The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-23 00:00:00

o r sot our csuttons of Constitutional prudence should bc ./d H o wed up ; then, will they see, that a sol diery are the most formidable enemies to ill-directed Poor . The army of England are not slaves ; they re ad they can understand the iui p olic y , if ever rso of dividing them front their fathers, a ttempted , trotbersmlatioas and neighbours, and that a freeman is a freeman, io any coloured coat. Their officers, lo p, must duly appreciate the dismissal of Sir Ronewr sir ',sons ; and the spirit of Englishmen, to whom des notion is hAteful, will sbew itself. Letters from Rome, of the 3d October, state that the w otlier there had become very cold, and that snow had ; an extraordinary circumstance for the time of the year. • riAUBVIIGH. OCT. 16.—Accounts from St. Peters I,, :r gb of the 28th September say that Baron Stro-1 „oroffarrived there on the 25th. The Magistrates of Petersbargh have . resolved to send a large suns of wo re to relieve the Greek fugitives. On the 4th ( If seiaember his Majesty signed an Ukase, by which not on ly traie and fishing on the northwest coast of Amelicat, the Aleutian and Kurile islands, is forbidden to atiy except Russian ships, but it is even prohibited to approach those coasts and islands on pain of con fiscation of both ships and cargo. The Society of Agriculture, Science, and Arts, at eialons-sor-Marge, has offered a golden medal, value three hundred franks, for the best essay upon the fol lueing question Which, in time of peace, are the best means of rendering the leisure of the French soldier most useful to himself, to the army. and the State, without injury to his national character and mi litary spirit ?" 'I be Noble Earl who was referred to yesterday. as isring been summoned to proceed to Paris to meet the King, it is stated, is the Earl of Lauderdale. It is re putted that his Majesty has written to his Lordship, desiring his Lordship's presence there on the Ist of December. General the Earl of Chatham, K. G. with his Staff, Majar-Getter al Cary, Colonel Wilson, Major Faulda, snit Capt. Belford, have arrived at Portsmouth to take their passage in the Active frigate, Sir J. A. Gordon, f o r Gibraltar, of which garrison the Noble Earl has been souse time appointed Governor. The Active will o il the first favourable wind. A meeting of Hop-planters will shortly take place l a Dromyard, for the purpose of petitioning government f o r tbe repeal of the hop duty. • Tte greater part of Hilsea Barracks will shortly k polled down, and the materials sold. Accointno dmion will be left for eight officers and 150 men.— (Ilamipsfrire Telegraph.) The Preach navy at present, it is stated, consists of 58 sail of the line and 40 frigates. Maxcues ran OUTRAGEII.—Tbe events at Manches ter on the 16th of August. 1819, are likely, it appears, to be soon brought again before the public, and be fore a public tribunal, in the form of a civil action. According to an article in Tire New Times of this morning, writs of assault have been served upon Major liirly,Captain Wittlington, Mr. Alexander Oliver, and Meagher, the trumpeter, all of the Manchester Yea meaty. The plaintiff is one Johnson, but not Mr. Joseph Johnson who was convicted with Mr. Hunt. If the.plaintiff, it is said, should proceed in his actions, they will coins •on for trial at Lancaster Assizes in Mardi Duct. LIVEUPUOI., Ocr. 20.—The contest for the office of Mayor is the most severe of any on record, and the aunther of men who have polled unprecedented. The ► following is the State of the Poll up to five o'clock this day, when it was adjourned to Monday morn , llr.Molyneux Mr. Mullin, • 71M1 lst day, in 1$ hours 700 830 2d day, in 7 hours 330 331 3d duy, in ? hours . .329 1391 1379 Thtre is only one instance on record where the Elec tion for Mayor for this town lasted three days ; it was iu 1737. LEEDS. OcT. 20.—The return of the Woollen Manu facture of the %Vest Hiding of Yorkshire, fur the quar ter ending the 39111 of September last, has just been made up, and we are happy to report, that the quan tity of goods manufactured within that period, exceeds the must flourishing quarter in the memory of man ! The necessity for presenting bills of indictment at ear Quarter Sessions, on account of the nuisance (oc casioned by the smoke of steam-engines, has for the present been suspended by some of the most extensive manufacturers in the neighbourhood having begun to apply the sotoke•consuming apparatus. This good work will, we hope, proceed, till the town shall no longer have just cause of complaint against the mill owners, fur contaminating the air which ovary inha bitant of the place is doomed to breathe. A paragraph has lately passed through the London Papers, purporting that the Iron Trade, in Stafford shire, is in a state of prosperity, and that the work men are all fully employed. A correspondent whom se can depend upon has favoured us with a list of the following extensive Iron Works, which are actually &lading for want of work, though situated in the heart of the Iron Trade :—Bradley Upper Mill and Force ; The Level Mill and Forge ; Tipton Ohl Church Works; threat Bridge Works; The Cuseley Works. —Oar Correspondent also assuses as, that many other Works •ire only kept going at a very serious loss, and so far from the workmen being fully employed, their employers, in a variety of instances, are at this mo ment taking advantage of the number of unemployed workmen in the neighbourhood, to compel their men to submit to further reductions of wages.—(Blensiag- Arms Xeretery.) The county of Derby is about to have a new Gaol, calculated to accommodate one hundred prisoners, open the most improved state of prison discipline, and also a new House of Correction, with conveniences for - tine hundred and fifty persons. The site fixed upon for the buildings contains about six acres. RY-LAN E.—Last night Miss KELLY made her first appearance for the season in the character of Vanilla. in The Weathercock. She was extremetnly well re • ceived, and her performance was admirable. 81`6DEN DlCATll.Yestrrday Mr. Wall, a pork butcher and dealer in potatoes, in Fleet-market, while apparently io his usual health and engaged in his or dinary uccupation,fell down in an apoplectic fit and en "Pired on the spot. He was a very corpulent also, of a robust constitution, anti had experienced so slope's that had waned him of this awful blow. the 1;A lose . trap' •Y * The Subscriptions now in apace;*and those'Whielk are late ire nbt lessliberal than the first. Yestettay were forwarded the contributions of Sir It. Herne,' Bin., M. P., R. H. Gurney, Esq. M. P., Sir Marks Monck, Bart., J. Hector, E 9. and J. 11. Lewis, Esq.' amounting together to 100/. Besides these was the munificent addition of the Earl of Darlington's snincri Lion, which has been intimated to the Secretary in following letter : Raby Castle, Oct. 19, 1821. Sta-1 have derived much satisfaction in finding so desirable a mode has been adopted for an indemnity to Sir Robert Wilson, which I eagerly embrace, to 1441 my Subscription to the Fund, and have directed my,, Bankers, Mess rs. Drummonds, to remit Five Hundrcet, Gffimeas on that account. 1 beg to remain, Sir, your very obedient Servant DARLINGTON. R. Hall, Esq. Secretary to the Committee, 'Three Tuns Taverns, Southwark. We have the pleasure of stating that James names. Esq. has accepted the Treasnrcrship to Sir It. Wilson's Fund, and signified his intention of atteading the public meeting on Thursday. OUTRAGES IN iiiicouNri OF LIMERICK. --~- By further accounts which have been received from Limerick, it ai.pears that the outrages we stated yester day fall short of the melancholy truth. Besides the murders of ►lr. Going, and one of the Adair yeomanry of the name of Walsh, and the murderous a:- tack on Mr. Spading, a man of the name of Ivis, a tithe proctor, wl.o had lived near Askeaton, and another named Fitzgerald, have fallen victims to the assaults of the banditti. Mr. Sperling, according to the last accounts, was not then dead ; and bad so far recovered from the first effects of the attack, that he was able to swear in formations and give a minute description of some of the assassins. The house of Mr. Morgan. who lives near Slianagolden, was attacked, but that gentleman, with a spirit which we lament not to see ►sore general, bravely resisted the banditti, who de manded his arms, and souu wade them take to flight fur safety. The measures taken by the Government for the dis covery of the murderers of Mr. Going, had not time to operate ; for the account of the Proclamation issued by the Lord Lietenant and Privy Council, bad nut been known in Limerick till Friday evening. In the mean time, the Local Authorities are! on the alert. Major Stewart, Commandant of the Poict , , has issued an Advertisement, offering a reward of 200!. for any information that may lead to the detection of the assassins. No meeting of the Magistrate► has been yet convened. In the county of Mayo, a meeting of the Magis trates has been advertised—a strong disposition to se cret Associations, and even some outrages have been already committed in that county. There are some accounts from the county of Kildare relative to the prevalence of the Ribbon syste►n ; but particulars are not given. These disturbances, it is said, have not the slightest political aspect. At the meeting of the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley, Dublin, when the Address of Thanks was voted to the present Lord Mayor of that city for his consistent con duct, particularly in giving as a toast, " The .ilemory of King William Me Third," it appears that 51r. T. Ellis, M.P. WAS in the Chair. DUBLIN, Oc . r. 20.—Yesterd.iy, being Quarter As sembly Day, the Corporation met for the transaction of the usual city business. In the Common Council, a vote of thanks, on the motion of Sir George Whit ford, seconded by Sir Nicholas W. Brady. was unani mously passed to Sir A. B. King, Bart., for his official conduct during the year of his Mayoralty. With the same unanimity it was resolved, that a handsome piece of plate, of the value of one hundred guineas, should be presented to the highly honored and highly re spt cted Alderman, as a testimonial of his eminent ser vices, and of the estimation in which he is held by his fellow-citisens, for his public and private virtues. A vote of thanks was also given to the present Sheriffs. Asa corollary to an allusion, made some weeks since in the Morning Chronic*, to the advantages en joyed by a gentleman in the office of the War De partment, it may be fair, with relation to himself and his less favoured cotemporaries, to state, that, for the 12001. a-year that he enjoys, be states himself to be —.a very loyal man! That, for his half-pay of 3001. a-year, as a Deputy Commissary General, he did the duties of that employment with only the advantages of full-pay, lodging-money, office rent, a regular esta blishment of clerks, the forage of horses, &c., for several encampment seasons in the Kent district, under' the late Sir Charles Grey, with whom, and the present Lord Grey, be is believed to have formed that close intimacy which it is supposed afterwards procured his brother-in-law, the famows Mr. George Robinson, the agency of the 13th Dragoons, on Sir Charles's son getting the Colonelcy of that Regiment. Mr. B. however, enjoying, iu the mean time, not only his official salary and the comfort of being released from his War Office duties, but that of acquiring the :tape rlority in it, which Iras,.fo some years, placed him in the situation of principal clerk. For his 3301. a-year, he has done the duties of agealto retired Chaplains a situation which is understood (by I.ls iuperior), to be so lab.wious, as for -theta to have given him an assistant with a salary of 601. sleet; and for his 1301. a-year, as a retired privaleyeerettery, he did the arduous duties of that situation under General Fits• patrick, during the fourteen *oath's that that gallant officer held the secretaryship at the Horse Guards under The Talents. There are others in the War Office who may bate solid inducements for not only being very loyal, and good collectors of anecdotes for their supe riors, but to whom our attention may be drawn during the vacation of Parliament, and the hoped-for cease don of the stormy times which now claim so much of our attention. Banssat.s, OCT. 27.—The Asian at Ohetrt have soateuced M. +louden, the proprietor, amid M. Peseas, the editor of the Jostles! de GeS4l, the former to a fine of 1,200 francs, and the Wier of POO trims, for expressions relative to the Waite of Naples, injurious to the Allied Sovereigns. The seamed were restored to liberty as soon as sentence was passed. Tan SLAMS Taana.—lt is competed that the num ber of Staves annually imported into the City of Rio Jaaeiro 'Slue, is tbs . costa of a year, is from 20 .to '30,00b, besides what are impeded iota the other parts of the Bradlee—.Vat Yin* tsper4. - , - - ACUB OF PESTILENCE, LpNDoN COI.LEGE 'OP PHYSICIAN& AND .•• ? "1 . 1r4: • ** THE CITY OF BARCELONA. i ITOit. OP THE STATESMAN. • OF 4 LETT= 111. • London. Oct. 20,1821. Sing With those who have engaged in the discus sion respecting the cense of epidemic and pestilentia l :. diseases, as a matter of faction, rather than an a. smatter of science, it has been customary to set out by taking contagion for granted in those diseases gene rally; and, in particular pestilences, the dispute turned upon its being a contagions, or non-contagious cpideuric. By adopting such a course, the investigator immediately involves himself in a labyrinth of error, from which he can never he extricated, but by com mencing his enquiry dc novo. By assuming one side of the question, if that assumption happen not to be correct, be vitiates every subsequent step of his rea soning. Such a course is a complete inversion of the received laws of philos..phising. In the present case, besides the numerous usual effects of error, it is at tended with the " trifling inconveniences," as the par tizans of contagion consider it, of snperinducing the maintenance of plague police establishments, at a great expense, and of putting an end as much as possible to all human intercourse; and these " trViing . iqcoss• ceniences" must be equally enforced in every fever. Mil it can be decided, by the same grave authorities. whether it be or be not of the class of epidemics, which ought to be considered contagious, i. e. until its termi nation. Thus, we gain nothing by a fever being in the end pronounced nut to be contagious, since, during its pro gress, we have quarantine, lazarettos, seclusion, restric ' lion, incarceration, forcible removal, desertion, famine, terror, and demoralization, to encounter. Thus, with out its ever having ben ascertained that the fever now raging at Barcelona, is produced by contagion (I say nothing, at present, of the impossildlity of its being so) the very belief has occasioned all these "trijiiog iu couvenience.r." " It is nientionr,l, in an article from Sa ragossa, that the miserable inhabitants of Barcelona and Barcelonetta had suffered extremely from a want of provisions; and, that, to relieve them, boats had been sent, unmanned, into port, laden with flour, &c.; the sails were set, and the helm tied, so as to carry the vessels, with a favourable wind, into the harbour, where they were taken possession of by the municipal officers." Sudi are the tragical, the terrible effects of a belief, into the validity of which no government has ever yet instituted a serious and bona fide enquiry ; and, into which, some governments have shewn a de cided aversion to enter. I n this respect, the Turkish government, so frequently accused of barbarism. have shewn themselves the least unphilosophical of all their coternporsries. But to return to the fever of Barcelona, we shall, no doubt, be told by the adherents of contagion (all those must be so deemed who believe that such an agency can in any case be the cause of an epidemic ; for a disbelief of it, in particular instances, confirms the general belief, and is so far inisleailing, and therefore, injurious), that were it not for all the restrictions im• posed at Barcelona, were it not for the suspension, as ' far as passible, of all human intercourse, the community - 08aroelona, those of Catalonia generally. and of all Spain, could not fail to be extinguished. With or without police restrictions, inch would certainly be the conse quence, if the doctrine of contagion were correct. With the most complete suspension of human intercourse that could be imposed, no Society, as I have repeatedly de monstrated, could survive a contagious epidemic. A sing'ie pestilence of this nature would be sufficient to annihilate the inhabitants of a Continent at least ; and a very few to extinguish all mankind. That nothing like this follows the ravages of epidemics, reputed con tagions would be alone sufficient proof, 'if there were not others, of the erroneousness of that doctrine. If this were not the case, how many times would the inhabit ants of the Turkish dominions be annihilated in the course of a twelvemonth? Yet, under their own sys tem, we are not aware of its population being materially diminished; whilst the introduction, among them, of the plague police establishments of Christian Governments, would infallibly produce depopulation and an increase of misery, by occasioning the same mischief's which we now see, owing to the consequences of the belief in contagion afflicting the ill fated inhabitants of Bar. celona. 14:1 THE EDI CIIIRT.ES MACLEAN, M.D, MEETING To ADDRESS THE KING. Yesterday evening an adjourned public Meeting "to condole trills Isis .11ajest9 on the death of the late Queen, and to pray that his Majesty would offer a re ward for the discovery of the persons who caused the deaths of Honey and * Francis," was held at the Paul's Head, Cateaton-street. Dr. Watson took the Chair, amidst the vociferous applause of between two and three hundred persons. most of them mechanics. It will be recollected that the intended meeting in September, at the Jacob's Well, was prevented in consequence of the landlord refusing to grant the use of his room. The requisitionists, however, marshalled by the little Waddington, determined to hold a meetinu, - , and sub sequently applied to the Lord blayor. who promised his protection. On the Doctor taking the chair, he read the various requisitions, and an article from the John Dull. attack ing his party. This the Doctor declared, in many re spects tube untrue. He next commented on what he termed the endeavours of Ministers to entrap him in a plot; but the Doctor observed, that he would not be caught in any trap this year. He next read a long paper,which, he observed, was his speech on the present occasion; he did this so that he might not be brought to utter any expressions which might be considered libellous. The Doctor was frequently interrupted in the course of his edifying harangue by the enthusi astic cheers of the Meeting, the barking of a dog, and an instrumental band in the adjoining assembly-room. This latter " nuisance," as the enlightened Meeting considered it, was soon removed, and the dog ejected. Fur about an boar and a half the Doctor continued his hsrangue, and at the conclusion of his speech, proposed to the Meeting that ho should read the Re solutions. Here a young Gentleman rose and, opposed the reading by the Chairman as irregrlar. He was, how ever, clamoured down, and the Chairman, after stet lag precedents, read the Reflohnielt, which be after. wards proposed seriatim t bat the third, (muskeag to address *citing) . was opposed by the before rose domed tioatkowia, who was attackekby repeated Met -.111&*%. 11 10- 1 A-N. r reraty.it • --.- PL, of '• Name," " Turn him out," fir. The Oeutlem .n, however, resolutely +rood his post till !vaned do.vn. Pfr then got on the table, when a war of woider.twaed hettVien'the OAtletuan in question, Waddington, and .ffaiker, the Secretary. The latter entreated a hearing• fo him by observing, if he would not give his name, Neva! either Ai/. aITI, or roam each iofitoloos' fel ow r . An oproarons scene nox ensned, the Oen-. •leman was knocked from the tike and pushed oet of the r.mm, but returned repeatedly, and WAX as often b. at our. A long contention took place tbi star ease, while the Doctor pasted the Resointitibeand Ad urea•, &c. within, as soon as lie possibly totild. The Oen:lemon, with s.ime friends, attempting ezain to enter; were furiousiv attached anti beaten down the - stairs, hytrisjch their coats were torn. One Gentle-. man remonstrating was hoisted over the banister*, and much hurt. Between ten and eleven o'cltiell the lug separate(l, having carried the object of their & si g n Tutu execution. SUIWEI" THEAME. _,,,_. This charming Theatre npsneil last night for the win ter season. The entertainments were s ballet called Valentine's Dag, The hake's Bildt, The VeWass, anti a speaking Pantomime called Bum, .tru►a, Muni; all the production of Mr. Midis', who has seaved three apprenticeships in the service of the public; and, again presents himself as the Rarpr:.scatative of Homes, at the Surrey Theatre. The Ballet was received with that ap probation which was justly lite. The two young Kinn. WAYS, one of whom ,!anted an hornpipe in admiral , ic style, while his brother, in clogs, astonished the al dience, caner in for a large portion of applause. The Duke's Bride, is one cf those Melo-dramatic perform ances %%hick must gratify the lovers of that description of entertainment; but the grand attraction of the night was the l'eterans, or what appeared to us an adm;rab►e abstract from Mr. Humors's excellent comedy of the Birth Dag; as the Cotamo•lore, Mr. BENROCOII ap peared in a character diametrically opposite to that 111 e of acting in which we have seen him for the last 17 years. [his C'✓ptain Bertram teas a sterling performance, in which he was ably su;:ported by Mr. Hatreixu, Mr. a•iil Mrs. SALTER. A g'PAt attraction was the first appear ance of a young lady (A Miss Detorroxy in the part ef Emma. On her appearance she was cheered in the waal way ; her nerves were so much affected that she was .n -audible for some time ; she gradually improved, par ticularly in a song which received an enconraging en core. This young lady is of the middle size, aiith good face, dark hair, and tine symmetry : her merner at once %hewed that she had beeti respectably bronahl up. lier voice is suit and harmonious, and we make no doubt but that she will become an acquisition to the stage. A Mr. FOSTER, from. Bath, appeared in Hear!! : he has a goal voice, walks the stage well, and we ink.ka no doubt will prove an etl'e•ctive member of the carps. — In taking a general survey of the Company, we cannot omit noticing the eccentricities of a Mr. WYATT, who is a second LISTON, though no copyist, and we look uuo:► his talent as equal to work itself into public notice. (louse was a bumper at second price; and, truth r promised novelties cowing furward, particularly gta:: S. BooTtt, we entertain great hopes the industry of the massager will be amply rewarded. BETTING iiTTERS DER nv.-12 to 1 agst e. ont of Avcoras-13 to I agst c. out of landscape-14 to 1 agst Mareel.us-100 to 0 agst c, out of Plover-100 to 4 agst e. out of Pawn. OAILL-13 to 2 agst f. out of Reserse-12 to la st f. ct t of I'ope Joan-12 to 1 apt f. oat of Tipplty Re, et. TOURNAMENT OA MOUSLEY-HURS7'. This plain has been for many years the scene of heroic valour. There never were two hettrr pith d than on the occasion we ate about to record, °reboot equal tveig':t. CURTIS is a snakehraded one like Jew Belcher ; lAN:see, though as good a man in nature as his adversary, is of Quixote lutist, capable of bearing punishment without a groan, able and willing . to give. Tat. men with their partisan: , , skewed in the ring mass white upper to . egery and castors. Belcher and Harry Harmer seconded Cur tis, and Spring and Has picked up Lenney. Five to four on Curtis. 1. Lenney made play; Curtis broke hisgroentl, turned to ag ain, and floored his adversary by a lilt-handed bit followed by the right. 2. Curtis made the play, and cut his adversary on the left eyebrow, from which torrents of claret flowed, and, breaking his ground, be returned and made a heavy right-handed blow under Isis adversary's jaw. L-nney, undismayed, stuck close at his work, but his hit, were at too much distance for his meaning. In a close there was a trial of strength. which uas rather in favour of Lenney, who gave tbe fall, huilCurtis had cunn7ng enough to keep himself upkerinost. Two to one on Curtis. 3. Both out of wind; Lenney placed a blow on the throat, and his adver , are threw him. 4. A severe fighting round, in which hitt were ex changed about the head quite disorderly. In a cal y both were hanging over the ropes, but they were rot bred in the Randall School of wearing. Curtis baying his right hand at liberty, piled upon Ilse kidneys of his adversary, !whose back was not in its place to sustain material injury. b. Lenney again made play, and regardless of fear, got as near ilia adversary as he could, but Curtis had ail the science of fighting with him, and he floored his ad versary. 3to 1. 6. Lenney made a good hit, but like a skilful shot. Curtis returned upon him, and laid open a contmwd right check bone, a hit front which the claret flew like a waterfall in a second to the very iocarressbles. 7. Lenney's bead'was like a plain pudding, exhibiting all colours, and it was made worse its this round by a heavy floorer. 4to I. To the judges of fighting, the battle was considered won in this round. It it is unnecessary to go any great length farther into this fight. keeping in view some particularities. In the Bth round Curtis, having lost no blood, chewed himself the strongest man in throwing, whilst the contused head of his adversary presented an excliespered spec tacle. In the 10th round Lenney made a brave stand. and hit Isis adversary on the ear. but loss of blood had so weakened him, that he fell upon his blow, and had no chance afterwards. In the 12th round Lawry fell in trying to hit; and his head was ten to one heavier than his legs. In the 14th round Curtis let loose, and chewed some of the best fighting of Jew Belch tr. In the 18th round Cut tic hit his adversary down by a heavy hit in the throat, which would bare stopped all the heave China men of - the day , but the brave Lenney yet would not he denied. Gas made so me inspiring obser vations,but Lenney's head was too groggy to edify, and after the 20th round, when floored by a heavy bit. he was deaf to time, with his head reclined on his second's shoulder, Curtis was carried away in triunwh as a winner, sitting upright upon a friend's shoulders. L e n. my was left in an uncertain state.—Soule novlees di vided spoi, afterwards in what they termed fighesui. On Friday last, the 10th instant, at b'-r house No. 4, Great Ormond-street. Queen-square, the lady uf D. Duff. Esq. was safely delivered. of four fine chi'. dawn. three,boys and one girl. who. with the inothets are doing retnarkably wall. Mrs. D.'s family now ammonia to 16 children, all living. • -4.- • • A i