The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-27 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

Italy, and the same liberty had been greeted to the French
Cabinet, with respect to Spain. It was jest that Russia should
have, in its turn, permission to manage, at its-pleasure, the
Ai/armee" In the East."
October I3.—According to accounts from Caterer'
wits. his Mejesty the Emperor of Russia intended to lute
that ekty on the 11th, and our Orecions•Monerelt would sot out
on the 13th, sod arrive on the 14th at Lemberg.
As the stay of the Russian E aperor at Cxernotilts was too
short to allow Prince Pdetternich to find Mir Majesty there,
after reeoverlug.from the indisposition which detained him 0
Lemberg, his Majesty has directed his Secretary of State.
Coast Nesselrofte, to go to Lemberg to his Highness as soon
as his Majesty himself should bees quitted Citernowitz.---
(Austrian Observer.)

details of this action will ba given in the despatches of his
Excellency.

PIUMIGNAN.—There is a continual leading on board of I
transport., Mortara and Projectiles to be conveyed to Bar-
celona, when they ars going to undertake the siege. The
principal materials for that purpose are taken from the Fort
of Figueraa.

When our Ultras talk of the veneration due to existing
institutions, and the value of certain tyrannic principles
of Government, they wisely keep out of view all examples
of the advantages of which they talk. But occasionally
we find them, when they imsgine the principles are not
in question, exposing certain facts, which tend materially
to lessen our veneration fur the systems in which they
exist. The New Times, for instance, will have it that with-
out Monarchy, and a state religion, there can be neither
peace, prosperity, nor religion. Good. It also contends
that of all species of monarchy, the mixed order is the most
excellent; and that of all sorts of state-religions, the Pro-
testant faith as by law established,is incontestably the best.
The nation therefore, which has both those blessings. With a
tolerable good climate, and au industrious population,
might be considered as the happiest, the moss pious, and
the most prosperous in the world; or, at least, that it
should rank amongst the best governed, and most orderly
states. Let us find, then. a country of this description.
sad' try whether the **bear oat the supposition. As
wtare cionteo44 with tlti'New Ti..., we will refer only

4 we v 7 •..
UP antborieimtistralsbed by Itself, -And for. the accuracy. Si
Which It' roaches, in order Pcllsollo , tbs Ifndi
,of the principles en whi4„.:, it is cooductefl.
Ireland is an integral pact stf the British dominions. It
has all the blessings which a. mixed government, and an
established religion can bestow. It is an' extremely loyal
country—witness the (natio reception it gave toGeorge the
Fourth, for the trifling favour of chewing himeelf, " po.
large end as live as life," at afew dialler patties in Dahlia.
There are no.seditious demagogues to disturb that portion.
of Abe king. A few. Icsiiibmkerfetee are now and then
committed.; but:ef •thsida ast &hiking, and the grime of
actin upon thoeght, thilkeli:ititief beielpi•ttety.l Ors'
logltlitiitelgnerance preraili;whiah Might sasistr,44l4p.
prig: of :Louis.: Existinctnstitations sips psOisis(l,ls. the
ellithr;lisidwititherity ..suffiriaiatmQ its, yoke mosi•liettly,
41hi"".1111!::,.. . infti,4444.l.4fiateiN:eishr.!4.Ptimsit i
ittldAing",shisuPtia)atitioir itimiiUbiesUreititsina: ',lasi'
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la
• 4anasgcm(ers. , —toe beneveleams• 44 'soar., mot, eam.
rather should stopper; them —the' 'traattliii‘ait444.;:eii;
- •
tire priesthood should ilimetb their- petite Oa suit; sistif
lead them
.gently to ihtltri?kef -tlAtiiitol4oi,whkV
.. . ...
separatesale skunk ciiiiakisitta thi. exposit°, ttsity...
This is *hit elttitfld 101'*'iiiItti'.:4iSitiag• " Pliltich apt,
11134,1,1iiiiitiAisse ilie.t itosektoostrarpa state of Mail'
Phsald liiiilAtirictly,lit roil*, rif all this; IC while
st Ailas, seek the hesiiit Irige-as the New Time:f rellt ,
I foaree44.zilieye. If;Siliati"'alti4g;`reigtis, and a..f.;he 47.,,
,'„,igjsim4salemul.iiif ponce. and happiaess, we find the - most
, eusultilg•plfheres of . wretch/44ms, u 4 criasei,...would net
'one...fall In the worth •of .sseh• institutiuis be: a' little
~
shaken ; and should irs• I tilngted"Eo'iiittliii, 'When
we bear of the &ea of levolution, that 'li is. bittetuthe'
'titer

—.• should at once purify the atmosphere, thonghoonny.
. • , ..
*lofty tree should be torn up by the roots in its fumy-4Am%
stbs silent pestilence should hang upon. the 4UlliegieAri,
(llti. iliglPnieon. silently and. escussioelr destedt' iftli,
lipglieisilatitt•oil *Olt thenlilieland, :nod su , whit
kk:d
' Niiii7f;Siii iiii4it.i; : end tb;tt co iwpare it with the
'Negri d, mischievolis. and foolish Govsernineot of the Cortes,
Kehler titnifteieVilenteGfritsailiiiidli'slandetied in defiance
Wikeveneonvietlour!.Tlihi I itly New 'Times, speaking of
Aitsb. and Tinting tbil erartle-of a report recently pub,
mi their Condition,' eiya—" Their habitual wretch.
lejfnees is such, that an eye-witness lan " Ile could have
Ait
•tr conception of it, not imagining that any human'
eossid.c.rist in such wretchedness: that their cabins
• ly contain an artiole that can be called furniture ;
that in some families there are no stub things at bed.
olothei—they sleep in their working clothes, on some fern
With* 'kilo straw thrown over it; whenever they have a
meal of potatoes they are cheerful, and the greater part of
ekes drink nothing but water." See here, ye adulators of
!(anarchy, and State Religion ! There is a picture for
our contemplation of the superlative happiness produced
your systems! Habitual wretchedness, relieved, occasion.
, by the cheerfulness of being able to participate in the
of hags! your own friends wondering that humanity
• exist in themisory to which yoursystern has degraded
It. We have again—" Lady OLN'NGALL; a woman of active
and zealous benevolence, says of• the female peasantry, they
ire perfectly naked as to clothing, and perfectly helpless ;
ia!iliont any comfort or convenience, or any possible way
Orating their lie elibood : and unfortunately the gentry
'era se used to see that kind of distress that it does not
shock them: they see people naked, and with nothing in
the world but a blanket to sleep on, without a bed to lie on,
and they are not aware that that is not the usual and pro-
per way for them to exist, they arc so used to see it.—This
is a glorious picture for the admirers of things as they are
to contemplate. The Irish have an established religion,
which costs them one million, three hundred thousand
pounds per annum, for the support of 1700 persons; while
the mass of the people are in the condition here
pourtrayed ; and so callous, are Me gentry, (in
which the priesthood is included) that they see habitual
wretchedness, perfect nakedness, famine, and disease
among the common people, without being aware that it is
not their proper condition ! This is, we are told the
ordinary state of the people. of Ireland!—where the Pro-
testant Religion is . enthroned in state, and where its
teachers wallow in riches—where an archbishop recently
died worth two hundred thouund pounds,. gathered from
ski misery of these wretches—where " the Rev. James
44 Altera, the Vicar of Cork, who has not visited it for
the last fifteen years, possessed no leas than fifteen
6 vicarages,three rectories, one prebendary, a Glebe house,
6 with forty acres of land, and two or three Churches!!!!"
OM ye admirers of things u they are! Do ye not bold down

poor heads, and blush in bitterness of heart at this ! No !
for ye have so hearts. This we repeat, is given as t! e
ordinary condition of the poor of Ireland :—of the millio, s
who swarm in mod borels,, n ler the pro'ecti4 n of " Church
and State." When any accidental cause encreasea the
misery which is hardly susceptible of any addition, we are
told that they have been discovered " eterdiag for food Me
sea weed which had beat carried to the field. (18 minim"
The idea of steathig sea weed, is a novelty to us; but the
incident conveys a forcible idea of the exteat to whith
Church and State will extend their rapacity. The
make a properly of every thing. If the people could eat
the pebbles or the sand of the shore, their taking them to
satisfy their hunger, would be called stealing them! They
wild beasts of the forest, the wild birds of the air, the wild
heath of the barren moor, the very weed dashed by the
waves upon the beach, are all the property of "the 'wry ;"
and the poor must not have an ounce of food, without pay.
ing the value of ten ounces in labour, exposed to insult and
contempt. In a late scarcity a r d gentleman writes
thus :

" I have often witnessed scarcity and dearness of prod.
Mons, bat I never had an idea of famine till now -ORO poor
creature, who was ewployed• by me last week to amuse, but
not to fatigue, himself at the repairing of the roads, was at
work on Saturday evening, fasted I am afraid on Sunday, got
up on Monday morning to work, not from his bed, for bed he
bad none, but from the ground, on which he slept without ►ad
clothes in his daily raga. 11. said he felt languid and sleepy:
he was in fact gettingvorse: he lay down again on the ground
—aed died!"

The idea of a poor wretch expiring of famine, being set to
amuse himself in the repair of roads, the hardest and most
exposed of all work, is a striking illustration of the indiffer-
mace of the gentry, to the condition of the poor. if the poor
fellow had been set to amuse himself with some wholesome
food, It would have done far more credit to the Reverend Geo.
!lemon. But, surely, If set to work, he should not have beau
left to fart, even on Sunday ! Then the mild term invented
for murder by starvation. lie only fasted on the Sunday—but
on.the Monday be died ! Oh !• immaculate union of Church
and State ! How notorious are the blessings it confers,

The Govencer of Carthagena has• sot thought fit to obey
the order of the Kieg of Spain to surrender.' OW the'
contrary, he has fired on the Bag of truce sent witia.the
summons.; and he bas, in consequence, bees put sludge ter
BAN of the monarchical principle. Of the means of the
Governor to resist.. we can know but little; yet they may
be presumed to ire cOasiderable, since he thus volaktafili
puts his tile upon the hazard •of.being able to maintain
will argue something also in favour of. the gewara4
ipirit which reigns in the town, that thetemper of the people':
ivillallow defence to be-made: andalthough we have hitherte.:
iitsa but little of Spaniels resolution, we shall not hail an
*sample with the has pleasure on that account. Thi
Empecinado has also been proclaimed a desperate traitors.
sad incorrigible rebel, because he has thought it the wise*
plan to fall nobly in the eeese.iie.has espoused, than to be •
:40,tomtigeominious death,
.for the Slily crime of trustingwalla tttercr: '
:of a tyrant, . :He hid attached the town of
Caceres en ilml3lll inttftitspliititimillineirepulsed by the
inhabitants; bet, ste, 4/11/I thi Thh;ct'S'lltas only two
leagues from; the' oast have bees
a very slight one, indeed. •In Catalonia, matters
remain as hefoie. The Pietist!, say the submission of the
.plice is certain on the arrival of orders from the King ; but.
the Ring bid been three weeks at liberty, at the date of
the last accounts from the French camp ; and had hail
plenty of time to forvititd bis orders foe..the .Cessation of
.hostilities. The French evidently calculate upon the in-
disposition of the inhabitants to maint4iiiit siege ; for they
say. if Rotteo ti4n4p 4iy.4044111W0ut Joey,- a
11g14444int.belosth, Asko Which he -has'
the means of retiring, " lilockaded, aid
,ei
tritOtelibit Tts' lamp' ~t 04, migs.,..;rhss ma
y
.if , the Freeich eits liMtit" the bluatisils•
ISt 'Swiss ntantha hit' • Irtsl. .. :S;‘gegawieg divest tiesb
if provided with the otitis:tit givetheni inore acting!) employ;*
meat than they have yet found. And as to the means,
despair often does more than wisdom in extreme
At all events, the tall of :Cailix, though it has weakened
the Constitatienal party, bas sot strengthened the hands
of the invadets; while the restoration of the King, which
their conquest has obtained,.has perplexed them tu,we than
advantaged them. Still, ander the present aspect of affairs,
the absolute controul, if not the undisputed possession of
Spain, remains to the French ; and the general policy of
England Las received a mortal stab. France may hold Cadis,
and ultimately all the important sea-ports of Spain,
as we hold Gibraltar ; and our commerce will be infinitely.
more at their mercy, than theirs was at ours by the pos-
session of that fortress. The Anew Times consoles itself
by saying, " we are now most desirous to bear of some
" steps being taken by King Ferdinand, towards the
" establishment of a wise an i niwlerate government."
Can such an expectation he entertained by any one person
out of Bedlam? tVe are inclined to suppose that other
motives than such a desire has actuated that journal, is
the slander of the Government of the Cortes ; and it has
already been paid in full of all demands by the geseross
Bourbons!

From respect to tbedeliberations of a Jury, though not
from deference to the discrimination or soundness of judg- •

ment displayed by Magistrates on the occasion, we have
hitherto refrained from expressing our sentiments pn a
recent case of the commitment of a respectable •cyadesman
foe trial, by a Bow-street Magistrate, which made
a strong impression upon us, when it first
came before the public. The case to which
we allmle, is that of Mr. Bury, an account of whose
trial and acquittal, we give in our paper of this day. Is
it to be endured that any one shell be thus heavily
mulcted and imprisoned, merely beau it is assumed that
the commission of crime in a particular clam has become
unusually prevalent And because the accused has done eutue•
thing, not mattion in se, which militates against a certain
line of policy, that the magistrate thinks necessary to
be pursued to repress that prevalence of crime? In
the present instance, juvenile delinquency is the evil to be
repr,,ssed. But is every tradesman bound to know that
youthful offenders are so increasing In numbers ? And, if
he should happen to have heard that it is so, is he obliged
to know what is the best course tt be pursued in order to
check that increase ? Is he bound to exercise extraordina-
ry caution in all his dealings, under tile penalty of hotting
au innocent transaction charged ecru'. t him as a s-rinus
offence; for which he is to be veverely punished insmea•
ately, and 'to ran the risk of being, with his whole fami•
ly, finally disgraced and mimed ? Mr. Halls, trom
his labours as a magistrate and we, by our etc I, .604
as daily joutnalists, may bay. opportunities of. 10910 f