The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-22 00:00:00

I 7 . .. ~ s • • .1 . - . 71. .. ` Sly erown-piece; and being agatn, as usual, annealed, each piece was forced to pass through small rolls wit/ round grooves, which made the form of the substalci nearly round. It was then passed through certait apertures of near a dozen steel tools, of which the holm peogresiively diminished ; and at length formed part .owhat is called a Rin,r . of Wire, of the weight of 4 41111111:• sla t e _E was sent to Andeeion 'nil Co.'s warehouse, at Beige s -for sale. , Roogit•by Messrs.- Barratti and Cotacsiny,. this *ire was sent to their pin-manufacture, at Warmley, 5 . miles from Bristol. .and there beieg made into smaller rinfis, each of 41b. weight—it was steeped in vitriol And water. sad, beat upon a atoms' till. from being ,nearly black, it became the reverse of some other arti else wbea beat.--it actually became bright. In this , state it is teemed Bright 'flee. At this factory it also . passed through various tools until it was reduced to the dimwit,' of " a pin ;" and having been rendered ,straight,- 41 was cut into pieces about twelve incliet , long. It was then placed against a revolving, round Still File, which gave ,the point—and was next cur iibe length of " a pia." The hod was formed • t of Ober wire, which on being twice spun round. a • Owl of the same kierd of substance 'ale& form, was trert-alf 1.? and a child thrusting the• point through ellitt. bold. after two or three gentle witrokea• of a , treading anvil. with a block fixed en the same, nom , plated the article which I,now bold between my finger ;and thumb, and formed it into " a pin." It was sub . eminently whitened with tin, which came from its native county, and with tits dregs of Portugal wine. vitriol. and ether ingredients ; and, thus finished, ir Ives delivered to a woman, who was engaged to stick ir, with. others.'on proper paper, in such rows, and t such order, as here. behold. She, however, not being able to read. mistook PUOR RICHARD'S ALMANACS, which her hothead had bought to learn by heart, for the appropriate paper . of. Baaaavrt: and- Co, Pin *takers and Citizens of tondon. and so here these two aeonotoical articles come bar accident to be joined toge ther in my hand. "pad now very little to do to bring- key history of the mrisin and.forwation of the article which I have in my lasnd to what, as a printer, I might have called point, or Hop. l must remark. however, that more tons of brass are, weekly, used fur making pins than for all the others ends to which brass is usnally applied ; and that, while every other implement of the same comp°. sitiou, from a brass cannon to a brass button, finds its way back to the melting pot, and becomes renovated, in some article of a like or other form; " a pin" is the only one that never returns; it is the constant con sumer of the composition of which it consists. It is therefore the greatest excitement that operates on all the eliciting engines and processes, and chains of ma estfactures god commerce that I have been so long describing. It is this trifle, and its species, that gives employ and bread to the many thousands of your fellow cre.atnres which I shall leave you to calculate ; and yet, after all the elaborate machinery of a physical and mental kind, that it is requisite to raise the materials anal complete the fashion of " a pin,"—and after all the vast expense of skill and money, time and labour, that is bestowed en its formation, even after all—you will fiud.if you inquire at any time, that you may bay sack all 910 as this at siti-teisvot Twassim Iva A WAR TIMM " Who can, after knowing this, say, in• a contemptu ens tone, of such an implement as I now exhibit, "'TIN BUT A PIN." At this point the phantom ceased his discourse and before I possessed recollection sufficient to make a rrply, a strung electric spark shook, to dissolution, the structure of the Spectre of pins ; and the image of the sage completely vanished, in a moment, from the per ception of the astounded PETift PINCUSIIION. TaigolicO, Nov. '3l. 1321. GIBRALTAR PAPERS. We have received Gibraltars to the sth of Novem ber, and As their contents are in some degree at variance regarding the fever in Spain, and especially at Ma laga (where it seems to have assumed a more fearful appearance than was at first imagined,) we subjoin, without comment, such extracts as deserve notice:-..- ii4:411.6.TAR. OC F. 30.—We are sorry to find that , the accounts from Malaga, are still less satisfactory then these which we yesterday gave of the state of the public hisaltb in Cadiz. The sickness is reported to tie fast reading all over the town. At Waneilles, on the contrary, all apprehensions are compiqefy at an end. A letter of the 12th inst. states tbad ‘ at Plat date, there remained but one con valestent,.th the Lazaret. The late regulations are strictly enforced. Two vessels from the coast of Spain, with **masher of pisseigers, had been refused admit tance. 4bapish ship from the same quarter, having met with a Owner denial, and the number of hands left on hoard (ihe master and three men only) being probabig insufficient to navigate her, sbe ran ashore at we grektdistance from the harbour. The men were saved, Mt? the ship was burned. . • 0cu e 415 , -=-Deaths, of the yellow-fever, at . Port St. Mary`kyrom the 21st to the 23d Oct., 22. Cases on die hitt pieptiOned day.'s3s. Desigte . of tlk . e.yellow4ever, at Xeres, also from the 214 la the 23d; six. Cases on the last-mentioned day.2.e . • , thistiss, of the yellow-fever, at San Lnear de Barra meda, on the 21st and 22d, three. Cases on the last ' mentioaed day, two; besides two suspicious ones. Fro* Gobrija no later accounts than those we have MA loans, OCT. 28.—We regret exceedingly to say, diet the fever. in this place, has broken out with in creased:vigour, and there appears no hope, of its being got tinier at present. Trade continues, of course, com pletely, at a stand. A panted return of the sick and deaths in the La wet, on the27th, states the number of the former to amount to 24 only, and that of the latter to three.— According to the same paper there were, at that date, but An suspicious cases in Malaga. The daily deaths at Tortola; on the fint ten days of October, were holm $0 to 70; and the total number of victims to the 27th of the preceding month bad amounted to 7,000. Kens observed that, set of 300 sheep that entered the soirgia the mullet of the Pd. seventeen only were foand ante the' reiiink • Seventeen individuals bats bees gantlet oil by the fever at Metrinasa; by tbolamat awn" twelve lase sick list, aid sweaty-tun ware la a cesvalsecesco. c ta oa ti tinued en v ' . , I 1 The ensplcious cases in the suburb iffliSeiinyln the 16th, amounted to twenty-five. Both thtselts awd The persons living in the same houses lay, %sea re moved to the Lasaret. A false report having spread at Aleireer, on the 14th of last month, that the Militia inteisdoil 'l# plain the. Tree of Liberty In the principal sqaart, the ?on Council was compelled by the mob to 411serm the 26 individuals who composed tbir uhuroxions corps; whioli having come to the civil Governor of Arragon, his Bi cellency, on the 17th, informed the Council that sa tisfaction must he given to the militia for the affront they had received, in order that they might continue to discharge the important duties laid upon them by the lewd. PRICE OF STOCKS TIE Rank Rtock 239 • per Ceet.Rel 771{1 per-Coet.Cf.-1. 78} Si pir Cs tt RR per goat% Mil 5 pmr Ct. Navy, 1101 f 3 per Cent. Lon Ana 19 9-18 'lmp. s eer Cant. t 'Hallo per Cent. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCI • 'silts Stott! i)hseß•ndd --s egt. eh. ro gieth-ges Fitnek flouth Sa► Old Arm. . kt 1124. 10001.2sp.par. lip. 3001. 3r. pm. flipot, Small 00.00. India fo► ditto 4.. »• i t lior Atat.72l .#l6ll l of9eksisiftie . , Isl. • last *din who shall. tau fret fort such :an offence. eel:igida AO of injustice doAe.. to fie, altboudfli I have certainly entertained strong hopes of mercy, but it is my dying prayer that. none, other may so seer. • If, Gontlemea, yen: knew as much as I do of tite..iSicility witls whicitl' these notes are pre cured, you would not be astonished at the frequenty irt the offence. Distress drove me to the commission of the crime : and I solemnly declare, that I did not fur i moment suppose, after the Numberless instances tel tokiak mirey had ken extended that it would haai cost me my life." On ascending the icaffOld, the unfortunate victida addressed the crowd around it in a similar strain; and the following report of his speech is given in the same paper, 'as communicated 'by a person Invited 'by Mr. Ceder•Shetiff SMITH, to attend .at the foot of the scaffold s-- " I b ;tie been hroughtliete Wstiffet for'pessing forged notes, which had been indtieed 'to do' frnm pecuniary difficulties which strronitied . me at' thefiiiie. " I am fully . convinced that in, doing .sct, I did wrong; bat I hope the situation in which I am..placed Will be some palliation of my offence ih your consideration, although I have been denied the lenity I expectsditom a certain quarter. " An oblique promise of powerful inflnence in my fa vour warheld out at the time I made a free and candid confession, and that led me to hope I should be deemed a fit object for mercy. At my trial I pleaded guilty, cause 1 knew I was so, and had confessed all I kne Even then expectations of mercy were again held ont r which have not been realised. The King has been' ed. vised to hold me up as an example, but I do not wish 10 east any reflections on him, for let it he known that I love and revere him in his station, but at the same time I consider that the testimonialsof my past conduct should have had some weight. " I feel exceedingly grateful to a great number of friends, many of whom are personally unknown to me, for the greet interest they have exerted •On my behalf, notwithstanding their efforts have beet unsuccessful; hot althouglighey have proved so, it has sliewn that the public, nevertheless they are sufferers by the practice of the crime for which I am about to die, yet at the seine time they are strongly averse to the punishment with which the crime is visited. The moment I was apprehended, I stated every cir cumstance I knew, and without any persuasion on the part of my prosecutors. or reservation of my own, I gave every information, and made every reparation in 'my power : yet, while numbers of noted utterera of l i forged notes have been suffered to escape the yen geance of the law, I am thought a fit person to' die, for the example of others. However, I die, resigned to a fate which is unavoidable, in perfect peace with all men ; and sincerely trust that my fate may prove a warn ing to others, io order that they may avoid those delusive snares which are ever ready to entangle the unfortunate." As au evidence of the inefficacy of such examples in producing serious impressions ou'lke profligate, weer* assured that some of the accomplices of Garton, who were understood to bare shared the spoil of robbery in Witiallksg attetsded at Aslant-.f tbnisaileask with the must hardened composure, with a view to wit ness the removal of his body for the purpose of making it the occasion of a respectable funeral ! ! ! • Among the many rumours of political changes, there is one, when seriously looked at, must create a variety of opinions, namely, a Financial plan to be introdeces: in the next Budget. It is no less than a redaction oif 8,000.0001. or 20 per cent'on the interest of the Na. , tional Debt. which, it is supposed, would cover those taxes that bear hardest - npon ihe poor in general, sod, the farmers in particular, whose situation at present is really deplorabl#. The price of meat does not pay the lean cost, and the present value of corn is not equal to the taxes and cultivation, exclusive of rent. The thiouls at last come to the long-expected crisis, and the Members of both Houses already begin to think our prophecies are about to be fulfilled. We should net be surprised to hear of a financial system advertised for at a large premium. The nostrums of the prune quacks are found ineffectual. We find misery gni bankruptcy gain ground with rapid strides, and no prospect of relief; the Rink issuing their ill-executed copper-plate' pellets, and hanging those who, through want or wickedness, avail themselves of the easy negoeietion of forged notes. There is another plan hinted at to raise the value of land to the farmer, and enable the landlords to get at least a part of their rents; that is to apply five millions pf the sinking fund to the assistance of agricultaro generally ; from whence another question arises.— Whit - effect would such changes have on the rands? They appear to be the suataivni Loewe of the Finance Masters, hopes and fears. No doubt the change would cause a tumble. The Sink.. int Find was created for the interest of jobbers and giving a false colour to the resources of the Country, sad if money is to be had at 4 per Cent. from indivi duals, why should the public pay more. To support 'things as they are, there must be fresh resources, and we may naturally ask where are they to come from ? Not from imports or exports, they are already overborthened ; not from the land which is not worth so much as it was thirty years ago ; not from our manufactures, which aro enable to give the common necessaries of life to our artisans. Then, sagacious reader, where is the hope of relief ? not from the pensioners, placensen and sinectuists, who won't give up a shilling. Not from 111inieters, who are discharging poor clerks with large taitilles, on half-pay, and adding to the incomes of time who always hang like logs arm The repents . of the country. Not upon a saving in the Civiltht, which it is naturally 'supposed will be doubled this year. This is a tienssadota Plante of Great Britain, after 15 yeari of wilful and latticed extravagance. . This la tbs fruits of the Tres planted by 44 the Pilot that westnteimi . die 8 tam," and his sagacious windings. It - t . . • 'l'H .STAT , •• L ' • .. . • . • . -, . . . .. - .. . ._ - -- ... --).. :Al I, At A o seven had di ot% of hi • hi ... ! ' fitilit : i 'lei .• `. el l i h Ur." ra-9 •IPPe're -' 1 , 1 ilteSlisorder:• . I si, cording to a Altnistorial -PsO L V, -hero. vent. Of re fi Aquila., five had died from the •th - th' 3t , he f e lt • 1 s precincts of the prison . 1 ' to let it tical d hilolrni as lips, AM I twirriseSiie is now in fourteen were r eturned sick, and ,five consider ... red til revr veefftriesernts_ - 1 std a tax of b, Of to arrest otii i . Wil i of Minister., it 1 tna:trial tip Item of frn beill4l galt y . 1 rotosoo--66 ifisppost atkaao 4011 P 1114•`--- LONDON! THURSDAY RUINING, NOVEMRILR 22, 1821. . STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The /ifarket continues stationary, owing, it is.—sup posed, to the scarcity of Money, and the approach of the Settling Day. Consols are, at present, 73ie for Mone•. The awful scene exhibited yesterday morning is the Old Bailey, and the second exhibition of the same appalling kind, announced.] as about to take piece on thesarne spot, within the same week, are circumstan- ces so revolting as to call forth load and very general animadversion. Without enquiring into the Tight which States assume to make the sacrifice of human life, the penalty of what their laws define to be offences, or without entering into any nice dis tinctions relative to the sort of offences that ought to be visited with death, we know that the dreadful punishment as inflicted on occasions herr, is found to produce the reverse of the effect for which it is professed to he ordained. According to the Christian maxim the Magistrate should not bear Me sword in rain, but as a terror to evil doer, aid the praise of than that do well. But what is the impres sion made by tbe vverity we are accustomed to wit nesa ? Does it obtlia approbAtiii& ti; posed ? Does it deter the profli g ate nom their courses ? Let the Language of reflection be beard; let tho conduct of the thoughtless be observed; the testimony of all unites in rcptobating the system. The class of beings on whoa. it is chiefly designed to ope rate, and of whom the largest portion of the spec tators of such scenes consists, are those who feel the least in the way expected. They crowd the place, as they would a Theatre, to witness a tragedy ; and if they repeat their visits they soon become callous to the scene. If ever they are shocked, their minds reflect, not on the justice of the sentence they have seen inflicted, not on the expeditney of guarding themselves from a like temptation or a similar fate, but in most cases probably on the unfairness and cruelty of the law which has doomed the victims to death. Let any person ask what the sentiment is that appears pre- vailing, or the language that is uttered round the place of execution, and he will not fail to learn that the sacrifice has, as warning, been entirely thrown away. The effect, indeed, is worse than useless, for instead of producing submission, it exci'es a feeling of revolt, and may be one of the causes which combine to set the lower orders in the metropolis. r more than in other places, against the dominion of law. What can have a stronger tendency to destroy respect for its administration, than the manner in which it has been enforced respecting forgeries on the Bank of England. At one period, when that institu tion bad issued millions of notes, to pass for the value of pounds sterling, and made them in such a slovenly wanner, that auy novice of an *agree's could nosily imitate them, it was the policy of the Bank to punish, with death, the utterers of counterfeits, by hundreds, instead of taking pains to render theimitation difficult The wreegth of the temptation, and the descrip tion of the persons on whom it operated, raised an almost universal sympathy in behalf of the wretched victims, and induced the Bank of England at last to relent. In our Courts of Law it was found, in fact, that the Bank of England could, at their discretion, mitigate or aggravate the doom of the sedated ; and after their smaller notes were withdrawn from circulation and the larger ones have become coun terfeited, the severity which, at their instance, had been suspended, is new let loose upon offenders whit 411 its horrors. The same facility of imitation coidnding, and a greater temptation presenting itself to the utterer, the uneven haided justice of the Bank is now the theme of heavy and of general censure. Nothing can be more derogatory to the dignity of llovernment o or to the authority and . inflame which it aims to &errors, the minds of the people, than this eaprieleos, ilactaatiag, and dreadfnl policy which it thus parsecs, The strong and affecting light in which this p.Uq was yesterday placed by one of the unhappy safferersl will, it is greatly to be desired, not be shed in wits,•- , ...,. I'l ft a matter of great doubt, wou, on real property be sufficient decline? As to &Inge of now too late to expect any I therefrom. When a wholesome systt could.. be useful, and a gangs' Representatives of the People would of such magnitude, then a- redress of pe • erage I gradual reduction of the debt mighblee • at present we see no effectual .table Of itai*ff• • • de body but by the aniptitatioa of a limb. .: pa he . pe !ari rw e in jo t o to rnale du t press. e ik-ds leyothyldearebnaontneeritis,isdhowettik7 I 4 learn the Success that Las attended the .13real i i s different quarters. Several versions are gives of o w apture of Tripolitza, bat they all agree in st cia rs that although taken by surprise, the Turks A N * with the most undaunted resolution, and whearellai,4 to the possession of a few bottles and those boo ton w ses • fire by tbe conquerors, still refused to surreali sm only ceased to fight when they ceased to lire. G i s melancholy to see such heroism- displayed in a i 4oss . which casts a Stain upon its brilliancy. It ei kum • with great alaugheor in a fourth attack whiel they Er wide on the position of Cassandra, the Turks were pursued ta i : al k s e co f Salonica, and a re re p reseated to • ... • !r. have exie a great defeat in the vicinity if 'Asta. Their loss in this action is estimated st 16,00 men, and that it was very considerable mes s placed beyond aTI doubt by the fact of their fallen hack as far as Lanese in. Thessaly.. tlws appears to have teen destroyed by a TarkieVieres. On the arrival of the Mussolmen • Wore tikat. dtr, the inhabitants are said to have taken M light Only fire hundred men barricadoed thentselves is the houses and fired upon the invaders, who knight their way valiantly through the streets. Flames on a sudden issued from the boosts, but it could not be correctly ascertained by which party the fire had been kindled. The account thin says, " The lower town is almost consumed. The Turks occupied the citadel before the insurrection, so the monuments in it have not been destroyed. The Temple of Theseus bas pot suffered say damage; but the Turkish college, the mosques, and the Temple of the Winds, have been more or less injured. him ported that the house of M. Favel is totally destroyed, which will be a grievous loss to the arts, as that ',o ilman had in his possession invaluable arrheologiod treasares,—the fruits of many years indefatigable la boors in collecting antiquities." On the 17th instant, the King of France entered tiffs 671 h year, on which occasion he received the maga, tulations of his family and Ministersof State. FRENCH FUNDS. Nov. 17.—Fire per Cents.B9l. New York papers arrived this morning to the nth of October, Montreal to the 21st, and Bootonpepen to the alb, from which wf c l i ttrect the le/hintiepitie TIM tlinv roan 'Arica or. rst Hy, (owl Heats or Nor.som—The Norfolk Howl of Health has issued a proclamation, dated October r, assuring the public that they may renew their cater• course with the town, without the least dancer. There .I►ad been no attack of malignant fewer later than this 13th instant. HCALTH Or ALEXANDRIA. —The Mayor of Alt MI drla announces, that one ease of malignant fever hal been reported within the 24 hours, ending on the 2lst instant. HsILTK or BALTIMORE.-.—The Baltimore Board of Health informs the public, that, owing to the severe frosts on the nights of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 28th inst., the malignant fever has entirely disappeared. No deaths having occurred from it since the 18th inst., they advise all persons to return to their homes. The daily reports are to be discontinued. [FROM TMa NOSTON PAPZBB Or OCT. 27.] PINSACOLA, Sari. 22.—Captain Terrand from New Orleans states that the St. Stephens, Jones, and the Washington, Mayne, of New Orleans, and the Bright Phmbus of this place, were lost in the storm of StuttlaY last. Captain T. reports that all on board the Wash ington perished ; en board the St. &trims. sad Bright Phoebus no lives were lost. ['nom Tin MONTREAL TATUM OP OCT. 20.] We understand that the survey required by the ar ticle of the treaty of Ghent, has been coepleted last season by the Commissioners, supetitsteadeti by Bayley Nash. The Commissioners of both ostiue agreed to meet at Uric.a, on the 23d ult. fur the re' pose of competing the results of their respeeeiefeePra' dons; but that our Commissioner haring fal" sick :their rendezvous was defered and shifted to New Yeti. where it has produced nothing decisive of the boundary line, which must, therefore, be submitted to the tlb tration of some friendly Sovereign. The Washington City Gteette supposes the moan' of claims presented to the Commissioners on Spank spoliation' to be 15,000.000 dollars, and that it is hardly possible 5,000,000 dollars can pay the principal of as losses embraced by the treaty. The whole nu* her of memorials already presented exceed , 50 . BURLINGTON, OCT. s.—LtrainEn TRADS..—SiSfe the prohibition of American Lumber in the Canada market, lousy of the adventurous Gentlemen are very wisely turning their ;tuition to the soother') bole market. Several compacts bare already been entered into foi plank, and we anticipate that many arm W ill speedily be made. The Editors of the National Intelligencer, seemed nt think it was outrageous iasolencc in the kgiblature of Lonisiena, to express their disapprobation at theFlori do treety, even though it made a earge portion of oer aisle a frontier boundary, and along which, it is raid , r is tblt mileganna almost every speciei of mot "ir" Slaves beonght in by dozens, whilst 'le vas* Kee etastiog Oast the s hot, • of Africk .00 Lido %hot r ti Pr all ' MI 14 • b , • I • ; 1 1 Pilvaitillset . &of • la._ rture • •• 111/* la " Oaten. woad to tbiak we did act baktall • • . . As 'lf lib 6 per Cent. Lott,Tickets 2V. ISs. ebt AMUOman. " TIM IRITISI STATILIIIIAN" IS INCORPOILAULD WITS " LDR sTATIcsaIAN." P ..~