The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-08-06 00:00:00

~~ _.. . ;: merchant's harvest, to whir!, we look forward with ple•isure, expecting to have 6001) bnshels in hand, for irbiell we are building a store or granary. The climate of the Island of Van Dittman has been represented to he the finest in the world, but as yet, thoti2h we are near our summer solstice, I have not f.bomi a day in which a tire would not have been agree al.le ; the town being situated under a high mountain, co'. jest to heavy rains and changeable unsettled wc . ltiser." IVe mast wait more letters from this new settlement, to correct or confirm this unpromising and desponding account. The island is no doubt quite unsuited for cockney shopkeepers and traders. CORONATION PROCESSION. —...-- [Among numerous speetatorsofoneidentical scene there will necessarily be different impressions created. On an occasion like that of the Coronation of the King, those who went prepared and p aid to admire, would only extol the magnificence of the spectacle and the loyalty displayed by t'oe spectators. The daily papers did all which duty could exact from them in these respects, in I return for the accommodation of the Reporters provided Ity the Lord Breat Chamberlain. But while all the usual agents of the press were in this manner engaged, why were the services of that courtly functionary, the Poet Laitrear. not pnt in requisition on the occasion ? A hundred pounds a year and a hutf of sack :night, one woad sup s ose, have produced a description of the spectacle suf ti. lends , florid, in either verso or prose. Bot if Mr. Robert Southey's muse was not sufficiently stimulated to make the attempt, Sir Walter Scott was resolved not to let the occasion slip, but embodied his ideas of the scene in the form of a letter. Sir Walter, as principal alerk of the Conrt of Session in Scotland, obtains from the Stare an atinnal income; it is supposed, of ROM a year, and • must therefore be an i m ated with twelve , times the zeal for the State thin Can be felt by Mr. Southey with hit hundred [sounds. Sir 1 Waiter, therefore, found it " impossible to conceive a ceremony more august and imposing in all its parts, and more calculated to make the deepest impression hoth on the f. e and on the feelings." The feelings, iedeed, the Baronet had in view appear to be chiefly tl:ose which occupy the breasts of boys and ladies; for in noticing the galleries in Westminster-Abbey, he particularly mentions that which was " most ap propriately occupied by the Westminster school -boys. in their white surplices, many of ;whom might on that day receive impressions never to be lost during the test of their lives." As for himself, after describing the "rich spectacle of the aisles, crowded with waving plumage, and coronets and caps of honour," which hr leaves his readers to imagine, he then exultingly Willis his correspondent if he " has made his journey of four hundred miles to little purpose ?" A man of Sir Walter's celebrity, would hardly risk the reputa tion of his taste and judgment by acknowledging the least degree of disappointment. Accordingly, j whatever he saw , he "sate with surprise, amounting to astonishment." But am on g the thin g s which ems prised him, it appears that this uaz not the least, that ~ matitings warred either awkward or indieros o! : ii.11 could mar the t ;eneral effect of the solemnity. Considering that it is hot one step front the sublime to Cie ridiculous, I own," says he, " I consider it as surpri,ing that the whole ceremonial of the day s'istil.l hive passed away without the slightest cir carustatiee which could derange the general tone of s , ;'eno feeling which was suited to the occasion." " Many men, many minds"—llorace Walpole, Earl of Orford, a min accustomed to Courts, observed of Pie Coronation of Oeorge 111. : " Well'. it was all de!ightfol, but not half so charming as its being over.—The gabble one beard shoat it for six weeks ' , ewe, and the fatigue of the day, could not well b.. compensated by a mere puppet-show ; for puppet s'aor it was though it cost a million !•'—Similar im pi e{sions slid the scene produce on the minds of many of our correspondents, whose communications on the sab;ect we have long delayed to notice. As a speci men we now present the following :3 TO THE EDITOR OF STATE.SMAN. Ravin.? read in your paper a few evenings hack, a descrivtion of the scenes in Hyde park, on the day of the Coronation, I have sent you a few observations th it I made on the day of the Coronation, and on tl:e evening before in Palace-yard. Should you think them w orthy of your notice they are much at you service. I am. Sir, your's respectfully, IS, Union-street. Aug.% 190. J. W. In the afternoon of the lath of July, accompanied by my wife, I passed dow n King-street, Westminster. in my way to view the Coronation preparations. At this time of the day, about 5 o'clock. the whole pave ment and part of the carriage-road was thronged with pedestrians, all pushing forward to the spot which was to be the theatre of the morrow's pageant. Here every thing assumed the greatest activity : the sound of the carpenter's hammer rerounded on all sides; intlnstry and incenuity seemed strained to their utmost in the erec tion of the various stands, for the accommodation of that part of the public who might be happy enough to secure a neat. Most of the stands were puffing off the superior accommodation which they afforded for sight and culinary accommodation ; but from the indiffer ence of behaviour of the proprietors of the stands, 1 was led to believe that it would be a very difficttlt matter to obtain a seat at any of these wooden edifices, particularly as notice was affixed to the front of one that " this gallery will close this evening at 7 o'clock." Oh ! thought 1, the seats are all bespoke. The most conspicuous preparations were at the cor ner house of King-street, a pubic-house, the owner of which had taken down the whole brick work of the front, and fitted up each floor with elevated seats — and the whole being bung with scarlet and blue drapery looked extremely gay. I was led to enter the central pavilion. Here were the most extensive ar rangements made ; cloths laid for at feast 400 per sons, knives and forks, Itc., all under cover, and pa tent lamps provided fur night lights; the waiters all clean, and numbered to correspond with the tables. .1 saw a closet full of lobsters and small pies, large baskets of lettuce washed and cleaned, ready for Bal lads; barrels of beer ranged side by side, all tapped with new cocks; and in an enclosed space in the room of the pavilion was erected a stove and boiler in solid brick work ; water laid on, and in fart as substantial as though a Coronation was expected to take place every week for seven years to come. Every comic- TIT ST, -..=_—_ —_ ------ . nance seemed to beam with pleasure, in expec tation of the employment and profits of the ensuing 'lay. I found similar and as extensive preparations made at the yarinns stands, every spot of standing room now turned to a view of profit. 'Several erections were mowed above the cliimitieson theilifferent house tops ; the Sessions-house, and even the National school rooms Witt fitted np, one as a gracti &afloatling-room while the school-room, appropriated for the use of the girls. was fittcd'up es a•ball-room, and the roof of the building tram covered with seats, which were offered to be let at one guinea each, including admission to the ball-room in the evening. At this time lumpy thousand persons were on the ground, and several .f the Oxford blues in their Cuirasses were riding to and fro along side the platform, and the workmen .had begun to re move the temporary enclosure. It was with much dip ficultv that one could cross from George-street to Pa lace-yard, where several of the foot-guards were posted to prevent the populace from walking near the scaffold or platform. I walked into Palace yard, with a view of going out at the South -pm!, np the steps to the bridge, but here a stror g baraiercumpelleil rep to return and pass through the passage that leads into Bridge street, there being just room enough for one person to pass the unfir.ished barrier that was being formed at this place. Among all the persons looking on, I do net believe that so much expectation was excited by the content plation of the ensuing day's ceremony as I have wit nessed is Sinithfield the day when Bartholomew fair was to be prodaimeel. As far as I mold hear from the little groups of spectators, who in many parts had formed themselves into circles, to interchange opinions upon the Coronation and its results, the leading sub ject was the expence of the s.rime and the manner in which the Queen was iikelv to be treated. Here would have been a fine opportunity for the King to have ren t dered himself popular. I was much pleased with the coolness of jemper with which these little groups tiis cussed the Matter. 1 Upon my return home, I accidentally took up a Newspaper, in which a paragraph caught my eye; it was the Report of the Visits of a Benevolent Society, i made to the abodes of the wretched. Here was de scribed sickness, rant, actual starvation, in short. *very thing calculated to mice np the very acme of ,human mi.very. I could scarcely believe that the de scription before my eyes was existing, in the same country, in which I !tail but a few moments before witnessed such Vaal sums of money lavished in tem porary erections, fui one day's use, and the extras-a-' gant prices paid for a few moments gratification of the .eye. I hate not fogetty enough to agree that our King, ' the common father of his people, altonld be thus sm.- rounded by glittering show, at the time that many of his children are pining fur the want of the coin non necessities of KC+. 1 have sent yen the paragraph in questiwi. I will now attempt the scene on the day of the Coronation. I passed through Lambeth New Cut a little past 2 o'clock in the morning. At this time numbers were moving in the direction for West minster, time road leading to, and also the bridge was chick p strewed with rasongers, mewing and quietly passing towards Parsee-yard. Aernie tile road at the bottom of the Bridge was a strong barrier, through which I painted, and then proceeded on to Palace -yard. Here I sottnninte nmsed on the scene before me. The platform, which had been entirt ly stripped of its tem porary inelosure, was now covered with foot soldiers laying down, anti as closely packed as herrings in a cask. Some were covered with their coats, and others had pulled part of the matting of the platform over them. Here and Mere was au officer wrapped up in Isis watch coat, parading up and down. The Oxford Blues were in part about In Palace -yard, on the raised pavement, while other parties, having brought the heads of their horses together, hail dismouvol, and were holding conversation with the populace, or gal- Lotting with some of the frail fair, who were attracted to the spot by the novelty of the earassirrs. It being scarcely day-light the scene presented something like what has been many tittles described during the late Icor, when the army tironaked on their arms in ex pectation of an attack from an enemy ! At half-past 2 the twilight just enaliled me to discover that some thing like human forms began to station themselves in i some of the erections in front of the honors. As day light racrensed, it discovered to the view many gay dressed ladies who had taken seats for the day, whoa* nodding pinnies waved gracefully aloft. At S o'clock the great door of the Hall opened, and by standing on the soldiers plait'. roe, I caught a view down I the Hall. The light being a t this time very dim.' the view conveyed to my mind a sort of feeling sitisi- f lar to what I think Belzoni must hare experienced on entering the famous Egyptian tomb. The cam-! pang for the Hall now arrived quickly, and had to walk down the platform from the end of George street to the Hall door, between the pp.strate racks of time soldiers. At this time vou might walk about with as much ease as if you were in Cheapside in the forenoon. Several ladies and gentlemen appeared on tl.e different stands, the foam,. dressed, certainly more fit for the ball-room, than such open exposure to the morning air: but before five o'clock, tnany had wrapped their heads up in their shawls, and appeared to sutler much from the cold. Time greatest silence prevailed a: g the crowd, while the carriages con tinued setting down company, and very little confusion was to be observed i4ll sssss g the carriages, in d eed it had more the appearance of setting down company to a funeral than the grand imposing spectacle of the crowning the lairti's anointed. Here were Lards and banbury cake men. ladies anti artisans all mingled together in perfect good humour, or rather they tip pea red to view each other as indifferently ass though they were of different species. As the stun beamed forth the ladies assumed a more cheerful appearance. and these stands that had yet a little company began to attract the attention of the populatas.l Much anxiety was visible among the keepers of the several stands, in consequence of the Wan, of nenspony- Men were stationed about carrying plaearditito invite persons to time different erections, and I balker that places for which four guineas had been asked the day before, might bare been obtained for as many shillings ; and I suspect in sotne instances it was a hay:crown ea hibition. Much industry was used to persuade people to take places—" Auto many are Mere, Sir—l'll take the party for 40 shillings." I' counted there were nine persons ; this was less than a crown each : and before the show began, (1 must here state that the conduct of the troops on linty was moat praiseworthy). The ar rival of the Queen is described fully in your paper (and Are ~~. correctly.) I again Visited the scene at 2 o'clock in the I afternoon, just twelve hours after some of the company had taken their seats, and after half the spectacle had heeteiteen ; how different the appearance! Th 9 morn ing: rosy countenances of the ladies were exchanged for pile, fatigued, and sleepy fares. The colour !lad en tirety. disappeared, or flail so blended itself with the white, by perspiration and the frequent use of the handkerchief, together with the dust arising from the continual moving of the populace in front of the stands, which was carried on them by a gentle wind, that I felt I much regret that so many had exposed themselves to such incoarerricrace to satisfy their curiosity. Many bad surrendered themselves into the arms of .Morpheus, others sat yawning and gaping, lit at their case, while the seats were so thinly occupied that all life or spirit seemed fled. Many already seemed to repent ever coining; indeed, the whole appeared to he enjoyed by no one. Every thing was dull and heavy in the extreme ; neither the living sounder music which hail been promised, nor the joyous shouts of satisfaction were beard; aid I left the scene in disgust long before the King returned from the Abbey. THE QUEEN'S ILLNESS. The extraordlnary interest which was shewn by the public generally on Saturday evening, in consequence of the unfavourable reports in circulation respecting her Majesty's condition, it is impossible to describe. The road from Brandenburzh-house was crowded with anltions inquirers; and not a person left the residene• but was snrrounded by individuals of rank anal re spectability, eager to hear the state of her NlaJcsvv's health. The distinguished personages who left their cards in the course of the evening would occupy too much space to notice. At eleven o'clock that night, we received the following Bolletin, direct from Iltaudenburgh-lionse : •6 No ounterial elms/e her taken place in her Alajest)'s symptogni since the morning. " 11. AINSLIE. " W. El. M ATON. " YEA.IIAM WARREN. " HENRY' HOLLAND. Aupiit 4, 1: 1 9.! ; luo'clock p.m. Yesterday the avenues to Bramlenburgh-house were again crowded by respectable perAons at an early hour, who evinced the most profound anxiety to learn the contents of the morning's Bulletin. About ten o'clock it was issued in the following terms : " Brindembilmth-bouee. Aug. 8. I 321; 9 o'clock. " Her Majesty has passed the last night better than the preceding one; but no important amendment has taken place." (Signed as before.) To relieve the anxiety of the pnblic the subsequent notice was posted at the Mansion-house in the af:er noon mansion-house. AIM. 6. half-past five. "Her Majesty's state his not undertone any alteration since the morning at ten o'clock." In the evening her MAJESTV'S Physicians began to assemble so early as if o'clock. The gates of Bran sleubutgli House were surrounded, as indeed they had been the whole day, with anxious enquirers ; and an unusual delay taking place in the publication of the bullet's, occasioned, for a time, very considerable ap prehension. The following was the Bulletin : Iler ills jeety has passed a more tranquil day, and Is not worse this evening." (signed as before.) Brandenburgh-house, Aug. 6. 1621. 10 o'clock p. The violence of the inflammation had at that time subsided. but the greatest apprehensions were yet ex pressed by her Majesty's medical attendants. An ex press was sent off in the course of the afternoon for 1/r. Millie, who is in (iloncesterthire. At eight o'clock in the evening her Jlajesty was, for the first time since her indisposition. removesl for the purpose of changing her IDAL—The consultation was the longest that has yet taken place. The bulletin was not issued till near midnight. Some slight nourish ment was taken by her Majesty in the course of the afternoon, with effect. Dr. Holland was the only Phy sician in attendance from three o'cbck in the after noon till nine in the evening. at which time Drs. Mates. Ainslie, and Warren, with Mr. Thompson, the Queen's Apothecary. arrived. We understand that astonishment has been excited in the City by the Alm M Aeon not having received any official Irtlletins of the state of her Winery's health. In consequence of the deviation from the usual course of the Home Department, Lord Boon on Saturday begnn to communicate to the Nunn Ahem directly from Brandetiburgh-house, the reports of the gyres's Medical Attendants. PRICR OF STOCKS TH Bank Stock 25•1 1 M S per Cent. Red • 3 perCetit.Con. 7 34 per Cent. 4 per Coats. 941 3 3 per Ct.liavy HS U§ 3 per Cent. Long Ana 19 7-lei Imp 3 per Cott. Irish b per Cent. - - - DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. has Stook Me 01111oRonds —0.60 s 595. pas Rooth-Rea Sleek Rooth ties Old Ann. Itz ftills9d. Os. 4s. 64. pen. thanlans for Money We Rank for Aonoont India for ditto Con. for Aeet 76,11 Lott. Tickets (k. mare WATSIII AT 14111111011•11111111001 ealroaanw. Morning 63 m. after 7.—Ereniag 118 a. a ft er 9. - - - the &tattOtnan. .61si EMITISSI STATESMAN" IS MORT AAAAA D WITf " TOR STATESMAN." LONDON: MONDAT [VEXING, AtOCAT G. I ynl. STATESMAN' OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. Most cordially do we congratulate our readers on the receipt of the following Bulletin, which was issued this day at noon. at her Majesty's house in South Andley-street t and ruo.t fervently do we pray that the hopes of her MansTs's recovery, which the favourable symptoms have inspired, way be spee dily and completely accomplished. "The has hail some relief during the night, and the state of bet MaJzaTv is more favourable to• tley. " 11. AINRIIE. " W. U. Al ATON. " PELHAM W %DION, " HENRY HOLLAND. Ant. 0, 9 o'clock, •. sa." A file of New York papers was received this morn ing, but not of a later date than those of Saturday.' The only article of importance they contain is the fol k/Win 1- I By the brig Harriet, from Cape Hayti's, we learn . that the account of a"volution haring taken place in the Spanish part of the island of St. Domingo, as re. ccired last week b}• the schooner Flying Fish, is pre. :nature. At the time the Ilirriet sailed, no and i erent !tail vet taken place, although the temper and di•posi. lion of the people wasrauted the belief .Clai it would occur. Paris and lirolsels viers to the 31 instant, and Madrid journals to the 113ral ult. have been received since onr last. Ily the former we litre received as usual the most contradictory reports respecting the - difference: between the Russians and the Turks. A ~.." private letter from Augsburg of the :2M of,July, *am, ' i "The letters which we receive from Vienna arc all war- like. Tiley confirm the' Metdbietlit4firle Rnssiad • troops caitoned on the banks of the 'Profit-. The tie,, ..—t. g • *Prat in Chief, the Count a• tvaotgan t ~s tetn, was teshiyh; ' • ?Mg". received instructions from his , , relating, as it is believed, to the appiiiiie ing ern of a. corps d'arnave into Moldavia, Now Butt circumstiusees have '' assumed a serious character, aridappeit to tiiitts war imminent, the Porte is said to havesneesalectin Ind . log England to become a tgeiliator." An aesiark ler. dated Frankfort, July eSth, sestet the fell i telligence, which if cored may lead lei resits. A Courier dispatelied from Mt. bead quarters of the Russian army . brought intelligence that the Euletitt *ill shortly come to review the army. A line; Odessa, of July 7, says, " we expect with anxiety the result of the categnrical answer which our 0 , . has sent to Constantinople respecting the : ' . of the Porte against M. de Stragooulf. CI bensions are entertained for the latter In the it a rupture. We have letters from Constantrlippie of i, 1 the 3d July, but they contain little news. The Greeks , •I; have taken nine more Turkish vessels in the Arehi- . pelago. It is said that the .Uterine vessels• have al. ready made their appearance. The following is the most important article received from Vienna; it is dated July 22. "k is said that our Cabinet has received all official , notification of the de claration of war by Russia against the Ottoman Porte. It is generally thought that Austria wit?, in this event, limit herself to concentrating a corps d'armee on the bowie's', and placing 30,00 men at the disposal of the Emperor of •Russia, according to ancient treaties still in force. It is said that the Ca billet of London, in notifying to our Court the Death , .: iof Bonaparte, made very important communicative" relative to the last Will of the deceased, and to vent considerable sums which belonged to him, and which are placed in the hands of different bankers. 1?, iy► added, that the messenger from London was tire bearer of an autograph letter from the prisoner of St. Helena, in which he bequeaths his great property to his nearest relations. The Duke de Releitstadt has put on mourning for sic :nowise." The French papers contain WOW isielligna et penance. The secessiOn of the Ultras trona SW .. nistry is complete ; the count of tifee in. , resigned the official situations which In' ad ' left his late colleagues to their fate. Tkk seem is communicated in the following terms:---"Paris, Aug. 2.--Yesterday the King held a Council of Ministers, which sat for two hours. All the Ministers were present with the exception of MAI. de Serre, de Villele, and Cor hiere. N. de Chateaubriand has resigned his func tions as M i nister Plenipotentiary to the Kiagof Prussia." The Madrid papers are entirely silent respecting the internal state of Spain, and are filled with accounts of • the military movements in various parts of the South * . American Continent. These accounts, however, have been anticipated by the intelligence received through the American papers. Five ran CLNTS.—Wednesday, 86 1. GO c. o w . _ Mr. Rothschild, accompanied by Mr. A. Montego* and some other gentlemen, left town on Saturday for Paris, to assist at the negotiation for the new Franck luau. ELEcvrox OT A RIPRISZNTATIVE PENS OP SCOT. LAND.—fin Thursday last, pursuant to Royal Pro demotion, the Peers of Scotland &gambled at Holyrood honsr, to choose a representative to sit in the present Parliament, in the room of the Earl of Stair, deceased. There were present—The Marquess of Lothian, Earls Keine, Vintlinter, Kintore, Reseherry, llopetown. Viscount Arbuthnot, Lords Terphieben, Elibank. and Rolle. After the usual oaths were taken. the votes were delivered in, and having been read over, the election was declared to have fallen on Lord , Arbuthnot, the numbers being— _ _ For Lord Arbuthnot - Lord Reay - • Majority for Lord Arbuthnot 2 Mns. !xi:lmam—The death of this respectable • woman, which we announced on Saturday, took/ plare on Wednesday, at the Boarding-house, Kensingto. le 1775 she married Mr. Inchbald, and went will him to Edinbnrgh, where she appeared ou the stage ie tragic characters. Her beauty secured her attraction, not withstanding a hesitation in her delivery. In 17/6 Off was Ilykle Nlanchester stage performing alternate nights with Mk Siddons, and drawing equal houses. Iler mind had as original cast, and her literary style was pecu liar, terse, pointed, and impressive. By exessplerY indaftry and prudence she hail raised herself lasi * state of comfortable independence; but she had a li beral heart, and deprived herself of many enjoyments , in order to provide for relations who stood in need of her assistance. She was animated, cheerful and intel ligent in conversation, and her r•marks evinced scale penetration. Iler dramatic productions and her novels " .1 Si*plc Story," and " Neteic sad Art," skew a deep knowledge of the human heart, and those morels are well calculated to improve it. She was verybastl some in her youth, and retained mach of her besot! and elegance till her death. She was about 65 Yea rs of age, but appeared to be much younger. Thosgit beautiful in person, and in the early part of her lifi exposed to the hardships and vicissitades of the ile a ' trical profession, in a provincial career, her cadge , was unitnpeached and unimpeachable. ors As two friends were viewing the remarked to the other, "the Corosation seam to hi. celebrated with Levan, the emblem of tritunpb the answer was " 1 Y. ikon meanest !"--( 31 aP e151.14 lode dd.) . 29 ■ I A I' i