Star. — London, England, 1818-02-18 00:00:00

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I ',..,*.‘,.. , \,. • . ,- - . • ..*.. . .. * • . . • loble Lord's opinion, however it might be supported that House, was not likely to have many advocates the country. As to the character of the Secretary the Home Department, of which the House had heard so much, and of which he was not disposed to speak with disrespect, he must ray, that after the facts which had been brought forward, it was too much to maintain that the character of any man should preclude enquiry into these facts, or dispose the House to indemnify persons concerned in the ac tual commission of cruelty. (Hear, hear, hear.)-- er what could be imagined more cruel than that of `rich some of the Petitioners complained—.the pri aion of freedom and food—of sleep and health st it was notorious that several of these unhappy men were carried about the country from one prison another for no other purpose, as it appeared, than that of exhibiting them as spectacles to promote alarm, • to extend the evidence of that alarm which Minis ters alleged. The Petitioner, to whom th e motion referred, was so taken through the country chained Haynes ; but according to the Noble Lord the lat. acknowledged some obligations to the officer by /horn he was conducted in those journies. That some humanity might have been shewn by the officer 'luded to, and felt by Haynes, was not improbable. • was also probable that the conduct of some of the s ailers was humane ; and in his conscience, he be ieved, that one of the main reasons for the transfer if the unfortunate Petitioners from one prison to ano :'ier, was in order to find the jailer most likely to :onform to the wishes of the Ministers by whom those Petitioners was committed to-prison. Mr. ASHURST read a statement which appeared be a report made to the Magistrates of Oxford, re stive to the condition of the county jail ; it described the accommodations to be most excellent ; and asserted that the State Prisoners confined there re ' wned thanks for the treatment which they had expe rienced, nor was any complaint made, except by one man, who said that his room had a smokey chimney, Mr. HOME SUMNER testified also in favour efl the jail in Horsemonger-lane ; and while he admitted the humanity ascribed to Mr. Dixon, the surgeon, he asserted, that if Ogden had not been there he would awe lost his life through the rupture on which that skilful 'surgeon had operated, for it appeared that this Ogden had been afflicted with that disease long before he was arrested—(Loud cries of hear, hear). The Honourable Member deprecated any attention complaints against jailers, considering the result the inquiry with respect to those of Lancaster, ,incoln, and Coldbath-fields. In the case of Col confined in Coldbath-fields, it would be recol lected that the Honourable Baronet (Sir Francis Bur dett) had made no objection whatever to the decision , f the Committee, of which he himself was a member. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT declared, that his only reason for pressing no objection to the decision of the iminittee alluded to, was simply this, that he saw , the other Members of that Committee were una nimous against him, but still that his own opinion was that Colville had been cruelly and unjustly treated. Mr. BENNET said, that the ill treatment, espe cially the overloading with irons, which Ogden had experienced in consequence of his arrest, was t he cause of that aggravation of his disease which ren dered necessary the operation alluded to. The Ho nourable Member expressed his belief of what had been stated with regard to the prisons of Oxford and Salisbury, for he was enabled from personal observa iaa to speak as to those prisons. With respect to ilisbury prison, he could not suppose it possible ..tat any Member could be found in that House to bear testimony in its favour. Mr. PHILIPS said, that Ogden had called upon him, to complain of the ill-treatment which he had suffered, and had stated that the aggravation of his %ease, occasioned by his imprisonment, had obliged aim to submit to the operation alluded to by his Ho nourable Friend who spoke last. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended, that , se Petition of Ogden was drawn with no other view than to excite an unmerited commiseration, by wish ng to convey that his physical sufferings were the consequence of the heavy irons with which it was al edged he was loaded. That was a gross misrepre sentation. He did not presume to state what may be he particular provisions of any intended Bill of In iemnity, but this he would assert, that if unjusti fiable cruelty was inflicted, no such conduct could be protected by any future law. The House would, however, bear in mind, that all those measures which a perturbed state of the country those whose duty . was to arrest prisoners, might have thought neces sary, for the security of the prisoners, were acts of ,necessity. With respect to their being sent to distant prisons, the motive was, and he took upon himself -onfidently to assert it, with a view to the comparative •ornfort of the detained. What complaints would the Louse not have heard, if these persons had been hud .led together in the crowded prisons of the metropolis? The Noble Lord (Folkestone) had asserted, that after detention, the Noble Secretary of State for the Home Department had no right to release them without trial. That he denied, as the Secretary of State, in :ontradistinction to ordinary Magistrates, had the power, before indictment, to discharge his own war rant. No person had been imprisoned on the oath of the person whose information to Government had been so much canvassed (Mr. Oliver). His commu nications had, however, given the clue to that which led to the information of others. It was a link in the chain of the confederacy, by which its connexion was liscovered and defeated. For that defeat, the coun try was indebted to the Noble Lord at the head of lie Home Department ; and if his exertions had not I._ingui , lied these plans of desolation and pillage, vit'f. what little regard any defence, founded on a fear if ultimate responsibility, would have been received, wen by those who now attacked his p,roceedings, it as unnecessary to mention. Mr. LAMB considered it as unwise and dangerous to lay before an open Committee the grounds on which these people were detained. Had, however, the motion been limited to any alleged severity du ring the period of their confinement, he thought it would be imprudent to deny it. The present motion sot being so restricted, he felt it his duty to oppose it. Lord FOLKESTONE, amidst cries of " Question," , r iefly replied. He had no objection to the Commit ve's being secret. Several Honourable and Right lion. Members, said his Loidship, have adduced the lads of their own counties as being well managed, nut none of them have shewn in moat state tic pri- sons were in wUch the pri s oners had been principally confined. The House then divided, and the numbers were— Ayes sb—Noes 167--Majority 109. A notion wa, made for leave to bringin a Bill to prevent im prisonmmt upon ntesne process, but it was negatived without a division.—Adjourned at 'Half-past Ti►elve o'Cbxt. Til E EVENING STAR. LONDON. r;•• LOTTERY DRAWS FOURTH OF.MARCIL- Three Priscs of Thirty Thousand Pounds.—One Hun dred Capitals.—Tioelve Firs of Port. . WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1818. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O ' CLOCK: Reduced KU—Cons. 80i—Cons. for Ac. sot 4 per Cent. 99i; —Navy Annuities 106t4 India Bonds 98 99 pr.—Exchequer Bills 18 27 pr. Notwithstanding the many circumstances which have arisen to discountenance the statement from Ge noa, which we were the first to communicate to the public, respecting certain recent atrocities at Algiers; it is, we very much regret to say, but too likely to be i confirmed in all its most essential particulars. The' . Journal des Debats, of Tuesday, which arrived, with other French Papers, this morning, contains an .ar ticle, under the head of Madrid, the substance of which has been extracted from the Madrid Gazette, which states that letters have been received from Mahon, in the island of Minorca, corroborating on the authority of a crowd of individuals, who had fled thither from Algiers, the truth of all the reports which have been lately in circulation of the revolting conduct of the new Dey—with the exception, it ought to have been added, of the murder of the English Consul's son, of which no mention is made. All the former reports, it will be remembered, re ferred to Genoa as their source—rthe present comes from quite a different quarter. And agreeing do affir matively as it does with the Genoese account in its main particulars, it more than outweighs a multi tude of mere negative inferences, deduced from a silence which however extraordinary, is still not be. yond the possibility of explanation. The silence of the accounts from Gibraltar, of so recent a date as the 15th of January, being more than a full month after the time the atrocities are reported to have taken place, has been particularly insisted upon— but if it be true, as stated in this Mahon ac count, that the Dxv has carried his ferocity the length of incarcerating " all those belonging to the English Consulate," including even the Consul himself; we ought not to be greatly surprised that mea immured in dungeons, and excluded from all intercourse with the world, except what their ruffian jailers may chuse to permit them, should not have I been able to make their situation known to the Eng lish Authorities at Gibraltar. The fact of having committed so irreparable an outrage, would of itself be a sufficient reason with the DEY for taking every possible care to prevent any communication of it to Gibraltar ; and with his fleet of Corsairs just returned into port at his command, this could certainly be no difficult matter. Most gratified shall we be to find the deficiency of these accounts from Gibraltar and elsewhere very differently accounted for ; but at pre sent we must confess that our apprehensions are awakened in no ordinary degree, by the corroborative accounts which this morning hac brought us, a literal translation of which we subjoin: " MADRID, FEBRUARY 3. Letters from Mahon confirm all that has been lately circulated, both in Spain and abroad, relative to the revolting conduct of the new Dey of Algiers, Alp. The tyrant, by an inconceivable caprice, had spared the life of the Dey whom the Turks of Con stantine, revolting from his atrocities, had elected in his place. The latter is called MAIIOMET. The usurper had dismissed him from Algiers with a present of 2,000 sequins and two slaves, and he is now at Ma hon, where his existence, and the miraculousmanner of his escape from the fury of his rival, are a sub ject of astonishment to all the world. What has been said of the daughter of the English Consul or Banker, whose beauty has excited the brutal passion of the new Dey ; the seizure of a young French ' woman, who has been also put among the number of his Sultanas, and whose father is master of the principal auberge in the city ; the incarceration of all those belonging to the English Consulate ;—all these excesses appear confirmed by the recital cf Ma hornet, and of those who have had the good fortune to save themselves along with him, in the island of Minorca. " Such is, according to our Gazette (Madrid), the situation of the Regency at the epoch of the depar ture of AIMIOMET, and a crowd of merchants, who left the capital (Algiers) in the early part of Decem ber—' An assassin has armed himself with the sceptre; he reigns over a people the most proper to serve as the blind instruments of his fury and rapa city. A state of things of this nature, which is in violation of all the laws of right and of Nations, in respect of those civilized Nations whose maritime commerce is of the first consequence, ought to eon vince Europe of the necessity of taking a decisive part against the Barbaresque Governments ; honour and interests the most precious, demand that they should at last adopt a sound and vigorous policy against the Africans.' " Tne Gazette de France, referring briefly to thew same accounts from Mahon, states, that " its Corm spondent at Vienna writes that the news had been qffi cially communicated to the Count de R 0391, Mi nister of Sardinia at the Austrian Court;" and adds, that " it is remarkable the English Journals should persist in regarding these news as fictitious." The New York &piing Post, of the 17th January, contains the following statement, respecting Mr. COBBET " PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 16. " Me. William Cobbet is now in this City. He purposes to proceed to au-risburgh, to petition the Legislature to refund him a sum of money, which was, he thinks, very improperly exacted from him during the administration of Governor M'Kean." The subjoined extract of a letter from New York, of the 20th ultimo, shews, that in as far at least as regards the feeling of the American public, the ap prehensions entertained itt this country with respect to the occupation of the Floridas, are not withodt good foundation : " Nature has pointed out the Florida, as properly a part of our dominion, and we should no longer inct.r the risk of in being transferred to a third Power. We can now occupy it Isuth jus tice and ease: at a future period, the consequencssztay be of a more serious character than they possibly can be under existing circumstancei." It merits notice, at the same time, that neither in this, nor in another letter of an equally recent date, which we have seen, is there the least mention of Mr. BAoor, our Minister, having left, or being about to leave Washington. The Paris Papers of Sunday contain, in addition to the preceding information with respect to Algiers, some other particulars deserving of notice : In a Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Sa turday, M. MORTARIELI proposed, in the name of 'the Committee of Petitions, to remit to the Minister (1f Foreign Affairs a Petition from certain acquirers of National Domains in Spain, who complain of not beidg put in possession of these domains, notwith standing the treaties in which their integrity had been recognized by his Catholic Majesty. The petition was stated to be signed by M. de Caze, as invested with powers from the complainers. M. Dupowr, who rose in support of it, took occa sion to observe that " France, faithful to the treaties which it had concluded, had imposed on itself, in or der to fulfil them, the most painful sacrifices—that history would one day do justice to her good faith and noble resignation—that when she gave herself such an example of fidelity, she ought not to permit the evasion by others of engagements they had con tracted towards her—and that in a question of na tional faith of this kind, it was impossible the Go vernment could observe an indifferent part." The Petition was, without further observation, re mitted to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. An article from Hamburgh states, that the Loan reported to have been contracted for by Messrs. ROTHSCHILD and BARANDON, on account of Prussia, has not been confirmed, and that it will, at all events, undergo some very important modifications. The ci-devant King of SWEDEN has been unani mously admitted a Citizen of the Canton of Basle. On being introduced into the Grand Council of the Canton, he addressed them in these words :--" Born and educated in the bosom of a free and independent nation, I know, very honourable Burgo-Masters and Gentlemen of the Grand Council, how to appreciate the proof of confidence which you give me, by ac cording me the right of citizenship amon g you." French 5 per Cents. Saturday, 66 fr. 15 c. We are concerned to say that the Duke of CLA. RENCE is indisposed. The Prince of HEsse-Homazao has taken posses sion of his new residence in St. James's Palace. lie paid some visits yesterday among the Nobility. The Duke of 'MONTROSE gave a grand entertain ment on Monday, at his residence in Grosvenor square, to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT. Among the distinguished party to meet him w ere .— The Prince of Hesse llon.berg, Prince Esterhazy, Marquis of Cholniondeky, Marquis of .Anglesea, Duke of San Carlos, the French lintbassador, Count Alunster, Lord Stewart, Sir Eenja min BloornEiii, Bart. &c. &c. &c. The Marchioness of SALISBURY opened her ele gant mansion in Arlington -street, on Monday even ing, to the fashionable world, with a splendid rout, which was attended by upwards of 400 persons of the first rank and distinction. Among whom were-- The Frince of Hesse Romberg, Prince Esterhaay, the Dukc and Duchess San Carlos, the Russian Ambassador and his Lady, the Friirch Ambassador and his Lady, the Ambassador from the King of the Netherlands, &c. &c. Lady ELLENBOROUGII, on Monday evening, gave a grand rout, at her residence in St. James's-square, which was attended by nearly 200 distinguished fashionables, among whom were— The Prince of Hesse Homburg, Prince Esterhazy, the Russian Arobass;.-der and his Lady, the French Ambascador and his Lady, the Duchesses of Marlborough and Montrose, the Mai chioness Camden and Ladies Pratt, the Lad and Countess of Ma!grave, JOHN P. KIMBLE, Esq. is now on a visit to his friends in Edinburgh. Saturday Sir WILLIAM CONCREVE was unani mously elected a Member for the Borough of Ply mouth. Three Candidates will start for that Borough at the next General Election-.-Sit THOMAS BYARD MARTIN, Sir CHARLES POLE, and Sir W. CONCREVE. COLCHESTER ELECTION.—State of the Pull on the Second Day :—WILDdAN, 407; HARVEY, 103; Ma jority forWmnmAN, 104. Colonel T—, and F— H— 3—, Esq. were taken into custody yesterday morning, while they were preparing to fight a duel. It appears from the Estimates whirl: hare been laid before the House of Commons, that the expenccs of the Ordnance Department for the current year, arucuut to about 660,5481. I bs.£4. NAT - AL LVrELLIGI7NCF, MAILS TI ♦RR. DUN. Dare 1 1 Vi. ,rd 0 C :7t5..1 and Jersey 0 1 0 0 ottenburgh 0 g PORTSMUCTIi, 'HIS DAY, Lisbon N■ha Franc* Ffamburgit riaLdt FEISI:C.AIIY Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the 'll:omas a nt transport from Malta, with troops--uji e d December, and is under quarantine.—SsileJ jesty's ship GPSCIAN, on a cruise; and the Eleanor transport, for Ostend.—Passed llead yesterday the Dunira and Caul; ILL; India. DEAL, FEBRUARY 17 Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the R Reliance, HARRISON, from Smyrna.-1•,. c , from the River the Tottenham, Itlact. or , New South Wales ; John Esdaile, and Jamaica; Planter, Ross, for Derner.a liant, Coutsou, for St. Lucia; London, Du s , Tobago ; and the Brussa, DUNCA V, fc,r s„ The whole of the outward-bound have the above, except the Tottenham, rioters on board, which ship is eipccal mediately for New South Wales. FALMOUTH, FEL:RUARY 15. Wind E. fresh breezes and line the Fyall, BUCHAIN, from Newcastle t 4 Sailed the Jane, BRUCE, for Lisbon; au..! L. don, Honor, f or Grand Canary._ COVE OF CORK, FEBRUARY Wind S.—Sailed his Jlajesty's schooner :4 , DOW; on a cruize. HARWICH, FEBRUARY I. Wind S.S.W.—Carne in the BADGER c:tte. MERCER, from a cruize: on the :Stith uhe twenty leal;ues from Lowestoff, picked up a wherry, with " The Jane, lof Greenwich. Jc ters," painted on her stern, supposed to bell galliot then in sight, bottom upwards. PENZANCE, FEBRUARY 15. Came in the Albion, from Chii:ltc..t7r: wring the hay, and in the act of hc,i-tin . : boat, a man fell overboard and was drow:,:. LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY ic. The Mary, PRITCHARD, from Charle::.: maica, was spoken with 28th December--a... days. The Speculation, COBB, from run foul of in New Orleans River, and pi repair. The Kelly, EKIN, from Liverpool cam* was on shore and bilged on Martin's'. 20th January; crew saved. CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEBRUARY SKIPS swam= brwaana.--lie Flying FIM fro: Diana from Harlingen, Po from Calais, Good Maloes, Ahvina and Bee from Ihmtugh, .1„1.,7e from Antwerp, Blucher from &Aire, Hope fiorr OUTWALD.--The Jane for Mattel, Robert fcr Dolphin for Amsterdam, Guadiara for Trims is Cho for Madeira and Demerara, Cruizer for New. 7, Saxe Colsourg for Rotterdam, Anna Mary for AL: for Tenerife. The New York Mercantile Advertiser at December, states, that the Dutch shi? recently arrived at Newcastle, in the Delay... Amsterdam, with 1100 passengers, lost :p c 500 on the passage. Meanza or MART Murron.--An inquest on the bo poor girl, who was murdered an Saturday nano, at Use . was held yesterday. The evidence was to the time 01 given at Bow-street. The Jury brought in a saran tul Murder against William Hatch"—The Grand :141 a true bill, and he will be tried at the Old Balky on Fr Itiluanres •T Garcesenen.--On Sunday ni;bt, at Sparkes was taken into custody, by the constables of l on suspicion of being concerned in the murders of Mrs. Simmons. He was examined privately by the and remained for further examination. Another e Theifitas Dyer, a bricklayer at Greenwich, is also in Yesterday May and Hall, officers, and three assistaro to town, after an unsuccessful pursuit of the two If are suspected of the Greenwich murders. The. fort absconded, and they were informed they were bid at but such was not the case. They searched Levrishar. Widmere-green, and the woods in the r.eizh'ootrat terday information of their supposed retreat was tee, the officers again were sent in quest of them. MOST CALAMITOUS FlRE.—Fief2herpnrt;:' The Cotton-Factory at Coln-Bridge, near Fielded pied by Mr. T. Atkinson, caught fire about five o'cla.l day morning last, and raged with such rapidit7 and v: it destroyed the whole, with the machinery and meek. hour: But what is most tragical to relate, then t. persons at work, and only nine etc-aped &fttit.sof. eldest about l yews °far., feil (*cams A the d , manner in which this awful and melancholy dinar •r is related by a boy, about ten years of age, who ser..,•l nate instrument of so Cahlrii Jtl3 u ~eon: lie s..ye five o'clork he was sent into t ire teed-r, ate s -vhich is a flaor, but not worked in • he trfht), with a li!!.ted some rovine ; and in takirg Gunn, some loose coine. caught fire, lie says, he ran up stens to tele= that the factory was on fire, a , fd then ran to the under the idea of greater safety; but fir.ding sac: and smoke, he again descended, and when he ci.,e under which the fire was, he laid hiraself bottom, and appears to i.e the last person who overloekers succeeded in L ;e:ti::g ail the 0.1.11•:11.::: the stairs (which were tally a few yards fr .m some of them were drigrd down when The remainder, it is sup-,..wed, were se terrine.'., back into the mill, and were instantly suffocated f- 7 it was known they had returned, a ladder wat - placed to a window at tht opposkt end o: tf.e r...a. was thought they would fly for safety (and nea were afterwards fuund), which was forced open ;1.-: and dantes issuing out with salt viulence, ?rt possibility of any assistance b.neg given ; nor c fas., a heard of them, altho:.gh ever/ exertion was r them to approach the window. After this aneft t•, no idea could be formed what point the poor to, and immediately a scent ensued air. which is beyond deser ip:ion as the d ..rs an instant was oze velure Of fire. line:. MARRIED. Feb. 9, at Glasgow, James Coats, EN. of adplacl tian s elde.t daughter of the l a t e M r . James Ewe. Perthadre. Tuesday se'nnight, LieLtenant Ross, of the atth R Elizabeth, youngeat dalthter of the late V. illtax 1.1 of Kelvin Back,GL,gow. DIED. Feb. e, Major Patrick Andensou, 19th Lancers, at Jan. 22, at West Ilam, hi:. William Squire, :10 MASCO' in his Majesty's Royal Navy, aged si!. Feb. 1, at Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, Ann Liv dear daughter, and ma the 4th, Mrs. Euphaua Murr-, Josiah Livingston, merchant in Edinburgh. Wednesday, in the 49. h year of her age, Mrs. atop, spouse of David M`Hafse Esq. merchant, G. amiable mother of eighteen chi ldren. Lately, in the Edgeware-road, Admiral Pattor. bed apparently In good health, and in about two wards expired. The 11th inst. in Cheapside, aged 24, Helen, Alexander MgcOill, of Glencaird, Stewartry of X. sincerely lanonted by a di.conaoLte hu s band, and tho the plea.tue of her acquaintance. LONDON: Priuted and published by L►taa Te...:o.,Ear.