The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-30 00:00:00

the iitterruptivis of our intermurse with Maori:7,l.
i will not add to the charvs on Ministers, which
are the subject of my Letter, by imputing that un-
loppy contest to their mistaken councils. T ant too
lily interested, to be able to form an iogfartial
lowa. I know, however, the almost wavered:
• •:,1105 in this place on this sal#ert ; and I am eon&
at every man of honour will admit, that if the in.
• '.ant householders of Liverpool, employed in, '
interested in its trade or manufacture, had had •
e.e choice of its Representatives, instead of the Cur-;
p at iwt, Mr. CANNING could not have stood a
Nagle day's poll in opposition to Mr. BitocattAss.—
to General GA9COYNR, tits case was different';
, ere were local and natural attachments to his fa-
llv long resident in this neighbourhood ; but as
!tweet' Mr. BROIGHAM and Mr. CANNING, what
competition could there be
I have no doubt, Sir, that when Mr. CANNING
was Secretary of State, supporting the Orders in
Council, and the whole of our system regarding
America, be acted as an honest man, and to the
hot of a joolgmetat likely to be often correct from
great application nod talents ; but the Orders in
(ouncil, no matter whether justifiable or not justi-
fiable, were the very pressure upon Liverpool, and
odious to the %bole body of her traders and inha-
Etants—and their tlistre,ses on that account pointed
to Mr. Bitoecitsoi, not merely from self-interest,
bit as a moral lot:k-n of gratitude. Ile attracted the
ounce, and inspired the affection of this community
(and of my own, who never saw• him till the hour
ra( the Electioo), by his skill and eloquence in Par-
l!ament, in opposition to what we considered to
be the ruinous system of Ministers, with regard to
America. That differences of (pillion on this sub-
jt?ci existed in Liverpool. them can be no doubt;
but setting aside the enormous influence of Go.
verument, and taking for the standard of opinion,
the unbiassed sentiments of the most respectable
inhabitants engqed in trade and manufacture, and
paying; taxes of every-description to the support, of
the State., I rc-assert that Mr. CANNING could not
bare stood a sin,;lc clay's poll avinst Mr. BROCGII.43t.
The same may be said as to Bristol, where Sir Ss-
NOEL ROMILLY was defeated—the Election being, as
here, Ix THE Coaroa.trtost ; and I will venture to
say, that the result of the Liverpool Election, on
preferring Mr. CANNING to Mr. BROUGHAM, even In
this crisis of her affairs, will do more to open the
4-yes of thinkia4 men on the subject of Reform in
Parliament, than any event which a century hos pro-
aimed. It is indeed a complete carttcaTuac of a
Corporation Eledion in a populous place; I am
not sufficiently acquainted with the constitutions of
Corporate Bodies throughout the
.kingdom, to be
ahle to deal usefully with the subject ; but every
body knows that their charters are various; that
the Election of Freemen is often in select bodies; and
that taking them altogether, their choice U not in
any rational sense, the choice of the people. De-
pend upon it, Sir, that until this great source of na-
tional evil is corrected, wars following wars, will he
prosecuted, and new faxes will be raised on the people
to support them,until Government at last will become
an oppression and a nuisance, instead of a benefit and a
blessing; a state of things which could not then lead
to mild and useful reformation, but which, if dm tiged
at all, would be changed through confusion and
blood. I earnestly pray GOD to avert Irma this land
scch scenes as in other countries continue to disho-
nour and desolate the world. I am sure they may
be averted by early, temperate, and judicious
nation, by the ways of the constitution. I now,
Sir, take my leave of you. My letter has been
much too long. It is thefirst I ever addressed to the
public, and probably will be the lust.

Dispatches have this instant arrived from the Bal-
i;., but their contents are not yet made public.—
They are dated not to colt in any news of a polili-
al ; relating solely to some severe naval
losses iu that quarks', during the lath recent gales.

Reports have reached the Admiralty. that two of
74's hare foundere.l in the late gales—iyarticulars
not known.

Many of the reemitly-arrived West India fleet
have returned home in ballast. This is attributed to
the general failure of the crops in the last and pre.
ceding season ; and will occasion a very great defal-
cation in the revenue. There ere, however, ample
stores of West India produce hi the docks, and bond.
ed warehouses, more than adequate to meet any de-
mand that can be made for them in the present state
of Europe.
The following distressin partkulars ‘rere posted
up at bloyd'sjesterilay :
" Lang, Om .9.4.—Arriml the Glio sloop of
r, from Wingo Sound, whence she sailed on the
. tit inst. with the homeward-hound feet, and parted
:following day, of the Sear.. The Captain m-
ils that 50 of the convoy went missing, and 12 of

:'n were knovie to be lost."
'o er:,• enquiry at the Admiralty, in eon.
luenci• nl Ott. ani)vo report was, that the Captain's
ter minions only one vessel being lost by getting
el shore on the coast of Langland.
4r. JonNsoy, the Messenger, is arrived with dis-
f tches from America.. The Contents of them have

it trwispirecl, but, we understand, that they are i
110 111("niS of a pacific nature.
Mr. Ilvsr., of the Bank, waited upon the Gen•
men of th:, Stock Exchane,.., this morning, to in.:
rm them, that roe next I,ottery, to be drawn in
fhruary, would consiit of '20,000 Tickets, and the
. aiding would ba received on Tuesday nest.
A telegraphic comnwtniention this morning, :m-
-atinees the arrival at Portsmouth of a ship from the
teditertanean, with Dispatches ; she was imme-
Lack). vat uuder quarautiue.