The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-09 00:00:00

lb rex EDITOR OF Tits STATESMAN. s in ,—The most satisfactory answer I can give to $ letter signed " A WErrettxterEa PATRIOT," re• sing the Irish Charitable Society, which appeared t o your Paper of yesterday, is an earnest invitation t o the writer to examine the proceedings and books of the Institution, which are uniformly open to the inspK ti o n of the Members. The " situation of importance" which I hold is that of Secretary, the duties of which I have endeavoured to perform with out any emolument whatever. I am, Sir, your's, &c. EDWARD QUIN. crwe-coutt, Fleet-street, Feb. 9. The ;es tit ER'S Parliamentary Levees commence u p o n Saturday, the 18th inst. Yesterday at two o'clock a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office. Two houses in the City, we regret to state, stop payment on Saturday last. One of them, a Jewish house, Messrs. L. and Co. failed for not less than 300,0001. and upwards. In consequence of the vacancy which has arisen in the representation of the borough of Downpatrick, by Mr. Haullioasz's acceptance of the office of Chief Comniksioner of the Irish Board of Excise, Mr. CROIER has again offered himself a candidate for that borough. Mr. CROKER'S letter to the elec tors is dated " Admiralty, Jan. 26." If Notice has been given at the Post-Office, Paris, that Mails for the States of Lucca, Tuscany, Rome, and Naples, will be dispatched from Paris on 'Fun d'''. from Lyons on Friday, and from Chamherry on Saturday, in each week. Mails for the States of Piedmont, Genoa, Parma, Placentia, Milan, Bo logna, Ferrara, Modena, Mantua, Venice, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Vicenza, Treviso, Friuli, Padua, Tyrol. Istria, Dalmatia, Ragusa, will be dispatched from Paris on Tuesday and Saturday, from Lyons on Tuesday and Friday, and from Charnberry on Wednesday and Saturday, in each week. Monday, the Bedford Militia marched into Bed ford, after an absence of 14 years, for the purpose of being disbanded. The road for two miles from the town was completely crowded with people, who had assembled to congratulate their friends os returning to their native country. On Wednesday the regi ment was disembodied, and the men departed in a very orderly and correct manner to their homes. iesterdiy a Court of Directors was held at the East India-House, when the following Commanders took leave, previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz.:--Captain JOUR CRAIG, Princess Charlotte of lVales; Captain JAMES GaORGE CRABS, lord Melville; Captain JAMES M'TAG(IART, Rose; Captain S.:ovt, Ceres. The following Officers were sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz :—Captain FottBES, James Sabbald, and Captain WARD, Fairles s for Madeira arid Bengal; Captain TARROTT, Apollo, for Madeira, Bengal, and Bom bay; and Captain itzmimc, David Scott, for Ma deira and Bombay. Advices have recently reached us from the Canary Islands, to the latter end of November, by which it appears that the proceedings of the Government there are carried on in the same spirit of rigour and oppression as those recently adopted by the Mother Government. His Excellency Doti PEDRO KO.. narGues DE LA Buaim is Captain-General of Tene rife, and through him are all the acts of Govern ment administered. He is the person who ruled with such despotic sway during the reign of the Regency and the Cortes, and he is not less zealous now to carry into effect all the intentions of Govern ment of King FERDINAND VII. . . . . . A physician and a military officer, who had late]," arrived at Teneriffe from Cadiz, were instantly throe& into dungeons for having presumed to make known the discontents prevailing in Spain. The former was sentenced to five years banishment to a desert island, and the latter to be depri►ed of his rank, and to serve five years as a common soldier in the garrison at Santa Cron. One of the Spanish Gentlemen who were delivered rip to the Spanish Government by the Governor of Gibraltar some time ago, lras recently arrived in Ltig'slid, having made his escape from Spain. He has addressed a letter to the British public, wherein he romplainsvf the inhospitable treatment he met Frith at Gibraltar. A Gentleman who has arrived in town from Ham. burgh, via Holland, states that commerce, both in Ilolland and the North of Germany, was in a state of almost total inactivity, and the stagnation had occasioood some additional failures. Mr. Kits has procured a theatrical furlough, to g o to Edinburgh for three weeks, where he will per form for a few nights. This excursion is to com ment* in the course of about ten days. The Bramble, which took out the first notice of the peace by dispatches to Bermuda, had arrived in lone. 42. after as very quick and favourable passage. --She left England the end of December, before the ratiQration by the Patrice Braver, in the confidence that it would receive his sanction, and to take the earliest instructions arising upon it to the Governor of the Bermudas. The Favourite, a new 20 gun ship, which conveyed the Treaty when ratified, has not been beard of, but there can be little doubt of ler having had a good passage. She sailed from Ply *month on Monday, the2d Jan. at eight o'clock in the morning. • On Monday last the remains of Sir 'WILLIAM CUARIALS FARRELL SKIFFINGTON, Bart. were re moved froni his late residence in Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, for interment at Paddington. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPI:.—On Thursday lest, as a few young Gentlemen were amusing themselves skaiting upon Mr. Brownlow's lake, the ice gave way with a Lieutenant Lind, of the Ros•el Navy, about the centre, when he went down, and would inevitably have perished, had it not been for the very intrepid exertion of James Shaw, Esq. who, wits the greatest presence of mind, and all possible haste, pulling off his coat, and tying the straps of his skaits to the skirts of it, rescued him from his perilous situation. Too moth praise cannot be given to Mr. Shaw for his very laudable exertion in saving the life of Mr. Lind, a Gentleman respected by all nyllt im2:ao"(B4 f ast News Letter.) ;: THE STATESMAN: To m EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. SIR,—T am well aware that to allude to any thing in which the Duke of WELLINGTON is concerned, is touching upon very holy ground. The Morning Post, however, has for some time put (particularly sincethe first circulation of the report that the WEL LESLETS were intriguing to come into Administra tion by the management of the Master of the Mint) been giving some little side-wind memorandums as to the whole family, even Including the Duke, which bear palpable marks of Treasury fabrication. Th‘t following extract from that Paper of Monday last, is of this description : MR. WELLESLEY POLE'S BANQUET. " Since the last season, the family mansion in Saville-row has undergone such improvements as are very gratifying ; the magnificence and taste dis played in all the principal apartments, will both sur prise and instruct the Fashionable World. Mr. WEI: LESLEY POLE'S party on Saturday consisted only of Gentlemen ; and the principal object of the meeting was to gratify his illustrious and distinguished visit ants with a view of what a lover of virtu would call an inestimable treasure—no less than the whole of NOTE MARKED " PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL," Suppose.] to have been addressed by a great Diplomatic cha• racier, at Lisbon, to his friend in Liverpool, and said to have been lately picked ap in that town, explanatory, among other things, of the phrase "Instinctive Patriotism." Lisbon, January,lBls. " MY nEAR JActEY,—FrOm the great difficulty I had to becure my job, and afterwards to defend it, in those essays in the Courier and Post, which you must have seen, I could not spare a moment to write to you before I left England. Since my arrival here, having nothing whatever to do but to receive and re. turn visits of ceremony to the pompous natives, who wonder what the devil brought me here, (alai in truth, I can scarcely myself give a plausible reason for it,) I shall explain in full confidence to my dearest friend some parts of my late conduct, which perhaps may have staggered even him, as it must have appeared so inconsistent with those professions of purity, morality, parielism, and such stuff, n ith which 4 split the ears of the groundlinge at that Election in your town, which first introduced our congenial souls to each other. townsmen be injured, you can be of no further uge to the Minister: farewel thets to your golden dreams. You ask me how long I will be absent from Eng ' laud—that depends on circumstances; If any situation at home more splendid or profitable offers, instinc tive patriotism, which always prompts me to serve myself and my country, will, of course, urge my• acceptance of it. But as a very large sum of money was expended upon my out-fit, and to purchase a service of plate, carriages, &c. &c. decency will re. quire my remaining abroad for a short time as a corer to the job. " Remember me to all our friends at the Clubs, and believe me, your's ever sincerely, VORAX PHILAUTUS.', NAVAL. INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, FEB. B.—Arrived his Majesty's ship De siree, from the East Indies, having under convoy the Cambrian and Sherborn East Itidiamen, and the Hunter, of Boston, prize to the Doris.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Asia East Indiaman t from Madras; the London Packet and Trader, from Limerick.—Came down from the River, sere-I ral sail of outward-bound West Indintnen. the late King JOSEPH'S collection of pictures, which " Need I tell you, my dear Jack, that my pa. he stole from the Escurial, and the palaces at Ma- triotism is purely of the instinctive species, which drid. These precious productions of the arts, were I teaches me above all thi ngs t o t a k e care o f myself; stopped by the Duke of WELLINGTON in Josern's : and by that happy art of h um b ugg i ng , w hi c h t h e flight at the battle of Vittoria. They are very nu• credulity of the English people renders them parti merons, and arrived, on Friday, at Mr. POLE'S house cularly exposed to, I can a s s u m e an y p r i nc ipl es , an d in the same imperial which was attached to the roof adopt any characte r w hi c h best suits irt ? Physic, A ii ne my purposes.— of the mock monarch's travelling equipage. None Alas, poor John B o ll! t o what quackery i t a dope were in frames : JOSEPH left them behind him. Religion, or Politics, are yon not Moore, Joanna Southcott, and m y se lf, b es t can l' One of the principal pictures is the original one of Rubens,—Our Saviour preaching on Mount answer. ' Olives. Landscapes, by Claude and Titian; per- 66 What made me desert my early friends, Burke &sits, by Rubens and Vandyke ' • specimens wherein' and Fox, who first brought me into notice • y and b ° the artists have lavished, or rather expanded their their countenance, stamped a value on what my ene genius in temples, palaces, and amphitheatres, struc- mitts style my specious talents ? it was instinct. tures that have for ages encountered the injuries of I 66 What made me take advantage of the fears end the elements, and remain monuments of the great. dismay of John Bull, who then laboured under the ness and degeneracy of man. The subject is parti. JACORINOPHORIA, and by my squibs in the Anti cularly pleasing. A Maid milking a Cow, and ne- Jacobin, to procure for 'my near and dear rela glecting her pail to listen to a lore-tale from a coon- tions' large pensions, wrong from the sufferings of try fellow, who is reclining through the window of a the people ? it was instinct. cottage. The female possesses all the glowing warmth ; " What made me manoeuvre, by underhand in. and freshness of life and health, and all the radiance' triguei, to supplant Lord C.---na, a hated rival, of blooming beauty. and by his removal to monopolize all the loaves and " The Duke of YORK, who possesses the discri. fishes to myself ? it was instinct.—But here, alas ! minatien of a virtuoso, was highly delighted with' instinct played me a scurvy trick ; the hot-headed the collection." ° Irishman ferreted out my mole-like labours, and Now, it requires little consideration to discover brought myself and all my machinations to public a great deal of malice in this. What ! would the . llghtj and to public .scorn. But, no matter, I had Morning Post convey the idea that the Duke of, several friends in office, who had a fellow feeling WELLINGTON could possibly convert to his own use' for me, and kept me in countenance ; it is the solitary property to such an amount, that it is thus called criminal only to whom exposure is ruin. I was an inestimable treasure ? It is fresh in the recolwi su ff ering under the smarting of his Lordship's chas. lection of every body, that these pictures Irere-I tisement, when you, Jacky, proposed to heal mi l found, as the Morning Post states, in the Imperials , wounds, by procuring me the representation of your, of the Royal carriages at Vittoria, which carriages noble borough, and to transfer me from my obscure were all paraded in the Court-yard of the Palace village to the second town in the kingdom. You there ; and on the eight of the 21st of June, 1813, know, that however glittering the prize was to my ; were taken possession of by the British troops, and ambition, I had serious doubts of our success. Bat ' the Life Guards, I believe, were placed in charge of you soon overcame all my scruples, by assuring me them. It cannot be forgotten, that every single ar- that ribbons, ale, and long speeches, full of ' sound tide of plunder was, by a General Order, given up ' and fury would always carry the day in Liverpool. to persons Lord WELLlNclrolf appointed specially You promised me that your friends would pay for the to receive it ; the severest punishments were de- two, first requisites, and I undertook to furnish a nounced against those who should dare to violate ersonfattp mt./licit of the latter. The honest, well. this order ; and a Mr. Kertssurrcoo, a gentleman in meat!, but easily-led gentry of your town, con- 1 the Commissariat Department, a son, I believe, of tribu their gold, and I brought the brats: Tito; the late banker of that name, was treated very union of our heavy metals, aided by,some fortunate roughly for keeping some little articles which fell in circumstances, overcame the exertions of our op. his way. Whet, then ! would the Morning Post ponents. What a triumph ! what a batch of clubs im- i dare to insinuate that Lord WELLINGTON himself mediately sprung up—the Backbones, the Canniugs, would violate his own order ? that he himself would the Church and King, &c. &c. What speeches and commit the very act for which he severely punished what feastinp ! and to crown our glory, in a few this unfortunate Commissary ? I trust, Sir, you short months the overthrow of Bonaparte furnished I will caution the public against so shameful an attack the capital for our brazen column. of this venal Journal, which would thus invidiously 1 " "Twos at a glorious feast for Leipsic woo,' throw an odium on that great Commander, who that I first broached the doctrine of ' INSTINCTIVE alone has the merit (according to the Times) of res. I PATRIOTISM,' but I need not tell you that ' I pal cuing Europe from the fangs of that vile spoliator ! tered in a doable sense,' and while the room re and plunderer, the late most wicked Emperor of ' echoed with applause of a sentiment deemed by them FRANCE! worthy of a Roman, I was enjoying the idea of what Some time ago, a paragraph of the same sort ap- weight your election would give me with the Minis, peered in this 66 lying Post," stating that the Doke ter; and what high post of honour or emolument, of W. had given a magnificent entertainment to the instinct would urge me to demand, both for myself PRINCE REGENT, at which the whole of the plateland my 6 near and dear friends.' taken at the battle of Vittoria, and formerly belonging I " You have enquired my motive for requiring so to the Royal Family of Spain, was displayed, the mag-ibarefaced a job as an embassy to a Court without a gnificent appearance of which was splendid beyoudiPrinae• where all my ingenuity cannot invent a rea all description. This is another infamous fabrication. son sufficiently plausible for John Bull to swallow. , No doubt every thing which was taken on that day It was the elevated station of my rival in the Cabinet, ! will be very shortly accounted for, and the produce! which made any post at home, apparently under him, i shared (as has been the custom from time immemorial) ' • irksome to me. The profuse allowance of 14,0001. as prize-money among the brave troops, by whose' a-year was a tempting bait, added to its being ne valour, and at the expense of whose blood this 1 cessary to the health of a part of my family, to visit booty was obtained. Shame on such vile scandal ! l a warm etiolate; to be sure it was taxing the .public I wonder the ATTORNEY - GENERAL does not fi le an ! rather heavily to administer to my private conveni- , ex-officio criminal information against the Editor of , ence• but the public is very dear to me, and, in turn, . that scurrilous Paper, in which such barefaced slander i I shall be very dear to them. The profits of this is suffered to appear. It is of a piece with another P 1 e r e answer my expectations, and to make them . report also f-urn the same channel, that the Duke of a arge as possible, I lived on ship hoard at the tra- : WELLINGTON bad divided the 211 p i eces o f art ill ery , non's expellee, as long after my arrival as decency between the Spanish and Portuguese troops, leaving , would allow me. You, my'dear G. understand the nothing for the English army, and that as a proof . nature of a Job, as well as any man, and I need not the high sense which the Cortes of Spain entertained say more to you on this subject. But if Roscoe, or j of such Heaven-born generosity, the estate in Castile "9 of those stupid Gentlemen in Liverpool, who' . hed been bestowed on him by that body, while the : have no idea of INSTINCTIVE PATRIOTISM, should Portuguese Government conferred a snore tligni- be illiberal in their remarks, and attempt to open I - fied, though less weighty mark of its gratitude, by the e y es of the g uzzlin g p art of the Electors, you! Dr. MURRAY, Archbishop of Ifierapolis, and Co creating him Duke of Vittoria ! must rouse the Backbones , the J awbones, the Can - ' ad j utor of D ublin, left Paris on the 31st of Januar y , Pray, Mr. EDITOR, insert this Letter immediately ! ningites, arid all our ex pedant friends to rally round !on his return to Ireland. That Prelate, since his fe -1 shell be miserable till I see the character of the the red standard, as guard from their sacrilegiou ; turn from itome, has spent several months in the Noble Duke rescued from the base attacks of that hands the citadel of Patronage and (entre nous) : French capital, where he solicited the restitution of hireling Journal, the Morning Post, whose fictions ICorruption. I the property belonging to the Irish Catholics. Re you have so often and so property exposed.— Be- I , "Though I did not write to you before my departure, had the satisfaction to obtain the accomplishment of lieve me, Sir, with great regard, your truly faithful I was not unmindful of your interest, and according- his wishes. servant, ly recommended 'you in the highest terms to my Lord I We understand that the innkeeper of Woore, lior.e Guards, Feb. 7, 1815. CIVIL, b-----, es a proper agent to carry on any Job, in ' who had a most p l-principled. information !s . your town, arid I have no doubt you will be soon laid against him by some Attornies, who had in. Madame CATALAsit is on h er return to England. employed; but being your true friend, my dear fel- ' duced him to give them a dinner of game, intends M. DE VALABetilue told his countrymen that his low, I must caution you against yourself. Too' to stand trial with the parties. The same persons incomparable wife could get more money in an Eag-, much self-confidence destroyed the power of Bona- laid a similar information about the time, ag..ill,t lish barn than in a French theatre. , . • parte. Beware then, Jacky—' Quem Deus vult per- the proprietor of the Swan and Star Inns, of t tie Mons. Taesrazzaut has eat fount* brilliant re. dere prius dementat.' As you are not without those town, who had been persuaded to prepare a bonne ception in his native city of Milan, -taty complete qualifications for rising in the world, which your houcise for supper. In passing throught Stony Strat. of his fine acting. Titer do not approve of singing countryman, Sr Pertinax M'Sycophant, recom- ford, on their road to town (the landlord having actors. When they WOOS actlif the, say they go to mends, it will be a sad disappointment to me and , been apprized of their characters), a roasted owl the comedy ; but no Man, Wert siy., cart sing and act your other faecal, if , .yoar bright prospects should I was dished up for them with , a sni}m's bill skewering too. The violence of gesticofation is inconsistent be overcast by any little error occasioned by the the legs ! This bird of Micron would, probably , with harmony—so we may hive TRAMEZZatiI back foible I have hinted at-ramember that One false step communicate somewhat more wisdom to them, as also. is never retrieved, and if your character among your a gaid• forthe future.-45toffordshire if •- ) . ercald PLYMOUTH, FEe. 7.—Came in the La Favourite, from Rochelle; the Le Junon, from Nlartinique for Ilavre.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Opossum, Blood hound, Foxhound, and Eurotus, on a cruise. FALMOUTH, FEB. 6.—Arrived a few coasters. HARWICH, Fee. B.—Arrived the Henry Freeling packet, with a Mail from Cuxhaven.—Sailed the Lark packet, with t Mail for Holland. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 7.-- Arrived the Goldfinch, Wormington, from Bermuda, sailed the 12th Jan. The Arnica:, Wright, which was captured by the Chasseur American privateer, has been recaptured, and arrived at Bermuda.—The General Maitland, from Trinidad for Bermuda, was taken the 7th Jan. within two miles of. the latter place, by . the Dash American privateer. 1. The Desiree frigate, with two more of the East Indiamen, have arrived in the Downs. They parted company with the Starling, from Batavia ; and the Mary Ann, from Bengal ; the day after they fell its with some American privateers, and fears are eater. , tained for the safety of those two ships. PROPERTY T4l. A Meeting of the Inhabitants of Chester was held on Tuesday last, to consider the propriety of Reso lutions against the renewal of the Property Tax.— The Resolutions having been moved and seconded, Mr. Ft yrcurrr, the Deputy Town Clerk, proposed an Amendment, recommending the continuance of the Tax for one year ; On which Mr. Utssacaz observed, that it wasslst be better to relinquish any Petition whatever, tnast= log in Ministers that they will use every means pos. sible of relieving the country of its present burdens. This is the only case of a decision at a public meeting in favour of the Tax, and evinces a most extraordinary passion for singularity in those who Ave adopted it. The Chester Courant concludes some observations with expressing a hope that the " spirit and judg ment of the nation, following this example, will arise from the benuMbing couch of indolence and prejudice, before the locks of their understanding are shorn off by political Empyrics and national Quacks? ! !" A numerous Meeting of the Inhabitants of High Wycombe and neighbourhood was held on Saturday, the sth inst. at which a Petition against the Property Tax was unanimously agreed' aeon. On Wednesday se'nnight a 'numerous Meeting of the. inhabitants of Gloucester, was held at dui Tolsey, for the purpose of taking into consideratiori the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the renewal of the Property Tax, at which Sir James Jelf, the Mayor, was unanimously called upon to preside as Chairman. J. Pniui.orvs, Esq. in a very pertinent speech, proposed a set of Resolutions, on which to ground a Petition to the Legislature; and these being se conded by EDWARD WEAVER, Esq. were (with a small alteration) carried una voce. 1 A Petition was then brought forward, and sub mitted for consideration ; when T. DAVIS, Esq. (who had just entered the room) after expressing his regret that he had not been pre sent when the Resolutions were put, moved, by way of Amendment, that the Petition be rejected ; and was seconded by CHARLES CHURCH, Esq.—Upon the show of hands, however, those of the mover and seconder were the only ones held up for the motion; and the Petition was carried with acclamations. During the proceedings, several Gentlemen deli. vered their sentiments • and, with the exception shore stated, there appeare d the most cordial unanimity throughout the business. ■rt Ike ro. ~1 7 1 11