The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

N.drlL INTELLIGENCE. .—...-- F A suotiew, A ad.23.—Sailed the ship Piecinis,Titylor, for J ama ic a; ships Shark and Onyx. for Hayti hill Ferdinand the Seventh, Captain Datley,and l'artagane twig Andorinha, Captain Massa, for the fir:mils; his Majesty's brig Virago, 14 raw, for Cork; Wabinpham packet, Roberts, and Prin ce. Elisabeth, Kiddy with Mails for Lisboa; Duke of Kent (1), Cousworth, with Mails for Cad's; Duke of Kent (I), L au rnes, with Mails fur the Windward Islands; Prince Adolphus, Bouldersan, with Mails for Rio Jairelro; Cites terficli packet, Gibbon, wish Mail, far Auttrira; Diana packet, Moons, with Mails far Jamaica ; and Eliza, Hue st4l:, for Bristol. Tionysuorvu, Atn. 2.s.—Arrived the Narcissus frigate, lion. Captain Aylmer, from 'Weymouth. S :tied the Christian li.e Seventh, Sr Joseph Yorke; War !Tor, 71, Caperiin Bowie- ; and the Zephyr, Capron p ar . oo a cruise at Cherhurgit: and the !lardy, lieutenant Douai, with a eanvoy far the Downs. Si;nals have been constantly made this week of the capture of ships by the esetov's privateers en the eastern coast, but no ships were dispatched to sea in consetrenee; aad the re'd• 900 would appear to be, that the few ships that are lying here are ruder erder, for special services, so that the Admiral bits no d istrelson to depart from the ruic of service. The ont , % , ird• bound convoys all remain work!-hound. Arrivrti the t)efeeder, Lieutenant Nops, from a cruize. D••I1R, :tUG. 25.—Came i the Vrnw Jn:tnitnn, of Pap penbur4b, Stith calf, frnrn Liverponl, t•iken off Berseby Head by a Frew's 1u;.....er privateer, and re-raptured by his Majesty's ship Ber.:u Passetl by for Louden, she ship Londiin Packet, Captain R. nut 17 days from Gibraltar, RI th stsuinac, ba r:lla, wad, and silk. to the Roads, die Bermuda, Rena, and Peruvian. Drat- Avo 25.—Last high' his Majest.'s ships Revenge and !Monarch arritrd is the Downs, and this tl,ty the Illas trigea, Eagle, and Hero also arrived, all trim off rloshing they are tail to !hive a great many prisoner , , ani alto the Ikk and wounied on hnard. nis 11,1je.ty's ship Unicorn had sailed on a cruise. and the Centaur and Tnevos, whirls arrived a few clays since Irons aOw Tesel, 'slave again sailed to the eastward. la the Down', hit Majesty's ship Lively. Vice- Ittlntiral Cowbell: Ac•txtn, Dolehin t. Eagle.Diana, Herr) 11- tess, Monsen, t.ol Revenge ; Eperrier, gao- brit, a nd A brpt et uatwxrd-bmpilil merchant-6h pt. 4 VERW.44% I SE4M.IY SILLED BY A SHOT FRONI TILL• LEANDER MAN OF %% AK. We yesterday copied from a Morning Paper a paragraph on the subject of the Motet beau suntan who was killed by a shot from the Leamkr. Of the assertion contained lii that paragraph, the following contradiction appeared in isnother Morning Paper of this day. The assertion and contradiction being thus before the public—they will decide fur themselves. To us the assertion did appear extraordinary, and the ,fat improba ble. We have not the slightest doubt that the shot from the Leander was thu cause of this man's &alb. Sla—A P.tyr ot yesterday, called Tie Thal,. (-notable the Arnow ice on warmated and wham** paragraph " It is otated l from gond aato.witv, that the mats win war Ouppesed to have born killed Mr 'Marti an .I,neriran sloop, Its a shet died front he Leander man of ,s at-, some time seam, al' the Chesapeak. rrerlred hi: death bv a blow of a hancipplke from the Mauer of the (luny, who persuaded t h e Irrew tnewcar that ile was killed by Ina Leander. the motives of the wilier oftar abase par igr•iph may be sastly ap.rscistedbry a li beral arliirk prsfie. h thbihe time rs stlrnspe le widen Mc breacie hien* Iwo natiews, wheat manners, whose biagusge, are alike. lied whose interests._ in every view, both politic:ll rind commercial, lire the same / I • 411111 la Nee- York n n the onfortu3 tte einvowaoce Abided o to,k place; Sale Ms sufferer, 493 ear wound that rained WS death. AN EMILIS-111 %N. N. B. It was not of the Cheapest, bat off Swody Uook, tbat atiformiate rent twin place. Some transports with w'nutilleil officers anti men of our army, and 147/0111 transp Iris a Ith French prisoners, are arrived at Portsmouth from Portai gal, after a very . short passage. Nlonosn.—On Thursday evening an inquisil Con was taken at the Royal Nlortar Tavern, at Wool* icli, before J osspkt MI %ItTYtt, Esq. one or the Coroners for the ru.soty of Kent, on view of f the body of Thomai Jones, a convicted ristitineer, who was confitiod on board the Ret,-ibution hulk, It appeared, on the inrestigatine, that one of the :0 twirls, ho was enijill .yrd ith others in un. loading b• irks from a barge, had thrown a part tab ick at the overseer who was attending them, and Mock Man on the hack part of his bead. The • overuse tumid geoid nut tell tallish of the convicts had thrown the brick, and the sonriets refused to • disclose who was the guilty person, and in come epicure of such refuel, the convicts were deprived of some inJulgencies they had been accustomed to; and Captain Reed having, on Monday, ob tains's% information that if.. Coleman, another eassicted mutineer, was the perm* who threw the brick, he had Coleman pot into heavy irons; and Coleman haring taken it into his head that Thomas Jones was the person who had informed against him, although Jones had not dune so, and was his intimate (shad, Coleman In the evening appeared much cowed, and said he would do some mischief that night ; that he knew his man, and would hats the life of two or three before morning; but he drank some porter with Jones ) and they appeared very good friends, when Cole. man weal to bed; but during the night he was was to get op ) anal go to a seat helot' ng to one of the convicts, who was a shoemaker, from whence he took a round pointed knife, the sharp ness of which he tried with his thumb ; he then with that knife broke open a little bus, from which be took a sharp pointed knife, and said this will do for him." He next went to a ta ble, on which a lamp was bunting, and tried the point of the knife upon the table. He then turned to Jones's hammock, which hung near, and, rais ing his hand with the knife in it, stabbed Jones in the neck with such violence as to penetrate nearly to the blade bone ; the blood gushed from the wound with great force, and in a few minutes Jones died. The Jury, without hesitation, gave a verdict of Wilfasl Murder against Coleman, who was committed to hleidstone Gaol for trial at the next Amines. A crest *ember of witnesses were examined, and the investigation was not finished till 11 o'clock. infERICAN PAPERS. ;: • • New Yon', Jo LT 4t.—Whether the With% Minister exceeded the limits of his'atithorite in the late partial arrangement which he effected with the United States, we do not, nor can we, at prevent, know. Bat if the fact be as stated by Mr. Can ning in the Houle df Common., Mr. Stikine is perhaps not more blameable than onr own-Gabi. net. The mode of managing diplomatia-mgoci. aliens is. imprimis, for each of the !Ugh- Con erecting Parties to eschatige eretlentials.with the other. Now, althongh Mr. E. may have misun derstood the import of Ms authority, it is not sin. gtilar that it should hive escaped the sigacity of our Cabinet, that he might be exercising an mute thotised agency. But if, on the other hand, our Cabinet had not the, curiosity to peep into Mr. Erbkine's instructions, and he imposed upon their credulity by the assumption of an authority not delegated by his Government, then he has acted with the most reprehensible perfidy, and our Ca binot with the most pernicions fully. Bat if all' have been done in honour here, and it is the oh litpie policy of the reigning Ministry in Britain to disavow the legiiimate acts of her Envoy, then, indeed she has profaned her ancient honour, and will stand convicted of the most barefaced instance of punk faith which modern Europe has rceorded. (Palladium.) Bonen, JULY 45.—8 y the recent arrival of the Beverley from France, our intelligence from that nation is nearly two months subsequent to the arrival of the pacific propositions of our Go. 'eminent, by the dispatch ship Mentor ; and yet we cannot discover that they have received the, least attention from Bonaparte. We are probably to be attended to when he ceases to be ambitious, or when his ambition ceases to find food itt E t rope. lie can at his head quarters find time fur ally negociations but for those with America.— ( Berton Gazette.) RALEIGH, Jury 18.—By the dispatch of Mr. Purviance it appears, that the American property in France is in the same situation as heretofore, and no vessel can dear out from France without givint bonds to an enormous amunnt not to yin. late Bonaparte's Berlin and Milan Decrees. The French Minister, it is said, is in favour, as far as he dare be, of a relax ition of the decrees, but Do. naparte would nut hear it mentioned.—(ldem.) SatarD.l'ex.—'l'he Free American, with Mr. Purviance, the Messenger, has returned from France. By this vessel we learn, that the ships cietured under the Berlin and Milan Decrees, are „till detained in *Fenner. flow differently are French 'egad% treated here! They are permitted to cow freely into all our p With all our cringing and Mean servilil to Bonaparte, he still treats us uagraciously, and with the must sovereign contempt. The dispatch by Mr. Purslane° affords 114 no consul stool far our hospitality, in admitting Freoen yeas •Is into otir ports. New YORK, Jur." 2l.—We shall neither at. to conceal ()tor disappointment or regret at this unpleasant intelligence, but we have heard alarms expressed, which, unwelcome as this news is, do not appear to lit justified by the facts before us. The British Minister declares that Mr. Erskine has exceeded his powers. Until we can proilitau some evidence to the contrary. we have no right to disdredit the atserficsa. That being the COW, the Government does not hold it self bound to ratify his act. But are Americans thus to be tempted to hazard their property abroad, and then to surer for their misplaced confidence ? No such thing: on the contrary, we have the :13- titmice of Mr. Canning, that as the stipulations I Mr. Erskine were confided in by our Govern. went and people, they should not suffer for this error—that speculations entered into by American merchants, and th it shipments should have their course unmolested, or the adventurers be intim. tubed petil the real views of his Majesty could be communicated to our Government. Then our trade will go on subject to the operation of the Order of April last, issued in amelioration of those of a previous date, unless some new arrange ment is made. That is, our trade will have the sa tie latitude it was to enjoy by Mr. Erskine's arrangement, and as qoalifieil by our own laws, cacao Hovland and French Italy.—(flew York Gazette.) On .Friday morning, about half-past eleven o'clock, Patrick Wickham, convicted at the late Assises fir IVarwickshire, of shooting Mr. Avert), in Janeary last, on Sunk-hill, ucar Warwick, and also of robbior, Mr. Gardner, between War wick and Long-bridge turnpike; and Susannah Grunt, for having in her posses%ion, in Warwick, en edger or instrument fur markihg seven-shilling pieces round the edges, were executed pier the door of the county gaol. Wickham, although a young man, had been ' concerned in several robberies, besides those fur which he suffered.. lie bad, since condemnation. been penitent and resigned ; and, bring a Roman . Catholic, was attended by a gentleman of that persuasion, whose spiritual admonitions appeared to have had their intended influence upon his mind. He did not make any confession publicly. When he was tied up, and just before the cap was drawn rivet his face, he said—" God forgive my Prosecutors, for I am Innocent of what I suffer for." Ile was i Serjeaut in the 103 d Foot, and only 41 years or age. Susannah Grant was far advanced in yeses, be. ing 64 years of age. She acknowledged that she well knew that base money was concealed in her house, having let one of her rooms for that ex press purpose : but sho positively denied having taken any part in the coining of the mosey, or that money was ever made in that house. With regard to the instrument that was found in her house, she pretended to have no knowledge of its being there ; neither, she said, she W.lll aware that the concealment of such an instrument in her house wise capital offence. She was firm and collected, and confident in the hope of forgiveness. Sho ex pressed her warmest gratitude to the Chaplain who attended her, and prayed incessantly. The exc.. entioner performed the last sad alike, and they were both lausabod into eternity, in presence of a large commune of spectator. • • : • —...sewbar• .• 0••• • % Gesteemsti--JainaeGibiltles) a porta; its the service of Messrs. Heise!. and Cot, ssf.:llisines,, street, was exavisin74l9l, l ll•l l lllPlllPbf stealing, in his master's wa reb 01,) Npistiouli' uf,isindtlVis A lie was long suspected stfisilfering various articles the property of hilt employers, in wknse sersioeihe had hems for three years ; end.ou Thereday.tnuf of the clerks observed- him to have( seseetbing bulky in his pocket,•which he desired till\ bei ro. dime, be Immediately took oat *he( isiaglitsai On tieing' in terrogated as to the thanner is which (be disposed of articles thus stolen, he-said he sold them to a Jew of the name of Cohen, in 01,4146 rough. This assertion, however, was denied 10.1 foie the Alderman, who, after dwelliwg• on' the atrocity of the prisoner's offence, anti lecturing him in a most severe manlier on his ungfaiefol conduct, committed him fur a further esaini. nation. - M 111.f.LOROVOII-STRET:T.—Yesterclay. fall grown buys, each nut less than ctt yeanti 4. 4iipo named Ihnry Dodd, Cullum Neannnn, Jenkins, were brought before the • Magic: by Mr. Bell, the high coiettable fur St. (like. dig. Met, charged with di , turbing the peaceable inin bitants of Holborn, by heating a tattoo on the knockers of several tradesmen's houses. Frorn the evidence of Mr. Bell and the watch. man, it appeared that Mete young gentlemen, after spinning. street yarn all the evening, were reeling home along the pavement at a late hour of the night, seemingly ripe for sport. and nothing having offered so well calculated fur their amusement as a project for rousPog the drowsy inhabitants of Hut. burn from their slumbers, they commenced a tre mendous sonata on the knocker of every door 'they passed. Their sport continued for some time uu. til the guardians of the night, aroused by the thug, tiers of their assaults, immediately interfered, and ile , ired them to desist ; at this mild request they were pleased to laugh, aad persisted in their fun. Mr. Bell, the high-constable, who was walking on the other side of the street, came over, and urged in vain a similar request ; but finding that his wholesome advice was eot taken, he thought proper to conduct them to the watch-house. Hail, however, baring been procured for them, they were released from their gloomy abode. As the truants expressed great contrition for their conduct, and as Mr. Bell said. thy behaved very becomingly after they were in custody, the Magistrate ordered them to be dismissed on paying their fees. A miserable looking inane, almost famished Kith hittivr, was bro"ght up by a St. (tiles's watchman, charged with being found the preced. ing night in the street. Being called also* to give an account of himself, ho stated, that ',front 14 months since he was a seamen in a Bremen iner. chant ves•et, which vessel was captured by a French privateer, as she was corning up Channel, and carried into Boulogne. The crew, amongst whom nu himself, wens carried to a prison-ship in - the Isle of France, wherein they were confined for the last 13 months, during which time they experienced the most distressing hardships. Having borne their hard fate with great fuaitudc during their long Imprisonment, six others along with 'himself formed the desperate resolution of jump. ing overboard and swimming for their liver.— About r. fortnight since an opportunity occurring, he and Companions jumped into the sea, atidswant with great vigour out of port. Having ho fretted the waves for a considerable time, they descried a sail making great way towards them. By this time they were nearly sinking with fatigue and exhaustion, when a boat pushed of from the ship in sight, which afterwards proved to be an Ame. rican vessel bound for England, and picked them all up except one of the unfortunate fellows, who sunk, never to rise again. just as assistance was extended to him. By this conveyance the nar rater of this melancholy talc found means to come to England. On being landed, he came up to Lrin. don with a view of finding out his parish. For two days he had not eaten a morsel of bread, and had actually fallen down with hunger when the watchman found him in the street, and conveyed him to the watch-house. Thf!Magistrate interrogated him respecting his parish ; bdt bo said he had forgotten the name of it. • However, he knew that his fsther's•ettlemcnt was in St. Giles's, to the Overseers of which pa. tbu Ilegistratus directed him to apply for re. The poor creature hobbled out of Cuurt, a tao►ing monument of wretchedness and nintery. The boat. 41 his Majesty's ship 3 Minotaur, Pro inetheus, and Caroline have taken at Arpo three Russian gun-boats, and an Imperial brig, laden with provisions. A gentleman, named Wilson, residing at High. gate, undertook, for a wager of fifty gnineaa, to run thirty.five times up, and the same number of times down Ilighgate.bill, on Tuesday last, in twelve hours. The distance was computed at abont forty-eight miles, which, on level ground, could have been perfurmed without ddliculty.— The only chances, therefore, against the perform. ancc of the task, were the disadvantages of running up the hill, and the shaking that must necessarily be experienced in running down again. The cal. culations against the performance, however, were erroneous, as Mr. Wilson accomplikhtd his object in ten hours and fifteen minutes, with apparent, ease. One of the light l fingered gentry, well-known on the pare between the India House and Temple. bar, was yesterday detected in the ket of Witt i lt nto the pocket of a Naval Officer,' bight tsiik..,, who immediately seized him by the c ollar s aid nut feeling inclined to split/ to the argumatitums legal( fur satisfaction, administered such atfinti ful dose of the arguntenturs liavihutin te the culprit, on the :pot, as left iiiiit•acticeltaNle.to crawl off. He was afterwards encrustudor t itii mud by the mob, who seemed highly dellf.bied at the discipline he had received, and were resolved atoafld their mite to the already sarecajltligibakelli:' ' v .''' I ' 1 • EXIWAORDI V AILY CASE. ' On Tharedagt rie?nhight.at seven o'clock in the 1 vening, as a ni in w is pase.iste by the line-kiln of . GiiillAlvrat Vinglas, near I).thlie, he saw, in a irillnw ii•lisw She wall of the kiln, a passers I) tug ltitibilfare on the {trowel. At first lie sit,yosed ith tn. he:asleep, ior intoxicat..d ; but after so no time, pereeiving he llama stir, he MitS illthirtNi to exaisslite him rourrriesely, when he f ottel hies ap. parently• dead. On turning him on his back to ,atoertain whit be alight be, a .4 ig ' it tho most awful and horrid presented itself to his view : the person. MILS' Met dead, hut on reinosing his coat, the ,wltule sedate. , of his body seemed a itios big teats lof worms; his face was much disfigured, app.. tautly from borne bruises indicted er her hi bl tall lot by a fall,..and from every aperture of his heed, i billeyes, ears, mouth, anti nos., poured initiate. raffle is ones. as if the interior of the sktill was entirely filled with them. His eyes acre dissolved s , and their cavities, as well as those of his ears, Itheeth l anti nose, were filled with a while moving mass, more horrid and 4611056.1 g than it is peasl. We for imagination to conceive without ocular is. spectien. After some time. the miserahleibeing recovered sitlficient strength to walk, and sh far recovered his recollection and silica, that he ois. finely answered several cuie_stions put to hitt. ; he I told eho he was, where lie lifted, ike. ; that he I was returning home on a car the evening before, and having drank ton 'notch he fell off, an I lay stunned with the fall till lie was disc..vered. Ile could not accisent fur the wounds in his head, nor for his' being so far off the road : ha. it is must:yeobAble he had received the contusions on his Nee from thsaall, or perhaps the car hail quite over him, had be had insensibly crawled to the plaice where be lay. The huntidity of she air and the heat of the %Tether', had rapidly brott4ht min iolitien of the solids in those bruised parts al.. ready pretlispeoteitto putrescency, and now I)i.ig in contact with the moist earth. In this was spee.. dily deposited the eggs of innumerable insects, whose generation waxes rapid as the nreil.sposing causes were favourable; and thus, while the vital powers rallied at the centre, and the Ilium!, yet circulating round , the heart, preserved the v.tal principle, the extremities, iii wilt, h all pulsa•iofs bed ceased, were dissolving into their 'intuitive element , , and the whole surface of the budy ea. hiblied a mass of ani hated corruption. lie was brought into' an mil-house and laid on bay— the loathsome objects were removed, as far as that could be done—he was washed with spirits and vinesefe—had cordials po.teed down his throat, which he swallowed, though with seem calve,. In fact, every precaution was t his by tar Vitlr• thy people by ahem he wasodisc , tvered, bat with. out effebt —the poitreseency rsphily encreaseel, in a veer efrorteime the spasms in his throet pee. vented him swallowing—he gradually become in. sensible, and at• le o'clock the next day be di.* in a state of total solution, having heel bs time dreedfitt situation 17 hears, from the tine he was first discovered, and the Brea er !nut of that pas nod in full possession of his senses—soenerh so, that he at several timeS enquired eagetly for lies pocket, in which he recollected he hail put souse monev, end which, to .a small *mono', vies fuunti. That Herod. Spa, &r. were deft) tied by worms while yet alive, are facts record .:1 by ancient historians, anti' that worms etigeeiler in the flesh and in nude, &e. is also trite; but those are not parallel cases, is they were the etfeet , of morbid pendentes, and specific disorders. The only case in modern (Imes, perhaps, of a hit eats being !Ring ender each circumstances, is recorded in the romantic adeentures of Iscerre Viciti; and even here the incident throws a degree of discre dit on the authenticity of the work, although it was attested by the annexed affidavits of persons %she had seen it. Yet in that case the sr•ir•its had only engendered in the lower extreatitii.s, while the head and the viscera, necessary to initial life, were free. But here Vie most essential organ of the animal economy was dissolved, while yet the living bring w.ilkeil and talked,. " Th- crept in, awl the norm• crept nut, And spurted his eyes and his te.nplee elbow," exhibitosg an appearance, even more awful than the ghastly spectre of poetic 'origination. The KtNo has issued his commingle for the dig tribution of a large number of ieri•to sheep, pre. sented to hit MAJESTY by the F4u; reage Junta of Spain, in the name of their King, FIitiIIINSISD the SEVENTH. Some of than he r e a t. e q t y at Portsmouth. Sir Josapa B.t .114 is to siiptirin. tend the distribution, in order t.i the plating of the sheep in the hands of those persons most !Rely to preserve anti to imp►ove the breed. the ietra. duction of which, it is hoped, will prove in time a great national b..nefit, by remit ring the etionvry independent of others for the staple of its woollen manufactures. 7 The SPanish sheep are removed occadbillity f ro m St. James's Park to the grounds Vrtitbit Buckingham-house. The good order of !heir ,parch up the road in the Green Park to tli s ekitt / 4st Hyde Park Corner is much nuilcee Two shepherds come first, whom seldom anjr of the sheep attempt to pass. Down the centre, at re. gular intervals, move four stately rams, with bells round their necks. Three shepherds and two large dogs elute the procession, in w l hl'ch thc4 e is nothing of the noise, or bustile . , the cafelessuess, at one time, sad the vehiumilem et anJther P of • oar drovers. er ears,. #:, • • I. k. ii • netting or the Directotlimi44becribers of the Strand Bridge has lately taken ,p 1 pea, wit et we 'indent:tad, they came to the determination of erecting the bridge nearly opposite to the Ly. east Theatre, and not fronting Catharine-street s , MOM originally intytuletl i as it n L od I i nt ,, r k ie ~.ttk part of tibe buildings of Suesyr•et : Th e arches are to be of the same dimensions, and a Cansewny of some length to be ereeted•at either ads, seat _tu.giva..an eisy declliatiun from the Strand, and elevation on the opposite side. It ryas originally Intended to have ertx:tcd 4 teopo yery wooden toll bridge ; but timber being scare, -east-abo Wk. eau:sous, the plan has been given ob .. U. .. • . . . , t • . • . . T