The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-12-09 00:00:00

TIM VAT DEAL, Dec. 9.—Arrived several * ships from the River, anti are waiting a wind to proceed t• the westward ; also from the River the transports Nos. 411 and 108, and remain. PoRTSMOUTri, Dec. B.—Arrived his Majesty'sship Cracker, from Guernsey.—Passed by this morning for the River the Hannah. Capt. M'Quaker, from the East ladies ; sailed frets Bombay Sd August, and from St. Helena 19th October= in lat. 36. north, long. 33. west, spo;ke his Majesty's ship Astrea, from the Brazils, and parted from her on the 3d inst. in lat. 46. north, long. 19. west, in thick weather she hadirght sail under con voy.—Sailed his Majest)'•s c hip Dee, fur Leith.—The oily convoy at present appointed is his Majesty's ship Niger. for the Cape of Good Hope.—Arrived the Ul)sses transport from HaliE►s. The Mary Ann, from Liverpool to Waterford, with salt and coals, is supposed to be lost on the coast of Wales. Crew saved. • Ire The Vrozo Maartjc, Brabbell, from Itotterdsun to Bilboa, put into Dover on Wednesday, leaky, and, i having been driven from off the coast of Spain by i contrary winds. A vessel from Ireland, laden with oatmeal, wheat f , &c. (name unknown) was on shore on the Warder ' Ledge, late of Wight, on Wednesday. The Trusty, Chapman, bound to St. Kits, which received damage at Torbay, has proceeded to Dart mouth to repair. The Union and Nyinph passage vessels, arrived yesterday at Doter from Calais; the latter brought over Colonel Bury, who was the bearer o 7 dispotc►es from Lord Castlereagh. THE MANCHESTER HEROINE. On Friday, the 2d instant, a middle-aged...mouth applied for relief kt the Churchwarden's office, in this town, and on being questioned as to her present situation, and her former life, she proved to be of that description of heroines ' of which Hannah Knell and Christiana Davies have cut so conspicuous a figure in English biography, and which Joan of Arc, and several others, particularly in the revolutionary war, have done in that of France. It appears, that when a girl, she was in the habit of wearing boy's clothes, in which dress she served her father, W.. Roberts (who is a bricklayer), as a labourer ; and, being tall of her age, when about fourteen years old, she enlisted as a soldier into the 15th light dragoons. Probably her extreme youth and healthful appearance might occasion a laxity of at tention, for she passed muster without her sex being discover ed. la the conrhetof two months, she learned her exercise suf ficiently for all the purposes of parade; the rough riding-master declaring her the best rider in the squad of recruits with whom she was taught; which she imputes to the camomile:we of having been used to mount, undaunted, to the top of high buildings, when attending on her father. Site remained with the 15th light dragoons, in which she progressively attained the ranks of corporal and serjeant, for twenty-one years: her sex all the time remaining a secret to every one. Perhaps tuna. pr o ducing care she was under of guarding it, had the good elect of pro As some observations have lately been mad e on d uc in g that regularity and orderly conduct which rec - mended the pretended ~ William Roberts” to the favour and flogging in the British Nary, it is not unworthy re- protection of the Officers. and proctored her promotion. Whets tea mark, that Commodore OWEN, than whom a more r i i h e e r t ert l ie bee r he i r a dtt e r r ge ti siTash th a e de she e w e: s eer: l :7; m i C m ol u o n net ed of h the regiment o distinguished olficer for professional skill, bravery, but being under site, by her own consent, and parieweraiico, the ebtire British Navy do es not to the 171 h regiment of foot, which regiment, she joined in 1800, t e ar , sh nl e ati " l ac of ta l et . VI seriously produce, seldom, if at all, in fl icts corporal punish- at t ft rioL t e , !XI t(rtrWeet Indies , where, soon the Ana one, in her mill- Wets. This judicious trait of conduct was re. Lary career) of the ellow fever, ... f }some of those at marked else in the lamented Lord Ner.sox, and in tram w b h l ich wo uld inevit ably lead to a iscovery of her sex, various others of our most transcendent naval die. w i i ie " ol l a o setjean: o at a intrus tf th e lAe x sec retl te she :drO /i rn gl e n but t e ll :I i o Ste e ratters • there cannot exist stronger proofs than these however, retovered, and has ing no longer even etainal claire eahibited by such high and respectable ornaments of tboursilloodr.•*°„:wedasoorba"futtaoryTtleiniase f re i r n o ig ull til t :o il :n. " 7; their country, viz. that a system of terror is suet the &soldier herse lf , she became, in May, 1801, the wife of one, g a most eligible to command success, besides its being Ovate ia Yak root. - --at* - -1-." disconsonant tel/h the age in which we live. . We are extremely happy in being enabled to an- The Doke de SEMONETTE has C the pounce the Duke of Sussex to be perfectly recovered report of his having.sialst i tis Os near Hoene to from his late severe attack. Il ls Roya l Hi g hness was ' JOSEPH BONAPARTIL `' ;4 a• able to attend, as Grand Master, the first Grand : The couriers between phent and London are con. Lodge this season, at Freemasons' Hall, on Wedues- 'tangy on the road. day, which being the birth-day of the E arl of MOIRA, ! The Niger frigate is appointed convoy to the next the late acting Grand Master, the same was observed Beets for the Cape, India, and the South Seas. with every mark of respect. The Grand Officers 1 The several signal stations along the Essex coast dined together previous to the Lodge meeting in the are all discontinued, and the Lieutenants who com dining.room of the tavern, which has been newly mended them discharged. fitted up, decorated, and furnished, as have the I Among the numerous evils that occur both in this whole of the suite of rooms, at a great expense, I . town and its suburbs, none appear more to require through which the procession passed to hold the i the attention of the Police, than such as arise every Lodge. day from the carelessness of t he drivers of sta g e i We understand that the Secretary at War has ad. coaches, drays, carts, and other heavy carriages, not dressed a recommendation to the Colonels of regi- 1 observing the rules of the road ; f r o m su c h ne g lect , meats, according to which all Paymasters hi p s becom- !as this , a very serious accident occurred on Brixton ing vacant, are to be filled from the list of Pa y masters bill, , on Wednesday last, by the Count de Pikel's ash° have already served, and ha ve been com p re- curricle coming against a cart that was oil the wrong hended in the late reduction, due regard being had to side of the way : the horses being frightened at some their standing and characters. thing that, was passing, were not so easily governed, In the declaration filed by a Noble Earl against • and although the groom called to the driver of the Baronet for Crier:. Con. with the Lady of the former, 1 • cart h i time, he would not get out of the way.— the damages are laid at thirty thousand pounds, and i Th e force le with which they came in contact was such the trial comes on early its the next Term. i • as to kill one of the horses, and the Count was taken We understand that the Managers of Drury-lane lup nearly dead from under the pole of the curricle. being about tu produce Mr. KEAN as the Romeo of Wednesday a Coroner's Inquest s a t on the bod y I iieir Theatre, have requested Mr. Stuneas t o allow ! of Thos. Robinson, at the Lord Tyrawley's Head, Mrs. 11. SIDDONS to perform Juliet in London for a i Mary-le-bonne, before G. Honosoa, Eq. The limited number of nights. Mr. SIDDONS, we under- deceased was a Gentleman's coachman out of place, stand, has tlecliaed this engagement for the present , $ and lodged on the two p air within a few doors of the the arrangements of his own 'Theatre rendering her I Lord Tyrawley's Head. About half-past seven the presence indispensably necessary.—(EdieberghCou- i 1 preceding morning, the witn ess who related the p ar. rant.) ' titulars stated, that he saw the deceased leaning oat The New Testament has been t rans lated into the i. of the window, as if to reach something, and ho Chinese language, by the East India Company's ! • then heard a woman scream, when the deceased let Translator, at Canton, and printed : 50 copies have ' I go his hold, and fell from the window two pair high been brought to England. I into the street. lie died in the course of half an The high obelisk, built by the l ate Mr. Noants, hour in consequence of a compressed bra in, and an lon the heath between Bagshot and Blackwater, and 1 , . extensive fracture of the occipital bone. Verdict — which has long served as a be acon, is now l in a .. .Accutental Death. ruinous state, and every gust of wiud threatens its 1 entire destruction- At the Admiralty, we are told, they have been extremely busy to accelerate and complete the out fits for America. We understand that the space between St. Cle ment's and the New Church, in the Strand, has been recommended as a fit place for the New Post-Otlice. The situation is centrical, and near the Offices of Government. The site would comprise Holywell street, Wych-itreet, and Lion's Inn, and the open , ing would be a complete sequel to the great improve ments about Temple-bar. The late Mr. HiNcELEY: whose extraordinary death we noticed on Monday last, and whose penu rious habits and eccentricities were so well known, r was ready enough to patronise Institutions to pro- I mote the Fine Arts, to which, on several occasions, he was a liberal contributor. He was Also a sub - of the first scriber to most of our hospitals, and one e to forward and support all works of charity, at the A same time that he did every menial office for himself, NI to save a penny. On Sunday Mr. Wit.r.rAsts, the King's Messer).' pr, arrived in town with dispatches from Ghent.— Tuesday evening Mr. MEYERS, the King's Messen- ' gar, was sent off; after the breaking up of the Ca binet Council, with dispatches iu reply to them. ' Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, Mr. CLOUD, the King's Messenger, arrived in Downing-street, with dispatches from Viscount CasTLEacaGa at Vi- ; COUNTACIIANGS. Dec. 9.—The Wheat Trade continues ex ceedingly heavy, having but few buyers at market; and when the sales were forced lower by flea is. pee quarter, were sub mitted to, and a considerable quantity remains unsold. Bar ley sold freely at Wednesday's prices. Oats are U. per quarter cheaper. In other articles there is se alteration. . Wheat. lEnglish) 43 76 IBe ditto ts ... 40 4 Ditto (Foreign) ...... 45 74 Old • — Bre 96 40 Tick do. ..% Bar' Ir : iii 30 Old .... . Oats . —.Arley - New ditto • . 034 76 40 Matt AS 30 White Peas 38 I, New ditto .... — Ditto Boilers M m Grey Peas 44 47 Fine ditto Poland do. 24 Feed ditto. )9 Vine Flour ..... c ...ea 61 came to the ~..__ Seconds ..... 55 65 move the club. This occasioned two parties, one 1.--- for removing the club, and the other for removing 5/41T1 1 FIELD . k ARKET.—Dec. 9. . To irk the (Pral, per stone of 81h. the secretary; their articles specified that neither Beef .. 5 .. 0 4. „, c,.. 0 . / . H ea d e f cede dik d a y ; , club nor secretary could be removed but by a ma- Mutt on .„56. 04. to 6, 21. Beasts Veal ....7s. Od. to 83. 81. Sheep 120 said that no ACt of Parliament gave him jurisdiction Pork ..:.6s.- 01. to 7s. 61. , Calves . .• Lamb ... AB. el t o 04. - OA. 1 Pigs il AY-MARKET. 1 tides; and it being shown that a majority of WO Day anver • pd. I thought the club ought to remain at the hous N e w O f diugrate) for 4° a hot and short war,b. i red hot war , which shall blaze like the books we so valiantly and bees short, dashin g , an d de. burn t at Washington, t i s ieess the memorable exploit that gave the British gad to wave over the walls of Plattsburgh,--in the bands of the " unarmed, unprepared, and contempti ble,' Americans. Will they never have done with d a ybing in this way? 0! but Mr. Jarexasox has the audacity to say we forced America into the war. Was she.not forced into the war some way or other; ' R d was it not in consequence of the little liberty we were pleased to allow her? She was not allowed t o be neutral—she could not remain so. It was the dying injunction, the last legacy of the father of her independence, the prophetic spirit who saw the evils which must attend her leaning on, and allyiug her self to European Powers, to have no political con nection, further than neutral trade and friendly commerce gave rise to, with the States of the continually embroiled hemisphere of Europe. The children of this great parent wished to obey him, but they were not permitted—the power of the ocean was in the hands of Great Britain—and not a keel erns allowed to plough the wave but must sub mit to her inspection. Had America never sent a s hip into the European seas after the Con tinental wars broke out, she could not have preserved her neutrality; for Ships, Colonies, and Commerce, wa% the cry on one side, and ma ritime rights, search, sink, barn, and destroy, on the other. If we (lid not force America into the war, who did ? It very - ill becoines those who would force her out of the list of independent States, nay, mho, if they could, would push her and civilised mankind back into barbarism, to say that America was not forced into the war—that she is not justified in maintaining her right to be treated as a free and i n dependent State; or, after what has occurred, to con'inue to assert that she is unable to support these with glory. NaitiL INTELLIGtENGE. WeltTrY CORK MlMl'ltta '-'—' • THB --op— —.......... DEPRESSION Or-ORAIN. • On Saturday last another meeting of those who • • At the meeting held in Cork on the 28 th tilt. of generally take a leading part in managing the affairs the Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the of the Irish Catholics l was held in Dublin. Owen' Countrof Cork, i O'Connor, Esq. of Ballynagar, being called to the t . Mr. CoUSTINAT, of Ballyedmond, stated, t hat I Chair, read the answers of the Earl of Fiegall and ; Sir Edw Bellew, Bart. to the letters addressed to it would give the Country Gentlemen much satisfac them be ard m, as Chairman of the former meeting.— tion to be enabled to inform the Farmers, that some ! The Noble Earl and the Imeasure had been adopted likely to relieve them in worthy Baronet expressed I their readiness to concur in the assemblage of an rig the present state of depression of the Grain market. gregate meeting; but were of opinion that the time of He observed, that a particular inconvenience wall felt iwltonsequence of a determination entered into Its l 'fleeting ought to be deferred till the return of purchase any I Dr. Murray, who has been deputed to Iton;e, to • by the purchasers of barley, 'not to • s. which should not carry 48 stone to the Winchester learn the sentiments of the Pope respecting the ar rengemant of the ooints at issue between the Irish bushel. The season had not been so good as others, I , Catholics and the British Government. After some and it was well known that not one bushel out of 60 or even 100, would carry the weight desired. • H e I conversation, it was agreed that the meeting shod : take place on some clay prior to the "nth. January; wished to know whether any thing 'would be given to be tired by Lord Fingal!. A Committee nf thirty for the bushel weighing 46 or 47 stone , and COM -s ' • plained, that neither the brewers nor distillers showed : one Noblemen and Gentlemen, commencing with Lord Fingell, of whom five shouhl he a quorum, was any disposition to co-operate with the landlords to- ' wards alleviating the distress of the farmer.. lie ' th en named, for the purpose of p re paring a draft of Houses of did not feel a doubt but the landlords would bea a new Petition, to be presented to both obliged to remit a portion of Parliament after the recess ; to promote subscrip the rent, but it was too lions for defraying the expences; and to manage all much to expect that they only should suffer by the idepression of the times, and he thought it would be other matters connected with the promotion of the { that fair to expect that the consumers of the grain, Catholic claims.—The regular business of the meet- ; ins being thus concluded, it was proposed, after the • who had participated in the profits hitherto, should , nowephow it disposit' to take some share in the usual Vote of Thanks to the Chairman , , to adj ourn 1 , consequences of the depression, and to gito am en- to Thursday se'nnight. THE CATHOLIC BOARD AND MR. CURRAN. couragement to the holder of the barley either by Counsellor LUDY rose, and said he was anziobs to the reduction of spirituous and malt liquors, or by ; say a few words on a subject which was interesting purchasing such barley as the country afforded, even to all who heard him, before the meeting separated. at a reduced price. Mr. Courtenay repeated his I —[hear, hear n—lle alluded to a document which wish that the consumers of grain would enable the ! had been lately published in a Ministerial newspaper, Country Gentlemen to bring back some encouraging i and attributed to the late Master of the Roils. Since . news to the farmers. i the publication of that paper,. he had several convey Mr. lizamisu felt himself called upon to say a few sations with that distinguished persouage, and in all_ : words, in consequence of what fell from Mr. Court e- he had most distinctly declared; that ho never saw nay. He stated, that barley of an inferior quality' the article in question, until it appeared in the paper would not answer for malting ; and the bre w e rs a ll u ded to. j. Mr. Curran had certainly written a let were bound by solemn oath, and the altern ative of ter from Par is, in which he introduced the Catholic it contained none of those gross per heavy,penalties, not to use any uumalted grain in the i Board t but i sona to him. He (Mr. Luby) had the letter in stance of the seed having been sown in g round lities which characterize the production that is manufacture of porter or beer. He attri b u ted the present inferior quality of the barley to t he circum . his at tr i buted pocket, and if the meeting felt any curiosity to not adapted to the growth of that description of , know its contents he would read it...--[A universal grain ; and he stated that this occurred in sonar- cry of read ' read!]—Mr. Luby accordingly read a ' quence of the very large price given for b arle y in the ; long letter, in which there was an episode dediested latter years, which induced every lan dh o lder to en- , to the late Board, which certainly bestowed no trick deavour to raise a crop of barley. As to the price; names upon individaals, but which was, if possible, of porter, Mr. Beamish observed, that although the i more sarcastic and declamatory- against the general price of grain had fallen, still the duties and the' measures of this Body than the letter of the Curre price of hops had risen. Mr. B. added, that I n spondent. point of fact, his house had bought the quantity of' Mr. O'CoNNELL asked whether Mr. Luby had any barley usually purchased by them, in the vicinit y of I objection t to furnishing the Meeting with a copy of Mr. Courtmay,--and while they were thus buying , she letter 7 grain of inferior quality in the county o f C ork, they ' I Mr. LUI; Y said, he had not the slightest objection, purchased barley of much superior quality, an d at a ! and that one should be left with Mr. Hay, for gene. !less price, out of the county. Mr. Beamish ap. al use. proved of the application to Parliament , but he de- I M r . o . c osexer. then took a record • which con. ; v i nied that the landlords had any right to complain i tained Mr. Curran's warm panegyric on the Board, of the consumers of grain. in answer to the Address of the 30th of April last. Mr. Monsoon, a distiller, defended the distille r s 1 The ques tion of ad j ournment was then put and ' agalust the charges made by Mr. Co urtena y against carried; and after Mr. Seegrave was voted into t h e them. !Chair for the purpose of returning thauks to Mr. Mr. COUIMINAT begged that nothing more would ' O'Connor, the Meeting dispersed. l ir than he had said for himself ; he having iiintod charges against any person. - The following is the letter attributed to Mr. Cur. '''' Mr. Monnootispreidedded; ins stated that the house' , noon() which he denies to be g e n uine: of which he was a Member puechieed 25,000 bar. I " The Catholics, who are the loudest complain. rels of barley within a few weeks; that the distillers ' an", have, in my mind, the least of which to com• had still a very large stock of whis ke y on hands, for ' Plain ; they do all they can to embitter the posses which they could not obtain sales; h e added, that his I *ion of others, whilst they do nothing to secure a house bad paid thirty thousand pou nds duty within participation to themselves. When I say the Catho . two or three months, and he conside red it ver lies, you, who know my opinions, are aware that I. y severe that it should he sought to attac h an y blame to ,mear• their miff-deputed Delegates, the Catholic the distillers, when the blame should rest with the I Board. Indeed, a medley of more ludicrou s, o r, at landlords themselves, who had set t oo hi g h a value; the same time, of more mischievous composi t ion , on their lands, and would now wish , under cover of , could not have been well imagined ; it was a drama, lof which Physicians without fees, aw vets without a merciful interference on behalf of the farmers to induce the consumers of grain to g ive more for ' briefs, Shopkeepers without business Captains with the article than it was really worth, and thus out commissions, and Bankrupts without certificates, enable the farmers to satisfy their landlords at the were the component characters ; every wretch wh o expense of the consumers. Mr. M orro g li admitted I was too vain for a counter, and too v u lg ar for a the existence of the evil, but attribu ted it solel y to the ' drawing-room, aspired to eloquence ; those wh o exorbitancy of the rents which had be en gradually i could not rave could vote ;' and those who could increased, until they had reached a p rice entirely' not vote could legislate.— Quicquid agunt 80. 1 mines,' was their motto ; and, like Anach ar. too high for ordinary times. ! sis Cloots, they were all orators of the ha. Mr. COURTENAY explained , th at he did not mean man race—out of compassion, perhaps, to the to impute any improper conduct or motives to either ; i n dividual country which might otherwise have the distillers or brewers. He merely wished that . n doomed to their enviable appropr iation.— they would enable him and the other Countr y gee-1 We With Freedom on their tongues, they founded a tlemen to inform the farmers, on their return ' Despotism; in the name of Christianity, they erect ed Inquisition an amongst them, that something had bee n done towards I . nquisition ; they bearded the Courts ; th e y alleviating their distress. — He would wish to know i abused the Government; they taxed the People; at whether the distillers or brewers, would purchase at . ewry and Tipperary they directly a ttacked the any price, however low, the ba rle y which the y now INt f reedom of election ; they put all the Printeri in called inferior, because it did not return 48 stone to . i gaol, and toasted the ' Liberty of the Press.' They the bushel. . I rent asunder the sacred curtain of the Roy al Nup. Mr. BARRY, of Lemlara , follo wed on the same tials—one wh o • English, spoke bad Irish, and worse side and defended the landlords and f armers with l• I 9 anno unced himself as Ambassador to the Spanish considerable ingenuity. He maintained that Ireland ! Cortes - another enacted a Penal Code out of his being an agricultural country, was as much entitled own i magination, and verified. one grievance by to protection for her agricultur a l interests, as Great caging his publisher; that uothing m i g ht be w anti ng Britain was entitled to protection for her manufac. to complete the system of public and private tures. Mr. Barry wished to know whether any, and, - - nuisances, they chose a kind. of learned pig for i ,if any, what price would be given for the barley now' th • - err S ecretary, who, with his portfolio on his called inferior. back, ran you down at any distance, and al- Mr. MORROWS was not prepared to state the price most grunted you to death with the burthen at that moment, but he could assert that a very con.! of his correspondence. In short there was no siderable portion of the barley purchased for his ' thing too grave for their ridicule, or too ridiculous house, consisted of such grain. for their solemnities.; every man p la y ed Punch to his ownenusic, and rung the bell to his own praises; when there was no danger they all roaro—and when there was, they all .ran, thrusting, ilea so many ostriches, the safest and the silliest part about them into the first receptacle solid enough to confine it; they put on the Armour of Achilles, but, unlike Achilles, they expose nothing but their heels, the only members they had which gave sign; of anima tion. They had one merit, however, and that was a strict impartiality ; for, if they denounced their foes, they imprisoned their friends—those who differed from them they slandered—those who agreed with them they enslaved. In short, the universal fate was, either to be their dupe or their victim. Not content with the enemies that bigotry had arrayed against them, the Helots proclaimed hostilities against each other; and a heartless, headless, stationless Aristo cracy, hurl their very manacles at the mob to t which W I XOM inferior. It is scarcely possible to _ Yesterday a cue came on before Mr. Serjeant &cm:.l and Mr. EVANCE, Union-hall, respecting a Benefit Society, held at the Running Horse, Black friars'-road. It appeared that great disunion existed amongst the members for some time past, in which lest he insulted !the landlord took a part, until at last . " the Secretary, wbn thought his life in d an g er if he 43 -to the house in future, and determined to re. ~