The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-08-29 00:00:00

1 - 7 6 11- • • GRAND NATIONAL DINNER. (rROS ill IRISUMAG, ♦UOYST 14111.) This great National Festivity is toiie given on Mon- day nest. We understand a Nobleman of the highest popularity is to preside. Hundreds of dinners have been given to celebrate the coming of the King to this country, but this is the dinner which is destined to bring together the heart and soul of the people. Here the memory of the illustrious honoured dead will be connected with the name of that Sovereign who was the first Monarch to act upon their principleg. Our tnrkes, and °rattans, and Currans will preside at our table : they will look down on oar festive board with that delight which benevolence always feels in the gra tification of human nature—in the diffusion of equal ,jn•tice. Such are the great productions of Hope, that the people of this country are at a loss to find modes of giving expression to their gratitude to that Monarch who sheds on the Nation's mind even a beam of hope. May that hope be realized, and may no bad and guilty Minister of prejudice mar the bright pros pects which the present day presents to a long benighted land. This grand National dinner is to be given in the Corn Exchange, the largest room in Ireland, under the conduct and direction of Mr. D'Arey, the proprie tor of the Exchange Tavern. EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO THE KING. (room THE 5%111E.) This is a new er and we shall not stop to inquire into the causes which produced it. But how is to be perpetuated t How is your Majesty's spirit of justice to he preserved when the Monarch leaves our shores ? Who is to restrain the petulancy and tyrannyof the Magisterial monopolists? Who is to say to the organizers of illegal factions—the Noble 6rand Masters of Lodges—the Chair men of Friendly Brothersyour system is tiot warranted by law.; it is at war with the example of your Sovereign ; your emblems are not his; be bor.. the olive of peace in his band ; he wore the shamrock in his hat ; be .eloquently transplanted Mat shamrock to his heart, inhere it has been watered with the tears of Rural gratitude in return for the wild overflowing' of a generous-h-arted people: They saw their Monarch realising in one enthusiastic hour the speculations of their most admired statesmen, and their most Woe; trions orators ; they saw the genius of firattan and Curran embodied in the Royal act, and they bailed the moment with a rapture of delight creditable to the heads and hearts of a great community. But when f/o• King goes—when the rays of Royal bene ficence are withdrawn—what light is doomed to take their place? Nothing—nothing but the Sfolute hook can preserve the present feelings of the Sove reign in Ireland. Were it nor good fortune that he were always to remain with ns, we would sanguinely anticipate the same delightful warmth we have en joyed for the last month. The demon of discord would not dare to skulk abroad ; the lightning 3f the Royal eyes would con ume him ere he retired to his retreat, and the people's happiness would he firmly established. lint this cannot be—the King cannot remain—therefore the Statute Book should imme diately contain the spirit and example of that King. • • • Ile cannot, it is true, le , 4islate fur 1.. e. land ; but he may discourage the spirit of discord —be ran withdraw his countenance from those who wonld perpetuate the rancour of party distinctions —be can riumintend to the Impe,ial Legi.bit:tre to carry into effect the Royal wishes, and to reduce those principles to law which have now united tiie entire people of our country. This, most excellent Sire, you can 41o; and we hope do not presume too much when we conclude by expressing our con viction, that there is nothing which the grateful and generous heart of our King can do, to make perpetual the present e bilious era, that will not bedone—to put cn a firm, an immoveable basis, that temple of which it remained to Ileorge the Fourth to be the founder. At the meeting at Lisburn, belt' on the 11th inst. to address the King on his arrival in Ireland, after the address hail been moved and seconded, JniiN IlaNynex remarked, that, unused as be was to complimentary modes, and from long and deeply rooted habits, P rem (rum the unsubstantial stuff of which addresses were made, yet, on the present occa sion he was not disposed to give a negative to it, merely considered as a matter of compliment. He was induced to act in this manner, as the prospect of the King's arrival had produced at least a. temporary con ciliation between parties, where a feud had long been injurious to the best interests of the country, and he was inclined to attribt.te this highly desirable concili ation to the personal act of the King. Ile hoped. or rather more correctly to express his feelings, he most anxiously wished it might be permanent. Yet Ireland bad not achieved this good, so far as it went, without great stains of eharactei ; for the historian who shall hereafter record the visit, must notice the silly osten tatious preparations, and the mistake that the pageant of a day will confer substantial wealth on a nation ; for, after the pageant passed away, Dublin was likely to be more deserted and a blank nit had been be fore. To obtain favour in a quart-r, Ireland had generally sacrificed the the Queen, and, on a subject of infinitely mo sequence, had de serted the cause, the all-impor t ause of reform. ..._ Friday, about six o'clock, Prince Esterhazy arrived at tilasgow, in one of the Royal carriages. He came from Dublin by way of Port Patrick, and was to re main twe days, and then to proceed to Buchanan, to visit the Duke of Montrose. Prince Victor, nephew of Prince Metternich, is also expected there. Yesterday the Lord Mayor held a • Court of Alder men for the purpose of swearing in tiro 0 Ilptlemen, lately elected Aldermen, in the room of Sir William Curtis, Dart. removed to the Ward of Bridge Without; and of the late Mr. Alderman Bothwell. Upon the Court being duly formed, the Lord Mayor reported the election, whereupon Matthias Prime Lucas, Esq., being in attendance, was introduced by Mr. Warren and several inhabitants of the Ward of Tower, as their new Alderman, and took the oaths and his seat. Wm. Thompson, Esq. accompanied by Mr. Deputy Brook, and sevetal of the inhabitants of the Ward of Cheap, was then introduced in like manner, and took the oaths and his seat. The Lord Mayor laid before the Court the thanks of the Mayor, &c. of Oxford, for the accommodations afforded them in going in the city barge wells Coronation Day; ordered to be entered. His Lordship ake presented a communisation from souse of the twelve ati tens appointed to assist them at the Coronafon. in respect ts: some proceedings which took place i a dam day. . '.• APPiAr lafromrsaßindr. In consequence of the circumstances which took place at Knightsbridge on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Sheriff Waldman has addressed the following letter to Lord liathurbt:— " My Loa consider it my duty to apprise his Majesty's Government, through your Lordship, of a violent outrage of the public peace committed by some individuals of the Life i lluards at Knightsbridge yester day, and of an attempt at assassination upon me per sonally, while in the exercise of my linty as Sheriff of Middlesex, at the head of the civil power of the county. " Your Lordship thought proper to direct the Lord Mayor on Saturday, to take the necessary measures to preserve the peace of the City during the intended funeral of Haney and Francis; and although no such caution was addressed to the Sheriff, as Conservator of the public peace of the County, I felt it my duty to direct the Deputy Sheri►fs of the City and County to order out the Constables of the divisions nearest to, and through which the funeral was expected to pass ; and also to attend in person with proper officers, to prevent or quell any tumult or disorder. " Conceiving, that under the existing irritation of the people, and the circumstances for which they hail assembled, some insult mi.ilit be offered to the Life Guards in their barracks, I disposed of the constables chiefly in that vicinity, and actually ranged a body of them in front of the barracks, with instructions to a;i prehend every individual who should attempt tocomutit any act of outrage or disorder. " The funeral, in consequence of these precautions, passed the barracks in an orderly and quiet manner, marked by no other peculiar circumstance, than that of a brick being' thrown from the barracks, which fell near my horse, and wounded, as I ant informed, a young girl. My admonitions, and the presence of the constables succeeded, however, in repressing the irrita tion this wanton act was calculated to ett.ite. " When the proces s ion bad passed, and while the road continued to he crowded with people, the gates of the barracks were thrown open, and the avenues tilled with the soldiers. The people, as mijht have been foreseen, gathered round the spot, and expressed their displeasure. A tumult seemed inevitable. I requested to speak with the officer on duty, but without ► Meet. and, at length, by repeated expostulations with the soldiers, I succeeded in prevailing upon them to retire and close the gates. "Some time after, upon returning to the same spot, I saw a number of soldiers running' from the wicket gate, ant! pursuing the people on the cattalos-ay. Find ing an affray actually tommenced, I sprung my horse upon the causeway, interposed between the parties and succeeded in separating them. While thus en gaged, a soldier, with whom I hat been before expos tulating, and who was therefore acquainted oils my official station, started forward at a man and knocked him down. At the same time, o bile using my ut most endeavours to pret ail upon the soldiers to re tire into the barracks, and the people to desist and keep the peace, the 1,6(14 of my horse was violently seized, on the one side by a young officer in undress, aid on the other by the soldier whose violence I ha•l' just noticed, who together endeavoured to throw my horse over the causeway ; and I only succeeded in ex tricating tatyralf by striking the soldier with my stick, and making my horse plunge. Immediately several ' of the soldiers ri:slied at me with their swords drawn, and one actually loaded his carbine, and directed it towards me; but was, es I have been informed, knocked down by one of the constables. Further mischief was prevented by the interposition of some military officers of 14her authority, and the soldiers at length retired into their barracks. " My Lord, these circumstances require no com ment. At a critical conjons titre the soldiers were left to their own exasperated feelino, and manifested a lawless spirit. The ('ivil Power under my direction was fully adcalnate for the preservation of the peace among the people, but not to encounter an armed sol diery. I had no communication from his Majesty's Government, nor could I obtain an interview with any of the officer, of the rroiment; and when I di rected sonic of the constables to represent to the offi cers in the most respectful terms, toy desire that the 'edifiers should be kept withio the barracks, the Message returned was, " that the Sheriff might be tl—d, they would not mike their men prisoners for him ;" and I feel assured, that had I not interposed with the Civil Power, and even risked my own life, a frightful slaughter must have ensued. Of subordi nation to civil authority the soldiery appeared to be wholly unconscious, and that authority, in my person, was repeatedly insulted and grossly outraged. " It would, my Lord, Ike as needless as presumptu• ons in me, to attempt to instruct your Lordship and his Majesty's Government in the nature'of the Con stitutional Authority under which I -attended yester day, or the right I possessed in my official character to have claimed the aid and assistance of those very military to suppress tumult, who have upon this oc casion, in open defiance of the Civil Authority, been the promoters of it ; nor nerd I add one word in ag gravation of the enormity of the offences Committed ; the offenders cat% some of them, be identified, and I trust your Lordship Witt cause inimedjwte and effec tual means to be adopted to bring them to justice as a salutary example to others. " I have the honour to be, my Lot'J, " Your Lordship's obedient'humble servant, " Bridge-street, Aug, 27, 1921. " R. WAITIIMAN. " The Right Hoc Earl Bathurst," de. dr. It appears front a Parliamentaty paper, that the sums disbursed by the Excise of Scotland, as expenses of law proceedings before the Court of Exchequer, Session, and Justiciary, for the six years ending Ib2o, amounted to 45,0561. which is about 7,5001. a-year, or 25/. a-dry. The sums paid to the Solicitor of Ex cise have been about 5,3401. annually during these six years, out of which he has paid about 1,200/. an nually to Counsel. We have no doubt that the cheese parings and candle-ends which fall into the bands of this functionary, as dues of office, greatly exceed the gains of an American Secretary of State '—(Scotch / 04 Pcr.) ECOXONL—A gentleman, who had remarked how magnificently a friend of his lived upon • small in come, observed, that with such slender means to make ' such a figure, was much to hie credit. "Not only his," replied another, " but to ties credit of all his tradesmen." .1 . LIVERPOOL, llEGusr 27. Treasury Chamber. Ji;ly 9. z GENTLEMEN.—I am directed by the Lora Com missioners of his Majesty's Treasury, to state to yen that it being impossible for the masters of inch vessels as left this country, previous to the passing of the Act of the present Session I and 2 (leo. IV. chap. 37, for the purpose of loading timber in the British North American Colonies to be warn of the regulations es•ahlished by that act, their Lordships therefore desire that you will dispense with the cer tificate, required by the 11th section of the said Act, and with the oath of the master as to the growth and iJentity of any timber which may be imported from any British Colony or Plantation in America, in all cases where the vessels importing the same .11211 arrive in a port of Great Britain previous to Ist day of September next. (Signed) S. R. LUSHINGTON. To the Commissioners of Customs. MURDER AT HOR.VSEr L.INE, HIGHGATE. 'Yesterday evening (in consequence of some circum stances haring. transpired, which it would be improper at present to s'isclose) Thomas Barrett, the man who _.ire evidence before the Coroner's Jury, which sat on the body of the Watchman, who wAs murdered un Friday morqiag last, on the premises of Thomas H a l e , !:-q., of ilidisgate, was apprehended by one of the Ilvw-street officers, on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery and murder of the unfortunate deceased. The most praiseworthy exertions 'save he, n used by the inhabitants of 1;1;411:Tate and the Magistracy, (pirticularly by the Rev. Hr. Owen), and by the Police, to point out the inhuman wretches who so cruelly destroyed the aged and inoffensive watchman. Dr. Owen, yesterday, waited upon the rosier Secretary of State, and represented to Mr. ll..bhouse on behalf of the inhabitants of Highgate, the general wash that his 'Majesty would be I leased to issue a Proclamation, offering a reward of PO/. for the discovery of the murderer, and a leer pardon to an accomplice who was not the actual murderer. A messenger was transmitted with the gteatest prompt ness t Ireland, to obtain his Majesty's most gracious commands ; and in a few days no doubt the Procla mation will he issued. Souse part of narrates statement before the Jury was considered very suspicious,and some of t!so Inhabitants then wished him to be secured, but the Coroner, who remarked after the J ury returned t i eir verdict—" that he thought he could write four names nn paper, amongst which would ultimately be found the murderers"—was of opinion that not sufficient crinfinatory evidence had at that time been adduced to authorise the apprehension of narratt, on a char L e of Murder. 'I he prisoner arrived in London this mornius , , having been in Highgate watch-house dur ing the night. He had left his home at Son:bend, when secured by the police. He is very reserved ; but strongly persists in his innocence. lie will be exa mined this afternoon at llow.street, before Mr. Birnie. tau the other Magistrates of the mike. MARVELLOUS SHOWER Or SN.II /LS EXPLAINED " The thin s we know are neither rich nor rtre ; " tiY w the they got there." nonttroas appearini.e of snails at Tockington, is not a single instance of the kind ; about 3 years ago there at•as a similar circumstance, and near the sa.ne spot. The name of these diminutive snails is Feli.e firgald, and may be considered as a local spe cies; but they are f lurid in prodigious ntimber-: in sandy situations abuut Whitsand bay, and ol,er parts of Cornwall, and in the sonth of Devonshire ; where, it is believed, they contribute nut a little to the fattening of sheep. On the approach of heat they leave their hiding•placea near the roots of grass, crawling upon the leat•es an I plt.nts. The Earl of Pembrolie and the Earl of R oh( c have riven directions to their respective game-herpes., not to commence shooting on their Lordships' - manors until the l9th of Sept. in conseiptence a the backward ness of the harvest. An aecoLnt of the quantity and value of the (V -ferrnt products of tillate and patqure, exported from Ireland in the year efolin; .Ith January, 121. 1' ft, Wheat, barrels...:.... 649.433 at 275. 14h6,737 3 Barley. ditto. Oats, ditto .1,340.893 10.. 6d. R 118,968 It) Flour, ewt 101,663 Vt.. 194,1163 0 Oatmeal, cwt. Beef, barrels. Pork, ditto.. 142.431 635. 462,911 U 13 Flitches of Bacon. .. ... 406.11013 —3 1 s, 794.330 0 Hams, ewt. . Pigs Sheep . . 24,164 955. 30,203 0 Horned cattle 32,191 Wk. 931,839 10 Butter. cwt 536.333 70.. 1,947.242 It) Ilpirits. gallons 316043 tn. 1:41.221 6 Beer, barrels 3,284— 325. 3,222 b 16,066.916 6 The *trial population of Ireland is supposed to ex ceed xis millions and a half; its productive land has been computed to amount to 13,154,375 acres. There are consequently little more than two acres to each Inhabitant, and yet the value of the exported surplus produce of each acre, one with another, appears to have amounted to about nine shillings. The Hants sailing match, which took place on Sa- turday week, was not decided till Sunday morning, the contending vessels, and all that accomppnied them,above 100 sail, being co•opletely becalmed off Calshot Castle, with all the spectators on board of them. _ At Dr. Pigott's residence il t k Mereworth, in Kent, which has been lately rob ' e thieves carried o ff a considerable number of m struck on occasion of coronations, victories, the Hanoverian succession, &c. and first impressions of the geld, silver, and copper ' coins of former reigns up to the present time, some of them as far back as the Conquest. SINGCLAR SatzttE.—A few days since, Mrs. Prowse who lives at Mount EdgetunSe Lodge, near Plymouth, left a basket of lite cockles outside the door, find on her return foundea robin, which had flown into the basket, vainly endeavouring to escape from one of the shell fish, which had caught the bird by the foot, and preserved its bold with such tenacity, as to de prive the little flutterer of two claws before be could be extricated. On Sunday the sth inst., a party was assembled at the house of Mr. John Walton, of London-brad, Irton, among whom were seven sous and six daughters of the late Mr. Henry Tyson, of White•syke, Nether grasdale ; the eldest whole 60 years orate, is 26 years older than the youngest; sad the mother, who:is still surviviag, is hi her 113tb year►--their united ages is 711 years. . • THE IMErEST. • Lry ea, Ara. 27.—The Moat Harvest 'till h.. greatly accelerated by tlic infiu?nce of the las‘,..tree!.'s Sun; re.ipinz is now getting to be pretty Aentril, and especially on laiiiis aboat ti'e Maps, frog, whence, as to quantity aul repor:s art ta• sourable. Some ganzs of reapers who had made specifq wee. ments have, v:e are well informed, struck far hiclitr prices; but let them be • are, lest they sham. fail into the bands of some spirited Gainers, who may ,be dis- posed to take them before a magistrate, an I , stmii,. them spend tl:e remainder of the harvest ee.esgmbilm: bread and water in a prison. Owing to the extreme backwardnees of the learyt-st, partriilge shooting, it is understood, is gentrally post poned in West Kent, to the 11th of Sept. and we es• pect that the same r.znlation will be as cheerfully. and as generally observed in this county. 11 - Anoricu.—Srveral fields of train bare been cu' down in this neighbourhood since our last, and s!ionl,l the present fine weather continue, harvest will soon be general. The crops, we rejoice to say, are in gene ral excellent.—(Worwirk Paper.) YORNAHIRE.—TI.e harvest has begun pretty gene rally in the southern parts of this county, and a finer harvest week than tbat %%Melt is now drawing to a close was never witnessed in the memory of man. '1 be advantages of tl.e glut ions weather with which we ale blessed arc, at this critical season, inestimable. They are already sensibly felt in the corn markets. Yester.la). uhe.lt, of the fittest quality, sold front 4s. to ss. a quit ter lower, in Wakefield marliet, thau on the prece,:ifii, Eriday ; and the depreciation in prices generally k fully equal to the advance which the gloomy weatlit t of two or three treelis past had occasioned. EDINIII RGII. AVG. *lt —ln the ordinary cootie of seasons the harvest would now have been iu progress very generally throughout England ; but such 11::s been the state of the weather that the growth of the country must be considered to be at least three w o e t;-. later than usual. This circumstance would have in tinenced the corn markets ; but the stock on band bas seldom been seen so large a: the constuencemen• ot harvest. There are English farmers who still io•Id their one, two, and even three years' crops of it heat almost entire. Landlords in many instances hire in. dulged their tenants with time, expressly to enable them to bold stock for the chance of better prices. The oat and barley harvest has already partially commenced in Dumfries and the neighbouring co•ntity, and before the layse of malty days, will be quite gene ral, except in those high and moorland districts wlit well-kept fences and thriving belts of plantation are almost as little knots n as in the days of Dr. Johns or From all we can learn on the subject, the wheat I every where abundant, boas ae to grain snd straw but the oats and barley prot.eut a very different appeal arse, and, upon the whole, will fall consillerabi below of an average crop. At the same time we 'seen and heard of various fieltle of oats that neat!; rival the wheat in strength and luxuriance; but these, we suspect, are confined to a kw favoured spot , where the seed was not only late of being put into the ground, but at last fell in particularly rich and fertile places, and in this way will form but a trifling item in the aggregate produce of the whole country. we believe is very nearly the character of the crops i t , Scotland ; and we have the authority of an agririll turist who lately visited Ireland for saying, that the same description will apply to the approaching harvest of that proverbially fertile island. Tug Caors.—Uat harvest was begun on Fiidar. near Ureenock, on a field belonging to Mr. Robe! t Baird—an excellent crop. In Ayrshire, harvest has begun in a variety of in stances. The oats are light. One of the fields had been dug. The crop was nut above an • ge. Harvest has also begun in sundry places of Stirling shire. Crops good. The crops in the neighbourhood, and also in Lin litlagowshire, are so far advanced, that if the weather continues favourable, the harvest will be general next week. Conx F:xewtxsa, ,tunuicr 29.—1 n consequence of tl.e change in the weather, higher prices were asked this morning for Wheat, and a few sales were made of prime samples at rather better pricas than were obtained on Monday, but there was no improvement in the de mand for the inferior qualities although offered at Mon day's prices.—The Oat trade continues very heavy, owing to the magnitude of the arrivals.—Barley, Beans, and Peas sold un full as good terms as on Monday. owing to the wet weather. A fire brio. out in Flier Brook -street, in West Trignenou:h, ah( at two o cluck on Sunday mornine, and burnt three dwelling-houses, and had not the great est exertions been made to stop the progress of tiorde structive element, still more considerable damage Trakd have been done ; there being many thatched houses in that part of the town. It is much to be regretted, rlys an Exeter Peep r, that fire offices do not generally Wien to insure thatched buildings in towns, 4 is in conic iitienct of the prevalence of these thatched houses that tires in the towns of Devonshire are so exteasivrly de structive. About two hundred hogsheads of pilchards were taken on Saturday se'noight, at Mevagissey, and about twelve hogsheads at (lerraus, since whit!' few have been seen on the coast of Cornwall. Crawley had his benefit at the Fives' Court ye.,ter day, and his merit, as a boxer, was rewarded by a good court. Amongst the best sets-to were the following : Curtis and Hawkins.—This was a masterly display of courage and science, and although in favour of Curtii; vet Hawkins worked his points skilfully, and the ap plause was nnanionous. Oliver and the Scotsman of 17 stone so much talked of, was a contrast to the preceding bout. Oliver, who appeared a boy to his adversary, had an opportunity of showing off his science to a tine advantage, and he kept his fists constantly in his adversary's bead. Anderson was not quick enough to return, but he received without' murmuring, and sliewed much good temper. Spring and Crawley closed the performances in a mas terly set-to; if any best, Crawley had it, and partic.u-, lady. towards the end of it. The parrying was excel lent, and the hitting very clean. There were no new matches made. The principal topic discussed was on the wrangle between Cooper and-• O'Leary's fight, upon which bets have boon so long sets pended. The umpires first decided that O'Leary had. won it, Cooper baying left the ring before they h. 1•1 called time. They then took a few days to re ce:...45.r. it, and (Mr. Jackson having refused to meddle i!) they then said that Cooper had won it. So it refiesio., and the impartial part of the ring nave under all the circumstances, a drew, and that so bets are to be paid. V • *. . •