The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-04-20 00:00:00

A pes * James, the military patron of the Peninsula. impost is definitively abolished. Ihe arrears h o e twee ordered to be applied for the assistance of mit families as suffered during the massacres at (•adiz. the tonstitutioaal renewal of all the authoritie s , c i v il, o hninistr.ttive and judicial. has taken place in oast parts of Spain. The military appointments are o ati.led to trusty persons. Lieut.-lien. rDotioilatt has inspired the greatest co:ifitknee in Andalusia. Ibis F roclantati tttt• have rc•assured a ll p ,. e ,„„„ . y r erre, 'antpa nu, and Rodrigues Valdes, are availing t h e result 4.1 the inquiry into the cause of the disorders ~/ toe loth. General Salvador is unceasingly °eta rd i n ( Alerting- information upon this subject. The justificatory declaration of the Duke de San Fernando has produced no sensation at Cadiz. It is nut krown n•here the Duke d'.llagton is ; it is sup t,,.u•d that he has retired to Portowal. M. Elio is in the ritui► lof Valen:ia; I►e is closely gnarded. The 1 „..p1 e continually express their joy. and begin to i.w i ret the rigours of the :Ancient Government. M. Et•aia is .jmobt furpotten. lie, and M. Elio, for two co:Phs, kept in► ttwror two great province. Virzittia pa?..rn arrive this morning to the I ?.th of March : Navihsrtyx or Porumae.—A very line English ship. !le.• is now laying at the wharf sof the fir 4...ethwit Importing and Exporting. Company. This •Itip w;.l the tivt prize taken from the llritish in the ia , t war, and is the largest, it k believed, that ever 1.:•ityll oar torn : • he is over 400 tons litarthen, and w;11 carry er e 0.h..1.; of 700 hogsheads of tobacco; she pa-sel through the drawbridge without the slightest accident, a;:,1 tr. er the bar without touching it. It *cal not be long h; fore the state of our navigation will he such as to titalw a notice of this sort of nu mu mitt ; but thr.v it will no: be deemed otherwise than gratifying. a it speak. itt favour of the improvement 14 our flit/Ho i. PHILAPELPiII t, Maacu IS.—Mr. Robinson, super .•ar;o of the brig' Caledonia, had. previous to the bri t ;'s ~trit al, iwen ordered to leave La Unita, hot t:tronels the intercession of Mv. PlitrUtto. was al• l.'e.d to remain until the brig artlY••d. On the Itith FeLraary ite received positive orders from the constnandaut to embark in the first vessel, either fur the :;tates or Islands. Such. says the Commandant, wae the orders of General Murllo, and such is the way they treat .I.tiericans. Dutchmen and Welt fetuiti4 The pubii • atiad had fur several days been involved is ', t orn 41. And allXie:y by the silence imposed upon the Press. he 1.!looni iwzreased nntl thickened like •be sc• trine; of a thunder cloud, and an awful pause ensued, that which precedes a Corns. One fierce an I &nighty has slaw broken through the dark ness—hies !!!:.‘so has passed in lightning before to, and a;I is again silence and obscurity. In sich a state it wit:ill be premature and indecent to at tempt to investigate a question, of Which the hire result is move before as. The veil is still bound r..und our temples, and our efforts to elucidate, like the vain strut;; .es of the blind, would only serve 1., mislead the blind. We shall not therefore imitate th., example of those Journals, which have already made the vordiet of the Jury the theme of unquali fied pan:lyric and unbounded exultation. Stich eon dtp.t, we cotte..ive to be more carulated to influence the minds of jurors on the subsequent trials, than the pub lication of the evidence adduced on the first.— L'e shall, therefore. confine our remarks within a very narrow sphere : that, whilst in one instance we obey the injuartion of the lk.urt, we may not elude it in another. High Treason, we admit, has been proved to exist, and since the breaking tint of the Cato-street eonspiracy and the rLings in the North, we have never doubted the Let. Put we see no ground for rejoicing, because use of the rreateit crimes which disgrace the character and endanger the veer and institutions of a oountry. has been ft.und naturalised and practised on our 6 ery is a painfuloue, anti should certainly cic;te more teglct than exultation. What matter fur triumph is there in the humiliating certainty that traitors ant; assas.rlns have plotted, and perhaps still walk loth in the amidst of us? Why should tee turn oar disgrace in;o a boast, and with nefilill hands raise the mantle which conceals the deformities anti iniquities of our country ? We do not stand so high in the opinion and affections of the world, that we should assist oar foreign detractors in the odious task of lowering and destroying our own character. Nu ; let us unite in detesting and phnish big treason, but let us nut show the lamentable spec tacle of party spirit, exulting in the very blackness of the crimes which have su:led our land, because it Dray increase its means of acquiring or retaining power ! there was yesterday held a full meeting of the Mi aistrrs at the house of the Earl of Liverpool, and, sc rolling to report, on a very isteresting subject. Mr. Hamilton, one of his Majesty's Under Secrets ri s of Stat • for the Foreign Department, left town on Saturday last fur Bareges, as alleged ea account of ill health, but, as surmised, on some mission of import &ace, especially as the place is so near the frontiers of Spain, and as no perms, from abilides,experieste, and integrity, is more worthy of the confidence of Govern meet than this Gentleman. Aa article from Views* says, that the Emperor sad Empress of Austria are to set out for Bohemia .• the eta Nay. sod that they will have as iaterriew with the King of Prussia% at Prague. ft is maned also, that the two Monatelas win mend together to Peters burgh ; Mat this rumor, it is mitied,miral. es seolirosa ties. NEN' LAW APPOINTMENTS. APPEARANCE OF lIRR MAJESTY'S ATTORNEY AND SOLICITOR MINERALS. This morning, Mr.flateun.tst, dressed in his robes, as the tQuern's Attorney4;eneral, accompanied by Mr. Damsbot, also. u the SoliriturAletteral to her Majesty, made their apiwarsnee in the I.'nttrt of Chancery. The Loan Citascet.LOß immediately requested these Learned Gentlemen to take their seats within the Bar, according to their resin...the appoint►urnts. In the Court of Kinm,•'s Boned►, Mr. liaot•cuast and Mr. Dammam takinc their neat•, the Lunn Once Jug- TICE addressed the forgoer Learned Counsel, observing, that as he (Mr. IL) Ice! rrported to him of having been appointed her .laje.tt•'s Attorney-lienerak he would be pleased to take his seat within the Bar.— Mr. Raucous st then bowed, which was returned by the Judges. On his entrance within the Bar, the King's Counsel all rose. and bowed to hiw ; and immediately afterwards the whole of the Coutowl without the liar rose and paid Mr. Ilaot•iat am the like compliment. The same ceremony was ussrrred towards Mr. Di.:4- 311 AN. IVe arc happy to learn that tilasprow and Niel* y continue in comparative quietude. The public works, It is true, are nut set a-ruitix again. hut this is lweause the proprietors have deemed it proper to exer.imr. a rigid scrutiny amongst their workmen, that now niay be re-admitted who have been fora - aril in the recent disturbances. number of persons have been appre hended since Friday- last. Al! remains quiet in the ver•t, and the troops are mow returning to their fortuer stations.---adiaorrgA Errximg Cu*rasa.) On Saturday afternoon a troop of the 10th hussars returned to Piershill Barracks front Illitszow, and on Sunday three troops wore arrived front the sa!he place. It is said that the 10th hussars at Piershill, and the 7th at Hamilton, are to march in a werk or two fur London. They are to be relieved by the Oth and 16th lancers. Lord Echo's troop of Mid-Lothian yeomanry ar tired at Edit burgh on Sunday aft• moon. from the wt st country. The remainder of the artillery, ammunition, and stores, formerly belonging to the fort of Ilerwick, now completely dismantled, has lately arrived in safety at Leith fort. The process of dismantling began at the commencement of the year. Al t forty pieces of cannon, many of them cast on the old model, are laid up in the arsenal of Leith fort. A company of vete rans is at present doing duty at Dee wiuk. nlajor General Itcynell has been appointed to the command of the Glasgow 11istriet. The 33d rel . /humid of foot marched from Newcastle un Friday and Saturday, for Edinburgh. Gen:Noce, A elm 1 I—Wednesday. Sir Thomas Bradford, Cu ttttt tender of the roues iu Scotland, Sir %Vilna:is liar, the Lunt Advocate, and Mr. !lope, Ad curate Depute, arrived here; likewise Lord Blantyre, lAprel Lieutenant of the county. 'Else Lord Advocate, we nuderstand, examite d the progie SS of the precog mition, with the conducting of which he expr-ssed his satisfaction, and took a view of the ground where the affairs of Saturday occurred. We leara, also, that he ordered the examination of el itience to be closed, but directed that individuals might give in to the proper authorities written statements, with their signatures, 'luring the remainder of the week, after which, the whole should he transmitted to hint. Dud tit!' the stay of these distinguished (Ayers we lwlieve they had ample tip purtnnityofsatisfying thetisselvcs regarding the renewed quiet of the town, and expressed thctuselves accordingly. On inquiry this morning, we learn that Archibald M•Kintion, one of the patients in tit,. Infirmary, the • only one, in otir statement of Tuesday, declared dessibt fid, is doing well. The sante may be said of the other fuur patients in the hospital. Several pI`IVAIS have • been incarcerated, on suspicion of having been con cerned in the breaking of the gaol, on Saturday night. Thursday morning, John Cameron, skinner, Carts dyke, Greenock, was apprehended at the instance of the Lord Advocate, un information, amounting, it is said, to a charge of being connected with the Radicals ;of Illasevw. Mr. Cameron has hitherto burn, the re- . potation of a good neighbour, and is in decent cirrum stauces.—t (beam* Adrretirer.) s Extriet bf a letter to th- Editors, from Circlevi l le, • !Ohio :—You need not believe one word of the several accounts you tee about silver mines, &c. lately said to • Ibe discovered in this State. They are gross insposi itions on an unsuspecting public. The ore pretended to have been dig, was a few silver dollars melted, and then filled up, mined with other things, with a view of • intharink ensutpecting people to subscribe and pay for I shares into the limb of arch and arrant thieves. 1 hey , will ruin many, awl then be off with their booty. 1 bel public ought to be cautioned against a set of swind lers; who, to give more colour to their pretended dis-; coverim have obtained a charter from the State for working their pretended silver aside below Zanesville, l oh the Aldskitigunt.—(Nee. Recorder.) A letter from Coastantinople, dated February the! 15th, says :—‘ 4 We have had, at Pera, a fire on the I 30th of January, at eleven o'clock at night. All the' Foreign Ministers came to the French !Palace, which was only saved by the extretne vigilance of the Mar.! quis de Riviera?, and the Officers of the French Ens-1 bossy. The fire-engines of the Foreign Minister, and those of the Turks, did great whim. During the' confusion, the Marchioness de Riviera., with the greatest courage, took care of her children, and the most precious ntoreabka, as well as the persons in-' Jared, bat saved, at the French Palace. Font houses l belonging to a Preach family, two houses of the Cepa- . ' chins, on the ground of the French Palace, and part of the house of the Brothers of the Holy Land; the ' magasioes of oil, spices-les, and provisions, and NM! houses, have become a prey to the flames.' 'The loss; is estimated at eight or ten millions." The new Catholic Chapel in bluerfielels, was this! day opened with great ceremony. Lined, it is stated, is nut to be again interrogated previous to his appeotawee before the Court of Peers. I he but: action *spotting Won is terminated. THE STATESMAN if VRTIII.WI. This elegant pnd delightful place is now all bustle and pleasantry, the lodging•houses presenting a most charming and pi..turesque view, front their extreme neatness and viran la fronts. Mane of the large houses are now inhabited, and several are taken : in deed, the idea of a full !lesson is so extremely preva lent, that many perso.ls have secured some of the must prominent situations in good time, fearful of being shut out from this delectabie ilmt by the great influx of company. _ The markarel has now commenced w:th every prospect of suter.s, the Worthing ticackarel being esteemed the best th-it are caul ht upon the coaq, am,l fetch the hest price at market, from their ibevtiliar fine li.tionr. The elegant musical saloon and lounging-iuum is nearly finished, and th.•re can he no doubt, under the liirecoitin of its pro i orietor, but it will be properly lucteol, and afford a cheerful place of amusement, highly eteolitalole to the Wortfoingers, as acll its being beneficial to the public. The troopute lo..tat eta the par:alsioners of Dro•ulwater an their worthy Itect.or, rclat:re to the I:l.tek cloth taken out of t h . vhotrch, is at last auti.•ably arranged by a reVioatt, am: an acknowledgment of the error. Ti., err is :lonian, to forgit e di:ioe. N.11:11. I.ITE I. LMENCE. Mat.. Aron. It).— ‘rrived. and sailed to the River. the F:iita and Marc. l'ogden. fruits Lrght•rn : R^ Gibson. from I.lshun : sarah, Vnn Ileythey son. from Africa: Mid Regent, lirou Wog. from Falinonth.—Canto down from Ism River the %boy. Gunnies. for Neu foundland. aed re mains with the Nautilus. Tripe. for Buenos A) req. PitillT!.lllSt T is. .%east. 11).-- Arrived lit: Dash! bcott. War rington, front the Downs. for Madras and Bergs!: Union. !terry : and Resolution. rummlim. from London; Industry cutter. from a elusive: and Su naow cutter, from Deptford.— passed by the Derwiek. Taylor, from the Downs, for liar badoes.—Saiird the Grecian schooner, and tatarlion sun brig. on a mite. 11.4ewicx. Arlen. 10.—Mailed the foiceater packet. fur flollund suit 1,6r4 Nelson packet, fur l'uxhateu; each with • mail. PLl' NM TH. ArRIL 10.—Arrhed the }lira. Welling. and Five Brothers. Lynn. front I.endon.—Mailed the Bristol. Masterman, fur Mi siniehi; and Diamond. tooban. fur Jersey. The King arrived at the Palace of Carlton-hoexe, from Brighton, yesterday evening, at a fittart.g. pact tie o'clock. Ilia Majesty Wall attended by Sir Benjamin 11l,hootield, awl his travelling chariot was escorted by a party of the 19th l.un•ers. We are happy in being to add, that his Maksty apeared in excellent health. THE DrICHIDIS for YORK.--.W.• are sorry to state that the health of her Royal nighties; the Duchess of Y irk i• in a very preearion. state sumach so, that for sonic srmrl,s p:i:t it has !wen neceisary Li carry her to and from her chamber. Pee Royal Highness has been allia-te I by s;laionoilie affections of the stomach and viscera and she is now marring, we brlivve, under a lery severe attack of the same distressing, malady. On 'inv.:day her Royal Ilighned, expressed a desire to ride out, under the in:pi-vision that it would br beneficial to her. .teeorelingly her garden-chair was prepared, and she took a half how's airing in the shrubberies : but shy was materially worse afterwards, anal her nue die;:l advisers were of opinion that the experiment was an injitrititis one. Sir Henry ilalforil visits her Royal Ili«hums friviceitly, and 3lr. Osborne is in almost cunt nual attend:mei:. Yesterday Lord 3lekale ra‘e a grand Cabinet dill nor at his resilience at the Admiralty. There were present — The Lord Chantyllor. Earl of Literporil. Deb. of Wel linlton. Earls liathutd,.. Ilarrweht. Westmorland. mad hi ulgrave ; Viscounts Castlereagh, Sltitnouth. and Mr. Wellesley Pole. Mr. Canning. the Chancellor of the EZAPLIIICr. and Mr. 11. Bathurst. and Mr. Itohlnsen. he Duke an:l Dtirliess of Ulnae/niter honoured Drury-lane Theatre with their !Presence yesterday evening'. - - - - Mr. Charles Maxwell, one of the junior Pages of the Presence to his Maj‘..sty, died un uesday night at do:. Pavilion, Brighton, of a rapid consumption. The Queen his appointed Mr. !troughs:a and Mr. Dennoan, her Attorney and Solicitor-Generll ; and it is expected that they trill be sworn into office before the Lord Chancellor this day. The warrants fur the above purpose, signed and sealed by her Majesty, Were yest:•rday taken to the Stamp-►osicr to be stamped. Prosecutions have been commenced atraitist the edi tor of the Jowsani dw Chcr, and the editors of other departmental j•ourorsho. fur having published the an mtheement of a bukciiption havintr been opened fur the n•livf of those persons who may he kept in custody under tier law for suspending' individual liberty. The number of the shove named junrnal, containing the notice of the subscription, was seized at all the coffee knows of 8UU114.4. COVEYfitT, APRIL 17.—The Sessions for this cPy county, were held by ouljuurtotuent on Thursday last. Several cases Of assault were tried, bat nothing gene rally interesting to the public. A tree bill was fotind against Cobbett, for an assault at the booth during the election. [ Qi-ccnsritanv PASS %dr.—The right of ferry. for 1 ' three roan ensuing, was, on the 15th instant, It 1 by the Parliamentary Trustees appointed fur the im provetnrut of the passage, at 23110/. per annum. The present tenants, who hare conducted the manage ment of the boats fur dam years past very credit ably for the trust, ate again preferred to the lease. The rent during these years was 4020/. Ten years acu it wily amounted to 19001., and the increase has taken place. without any addition to the rates of 1 freight levied from the public. It is impossible, therefore. to dunk how much the intercourse at this 1 ferry has been increased by the facility of conunueica- . tion atfonled by the how-water piers lately erected, by the safe and convenient construction of the bunts and: pinnaces, and the good order in which they are kept, and by the constant attention to the regulations en-. forced by the superintendents. 'lke Trustees arc now repairing and reconstructing the pier adjoining to the Signal-house, me the north shore. It will he finished during the present year, as I then the whole landing-places, seven in number, ori ginally proposed to be erected by the Trustees, will be eumpleted. Pic distances of these landing-places on each side of the Frith, from each other, is sack that taciiing, Al my seldom be necessary in crossing /, at this ferry.' 'wit whatever quarter the *164 stay blew.---fkitiv ergh Ceeriegr Vorsnust.) 1 SPORTING INTRI.LIGENCE. --.40.- 114WILIREET FIRST SPRING MEETING. ISfl. WIDNRADAV. APRIL 19. Mr. Fox's IPaeba. Sst. 41b. beet Mr. Charlton's Rhamrok. est. 71b. 1). M. 1011gs.-I.lgre betting.—Won enuy. Mr. Vansittart'a Slim. est. 101 b. brat Mr. Milnea's nue timer. est. T. Y. C. 100 gs. h. ft.—l Ito 11J on Slim.—Mun cloy. Fin% POUR& st:bscription. for 3-yr t Ids. 7st. S:b.: ”idg. Sit. I Ilb. : Sir old.. 9st. 41b. 11, hers to pa% ligf entrance. Mr. W%adlfam's b. c. h3lebnne. dam by Vona; Woodpecker. 3irs old Duke of Citation's b. f. Jingle, 3-sra oIJ Mr. Porten's b.c. by k/rville, dim by Ilk% geraper. 11-%ri 3 I to I asst Mr. W)ndhare's b. e.-7 to 4 I raer.—Won b, ■ see-: Gen. rovesner's eh. f. !Ma'mut. ref. ft. from (.e•rj T‘ •r lingtou's ch. t'. b% trophonius. list. 4. b. each. T. V. C . 100 gs. It. 11. t4ir J. Shelley's s. by Phantom, Sst. 71b. asst Gen. Grearn. nor's Malmsey, 7st. 111 b. T. Y. C. lOU's, !lass tt.--0.7 by consent. A Poor-macs 131111MTCT %its Eon Inn Gl itsrA..--A ler rare took laser on the Woodtord-rnad earl) v e,ter.ter ; morning. which was made on Monday evening, between a Capt. Fr) . and Alessrs. Adams. Lee. sit I Jones. The iliAtane.i was live miles t and June's. who is rather corpulent. uni to receive nue mile at starting: Lee 4410 bards. and the Lel.er tin to start together. Lee was ovecialied at the %VI. mile. and hr gave in. It was a good race between the twd first, until the) had done four miles, when Adams was issdt 110 vards. and resigned. The Captain lioneked himself up en4eavouriag to eats+ Jane,. who heat him. and won rice by 40 yards. The Captain did his ground in Iliirty-uns minutes. ON THE CRIME OF ASS:ISSINATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sin--At a moment, when, from particular I iretyr stances, the public mind is generally and impressisei► occupied on the important and arnictirg suhjtnt of tt • crime of assassination, it may not be unareeptahir the readers of your moral and constiticional Paper, or without utili y to the public at large, to peseta thew with an account of the religious origin, and slows• national toleration of a practice so dangerms to intli• viduals and to canimuniti s, and so d:reful!y otlen• sire to (lull and man. But pi-viuus to our prom-Prang to the cieraantan.•es front which this atrocity (kril-of its aloption and 3;,- pellation, it trill not be imprimis r to notice the hewed distinction between two acts, aide's, in modern theirs, have •zeurrally been confonudeJ--•thuse of esx.tv daction :tied tyrertrit•idt•. Dreadful as it may appear, under any eirentmistane,s, to see man usurping the high pr. ru t .tite of Dem.'', by recklessly destroying his fellow-creature, y' t, Un fortunately for nations, it cannot be denied, tl:.mt too often, so depraved have been the pux•erfut, and !: m frail and impatient the sutierers, by oppressive domi nation, that reflecting and philosophic minds will le inure disposed to lament. th mu t e be surprise I, at tim.- nattmerous examples of despots and usurpers 1 , 31 ritir,•d to secret and disingennotts revenge, and the exas peration awakened by th• it own gratuitous ereeltie,m Violations of existing laws are unrelentingly, I deservedly. visited with punishtiv mit ; and it nen- :a solecism in language to say, that because the elevatio., of a merciless tyrant may place him above the iceof reach of his victims, and defy the menaces of pnbit•. retribution, that, by any possibility, he can be e•- entptett from the execration, and perfectly secure against the revenge of those his injustice has a Wileteml or that, when the injuries endured by a peoimie flow from au imperial dictatorial or ministerial Imi:mml. na • tare will relinquish her edicts, dissolse lime wonted alliance between guilt and punishment, and suspend the sacred principle of retribution. Upon reasoning similar to this, Many of the ancient authors, as well as some of the best ethical wr:turs atuang the moderns (among who is the deep-relleeting and elegant Buchanan). have nat•uratrd the deed of Brutus. And must of the arguments advanced in favour of th • Roman patriot, mark, and go a ly mark, the brand di. - tinetion between the cb trader of an assa.msio amid t h e of a tyranniride. In the repu'ilics of ancient (free -r and Italy, a certain law of nations, m r universally receive., opinion, sanctioned and encouraged the resolution of the tyrannicide, especially then dzerrised agairgt a usurp, r of the supreme power. Rome, after the expulsion of her kings, permitted, and even applauded the destruc tion of despotic domination; the morn :nwealth !armed the band of the citizen whose intrepidity 'nullified him for the task of delivering his country from the chain• of a tyrant, and rewarded his patriotism with the a•tthority and the honours of a magistrate. Inicea, it will be confessed by every delibrrate thinker and candid reasoner, that aloe', while a•ala-t i. nation, properly so denominated, is but a name for s particular act of tyranny performed in ruNtrosy.l of existing laws, the ilestrnetioe of a despot is instigated by the emor petri 1., the love of country, and respew for the laws, souse will think it possible that a tyranni ci.le ably act from motives the most virtuous ono noble. The hand of the assassin is actuated either by a private and selfish motive, or a criminal enthusias:n ; but th • blow directed agaistet the public oppre:•s.ir is endeavour ed to be excised as being impelled by public spirit. Theft/at strikes to advance the interest of a sect, pro mote the views of a favourite, or hid*, a ruling ur selfish passion' the second, under pretence of savla d his pro-trate cousiry and an aging' her wrongs. N e will mow, Sir, procrei to the more immediate object of this epistle—the rise and progress of the act and is m ot' a practice that, except In a solitary iustancc, Las be a properly coutemplated by all nations, with th • pain aod horror inseparable (rum the censideration of the most atrocious species of tanic..e:. The body of no% or ea her eutonanaity, from which the subtle and malign deer nets of mankind received the appellation by which they have lweu distingulsbe.l truss tyranniedes on the one hand, and on the other faint comma depredators and slaughterusts was chiefly formed by the jeartiwi of two Slahoss , Jan sects—the doseendiessa sod she CarlootAioas I the I met of when derived their name Iron that of Col - moth. a tributary Prince ander th- hulls • Maleh, an I their head sad leader,. In the tkv.osth century, til•-e and some other reliioas enthosnsts, wire t riocipl compared to of pose the poser awl • Seisiotios of the Coort of Bagdad, and itoirogovoi &ea to et • altoratiso of all the settkd hams of tit 11 x -metes' wor ship, having waited leader Basso flaben, aid unwed she gravel ass of 'Waal to. a ant gifted Atli a --oft.. ~f*- / 1 L. ..".• * r 1 - • • Ai