The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-14 00:00:00

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Antes of she Rtitisti Cusotlaitieg, =established et the gloriosa 'lle • Matta. of 161111. That asenemit thermal, nets of imps i,mcest.aing 19 Public* the tappitsess of his fell .w-eitisess mid SW imams° of the aloe .try. the selecting ssf that odious leipisillse, the Income Tat, stud the e••Io ectiun of Or Igoe existieg abuses is the &distaste's of Children jig; • Chrbe. 3.1.41111,.are isalaly le be attributed is Ids pers-verance WO economic. Thar h% the Isttri,tity of bit principlev—hy the egusisteney ef his tombs& t—by his acersabilitympog all iteetishies—hy ha ta lent in debase—bis indefatigable applicatlea public bailees* ,—ask knouteitsr wed esperiesice la the trading asiceras of the olis, acid especially by his thorough ampealetoisce with every thing pertaining to the Chartered Ri g ht, no d p r i v il ege , - , ,dt t h e Cstr e.f tond..D, Mr. Waithitgo Mai pared himself moll -*role utisailied to represent Ibis City is Parliameet. That this Meeting will therefore use their utmost ezertioos to mare Mr. Watchmen's Birctiosi. SAMUEL GOQDHEHERE, Chairman. pe ss w e d f i ksgaisioestr; That the Thoth of Mil Meeting be gives lo Mr. Alderman Good bebere, fur his able aid impartial ca ldera to the Chair. •\ . _ - pities Or STOCKS3THIS I)AY AT ONK O'CLOCK. Bank Sank - 5 per Cent. Navy 105 ft 'S per Cent Red. India Kends 93 94 p 3 per Cent. Consols 78j Stack , Canna. for Aec. 79fie Long Ana. '4 jar Cent. Kratequer 1411 b 11 13 p 1 -1 1...".."---• _ THE STATESMAN. LONDON: •AZIIRDAY, MARCII 14, 1118 .....1111.w. , ..- On the third reading of the Mutiny Bill yesterday evening in the Hoes* of Lords, Earl Gatos/molt proposed a reduction of 13,000 moo is the military force. The noble minded End showed strongly that 'the force kept op had little else to do than to enslave the People. Lord BATuuntr's 'Fitments to disp►ove this were coriously drawn from a specification of the distribution of the force which loads the empire, and the usual jargon about the altered circemstahces of the country. His Lordship thought it a triumpbantrefuta. lion to the charge of acting unconstitutionally iu keep ing ape large military force in lime of peso, to say that al with the exception of the London service s and a dht•ict of twenty-five mile. round it, there was only the member of four thousand men!" As to the ser vice of the Metropolis, be tells us, "The necessary somber for that duty was usually calculated on a principle, that the number of troops engaged for that purpose should be equivalent to the proportion of three nights in bed for one on duty ; bat in the pre sent instance, the number of men was so restricted as not to allow them more than two nights in bed for one on duty." The Noble Secretary, however, does not think proper to @spatial* on the many lines of circumvollation that ore drawn around the capital, the fortifirati 4444 s with whirls we are happily surround ed in time of peace and tranquillity, as the Indemnity Bill says, or expressly inform no why the soldiers may not all go to sleep together, and fairly nap out the week. The amendment was negatived without a division. .m.m. In the noose of Commons the Indemnity Bill went through its last stage and was finally passed, after some amendments had been proposed sod rejected, all of which appear to us extremely necessary, sod ouch as justice would base dictated to an impartial Government ; but all sock alterations were re sisted as unnecessary, and what it still more • Gemini in the argument, as calculated to de. stray the fine cooly:Wm of the Bill, some spe cimens of which were appropriately adduced to the admiration of the House, by Mr. BROUGHAM. An • amoodniesit, similar to that which we hare so much rocommeaded, in order to give an opportunity of prosecuting the miscreant Oliver for his treason, was proposed by Sir Wag. BOAROUGus, namely, that the Indemnity should not be ostendod to thst6th of Jan. 18(7, tot the ArroanaT.Galliasal. said (and leerk thli Importance of this Matter from the answer), '• the House bad better reject the Bill altogether than admit this clause, as it would load to the dis closure of ell those trassodions which it soar the ob ject of the Bill to keep secret." The proposition was of course rejected. ~_ The news from America, brought by the New York Papers to the 17th February, in which we find strong oppearenests of active preparation for naval warfare, has escited considerable sensation. The fact of the American navy being about to be es. tended by the addition of tee Use of battle ships, and as many frigates, which are ordered to be built, can. not but be interesting. It forms a curious contrast to the situation of oer own navy. The Report from the Navy Board of the United States, to which the proceediogs for the Inman, of she Navy are stated, may be nothing more than the discharge of en effitild duty ; but there is greet ground for, sus pecting that there is something is timi Intent for which this preparation is made. Indeed, the athject of such an Intsesjea of the means of war cannot be mis taken, and thi jarrings between the Governments of Spain and the United States most suggest where the quarrel is fast maturing. We have always suspected that though the question of actual hostilities may yet / .. f a r T P "t+ rr '..=,7•1•P . ' ^. . -r /4 6 be attelipit il t sfia . **pot sa.4 plait* it;llitiet 11 s 0111141 Uft• li ft all tha t, colorise.' may wet he laimediately performed ' ', wawa line-of.hattle Alps tied siairigates will be eettablly launched, and that widths ibe paid liiieseibed by Government. There can be no doubt that a war with Spain would be very popular is the United States ; and there Iselin more reason to believe, that it would be the most fortunate event that could stator for the strut/cling Patriots in the Southern Provinces.— We know not whether our Government aspects each a collision soon, bat in consequence of the Ame- rican intelligence or some other cause, Russian pro. dace and the Funds appear to have been affected.— A great deal of hemp was yesterday perehased at advanced prices. It appears also by an article from Cherlesten„ that the relative position of the Portman. and Spanish forces on the Rio Plata, is not such as is likely, in the has., to promote the amity of tise.tw.o Courts which might be expected to unite in this crisis. The Portuguese are at once preparing .to defend Monte Video, and to commence offensive operations against Bemis Ayres: but Monb Video is still blockaded by ARTIGAII. ft is still asserted in the Papers by the Flanders Mails, that the Army of Occumtion sill retire from France in the coarse of the nest autumn, but with this reserve, that the Russian contingent cud some other, will remain, for a veer, on the right bank of the Rhine. A letter from Stockholm says, the Swedish troops have received a present in money, •pan the occasion of the new King's! accession.— This is a very intelligible policy in BERNADOTTIL The Duke of CAMBRIDGZ will be married, early in April, at Cassel, and is expected to arrive in this country, with his Bride, before the end of the mouth. The Dutch and Flanders Mails give a farther con tradiction to the atrocities imputed to the Dey of Autism. The answer to the enquirers Eller the Decline of CRWRIRLAIII., yesterday, was—" Her Royal High ness is hotter taday." Yestordsy the Prince of REsst-llomitmo re ceived a visit from Lord STEWART. New York Papers to the 16th alt. errivea yestev. day. They contain an important Report from the Navy Board to the Secretary of the Navy, stating the proceedings which have been had under the Act for the Increase of the Navy. In the State Navy. yard, there are the frames of 10 line-of.battle ships and 10 frigates. The Report concludes by saying, the Commissioners have no doubt of being able, " if it should be the wish of the Executive, to launch them within the period contemplated by the law." The Duke of DesoNsulat is arrived in town from his soot in Ireland. Sir GEORGE 110 PB if about to resign his sent at the Admiralty Board, on account of ill health t • and Sir Josarit Iroaxt resigns, as it is said, because Lord MELvit.i.c prefers another Gentleman as his confidential friend to himself. Sir Groans Coca. Roans and Sir litway Rotuma are to be the two new Lords. ORDNANGB ECONODIT.—It appears from the last Report of the Committee of Finance, that the boast ed retrenchment which was last year held forth to the Public as about to take place in the charge of his Majesty's garrisons, both at home and abroad, amounts this year to the wonder'sl seen of 8801. This reductioo consists in the discontineance of the miserable garrisons of Fort William and Fort Au gustus, which were erected in the Highlands of Scot. land soon after the Rebellion in 1715. TM saving is not quite half the amount of the salary of the Mas ter-General's privalc Secretary. The Fends were yesterday looking up daring a great part of the day. They had at one period reached 74 for money, and 78i for the account, bet to. wards the close of the market they fell back to 78 for money, and 784 for account, the prices at which they had opened. Mr. Gessontr.t. Ruitext.r. was obliged, from in. disposition, to pair off on the question of the Indem. nit, Bill. On the second reading be paired off with Sir ROBERT MOORS 011 1) and QU the third with Sir Jostrit oat s. We were mistaken in inserting Mr. B. Mostr.ano's June in our List of the Minority against the Indent. rite Bill, on Wednesday qjght. Some tolerable idea of the trifling cost of a rata atinscery, may be formed from the following filet : 'There is new for bearing in that Court a Bill, the sixpence of which for stamps and engrossing alone, amounts to the sum of eight hundred pousule. The Amsterdam of 74 guns, with a cargo of sugar, aratee, Ac. from Batasia to Holland, was totally lost in Mgt* Bay, Cape of Good Hope, the sod of Dec. She bad pat is there in cousequeoce of being die. masted. GBAND HURLING AND QUOIN! MATCUBS.—Pre. !joinery arrangerneots are making for a Grand Cricket end Hurling Match after Easter ' the former between English and Irish Gentlemen , m ad the latter between the Irishmen resident in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. The provinces of Ulster and Monsterare to burl against Connaught and Leinster, and preparations will he coedit for some august wit nesses of the sport who are expected to attend. 66 Where its the name of nohow are yoe goitigt" said • tradesman to another whom he. met running through Cheapside the other day with the utmost ex pedition. " Why," said the other, 46 I am sot going any where in the name of Forlume, bat I ern going in the name of Dm,. to order my share of the Port Wine that I ens entitled to, for yoe oust km4:- I hare got part of his lucky -111striber which to hale Four Pipes." " Well," but said the other, " why iir.sueh baste ?" " Beams 1 ern afraid all the good Wine may be gone, and yes know I Intestine (slee) . juice;' sad away he rats. •• rTI7;I7IIE - • ~. , • -- n•w r it 7 twirfrimemewtrastienott: s) 01 "001t05..t , 1.. itfe havestest *Wit hieteiy the local interests, bet mina the ,utteotion whole Cant ry, wr t t Het'Bo better then give • tem wiry of the cantina IMneed by the opposite Can. didates in Parliament during the lust few days. The subject led general interest; nod the -gross mine , presentation of some London . Newspapers show, that persons far removed from the County take an interest in it. Mr. Baorsonaw, beside his otsposilion to the op pressive measure of shutting the Courts of Justice against the complaints of all who have lately been Imprisoned on suspicion of political offences, has broeght forward the important subject of Educating the Poor, and has renewed the Committee, of which he is Chairman, which has already collected a great body of important evidence, and may now be ex 'peeled to lay the foundation of a system calculated to promote the universal diresion of knowledge. [For Mr. BROUGHAM'S speech on this important subject, we refer our Readers to the STATIISNIIN of the Bth inst.] On Thursday last Mr. BROUGHAM supported Lord AZTHORPR'S motion for repealing the Leather Taft, which Tax be had resisted ever since its introduction in 1812. The grounds of his opposition were chiefly its injurious effects upon agriculture, upon which - it operates in a manner too obvious to require description. The following is a slight sketch of his speech upon that occasion : " Mr. Bftocon.sw rose in consequence of an oh. aeration which refiectell on his Noble Friend— (Cries ef No, no! from Lord Castlereagh)—it was not necessary tier, to vindicate his Friend, but ' he would give his resoons for persisting in taking the sense of the Hooso on this subject. Ile did so on this ground—that two 'equities, by two Committees, had already taken place, one for six weeks, the other for a longer period, and no benefit resulted from them. Gentlemen on the other side were exceedingly fond of referring to Committees Petitions which. re quired no lamination ; but they obstinately - refused any reference, whets examinations and enquiry were quite necessary. When they on his side proposed a Committee on a subject on which they wished for in formation, the reply was, "Don't enquire ; you know nothing, and you shall learn nothing, upon the sub ject." When they knew every thing, and proposed a repeal, the answer was, 66 Committee, " " En. quire." Ile would leave the House to judge, who. ther, when all the matter was before the House, • Committee could be intended but to frustrate the object of the motion. His opinion as to the Tax was the same as it had been six years ego, when it was imposed. The Noble Lord had left nothing to be said in support of the motion ; but he could add to the strong argument,' adduced by him, that it was also the interest or the consumers to have this TES repealed. On this ground he should give , his vote against the To:. This, if possible, was a •till more irrefragable ground than the interests of the Petition ers. It was a Tax on a necessary of life. Seth a Tax was a solecism.- it was an arithmetical bleeder. Those who einpboyed labour paid it, and Covenantal, the greatest employer of labour, paid the most of it. Chancellors of the Exchequer were not fontiref con tacting, but they were always ear, to extend the talons of taxation. Ile was, therefore afraid that the Right Hun. Gentleman would lay his long hand on the only article which had hitherto escaped tax ation. The oil.dressed leather had never been taxed, and on that account it languished In neglect and de pression. The Chancellor of the Exchequer could sot, therefore, NI to apply his reviving touch to it, in order to raise it into importance and prosperity." The motion for the renal was carried by a ma jority of 94 to 81, and Lord ALTHORPR and Mr. BROUGHAM were appointed to bring in the Bill, which they did, and it was read • first time last night. Upon this occasion the Ministerial toter, were mastered with greet activity-; end among them were to be found Lord LONSTIRRR and Colonel Low-, THia, MR present Members for Westmorland, as RAI' OS Sir THOMAS ACLAND and others, who seem to imagine that the surest road to the favour of their Constituents, is a compliance with- all the - measures of Government. The misrepresentation of some hireling Prints upon the subject of this contest need hardly be pointed out. One sample may 'office. They have stated, that the Earl of TUANET (whom they abuse with every sort of personal malignity, because he is known to be friendly to the independence of his ne. live county), was the promoter of a riot at Maid. stone in 1816, when the proposers of an Address to the Princess Casacorre on her marriage were ill treated by the mob, and the Address prevented.— The truth is (and it is universally notorious), that Lord Tuans.s. was prevented from attending the Meeting by illness, hut that be was one of the Ad dressers, having, with Lord CAMDEN and others, signed aw Requisition for calling the Meeting—so that if ha bad promoted the petting, it mestlavebeitli piling himself! A Mosseta.—On Thersday night, a yoeng Lady, named Matilda Emery, was walking along Pico. dilly, on her way from a friend's house, towards bur home, when a man, having the dress of a gentlemen, addressed her, and was very intrusive. He accosted her with " How do yoodo, my dear?" , She walked on, making no reply; he continued to follow tier, and again said, "Now are you, love?" and pushed against ber in a violent manner, which caused her to reel some distance ; as she was reeling, the inhuman villain pet his hand up her clothes, and forced a sharp instrument into her side. She screamed very toed, and be ran off as fast as he could. She called out 64 I am stabbed 1" and several persons pur sued, bet he had gat such a._ distance before them, that he could not be overtaken. The female Wit Itssieted to St. •GeetOP'S Hospital by seise strangers. I —The Sat gems ezavained the Intend ; Indemnity nose of the vitals are Injured, though the wooed is serious. Suocanict Accinuwr.-.-A young wimMILM, servant to Mr. Mask, of Prince's.street, St. George's, wig -onsesieg bower Berkeley-street, yeignaday, with .a AIM ha berates and another in bee hand, shoo a led bins lashed out and itreelsbee spot the sh.toldee, whisk shivered it in a: slynnlisk 'lissome% .lilts me t .c. 419010 to Mr. Pratt's. tbs . oottlititi lass i :s *NW Okla r, e J *id ; sd•.; . . .- hit ,~ . ... •t.tp • .. AMR 0- • ("Rain& irrigLIAMING"- .1 • , —410 4 , .01 1 Bun% . 114netsm 130—Cemo dais bwel the L • the Favourite, Bretrooder,:lleelie fierreWeekoe u t Milled with the whets of the esstsPeed•heeetl e • engage • the Java and Ledy Carriers° isdisesse, twee* • respective destiosiiens t with NOM& tweeze at Atso sailed the whets et the homeward-bested f ee the.aleer.—Alk Iwo lost is coming ant of Reartgar e , and are peeling theeogh the Downs to the westward: —We have made strict enqeiry respecting the few* mentioned yesterday, as being lost on the Nade r bet cannot ascertain any farther partial's's. PORTIMOUTII I MARCIE 13.—The wind has tre e ,, North nearly all day, which his enabled the est . ward-boond to proceed, bet it has shifted to the W. N. W. this evening.—Arrived the sloop L e p e . tile Esperanto, from Cherbereh.—A seaman, who stated himself to belong to the American brig fraocir i of Portland, has reported to us, that on the night of the 4th instant she struck on a rock between Port: land and the Needles, and was totally lest, and only four of the crew saved. She was from the Sayannsbi with • cargo of tobacco! for Boome rs . MAIWATE, MAUCH 13.—Suited the Lord W e i. lingtoss, Keene, for Bengal, and the rest of the oat: ward.bound. hlAinUe Caps of GoodArriv [lope edthsTbz,:d. lane, Franklin, from the to Falmouth ; but last night it blew so very ha r d that Captain Franklin could not get into Fel mooth, and was obliged in consequence to ran for this p er t. She sailed from the Cape oa the Ist of January, sad l e ft there the Tree Briton and the Princess Charlotte, for Liverpool, and from St. Helena on the 14th of January. ALDSOlkorratr, MARCH 13.—The sloop Free Bri. ton, Mann, laden with gag -stones, from Leeds to Colchester, was forced en share by the violence of the wind and sea ye4tettlay morning, open Orfuol Beach; and immediately went to pieces --crew sated; and at the sante time was driven on shore, et th e entrance of Orford Bowen, the Liberty, Bard well, from London, with corn ; part of the cargo and crew saved : the teasel belongs to Snothwold. Simian, hi ARM I.—Sailed the Grenville Bey ) M•Williissis, fur the Davis' Straights fishery. The Hulls:ids, 'Andrews, from Charlton to Am. sterdam; end the Rose, Barry, from Lyme to Aber. deers, were driven on shore near Boulogne on Wed. uesday, and it Is feared will go to pieaa—cree• saved. ES.VBX ASSIZES. CHELMSFORD, Masc■ 11. The Court was again chiefly occupied . in petty COOTS of larceny ; the following, however, was an exception : Juhn Cox was indicted, ender Lord Elleaborolgh's Act, for cutting Mary Evans. a little girl of 10 years, with intent to doter beatify harm. Althoar the Prisoner was indicted in this form, hie *Wow, impetigo was to violate the person of the child ; end as she and her sister stated, the Prisoner, case to them lnc field, and seising the ' , meager, threw he, down and 'attempted a bratst purpose, which set readily effecting, he took his knife acv cat heels a manner not with decancy to be described. The wretch was known to the .children, who described his person, and he was immediately pursued sad up. prehended. On searching him the constable fiend • knife upon him, which•wee stained with blood. Mr. Awonrws, as Counsel for the Prisoner, raised an objection, in point. of law, that the case did not rome'withits the meaning of the Act, 'slat lotentioa was to ravish, and not to do bodily harm. The Learned Judge said, he would state the objec tion to the J,gdges. The Jety immediately found the Prisoner;— Guilty. tierce's! sheep-stealers were convicted lithe course of the day. In the evening, Mr. freajeent Owsiow and the Comtism* SiILIZASIT sat to try Pfillonefli. MAIN r,—Raisei, or ho is 'Herd to have led the two juvenile cofprits, Spicer toad Kelly, into the crime of uttering forged Benk-notes, and who were .'spited desist the Royal pleasure, WAS )astarchy Issoight up a awned time from tie House of Correction, before R. BAILER, Esq. Sir N..Cotunt was preeeet, and the esamination was kept so scrupulously a secret, that the Chief Clerk kept (Indoor. The Bank Solicitor was not presort, and the examinatioa rested chiefly on questions pet to the Prisoner relative to Limbrick, the officer. The r e'ipetge ropiest the Prisoner was for laugh's fared 't {tick-antes, and he was remanded till out Fridg ; *hen it is said he will undergo an examination before Abs. Magistrates appointed ander a lets Commissioe. flow-sTaarr.—Yesterday ntornieg Adkins, the officer, arrived in town from Newport; We of Wight, with fleary - Grainer in his custody, who absconded in consequence of his having been charged with robbing his master, James Ward, a baker of York.strret, Westminster, of various sties of money. —lle elide/relent an examination before Riciraeo ,Ihnetc, Esq. when it appeared that the Prisoner had been employed at a ;hop has Chandos-street, Covent-garden, belowging to the Prosecutor, which was conducted by his sister, when he received a Va riety of sums from different custoeters, and did not account for them. The particular charge gene into yesterday was, the Prisoner having received 61. 3%. -from Mr. James Stewart, of St.Martin's.street, Lei eester-agoare.—He was committed for farther exa mination. UNION-HALL—William By fi eld, a young mate of fespecteble connections, who resided in Prince's beildingq, Kong-street, Southerrk, a married man, was charged by Sarah Beach, theliaeghter of Mr. G. Beech, Red Linri.covrt, St. John's, Southwick, aged fifteen years, with ;jollying her person on the 4th el March instant. The exareirtatios was taken before I'. EvAnca, Em. in the private room. The Cons. ,plaineit is. a mwst remarkable lorntlinme •vri, acid le distantly reified to the Prisoner. The elbow) we' elleamdto. hove been committgd . in , the kitchee of Prisoner's house, where she 'hint by the diroviesre of her mother on some business-totie-wili. • Pfiernier we? committed to trial. • ;.. L hit t i larOoo4 AAA PAAH , Ard hv 0. 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