The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-04-02 00:00:00

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Oarms enumerates, his suggestions are well w oo : the attention of Miner Menefacturen. it is tee ww), that this premature labour is the source •f main evils in after life, both physical and moral, to wee w ho are thus early doomed to confinement in cress ia places, and that it is one of the worst e r ec ts of the manefactering system ; but we suspect it i s also one of the egrets of the impoverishing sp. ow which has been so long pursued by the Govern. meat which has made such heavy drains on the indeetry of all classes, and rendered it necessary for almost every individual, with or without children, in order to obtain the mere means of sup. port, to add " night to day, and Sunday to the w ear It is necessity alone which drives perenis thus to barter the health, and neglect the education of their offspring, for food to them, and it is because the returns of labour crab small that masters employ ehildrea in preference to adult persons. • - Yesterday, the PRINCE REGENT was better than he Was on Toesday, and gave audiences to Viscount CASTLIREAGII, Viscount SI °MOUTH, and the Earl of LISRBPOOL. Ilis Royal Highness received visits from the Dukes of CUMBERLAND, GLOUCESTER, and Kan?, the Prince of HESSE-HOMBURG, the Prin. ceases AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH. The Princesses 'me wed with their Royal Brother nearly two hours. Yesterday afternoon, her MAJESTY, the Princesses . AUGIisTA and ELIZABETH, received a visit from the P r ince of Hesse- Honeyed. Ilis Serene Highness afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Baron 011AQ1111111. BM Serene Highness received visits at big feslitimicelo St. James's Palace, from the Dukes of Cs.aiiteeif and GLOUCESTER, Viscount ToRRING wow, Buoy HASIDENBROOR. in the peening his Se gene Highness had a dinner party. Tire PRINCESS ELIZABETH.—its correction of some erroneous impotent. which have appeared, it is jest to state that She Princess ELIZABETH has not yet die • charged any of her attendants. It is tree they have received notice to quit her Royal Highness's service, but they email to receive It months' wages, in ad. ditioo to what is dee to them. Some of them are engaged by the Doke of CLARENCE, and her Royal highness is humanely ,exerting herself to get them all into employments presi.nta to her leaving England. Some of them will accompany her abroad. lier Royal Highness's wedding dresses are all of English manu facture. The elegant suite of apartments on the ground floor of the north-west wing of the Queen's Palace, in which the Nutlet Rzeiv.mT and the Duke of Yonz resided, during thPir minority, are now lilting up in an appropriate style, for the reception of the Prince of HEISE-HOMBURG and the Princess ELIZASETII, after their union, until their departure for Germany. APPREHEN4ION OF RUSNEY.—This man, who ill suspected of being the murderer of Mr. Mut) and his Reuse-keeper, at Greenwich, and for whom are most diligent search has hitherto been made without suc cess, we are informed, has, at length been taken at F i ddi n gton, near Oxford, and is expected to be brought to town this evening. Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India-house, when the following Commanders took. leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz. :—Captains I'. W. LEECH, OrWelli J. STEWART, Laity Melville ; J. DALRYMPLE, Cabal's' ; J. B. SOTHEBY, Scaleby Castle; and H. Timms, Perseverance—for China direct. It WPM the report of alterations and improvs mints being about so take place at Carlton-house and the Royal residences is not true. The Court news man might have spared himself the trouble of contra dicting this statement, for very few, we dare say, believed it. BOROUGH R ETORM IN ENGLAND.—Mr. TAUNTON, an eminent solicitor at Totem, has completely suc ceeded in reducing the Charter of that Borough to a dead letter. Its Magistrates, Council, and Masters, stripped at once of their powers and privileges, have descended to the rank of private individuals, and the Borough merged into the County. The present Re presentatives of this well-known Borough are, Mr. Wise, a Banker in the town, and Mr. 'fiaossAs ConitTENAY. the Secretary to the Board of Coniroul. The latter Gentleman immediately get offforTotness; but what measures are on foot to restore to this town its lost privilege of Parliamentary Representa tion, we are not prepared to say. We are told this shock to corruption has elicited a sympathetic awe !tension in other chartered places, where similar events are ezpected, with that dread which ever at tends bad practices. It is confidently reported, that • many lawyers are now holding their old clients; the Corporators, at their mercy. It is said the Prussian Loan has been at length taken by two or three eminent English Houses. It is at the rate of from 70 to 72. The first year's in stalment will be about fifteen hundred thousand pounds, of which the money is all subscribed, the parties having purchased silver for the occasion. The Ninth Report of the Finance Committee is come forth: it relates to the Ordnance Department; but offers nothing worthy of remark, being employed wholly in matters of arrangement and detail,. The stone vessels are at present busily employed in throwing over masses •n the western end,.of the Breakwater, Plymouth. The grant for the service of the Breakwater this year is 65,0001. being 25,0001. more than the sum voted last year. The sem yet wanted for its completion is considerably above 700,0001.—1 n dock repaiting, the Foudroy ant, of 80 guns; Stirling Castle and Mulgrave, of 74 guns each; Dartmouth and Topaze frigates. — Building, the Britannia of 120 guns. The London is to be laid down on the slip of the Kent, repairing. Two brigs of war and three cutters : two of these, the Fancy and Kite, will be launched this month ; the other not yet named. The Resistance frigate will also be launched in about a month. The frigates to be built on the plan of the American frigates were named two years since, but are in a very backward state: one only is vet oo the slip, and she has only timbers up ; the other is trotyef laid dos's. At the Assizes fur Hereford W prisoners received sentence of death ; of which number is left for esecu tion J. Barlow, only 18 years of age, for wilfully Ming fire W a hay-bees. r 1 •* Ti rzs EDITOR or• rigs STATESMAN. if ton bite,—A new ma: now fast epproaching, when, Eogliehmem will have an undisputed right of mekleg choice of UMW, able, and independent men to repre sent them in Parliament; a choice, which, if eveey Englishman were to value it its be unquestionably' ought to do, would be viewed and coneidered as one of the proudest privileges a nation could enjoy. In viewing the approaching dissolution of Parlia.i meta, I hail it as one of the happiest occurrences which can occur, in the present situation of the[ country. My object in attaching so meat import. ance to its dissolution is, that, feeling persuaded if the 'HAW and impartial manner in which we are now represented in the House of CoMmons, and seriously viewing our present heavy and growing Taxes, whit* l have been increasing for so many years, without the least appearance of reducing the expenditure of the country, and of our alarming military establishment in a time of peace; taking these alarming evils into consideration, I look forward with secret satisfac tion to that day, when the national character of oar country will be roused to its former greatness, and assert that independent spirit which crowned the efforts of our forefathers with success. Let all Englishmen at the approaching contest against Ministerial corruption and influence, weigh in their minds the peat actions of their Representatives in Parliament ; let them view those Ministerial ma. jorities which have appeared with so much triumph in the Papers for the last year, who during the mo ments of their exultation forgot that it was over the fallen liberties of their country. I say let every county, even every town and village, who love and venerate the Constitution, view the conduct of their Representatives, even for the last year, and let them reason and ask themselves, whether those men again deserve to be returned, and by what means they have deserved the esteem and support of their con *hoopla ? Whether they have endravoored to lessen those Taxes, which so materially Huts the working and middling classes *of the community ? Whether they have even voted against the present military establishment? And whether they have done any thing to ameliorate the condition of the People? It is a fsir and rational question. It is fair and just to presume that our Representatives have not bee, asleep during the last seven years they have pretend ed to represent as. Every person ought to ask this question. Surely our Representatives have not been deaf to the thousands of Petitions which have bees intrusted to their care! It la natural to expect some thing from them. Ksery Englishman ought to be alive to the ',stem persued b) these men for the last seven years. I say ought to be alive, because an opportunity is t.ovy fa.t approaching, when, without any fear of the Suspension Act operating against them, when ever* Engliviinan will have en oppor tunity of showing his zeal and independence, and to shake off thoso shackles which have so long oppressed anti grinded them. I have no doubt but that many of our late Mem• bars will again offer themselves to their constituents. There are many who have deserved well of their country Gots forbid that Ministerial influence should have contaminated the whole of them! But I speak of those who will have the effrontery to offer themselves again, who have invariably, and almost on all occa sions (except when their own pockets were affected), given their sanction and support to those measures which have so materially injured the working and middli' classes of the country. .nog The conduct pursued by those men (I cannot give them the name of Representatives), even for the last year, will unfold a system of tyranny and oppression which would disgrace the annals and stain the page of history. I impute the mischief which has, token place within thelast two years to the wicked and dis graceful conduct of Ministers, aided by those Minis terial majorities which have appeared with so much pomposity in the Morning Papers; for what Ministry could dare to suspend the Laws and Liberties of the country without • majority to cover their vices, and sopport their brutal and inhuman proceedings ? 1 oonsider those men who have all along sanctioned the Sestutes of the Ministry, and which have tended to oppress the subject, and who have been the cause of to much rioting and confusion to the country during the last two years, as culpable as the Ministers them selves; and I view the conduct of Ministers with as great abhorrence and disgust, as I should dread the explosion of a volcano. Indeed the actions of a • inked Ministry, combined with an impure House of N.epresentaiives, is mere to be dreaded than the fatal explosion of the latter. I view with great concern the present alarming state of our Taxes, with a heavy Debt hanging like a millstone round our necks, whitest theaame time we see the apathy and indiffereace which possess some people concerning the affairs of the country. Although the system of Reform gains ground surprisingly, )et in the .differe•it towns and villages which I have had occasion to pass through (particularly in Kent), cannot view the ignorance of the People bat with concern ; indeed they have little or no knowledge of the internal state of the country, and live as if they were completely separated from us. In one of my excursions into Kent, passing through Sandwich, I made a short stay in the town, being accustomed In travel on foot, more from a desire to view the country and form a conversation with some of the inhabitants. I happened to stop at a very respectable Inn in the town : during my stay, whilst in conversation with the landlord ou the affairs of the country, and wish ing more particularly to know his sentiments respect ing the Representative system, I cursorily enquired of him it he could inform me of the names of his Representatives in Parliament, feeling conscious that a man who paid at least from 501. to 801. a yes, King's taxes would assuredly know, and feel some interest for their Representatives. " Their names,". replied be, as if for a moment petrified at so unex pected a qeestion, et length replied, with his band scratching his bead, 44 I have nothing to do with them, ..I find it sufficient to pay the King's TaAnazad keep the bailiffs out of my house"—" What,'!! es. plied, " are yaw really so ignorant of the solloillOi your Representatives?"—" Yes," he replied ; Irby should 1 usable myself Oast Uses, it is tery little •~~•- t'r•F~ ' k ctioseqeence to me who setilhe Representatives of I this town, I hctoe no vio l end why should I trooble r tnyeelf about the affairs of thew ate." • This conversation (however trifling it may be *wed) manifestly shows the indifference which some :people have in the politics of the country : indeed I cannot see how they should act otherwise; the reply of this man was certainly a very just one. While the People are excluded from voting (as our Reptile sentatives are elected by so role!' a portion of the People), I see no grounds for hoping or thinking that men will trouble themselves about the political state of the cowry. ; -;y•. yo ,, A Reform is the House of Commons spost be first obtained before any good can be expected horn the present system of Representation, whether to alle viate the pressure of the Tales or to promote the happiness of the People. The grand system of Reform .which I conceive ought to rouse every Englishman, is a fair Representation in the People; what I mean by a fair Representation is, that every House keeper paying 51. a year King's Taxes, sboeld have a vote; this I conceive to be the easiest and simplest plan that could be adopted to purge the present in fluence which rich men have over other classes of the community ; and if every Housekeeper had a vote, the whole system of bribery and corruption would fall to the ground ; every man then would have an interest in the welfare and happiness of the country ; the attachment of the People to the Constitution wpold be apparent, by the interest which an election would excite; and a rich man, with all his Ministe rial influence, would find the torrent of public opi nion so poweiful against him, that were he pos sessed of all the gold mines of Peru, it would pre pondei are very little in his favour ; reason would no longer be stifled ; liherty would again unfurl her banners, and corruption and tyranny would sink into nougat. This would he the spirit of Englishmen. Au opportunity is fast approaching when the Peo ple will possess this glorious privilege; when every Freeholder awl Liverymaii will have a fair op. portunity of making choice of men who can be re lied on ; man who will curt their talents for the great cause of Reform ; men who are attached to.the 1 Constitution of the country, and of well-known in tegrity. I now, Sir, take my leave, once more calling anon Englishmen who love their country, to be aria frivolous. Unanimity will defeat a host of foes. If we ago at tached to our country, if KO respect its Consti tetion, if we are Minus in our desire for retlia *outer, Ro(ttrin, the lime, the day is fast approach isig• Let ili aeize the opportunity. I call spot) every .town in Englasid, and particularly the City of Lon don, to stand forward and show a gond example to the country. If the foul actions of the presentbli 'dairy and their adherents are not sufficien t to a wake the Nation to a proper senile of feeling, lot o.4gido sink into slavery, and no more be called Engliabestop. . G o K. l's , . • •:, •.. DRURT•LANE THEATRE.— A new farce, calls :41a Sleep:mg Draught, was performed last night at this Theaue for the first time, end with success. The dialogue seld , an rises above mediocrity, and rarely indeed into wit or humour, has nothing in it parti cularly to deserve censure, or calculated to give of fence. The chief merit is in the plot and incidents, which, though somewhat improbable, are whimsical wets-conttived,and kept the audience is (minter espied good humour. II•oLzy is the life of the piece. The character he performs is that of a sir. sant, the chief agent in a love intrigue ; in the course of hi; enterprise, which takes place at the house of a medical practitioner, he *wallows a liquid left on a table, which proves to he a sleeping draught, and being supposed dead, is pat into a chest ; he afterwards undergoes a variety of perils and adventures, and becomes in the end ) by accident, the means of uniting the two lovers in whose tervica l he was engaged. The scene where he takes the po tion and believes himself poisoned, and tbet of, his recovery, when, from some ipeechei be onetime and misinterprets, he thinks be is about t o be killed, were manage( with great skill. KNIGUT has nisi the 'part of a servant in it ; the rest of the farce was somewhat undercast in point of talent. The scene is placed in Italy ; but there is uo reference either to Italian manners or character. It is reported in the City, that • Consolidation of the Duties on Russian produce is in coutemplation ; in consequence of which ) some articles will remain nearly as at present, but one or two others will be subjected to a much heavier impost. Ma. KEAN —As • report has in some degree pro-. railed, that Mr. Rams, the celebrated performer, lm performing the part of Sir Giles Overreach, at Gies-, gow, on Thursday evening, had broken a blood line by over-efertion, and died on that evening; if think it necessary for the s atisfaction of the Plblic, to insert the following paragraph from the Glasgow Chronicle of Saturday ; from which it mil appear, that, instead of having died on thrust] Ay, Mr. KEAN, according to the old phrase, was alive and merry on Friday ad After performing Ilerlraus with his usual es adlence last night, Mr. KEAN visited the popular todge of St. Mark's, of which he is a Member, end spent the evening in the most convivial manner. On his health being drank, be returned thanks for the honour done him, and said, that the kindness and r . partiality shown bins by the inhabitants of Glasgow had made on him the deepest impression; so mach so, 'that, without borrowing from the great Prot (whose conceptions he so tic/tient enbodies), be could not express them, for he ahad that within -which peeeetlishoo.' " iseaatsssor Cat E.—lt is remarked that the Lent Assizesand the present Session et the Old Bailey 4eile to afford a most melancholy history of the ge. •nerelly increased depravity. In all the Circuits the numbers on the Criminal Calendar have beets most elevating, they have occupied the Court longer than ever was known before at the same period of the year; and they have, in many places, oquired the assistance of several of the Serjeents tied leading .Counvel to clear the arduous duty of general jail delivery. In several of the As sizes the Civil Court has given way to the pres- Imre of that of the Criminal, and Special Jury waves, which weri supposed to be of lengthened itll - have bees necessarily adjourned to the tamer Anise, to the no small incTueoleece of parties teamed * aad their r . • t V4l - 'lNl'k LLtORTiI DEAt, APRIL 1.., , t4ai1ed tale mornieg,4 the Fairlie 4 Ward, and Henry Porchaf, for Bengal. „, • k • PORTSIWOUT IT 4 APRIL I..t:Atited the A *Oil ship William Baker, Wethere l l' relit ttesiia : sink 15th November in complifirattire4Aerierican Otis Paterson and Othello s it itotletldd tot t6;ei ihd 'Ariadne, Ifelvetios, aad Selffillt" Several ;11Sh ships were lying thera,'nicallei sitste i ttsis, • 441 the Start the AmittiCan all a i:014400441 'from Chart es ton bound 'cif? felt:i.,,,Al lisle Biker eipetietwied eery of the Charinel; and is much . itfrisirteii damaged—belt 'tarp liesisis or sugar Also arrived the - Tiger, Powell, from and stied fot 'lolslte.+-Patid &cabs, good; fur' Baltic.—tiine liiibOur . • and Thomas, Smith, frbisiiNeweqtle, away her bulwarks and Mii‘bacni. Pwrasoute,Maece 3 t.- , -eAoia'th did ed by lidterte winds, the Friends; Balmer, don for Leghorn, with la, 'of bowsprit . Head, from Lfindon for St. Leiie ..Nr• for Dundalk; Hero, Cstepiou, tram hen 'don. —Sailed the Comet, Hall, rot Rio .1 ria, Telt, frieSt • . - Locia ; and some other PENZANCE, MARCH 29.—Sailed the Foi cutters, on eivoise: Power, MEAlie at ailed the M for the Canariess' . Haewtch, Atilitt. 1. Arrlted packet; with a Mail. from Cushaien, FALMOUTH. MARCH SO. Arrived Bryant, from London, 'fur the %teat h GRA/MEND, APRIL I.—Arrived the Lovins, from Harlingeu ; Industry, Amsteream ; Beatrix Elisabeth, T Rotterdam ; Furst Blocher, Brine's',' Vrow Catharine, Closter, tr,vo Hai Martha, Costen, from di: torlio Vissen, fromdittO ; Tate, fr. Good floffrang, Se Ireton, float Ewidion nigslay,lieffi Hamburg' , ; Vrori fail from Harlingen; Nancy, Stacy, from Jong , - Arden, 8..0re, from Pron . ' , Brt , ders, Swells, from ditto ; Jonge At from ditto; and Isabella, Mann, from fail -d the Pacific, Sims, for Demerara ; C stet, for Madeira and Demerara ; lithe, Calcutta ; Jetta Cesar, 'Jackie, f Pe-s tverance, Stackley, far ilamhurgh tor, Allen, for Berge , .. disp..te afoot rea l e cut g Mil-garden Theatio. on Monday Ctfptain N—, R. N., anti ,Lieetena, F .ut Regiment. A meeting was appui Farm, at 'is o'clock on Tuesday nir appointed time and place, the pee eecoods, weeded ; •he ground was paces being the distance (med. The Inetber ny signal, hut both shots pp they fired again,.. hen Lieetenaef ' Ceptaiw,Dl.'a head, but fortunately did .dot Injure bias. By that inter posit len .of , amicable &queerness& of tbe ,effair tool parties left the girtund hien& . ~4 1 81 RIOT IN Sr. Gllonnettero4.s4. - iliMMO$l, about nine .;'clack, A lerlietilot Weilltte sag : house in Julsouottreet, St. Geoeges4 bee , •of two men being observed, tiirough -( Of* flows, fighting is a most &overate They were covered with blood, and some apprebendiag that murder would one or the other, went to Union , Office for the officers. Clerksad set immediately proceeded to tbithouag l .and ed that the affair arose trot of the tailor stance:—William Williams, *Wiwi Melville bailsman, lately arrived sent for his wife to meet him at Blacit the said vessel. She went, according mint, and they afterwards motel in perfect harmony to town. On Williams remarked to her husband of a rather careless disposition, and the money be bad got about hint sl her to take care of as a matter of prudence. tar was of the same opittino,and direct! to her 201. in Bank notes. They arri teidge; persons were hired to take of the boat, and Mrs. W. conducted her present residence in Juttion.street fields. The moment after the sail chattles were deposited, a tail man sacs, and, ordered him to quit the poor fellow's utter astonishment, 1 the order, and she said, if he did ply, she would beadle him oat. habit of the brave tar (who hid bEti Navy) to submit tamely, he expressed Lion ta'fi g ihrt, 'either than turn out an hotir he Jiitilned an unequal faithless irlfillaber paiarnour. officers relieved him from Ms dal his wife deliverml`4 the money, the officers thire'atening to take end they did dot leave the deluded property was removed to a respectat neighbourhood. The sailor bas it& against the man for the assault. Swisterawa —A great number carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers. all parte of the Metropolikhsve of an inditidaat, what represented the employ. of Government. His produce a large written parchment, have been signed " Palmerston, Commissioners of the Board of Ws that be was himself Clerk of the Works, and was employed by them to envy labourers and artificers 'o go to Bristol, where eitensite store.hooses were to be immediately built by Government • that be had been employed to soperinteed the buildings at Pore cheater Castle, Guernsey ' 1 extremely scarce, any indi• LI. was sore to give it his interest to engage them name of any person oho pointed a day for their to that day, which is nok appeared. Ile gave his Bennett, Holloway; he age, bed of gentlemanly I iiarillii Milli . _. • ikg,.ll hit likais reit ef, Asistitai4 • the Ailtetiese geniis : American ships left tiie;e She 4) 'levet.? gnallik ;11. Spoke off ten tlie tie e trpil i4 — o I 11 indis4her else eat fled raves m the am 114 + Success, W..i our the Wittieqz hating carried d'nl are detain met, from bon. ; Moor. Bengal for In Janeiro trfo • hers. the • Maki . and itedipito the Auckhtes • red the . , Indies, he Marie goptiN Wriiht fr og - Troland s from , 4 from Rostock .; irlingen ; * Jong, ow ge Nesters.. rd ra i lli n ; St I (an :K, b ' sw i tk4 Alttirtni. Jacobs, Im Bremen ;Ds . - Mogen ; Twe go . fthidina, Mulder, • • flanstsorgh.— Ciio, Richard- Sogden, for for Demerara ; rgh and Spica• g a ▪ Lady at Co. night, bet ween vent I.—, of a pointed at Chalk. norsuog. At the irties, their r , I measured, eight e ;sorties fired te. proved bottomless; L's ball erased • .110 t seriously r Ihg Wends, as °I 4 PON Oiltifilse ;, 110 .1 14 . t r o .16 9 .446 1 .61 6 stb Sam•Agoimico ;k one of OIL Mau . e manner. Tiny '‘ of the spectators be committed by nitro-ball Police+ • several constables sp, and *moat°. following circus. twain of she Lord rd in the Ricer, ackwall, on board Irding to appoint. epanied each other is their way, Mrs, and, that be was d she thought that should be given to *deuce. The honest Icily delivered over rived at Waterloo- ie his baggage oat ted her hesbaad to tree, St. George's- sailor's goods and n made his appear. house; and to the his wife joined is not instantly corn. It not being in the e v en 21 years in the Pled his determina- nt; for upwards of conflict with its 'Tfieirrival of this ing4oiss situation; in c her sailord i ontileo cn untilicoe s n a tF i d h y , o i s artiste house in the taken out a warrant • ler of journeymen .s, and labourers, is e become the dopes sd himself to be in lis practice was to sent, purporting to George Rose, Ike." Works, and to state ley, &c. Employment being ndirldust mho could advance for the purpose of obtain* lem; he always put down the to paid him such fee, and sp.. leafing town. but p revious l now gmit, he all at once dl.. his neitte to several—James m orppipars to be 40 rots of y demethout. ) -.• .