The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-12-09 00:00:00

• ••-.. TIIE JUDGRkyrOF APOLLO. A FR AGM E*T. ,I fa del tr,l6e. Et canon re parrs, re rripenirfor perch. • • • • • et • • • • • • * - Sul /rat, thr immaculate man Tios ;PO amt thrice atthh'ol.—then drynatlt begs.— $i " rid me ronseience ulem•, believe tor, amt. sir, 6 ' Thlt makes ate tit anyints. my Anita, hi prefer. • rin-I he arstitil ! rat tint like Oho' mom atete-a—dayt, •• Claimed to Awl and a.rtrevatemt wars. •' I're/seater. of report., hritthelt, and Oar ; •' Nor e'ea like my nn►le competitor hen , ! [Pointing to Lord Gr-tsr-lk. ti %Ty Xing f atom, and my rind I ►evere. • 'tear pastiies• my conscience forbitlt an appeal. '• Jlut, rrommlar Pm lees to the Ponrstrawr swot ! '• Fnr as efilrellhe this Mira. &Pahl that Pas It • Why,—lle had the ►igb amease of /e►einj with Ptrr !" r eurartuoctlats, floe Innuf rei couplets are lost, through !'r unotrwa rest of the Short-head w►iter !) •• ?leader, my door brother, a word in your ear ; Aponv. A wwi little thintr—lavt twelve hawked a year. e• Vow awaits your aereptance."—This was he proceeding. Whea the Nimrod, rosh'd W. and regnedlem of breeding. Brute tie tiwevi of hi. speeds with a farina' rietv-hallee, Which gook/oil the nodletwe, and Warded Apollo. Nay—wsch 'rosily ferment and uproar they made, As en him elf eNil.l Inge lICVPI . lilt, nut Proeton and Elca,lles troop'd in to his aid. Now 8-r —T !trine —hnwine courteously round, lie hoped that his claims with ;tweets ms!,t he rrown'd. If birth. rank. awl fortune. and interrqt at Court, Kist rhanto ur .41•1 - ^. 1 , he might hoPr for 'oPPort— " Thnnth "'Oh Pkaders and Pals f worn to he moved, " Jlv periorinvit,at least, are a: hizh (he earl timed); " !face I not, you all know, fir the Studenti' diversion, " When fitizueel. and worn-mst with rtarvir exertion, " Kept a park o !taunts fo.r-Itoonuft, with noses as true " e'er scented the morn or brmh'il "R the dew ? " Ye Hills and yr Vales, ;hat have seen me rejoice. ' 1 A• Your echnes repeated their yoke! " YePlalns, that so arteo !Etve itnesi'd ms. feats, " Ye Thickets. Ike Vyrophr . , and the Cores', retreats ! fear i•aered feces...et of hunting and /or? •, Bear while*, ye wmodo, my pretemions approve ! " Rut tog aid. csirf of all. loirly Queen of our Sports, " ithrivalrd Diana, thy rotary courts • ‘t With the nr)ads of Ba,;ka, sot chaste and so fair, " Baste. goddel4, aod to my a.si-tonee repair, " So shall I at lintel he secure of the field. Far to thee err,' B—rt—o, soft B—rt- I •ii must yield." Ifs Take—and again all tee Ninirods chbn'il in, A oil *wetted his claims with their musical rfia. nimsais'el at the sounds, the C,astalean mart.. Bad rriise d to the Dryads their cfai4,ieuf shades s himself, in toe rage of despair. Ti liiant had yielded Itia moire and chair. H ul wet Gr—v-41e, the ScAti!tr, the Net:swim bete there. " Hence avaunt, c►iedi the find. Whey sealant ye iseorass," 1: ink 8-r-t I E—J--n he eane'd N Ms disdain) !Vial! thy., rank which base echoed the %lift' sweet srm::, " R e-mu nnor the shoat= a( a haerhanat this ? " Ittmll the harpies of lair, or the sons of the char', " amol•ed ils-vosks• awl imestsiog &phase/ " Inihr , e temples, tw ors, my solace end pride, • " tkdl bigotry, f De delaef, preside •• No—the mat who to boomers like these wedd *mire. " Het have talents, aad knowledge, sad kataing Meek higher ; " In Chur-N :tint in State, wither bigot oar knave, " To hiv Country and Khw, 'wither Tvrant ear Slaves TYubia.,'d hv passitio--deteted to Dv • "fu age an example--a lemon to yamillh " fhe.e are airtars en whieleatelt high harm are Est. " And are virtue.. ay Oa—ii.-2111.5, gala/ is 'no." Ch. Ch. Orford. ALFEUID. • Fn► an etplanntionni this iiiil ma of *lw &Riming al lusions, let we refer tho &twist to any of his Osfewid Mese! To M. Ewron of TUE STATESMAN. Stn--I regimen the favour of yen, to insert the fullowisig2— I was some time since under the necessity of railing the attention of the public to a careens. stance in which I was concerned. It is irksome to me, to speak of myself, bit it has again be. come necessary, in consequence of a report with which I have just bees made acquainted.— It will, perhaps, be recollected, that I was taken from Covent Garden Theatre to Bow. street, and charged with an emit on the per. so.' of one of the Jews, supposed to have been empluyed by the Managers :—that the assault was sworn to by another and that I was bound over to answer for such assault at the (barter Sessions. I understand, that in consequence of my name nut having since appear. ed rifle r in the list of Bill, found, or of those re. j-cieil by the Grand Jury, it is generally supposed fiat I have compromised the matter. I beg, Sir,' to state that I have not used any influence fur that purpose; on the contrary, I was at considerable trouble, and some expence, in pn paring to meet the charge ; and, had it been brunet forward, was provided with such evidence, as, I doubt nut, mild have been soliieient, not only to hive re. pi•iled it, but to have Wee the means (had I bcee inclined) of compellin; the appearance of t h ese amate3r performers, on a stage of a very different ' description from any on which they have been in habitth of exhibiting. I cannot resist the present opportunity of stating J rireninstance which has Como to nay knowledge, std which will completely set at rest tbequestiun(if it ally longer remaius a qnestion)—Whether or not the Jews were employed by the Mumma ?—Tbe above-mentioned indictment, fur en issask en the person of a Jew, to whom the Massagers !SOWS !a be strangers., was not preferred in eesiforisity to the advice of a Solicitor, Were when the case ' , AS laid 2/ THE NIA t 4 I remain, Your obedient Irinvbt• sevvant, Lud ; tie 11 , 11, Der. P. IRGti. P. fa. PAT MORE, Jim Mr. C tmNI,IO is said to have esprossed consider. able surprise, and evert dissatisfaction, at the reunion's maniftitell by Lord Mr Elf CO !sp. 11 1 .1' Ins place in tku Furcign V ',ailment. 'b'HM. StATKSMAN. To the EUM7II .f TUE ST.IIIBSMAN. Sta—The Pmclamation for assembling the Spanish Cortes (to use a common expression) has, in my opinion, conic a day after the fair. Bet as some of the passages have struck me very forcibly, Ind as I think they are applicable to the pre■eat situation of this country, I have transcribed Am, in hopes you will re-publish them in year pa. biotic Paper. The application of the gaseeedues is so evident they hardly require any case - u ; shall, however, make an uhser►ation or two on each passage, as I write it, and I trust that the extracts I shall make will serve as a theme to y.wurself and other more able writers than I am, to enlarge upon, and re-publish at intervals, till sentething is done to remedy the existing abuses in the Government, which abuses, if not put a stop to, must produce the same ruinous eons* qttences which are now deplored in Spain. SeA2 I II•RDS!...-11y a cnsabiaation of events as singular as fortunate, it has berme-deed to Pnividenee, that is this ter ribly crisis you shall oat advance a step Inwards independence with rat likewise advnacing one towards liberty." QUERY :—Do not Ministers themselves tell us that our very independence, as a nation, is threat. ened ? If, therefore, domestic liberty is the road which leads to independence, should nut we see, if any encroachments have been made, on our liberties atid rights, by any acts that may have been passed, daring the present reign ; and if any acts shot.ld befound to have been passed, subversive of our liberties and rights, should not they be re. pc...tied, and the authors of them (if living) be brought to a proper account etillecriiitig ththn ? " The Central Junta was installed, and its first care was to announce to you, that if Ilse expulsion of the enemy w is the tir•t object of its attention. the interior and permanent feli city of the State was the princip.il in iutportance: to leave it plunged into the dime of nbii-es % proposed for its own ruin by aria teary prim cr. n fluid have been iu the eyes of your pre sent Gorman:mt. a crime as etsoruious as to deliver you into the Isunits of lionuptute, therefore when the turbulence of nar permitted. it call:4'110 resound in your ran the moue of purr (:iirtt., which to a- bate Imes the bulwark of Cavil Li berty and tat: Throne of National Majesty." QULItY :- 11 to leave a nation plunged in the flood of abtisub is " a crime as enormous as to deliver it into the hands of Bonaparte," is nut the call imperiuu, upon the English nation to put a stop to that torrent of abuses, nhieh is, and has for a long tune been, bearing down all bef ire it. " But the Junta liad expressly declared to the Nation, that it, tint attention would be oerupied with the number, mode, ani claw, with which the meeting of this august as sembly in the present situatibn of atttir., should be cAtried into edict, and after this defile:llion, it is quite 'operations, out Ins.'s' malice sus. in sevect ih..t future Cortes ore to be etuditstil to the rigid and exclusive forms of our ancient ones. Ye,, Spo.iards ! )oer are going to have year Cones, and the mamma represeination will in thews be as perfect mud full, as it can cod ought be in an assembly of such high importance and eniiiii-at We hart, iu the above extracts, been shewn, the causes of the dimesl of the Spanish nation, and been told, by those whom misfortune has made. wise, the only means to raise a fallen state, viz. a ri.sturation of liberties aad rights, a reform of all abuses, and a full and fair representation of the People in Parliament, Let us, fur ouce, pro fi t by the ezpi.rience of nthiss, and before it is too late, save the Nutting fabric of the British Constitution, and with it our threatened country, by a timely recurrence to the means pointed oat ; which, if deferred, even for a few months, will, I fear, as has been the case in Spain, be rotated to, too late. I am, Sir, Your very obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER. 4GttitUL7VRE. —r o b. DRAYTON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. At the annual ineetisig held at the Talbot Inn, Drayton, on Thursday, the Milt of November, Sir j 91114 11111,But. President; Bev. Ofitey Crewe, Vice-President. The claims of the several candidates for pre. whims were considered, and the following di. ruled to be paid : To Mr. J. B. Harding, fur the brit dairy of diefte, Surer ay e John Watkin, dal-labourer, fur 47 yews' setrice - - ----- L. S 9 0 Yu Joho corield, few 37 year. ditto - 2 V u To Robert Hams, data°, fur bringing up a fa alt. (lV children) - - - - 3 3 0 The match between 0. Crewe and W. Jellicoe, the former to :hew a one, two, and three-years' old hult.bred Merino wcther sheep against three New Leicester', of the same sort and ages, fur two guineas ; Mr. Crewe received the forfeit, one of Mr. Jellicoe's sheep having unfortunately died. This match is continued fur two more years. KELSO, Dec, S. Sir John Seinelair, the President of the Board of Agriculture, has been spending some days in this neighbourhood, in completing his Survey of the improved districts in Scotland. He commenced his examination at Fleur:, and visited some fine farms on the estates of Rol. burgh and Mackerston, in particular Redden, possesses! by Mr. Nisbet, of Mersington, and some farms occupied by Mr. Walker, of Wooden, Mr. Niaiker, of Mellingdean, and Mr. Bogartli, of Haymount. lie afterwards proceeded to Mr. Robertson's, of Ladykirk, so celebrated for his management of stuck, as well as the cultivation of arable land, and then spout the day with Mr. Low, of IVoodefill, whose skill in valuing is so universally acknowledged. After examining a well-cogstreeted set of offices at Mersington, he then proceeded to Sir John Rid dell's extrusive improvements in the upper part of Roxburghshire, and returned on Friday, to at. tend the weekly market held here, where he had an opportunity of meeting with several intelligent farmers, some of whom were invited to meet him neat day, at Sir James limes Ker's, previous to his return to Edinburgh. At Sir Julin Sinclair's desire, some experiments are trying here, to mix the bearded spring wheat with new wheat, instead of the wheat of the pre ceding year, so hich is not always to be had, par ticulat ly whets the former crop is deficient. Thelearded spring wheat is of a hard and dlnty quality, and will Frobably be found an excellent mixture with new wheat, which alone, is in gene ral too soft fur grinding ur baking well, till it has stood sonic tune in the amok. THE GORDONIAN VILLA. The difficulties attending the erecting the Gor. d o aian Villa at Chi:!tea, arc not yet entirely sur. mounted ; the sapient sworn surveyors of the Crown, who, " as honest mem," affixed the rent to be paid fur the premises, have at last discovered that a magnificent Villa, without water, would be very incomplete; and as the rent to be paid for the premises is so awry enormous, every saving mint be recurred to. Unfortunately, the reservoirs by which the llospitel is supplied, are so very insufficient, that complaints are constantly made un the subject ; indeed, when his Ala. jest) , visited the Hospital some few years pas►, scaler was brought from the Thames to cleanve most of the rooms of this extensive Edifice. it Hoard has been lately held, and directions given officially to the Steward and Turncock, to els. mine into the state of the Cisterns, and to Attend the next Hoard with the result of their enquiry, its to the best manner of supplying the Gordonian Villa anti its offices with water (run► the r,•s,•rvoir of the Hospital, but with the LEAST POSSIBLE inconvenience to that great establiahment :-_.an establishment originally intended for the comfort and accommodation of those brave men who have bled in the service of their couut ry ! THE GiIOST OF SIR ROBERT 1V ALPOLE. On Thursday four ships, principally laden with wool and wine, arrived in the Downs Irons Cadiz. They do not bring any new information. We understand that on board the ships of oar in the Bay of Cadiz, the subordinate Officers are not al lowed to absent themselves from their duty, it being apprehended that they would interest Ow. selves in the cnntmotions which are so seriously apprehended on the adjacent territory. WI /Mel MITER SCUOOL.—Thu young Gentle.. men of this Institution perform ititnet's Play of Phorreeo this season. Preventina is rise better cure: SO •au the proverb. and 'Os mire. The great rule of education is Jo give a proper bias to the rnin,l and a right government of the passions. lls►w the end is generally answered by the Ricans, it is nut our butincas now to enquire; but this weary sure of. that those who cannot svp port the expcnce of Private Tutors or of Public Schools, have at least the means or furnisiii themselves wills excellent helps in forming the manners, and what is more essential still, perste.-- ing the MORALS and KEA T.TII of their Offspring. Among the whole class of writings of the dmerip tion alluded to, there is not one approximates so near to excellency as the " Guide to Health," by Dv. Solomon, and which, therefore, we mark as pre-evainently deserving the att►:ntiw of Parents. SUSSEX AGRICULTURAL REPORT, Occ. I. Our Downish farmers are still very busy getting in their wheats, for which important busineo, the weather has been as propitious as it was during the preceding months for the farmers in the Weald, where the sowing has been for some time generally finished, and where the young plants show them selves, for the most part, of a very promising com. The turnip and rape cups urea still abandant ; and the meadows, both upland and hrookland, still afford such sound pasturage, as to render the consumption of hay bat very tri. ding ; the docks are daily brousing on lands (near rivers) which arc usually flooded by the first week io November; and the sheep are remarkably healthy and well.contlitioned. In consequence of thole favourable circumstances, kw cattle have lately borne high prices, which the AVelchmen amply experienced at St. Leonard's (Horsham) fair, on Monday last, when nearly all they brought were disposed of, apparently much to the satisfaction of the sellers. LIST INDI.I SHIPPING. An mount hes beets received at the hulk_ house, brought by the Purser of the Lord Cos tkredgh, of the capture of the Yvrope and Streetheasweriy is the month of June last, by the French frigate Carviine, which ships, with the Ocean, extra ship, sidled front Bengal (it is said) the 29th of April. • Tag Ocean escaped, and proceeded to Prince of Wales's Island with the intelligence. It is added, that the Caroline, with both her prises, had been driven es shore at the island of Bourbon by the British blockading sqnsdron of the Isle of France. The Asia was lost in Bengal River. The Neptune, nue Briton, Cumberland, and Sealeby Castle, arrived at Bombay the `2sth June, all well. The !Varies arrived in the Dowto the 7th in. slant. The Lord Melville, Perseveranrr, Lord Dun can, Cnrnalic, Nottingham ' and flaring, arrived at Madras on the 3J and Sth July Isist. GENERAL ORDERS. - liorre-Guardr, Dee. 4. The Kin% has been p.,. ll tsed to approve of the Wonting n•g.slations, relitlire to promotiuns in the Army and appointments on the Stair, bring substituted fur those notified in the General Order of the 20th Match last, whir , hlve been found nut sufficiently explanatory of his 111.1jouty's in. tendons. " No Wirer obeli be predated to the rack of Captnia,uo• til he has her three pen a Baba tern. " No °Meer shell be proudest to the rank of blejor, un til he has been weds yews is the 'erste' , of whir.' he shaH have been sit leaf two years* I :aptain ; and nu Nlaj,,t shall be appointed to the rank of Lieutenant-Cul:owl, until he has been seine lean in the service. • " IVn Ogler shall be allowe I toil] soy lid( appointment (that of Aid-de-Carp excepts 1;) edit he hal been four) ears le the wryly?. " No Subaltern (P err shall he considered elieihle to hold the appointraete erAid-de•Cassp, uuttl be 11.4 bees reseal with his mildew at least one year. By command of the Right Honourable the Commander in Chief. liAltftl . CALVERT, Adjeserd-Ouseral. The Pranced& in the ease of the Kura be th• Dake of Guano's, is a woman of *besets 16 .oar/ ear, healtity.lasekiuf, but net bandseale. LAW VIM LLIGENCE. COURT OF RING'S BENCH. DSc. S. Siilingt before Lord ELLENSOXOUGH and a Special Jury, in If 'esintinster-11a11.... Calif. CON. The reporter of this case, who has bai l L most a constant attendant in Courts of Jostler, and not a very inattentive observer in their pro. seeding, avers that the following Of which the limits of a newspaper can afford only tlescrip. live outlines) is by many dcgrees the must extra ordinary case of the specie that has appeared during that period in any Court he has attended. TAUNTON V. WITROURN. This was an action fur erimieal conversation between the Defendant and Plaintiff's wife, to which the Defendant pleaded the general issue of Nut Guilty. The Arroatrey GENERAL opened the case, and made some observations on the nature of cakes of adultery, which he divided into four classes : the first was—that of a case, in which the Plain. tirs wife had committed the crime of adultery, but in which the Plaintiff himself bad been indif ferent to the joys of domestic life, sought plea sures abroad, and left his wife open to the attack of an adulterer ; that was a case in which, indeed, the Plaintiff had a verdict, because he must have It by the rules of law, on proof of the adultery, but such was the disgust of the Jury at Isis mis conduct, that the damages they gave were al. ways inconsiderable. The next was that in which the Plaintiff was attentive to his wife, and hail a friend, vs hu was &drained with confidence in the family, invaded the rights of hospitality, and betrayed friendship, in debauching his friend's wife ; that was an aggravated case, and was al ways visited with heavy damages. The next was a cue in which the Defendant, not con tent witli t seducing his friend' s w if e , a b us i ng the rights of hospitality, and betraying the sa credness of friendship, bat went the length of in (hilariously seeking out the little trifles in which husband and wife may have had a few dis putes, w Ida the adulterer magnified into mighty evils, and thence endeavoured to thew that there was no domestic comfort in the family, that, therefore, the damages should not b.: great, where the less was so small, for the loss was to be measured by the quantum of former happi. miss ; and this being al:whitely false, fur it sp peered that the Defendant was the cause of all the misery which had taken place in a family, of ws:rli he hail been the ruin, and which family he vililieci in or.ler to defend himself. This was the must iniqe;tous case which had hitherto appeared in a Court o's Justice. There was a fourth ease ehicli had iiert-; byline appeared, and was the case of this day, ewe profligate and abandoned than the other three enired. It was a case in which, out only the Defendant had committed adultery, and that with his tviend's wife, had in. railed the rights of hospitality, and betrayed the sacredness of friendship, had ruirKil that friend fer ever, had pried into the little score° of the fainily, and endeavoured to turn them tipsiest the person, whom he hal reined, by endcaviitsriag to she* that the Plaintiff had lust all that heestecaied valuable upon earth, fur the purpose of merely screening himself from justice. Bet who had gone still further—had Invented crimes for the Plaintiff; nay, had invented crimes fur the Plaintiff's connections, crimes, at' the commis. siun of 4liich human nature shudders when they are mentioned; and for the purpose of terrify. ing the Plaintiff, had given it out that he and his family shuuld he Accused of those crimes, if he brought his cause into a Court of Justice. And, lastly, had actually suborned a person to appear as a witness to commit perjury, in order to sup. part these false accusation.. Such was the case of the przsent Defendset, which, for the horror of its depravity, was nut equalled by the warm est iniaginaltun of any poet who ever attempted to describe human depravity. He then proceeded to state it ; the following is the outline :—That ,the Plaintiff was a respectable solicitor, who had served his clerkship to a reputable gentleman is the West of England, and hid come up to the metropolis to practice fur himself. Ile became acquainted with the family of Mr. Atkinson, a reputable family, who resided in the Tower, where he was the head of that family, mud held a respectable station there. Mr. Taunton fell in love with, and paid his Addresses to, Miss Hen rietta Atkinson, solicited her in marriage, to which, after inquiries, the parents on both side! consented, and the union took place between them in ISt& ; and, to carry on business, in which Mr. Taunton was diligent, and, at the same time, to enjoy dime stir comfort, in which be deligl.ted, Mr. Tsuutou soot a house in Es. sex-street, iii the Straw!, where there was a pro. per e.tnlil.shini•lit provided, and they went on in it manner which it Was the lot only of virtuous persons to enjoy; had three children ; they were perfect paitettes of domestic felicity, until they bed the misfortune to become acquainted with the Defendant, who was a Ourrister, living in a house near to them in the same street, she happened to be retained lii some priges4i o nal Du.inees, became s e gli a iiit e d with each ether, and dii intimacy arose out of it between the two [dollies, who inter. changed visits continually.-for the Defendant also had a elle sad children. That In this sitvaiiiiii the Defendant, by some art or other, gained upon the affections of 'be Plaintiff's wife, and pre. veiled upon her to be faithless to tier husband's bed. It was a long time before they were sus. peeled, although the Plaintiff perceived a declino in bee affection ; but he would Lave setipected an angel as soon as his wife, and therefore, he Was imposed upon in etact proportion to the din& deuce he reposed in her; and as the hilsbatid is always the last man to hear of his wife's dishie. *our, so Mr. Taunfon was the last to hear of the criminal claim:cairn between his wife and the Do. fondant. Itoavetet, he at last received an mosey. moils letter that made him resolve upon ma king ie. tiniry. lieeinployeil certain people to watch his wife., and they soon discovered that 'she went his • E a sneau paltry bump in a mod tautest's' Line WE Agi.,.30.- 1 - $ • I * .. •