The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-17 00:00:00

m ore ready to take poises'sion of the rumour of a great .rise than our markets, and we trust that the labour= Flag classes tell eat their bread this winter at reasons able prices.' -. , . . , A decline in the. Funds . of the Bridge•street Associ ation is likely to prevent the coniamm • ation of the pro ..teedings which were instituted against individ'ual's and 'intended to destroy the Liberty and Independence of 'the Press. Before another appeal is made to the pub lic, and before the good huMour of former Subscriber; is put to the test, we strongly recommend the cashiers to publish a list of their various disbursements. To be sure, a cause which is founded in Law, in Reason, and in Eguitil, does not require much collateral aid, and the majority of the Subscribers may think that the Funds will not be improperly applied ; yet for the sake of satisfying the more squeamish, and those who may entertain doubts, it would be as well to publish a ,plain statement (for plain dealing always looks well) of all the sums that have been expended in advancing .the interests of the-King and Constitution. Each item should be enumerated,—so much to the Doctor for his . .strictnres, at so much per column ; so many hundred pails of. Slop, so many times a week, at 7d. per pail ; so much flr professional services, whether contributed . in the higher branches of the law or in a more qnes• tionabte'shape of Espionage ; so muchifor self and Co. and s() on ; making a grand sum total of so much, .either a deficit or so small a sum as not to be sufficient to enable the acting men to act withou further dona tions 'and subscriptions from the charitable and hu mane, the loyal and well disposed. All this would :10.ok fair and business-like, and probably operate ad .captandgas vel a ors. Besides, it would silence the .growling cynics who are desirous of raising suspicions , andinaking people believe that the money bas been somehow embezzled ! ! Yoe Our own parts, to speak seriously, we wonder that, in the first and more enlightened metropolis in the world, that a tribunal so mischievous in its effects on society, should have been allowed to exist for so many months. It is a demoralizing school—a school for the cultivation of informers, and a nursery for the proe:ulgationof the worst passions of human degene racy, and must necessarily encourage the unchristian principle of arming one neighbour against another, awl tend to destroy that confidence which should exist among- Englishmen of every political and religious•de noniination. The union of the people is the strength of the country; theie divisions the most prominent svinotom of its weakness. That any, even the present Ministers, should allow such an illegal association to • exist at the seat of the Government, is a matter of wonder. Onr ancestors, had they the power, would • foe, with indignation, from their graves, as was pro. perlv observed by Lord COLCiIESTER, upon the traffick ing in seats being brought home to a Noble Lord and a late Prime Minister. But we sincerely hope that their career is about to close. We sincerely hope that those who may, from pure .elotive!:, have supported them, and whose names appear in the list of subscribers to their nefarious sys tsp, will, non.v that they see the objects pursued, Ivitlelraw their names and their sanction, and shear to their countrymen, that friendship and brotherly love are as necessary to the prosperity . .51 a state as to that of a private family—and Ow the union of the people, and the enjoyments of domestic life ought not to be endangered by a pro scribing- and desw.cLive Junta, set up against and shore the law. WP are concerned to find that the Irish papers to d:►y bring fresh accounts of outrages in the disturbed tiktricts. In Dublin, however, tranquillity prevails. A mail from Turkey has arrived, bringing letters from Ctinstautinople to the 11th November. They s%ite that a communication had been received from Russia by the Divan, which was supposed to contain the nit;u:atir.ie of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. Nothing hail transpired respecting its nature. The answer of the Turkish Government, had not, however, been given; and it was understood that it would not be made without rbt• sanction of the English and Austrian Ambassadors to its contents. Much activity prevailed in the Divan, Where frequent conferences had been held ; and the letters say that some of the Ministers of State had been deposed. The Turkish fleet was still at the Dardanelles, and the Admiral had repaired to Constantinople. Letters from Tripoli state, that great rejoicings had taken place, in consequence of the return of the Pa eha's son, with his army, from the interior, where he had defeated several rebellions tribes. - The Marquess of Wellesley, accompanied by two gentlemen, left town on Saturday afternoon for Ire land, where he is expected to arrive on Tuesday ms.rning. Henry Ooulbourn, Esq.. the new Irish Secretary, is ore of three sons of Mt. lioulbourn, Esq., formerly of the Island of Jamaica, and maternal nephew of the Lite Viscount Chetwynd, consequently related to Earl Talbot, and to the late Winrisetwynd, Esq., of Cork. —lie is about 36 years old, and a complete man of business. The Court and Privy Council which the King held on Monday, the 10th instant. at Brighton, were the first Isis Majesty has heist since his accession to the Throne, which has made the pavillion a Royal Palace, as it is said it is the acts done in a building, by a So vereign, which constitutes a palace, and nut the magni tude or magnificence of a building. Ills Majesty's state coach is at this time receiving sr%esal additional and tasteful ornaments, amongst which the collars, stars, &c. of the different orders of Knighthood bordering the principal pannels of the tatriage, are truly superb. The last of the Bedfordees premiums , annua ll y dis tributed for several years past in Boswell-street, for improvement in the breed of cattle, sheep, and pigs, was given on Friday last: the Duke of Bedford has withdrawn his name from this club. _._ • Di araßßVl WIUTINEATILe•maI the night of Saturday did, be tween .tbe hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, a house:occupied by a party of Major O'Donogbue's Police, at Ballinscor, near Castletown-delvio, in this county, was maliciously set on•ftre. All the men were on patroie at the time, with the exception of one left in charge of the place, who, bearing a 'noise in the rear of the house, went round to examine, and found the thatch on tire, which, with considerable difficulty, after obtaining assistance, he succeeded in extin guishing. The wives and children of the constables were at the time asleep, some of whom would have probably lost their lives, had the diabolical attempt succeeded. We have also heard, with deep concern, that meet ings of an illegal tendency have very recently been held in the immediate vicinity of this town. We can tell the misguided persons, who assembled on these occasions, that their movements are watched by a vigilant Magistracy, who will.not suffer such proceed. ings -to recur with impunity—and we exhort them to shun paths that lead only toilestruction.—(lVestintatli Join-Hal.) efti*VfATAiiii4 --..010..-- itema: The Mayor and Bailiffs of Monmouth having on Mr. Home's arrival at Hereford, signified their inten tion to present him with the freedom.of their borough, about eleven o'clock on Monday that Gentleman, accom panied by Robert Price, Esq., of Foxley, M. P. for the county of Hereford, Kedgwin Hoskyns, Esq Walter Palnier,,Esq. and other gentlemen of that county, ar rived at Monmouth, where they were received with the ringing of the bells and every demonstration of joy— fifty of sixty burgesses, notwithstanding the short no tice they hod of his approach, meeting Mr. Flume at the turnpike-gate, on the Hereford-road, with music, and flags. At the entrance into the Town-hall he was received by the Mayor, in his robes, the Baili.rs, &c. &c., and, together with J. H. Moggridge and John Lucy Scudamore, Esqrs. (to whom the freedom of the Borough had been previously voted, but who were this day to be sworn in,) Thomas Swinuertoo, Esq., T.G. Phillpotts, Esq., James Phillips, Esq,, of Bryngwin, and many other gentlemen, took his seat on the bench with the Mayor. Mr. Moggridge, having been honoured with the first freedom voted after the emanci pation of the Borough, was first sworn, and then ad dressed the Mayor, 11.tilitTs, and Burges-es. in a short but appropriate speech, which WM/ received with the loudest shouts of applause. Mr. Scudamore was next sworn, and returned his warmest thanks for the ho nour done him. The Mayor then rose, and in a justly clmplimentary speech, spoke of the great public merits of Mr. Hume, and of the obligation the nation was under to him for his public services, and for the still greater services which be would have rendered the country, if he had not, in a great majority of cases, been conoteracted by ministerial majorities. The Mayor professed himself a firm friend to Parliamentary lleforin, a decided enemy to every-•ipecies of corruption, and the advocate fir retrenchment in every branch of the public ex!mmli tnre ;icons•luillne a very energetic address amidst the acclamations of a crowded hal!, by pro;i4)sing • Hume, Esq. M.P. to be elected a Burgess of Mon ' mouth; which was seconded by I'. G. Phillpots, i:s► l . in a speech replete with good sense and sound consti tutional doctrines. The nomination of Mr. Hume was received with a thunder of appl tuse, and his election carried unani mously and by acchunation. Mr. /lune then rose and returned thanks for the high honour which hal been conferred noon him. He warmly congratulated the linre-esses of Monesnath the success of the glorious strnggle in which they had I been so long and so ardubusly cog :se-v.l ; he congra tulated them on having arrived at the due kna•aleil :e of the rights which nature and the constitution of their country had conferred upon them, ::11.1 on their vindication of those rights, as men determined no longer to submit to political and moral deL7ra dation. He said, that even in the horrible state of rottenness in wilier a vast majority of the Boroughs of Great Britain were sunk, if such manly, virtuous, an.! patriotic energies were exerted, and by legal means directed to the same great end, great impravement in the state of the country would ensue ; hut without a fair, full. and equal representation of the people in Paigiatnent, which at present they have not, this country will, he Gala, never recover the proi perity and happiness it has lost, nor re g ain its fora.er high and honourable station amongst the nations of the earth. Be conjured the Burgesses of Monmouth to persevere in their honourable, patriotic, and consti tutional course, till the representation slier.nf in Par liament became real, insteail of virtual—till thee, the people, were there represented, instead of a I;eanc!l r. the aristocracy, which converted the iiifinence it thereby acquired with the Minisv.r to time purposes of gross self-interest, and the smt .port and emolmitnent its family and dependents. Mr. Burne sai.!, be ti it•teml that the contribntory boroughs would cats!' tii free and constitutional spirit of alaturiauth, and disdain to be any longer made the tools of their own vas,alage, degradation, and oppression. He then adverted to the corrupt state of the representation of Vie people in Parliament in boroughs in general ; and, seleetine Queenborougls out of a multitude of other instances, said, that from public documents and facts, which no man could disparage or doubt, he wonid have prove , : in the House of Commons, had lie been permitted, that about 190 burgesses of that borough had for many' years past been kept inconstant pay, at an expense of the pubic of upwards of twenty thonsand pounds an nually, but which he said was nothing like equal to the amount of the different sums of money paid yearly to the family and connexions of (as we understood him to say) the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Alon mouth. Mr. Hume successfully exposed the ahnses of Ministers in the lavish expenditure of the public mo ney, expressing his firm belief that retrenchment and reform, honestly and firmly pursued, might save nearly ten millions of money to this oppressed and sinking country. He most feelingly described the direful and distressful effects of inordinate taxation on the property, the comforts, and the privations of the people; and, as wishing well to the Constitution of Government, which, if administered in its true principles and in its genuine spirit, would ensure the happiness of every class of the community, its own permanence, and the safety, peace, and tranquillity of the country, lie deprecated the con tinuance of a system which devoured the fruits of in dustry, had already converted millions into paupers, and now threatened the extinction of the " middle and higher orders." The speech of Mr. Hume (of which we are compelled at present to offer but a very meagre and inadequate account to our readers, and the deft iem:ies of which we shall gladly supply another time) was re ceived throughout with the loudest demonstrations of applause, and we believe we may safely say the :e never was a more attentive, a more impressed, or a nitre gra!e ful audience. Mr. Moggridge next proposed the election of Robert Price, Esq. of Foxley, Member in Parliament for the county of Hereford, as a Burgess of Monmouth ; which was carried unanimously ; as were the elert.ons of James Phillips, Esq. of Bryngwin : Walter Palmer, Esq. of Pencoyd ; and Kedgwin Hoskyns, Esq. The excellent addresses of which gentlemen ne are sorry we cannot this week insert. In the afternoon, Mr. Hume partook, by I .vitation of a dinner at the King's Head,at which, note ithstanil' mug there was a notice of a few hours only, u wards o seventy gentlemen sat down. Amongst w om, be . sides those already noticed as present in the Hal ANOTHER BARBAROUS MURDER! By accounts received in town yesterday from Rath molin, County Meath, we learn that a horrid murder was perpetrated in that neighbourhood on the night of Tueday, the 1 lib instant. The unfortunate victim is said to have been brother to a man who gave evi dence on the trial of the murderers of Mr. Cruise, whose melancholy fate is in the recollection of our readers. His name is William Wiley. It is supposed that lie was waylaid lir a party on his return from the fair on that day; .anif murdered in a small field near the road leading from Longwood to Rathmolin. The head was nearly severed from the body, apparently by a sharp instrument. No inquest had been held when our informant left the place; but there are certain cir cumstances known, which will, in all probability, lead to a, complete detection of the inhunian murderers.— (Dublin .llorniag Poet.) • [mon THE I;UOLIN EVENING POST.] Extract of a letter from Kinnegad :—" 'ibis d% I saw one of the most awiel sights I ever witnessed; • a small field near the road, leading from LongWoOd to Rathniullen, near Mr. Thomas Kingston's house, on the same land, a man of the name of Win. Wiley, who was waylaid, or followed by a party from the fair —knocked down with a shovel, sticks, &c., and with a razor or knife, cut his throat from ear to ear, and almost severed the head from the body—and cut his mouth either side in like manner, and other parts of his face—they took oil his coat and waistcoat, leaving both some distance from the body, with the waistcoat buttoned, and not one drop of blood on either—the hour between seven and eight o'clock. The Imitte.st will be held to-morrow morning, at nine. This is far worse than Mr. Cruise's murder, he was brother to the Wiley that prosecuted Dunn. ATTACK ON A POST BOY AND HIS ESCORT. Coax, Ditc.• 10.—Information has, we regret to find, reached this City to-day, that on last night be tween the hours of ten and eleven o'clock, as the Lime rick Post boy was conveying the mail from that City to this, accompanied, as nsnal, by two Dragoons, they were attacked near Ballybowra Mountain, by some of the lawless banditti, who are at present every night on the alert for inisAief. One of the Dragoons was shot, and the Post-boy's hat was perforated, front another ball. This attack nas made shortly before they reach ed the place where it is usual for the Limerick Post boy to meet and exchange with the Cork Post their re spective bags, and the Limerick Post and the single Dragoon had to return over the same ground where their Companion was shot a few minutes before. It is lamentable to reflect to what an extent the banditti are proceeding, as the present attack was made with no other object than that of committing a wanton and un provoked murder.—(chronicle.) We regret to be obliged to detail an instance of the extension of the spirit of outrage, which has so long af flicted some of the contiguous counties, to almost our own immediate neighbourhood. On Thursday night last, the haggard of the Rev. Mr. Cash, situate be tween Masroons and Carrigdrollid, containing, as we are informed, ten stacks of corn, was burnt down. Surely this,evidence of the contiguity of such a ma lignant spirit, shows the necessity of having every measure of precaution and defence speedily adopted, to meet the alarming evils.—(lbid.) • SPECIAL Commissios.—Mr. Baron il'Cleland ind Mr. Justice Moore were expected at Limerick yester ' day. This day the Commission opens for the City and County of Limerick. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Serjeant Joy, Messrs. Lloyd, White, and Townsend, conduct the Crown pro ; secutions. Matthew Barrington, Esq. the Crown Soli• citor fur the Munster Circuit, arrived from Dublin in Limerick, on Sunday. No day is fixed for the Commission to be held in ' the counties of Kerry, Clare, and Cork.—(Dublin E. Post, Dec. 15 ) GREAT EVENTS FROM LITTLE CAUSES OFTEN SPRING* —General St. Martin, who has new alienated South America from Spain, served the latter country heartily in the beginning of her struggle against France. He distinguished himself in the field—was recommended for a step of rank—that of Lieut.-Colonel. He deserved it; but was refused it. He left Spain in disgust; re turned to his native country, Buenos Ayres, and the re sult we see !—This Officer was Aid-de-Camp to the un fortunate Spanish General Solanot, and afterwards to General Sir Charles Doyle. He is described to be very handsome, amiable, and full of talent ! about forty-five years old. MAJOR ANDRE. — It is rather a curious circum stance that, when the remains of this unfortunate gen tleman were deposited in Westminster Abbey, on the 29th ult., the vault opened to receive them was found to contain the corpse of the Duchess of Marlborough. BRIEHTON, DEC. 4.—A JUDGE ROBBED!—Mr. Justice Bailey, who is among our arrivals this week, had his larder robbed of all the provisions it con tained, on Thursday evening. On Thursday morning. the house, No. 4, Royal Crescent, was robbed of a great quantity of plate, to the amount, we hear, of nearly 100/. Plicebe Hassel, aged 111 years, departed this life on Wednesday last. His Majesty bad, for the last seven or eight years, allowed the deceased 10s. 6d. a week. SucF is the unexampled mildness of the season, that primroses and violets in full bloom, are now called about the streets of London. I .., a were Thomas Swinnerton, Esq. and many stat•.r•tt friends to borough and constitutional freedom. S very interesting particulars of which we shall endea vour to supply in our next paper.—itristol .ilercery.) LEDBURT, Dec. 12.—Last night Mr. I:lnme , arrived at this place very unexpectedly, on his road from Ross, on a visit to Mr. 0. Ricardo, at Rramshury ? and, al though five minutes did not elapse in the change of post horses; the popnlice recognised him, took out I the horses, and drew his carriage through the town, as a mark of their approbation . 1f it had been W:own when Mr. Hume would have reached this p:ace ? . would have received a very flattering reception, As a testimony of their regard for his public services . .! .34 OLD D.llLEY.—Teri Dir. •••••(!, 1. I , f' John Doran, a notorious thief, wag convictorl el atm& jag six Sovereigns, the property of Elizabeth - Smith. • The Sessions are expected to close tu-ukirrow. MARKETS. CORN-ExclivscE, Dcc. 17.—A verr large qotan!tty of Wheat remained over from last week s 4rrivals, in addi tion to which. we had a good supply•fresh in this worn inr from Essex and Kent, but very little of wh;Of was of fine quality; in consequence, prime samples oh.t t:ned lost Alooday e s prices, but all other sorts were offered lull 2s. per quarter lower, without being able to &rot sales at that abatenheist.—The extremely heavy sale fa; alt has occasioned h . decline of from 3s. to 4s. per qua rt - xr is flue Barley ; and the standard and inferior qual:ties are '2q. per quarter lower.—The Oat Trade was !wavy at last week's prices.—ln other articles there is no alteration. Excusn. I e. d. Small 8eau5......... !!!'t Tick di!!1.1. Oats, Potatoc I. '33 Ditto, Fuland 2.1) Ditto. Feed lli Flour,per Rapeseed, per I.nol :ISI. 3.11. Fotsmos: Wheat. Amerlean • Dautzic • llaltic, Red Ilambrie Red. S. 11. WlientAt , nt, and Eiiex 30 40 Oki.. . 3E -- Sunni, (New) 3O 42 Old . 112 Norfolk, (Old) Rye 2B 23 Rarity l6 21 Malt.. White Peas 2426 Rollers ' 28 32 Grey ditto' .23 27 , SMITHFILLD MARIEET.—Th4te rim% known a market so fall of Cattle as this morning's, it extended half down Skinner•street; the finest Cattle suaintaiu last week's prices, and the inferior sorts were noasinAi in rice. To sink the offal pm' st. of Sibs. Reef .... Q. 8.1. to &Mi. I CATTLR AT smear? lia Nton.. 24. 01. to Iti. 64. Heists . • 4,430 Vert .... 34. Ud. to 44. Ott. Cain., . 11110 P):k .... 24. 0.1. to 4i. 01. Sheep and Looms ....18.10t 1.- , ib .... 04. 01. to Os. 01. Pip m vtarr.—No alteration in tlse'priee of Hay.— Straw an,' Clover as per last Hay 31 10s. to It. 4s. 1 I Straw ..I/. Ss. to It. les. Clowr 41. Us. to W. Os. AVERAGI TRICK OF CORN IN lINGLitND AND WALES. Wheat, 51s. 2d.—Rye. 17s. W.—Barley, 2es. 1041.—Olts, 1+:14. 11d.—Beans. The eerase Price of Brown or Muscovado Reser. Can. puled trust the Beturrs made in the Week ending tie 1211 day of December, 1621, is *23. 7.411. per cwt. Exeter fair. on Wednesday, produCed a large show of remarkably fine cattle, but' the sale 1V713 the dullest ever remembered; not more than one in twenty were disposed of. and those at prices 'ancottt- Nouw tett MseeETs.—The Corn Market on S :tor day was very fully attended ; the sale was dull, al prices lower. Flour has fallen ss, a sack. There !vas a large show of cattle on the Hill, and the market very heavy, a considerable quantity of stock being driven hither from Bury Fair. A fartnzr, who occupies about Seo acres of land, miles nom Devizes, hrought his first load of wheat of the present year's growth to our market trt Thursday last, which he considered as a flair sample of his whole crop: it was ilisposA of with di flienlty at 15s. per sack! The same person was offered o?'y 15s. per bead for his sale ewes at Marlborough fair ! —(D4 vizor Gazette.) Mr. POILLI FS, to whom the Public is indebted f.pr the only History of Pruitx hitherto published, is nom engJged in preparing a History of Cultivated Vegeta bles, Which is to be d edicated by permission to his jesty. In this Work, the ohjact of the Author we un derstand has been to render the knowledge of Plants en tertaining useful, not only to Botanists, but to those who have hitherto deemed it a difficult and uninterest ing science. Ile has endeavoured to ascertain of wli it Countries the Vegetables now cultivated, are natives, the earliest account of their cultivation, and how fir they hare improved by attention, or degenerated by neglect ; also the various uses wide of them by the Ancients, as well as the Moderns of different Countries. The Medicinal and Chemical qualities of Vegetables, being of the greatest importance, will he particularly attended to, and the accounts given of them, collected with the utmost care • from the reports of the most eminent Physicians of every age. 'f he Etymology, Natural History, Physiology, and Anatomy of the Plants, are from the remarks of the most ingenious Students of the Vegetable World, as well as from the author's persoual observations. On Sunday evening► last a stack of Wheat, belong. ing to tlr. Thos. Wetherall, of Fincham, in Norfolk, was discovered to be on fire, and was very shortly con sumed, together with several stacks of straw; a large stack of corn standing near was preserved by the timely and indefatigable exertions of the neighbours. t%' e regret to add that there is reason to suppose that the fire was the work of sine incendiary. F►r.e. 401 vi TilAME:i.—About half•past three o'clock yesterday morning, a most alarming fire broke out on board a fine West Indianian, about 300 tons burden, named the Boddington, moored off St. Cs. therine's stairs. The ship was in the ►mddle of a tier when the fire broke out, but by the activity of the sailors they were enabled to move every vessel from the ship on fire to a place of safety. The floating fire engines came forward with great promptitude, and the firemen commenced playing upon the ship, while some shipwrights were busily employed in cutting boles through her sides to facilitate her being scuttled. Not withstanding the united exertions of all the men en gaged, it was near ten o'clock before her main deck was under water. As the tide ebbed, the drip heeled towards the middle of the river, and about twelve o'clock it was found necessary to cut her main and wizen masts by the board. The fore-mast and bow sprit were sanding about four o'clock. The Wadding ton bad been fresh coppered about two months ago, and had only her ballast, cable, and rigging on board. The rigging was not stretched, but stowed away be tween decks, which greatly lessened the danger to to° shipping in that part of the river. It► •J is rh be • !, • ,rio •re Tr! I , • . r I