The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-05-28 00:00:00

Sir—As the - following Get reflects great refulgence V% our military department, and eternal honour open ebe illustrious individual whose _name is aSsed to thftitie of this paper, you will I trust, as you isAie I te.waresi me by the Ineettioa of various other comma tiatatioas not refuse to give it insertion. I know by *spectacle that ne party feelings will induce you to re f./NI enact of individual justice. Should it appear In any of Owse paper' which are called "Treasury Joao.' n .Is." I fear its veracity might be doubted, which -- would be visi ing an act of the greatest virtue with •tigen, instead a with that applause to which it is so justly entitled. A moat worthy and respectable widow lady. whose whole property was a life interest in land, had leased itolt with the consent of her three sons, and an Daly daughter. (her heirs) for Tuna lives also, to-aa *pa lest farmer at 6001. a year. One of those sous who waall wild young fellow, had enlisted in the 18th Dra rows; who were then in Portugal with the Dnbe of Coaseqseatly the lease ores not ezecuted iy Shortly afterwards this tenant, who was a mere ma ampulla 4 land, artfully sad dishonestly availing him :elf of the sosa.exoeation of the lease by this absent tae. demanded that his rent should be considerably sAtcod. and in order to compel such a redaction, most 'molly withheld payment altogether, and that to.. daring a Wag sail severe illness of the mother, at the ammo time tbrostenieg a law snit. if she did not comply terms;wttb fain secretly boasting of the situation he had this respectable family is, and cashing in the insiaositility of this lady presorting/or her trowel sea ice's of slareiee to arecitte the deed. At the solititation °ibis :Meted client. the solicitor c: this lady, (bat without the smallest hope of succeed ing) wrote to the ComMlnder is Chief stating in sum. pie terms the fits:going boa I and deploring that this worthy imam and hoe daughter would be ruined the young 'apogees did not get least of absence. By some fatality the solicitor received no answer to 1.11 letter, and be ins attest to advise his client to sob. 'st to this creel extortioner. rather then go to law : when on a certain evening to the great amazement and ;or of those affected and almost despairing ladies in :.t.Tped the tenant is full wifivent. The Dohs of Wellington the very day before the battle of Barroom had ordered bins home to execute no loose and to rescue his mother and sister from this ratestions tyrant. The magnanimity of the decree struck terror into the saissod tem.tot. who inyan ly paid his rent and pro ioced his lease for due execution. Sir, I was myself the solicitor to this tnnsaction, azsl have ever since inagesi for an opportunity of pro claiming so noble an net, which opportunity I know nu will nut refuse me. f.e:cester-square. .1. B. P. S. No interest or solicitation whatsoever was re sorted to. When I wrote to his Royal Highness 1 coati :tired 1 did an act of mere hopeless experimext. FOR TIM STATRS.VAN. .1 ---wom.-- (Mach aq we are known to differ is opinion from our Co rr r • ;wade ut . relative to the disfraschiaement of tisainputind, we give iasertiou to his letter from our cish to 'hew ourselves imparti4l, and from the respect •, r. ,re ettertain for some of the means he proposes to . s ^medy prevailing corruption.--En.) TO W. 0. WHITBREAD. ES4l:nll. N. P. I confess, as a freeholder in your interest, 1 did expect I to see you stand up against the present Bill for the Die ..froatlslaement of tiramponnd. am grieved there should he so many corrupt voters a , . there have been proved to be In this and other r.oroughs, and especially under the influence of the Ad tninistntticrn, bnt there is not a principle more injurious to liberty and the acquirements of lkitons than the idea of an nacontrolable legislature. It has been a rule among those who have ever divided the loaves and fishes, to Maintain the oisoapeteery of King, Lords and Com ma's, bat there are many acts whirl. time may render necessary which cannot be effected by King. Lords And omA:sons—and the taking away the rights of Boroughs i s see of them. The parties concerned hold it as their birth-right; an.l although the vote in many cases may be sespeedsd, in conformity to general rights of voting, at affecting ether Constituents throughout the country, yet there is no power in our l'onstitu:ion to enable a re perstetative to omila/etc the right of his immediate Coostitneat t and yet this would be the case with Bram petted or any other Borough disfranchised. A Minister and his Colleagues will support this unconstitutional dextrine, because it gives undefined power to the influ ence of the Crown. Majorities prove nothing as to their inertly einbraeing the votes of the romnbers of the dis franchised borough ; for, if one ran be disfranehleeti, wily not disfranchi,e every Borough held by persons obnoxious to them ; and all tvhich may suit their con venience, or their secret expenditure ? Why net create represen-ations in the House of Commons for life, to correspord with the hereditary and other privileges of the !louse of Lords ? When the representatives of the House of Lon:moos pissed the Septennial Act, extend ing their legislative authority from 3 to 7 years, what was it but a disfranchisement for 4 years of all the places represented The Constitutional principle I lay down, suits the power of those who have in general the greatest interest in the Borringh of Orontpoand ; lmt no matter who has the better chance of sending a Member to the House of Commons. The point to which I cannot yield. is, that the Legislature, who are more Trustees for the people, cannot. so far as relates to the representation, destroy the Constituents. I:.us actually sanihilating the very persons, as public persons. who appoint them their Testate.. .• *WS ACT OP NIS R O YAL. HIGHNESS Till ours OF YORK. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. .tail Lisps. he satisfied with this (Or. eir...oonsider will render nrner•etsary any appeals tnihe people in present state of feeling, and infuse new health iota the monarchical as well as tbr• Imitative part of the Con stitution, hp giving the people 'eotifideneeln their King in proportion as be esteems these minoring infitsnana. May 22, 152 t. • A NULICANCII. a.irommenromamo • 111 • • I LL ' IfR. Mat 24. AIMTAL OP Tlilt CONNIE:IIOSn% APPOINTED TO ur ging's INTO cos:Purr OP THE JAILER AND TOO ALLEGED AMAMI EXISTING IN NIP DAJIUITT . II JAIL AT IN TIM COUNTY OF SI/31E14LT. Oe Thursday last. the 17th inst. Mr. Hunt, who had preferred charges, thirteen in number, against Mr. Bridle, the Governor of this jail, after an Investigation of fourteen days before the High Sheriff and the county magistrates, cloned his case, and the Court adjourned to this day, in order to enable Mr. Bridle to prepare for his defence. This miming the Sheriff and Magistrates again as sembled In order to hear the defence and to further pro secute the inquiry. On the opening of the Court, Mr. bridle was relied on for his defence, when he de clined making any; and the magistrates, after some consultation amongst then►selves, intimated their inten tion of making their report to an adjourned session* for the county, to he held for the express purpose on the 6th any of inue next, an the evidence adduced in support of the charges by Mr. Hunt. About three o'clock, Mr. Esconrt, Mr. Monday, and Mr. Phelps, the Cou►mi,+sioners appointed by the Crown to inquire into the conduct of the jailer, and the state of this prison, arrived, and in the presence of the High Sheriff, the Magistrates, the jailer, and bin officers, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Hill, the °West sirbtor, and prisoners from the different wards, proceeded to open the commission, which was read over by theit clerk. The Commissioners informed all the parties of their intention to proceed immediately to the investigation, and requested all those who bad complaints to make, to furnish theta with the particulars without delay ; and requested the Sheriff to assign a disinterested, im partial, and discreet person to attend them in going over the jail—it being their intention to do so without loss of time ; and err. Hunter, the new task-matter, was Immediately appointed. air. Hunt then stated that be had already preferred charges, and had addu ced evidence before the Magistrates %%hid% last e d 14 days, and to which the jailer had made uo defence, and wished to be informed if he was at liberty to prefer the same as well as additional charges, he being prepared to do so. The Commissi.iners acquiesced ; and Mr. Hunt was requested to reduce his charges to writing, and furnish them with the same to-morrow morning, when they proposed to proceed to the examination of witnesses, and prosecute the inquiry fur which they were appointed. The Court then adjourned till right o'clock to-mor row, and the Commissioners proceeded. accompanied by the task-master, to luuk into every departmeat of the jail. LORD ANL) L.IDI RUSKIXR. The followinr, letter with the Editor's note appear• ed this dad• in the Morning Chronicle. _ hare read with the utmost snrprlie is sews, newspapers the reports of what passed on Friday list in the tonentorial Court. in the suit which I preferred against Lady Erskine for aalnltery. Not having been myself present, 1 do not know whether they, or any of them, are correct or incorrect : hot 1 feel myself bound. in justice to my own eisaracter, to declare through yoo to the public w hat the l'it‘r actually was. I hail preferred (as I hare Pin ;well) a snit against, Lady Erskine for adultery ; Gm in the course of it cir cumstances having come to my knowledge which fnlly convinced me of her innncence, I directed Mr. Nichol,. my Proctor, to withdraw the suit on my part, which was done accordingly. and afterwards sent a written paper' to him, and also to Dr. Swahey, my Senior Counsel, and desired that this reason fur withdrawing the suit -might be stated in open Court. We had also agreed on a deed of separation; bat be canoe 1 wo u ld not execute it until the snit had first been' withdrawn on her part also, lest lily motive for with drawing it :night he misinterpreted, the suit WSS tinned by Lady Erskine's Pa 'actors against me, though 1 mine bad been withdrawn, which gave the opportunity , of reading theabove.rurntioneal paper to the Court, or if haring the effect of it stated by my Counsel, as had requested; het from the reports in several new l y*, pers, I found, to my great surprise, my Counsel, not only maintaining Lady Erskiue's guilt, though 1 bad iatreated them to declare my fullest conviction of her innocence as the cause of my withdrawing the snit against her, but imputing to me the cohabiting with her, believing her to be guilty, although there was then no allegation of any inch cofiabitation before the Court. Being ignorant of what passed in Court, 1 impute nei ther malice nor mistake to the several Reporters, or any of them' but knowing that my Proctor and any Conn-' sel must confirm this statement, it is my intention to at. tend in Court on the :otla of June, being the next court day, to justify any conduct to the world. In the paper.altore-mentinned. w:lich I tranomittelitn my Proctor, for whom I have a very great respect, stated, that having now a moral conviction of fads Erskine's innocence, 1 should think it wicked to so the evidence I had given to the Court for its judgment., and to the world -Armagh its publication, when in mf conscience I now believed the charge of her infidelity to be unfounded. 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, Sunday, hey 21, I tiff I . (Signed) ERS ICI NE. a o a The Editor of this paper Was extremely surprised at seeing the Statement of what passed in Court on the above very delicate subject, as Lord Erskine had, a fort.l night ago, told him that be was now morally yonvinemil of the Innocence of her Ladyship; and tEat be was therefore determined to withdraw the snit. Yesterday both Lord and Lady Erskine confirmed to him this state ment, and her Ladyship added, that she also would go into Court, and male a deposition to her innocence, and to the honour and.justice of Lord Erskine in withdraw ing the suit.- • The fallowing is an estraot of a letter from the Agent at Lloyd's at fileasiai.ihted May 2 it Vessels from Malta are ant admitted to pratlqip, in consequence of a Vessel having arrived than tiled ed with the plague , . A deputation has been sent from Tick 'newton., instead of giving health, only platers Syracuse to inquire into !h particulars. Oa the 4 come a sore, fail of inflammation and gangrene. The nit. an Austrian squadron from the Adrialc,consi only remedies are, Ist. Return to Triennia Pants- of two liege frigates (oar carrying a itoar-A meats; Let every me of SI years of age rote for the pasted the Faro. The Illumine melted bin choke of Members to nacre is Parliament who is liable yei4iday irom ' Waits mailrosatiots of a revolt. to pay the public tams and poor assessmery ; and:, in'ortetit apd the idasibAtitibe Ibrdlipalago against M. Let the Sleeting be by ballot. . . M thefurlts. 'the Oret:l4 yam& are au blostily The 'sews hoe Spain through the Path es well se Madrid papers. Is highly interesting; in the fo rme , it is announced that private letters fom Spain state, that Merino has been taken; his own accomplices delivered him to lien. Emperinado. By private correspondence In the Paris dated Midi - id, May 14, we hate fullirwing air4""' H A conspiracy, lately discovered at Bareelum, fi n furnished the Government with important and Rites. sive information on all those which have hitherto be et discovered. A foreign flenreml in the service of So u was at the head of it. He went to Barcelona disgul n 4 as a Monk, hut was discovered ; yet the 1 1 13gistral e , would not arrest him, and he sttcreedc.:l in eseaisl 4 to Franee. It seems that a large maga:lnc of ob il was discovered (15,000 muskets, tars one armlet which were to be distributed un the day appoisof the execution of the plot. ,„. " The regituent Royal Alexander, one of *g m devotes! to the mew system, I. to be in pi ca i Vittoria, where the Military Tribunal sits wifidArni the prisoners taken at Salvatierra. This commanicatinn also gives the subsequent se. count, which so far as relates to the rundeusasio n and execution of Elio I. doubted " 1111% MAT 18.—Private letters state, that Ban i ng Elio, formerly Military Governor of Valencia, whelps b een l ong confined is the prima of that city at Viltetia, four *of the Mies of Salvatietra, the Mayne otilat town, and two'Ereleslastks have she been condemned to death." A Madrid Gazette. according to the Paris papers, contains the following article:— Icarus sloop of oar, Captain H. Algeruon Eliot, from Pernambuco, liabis, and Rio Janeiro, which last place she leß on the 29th Marcie. having had a good pas iage'ek..s2 elms to Scilly, when she met with adverse' winds. She brings the important intelligence that Lima has been sakes by Lord Cochrane and General San Martin, sftern very trifling loss, considering the strength and importance of the capture. Two of his Lordship's frigates were sunk by the fire of the batte ries st Callao, but the troops under Gen. Sea Martin sustained very little tom The treasure which fell into the hands of the captors is said to be very considerable. There were no further particulars known when the learns left Rio. Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy had left the River Plate in the Creole (Agate, Captain T. White, and gone round Cape Hors; having di rected the Superb, 74, Capt. A. Mackenzie, not to proceed to Enalend, as was intended, but to remain in the River, fur the protection of Rees,' property on the Eastern side of the Continent of South Ame rica, where public events of a new and important character were °centring almost daily. The French line-of-battle ship Colosse, and Arethnse frigate, had also left the River Plate, to go round Cape Horn.— The Owen Glendower. frigate. Capt. the Hon. It. C. Spencer, had arrived at Valparaiso. The Asdroinache frigate, Capt. She:iff, and Conway, Capt. Basil Hall. wete'also in the South Seas; the former was waiting the approach of the summer months to return to England. as she was in a very bad state of repair.— The Shiner, 46, Capt. O'Brien, was in the River Plate; the Alacrity, 16, Henry Stanhope, had arrived At Rio, from Rn;rienel. The intelligence brought ley the learns with re spect to the expected return of the King of Portu gal to his European dominions, is, that a squadron had b •en completed in provisions and stores for ttee reception and voyage to Lisbon of himself and part of the Royal Family, and a nensber of the Noifesse ; and his intention to return had been officially notified to the Diplomatitine Corps. but It was, notwitlestund• ing, extremely uoubtful whether his Majesty would ever finally resolve to roebuck. The event of the ae eoechensent of the Princess Royal, which it was said he waited for, had some time taken place, bat his Majesty's departure did nut appear to be accelerated by it. The fact appears to be, that the Prince Royal of Portugal is et the head of the party that hes . brought about the Revolution in that country, and that it is hie wish to see his father happy and co.. fortable anymbere has in the Brazils: for his Royal Highness fortes.* that the South American States will at no very distant day become independent of the . Mother Country. The recent manifestation of public feeling at Bahia, Pernambuco, and all the Northern Provinces, tends mach to strengthen this belief —The squadron fitted out at Rio, to convey the King to Lisbon, consisted of the Reyna, 74, John VI. and Maria ale Gloria frigate, and a transport. Count de Novelle intended to retire to Lisbon is One of abr.. ships. Mr. Binder, Secretary to the Coast, is come to Begleed. in the leans. ?be learns imaged only thont 40,0001. in specie; bet it was under stood there were short two millions and a half ready to lie shipped, which the sudden departure of the Icarus prevented her from bringing. •She breve& twenty-five invalids from Sir Thomas Hardy's sepia &on. PRICK OP STOCKS WI Book Meek S per fest. Red. Spar Cast. Ow. 76e hi per Cost. 111111 i 4 per Casts. 934 per Ct. Navy 110111 o per 4 eat. Long Asa 19 140 I-14 Imp Spot eret. Irish 0 per Cast. DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK. Iwo Sloe* Ditto it... —s. Os Mo. re llooth-Boa Stook Smith 800 Old Am. Is ellielle. Bs. 41. Is. po. thesis. tor Mewl pm BRA for Amount Wl* for ditto Coo. fOr Ace Mtn/ Lott. Tiokett 14f. his. LONDON: MONDAT EVENING. MAT !8, in'. --...--- " M A [AID, MAT IS.-11k Majesty has signified to the Cartes. by the Minister of War, that on aerostat of d e important affairs aow before t bens. tbeilyrisitta of wltieh is emential to the interest of the nation, his Majesty, using the powers testeil in him by the Constitaties, de clares the Session prolonged for oae month." The Madrid papers which have reached tows direct, are to Mao 14th inst. The following am Retract of a private letter from Paris, May 24. We expect to-morrow, the arrival of Count Polio di Dorzo, Ambassador from Russia, to the Conti of France. The last advice. from Turin inform as that Oeneral "Latour has been charged with a diplomatic mission of the greatest importance, which will be of a short duration, and that he quitted that Capital on the 13th of Mai• for his destination, after which he will return to Turin." Private letters from Paris quote the French Funds, on the 2otb, at 05f. 30c. IhHs and papers from Paris, Madrid and Hamburglo have arrived since our last. The Paris papers are to the 26th, anti state that letters front Laybach announce extracts : " MADRID. MAT 12.-At is eonlitiontly asserts this evening, that Senor Don Pedro Wee de Bans& has keen nominated Political Chief of Madrid ; gad the Marquess de Casa 'Hugo to the post of Ambassadoe fres 'Spada to the Court of Paris. " Accounts from 'Vittoria of the Bth of May say, thl) the troops of the Local Militia of that city rootless Is ewer the province sinee the affair of Seleatierrs, is par. milt of the rebels there dispersed. met with some ad, sear Yelping., of whom they killed impend took soma, whom they have kinglet here badly emended, op daily their Chief, the Clergyman of Pipaos. They salt went to disperse sod clear the (*entry of this *Ake who become robbers; the Catalonian as well es de Cavalry del Infante, and the National Militia, have liee the field again. The preparatory steps to try tie tekk of salvatierra sad others before the military Miami in proceeding with geed activity. "In the sittie it of the Coriesef the 1 I th, the. of the Home Department gave a•acceont Oat which at the petition of various individuals lial wedeln several great cities, of persons considwel affected to the new system. The Government, balk was sensibly allieted at the repetition of disorder, wit* injured the present system in the esteem of Snip 111. &as, and waded to lorresse the internal emotes of fie Coustitutioa, and that it had taken all seams topmost die future violation of the law. The French Editors appear perple awl with contra dktory statements relative to the Greeks, and say tbeA die accounts from Constantinople and Baeharest, for some days past, are involved in obscurity. The lel. lowing are the accounts : " CORM. Aram Sl—Notwithstanding the prsMbl• tions of the different °oversewn, of Europe. wild their 'objects joining the revolted Greeks, the army of the latter every day owes to the presence of some sew European Officer, a more regular and imposing orison. tion. The Turkish Commandants have lust all coolant* is the troops under their orders, from which Emmett desertions take plan to the opposing f wce. " Achmet Pacha, who commands the army opposedte Ali Pacha, has received orders to negociate with the latter, being usable to reduce him by force. Woad Paclia experiences a similar resistance from the Sallow% who have 5.000 men under arms, awl who carry oa guerilla warfare against the Turkish troops. " nexxa, Mar It--The Isle of Camelia has fall*. into the power of the Greeks, who have driven away the . Turks, and rendered themselves masters of all the forts that defended it." " A letter from Castors, of the Ist of May, states that the whole Pelepoonesus has thrown off the Turkish yoke• and that there has been a bloody battle near Ampli, be twos. the Greeks and the Turks. in which loth pardon fought with desperate valour ; the Oreeks were com pletely victorious ; their loss amosated to 800 men. and that of the Turks to 6,000. " A Greek woman, widow of a person of distiactis• who was beheaded at Constantinople, accompatisillf her 0..1y see, and by her relations and friends attired at her expense, attacked the citadel of Ampli, or Napoli mk Rousasia. by sea. and made herself mistress of it, while three !ogle= of cavalry advanced by land and oesateitni the town, after baying defeated the Turks Olt rest slaughter. " Another battle, equally desperate, sad with the same its to the Greeks, is stated to bare taken place iat "he 1181fitifel Valley of Tempe. " Metter from Constantinople at the pith of Apra. gives a dreadful picture of the state of that capital. no insurrection of the Archipelago is gonSrmed. The Ma is particularly alarmed at that in Candia." netbilowilig articles relative to the Greets are by the ibieburgh Mall, which brought papers to Tues. day iv* 411,_ that the Emperor of ltunia left that City on the 14th, to return to Petersburgb, passing through Rath, in Hungary, and Warsaw. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria also intended to leave Lathaek Immediately, to return to Vienna. The following are the only articles of Interest re specting France : " PARIS * MAT 24. 41 Yesterday the President and a Deputation of the Chamber of Depnties presented to the King the projet relative to the Clergy, adopted in the sitting of Monday. His Majesty a ft erwards held a Connell of Ministers. "Letters from Stockholm state, that the King of Sweden is seriously indisposed. The twelve places which are to bare Arebbisbupsot Bishops are--Kheitris. Soaa. Aiby, Beauvais, Chartres, Relies, Vaasa, Tarbes, Luisa, Le Puy, !Mier. and Perpiguaa. M The Bonin .r of Ramis iWttel Larissa' ea the lath limbst g he will roars so Me States writhes* roods% throw& Vlooaa. 0 , Fir* per Cents.—Wallesidar. S 4 f. Se. • " Stock of the ;Mai of North, 1911, gjf. " Into pet tat. Volools Nib Way, 11$f. % s." i-aass4oTiooebn, 19.—Tbo rage of tilt Tore against the Greeks bete is-beyond all conception. The' teserenneest lintla it hopeosthle to restrain the people. hrit. an W t .d-thinly ate the .tVatic user, ohs OW NI THE STAY MAN. mil 05te,„146 op •1 . • , .sotr77l AME RICA , d.: tea ;ea . s ic 01 ,10, * itrew 4, 3 34k r o The following article Is copied from the Ilanspahere iv this hate of things, and then comma Telegraph. The intelligence it communicates is ler Ae. thi d. cn i vsetritut ittototi) highly , •listerastiwy, Asses woo-ouspleion has helm , rmarvanT impede to.the peopie in th.l . entertained that,Callpt jita? Isles confounded with 7 f *sr , si PIP. / 111 2, - Oa &OW M OO DWIlos• resell b Mewl* 11111 walk tit tracew , Mally _ 4l!' mood Immo 1 for N wet 1.0 by re * rus'i valf 01. 11 MM 01 I Et), ttatt Oman. - Tog set?". ITATIMIIIAII" II INCORPORATIO 1,1111" ?In STATESMAN." L • W 1 .. - -'~ op I! 1 , I S