The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-04-02 00:00:00

Mount .hoot dispassionate. !ices \r in .ures ,hat ,spedi -•eat otar un- enance, possesses his me in made proof. ' the fun deck of the half the skins of a part b s . t ' I t - •- 1 ‘, . i , •- - v. i irseessee-et'_ ...............,--.,............ ti; i exertioet, in a wroog direction, the substance of thei ~.: desires is removed to a greater and a greater distant • from their grasp. • :i 4 " Let us, my friends, now no longer proceed thus I et us stand still and eiamine the wisdom of thou practices so dear to some of us—namely, the proms 4 s tore employeent of children, and the election 4 eseesitie• labour from a part of our adult populatiot (Aile domande est "holly unemployed, and misers ' Isle, RSA starving, for wants f occupation. A vet . - -lignites' share of sagacity, properly- directed, wil . show us that, in oar character of asatillf*Claress onlj • it is . cleerly our interest to permit children to b . . - ,. properly educated, sod to possess •soutsd and vigor 4 4 oats constitutions ; that oar operatives, and all th • e.eorking classes shout:l nut be 'asked or permitted t . -labour 'store than tutelage hours per day, with tw ; - hoots i n termission for rest, air, and meals ; an d th t is 1... in return for their labour, they should be allows sesges ‘ulficietit to enable them to purchase whole . some food, and come of the most useful articles 4 manufacture. View these changes in the most sutfa voorabie tight iss which they can be placed fur it manufacturing interest, and they will be found, eac ' ".eadoll of them, to be beneficial to it. Should th . . . • oion•emploent-ist of children, under 12 years of agi and the limitation of the hours of labour to twelve inclusive of meals, occasion a small fractional add . . tt . lion to the prime cost of our manufactered article , . 1. by the consequent diminution of the supply, yet 1 the latter now esceeds the demand, the prices of tt articles will advance in a greater proportion, and II consumer, as he ought, will snake up the difleretic .—But any difference that may thee arise, must I small indeed, compared to the perpetual fluctnatioi which are made in the prices of all a r ticles, b y a fe • • wealthy speculators buying up a t on c e immen 4litttlitles of the raw materials, from which the.,v ~.., b, ) , t ....... : rides articles of commerce are m ade. lit,the cow ,i - :10, . .$ 'business, for instance, as being now ape' most e "' 'tended (but the principle applies equally to all), tl 1 •'" ameliorations proposed will not affect the prime co 1, of the thread more than the fraction of a penny p 1 •-• ' , ,pound, and in the finished cloth or muslin, nut mo .i' s ' ~,,,than a fraction of that fraction pe e y ard —while sus . . .- . specu l at i on s will increase the prime cost of the ra 3' r, . material from Id. to 12d. or led. per pound—as 4 , i that to benefit a very few individuals at the expen 4 . of the Public. I hod no fault with such speculation „lout it does not become those who are the most acti ' On them, and the chief gainers by theM, to contei , 1 iogalost "the removal of evils which a ff ect the we i l ; arriag and vital interests of millions of the most hel f . less of the population, merely on the plea that a sm, . i . 1 fiactional addition would thereby be made to t . 1 ',prime cost of an article , whey for their own imtn . dime gain they would add 10 or W times the anise to its price. t .. t , •In short, my friends, when you come to exam; . 4' f (ha subject fairly and honestly, you will certain s „Atitd that no valid reason exists for the longer can . ~ nuance of the grievous and pernicious practices whi Dow prevail in our trade ; and that, instead of c C i posing them, it is especially our interest, one sad a to petition the Legislature to remove them withc , delay, and I trust that when you heoptlispassioniv kly and without prejudice taken allthese circumstate c: , 1 0 ; into your consideration, you will amordingly pour Petitions from every district ill. which inenufactui asett.established. ROBERT oi/VEN " 74iii - tlmirk, Marrh SO; 1;18. - . • . rt . •• ~, • )-"7 4 hi rili Ake:TIC EIFIEDIT7ONS IND THE 10^.1+ *) '47 • 1 4 1 • , lts or •. • ESQUIMAU. • --.0.--- i . • •,I. s• '4 . Tn consequence of its having bean un d erstoo d , tl . the four vessels, destined for these important espe lions, were to sail yesterday, ;rom i lieptford, ge I !. . numbers of people thronged them; al.an early In ri4 o witness lbs.. equipment that has smelted such an t com mon degree of public interest. The.visi t ers , ho A refer, were disappointed ; a sharp wind, which hi % leen) the North-east, rendered it not desirable for a ,large vessel to drop down the River, during a 411 ,side, and the sailing of the vessels was, thereto : I , -postponed to another day. Toe Esquimiux, who has already been so mu ' celebrated for the astonishing exploits which he p forms with his canoe, is a native of Orris's Stra t '. from which place be was brought t o L eith abou t fs years ago by a South Sea Whaler, having been Cut in his ravine so far out at sea, that he had scarcel hope of being able to regain the shore. In Scotls be wee instructed in the English language, aft wards in the principles of the Christian Religi , r ,-and then baptized by the name of Jobu Sackhouse 1.. : . Ile can converse with perfect ease, an 4 w rite name eery . legibly. He is of a copper colour -good looking man, with an intelligent co/wiener . 4 • about b feet e inches high, stout made, ,and posse, I j great strength and egility. His canoe, which is Is I ` . chief appendsge on board the Isabella, is the sane which he was found at sea; it is -1 4 .5 feet long, is m 1 .' entirely of seal skips, and is completely water-4)ns . it is equally pointed at both aftds like one of , small boats on the *rhames,.comaron)) called J I fifes ; but the upper part is coverecilike the deck • e a small sailing . heat. There - As one opening in f middle, into .which he introduces-more than half 1t • lower part of his .body,-; he then faetens the 51 next to this opening round his body, by means r • belt made of a whale's entrails, while the upper 1 of his body is so well covered with a jacket of sk that only his hands and face are exposed to ' Thus, with a paddle in his hand, he can move i, i canoe either backward or forward , with a veto . far exceeding that of any fo ur-oared cutter. the most astonishing part of Isis performance is, t \ by which he can give his vehicle all the propertii a lifeboat, and preserve himself, like a sea-f . . * itted.st the most tempestuous weather. lie tin himself down on one side, becomes entirely imms 1 . in the water, while the canoe, moving in the 1 , direction with him, is turned bottom upwards, he comes up spin on the other side, and comesit sights himself. What makes this movement still 1 .• extraordinary is, that all this time he never . hold of his paddle. He has already eshibiterl . self in this manner three different times-in the It .i before multitudes of spectators. The third es 4, tilt was on Saturday last, in the presence of I • r Melville and others, as we noticed an Monday. addition to the account we thengeve, it is we • of samath, that he eater misses any object at s ~ ~ .. . 4 , , • .•• .. . ' • ' % .u• 4 ......a.LAICA4s,....—, I•w• hit 2ny neap fore, such per• four And .ly land %era (se.— his ir, a give _ his ,)risingperformance on this. occasion. - Lord Cutlereagh, Lord Yarmouth, the Bishop of, 'Winchester, the Bisbopol Oxford, Mr. Croaker, and several other persons of distinction, came down to Deptford, by particular appointment. They pree cealed from the Dock-yard, accompaeied by the Commissioner, and went on board the .Isabeha, where they waited for a long time, in engem 'aped tailors of seeing this native of the Arctie regions commence his operations; but, owing to 4 circum stance, which we are about to mention, they expe— rienced a sad disappointment. The Egtaitnaux, having gone on shore that morning, was at osted by a man from London (some say he was a Jew), who, after representing to him the dangers of the expedi tion he was about to embark in, and the liberty he possessed of disposing of his person, in whatever manner he chose, held oat to him (probably without any authority) a promise of several thousand pounds, if he would quit the "hip, and exhibit himself at the Aquatic Theatre, Sadler's Wells. His pride and his prospects having experienced this momentary eleva tion, while . his brain was nearly intoxicated by " copious draughts of grog, he came on board the' , ship, swaggered about the deck, boasted of his im portance and his promised wealth, and obstinately refused to esbihit himself hi his humble canoe. The Officers, anxious to gratify theirdistinguished fishers,' made use of intreaties, promises, and even threats; but all to no purpose. Lord Castlereagh and I others offered hint a handsome sum, on condition that he should commence his operations, but the offer was rejected. The Noble visiters were, there fore, obliged to return to town, without hissing their' curiosity satisfied. About ten thousand spectators,'l who crowded the decks of the Burro': diug vessels, - experienced a similar disappointment. The Officers of the expedition now began to en tertain serious apprehensions lest they should lose a person from whom they expected to derive many ad. vantages, in his character of interpreter between them and the inhabitants of the shore bordering on Davis's Straits. They, however, used no compulsion or restraint, but left him to the exercise of his own judgment, after proper remonstrances ; and we are happy to say, that yesterday morning, Mr. John Sackhoose submitted quietly to all the regulations, that had been previously prescribed to him, expressed great sorrow for bis obstinacy and disobedience, as well as his determination to continue with the expedi• tion, on its outward and homeward voyage; and is now on board the Isabella, where, in consequence of an Admiralty order, no stranger is permitted to come near him. Two artists, however, have been allowed to come on board, and take his likeness. The vessels fitted out for the expeditors, have been heretofore employed in the merchant and transport service. Their names and Commanders have been already mentioned. It would hardly be possibly to convey to those, who have not seen them, a just notion of the ad mirable manner in which they are fitted op. The fur niture of the canins is now healthful and commodious ; each of them is supplied with a little library, besides the best charts, time-pieces, instruments for obser vation and drawing, &c. There are two newly in vented machines, which particularly attracted our notice :—one is a box of a polygonal shape, about two or three feet high, and one foot in diameter at the base, from which it goes tapering to the top, with out terminating in a point. At the base there is a lamp so contrived, that it is not liable to be extin guished ; and hear the top is a compass, to which the light of the lamp is communicated by reflection. The other.machine is a sort of metal box, attached to a ,leActin weight, which weight, when it strikes the bot. tem of the sea , causes a valve to open so that the box is fi:le.l with water, and when the lead is raised the valve closes, and prevents the water from coming out. rhe object of this is, to ascertain the difference be. t ween the saltness of the water et the bottom and at the surface of the Arctic Seas. It is the invention of Sir Humphrey Dicey. The Officers of the ships are in the highest spir*ts, and it would be an injustice to them not to nottO the police, gentlemanly, and hospitable attention, they have showe to the nunterous persons, whose caiiosity 'niece(' them to go on board. .e FRENCH PAPERS. PA ell, M %twit c7.—The enquiries respecting the burning of the Odeon are prosecuted with great ac. tivity. We understand that several persons are al. ready arrested. The Board of Registration have proceeded against the Editors of the Minerva, for neglecting to stamp the first numbers of their publication. A shucking accident has plunged the inhabitants of Villiers-le-Bel (Seine et Oise) into the deepest dis tress. On. Wednesday the 25th, between four and five in the evening, some workmen were employed in lowering from the steeple a large cracked bell of 6,000 weight. About 60 persons bad assembled in the belfry to witness the operation, and there were in the church about four hundred women, who hart also been attracted there by curiosity. A cracking of the vault soon began to be beard, and in a mo. meet the church was filled with enormous masses of stone, which fell from the height 'of 80 feet, with a horrible crash. The women rushed toward the door, and wishing to get out all at once, press. ed against Nick other. On bearing their cries) a great number of the inhabitants ran to the spot. On entering the church they found 25 mortally wounded : three died within a few minutes after. — The neat step to be taken was to assist the unfortu nate persons who had remained, as it were by a mi racle, in she belfry, some suspended by the ropes, others- among the timbers. Zeal and courage tri umphed over every obstacle, and they were all saved. It appears certain that this accident was-occasioned by the fall of the bell, which broke the rope by which it was suspended, and felt on the key of the arch', instead of keeping the direction which had been given to it. The damage is estimated - at 50,000 trance. The whole Commune is iu mourning. Every . one Jut to lament the fate of a frisud or relatifs. • --. _ co _ is already rank in tome These events were less Inquest v.. abounded more with wood.. • An 80-gun ship, called the Neptase t. j tra5: 1 141, ;....i. at L'Orient on the 21 st. • ,The machinist of the Odeon, wheeryAwite has, been set at liberty. "' Fire p.r Cent. Consolh 65f. 90 •." 4 c #9lia 1 51 . X) r * ; • •A'aIPIIIIIST RE DRAWN' IVII764IIOJEWAY. TWO PRIZES Or-,07A00.$ OTHER. CAPITALS 01 45,00.), £1,600, Ac. AND ABOVE 1,300 PRIZES 01 X5O, t are. !,i • •. . • PRICE OF STOCKS DAV AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock • '5 per Cent. Navy S per Cent. Red. India Roods 86 89 p $ per Cent. Cniatils 791.06 . Stock Consols fnr Ace. 794i4 Long Ann. 4 per Cent. Escrequer Bills 15 40 p • facture of this article shell be &Atty.' monopoly, In the Chamber of Deputies, on Saturday, a Bom b er of Petitions from persons who complained of havin g eouffered i• different ways and from •differeet calm Alericie the disturbances thet took place is CO*, gnome of the Revolution of 1815, were presenteil l liktiliewpost remarkable appeal to the Chamber w e e • l tFe of Le Sim, Attune . , .a Physician et Lore, for a law to authorize judicial proceedings et the suit of individuals without the previous sane* of the Council of State,against the Agents of Govern. ment who have been guilty of arbitrary acts. This is a topic which might receive some illestratioe fron t recut proceedings in this country. But as these and the mode-of protecting arbitrary oranges in this land of liberty base been sufficiently animadverted aeon, r the Reader may be curious to see bow they manage daese matters in 'France. Tyranny it the same, l aud works by the same means .in all cottntries.'"Vh. 'Petitioner grounded • the. nice. if it legislative measure to authorize pre. 'emotion on the part of injured indisiduals on the tgratiitlehl Conduct of a Commissary of Police of Bowies, and of • Lienteetat of Gendarmerie, who entered:Us hoer on the .3d of April, 1816, io his abseece farcibly broke open his apartment, carried off his pephis,‘ sad ordered him, by ewartant of the re11110;;:ti) appear at 'Montpelier the pe. nalty of liei4g conducted thitbre e. merie in case of • refusal or resistance ,he Peti. dater dellarboi that no reason 4,14 assigned • by his persecit ors fbr t Idea ethesillis ististbitrary immure, which Asus fol Ewa 4. 444:4*.aocip lion, of him as al dangerosteihan, and by banish. roost from the deptrtmeut. ahik decree of punish. meet was recalled by this — Ministry -of Police is the November fallowing, but the Petitioner was still kept under surveillance by the Prefect of the Cher, till the Minister of Police again annulled. this surveillance. The Petitioner wished to bring bisec tion against the Marquis of Viu.tesuve, the Prefect alluded to, to recover damages for the injury be sus tained ; but a Senatue Gonsultutn, protecting the agents of Government from suits brought against them for acts connected with their functions, without the permissiess of the Cornett of State, stood in his way. Re, thereforeAiriyed the repeal of this Smola. Constrltum, as centraly thtlie spirit of the Charter, and the enactment of a nest te .‘i ses Ow-the 'object. The Reporter of the Commisdoe on'Petitions, M. Etz nossr:hrter a long discourse", in which he staid r or that the Petitioner.-isighla hamkois remedy without applying - t tm Illlt•nsj i hilteled to another case; af /I. s itozemelieefcC excited murmurs in the4intre tlee a. themiiier,)it he r into remedy from the - Chestier- were petted, proprosed the °Met of the day.. yStp Armor, referr mug to The example of Eng ' land, in the case of t!:e Suspension of the flabeas Cprnts. se,ld, that as there a remedy .WIN to be had ',view the agents of Government ila a Mil of In. • triemasty was passed, so ought the sithjects of France 'to be allowed redress ageihst the Authorities for their connect in esecuting the Laws of Deception, unless precluded by a similar measure, 'or at least that • every faithful Deputy ought to denotincesuch abodes. The acts of the Prefect were rigorous, and beyond thelaw. The Law of 1815 did soot confer upon the Prefect the power of ordering the seizure of papers. After a few words from the Keeper of the Seals, the Chamber passed to the order of the day. This is the way in which our Ministers got rid of the ap peals of their victims, till a Bill of Indemnity se cured them from all further trouble; and thus as suppose, though the French Ministers have not yet arrived at this perfection of Legislation, having only an Imperial Senates to plead in defence of their agents, the Sieor Acatty, though told he may pro• secute the Prefect for damages, whenever he pleases, may experience considerable difficulty in obtain ‘g them, even under the just Government of Is XVIII. _ Tbi,ledlseneeisse of the Project respecting arrest s for dehi, wait' Pioceetled in and closed in, the course of the WI% and the first four articles adopted; the eonsitieelion of the remilning'artkles was postfsoned i , llollonday, on which day also the' discussion on .lit i3wllet Wes to commence. The Chamber el Piewaipsembled on Satu.day, and adopted the Pi o• tuitiVittirding the St. Domingo Colonists. tws. n• Mitts Homes of Parliament re-assemble this dlt', pertinent to adjournment. Ministers, it seem', ran not yet venture upon a dissolution. Each of the pious squls seems to be exclaiming, " A little longer, ' 3 et a little tooger, 0 could he stop to wash hi. silts assay, And fit him f..r his pomp I Mournful si g ht'!" for " though their eyes dropt It would out wash their public crimes away. •• We givennelher letter of great practical usefulom to society.from the philanthropic Mr. OWEN, of NP" r Lanark, in 'Scotland, on the impoitcy and hero consequences of maple) log children of a tender agi within manufastories, whilst numerous per snaS P mslarer years and better .qualified for labour, ell starting, and a berthed to the rest of the. Public.— . The impolicy and injustice of this practice is nod: r, .. ?fl :...1:4.., THE STATESMAN. • - - - . . _. b re th a * to r l e a . neat, It 'IL-. V i nn vl 11,11 1 41'. secr epentsi 3=11112"21112111112"1"amlialium.r he throws ilia dart, First of all he i casM4t to j, ivi t be earth eara e. lately took , spur to aco bid ,di ; thii repaints, te • I in. , It O i l Uk a the ha e l w l :si be st a e o n f c 4P lesiv ' el r :a ried on glit' uti I d ( er 41 . ‘ e n ais "-- 7 1 ' w ant in the ing.fr itti part of the tipodle. e serface; ilfe t 1 au 'a dart at thOlandle, . 141 11 18 a ' ri:Ake* l t i m e e sa nt ag O i f eti t u rt g e r .C li a lit Ve 3 *elf tall as the object is, he always hits it. ' bosses hue already disappeared, an ti others are " Aga' m . ent, of the Direct i •Getteral of Indirect Co s . tributions, or, in other words, that the ems. . - Ideaday laat was gam epee fee tai. estreerdinary threatened with the same fate. The-i.E.adkfra,.,.. . creature to give another specimen et his surprising Lite .. t . e a. St . ..teu in r.i ii s n wi m mi a n e i ced iced w m it e h re a i s has ilhilar tw f o at f e eet . „....It heir nice lose prema. - of .ion, wiser*- ' very ill ly, be ;he to .MO hat, ed of fa the each addi ides, as :lIP .he I CP. nee , the cost per more such .nd 'pence 'ons, tiTe nd elp =all the line inly Inti ihich op. all, N. LONDON: TUVRSDAY. Anil. 2, 1818. New York Paper' to the 4t11611t. reached es this forenoon-, hut they furnith no sews of polities! in terest. Toe Senate and Assembly of New York have been occupied by Acts and Reports concerning Attornies and Banking Companies, the restriction of both of whom seems to be much required. The evils arising from litigation and 'disordered state of the 'currency, which has been much aggravated by the On- , jut horised emission of small notes,calledfacility notes, payabie in neither money, country produce, our any thing else that has body or shape, are Nell exposed in the documents drawn up on the subjects, but it is unnecessary for us to give them at length. The Com snittee on the state of the currency, in detailing the abuses inflicted on the Public by a misuse of bank ing privileges, make the following appropriate ob ligations on an inconvenience which is felt in more countries than Republican America :—" Qf all Aristocracies, none roars completely enslave a People than that of money ; and, in the opinion of your Committee, no system was ever better devised so perfectly to enslave a community as the present mode of conducting banking establishments. Like the Syren in the fable, they entice to destroy -- They hold the purse sttiogs 'of sneirty, send by mo nopolising the whole of the circulating vnediutn of the country, they form a precarious standard, by which all the property in the country, houses, lands, debts, and credits, personal and reel estate of all descrip tion!, are valued, thus rendering the whole commu nity dependent on them, and proscribing every man who dares oppose or expose their unlawful practices: and if he happens to be out of their reach, so as to require no favour from them, then his friends are made the victims, so that no one dares complain." • • The alarming intelligence from India has received further confirmation. Dispatchtse have been receive() at the India-house, by an overland-express, announc ing the disagreeable intelligence that the Rajah of Btaxn. had taken up arms against the Subsidiary Force established in his dominions, an act which* is, in effect, a declaration of war against the Company ; and, it may be presumed, could never have been thought of by the °GRAB, though a powerful Mali ratio State, without concert with SCISIDIA, 110LIEAR, and the PytsuwA. The last Chief, though obliged to .quit Poonah, is, it appears, still able to keep the field. The Courier, in giving out this unexpected torn of affairs, asserted, that the Marquis of fixsTrstos hod commenced his operations by detaching SGINDIA from the confederacy—and last night the same Paper re. pests the auertion, that the over-land dispatch by the way of Constantinople, confirms this statement of &INDIA'S detachment. We fear, froM all that we can learn, that it will turn out the contrary. — SCI "DIA may temporise, but it is the belief 44 ai; the persons best acquainted- witlt, India, MILO, .000. federacy is deep-rooted, and that this burst-of the Native Powers is the consequence of that pollft Which Min upon Ilitar17171 1 1:1 31 : ty, and i chich our Goveratient cotetniAciesise ' d to ; • condemn, so much in rut witeossit Atm* ttper s eee the aggressive system by still lure jawed ; • • seuesenine French Papers to the 30th have arrived. \ :T Duke of Ricuactaw, Minister for Foreiges ' is said to have had en Saturday an audience of ill King, which lasted for an hoar, and immediately after:. wards his Excellency i" muted to isive wailed on the Duke of Wra.t.issixon. No• unjestere is ha carded either on the subject of the audience, er the interview. Ills Grace the Duke of Wer.r.teterox was to give a ball, it iscaid, on !Mgt! of April (this day),. preparatory to his quitting the French capital for London. The Monifour contains the Royal sanction to the Law determining the age which Members of .the Chamber of Natio most hue engines:l before their election, and Wag the time within - Which Depu ties who may be retained for two or more depict-, a ~~ THE STATESMAN. 1