The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-07-29 00:00:00

To rim EDITOR or rns STATESMAN. SIR,--flaving observed t h at Too, stallion( Cor fespondent, TIMOTHY TRII&M AV, in his sensible lot. ter on the love motion Of Sir F R AN C I S BUMDETT, fi fer, to the scarce Work of Sir THOMAS SMITH, en. titled " The Commonwealth of England," as to the ancient state of bondage in which a part of our an crstors were held, as well es with regard to the de ceitful conduct of the Clergy in those days, it has Struck me that a few watt from Sir THOMAI . 6 book may be acceptable to snag of your Readers, and which I accordingly subjuiu.—Tour's, &c. Berkshire, .11.4 _5.1819. B. C. " After that we have spoken of all the sorts of freemen according to the di ilia of their estates and persons, it reveth to say somewhat of headmen, which •ere celled semi, w hich kind of people and the disposition of them and shoot them cloth occopie the most of JUSTINIAN't Digests and Code. The Romans had two kindes of bondsmen, the one which were called serui, and they were either which were bought for money,token in tram., left by soccertion, l or purchased by some other kind of lawfoll lion, or else borne of their bondiromen, and called across ; all those kind of bondman bee called in nor taw villains is gross., ■s we would sly immediately bond l• the persoo and his helm. Another they bad (as appeareth in Jcsrtms trt's time) which they called adscriptitd ekbre or ogre censill.— These were not bond ►o the person, bet to the minor or place, end did follow him who had the manors, end in our kw are called villain's regardants ; for because they be as members, or belonging to the armour or place. Neither of the one sort nor of the other here wee any number in I:sigland. And of the first 1 never knew any in the realm. in my time; of t►e second, so few there be, that it Is not almost worth the speaking, bot nor law doth acknowledge them in both those sorts." " M,numinion of that kind. of 'Plaines or bond sotto in England, is vied and :loos after divers sort., sod by other, aid mere light sod easie meaner than is prescribed in the Civil' Law : and being once mane milted, be* is not libel-Ns manumittentis, bat simply liber : howbeit, elute our realm. bath ',Mined the Christian religion, which maketh vi all in Christ brethren, and iu respect of God and Christ, con:cr. mos, men began to base conscience to hold is capti ski', Red such extreme bondage, him who n they must eckoowledge to bee their brother, and as wee use t• term* him a Christian, that is, who looketh in Christ, and by Christ, to have espial' portion with them is the G"spell sad Saluatiou." " Vpon this scrap's., in continuance of time, and by long seccession, the 11 dy Fathers, Monkes, and Friers, in their confession, arid specially in their 'm istime aid &idly sicknesses,berdened the consciences of th 6 whom they had ender their bands : so that tem- porall men, by Mlle sad little, by reason of that ter-1 ear it, their conscience, 1g ere glad to coanumitteall their tillainn: but thesaid Holy Fathers, with the Abbots end l'siors, did not in likeliest by theirs, for they bad also conscirace to empoverish and despoil. the Chord so Loch as to osausmit Mich as were bond to their churches, or to the manors which the church had Rotten, mud so kept theirs still. same did the Bishops also, till at the last, and now of Ilte some Bishops (to snake a peace of looney) manumitted, theirs, * stilly for argent, paid), for slanders, that they seemed more creel" than the tempos slily. After the mona'teries cocooning into temporal' men's hand', I bare beans occasion that nun they be almost all ma numitted. The most part of headmen, el 6 they Were, yet were sot used •Ws vs so cruelly, nor in that sort as the boodmie at the Hooting Clod lAw, as eppearo , h by their comedies; nor as in Greece, as appeased* by theirs—het they were suffered to enjoy I eeprhokt lmsd, to gaine and ref as other seruants."— • nVir Dooms Smith's Curnsmunweulth. p. 259-262. Again, p 265.—" This p ion of Chsistians, set to make n r keeps his brother in Christ servile, bead, and underling, for ever with him, as a beast rather than a man, and the humanity which the I Christian religion cloth teach, bath engendered , through realots (not neere to 'rashes air' ihrba-; puss) a doubt, a conscience, a scruple to hare ser wants and bundrnen." As a man of the sew of Robinson, and • boy, were employed last week, at Croft, nets puling. io getting 110000 from the bed of the riser Tees, the roaring of the waters at a diotance announced ;he approach of a rapid flood. The boy instant!, loosened the for. horse from tie cart, which he mounted, and horse swam with him on shore. Ti. man, snide's, to save the other horse and cart, leaped on the animal's back, and bad neatly pined the land, when the torrent camp, and carried the whole with the greatest velocity along with it. Thedrowned horse and cart were thrown on shore some miles dews the river, bat the body of the onforteuate man has not been fiend. The Tees is very subject to these sadden floods after heavy rains. A dreadful 6,. broke sot yesterday afternoon is tote sogar.bosse of Messrs. Craven and Sheila, Not. l son-greet, Whitechapel, w hick from its firassommence. resent burned most rapidly, there being a great scar. city of water. The whole of the interior of the sager. boos. is entirely consumed, together with • vast quantity of sugar. Upon • moderate computation, the lcss sustained is 0,0001, the greater part of which however, insured. It extended its ravages into Dentan•street, and at ore time great fears were entertained for the White Swan.lno, in IVhi:echapel, the lower part of the yard joining the sugar-house. Happily no lives were lust ; and no serious personal injury occorred. Dating this scene of distress, spec rat rickporkets were active among the crowd, which was immense, and op Gentleman lost his gold watch end seals. ExEcullox nr 13cLIAMIX Nortt.t.—This odor. tame wan, who was brined, 60 and ft/ years of age, under weal the bedew, of the hte shortly atter right &clock all Wedaesday moraiag, at the *soul plate in the Old Kaiky. He was c.•vi. led Lot hessian* (together w ith an secompl tee, wwwed Mary Bristle.) ef hawing stolen front Mr. Jeremiah Steele. a!epseller, al Taster-hill, thraogh the medium of a boy of fender Mai leatli W. Squires Smith. annr he had .educed into the coutweisso• of arta of delimited?. y. a trait quantity of woollen Chili,. He •as visited early in the sandwag by the Iles. Mr. Cattalo ard Mr. Baler, sad appeared pettedly irt ague& bat be became ode agitated ao the an tot women, split, ro heel. fa ired, 'sprat was him rear adendt. that it *a. foiled necessary trt fairish him With Will. IN. Sals.Sierifs. Messrs. Pr Ilea and Turner. astaaded au shaftweaskaa. and Mr. Hake, sapiorrted the hshappy won to the waist& were a ads paecutioNer t Hotting, lie reinter pen*, appu6sed to that ipelearbely oiler being " at Poter) performed She awful ceeetittlithi lirCeNclf, trns• stn. v;lc died ear:marl! hard. ilik 'sVii,ii'sliAi4. N.IV_IL IiVTBLLIGENGE. Ds% L, J ILT 28 —Came down &moths Rimmed sailed the Smyrna, ri rlll.f, for Cnnstantinople. PORTSMOUTH, .11.1.1 f VC—Passed by for London the Anna, Clarke, hoar Quebec.—Sailed the Fos, Industry, and Caroline iranrporte, for Guernsey ; Mariner, Herbert, for Quebec ; Eclip rr. Milbank, fur ditto ; and IVillimen, Spence, for Trieste. PLYstutnii, Jci.T 27.—Arri:n1 the Hills, 1411., from a entice ; and the Mariner, Collett, from Mar seilles.—Sailed the Henry Clay, Cairns, for More. ----MT— the __Amoy pac. II tRWICII. JeLY _3 .—Arriv e d i 041 f ket, from Coalsavest, with a Mail—Sailed the Henry Freeling picket, for Celliaven; end the Lady Ne. peen, for llolland ; both with Mails. FALMOUTH, Jut.a• 26.—Arrived the following packets with ,Mails:—The Lady Arabella, from IN. bon in 16 day• ; Fos, from the Islands, last from St. Thomaer, in 29 days ; Mostegoe, from Jamaica, in 42 days ; Lady Wellington, frum the Mediterranean, last from Gibraltar, in i 6 days ; and Marchioness of Salisbury, from the Brazils, list from Pernambuco in 42 days.--Sailed the Duke of Kent picket, for !Alton ; ■nd Francis Freeling packet, for the I.larrd•, both with Mails. The Marchioness of Salis bury left et Rio the Creole frigate, bearing the brood pendant of Commodore Bowles ; and the Blossom sloop of war is preparing to sail for England with specie. At the entrance of the harbour, •poke , the Comet Steam, from Portsmouth. oat 53 days ; 22d Jene, in lat. 17. N.long. 26 10. W. spoke the Cstalini, Andrew, in 26 days, from Rio for London. Also spoke a Sluttish 73, tbe name on her stern Almoner, on the Ist, bet entail not learn whence she came or where buend. On the 6th July, in lat. 31. 40. N. long. 39.20 W. spoke the Alfred trans. port, from Sierra Leone, out 30 days; and the Le. 111'01811,0f Workington, out 41 days, from Pernam. burn, very deep laden, and nearly all the copper off her bottom, but made no tester. On the 24th iely, in Ist 49. 18 N. long. R. 53. W. spoke the Specs. lator, from [lshii, for Falmooth, oot 6 1 days; and the Albion, of London, 131 drys, from Calcutta ; also the Martha, of Loudon, oat 67 days, fto■ Buenos Ayres. By the L,dy Wellington packet We !tern it Wei re ported at Gibraltar, that about WOO men bad re fused to join the 1.111 , 41164 m at Gediz. GRAM) NAVAL AFFRAY. Dtiatix, Jets 23 —lt is with estreme regret we state, that on Monday morning last, a most net regress and desperate attack was made on three boats belonging to the Dublin Fishery Company— an attack which, had it succeedeJ, most have in curred the lost of several lives ; but we are happy to add, that it failed in the principal object, ■nd partial injury sustained by a few, was the only re sell of it. Ahern half-past seven o'clock on the moraine stated, three smacks belonging to the above Company sailed from the Pigeon-house to proceed to fish in the Channel, es easel ; le their progress they saw a number of wherries, that ere also usually employed in fiahng, but not employed by the Company. The three 'marks perceived, when about five miles to the east of llowth, that they time chasmd by the other yes. eels, which were di►ided lulu three squadrons of sin each; one • herry cartieJ • red nag, end appeared to bate a person on board who commanded the en tire, as orders were issued from it, and promptly obeyed. One of the ageadroes wised each of the smacks, which mere abort one mile asunder; wh►n the crews of the three vessels foetid their pursuers intent on continoing the chaise, they all agreed not to rooting"' their coarse, bet return, in doing which they had to pass their enemies; they, bow ever, made the attempt, and came so closely in contact, that they were nearly grappled, and se. eerely pelted with large stoned, or rather pieces of rock, with which the assailants were plentifully sop. plied. The crews of the smacks consisted of only four persons each, viz. a Captain, • Mate, a man, and a boy ; while, on the other hand, the sherries had from ei g ht to eleven men each ; the latter told the former, in the most abesioe terms, that they would cut their throats and throw them overboard, and shooed the hatchets with which they intended to cot away their masts and rigging ; notwithstand ing the vast disparity of numbers, arid the want of means to defend themselves, the crews of the yes. eels behaved with a determination Ugly ch•recler. kilt of good seamen, and when one of the Captains was insolently ordered to hoot down his flag, he re. plied lie would forfeit ►is life first.—(The flags car ried by the Company's vessels are green, with the Union in the corner, and the words " Dublin Fishery Company," on the ground).—The superior sailing of the Company's smocks ■lone saved them from the 'destruction, and when all hope of grappling them was given over, the Admieul issued his orders to a particular vessel to run down a smack, which be pointed oat; this mandate Wei promptly attempted to be carried into effect, but the consequetrees were injetions to those acting on the offensive alone, as, in the attempt, they Inst their bowsprit, and were otherwise very materially injered, when they struck violetitly against the other vessel, which escaped without damage, owing to her superior strength.— The last of the three salmis that reached the lily, was so nearly overtaken by one of her pursuers, that they were in the act of throwing a shower of stones 'efficient to destroy every one on board, when the Captain presailed on them to desist, by promisiug not to tome oat again for the purpose of fishing; they then warned hie, that if be did they would in tercept and sink him ; the Captains of the three smacks wets very much hurt by the stones thrown at them, as also others of the people on board. In formations of this outrage base beets sworn at the Police Office. Mk. GKd7T AN, Ssa JOHN NEWPORT, Ma. PLUNiCET, Aso Ma. HUTCHINSON. Mr. Grattan made /so speeches doling the Isit Session of Parliament, and one of those speeches, no doubt, was another laurel is the wreath. We do sot stale this tam as. matter of reproach. We sore it as • compliment to Mr. Gr•ttan'a good sense and discernment. lie knew it would be a vain effort. —lie knew be might as sell tell the Atlantic nut to Po* on. Sir John Newport (an excellent min) proved by his conduct during the present Session, that be more thin laments his fatal support of the Union. Ms. Hutchinson demonstrates by the impotency of his ad mirable spirit on a foreign soil, that it is blowing wino the winds to plead the cause of Ireland at Westminster; and Mr. Plunket, by his sound com mon-sense attention to the Irish Four Courts, where he represents Al, clients much better than be can re present his country in the Imperial Pa►liament, proses to the satisfaction of every man, that even his seperie► intents despair of doing any good to Ireland i• Owl Eirliament. We are willing to declare, that we most piously believe, that that immortal epitomizes of Euclid, Ellington, who presides over Trinity College with such requisite good sense, feeling, and liberality ; who has an judiciously and profoundly banished Locker Treatise on Government from the College Comte; •ho in fart is a model of piety, cod social order and good Government. Who will say, that oath a creature as this would not norrefreland in Per. liament a s we ll as ? We know he would, and as long is such a Representation o f I ' M im i p a . los, we trust, that such wise men as the Elritigtoos may beoor Reprearnistives. Good God ! it is to much fo► the batmen bead le bear, that we shonld be thus reduced to a draw-form for the sitar cowry ! It this country, Ireland, whose picture we may take from the 'omit of that in- spired Bard, who thus spoke of Ai, own—ls Ireland to be lowered, and continue lowered in the 'Mose -1 tion of the world This Royal Throat of Kistas—this'erPired This earth of Majr•tr, this .rot of hlars— Thi• *Art k.den —denti-pnntdire— Thu forum built ►y Aarar► for beruelf, Arnim% Infection and the band et war— Tim brippy ►reed of mes—tbss link 14 odd— %Air reamer clear set in Ots estrrr sea. Is such a country as this So be leased oat like to tenement or pelting form7—Wo say, no—Messrs. Grattan and Plunket—and so says Ireland. A Gentleman. on leaving the 'Change )estettlay, was robbed of his pot kri.bni.k. containing int 11. now a silver watch, and Iwo gold seals. . DARING ItosacaT.—Vesterd•y mornint, 't en early hoar, a young woman was passing along i'vek. lane, when she observed a man at the top or a house, and another who was climbing into a whitlow of a stable, at the back of the Earl of Shrewsbury's boost. Suspecting they had a bad design on the house, she proceeded as fast as she cuald to Cordensty, t h e watch. man of tl.e beat, who came to the spot, and saw a man at the lop of his LordaLip's house, from which he threw of a largos one on some cheeaux•de "rine attached I. this wall, and so was llTPTflilltd (Along on the watchman. Ile called out " Buil 1" awl *Wiled. The watchman median alarm, bet the is got out of bed, and, on receiving information that thieves were in the hawse, they searched and ascertained that that place had been robbed of diffessmat property. A man was observed lurking ahem Ike hausepfter wards, . and the watchmantehwatchmantock him to the niolt. bow T he other man escaped. A Gentleman has issreated whet he calls o phslan. tiropic bridle, 1111 i which would with more etymolo. gical propriety bo named a philippic bridle. The invention cousiats of a large hollow collar, coutain. ing a r rrrrr oir of water, passing round the horse'. neck, and commoesicating with a bit, also hallow, by which the horse's mouth may be k ito ,comuntLy moist tlorin the proves, of kit labour. RIRCII, TIIR CONSTADLE. From thrisuhfoined peiseg• ofs letter from S'ork. [race rut int.:tete port, it appear. that Birch *as meets easier ea Moo. W• have thes headed the present article, hoesese i day evening. thnieh the ball had wet dioo been ex. rethink it the best mode of attracting the public at. I locoed. We are sorry, however, is lease, the' the tension. The fsir and hoisouruble pretensions of 'deices received at the wilco of the S.eresery for tdse those names to national conGdence naturally soggiest : Home Department, bold out ISO loopy for his skis them, when we turn to the subject of the Reply. • Mate recovery. It het bet". P"°°*"°`'Y 11.1 sentation of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament.— Birch was the person oho apprehended Sir Chides It is universally admitted, that their candour is not • Wolsely. inferior to their talent, and that they would admit; " Slocerorr, Mono se' EVENING —The life of the force o f t ru ths, th oug h th ole t ru ths tended in poor Birch is still in jeopardy. Teo Summing hare no small de gr e e t o di m i n i s h th e ir importance, as not yet found it practicable to extract the bail. Members of the Liseislature. We shall, therefore, am happy however In learn that he sellers less paid after the eaperience of the last Session, ask those he did, and feels ton the who's much osier.-- Gentlemen, on their honours, and not on their oaths, He has been a very active aid zesty , . mit fa lit or the do they seriously think that they con confer the , Public, and has a wife and numeroes young family slighted benefit on their cowdry by their particins.: dependent on his fate. I have not heard that soy lion in the Councils of the Imperial Legislator.?—' definite discovery hrs been yet made as to the Fermis Let es take Grafton first— • name pecidisrly tenets. •ho fired the ball, or thole eh* were with hiro.+-. ble, and every day like the oak growing snare gene- Several persons have been examined. The situeliori rabic by the accumulation of years—to this greet i of Birch, whom it might be dangerous to trouble with men, whom Correa loved almost to idolatry, may I "wi n kles et present, is eftessoliiy a greet Modulo.* we by permitted to say. even he does Ireland au ter- ! in the way of discovery. Mr. Harris's espressos him. vice where he it nom placed. We should perhaps bee *elf in the most growls! terms !or the manner in width porde', of the genius by which he has so o ften set all Mr. Birch behaved to him in the way dews, sroednes oar national character; bet, meets in this instance, any man, I believe, more sincelely leased the feta what solid benefit can henry Grattan confer on Ire-1 which has befallen him. The people Woe lied es lands whets opposed to the Bot° o (booneore made- ' peeled the arrival of Mr. Harrison as catty as There. rity of the English Mese of Commons? If tin- day evening, and were eolleeted in great numbers iri quince could achieve a triumph over corruption, the streets to greet him. An empty chaise happen. Grattan would have long since succeeded ; for who ing to pass Aram:is, some one raised the cry that it will now dare to be his competitor ? If an honest and i was the chaise which had brought Mr. Hartisoo, sod so anxioes sensibility to lieland's distress could pro- I that Birch had alighted wl!h his priests," et the oat. cure support to his opinions, who deserved a greater shirts of the town. The mob immediately fell oith it portioo of the confidence of en English House of blind fury upon the chaise, and in a few animates Commons than Sir Join Newport ? If a hold, in- complOttly demolished it. The driver escaped en trepicl, manly and elle vindication of !friend's hart. Mr. Harrison was preaching in the streets claims to jetties merited attention, who superior to here yesterday evening, and was listened to with the Hutchinson ? I most seemingly devout attention by a glowed if And now for Mr. Plunket. When the Union fails hearers. I understand that Parr, the pewsloser, wawa in him is produce any good to Ireland, who, after j has hem, figuring away at the late Meetings, odd him, will he so Osgood as to make the experiment ? agai n st 'sh o rn a marten' has been for genie time owe, Ile is acknowledged by the English Parliament to I on a charge of sedition, has been get hold of, aid have pat the case of his country in the most moan- i committed to the Castle of Chester." terrible manner. lie has beaters doyen, with the arm of as Herewit!, the aadacioes sophistry that op posed the concession of her rights. He has laid bare the rottenness of the pillars that supported the as. cenilancy of Ireland. He has replied to every area. ment, etiolated every speaker, enfolded thetr motive' sod their objects, and left nothing fee the enemy to object, or the advocate to defend, and yet ell trill not do in a forgive Parliament. Half the powder that was rhos wasted would have conquered for the freedom of Ireland. Bet Mr. Pionket is no !owe a novelty in London, and the John Bulls of the Commons House will listen to bins hereafter talking oboist the grist/aces of his native country with Ism sensibility than they would wituess the battle Wieser' Donnelly and Oliver. EMIGRATION rd Tits CAPE dr GOOD NOM TO TIIE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL mEitm GeNTLIIIIIO,-1 find the Sato/ day's Adurliien " with his usual good sense," (as ha says of 104 Castlereagh,) mooching C.. pros sod coat of dog very carious scheme of the NW, Lard. help POI forth (as supplementary to the diggito. sis.l biting off holes) by his colleague the Chaucellor of the Ea, chequer, and received with great cumplaceney on bolls sides of the Hon. Hour, viz. the transfer of our superflooes population to the Cape of Good Hope I 1 . . I am sorry to Gad myself opposes, i 4) I Le.gowl acne of Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Vaniitisil.Ala ltorto•vobia How, and aforesaid Editor; buil thjult. Wort/ they undertook to argue about lb. diagso.gt of .4 'Woodard population. they should hare ologigisba lire fact, which may f sidy be doubted, es we!' ag thp • wisdom, of transporting it, al the public aapeiteo,/o foreign cognitive, while a single MONICA :If employ. merit can be devised at home, Independent of the cc. collieated and half-cultivated lead surioandiug To acgoiesce in such a scheme as this. is to tot i n i g i the drivelling or dishonest system of eaptdiers!s at baud to the reluctant, eircandid enclittryr. Is it presumed to be cheaper In add the cost of • lung voyage, sod the outfit of a new settlement for those sufferers, than to aid them at home ? Unless it is intended In kidosp them, and lease them ou the bescit or the false cape, lOW they net be housed, arid clad, and provisioned for a year, •bithersotver they arc sent Bet the reject is mere deletion, an Preemie* of sofelt solicitude, and altogether vein. It Mr Vass sittart presumed to be ignotent, that, besides the "SA prune (I think to the fall amount of the profils of his Lottery, which he mild not forego, eves Wu,* this blessed crotchet entered their heeds), every .a* so disposed of, as the heed of a family of five persons would abstract ten pounds @leer frons.his !wasted Excise receipts? and 1611.44 H! would be still ( mi ff , If he transports drum-drinkers and &diktats its hit Lottery. But away with such temporising asesamety, the ft/Ps spring of amounts, sellivitores, the absence of pohlid spirit, and of Christi's feel*. Every Koolisl man, • ling to labour, and thereby to perform his duty to the community. stas A 'MOT TO xtrc AT MOLE; end let him hate his 'minas free of unjust dediscri.,ns; and he will quickly he foetid In flied on otfiLioue tenderness hem Noble Lords and Cooonelhses of thd Excheqoer. The lahours of she c , ortbry, including every mode of honest, useful industry, consritod• she rid. and the wealth and ti edefoote of a colours?; and It is only when corruption hn *Mood span this core, that the idle, the useless, the selfish, the— in I word, thew hole of that numerous famity,wke Invert* cares but for number one, beep each other in cnsntsti nance, while they squat like the sampyre, and farrow on the blood of unconscious slumbering .urlostry. But It is time In look our C , urrututioir it. the face—while those who hove got possession of the ter. ritury, the wealth, and the power of the reentry, em. piny them as instruments of further rmaellons, imposing upon industry the task of maintaining all thee, depends° Is and rept.orters—o bile tech in genre use perpetuate the endless varieties and etreses of patronage in eblotties, office., useless or overpaid, enormous establishments, chinch iitino, &c. /be. !enabling those who hare much In atcumul.te in proportion, to husband their capitate, and yet hand. gamely to provide (or their otrie.s ; trompotta. lion nary eontinee of the en/lucent in envision *llk the guilty, bet thr, Meer, in 'illicit ease, 0111 islet," tease till a little more candour is brought to beat spun the enquiry, and a ~.at dart rilot..earollia.c..a sowed to Aso tie envittokory mount ~l half the (Initial/5 of a temalnissi instorfsi lure,, empinyett ies the teranest •f his more &attested neighbour to the Cape of Good Hope., ALS J.L. - Th Regent, Isom Chios; is ;rated of Wry. south. It was reported or Rio that Lord Co*..ctit ball made an wear on Limn, bat dad talletl.' • " • 1. # • I