The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-07-10 00:00:00

I s *. Here Mr. Hurray does not say whether I.e mete.% to in• slat that the gift was not only for her prr.•nt, bit alio her contingent interest. All lamtodo is to allow the Lady to bring an action at law, to try whether that parol gift would amount to a total a , ,signMent of het futon contingent interests in this hook, Mr. Murray on lir rtaking to keep an account of sales until that quebtion is decicltd. Mr. SUADWILL feared that, at law, that license. which wis intended to art as an assignment, would not be binding, as Lord Ellenhorongh bad hell that an assignment was not good unless it was by deed.— It was the equity of the case that he relied on: there was a book which, up to a certain time, had occasioned a greet lose to Mr. Murray, and it was only by his ex pending large sums of money that it had been sue re,sful; and row that Mrs. Kumlall conceived it valu able, s'ie had expressed her determination to publish it for her own emolument. In the year 1815, Mr. Murray made a pecuniary acknowledgement to Mrs. Rustle - 11, in a letter, enclosing her 150/., and in it lie said, that her little work hail been so successful. that it made it as honourable for her to accept, as it afford ed him satisfaction that its success bad been such as enabled him to make that acknowledgment ; sad so far frow claiming any right to the property, she, in an answer to Mr. Murray's letter, congratulated hius that her trifle had been so fortunate, and expressed a wish that it might continue to he so. The Vies CtlANCett.ne—There can be no doubt hnt Csat authors art entitled to their own work, fur their ontn profit, at the end of fourteen years. Mr. Murray gained an injunction to restrain Mrs. flundall, that the p•Colishing of that part of the work that was his coinrisi:ion, and Mca. Randall, had filed her bill to rest:aia Mr. Nhirray her work. There eau lyt 11,3 toestion but that an antliiir Can as!•ign his interest for frt.:: teen year., an.l l.i t coutitigeut life-is ts.r.uit for at. fortl. , •r few' of f iurtern rears. It is r. however, for tisk Court to iletermitw the question a and, if Mr. Murray i% willior to try that Ties- I will no: ;*rant the injunct:ion as prayed by Mrs. 1:•111,141, but rail on Mr. Murray to keep an account of sa . r of the hoof:. _ _ r. said be felt there was a great dilb rc.:,y at law a: to aliwaing a legal assignment, or li t .-:tzv, a:.,1 Le was willing to take his Honour's jltdg tne..t on the equity of the ease. T.te Vica-CitAxecct.na.--If Mr. Murray refuses to go to law to try Lis Claim. I cannot allow you to take advantare of this lady's inronsiflrrato gift. I ant gran: the ir . :nnction. as prayegl, to restrain Mr. Mur ray from publishinr that part of the untk u Welt be longs to Mrs. Randall. With respect to the injunc tion wade by the Lord Chancellor I can snake no al terati 3a. This decision restores such part• of thy a•n:k to Mrs. Randall as were originally her's, hut derives of the advantage of the title-page, Index, and platys, they beinz considered the companion and se parate property of Mr. Murray. THE CORONAtION OF GEORGE 111. _-~ _ (ISOM THE rms . vrE FoRDEAPONDENCIK OF RORACL WAi POLE, LA RI, or OXFORD.) TO GLOM; E MONTAGU, Esp. Alhooon- , treet, Sept. 21 , 1761. T em (dad von arrived safe ia Dublin, and hitherto lies it so, well ; but vont. trial is not begun yet. — When vonr klutz conies, the p'ouglishares will he put into the lire. Bless your stars that your king is not to he to :rim! or crow tied. All the vines of Dour -311 the mutes of Irish brains cannot make a too.o o 'Limit as a regal wedding and coronation. 1 3111 !•":•...; !n let Loudon cool, and will not venture into it 3..3'n this fartitight. Oh ! the buzz, the prattle, tit.• crowds, the noise, the hurry ! Nay, people are so little come to their senses, that though the cc vonation was the day befote yesterday, the Duke of Deronshire hall fo:•tv messages yesterday, desiring tit het' for a hall, that dol• fancied was to be at Court last rti:tlit. People hail set up a night and a day, and vet trvite,i to see a aance. If I was to entitle ages. I wrothd ran, this the century of crowelm. For the co roisat;on, if a poppot-Otow could be worth a million, that is. The multitudes, h ticonies, guards, and pro cessions, made Palare-yard the liveliest spectacle in the world : the hall was the most glori . The blaze of lights, the richness and variety of habits, the core woaial, the benches of peers and peeresses, frequent and fall. was as awful as a pageant can be ; and yet • for the King's sake and my own, I never wish to s-e another ; nor am impatient to have my Lord EtEnz ham's promise fulfilled. The King complained that so few precedents were kept for their proceedings. Lord Elio-ham owned, the Earl Marshal's office had been strangely neglected ; but he had taken snob care for the future, that the ;serf coronation would be re gu!ated in the most exact manner imaginable. The number of peers and peeresses present was not very great ; some of the latter, with no excuse in the world, aprared in Lord Lincoln's gallery, and even walked about the hall indecently in the intervals of the procession. My Lady Harrington, covered with all the diamonds she could borrow, hire, or seize, and with the air of Roaana, was the fittest figure at a dis tance; she complained to George Selwyn that she was to walk with Lady Portsmouth, who would have a wiz, and a stick —" Pho," said he, "you will only look its if you were taken up by the constable." She told this every where, thinking the reflection was on my Lady Portsmouth. Lady Pembroke, alone at the head of the Countesses, was the picture of majestic modesty ; the Duchess of Richmond as pretty as na ture end dress, with no pains of her own, could make her; Lady Spencer, Lady Sutherland, and Lady Nor thampton. very pretty figures. Lady Kildare, beauty itself, if not a little too large. The ancient peeresses were by no means the worst party : Lady Westmoreland, still Irtnisome, and with more dig nity than all ; the Duchess of Queenshury looked well, though her locks milk white ; Lady Albe marle very genteel ; nay, the middle age had some good representatives in Lady Holderneqs, Lady Rods ford, and Lady Strafford, the perfectest little figure of all. My Lady Suffolk ordered her robes, and I dress ed part of her head, as I made some of my Lord Ilertford's dress ; for you know, no profession comes amiss to me, from the tribune of the people to a habit 'maker. Don't imagine that there were not figures as excellent on the other side: old Exeter, who told the King be was the handsomest man she ever saw ; old Effingham and a Lady Say and Seale, with bee hair THE STAT] . . . powdered and her tresses black, were an excellent contrast to the handsome, Lord It •• • • put on rouge upon his wife and the Duchess of Bedford in the painted chamber ; the Duchess of Queensbnry told me of the latter, that she looked like an orange. peach, half red and half yellow. The coronets of the peels awl their robes dike:nisei them strangely ; it required all the heacity of the Dukes of Richmond and Slarinorougl, to make them noticed. One there was, though of ano is r species, the noblest figure I •yer saw, the high-censtahle of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw 111111 it; a space capable of containing him, one admired biro. At the weclrlinz, dressed in tissue, , he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt. It added to the energy of his person, that one coinitler• erl him acting so coosiderable a part in that very ball, where so few year.. azo one saw his father, !cold Kil marnock, co:Aril:ll.d to the Mock. The champion acted his part adociral4, and dashed clutyci his gaunt let with priori &fiance. Ills associates, Lord E••••, Lord Talbot, and the Doke of Bedford, were woeful; Lord Talbot piqled h i mself on hacking his horse down the hall, and not turning its rump towards the King, but he had taken sad, pal::s to dregs it to that duty, that it entered Lackwards ; and at his retreat the spectators clapped, a terrible inikcorttici, hut suitable to such Bartimioniew-rair doing . •. Ile had twenty alone! < .+. and came out of pore. creditahl!. lie had taken away the table of the knizlits of the Bath, and was forced to admit two in their old pla• e, and dine the others in the court of request , . Sir Wm. Stau hope said, "We are ill-treated, (or tome of wa are gentlemen." Beckfold told the Earl, it was bard to reuse a table to the city of London, whom it would cost ten thousand pounds to banquet the Ring. and that his lordship would repent it, if tly.y had n•O a table in the hall ; they bad. To the barons of the Cinque-ports, who made the same complaint, he said, " If you come to cue as lord-steward. I tell yor, it is impossible ; if, as Lard Talbot, I am a match for any of you.** TO TILE 110 N. 11. S. CONWAY. A rlinrton-street, Sept. 13, 17.1. The coronation is over even a more gorgeous sight than I imagined. I saw the procession and the hail ; but the town was io the (lath. In the morning they bad forgot the sword of state, the chain for King and Queen, and their canopies. They used the Lotd Mayor's for the first; and made the last in the hall : so they did not set forth till noon ; and then, by a childish romplinolit to the King'," reserved the illumination of the hall till his entry, by' which means they arrived like a funeral, nothing being per ceivable but the plume: of the knights of the Beth, which seemed the hearse. Lady Kildare, the Duch. si. of Richmond, and Lady Pembrohe, were the capital beauties. Lady Harrington, the finest figure at a dis tance, old We.:inorcland, the most majestic. Lat h ' Hertford could not walk, and indeed I think is in a way to give us great anxiety. She is going to Ragley to ride. Lord Beauchamp was one of the King'i. train-beaters. Of all the incidents of the day, the mokt diverting was, w/sat, .happaned to Use 4~11. She had a retiring thamber, with eat e onvenienees, prepared behind the altar. She went thithet—in the soma eu.outdieot, what found she hut—the Duke of Newcastle'. Lady flardevicke died three &i t s before the cerenony, which kept away the whole house of Yorke. Some of the prerves were dressed o te c n ight, slept in arm-chairs, and were waked if they tumbled their heads. Your sister Harris's maid, Lady Peter borough, was a comely figure. My Lady Cowper re ' fused, but na's forced to walk with Lady ID". Lady raluiouth Iva.. nut there ; on which George Seir vn said, "That those peeres s es who were most es"d to dk, did nut. ' I carried my Lady Townshend, Lady ilertfqrd, Lady Anne Connolly, my Lady Her. ycy, and Mrs. Clive, to my deputy's house at the gate of Westminster-hall. My Lady Towoshend said she should be very OA to see a coronation, as she never had seen one. Why," said t, "Madam, you walked at the last " Yes. said she, " hat I saw nothing of it : I only looked to see who looked at me." The Duchess of Queensbury walked her affectation that day was to do nothing preposteiuus. TO THE COUNTESS OF AMESBURY. Strawberry-!till,.Srpt.27. 1761. My heraldry was much more offended at the coro nation with the ladies that did walk, than with those that walked out of their places; yet I was not so perilously ang►y as my lady Cowper, who refused to set a foot with my I.tily M • •• • : and when she was at last oblige;l to associate with her, set out on a round trot, as if she designed to prove the antiquity of her family by marching as lustily as a maid of ho hour of queen Gwinivvr. It was in truth a brave sight. The sea of heads in Palace-yard, the guards hone and foot, the scaffolds, balconies, and procession, exceeded imagination. The hall, when once illumi nated, was noble but they suffered the whole parade to return into it in the dark, that his Majesty might he susprised with thetoickness with which the sconces eatched fire. The champion acted well ; the old Pala dins hail neither the grace nor alertness of Rinaldo. Lord Effingham and the Duke of Bedford were but nnto.vard knights errant ; and Lord Talbot had not much more dignity than the figure of General Monk in the Abbey. The habit of the peers is unbecoming to the last degree: but the peeresses made amends for all defects. Your daughter Richmond, Lady Kildare, and Lady Pembroke were as handsome as the graces. Lady Rochford, Lady Holderness, and Lady Lyttleton looked exceedingly well in that their day; and for those of the day before, the Duchess of Queensbury, Lady Westmoreland, and Lady Albemarle were sur prising. Lady Harrington was noble at a distance, and so covered with diamonds, that yon would have thought she had bid somebody or other, like Falstaff, rob use the exchequr.-. Lady Northatnptuts was very magnificent too, and looked prettier than I have seen her of late. Lady Spencer and Lady Bolingbroke were not the worst figures there. The Duchess of Ancaster marched alone after the Queen with much majesty ; and there were two new Scotch peeresses that pleased every body, Lady Sutherland and Lady Duntnore. Per contra, were Lady P• • •, who had put a wig on, and old E • • •, who had scratched hers off; Lady S•• •, the Dowager E•• •, and a Lady S • • • with her tresses coal black, and her hair coal white. Well! it was all delightful, but not half so charming as its being over.—The gabble one beard about it for sit weeks before, and the fatigue of the day, could not well be compensated by a mere puppet shoi; for puppet-show it was though it costa million. .ANOMIG..&i..m.r IL, N. 'BSS AND DEATH OF BONAPARTE. FCRTIIP.R PARTICULARS. " Bonaparte may be said to have died rather he roically than otherwise, as the pain arising from the disease must hare been very acute, and he never ut tered a complaint. Ile refused medicine as useless, and stated, a month previous to his death, that he should never rise from his bed again. At that period he also said, that he was confident he knew better than the surgeons what his disease was ; and that it was the same that his father died of. Tile pain that it wave Nut, he described as if a knife had been run into his body, and broke short off, the wound closing ex ternally afterwards. A few hours previous to his de cease he is said to have gradually drawn his jsands from his sides, and to have clapped them over his breast, ilossbtle*s offering up a prayer at the same time. He then released them, and they fell into their former po sition. Dnring ti.e latter part of his illness, his eyes were constantly fixed on the full length portrait of Isla son, which was bung up by his request at the foot of his bed ; and it seems that his attachment to the child ' was very great. The last words of Bonaparte have not yet been recorded : they were uttered in a state of . sienna's*, but still sinew what was working iu his mind :—• Mon Ps' was the first word, and afterwards be murmercd what seemed to the hearers to he Fats d'Arnorrx.' tie shortly afterwards said France,' and never spoke again. The head and face of Bonaparte were isunsensely large in proportion to his body; they may with great propriety be said to be the only parts that could be reckoned fine; his face, I 1 hours after his death, was one of the most interesting that could he imagined, but from the extreme heat of the climate, the decay was so rapid that shortly afterwards the fea tures collapsed ; and at the time that be was laid in state, after his having been opened, the countenance had undergone a total alteration. His body was alto. :ether mean ; hones very small, and very little muscle : —he was very fat, even at the time of Isis death. On opening him, Ili* heart was found very small and feeble, and loaded with fat : his liver was large, and one of his kidneys reversed. It seems that he would hare died much sootier lithe liver had not forced itself into the hole in his stomach, and hindered the aliment from escaping : but, except from a slight irritation, naturally to be expected at this part of the liver, as it was in contact with the diseased quarter, it was com pletely sound and healthy, and did not show the least symptoms of the complaint which be was stated by Mr. O'Meara to suffer under. His hand was rather effeminate, but beautiful. The wounds on his body were as foliose :—a small wound ou the head, received from the halbert of an English serjeant at Toulon ; nme above the knee, by a spent ball, received at Ra tiabon ; and one near the ancle, a deep musket bail gran., that he received in Italy. His cranium did not give the satisfaction to the craniologists that was an ticipated. A great deal of tronble was taken by Doc tors Mitchell and Burton to have a cast of his face and cranium ; but unfortunately the quality of the gypsum which was only to he procured froru the island, was such as rendered all their attempts fruitless. A short time previous to his death, be scratched an N with a peulsnife un a snuff box, which he presented to Dr. Armlet for his attendance on him, and has left the above gentleruan 500 Napoleons. It is valet (Marchand) is a very superior young man ; it is said be has amply provided fur him ; and he made him a Count, previous to his death, exacting a promise from Bertrand and Montholon that they would respect him as such. It appears that Bonaparte, 'luring his whole confinement at St. Ilelena, never allowed any of his suite to relax in those attentions and duties that he had formerly ex acted as Emperor. He always dined alone ; no one was allowed to sit in his presence ; and to insure the' impossibility, he took care to have but one chair in Isis room. Indeed, from all accounts, Bertrand and Montholon, and the rest of his suite, had no sinecure in their retreat with the Emperor, and they have as least proved their fidelity in their continuing with him until Isis death. It is now ascertained, from the acknowledgment of Bertrand, that the book called The Thirty-onc Days was the production of Bonaparte himself. The effects at St. Helena are said to be left to Bertrand and Montholon ; they are very valuable, consistiog chiedy of plate and the finest Seve China; a most beautiful antique cameo snuff-box, given to hint by the Pope, he has left to Lady Holland with a slip of paper in it written by himself, in acknowledg ment of her kindness; but the rest of Bonaparte's ! will was kept a secret at St. Helena." IRISH PRISON Fees.—By an Act passed in the pre sent Session of Parliament, all Fees whatever payable on the Committals, Discharge, or during the conti nuance in custody, of any prisuner in Ireland, are abolished, anfl any officer demanding Fees from Pri soners, is subjected to a 6ne of 5/. The late Abel Wo►th, Esq. in addition to the several bequests which have been mentioned, has left by his will 2,500/. to the London Hospital, Whitechapel ; 2,000/. to the Hospital for the Deaf and Dumb, in the Kent-road ; 2,000/. to the Asylum for the Blind, near the Obelisk in St. George's Fields ; 2,000/. to the So ciety for the Relief of Prisoners confined for Small Debt• ; and 1,000/. to the Westminster Asylum for Pregnant Women—making in the whole 26,000/. 4 per Cents. Canust.c JULY 7.—For some weeks past the wea ther has been exceedingly dry, which threatened de struction to all vegetation ; but we are happy to state that, in consequence of a tine rain, which commenced yesterday morning, the face of nature has assumed a more cheerful aspect. There is now living at Mr. Betts's, fishmonger, in Prince's-street, Westminster, a poor old woman who has actually lodged in the same apartment from before the Coronation of George 111. till the present time, and who, ou receiving notice to quit the same on ac count of the approaching ceremony, refines to go, con sidering it an extreme hard case to be turned out of her lodging. The visitors to see Westminster Hall and Abbey yesterday morning, were very numerous, many of them of the first rank. Upwards of 100 addi►ional hands were pat on yesterday morning, in order to for ward the different works, which are all to be finished this week. The applications for tickets fur admission to the galleries to witness the passing ceremony, ex reed all expectation. PRICE OF STOCKS ' Bank Stock 434 per Cent. Red 774 If 11 per Cent. Con. 76$iff se per Coot. R7ll per Cont.. perCt.Nevy 109 i 41 3 per Cent. Ltitg i..n I 9 7-161 Imp Seer Cent. Irish 3 per Cent. I DAY AT win O'CLOCK. India Stool 2 5 Dittoßondo —4. s:s 58s. pm South-Sea Sin k South Flea Old 41n. EI 11111s2d. 3.1..15. pr. Omahas for Mo ey pas Rank for Amu t India for ditto Con, for Acct 7:11111 Lott T.caats all. MGM WATER AT LANDOM-RRI - oE To-MORROW. Marring 15 as. after 10.—E%eniag 19 m. a'ter I I. Co ktateiimatt. " TUE lI*MISS STATISM Pel " IS INCARPORATED WIT 111" TIM STAMIIIMICI LONDON: TUESDAI EVEN:IG, JE.I 10, 1921. THE QUEEN'S CLAIMS, Stranger• were not admitted into the Cockpit this morning. The usual course is, fur the decision of the Council to be kept a secret until their Report shill have been laid before the Crown and approved. It is then to be published by the Clerk of the Council. It is rumoured that the decision in this else will not be published until after the prorogation of Parliament. French papers to the Bth instant arrived this morn ing. The news of BONAPARTE'S death had reached Paris, by a telegraphic despatch, the preceding evening. The journals are very brief in noticing the interesting occurrence, and content themselves with quoting the accounts of it from the London papers; An article from Vienna, dated June 20, gives the in! telligence from Hermanstadt, stated below, which we had previously received by the German papers. The only addition it makes is a statement of the fate of THEODORE. It is said that having been surprised and conducted to Y t rsilanti at Tergowitz. he was condemned to death the 7th of June, by a Council of War, and executed the same day. An article from Madrid dated June 2A, by ex. press, states that a petard which had been discharged at Valencia, in the vicinity of the public walk, on the evening of the 19th, had set the people of that city in motion. The agitation was great, and occasioned a rumour to prevail that it was a signal to set General Et to free. The Captain General and the Political Chief proceeded through the city to re-establish tranquillity. The Military Chief issued a Pro clamation to quiet the minds of the people, and to discover the authors of the disorder. The plan of conspiracy discovered at Seville, had ex tended itself to Xeres as well as Cordova. The General Grimarest and the Brigadier Mir, were to be chiefs of the movement under the name of the first and second commandant of the Army of the Faith.— Amidst the numerous arrests by the Authorities are mentioned the Brigadier Mir, D. Jean Data, an auditor of marine, a sergeant, a capuchin friar, and another person well known. Many other individuals suspected of having taken a part in the plot have fled. On the 26tis two deputies submitted to therottes a projet tending to enforce the Spanish Constitution in Mexico, and thus to preserve the integrity of the Monarchy. A Deputation of the Cortes having waited on the King to announce the approach of the termination of the Sittings, his Majesty made known his intention of ap pearing in person on the occasion of the closing. The Committee appointed to make a report on the state of Spain, has represented to his Majesty the necessity of convoking an extraordinary Cortes during the recess. —His Majesty immediately submitted the matter to a Council of State. and it was therein decided that there should be an extraordinary Cortes. The King will in timate his intention on this point in his Speech at the closing of the Session. The French Chamber of Deputies assembled on Friday, as appointed, and proceeded to a farther dia cussion on the projet relative to the Censorship. M. de Donald spoke in support of the law. In the course of his observations he said, where the popular influ ence was encouraged there must be inevitably a war between the two parties of the king and the people, and two powers created two societies which could not exist in the same state. M. de Uirardin delivered an able reply to the last speaker, and 'hewed clearly that the Censorship was unconstitutional, and contrary to the spirit of the charter. Ile was repeatedly interrupted. Several speakers followed on both sides. M.Dtapleasis Greneilan, when it came to his taro to address the Chamber, mounted the Tribune and unfolded an im- Imense roll. His voice was so feeble that be cold not be distinctly heard. Previous to his speaking on the projet, lie presented a sketch (is he called it) of the despotic reign of the usurper and an enumeratio a of his most zealous adherents. But," added he " the Usurper is no more."—(lnterruption in theCenere.)— Then turning towards the left side, " Cry now," •:,id he, if you please, Vine rEntperettr." All the Mem bers, on both sides, immediately qnitted their- place's, the Ministers went out, and the Orator left she Tri buue without delivering his speech. The sitting was adjourned. FRENCH Ft:NOS.—The Five per Cents do not appear to have experienced the rise, an account of which stated to have been received yesterday by e : On Friday they opened at NE 40c. and ! 1 .6f. 30c.—Bank Actions, 1535 f. Nris pagers to the 7th instant had arrired. The King went on Thursday to where he proposes holding bis Court for —Accounts from Madrid had reached the 29th, and from Iron to the t fith ult. solution for convoking an Extraordinary of the Cortes was carried by a majority of * *; ! .i I , '.,, i • t 0 ..: ) : ... . , 1 ( 1 1 4 ... t lilt a at presrioody tit. Cloud. six weeks. Pods to 'rhe Re- . lleetiag LW to 7,