The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-13 00:00:00

THE LAST QUARTER'S REVENUE. - o p- TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE STATESMAN. Sta,—On perusing your remarks upon the flourish i3l state of our Revenue, as exhibited by the official accounts of the last Quarter, I uas surprised that the cause of increase in the Excise department should have escaped your usual discernment. It has been a measure of recent origin to simplify the mode of collecting our 'vast Revenue. (The expense being another question.) I throw the collection of the duties upon Coffee, Cocoa, and a variety of other articles of importation, which formerly were partly collected in the Customs depart. inept, wholly into the Excise. The astonishing in crease, therefore. in this department, does not warrant those lofty inferences, which. in your reasoning, you have drawn. And, considering the extensive con sumption of articles, purely Excise, from the loyal ef forts of a sensible multitude in protecting an injured Queen, and the like demonstrations of attachment for the House of Brunswick, in celebrating his Mdjesty's Coronation, this flourishing staternent'to me appeare deplorably deficient of what ought to have been the re sult. But our situation in a commercial point of view, Las been rendered worse during the last quarter than could have been expected. Fur years our commerce has been declining, and, when I assert, without the fear of contradiction, that there is not a single article of manufacture of Oreat Britain that can be exported, n'or any article of import from any of our plantations or dependencies that can be brought into this country without a ruinous loss to the parties engaged in trade, it is consummate folly to exult in erroneous statements of the If outishiog state of our Revenue. The Mer chant's and Ship-Owners of Great Britain must enter tain but a contemptible opinion of the Treasury Scribes who are thus employed to blind their understandings. Nothing but reduction of taxation and reduction also of duties upon imports art well as exports, can ever place this country io a flourishing condition. 12th October 1821. MERCATOR. I should be glad to know what proportion of the Re venue of Excise has been collected by the humane efforts of their Solicitor, in prosecuting fur mere visionary crimes, and destraining those unable to pay the penal ties of bonds (considered as waste paper) now put in force by hundred:. THE KING'S mitar.it IN 114NOVER. Yostrriay, at sn early hour in the morning. des patches were received from Lord Londonderry, an booncit:g the arrival of hie Majesty, in high health and spit its, at Hanover.—He entered the city at nine o'clock. on last Monday. The town was all life and splenslostr ; the streets were illuminated, the military drawn out on duty, the guns fired, the bells rung, and the polmlatitot docking from all aides towards the barrier through which his Majesty entered—all ap peared aniusated with the most loyal and affectionate entlstpiassn. Notwithstanding the distance from Itru,ss Is to ilanover, and the rapidity with which the King trsvels, his health had not in the least suffered beyond the ordinary fatigue consequent upon the naovement and confinement of a carriage ; and even of this Isis Majesty had less appearance than most of %Lase who composed Isis suite. The receptions, how ever, were wiser private ; and the addresses and formal congratulations of the Authorities, and other public 1,0 lies, were postponed to the following and future Oto Thu's lay night, at 10 o'clock, lois Royal High. s% the Duke of York left town, on a shooting az curbion, for a few dsys. The Paris Papers ►nention, that a foreigner, aged about 25, dressed in the oriental costum-, was present ed to the King on Monday, who was said to be a great pe►suuage from China. A satiety has been formed at Paris, fir the encon r 'gement of Geography, by the printing of scientific memoirs, the publication of charts, the distribution of prize% and defraying the expenses of travellers bay ing useful and important objects in view. The remains of the late Mr. Rennie are to be in terred in St. Paul's CatheJral on Tuesday next, about twcire, o'clock. The grmit Mr. Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham, was, it is well known, a most strenuous and powerful oppo ser of the meAsures of Sir Robert Walpole's administra tion. Only the year following his entrance into the House of Commons, and the commencement of his op position, Sir Robert tit himself so irritated by Mr. Pitt's contact, that he made no hesitation in depriving him of a cornetcy that he held in a regiment of horse, a”d distoiming him from the servive. As Mr. Pitt had an elder brother and five sisters, his fortune was so fir from being considerable, that a few admiring f.iends had presented him with tliis commission as a small a!dition to his income. "The imprudent, vio les t. and unconstitutional conduct of Sir Robert Wal p. le," according to Mr; Pitt's biographer, "so far from doninisliirg Mr. Pitt's consequence in the eyes of his patrons and the public, very considerably increased it in both." His him' Mr. Lyttleton, afterwards the fissions Lord L—, addressed the following lines to him ion the occasion : • '• Long had thy virtues marked thee out for fame, •' Far, far superior to a cornet's name. •• This generous Walpole saw, aad grimed to Sod " So mean a post disgrace so greats nand. " The servile eten•lard from the free-bora band. " He took, and bade thee lead the patriot band." One cannot help being struck with the similarity of the cases of Mr. Pitt and Sir Robert Wilson—each at t wp'e I to be crushed by a tilling administration, and each rising superier to ministerial meanness. The measures that dictated each were equally imprudent, violent, and unconstitutional, the motives equally pal• try and unmanly, and the aim of ministers will he a. leafed in the one as it was in the other.—(Norwith Cornier.) • DuEL—A meeting took place yeatenlay naoralag. ea Finchley-common, between J. T. C-4, Esq. and a Gentle.nan of the name of )I—r--n,reladvo to a dis. pitted bet at Enfield rues. Mr. C. wee wended is the arm in the first fire. On Saturday the lith instant, the fellewieg fatal accident happened at Begeers--As Miss Jaen, Fisher was taking an airbag in MN at the posy chaise. of that place, the knee eterted with gnat vie kat,. and kicking at the sane tiesei the weleetenate, )sang lady was thrown oat, and hilkeg owlet tie *heel, was intently killed. SiR ROBERT WILSON. ~T: TO THE EDITOR OF THE STiiiiliMAN. It appears, by Parliamentary Investigition, that Sir Robert Wilson is not the only officer tbd King's Mi nisters thought proper to advise the distissal of ; the late Duke of Norfolk was dismissed frog the command of the West York Militia; Earl Fitxwilliano, as .Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire ; and, in the list appointment of a Lord Lieutenant for the coenty of Bedford, the Duke of Bedford was passed by. Had Majesty any one who would have given it a hint, in the character and consequence of those three Noblemen, what mast • be the serious consideration of the Monarch?? 1 can not better elucidate the thing than by giving some ex tracts from the letter of General Burgoyne, dated the 18th of February, 1785. In The Morning Post of that day, under the signature of Selina—to the repre sentatives of the people, he says, "General officers " ought to be selected from men who have gone " through all the p i ttufal gradations of rank, as they " have fought Asir way up from Ensign to the rank " of Colonel, and dfarly toned by servitude, and, per ,. haps, by wounds, what the country, through the " Sovereign, has bestowed on them, as a recompense " for that servitude, or a compensation fpr their "wounds. I. do on a that the Minister who advises " the King to recall that remuneration, and deprive " an officer of his commission, except by law, ought to " be impeached.— " If the Sovereign can at pleasure deprive an Officer " of his Commission, what security has he for his cha " racier ? What security for his freehold, which it is by " all means, and the tenure by which be bolds it, as " sacred as any freehold in the country. Dodo our " law con dense any roan before it beer hint.'-.(John,7 c. 51 v.) "If Dot so where is the use of our law-courts or " Court-martial ? do they not belong to our established system of British jurisprudence ? if they do, which " cannot be denied, I again aver that the King has nei. " ther a legal, nor aa equitable right to deprive any " officer of his commission ; unauthorised by the sen " tence of a Con rt.martial." He further says " I have been induced to dwell upon " this circumstance so disgraceful in itself, and so min " chievous in example, because I consider it a stab given " to the Constitution, by a quarter the most bound to " protect it, and an affront to the nation." This opinion, from such a man as General Burgoyne, on behalf of two officers dismissed the service by Pitt, because they dared be honest, and join the opposite ranks in the House of Commons, is a sample of what Britons might expect under a military sway. The late King, George 111., when be was ad dressed by the City of London in 1809 ; or the ever memorable Convention of eintra (wherein the three great sages of the army made asses of themselves,) — made the Citizens this pointed reply, " It is inconsis tent with the Principle. of British Justice, to pronounce ford:meat without previous and mature enquiry." Geo. 111. would not censure Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Sir Harry Baaard. or !Sir Arthur Wellesley, for allowing the Foench to carry off their plunder from Lisbon, for 'lasi's/ tbous on the West of From* by British Tee-, vets, and enabling them in a few weeks to get into the rear of the British army ; but these gentry never graced the opposition benches, nor attended the funeral of the Queen of England. surely Sir Robert Wilson was never disgraced by being a party to any such con vention; he is nofeather bed soWier ; no Hyde-park Mar. duet. His honours and his glory have been gathered in the field, and is he to be disgraced by the Ministers of George the 4th, the eery men who advised, that legal and patriotic answer to the Citizens of London by his father-0 tempera ; 0 mores Sir Vicary Gibbs, the late Chief Justice of the Com mon Pleas, when Attorney General, made this me- nimble speech in the House of Commons, on the celebrated enquiry into the conduct of the Duke of York, and the fascinating Mary Anne Clarke, March li, 1909. "No British subject ought to be criminally punished, either in life, liberty, limb, or property, with out his being furnished with the charges against him in writing, and without being heard in his defence and condemned by his Peers." Here again, dlr. Editor, is a sample of British justice, even to the organ of Sir It. Wilson's dismissal, to the man who refused Sir Robert an enquiry or information in writing, or otherwise, but treated him without the common courtesy due from one officer to another; but this is an age of wonders. I shall also introduce another respectable authority. It must be allowed even by the all wise Solomons, who advised the dismissal of Sir Robert Wilson. It is no less an authority than Sir Edward Coke. " Van Veer ran be dismissed the service without a Court Martial, or without being furnished with the charges against hint, and without being heard in his defence, it no longer remains that highly honourable service, which it has been the general ambition of young Gentlemen to eater into, but sinks into mere abject slavery. .3fitera serritus, abitus Pagrea." I shall not further encroach upon your invaluable co lumns, than to say there is not an honest unbiassed man in Europe that does not proclaim Sir Robert Wilson's treatment as base, wanton, malignant and ungrateful. , A POOR MAN IN THZ BOROUGH. EGYPTIAN OneLtsco--The obelisk of red granite. brought home in the Dispatch, for Mr. Bankes, jun., which had previously been removed down the Nile, from the island of Philo., on the borders of Nubia, was safely unshipped last week at Deptford, and is now lying on the deck of the sheer-htilk there, till it is ready to be removed to Mr. Bankes's seat in Dorset shire. It is the first ever brought to England. Ar tists have been already making drawings from it, for the purpose of engraving ; it being supposed that it may very probably furnish a key to the interpretation of the hieroglyphical characters, since the Oreek epos the pedestal, which records its first erection ander , Ptolemy and Cleopatra, is very probably a translation of the hieroglyphics with which all the four sides of the obelisk itself are richly covered. An application was made on .Wednesday last to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench by Messrs. Baum Salami, sod Hilhorae, oar late Bache dicers, who, it will be reteenabered, ore charged by the Ge nesee Jury with the murder et Ann Fry, ei Park stew t and upon hearing the - nee. the Chief Justice arneested le take bail for their appearance at the neat DIPIISi anises, when they will take their trial.— (iDereheeter lomat) PAIPAIT-BROREItt TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAVENURN. LIT? IT. Seeing an epistle in your high-spirited paper of yea terday, signed Dick Duplicate, and particularly in tended as an answer to my former letters, I shall take the liberty of noticing it with all possible brevity. Mr. Dick Duplicate says, his pursuits in life reader it ne cessary to mix with Pawn-Brokers; no doubt, Simiat sintili gantlet. He therefore thinks he has a better right to know them than I have ; and that is certainly rather odd, as he don't know me or my connexion. He adds, they are a traduced villified body; if so, it don't add much to their innocent blushes ; while be seems to say laconically that were they a description of folks, such as I painted them, be would cut the connexion. What a pity that he should cat the worthy characters, and their friend at the PUSH, whom Mr. Dick Duplicate candidly owns is an OLD HOART-USADID livronmen. What an entertaining companion for a respectable P. 8., who saves these con scientious gentlemen the trouble of calling at the Police Offices, were their frauds so very frequently call forth *fir attention. Certainly, a dispensation from attendance is very cheap at five guineas per anrium ; besides this. Mr. Duplicate is rather severe in calling Mr. S. an OLD ROGUE, which be should not do, as be acknowledges the worthy gentleman from behind the bush, is a faithful shepherd of the flock ; and I also regret that Mr. Dupli cate is so indelicate as to quote the expression of a great law Lord. that my allegations are " False as Hell." He also states, a young man offered two pieces of cloth to pledge, which the P. B. doubted was honestly come by, and requiring the person to satisfy him as to the property being honestly obtained, the party left the cloth, but did not return. As a matter of course, lie advertised it; but, unfortunately, out of a sings'e mistake tore off the selvedge on the fags, and the applicants for the property could not recognize it. Really, Mr. Dick Duplicate is an amazing droll fellow. I should sup pose he is a wholesale dealer is irony. What an kilo cent mistake of the P. B. which, unfortunately for some body, left the ingenuous gentleman in full possession of the cloth, worth about 60/. But he says it was all a mistake. Deer delightfid Dick Duplicate ! who says Sam Spout will call this a villainous transaction ! Not I, indeed ; I'll call it no worse than the cases I have already stated ; nor will I allow it a greater mistake than 50 cases more I have not as yet quoted ; nor will I make any extraordinary comment on the old maid's heavy guineas, and the P. B. changing them for light ones; according to the old adage, Exchange is no Rob bery : nor shall I swell these solitary instances into criminal cases; they carry their characters on their foreheads, and do not require any refined touches from me, who have, it appears, given such mortal offence to the trade, that I find I ant enquired after in all quarters, without even a guess at my scien tific information. Bat I really begin to believe lam a man of moreconseqgence than I expected, or I should hot bate proutpta a general meeting at the Horn, in ,the commons. where I must ac!tilowlerivi I received very Crilii;ttering complinsefiiiitriTere some of the P. B's. were so vexed that they even got into dudgeon with the trade, and spoke about striking and letting the poor starve for want of their must liberal assistance. What a hurling shame to tantalize so virtuous a body of his Majesty's worthy subjeots, who have to contend with fresh perplexities every day ! It appears there are a charitable P. 13. - or two not 50 miles from Oxford-road. who have been in the habit of taking one shilling for every 401. ticket ; ss. for every five pounds, and so oh in propor tion ; and as some of the informers of the Slop (hug have lately been out at the elbows for want of ways and means to carry on the War, they visited the before mentioned worthy P. B.'s, and in order to turn an ho nest penny, the word was " bite the biter." The mo ney got taper at the house of ill fame, near the Obelisk, Fleet -street; and as the informers were men of too much discernment to remain idle, they fastened on the West end P. B's. ; and it is thought that even their Patron Saint, the Shepherd of the Bush, will nut be able to extricate them. I pray you, Mr. Editor, ac cept my best thanks for your patriotic condescension, while I shall at another time request your permission again to let the cat out of the bag. Snow-hill, Oct. 13, 1821. SAM SPOUT. After a minute survey of all the frigates in orili nary, it is stated that the Apollo has been selected as yacht for the personal reception of his lll4jesty, it having been discovered that the Royal there, being made up wholly for accommodation, has n• stowage for stores, which in the event of a separation fro n her escort, by stress of weather, might subject her to in conveniences. Remain at Spithead, the Phaeton and Iphigenia frigates, with the Bann and Bustard sloops of war. The weather now appears to be settled, with the wind al *bout south-east. Some transports are still in - * harbour, bound to the eastward, f•r the purpose of conveying from Scotland some troops to the West Wks. GOSPORT, OCT. 11.—In cmsequence of the )ate gales, another vessel bas put into Cowes in a dis muted state. The Ganges East Indiaman sailed this morning from the Motherbank, Laving on board one hundred passengers, a. great proportion of whom are females. This vessel bas been detained a couple of months, by contrary winds, between here and the Downs. EXTRAORPIX A RT FUN ERAL..--Last week the remains of Mrs. Ann Stattaford. who died in the BStb year of her age, were deposited in the parish church of Egg Buelthusd, in Devonshire. This venerable woman was attended to ber grave by 82 of her descendants. The coin was Writ, by eight of her grandsons, supported by eight granddughtets. preroded by eight other granddaughters. the two firm carrying in their arm, two gined-grand-chlkires. Two twin daughters of the deceased &flowed as chief mourners. A monument is to be greeted to her memory by her grand-daughters. FATAL MIIITAILLA few days ago, a lady of great respectability a this neighbourhood. who was confined by iadispeeides, rammed the servant to pour out a quantity of esedisiae. sailicieat ter a dose, from a bottle stalliag on the Ohitnuey-piece of the room. Most un fortonitiedg the dint seek the prescribed quantity. above Istitahriptioes foil, from I; bottle of 6adesaia standintiOtkhoomolplace, is consereace of which, *sash prompt asaistimice was administered, the lady expend the hatreds, morniag.--(Lieerpoolifercery.) BRIGHTON, OCT. 12. Hi! Majesty; we nnderstan 1, will pay a second visit to the Continent in the spring of the following year, when be will go to Paris, Berlin, anti Vienna, in full regal state. The Brighton harriers met on the race-ground on Wednesday last—the day was fine, and tilere wAs excel; lent sport. There were upwards of 100 equestrians, and many pedestrians. Amongst the latter, was John Richards; a blacksmith, who regularly attends the hunt oa foot. He is now in his 89th year, with all his facul ties still good; and can walk, with ease, we are assured; 20 miles in a day. A HOAC—A hoax was last week played off at lin6 sham, on an individual of this town, who had advertised for a wife. Some wag answered the advertisement, and prevailed on this Getcli to go to that town for the pur pose, (as was held fords,) of being introduced to a female, who was represented as being desirous of a husband. The lady in question was a well known Cyprian; and the denounleat accompanied as it was by the noise of bells and horns, and the hallooings and hisses of a mob of two hundred men and boys, proved most 'mortifying and distressing to the unfortunate speeulator. Our Chichester correspondent writes—" About two o'clock, r. N. on Saturday morning, a tremendous gale of wind, of short duration, came on from the S. W. ac companied by a most extraordinary noise, which was productive of some trivial damage. to buildin7;s, trees, &e. in this neigbourhood. At sea it sectus to have pos sessed greater violence. A Danish brig, laden chiefly with hemp, WiS at the above time laid by the violence of the squall on her beam ends, sv.;shing one of her crew (the carpenter) from utr the lee main yard arm, and who, I regret to say, WAS lost. The vessel drifted in, near the land of Selsea island, when, at day-light, assistornee proceeded promptly from the shore, which succeeded in righting her and takitrg her into Ports mouth harbour." SUltalti THEATRE.—This charming and convenient House is about to open for the Winter Season, under the Management of Mr. Bimini:on, whose conduct as n Manager and a Gentleman has rendered him respected by an extensive circle of private and Dramatic friends. Reports also mention the junction of a Patent Company. Should such a desirable event take place, the Surrey may augur a brilliant Winter Campaign, particularly as there will be no other Theatre open south of the Thames. Skipper, the well known pedestrian, commenced his task of walking. 10110 miles in twenty successive days on Wednesday last, in Prassia-gardens, Norwich.— He appears in esti:L..6-1a order, and generally finishes his arduous day's work at about seven o'clock in the evening. With deep sorrow we relate, t h e', on the sth instant, at a Imp race, in the neighbourhood of Aughoacloy, Thomas Moore, .of Bawn, a most worthy and respectable character, was killed in the followity lamentable manner :—After the first race was over, a gentleman, galloping over a field, ran his hors. t o a ditch , the animal - being nninanageahle, took a contrary direction to that which the rater intended, and, having made his way over, came in contact with the horse on which Mr. Moore sat ; both horses with their riders fell ; when, awful to relate, the gen tleman's horse trampled on Mr. Moore's head, anti in a mon - seat the vital spark was extinct.—(Yeicry Tele graph.) 1 Oct. 11.—On Friday se'nnight an ia quest was held at the County G aol , ' in this town, h'. J. E. Sparrow, Esq. on view of the holy of John Reed, of the parish of Rickingliall, who was found dead in his cell on Thursday morning. It appears that this unfortunate man had been committed for Cm 1 stealing on the preceding Monday, and it was 'apposed that the apprehension of the punishment which awaited him, in consequence of the perpetration of the offence for which he was committed, and other similar acts of which he was guilty, urged him on to the com mission of the last fatal crime, which he effected by means of his braces, affixed to the grating of his win dow. From the evidence brought forward, the Jury were induced to bring in a verdict, that the act (.4 suicide was committed under the influence of tetnp.i• rare derangement. lISNYtt POSIDDEN.—On Sunday, the 22d ult., af ter the Clergyman of Scrediugton, near Sleaford, bait publilshed the banns of a couple of his parishioners, a blithe widow (Mrs. Gibson) rose up, and with an 'au dible voice' forbade the same. Much surprise was of course excited amongst the congregation, and bursts of laughter followed, the forbi d der and the forbidden being all above three score years of age.--(Boetme Gazette) At the Aberdeen Circuit Court on Friday, George Thom, residing at Harthill, in that county, was found guilty of the murder of Win. Mitchell, residing at Burnside, in the parish of Tough, by means of poison. Thom was sentenced to be execnted at Aberdeen on the 16th of November, sue his body given for dissec tion. The prisoner, who is about 61 ' , Ars of age, Up prated unmoved on receiving the awful sentence ; sad on his retiring from the bar, said to some of the cons lel near him—" Gentlemen, I am as innocent as any of von sitting there." y on 11 and 12 o'cloik on Thursday night, a fire broke out in the first floor of the house of Mr. Ilorsefall, 25, Pleasant-row: Peatoneille, which nearly destroyed the whole of the interior. The house was under repair, and a man who was left in care of it slept on the first floor, in which was a great quan tity of shavings and carpenter's chips. On his going to bed he left the fire burning ; on the top of it was piece of wood, which is supposed to have fallen off, and *et the shavings in a blase. The man bad a net row escape. . Rosetta ix Weirrecnaen, A—On Sunday evening last, between nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Janes ilinek. in the employ of Mr. Jose', jeweller, 62, Otiessklll. passing throng's Whitechapel, in his way fro* &tat ford. between the New Road mad the Church. **met by three villains, one of whom sttuck hits i Oath blow upon the head, which brought him . made* to the ground, when they rifled his pockets of is *lt purse, containing two Sovereigns, 11. Bank of lbw. land note, and some silver, a silk handkerchief, Mid . three watches, as undermentioned, the property of Ma employer large doable bottomed 'booting watch, stop and seconds, **Black. boodien." on the Mil plate, appall doable case. silver watcb, aid a latty'‘ gold Preach wateh, single case, engine ternd. I .~;, .~~.