The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-16 00:00:00

Zi` . COLCHESTER ELECTION. Saturday Erasing. Niat o'Cletk. The feeling *lsieh exists in thh Borough at the present moment is without precedent, in all the, se. t ees abd ruinous contests of which it has, at differ. eat periods, been the scene. The manner and time Mr. DAVIS has chosen to resign ; the introduction of Mr. WILDMAN, an entire stranger to the Town and County, through the medium of a Treasury letter to a polities! Parboil ; his utter destitution of talent ; bis unequivocal approbation of all the worst measures of the present Ministers, concurring with an almost universal respect for the greet exertions, sacrifices, end acknowledged talent of Mr. llsavey, have roused the sentiments and feelings of the Burgesses to the highest pitch of courage and manly iedigna. tion. Mr. HARVEY was met this morning, four miles from the town, by upwards of 4000 persons, of all ages, 'conditions, and sex : the horses were re. leased frees his carriage, and he was drawn through ell the leading sirens, preceded by upwards of 300 torches, while the air rung with the shouts of" Han weir for Ever," " HARVEY and Liberty," " No Wsumems," " No Suspension," " No Indemnity 111111." On Monday the Election commences ; and iss it is Mr. HARVEY'S determination to keep the Poll open as long as ■ Burgess chooses to tender his vote, we shall not fail to record the progress of this inte resting struggle; not because it is supposed that Gen. tteman will now succeed, for he has wisely resolved not to @spend a &Ingle shilling; bat as it powerfolly displays the feelings of the People towards the men end their measures, to whom the affairs of the coon .try are confided. The general opinion is, that no .power or expedition can prevail against the popular -interest at the approaching Election : while the death 'of a leading individual in the town promises a re-maid,' of the Friends of Freedom (who have been unhappily divided ever since Mr. Tree szt's celebrated contest, and whose interest ■nd *unions are supposed sofficiently powerful to return Mr. HAIVILT and Sir W. BURROUGHS), and thus emancipate this populous end respectable Borough from the controol which a few leaders of a distracted Corporation now unhappily exercise. MR. EDITOR. , y The following irregular Lines, though devoid of any distinguished merit, being an eaternporancous fusion of the Author, it is to be hoped will not be deemed airworthy of a corner in your Pablication : TO 11—T Were those sweet accents Which aow'd from her tongue, And beguiled each lia,,ering hour; Which thrill'd through my soul, and to memory clung, And constrained me s' acknoo ledge her power; Were they coos ningled silts fabehood and wiles, Were thou , vows and her heart insincere, Did 11 --1 *Yeti seek In deceive wish her smiles, That heart is i,ich could bold her so dear ? Ale, me 1 While delighted I press'd thee, whh rapture earned thee, Far was the thourN which suspicion could cherish ; . While entwining around me the fetters that bound me, Far was the wish that our love e'er should perish. To leave thee, sweet girl, and to bid thee adiew ! bid my fond heart from thee sever, la death unto me—is it pleasure to you Nn I Ah, no I—then live fur me ever. Itriddle Temple. R. W.-I I. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFEICE, FEB. 14.—Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Draw bog-room, at the Queen's Palace, on Thursday, the R6th inst, at two o'clock.—(Gazctic.) Yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER, the Dukes of Yoke, CL4RENCC, and SUSSEX, visited their Royal Mother and Sisters" at the Queen's Palace. The LORD CHANCELLOR, Eirl BATHURST, and the Porteguese Ambassador, had audience of the PRINCE BeGENT at Carlton-house. • AkIIITRARY IMPUISONME4T.—We have received detailed statement for publication of the case of John Lancaster, of Almorlbury, near Huddersfield, one •f the persons detained under the late Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, one charge of High Trra This rose, in its leading features, resembles those of John Johnstone and Wm. Cliff. I,sitraster, it ap pears, was one of the victims of Dewitirst, the Spy, mentioned by Mr. Phillips, who had, on the 28th of March last, decoyed him end a number of other per sons. to a Meeting at Ardwick-bridge, neer Men. cheater, for the purpose of fabricating a sham plot. While they were a►sembled, the Police Officers of Manchester rushed in and haled them to the New Halley Prison, from whence Lancaster was taken in chains to London, and after undergoing repeated ex. atnivations before the Secretary of State, who told him that he was charged with the crime of High Treason, sent with a fellow-sufferer to. Chelmsford jail. In the repeated eliminations before the Privy Council, Lancaster steadily protested his innocence, but to no purpose. Ile was consigned to solitary confinement in a distant prison, and as ao man could prove him to be guilty of any crime, be was liberated at the end of six months without trial and without compensation. In the mean time his wife and child were obliged to seek a shelter under the roof of charity, and all this happened in a country vaunting itself of its liberty, and under the administration of a Secretary of State, whose humanity sod love of justice the country was told, formed a sufficient guarantee against the tyrannical exercise of the ex traordinary powers with which a confiding Patna ment saw proper to invest the meek and merciful Ad ministration, of which his Lordship forte. part. The ships fitting out for discoveries i• the northern regions, are to be ballasted with coals, and to carry eat every necessary for the construction of temporary barracks, should any unfortunate circemstaace ren der the stay of the Olicors sod mite an Owl for any kugth of time unavoidable. THE STATESMAN. ?arc ATTACK •x ring DUKE •• WEL LINGTON. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. On the night of the 10th instant, as his Grace the Duke of Wellington was returning from the Italian Opera, in Paris, attended by his Aid. de-Camp, and a Spanish Of f icer of high rank, who has lung been the totnpanion of our illustrious countryman, and has attended him through all his campaigns, the crowd was se great. that the progress of his Grace's carriage was for some time impeded. Daring this period a villain was observed pressing forward towards the spot where the Duke's carriage was situated. For tenately, however, for that time his intention was frustrated, by the activity of his Lordship's coach man, wbe whipped up his horses, and drove rapidly , in the direction of the Place Vendome. It ap pears, notwithstanding, that the assassin reached the Rue Saint Honore before the carriage of his Grace arrived there, and at the moment it crossed on the way to the Champs Elysee, fired at the Doke; so sore was his aim, end so deliSe rate the act, that nothing could have preserved the life of our great Hero, had the window of the car riage been down, which was the case but • moment before; the band of his Grace's Aid-de-Camp being still on the holder, after raising it, when a rifle ball struck the strong plate-gless, and shattered it to places. The Duke immedresety, with the restest coolness, directed that the coachman should be orde►ed to stop. His Grace alighted, and perceiv ing a bguer gliding round the corner of the Rye St. Honore, with an intention, as it would appear, of escaping towards the Barriers de Elysee, his Grace promptly advanced upon him. The villain instantly started, flung the rifle from his hind, with the ra pidity of lightening, darted towards the Thoillories, by the gardens of which and over the Pont Neaf, he is supposed to have made his escape. His Grace then, with that collected firmness far which he is so remarkable, directed a few Gendarmerie, who, alarm ed by the report of the ride, had assembled on the spot, to go in pursuit of him, and returned to ' , his carriage as if nothing hisi taken place. His Grace is even reported to have been facetious on the circumstance of there being no glass to pre serve them from a drizzling rain that was then fall ing, and which occasioned its being at first dta wit up. A considerable sensation arose neat morning in consequence. The Parisians were to be seen mustering in strange and grotesque groups at the various We., and reports the most extravagant were in circulation. The neat morning his Grace was visited by every person of distinction in Paris, and the King end Royal Prmily have manifested the strongest feelings on the occasion. All the copies of third Numb , .7 of the Sentiatelle dc tHonneur, which was on sal; a few days, have been seized. This political pamphlet is written by M. Joulin de la Salle, the cousin of General Ber trand, who is at St. Helena. The D .1, •of Welling. ton is described in it as r. imulent • •consul, and the most marked endeavours are tide 01 direct against bim the contempt and hatred of French nation. The author, it is said, will be brought to trial. 7 BAWX.wotEs•—The Accounts of Bank•notea in circulation and of balances of public monie► at the Bank, moved for by Mr. GREVFELT., were presented to the House of Commons on Friday, and are now printing. We have reason to believe that the amount of Bank paper iu circulation during the last six months, and at present, greatly exceeds the average circulation of the Bank at any former period. And that it may be stated during these last six months on an average, at not loss than TIIIRTY MILLIONS — being TWO MILLIONS above the highest average ever before stated to exist, in the various discussions which have of late years taken place on this im portant subject. With this fact of an increasing issue of bank paper, accompanied by a corresponding, and, perhaps, proportionably still greater issue of country Rink paper, is it necessary to look to any other causes of the late increased and increasing prices of gold and silver, and of the unfavourable course of our foreign exchanges ? SUDDEN DEVER OF SIR WILLIAM FRAZIER.--• This Gentleman died on Friday last, at his house in Bedford-,quart. At the moment of his decease, he was enquiring of his Servant the cause of a smoke in the house, when he fell down in a fit, and instantly espired. The previous (Iv he had been at the PRINCE RECiENT . 6 !Ater, in good health. Sir War. was between 80 and 90 years of see, and married his Lady whetiffis.rix, by whom he had twenty-eight children, soventcen of whom are living, three arms and 14 daughters. Two of the Ladies were lately married. A Gentleman reading a paragraph in a Paper the other day, which terminated in a Lottery Puff, very strongly expressed his chagrin at what he termed his disappointment. " Y don't see the necessity," ha exclaimed, " of MARTIN and Co. 8, Cornhill, and 110, Oxford -street, having recourse to such expe dients ; for if it is to resind folks of their success in selling Capitals, that is superfluous, for every hody knows it, and I am sure the ettroctions of the Three of £30,000, the 12 Pipes of Wine, and the Stetting Money in the present Lottery, are in themselves in ducements too strong to set need any other aid to set them off."—Drawing begins 4th March. CORP/ r - tiCHARGR. FEL 16.—Tke Market wet well suo plied is Oh Wheat this familia*, at a decline (Jet.— Fiue Barley 2s. per quarter lower s interior annspire unsaleable.- Oats and Beam h. to 2... and Grey Peas 2s. cheaper.—lo start articles no alterntioa. Wheat ( Foglia) 7O 94 Grey Pen 5....,... ...44 48 New ditto - --. &was . . 48 51 Ditto (Foreign, .... id 105 Old tls. .... — aye 44 46 rick do. 44 60 Barley NS 50 (kits ..... ......... 92 .96 New . .. Malt 6O 76 Poland da..... .... 45 51 White Peas 42 46 I Feed da. New ditto .... ....... Floe Flaw 75 811 Ditto Bullets .........50 IA *coeds.... . . . 1 Testa tbe Ord Beef .... 1. 44. to 4e. 8.1. llama ..4s. 64. est 6a. Yeas .. fA 041. to 6.. Bd. Pnrk ... 6e. 01. ti' 6e. 4d. Lamb ...Oa. 04. to Oa. 01. IA /IX Ftif. 16. , per stone of Sibs. Head ..t Cattle this Amyl Beast& Sheep and Limbo 19410 Cairn Pier HAY-MARKET. Hay Clover Sum «.4,- I'. lb, W. 4 it. is. W. GENERAL ELI —..0..- 'IN... _ EXTRACT OF ♦ LETTER FROM KENDAL, DATED Atd• NESDAY NIGIIT. " This day was fixed by the Loathers for making a grand entry into Kendal. All the Gentlemen, chiefly Clergymen, in their Intermi t mustered early In Wrday to attend them. brW,...booses bad been Opened some days be fore, and thonsandt of yards of yellow ribband die tribated. The most onpleasant symptomb began, however, to appear, for on Tuesday the ale was drank to the cries of Lowther ale and Brougham for ever!' and the ribbandt Were no sooner tribeted than they were dyed blue, 'Mr. It's colour. A great dinner was ordered in the Towo-Hall • and as no Weitmnrland men could be got, in and near 'Kendal, to draw the carriage, nine barilels of ale were sent to the canal-workers (Scotch and Irish la. bearers), and a guinea a head giweb to hire them for this service. " Mr. Breagham's Committee !steed an Address,' exhorting the goad people to k betters with the ut most propriety upon the arrival of Lord Lowther and Colonel Lowther'—But the Lowther caval cade was attacked, and several of the carriages pelted and covered with med. Mr. Bolton, of Stows, who made himself very active in the cause against the Independent interest, end one or two of the cle rical •partizans, suffered considerable indignities ass this occasion. The carriages of Lord Lows they and Mr. Wilson, of Helium Tower, reached the inn—and as the two Members, in their printed Ad dresses, bad promised to jorify their conduct and expose ' calumnious misrepresentations,' of which they complained, Mr. J. Brougham, after exerting himself in every direction to preseri.• the peace at the town, and with sech success es to obtain for the adverse party a quiet hearing, called upon the Noble Lord and his brother, the Colonel, to come forwent with their promised vindication, and to show what single misrepresentation had ever heen uttered by any of the Independent party. 'fhis call was re.- pettedly urged, without any effect, both by Mr. J. B. and Mr. Henry Curwen, who exerted himself ably and powerfully on the occasion. No answer could be obtained, either from the two Members or from the Rev. Dr. Satterth wake, who had COMP VD II !I them." IMPACT OP ANOTHER LETTER--WEOPsDA Y. " The Committee of the Independent interest had issued hand-bills, requesting the People to receive the Lowthers with pertect propriety ; and every one bad reason to expect the most orderly behaviour. not withstanding the extreme unpopularity of the Low ther WMe in all parts of the county. The conduct of their partisans, however, interrupted the harmony of the town awl neighbourhood. Finding they could get mune of the Westmorland men to draw their car riage, they had recourse to the offensive and most blamable erspedient of sending large quantities of think to the labourers employed upon the canal. who are Irish and Scotch ; and they also gave them a guinea eAch to serve them fur the day. This excited the strongest feelings of indignation, and the Is. boaters were in such a condition as to render a scuffle almost inevitable. The universal opinion is, that no Warne whatever can be imputed to Mr. Brougham's friends, who eaerted themselves in e ve r y directtnii to prtierat the bad etreas uT the culpable proceedings of their entagonists." MEMOIR Uls' RICILIRD CROFT. Sir Richard Croft, Bart. AM. D. served an appren. ticeship to Mr. Chavasse, an Apothecary, at Burton upon.Trent. On the expiration of the term of his servitude, his parents sent him to London, to corn. plete his medical education. Here he became a pupil of the celebrated Dr. Hunter; and b, the recommen dation of Dr. Millie (a fellow pupil) he boarded and lodged with Mr. Denman, an Apothecary, then living in Queen-street, Golden-square (being contiguous to Hunter's theatre in Windmill -street, whose chief dependence was on hoarding and lodging the pupil' of Hunter). The Duchess of Newcastle, who was then pregnant, and its a bad state of health, being advised by Hunter to go to Portugal, engaged Mr. Derimen, on the recommendation of Mr. Hunter, In accompany her, chiefly for the purpose of aquaria. tending her labour. iler Grace having a good time, and the climate having greatly improved her general health, she and the Doctor returried to London. Soon after their arrival, Hunter discharged bus debt to nature, and her Grace everted all her interest to snore for Mr. Denman Hunter's Midwifery practice. Mr. Denman finding that through her (bac?s interest he should be establisher, as the fashionable accoucheur in London, relinquished his shop and boarding.) onse l purchased a diploma, and started as a Physician.sc.. coacher's., and to give en importance to his profes sional character, commenced Lectures on the Science of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Children. Sir Richard Croft commenced his career as surgeon, apothecary, and mail-midwife at tudbary, where a predilection for the sports of the field introduced him to Lord Vernon. From Tudbury he went to Ox ford, which he quitted for London. Dr. Denman being now in great practice, Sir Richard and Dr. Baillie renewed their acquaintance with his daughters, whom they soon afterwards conducted to the altar.— Denman having acquired are independence by his practice, and the liberality of the Duchess of Devon shire, he gradually withdrew from the fatigue of practice, in order to introduce his sons-in-le ; and this he messaged with so much dexterity, that Sir Richard 1b a short time succeeded to the whole of his practice—probably in consequence of Dr. Denman's having intimated that he would give him his attendance in cases of difficalty. Dr. Ihillie being also the nephew of Heater, a powerful interest was this formed, sollicient to semen the best practice la the metropolis for the aeus•ia-law of Denman. On a chair by the side of the bedstead on which the deceased lay, In Mr. Thackeray's house, were seve ral of Shakspear's plays. The room was very small, and it appeared as if the deceased had been reading, I One of the play-books lay inside the fender, and was entitled Love's Lebow?. Lost. Oee if the July tuok up the book and noticed to his brother Jury *en that one of the characters used the (ollowirsg es. pressions ire the page which lay open on the hearth : " Good God where's the Princess 1" The getuwea's Parliamentary Levees commie-A on Saturday evening, at half past-nine oVock, which being the.firet ibis Session, wee bat thinly attended. I r IfUL INMLLiGENCE. • DEAL, Fits. 14.—The Dutch pllidt Orlen, Wes, from Rotterdam to Dublin, laden with linseed in casks, was stranded on the Goodwin Seeds eft Fri a day night last—crew sated, and landed at Ramegate. The boats are gone of to endeavour to save part of the cargo and 1401MS.—Rentsia the Denim and Castle Huntley, for Benpl. Frs. 15.—Sailed this morning the Catiffe Stotler and Desire, for lodis.--Upwsrds of 100 casks of linseed hare been landed here, saved front the pttiot Orion, lost on the Goodwin Sands on Friday night. —Came down from the Riser the Aurora, Earl, for Madeira and Madras; Swallow, Oliver, fot Isle of France; Hero, James, for Genoa ; Here, &arts for Cadiz; Pheasant, Barnes, for Lisboa ; ,ad R oyal Edward, —.., for Lisbon. PORTIMOuTaI, FEB. 15.—Arrived the Morley, Brown, front Batavia, bound 16 Rotterdaml-4he Cumberland, Wilkinson, front the Doha!' for India; and the Memory, Mellen, from Copenhagen for Africa, pivoted down Channel yostesda t 4—Arrilea the Duke of York, from London for St. lasers. PLYMOUTH, Fun. 13.—Caine in the Emma, Jae• wood, from the South Seas, out 17 months, tad re• turned a full ship, last from St. [Went, in 56 days passage. - • FIRES. k ; + • This motOing a little after he 'Al.*, tire Urge cotton-mill of Mr. Thomas Atkinson, at Caine. bridge, near Huddersfield, was discovered to be oft fire, and though every eitertian was used to Patin. goish the names, the hula of it *us burnt to the ground. But the moat calamitous and dreadful part of this misfortune is pit to reitite; for- in conse. qtwnce of the fire begitinlog near the btaircase, the, retreat of a number of the children r. as cut off, and upwards of 14 girl., who had been working all night in the tuctory, perisnA in the flames. The bodies of sis of these aulleiers have been dug from the Mins, but in so metilated a state as to render it impossible for their nearest friends to recognise eked'. The cost- Fterttation and distress occasioned among the friends of those children who are mi,silig f toe/ be conceived, but cannot adequately be described.--( Leeds Mer cury, Feb. 14.) On Tuesday night, the cry of " fire" rang throegh our streets (Nottingham), and no mall c .nsternation wss eseited by the report that tho banking-house of Messrs. Fellows, Mellor, and liar, was eoveloperl iu flames, and cr,:wdi of people hastened to the spot. This report, though not unfounded, was happily much exaggerated ; the room in which the hauking busine►s was usually transacted, was actually on file, and at one time the cot ration hid a very menacing appearance, bet by thiMsertions made, the flames were got under and the building saved. We under+ stand the accident originated from a flue belonging to another apartment, which after running undie the floor of the room in question goes lute the chimney. There bed been a lire that day, and sheet balf•past eight in the evening, the cook discovered that the room was on fire, and on procuring the key and opening the rimer, the flames rushed oat. The slang w a s immediately giveu, and assistance being at hand, ' the r•n4ines wets soon broeght to the spot and began to play through the door into the room ; it was, hoe.. ever, found necessary to break open the shatters, a work of (Airtime difficulty, and when some of the panels were forced out the engines played in, and there being no ace rt,iy of nicer and the people ►ery active in giving assisia Cie fire was got under.—. About 20 minutes after Ili, ~ 'crock a persnn appear. eti at one of the upper window% 14 rid informed the con gregated Multitude, that all was safe, sod there was no further danger. Neither the banks nor money were Hared, and the whole extent of the loss is not estimated at more then 2001. The premises were in. g o red in•tbe Birmingham Fire.office.—(Nottinghals Review.) Arrounts from Rome giwe a deplorable picture of the vete of the county, from the incursions of the brigands. They increase daily in their audacious depredationa, anti even sustained a successf .1 con. flirt with the military near St. Lomita. The con tinuance of these egresses is attributed to the want of co-operation on the part of the Neapolitan Go "aliment. Admiral Daum and General Oswato were in. vested with the insignia of Knights Commanders of the Bath, on Thersday, after the Levee. They had been appointed so long back as the month of Jan. 1818. Friday Mr. 8E Err, the Judge-Advocate, had an audience ditto. liaises Recoil., at Carlton house, and laid before his Royal Highness the pro. reeding, of some Coorta-Martisl, and took his Royal Highness's commands upon them. Wtt Sours.—lt is proposed, by a few persons forming tl Club in the City, for the purchase of Tickets and Shares in the present Lottery, that should they become entitled to any part of the It Pipes of Port Wine, which Bisu has soperadded to the Scheme, that the landlord be required to cellar it fur their use ; and that the quantity obtained shall regulate the allowance to each member nightly, it being un derstood that in any case it shall not be less than a pint, not more than hen bottles.--An (sigh member observed, 6 ' that he was sore the blind Godde,s would lint overlook such good fellows, but che them, with theft share of the Wine, a share of the Ono Hundred Capitals into the bargain, in which case he would not fail to toast the health f Busts, het Prime Minister." On Saturday afternoon his Serene Highness the Prince of Hesse liolliatatri had the honour of being infreduced to her Heys! Highness the Princess Km :Anita, by the Patmcc ['enemy, at the Queen's Th• Patrice Raciest at the isms time la 'reduced his Serene Highness to her MAJESTY, the Princess AUGUSTA, and the Duchess of Geoutestza. The latter had previously arrived for that purpose from Gloucester-boast. His *rem' Higheese was molt graciously received by all the Royal personages; • he confirmed his visit a• hear and • half, and then left the Palau► with the Peurce Ittetrur. Apart. meets are preparing in St. James's Palece for the re sidence of his Serene ifighnen t who th °peeled to ray semi time iu Eogland. ~. A 1 , 9 I 1 ".t: I '4 w ~~