The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-14 00:00:00

1 Aril I,IcyTE tiLIG B NCB. 13 AL. Atratter 13.-4-Sailed Ma lidujestru7atilp r.„thae.horiattri, for the lirvet.-s-Arrived the,ri. *ne er, feign a efilil•%—lboosein as per lest. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 13.•-•PeS beck the iladtess ( r ein Batavia for London.—His Majes ty's . Carte , . 11,4rolitiee and Prometheus are come into hare b„ s r to be paid of.—Arrived the Rosaries froth a FALMOUTH, AUG Arrived his Majesty'e brig Wino, from a cruise.—bailed the Shamrock, es. • cruise. . . . HARWICH, AUGUST 13...-Arrived the Piece el o,, n ge picket, with a Mail a.id passengers. free nonand.--44i1c1 the Lord Castlerveeh packet, with ditto, for Holland; and Beeefey packet,. with ditto, for Coshevon• HULL, Atm. 11.--Arrived the Trafalgar, Do•. se tt, from Greenland, with seven fish. Avg . It Ellison, Storey, frets ditto, with ell (Oh ; Unity, Poll, from ditto, with NORTU Suier,a, Auo. lA.—Arrived the British Qv* Beautymaa, with seven fish; 130 tone of nil. GRATIWEVID, Aoo, 18.--Arrived the Anna Re becca 441 ff, fro= Bremen ; Mary Russell, from Gailipnli ; James, Lawson, from Ries ; Lady France 4. Howard, from ClStrimi Pearondia, Birks, free Greniegen ; V' ere Alicia, &nick, from ditto ; Vrow Margarettr, Rebore, from Rotterdam; anti Frieelschoft, Baasard, from Amstettiam.—Sailed the Enterpris Martin, for Ostend ; Susan, kyles, for Newtoeudl*, d ; Marquis of Anginal, Foster s for Ostend; mad Fanny, 'Taylor, for retersbersh. THE HARVEST. • flosvotr (torcor.wsutte), Ana. 11.—The wheat steer in general look promising, but the oats are likely to tern ep light; they are all now ripening Very feat, and a considerable quantity of them will require te coMe d o w n in the course of theenasing week. Bands are so exceedingly aotrce, that on Monday last 10-.* day ***actually bid at Boston for nest week, bet without ef f ect. Such a want of men has never been witneeseel in Holland Fen since its enclosure, which in atisc*ril Of 55 years ago, and they are also, said to be secs stare* in the Wildmere and West Fens too. ~IIaItWSIUST. AUG. 11.--. The harvest proceeds tepidly in this county, all descriptions of torn ripen with almost unparalleled celerity. Many of ear sneigt,hnoring farmers, who in 1816 had scarcely commenced carrying their grain at our October fair, late already made several stacks this season. Some s amples o f eacetleut new wheat wee. prodaced to oar market ou Saturday lest. Yesterday morning the, principal C asbter of the Bank of England waited On the Gentlemen of the Stock Eschange, to Woe* them the CUANC2I4.Oi of the EXCHEQUER would he ready to receive their bidding, roc tee first State Lottery far the year 1818, on Sit..tday, the 22d instant. It is stated in the Phitadviphia Franklin Galli., that the thermome . er in. that city lately stood it" 102, average 100 ; and that four or five pereowi died by imprudently drinking cold water, notwitla: stand's% the f.enuent warnings that have been given: NOVI sCIAL THEATRICALs.—SINCLAIR has been r eceived with great favour at Liverrool. The. LbeeJ pool Advertiser of the 10qt inst. pays the follovrisigi just tribute to the merits of this pleasing singer :71 " Mr. SINCLAIR concluded his engagement at owe Theatre on Friday lest, by his appearance as Fraisels Osholdistone, in Rob Roy Mac Gregor. hir.Slia- 1 Guam's eacellence was deeply felt sad acknowledged In roe simpilclty and isthos of " Mg Love is like the Red. Rose," and " aits4l Lang Sy • ;" for the spirit and energy with w hich he sung b` Scots wha hoe zee Wallace bled; " the plaintive effect of " Has she then fated in her truth ;" and the anacreontic play Mops. of " L ove among the Roses." We have never herd songs of the latter description given with greater effect: nor can we withhold the feeble 144 b o lo o f ou r sypigese from the beiotifol ballad a Dawn* Maid I adore thee." W•feel ,osorliptea. sore in molting the great hoorov4Mpeut Mr. SINCLAIR has made since last beard him, both is idle, and facility of 000loadoii. The boas* was crowded at a very Pally Near. erecotpts amounted In upwards of 2.001. Mr. SiNGLii a looses Liverpool fur Chet. Wham" FATAL. TunPei* Spas.—The thunder storm ezperieuced at loveriseas Do Friday, the 24tb alt. be. cline fatal in its progress along the coast of Gatti tress; at Lsbater. she lightning forcing a passage through Mr roof of a hoots, killed a boy and a cow who were in the apartment appropriated to the cattle, leaving very little appearsote of external in. jut y ; the tempest extended its horrors to Orkney, and itt the island of Stronsay a shower of bail which accompano . d it did considerable damage to the Corn, potatoes, &c. Several windows were broken, and • • number of geese and wild fowl were killed by the ip ki t. s i mms —some of which measured ail inches in circumference. The shower was not of long dom. lion, sod the injury was happily couirsed to a few' !arms. Ezectmost•---Last Saturday David Pour was banged at the new iron platform outside of the guard house 4,1 the County Jail, pursuant to his sentence, for robbery, at the last Assizes for Waterford. lie had been sentenced for Saturday week, but was re. spited in consequence, PIP believe, of some b o nitos applications for mercy. His cue, however, did not appear entitled to m itigation, and the propriety of the decision we understand to be fully acquiesced its even by these whom humanity induced to apply for a commutation of punish ment.—( Waterford )liirror.) SUICIDE.—A middle aged woman was observed 011 Tuesday last walking near the River side at Green.; wich in a very melattchtsly manner, and as .it was supposed that she. meditated an attempt on her life, she was watched at a diatance; after walking to and fro for a considerable lime, and thinking no one near, she precipitated herself into the water ; assist ance was immediately sent from the shore, b.rt vain, before it arrived she had sunk. The body was dragged for, but could not he found. Some new Hops have already made their appear. ance in the Borough, which, et so early a period, we think is a rif(Wingfette , floprero•ipisterf. Two pocket , from Mira. Mescals, of Peacemarsh t Keit( ) were surd ea eduesd.ay ) at 261. per. ex t. Tt!r, S'l'Airg. o . 4 nt __ e : LAXIA ATORIMN,,JoiceiLISONM N 75%. A jemmy, the* DerltrAkad Nettie/bona. has Riven its opportoolty for some personal enquiries into tas-fate ,of those who had virtue enough to deserve the hotel of a Sidmoeth, en Oliver, soda Castle reagh. 'the grass hos clissed already opens the sor rows and the insults one., of the victims of Oliterian treachery, and the petty vengeance of our " moral Admiuistration!" Bitkin and Haynes are DEAD! Their widows and astir orphans most breathe in di,- tress mid misery " curses not loud hat deep," upon their murderers. Both these men were prisoners in Oaf joil—oamoly,. that of Lincole:—snil they both declared that the cause of their death was to be sought for in the unmerited confinement and the treatment they received. Birkin was a strong healthy Mao; and Haynes was rapidly recovering from a slight indisposition, when the marauders of .aelbority seized upon them, and plunged them into solitary and unwitoless;me cells ! Thus, with the suicide of Riley, the Administration may beast that it has rewarded THREE MEN with DEATH! for being hottest—fur daring to point's a virtes . which the authors of their misery bad not ! Hoar it, Lord Sidmoeth— Riley. Haynes, and Bit kin ire DEAD 'their death, has been produced by the prosthetic+n of the powers of an Ace, which was igivitts to Nos, and not to destroy ! Come, and on the .grave of your victims protest your innocence, and, if you dire, ask ao outraged "Deity to record youe plea. Come, and tell the widows and the orphans, whom you have made so —comer, and tell them, if hypocrisy coald carry its unseemly face so far, come and tell them, that you have desi rot ed their husbands and their fathers hi hod compassion so the ti , ate ! Tell the fatherless 411 the widow that it was neces sary to take frost (item the fatter, the s.ippiirter, mod the friend. Otwie, kneel upon the corpses which the earth lay cover, but can eeeer hide from 'our view ; Cal, kneel upon theta, and Spin sweat test they tier, traitors! Let the holy (tend Spies, and the Worse employers of Spies cone and assemble resold the mouldering mamba of . theit deluded dopes, and consecrate the memory of their misdeeds. Col lect the bodies, and place them uncovored to the public view on the shot of one of the new churchess, rod dedicate it to repentance while there twit time. The mind sickens at the contemplation of your 110.• deeds—what will be your [Maass when Heaven demands retribution, sod the hoer of delasioa le rag by CORFLAGRAIWIC 'On Wednesday sennielt, shoat eight e'eleck in the emestag, the foa.cover at litgh Oekheas, about a mile hoe Mansfield, was dbcoverest to be ea ire, end, owing to its extreme dryness, burnt with the greatest peseible rapidity. The light 'hone with the most awful grandeur on the sorrousibug country, the hills of which were covered with spectators.-- Several hundreds of people immediately repaired to rho wet, and great anziety was betrayed for the *01'• Needing valuable plautations beitalgia; to she Date of Portland, which most have been burnt up hod it not been for the strenuous ezertions of a great nem her of men sod boys, who, by cutting doom and clearing away the WM, fortanately cut eil i ferther communication, and about balf•past eleved'all woo coosidered safe. happily no accident occurred; as was to be feared, from the great confusion, and nom. ber of hatchets, &c. which were wed. About the same time the valuable woods at Throsby Perk, the seat of Earl Maurer., were also on fire, winch had *wended a considerable distance, and, we are sorry to add, was not extinguished at a late hour oo Thurs. day evening. A return match of cricket was played on Kenning. ton-common on Wednesday last, between the Gen tlemen of the Saturday's Kennington Club, and the Gentlemen of the Blackheath Club, when the latter Gentlemen won easy, having five wicke , a to go down, when they were declared the winners. The earthquakes now prevalent nn the Continent are supposed to denote the approsching C..egreas of the Sovereigns, a meeting generally attended with dislocation of territories. Wednesday seittnight in esplosinn so• k place in Wsßlend colliery, Newcastle, by which one man and two boys were killed, and another man 4 _angerno.ly burnt. The accident arose from the Sena • tio held the " Davy" falling with it, and injuring the lamp. The escessi.e heat recently experienced, says a Paris Paper, has given rise to several meterological observatione of some interest. It is remarkable that the heat has been nearly equal throughout Europe under all latitudes. 'Die thermometer , at Rome, at Berlin. at Madrid; at Vienna, at Marseilles, and st linndon being very nearly at the same height. Wednesday night, about II o'clock, as Captain FertIMICSO was going along Piccadilly, near Coventry. ' House, be was stopped by a well.dressed man. who accosted him by name, and was entering into con. gyration, when three others came round the Cap. teen and healed him. and robbed him of a valuable gold chronimeter and appendages, and bin pocket. book, containing Bank of England notes to the imount of 7fil. Wednesday night, as Mr. Ellis, a pilot, was pro. seeding along Tooley.street, he was su 'delay stir. rounded by a gang of five or sin fellows, who hustled him, and robbed him of his pocket-books which cone . Seined several Bank-notes, his Pilot's Warrant, and' Ist her documents. Tuesday, Mr. Abbott, coach.maker, in the Rent. Aimed, sent a scan , n ame d Geor g e Dru kin, who bad been nearly two years in his service, with a 201. Banknote to take up a Bill of &change which lay ,at a house in Stanhope-street ; the man did not re. tern, and the nest day an application was made for (payment by the holder of the bill, and it was then discolored that he bad absconded with the money. 1 Coate Excn A vidit, Ave. 14 .— A Wile supply of %S i lent, at Illoodny's prices.—Oats ta. eheoper.--lo Barley, Peas, old, odor onldes to alserotian. SMITHFIELD MARKET, Atte. 14. 1.0 sink thy Oral, per stone of tam. Seel ... 9s. 1111. so 4s. 104 1 Heed of Cattle Ms day s Minos ..4s. 04. to ss. N. peso, stew ....ss. Od. so ss. 6e. Sheep and Lambs ....... 9,1 Pork —.ss. 04. m ss. rid. Calves 5llll Lamb....ss. Ott. to 6s. 04. Pies NAY-MARKET. Day ...... 61. Os. Ml. to tn M. Ss. 0 4 . Clover .... 51. Os. rid. 91. O. Od. to 21. 10.. W. BMW .... A. Os. ltd. :. FAKRINGDOPI WITHOUT. • Yesterday a Wardmote was held In St. bride's Morels, Fleet-strut (Mr. Alderman 'Wahiawa le Ate Chair), for the purpose of electing a it and pre. per person to MI the office of Corelllea Coencilasso o(sbe Ward for the remainder of the year, in the roam of Mr. Waithmen. The Lord Mayor's precept hav ing been read, Alderman WAITIIKAS said, they OM called to emcee a very saleable and important peisilege. I had been customary, and no doubt was proper, in! those who had held that situation before him, .to es — press their opinion as to 'the utility and importance of returning such persons to monad them in the Corporation, with a due attention to their Consti tuents' interests. Bat in that Ward, more especially, be knew that any such admonition was more a thing of custom than of necessity. They were well aware of the important duties snitched to the office of their Representatives in the . Corporation. They kitew that the City of London gave the tone to the whole country ; and that, therefore, it was their defy to return such men es were likely to uphold the chi. racier and consequence of the City. This was the more necessary as the Corporation of London bad more thin once preserved the Constitution of the country, and might be coifed on seals hide the same. Besides an attention to these *rest poilliel duties re quired from a Common Colincitemile. lbw Worthy Alderman enumerated all tie various `total doles attached to that situations. e bed said this more as a matter of form. and to resided them of the import , , aoce r d the duty they were about to discharge, than to' instruct theta in it. The name of Mr. G. Clarke, Clive and Contention, isd been banded to him as being a fit and proper person for them to choose, and he was ready to hear any other Gentleman put is no mination. Mr. flames then proposed Mr. R. Taylor, Cl.. I seri sod Stationer, and espreesid his conviction that If they did Mr. T. the honour to elect biro, be would discharge the duties of his station to their entire sa tisfaction. Mr. Coma seconded the nomination. U. hoped the Worthy Alderman, on whom they bad at last conferred the well-earned rewards due to his tried services, would long continue to preside over them. Nothing distiegoished fre'men from slaves, so mach as the surdas of the elective franchise. That en abled them to hold their heads erect, aird show that i they were not the tools of an overbearing aristo. cracy. The °tiaras of London stood in a very high and proud siteatiew. Though Ministers had for a time suspended their liberties, yet the acquittals of Hone for his Parodies, had shown that the cartes of freedom always moved in an inverse ratio to the wishes of its enemies. Beside', she victories gained by the !Wends of the People, at the late General Declines, had placed the citatory in thelliehest pint of view. Let that Werilmote, then, be on its guard, not to return • man to the Common Council who would insist in polling the country down from the proud eminence it had attained to. It was perhaps easier to describe what • man was not, than to tell what he was. He would therefore say, that Mr. Taylor was not e friend of the present Ministers, nor of lauded nthiberst Represieutation ; he was net a friend to keeping up a large Standing Army in time of peace., to crush our own liberties, and those of Europe; nor was he a friend to Oliver, Cashes, mod others, the protegees of Ministers ; bat he was • friend to political, chit, sod religious libdrties ; and of rational end constitutional Reform. Mr.Ccettni, the first Candidate pot ki nomination, then came forward, and said, that, as Mr. Tayise's principles and kis were she same, be should dotage for the protent, and offer himself to their notice at she end of she year. Mr. Taylor's name was then put to the show of Ilan 1, and his election declared to b e unanimous.— Sns ti of his friends Limo intimated that he is now in Ireland, and consequently could not morn them shacks for the honour which bad jest beets conferred open him. The Deputy of the Ward, then Moved a Vote of Thanks to Alderman %Mean, for his upright coo- duct in the Chair that day, which was carried maul. mouldy. Me. COATIs said, he might be out of order, bat he was sore he was within the bounds of propriety, ss hen he proposed a Vote of Thank' to their Worthy Alderman, for the manly, independent, and consti. tutional course he bad all along pursued; and for the great and valuable services he bad rendered to the City of London. and the country at large. Mr. Wrii.Lirms seconded this motion, in doing which, he pronounced' just eulogises on the Worthy Alderman. It was proper, he said, for men, when they found themselves pursuing a serum of error, to alter their track. Their Worthy Aldermen bad never had any occasion to change his, as he started at an early period of life, in the true and constitutional road. He (Mr. W.) was convinced, that if their Wor thy Alderman's principles had been pursued by Mini ster', the People would wirer have been, as they now were, bowed down by excessive titillation, net would they have suffered in themselves, or in some of their friends, by being imprisoned without a cease, or dis charged withoot a trial. The motion was carried neat. con. Mr. Alderman WAtTatIAW then came forward, amidst load applause. lie said that he had received too many proofs of their kindness to require the ono offered to him on the prevent occasion, to convince him that his political conduct had met with their apple betion. Those marks of esteem would tend to mi ., mutate others to pursue the same line of conduct. In reviewing his past life, he found that he might on many occasions have advocated their cease with more ability, bet he was not conscious that he bad ever shrunk from discharging his duty. He congrotaltited them upon the choice they had made ; he was con. winced, from his observation of Mr. Taylor's conduct, that that Gentleman would serve them faithfully. The Wardmote was then dissolved. PAILTRIDOM—As a proof of the strength and number of Partridges this goo summer has produced, there are at this time 22 birds of a covey full no the sing, in a field belonging to Mr. Shaw l a Fanner, fear mites from Wades's Mill, Hurts; and Ina kid within half a oils of It than is anothe r cole y of `Widen. WAITING err s. p FRIIC\DS Qv RISFUtti at iiIN MINGII4.II. A Deseret, atqfnablage es the' fared, of Reforill dined together at the Vausnali Coder's, Birming.• ham, on Tuesday, the 4th instant. Since the year 091, when the Church and Ring.mobs were testis: plod by the Magistrates of this loon, to commit every spectral °Zoology upon the friends of the thaw. leg liberty of Preece, esti! within Os sat 1811100df ao display of popular opining has be-n witneoted in Birroinoham, esrept the Meetings held to procure the abolition of the Orders in Council. Al the period alluded to, only 81 Gentlemen, dined together to commemorate the principlet which pre birth to the French Revelation. On the present occsiion two hundred and thirty met to Commemorate the progreis of Reform is England. All the bed influence once posse,* by thrillers's of coeropt Ministers over the. .. minds of the notalilude has 'stashed. The People. are no longer the crude materials of II Court, nor In be moulded into every form that the wantonness et • power, and the profligacy of despotism may teviitto They begin to see, and to Mat, for themselves. They are throwing off the shackles of ignorance and taper. Milian, _and developing their pOWelli as Merl, at. freemen. Their cause, they petceive, has been be. trayed by fraud, and deserted by cowardice ; and they will mot it no longer is the hands of incipeo • city or deception. All the reamising infantile sof a corrupt system is of no soil to check the cerrebt of opinion which rolls steadily on, accutaulatingla its progress, and gathering like n_teighty river, as it lows, its tributary streams. Tito. Country Press, with soo4i honoarable . escrpOpbl,.ii the only toot cip that remain to be destroyed,., keg practice ht bad habits, and in bad company,t. ,tenderest it voles.. tarily shackled to the Witt,', " Ill ' and mint ag principle renders it oppboeik •i s . People, GO far,, as to libel those who ssptert„ ; 'fir waist of some other and better ntedire el.dlefnliosicattan. This progress of public opinion iti‘initctikiles all oppOi: A . • tiros to arrest its soots,. lit 4, ih:. email gg A • end truth wants no losiliptlOn to iltslingehatAlr o t l t, falsehood.. All it asks is the libe_,ltynf ;!Wea Ong end a ppro4t, obeli, in declaim , if alkeleoriotti Kg l i lO its ladling, typo lashing on Ike liteedAi qfre 4 dospotism. l „_ Sir CeektaltWOVlttsY, of Wtaseley Park, bar. log accepted an invitation to attend the Meeting, was unanimously requested to take the Chilr) ! to welds the Baronet consented. Afyitr thngletil Doi tOs moved, Sir Charles gave the folliorkig rossys's..... . The King and Coastitopoo, sail a speedo Terme/ 4 y to both. • Tor Prople; th' 0..111 jot .ourre Of a stiontly. .„,. rtL After deem" Sir . CHAILIs rtET rose to rte. pose one, which , he obseetecl, e e %cgs certoto would be drank with katheilism; fni it was the health of an htdividnal, who had eteiled himself in their cause. tie meant to give tke health of. T. I. iviwolir, the Intrepid, rollgluisest, a n d eloquent ?first or toe People. Mr. Wants*, in returning thanks, remarked that he stood in the proudest of ell possible situations j since be received the approbation of so eummoos and so respectable an Ast.erobly. He was not sellielently vain to invagine it was htins4f, but tho prioriples of which heist the ardent, elthougli Ste butoble ad"o• cite; which hadtbeen 'so , eittlonlastlcally retelecti by the company 'Weskit: Of ttioie principles, hie name could only, in the present instance, be considered ab the iodieraltd hi Mr blinself identified with theta front the conviction that nothing less would rescue the State from the ruin to which it was hastening.— He had no other wish thin to be the ocrosionsi•me6 *oriel of those principles, if they succeeded; or to be one of the records of their existence, should they perish. Of this, however, he had no fear—the stosation of the country at the commencement of the past year, and at the present period, was very eir. Arent indeed. The cause of Reform hod gained eta eminence scarcely to have been 'spotted by its most ardent friends. Thanks to the avowed hostility of his Majesty's Ministers, for their hatred was honour, and their persecution advantage, the rause of Re form had tripled the number of its advocates, and accelerated • hundred.fuld its progress. All their blows at the liberty of the subject bad fallen on themselves; sod although many bad suffered seder their contemptible and unfounded persecution, they had conquered no ooe•—not even so humble au inn dividual as himself, who owed all his importance to having been found la the breach, when they' were striding over the freedom and welfare of their coon. try. For their attack upon himself, he was mock their debtor, and felt as grateful to the Ministers for their favours @gegen they would wish him. Per. sons% cousideratioisa, however, on so& an occasion, must be overlooked ; and personal danger must be disregarded. Our enemies will attempt, as they have done, to bribe, or frighten es from the pursuit of justice. The Public were not now, however, to be deceived—it was evident that they most furnish the bribe which they received; and us to fear, in a just cause, he was confident it was unknown to the A s sembly he then had the honour to address. The public opinion was formed eosin the justice and nee cessity of Reform; and that Reform the Public would steadily pursue, and honestly oppose every thing which had not for its end, the happiness and the security of the People. The nation had been RC• cased of madness and of violence! Yet whet Into had it brakes, 7 what reason had it outraged ? Nene, whatever. Appeals to the People had simile been fairly heard, and fairly answered, when the public gond was submitted to their decision ; but they did not comprehend that complaint could be treason, when bare-faced oppression stalked *brood ht the sunshine of Ministerial favour. Despair was net with him a word in fashion; he had seen nothing to despair of, even when the threatened vengeance ref the peppers in office appoored to An on the poli •tical horizon like so angry comet. When the storm k in the greatest fury, the calm is only the nearor ,, - whets , the night is darkest, the morning will the sooner oppear--the night of terror Ind already passed ; and the timid, ashamed of their opprehen. sine, were buckling on the armour of motto, to join the marld.rd of Truth, of Justice, and of Par. liamentoi Reform. The Rights of the People were the only just basis of authority; end o b e dience was their duty, only while their rights were respected. Thole rights went now usurped by a faction, as toskaown to the Con. siltation, as detrimeotsl is the eetiee. This faction . _ _ -►. • • aj II on. air' the ' . - -. -41 '1 ~~ i