The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-14 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN log Naples to the yoke of militarybut Spain I w i s ed tiler efforte., and Portugal followed its glo- I 09 ru mple. South America, placed beyond the g arb of their power, laughs at their threat., and -seas their horrors by determining to be free. ••••••••••=m= yesterday the King gave audiences to Viscount Siti o" the Marquess of Cholmondeley, the Marquess Wellesley and the Right Hon. Sir Charles Long. yesterday the Lords of the Treasury held a Board at t he Vaulty Chambers, Whitehall. The prince Royal of Denmark has arrived in Paris. The foreign loan, of which there was a rumour v day morning on the Stock Exchange, appears to c e f o r Denmark. Its present amount will be 1,500,0001. hot Denmark has the option in the year 1825 of don bfis; the amount on the same terms. A letter received from President Bo livar. dated Co see. 7, 1821, states that the inhabita nts of Car cos, had sent a deputation, offering to surrender, mo lded the President would take possession in per- L e . it was his intention to make his s n entry into that city on the Ist of October. Accou nts from Corfa state that the Bishop of Cepltallois had been put under arrest, and conveyed os Ibipbeard. The operations of the Greeks in the mores is much perplexed by the ciresuustaeces that t a ke place in the lonian Islands. In the Alorea and in Rowena, the Greeks, It 'is said, effect prodigies of valour in detail, but are deficient in all things ne-' wary for the conduct of great operations. The two following paragraphs are from a ministe rial paper . Letters have come to band f rom St. Petersburg to the hey ult. Their contents are important, inasmu at a ch as ty put a direct negative on the allegation th fresh Ambassador from that Court, to succeed Baron Strogo off at Constantinople, had been appointed. No fears, however, were entertained in St. Petersburg th at p eace wo uld b e interrupted. It is admitted .that the negocia goes continued, which was the occasion of a constant correspondence being kept up between Vienna and St. Petersburg. So strong was the opinion that no war would break out, that the Exchange on London was steadily a dvancing : the last quotatio n is 9 9-16, which is much higher than that mentioned by previous arrivals. Letters h a ve been received from Odessa to the 17th lilt. and what little is contained in them, on the subject of politics, completely discountenances the reports of war between Russia and Turkey. The Bs tecoN.—By The Scotsman we are informed that Mr. Gibson, to vindicate his professional charac ter from the injuries it has received from The Beacon, has instituted two actions, one against Mr. Douglas Cheap, Advocate, as author of the libels and editor of the paper, and Mr. Dunc an Stevenson, as printer of the same ; laying his damages at 5,0001. The other action is against Sir William Rae, his Majesty's Ad vocate for Scotland, and certain other persons named, as combining, by contributions in money and other wise. to support the said newspaper. The damages, is the latter action, are laid at 10,0001. A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at Guildhall, to consider of an Address of Congratulation to his Majesty on his arrival in his British dominions, at which the Lord Mayor. 13 Aldermen, Sheriffs, and City Officers were present. Au address was unani mously agreed to, and the Sheriffs, attended by the Remetaloancer. were directed to wait on his Majesty to know bin royal will and pleasure when the Court should attend him with the same. The Coart requested the Lord Mayor tc, call an early Ossart to express their acknowledgments of the services of the late LOA Mayor, &c. ; and his Lordship was pleased to appoint Tuesday next for that purpose. A Court of Common Council will be held to-mor row, for the purpose of considering an Address to his Illaiesty on his return. A colossal figure, to commemorate the victories of the British arms in the Peninsula, will shortly be erected in St. James's Park, immediately opposite the .Horse Guards, where the royal mortar formerly stood. The figure is 18 feet high, and is cast in metal from the cannon taken during the war. It is in imitation of that which is on the Monte Cavallo at Rome. and 'styposed to be the work of Phidias. EQUESTMAN STATUE Or GEORGIC under• stand it is contemplation to erect, by subscription, a magnificent equestrian statue to the memory of our late mach respected Monarch. The site reposed is, we hear, the West end 'of Great King-street, hi tits space 'between that street and the Royal Circus.. On Tuesday last. the Literary sad Philosophicd Society of Newcastle, resolved, after much discussion, 'to relinquish the site granted by the Corporation in New Bridge-street, and to purchase one in Welt gate-street, nearly opposite the end of CoMngwood• street, in certain premises belonging to Mr. C. Angels. for the purpose of erecting their new library. The Stipulated price of the ground is 10001. The City Chamberlain of Edinburgh discovered an Act of Parliament exempting the gads toils as corporate body, (tom the hair pow der and other tax e'sarges. Upon representing the matter to theComnsis stoners of Taxes, tLey admitted the town's clalin exemption, 'The erillector, however, wishing. to have the esetterlettled . by . the highest autherity..appseld bibs Barium of Exchequer, who confiresed the jidg meat of tles,Commislionen. The result was. not only that the tows would be at no expense is future on ehb *musts but that it bad a claim for upwards. of 800/., the, overpaid; which would no doubt be recovered. . , We are h appy to understand. that **important 'object' , Weights and kleasures is likely to come her lute Parliament in a shape that will in all probability 4ead to ems practical result.—(Ediabwegh titer.) • The defaulter Tweedy, it is understood, coax rtsd . .20,41001. Into Bills on New York, before his &partite for America. .. His took• care, besides, to bin tell pro‘ vide(' with. gold. Hers ; several days 'slate of his intrsuess; but, from thin mew employed to Catch him, he may not, after skt,lksbie to escape. Is the ease •of a brokerowbo yet off to the same giaiter, about tel jests ago, with his principal's verily. to the lasoust of 20.0001.. his route having been known dieter at 'him arrived at New York before isim, and when be presented his bills he found: thupayesent slept.. ' In a few months his resources is America , became est, lisostei, and .he retina to London to dirtily biatelf . . on the inerty of his injured employer. So severe was the fall of snow on eta .olg6l of Se.' hirday gelid& to the east and north of Lasgholni, diet .aiy Whirs& of sheep have bees.beried under a great 'sanitise of which have sot as yet been. es 'Weaned ;it is fumed many have bees liaMbeted. . TO TMa‘EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sin,—We sometimes do things that are truly pain ful to our feelings, and, on this occasion, I am not ex empted. It appears to me strange, that persons who form a part of the population of other, donntries should, when any thing of a calamitous nature attends them, fly to our pockets for assistance. The Smite adventurers to the Brasil., lately applied to us for pecuniary aid, be cause they did not happen to succeed in their golden anticipations on arriving in the country of his most faithful Majesty. The like appeal, now making by the distressed people of Spain, is equally strange. if not more so, because the people of Spain, and their Government, must know our eitnation, as well as we know it. They must know, that at this time, we are the most distressed people, taking us as a nation, in the whole world. We have a debt of a thousand millions, the interest of which, and the taxes, to pay this interest, have chained us to the very earth. Onr gaols are crammed with debtors, and oar poor-houses with their wives and children. Hun dreds, ney, thousands of farms, are now unoccupied, are in a state of death, while the landlord and the farnsupare standing by them as chief mourners. and their labourers in tears. Thousands upon th - ousands of our own countrymen do not know where to get a breakfast when they get out of bed ; and hundreds have no beds to lay down upon. Our streets ate crowded with human misery, while others bide them selves and their misery from,the eye. The merchants' vessels are rotting in the docks, and their warehouses are empty. Oar manufacturers have no employment for those who were wont to perform all the labour, be cause there is no market abroad for the goods. The wives and children of those so unemployed are starv ing. Thousands of others have been driven, by mi sery, to go to the wilds of Africa, to wage incessant war with the Lion and the Hyena ; and to the woods of America, to form a kind of friendly co-partnership with the Beaver and the Bear, to get food to keep themselves in existence. This, Sir, is a true, though truly sable picture of the state of our own country, and of the condition of our countrymen ; and the civilised world knows it well; and this knowledge renders it cruel of any one people to make an appeal to our humanity. It is all slang about a ppealing to the "brave and generou s British nation." Our situation, as a people, shows what our bravery is ; and our misery what it Is that constitutes our generosity. Panto:Mlle, Nov. la, MI. HUMANITAS. WATERFORD CATHOLIC Bisuor.---Last Wednesday a Meeting of Catholic Clergy of the United Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, held at Carrick-on-Salt, agreed vsanimemely to postulate for the Right Rev. Dr. Patrick Kelly, 'Whop of Virginia, in America, to fill the vacant Ste of Waterford and Linnets.— (Weterfbrd Mirror, N0v.119 • EDIIIIIHROH, Nov. 11.-11 is very gvatifyiag ter ob. serve the progress which has been made, in the course of the season, is building the College. The passage from the street to the interior of the quadrangle. upon the improved plan, has been completed, which, consi dering its stupendousness and magnificence, is itself a very considerable advance towards the completion of the building. The north side has been proceeded in with so mach activity, that the mason work may be expected to be soon finished. So much of its inner front as was previously built, has been pulled down aid rebuilt, so as to accommodate it to the new plan, which provides the whole front with the noble orna ment of Corinthian pillars. As the south side will exactly correspond with it, a perfect idea may now be formed of the appearance which this grand build ing will present when finally completed. This le an event to which the public have long looked for ward with so little anxiety ; and they must contem plate with much satisfaction the sear prospect of its accomplishment. We have lately seen models of a new description of steam-vessels, which are to be propelled by means of machinery, and a moving power contained entirely within the two natural slides and stem and stern of the vessel, thereby completely obviating the danger sad inconvenience, as well as the awkward appearance of the outside paddle wheels used on the present system. vessel on this new plan may be applied either to 'anal or deep-sea navigation ; and she has not oalyl the same appearance, but in a few minutes can be ere. vetted into an ordinary sailing vessel, without she moving power proviag the smallest obstacle to her progress through the water.--(Caledesien Mercury.) On Thursday, fith inst. suddenly, of Angina POI1IP•.1 ris, in his 54th year, John Jones, of Franklyn, F.S. A. a Solicitbr of lIIIIIIROOOR in this city. lidueeted at the Middle Temple, ma originally designed for the bar, an conspiring dispositioa led him to prefer a lees conspicuous department of the law. • Not reluctant to communicate interesting information, but from retired habits averse to attract the public eye, be affixed his same to only a eingleliterarf production, an admirable memoir in the " Archstologia," on the ancient consti tution and discipline of the Cathedral Church of Exe ter. He had completed the collect!** of materials for a second memoir, and contributed valuable documents I to Oliver's History of Enter, Carlisle's Bedewed Schools, and other works of salebrity. The coinci deuce is remarkable, that by Mr. Jose's relinquish ment of the bar for the Office, the present Attoiney- General, disappointid of an eligible partaership, deter wised on forensic pursuits. SiIIOULAR CIRCURSTANCIL..ArItdardIIy morning at lily-break, as as inhabitant of Edgware was crossing a field near to that village, he was surprised by ob serving. at a abort distance from him, a nian w sereiegly reclining against the'side of a ditch. He w i rtimto the spot. and ealletrfo4dly ; but to his he discerned thatitilhis a corpse. The. EMI is the neighbourhood the day before, believed that be came fetal Looks were found on his perms likely to lead of his friends. The Cagiest (T. Stirilog, -1 -5.4 an impost to he held this day- - THEATRES. . . DRURY LANE. A new Comedy. entitled Lost Life, was produced at this Biskra last night. It is in three acts. The follow ing is a sketch of the plot : Old Pilgrim, a traveller, while on his voyage from America, is reported to be dead. Arriving in England be finds a young spark. Mr. Featherbrain, his heir-at law, in possession of his property. The scene is laid at Bognor, where both the parties reside, the young man indulging in the follies and recreations of the place ; the old man employed in watching the conduct of his heir, to determine in what way be shall ultimately deal with him. Featherbrain, before be became rich, had gained the affections of Emma, a pretty cottager, bat now he proposes that they shall merely be friends, and subsequently he invites her to become his mistress. This conduct excites the indignation of Pilgrim, who determines on " coming to life again" to punish it. In the mean time Featherbrain pays his court to a milliner, who is adventuring for a husband, and who, at the same time receives the address of Daffodil, a Cockney Poet, and Captain Freshwater, a Cockney Sailor. They agree that each shall write to his mistress, to meet him eta particular time and place, and the three letters lan sent by Doldroun, the assistant at a circulating library, who knowing them all to be to the same ef fect, thinks it unnecessary to deliver more than one. lbe *male adventurer proceeds to the appointed place, and is recognised by each at the same moment as the mistress of his heart. This produces an explanation which Is fatal to the hopes of the lady, and she is con temptuously deserted by her three swains. In the next act, she suttee ds in imposing herself on a person, who his imposed himself on her for Pilgrim. Their artifices, and the confusion produced by the circutn stance of another individual being mistaken for Pilgrim, bring the play to its conclusion, when the real Pilgrim succeeds in proving himself to be alive. The poor Emma being discovered to be his relation, becomes rich, and generously gives her hand to the man who bad deserted her, but who by subsequent remorse, s supposed to have atoned for his misconduct. The piece will require considerable alteration in the third Act to render it completely Palatable to an audience. It was well received lut night, and the announcement for repetition met with much applause. COVENT GARDEN. Miss Tans, that inimitable representative of the com- Weed beauties of acting and song, was last night re stored to the public, after a long and painful indisposition. She appeared innate, a character whose ineffable sweet ness and grace she conceives and executes in the most perfect and fascinating style. Her vocal talent is hap pily unimpaired by her long suffering from disease, and we sincerely hope, as well on her own account a s for the sake of our national Opera, that their exercise will not in future be found incompatible with health. She played last night with a delicacy and chasteness, which wire in fell keeping with a character perhaps, the most beautiful and pure offspring of our immortal bard's ima gination. Her singing was also marked by its usual pe culiarity of taste and excellence. The last song was omitted, in consequence of Miss Taaa's excessive agita tion at the kind and almost affectionate manner in which sae was received, and her exertions repeatedly rewarded y die aedlowee. The ether characters of the Comedy were filled by their usual representatives, and the whole -emit with die meet deekloil edict. kre ray* fbe" esolt 'Nair idiot; 0 kor, I aPs it it" irellell— kal.'Q k Si! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A few days since, some workmen who were dig ging in search of coal, at Oakford, on the estate of the Rev. Dr. Cleave, near Exeter, discovered, about four tees feet under the surface, an oak tree, about a foot In diameter, lying horizontally, it was quite black, and what is very surprising, the bark was as Gonad and fresh as if it bad beep newly felled. Specimens of the strata dug at Oakford, having bees sent so some proprietors of coal-mines in the North of Ragland, they have announced them to be indicative of the pre sence of coal. ENGLISH DVIL in FRANCP•PARIS, Nov. 7.—A Meeting yesterday took place in the Champs F Elysees. Wanes Mr. Norton , att ended b y George Ferguson, Seq. sad Lient.-Col. Hunter. of the Oreasdier Outwits, I attended by Captain Oronow, of the same regiment. The parties were to fire by signal ; Mr. Norton fired without effect. upon which Lieut.-Col. Hester, dis- 1 sbarged his pistol in the air. Upon this the seconds I psi a stop to all further proceedings. conceiving the' malt to have been perfectly satisfactory to Mr. Nor 4ea's honour, and equally so to the honour of Lieut.- Colonel Hunter.--(oalignanes Messenger.) CUBA! Ltvtare.—Old times have returned upon us. II Is our market, on Saturday last, roasting pigs were sold for Is. each ; fine ones, Is. 6d.; one woman ex 'hanged a pig for a deck. At night, in the butcher- 1 market, legs of mutton were offered at 3d. pas lb.; sad inferior pup m ight have been bought at 2 d. and 20.1 per lb.—ln the poultry-market, fine living gees*, weighing from 10 to 121bs. went off at from 2s. 6d. to I I 1 / 1 . each.—(Cerfiele Paper.) About a fortnight ago, a butcher, of this place.' a back loin of beef, which remained unsold at tise , ohms of our market, to his agent in Loath" for sale. Aber dedsegsg szpesses for commission, carriage,. id. bom the poised' of sale, the owner had only a efiqrle elaposes to receive for thirty-foot pounds of ss good beef as any person need partake of.—(Lei tester Chroniek.) *By the returns of the population of the several pa visit's, made to the Justices acting within sad tor the Upper Division of Lewes Rape, and Lewes di s t r ict of Pevessey Rape, pursuant to the -Acta Ist Oeo. 4. 1821. it appears that the total population in 1811, was 18.137 ; total increase up to 1821, was 3071 ; 21,208, total population in 1821 as above. The only parishes in which any decrease was folied.were the parish of St. Ana's, in Lewes 257, and that of Newthnber, 12. A private reipoadmit of Bias's has, through his d fortune, got hiaaself into a troublesome situation. — About two years back he purchased a whole Ticket of- Bisn's chief agoutis Scotland, which came up a 50001. bige ; dace ivhich he has been requested by his uncles, aunts. colds% lathers, sistevs,friends, Ise. to purchase auabis for them, which is set only attended with trou-' ors*, theygreetailYfrelfee le PeZ v the ceatissad , Mr. Maberly has said off his fneitounds, and bro ken up his studd at Croydon. A trotting•match for 500 guineas is to be deter mined next week on the Edgware-road. A match has been made, for ten guineas aside, be tween Abbott and Sampson the Birmingham youth, within six weeks. '[en guineas aside staked. An officer of the name of Farquhrrson ondertook yesterday to run's mile in four minutes and eight se coml., in Hyde Park, at four starts, wittin fire minutes of each start of a quarter of a mile, which be did as follows : MIN. SEC. Ist Quarter - - I - I 2d Ditto - - I - 2 3d Ditto . . 1 - 4th Ditto - . I . I It was won without fatigue ---1 —5 • SPARRING. —Yesterday Curtis , a s brav-e anti scientific a boxer as any on the list, bad a Benefit at the Tennis- Court in Great Windmill-street; and the numbers as semblad was a reward to merit. The most amusement was afforded between Ben Born and a Gregson-like formed one, who fancied he could heat any one ; Burn male a bet that be would beat him in 29 minutes with the {[loves on ; but the novice was sa tisfied in nine ; so much so, that he could scarcely find his way off the stage out of the Chancery suit. His left eye was nearly closed, and his head fluttered about in all directions. Curtis and the junior flelasco displayed some as fine science as ever was seen, with equal advantages. Many `blows were exchanged with much precision and nicely measured. Belcher and Harry Harmer also made a very scientific set-to. Curtis challenged to fight any man in the world of of dine stone, which is above his we i g ht. Vie following very singular anecdote depends upon the information of a correspondent upon whose accu racy we can rely :—(EdinGurgh Journal.) A friend of mine was shooting in the moors a short time ago, when his dog came to a dead stand. tie went up prepared, expecting a famous rise, but after walking round and round the dog, not a single grouse made its appearance ; still the dog stood, sod drew gently on towards the mouth of a deep and dark looking hole, where he remained fixed. My friend, who is rather a young sportsman, conceiving it must be the retreat of a fox, badger, or other wild beast, prudently retired to a rising ground, and directed his attendant to fire one barrel into the hole, reserving the other in case be should bolt. The shot was fired, but produced neither howl, groan, nor ejectment. A con sultation was held, and it was determined to procure a reinforcement of strength, with the means of throwing a light on this strange affair. A party of sappers and miners (now employed in the more humble occupation of dyke building) soon admitted a suf f icient light to discover the bead, not of a fox or badger, but that of a poor harmless bullock, buried to the very horns, at least ten feet from the surface of the earth. Active humanity was now employed to rescue the poor animal from his perilous and extraordinary situation, when he was found unable to stand or move. A cart was pro cured, and every kind attention bestowed on the poor sufferer. who is now in a fair way towards a perfect re aer/. I have slaw ascertained to whom the bullock belonged, and that he was missed on the morning of the 4th of October. and found on she evening of the 17th, consequently, he must have been thirteen days without food of any kind." The princely Fortune of Thirty Thousand Pounds may be obtained, Next Tuesday. for the small sum of Twenty-two Pounds Fourteen Shillings;--a comfortable independence of Fifteen Thousand Pounds for Twelve Pounds Five Shillings ;—for Six Pounds Three Shit lingo, Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pounds;—for Three Pounds Two Shillings and Sixpence. Three Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds ; and for One Guinea and a Half, Eighteen Hundred and Se venty-five Pounds ;—if bought at ETTON'S Lucky Of fice. 2, Cornbill, and Lombard-street. ETTON engages to invest the Prize Money in the Funds for his Friends who may be so fortunate as to obtain any of the above Capital Prises, at hie Offices, free of expense. COIRONSWII INQUEST. --All inquisition was taken yesterday evening, before Thomas Shelton, Esq., CAP. Toner. at the Hole-in-the -wall Tavern, Fleet-street, on view of the. body of Mr. George Freeman, aged twenty, who puss period to his existence by drinking a quan tity of laudanum, at the lioltin-Tun Inn, Fleet-street. —Mr. Smith, druggist, in Gracechurch-street, stated the deceased had lived with him, as shopmao, upwards of three years, during which his conduct was unexce he p tionable, until the morning of Tuesday (the day came to the inn) when he absconded, after having robbed him of near 91. He bad been for a iengtb of time paying his addresses to a young woman. He was of very weak intellect. —The Jurors then with drew, and after deliberating for a length of time, "that the deceased being is a state of tempo- Isary.eseetal derangement, drank a large dose of lau danum, of the effects of which he died," which they recorded as their verdict. Cones-Becialsoz.--A very large quantity of Wheat remained Mtn from Monday's supply, and in addition so which we bad several vessels fresh in this moroing fM. Wolk,. but the trade continues exceedingly heavy, having no demand except for prime samples, which still maintain last week's prices, but all other sorts were unsaleable: and its value nearly nominal.--Prime Malting Barley sold on fall as good teeth' as on Mon day, but there was very little inferior qealities.—Oats and Beans are rather cheaper., the supply o f e a ch being much larger than the immediate consumption can take of Peas are 2s. per quarter cheaper, sad very dull sale at that abatement. ExeLtsn. S. S. 9. 4. Wheat Ant, and Essex New ..... .... 40 301 Suirwlintew . : . 2To I Old. 60 firtiall Beans . 20 31 Tick ditto 24 27 Oats, Potatoe . 24 28. Ditto. Poland 23 28 Ditto. 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