The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-24 00:00:00

THE STATFSMAN.

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WIIINCIDAt ITENING, 14.t1r 24, 18W.

THE FUNDS.
The present state of the Money Market ins brought
to town several persons connected with the Funds, who I
had intended to hare spent the holiday-week in various!
parts of the country; and this morning, when business
commenced, the house was crowded to excess. Con-
sols opened at 694 for the Account, and 696 for the
July Accounts. An immense quantity of bitsitess was
done, and Various reports were circulated in order to
depress or raise the market, according to the interests of
the (Efferent parties.—Beta were offered that notice
would be sent to the Stock-Exchange this ley or to-
morrow, of the amount of Loan reqeired ; tht report
still continues, that a Loan must bt had, and that Ex-
chequer Bills will bt funded to a large amount.-
1 here is now twenty-two months interest due upon Ex-
chequer Bills —Fire per Cents. fell 4 per cent., expect-
ing the Minister would fund in tlietn.

The account, which occupies our preceding ets-
lumns, of the Meeting held at the Crown and Anchor,
tavern yesterday, to celebrate the return of Sir FR•NCM
BERDETT to Parliament, as Representative of West-
minster, will Le read with considerable intere-t.
various speeches are in unison with the feelings of en
lightened Englishmen ; and the reflections of the worthy
Baronet un the sentence passed on Mr. lICNT (with
whom, as he remarked, no person had less reason than
himself to be pleased) does credit to his head and
heart. In respect to firm integrity and manly can-
dour, Sir FRANCIS has alwapt proved hin.self the
genuine successor of the Hon. CHARLES Janus Fox.
There was nut a sentimeot expressed by him yester-
day but what we are eottvineed that aohle-tisindeil
roan, had be been present, would, under ti.e existing
circumstances in which the people have been placed,
been ready to declare. Under all the irritations from
the country's wrongs, or from personal and pointed
persecution, there was not a sentence uttered that could
occasion umbrage to these who are the most disposed
to steer the safe and cautious middle course in the sea
apolitical adventure. Not en expression was employed
that could have exposed any real disciple of Mr. Fox
to either shame or danger ; but not one of the men who
profess to admire and invoke his intrepid spirit, had
the courage and consist, m.y to countenance the ge-
nerous patriot on whom the judgment of the Law im-
pends. The stricken deer is discarded by the herd.
Did the wary politicians, who weigh their words in
balances, deem the warm-hearted Baronet to have been
unguarded in his expressions ? It is much to be la-
mented they avoid an association which might rouse
and animate their languid breasts. Do they think
that too much patriotism has made him mad? Would
to Clod they were nut only almost, but altogether like
him, except those bonds with which he is threatened.
We have not, we can truly declare, the most distant
wish that their exertions should be more restrained.
This is not the season when the country can dispense
with the service of its friends. This is not the pe-
riod for talents to lie hid. When distress is spread
through every rank, except of those who pro-per on the
distresses's)! others; when complaint is uniting men
who never expected to complain, and, least of all, to
complain together ; when despairing sufferers, of su-
perior classes, are urging the most inconsistent pe-
titions ; and when partial and pernicious quackeries
are wildly sought, instead of thorough and legitimate
stsestittitional remedies, it is the duty of the en-
lightened patriot, to press forward with ardour, and
give direction and support to the distreaed. But
when he beholds a suffering people den:ed the mi-
serable consolation of uttering their complaints in
Zany; when, instead of thedistributionof relief, he
leers the dispersion of humble petitioners; when the
Ilitrong vindictive arm of oppression is known to be
stretched out, instead of the supporting hand; what
laglishman, with proper sympathies, who occupies a
Station in the country's Councils, or a rank in the
public eye, can restrain his remonstrances, if be caa
his interposition ?
It evinces woeful inconsistency in those who know
the causes that have led to these calamities, to stand
aloof and see them aggravated. Let it be the lan-
guage of those who owe their germ's's' to their coun-
try's ruin, to ask with helplessness or callousness,
tt What can we do ?" Let sneh pretend that the system

must go on, that the storm will blow over, and the vessel
will spontaneously emerge, and right herself again.
Such sentiments require to be exposed. The country
must inevitably be wrecked, if the most strenuous ef-
forts are not made to save her. The course in which
she has long been steered is now confessed to have
beungly her into the midst of the most awful dangers.
Nothing less than a change of direction can sale her
from destruction.
The tonsures now pursned to calm the troubled
ocean are as Wile as they are barbarous. Our mo-
dot n Patinttrus would appear to thr. w overboard se-
lected victims to assuage the storm. Attempts are
making through the country to estal %bib a system of
coercion, revolting to the feelings of Britons, and
to make, instead of content/4i subjects, a set of
quiet slaves. The judgments of the law confirm
and augment the terr)re of military controul,
and the spirit of the people is designed to be sub-
dued. But Fitch a policy, though tiled in one por-
tion of the United liiagdom, affords no encourage-
ment for repeating it in another. There is no English
p ditician who can desire to see experienced bete
either Irish prosperity or Irish tranquillity. The
beneli►s of such a state are dearly purchased, and held
on a precarious tenure. The very measures used to
produce subjection may only tend to accelerate the
evils of anarchy.

To resist the measures hitherto pnrsned, and to fleet
the mischiefs that may follow them, ought never to
hare been lost sight of by the friends of the people. It
has twee the misfortune of the people in have been de-
serted by their natural leaders. As sheep without a
shepherd, they have been more liable to stray. Had
those who had profes►ed to advocate their cause in Par-
liament, condescended to have listened to their cunt-
plaints to the country, the consequences that have fol-
lowed their attempts to remonstrate might have never
taken place. That guidance which should have never
dropped from the hands of the Whigs, has of necessity
been undertaken by more zealous Radicals. In no mo-
ment of peril could it he alleged of Mr. Fox that
he shrunk from his post, or neglected to stand fore-
most in the cause of tie people. It is to the credit of
Sir Fr-A:skill 111111 DE 1 T that he follows MI continues
such an eminent example.

Letters from Peters' nigh of the 29th of April state,
that the Government has issued a new ukast•,extremely
beneficial to the temporary interests of the calico-
printers of Russia, but calculated materially to injure
the inte'rests of the toreign merchants trading with
that country. All printed goods, when printed and
brought to market by a Russian printer, will be en-
titled to a drawback of 37) ropers silver the pound,
which is the amount s:1 duty on the white goods when
imported.
Perhapknot since the American war has a greater
swrob.•r of shops -been shut, and to let, in Glasgow
and its environs, particularly in the latter, than at
present. Tickets are al•uost innnmerabl• for good
hunsea to let, and son•' landlords have added, at
Reduced Rents."—(t;i,r.ri•owr tlro.t;e/e.)
Trade has of late coasiderahly rev:red in Paisley.
and the prices of weavieg hare experienced some little
advance, in consequence of the demand ; but whether
business will go on improving, awl the wages of la-
bour continue to rise for any length of time, is s'ill
problematical. In t:se mean time, the revival is very
consoling, after such a general, lung, and ruinous
stagnation.—(Glasteore Chronick.)
It was yesterday currently reported, that the In-
stallation of the Knights of the Bath is postponed, as
it was found that the necessary preparations would in-
terfere with those that are necessary to the Coronation.
Mr. Alderman Wood left town au Sunday to proceed
to the Continent. It is probable that he will meet
her .Nlajesty on the route to Calais.
• The following account of certain prat-ceilings, coo-
-1 nected with the unfortunate difference* which subsist
betw,'en his Majesty and the Queen, has been made
public :
" it is known, that shortly after the death of his late
Majesty, it was designed to put the matter at rent for
ever Itt• an open judicial proceeding, which should re-
lease the parties from those bonds which hail so long
connected them together, but never could unite them.
This intention was changed, however, in consequence of
an interview which took place between an eminent
Barrister and a distinguished Nobleman: on which oc-
casion, the copy of a letter to an 'Hilarious Personage
was laid Ware his Lordship, in which the Royal writer
declares his inflexible residsition never again to hold
communion or intercourse with her. •
" The letter is supposed to have been written some
years ago, in the warmth of injured feelings, as the lan-
4uage and sentiments betray considerable agitation.
Shortly afterwards, an extraordinary Cabinet Connell
was convened, to take into consideration the important
point, so long a subject of anxiety in the ;Hind of the
King. Only one of the Law Officers of the Crown con-
curred in the wishes of his Majesty; the whisk Cabinet
besides were so oppressed with the technical difficulties
of the case, that they declined encountering them, and a
round robin was addressed to his Majesty on Monday,
the 14th of February last, which left, for a time, all the
great (Bras of State vacant, and the country without
responsible Government."
In the case of the late Portsmouth Rank of Minchin,
Carter, and Co., the CO:111105SiOlierS met yesterday at
Guildhall, and declared a dividend of 6s. ad. in the
pound.
Fourteen convicts arrived yesterday morning from
Gloucester, and were rot on board a vessel off the Cus-
tom-house Stairs, to be shipped on board a ship fur
New Sonth Wales for life.
On Tuesday evening se'nnight, a little girl of Mr.
Ridgway's, of Retford, maltpter, about two years
old, having got up etaira info a back cherub r,..by
the assistance of a chair abe reached the window,
which was open, and unfortunately fell out, but,
providentially, her pinafore caught hold of a nail on
the outside, and there she bung sulpended until ob-
served by a neighbon?, who give the alarm, and Mr.
Ridgway immediately drew her in at the witv'ew,
without haring sustained the slithtest injury