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other part of the globe? What then ought we to do? May we not turn their policy against themselves? If the Bad conspire, cannot the Good combine? True, we have lost much. We cannot now have a vanguard of free states, but we may have a strong and irresistible Reserve. The United States,— the nascent, but I trust soon the powerful republics of South America, have common interest with us to repress the encroachments of tyranny. Can we not be closely allied with them? We are accustomed to alliances. There is not an Imperial Slave master, there is not a petty despot who traffics in the blood of his subjects, with whom we have not at one time or other been allied. We have made alliances and combated for centuries to support what has been called the balance of power; can we not confederate to preserve what I may term the balance of right-the protection of the weak against the strong? In such an alliance we should occupy a high and commanding station. Placed in the front of danger, but of glory too, this Island, aided by her free Allies, might bid defiance to a world of slaves, or what is more, might teach them, by the hope of sharing our blessings, to make themselves free. These views may be called visionary ;—splendid fancies never to be realised. Never perhaps to their full extent; -but I will not think so meanly of our kind as to despair of the possibility of an Union among free nations, for wise, and virtuous, and honourable purposes."

BANISHMENT OF BRITISH EDITORS FROM INDIA. The Banishment of another British Editor from India, in the case of Mr. Fair, who has been sent a prisoner on board one of the Company's ships at Bombay, has recalled our attention to this important subject.

It is not, perhaps, generally known, that Dr. Maclean, to whose talents and humanity such ample testimony is borne in the last number of the Westminster Review, was one of the earliest victims of this despotic power. He was sent on board a ship in the Ganges under fixed bayonets, and himself and his wife treated with the greatest indignity, by the officers of Government, under Lord Wellesley's administration, for daring to defend, in a public print, the character of his brother, in a dispute with one of the Company's civil servants! On his arrival in England he could get no bookseller to publish his narrative of this transaction, and the letters to Lord Wellesley which accompanied it; in consequence of which he became his own printer and publisher, by purchasing materials and renting a house for this express purpose. Lord Wellesley was, however, high in favour at home, and his advocates bore down all attempts to excite public feeling on this disgraceful

transaction.

Subsequent to the banishment of Dr. Maclean from Calcutta, other persons were forcibly removed from Madras and Bombay, as well as from the Upper Provinces of India, under the powers of the abominable clause, which enables the East India Company's Government to remove all British-born subjects who may not be their willing slaves, though foreigners remain secure from its application. But few of these acts of oppression were exposed and censured as they deserved to be in the public prints of England.

that the Court were not in possession of any official information as to the result of his return to Bengal; but they heard unofficially that Lord Amherst had consented, after all he had suffered, to let him remain in the country; and that such were the feelings of the Directors on this subject, that they should certainly abstain from any measures which might disturb this arrangement. By this affectation of humanity the Court escaped, for a moment at least, the censure off apparent participation in the cruel treatment inflicted on this unhappy individual. The last letters from Bengal, however, tell a very different tale-it is this:—

On the arrival of Mr. Arnot in the river Hooghley, he sent up from Kedgeree (the Gravesend of the port of Calcutta) a respectful memorial to the Supreme Government, setting forth the sufferings to which he had already been exposed, and the total destruction of the small remnant of property left him, by the burning of the Fame off Bencoolen: recapitulating the facts of his being indebted to various persons in India, and his having no hope whatever of paying them, or of obtaining a livelihood, but by his remaining in India, where his friends and connections principally lay. This was backed by a strong letter frem Sir S. Raffles, bearing testimony to his sufferings and his character, and stating that his confidence in the liberality of the Bengal Government had induced him to permit Mr. Arnot to return from Bencoolen, in the persuasion that after all his sufferings, and the time that had elapsed since his offence, he would be suffered to remain in Bengal.

To this, however, Lord Amherst directed the Chief Secretary, Mr. W. B. Bayley, to reply, that the Government saw no reason whatever to alter their determination with respect to him, Mr. Arnot; and added, that if he should be found in any part of India after the 1st of September, 1824, measures would be immediately taken to enforce his removal! If this be not vindictive persecution, we know not what can deserve the name.

The case of Mr. Fair, who has been transported from Bombay, on the alleged ground of having given an inaccurate report of some proceedings in the Supreme Court there, is just as flagrant a violation of all right and justice as any other case that preceded it. Mr. Arnot was sent to England via Bencoolen and the Eastern Islands, which would have been a circuitous voyage enough, had not his being burnt out of the ship prevented its accomplishment. Mr. Fair is sent from Bombay to England, via Calcutta and China! So that he will have to circumnavigate half the globe before he reaches his destination, in an imprisonment of the very worst description!!

Surely such deeds as these must rouse indignant feelings in the breasts of some of our legislators; and we sincerely hope that Mr. Lambton, Sir Francis Burdett, and other independent Members of Parliament, will, at a very early period of the approaching Session, demand an inquiry into such disgraceful transactions: nor cease from their labours till they obtain the repeal of a power which can never be needed for any good purpose, and is perpetually liable, as we have sufficiently shown, to be prostituted to bad ones.

The pages of the Oriental Herald, a work especially devoted Mr. Buckingham's transportation, and the entire destruc- to the exposure of Indian mis-government, abound with mattion of his valuable property, to the extent of 30,000l. at ters worthy the serious attention of our leading men in public least, for justly exposing a profligate job in the case of a life; and from the announcement made of the contents of the Scotch parson, whom the East India Directors themselves next Number, for February, we may expect further discioremoved from his office immediately on hearing of his appoint-sures on the subject here adverted to, from which we may ment, is well known in all its details; and the subsequent hereafter draw fresh matter for comment and observation.cruel treatment of his successor, Mr. Arnot, has been also Globe and Traveller. made known to the English public through the press. recent facts respecting this persecuted individual, communicated by the last advices from India, deserve, however, to be mentioned in addition.

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At the close of the last debate at the India House, where the hardship of Mr. Arnot's case was very powerfully dwelt on by Mr. Hume, the Chairman of the Court said, in reply, |

GENERAL MINA.

This celebrated Chief thus briefly and modestly sums up what he effected during the first Peninsular war :-" Amidst the numberless toils and anxieties by which I was continually surrounded, and which scarcely allowed me a moment's repose, never having counted upon any assistance from De

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Turks. Under the date of Constantinople, Jan. 15, it is mentioned that Colocotroni had been defeated, and had sent a very humble letter of submission to the Government. The answer is not yet known.

The Etoile of Saturday, in noticing the disturbance in consequence of Kean's affair at Drury-lane Theatre, makes one of those comical additions to the story in which it invariably indulges when any occurrences in England are to be related. "The confusion," says the Etoile, "spread even to the boxes; many persons in the pit, in allusion to certain passages of the letters read at the trial, called out Little Breeches (culottes courtes). This word having been always considered by the ladies as an unpardonable insult to them, many went out indignant, covering their faces with their handkerchiefs !"

Government, either pecuniary or otherwise (these very words for England, Warwacki for Russia, and Colocotroni for the are in the Government's statement of my services) I found means to raise, organize, discipline, and maintain a division of infantry and cavalry, composed of nine regiments of the first, and two of the latter class, whose total amount at the end of the campaign was 13,500 men. My division took from the enemy, at different periods, thirteen strong places and fortresses, and more than 14,000 prisoners (not including those made during the time that no quarter was given) with an immense number of pieces of artillery, quantities of arms, clothing, stores, and provisions, &c. &c. The delivery of this number of prisoners at Valencia, Alicant, Lerida, the Cantabrian Coast, and at other points to which I ordered them to be taken, I have officially authenticated. From an examinaof the returns of killed, wounded, and prisoners, the result is a loss on my side of 5,000 men; while that of the enemy, including their prisoners, does not fall far short of 40,000. The Spanish prisoners whom I rescued amount to above sentiments of the respectable portion of society (without reckoning the IRISH SERVILE PRESS.-The state of public feeling in Ireland, and the 4,000; among them were some generals, many chiefs and mere numerical majority of the people) are indicated, among other eviofficers, and not a few partizan leaders. I was several times dences, by the condition of the Orange press in Dublin. If it were not for wounded by musket-balls, sabres, or lances. I have still a direct pecuniary support from Government, there is scarcely a doubt, that ball in my thigh, which the surgeons have never been able to Morning Herald states, that the principal Orange journal-the Dublin all the Servile papers but one must be given up. A Correspondent of the I had four horses killed under me, and several Evening Mail-is owned by two brothers, Remmy and Thomas Sheehan, wounded in action. I established for the supply of my divi- both Catholics, and the sons of a highly respectable Catholic tradesman sion moveable manufactories of clothing, horse-trappings, the Star, whose proprietor is also a Catholic, has been nearly sunk by two at Cork; that the profits of this paper do not exceed 12007. a year; that arms and ammunition, which I sometimes transported along verdicts with damages against it for libel; that the Correspondent (likewith me, and at others I used to keep them at work or leave wise owned by a Catholic) and the Patriot receive upwards of 10001. a them, hidden in the same manner as the stores, in the moun-year from Government; that Saunders' News Letter also belongs to tains." General Mina effected all this, without ever impos- attends to the rowings of Sir Harcourt Lees and his Antidote. "Such," Townshend, the Proprietor of the Correspondent; and that nobody ing a contribution of any kind on the towns, except rations adds the writer in the Herald, " is a short, but faithful history of the for his cavalry. He supported himself by establishing custom-intolerant Press in Dublin, and of its existing managers. The bitterest houses on the very frontiers of France, taking from the opponents and revilers of the Catholics are heartless writers of the same French convoys the produce of every branch of national Cross at Tunis and Algiers, have always been the most envenomed enecommunion. But renegadoes, who put on the turban, and abjured the revenue, rents or convent lands, &c. exacted by them, by fines mies of the captive Christians." The cause of the oppressed Catholics, on the disaffected, and donations by natives and foreigners. and of Liberty in general, can on the other hand boast of many able and During the late war his means were always extremely scanty: believe, takes the lead in every respect; but the Freeman's Journal, the flourishing journals among its advocates. The Dublin Evening Post, we "With the very small force of 6,000 men, I kept the field Weekly Register, &c. are papers which do credit to the cause they supfull two months and a half against the whole of the 4th corps, port. The talent, decency, and aggregate circulation of the Liberal commanded by General Moucey, which consisted of 20,000 newspapers give them a weight and character which leave their puny infantry, and 2,500 horse, assisted by 7,000 of the factious, pensioned opponents at an immeasureable distance in respectability and influence. and favoured like the latter by a very powerful party, and by FORTUNATE ESCAPE.-The journals of Switzerland conthe bad spirit of many of the towns. The forces of which tains the following recital :-On December the 20th, four my army was composed never amounted to 21,000 men. men, belonging to the parish of Lenk, formed the rash project Only to garrison the ten strong places in Catalonia (of which of penetrating into the Vallais, by the Ravylberg, to purchase two are of the first class) requires 25,000 men; so that keep-brandy. They fortunately arrived there and made their puring some of them with only half a garrison, the greater part chases, but the snow which fell in the night rendered their with two thirds, and scarcely one with its full complement, return nearly impossible. Braving the danger, they set there only remained for me to act in the field with the 6,000 out, and reached the top of the mountain and the dangerous before-mentioned, though they always formed, nominally, four, passage, called the Terrible Corner. Here they ventured on five, and even six divisions. The smallness of these garri-a small bridge which unites two points of rock, and one of sons, on the other hand, did not admit of their making any them, a young man, aged 23, lost his self-command, slipped but very small sallies; the contrary of which would have off, and fell down the terrible precipice beneath. The small been very convenient in many instances. The pecuniary re- cask of brandy which he had on his head accelerated his fall, sources which were received from the Government during and his companions saw him tumble from rock to rock without this campaign, amounted to no more than three millions of being able to give him the least assistance. They hastened, reales de vellon (about 30,0001. sterling) for though bills and however, to the neighbouring village (Poshenreid) and got orders to a considerable amount were sent to the Treasury of assistance, and, guided by torches, returned up the mounthe Army, they were not negociable, and consequently were tains; but the snow and the darkness rendered their search of Every thing else I was obliged to find myself. no avail. On the next day they again returned; twenty men Barcelona, among other expedients, witnessed the unusual accompanied them, and they descended to the bottom of the one of making money out of the cannons." precipice, when all at once an avalanche fell and covered four of them. By the aid, however, of their iron-pointed sticks, which they stuck in the ground, and by lying down on the ground, they kept themselves in their places, and the avalanche rolled over their heads, and at length they found the THE Etoile of Saturday contains an article in answer to the object of their search. He was a corpse; mutilated and Quotidienne, on the recognition of the South American Repub-covered with wounds. He was buried on the 24th, and his lics by Great Britain, in which its opinions already expressed family had the melancholy satisfaction of paying him this are repeated without any addition worthy of notice. In an article from Odessa it is stated, that the Greeks are divided into three principal parties; Mavrocordato having declared

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MONDAY, JAN. 31.

last attention.-Courier Francais.

We understand that the linen-weavers of Barnsley have respectfully petitioned their employers for the restoration of

their fents, or a small advance of wages in lieu of them. The masters are unanimously resolved not to restore the fents, as it would re-open the door for many frauds and larcenies; but several of the principal houses are well disposed to grant an advance of wages, which, it may therefore be hoped, will be gained by the weavers. The trade of Barnsley is flourishing beyond all precedent. The journeymen spinners in a number of the mills at Hyde, near Stockport, have turned ont for an advance of wages. On Monday last, the hands who have already quitted their employment paraded through the place, and it is thought their numbers will shortly be greatly augmented by the addition of others who have given their masters notice to quit. The hands that will then be out of work we have estimated as high as 10,000. The cotton-spinners of Glasgow, after standing out for about four months, have been subdued, and have returned to their work, submitting to a temporary deduction of ten per cent. from their wages, as a remuneration to the masters for the loss endured in consequence of their strike. It is understood that the masters will meet in a month, and deliberate how long the deduction shall be made.-Leeds Mercury.

FIRE-Saturday morning, about one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in Jermyn-street, in the house of Mr. Roland, which burnt with great fury, and soon communicated to the houses on each side, Mr. Hazard's and Mrs. Groves's; all which, notwithstanding the exertions of the firemen, fell a prey to the consuming element. The back premises adjoining have also greatly suffered; but no one was hurt.

THE LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JAN. 31. The arrivals of all kinds of grain last week were considerable, and the return of Flour was large. This morning we have a fair quantity of Wheat, Beans, and Barley, from Kent and Essex. The Wheat trade for the finest parcels, is very free; and the price is full as high as on Monday. The Barley trade is in the same stagnant state as during last week. Beans and Peas are tolerably in demand at our last prices, but the Oat trade is heavy; large quantities of English and Irish Oats being still in the markets. The Flour trade is very dull.

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Companies in Ireland, have been remoyed; and, under these circumstances, a Company, called the "Provincial Bank of Ireland," has been formed, to carry on business upon the plan adopted by the Scotch Banks.

The Capital to be 2,000,0001. (to be divided into Shares of 1001. each) under the management of a Board of Directors in London.

Establishments will be formed in the principal Provincial Towns of Irelandviz. Cork, Waterford, Clonmel, Wexford, Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Westport, Londonderry, Belfast, and other places.

These Establishments to be under the superintendence of a Board of Resident Directors, aided by active and intelligent Agents sent by the General Board of Directors, and the whole to be under the control of the General Board.

The first Instalment of 51. per cent. is to be paid on or before the 31st inst. into the hands of the Bankers of the Company, to the account of the Directors, and the remainder by Instalments, as may be required, at the call of the Directors, thirty days notice of such call being given.

Jan. 21st, 1825.

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No. 888. MONDAY, FEB. 7, 1825.

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.-POPE.
TAX ON NEWSPAPERS.

OUR readers may recollect an article on this subject in the EXAMINER
of August 22, 1824, in which we pointed out the heavy burden of
maxation under which newspapers labour, and showed the probability
that the stamp and advertisement duties might be reduced very con-
siderably, and the present amount of revenue from those sources still
supplied by the immense increase of circulation that would ensue.
Our theory on this subject has been greatly strengthened by some
recent articles in the Caledonian Mercury and the Scotsman, in which
it is proved beyond doubt, by the exhibition of certain financial docu-
ments, that the revenue actually loses by that overstrained taxation
which so lamentably excludes the great bulk of the humbler classes
from a fund of instruction and amusement.

The stamp duty on newspapers, in the nine years ending with 1814, increased from 262,000l. to 332,000l. or at about the rate of 8,000l. per annum; and it cannot be doubted (considering the growth of popolation, of commercial activity, and of reading habits among the people) that this rate of increase would have gone on to the present day, at least as rapidly-probably much more so. The revenue then would have amounted by this time to more than 400,000l. But in 1814 the stamp duty was raised one penny; and the consequence was, that the produce to the treasury became annually less than before, until 1819, whence it gradually rose to 350,000/. in 1823. Looking therefore at the rate of increase with the lower duty, there can be no doubt, as the Scotsman observes, that " within the nine years (from 1814 to 1823) Government lost by the increase of duty 100,000l. or 150,000l.—and this sum may be literally said to have been sacrificed, to deprive some thousands of families in middling or poor circumstances of the accommodation of a newspaper!"

and lose as Bishop DOYLE says many of the Irish do the very faculty of reading, after it had been completely acquired." Yet our rulers are continually boasting of the great efforts made to enlighten the people we have commissions and committees upon education, foundation schools, charity schools, schools for all, and plenty of pious lamentation over the intellectual "darkness" of the rural population Now of all the temptations to the acquirement of the art of reading, a newspaper is the greatest. It treats of matters which concern the immediate business of every class of readers; it gratifies the most laudable kind of curiosity; it excites reflection and discussion; and is alike pleasing and useful to the least and the most informed minds→→ to the former, conveying instruction of every kind; to the latter, new facts as they occur. It would be no more than consistent with the lofty tone and pretensions of British Ministers, if newspapers were relieved of every species of impost, and circulated throughout the country by post at the bare cost to government (which would not be a halfpenny for 100 miles). We should then only equal the United States in the liberal treatment of literature.

If however we cannot expect to find enough patriotism or zeal in behalf of knowledge, in our governors, to induce them to forego, even for so grand an object, an item of taxation by no means considerable in produce, we have at least a right to expect, that where the interests of the revenue are not affected, they will be willing to remove formidable impediments to commerce and mental cultivation. It is evident from the foregoing statements, that taxation has been screwed up, in the case of newspapers, far beyond the proper point, even as regards the revenue alone. We are confident in the belief, that under the reduction we are about to suggest, the small risk of loss to the revenue would be outweighed by the reasonable chance of gain. If the excise on printing paper were altogether repealed (which would be besides a great boon to literature in general) and the stamp reduced from 3d. to 1d. a newspaper might be sold at 3d. with as much profit as it now yields at 7d.; and we are sure we are under the mark when we The statement of the produce of the advertisement duty is no less calculate that the circulation of newspapers would be increased fourconvincing, when the circumstances are duly considered. This branch fold. If the duty on advertisements were lowered to 1s. the price on of revenue produced annually, during the five years ending with 1814, the great mass (which are short ones) would be likewise reduced one about 124,000l. In that year the duty on each advertisement was half, and the number certainly quadrupled, probably a great deal raised from 3s. to 3s. 6d. And, notwithstanding the very great in- more. The example of Philadelphia above cited would warrant us, crease of newspapers, and of business of all sorts, the tax only yielded as our readers have seen, in a much more sanguine anticipation of 140,000 in 1823. The effects of this impolitic impost are extremely the result; but take it at the soberest calculation, to prevent all cavil, grievous. The commercial world is deprived in many cases of aand does not the question present itself in a shape which ought to valuable means of publicity, and compelled in others to pay exorbi- be conclusive with any Finance Minister worthy of his office? tantly for it; the profits of newspaper proprietors are diminished by the necessity of advancing the money paid to Government; the price of books is perniciously swelled, and many scientific and other works winch would be very valuable without being extensively popular, altogether kept back from the public; while the revenue itself is certainly not benefited, but probably injured!

We trust the session just commenced will not be many days older before this important subject is brought before Parliament in an useful manner. The commercial public have a greater interest in the change than even the individuals who conduct newspapers; and the true friend of his country's improvement has the greatest interest of all.

LITERARY NOTICE.

To illustrate the effects of this excessive taxation, the Scotsman ediciously compares the newspaper press of Philadelphia with that of Liverpool, the two cities being nearly equal in population, but the English one having probably six times as much trade as the American. The Last Days of the Emperor Napoleon. By DOCTOR ANTOиMARCHI, In Philadelphia there were, about two years ago, nine daily papers, his Physician. besides various others published once, twice, or thrice a-week, making SUCH portion of these two volumes, as clearly answer to the title, are together perhaps twenty. The whole number of papers (not of copies) necessarily of value, as serving to complete a full view of the career of published in that city weekly, must therefore be about seventy. In the extraordinary individual whose melancholy close of existence it Liverpool there are only four papers, and those weekly! But then in records. Without, however, being destitute of the interest which will Philadelphia-thanks to the absence of excise, and stamp, and adver-ever, more or less, attend the remarks and recollections of a man like Lsement duties-a newspaper costs only from 1d. to 2d. In regard Napoleon, the reader must not enter on his task with too sanguine an to advertisements likewise, the contrast is quite as striking: there is expectation. The period of Doctor ANTOMMARCHI's residence at ten times as much advertising in Philadelphia as in Liverpool, with Saint Helena was only twenty months; during the greater partsof only one sixth part of the business; because an advertisement in the which the unfortunate captive was struggling beneath the attacks of American costs on an average scarcely more than one-third of the rapidly increasing disease, and consequently the variety of characteristic price in the British newspapers. and forcible remark, which animated the pages of O'Meara, Las Cases, In the whole round of our taxes, there is none perhaps so disgrace-Bertrand, and Montholon, was utterly out of the question. We may ful to the spirit of a government as this tax upon knowledge." In America," says, the Scotsman, a dozen of families do not think of thumbing one weekly paper till it is as black as the types it was cast from. The poorest mechanic chooses to have a paper to himself, and is able to spare the twopence without trenching on his other comforts. And thousands who would read nothing else, imbibe from these weekly monitors habits of reflection and a taste for useful knowledge who, if their lot were cast in our double taxed country, would, from the want of some such rational stimulus, seek relief for the racuity of their thoughts, at ten times the cost, in coarse sensuality,

go a little further, and observe, that if there had been much to convey, Dr. A. seems to be scarcely the man to convey it. A Corsican, and sent out by the Buonaparte family, that he should write like a zealous partisan is natural enough; but in truth, neither this nor anything else can atone for the egotism and shallow flippancy of our medical man's manner; or for the unreasonable interpolation of matter into these volumes, in ostensible illustration of the casual allusions in the conversation of Napoleon to past transactions and exploits. Some of these documents are introduced with so little ceremony, their connexion with the narrative is not always clearly discernible, and when

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