The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-10-02 00:00:00

sfrE ,l B l, Ka.lX,riiii!AMPF " ;&+•;•-• Saturdsv being the ttay afttt Michaelmas; Day, the new SUriffs, according to annual caution'. were pre sorted before the Corsitor llarun of - ,Sku Eachoquer, and the Sheriffs for the preceding yeat attended to iturtgnaer up their office. Leon ofter-shree o'clock the procession by water arr;bed at Wostntinster-bridge, and proceettd on foot 111*•WIS Patacelard to the Court of Rschequer. 'The COMMON !JEJUNA NT, in the absence of the Re. cotter, then presented the new Sheriffs to his Lord. ship, and, in doing so, adverted to thb public cha racter and conduct of Alderman Waitliman as en t;flint him to the confidence of his fellow-citizens ; a"d ;,bseryed. that sufficient proof he possessed that confidence would be found in the circumstances of his having fur so many years hrtd a place in the COMUDO• Connell of the City, having been chosen to the portant office of Alderman, and selected by the Livery ac one of their Representatives in Parliament. The other Sheriff, Mr. Williams, though not much known as a public man, was, at aprirate individual, highly re spected by all who had the honour and happiness of knowing him, and he (the Common Serjeant)doubted not but whet the year of their important trust should expire, they would resign it again into the hands of their fellokv;citizens. having so exercised it, as not Only to obtain fur themselves the approval of their on-a ronselences, but with increased reputation, and standing even higher than they now did in the estinia. Con of their fellow-citizens. - ---• The Learned COMMON Sztonsxr then stated that tile Gentlemen who served the office of Sheriff for the past year, now attended, according to usage, to give vu their office, and render an account of their issues to his Maje sty. It was customary to say something of the conduct of the retiring Sheriffs and their %ervices ; and here, adverting to one, namely, Mr. Rothwell, he felt himself called on to do The Learned Gentleman then at considerable length, pstiegytired Mr. Alderman Rothwell's conduct Hoeing his year of service, bore testimony to the high s•Vion which, previous to his filling the arduous situa tion of Sheriff, he held in the estimation of his fellow citi rens; and observed, that though entering en, and pas-ing through it tt ithunt any prospect of the plea vires usually attendant on the office, he had come out of *he trial with a reputation much brighter than that Le possessed when he commenced his year of trying service. fle had now the approval of his own con s( ience, and svJuld he remunerated in future with the highest reward an honourable mind could receive—the respect and esteem of his fellow-eitisens. The new Sheriffs then put in the warrant appointing t'ieir attorney, which was filed. the last year's Sheriffs then took an oaths to render 1..!I Majesty an account of the issues of their office P. 4 their year of service. • /he Coulson StIIJrANT then, on their behalf, teh -41,-red their warrant of attorney, appointing Mr. Cul lingridge and Mr. Turner, the Under Sheriffs of the late Sheriffs, to render in such account. Mr. PARKIN 4 -11 protest against this appointment. I never pnt in Mr. Vollingridge. Mr. Alderman ltoraw t t,c—l appear in person. Mr. PARKINS—Su will I. Ido not consent to take M•. Vollitigritige as my Under Sheriff, and pet no consdence in him. 1 wish to appoint 3lr. Pollen my Urier Sheriff. Tit& CUR SITOR IBA RON —ls there and• objection to Mr. Pollen Mr. ROTH Wit 6bject. Mr. PiRKINS-1 mean nothing of a petfional na tore to Mr. Gollingridge ; bat 1 do nut give him my co. rulence. V. PULLEN—There are two Under Sheriffs. Act's. ie mroß lisitaisi—Then there is an Under St:..riff fur each. Mr. Pawns—Yee, certainly; yonr Lordship is right. My trumpeter is not here to-day; perhaps I do not pay him ; but your Lordship sees how 1 am treated ; I am passed over as a „me-entity; and dins treated, it is necessary I should have an agent who has sny confidence, and nut Mr. Collingridge, whom I u out know in this business. M►. ROTIIWKI,I.-1 have attended in person, and Fare nn Crider Sheriff. Mr. Pastraw4—So do I ; but your Lordship will see thy necessity of my haring a i onfidential agent, undenitsseding forms whirls it cannot be expected I shoUW•do. The. Crimmow Sritmor r—Perhaps, a. the parties are maiagreed, your Lordship will, as you have the power a doing, adjoins% the filling the appointment Oil a firtiast day. The Ottoserron ILutoN—But has not each a right to appoint hit Under Sheriff? Mr. Pasittsa—Certainly, my Lard; and I will state more. Mr. Collingridge holds a pnrehased office of the City. 1 have no knowledge of him ; he has nut my .confidence ; I wish to nome.a person aho has. My Lord; there is a great personal responsibility at tached ,to nie. 1 am ready. to answer it to my * King and country'! but I have a right 'to claim a confiden. tial agent... The money which passes through my uSre in the Year amounts to a million and a half. The Cutest - roe lisaoN—l see no objection to each Gentleman appointing his own deputy. . Mr. Psamtms—Certainly sot, my Lord. The VOMION SSIIJEANT—My Lord, I, on the part of the City, 41 an liomble suitor to the Court, claim that Mr.Vollingridge's name shall remain in the war null. It is not imperative now to Me it; and on a future day I shall contend on the part of the City that Mr. C,olliagrldge's name ought to remain. Mr. Pssatne---11 aim most concerned. The City, agreeably to its Charter. forces Gentlemen into the ogre. or makes them pay from 6041. to 1.000/. I was is that situation. I was dragged into my pre sent heavy responsibility, and claim to appoint Mr. who has my entire confidence. The COXINION SIRJRANT-1 ask of the Quart either to adjourn Ming the warrant or to gin me leave to withdraw it for the present; on a future day it any sumo before a full Court. Mr. Panartro—l don't object to Mr. Terser. he.Bainaeo Orricna—No, you object to the ap pointment of the City -Officer. The Cwwerros Baton—l will adios= this gee& flow to t►e bee (ley et Teas. • • ] i II I 1 THKAITAI Mt: ?Aim bow In roar Lot&'Myra deccilon,l and trugt you will not considrr me As acting wrong. The CURPITOR that now remains, then, will be to consider the appointment et posts,' Under Sheriffs. The ceremony of counting the horse-shoe•, the sist,-one hub nails, and chopping the stick■. was then gone through; after which the Court broke up, and the Sheriffs returned by water to Blarkfriars-bridge, and thence proceeded to the Albion Tavern, Alders gate.strret, where they gave their first public dinner. CH.INdrTER OF THE LATE RIGHT 110 N. HENRY GRATTAN. (From GOLD and NonT111110:”..4 Landon Marini*. fur October.] In private life, Mr. Grattan winced the full posses sion of those soft and amiable virtues. which desig nate the good man. The tender charities of domestic lore never found a home noire congenial than in his bosom. He reared a family of thirteen children in the bright path of his example, and fed their young arid aspiring minds with the rich and plenteous manna of his own intellect. I 'nlike many of his route:spun ries, who were the ephemeral favourites of the purls, he despised the flutterings of fashion, and the flicker- . loge of fame, and never could be induced to squander any part of that fortune which his grateful country had bestowed upon him in the important Stateliness of equipage, or the meretricious glittering of extrinsic splendour. After he had burled the away weapons of his tremendous intellect at the shrinking and trem bling votaries ..f despotism and corruption, he might be seen in the bosom of his family, mild and gentle as the .love, teaching his youngest child to lisp the name of its Deity, or to return the filial n Idle he gave the parental kiss. But Ireland was his family : lie was the noble oak, from the trunk of which the newly planted constitution of his country, like the tender ivy, sought support, and under whose branches his poor oppressed and degraded countrymen, like feeble but innocent violets, looked fur shelter from the angry wind of despotism, and the furious storms of fanatic intolerance. But who can paint the powers of his mind—whia! can pourtray the majesty of his intellect ? It was in.: deed the image of its Creator ;—mi2lity in its strength, rich in its fullness, tratiscendant in its powers, and translucent in its purity. lle seemed to woes,: within it a mine of inexhaustible wealth, richly stored I with the erudition of the ancients, and the lighter learning of the moderns. Few men could soon so deeply the areana of the human heart, and still fewer could sooner discover a sophistry, untwioe its knotty ' labyrinths, and expose it in all its native deformity to the beholder. That hr was not a wild enthusiastic theorist, his memoirs have already sufficiently evinced ;: bat when he was ronvinced of the justice of a tame,' when he did determine to support a measure, enthu siasm is a word too weak to express his manner ; he was like an Ajax hurling rocks upon his o ats; his voles woo thunder, and his glance lightefiFP4‘l6o l ' rible in his mental strength, he incorporated eattla and heaven, gods and demi-gods, the blackness of tar tarns, and the beauties of Elysium, in his orations. An unconcerned spectator would have thought that the ta istence, not of himself, not of his country, not of die breathing world, but of deity and the universe, lest Po lime, he relaxed no effort, until he had accomplished theaias of his soul : his life was a continuity of ter- rents—rapid, vigorous, and overponering—now swell ing to the skies, now bursting the Woods of mild rays of the full-grown moon. In his style he fluent, without being verbose, learned without pedantic, and metaphorical without bring oboe'''. His copiousness was the copiousness of ideas, net. of words: his speeches teemed with thought and figtro ; there was no unnecessary phrase introduced, no la. bowing for euphonious expressions, no playing with the sense for liarinonious alliterative,. If lie had . " fondness for any pe uliar style, it was anithesis ; Der cons, knotty, and epigraniatic anithesis. When be in. dnlged in sarcasm, the keenness and pithiness of his style was clearly seen ; so acute and piercing were Its remarks, that every look, word, and action told; aid accursed must that man have considered himself to be, who was the ill-stared and immediate object of its powers. But in his serious arguments there was an awful solemnity, an earnestness and fixedness of depth and feeling, a nobleness and majesty of voice and car• riage, which convinced all who heard hint that it was nut the hireling advocate hot the real patriot and philanthropist oho pleaded before them ; that whether they who adopted his principles and supported his views or not, he was ready to offer his life as a seal of the sincerity with which lie enforced them. Sack was firattan—the child, the champion of Nei I land. Stich was the man, whose memory will Oa halo of everlasting brightness over the history eountry•—lie loved it with the devotion of lover; ba felt for it with the fondness of a father. The blessings he has heaped upon it are invaluable and Inannierabie. Once his Catholic countrymen were deemed beings unfit to breathe the common air of heaven, unfit to mingle in the common offices of life, unfit to enjoy any portion of what was called a common constitution ; now, by the power and light of bit edmprentreith elands of prejudice and i i rnorance which hung round their enemies art dissipated t the deformity and in famy of the detestable code that oppressed them . Is rendered clear to the eyes of the wondering wing. and a pathway is opened to those plains of freedom and felicity, where ere long they once agaia will sport in the full possession of complete entaacipation, the dignity and equality of common citieenship, without "any man daring to make them afraid." An laquest was o■ Monday held in Bartholomew's+ ►ospital on the body of J. Dudley, who had foriaerly worked a I.rieklayee on the premise* Meow Reid and Co. in Litrorpon4l-street. T►e deceased was hound lying by the side of one of the vats, w►ic► is about 311 feet Idols, with his head mach eel, Lie ►ack and several rile ►roken. There was a pewter pot lying sear ►its. from which it is conjectural that he had got in unperceived, and ►ud moseted the vat try its laddc to get some beer, and had talkie dims. Ito was speechless whet funad. Verdict--Acchleatal Death. MAN. THE QUEEN. [FROM 4 CORI4IISP(tNDENT.) Whew lest, I met thee warm and young, Then shone ascii truth about thee ; And on thy lip*. siteh promise hung, I did not dare to doubt thee. I saw thee change. yet still relied. Mill clung with hope the fonder ; And thought. Iliu* false to all beside, From me thou would'st not wander. Rot go, deceiver, go; the heart, whose hopes would male it Trust one, so false. so low, deserves that thou Amite break it. When every tongue thy tellies emoted. I Red th' unwelcome story, And found, in ev'n the faults they blamed Some gleams of future glory. I still was true, when other friends Conspired to wrong. to alight thee. The heart, which now thy falsehood rends, Would then have bled to right thee. Go, go, 'tis vain to curse ; 'tis weakness to upbraid thee, Hate cannot wish thee worse, than guilt and shame have made thee. Alpere's Melodies. It is impossible to contemplate the situation in which the Qweess of England is at this moment placed, without mixed emotions of pride and indignation. Sentiments of pride, we certainly must feel, at seeing every honest heart in the nation armed in her cause, and every ge nerous bosom sympathising in her misfortunes. But in what language can we possibly convey an adequate idea of the indignation which we feel towards her re lentless persecutors ? When first she landed on fair England's shores, her arrival was hailed by the joyful acclamations of that brave and gallant people over whom she was one day to rule; how little did she dream of the miseries that were in store for her. It is an aw ful lesson, that comes to every heart, and chews us the absurdity of all human expectations. For surely, if happiness were at all within the human reach, one would then have thought, that this illustrious lady was born to be supremely blessed. Possessing as she did, to TO eminent a degree, all those intellectual and per sonal qualifications which distinguish her sex; selected from amongst the nations of the universe, to he the happy bride of one of the most accomplished Princes of his age, and England's future King; with surh a rare combination of circumstances in her favour would it not have been considered madness, to have calculated the measure of her happiness by any human standard But scarce had one short year elapsed, when all those dreams had vanished. Envy had marked her for its victim, and all the mean and petty artifices of court intrigue assisted in the sacrifice. She was turn from the embraces of her husband, driven from the country to which she had so lately come, abandoned by those who were bound by every tie, who were solemnly pledged to protect her, and sent an exile and a watts derer, forlorn and deserted. lint even this solitude was not permitted. Iler most secret steps and actions were watched and observed, and when these were itersod to stand the tsar .Pi WM Dees/tate scrutiny, the coffers of the nation must be drained to disgrace her. Limiting lied, can sock things be, and " pass by like the idle wield ?" Will such things be tole rated in a Christina laved? And the only reason as signed for this treatment, because, forsooth, the " ie elimestions of one of the royal parties were not under his etranstand." Is this a sufficient ground to trample on the lane of religion and of God! Is this a sufficient ground to break the plighted faith of England, to plunge her into civil dissentions, and bold her up as an object of scorn and contempt to the world ? Is this the boasted honour and chivalry of England ! People of England ! To what a state have your rulers reduced you ? " /boo. Oh ! Enghind, who wort *nee as qhy " As eloister'd amid, of shame sad perfidy, " Art auw broke in. sad thanks to Castle—gh. " Is all that's rile sail fatee thou lesd'st the way?' corium" of FORRIONERS . on ►he PRO CEEDI NOS AGAINST the QUEEN. The following artic'e is ropied from the Miscellanea, a Madrid paper, of the 11th of September. It is headed "On the trial Of the Queen of England :" " This day we take op the pen, not to transfer to paper, as we daily do, ideas on this or that point of politics or economy. We an. impelled to write by the necessity which we feel, of rendering a solemn homage to theeter- Dal principles of public morality, indignantly set aside in the almatinable trial which is prosecuting before the IFeent of England. "It is well known to all. that there arrived lately in itugland a cargo of tin lowest filth of Italy, hronght :together to stain. with the vilest declarations, the ho rof an ilkstrions Pritt i cess. it 'a well knows like to all, that before 11* nt of the trial. ral days were spent in attempting, if passible, to 'Wynnt it by negotiation, and thins to enable the Eng -4* ministry. to prevent the shame with which the inde tent trial of the Queen was going to rover that peat i •me lion. Finally. it was known to all that tie °him nary the ministry rendered ageless the excellent dispowi to accommodation, evinced by that unfortunate ` nreims, and that at last a rtifteretion began, time scan-. Sialaus tenonr of which excites the melancholy comide. talons, and shows to what an *amine of ilegrada ottakccanipt -mew 'WM be carried by their own self- "The first Atness who was examined in this °ppm- Mons cause is a wretch called Theodore Ifejocri : this itiamous creature, who lived for a considerable time ltt i the Qween in the qnality of lacquey. a hile she re in Italy. and who followed her in her travels to Oloetastiaopie and Palestine, declared. in conformity with sore halbibumi questions, that his mistress passed, daring the night into the room of Remind (likewise a servant of the /Risers); that in the bed of this person *bre was Ike nee of two having slept, while that of the Queen= appear to have been used at all ; that Bergaini served het when she bathed ; end that on one 'erasion he gave her a hiss, with other indecencies whilsh we cannot mention. The interrogators- by the , .sttliornet-fletveral being coot-holed, the Qiieen's Aden ante subjected the witness to an examination, which, by =ions sufficient to confound bins. and took, him fail with aharse, If Mason!. sunk in the lowest filth of 1 attbkhouteibt, hmi been eapable of that sentiment. made kilatiuteact many particulars which he bad stated. and entefusit hl.selrwithla his studied and unit/ono • New oil +onto.' That diaeoreved the motion ithivis lw eat. Ci r ri to oars the unworthy tecotnpence which had eird him for his filthy aduansiet. 1 , tribalism Capetam e Palermo, Vieente Borguilo, Ilbsd real, and Barham Knee, !acquire, sailors, or i I 11 i ,1 . ' i waiters, (since the English ministry has taken caro t o employ that low rabble to batch evidence against th e Queen,) relate particulars more or less filthy ; but au absurd, ineprobolole, and contrashetory, that after havisi been heard they ought to have been imprisoned, that they might suffer is due time the punishment which their perjuries deserved. Up to the present time, only two respectable men, Captain Pechell of the frigate Clorinde, and Captain Briggs of the ship Leviathan, have been examined in these proceedings. These tea officers have deposed to nothing which can compromi se the honour of the Queen, and the testimony of •ta., Englishmen of distinction is of inure valise; doubtless, than that of all the lacquies and waiters who live between the Lake of Ueneva, and the extremity of Calabria. It must not omit that, from the declarations of these brih..4 witnesses, it appears, first, that they come on a hare il l of so much per month, and that there is our of who earns LIMO dollars per month. Secondly, that a declaration was taken front all of them in Milan by a spy of the English ministry, called Brown. Thirdly. that sonic of them said they were driven by force to England. Fourthly, that on their arriving there they were instructed in what they had to &sewer; since it.- terrogatories were put to them, from which, in the public examination in the House of Peers, those points were left out, the answers to which would not base been favourable to the projects of Ministers. Fifthly. and finally, that one of the witnesses bad travelled post, in order to be catechised, from Italy to liermanv, and from Uermany to Hungary, and that he afterwards lived a long lime with the English .Imbassailor at Vienna, kept and caressed for this important occasion. Prom these facts, which the trial has disclosed, it appears that, in order to afford to England the most scandalous spectacle which it has seen since the death of Anne Boleyn (or, as we call her, Bolena,) Ministers have squandered with oriental profusion the treasures of that generous nation on abject and vile Italians, who have made a horrible traffic of their filthy calumnies. It appears likewise, that the fruit which the English ministry will derive from haring lavished in the pay of these vile creatures such immense sums—the price of the sweat of British subjects—will be the ignominy of having injured their Queen in public opinion, whether she shall be declared guilty or whether, as is to be hoped, they declare her inaocent; in which case the character of the Princess most still suffer, because it is the property of calumny always to leave sonic indelible vestiges. On both of these suppositions the English ministry will cover itself with eternal disgrace, which will be mach greater if it causes its Queen to be con demned on the testimony of infamous and inhumed witnesses, shown to be so by the depositions themselves; for the indemnity of 1,00 . 0 dollars per month is areal subornation; and for such a sum Italy might have been depopulated of half its inhabitants, who would have gone to the eat' of the world to vouch for as many calumnies as might be dictated to them. " We shall add, that the evident intention of the mi nistry is to deprive the Qoeeti of the respect and regard of the English nation; and with that intention it leas allowed the evidence to be published in which corrupt and shameless Italians hare deposed to scandals and abominations, which, for the preservation of public mo rals, ought to have been buried within the precincts of the Court. The precaution which, when causes of this kind are proceeding, is taken in all civilized countries, in order not to offend the ears of youth, has been dis dained its a process, which, from the exalted station of the person accused, must resound not only in all the corners of Europe ' but to the mint mows estassmilies of the globe. To such a degree does the spirit of party make therm disregard the common rules of morality. and fail in the respect doe to the public! We shah add, io conclusion, that the English nation has con dncted itself in each deplorable circumstances in a man ner the most noble : all the cities hasten to manifest to the Queen the indignation which the conduct of mini - Iry excites; and the immense population of London, which forms perhaps a tenth of that of the British do minions in Europe, gives her every day the moat eager proofs of the interest which they take in her lot." PORTUGAL. CIIIICCLAR LEWIS N THK PORTCOL'IIIt 111/Ktettl , At HAMM:SIGH. flassonoo. Sam dl.—" The following docoment has been published here:--- " Copy of the circular letter addressed by the Minis ter of his Most Faithful Majesty to the Senate of Ham burgh and the diplomatic body. " Sta,—A crime of the nature of those which Dave taken place in Spain and Naples has jest marked the audacity of some factious persons. Oporto, the second city of the kingdoms of Portugal, has bees the Mitre. where the actors in these deplorable scenes the* eiVen the first proofs of their matloroo. • Having suceebded in seducing into their plots the veep forming the garri son of that city. they have expelled the legitimate 'sato rities; they have seised on the power—they have pro- claimed arts which belong exclusively to the majesty of the throne, and that without the consent of the King, who is the sole regulator of the laws according to the tenstitution of the kingdom. Sock a course evldestly appearing to have for its object to overthrow the repel and protecting authority. to 'substitute for it a popular and anarchical authority, I think it is calculated to ex cite the most strives attention of all goverosnests, of all sovereigns. "As a faithful and devoted subject, a$ still on as minister of his Most Faithful Majesty. tile my duty. Sir, to acquaint you with this event, 1* woes that your Court may be informed of , it. sod may agbis such measures as it may jusise proper. As foe myself, I for mally protest against all acts contrary to laws hi therto observed in the kingdom, and sweet, to the le gitimate authority of my august Severe's* sad master, until he shall have informed me of his it...ldiom (Signed) " I.E COMMANDSV It DE LVEREA. - • Hambarih. dept. SP. The York Whig Lid► dinner took place se Tres:lay last, in the Assembly-rooms, and was attended by a Free number of its members. S. W. Nicol, Emi. was in the Cbair, supported by M►. Challener and fir. - rill. representatives fee York. Mr. Larnbton, N.P, f;.r the cwiiiitv of Durham. Mr. Ottiww4l Wend, and several other geritlemen erre also present. Abort aloe o'clock OD the night of last Sunday week, a mar kaocked at the door of she park.keep er's honse, is Gobbets Park, Kent, asst, es heist asked what be wrested, he answered that he rause eith a :message from Lord Darmley wipes:Mg pew gam* ; the keeper being throws el ►is guard ►y this straits ger. istwortbasely spewed the door, when awe wee rushed sorbleely into the how*. asst 111ee114141 1 FA. blag the keeper of his watch mad. upwards of 6fieta pounds in metes and cash. OM lowimg the berme ftbD thieves tusk away the Ivy amp t w wwei skm awe us lb* *inside. Two ass■ have been taken late emstody wha are stroagiy suspected the robbery. 01 a a 4