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

-4 11111 . 1111.11 . 1 the Colonies have delined granting certificates as re-7 quired by the section 9 and.ll of the Act of the 18th Oeo. IV. chap. 37. on the ground of their not having received any instructions oil this subject : I have it in command from their Lordships, to desire that the ne cessary directions on this subject may be forthwith transmitted to the said offices by you. And as it ap pears, that in consequence of the refusal of the officers of your department to grant certificates, several yes eels have lately arrived in this country from the Bri tish North American Colonies without these docu ments, and that they have in consequence thereof not been admitted to enter, I have further to desire, you will direct your officers to dispense with the produc tion of each certificates, in all cases of the vessels ar riving from such Colonies previous to the Ist day of December. , (Signed) ARBUTHNOT. To the Commissioners of Customs. Nobs —The certificates required by the abovemen , dosed Act were,that the Wood or Timber imported was really sod bona fide the growth or production of some (specified) British Colony or Plantation in America. Extract of a letter from Lisbon, of the 22d ult. :- 4'be Prince Royal and his Consort have beileordereti by the Cortes to return to Portugal immediately. The Prince Royal is to'be directed to go upon his travels, for the benefit of his education, and also his brother, Don Miguel. The King of Portugal : has determined to give every facility to Portuguese agriculture. His Majesty is already in correspondence with Sir John Sinclair and other distinguished agriculturalists in England. A letter from Madrid, dated September 25, says 4. The appointment of General Pamplona to be Minis ter of War in Portugal, has made a great sensation 'here. That officer is one of the Portuguese afrancesa dos. He had been condemned to death for contuma cy, and excreted in effigy. He escaped from the prisons of Bragan to France, where he obtained the comms#A of a military division. The Spanish afros cesados, fortified by this nomination, cry out loudly ozainst our etvernment. Certainly no impartial man can regard with indifference the miserable si tastion of this important fraction of the Spanish populatinn, which reckons among its numbers men of eminent merit, who have rendered, and may still render, great services to the country, and whose faults were only the inevitable consequence of the position in which they were placed." Private accounts from Petersburgh, received at Stock holm, state, that the Emperor intended to leave the ca pital to juin his army statiosid on the Turkish fron tier on the 19th ult. Extract of a private letter from Zante, dated August 5, 1821 :—We have received here the positive news of a signal victory gained at Samos by our countrymen over the powerful Ottoman fleet, which was almost en ' tirely destroyed, and are in expectation of the official confirmation. A decisive and favourable crisis for oar people seems to be at hand also In the Mona. The . • seige of Patras has been renewed with froth vigour since the withdrawing of the English division, which serves only to inspire our people with apprehension, and to afford encouragement to the Turks, who aft daily supplied by these masters of our's with provisions. The sense of horror inspired by the measures of that Go vernment, whose perpetual aim is to favour our im placable enemies, is inexpressible. It is said that Prince Ypsilanti is daily expected in the Mores. The enthusiasm of the Greeks is not to be described. They are now convinced that they must either conquer, or he completely destroyed. Every day affords fresh proofs of this glorious resolution. Many of the inha bitants of the slorea, who took refuge here in the com mencement, make their escape secretly to join their brethren in the Peninsula. Two weeks ago a number of young men of this island set off secretly for the AI ores, among whom were your friend Gum*. They go to avenge the outrage done to the Greek name by the government of the United States of the lonian Islands. BIRMINGHAM PITT CLUB.—A General Meeting of the Members of this Club took place on Monday last, when it was resolved that the Dinner which was to have taken place this year, should be post poned till October, 1823; and that in future it be held triennially. The Club could not have exhibit ed a mere unequivocal symptom of its decline. The total number of Bank Clerks dismissed is 125 :1 the dismissal took place in the most delicate manner, l the selection having been made by ballot, and all who l have served fifteen years and upwards being exempted from it. The Court of King's Bench sat yesterday morning at the Sessions-house Westminster, and again adjourned its sittings to Westminster Hall, to the 18th instant. — It is understood that the Sessions-he:lse will be wanted for its own business, and that thisAtise reason of the change to Westminster. The colliers at Westhomaallolitfiehl have already returned to their work. We hear that some others will begin on Monday, and it ii probable they will all be at work as usual by the end of next week. The coals are at present selling from 12s. to 15s. a waggon; but they will of course soon fall to their former prices. —(Glesgow Chronicle.) INFLAMMATIIRE NEWSPAPIIII.BEIWEEII one and two o'clock on Tuesday morning, the 25th ult., an alarming fire was discovered in one of the attics, in the dwelling-bouse of Colonel Lumley, at Cockney, in this county. The servant by whose e,arelessness the accident happened, bad taken a newspaper with him to read, and no doubt had fallen asleep while the candle was burning, which set fire to the bed, and ha bad bat just time to escape and alarm the family of their danger. The most fatal consequences were anti cipated, for the flame and smoke which instantly crossed the landing at the top of the staircase, to the opposite rooms on the door being opened, was so sorra eating that it was found impossible to convey the water (of which a plentiful supply was at band) up stairs. Ladders were immediately procured, and by extraordinary exertions, the fire was got under, and the damage sustained was confined to the room where it commenced ; the bed and furniture was nearly all destroyed ; the floor where the bed stood, was burnt through to the ceiling, and the window frame was much injured. Great praise is due to the servants and others from the village, for their ratable assistance.-- (Nottingham Review.) TIER KEW. (MK TN! 11011,210,1 PIPERS.) Ligon, OCT. 8.11141 King of England passed through our town yesterday, at two o'clock. His Majesty ordered his carriage to slop whilst he re ceived the congratulation of the authorites. During this interval, the garrison band played God rade Me King. His Majesty immediately afterwards continued his route for Aia-la-Chapelle, where he arrived the same evening. Baesszte, OCT. 2.—The Marquess of Londonderry, Lord Clanwilliam, and Sir B. Bloomfield, who left this town on Sunday morning, arrived the same day at Aix-la-chapelle, where they will wait for their Sove reign.—(Jonrnal of Belgium.) The Marquess of Londonderry, first Minister of his Britannic Majesty, is gone direct to Hanover, where great preparations are making for the reception of George IV .—(Oracle.) Preparations continue to be made at the Palace of. the Mime Bourbon. at Paris, on the chance that his Majesty may visit that City before his return to Eng land. CORRSSPONDSNCR RETWIIIIN SIR ROBERT WILSON AND: IRS COMNIANDIR-IN-CHILf. 18, Regent-street, Pall-mall, Oct. 9, 1921. • Overltstaw—l feel It to be my duty to lay before yool the copy of a letter which I addressed to his Royal Highness the Duke of York immediately on my arrival in England, with a copy of his Royal Highness's au swer.--4 am, Gentlemen, your very obliged servant, To the Electors of Southwark. R. WILSON. Regent-street, Oct. 8, 1921. Stn—l have bad the honour of receiving your Royal Highness's answer to my letter of the 20th oft. in whieb, after complaining that 1 bad been removed from the army without a hearing, and without even the statement of any charge against me, I respectfully demanded ao investigation of my conduct, either by a Court of In quiry or Court Martial. His Majesty's Ministers have advised their Sovereign to refuse this request, and thus I find myself, after so many years of service, subjected to the severest punish ment which can be inflicted upon a British Officer, *kb out being told of what I am accused. To defend myself against charges, which, if they eist at all in a tangible shape are studiously concealed from me, is evidently impossible. I can neither conjecture their motive, nor by whom they are preferred, nor on whose statements, misrepresentations, or fancies they may rest, whilst this concealment gives a sanction to every latitude of surmise in which malice or folly may indulge. It is true I have seen in the Papers, apd heard hy ru mours in society, a variety of things imputed to me and suggested as the grounds of my dismissal, but I de clare, upon my honour, that every one of these allegations is utterly false, and that in every instance where the men tion of names bas enabled me to trace those statements to their supposed sources, their falsehood has either been at once exposed sod acknowledged, or they have been disavowed by the parties said to have made them. Those who have proceeded to punish me without either trial or bearing, or accusation, render it impossible to give a more precise contradiction, until they shall be pleased to inform me what 1 have done, or what Ws been whispered against me. But I once more earnestly beseech your Royal High ness to institute, in whatever way shall be demist the most searching, a rigorous investigation of every part of my condutt. Your Royal Highness is well aware. that below my slissosissal, I was, • kalsisioct.tikesekkial law r and if it be now said, .14u* spleager is this predicament I desire to wave objections to tbe juris diction of a Military Tribunal, in order that no obstacle may be interposed to the inquiry which I court. It is with unfeigned reluctance that I again presume to remind your Royal Highness of those services which you were formerly pleased to acknowledge; but the strange situation in which I am now so unaccountably laced, compels me to refer your Roya l Hi g hness to y our letter of the 24th of Jan. 1815, and the documents to which it relates, in further support of my claims to jus tice on the present occasion. I have the honour to be your Royal Highness's most obedient servant, R. WILSON. Horse Guards, Oct. 9,1821. Sta—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, urging again an investigation into your conduct ; to which I can only reply, that having laid your former application before his Majesty, and commu nicated to you his Majesty's sentiment, upon it, I do not consider myself warranted in taking any further step. I am, Sir, your's, FAIDSRICK, Commander-in-Chief. Sir Robert Wilson. FEMALE BIEL' ASSOCIATION:T*IIIMM to the Resolution agreed to at the Meeting held at the City of London Tavern on Monday, the Committee of Ladies bad a Meeting yesterday at the Salvador-house, Bisbopsgate-street. The following are the President and Vice-Presidents of this interesting Association, who have been nominated by their own permission : President—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Vice-Presidents--Lady Inglis, Lady Mackworth, Mrs. D. Bevan, Mrs. Fowell Buxton, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Macauley, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. J. Thornton, Miss Vansittart.—Joint Treasurers--Mrs. Fry and Mrs. Demon. Two STEAM PACKETS SuMx.—On Saturday morning last, the York steam packet, on her voyage from Oainsborongh to York, unfortunately ran foul of the cable of the commerce, Hemingway, while at anchored' Keadby, and was sunk. The passengers and crew were all saved. Vessels are employed in weighing her. Monday the Newark Castle, steam packet, was sunk off Clifton Hill, near Newark. The fire of the engine not baying been extinguished, unfortunately burnt a whole in the bottom of the vessel, by which she was speedily filled with water. Tn. Pux MEDICAL:A gentleman, who was in ' the habit of taking pills for his amusement, was coati• Dually changing them ; on which a friend remarked, that he resembled the capital of Turkey, as he was w d oisomme-,..-....r 7 ..... This medical Conundrum, bad as it is, is sot quite so bad as another of which it reminds as. At the time the Manchester cavalry were in Liverpool, a gentle man, who is a most inveterate punster, was touch an- noyed, at a very late boar one night, by the mewiug of cats on the top of the house; and, being unable to sleep, he amused himself by making a string of co nundrums, which, if published, might make good the words of one of our satyrists. " Sleepless hiseself, to give his readers sleep." Take one of the list as a sample:—Why yobs owed eats like the Pbterloo heroes ? Auswer--becanse they 11l Zit-TILL-LATS. i. t. 11111111110. Mr. C. Kenibk, it is said. is likely to make a thea trical trip to America, if be should sok settle his dif fermis with the Covent Barden managers. THE STA' 4 AN. PRIVATE LE?TRR FE OM DUBLIN. . No. ]III. - --. Oh Pat, Pat Jewel, I me you know all about it, for your last letter was a stomacher. The new L— M— is an ens, only a mischievous donkey, or Old Nick would sot havetemptedialm to make as great a Week guard of himself as D— did when the King turned his back at the Mansion House. Did not all my let ters tell you the loyalty of these vagabones was all a bottle of smoke? For they care no more for the King than they do for the Queen, nor for any of his family, ne more than the boys in London do for the D— of C.—. Their loyalty is vested in their places, their power and expectations; and they still think some of the old blackguards at your side will continue to pro tect them ; and, be the powers of Pluto, they don't miscalculate ; for u one vagabone got off with impa shy,- after insulting the King and every liberal man in Ireland, what has this upstart to dread? As the same clan that advised the pardon of Dello D— ad vised theamnissal of Sir Robert Baker, a Magistrate of the - molt exalted character ; the same advisers that shut up' the King from his English subjects, advised the - dismissal of the kayo, the intsepid, the I able General, Sir Robert Wilson, when the country le' satisfied that he has left no better officer In the service. Sir Robert Baker is not a creeping ruffian that would chuckle to any hypocrite in power. Sir Robert Wil- s on is neither P—p or Paltroon :—he did not raise himself by Psttycoat or Backstair interest ;—be did not get his preferment through family connection ; he was not raised to the Staff by the fall of a brother officer ; it was by the weight of his purse, and his bravery in the field. But, Sir Robert Wilson loved his country; lie saw a clan, assisted by perjury, drawn . up in bilifir'arrili ag h ast a persecuted, defenceless, raave wow '; he saw the machinations of this p er j ur y il, sartsu ig reat this noble hearted woman stand up triumphitTo the Midst of a bold and generous people• He felt lie spirit of an Englishman, and scorned the reptiles that spit forth their poisonous slime in vain. So Pat, my dear boy, this they could not digest ; it stuck in their stomachs--heaven keep it there. Sir Robert Wilson never declared war against any woman ; he never employed a female agent to assist his promo tion ; he never flogged the brave soldiers he com manded ; he never became a pensioner for his atten tion to his parent; he sever used horses and card ages, bought sidle the name of another person, to pro test them froaa'thia . cloches of the sheriff ; no, Sir Robett Wilson was a gentleman with a small fortune, much reduced by the purchases of his Commissions, and the extra expenses attending au officer, accord ing to the gold and silver regulations of the army ; aad yet this Commission, this rank that cost so much I slag, so much labour, hardships and danger in the is to Ise takes away, though nature made him • man of beam of ihrtstlaa feeling, and undaunted patriotism. I shall get vexed my dear Pat if I get any farther, so I'll tura to your Corporation hum bugs, and your Lord Am. What most that body be, who would place • Boethoon in the Civic chair, a fel low without talent, . reputation, or any requisite whatsoever, which, by choiceor otherwise, could claim the precedency of a pot-house free and easy. Oh, I 614(1. forgot—Bad luck to the Crawleys. Amis. Pat jewel, to think of the low varmint Writing Lord Cloncurry, with many other noblemen and liberal gentlemen, be side Roman Catholics, and offending them, and scoff ing at the parting letter of the King.—Ah, Pat, what's bred in the bone always sticks to the flesh ; and he that's born to be hanged will never be drowned. lu troth and soul Pat honey, you said so much in your last letter, yon have left me nothing to say, if 1 was to talk these three weeks to come; but no matter about that ; be is an ignorant vagabone, and what can you expect of a cat but his skin. Only think of him making the son-In-law of Shemus Achockah the founder of the British Constitution. What a brats. as the woman said to her husband, when she knocked him down ; ), why, the donkey forgot that Al fred, Williaps the lay John, the Harry., and the Ed wards, thitTaiii•ed the Constitution of England, were all Popishek. D—ls luck to the Orangeman was amongst them—and was the Established Church heard of till the last Harry; with his five wives, two of whom be murdered, and banished the rest—all for the. cause of religion and cbristian charity. All this the Civic Donkey knows no more of than a horse does of; his Pater Nosier, or a Cow of a Holiday; and still the beast will be exposing his ignorance among de.' cent people. And did not be know that Shears Achockah lost hiscrown, because he wanted to impose en the people and pick their pockets as Aby Gaby did in the fool's -nap f Poor Shemus had no clerk to lay the charge to. so be was (arced to put his foot in his pump, take a short stick in his hand,. and spew his back. Oh, bad lack to the Crawley*! This ignoramus don't know that all the tusk-masters that ever were quartered upon poor unfortunate Ireland, were most religiously inclined to plunder its natives, and persecute them after—not forgetting the Pass master of 98. So the Mushroom would toast the me mory of the Dutchman, the author of the National Debt; because the nineteen-twentieths of the Irish people have been tortured, robbed and insulted, by a set of canibalt, his followers, although in presence of the King, they never attempted to toast the memory ofhis own father. Barbarous wretches, not worth pen, ink, and paper ; but as I have begun, luck and grace to me, Pat, but I will turn their inside out, for the information of the honest boys at your side ; glory to them, and may they always keep the upper head of their enemies. Oh! oh, master Pat, you forgot what the English papershave reminded me of ; besides, there is a Delt!o here, who gets a paper from your side, free gratis, for nothing at all, at all. They call it the Slop-tub; b• was telling B. C., whom he thinks is a Delso, that his friends in the gang, I shan't mention names, have spent most of the subscriptions, and can't get any more, and that Lord Noodle, the swaddler, from Poors-court, won't give another copper. He said they are a set of phnidetire....without honor—without principle-4nd ----..._ _.. . be let them go to the D-4. 1011 1 1,n ba`ve a Wort, . Stop-tOb too, they call. Ifige Bacon ; it has gut 41 I, a smell, they can sever, teen make Pork of it. O'# bad lack to the Crawley:: all the Salt-Peter in Watrr ford won't save it. So let as consign itself a'i'l it, butchers to the agreeable amusement of a Kiltasit.i 1 .1 Mauer. It appears those vagabone English 1::+- pen are given away to the followers of the gang. ;par ticularly to the old corrupt Delsos here and there. *vet sit pat down to the account of S—m—t-House. .If4w: Pat honey, I know what a clock it is ; that's the woy the people pay for robbing themselves. Naiocliei, it. is a long lame that has no turnings. • We. are told, dome was saved by the cacklin; of s Goose—lreland shan't be ruined by the cackling . of a oander. I must conclude, my dear Pat, by saying. gomi luck to the English boys, anJ bad lock to Me eranaqs. Amen!!! Oct. 0,.1821. MURTHOUGH O'BLANEY. MURDER. On Thursday evening, about ten o'clock, a man named Sayard, a shoemaker, residing at Bam ford, in Essex, was apprehended at the Castle public house, at Gravesend, charged with having stabbed a person named Ballard, and who died the followieg day, in consequence of the wounds be had received. An inquest was held on Friday, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against the prisoner. 'Onlffitarday as examination took place at the Town- Hall, Gravesend, Deborah Smith, of Shadwell. Essex, deposed, .that on Wednesday last she went to Rumford statute fair, and when in the market-place. where the fair is held, she was accosted by Daniel Sayard, the prisoner, who, after asking her how she did, inquired whether she had received any letters from him ? She answered "No ;" (she had received one, but did not wish him to know it.) He then asked at what time she was going home ; to which she replied" it was of no conseqaence to him." She then left him, but he followed so las to keep her in view during the whole day I She was with a party of friends, and met with: the deceased about four o'clock; she went with the party to the Rising San to get some refreshment. it being the last public-house on their way homeward. They left there soon after eight o'clock, and she wail:- rod arm-in-arm with the deceased. When they came to a four vent way, and while she was wishing the party good night, Sayard brushed by her and the de ceased, and took the road that led to her home. When she and Ballaid bad proceeded about a quarter of a mile, the prisoner seised her by the arm, at the same time saying he wished to speak whit bet. The witness said " she had nothing to say to him, for she had done with him." He still pressed her, and by Ballard's advice she went to him. His object was to persuade witness to walk with bins. which she refused, whereupon he grossly abuse..) her, and Ballard, seising him by the collar, toil hint he should not use her so. A fight then com menced between the prisoner and deceased, when Ballard knocked Sayard down ; in. a second round they fell together, and on dais!: the deceased knock ed the prisoner down again t be then exclaimed. • Mary, I am murdered--minty entrails site ostp—rue, or be will smudge you." Witness and deceased run, followed by the prisoneta till they tante to the gide of a mall garden belonging to a cottage. where Ballard fell exhausted, the winless calling out " Mur der !" Tae inhabitants of the cottage caide and as sisted Ballard into their house; at the same time Sayard was standing in sight, and witness estelai " that is the villain who has murdered him," and he immediately ran away. The cottager' not Isavin room for the deceased, he was removed in a cart IJ a neighbouring public-house, where he lingered its the most excruciating agony till Thursday eveniat, six o'clock, when he expired. Ots Sunday, Sayard was removed from Gravesend to Chelmsford gaol. At his examination on Satur• day he appeared much affected at the sight of De borah Smith, for whom he is said to have formed an attachment—(Km/seater Gazette.) EXETER, OCT. 9.—On Thursday evening last the most violent gale of whit', perhaps ever known, via> experienced at Appledore, in this county. I t said that the bodies of thirty-two sailors, belonging to Clovelly and Appledore, have been taken up, and a v-ssel came in dismastrod. A vessel was also lost off Lundy Island, and her crew drowned. CURRENTS op TIN Ocsart.—.Extract from the Agents to Lloyd's at Boulogne, dated Oct. 5. " We beg to enclose a paper which has just been delivered to us in a bottle picked up this morning at ten o'clock, on the shore at Dannes, between this port and Estaples:— " The merchant ship Sir Joseph Banks, John Wil liams, commander. At sea, Monday, July 16, 1821, in lat. 49 deg. 11 min. 16 sec. N.; and longitude, by chronometer at noon, 11 deg. 27 min. 36 sec. west of Greenwich ; being calm weather, threw this bottle overboard for the purpose (if ever found) of ascertain ing the current about the entrance of the English Channel. Whoever finds Ibis will be good enough to acknowledge it in some public manner.' " item.—The Sir Joseph Banks arrived in the river July 23, from Jamaica." 54 P—, aged 22, son of a general officer who lost his life in the Russian campaign, and c'erst to an attorney at Sarregne-mines, paid his adtlresses to the daughter of the Sieur la—, tobacconist. The young lady perceiving obstacles to their union, re quested her lover to discontinue his visits. Three days after, between 8 and 9 in the evening, M. P. waited on her, armed with two pistols. He hail no sooner sa tared the room than be fired at her with one pistol, and blew out his own brains with the other. The pistol he bad reserved for himself was leaded with two whole lballs, and the other two cut in quarters. The , youeg woman had strength enough left to open the window and cry for assistance. The ball entered ender her light grin, came out at the opposite side of her body, and damaged a table against which she was leaning. Next day she was still living, and there were hopes of saving her.--(Paris paper.) CORN EXCSANOL, OCT. 10.—A very large quantity of Wheat remained over from Monday's market, in Sditjus to which there were several fresh arrivals this inprittne from Suffolk, and scarcely any progress round dA's saga in the sale of it, and especially of new Wheat, the pekes of which are almost minima ihnt fine eld,altboogh dull sale, supports Monday's r e ices.—New Barley . i l s . fn 11 /Is. per quarter cheaper , thedemand for malting ntstit i aring yet commenced, and the supply rather large. . ~,..~ __ 7.04 I " 6. .