. rowing. IVhat a vlorionscompliment to the Bourbon
dynasty ! It Las concreted Spain, hitt it dreads Mr. Bow-
-1 ring, an honest, able English Merchant.

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The plan proposed on Tuesday evening, at the Crown
and Anchor, of establishing in London a 44 Mechanic's
Icititute," similar to that which has so long flourished at
Glasgow, is meeting, we are • heartily glad to bear, with
the most flattering encouragement and extenilse support.
The Committee to whom the General Meeting referred the
preliminary owasures for founding the Institution. met
Met night, and ippointed a Sob Committee to draw the
ontline of its constitutioe. Dr. Birkbeck, the foinder of
that of Glasgow, is, as be ought to be, a member of the
Sub Committee ; for who is so competent to lay a fit
foundation for the projected Institute, as he in whose
judicious mind the model had originated, and by whose
fostering care it has now arrived at matotity, and become
productive of such extensive practical utility ? ,As soon as
the Committee have completed the outline of their work, we
expect another General Meeting will be called; whets a
large accession still be announced to the nut:thee of those
who are candidates for admission into the Society. In the
present embryo state of the Institution, the sums subscribed
and receive,' as donations, we understand, amount already
to several hundred pounds.

WtNnson, Friday, Nor. l4.—The day being fine, His
Majesty took an wring on horseback in Windsor Great
Park. The King continues in the enjoyment of excellent
heilth. The Earl of Fife left the Castle this day for
London.
A Cabinet Connell, it is said, will meet next Tuesday.
It is nearly three months since one has been held. All the
Minis.ers ate expected to be in town by that day.
Sir Robert Wilson is now at the seat of a Gentleman,
in Hampshire, greatly reduced in habit from 'anxiety and
fatigue. We bear, that he dots not mean to apnea
among his polilical kends in London for a month •or
aitt weeks.—Morning Paper.

SIR R. AND THE DEY OF ALGIERS.

(11`ROM J atoantsto LEVER
A envious adventure Sir ROBERT hes had since the fall
of Cadis. All efforts being found fruitless. he was deter-
mined to prevent. as far as he was able. tho menu of fur-
ther annoyance, by carrying off three barrels of gunpowder
in a vessel in which he escaped. The currents carried
the boat into the Bay of Algiers, he demanded en interview
with the DRY. and begged his Highness's acceptance of doe
present, which was most graciously received. The Doi
detained Sir ROBERT two days in the Palace, and allowed
him to visit his Ilareni, as a mark of special condeseension.
Bet the most important achievements of all wars a solemn
pledge given by the Dar. that the persons and property of
all Spanish Liberals should he respected by his people.
Subsequently to this, Sir ROBERT returned to Gibraltar,
and seam went to Cadis, where he had au interview with
FURIBBANO.

By the Hamburg Papers which have arrived to the Atis
inst. we learn that two hlemhers of theeonimission sent to
examine the nature of the gold mines lately discovered
in the great chain of the Ural mountains. in Russia,
have returned to St. Petersburg, and reported that !hey
were rich. and likely to be productive. The poverty of the
Russian fivances has hitherto proved a bar to some of the
all grasping schemes of the Russian Cabinet ; bat if these
mines be work and furnish them with adequate supplies,
who knows ,how far their ambition may carry them ?
It is now reported that Sir Robert Gifford w►ll sneezed to
the Chief Justiceship of the Pleas, in the mom of Sir R.
Dallas. The Attorney General's wish was to obtain the
AbstershiP of the Rolls, but the improving state of Sir T.
Plumer's health induces his Honour to preserve his seat, at
least for some t►me. Mr. Justice Bayley, we learn, is t 6
be the new boidtlitief Heron; ■nd the vacant seat in the
Court of King's Bench will be filled by Mr. Baron Hal-
lock, who is to be succeeded in the Exchequer by Mr.
Ceurtexay, the Memher for Exeter. and Master in Chine
eery. Mr. Hurece Twiss, we are told, is to be reworded
for lii political exertions with the Mastership, as soon as
it shall be mated by. Mr. Coortenay. %Pe believe there is
little doubt but Mr. Sbadwell will be the new Solicitor
tieneral. Besides these changes, it is expected, that in a
;hod time, one or two other vacancies will occur in the
judicial seats. when Mr. laittledale and 'Mt. Sergeant
Onslow are to ha• thought of. As soon as eonvenieat,
Mr. Nolan, we learo, is to haves Wittcb Judgeship.—

(Morning paper.)
On Tuesday week the Rev. A. Baird was inducted BA
Professor of Oriental Langoakes in St Mary's College, St.
Andrew's. Scotland.
Since the commenrement if the war in Spain, the nom.
ber of vessels of wsr in the French marine. has been in
creased from 90 to 151.), and that of the sailors from 8,000

to 19,000.
• A great sensation has been caused in the fashionable
cireleitv a most extraordioary Magisterial interference ia.
a tinirter which, up to Saturday last, bed been alitosys
exeutpted frog the Melts. of the Police. Why the Clair
House, which is fr*qiiiititY, mieloaively, 11l persons of the
highest respeetability;ceinpiefiendisik•niArly all the rank.
of thetountry.. should have been iiiiipetfdift sit% V*evies
of nosh*. it is entirely beyond 9ur
Our readesewill-scarcely believe it, when we state, that, at'
s little after 'l4 41'r:hick on the evening IshOyeenclutignittle
the ttentleineni (IS in tosenber) then assembled at the Club
House, on the Sterie- were :Insulted by the entrance of
several Police Officers:- - shot rifinutely searched ell the
rooms and offices of the Wirier; fats tifr•purpose of ascer-
taining whether any persons were •Pliyhrg at.hazard. It
is but justice, however, to the individuals eibishiyell'oo this
occasion to add, that they expressed the pain and regret,
whictObey felt at being obliged: to execute the orders of
him. or those who sent them on such an errand. Of course.,
the only consegnences which resulted from this visitation
were, the throwing the house into a state of confusion.
and distinhrtigAbe repose of a Grialenian, who. had retired
to rest. ft to preenerfeo; Hatt ,ifbrmsttl tat At ad been ..gi ern
to the Magibtrates that•gamfigglistisrectfeletitatbi befili
but the bare fact, that the knowledge-of such a • cirenin
stance (even allowing that it were true) most necessarily
have been confined to the members of the Club, renders
sack *a pretence, inadmissible •and aboard.—(Brighton.
Herald.)
Palace Yestimszt.—Toplits. Sept. 9.—At Theresiens-
tadt I had the good fortune to see Prince Ypsilanti, who had
been lately removed to that romp. He is treated with
entich'empect, thongb constantly under a very strict super-
intentleoce. and is allowed (but slwsys attended by an
officer) to go about at liberty within. the fbrtress, accom-
panied by bit younp sat brother, • tired( naval captain, an.l
four other Greek officers, all of whom were likewise with
him at Nlinikatsch ; be appears lobe in very good health.
Ile is a toll handsome Mill. with a high forehead, asimited
black eyes, black hair, an Italian, rather than a Orean,
nose. and a smite about his month. He wore a white hat,
and • dark blue great coat. Hie brother appeared pale and
melancholy. They have several well-fornished Looms, and
are in cant fht nothing, 50 Ratios per day being allowed,
as I was toll for their support.—(From the. Hesperus.).
We are exceedingly sorry to have to announce, that a
stocking frame, belonging to Mr. Lowe, in this town, but
in the hoagi ofMr. 11. Carnes, of Carlton, was broken on
Friday airfit.—(Nottinfhans Review.)
A part of the goods ut Mr. John Selby. of Coalpit Lane, I
have been seised, this w••ek, and will be sold, to pay the
sum of tropence-halfpenny, claimed by the Her. 0.
Wilkins, vicar of St. Mary's parish in this town, as Easter
dues, together with tea shillings as his costs in obtaining
the saute.—(/did.)
EMITS& OVIIMINGS.—Tte subscriptions totry the merits
of these clerical claims, are, us understand, contributed.
byall classes in .this town. with an• alacrity wbieh has
exceeded the expectations of the warmest fneods to the
undertaking. The industrious classes, who are perhaps
most interested in the question, not only most cheerfully
tender their few pence each oet the occasion, but express
themselves in very grateful, terms to the respectable
individuals wbo have come wore prominently forward ip the
buoiuns.—(taicestsr (3rsuside.)

WEEKLY REGISTER OF WEATHER.
The week eommenced witii a clear hat shcrp atmosphere,
and the hovering of the sitoke of the Metropolis. him a fog./
on Tuesday moraing, was an evidence of the greater rie‘rte
of cold in the superior strati, and an Indication of the severer
weather we were soon to experience. On Wednesday, the
frost was smart. and with s little relaxation yesterday, coo•
tinned till this morning. Yesterday 'nursing there was hoar
frost. with a bright sky ; the oiher mornings have been fogey.
though the days were fine. There has been nu rain here this
`week.
on Thursday seanight. In the afternoon, there was alwarced at Water-
ford, a phenomenon lust desetyes to he recorded. While rain was descend- 1
leg In torrents, and immediately after the atmosphere had hire unnetiAlly
dark, the southern part of the !leavens became suddenly illuminated, and
tbe tight emitiauedinereminglor along ten minat.s. In this time the ther-
mometer rose II degrees, and the barometer was sensibly affected This
phenomenon is ascribed. with reams, to tkre pus4oge otel,•etrie matter from
one cloud to another iu as opposite state of electricity.
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