The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-26 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN, DUTCH MAIL% A f te n saferences held at Salmi'Mei *MI 6,,be,t'ommissioner for Palembang and Banes, Major jaost de Kock and Admiral Wolterberk, the measures hoe beta arranged,.which are to be employed against t o saltaa of Palembang (Machmord Modem:den.) Ad wolterbeck has the command of the expedition *wised for that place. Baussats, JAN. l6.—We kin's, from the Frensh Iron on, that much dissatisfaction is beginning to pre.' i s the troops, with the present War blinister, in coo equeoce of hi! propoving to effect an entire re-orga , iot i o n, and Po dismiss all the officers, who possess, in the b i t b e ,t decree, the confidence of the soldiers. It is, however. certain, that the Minister has dismissed no -1,04 from the army ; but that he only has made a dif6- r ,g t rof effecting seine changes is the great commands, . irk i,b,his predecessor intended. brat d e Iteaurerfard, lately acquitted at Meat, has ‘Reetoveyed over the firontitra of the kingdom. J A N. 19.—tlis Majesty has appointed a Com e inquire whether the ships of war, that took e n nf our East India Colonies, were examined pairetl, precious to their return home. MA et sac a. I Waterford U tiurr.e . y and Jersey ° o tter:blimp Haesbargh 2 ILL ?RIM OF BTOCKB TH Bask Stock 421} 292 spa Cent. Red. 1b:; 3 pertint. Cons. 67j 06e si per ('eut. 771 4 per to ,nts. per Cent. Nay 10411 lAng %an. 17 15-16 lop.Sper Cent. Ann. 671 ♦aw. out. 1 Holland O Flanders U Franc• O I.isbon . O Malta DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India 41toek Ditto Bonds I Is. Its. pin. Old Annuities F.x. Bills. Id. 9s. 45. 3s. pm. Ditto Com. 9s. dis. Ommum ('on. for Ae. 08 0 8 11 I.ott. Tickets .1 1 23 ts. Eft *tatesimatt. (Tas'•BßiTN't '7'.I7I:S.VAN" is INCOMPOILItIDirrrn " Tel tiTATESMAN.") LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1820. The melancholy event which has befallen our Royal Family, in the sudden and irreparable loss of -- of its most valuable members, will be long re boded on, and regretted by the British public. The Duke had seen much hard service in different climates, and had studied, because he bad been' operated upon by the different minds of men. Maces, when first placed out in the world, gene rally resemble spoiled children let loose from the nursery: they are full of conceit and whim ; atbd generally display a fractions temper, if thwarted in the smallest degree. His Royal Highness PRINCE EDWARD could tot but partake of the qualities in fused into him by the nature of his education ; and, therefore. he displayed the disposition inspired by it, as aeon as Itemized with society ; and be nun so■ie infernal save under ground ; but, thelliSiffs the few honest patriots we have still in *if, House, they were moderated in some degtee as fo i their ventireoes sting, though they still remit, and will as long as they exist in power, aad se morials of an altered State. To return, however, to the calamity with whieh we set out, let • hope, that as sorrow sometimes softens the hiuntin heart, and disposes it to benevolence, so, in this ease, the humbling picture before ns, that a Prince, powerful, at least in the love and admiration of nsankind, is, by the equalizing hand of nature, suddenly reduced to the condition of a lifeless pea-, sant ! This should be a monition to Princes, Kings, and Emperors, not to trifle with the feelings, wants, and wishes of those whom, by a hateful per versity, they are often instructed to look on with• indifferenee, and as often taught to despissh The further intelligence from Spain is hourly looked for by the political part of the Uric public. We know enough of the insurrection at present to deelu it an incipient revolution.—lf prefect mutiny among the spaniel% troops idtoait lead to that event which most men look for s and all lovers of freedom desire, it will be an useful and happy lesson to all absolute Monarchs of the ineffi ciency of the sword to perpetuate despotic rule. Wherever it is wickedly or uselessly called up by the ambitious or thoughtless tyrant, may its point be sooner or later directed to the breast of bim who would substitute it for REASON or JUSTICE. It is our belief, that the twelve thousand cetera*/ called into action in this country, as a collateral support of, and countenance to t he late obnoxious measures of Ministers and their majority in Parlia ment, will go further in commencing a ItEPORII is the abuses of the State than any speeches of the best and most eloquent orators the country. pos sesses. The British patriot must be greatly elated at witnessing the proceedings at Norwich, on the Anniversary of Mr. Fox's birth. When we ob serve the close reasoning of the Noble Lord who presided on this occasion, we also are led to regret that he has so long been silent in the Senate. But, perhaps, his Lordship has only lately been con vinced of the necessity of every man speaking out freely and plainly on public affairs. His promising son (Lord Beal), very much to his credit, as a reflecting, though young man, observed at the table of the above festival, " The hour of clangs; as coming o.:" it is so; w Inn we hype sod try that the truly noble, disinterested conduct at sentiments of the Commoner Coss, will,have mat many converts and proselytes, snob as The Earl now and then with that cheek which contributed to form his mind'and character to that degree of perfection, which, without flattery or insincerity, we might take for a model to make a man by. He had studied human nature upon a larger scale than any ()Phis kindred had done ; and bed sedu !only reflected on die peculiar character of his counti7.men ; from which, it is our sincere opinion, that if Providence had placed in his bands the sway over them, chastened and corrected as his jedg meat had been, by tasting the wholesome fruits of youthful indiscretions, we •might also have been exempted from many of those anxieties, sufferings, anti apprehensions which now corrode our very hearts. Such a Prince could not but be cured et, all vain ambition. He would have started at Ads. some flattery, haling been beneficially reproved for earl folly, and would have repelled its in . sitlioes aJvances. Tke unjust, the unmerited praises bestowed on the actions of Kings ae4 Princes vastly contribute to the deformity of the structure of their minds. If the pride of a monarch be sometimes indulged by the glory of being thought the only person in the realm who can ad as he pleases, without controul, how much is the well-being of the srthjects lessened thereby / The evils arising from this state of things is not to be, caleilated. The wretches who can flatter the worst actions of Princes, from self-interest, MIN pests in society ; they injure the people, and often undo the Prince. There is not an historian,, rior any man of ordinary discernment, in Franco or Illielsed, who. if asked what was the owlish* of the condemnation sod seffering of Louis XVL (the anniversary of whose decapitation is just pissed over), will not answer, the falai advice of bad Ministers? It would be difficult to And, is that ill-fated Prince, any one of those qualities VT - --- - which mainly contributed to bring our CHARLES I Royal Family. to the block. It is not possible to detail, nor al - WINDSOR, JAN 24.—This morning the melan choly tidings of the death of the Duke of Kent ar lowed to a generous or ardent mind, coolness ' rived at the Palace, t o the great grief of every one enough of temper to count the miseries and mis-; who had the hononr and pleasure of knowing his chiefs of a King retaining in his service men who Royal Highness. An express having also arrived have incurred the hatred or suspicion of the people at kagshot Park with the distressing intelligence, at large. Ministers so circumstanced, always v .. . the Duchess of Gloucester arrived hese soon after for a mutual condolence with her beloved sisters. The seen their c o n du c t and advice to their Sovereign Dukeof York arrived at the Palace about five o'clock, by malice, or through personal fear —either of to condole with his Rove' sisters open the death of which motives is sufficient to disqualify them from their M o ther. The Duchess of Gloucester left the' ...lying the State in the smallest degree, for they Palace in the evening en her return to Bagabot.— can nobnger judge of a single occurrence impar- Soon after the arrival of the despatch of the death tally. If the Ministers of this once great nation of the Duke of Kunt, so universally was his Royal ' Highness beloved, t h a t most of the shops In the had been left unopposed and unresisted to form the town were half-cloeed. fire detestable Bills, which have altered the dig - An inflammation of the lungs, of which the Duke Position, views, and condition of the abused pen- of KENT died, is at present a prevailing complaint, pie, they would have appeared to be the produc- t in exposed situations. ALBEMARLE confesses himself to be. The silent, the insidious encroachment of aris tocracy, was perhaps never more exemplified than in the proceedings at the Court of Aldermen held yesterday, when so many of its members argued against the expositions of their proceedings to the public. Now, if they sat only to consult upon the catering for the next public dinner at the Mansion House or Guildhall, we admit that the public would not be interested intheir arguments,whether a turbot should be substituted for sturgeon: it would be a matter of Uses only, and in that ease the Worthy Baronet and Alderman, whose barber acquainted him of his profit on the loan so early one more ing, is qualified before any Common-Councilman to decide upon it; but where every Liveryman, and perhaps every man free of the City, is interested in their arguments and decisions, we contend the secrecy alarms us. And if it has been the custom to lock the doors on such occe.i.ions heretofore, we maintain, the breach of such custom will be moue I honourablb than the observance. It has been thought proper by many to suspend the execution of Spanish orders till further adviacs from Cadiz, or the metropolis of that kingdom, vs received. Some merchants have even gone so. far as to stop the goods and merchandise onboard of ships which were consigned to Cadiz, Bayoaae, and other places. According to the latest aecoOnts which hose transpired, regarding his Majesty's state i s ,; 1 = we are sorry to learn, that the alarming recently manifested increase rather than dlinlnlsh. All the Physicians are in constant atieselanoe. are boorlf pessiof 41110spisiair lowed' Jo and the deffereat breaches of the r,l? 1181411115:, ____ ..... ill.. lclwo, after tope *amours ana pesipewe ibil b, hat 'ventured eh the attlains task. of playing Gies Mariam. Far be It frOM ifs In wily wise to check tie march of genius, or to quench tbe Are of laudible l ambition ; from more disinterested and hosearable moiler% we have repeated*. cantiOned Mr. KLAK againlit the ;tell be has new taken. We, In tallninon with those beat calculated to fudge, have foteseen the rake improbability of its success, and the loss of fame which would attend its failure. He has Made the trial, and our anticipations have been verified. When the per formance was announced ascertain, we could not refrain from now and then harbouring a momentary hope that some hidden powers; souse udknown ground Might be cultivated on which thil very difficult undertaking should be established. But no, in Coriolanve we still have the same KLAN. It is now Hutiper, DOW Sir Giks Orer- Mock now Brute., and more frequently than any thing, Richard ; whose malignant rancour is continually sub- Mituted for the proud, dignified contempt of the noble Sad impetuous Roman. Id the third Act alone did he peoddce that effect which results from his exertions in My of the above characters; and in that we do not hesitate to say, he rover less deserved applause. It Ode acting of the highest order, we are Irma willing to allow; but it was wholly inconsistent. A star may twinkle amidst the myriads that gem the sky, unnoticed, bnt that as it serves to All the perfect scene. It is hurled from its station through the infinity of space, and the bright gleam of its momentary passage will at tract our attention, and withdraw our adniirltion from the snore lasting and sublime beauties of the heavens ; but its glory is its fall.—EVen so were the mentents in which Mr. KEAN'S friends (and they mdstered strong) extolled him to acclamation, the very time when he was sinking below himself. But the act was glittering, and Its brilliance destied. When the hot spirit of the war rior ran no longer btook the insolence of the Tribunes, and his rage bursts forth upon the clamorous rabble, it is excited by feelings as natural to hint as the air he breathes. His hatred is always governed by a high disdain, anal his most impassioned actions retain the stamp and seal of conscious superiority. How then is Mr. lisam's conception of the part to stand the test of criticism, when, in the scene of his banish- , ment, we are almost in doubt whether Richmond has not made an untimely appearance to receive the curse ora l Rickard. The disadvantages arising from the defect of voice and figure, thrown into the scale with the faults and imperfections we hare noticed, will not leave a doubt as to the merits of Mr. Ksros's eerie/oast To mention it in competition with the Coriolowne we have seen, would be next to blasphemy ; and there is 'One now before us, whose beauties will he more admired, and whose merit will he more deservedly appreciated, by a comparison with this attempt. A portion of the original text was restored as this occasion„..aed serves to make the Tragedy still nanoll * 11 0 0 ," 4 t was aut a generally, well received by the• audience, particelarly the introduction of battering - rams, sad the attack of Corioli. ft is well got up, and mega dir else aesermy is emy apimadid and imposing. Mrs. flumes, as Ve/inrinie, was happy in her &lima lion of the high-souled Roman matron. A determined, bat eventually ineffsettial opposition to the custom of dragging Mr. KIAN before the audience after the fall of the curtain was commenced, and which we trust will not be discontinued until so ridiculous en innovation be abolished. There was considerable dissent expressed when a repetition was announced, but theapplause pre- dominated. NAVAL INTELLIGSNCit. (tort.) ' llo Pitalt7 - 901 64 P6 Jai*. 1810 , Sia—l am commanded by my. Lords l'oniinissionets of the Admiralty to aoquaint you, for tba Warmth's of the Commistee fur managing the Alaimo./ Lloyd's; that; by a latter floe aeor=Aelsoival Sir Josias Rowley; dated at Cork, 21st inst.; it appear* that he had ordered his hlajoitifs ships Tribune and Qotterel tt; proceed to emits in it situation adapted to their falling in with each of the homeward-bound trade as a►igll► be kept at sea 'by the long prevalence of easterly wind, and to af ford supplies of provisions and water to any of them that might be is need thiredlE . 1 $l4, &c. (Signed) Joao Limutow•. Mr. John Bennett, jun., Lloyd's. DIAL. JAN. 25.—Arrived, and sailed for the ltiveri the Mary, Scott, from Bengal and Madras; INligence 4 Cant, from Smyrna . ; Malvina, Coopet; ihd Muse, Bluse. from Tarragona ; Vittoria, from tlatipoli ; ant victor; Johnson, from St. Thomas's, tot Adisterdam. Pia m ount, Jas. 24.—Arrived the St. Olof, Wicklow!, from Faro. On bringing up in Cattiatet, she got foul of the 'meek George, Gibbs, from Messina, and brolid off the arm of her anchor, and store in her skarboar4 bulwarks. the Integrity, Barker, of faintouth, which was On shore in Mount Batten bay, was floated eon Saturday last: liaawten, Jim W.—Attired the Seaufoy picket, with a mail from Holland. The Captain reports, that yesterday, when lie left, he was unable to get ih, and that the liver continues to be stopped by the ice, so that no vessel can enter. PORTAMOL TIT, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Mars, L'Esnyer, front Havre, for St. Domingo; anJ William, Spence, from Trieste.—Sai led the Caledonia, Roberts, for London; and Viper, cutter, on a cruise. BRISTOL, Jam. 25.—The Picton, Morris, of and from this port to Barbadoes, was lest off Lymouth, near lifts footili. On the 20th inst.; one man and a boy drowned. Ylitmourn, Jct. 25.—The Isabella, Wetherhead, of South Shields, from Sant* to Hullo is on the Houst sand, and in considerable damage. NIMBI', JAN. 2E—Landed here yesterday from the brig Mary Ann, Sheali, from London, the trew of the sloop Dumfries, Futton, of and for Whitelraven, from Cardiff, who we taken off the Vessel en the 19th instant, about Mid-Channel; the vessel making se tench water that they expected she would founder immediately. FaLmotrrn, JAN. V.—Arrived the Camden packet, *Rh a Mail front the Leeward Islands; last from Saint Thomas, in 56 days ; Dutch ship Batavia, from Bell more, leaky, and cargo said td be shifted ; David, Ro bertson, front Orapitey ; John anti William; Deneh, from Oporto; Au-pistils, Taylor, from Dalipoll, with loss of bowsprit; and United Friends, Dale, from Bristol, for.Haysnnah, with less ef hiffisid6 and boat., and bul warks damaged. Put back tbeiftkicid packet. i fyXOUIIT OF A 110 T at IBA, IN A swan .11411$ 11,2 DAII WITIOUT 10011. 1110 AWAsiteboa4 Mr, "bosom *wised at kenos on the Vtli instant . * tilt t. when about t 2 leagoes from Lisbon, too up a boat, in which was a bey, named Jimes Stephenson,ln a eery distressed condition, winr`itited that an the 11th et. he was going on beard the sldiellensoa. of Borth Shield', John Fawcett, mutes; thee. tying in the Tagus, in company with the master. eles fell overboard. and that the boat was driven to sea.. When he was taken up be bad not bad any thing to est for five days, and it was some time before be recovered from bis ex hausted state. Yesterday the 'Debts of YORK and et.sativae visited the PittricE REGENT at Carlton House. The Loin CrtAxcEt.t.on, the Earl of LIVERPOOL and. Viscount SIDMOUTII had audiences of the REGENT yesterday at Carlton Honse. Yesterday afternoon the Duke of Yost arrived at his house in St. James's Palace, from Windsor. Yesterday morning Dr. lifkrom, Who attended the late Duke of KENT, arrived in town from Me mouth. The Doctor waited upon the Pantos RE GENT, about three o'clock, and had a long inter view with his Royal Highness Upon 'the subject of the fatal illness of his departed brother. Dr. MA TON afterwards Waited upon the Duke and Duelists of CLARENCE, upon the sable melancholy subject. The Doctor also called at York House. but the Doke of Yoax had not returned from Windsor. NAPOLSON . II MEMOIRS.—The mutilated edition of this work, as printed at Paris, has reached Loa doe. and affords proof of the shackled state of the press in France. One chaptet is entirely omitted, whole pages are left out in other chapter, and many pars graphs are disfigured by asterisks. The same work is rinsing entire in London, from the original MS., brought from St. Helena by Dr. O'MEARA. In truth, the Paris edition was printed from the same original, by fascist of that Oentleman ; but the manner in which it has been garbled, determined him to republish it in London._ /ft COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The Manager of this Theatre, with a public spirited ness which merits the highest encomiums, ptoduced a new musical drama last night, man additional attraction, to aid the Fund for the Relief of the Houseless. rhe Astiqvary is founded upon the celebrtted novel of that name, and has, we understand, beer adapted to the stage by Mr. TWIT. A very close adh to the original has been observed, and consequently any attempt to recapitulate the plot would he tuperfiuous. The first scene opens with the visit ofSir Arthur Wardowr to Monk lawns, where Lore! has already made at piaintance with Iha ihitivery, and renews his intimacy with Miss lee k!!. Wardowr.—Then follows his rescue of his mistress sae e r father from the dangers to which they were ex posed in passing the sand. upon their return homeward. This scene Is among the proudest efforts of the author of there novels. When we are informed of the sudden peril NAM comes upon the father aad daughter, and see the angry waters swelling with supernatural fury, as if eager to devour them, we are breathless with alarm until we are assured of their escape. The sense of this awful danger gotta so forcibly npoo the audience, that the whole pit tom. The duel betweep Lowe! and Hector M'latgre fol iates, and then that mysterious tale which mimeos rah with the house of Glenollens. and which justifies the The Texas expedition has *MINI as was expiated--- In disgrace. This array, it appears, meter exceeded as venty ufilceVs sad privates, and without the neeeleitly funds to support them. Chitral Long's men, with the exception of three or four desperadoes, bare left him, and with the 'suer he has fled to Lafitte. at Galvestows, It is reported that the Spaniards iotcad erecting strong works at Nacogdoches. We observe by the Abeam*, that there will be a grand eclipse of the sun on the 7th of September, 18t0 ; about nine minutes after three, 11.14ths of the sun's diameter will be covered by the moon. The moon will rise eclipsed on the 48th of blareh, about baltrat ',ix in the evening, and the phenomenon will cominno till a few minutes before eight. She will also be visibly eclipsed on the ild of September, a few minute. before five in the morning, and will set In that state about an hour after. Mr. Cobbett was arrested yesterday, at the suit of Mr. Cleary, in a sum of 1001.; for which be gave ' bait. We understand that the arrest was upon a ,pi granted by the Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench.—(Merniag Paper.) ntstarneriost or Goei.a....Plesrly 3.010 800, or 6,160 bushels of eeela,have hoes delivered ft she ne t eeseitous of the city of Toth illerbeg tb. roma, Ineek. at The festivities of the oilmen have been kept up .L l .... r _ ba .k_ sbe l e l lia very nd w. ,:_tf.... 1 " 1"11 ....1---' i , e ," 1 , 4 - In f n . s i t el e l 4l ? :. iwith great piety at Harewood House. There has i tinses '7 A "r; ore seasea X ie w,:i.7l, tha , waste aow been a constant succession of fashionable& partaking totad act haw been a d , A ,,,d . yi,,, 4,6,,,,, y o f of the hospitality of the venerable 'WI; and a mg, ju co u seq ueneu dew pressieg Iftnneml, is mac large party are at paean la inmate& I ataratrit• more time 1,000 Issis per day. . . isttodection of the moorning scene at the fisherman's eolltage, a scene pronounced by Madame Ds Sr EL to be a model of the pathetic. The whole concludes with the recognition of torsi as the heir of Gkaallaa, and his marriage with Isabella Wards's. The music, interspersed throughout, is chielly a selection of ad mired Scottish melodies. Miss Sysostaisa, assault!, gave fill tile to the songs eke had to execute. ['tyro", represented the Antiowery, and thongh this was a character by no means adapted to his style of acting, we were mock pleased with the meaner in which be acquitted himself. The rest of the performers gave full satisfaction. As socasiesal Ad dress. written by Mr. Teat.wat.L, was spoken by Mr. Amore. The house was very full. _ '+~.~.fs~' " - ank.l P I • 1 i