The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-16 00:00:00

OUR? 4 1 R` • Y • • I • 41, inrogooommomomms.... COURT OF COMMON COUACIL, Nov. 13. (Conlisited , HE STATESMAN of yesterday.) I, 'from T VOTE OF THANKS TO THR LATE LORD MAYOR. Mr. Deputy WEDDELL. in a speech which was total= lv inantlihle below the her, moved a vote of thanks to t►„ late Lord Mayor, for his conduct during his mayor - -alt;--(for which see advertisement.) At. FavELL felt particular pride in seconding. the motion. Never was man gifted with greater suavity of manners than the late Lord Mayor; he was distin guished in an eminent degree by a mildness that was without weakness, and a firmness that was unallied to obstinacy. During his late mayoralty he had given the c'.uutry a convincing proof that the staff of the con stable was not only a more constitutional but also more effectual weapon in preserving the peace, than the far•fruned broad sword of the military. He trusted that men of every party would come forward to eulo . gise his Limiship's conduct. Such a tribute of re soect was paid to Alderman Combe on the close of his mayoralty ; and such a tribute of respect ought also. • in his opinion, to be paid to their late Chief Magis trate; fin the question being put from the Chair, and a short pause ensuing 111r. Ot,nnast rose, and said that be had expected that Gentlemen on the other side of the Court would have forgotten their political prejudices, and would have been as ready to join in applauding the conduct of the late Lord Mayor as Gentlemen on his side of the Court had been in applauding the conduct of C. Smith during the time lie tilled the magisterial chair, with whom they also differed in political opinion ; if the rte Lord Mayor had committed any fault durinshis :Mayoralty it was in showing too great indulgence to tlie latitude of debate sometimes taken by members of that Court; hut, notwithstanding that fault, if the present Lord Mayor only imitated his predecessor in Lis other good qualities, the citizens of London would have no occasion to complain of him when be came to give them an account of his stewardship. Dlr. Dino,/ thought that the mutters which the last speaker bad thrown out against gentlemen on his , side f the Court were rather premature. The worthy gen ii man, without allowing time for any other person to ri 4 V, rose himself to give his political adversaries a lee. tore. Gentlemen on his (Mr. Dixon's) side of the Court were as fully sensible of the merits of their late Chief Magistrate us the worthy Gentleman himself was. Mr. T. N. WILLI axis eulogized the good nature and strict impartiality which his Lordship had always ex hibited. The motion was then put, and carried unanimously. SPECIAL JURI IS. ;mfr. Alderman U AlrllataN tame forward and begged 1.-ave to mention to the Court a fact of a very important ulture, on which, however, he did not then intend to ford any motion. The Court would recollect that one lime ago an lion. Member had brought forward a motion with a view of correcting the abuses which had gradnaliy crept into the formation of special ju ries ; and that, upon the inquiry which 1. as then in stituted, it was found that the parties who served on •pr-ciai juries had generally had their names placed tio.re by the intervention, of the secondaries, solicitors. or under sheriffs. It was also found, upon consider. ing of the manner in which these abuses were to be, remedied, that thotourt of.Comtnon Council was en titled, ant!, indeed, could be obliged to make nut the returns from whirls those names ought to be selected. lie had in consequence moved some months ago that mach Ward should be instructt.d to 'nuke out a list of the persons competent to serve on special juries who lived within i.s precincts. Important as this subject was, be was recently struck with great surprise on find ing !hat some of the Wards bad not yet made any re turn, though Michaelniss•day bad been the specified time by which they ought to have been made, Pad though the Wards were liable to be fined for not bar itqr wide them. In spite of the reforms which had b?en at mitred on this poi t nt, special juries were now in n much worse practical - situation than they had been before an alteration was attempted. 'the master would now allow none to serve as special jurymen to whose name the title of merchant was not atfized in the re turns. Now he conceived that independence in point of property and intelligeoce upon matters of general business were time best qualifications for a special jury no .n. It became the duty of the Court to see that per sons so quallied were placed upon the special jury list; and such persons it was not in the power of the secon dary or the under-sheriff to select, but of the Common Council only. As the citizens of London were accus tomed to meet in %%'ards fur various purposes, so it be came incumbent upon them to make in Wards their re turns of persons tilted to serve on special juries. He trusted that after what he had said, there would be no Ward which would hesitate to make its return imam (Lately ; if there was any that did hesitate, he should feel himself obliged to bring forward a specific mo tion on the subject. Mr. S. Dixon considered the subject to be one of such great importance, that the Wards ought to pay immediate attention to it. He complained of the arbi trary manner in which certain name.* were placed on the special jury list, and others excluded from it. The brokers of London were a Imo saliglitesed set of men, and in general greatly skilled in mercantile affairs : yet not one of them had ever been allowed to sit on special. juries. After a few desultory remarks on the subject from Mr.Oriffitits. Mr. R. Taylor, and Mr. Alderman Waith . man, the subject was dropped.—The Court then ad journed. The paper from which we yesterday copied the paragraph relating to Amacreon Moons, says, this morning, that the article is Dot entirely correct. In what respect, it is erroneous, it does not, however, con descend to state. ST. JAMES'S PaLacn.—Great imprOvements are making in St. James's Palace : the new grand stone stair-case leading to the drawing-room, is nearly • completed. It is we understand, intended to pull down the whole of the buildings in front of the Court-yard, between the tower at the bottom of St. James's and Marlborough-house wall ; the space is to • he inclosed with iron railing, and agate will be opened to communicate with St. James's Park. instead of pass ing through the Stable-yard. Mrs. ligertoun and Lady Murray have quitted their residences in conse quence. 'lf Marlborough-wall was;also taken down the improvement would be complete. S►T, "THE THREE cuARANTrEs.". [IROM .A NZW YORK PAPER.] As many are ignorant of what is meant by the tbree guarantees assumed by the army of !turbid., we have thoul:ht it prover to explain them to our readers, that they may form a correct opinion of the revolution of New Spain—the object of which has not yet been avowed. The three guarantees are, 1. That the house of Bourbon 'hen be called exclu• sively to occupy the throne of New Stain. 2. Au union between Bnropean and American Spa niards, with the power of being chosen to all offices, without any distinction whatever. 3. The continuance of the ecclesiastical state nith all its privileges and even its abuses, as it existed in the year 1804, and even with the Holy TribunolofMe We have thus defined the three guarantees—and every one will judge for himself of the revolution ; for our part we shall observe that the principles of this re volution have not sufficiently manifested themselves to enable u 3 to judge whether or nor it will be favour. able to that country. We nevertheless believe that a form of government in which is preserved the odious and sanguinary tribunal of the Inquisition, (justly prescribed by our new code,) and which givei the Clergy greater influence than they ought to have, leaving them at the same time all the oininons and dreadful privileges hitherto permitted, cannot be very liberal, nor promise very favourable results to the coun try in which it exists. Unfortunately experience has proved that this third guarantee leaves New Spain reduced to the most shame ful state of ignorance, superstition and fanaticism. Happily we can rejoice to have reduced this third guarantee to its proper limits, for by oar constitution we are exempt from a guarantee which supporta and protects the. Inquisition. We wish all thought on this subject as we do. A a - . .1141,D1X WHIG CLUB, The R.sex Whig Club assembled at Walden on Sa tnrday last, to commemorate the triumph over the Bit of Pains and Penalties, which had taken place on that day twelvemonth; Charles C. Western, Esq., M. P., in the Chair. This Society has determined to bold their future annual meetings upon the anniversary of the day en which that victory was achieved. The 'Hon. Chairman in his opening remarks on the occasion of their as sembling., said, that however impossible it was that event with all its concurrent circumstances should escape the recollection of Englishmen, yet was it, he thought, highly desirable to r. call it at stated periods, when the friends of liberty and law were assembled, that their hopes might be cheered by a recurrence to the success which on that occasion had attended their efforts: nor was it less necessary that they Should hold in constant remembrance the example then given of the daring length to which those who long have pos sessed power will often go in furtherance of a particu lar object. The most sacred principles of law and of the constitution, of common sense, of jistice, nod hu- Inanity, alike were ♦iolated by that horrid Bill of Pains and Penaltits : and if it had not been defeated as it was, he should have despaired of preserving the re (wising, liberties we yet enjoy H. said a tribute of i relpeet Ind' glialtirde *as due hi . ittible'Lorils who bad given their suffrages against it,"‘ind their names'atould be recorded with honour in the 'annals of their country. He would not trust himself then to speak of the illustrious object and intended victim of that violation Oiati And the Constitution; if be did, his feelings would induce expressions that prudence might forbid, aed it Woes desirable that the meeting should confine itself to the etontemplation of that grand achievement which the friends of the Constitu 'tion had obtaineditt the overthrow of that ever-memo rable Bill. The meeting wit respectably attended by the prin cipal gentleniOti of the Whig interest of the county, and the subject was followed up in speeches of consi derable length, by various members of the club. On Monday the CaroHama Club, established in this city to commemorate the final abandonment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against her late Majesty, dined together at the Half-Moon, in Broad-street. The at. tendanco was numerous, and the evening was spent in the utmost conviviality and good hunsuur.—(ffereford paper.) IRISH HERRING FISHERY. EXTRACT Or A LETTER FROM RUTLANDi DATEID NOVEMBER 7, 1821. Herrings have made their appearance here in greater abundance than for the last forty-five years; .the old est fisherman remembers nothing like it. The water was so full of them on the night of the 2,d instant, that the passage of the boats was absolutely igepactl; every stroke of the oars tanked thent,nplio-alseirtr face in great numbers. The glare or A phosphoric light produced by theukwas really, astopithing ;; the sea vered all on fiee. o 44 d • Next night being Saturday, t he bats id toot go out, which was most fortunate, for about three% the morning, a most tremendous squall came on front the N.N.W., which continued, at intervals, until seven. The wind has not been so high on this coast since the year 1641. The thunder and lightning was, inces sant fur three hours, accompanied by' the heaviest snow and hail ever seen here. The post roads tb the interior were impassable for the greatest part of rise next day. All the shipping in the bity were Injtued more or less; two large vessels were nearly destroyed; the crews, after remaining in the shrouds all 'light, weer taken up the next morning, nearly dead With cold. 'We have just now heard of two brigs being. driven on shore near Horn-head, and it is gee:twiny supposed. that many have gone down, as vast quanti ties of spars, masts, rigging, &c. have been driien all along the coast, from Donegal to Lough Fliyie. Not. B.—We are sorry to announce, that the ter. rings which some days back made their appearance In such unprecedented quantities on the north-wtst Coast of Donegal, have totally vanished, being driven off by the tremendous storm of the 4th, which blew right upon the land, and it is the nature of this fish remove straight against the wind, when it blows with antis gree of vioknee. . , 1. ;1. I"+t!'.l s _ __ _•••..... • i T tel , -.1 Pala Jr - STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONSI O'CLOCK. Bank Rock• 2494 India Moat $414 II per Ceet.Red 'hi. Ditto Rends —s. 71. 725. re I per Cent. Con. 78 711 8 Snoth-flea Ktoek IS per Cent. SI- Routh Rea Old Ann. 77 leper Cants. 114111 Et Rille9d. 1000/.4s 44411-P. 5 per Ct.Nsiy 1101 111 —5OOl. Os. 444. 6e.pm. I per Cant. I —Small Os. 41. ss. pm. Lang Ann 10 7-104 I India for ditto Imp Boer Cent. 714 Can. for Aeet 78 71 8 Irish 6 per Cent. Lott. Tickets 2.11. 14s. LONDON: FRIDAY HYRNING, NOVkMBER 16, 1821. STOCK F:XCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Funds which left oif yesterday at 781 to I are now 77k, and the market appears to be exceedingly heavy. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Official accounts have been received this morning announcing the entrance of General San Martin Into Lima. by force of arms. This intelligence is contained in a letter dated Santiago de Chili, 14th August, received at Buenos Ayres, on the 24 September, which was brought by a schooner from Callao. PHILADELPUIA. OCT. 20.—Thirty-three sail of ves sels from the Labrador coast, arrived at Boston, from the 20th Sept. to the 14th inst, with their cargoes of Cod-figb, amounting to 2,266,000 equal to 28,656 quintals. Captain 51'Pherson arrived from St. Thomas, in forms that accounts received there previous to his sail ing, state that Guadeloupe, Antique, Mariegalante, and other places to the windward, had experienced a dreadful hurricane, which has done a vast deal of da mage in those Islands. In Guadeloupe, it is said, he effects were terrible. The New Hospital which was very extensive was unroofed and many lives lost ; re port says 300. The new barracks were also unroofed and many lives lost in them. We hear, says the if Gazette, that the hero of New Orleans, Oen. Jackson, has arrived at his seat near Nashville. It is also reported that he has resigned. Mil MARV REWARDS. CURACOA, JULY 15,—His Excellency the Liberator, has given the name of Battalion of Corobodo to the corps formerly distinguished by that of British Legion, and appointed Wm. Davie, as commander of the same, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and. Brain as Major. Many other British officers have the been promoted. Foreign Office, London, July 30,1821. WAPIIIINGTON, OC Ir. lb.—The nridernansed•his Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has the honor to acqnaint Mr. Rush, that the death of Napoleon Bonaparte renders it no longer necessary to restrain the communication of foreign vessels with the Island of St. Helena, and that they are accordingly now it liberty to communicate with that Island, in the same manner and under the same regulations as applied to their intercourse with the Island previous to the de tention there of Napoleon Bonaparte. LONDONDVIRT. (CIRCULAR) United States frigate. Macedonia, Valparaiso, April 20. Ste —The Island of St. Mary's, together with the bay and shores of Arauco being infested by people who have committed the grossest outrages upon neutral flags and rights, by the capture of American and British vessels, and the forcible detention of their masters and crew, I use this occasion to notify that there is danger attending anchoring in either the Roads of St. Mary, or Arauco, and in attempting to communicate with the existing authorities there. CHARLES RIDOELY. To the Captains of American vessels in the Pacific Ocean. WASIIINOTuN, OCT. 2.—PVSLIC LANDS..—A sale of Public Lands, in the Northern part of the . Delaware District in Ohio. has commenced, and a large number , of tracts was sold on the two first days, as high as from two to six dollars per acre. Public Lands, it will be recollected, are now sold for cash ; considering the scarcity of which, these sales were very good.— The Delaware Gazette states that the bidding' were going on, and that there was reason to expect exten sive salsoilrons the somber et lereaterl area assembled there from other Start- (tXTRACT OF • LETTIR IRON NEW ORLIANi t 11111‘1 TiOtpgll,4 Last month was rentitiiable for the amber of sod accidents is and near this eity. The first blow de prived seven children of their father. Next causes' a whirlwind which killed two and wounded eight men. Lightning then followed. killing several men Then came ties fake( a gallery, wounding six or se ven persons: Wwwere ii•lsopes that our misfortunes had finished ; hat trot so. Os Friday last the boiler of the Yitakee Steam-boat. sudslonly burst and wounded ainnusen. some of whom ate said to bars died. By the Brussels papers we have monis from Tyr , kry, through Vienna, that the. Divan does net phi* needs filth in the friendly disposition of the lines as Cabinet, and that it makes extraordinary efforts to combat Russia. The Porte, it is NUL snub consider able reinforcements to Moldavia and Wallaehia, where a numerous army will loses. be assembled. It is even engaged 1 * formieg eiiisiotamsy. as unmeroas as t h e int. This second army will he posted first os the Danube. Independently of these two armies, numerous bodies of reserve are fereniag in the provinces situated ' • • .1 n e • • in the s%covi line. put . all these troops cannothe, pared to• the si•orst 'European soldiers. Th ey att ; disciplined hordes from the Asiatic provineeedstl hie of resisting. an European corps of tol -trength. The article adds that in the en ure , month of September there have been many pe rt ", rested in the lonian islands. The Akremeiae2eiti contains an article from Odessa, which statestheli report that had been previously announced of the a l of the Russian troops, in the neighbourhood 01% is not confirmed. We find, in the same paper, an article fro m of Oct. 22, in which it is said that the Firma ' 0 ( Snitan, which has been published in the neigh Turkish provinces, is entirely conformable t o published in the month of April and that, M is but a copy of it. The armament is stated is it be only against the Greek Insurgents, anil notbieti said in it of other nations, though the contra r y , r2 ; l first reported.—But the Turkish Corn menden al i t grave openly declare that they , will begin y ell* the Russians. ~' 4111 The King of the Netherlands, it appesn, des ercised his clemency towards Mr. Leman, wh o condemned to a year's imprisonment by the Coup Assize of South Brabant, for haring assisted ( as , later) in editing the Flambeau. He bad petiti ola his Majesty, and has been restored to liberty t o his family. His request is stated to have been " in consideration of military services formerly a , dered to the state." Another person, however, li t posed to be arrested for some political offeeno r , conveyed an Friday last to the prison if hea rt y where be.is kept in close confinement. Accounts from Odessa give a more favourable tin of the progress if the Greeks than we have bleu. customed to receive from that quarter. Ti le struction of a part of the Greek fleet, in the Gelf Lepanto, is contradicted, and the whole of that let' said to be at anchor in the port of Kande°. lb capture of moat of the fortresses of the Mores lisde enabled the Hennes to collect their force by lei and to act on the offensive against the Terhishusie A letter from Odessa, dated the 4th ult. says sometimes have accounts from Greece. The siege the fortresses are carried on but slowly. The bah ars not provided with artillery. Fortresses, would surrender to an European corps in a few ha employ our brave soldiers for whole most s, However, several places bare surrendered Ai an obstinate defence. The Turks are amind from their slumber ; they are passing th.fiespbsti crowds ; they proclaim an amnesty ; bat all the whom they meet in their route, and during &sigh, are massacred or drowned; even the Turkish , an children are provided with short swords, with wbici they murder the children of the Greeks. Them ties of the Turks have never entirely ceased ; bet , have bees renewed with increased violence since alp hensions hare been again excited eta way *kit and the Sultan has caused the toed,: for i penal jag to be pat in execution." A Paris artideuma that troops daily march from Constantinople; nes think they are destined for the Mores; others* they are directed upon the Danube ; every elm a made to keep their real destination a secret. ba ad th in ts Se • bi it tl r el • A • :411 • • h , .a C • r 1 I 1 l ` l ..,~ l 5,41 : /41 • .41i The fetal fever in Spain, appears to have Omni Puerto Marla and Cadiz, but at Barcelona its Miss has nut decreased. In the Paris papers I kite quoted horn Dr. Pariset, one of the French Physic's' at Barcelona, in which be speaks indeed of ulnas ante of amelioration in the sanitary state dam's!, bat ascribing it to no other causes than the rentril, ready made by the malady, and the disappearseceds part of the population. The number of deaths Isis tlevoted city , from Oct. 20, to the 24th inclasheos 224, and of new cases, 273. A letter Imo is neighbourhood, dated Oct. 22, says, there most Its greater proof of the great injuries caused to seeiro religious fanaticism than what is now passingst lr celona. The contagion makes dreadful ravage, oi the physicians, who do not succeed with the owe st cure, wish at least that measures of preservation ding be adopted. The Authorities agrceing with thus those ideas, besides establishing convenient in healthy spots in the country, where the might find an asylum from the death which is diet inevitable in . the city, had requested the cletlf avoid all meetings of a number of persons, which are on many accounts so well calculated to propsyn eM contagion. Yet little bas been done ; the Huai% like the barbarous Africans, eonsideringallattme a avoid a public calamity of this kind as an ohm the Divinity, remain in their houses, daily iillot ing the number of victims; the ecclesiastical toll''' rities, wits a kind of apathy which is merfa! only with the most profound ignorance. roil ' ll service in the churches to be attended sew etel greater numbers than formerly, and the wands* t ! pray 'to Uod to deliver them from evil& trbieb tbeg t own Ministers bring on them ; and as the Presides of the Municipal Junta judicially o bserves, 1 a 114'7.: eellent proclamation of the 21st instals. " 0 Y a idea of religion they expose their dock to satire e r struction. Accounts from Rome inform us of the espectol a t ' rival there of the Count de Saint Lem ei - deea ht of Holland, and Jerome Bonaparte. Esilag of West' pitalia. It is also again a ffi rmed that Wag Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia will fix his resit's*" a t 1111116 and that the Prince of Carignano also prop 's" __, Nt r ie there with his family. The ci- decent otttlirs ef Europeop* a thus becoming the asylum of o'deflal _, Kings. The Ministerial changes we have alael° 9ll about to take place, begin, at length, to obtaie ane don. A speculation of some kind or ether is *dig a depression in the money market, sad the rt. who are not in the secret, ate speculating as to dig canoe. It is net considered as arising frets toy Jo hension of war, for the prevalent opinion is the ci l; The New Times says, is certainly is fav our of race ' " More attention," says this oracle, " semsa I' s " bees directed on 'Change to th e probability at 57 ' CASXI3I4 . II ItaSaaatag sort in the Cabinet, thee t' i '. ch.. .1 .. HIGH WATER AT LONDosI-NRIDOE TO-MORROW. Morning 9 o'clock.—Evening 57 , after 8. Cli ao ANOTHER 2 10.000 AT NINE ' CK NEXT TUESDAY MORNING, 1- __ Etc &tattilmatt. "TIM ERITISI STATESMAN" IS INCONTORATED WIT! " TIM STATESMAN... -- .::~- I