The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-28 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL ANGER. newer any act of the Government becomes the topic of censure, and its advocates are at a loss for amounts la its defence, we are constantly told of the injustice of condemning an isolated measure without tilting into view the general system of policy, of which such a measure forms a part. 'The principle here asserted is no doubt a just one, and on could clearly see bow a measure in itself bad, could be the needful accessary to a good system, it might la some Instances avail. But however dangerous this prin ciple may be whoa applied to the defence of meuures in themselves completely bad, we cannot refuse to adept it; when any flagrant act of Ministerial delin luny drives back our recollections to an antecedent series of similar acts, our attention is then engaged measure to which no justice can be done un less soosidered in connection with its fore-rancor.; and the enormity, however great, or the weaknese, however contemptible, of the individual act, may appear scarcely worthy of our resentment or our sneers, in comprises with the deeper guilt, or the more pitiable -Jelly of the system to width it only affords an addi tional elucidation. Who, for. instance; can do justice to the meat conduct of ear Government towards Sir R o b e d Mhos, without adverting to the pieta* examples of Earl Fitswillians, Earl Fife, and Sir Robe. ''l Bohm . Weald Miaisten themselves - even wish these mules" displays of their anger to be disjunctively considered. We cannot believe that they would, for tkey would then exhibited only so many successive hIPISINSII a petty malignity. If then, as we believe, there is in these various acts of power the co-bereace of deliberaie system, it behoves us to enquire what that system is, and to trace, as well as we can, the lasses that have produced it. It is tree that each of these sets hae 'wow° peculiar and distinctive features; they possess various kinds as well as various degrees of euellenee ; the immediate occasions and the points of attack are different, yet there are not wanting es sential points of resemblance that are common to them all, and to these in the first instance our attention might to be directed. In the first place, a want of magnanimity may be fairly imputed to all of them.— Magnanimity is the attribute of strength; the want of it is a certain indication of conscious weakness. These dismissals would in themselves convince us that the adittinistration feels week, email' we could forget the Parliamentary proceedings of the last Sessions ; the violent effort that was necessary to preserve the War Ault Doty; the unwilling sacrifice of the Agricul tural Horse Tax; and the reluctant and tardy pledges of economy. Of that secure and permanent basis of power—the esteem and gratitude of the country, we will not speak; it is a language so foreign to the habi tual current of the ideas of the men who form the pre sent administration, that they would scarcely compre hend as. The power of patronage is that which they perceive to he on the wane, and which by these dismis sals they seek to increase. By improvement in the disci pline, they would compensate for the diminished non leer of their forces; and seeing the sphere of theirau 4Aiseritycnnerast,they would makelt mereaboolidewithia 4 44111410100 14, illy orieleirtiMilittPililiselusib la • 7ireStiriti Ministers have proclaimed to all the holders sehoners, Aim or emoluments, during pleasure, that the tenure on which they are held is essentially servile; that though the meatless of their tenure may be va rious, the principle is the same is all, andthat as con junctures seecessively arise, they will vitsistnte the condition and enforce or remit the *whims as to themselves shall seta good. Lord Fi "hay imagined that he held the Lientenantey of! by virtue of the personal confidence of his • 'a - of his immense wealth, and powerful in/ - " t county—of the high respectability of his private cha racter, and deemed himself as perfectly unfettered in regard to his political conduct, as any ether of his Ma jesty's subjects. He had, it is true, been an alarmist, (we believe a conscientious one,) and in that character bad rendered important services to administration. An occasion, however, arises, in which the Government affects an alarm which Lord Pit:willies did not feel. The illusion vanishes like lightning :—The Gov't's meat say to him in substanes t "No longer alarmist, no longer Lieutenant." The servile tenure on which you held your °Mee, was that of being the ready dupe and the constant apostle of alarm." • Earl Fife fills the oleo; inconsiderable in point of emolument, of a Lord of the Bedchambir. Generally a supporter of Administration, be flatters himself, that notwithstanding the petty office, he may be deemed one of their independent supporters, and accordingly takes the liberty now and then of voting is the House of Commons, In opposition to their esessures. Bat it unluckily happens, that on one of these rare occasions, • the Minister is left is a Minority, sad the mistake of Pifelseeey promptly reedited. "it wairvery well, My Lord, sometimes to throw away year vote, when yea knew that ear Majority was secure; but learn, and let others poet by your example, that the servile tenure as Oki you held your else, was that of cos steady istorpeeing . tote vote hotweell is sad the die . grace bake . le a a abaft . •4, Itihielakir. a Olpiadtaty paha Magistrate of the metrepolls, as submissive to Administration as could well be desired, Ands himself in a predicament for which his orders have not fully provided, in which the lives of imbeds must have been sacrificed to the literal and mimeo execution of these orders, and la which such Mini and Waste execution was evidently not of the least importance; and, for a moment, be wavers, his heart beats with one throb of hums sym pathy; and &scant One throb he is told, " Sir Ro bert, you ate N longer the man we took you for ; be no mere oar Aker 1" Then COWS the case of Sir Robert Wilson, a Major General, on half.pay, of whose wits and services it is me further neesseary to speak, than merely to say, that if any nu it .s tried to °man his seilkary_ rank and esoissesa snare, be was that san. 'The greatest Sovereign, of &trope bare noblest to extol his al. litary Times, and ban gives the powarfal guarantee •of their opinion to ensure the pernanney sad exalta tion of his military rank. • What hie n dome ?i, the - the anivernlqnsties. As a adlitary Wan, be can have ions notisim to give Wine t as a political .Y.• racier. he is knows to hen dose seek. arn What owl we resits fins _, bat what Ira hew ?" Sir Robert. •booimtemosabse beimusikesd foe *e diusiasai et • able e ll toe bah fns abates& doll podia, me Wont :20 IMMO N. no doubt, imagined, in common with most ether mi ners on half-pay, that their military station wan entirely independent of polities. The general error Is, we sup pose, by this time, pretty effectually corrected. Who cats, for a moment, doubt, that the dismissal of the Omura is identified, u to .its main object, with that of the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord of the Bed-basher, and the Police Magistrate? We costes% they all ar put to as to rrsalt from a deliberate system-4k system intended to matronse opposition, and to improve the discipline and increase the devotion of Ministerial ad herents. Who does not see, that by this unexplained dismissal of Sir Robert Wilson, every half-pay officer of the army and navy becomes, to his own feelings and consciousness, a pensioner during pioneer*. (By the bye, we know not how a co•labourer in the field of ra dicalism will feel on the occasion. His tenure of his commission, be certainly, under existing circum stances, most consider precarious. Were the cue of Lieutenant-Col. Turmas our own, we should either sell oar Radical Journal or oar Commission. Bat if we preferred Warding Ministers, which we believe the Lieuteuant•Col. does, to wielding a sword. we would secure oar cash, and send our Commission to the We give this bint by way of advice, for it can hardly he expected of Ministers, now that they are keeping such a sharp look out, to let psi at► 'bedevil the political offences of an officer oft 16ritee,, when they will not suffer a half-pay °facer with ispitairy to interpose either by word or deed to stop the. effusion of blood.) The parentage of the Minister for the moment, at leaot in creased by degrading the army and navy lists into lied , of Ministerial clients. That rank which the toile and privations of warfare abroad has acquired, mast, hence forward, be maintained by political caution and dex terity at home. The measure of Sir Robert's political iniquity became full, by the virtuous and manly seal be a winced in the cause of her late Majesty. The ML. nistry, no doubt, calculate on the effect of the example ; and. if it should please them to propound the doctrine, that erbornatiox and subordination are so nearly si milar, that no friend of the latter can be an enemy of the former ; they probably think that even this severe test would be taken by a greater number of military subscribers than they could have ventured to reckon upon two months ago. SIR WILLIAM CURTIS.-It could be little suspected that the present Royal favourite, Sir William Curtis, bad originally been the political elere of John Horne Tooke. Such, however, it appears, was the case ; and is this manner Teoke related the occasion Sir William's father had been a zealous friend of popular politics in the city and county, and at the period of the great contest for Middlesex, when Wilkes was op. posed by Lutterel, old Mr. Curtis regretted that his bovines. and his time of life prevented him being so ac tire in behalf of his favourite candidate, as he wished to be. My son, however,' says he, is just now of age ; be is young and strong ; take him, Mr. Horne, under your own direction, and make him laseful in your canvass !"• The young man," con• tinned Horne Tooke, " retained his acquaintance with-see fit some years afterwards le it b e tr w * ll iter Td be touiry app./led. we oat met t happened, however, after a very loos interval. while I was a Member of the House of Commons, that, we'4lid meet at the door of the House, joint out togetierlaW the lobby, and, what was more extraordinary. going oat, on a division, upon the same side. Being side by 'side," said Tooke, " I offered him my band as as old political pupil, and told him I was heartily glad to find that he had returned to his master and to his original principles at last." Return !' replied Sir William archly, I never left my principles ; it is you Mr. Tooke, who have changed.'—' How am I to under stand you. Sir William Why, Mr. Tooke, when I engaged in politics with you, we /lathe nsajority with art; by the majority I have always stuck; and I will keep among the majority to the last. " We are authorised to slate. that on Wednesday the 19th instant, a meeting was bold of the subscribe,' to a bond of credit for The Beacon newspaper, when a resolution was adopted es withdraw the whole of the names from the bond, which resolution was.on Thurs day the 20th, intimated to the conductors of The Bea ms, as also to the Bank, sad that those subscribers were thus, after that date, a• longer connected, di► reedy or indirectly, with that paper.—(Sdin. Star.) His Royalifighnees Prince ' Leopold is at Coburg, with the Princess his mother, who. according to the last letters received from Ms Royal Highness, is, I dangerously ill. The Prince Las letirnated that he does not expect he shall be able to return to Ragland before the latter end of May or June next. The statement (which originated with s provisciak paper) respecting the illness of the Earl of Lander• dale was greatly exaggerated. His Lordship was do- Wood. ea his waj is Dambar-bottan North Britain, during a few days at- Iterseaster. by slight indisposi tion ; bat from asolog its roatived by Ilia relative. in town. It appears thatint is new in the enjoynient Of , _ _ _ perfect !magi. Coast Bertrand and fladly new osetipy tin tousta l the comer of lidgeware-road lasing the Park. formerly the residence of the late General Paoli. MiasaanLa Slam Or • Swiss COLONTeArtaillity at tfielve o'clock precisely. a Mettle& both INIIIIMPSO end respectable, minimise priasipally of Swiss Elea dams resident is Lorelei, took plate at the City of Lomb. Tavera, to take late coesideratlon the various documents lately brought toads cosatry by P. Schmidt merle, Esq. describing the dreadful siteadonof fieulement is the district of Canto Cello, Rio Janeiro. Most of the principal Swiss &atlases and Merchants of Londe. were present; amoogst whom were Messrs. Apogee Cammove Des* Kaaba% Perin, Prevost, Sivas. Re:gemont. &e. The Chair was takei by Mr. Dozer, and several asset eassilent speeches were made, ilescribiag, is leviable and antis( terms the present melaaeholy coeditioa of the Reformism* settlers.. The colony was teemed last year with ever, prospect et success; but samisen eirserastaaess bad brought the settlers Wee a siSeadell the mom deplora ble that hams imagisatioa mould ~active, sad *alas the header Cloarlty was promptly szteaderl es demur they suet ultimately petish. The nesting warmly eulogised Alr. fichmidtmeyer' foe the plillastirreple views which hag led his to visit these nafeemaise rept* ; and it was ettleestety speed te epee s pal& enimerirdeu, and to allele the dercafleas of emir friend of beimesity is Artie* link solindeirt. - The way NM Milo p. tn t l ' . , ,N _ , CIRCUIT IirTILLIMINCR, (haus% Sammons 22. 11111VOTION OF TO MATS TIM IIINOO•81.).1 ,Wee. Lee was pat to the bar, accused of seducing artificers from this country. principally eugageditithe carpet issadatury, and, in particular, of havingtaken to the Unite{ States of America, James Mitchell be longiut to the establishment of Robert Thomism and sca k Milifisid Dyework, in Hutchesootowa of Glasgow. then a carpet weaver in their employ, all which being contrary to the Statute of Cleo. Ronsarsow. as Junior Counsel. stated, for the panel. that J. Mitchell should be brought from America. for the express perpose of proving that the same spr ees of manufacture had been carried os is New York, America, antecedently to the istrodoctiou of Messrs. Thomas's manufacture . ; and having been so recently indicted, a few weeks ago, it was impossible the panel 'could be prepared to bring sufficient evidence in kis behalf. sad therefor* pleaded for a delay in bringing this affair into Court. 1 Mr. Hors replied, and contended that the panel had 'got his indictment in proper time. Mr. Oecsnuan replied, that a man bad been tried shoat 70 years ago for a similar offence, by a private iisefivideal, and the law bad bee. allowed to skip r slams. Be cogclusied, by hoping their Levi. s pie would allow time for the panel to prepare for his defence. • Lord Succor■ °heaved, that he should not give Lis opinion, at present, on the question, but proposed that it should be certified to the High Court of Jus ticiary. ' Lord Onus, agreed with Lord Succoth, and the case was ordered to be certified to the High Court of Justiciary, on the 19th of November; end ordered the panel to be taken to jail, to be confined till that time. Mr. Coaraunn obeerved, that it was hard to com mit his client, while he was present under a bail bond of SW His agent, Mr. Michael (Milan, said be would be security, and led him out of Court. The Act of Parliament alluded to in this case, on conviction, awards•tioe of SOU and imprisonment for the space of twelve calendar months. Tuesday, at a meeting at the To wn• Hall, Sherborne, the Rev. John Parsons, in the Chair, a Society was formed for the relief of distressed travellers, aid the de tection of vagrants and impostors. Bari Digby is the President.•--(Both amide.) An attempt is now made, says a letter from Frank fort, September 18. to explain the view with which the note remitted by Baron Strogosoff to the Bois- Effendi. previous to his departure for Odessa, was drawn up. The Russian Oorernment knowing bow easy it would be for the Divan to evade Conventions grounded only on reasons supported by the common rights of nations, made a religious principle the foundation of the conditions proposed to the Ottoman Cabinet. Thus in return for the condition of maintaining the Porte in the mak of Baropean Powers. the note of the Cabinet of St. Potersburgb requires the toleration of the Chris tina tifigios jp_Torkey, aid protection for Ito profro ---4 Att_eitgatett be 're.' Swarwavass worrumars. salt weld be, diat the Sovereigns of Serape world be boned by principle sad religions duty to assist the perseeiOed Christie's*, sad to expel a goverawent Wadi pets Itself in direct Opposition to modern civil- isation. The paean adopted at the Royal Exchange of closing the deem st half past four o'clock, whether cleared . or sot, caused yesterday the Moodie of between 900 said 300 of the gentlemen who attend it. After being enclosed above ten minutes, many became impa dent to go shoat their business, or to attend other en gagemeuts. They diem began to batter the doors. the portals particularly. That which opens towards Rank buildingrs, havisg bees lately shattered in a similar fray, and very streugly repaired, the opposite door leading to Sweating's-alley was assailed, and its bars soon bent be fore the assaults of four or five strong persons. One of these being taken into the custody of a beadle, was rescued, and the attack recommenced with success, when the oppeeitedoor was also opened by the shop-keeper living is that anise, and the Exchange was finally cleared at foss minutes past five o'clock. Enema Orana-Houea.—Tbe following Address was delivered on Wednesday evening by Mr. Bartley, on glowing this theatre for the season :- 41 Ladies and Oentlemen—Oar short season is this voila' brought to a close. The aggressions of the larger establishments have this year reached their cli max, since Drury-lase Theatre has continued open dur ing the whole oldie limited period allotted to our per , format:se. and thereby depriving as even of the slender barns which ea former occasions we bad been allowed to ts* lbw &yds' wisdom of Government may deem it tea lug so allow of these gradual encroachments on the summer theatres, or may condescend to take an interest in the hit of those public amusements, is beyond our power at prises' to assertais ; though, seder all the memo- Masses, wo may be allowed to indulge a reasonable hope at sad Aetna relief. . 0 . 4, Pesprister. Ladies sad Gestlemen, begs Wive' • , me, his grateful aclusoirledgmots for al he bas received. It has been far Ohm. soder _oppressive difficulties helms had to tiehiimi wide, be wild de, reasosahly have hoped for ; ied it will set, be trusts, be bused an idle bout, when 'reudids . of the gnu and flattering success which every novelty, without exception, that has, breostit forward for your entertainment. «past enertions, Ladies sad. Gleatlemen, will be re doubled *mare a condensate of your favour when Wit an penetted to meet again, and in the mean time, le ifierneme of the Proprietor, of all the Perfornsen,l Mel ilk ray owe, 1 respectfully thank and bid you AMMO:" Maxonessirre.—A Paris Paper says A report le is eirealedea is Lowden that the Bur 1 lists q•is tramint has seared * Itself the isspection of ' Ifiemeasecripts IA lisiapaite, without any re rad to the venoms is these beads they might ban boas deposited. It is sil& reels that Sir H. Lowe, GOverlim Of ft. Helium, has taboo possession tempo rainy of oil she laud:' !again., and has brought this with bitesta s • tlexastawes see ma RISPItSeIt ALIIIANDen.-"Thi; fellovibly 11,011 Mewls in the ukase of respeetlag the apessisible eneetisg at &fort be the liespaer. Airomeder sad Besaparte.—V4 tsisslVlNipott ass solid 1 the presence of the tors illeetelass* sod ea owe of the character. esipessing "lA** d'a greed bootee tlst Airawars nee sad hewed preform* as lilies seameastery oe Mae* let Of iflr is tiismisbeill by Pimle* stems! . • ..-,~ ~~~ ~~► . S iNTSLLIGENCE. • CARLISLE RACES, TUILIMV, Srrr. 23. His Majaity's Flatfoot 100 gs. • four year olds to carry fist. ; Ave, Sat. 101 b. ; id: and aged, Oat. Four Mile Heats. Marquess of *Newberry's b. c. Gonsalsi, 4 yrs. old (B. Smith) 1 Mr. Elizard's b. a. Creeping Kate, aged... 3 r Mr. Storty's b. h. Little England. aged - Mr. Foguson's e. f. The Lady of the Vale, 4 yrs old dt• A Gold Cup of 100 gs value, by subscribers of lOps each, p. p. ; the surplus to be paid to the winner in specie ; three year olds to carry 6st. ISIb; four, Sit. 21b„. 9.b. ; Si and aged. est. Illb. ; mares and geldings allowed 311.-- Three MWs. (II subscribers.) E. of Lonsdalo's g. f. Fair Helen, by Viscount, 4 yrs old ► D. of Daronsbiresg. c. Jonathan, by Octavian, 3 yrs old V Ld Low tier's ch. in. Lady of the Vale, by Mowbray. 4 yrs old INTIIIMITING TO MARINIIRS.—A Bahama Paper of 25th July states, that the survey of the 6talf stream h.* been completed, and that a sew chart is prepare? to be transmitted to the Lords of the Admiralty. 1 c is said that the errors of all the old charts on the most prominent points of the Gulf passage hare beta the cause of so many vessels getting on the Florida reef: CALAIS, Sm. 26.—Major Colby, Captain Hater, Mr. Arrago, aad Mr. Gardner, with a party of sail - Immen to Mead on them, have arrived here for the purpose of remeasuring the distance between the me. Adieus of the Observatories of Woolwich and Paris. They will encamp upon the hills of Blaney, about sir miles to the west of this port. A bottle, which was thrown overboard from the ship Margaret, of Glasgow, Allen, master, on the lii ad , March, la lat. 52. long. 24. on her passage from Nas sau to Greenock, in order to ascertain the current, was picked up last week near Jersey, by the Charlotte of Havre; and the paper which was in it, written by Captain Allen, sent to Lloyd's. By the arrival of his Majesty's brig Scout, at Ports mouth. yesterday, from the Mediterranean, we have accounts of the fever being still eery prevalent in Bar aldose, Malaga, &c. Two English vessels, the Ant picious sad Superb, had been sent from Malaga is con sequence of their having the yellow fever on heart!. Two of the crew Lad died belonging to the Sepal 1,, and one belonging to the Auspicious. The abore vessels had arrived at Gibraltar, and on the Gth ins!. sailed from thence for England, the fever still prevail ing oa board The East India Compan's ships Brampton, Prowl-. deace anti Asia, arrived in the Downs yesterday.— The Asia sailed from St. Helena the 29th July, and tho Providence the 3d of August. The Lady Cer• riagtoa. it is reported, was at St. Helena when the Poseidon, left. The Boston Gazette observes, " We understand that the keel of a national ship is nearly ready to be lei.l at the Navy yard In Philadelphia, which is expected to be the largest armed ship in the world, by having titres entire tiers of gues s besides those on the quarter deck and forecastle—ia all 140 guns." SNOW? MiASVEZDIENT IN Com.s.—We understand that a case is pearling, in which it will appear that a coal merchant eopgini to supply his customer with eboideento of wool*, of which there were oaf/ forty-segos bushelideficient, when they came to be mensored. 1N TatAL, Aeo. 14.—Strecut.an McaDra.— V 4 have learned the following particulars, from a gentle man lately from Three Rivers :—" A young man, riving on the opposite bank of the river, affianced to a girl of the same place, went down to Quebec ; Ito there became acquainted with another girl, whom he married. After his return, the disappointed one, we-- tog her successful rival on the beach, and derivine strength from jealoxsy, seized her, flung her to the earth, and when she opened her mouth to scream for assistance, crammed it fall of sand. The unfortunats being, fearful of being stifled, endeavoured to key, her month shut; but gasping for breath, was obliged to re-open it, and at each attempt to respire, received an additional handful', till she at length fell a victim to the diabolical rage of her enemy. The murderess is in gaol at Three Rivers." Douro Htenway Roaasee.—Yesterday afternoon, as a young lady, whose name, from the confusion which prevailed, we were unable to learn, was passing the end of Shoe-lane, Holborn, a smart designing loot:- log young fellow made a sudden snatch at her reticule. containing some silver, and ran off with it pur sued by several persons op the lane ; he effected his escape down one of the courts into Fleet-market, and there& person whom we understood to be connected with the Police was in the act of securing the robber, when he was tripped up by another of the gang, upon which they. all got clear of. It is truly very alarm ing when robberies are committed so barefacedly is such public thoroughfares, especially in the open day. A termer in this neighbourhood, by way of expe met, threshed some new wheat last'week, and was sgteitably surprised to find that fourteen sheaves pro &seed a bushel of fine corn ; whereas in'prime years hie calculation was sprays 20 sheaves of the same site hi the bushel.—(Dery Paper.) JIMOSIONE, Mee?. 20.—There is a general come inlet in this neighbourhood that the 'hops fall very short in quantity of what they were laid at a few week . back; add to this, almost every ground of the old ant best sort of hops is very roach infected with the mould; so much, that many acres are *as noomortb picking. The prices have started ruinously low, bet we expect an alteratioit soon, and better markets. Present prior Pockets 50s. to 56c ; fine to 635. per cwt. Duty, stilV called 11111.011111.--(Maidetone Gazette.) Cons FACUANOI, SKPT. 28.—We had rather more deasnod for fine old wheat towards the close of Wednes day's market, and again this morning several country bums heist here, and old wheat in the western cons* ties being much waisted ; but new is totally unsaleable, owing to the rough and bad condition.—Fine fresh Wiry, as well as beans, fully supported Monday's priare.--oThe Oat trade was heavy. in consequence Mr hags areletds.-04, peas End other Wields there is too - p o t iso le bit rowsb • 1 1 )StrsoOttO UotairrttPe. 413.—•Therr was a good this worth of 1 descriptions of cattle, slot Sololialiot folly ' their prices, best that of irde • rise ,alit is assisal. . (To eillk the oral ; per Stour of Sibs.) Beef _ _ .. . . So. SC- do Is. 41. everso AT ISAAIRT llstlos.. So. lid. to Is. Od. Bouts ......i. as Val .- . So. el. to do. Od. Woos , tke Pork. ... SL Olt. to U. 0.1. Shoop owl LisobS 7.f100 IPA q•• • Os. 04. to tis Od. MT atastOT..llso price rdossim ssi alt so per of r dome so ,:. trlt•tsflir• 10s. le 41. Os. I Mist, 11. tit. to W. Clover —V. OL to 14.• is. I 1