The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-17 00:00:00

' packet, with Mails from biSawb* in eight days.' JANAIL—SeIIed the slavGiory, fled Cape. Picket, Us the Riscro-.-Came down from the Riser .1041 1 remain, 'the TArly Campbell, for Madras and i cn ti a , and. lb. Trittewbase, with convicts f or New %oath Wales.-4severel vessels have gone for . Kainsgate for sbelfpf• • POSTINOUTH, JAIS:I6.—..The Elisabeth, B e at e , frOm Faintoeth for Chatham; and . Grace, Davy, from Cowes, bale brought ep at the Motherhank for safety. f • MARGATE, JAIL 16.—Arrived in oar Roads, Sod Nis Proceeded for the River, the brig Letteras, of and from Colitis for London ; rho the ship, Glory, an d Cape. Packet ; • Ufa brigs Peace, Graves, and • nerveal others. RAMsOaTE, JAN: litkCatrie here for shelter inseral sestets from the-potty& Noirn SHIELDS, iltoi.-Arriv.d in our Ronde, this morning, th* fftebmt, **too. from Memel for London, all well. LIVERPOOL. JAN. IL—The Harriet; Bragg, frail -• John's, New BronsWick, Inc Liverpool, the 7th inst. in lat. 50. • to- - 29. 'only spoken ow •tong. The Bertha, Boson, from Savannah for Liverpoolosilled D. V.—Yesterday passed the Margaret, from Charleston for Liverpool. GRAVESEND, JAN.. 10,—Arrired the Sir Henry Stantope, Boyce. from Cape Coast; Providence, Consists; from Seville; Slily, Jerson, from 'St: Michael's; and Galen, Tracy, from goston.-- s i ded the Medosy. Wright, for Madeira and Ben. gal; Des: Freres, Elliot, for Havre. DHOST-LANE THEIITRE•-•=The dramatic piece of The Children in the Wood, so successfully modelled am the popular ballad of that name, was played at this Theatre last night, when Mr. 11. Joirairum sp. peered, for the first time, in the part of Walter.— This character is a specimen of what may be termed the tragedy of low life, and is perhaps more difficult of delineation than any king or hero ever called into existence by the breath of the poet. BANNISTERS excellent performance of the part is still remembered by most persons who frequent the Theatre; Mr. If. JOHNSTON, therefore, has to labour under all the disadvantages of comparison, but his Walter was a ver y suc ce.gr u i prr, r t, abounding with midges of great spirit and energy. KNIGHT'S ilpathy a good substitute for Smarr ; and ARLEY, as Gabriel, gave as an admirable drunken scene. Mrs. BLAND, who played Josephine, is the only one of the original cha• rectors that remains. The new Welch Order, report says, will consist of the following Noblemen and CPIIiIPIII,II, besides the Sovereign and two of the Royal Dukes:—Mar quit of Anglesea, Viscount Bulkeley, Earl of Cardi gan, Viacoant Dungannon, Sir Welkin Williams Wynne, Bart. Lord Milford, Earl Powis, Lord lien. yon, Lord Gwydir, Lord Dv nevor ; Prebend of the Order, the Lord Bishop of St. Aaaph ; Chancellor, the Lord Bishop of Bangor ; Registrar, Rhys Jones, Erg.; Genealogist, IL Richards, Esq. ; Pursuivant, Dersids, Gentlemen Usher, &c. at the disposal of the /Carl Marshal. Ribband, light green, edged with white. Motto, " Creautur fortibus et bonus" CANNINO, PRESENT PARTICIPLE OF Tilt VERB CAN.—The word Canning is evidently the present participle of the verb Can; and signifies one's being, .r at lest endeavouring to be capable of doing any Airing from any motive. It is a term quite exploded by every genuine English writer or speaker. In Ireland, however, I believe, as well as in Scotland, it is, with a very slight alteration in the spelling, still retained. The word Canny, particularly in the Scotch acceptation of the word gives its full messing, though someere of opinion that its proper sense is more clearly specified, when, by changing the a of the original word into u, you read Cunning for Canning. The word Canning ' not malty years ago, signified just the opposite of Castle; end never, surely, in the military sense, did Cannon more threaten Castle's overthrew, than Canning, in the verbal sense, threatened the destruction of the noun Castle. Yet to variable ate the living languages, that we see these two anti-thetical terms admitted st last of Hearty equal import; and the one stack so close under the other on the same page of the Court Vocabulary, that you are surprised to find on reading d. onwards, how euctly the leading twin-syllables of both words form their common anagram, a word not indicative of cleinliness—Ca, Ca. But the scavenger cheers him• self with the Scotch saying—" Where muck is luck is; that is, where filth is wealth is. Miss KELLY, made her first appearance at the Dublin Theatre, in the part of Albino Illanderille, In The Will. The genuine talents of Mies KELLY triumphed completely over every difficulty created by the character of the piece. tier Louisa, in the Melo-dramatic Afterpiece of the Deserter, was as perfect as any thing that can be imagined. It was superior even to her Albino. In the Play she introduced a ballad, in which she accompanied her self open the harp, and in the Afterpiece she sung a remarkably pretty song. Both were encored. Thus, in one evening, did this accomplished actress display her tragic, comic, vocal and pantomimic powers, and it is no euggeration to say, that never was success more complete than her's—never were applanses more rapturous—never were they better deserved, or more gratefully acknowledged. A Correspondent, who keeps a register of Copilot Prizes and by whom sold, assures us that in the last It years there have been only 12 Prises of £30,000, and that BIM, the present Contractor, sold no less than ESGUT of them : this is another proof that " Fortune favours those .zeho favour him ;" indeed in the last Lottery which contained Three Prizes of X 7 ,0,0001. (about two years ago) Bisu sold them ali t In the 'very last Lottery be sold in Shares Three Prizes of £lO,OOO each • and as the present ',witty contains Three Prizes of £30,000, besides 97 other Capitals, where can we go with so great a chance of obtaining them as to Btsii, the Contrsmor who seems the fs enured Agent of Fortune to disperse leer ric:ies to the Public at Curnbill and Charing•crom s London, and by his Agents in the Coming. AFFAIR OF HONI/UR.—Saturday a meeting took place near this town, between M—w P —ass, Esq. , end C—ss, Esq. The parties discharged three pistols each, when they left the ground, fortes merely *ilium receiving any injury.—(Sligoiomlo raerildl4o better 'l* the copy wf fort140 . :11111110 • •-•• 1 ! . Attorney -Giaeral :—] s have recently conlesstokyotteloimmotte for Gods Commandment% - as •drrieelirhi'lliki Ot chapter of EsodairinaiVii" an) -.• s religious feeling, usually Imbitted education; and had this acknowledgment licly made on yonv emertatointo tioss• of Lg. Oliver of the Public, rather your Christian bretbriin, *old dated to consider you as thorough) the discharge of that important basing vice and exalting virtue, God is the Lotto; but, unhappily , has proved that you do not observe all the corntemselli enacted by the Almighty. It is enjoined, aia. /5. ‘• Ye shill do no uffigitteousness in jade. went : thou shalt not respeellhe person of the poor, nor honour the person, of the mighty : but kr, righteousness ihelt thou jadge thy oeighbour."—;— This part of GOD'S Statute Lows yoe have ac. Jenny disregarded, wherefore public confidence in your ability to discharge the duties *leeched to your official character is necessarily weakened : wee; hausght yes any longer flatter yourself that passive, lesbmission will be shown to your opinion, Hone. tions, or acts; since, in all these palpable fallibility , has been detected, inasmuch as they are directly op. posit, to the ancient standard of all Judicial Sta. totes, namely, that Divine Code of Laws given by the Omniscient to the most honourable and faithful Legislator, 'Moses, for instance. That act 'of yours, the issuing Ex-Offi:io Informations (a practice you vainly endeavoured to vindicate), by which many un. fortunate persons hare been and are still immured in prisons, to the injury of their health, derangement of their worldly concerns, and the ruin of their family comforts, is positively repugnant to the ancient, and consequently highly-respected 3..wiah Liw (it was made before the Protestant Religion was established); and as before mentioned was ordained by GOD hinvielf. In the 7th chap. of the Gospel by St. Joise, 51st v. is this question: " Doth our Law judge any man be fore it hear him, and know what he doeth ?" It may be observed, that this delicacy of implicating the cha racter of an individual in those days, arose net from that charity which thinketh no evil of his neighbriur ; for the same religious end learned persons to whom this question was addressed, had a few minutes be fore expressed their sentiments concerning the lower class of society of those days, rhos " this Pe"ples who know not the lea-, :Ire accursed:" hut merely from regard to the Law Sta'utes of that nation.-- Thus, Sir, it is minifest your deeds have not ac corded with those of your predecessors in judicial authority as to your practice of filing Er-Officio In formations: yet may some analogy be all wed to subsist between your conduct and these lawyers in other re. spects ; perhaps the following quotation may emp t ies the similarity—you will find it in the Testament : " Ye pay tithes of mint, anise, and commin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judg. meta, mercy, and faith—these ought ye to have done, and nn( to have left the other undone." You will, no doubt, Sir, startle at this deterioration of your official proceedings, but the allegations have proofs positive to sepport their veracity. Your late prosecutions of Mr. lloste, although not a very bril liant deed, was nevertheless , done in the face of day, and manifested to an observing nation the partiality of your judicial conduct, in stretching forth the arm of your authority to seize on a poor printer, for hiving published a two-penny Parody, that his needy family might be supplied with a dinner by the pike of his wit, whilst you suffered a similar of f ence to pass, unnoticed in an Ambassador, who fares sumpt•nosir every day, at the cost of the public treasure. Your severity, Sir, towards the needy critic reminds your religious brethren of a verse in the Proverbs, " An hypocrite with his mouth destroyetb his neighbour ;" It is added," but through knowledge shall the just be delivered ;" nor will the verdict of an intelligent Jury beforgotten while Britain has s single champion left to defend her nobleConstitu:ion. You a ;firm, that you felt it your duty, as La*Offirer of the Public, In bring for. ward this prosecution to defend the Form of Worship established by Law in the reTgli of CHARLES It., by which part of this Statute Law, the guilt of treason against the State, ateaches such persons as shell pro. fine this lawful form of Common Prayer, called the Liturgy. From this declaration the erroneousness of your opinion is discovered ; for you very improperly imputed the crime of blasphemy to the satire, as' though the criticism wls levelled at the formulary of the Public Worship of Goo, whereas every unwire in politics laughed while he read the Since:triers Creed, at the lashes of sit given to a junto bear. ittg authority ; and wistfully considered who the persona - could be that were the recipients of the flagellation. Persons whose understandings aro occupied in the study of the Holy Smarter's, are mostly zealously attached to the reverence of them, observing their sacred ptlecepts with the strictest at tention, rather porting with life sometimes than wil fully transgress any of its statutes or injunctions.— When such devotees to the Bible make use of any particular portion of Holy Writ, as thst me. morable ItPrOiDier, MA UT! Pi LUTHER, did 'part of one Psalm, the word of Goo is not profaned. but merely converted into a mirror, by which the hideous image of ertor is redumhersted upon the vision of the observer. In imitation of which the following pas sage, taken from the Gospel by ST. MATTHEW, may be serviceable in refracting certain trails of part of the existing Legislature—" Woe unto you blind guides who strnin at a gnat (a ludicrous criticism called a Libel) and swallow a easel (approve of tad bleed; let us luirk peivily far the innocent witholt meet let at swallow them op as the ** grate, ' *those that go down fate •Tfisr Wf i ' tubs', nee (Ilkolvd.iasoo -Walk itiff. • and *tab; theill jr their 'inN. '''gb greedy of gain ; *MI • thereof." Suet. per. rewarded (by (:o rm of Gird), to hearted; distressed titan int} the pit 1.4 been lifeled by of eineatien ac trai h were. thitts blood. hounds, are screened from punishment,- its having' aided the Government in destroying fattier'. Suet; Mop *tight not to be—this•is saying let ns do flit that good may come, whim, condemnation it jut. Sir, it is obvious to every person who reads with aiderstanding, that the .additsment an nexed to the last quoation from the Gospel by St. M ATTSIEW, canalot be properly -dlesspresinated a Parody ; we Banister, .Srdhd Pteellist g ewe even Mult4 Chancery, would able to demonstrate Om the word libel is a prophanation of the term gnat; or that the epithet reducer, ig a more ludi. craws appellative than the mime camel. No, 181, 1 sir; you may depend on the 111491J1011CP of the writer' when she affirms that Holy Writ is not now the ob. ject nr subject parodized ; but the lest of the comps. rired—those blind guides, the van guard of the Bri tish corps, who have erred from the straight path of rectitude, which alone leads to tree glory and lasting peace, and base desperately swerved, by rushing heedlessly into the broa3 road of war, waste, and want, which is well known to terminate in 'starchy and ruin. The sarcasm alludes to these blind trade's of the nation's phalanx, who have arbitrarily mulct them of their rights—the flatlets Corpus Act, and consi4ned • y C rcular Let . ers, sirni:ar to despotic Carers Blanche, to dungeons or strong those worthy C. , Anipions of the Rear, *silo have hail the hardilan , d courageously to sound an alarm, and peti tion their Commanders to halt and call a Council for ltetrenchmeot, or to Reform the St4ff. A ItliA Dun OF THE BIBLE. CURIOUS FACES t O:;NECTED WITH THE PRO SECUTIONS FOIL Till. PAROHILS. A Correspondent says, 66 I understand Oat ure. 'Joust to the application to Williams, the winter, at Portses, to print the Parodies, Messrs. Nlottloy at;cl Co. some respectable booksellers and printers, at Portsmouth, were applied to (cut the purpose, and an order was offers d to them to print rso less a number than ten thousand. 0, e nailc enemy. that to catch a Saint Will saint, oust boil thy hook • But they were not to he ensnared, and they very prudently declined the order. An order was after. ward. given to poor Williams, but with t his remarkable difference, that although the order to Messrs. Mot tley and Co. was for 10,000 copies, the one to Williams was for 250 only; but small as it was it was suffi cient, and he was caught. If any Mr. Oliver should 'lse et the Wilma of all this, it shoUld be recollected ,that the Parodies which were printed—by Williams got into cirettkation, and that lie is now tottering (bot without beinz entitled to the smallest osessu r: of eons. miseralion) for the publication, and that upon the same and no better grounds, the Habeas Corpus Act has been and is still suspended. LADY MORGAtes FRANCE.-..-II most be extremely gratifying to all liberal minds to learn, that notwith standing the ferocious attacks of numeroos Critics in France and England, a Third Edition of this Work is already called for. We hesitate not to repeat, that it is a production of great national utility, and has powerful claims on public attention and encourage ment. Died, yesterday evening, at his house in Wy nyett. street, lilington-road, of a rapid decl:ar, in his 371 h year, Mr. JAMES SwAN, jun. Printer. lie has loft hn affectiowe widow and five infant children, who d pended upon him for support, to deplore h's pre. mature loss. Hews. highly and deserved . esteemed bt all who knew him, and his conscious introgrity end confidence in the will of Heaven Prod lad him so support his most trying is--di-position to the end a ith patience, fortitude, arid rerignatioss. 1 Fifty.seven of the parishioners of St. Olive's, Southwark, were yesterday summoned at the Town It 411, for non-payment of Poor Rates. They were principally journeymen. Their plea for not having paid the assessments was, that they could procure no employ. .Further time was allowed them by the Aldermen. Sort% and Eamco. CORONER'S LsoUE‘T.—reiterday an Inquest was held at the Vestry Room of Wapping ‘Vorkisout.e, on the body of a man unknown, appeariog to be about fifty years of age, who was foetid dead, wrapped up in a quantity of hay in a deal boa, which was brought in a boat by two men to Mr. lloare'vl wharf, as related in a former Paper. It appeared, that there mere no marks . of violence on the b , clr, and it had not the appearance cf ever having beeq interred. The Beadle washed the body, sad bad it conveyed to Wapping Workhouse; he understood that several packages of s similar description were sent there to be shipped. The Jury concluded, that most probably it was a subject iutended.for dispoto. tion ; bat having no evidence to move by. labor source the deceased came by Isis death, they reto(4l, , a Verdict of Found dead. • ; •.mi ROBBERIES AT DULIVICIIO—TiItINdIIy evrrtis valuable sheep of the Merino breed, was - akolisi. .0 of a field at Dulwich, belonging to Mr. ilatikolib;4l Gentleman of property. It was not slaughtetl . '• on the spot (as usual), but.it was carried away alive. When the rubbery was discovered, the marks of the footsteps of two persons were traced from the field to the stables of a Gentleman (Mr. Croft) in the neighbourhood, wbiah were broke open and robbed the same morning. There was the trace of the wheels of a cart from Mr. Croft's stables to the bot tom of the hill, where the marks of the footsteps In the field also appeared. The sheep was supposed to have been carried away in the cart, with the pro perty stolen in Mr. Croft's stable. The cart wit traced nearly to Peckham.. „ere 'hi * e 1.1.1011. - ..rtif bristliest the present action apinet ..rendiski, CI-ilirman of the ogle _Assurance ,Arropeoy,, oe a polity effected opals the stock, &c. 44 (remisei t belonging to the Plaintiff, situate in ' :street,•aod known as the Metropolitan linear. 'rho pleas w*, first 4 that the 1-laißt'ff had so in. Wilk i and tt, that b e had adult . ) caned the peewits” to fie 1111041@d lig Ire, err the 434 of May, !Mr. Toreros opefied the Plaintiff i t case, ohserv. set Opine the ;Inviter her of the sitoation of bit Clifot, who, without V:0 fliektett metive 10 iso Corn ' eli 4 ll4lon, by'the plea dose the record ant dosed ' With a erica of the foulest Met 61666a5, eft* his liffri.' •It ircliud be &sir/ estadfieked, that* *aloe dile prow/41)**4014 si4i fat*grond thr u sts,' in. 1 • 1 SoPket, and directly ' Pier tihe Ire, in the certificate merited by the ' 1 he heti received from the ClOellynian, iiii *.watclent and othets, the highest teitilhetilliSS Kr favour. Ile called the fol. lowing wituestes t..ii.' George Polhill bid been abirprisati to the Plaintiff; bed , that he had WO/ A ar Sholoifel the stock 'sold b ' lots si various Attest the last isle*Mei In r>ii 2 ... the eat rt or 151 1 , and at that t imes or nod `afierwitras 4 a Mr. Davenport *as in treaty for the co.naining stock and the fixtures on the premises.— The value was about 13(X)1 , consisting of china. Otos, and ear: hetiwase. The Wiz tar was opened il July, and counters, desks, dra %frt., k... were pot up, as well as tiro very large stoves in the cellar, by whir), the apartments sere warmed, besides others. The fittings up were not confined to i he ground floor, but estended to the first and secood, where were also lookin2.glasses of the value of shout 6001. The witness end a Mr. Leach bad kegs of the back-door premises, and Mr. Mist of the front. who was fre quetel) there. The witness was in Fleet-street at about aeon, on the day when the lire took place,,tho 2341 of May, 1817. The room the Plaintiff chiefly occupied was a room on the third floor, nest Salis. burv-court, where lie kept his books and papers. In a closet there was a hos of coals and some shavings, used by the porter for lighting the fire. Cross-essolined.--On the day after the fire he wag seen by Mr. Bootlace. The lonking.glasses were not included in the 1:::001. his estimate of the stock; he had not said that they were, but that they were worth 5001. The witness had been in the Pltiotiff's service eleven years. Plaintiff lied formerly been in l iartnership with Mr. Abbott, but Most faded in 1814, 1 ii n d escitelisheil the Bazaar two years sfterweirds.— : There had been two sales, at which many of the ar. tides were bought in, end many not put up to auc tion. The Bazaar was closed in February 1817.-- The witness often went to the premises, where there were some pieces of candle, and a number of phos. photos bottles in earthenesre. which had been left unsold. On the day of the fire the witness had gone ' to the Plaintiff's room from a (loader to half-pest 12 I to !peak respecting the non.aptetenietit of an account, but he was not there: all Gen was bate. Thomas Wagstaff pr..ved that the value of the 1 stock in Notembir, 1816, was 20001., and after the last sale there remained about 14001. worth of pro. perry orr the premise,. The fitting up of the B. gear lied cost more than 5001. wages nod ort.of the wieterlals. An account of the stork was produced, wide set by Polhill from the books tiflhe Plielntiff peeeiees to the fire, not including looking-glasses. All were on the premises at the time of the fire, according to the torideoce of Polhill, who was recalled to prove tie account. Mr. James Davenport, an earthenware manufac turer, of Longpore, in Staffordshire, stated, that very shortly before the fire be was nogociaiitig for the purchase of the Plaintiff's stock, an account of which heel been taken by Polhill; he left town before it was finished, but having seen a rough estimate, he 1 4llielPd 25001. for it to the Plaintiff. lie thought the bargain would hive been a good one ;at lease, be had I seen enough of the stock to know that he should not I be doing wrong. The Plaintiff required 38001., be• sides a further sum for the lease. Soon after the witness left town he heard of the fire, or he should ! have returned to renew the treaty. ICrostsezamitted.—llis partner had been assigoest under a Commission against the Plaintiff, and the witness was a creditor to the full amount of the sum he offered ; but it was agreed that a certain sum in cash should be given to the Plaintiff. Mr. Woodhouse, Solicitor to the last witness, con firmed his evidence, in some particulars, relative to !the treaty. It had been agreed in September, 1817, that the Commission against the Plaintiff should be aoperseded. Wibert Rood proved the value of the futures put op for the Bazaar : the wood-work only cost, more than 4001. Mr. Justice BATLEY, in this stage of the cause, put it to Mr. Scarlett, who was oo the other side, whether it was meant to be said that any part of the property had been clandestinely or otherwise rsk• moved before the fire? Mr. SCARLET''' . 'towered in the negative, adding, that be meant to show that the property was not worth what Mr. Davenport had offered. Mr. Justice Basses observed, upon the improba. Welty of the case, that a man possessed of such a ses lwable property, and so insured, should have wilful ly consumed it by fire, and risked the discovery of a capital offence. Mr. SCARLEn replied, that that was not a matter of fact; but of reasoning: it was for the Jury to drew their own conclusions, sod to judge of what presumption of guilt existed. )• Mr. Justice BATLEY thought defences of this kind iby Insurance-offices impolitic, unless stronger grounds of suspicion eaiated than were yet evident. Mr. Jobo Duddel, an oilman, saw the Plaintff at about eleven o'clock on the morning of the fire; they agreed to dine together, and after wards toga to Wy. combe to look at a house the witness had proposed 'that the Plaintiff should take from a Captain Rush. iOntheir toldw way was boc in w ktolso:ping ; othey th es ei e r i a nfo fi r re m , er w , l a iic d h they . lieg,that it was not so bad as one that hsd hc-p- net! at wereltke Bazaar in Fleet.street. The Plaiiciff was ea. tremely anxious to go to Fleet.street, line the witness prevented him, as it might not be his premieres, bas **ritletY • IMP , • — s i a d v ii n d n • 141 . 110Rif * s I-renege substsne. n 1 Pe troimmiLllll our hover with spoil , s ed from a Christisitt t leo /their feet roe Its ; r i a d gma t bee. pub. is they loft wittily for th A . bonouratite via . the ys of evety ~that le greed tune, the people* or to sway the lifter she ownct thi , 0 been orothorised arid r 11 01 , 14 !tare been Me' • who :Wield relit itt the seghJy celopONOl fie ,'antic bet °misty A D A simple 10 000.7**,0, bit ' cacti f their site dissiseletion, j a a ast i aa . p h aea . of its. front which 'note het ppily, •yoor endue. - II " of power to the place of , h. tore; ibUst ibe.sedocers, Shoop t I" 1 ' 4 4 ( = I re ef It go row