The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-08-04 00:00:00

wr0011.1111.177L8 STH DAY AT ONg O'CLOCIL. IK E ° nit lodli Stock - „,„, k otk 0 ... _ ;401. go. sai ic DittoDondo tic ni. pm. [f' , t os- egil Old Alumni's I M'cost. 79 Ey. dills sq. ss. pm. Woo . ° moles fillit Ditto Colo. fie. pm. If llg top i o, fil-liii Coe. for Alm. Olin 101....r.am Aim EP Lott. Tiekets fill. Ills. ept StattsMllll. rumisime• woß p o sATeD *Ern , s TU2 it "M il STILTS/DI A}4." LONDON: nitwit ITZWING, AVOWIT 4, 1.520. --ose— - STOCK EXCHANGE. msg . impu when bat little basiness was ping for s) this morning, a rand exhibition of an unusual „ Nar red. A furious Bull suddenly burst L:a the h o use, and in a great rage commenced an 1 01. „ pos s poor harmless Bear. Brain in his tura te ,, a iag, savage with such an unexpected salute, „d e a saddes spring at the nasal prombntary of his w oe, and succeeding is his effort, pinioned him to Ite met a. There he held the Beer till he was „ ar o with rearing and bellowing. He then suffered wee k t ole retreat, and business commenced. Extract of t private letter fro m Paris, dated the IS of .isgast!.— .•I b a re sot received any news from Italy or Naples , I re ley last. Our capital was greatly agitated this l i r by fire which took place in the suburbs of k rc y. Some men had been working in a wine and koiy cellar, and whilst they were gone out to take wireshuseat, a spark caught the straw, and the blase rinsaairated with the liquor in some vessels. The ire lii MIMI with the greatest fury the whole of the threw& Several houses are down, some lives are kat. The fire is not yet extinguished ; I cannot, ;button., inform you at present of the total loss." ?ascot Fuxue.—Fire per Cents. 79f. 35r. ?roma. Bermuda Gazettes received this morning [YRWI THG WASHINGTON CITY ISAILITTIL.I Br accounts received at different parts of the railed States, it appears certain, that the yellow fever mails with great violence at the Havanna. The in remorse between that island and the commercial ritio of this country is incessant, and the fact of the tiottnre of that terrible malady there, at so early a period of the year, is truly alarming. The Guardians of the Health of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Bal. tinore, Charleo on, Savannah, and New Orleans, will, so doubt, be on the alert, and vigilant in adopting the j Beans of p:eventiom By the Criterion, Captain Avery, 21 days from New York, we bare received American Papers to the 12th alt. The following are extracts:— • Auenwir.“4,ll.l 11.,Ths subscrip tion book fur the New York City Loan of 200,000 dollars, at 5 per ('tnt. per annum, was opened yester day morning at the Mechanics' Bank, and Immediately filled. INDIAN OUTRAGL—The Knoxville Teneriffe Regis kr of the 11th alt says,—" We have heard that the Cherokee Indians are destroying the grain houses and ether property of the white settlers on the south side of Ilighwzssee River, and that about 30 men had collected to repel their depredations. The person from whom our informant got his information, said be saw a borate in flames, that had been fired by the In dians, and corn fields entirely destroyed ; that - the In dians had given the white people a very short time to remove their cattle, or they would shoot and destroy them also." The expectation we bad entertained of receiving by this day's post as account of the proceedings .f yes terday at the Warwick Assizes, on the trial of Major Cartwright, &e., has directed our minds in a particu lar manner to the circumstances that led to the Meet 'lag, fur which the Major and the other parties are at resent on their trial, and to the state uf public feel iag at Birmingham at the time the Meeting took place. So long as the manufactories of that populous and busy place were actively employed for the pur pose of military equipments at home, and the supply of commercial monopoly, during most part of the war, abroad, the profits of the masters, and the wages of the metlimen, were sufficient to satisfy tLe regular wants uf families, and the encreasing demands of taxation ; bat on the return of pease, and of the usual habits of commercial intercourse, the flourishing trade of Birmingham and of our other manufacturing towns legal to decline, and the wants of families, and the demands of taxation continued, while the earnings of industry declined. Distress and discontent ensued. -Complaint, well-founded and general, was clamorous and urgent fur relief ; and the perceptions of the people, quickened by the poignancy of suffering, and the en ereese •.f eupetience and knowledge, directed them to associate in their minds their personal distresses with the political evils of the system, and to seek for personal through the medium .f Parliamentary Reform. Os this great object thly bad long deliberated, they lad often assembled to petition, and they at length de-' spired et seeing the accomplishment of their desires; whom mutat the impulse of a steeng sad peculiar feel 114;siarge majority of the people of arnslogbam, tar dm t►e Commitution which provides two limbers ieemposeesta Barrie' without a single ishableant, W reviled mot a single representative, though cos. THE STA' tabling a population of near 80,000 persons, deter- mined to resort to the new, and hitherto usthought of experiment of convening to elect a person who 'should present himself to the Commons House of Parliament, and ask permission to officiate there in the capacity of their Legislatorial Attorney. Their choice was, as is sufficiently known, unanimously directed for this pnr• pose to Sir Commits Womusumand for the share they _ . took in tLat Election the defeadanb referred to at the Warwick Moises, are at preseat celled to answer. Without stopping to comment apes the expediesty of the measure adopted on the °cession, or to attempt to anticipate the result of the process in hand, it is impossible to restrain the mind, which has had an op portunity of observing the ♦arious and wonderful changes that prodeced, and that followed the groat conflicts on the Continent, from attending to the sin. prising revolution that has taken place in the m inds of the people of Birmingham. Nut thirty years have yet elapsed, when hurried on by a spirit of the most blind and barbarous bigotry, they expelled from their society some of the most venerable and valuable members, destroying their property, and hunting for their lives, because they were distinguished in poli tics for liberal views, and actually consigning their habitations to the flames, on pretence of promoting a religion by which their persecutions were con demned, and in the sacred names of " Church and King !" What a field of reflection does the, extra ordinary change we now contemplate, present to the enlightened mind ; and how useful to the moralist as well as to the politician, would be the task of tracing it to its causes, and availing of its results. " The number of such desperate and profligate wretches in this country," says a witness of the Birmingham riots, " as were instigated to lawless loarock and pinmlet, on the pretence of supporting the Church and State, at Bir mingham, and who would be equally ready to plunder on any other pretence, almost exceeds belief, and we have more to dread from this than all our other evils put to gether." Not taking into calculation the effects of popular education, and the wide and wonderful spread, and the moral and political influence which knowledge has ob tained among the people generally, in the course of the last thirty years, the same judicious writer proceeds to obserse,that " whenever the dyiknlties of this cower, shall increase, so that these people ram Heitherbe played see fed, (and from conies more than one we draw sear to this slew/Ilion every day) every great tows is Ragland, if so prurisios be I made agnissat it, may be espected to exhait such seises as Birmingham Ans lately dom. it has within itself the ample seeds of such calamity, in the prodi gious number of the ignorant, the profligate, and the profane part 4f the lower orders of the com:nunity. Oar common soldiers are chiefly of this class, and eases May arise, is which little dependenee ramood be plered upon them , far p r e servin g the p eace and g order of the people. " Let those who are not displeased with mobs when they think that they only execute summary justice and those whom the laws cannot reach, consider how hasardour a weapon they wish to employ, and how difficult it is to direct it. I shoaldnot wonder if the time come when the same lawless rabble, who lately shouted Church and King, *hula take *fp the cry of No Church, no King, or at least that of No game laws no Wises, no excise." The style of these remarks, made near thirty years ago, compared with recent occurrences, might strike one as being uttered in a spirit of prediction. And bow much more striking will the style appear, when it is known to have been the language of Patzsmsr • ! • " An Appeal to the Public on the Riots in Birmingham," 1791. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Naples, July 14 " Yesterday afternoon the first blood was spilled since the revolution; but I am happy to say that it had nothing to do with the general cause, which hitherto is without a stain. The Farness regiment of the line, having received orders to march for (islets, refused com pliance, on the pin of having, for a conaiderable time past, had an undue share of don. With these feelings MO men of this regiment rushed ant of one of the for tresses, traversed the city in a menacing attitude, Rod made off for the country. They were overtaken in the suburbs by a party of cavalry, and an action com menced. in which 36 of the disaffected troops were killed, and many wounded. The remainder, who were brought back prisoners, are to be decimated, and every tenth man slot. This circumstance has rather servid to give additional confidence; for it occurred in one of the went quarters of the town, and no advantage , was taken of it by the populate to create a disturbance. ' In consequence of a Requisition presented to the Sheriffs of Middlesex, signed by sixty-eight Freeholders, a meeting of the Freeholders of the County is appointed by Mr. Sheriff Parkins , (Mr . Sheriff Roaniell having refined concurrence,) to be held at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, on Tuesday, the Bth of August, at 14 o'clock, fur the purpose of considering of the propriety of pre senting an Address of Condolence to the Queen Consort of England. &c. &c. for the many and alßeting losses her Majesty has sustained since her d re from this c annery ; also to congratulate her M e are r :; on her safe Maus to the British nation ; and to consi6w'the pro ceedings now pending in Parliament against her Ma- jay. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of CLARECCIt. says Th e Morning Post. is again in a state to gratify the hopes of the nation. BRIGHTON, Al7ll. 1, HALII•PAST Etsit.--111 rade. man of the same of Hyde , a passenger ell board the Elisabeth packet, just arrived in oar roads from Dieppe. was. by a sadden gust of wi ad. blown overboard, while in its net of getting into a boat purposely sent from shore, as is customary at this place. Every effort to Iw o hi m w as l a effsebsol. from the violence of a strong soa tb.wessetley wind, which tae been prevaleat all gar- N. MAN._ TO rig EDITOR OF THE ST.TTES.II.I.V. Sta,—One of your Journals of the last month, was this day put into my hands, that I might read a letter addressed to His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, by a person signing himself I. K. H. I am sorry I did not see this paper sooner, that I might have more immediately contradicted the false hood. contained in it, and have repelled a most un feeling and calamnions attack on Prince Leopold's chnracter. It Is not my intention to interfere with the political topics discussed in the letter alluded to ; for perhaps the very tone of violence in which the sentiments of the writer are breathed against his Itoyal Highness is sufficient to destroy their effect, and to deprive them of all power with every thinking mind. But there is one paragraph which goes to arraign the Prince's moral character, in a most wanton and wheeling mama I and which, admitting of complete refutation , deman ds I especial attention. The paragraph runs is as follows : " As a matter of feeling, the people of this country will be shocked to learn that your Royal Highness has not imbibed frouithe example of that high spirited Prin cess, (speaking of the lamented Princess Charlotte) any of her Notions, and indeed acts of generosity and hu manity. She visited the fathers, the mothers, and children of the poor people around Claremont. She devised IMprovements in and about her residence, and paid her workmen liberally for their 'About. ; bet how mean and narrow the boundaries of your sea, must appedr, compared with hen, when it is known that your Royal Highness has actually made a de duction of two shanties per day from that which she paid to these poor people. I will not say that this is a rubbery on these poor people, but I may venture to say that it is not justice to the memory, to the feel inks, to the actions, and to the wishes of that amiable Princess." _ ....___ Perhaps, Sir, in the history of things, there has seldom apprved in so small a compass, as in the above quotation, so much of violent, unqnalitied, and ma lignant slander ; but I repose too much confidence in the liberality and justice of the public, to imagine that such iatemperate and unfeeling attacks can have any weight. In order to expose the falsehood of-this paragraph, I must beg to state, Sir, that as a resident at Esher, I have had ample opportunities of knowing whet has been done since their Royal Highnesses the Prince Leopold and Princess Charlotte fixed their residence at Claremont. I can assure you, Sir, that in purposes of husbandry alone, the Prince employs from thirty to forty men constantly, who, together with all other workmen, employed in building and other species of lahour, are i paid on the saner er higher terms as at the first period of their engagement at Claremont. And there has I been altogether a larger expenditnre in purposes of 1 this kind during the lest year than in tither of the preerding ones, of their Royal Highnesses residence at Esher. Instead of any subtraction , the Prince or dered an \ actual hermit. of wages, at the rate of 3s. per man. per week, last winter, in consequence of the severity of the season ; and, at the same time, he enlarged his ' I swat emstribetiette to the poor of the place, which r , Ira I **ft:l4d tatter the direction et accredited per. sons in the village. Many other methods I could enumerate. by which the Prince is constantly benefiting his poorer neigh bours, during sickness, anti under every species of sanction. The relation of these would silence all murmurs, and excite the liveliest applause; but my purpose is merely to confute the assertions in the letter before albs co, and with that to rest satisfied. ; As the writer I. K. H. professes to be actuated by ' the feelings of an " honest Eaglishman," I will put it ' 1 to his conscience, whether the •Mce of a defamer be consistent with such a character. I would willingly hope he has been misled by some incautious meddler, and for the sake of honesty and of justice,l sincerely hope, ;then he reads the facts here submitted to him, he will is the true spirit of an " fieriest Eaglielsmaa," be as prompt to commend, as he has been hasty to blame. 1 1 am, Sir, your very obedient servant, VERITAS. FATAL AFFRAY. --.4P.- The following is an account, front a Glasgow Paper, of the unfortunate affair at Greenock, of which we were yesterday apprised by our anonymous corre spondent : A distressing affair has interred at Greenock. Betwixt Weise one o'clock yesterday morning. (Busday Beth rateell sai g g took place in a low public-hoese betwixt scree of the lith regiment and some sailors, what they NM to blows, and the soldiers were worsted. Mad dead by drink and the beating they bed received, the solders ram Immediately to their quarters, whither they were followed by am limiting crowd. and loading their = communal Arias fres the windows. T he later of be pease having been in the mean lima s alted foe, a party aims ease sr te _tbe soldiers' quarters. wise two at tbe weakness were Madly/ the be .f the reedeft. wounded. bathe bee dose , Vitteisa wou lobe Sere es oma baeselleteit ell spriest efthe deliblesuee, m s ou . rned to as spit. end seared Abe geese sea, wile bomes, Shia WNW inn to the awl power. Illseb are the .scents. whir b Ire have Ward of this most subdues,* met, but we her. set boas able to procure any letter heft Greenock on the sub jest. it la so far consolatory. that &ere was so previous ill blood betwixt the military sae the Inhabitants, sod there has been no manifestation of say sea ',Mt dace. la waiting for the judicial procedure la this eafortemate affair, we must; In the mean time , @sprees o or regret at two Innocent wen Itarimg lost their lives in the eoeseitsatious discharge of their duty.—(Olowees Ceti eirej SCOTLAND. Dc draws. Ave. I.—lf the peseta weather eoelleve; the crop is Ms *testy. gerterelly 'pestle& with be beth abeldsst OA suety. We einem lbsPeese plashes et bee = Ulleens e, lees eel is keshke, bet we es. so o eerselives vista Ater the the ?tint the asps le Me sad the selehbeeeteg musty ere wilatt rstairliesbly wife, flee the use &scrip ef Fels is these any peel et to hued. A sae dams slew we web. with es 'Moray leek pve It es his cosies. SIM war• Atide will be neap MMs.Mtk. et least es4ler, thee the reejibelep of these he bed es op- . of lesseellst. temillase threeo Leseaddre, eW - e — lsse‘leed sal M . —(bessfase dueler) A OM et Wei wee eat dews at Fonts es Moutley lest. &diem the precedes' DITTINU AT TATTIPSALL'S, Ace. 4. Alit!1111 11 . DONCASTER ST. 10 to I sgst Martinis of &Netter's. Tb 101 to I asst Mr. I.oftus's Woodbioe. 11 to I asst Arbutus. l& to I asst e. by Welton. out of Lisette. 140 to 6 apt c. out of Altisidors. STATE OF IRELAND. When the Judges shall meet after this Assizes, I think it " will be their unanimous opinion, that Ireland was never in " a state of greater tranquillity than at present. - (Judge Moores Marge to the GroodiJory of Manioc) now pleasant it is to dismiss the fooleries and Ultra radicaltun of the fiction which has an long di:Herbed this City—how delightful to turn 'from the little finery armee in which we have been so long engaged, to the rherriiiii and comfortable words of the Learned Judge, which c• base placed at the head of this article. The opihion of his Lordship is corroborated and confirmed by a view of the Assize Intelligence, which has reached this sales from every quarter of the country. —(Doblin Evening Post.) 171011 ME N. SPECIAL COMMISSION—STERLING. MONDAY, JILT 81 .—This day the Court of Special Commission was opened here by the Lord President, and Lord Pitmilly, fur the purpose of arraigning the prisoners from FaNtirk and Cainelon, when the follow ing defendants were placed at the bar, viz. : James Bert, Andrew Dawson, Andrew Burt, the younger, John Johnstone, Maid Turner,Jarnes Aitken. wright ; John Macmillan, and James Aitken, grocer. These defendants respectively entered pleas of Het Grin, to the charges of the indictment. The Loan Pa ZIIIDSNT then informed them that their trials would proceed on Friday next the 4th of August; and they were re-conducted to the Castle. There appeared for the Crown,H. Boort Drummond, Esq., as Counsel, and James Aruolt, Esq. W. S., as Agent ; and for the defence, A. Hope Cullen, El. as Counsel, with David Mackie and It illiam Xe*ander, Esqrs, Writers to the Signet, as Agents. J. P. Urant, Esq. M.P., and Francis Jeffrey, Esq. are senior Counsel fortbe prisoners in the alone trials, and the public attention has been much attracted is the proceedings which will take place. It is supposed that immediately after the conclusion of these trials, sentence will be pronounced on the Bonnyniuir pri• toners, who were formerly found guilty of High Trea son at Stirling. The Court sits at Paisley to-morrow. GRAND Ravtew.--The arrangements for the in tr.nded review of the three regiments of Horse Guards, and the four regiments of light Cavalry, which it was anticipated would take place on Hounslow Heath to day, have undergone some alterations. Instead of the whole of the regiments being reviewed on one da y . three of them, the 10th Hussars, and the 16th and 19th Lancers, will be reviewed to-morrow ; and the remaining regiments, the First and Second Life Guards, the Royal Blues, and the 12th Cavalry, will be reviewed on Saturday. These splendid spectacles, it is expected, will take place in the presence of his Majesty, and a numerous field of Officers of the highest distinction. Tata WISE'S RESIDENCE Ist Tows t.---A good deal of correspondence has taken place between hi r Majesty sad the King's blinistets.ifillipkicsi a a town miaow,. The latter expresses reatliniss to meet her Majesty's wishes in any manner which shall appear practicable. Several houses have been pointed out by both parties. To those proposed by his Majesty's Ministers exceptions have been taken by the Queen, while those demanded by her Majesty do nut appear to be within the controul of the Ministers. In this state the matter at present rests : and if her Majesty is unable to obtain what she conceives to be a suitable dwelling by the 17th of August, it is her in tention to proceed to town every day from Branden -1 burgh House, Hammersmith. A new carriage is building for her Majesty, which will be in readine.s fby the 17th of August. She will be drawn ever y da y ' to the House of Lord s b y six horses, richly capari soned, and will he attended by a suitable number of servants in royal liveries. TROTTING Mvecn.--Wednesday afternoon, a trot- _ ting match was performed on the Romford road for 100 guineas, between a famous black mare, the pro perty of Mr. Williams, a farrier, in Poplar ; and a horse, belonging to Mr. Marsh, of Whitechapel. The distance was five miles, which was easily won by the mare; but so sanguine was the owner of the horse in winning that a quantity of favours were purchased to be worn on the occasion. The spectators assembled to witness this match were very numerous. Boxass.—The match between Spring and the Oas Light Man is off, as neither made their money good ID Tuesday night agreeable to articles, and each re ceived bark the bl. deposit. Oliver challenged Spring for a hundred or two; but it was not made. Belau(' challenges Josh. Hudson. Yesterlaymoraing. about twelve o'clock, a young lad nearly met bit death whilst bathing in the '1 lianie., near Westminster-bridge; Lieut. Oil lespie, of the 2Uth Warmers. who was passing near the spot, o bserved the boy struggling in the water. and immediately plunged in with his clothes en, and sutveeded in res cuing him from a watery grave, although nearly ex hausted. The cutout was so strong. that it was with great difficulty Lieut. Gillespie r..ached the shore with the boy. whose life he WI so bessauely preserved. C•11111.1EICRAIIIIE, Avower 4.—b coaserpreace of the unsettled state of the weather. higher priesseere .sked far Wheel this mends& sad aa advance of Is. per gr. was es teltsed for seperMse samples. aad all other description* sold wore freely at Weibroday's prices. Oats hilly support Monday's prices. altheagb the arrivals hive bees ersesid•r able this week. la Beats, Pau, sad ether 'dicks. there Is so eiteratiosi. RESTISTIKLII Maws. Java' 4.—There was bet a *moll supply of Beef at iamb* dds morning; but is She!? •54 Lamb the Newly siad the ?deli a ITS Isittoa and Lowly itedsisliasi that of last setae dayt bet the in ferior qualities WOO eathrr lower. Veal and Poch also t!tu sun is peke as ea Mosby. (T• Ask the OW; per stool of Sibs.) Besf . . 4e. N. to Is. 441. CATTLE AT 111811 SET. MIMEO 4e. N. le fa. id. Beasts Veal . . is. M. teas. M. Calves Perk . . 4e. M. sofa. M. bleep. te. . . 7,10 titq Lash . is. M. to lb. 411. Pigs Hay .......... Ills. 04. to M. M. Clover ........ hi. as. Od. to 61 La n , 4 Its. 0. to il. ter. • j •