The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-25 00:00:00

TRY. LINKS Olt A ersrawr vriw OP STOURTOW TOWER. ?friar erected to the Memory of tlie immortal ALFRED, near Sir Richard Hoar's sea!, at Stourhead. • hrosu a descriptive Poem not yet published.] Yonder a scene appears. that may arrest The Patrim's eye. and shrill his throbbing breast; There, proutllv glitt'ring in the sun-brains bright. tiliy tower. tt Stourion ! burst- upon the sight. • Nall honnar'd column! sacred to the nanse It Of A Immo, first in noble ranks of fame. When barbarous legions from the northern strand, /' Like swarms of locusts burred o'er thy laud, Planted the Danish Raven on thy shore, Laid waste thy towns. and dreaded thy fields in gore, s t Unto ! the wise, the valiant, and the good, •! haughty foes, 0 Britain ! then withstood; 'With Patriot urn,, os• inglorious fetters broke, Treed tbv gali'd nevk from slavery's servile yoke; And• by his cnoncils and victorious sword, Affrighted Peace unto thy realms restor'd. Britain ! thy sons, in foul degenerate tinsel, Wheodark Corruption mood thy trunk entwine, Like ivy, which, with meretricious alarms. Rinds round thy native oak its poisonous arms; When tyranny assumes its scorpions disc, .i,,And liberty seems ready so aspire , • Rowed by the aspect of this sacred pile, Shall read the history of their native isle; Their eager eye tier former periods cast. And view what Britain win in ages past; Revel illnstrions Mistimes glorious name. A Hastrorm's firmness. and a SYDNEY'S flame; And, glow in./ with the same immortal tires Which warm'd the bosom of their noble sires, Shall, from Ins Senate. vile oppressors drive, •• Like wasp; felonious, from the public le ye." Thus. when th' Israelites. at Heaven's command. Through deans journey in; to t he Primus's! Land, Were. in their way, by fiery serpents sung, lei/ o'er the dying camp destruclon hung, Guided by heavenly light, their Patriot Chief I ' An object raited that gave them quick relief— Is' To the blest Pole they turit'd their languid eves, * At And view'd the Brazen Serpent with surprise; And, suddenly rel l iev'd root ail their ',Jain. ).' .liteiiiving health rusted thr .igh each beating vein. 1391 1 8 • THE CANDID THIEF. tit " Dodgingihe door of Counsel "Crifeh," • . A Thiei o wrv'd 'twas on the latch, Popp'' in. and quick again popp'd out, No• s With wig, and gown, and riding coat; sl Then wrote to let the Lawyer know That " he had set . % ed him so and so I" Adding Postscript—‘• I might Isase taken " COES upon I yvvurroar. and BACON, " But Law to me's superfluous .tudv. 4 ` Kr I am rogue enough already ! GLOUCESTER IN AN UPROAR'. •J remember as well ay my old PoPer-noster, An tiolage—t• A. sloe Rs that Goo is in Glreater ;" But of late in that city. l'.e heard the folks ay. a JIMICe (;ARROW leas hided up—" the Devil to Pay." Lembiagion Spa.J. B. NAVAL INTRLLIGENCE. DEAL. Attn.24.—Arrived yeiterday, and sailed for the River, the Europa, Talbot, from Jamaica; Eel log Grove, New, from Dlosinica ; and this morning the Asp, K , tiny, from the South Seas; his Ma. jesty'sship Phaeton, Rear-Admiral Otway, for the Leith station, and remditts wind-hound. • PURTMOUTII, AUG R4.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Driver, from Leith; and Rosario, from a cruiee.—Passed up Channel, the Fortitude Increased, 'Nanning, from St. Kitts, out seven weeks; pas sengers landed here by a pilot-boat.—Went nut of Barbour the Regulus transport, with stores, and , tbe•BalrfUslll transport, with troops for. Gibraltar ; both brought up at Spithentl.-I'ut back the Galen, Tracey, for Boston, by adverse winds. LIVERPOOL. AVG. 23.—Arrived the Mary, lbw:, • f r o m M un olnaas; sailed the Ist of July—was boarded by an Insurgent privateer, who informed them that the brig 'l'om Bowline had been on shore en the Man..' Rocks, but was got oti without da mage. Arrived also the arlmarnock, Robinson, from New York ; sailed 15th July—in lat. 43. 26. long. ,O. spoke the Rico, from Jamaica to Liver pool. The Fortitude Increased, Manning, arrived at -Portsmouth, sailed from St. Kitts, 7th July. Left there the Julius, Wickenden ; and the Everthorpe, M 4 Arthur, for London—expected to sail ohout the 17th July. Alan the Britannia, Sharp; and I,,rd Nelson, --, for Louden, were to sail about the Ist of Augoot.—tilw the Faith. Qoelch, bound to London, about a fortnight since, just off soundings. POLICE REPORT. — We are .rpquosteil to contra • diet the report of a case at the Nlansion•house, on Friday last, stating that Meredith and ltyan had ob• taitted 15 1 . worth of tea from Mr; Peck, of Coleman street, whereas they had only ordered tea to that amount, but did not succeed in obtaining it. The manufacturers of this t.•wn have this week raised the prices of weaving Is per cut, or about 10 per cent. on the sort of goods most generally manu• factored in this neighbour hood.—Presfon Chronicle. The Crown Prince coach was upset or, Wednesday innr ni o g, betwixt Birmi•.gliam and Warwick by the slipping off a wheel. We are happy to say, that the passengers escaped with only a few slight nruises. The two persons who accidentally shot a boy in .Bagnigge Wells-fields a few days ago, have made a Pecuniary cotopeostion to the father, who, as his child is recovering, has consented to drop proceed. The . Magistrates have undertaken to prevent the recurrenc of such dangerous sport in the fields al luded to. _ SWINDLER.—A few days since a young man, re pre4entrog himself as nephew of Mrs. 'louse, grocer, of Blandteril, called at the Blacking Manufactory of Richard Turner, 114, London-road, Southwark, and ordered goods to the amount of I It. Si. and ten 'tiered a check for 361. 7s. on Glyn and Co. purport ing to be drawn by Sales. Pollard, and Co. of Alders. gate-street, whnlesste tobacconists, which proved to be a forgery, .ind received a check in exchange on Sir John Perriug end Co. for 251. 45.--This is to guard shopkeepers from experiencing the same freed. lie represented his name to he Kintley. %Varsaw was visited on the 23,1 ult. by a dreadful storm of hail and thunder. At Praga three soldiers were killed, and live wounded, by lightning. A barn and stable were set on fire, and several buildings much damaged. Yesterday, at Hatton-gartlen, George Taylor, a constnhle, belonging to Pentotiville, was obliged to pay a fine of 104. with 3s. costs, for insolence, drunkenness, and neglect of his duty, at the watch.. bouse. Ile delivered the money with macb reluct. auce and was discharged. .V" _ ~,. 141 E BTATINIVIAN 'l.-? • CASE OF MR „ARBUTHNO7T. This letter will bring the British Public acquainted with the whisk, case, as it relates to the constant mg gressions of the Americans, the defenceless state of the Indians, and the obligations of Great Britain by treaty to protect them against lawless invasion. Nal.Fau. N. P., Aug. 26,1817. Sta,--I am especially authorized to address yea by the Chiefs of the Creek nation, whose names I affix to the present. " They desire it to he made known, that they have implicitly followed your advice in living friendly with the Americans, who were their neighbours, and no wise attempted to molest them; though they have seen the Americans encroach on their territory, burn ing their towns, and making fields where their houses stood ; rather than make resistance, they have retired lower in the Peninsula. The town of Ecati-liallo way on the Chattabouche, where Otis Mien was Chief, is the instance of the encroachments; of the Americans. This town is situated under the guns of Fort Gaines; and Mien was desired to submit to the Americans, or his town would be blown to atoms; rather than dal°, he retired, is now living in the lower nation, and his fields, where the town stood, are ploughed up by the Americans. They corn. phis. of the English Goverment neglecting them, after having drawn theta into war with America; that the promise made to them of sending people to reside among them has not been kept ; and if they have not some person or persons resident in the na tion, to watch over their interests, they will soon be driven to the eatremity of the Peninsula You left Mr. Ha biy to watch over the interests of the Creek nation, but you had hardly left the nation, when he turned traitor, and was led by Forbes to take the part of the Americans; his letter* to me, of which linnet you a copy, will show you what lengths he would go if he had the means. It is •Ilamlily and Doyle who give.ihe Indians all the trouble they Pape rience; they send their emissaries among the lower Creeks, and make them believe the Couhittes, aided by the Americans, are coming down on them ; they send to the Coultittas, Riot report the lower nation is arming against them, thus both are put in fear, and their fields are neglected, and hunting is not thought of. I have endeavoured to do away this fear, by writing to the Chiefs of Coollitta Town, that the, ought to live on friendly terms with their brethren of the lower nation. whose wish it was to he on gond terms with them, and not to listen to any hail talks, b-t to chase those that give them from among t hem.— My letter was answered by them rather favourably ; and I hope the talk that was sent to the Big IFar rior last June, will heal the differences between 'nem. " Ilidlis Adjo arrived in my schooner at Okolokne Sound last June, and was well received by all the Chiefs and others who came to welcome him home ; its consequence of hia arrival, a talk was held, 'the substance of which I put on paper for them, and it was cent wish a pipe of peace to the other 101ti0119. 66 Adjo wished to return to Nava so with me, but I prevailed on him to stay with the nation and keen them all at peace. " I am desired to return Ili,llis Adj.'s warmest acknowledgment for the very handsome manlier in which you treated him in England, and he begs his prayers mats be laid at the foot of his Roy el Highness the Prince Regent. I left him and all his family well on the ROth of June. 66 Old Cappachimico desired me to send you his best respects. and resquesta that you will s on(' ou t some people in ,sae among them, and all the land they took from Forbes shall be theirs ; at all events they must have an agent among them to see that the Americans adhote to the Treaty. and Permit them to live unmolested en their own land ; this agent should be authorized by his Majest)'• Government, or he will not be attended to by the Americans. " In the Gmettes of Georgia the Americans re. pert the Sums stole Indians are continually committing murders on tl.eir borders, and making incursions into the state; these are fabrications tending to irri tate the American Government against the poor In dians; for during the time I was in the nation, there was only one American killed, and he, with two others, was in the act of driving off cattle belonging to Bolerk, Chief of Sawahee ; whereas three men and a boy were killed last June by a party of cattle stealers, while in their hunting camps ; the boy they scalped : and one of Boleck's head men was killed on St. John's river in July. The Back wood Geor. glans, and those resident in the bordets of the Indian nation, are continually entering it and driving off stelae; they have in some instances made settlements, and particularly on the Choctokstahe river, where a considerable number have descended. • " By the Treaty with Great Britain the Americans were to give up to the In - lians all the lands that may have been taken during the war, and place them on the same footing they were in 1811. It appears they have not done so. that Fort Gaines on , the Chatta. houchy river, and Camp Crawford on the Flint river, are both on Indian territory, that was not iu posses sion of the Americans in 1811. " They are fearful that before any aid is given by the English Government, they will no longer be in possession of any territory. I wrote last January to his Excellency the lion. Charles Bagot, represent ing the encroachments of the Americans (as I was informed by the copy of a letter from • the Right lion. Earl Bathurst, handed tne by his Escellesicy Governor Cameron) that his Majesty's Ambassador had received orders to watch over the interests of the Indians. Since my return here, I have received from Mr. Moodie, of Charleston, an extract of a letter from the lion. Charles Begot. that the espenoe of postage is so considerable, any further commits& casinos of the same nature must be sent him by pri vate hands ; now, Sir, as no person goes from this direct to Washington, how am Ito be able to com ply with his desire? thus lie will be kept ignorant of the real situation of the poor Indian, and the en. groachments made 011 their lands by American • Extract of 14 letter signel W. Itlainhtv, received at Oituluhne Sound, Ma‘, 1817. 5t14,1 am desired Iry the Chief. of the nation to request you will extricate yourself from among ti band of outlaws, among whom situ now are, for the arm of justice is lifted up again‘t them. and it will ere long fall heavy otolleta. you, and your property. They say they would have no stye. non to your settling any way to the west 4 Appmlachicola River ; but where sou now are, you are stmong.a H.( of o utlaws ; "they base lately commune.; twenty mast cruel minim ed; wo men and children on the frtiatiers of the'United States, and stolen lie hones, and they say it is by your desire. (Signed) " HAM BLY. " Spanish Bluff, May 10, 1817." settlers,, w.hilts be may be told by 'the Amp- Vitt? _Go vernment that no eneroachnients bait, been made.' end that the facts they still hold are necessary to check the unruly Semanoles; thus the peison pointed to watch over the poor Indian, having no other means of information than from the parties interested in their destruction, and from seeing from time to time in the American Gazettes, accounts of cruel murders. &c. committed by the Indians, on the frontier settlers of the United States, he apprehends the Indiatts merit ell the Americans do to them. But let his Majesty's Government appoint an' agent With full powers, and to correspond with his hlajestes Ambessador at Washington, and his eyes will then be opened las to the motives that influence Amp. rican individuals Rowell as the Government in vilify. ing the Indians. ". The powers given me, and the instructions, were to memorial his Majesty's Government, as well as the Governor• General Harems ; and I fear that a Memorial to the G 'senior-General would be of do use. Referring you to the enclosed +, 66 I am most respectfully, " Sir, your ohergient servant. (Signed) as A. ARBUTHNOTT. " To Nieholl." + Si:vultures of the Chiefs of the Creek nation. to a power Riven to A. Arhutho at. dated the 17th of June, 1817. • Coppachi•nico. °eh/legion fustonaky, H.vmathle Mien, Ink !mai Wel Intathluche, Talnmehes Hutchn, Oharfr Tustoonky, Inteunuthluchi. Hidlie Adjo, Olud Mico LNL i Himathlo, oppaithli miro. Interpreter. PET FR SI 1L (; Eat Approve.t of by F. C. LC ENGO, Commandant. St. &lark's. - . • G'OTTUN SPLNIVERS. [PROM TUE LEEDS MERtURT.) The difreePikeeS between the Cnttnn Spinners of Manchester and their Masters still remain in :lulu quo. A sort of counter-statement to that made by the Spinners, has been put forth, not by the Masiers, bot on the authority of noe of the Newspaper Printers of Manchester. In this Paper it is asserted, that instead of 18s. er 19s. a week, the average " wages paid to the men spinners itt Manchester, from the Ist of January last to the middle or June, when they turned out, was upwards of 315.; and for boys and girls spinners, upwards of 174. clear of all charges and deductions whatever." We should have thought this statement much more satisfactory, if it had beet' confirmed by the names of a number of Mister Cot ton Spinners of known character. But perhaps they did not think it necessary to answer an anonymous address in any other than in a demi-official and ann. nymnas way, and we have reason to suppose, that the teiragriph in the Manchester Paper is substantially correct, far since its appearance, the fact has been communicated to us by a Gentleman on whose vera city wo can rely, that the average of 19 mills where men are employed, has been taken, and that their clear weekly melees for the last six months have been found to he 31s. a week, while the earnings of the hns s anti gii!s in 13 other mills, base been found to amount to I7s. weekly. We hove tin hesitation in ;aline this confirmatory statement to the infoimation contained in the Man chester Chronicle NVe ate 110 parties to the dis pute bet %PP! , the Spinsters and their Masters. We have satisfied ourcelars with stating facts. When the Chairman of the gtorter Sessions said, a little exult inglt „ that it was proved that one of the refractory wi.rkmen couiii earn Ils. and another 125. a week, we reported his observation, and expressed our sur prise at it ; and when the Spinners in their Address est►mated their weekly earnings at 18s. or 19s. a week, we did the same thing. Now the Masters say, that their men earn 31s. weekly, we are equally free to give their repot t of the wages of their work-people. It is in this way, by hearing both sides, that truth is elicited, and we condemn those only, who subject their Readers to hear but one party. This error it has been our anxious wish carefully to avoid; and we are willing to take all the odium to which the course which we have felt it our duty to pursue, may subject us, from those who are always paying their court to the rich and powerful, and traducing and abusing the labouring classes. It is not, we perceive, denied, that a reduction took place in the wages of the Spinners in 1816, nor that they continued to im• portune their Masters for months before the turn-out took niece to elevate those wages •to their former standard. It is also tacitly allowed, that they work as many hours as make seven days in the week ; but these facts are disingeniously withheld from the Pub lic by the Newspapers on one side, and the Printers of ►hose Papers have the effrontery to censure those who do not choose to follow so unworthy all example. It is not our business to reconcile the difference be tween the statements of the amount of wages as made by the Masters and their Workmen, but we suppose that the Spinners in their Address might speak of the general average, while the cootiter statement has aria. lizert them under the more definite designation of the " Wages of Men" and of 11 Girls and Boys." _ _ • Mr. J. Thomas, of Palmer's Vti!age, on Friday night, going along Tothill-street, a fellow knockerl him down, and before he could recover, robbed hint of his watch. Several wild docks have been seen, within the last few days, on the northeast coital of Kent,. which Is: considered there as an indication of an early winter. Saturday mnrni•tg the servant at the linage of Cot Bland, of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, corner of Stritfotd-place, having left the area gate open, and the sash of the kitchen window op; whilst he went on some temporary business about the house, a thief entered, and stole the table cloth off the par , lour table, a tea.caddie, and various other articles off the sideboard. Tuesday last, an old Roman coin was purchasod in the neighbourhood of Penrith, from a farmer who had found it in one of his fields, and on examination it proved to be one of FAUSTINA, the wife of the Em peror MARCUS AURELIUSANTONINUS—it is very per feet. Two heads of battle-axes have also been lively dug up near the Roman way upon the fell, of rather peculiar construction. They are composed of copper and brass, and very entire, and shape somewhat f e ambling the head of a tomohawk, used by the Ame rican savages. ISLE OF MAN. —The number of people who have visited the Isle of Man 'in the course of the resent season, far exceeds what has been known in former years, and the resort still encaustics, appaseatly without the smallest abatement. I•••• - • - ._ . . • ILING,ISTICH "SiZhS, Ana 10. • CROWN ei 13%.—R A PE. Charter Mar:fluky, aged 35, a tall athletic mad, etas put upon his trial for assaulting and ravishing Betty Clitheroe, erife of J. Clitheroe, at Upboßow& Mr. Cottearse air stated theme In the Jury. He mentioned that the Prisoner pod John Clitheroe were poor labouring men in neighbouring townships. Belts Clitheroe, a modest sirecle looking woman, stated that site is wife of John Clitheroe, in (LAM land. She has been sit years married, has three children. and is now very nhar her time. 01 the flth of June, shoot eight in the eirt!iiinc %pi)t to see her mother who lives in °fret', a township *hoot a mile from UphollAnd : thete is * public wed and a path through the fields; 11Of m.. her'a linosn at aline, carrying a hashelwith coals. c.itfee.itid broad, and took the path throu g h field; towards h er o w n , house ; she met the Pri,nner In she flit is.. and they passed without speaking a wn.d had never seen him before ; it *ss quite light, s;) as to distiortaish the face and feature.; quite welt. She afterwards met Thomas Goss, and they his , d without speaking When she had gone about a quarter of a mile she heard steps behind her. It was a remote solitary place. She turned round, and Ki 9 like to screens when she saw the Prisoner reaching his hand towards her shoulder. She said, " God bless me, how you frightened me." He knocked the basket off her head, took hold of her, and took most indecent liberties with her, which she resisted with both her hands and screamed out. He said .if she would not bush be would kill her. She was screeching as hard as shd could. She said. " Do, good man, have mercy, for lam with child." After the most brutal outrages he effected his purpose. Ile then r-n the way he had come, towards Orrill. She went home, and found her husband laid on his bed in his clothes. She said, " Hie - (haste) thee Clitheroe, and get thy hat, aid go with me, for I hove been So abused with a man as 1 never ens before" (or " as nobody ever could be"). lie got up, and would have gone without his hat, but she made him get his list. They went togs• ther, and es they went she told him bow she had been used. She said she was certain she could find him, if she could either see him or hear his voice. She could swear to the mats. They went on the way to Thomas Goss's, at Orrill. Ile was net gjne to bed. They asked him who the man was that he went after (fola lowed when she had met him coming with two milk cans on the path). They asked whether he knew thd man that he followed from hit mother-in:ilaw's folds Ile said he believed his name was Castles Maw desley, Who worked at Mr. Blundell's, and lived id the Nook. Goss said to her husband, "Is third any thing to do ?" We told him he Would come to no hurt, if he could tell the man's name. S'art told him that a man bad been ill-using h?'r. They went to Mr. Atherton, a publican, who had used to be tot constable. They did not sea him. They went thee towards John IVinstatiley's. and on their' issy met Neville and another man. Neville had abroad to he a constable that month, and informed them that Winstattley was the constable. They went to him, accompanied by Neville and the other man Winston.. ley's wife said h-r husband was not at borne, but they heard him speak. His wife then said, he would not get up at that time of night for any t ine. The man who was with Neville said he keew M a iedes., ley's, and would go with them. They %Put a n d found his house in the N At. They made a 0010 P the Prisoner answered. Her husband asked, if ono Charles Mawdesley lived there ? he said, ." Aye, I believe so." She said, " That is the man; swear to his tongue if I should never see him." tier bus.* band asked, if lie would he at home to.morrow ? he said he would for aught he knew. They went again to Winstanley's to get hint to t•kr Mawdesley into cus tody, hut he would not get up. She and her husband went to her mother's. A number of persons came together there. Her mother and other persons went out, and returned with Mawdesley with them. Wheat she saw him she asked where the clothes were which he had on when he abused her. He said she Wag mistaken, he was not the man. She said he wasthe main that had ill used her, but those were net the clothes be bad on, and asked him why he changed his clothes. He said those had laid upon the 'hoe ever since Sunday, they were the readiest : he said if there was any thing to do he would put on the other clothes. She said she could swear to him in those as well as in the other. She saw the scratch on his right cheek which she had made with her right hand in the struggle with him,— She told the people in the house that she had scratch ed him; he heard her. Ile was with other people ibeut the house all 'bight. He was taken into cus tody on Friday night, that was the next day, lint) brought before the Magistrateon Saturday. She went before Mr. Woodcock, at Wigan, on Friday, was examinstl on oath, cod signed her examination; she had Nen SO minutes or half an hour struggling with the Prisoner: he skinued the inside of one of her knees : she showed it to nobody but her husband ; she could hardly walk to the Justice's, and free quently stopped to rest herself. She was cross.essmincti by Mr. WILLIAMS at great length : she knew Jane Gaskill very well, and re. inemhered that she complained two year ago of a map ili using her ; she never did say' to J it* Gas.. kill that 'he should go before a Justice and swear agiritrsethermati and that she could get some money ; theWrah of •wham she had complained was Mechison. 2dr. Contrrevr ohjectekto this examination to a Collaterril paint. Mi. Bailin Woos, said he might put the qoestions, Set kis - must be satisfied with her answets i he could trot 'rill Witnesses to contradict her. The wittier gave the readiest and firmest negative 16 the questions as . to her advising Jane Gaskill to 'swear ravishment, and saying that if she only opened her mouth she would get 31. Her mother was Ca -41.1.1e Taylor : she hail not . shown the injuries she hail received to her _mother, or to any but her hus band: On re-examination, she said aheditt nut know 'ref any injuries st e had suffered but that nil her knee. Jottn:C;irheroe, husband 'nf she former witness, gave the owe esidence as his wife, so ter es be had the menus of knowing.` On their a as his write palmed, oat' floe spot %their she had been ill.useil : heitw dn. 'thing that night :it Is-as rather dark : wet day he saw some coals scattered at the place. Thomas Goss. on coming into the box, compthin. got II for his espence : h i s Lord sittd t at h ship saidt e had batW o as n e l itougli; tie might get afore it tbeCula •• , .1 4 # ..4...1 . 1 i .1 -; f " 5.1 1.4 t 1 - F• Of d• ck oat in` 'lio. ,'•