The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-26 00:00:00

;e r . of in id NAV4L INTELLIGENCg. DE tr., 25.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Mer lifillS from off the North Foreland.—Sailed his Ma ity's ship Bombay for Portsmouth for orders ; and le *hole of the outward-bound coasters and colliers ) the westward. PoarstouTu, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Isabella, 'hoolpson, from the Downs, bound to the Mediter ,„eftn.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Liverpool, &c. 1p thr %vest ward. F t olouTir, JAx. 23.—Came in the Prince of r ci alutd, American privateer, of 19 gene, 137 p,. 11 , and 3 30 tons borthen.—Sailed the Duke of K en t packet, with a Mail for Lisbon; Hero, Jen. 0 0 1, from Messina ; and several ships for the River; `he Prince, Goodfriends, and Swan, for Portsmouth. HARWICH, J 25.--Arrived the Berrnfoy picket, with a Mail and passengers from Holland. Tie Susan, Dodd, and Juhn ---, from Dieppe, are irrived at Havre. Dasghter Alida, Dart, from . London to Nond, pet into Dunkirk Reads the 19th instant pry leaky, and was run on shore the following day rani nearly full of water, cargo landing. T:ie Coronae, Reay, from Malta to Hamburgh, s arrived with a heavy average. A letter from Milan, dated January 7, says, " It is with impenetrable secrecy that the Commission proceeds, which has been appointed to try the con s ;rators confined in the Castle. But what is noto rious and certain is, that they are accused of a plot csinst the present order of affairs in Italy. It is slid that their crime is proved by their papers and correspondence, vo.ich are partly in ciphers and the r‘qt in. sympathetic ink. We are assured that Gen. Nava.t ND Clime at one period from the Isle of Elba, 1:•,g. a Al field a meeting with some of the persons up. The report runs that Gen. BELLOTI, one 1f them, has attempted to commit suicide. At the nriont I , f my closing my letter, I learn, that last r.ght, in couiequence of preceding arrests, Colonel VA:mtce was again taken up." A final Mee• ing of the Catholics took place at 1.-rd feiNam.t.'s, on the 17th, when Mr. SIIIELS' and me other Petitions were rejected on a Report Lon' the Committee, and the following Resolution, rri.posed by Mr. O'CoNNELL, agreed to : " rho we do renew our earne4 Petitions to the Legislature f t.e to r n ;In 1 unqualified repeal of the Pennl Statutes which a.tri..be usat degrade the Catholics of Ireland." [t dehate took place on this vote, and on a divi ! upon the propriety of introducing ... lw ward i; uncpralitied" - in the Resolution,lroli appeared— For Cic ite•olution 9—Against it 3.—Lord FIN. t.A LL oti, but does not appear to have voted. , —The nest day there was a Meeting at Cape!- vreet, when a Petition, drawn up by Mr. ./Etmts ;lAcnoNvart., of Cork, was adopted, and an Ag ;,-regsite 'Meeting summoned for neat Suissolay. It was /Whited Mhrther, instead of Lord Dowouon- MIRE ant! Mr. GRATTAN, the Duke of Sussex and Itir UITIIR RAD should not be entrusted with the Petition. The general feeling, however, was against thig. We have received the following communication from a Correspondent. We cannot pledge ourselves to the truth of the statement ; but we give it, because if there is even any suspicion on such an important subj Pet, some immed i ate enquiry should be' •in- Sre,--1 am inclined to think tint the public are not aware of the imposition practised upon them weekl, in the price of bread ; the law for regulating the assize of which is evidently inefficient, to those who have any acquaintance with the subject. The price at which the quertern loaf is fixed this we- , k, is making the average of dour• 60s. per sack ; when, in fact, no such price has been made. The highest price for the very best marks, is not more than 555.; and a great deal of Norfolk and French flour is selling to the bakers from 465. to 50s. per sack ; the average prier, therefore, cannot be more than 525. to 535. - so that the public are paying at least one assize and a half more than they in justice should, were the returns properly made. 'Phis is a subject which calls imperatisely for a remedy ; the most effectual one would he to do away the assize altogether ; if that cannot he dour., give the Loon M,AYoaa power to el iige the flour-factors to make returns upon oath at well as the bakers; the returns of the former would be in a great measure a check upon those of the lat. ter. I am, Sir, yo-r's most faithfull r. Corn Exchange, Jan. t 5. 1313. A. B. When we read of ‘ the very great reduction in the price of Grain, ---when Wheat is under his. Barley at a very low price, Oats frcm c.los. to 254. per quar ter, and Hops at a moderate. price—whrit cause can • be assigned far the Brewers maintaining the present high price of Porter, an'article so necessary for the support of the poorer classes of the community ?1 • From the quantity of draught horses necessarily kept , • by the large class of Brewers, they must derive con- l siderable benefit from Oats being at so reduced mi price, and Bay continuiog at 5 1 . per load ; in fact, • we see no plausible pretest for the continuance of such an imposition. On Monday, Mr. S. an. attorney, was committed to Nessgate, .on a warrant from Mr. Justice LE 111. talc, having been apprehended by ADICINS I the Bow-street Officer, charged with a capital offeme, 4tn indictment having been found against him at the Middlesex .November Sessions, charging him with maliciously shooting at Mr. Sewn', an accountant of Bond-court, Welbrook, with a gun, whir an in tent to kill him. Under the circjmstances of Mr. SEWELL having called upon him on some business, when a dispute arose, and when Mr. Sewn.r. was leaving Mr. S.'s house, he discharged a musket at him, but he did not receive any injury. On Saturday morning, between .seven and eight o'clock, (hi lower part of the premises, No. 1, Coppice-row, Clerkenwell, was entered, by means of a false key, and robbed of every article of wearing apparel, consisting of gowns, sheets, slats, shawls, &c. besides money, and copper in a half-perk mea sure; the poor woman was gone to market the di . kins got deaf off. _ - All 4.- . MARITIME RIGHTS. THE S'llA'I'EgMAl4.. were, indeed, the two heavy curses of that period. The one was that force constituted right; the other, that large donations to the Church constituted devo tion. These two radical errors subverted the very foundations of justice and religion; but they did not spring from the people themselves. The one was inculcated by a warlike Nobility; the other slily in sinuated by a hypocritical, lazy, pampered, proud, and sensual Clergy: in short, they were not demo cratical errors, but hierarchical and aristocratical ones. Now the stato that these errors produced was a state of anarchy, of rapine, of murder, crook'', and oppression —a state diametrically opposite to that in tended to be produced by Christianity; and which it will produce, as we are assured, when it attains its final accomplishment—then " Nation shall not lift up the sword against natiov i nor learn war any more"— then " Peace shall cover the earth," and " healing shall be under its sings:" this is the state of fe licity which the spirit of Christianity promises man kind ; if they will not ignorantly and perversely re ject, but modestly and wisely receive its divine in fluence. We have, however, been told of a state of LETTER V. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. SlR,—Every day adds confirmation in my mind to, the suspicions hinted at in my la st , th a t th e l a t e Treaty at. Ghent is but a hollow truce—had the Ne gociations at Vienna proved successful, those of Ghent would not hive been brought to so sudden and unexpected a conclusion. The Sovereigns, whose 44 magnanimity" has been the praise of almost every tongue, and whose" disinterested exertions for the deliverance of Europe," as we have been pleased to call them, although well rewarded with the many millions voted them by-the generous Representatives of the English nation, do yet, it seems, require some little trifling indemnities, such as the kingdoms of Poland, Saxony, Belgium, which they cannot persuade the Congress at Vienna to consent to ; and other arguments failing, they are now preparing to use that very convincing one, called ullima ratio regum. There is no doubt that we shall be called upon .felicity connected with war and avarice, with pride !but could not forbear expressing his regret that his for fresh sacrifices of men and money to support these i and injustice; but this, too, like th e del us i ons pla t *, opinion of Mr. Brook. Bridges's conduct had beew Bum pretensions—Jove Bu. is too generous to desert his tised in the (lark ages just adverted to, was only in. so greatly misconceived on the hearing of a former Allies. Have not these nations been fighting under ! tended for the purpose of imposing upon the people. Petition, for it was not either upon that or the pre. our pay ? astd well we know, that when any Prince 1 I Inn sorry to add, that this artful deception was sent occasion his Lordship's intention to snimedvert or Potentate does JOHNNY the favour to accept his . first promulorfrOin ThirTreaiery Bondi ; and Ethe l . upon the motives which had actuated Mr. Brook money, he becomes his firm friend ; and happen what: wards echoed from the pulpit. F r om b o th th es e ; Midges in such proceedings,-us - they had made Re will, JOHNNY Hill never desert him. It is very true, piece* we were frequently told how m uc h we th r i ve d , itnrression unfavourable to that Gentlemen, to the that these Sovereigns having worked for hire—having : uniller that horrible war, which beg an by an i nvas i on 1 high respectability of whose character his Lordiltip been paid, and liberally t oo , f or the job they have• of r nce to restore the BOURBONS; and which pre- I bore the strongest testimony. •ii accomplished, the indemnity, if due at all, ought, in- se r e ' (but not without some occasional concealment TREISTON P. BA IZ OROUSE. point of justice, to be made to honest Jour; but be ; midi mporising policy) for above twenty years the In this cause, which is of a commercial nature, is too generous to require it. No, no; such ie his same.grand object. We were told from both these land has been a long time before the Court, the Lonn disposition, that lie would sooner. spend US-much places,' how prosperous we were under that war : Cu tNCEr.r.olt, in delivering judgment, observed, that more, if he could get it, to ensure that recousgence ; which deluged Europe with blood, and increased ' . there were two points for consideration ill the-busi. to others. This-weighty business being on band, it • our debt to a thousand millions !—Nay, one man, a ' ness—namely, whether it could be tried on a simple • is probable that our great Statesmen, not wishing to ' Parson, and though -a Pluralist, panting for a issue, respecting the alleged fraud ; and, whether have too many irons in the fire, have thought best to Hishoprick, NU efiteitnpudence to attempt persuading the Plaintiff woul'h, within a week, consent to such. pestpone the question of Maritime Rights to a more : the people e ita4Abook which he wrote for the express issue to be tiied at Lancaster at the next ensuing As favourable nintortunity ; they may, perhaps, have, purpose, ihat.litt population would increase by %tar, sizes. thought it more expedient to exert themselves in esta-t, and lour Witafth by the increase of debt and taxation ! An issue was granted under that proviso. Wishing -the newly-erected.throne of Hanover, titan i We were told, that under this philanthropic sy,t•em ---"...010110a.. in dethroning Mr. MADISON. But though war is lof war and taxation, we enjoyed all earthly felicity, V I CE.cil ANC r.t.t.mt's COURT, JiN. 25. necessary for many men in this country—though it is ! as well as divine favour; and in short, that so great rx-rA writ GRENciILEY, A BANKRUPT. the very element in which they exit*, yet there are: was our national prosperity, that we were envied by This was one of three Petitions pending in the mat. some sober reflecting readers, perhaps, of your 'all the rest of the world. I ter of the present bankruptcy, by which it was prayed Paper, Mr. Entron, who will be tempted to I The imposition of the Divine is far more revolting iby the bankrupt to have his certificate allowed, not. •ask if this mad system of war and taxation is ; than that of the Statesman, but tifat both should w ithstaeding two ether Petitions depending in the never to have an end, unless it be in the na- c oncur to e ff ect t h e same purpose is no more than ; same matter—the cite for superseding the first as a tional ruin. It is a principle, Sir, not to be , might be expected from the unnatural twin,' of l'separate commission, and the other for allowing a controverted, that the same causes will ever produce Church and State, by which the sanctuary' o f re je. joint commission to be issued. • the same effects ; therefore what has bred war and gion is thrown open to worldly policy. What ! did 1 Mr. MONTAGU supported the present Petition taxation hitherto will continue to involve us in fresh theme reverend pastors imagine it no inconsisteUey I most ably ; and Mr. CuLLEtt,• with equal 'toter, op wars and fresh taxation, unless of two things, the : that their Divine Master should enjoin the practice j posed it, cia alte grounds of want of doe notice, and one or the other happen—either that the Government of pease and good will on earth, and then reward • the justice of hearing the two preceding* Petitions be. is changed by meet's of a revolution, or that we with celestial favour those who deluged that earth ; fore any decision of the present one : which deci i change the principles of our politics. As for my ; with blood ? Did they think that the best way to' sion wosall probably becont e quite unnecessary le part, Mr. EDITOR, I profess myself to be a warm please him was to break his Commandments ' Why . tote, when the Lord Chancellor should dispose of advocate for the restoration of constitutional rights, ! ditl he come on purpose from Heaven to teach these ! such precious Petitions now laying before hint for bat no friend to revolutions ; and therefore I should • Commandments, if we were afterwards to be re . ' hearing ; and therefore prayed a suspension of judg. like to see the career of war and taxation stopt by a warded for acting contrary to them ? When he was meat on the present Petition till the other two should change of political principles. I should like to see taxed with throwing out Devils by the power of the : be disposed of. Imy fellow-citizens awaken to the call of reason and Prince of the Devils, he replied, that a kingdom di-.1 Ilis Hoxown, sitting for the first time in the Com. humanity. I should like to see them sensible of this vided against itself cannot stand. And if instead of mittee Room, No. 11, adjudged that judgment ought • great troth, that might Is not right, and that injus. punishing the nation for this sanguinary propensity . to be suspended or postponed till the Lord Chancel. lice and impolicy are one and the same thing. Thue by hard affliction and distress, such as is now felt, for makes his decision on the two previous Petitions, I plain simple role of " doing to others as we would he had rewarded us with a prosperity that made UP,- as no judgment might be wanted in this cue after the •be done unto," would have guarded us against all as they pretended, the envy of other States, wriutil fate of the two other Petitions. these murderous wars and oppressive taxation. If we he not have militated against his own keer,dom ? , Judgment was postponed. had attended to that rule we would not have abetted the • would he not have promoted the very offences which "T -ambition of foreign despots, or interfered in the inter- he denounces as the objects of his resentment ? COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAB. SS. • nal concerns of independent nations ; we would net i MOIR V. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE. There is something quite horrible in the idea that have imposed, by force, a King upon the French • Mr. TOPPING moved for a . rule to show cause why Men should carry their time-serving complacency so people; or set up arbitrary imposts and restraints ou far as to preach (for they could never believe) the ; the,nonsuit in this case should not be set aside, and ! the commerce and navigation of neutral nations ; wegranted. The action was upon a policy doctrine, that a just Providence would reward those anew trial would pot, having beep admitted to a trade with the . of insurance, dated Sept. 19, 1811, upon a ,sbitelost nations who disturbed the peace anti trateptillity of PAP India, extended our ambition to such a !or not lost, at and from Memel, to her port of die ' others • that I must really say, if these war incen ; pitch that nothing would content us short of the ab- f diaries had been dragged from the pulpit to the pH _ . cha r gehae in England, free of capture in the port and solute property and possession of the whole coun -1 lory, it would not, in my humble opinion at least, f loading, warranted to depart on or before try :—Had we followed that rule, we would not have ' have been too severe a chastisement for their abomi•. the 15th of September. The ship completed her attempted to tax the Americans in a place where they ; liable hypocrisy and their blasphemy. Yes truly ! we loadin g on the 9th, and obtained all her clearances were not represented, nor would we have dared to at Memel. The wind was then fair, and she pro ` showed ourselves a very Christian-like nation, ' kidnap her free citizens when peaceably navigatingceeded on her voyage ; but before she got out of the indeed !—we have done to others as we would b • the ocean, the common highway of nations! We harbour of Memel, the wind changed, and she was t done unto! We would have liked very much that a . are a Christian people, and yet have we acted in bold . detained white' the harbour's mouth till beyond the ; nation which came to trade with us should have defiance of Christian precepts. We believe, never. , time in the warranty. Mr. Topping relied upon i treacherously got possession of the whole Island as ; theless, that the Gon we serve is just, and governs } we have done in India—we-11mM have liked to hate: .„,. Bond v. Nutt, Cowl). 601 ; Thellusson r. Fergusoii, the universe by his providence ; but what would we,: seen the Port of London bombarded in full p eace , ; Do ug . 360 ; and Wright v. Shiffner, 11 East, 51s; ' have said if we had insulted his laws with imposing ? 1 that this was a su ffi cient compliance with the war ns we did that of Copenhagen — we should have liked I Might we not, had we been able so to do, have gees- e 1 ranty. souring peace too, to 'e seen our merchantmen decoy- ry, ; Lord Eeetsreonoueu.--, els was clearly a sailing • tioned the justice of that Providence? Let us then rather rejoice P before the 13th, but I thought that the word &put t Plat we feel the consequences of our I own transgressions! Is it not far better that our backs rd into foreign ports only to become Ikons of some i foreign Admiralty, as we have done with the Danes . —we should have liked to have seen a King imposed must mean out of Me pert. • should bend under a load of taxation, than th at our , Mr. Topristo contended,, that the moment tha upon us by a foreign army, or ourselves traits ; minds should be harassed with doubts of the Divine . ferred, by of indemnitu like a flock of ship weighed anchor and broke ground with a view I Justice ? I agree with my worthy friend, Major , leered, by way - 1 ' . • sheep, to begin her voyage, this was a departure. pp we have helped to transfer the Norwegians—we C IRTWRIGHT, that the Property fax is a great Lord ELLENnottouon.—This case does not de s stould have liked very much that America should • grievance, but I would far rather bear that grievance pene upon th e grammatical but upon the legal eon.. save taxed us in their Cong ress , especially if it had than be cursed with the forlorn and hopeless state of •struction of the word. The warranty is to depart le:en publicly avowed in that Congress that count). the Atheist, which I verily believe would have been whence ? from Meniel ; for the insurance isatt 40, ton was as notorious there as the son at noon &Sli— my fate had I seen the Anti-Christian politics of this from Memel. As long, therefore, as the 'lapis in and we, no doubt, should have very much rejoiced to country rewarded with prosperity ; in short, bad I the port of Memel, she is at Memel ; and not haiing have he ard ' that free-born Britons were taken out of ' not seen, on the con t r a * that wars bring down their 1 fi 1 i our merc hantmen, mu made to g a the tattles of • own punishments.'ship is to be cut of port ; let her once be so, and Oat , foreign Powers. Why did not these patriotic I must confess ,' Mr. EDITOR, that taxation is not , miry come in again by stress of l eather ; and then the preachers prove that our conduct to all other nations to me so much a matter of complaint as of console- i underwriter would not be liabe for a capture within has been exactly such as we should have liked to have ton; I feel even disposed to apply to it the words o f the port and roads. The object of the upderwriter:is, experienced ourselves ' Then it would have been King HENRY-.-" Now, GOD be praised, that to he-that the ship should be on her voyne,, , : lie says,— clr that we had followed the grant) rule of Chris lieving souls gives light in darkness, comfort in de. s' I will answer for risks on the high seas, let the tianity,ted in rewarding us with such marks of favour and the justice of Heaven would have been spair."—(Second Part LIEN. Pl., a.' 2 , s. 1.) vindica ship be once out of Memel." — Rule refused. Although reason and experience assure us that in- GIBSON V. DICKIR. as excited the envy of other countries. justice is impolicy ; and although the very founds_ Mr. HEATH moved for a rule to show cause why tinny of our belief in a Providence rest upon this (To be continued.) t h e ver di ct f or t h e Pl a i n tiff s h ou ld no t b e set'asiee, ground, yet it is nevertheless true, that the gene. ••; -.- and a nonsuit entered, upon a point reserved iv rality of mankind are insensible of this truth. This A nemerous Meeting of the Landholders of the Lord Ellenborough at the trial at the last Middlesex is clear: because were it otherwise, injustice would county of Kildare, Ireland, took place at Naas, on Sittings. The action was upon a special agreement, not be so common in the world : the facts thet I the 17th instant, when Petitione to, Parliament in reciting that the Plaintiff had for many years co. have alluded to never would have happened. Too favour of the Corn Bill of last Session were unaiti- habited with the Defendant, gull that thelMendaet much pains, therefore, cannot be taken to satisfy mously resolved upon. had agreed to grant an annuity bis• her ie. - cuse of the public mind on a point of . such importance, and St Dean Deem—Friday last, as a man of the their separation, to be paid to lief only in the with this view I have added a Fifth Letter to the four name of Akhurst was at the uew mill atSittingbourtte, event of her continuing single', atid•nbt cohabiting preceding, intending to give some further remarks with his grist, it being all he had left from his with Daniel Gardiner, or any oil, matt. on the dark ages, under the .hope of illuminating the harvest, be said to the miller, " This is the last Mr. Hearn contended, that 'being' in restraint of present. I shall not repeat what I have before said grist you will grind for me," and had scarce ut- marriage, the agreement was illegal and void. Lowe though it cannot be too often repeated, that ignorance tered the words, when he fell down and expired im- v. Peers, Bur. 2,225. lr it more than a 'cc Lord ELLENBOItOUGH.—.n 11.. s knowledge the wing wherewith mediately. is the curse of Got), a , and • should ' that fl y to Heaven : but I shall take leave to obs e r v e , ' T o- mo rrow m o r n in g the Lotter y draws ; besides Lion that she shall live sole et cast why that popular errors are not of popular growth and the Two Twenty Thousand Pound Prizes,' one of not such aproviso be as good here as its a marriage i orgin— • they are obtruded on the public mind by %%Web is allotted to the First-drawn Prize above -51. settlement ? — Mule refused. cowl': v. atartre. persons in authority, spiritual or temporal, and the 10,0001., and the whole of the other Capital generally to suit the interest of those persons. In Prizes are 'indrawn ; the Public most expect a rich An action bad beep tiled betwee these parties, the dark ages two important errors prevailed. They drawing s with an unexampled display of Capitals. . brooght by the Plaintif to recover bark . the prewiun t / Yisiw`-'-' 7 ~61; -4;at . t A - 0 • :w _ • - 1i -; '44 • - • • • LAW INrE L LICENCE: • COURT OP CHASCERY ; • In awe wArres Or L:Wig, tt. BANKRUPT.. • Mr. MARTIN' stated this to be the Petition of Messrs. Birch and Chambers, respeo(able hankfFs,. to whom the bankrupt, late a Salicitoain Gray's Inn, had ascigned over his life interest . ire certain funded property (standing in the Accouptatit.G. neral's name), a considerable time previoos to hi; leasing England, and prayyd an order for payinent of the dividends to the Petitioners upon the trusts of such assignment. Sir A. P l o G orr opposnd the Petition on various grounds, on behalf hf Mr. Mortham, (he atlignee t and attempted to redact on the conduct of Mr. B. Bridges, nho was acting as Solicitor for the bank rupt's family in these affairs. Dlr. Il.tar and Mr. Itakt.o for the different parties Concerned. The LORD CiliNctr.Lol, after. bearing Ake Petia lion, directed further affidavits, to be made, and or dered the Petitiot, to stand over till Tuesday nett,