The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-11-22 00:00:00

11 10 .11 e snifi, it ien was not,t time to he allow ded the possiinlity of his hauled do wn t h e white flag, and made the MO " 1 e. ad, as some 6" been ' cessary prepa rat i ons to bring the ship to this place. a lesegh to i ntimate, hecaus e the lecture of a lice, loom (the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, of H arrow ,) h a d F rom t h at moment I considered myself no more as ropy efect upon him. lie could assure the coin-. captain, and cam e on s h ore. that the !wore which that gentl eman h a d ta k en _, r i himself to give, hail no e ff ect what ever , and l ie " All the inh a bi tants o f t hi s p l ace cons id er t hi s an % re ly prevented nom farther notic e o f i t , b y hi s di e - . act of the grossest injustice. The C o llector himself is kir to $ paper war. He oas generally of opinion, that a rea I d y afraid of the result of this transaction, baring, i.osenfair to attack any set of men as a body, but he ataisk that . the conduct of the Clergy, with resp ec t no doubt, taken on himself the seizure of do. ship by t i ese ecer.iings against the Quieen, might justify au an armed force. He has already o ff ered to give me a f/ 4" for lie conceived that they had gone out of r i 7 r p r oper line of duty in the part they acted. He passport to proceed to sea. This is retracting from oes ee instance in the cleigyinan of his parish, Ken- what lee has done. 1 have not been able to accept his r . fi ctee, sho lately rehired ihe use of the church to hold proposal, my papers being at St. Augustine, and the 11 1 , - ot t ai r to address the Queen. On the next Sunday, I le i t h e r that dergynian nor his citrate officiated in the Spanish Government would probably not allow it. I m i di, but 'be service was performed by two clergy- don't know how the Constitetionat Government will oh Whitbretd 's) tee of whom opinion was such preached a sermoas liner n, which should b in Ins look upon this insult, utsurely if they suffer the first jk ( • la, tea fielivered from a pulpit ; that not being the they authorise a second. tt. place for the introthietion of such or of any po- " Every thing leads us to think that the American 6,1 ! objects. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by ta d* that whether lie should attend public meetings Government has been wrongly informed of my position, iithe coun try or not, (and he would attend as many as of the wanner that I entered into the port of Amelia, ld). the wcoithp t many em. might depend on his sentiments' and of my going, eventually, to the one new called St. j wait a l w ays h gr. Bite proposed the health of the Chairman, which 1 Joseph, two miles above Amelia, where I was placed t.prfaced with a short and ne a t speech. The toast ;by the Spanish authorities. He has no doubt. consi go waived with unbounded applause. thanks, observed. that I dered me on the same footing with a number of Eng mt. if o eliore r, in returning ~..„s s est he li of the honour of being known to the I lish vessels, who have arrived here during the past rSitliehl'i always acted anionic the people anti with I y ear , and have departed without entering at either the th , ra pk, and he would ever continue to do so. The „„ s e e e was who achieved the late victory , who had de- A mer ican or Spanish Custom House. i d isainisters from carrying their nefarious Bill of i " I have made my protest accordingly, and for- Net and Penalties into effect ; and against the power warded a copy of it to the French AiiilLissailor at d d, e p e ople no Government could ever succeed; but isoving this. lie should not overlook the powerful aid 1 Washington, and the Spanish Consul has addressed 'fiat :rent in.trument of the people. which collected, ! another to his Ambassador also." a f lainel, and united their sentiments—lie meant a . ~ I Extract of a letter from Savannah, dated Oct. 3:— Lie press.—(t'lieers.)—To the free p ress generally, No s ed owed what she -till held of liberty. By the " The sickness is now worse than at any former pe pts were the pe,!!e called together, and by it were riod ; there are more new cases. but I do nut think thpir sentiments in every part of the country, and on a w r y occasion, made known. The Hon. Gentleman s thcre are many more new deaths in prqurtion to the again expressed bh sincere thanks for the honour number of inhabitants. that had been done Win, and concluded amidst loud Halifax Papers state, that letters from Quebec of therm The lin:tlis of Sir Gerard Noel and Mr. P. Moore the 11th Oct. mention the return to that city of his erre next ziven, and were drank with three times three.' Excellency the Earl of 141.110 t -sir, from his visit to Both eentlemen returned thanks in speeches which our I . er Canada, and the departure for England of Lord Faits w i , ppill not allow us to insert. Several other patrie- ' tic he.ll;hs and tows were given, which occupied the RAMSAY. respany to a late hoar. I ______.......— MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•11011IROW. Morning, S min. lifter 4.—Evening. 2t) mire. after 4. INCE OF STOCKS TII 1! 110 Mock 219) Opt Coat. Urtt Our Ct. Cons. CO:f Op Coot. 7111 4ps Cods. SO: hyrCt. Navy latif 'per Cent. pt 4. pen. law Ans. I 7 13-18 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Imp. 3 per Cont. Ann. 87i India Stock Ditto Bonds ICos. Vs. pm. Old Annuities Lx. Bilis *I 2s. 35. ts. p.. °tontine par Con. for Account OM Lott. Tickets 13/. ISs. etc ,Otatccimatt. , Ht sums STATININIAN" If IteCORPORATED WITR " TN. PT ATIIIII AN... . I.OIIDON WSDNESDAT Norins•lA 22. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Testeriley afternoon a report got into circulation that the Bank were going to discount at four per rent., give the fonds a considerable lift, fur Consols, which, iu the early part of the day, were done as low as SW, rose to 693, for the account and money, (there being no continuation,) but left off at 691. This learning consols opened at the latter price, and, as the wart did not gain much credence, they fell to 69e tilers, but :ire now 691. Paris parrs of the IJth have arrived in town this turning. The King of Prussia has arrived at Troppau. The Turks are making great preparations for wur. They are assembling a considerable force iu the neigh bolf.oo4l cf Belgrade. FUNDll.—Five per Cents. ;6 f. -15 c. Thic morning we received a file of American papers In the 23.1 of October, from New Tork•, and to No vember 2, from Halifax. From these we , 4elect the following extracts : eIIARLISTON, OCT. 11.—Extract of a letter from Captain Edon, of the French ship Apullon at St. Nary's, t 31r. J It. Lcmaitre, consignee of said ship, this city. ST. nine., Scrr. 30, 1620. " On she 25th init. two American officers, with . . tilt captain of the revenue cutter, and about twenty men, with arms, came on board of my ship, to take pussession of her in the name of the American go "rnmeat, and to condnct her to St. /114ry's. I de shred to the offieer that I was in Spanish waters ; that I had fulfilled towards that government all the formalit:os required by law, and that I acknowledged to ether authori'v. At the same time, the captain of the cattier ordered his men to weigh the anchor. I "fled "'Twit drove the men from the cable, and threat "edki blow out the brains of the first one who would thre to come near it. The orders of these officers not authorising them to use violence, they sent to the fort •f Amelia for more arms, whilst an officer fame here fur farther order.. On the follow ing day he returned with positive orders to take the ship hy free of arms ; he accordingly ranged his emu on one side of the ship, armed them with muskets, swords ar.d pitols, ordered them to load, and summoned •e to sarrander in the name of his Government. I con sequently gave him up the ship, and declared I. the Pretence of lay crew that I surrendered myself to the "(Tien Uovernnseat, and I made him answerable towards the Spanish Monument for my ship, sag foe all damages t►at might ensue. They isigeedhasely Occupied as the public mind continues to be with solicitude for the security and interests of the QUEEN, that sentiment which prompts Englishmen to exertion in the defence of her insillted 31vJr.svv, makes them equally alive to every case, even of the most humble and forlorn individual, that possesses cogent claims upon their sympathy. Among the many instances of that concern u hick has been nianifested by private and by public characters, as well as by the public prey., is the attention that has for several years been paid to the condition of those crowds of wretched beings who have been fatally seduced to the circulation of counterfeit notes. From the desperate distress in which they were previously involved, and the ignorance and simplicity they have betrayed iu their occupation, the cases of the greatest portion, and especially of the females, have excited the most poignant commiseration. Many personal ex• ertions have, in consequence, Seen zealously made to arrest the doom of interesting individuals. Various legislative propositions have been strenuously urged to' mitigate the severity of those laws which they infringe. The precautions of a numerous police, and the skill of the most distinguished artists of America, as well as Europe, have been put in requisition for the prevention of the offence. In the mean time, neither vigilance nor terror have been found availing in checking the career of the infatuated victims. The groups that fur a lung time were immolated, almost every month, at length appalled the very persons at whose instance these sacrifices were derianded and a temporary relaxation of punishment was conceded to afflicted humanity. Amidst the various modes suggested for abating this national dis grace, it cannot fail to have occurred, to persons compe tent to the undertaking, to strive to check the evil at its source. Among the hundreds and the thousands of those unfortunate dupes who have expiated with their lives the offence of uttering forged Bauk notes, it cannot but have happened that the officers of the Bank themselves must have had recourse to the more deli cate and ingenuous, of the tender sex at least, to en deavour to discover the channels by which they were supplied with the fatal means of their offence. The chief distributors of those counterfeits must, of course, be easily aeceesible. A vigilant police acquires an intimate knowledge of their haunts. It is known to a certainty, at what time and place they are to ar rive with their supplies in the metropolis; and it can not be unknown from what quarter of the kingdom they have come. To the uninitiated in the mysteries of municipal justice, it is matter of astonishment, that notwithstanding the multitudes of victims who have been apprehended for the crime of uttering forged Bank notes, the forgers themselves can elude detection. To assign any plausible explanation of the extraortli: nary fortune of those men, is utterly beyond our power. It is an enigma we cannot pretend to solves One instance, however, has been brought within our knowledge, wherein the concealment of a forger of this class is, indeed, sufficiently accounted. for. It is an instance of a character so marvellous, that when conveyed to us for the purpose of being cotomnnieated to the public, we hesitated, till we had obtained on every point that could occur to us the most complete satisfaction, .to give it either insertion or credence. its truth, and considering. After satisfying ourselves of (t elremostauees, we deeps too, all its bearings and its h er p r t es t to the public' to condone rupprosiod: Af roaeot, however, we eau Daly bespeak the &Ovation it oar *eiders to this attsortifinry WIN, sad promise Its insertion to-morrow. A TER AN. sucrn.Axwg LAMENT. irimakek SANK* or THIC LIAM'S *i Tel AT LACD7i LAII' INTELLIGENCE. • • Scotland wonders what can all - • .Jamie, Earl of L—d—rd—e. Wise as Bacon—learned as Bale Was Ste Earl of L---e ; Memory begins to fail Jamie, Earl of L—. Queens and Peeresses turn pale At the name of L—; Brougham and Denman both may rail, What care.; Earl of L —e, Truth Itself—will not avail, If preludg'd by ; Should to Inde—some proNfrous gale, Watt the Earl of L —e, Illndostao will gladly hail Scotland's Earl of I.—tt ; When the ship be ins to sail, With the Earl of L—e, " Like a rat without a tai!,” Speed the Earl of I.—e; Ercry - bill and every vale Mourn the loss of L—e ; Scotland, Scotland, weep and wail, Jamie, Earl of L—e. DR VII 1' LAN THEATRE. . • LOCI '. ctrmr.NT. A new farce was produced last night, entitled The Wild Guar, Chase, in which a great part of the comic strength of the company was brought into action. The prot exhibits the adventures of no less than four dif ferent parties on their trip to Gretna, under the follow ing circumstances: the first on the road is a Navy Cap tain of the name of Stay/sere (Mr. HAMLET), whose oh jest is to marry the niece of Old Stamps (Mr. Game). The next is Captain Flank, of a Volunteer Corps, who treacherously attempts to out-greieral his friend the sailor. Then follow Mr. Stamps. his sister Mrs. Senri tire (Mrs. flaaLowa), and his niece, Emily, as they sup pose, in pursuit of ,Mr. Sensitive, her husband, who had left her, but in reality following Captain Strillserr, who had assumed the name, as the best mode of bringing the lady to the spot where matrimony is most easily tommitted. Jark Pigtail (Mr. Mt snest), with his wife and daughter, bring up the rear, the old Tar having been written to by Swildsore for pecuttlay assistance, in his anxiety' to afford which lie follows hi m in hi s journey to grotland. The piece concludes with the I marriage of Sarifitare and Emily, after various per plexities, and the disappointment and disgrace of Flank. t possesses sonic of the best materials of a good farce; namely, bustle, laughable situations, ludicrous incidents. and occasionally, some spirited dialogue. But with these qualities, the denouement is so clumsily managed. that It must be considerably altered before the piece will pass off wi:h The following anecdote we have received from in- 1 disputable authority :--In the course of last summer a convict-ship was lying in the river, having on board' a cargo of females, who had pleaded to the minor' offence of hsfing forged note. in their possession, and ' were then in consequence about to be transported.' When, on the point of sailing, a person, said to be I commissioned by the Bank, made his appearance among the prisoners, and presented each with a fire pound note. This unostentatious act of generosity and ki4efoces ought certainly not to be withheld from the public.. We should like, however, to know whe- thee the same easislence It humanely extended to all' perliour, mole and feasible, transported tinder the same ' eirentastanses, or. for ease praissevertAy realise, mere ly given to those in this particular Air. OF.ATLI or Taw as.—Jean Lambert Tallien, of re volationary notoriety, died at Paris on the IGth, aged tI. The arrest and destruction of Robespierre were owing- to Tallien. He rushed to the Tribune, expe -1 ' tiateu upon the crimes of the revolutionary govern ment, drew forth a dagger, and turning towards the bust of Brutus, swore that he would plunge it in the heave of the ty:ant if his colleagues refused to break the chains of their enslaved country. Robespierre de sired to reply, but in vain. They would not hear ! him, bat passed on to the decree which sentenced hint to the scaffold. Tallien married Madame de Fontenay, the present Princess of Chimay. Sr. lllLlNA.—thiring the vay of the Uederal Pal mer at St. Helena, the gavris.rn races - of that island were run. They were attended by the Governor and his staff, the Admiral, and most of the naval officers off ditty, as also General Count Muntholon, the Coun tess of Bertrand, and their families, and almost every ' individual of the island excepting Bnonaparte; he was, however, almost every range of the island, and on the !nth September he took a ride on horseback of above ten miles. Ile will soon occupy his new re sidence. St. Helena is very healthy. When off Ascension, on the Vith of September, the General Palmer was boarded from the island by a party, who informed them that an excellent spring of sweet water had been found in the interior of this small Wand. This furtunafe discovery had been bail, d with ninth joy ; but not a vegetation of any description could be effected on Ascension, from its barren soil, although every effort had been made for so desirable an object. The people on the island informed them that they had received no news on the island sines. March. On Monday, the 13th instant, a meeting was eon timed as the pha t el of St. Lawrence, in Ashburton, by Ilr. Tooker, is Portreeve, for the purpose of congra tulating the Queen on her escape from the snares of Iser enemies. An Aiblress was prepared and carried without a dissentient voice. It was proposed to tes ,Sify their joy by an illumination, but Mr. tiervis, Mr. ,Palk, Mr. tiribble, and other Uentlemen opposed it, sin the ground of the danger accompanying it. Thurs day w:..• fixed on for the day of eelebratinr, the event ; and on that day the different trades, ranged under their respective banners, formed a large procession and paraded the town. The great mass of the inhabitants, with a very few exceptions, displayed their feelings in the strongest manner. Six hogsheads of beer and cider, and fifteen hundred loaves of bread,. were gives away. Fire-works were displayed to amuse the jute. nile part of the rejoicers. Malty of the Queen's friends dined together at the Uoldsn Lion; a ball followed in the evening, and the room was tastefully decorated. No disorder or irregularities occurred. The friends of the Queen, by their conduct, chewed that they were friends lends of order, and the testimonies of their joy wore uncuittaininated with indecent trimness otter the tisass of fita truckling heroes of Milan! They felt ,thrtivere belebrating the triumph of the ettneti• *ton and the Law: they felt that it ilas a triumph Pl4lr the 'WON of deer s.. who, leader the meek of Uyilty. !w' with their No the wreak of tht Pimik l / 2 . .totiej eat Win traftlithrli far the. in our report of this case on the 15th inst., it was most carrl,•ssly stated by a blundm•rint: reporter, that Mr. Lewis, instead of Gig !'Gnat. Ima.l been discharged from the Insolvent Debtor's Court. Anxious to cor rect the error, and prevent such a misrrpresentatio■ causing any uneasiness to Mr. Lewis, we insert,d a brief contradi t :tion on the followieg day. Finding, however, that Mr. Lewis has considered himself rzuch aggrieved by the paragraph in questi.m, t o e are desirous of relieving his mind, by giving still further publicity to a correction of the unfortunate error t accompanying this statement, with a siircero avowal of the greatest regret at the tic •urrence of moth a mistake. All means shall certainly he adopted by us to remove any impression that might oti.crivise be made unfavonrable to Mr. Lewis, in the minds of :hos; who read the inccrrect report. The declaration of Mr. Lewis, as conveyed to us in his letter, is manly ' and deserves our approbation and our thao'rs. As an act of justice mine to Mr. Lewis, and to the public, we have discbarg•d the Reporter who conuni!terf blunder, iu order to prevent a reruttence of str.rrs of a similar description. COURT or RINO's BENCH.—TnTs DAT. THC MVO H. SIR I. HVIIDETT, RART. Mr. BLACIigLiaN resumed the line of argument in with+ he was proceeding, when the Court broke np on'Thers day last. Having concluded upon the subject of the wrong place of trial, the Learned Counsel stated that hon•evever ➢ainful it flint.: he to him, who should proba bly spend Les whole life in that Court, to say any thing► which migl t possibility appea, offensive to a indg.., vet the duty he owed to his client and to the politic at iarge, compelled him to .hew that there was something improper in the stitoruing up of the Learned Judge upon the trial of the defendant in this c;:se. Ile would read the charge to the Jury, and he believed that which he should real to be a correct retort of what the Learned Juke said. when ch•argir.g upon the question of lil.el. If it were incorrect, he hosted that he should not be considered as giving offence, although, which was c.ottrary to his belief, I.e should be reading an incorrect statement. He th-n read the chatrire of Judee Best nom the trial at Lei cester, and commented upon its general spirit. Their Lordships would see that nn:ust constructions had been put upon many passages of the defendant's letter. Constructions n Lich no Judge, having mercy in his heart, wonld ever have put. Surely a Judge ought not to put forced constructions upon evidence, to the disparagement of the accused party. Mr. Justice Besr.----Nothing which you have said has given me the least offence. Mr. EVANS followed on the same ride. Ile contended, that an offence of this nature, part of which had been committed iu one county ■nd part in another, unless by special Act of Parliament, could not be charged. The practice in cases of conspi racy supported his erg ument, and the analogy was at 5- cient to establish that argutuent. Writing was not recog nised as crime, and he lead a mass ofc ases f:• •at the State Trials and other sources which decisively proved that I-publishing done eonetituted the critee of libel. Ife next came to the Clue lion of publication ; and in every rase which had been hitherto decided, and where pub lication was proved ty letter, the letter bad passed through a third hand. There was no one case in which a letter had been put into the Post-office. Taking it for granted, for the purpose of argument, that wri ting was an offence, it was then absolutely necessary I that a new trial should he granted; fur the indictment charged writing and publishing. Therefore, if their Lordships passed sentence upon the defendant fur writing alone, they would be giving false ; judgment. The Learned flentleman contended that if their Lord ships refused this application they would break the rule laid down by the House of Lords, and stated that the i Judge had in his charge to the Jury, put a wrong in terpretation on the laneuageof the defendant. Ile would appeal' to their Lordships if it was proper that int:en dues should be thus interpreted at the discretion of the Judge. He ((minded a very ingenious argument by ' stating, that.the facts were sufficiently notorious to jus tify the expression. The judgment of the Court was deferred, the At ! torney-Ueneral (as we understood it), claiming aright of reply. C03t310,4 HaLs.—The following requisition is in the course of signature : We, the undersigned Livery of London, request your Lordship will convene a Commo Hall on an early day, to take into consideration the propriety of congra tulating her Majesty on the defeat of her enemies, in the expulsion of the bill of pains and penalties by the Howie of Lords, and for other important matters connected with the rights and privileges of that. Livery." This Requisition is we understand, already nutoe ronsly signed, and will be presented in a day or two. A report was in circulation yesterday in the city that the Bank Directors had adopted the determina tion of discounting bills in future at 4, instead of 5 per cent. Mr. Cullum, printer sail proprietor of the Alfred newspaper, Exeter, has been appointed printer and bookseller to her Majesty. A Requisition, signed in a few hones by between 100 and 200 respectable inhabitant householders o f that small but independent parish of St. Ann's, West minster, has, we understand, been presented to the Churchwardens, to convene a Meeting of the inha bitants to congratulate the Queen on the happy ter mination of the proceedings instituted against her by the House of Peers. A duel of a serious nature was foulest on Siturday. in a field at Child's-hill, near Hampstead, between Mr.. bi—, a young gentleman studying anatomy, awl Mr. C—g. The parties fired ithobt *Bet t, and after re-loading, an adjustment of the affair was at tempted is vain. In the second fire Mr. C. was wounded above the hip, and there are no hopes of recovery, as the ball was not eittrasted yesterday morning. Coax-gicaamon, Nor.!!.—We ball but little Wheat fresh is this morsin%, lad what rev samples there were, of Iwo quality, sold on NM as good terms as on Monday big the ismistior descriptions remained en hand for want of baron. rim Bartok met ready ale,. and .elect samples are Is. per quartile deafer ; bat inch as the Mallows would set 'intim', were very heavy sale, 'at Moody's prices. Is Oats, tear,' and Beans. there le no alteration. • • F • ! %`. I rr • % • - • • 1 . • - Nt . • 4\ • • •- '--'''''''''' r