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M m lib' W lulls A VS.. , .'" .- ' " : ' ' " . . . i. . 5 ...... ... . r VOLUMEIIR 1NEWBERN, N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1820. NUMBER 126; L A' . . " PRINTED AN1" PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BT PASTEUR V WATSO??-. i-V At $ 3 per annumhalf in advance;" - FOREIGN, MEMORANDA ; 5 - DRAWN PKOk LATE EKGLlStt PAPERS, RE CEIVED AT THE OFFICE OF THE . NA TIONAL GAZETTB.. ' V Several thousand tradesmen, and manufactareriy "wVre immediately thrown out of "employ Jn the:citv of Cork, Ireland, by the failure of the Lora Milton , presented to , the House of Commons' in ihe mdnth of May, a petition of 279 families belonging to the. Parish of Kirkhea ton, and consisting of 1720 individ uals, who represented that owing to the decline of manufactures in which they were engaged, thejaver age of their earnings for, four y ears, had been no more than eleven gence .three farthings per week. In a debate of the House of Com mons, in May, Mr. Sumner,' a dis tinguished country member, made the following remarks, 44 It was agreed that nothing less than eighty shillings sterling the quarter for corn, could' make it possible for the farmer to go on and cultivate his land. The whole weight of the church establishment lay; upon the land owners and cultivators. They bore the charge of tight tenths of the poor rates, besides country rates5, expenses of, turnpikes, high ways; &c. 'What could be obtained from abroad at one half the! cost which it could be produced at home." Mr. Huskison, one of the Minis try, stated that k if England depended upon foreign nations for corn, the result would be, in case of a rupture with them -to the supplying nations only a diminution of revenue or a pressure on agriculture ; but to En gland, revolution and subversion of the State." j Mr. Monck, another distinguish ed member,-spoke as follows : "The great objection to the Com Laws is that they affect the poor in a cruel and disproportionate manner. It ap pears that we might now, if there was no restriction, import corn at less than fifty shillings the quarter ; but in consequence of the restriction, the price was between seventy and eighty. New, to a gentleman of fortune this would make but a tri fling difference. It might amount, perhaps, to seven or eight pounds in a year; but a poor man with an equally large! family might pay the same addition. His whole income might not exceed thirty pounds pgr annum, and this addition was to Him therefore a tax of 25 per cent. It was a tax too from which he could not escape, for he must either, pay or cease to live. I now seefthe Re sult. The great mass of our popu . lation is reduced to starvation or pauperism. This to be sure is a frightful statement, but it is as true ( as it is frightful." ' On the same occasion Lord Cas J tlereagh remarked in relation to ! the Corn Laws -.This is a more ; sensitive irritating question. It is i no time to tamper with the feelings t ot the people. 1 he agriculturalists r- nave possession ot a complete mo no poly of the corn trade." in tne aeoate ot the House of Lords ot the 26th May, on the fo reign commerce and general condi tion ofGreat Britain, the leading minister the Earl of Liverpool said : " The falling off which has taken place in British exports to A merica, of cottons, glass, wollens, cutlery, hardware, &c. amounts, up on an average of three years, to a deficiency. of 3,100,000. sterling an nually. The distress which pre vails at present in every country of wnich exists in the United States of i . . . ' America. They are now retrogra- iug,retracing th'eir immense strides, and wiU fall back to their original - - . . situation of twenty years ago. There is no doubt that the popula- Uon ot the United, States must at- one and a halt per cent. The Chan xvat depend to a great degree on cellor of the exchequer, speaking in British manufactures for a supply." the House of Commons of the vsub' Is,it' possible that the Noble Earl scription,' acknowledged that in the could really believe that the misery of every country jn Europe is i.iUch inferior to that prevailing in the U- nited. States? And if. with tVU Icnowledge of the causes which ren-1 ien Bill which places all aliehi at der such a case impossible, he could I the disposal of the gdvernmerit, oc not believe it, what must we think casioned much earnest debate in the of the Prime Minister who would House of Commons. Sir James hazard the assertion in so public a ' Macintosh denounced " the accurs manner ? To say nothing of the ed System of Alien Acts," as alto condition of the three kingdoms un- gether at variance with the spirit of tier nis administration, sumciently ; tne Dritisn constitution, xie -men-shown by the strain of the innumera- tioned that the average number; of ble petitions presented to Parlia-ialiens in England durinc: the last ment ana ot the Parliamentary de- bates, if attention be had to France, the inferiority of her misery to ours can be tested by the fact, recently promulgated by one of her most ac curate and assiduous statistical erf- quirers, that two thirds of her popu lation, supposed to be tolerably well off, are rarely or ever able to gratify themselves with animal food. In the sme debate Lord Liver pool mentioned that British muslins are cheaper in India, by one half, than the Indian frabric of the same kind, a fact demonstrative of the ad vantage of machinery over cheap la bour -that in the Eastern seas, 20, 000 tons of shipping are employed in the service of the East India Company, and 61,000 in the service of the' free tradersthat the yearly export of the British , manufactures to Portugal and Brazil, amounted to foui millions sterling, and the trade was a growing one- and that 1500 sail of British shipping and 18,000 seamen are employed in the trade with the British American Colonics' By the report of the pro ceedings of the House of Lords on the 26th may, . it appears that com munication has already been held betweeen the British; government and the new administration of Spain, respecting the abolition of the slave trade In reply to a question on the subject from Lord Holland, the Earl of Li verpool stated che had no hesitation in saying the ne w gov ernment of Spam avowed itself rea dy to fulfil all engagements entered into by its predecessors in this re spect." On the same day. the -Marquis of Lansdown, a leader of the Whigs, made the following observation-"" He was not prepared to say that the Brjtish government ought to exert its influence to procure the immediate independence of South America -by no means" Forty-five thousand numbers ofthe Sunday newspapers are printed and distributed in London, on the Sab bath5 Complaint has been made to Parliament ag'st themas the vehicles of sedition, the cause of a neglect of public worship, and of the fre quentation of taverns and alehouses for the purpose of reading them. Parliament has appropriated nearly eleven thousand pounds sterling for the management of the British Mu seum during the year 1820 a noble act of englighte'ned . munificence. It was suggested when the grant was under consideration, that theMuse um was, nevertheless, kept in a dir ty and disorderly condition, and that " some how or other, the En glish people seemed particularly dis posed to mutilate and deface the statuary and other contents of such institutions." A curious and ample debate took piace, in the British rariiament, on the. 19th May, in relation to the dis frahchisement of certain rotten bor oughs. The abuses ' disclosed, al most surpass belief. The societies formed for the sale of votes are known by the style of Christian So cieties. In' the course? of his speech .n the occasion Mr. Canning men tioned that in the town of Liverpool there were only four thousand elec tors out of one hundred thousand votes. , ; Te. amount of loans offered to the British government, ' at the late funding of the Exchequer bills, is said, by the Courier newspaper," to have exceeded thirty millions ster- ' line. The premium on the script. the day after the subscription, was struggle to secure it, u scenes drs graceful and somewhat dangerous have occured. ; The nronositibn to renew the Al- twenty years was. twenty-tour thou- sand. The salary of trie Lord Lieuten ant of Ireland has been a subject of Parliamentary enquiry. The fixed sum for it is thirty thousand pounds sterling, seven times the amount of the salary of the President' of the United States ! Sir John Newport remarked that if the vice royal resi dence, the household, the park, &c. were taken into the account, it would be not less than one hundred thou sand pounds, Mr. Wellesly Pole, argued against the idea of-domg a way the office of Vice Roy altogeth er, urged emphatically that "the gentry ot Ireland ought to have a Court in which to present their wives and daughters." Lord Castle- reagh, incidentally but formally. denied that England was a party to the HolyAllia,tce " in the diplomat ic senitxf the ward." ihe Society lor the encourage ment of education in France, offers a premium, to consist of a medal worth 600 francs, " for the best me thod of teaching any branch of hu man knowledge. Mr. Laurent Joanne of, Paris, has invented and supported by experi ments, before the National Society for the encouragement of Arts, a plan for obviating the accidents oc casioned by the unruliness or fright of horses in a carriage. According to his ingenious contrivance, nothing more is necessary than to pull -a string, to lock the wheels and unhar ness the horses, whatever may be their violence or at whatever speed they may be running. The me chanism which he employs is appli cable to every species of carriage. Another Quarterly Journal is an nounced in London. 1 It is called the Investigator. In the list of the contents of the first number we per ceive the head " American litera ture and intelligence." Situation of France. FROM THE LONDON MORNING POST. The French revolution, lafter an uneasy and feverish slumber, seems about to awake again ; and what may be, the consequence of that a wakening we tremble to think. What stupendous events arise from contemptible causes I M. de Caze has already cost the interior of France more disturbance and blood shed than Bonaparte himself. Na poleon was a master spirit, who could rule as well as excite, and he repressed by the force of his tyran ny the indignation which it created ; but De Caze" had just so much strength and talents as enabled him to make such a disturbance ;4 like a cowardly boy he set fire to a train of gunpowder with averted eyes arid ran away from the explosion. In spite oi the objects which at this mo ment interests us at home, in spite of the disgust which De Caze's ad ministration has given us for all French politics, the state of France has of late grown so tremendously volcanic, that the attention of En gland will soon be painfully forced to the danger, our own little family quarrels will be 'forgotten when we see our neighbors house in flames, and threatening to involve ours in the conflagration! We know from the rench papers, and stiu more muy from private sources, that Paris ex hibits now the features of August i and that her streets resound" with ihe cries of March1! 8 15, The j voice is the voice ot Jacoo, duc me hands are the hands of Esau ; they carry the pikes of Santerre, but their cry is Vive rEmpereur ; and the spirit of the Bonapartist leaders of this sansculotte mob, have arisen to jsuch a pitch, that , they talk openly of chasenty hunting away the imbe cile Bourbons and recalling the Ja cobin emperor. They can call spirits from the vasty deeps but will they come, be ing called V Can tneir cries charm Prometheus from his rock ? Can they bring Bona parte from St. Helena? Yes? they think, they say, they can! They talk of arresting all the English in r ranee y as hostages tor the restora tion of the Emperor. This may be only the talk ot mad. men ; but in the present state of France,' it may well be feared tpat these mad-men are not unlikely to get the power in to their hands ; and we earnestly advise our countrymen to return home. without delay. Perhaps the dan- - - - w ger may not be so near nor so great as it appears, but; after the lessons wnicn our countrymen received in 1793 from Robespierre, and in 1802 from Bonaparte, those will receive but little pity who .shall be a third time caught in the same trap. The immediate spring of all this commotion is the election law the remote cause M. De CaEe.' That unworthy favorite tcund r ranee at peace, contented, with its King, and happv under its- government. The chamber of deputies, at once the friend of the throne and the charter, I united the King and the people ; but unhapily this, same chamber would not : truckle to the favorite, and De Caze had ppwer ; enough over the mind of the weak monarch to induce him to dissolve a ! repre sentation, whose fault was, that it was at once too independent of the minister, and too much attached to the monarch. But ihe mere disso lution of the chamber would'-'have'. been insufficient to have secured the favorite ; the real sense, of France was against the upstart, and his mea sures; he therefore Hook the bold resolution of poisoning the very springs and sources 1 of representa tion, by & new law of election, which threw the power into the hands of the old jacobin party. All the friends of good order and the char ter opposed this horible violence, and foretold its revolutionary effect, In vain the favorite carried all be fore him. The royalists were every where employed, encouraged and inflamed. Madame, the orphan of the tempW Monsieur the King's brother were insulted, and almost driven from the Court ; while Da voust was created a peer and a duke, and General Vandamme, of butch ering memory, and Regnault, Na poleon's toad eater, were recalled from exile : La Fayette as vain and silly as- he was thirty years ago, was I re-elected to the New National Con tention '; ' the demagogue; Manuel was forced upon the electors of La Vendee, and Gregoire, the regicide, was brought forward again to try whether the King had the nerve to stand the sight of his brothers blood: he stood it all; and the favorite stood it also ; but the blood of Louis's nephew, assassinated so near his per son that his own tu rn might come next, did, it seems, touch at last the generous soul of the monarch, & the favorite, after having turned out two seats of colleagues the one because they xvould alter the law of elections, and the other because they would net was himself tenderly removed, with title of a duke and, the rani of ambassador to England we say the rank, because we cannot believe that the 'French government will dare to insult the English nation by the actual presence of M. De Caze. The law of elections made by De Caze for his own purposes, thus fa vourable to the revolutionary doc trines, and thus fertile in4 Jacobin Regicides and Bonapartist deputies', was of course ; to be repeated and the attempt to undo this Guardian I A I la r n rx' Haa hipMirwnf a monarchy to th brink of a' pfeci we write, it may have already fallen 1 o hear all the cries wnicn are uttered about the charter one would scarcely believe that the law, which is attempted, to be repealed, was made about fourf years ago by. De Caze, late a clerk; of old ; madame Bonaparte's and substituted at the restoration of the monarcy with the charter itself, De Caze and his el iues were the innovaters; and the object of the present government is only to undo the mischief done by others ; but they will fail ; the mis chief is too strong, and they are too weak! ; and the duke of Richelieu. and the second hand cabinet which he has formed, neither royalists or liberals', will speedily, we fear be overthrown ; and the) royal family seems to us (we say with a heavy hear:) hot unlikely to be forced to a .. '. ... - new emigration, m wnicn we ven ture to predict, that the grateful De Caze will not follow them.' We sincerely hope that our apprehen sions may be groundless : the mob of fans are not the neonlft of France ; but the people of France, has been so often enslaved, by the mob of Paris, that we tremble for the issue of the present contest. . Our best hopes is in Marshal Mac donald : if he is a man of honor, as -A we believe him to be, the throne may be saved. Paris "papers to the 11th instant which arrived yesterday, afford ad ditional melancholy proofs, that the: pice over which, even while riotous disposition of the populace has not yielded to the. exertions of the civil and military powers. It appears that on Friday evening a. bout 9 o'clock, a crowd consisting of from 2 tcf 300 persons, assembled near La Porte St. Martin. A nu merous body of troops immediately proceeded to the place arid continu ed there for about an hour. At half past 10 some detachments of curiras- . siers, provoked by the seditious cries of the people, gallopped along the Boulevard and dispersed the crowd. All the trades people clos ed their shops. Similar assembla ges took place in different parts ofthe city at the same time. In short the ' state of Paris was such, that even -the" Journalists acknowledged that af great many foreigners were prepar-j -ing to leave it, t6 the great regret of; the trades-people and tavern-keep Sev ers ; though they would give us to understand that these, foreigners,' seeing what force still remained in the law, had suspended their prepa rations for departure: The pro ceedings of the, chamber, by which it wiil be seen, a considerable addi tion is to be made to the numbers of that Assembly in the next session are given in another part of our pa per, 'r" - ; .'' From Che National Advocate. FRANCE. If the late spirit which burst forth with so much unanimity in Spain, does i. t reach France, Germany, and so thrpupr -out the continent, we shall be much mis taken in our calculation. We have lor g been impressesed with the belief, that tie" " rights of man" are becoming more gen erally, and better understood. -The prt gress of our war for independence t! e steady, rapid and successful march wbi h we have made to fame and posterily, ar d : with scrupulous observance of our cot s.i tutional chart, have not been lost on ihe people of Europe, who now begin o perceive that man -can govern himstlf and be himself governed. 1 he scenes of 1790 and 93, are about beingn reheats ed in Paris, arid Louis the l$th is exposid . to the same dangeres which assailed l is unfortunate brother Louis 1 6th. - Thei e is however much to blame the King' for Re voluntarily ratified the French consti tution, and swore to maintain it. Since which period he his rendered Jt almifst a dead letter. He has suppressed freedom of speech and the press ; - ard has violated the law of elections, tl. us destroying the constitution in its most vital part.,, - '; - v situated as he was, and holding his sceptre by an uncertain tenure, he should have scrupulously maintained his fan h with the people, and endeavored to rally all parties around his throne ; instead of which he has pursued the old Bourbon I path seeding to make; the present genera r
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