The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-25 00:00:00

- _ - •a' 7 77, w7r 7r 7 r, , 1124.itaziemizs=amitt NAVA I, IN7` k L LIG ENG E. —aro— I DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Arrieed and sailed for the i Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held River, the Colonel Allen, M'Lennan, from !Lisbon; et Guildhall, for the purpose of electing a Common from Demerara ; and Men. Tobago, We gimodsild, Pleader (Counsel) for the City, vacant by the deith tor, Bullock, from Oporto.—Came down from the of the late William Watson, Esq.; and for the dis- Ri se s, the Jane, Grseger, for Jamaica, and remains cession of other miacellanenua business. in the Downs with the outward-bound as before. The Louts M Axon declared a vacancy in the PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Stranger, Office of Sword-bearer, by the decease of the late ford, from Jamaica, and sailed again for Loudon ; William Cotterell, Esq.; and after some discussion, and Resignation, Brown, from Gilboa, and sailed for an especial Committee was appointed to enquire into London —Sailed the Russell, Thomas, to the East. the nature and duties of that Office, and to report the bard ; Sprightly, --, for Stangate Creek ; and same to the Court. Sincerity, liadcock, for London. LORD MAYOR'S DAY. POOLE, SEPT. 23•—Arrived the Nemesis, Smith, M. J. DAVI Es moved the discussion on a Report of from Newfoundland. Captain Smith brings an ac. a Committee, recommending that when the day for count of another fire having happened at St. John's. swearing in the Sheriffs or Lord Mayor should hap. It broke out in a part of the town called Maggoty pen to be Sunday, it should be altered to the day be- Cove, where the principal part of the sheds for dry. fore or the day after. log fish are erected ; the dwelling-houses are all of Mr. Dizorr said he might he deemed irreligious, wood, 12 or 14 of which are destroyed. but there was more danger, perhaps, in those who FALMOUTH, SEPT. 22.•-•Affited the Doke of Kent were righteous overmuch ; zeal blinded the under packet (2d), with a Mail from Lisbon, in seven days; standing. For his own part, he saw nothing impro. Swiftsure packet, with ditto from the Islands, in 30 per in administering the solemn and religious oblige days; Marchioness of Salisbury packet, with ditto, tiou of an oath to a Magistrate on a Sunday. No from the Brazils. The Martha, Hoare, arrived at thing could he a more impressive lesson to the young Rio Janeiro on the 25th July, 70 days from Lon. and rising generation than to behold such a solemnity, don, for Calcutta (leaky). His Majesty's ship Eden . and at the same time it would stimuiste them to col.- arrived on the 26th. fellness of conduct and attention to their moral and MILFORD, SEPT. 22.—The brig Hope, Rees, from religious duties, through which alone they could,) the Bristol Channel to Waterford, put back, having hope to attain similar honours at the hands of their split her sails, Bcc. fellow-citizens. Lisaturooe, Sere. 23.—The Orion, Thompson, Mr. DAMES thought it had been well known that sailed from hence the 18th instant, for New York, be was not to be ridiculed out of his opinions, or out bat arrived off this port with lose of sails. of any thing which he had to propose to that Court. Haewicir, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Prince of Gentlemen, he hoped, had lived long enough to Orange packet, with a Mail and passengers, from know that much good had been done by persons of Rolland. religious sentiments. He maintained that the Sab- PeNzANCe, SEPT. 22--The wind shifted last even. bath-day ought to be kept holy, and he would ask if a log to the-Westward, and became moderate, in con• religious observance of it was consistent with the great sequence of which the Staverton was warped off the and tumultuous procession usual on the swearing in rocks, and brought into this port to repair. of every Lord Mayor. The appointment of the Sab- BMW'S, Sere. 43.—Arrived the ship George, bath-day for that purpose would have been purely Moore, of and for London, from Tobago, in 54 accidental, and not at all in the contemplation of days; she experienced very severe weather. those who framed the Act, that it should be so em. played. To the simply swearing in of the Lord Mayor he would not object ; but who recollected its ever taking place without the procession being at tended by disorderly persons ? He hoped that tfie Court would take care that the Lord Mayor should be sworn in on some other day than Sunday, and that they would not suffer religion to be scoffed at. Mr. Dixon said, the Judges thought no harm in dining together en the first Sunday of Trinity Term. For his part, he would rather have the dining por. (ion of the civic ceremonies put off from Sunday, and he hoped that future Lord Mayors and Sheriffs would take care to postpone their entertainments from Sunday till some other day in the week. Mr. Alderman GOODREHERE said, that the Magis• (rates alluded to were obliged to serve one year ac cording to law ; and if they were sworn in on a Saturday or Monday, they would serve either s day more or a day less than the complete year. Besides, before they could make any alteration in'these matters, they must have an Act of the Legislature. lie had attended both the ceremony and the entertainment given afterwards on many occasions, and never wit-• nessed any disorder, but much of good fellowship, peace, and harmony. Aldermen WAITHMAY said, that in delivering an opinion, respecting a question on eating end drinking no man could be more at a loss than he was,itiasmuch as he had been but a short time in a situation from which he could derive mach information on those topics which furnished standing jests upon the Cor poration. He cared as little about those meetings as any man, but he could not agree with the recom mendation of the Committee which assumed that the Lord Mayor, Judges, and other grave personage', could not meet to swear in Sheriffs without com mitting some ezcess. This practice was instituted in times quite as religious as the present, and had never been complained of till now. The Court ought not to pass a vote of censure on itself, by showing to the Corporation that it could not meet without launching into @scenes. Mr. Duos then said, that, in order that this clues• tion might die a natural death, he should move that the Report should lie on the table, which was carried in the affirmative. DRURY•LANE THEATRE. —The Tragedy of Venice Preserved was performed last night. A new Jollier, a new Pierre,and a new lielvidera, afforded so many additional proofs of the determination to supply the Public with novelties, which has been manifested at this Theari e from the commencement of the season. The Judder was Mr. DATIL) FISHER, who afforded a vary attimated performance. His action was appro• prism, but rather too rapid, and he sometimes over acted the part. The peculiarity of his voice is not in his favour, and he has a habit of speaking et the top of it, which does not set it off to the best ulna loge. But these blemishes were obliterated by the energy which he displayed, and which carried him triumehantly to the end of the play.—Mr. CLEARY, who a few evenings ago came out in Othello, took the character of Pierre, and performed it its a very respectable manner. His last interview with Jaffler, whets he was about to ascend the scaffold, was Ca irn:m.ly interesting. When not overstrained, his voice is fine, and here he was most impressive. We may add, his death was well managed, and his Pierre, though not perfect, had much to recommend it to public approbation.—Mrs. WEsT, who made her debut in Desdemona, was the representative of Bel• videra, ard proved herself the possessor of talents 'I which • e had no idea belonged to her when we saw her its Desdemona. She presented us with a pic ture of the sorrows of Belvidern, in which vigour and delitary were most felicitously blended. The cur tain descended amidst shouts of applause, and the Traged), in obedience to the call of the house, was as u leursced for repetition on Saturday. NIAV ENTERTAINMENT AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR Ab AC AULEY, who, at the conclusion of the la4t season at Drut y-lane Theatre, appeared in searrat tragic characters • ith universal approbation, last night s h ave an entertainment, on her own account, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, called "The Regalia." It is a varied species of amusement, c. umsting of recitations and singing, in hiCh %if 45 M ACAULET displayed powers of the most superior order, arid met with well deserved applause, from an elegant and numerous audience. This body;' though young, appears to have studied deeply, and profiled much from labotious reading and research, and we conceive ourselves warranted in recommend ing her entertainment, as possessing at the same time great powers of instruction and amusement. An neat was spoken by Miss MACAULey at the close of her performance, which afforded a pleasing apeci -pen of that body's poetical capability. Report states that there is a large batch of Baronets in the Ministerial oven. There were some curious articles in the last great hatch. Mr. Kama meatis shortly to add to the number of Iris admirable personations, those arduous ones of Orestes, in the Distressed Mother, and kilter in Venice Preserved. MUNDEN is re-engaged at Drury-lane Theatre, t pon his own ferny, to perform whenever his old enemy, the gout, will permit him to appear on the COMMON PLEADER. Mr. Dixow said, that before they proceeded to the election of a Common Pleader, be wished to point out to the Court a difficulty into which they might get if a sufficient number of candidates were not found qualified, so as to give the Court an opportunity of selection in its choice of a person to fill this important stage. Report gives os to understand, that a favourite Pupil of the celebrated CRESSENTI7IO is Soott to make lher appearance at Drury.lane Theatre, and in a chi. Sayler of Music, which has long been the boast of our Euglish School—The Beggar's Opera. A new Piece, we understand, hes been lately pre. minted, through the medium of Lord YARIMOUTII4 to the Drury.latie Board of Management, from the pen of M. PLANCIII4 the Author of Amoroso. Mr. IA mnim, the Author of the interesting tad soccessful piece of Bertram, has produced a new Tragical Drama, of which private report speaks most favourably, sod which is said to be shortly forth. =mita; at Covent•garden Theatre. CORN EZCHAPIGE, SEPT. arrivalt of E . :glish Wheat time !dyads'', but there has been a tolerable large quantity uf. Wheat, Oats. and Barks from abratal s sales diaglv dull and without variatino &not Mnoday's tutees. — it. Beaus, Pear, and cr!ner articles on alteration. SMITHFIELD MARKET, sem 25. ' • of Slob. `;, ea- _ - V A3l ER lael IND EUROPE. r ` a ... . • T:p • the King, and the immediate dependents of the ter: vents of the King. If indeed the minaret-titter like a toslly and espeitsiSit Goseintneot, he is sitting; dreadfully in the wrong, to indulge this feeling at the eipence of the pour wretches Who laboUr tot him; but It is plain that he cannot afford tit pay good wages to both. lie Ought to confider and re. solve to pity roost to the most deserving ; and it is .probable that there it net a manbfacturer in the kingdom bat will lean to do so in time. Unforto:. nately, Many things oppose his learning this salutary teuturi quietly, and many other things may for some months to come impede his ... quietly pulling this ,wholesome lesson into practice; but if he were so Nsolute against 'those who take the•high wages for ' deinvnisehief nr nothing at all, through the medium if thel titles, as fie 'godly...is against those who lake only the humbfe wages of hard and woeful labour; ire should. soon cease to hear of any of thnAP comma. tions which now so miserably disturb the tranquillity of the neighbouring town of Manchester. We have said little upr i tn this subject. Lt is a subject of re gret, not of argument or of expostulation. If both the spinners and their masters like a dear Govern ment better than a cheap Ole ; if they like lases and paper money better than solid cash and unescised beer ; if they like the mock Representation of the Buroughmongers better than choosing their own House of Commons ; if they like Right UT•tnoerablell better than honourable men, and prefer Indemnity Bills to respotlsit►fe Ministers, we can only look Upois +heir contentions with that sorrow which we shall always feel for suffering and misguided humeri tut. sure : we have not a word to ssy to either-•their cause is entirely their own—while the Ministers in.: silt upon such exorbitant taxes, the end of these dlr.& sensions is plain enough, the menufecturers moat b 6 ruined, and those they employ must be starved. Whitt a picture have we here of Europe! Kings confederating together through fear, while among the People, that great social confederation between the employer and the employed, which ought to hold the classes of mankind together by the natural and be• neficial bond of labour, is either entirely broken, or rendered dreadfully oppressive by the extraneous „weight of taxation, which hangs like the grating Unto, that connect gongs of Rally-slaves, most griev ously upon both. From nations curet with dear Governments, and all the concomitants evils of dear Governments, let. us torn oar attention to the other side of the Atlantic. The Federal Constitution of the Uoi•ed States, is not a federation of Sovereigns, but of sovereign People. They have nought to fear, sod their hope of future greatness, as well as of con• tinged freedom and prosperity, amounts almost to certaiuty. They therefore act with firmness and yet with candour. The article extracted from the Ame rican Papers is said to be the composition of Mr. Jefferson. It is worthy the man who has been at the head of a great Republic, and who has again be come • citizen among his fellow-citizens. Ile writes with moderation and yet with dignity ; he speaks of the authority of the President with respect, and of his duties with holdnoss. lie reverences the station, hut points out distinctly the responsibility of the in dividual. The restoration of Pensacola and the other posts lately occupied by the American troops in the Floridas, appears to be shout to follow this representation of the patriotic Jefferson, and an offi cis' document has been published, showing that while a Meat State insists upon its own security, it I regards its stational bonnet more than the ambition of swandisement. A Republic may have recourse ito military movements to preserve itself from insult and aggressive, but it nothing to do with conquest. It may extend to other. People, willing to receive them, the' mutual obligations of its federal union, but it cannot upon any principle of freedoms compel others even to tie fiee. ...- E AUTbS. The following anecdote, connected with the prat. lice of tb ciiting upon Bank-notes, and the conduct of Bank Clerks, is communicated to the Editor of a London publication : " Sta,—lt is the general custom of men in busi ness on taking of Batik rags, to lii their good or ill opinion on the watermark, which has been said cannot be forged. lie that as it may. I beg leave to state to you a simple fact within my own knowledge. Some few months since, a nei,thbour of mine had art occasion to take a floc -pound Note. He offered the same in payment, but the receiver refused this five. pound rag. 01 course the tenderer grew less sods.. fied with his bargain, and knowing he had received the same from a man of much respectability, with without delay returned this suspicious jewel. The Gentlemen being satisfied it was the one he had paid, marched off to the Hank from where he WI it. When, lo 1 . Mr. Bunk Clerk pronounced it t Forged one. Then,' said the Gentleman, • give me a good one its lieu of it, its one of your own ten. dering.'—' Oh, no!' replied this discriminating judge, it most be forfeited.'—' Indeed,' said the Gentleman, ' after you have tendered it as a good one, nod received value its amount ; this answer will not satisfy MP, Sir. Gire me in return that w hich r cannot object to, or l will immediately bring an sc• tion in such a way as shall compel your masters to pay me amply ; and have such servants as know how to discriminate more correctly the validity or inva lidity of their own paper.' From this prompt alt. ewer the Gentleman was immediately paid without farther trespass on his time. This, Sir, is a fact, so that had the life of en Individual been at stake, it is probableit might have been forfeited, because a ,Bault Clerk was to be the only witness. o " Your's, &CI Gtrat Ealing, Middlesex. " J. WICK." Theilti leading characters in Lawts's Adelgitha l ail{ shortly be personated by Miss SoattaviLut aod tbp American Koscius, Mr. HOWARD PAINS. BILLVIGTOM died et Pisa shout three week, ter owner -owls friends implored her not foliage t ip . country rith a busbsnd who, lifter having lived separate from haretbroad for 16 years, came to Eng. laud, and derlatyi he could no longer li c e sitl.out her 1 but her ant or was, that tier husband demanded hei', and she thiught it her duty to comply. It la she left this country she had made _ . • , , a • .*.k, •J 4 . , e. s , 1 t Iv O. i 1 'i, I.' ( ~.\ s i l ? e • , t - il 1 ' 1 1%3 1 tiro grrATEgl4 COURT er COM 'ION GOLTACIL. ••• office. Mr. BROW% said he had a Petition to present from a Barrister who was not a freeman. be, therefore, moved, that he shoold be admitted a candidate on an understanding that, if chosen, he should take out his freedom withi►► one month from the date of the elec- tion. Alderman WAlTtimas thought the Court right not to be swayed or biassed by attending to the consider ation of one particalar case. Mr. Dixon said, that if the candidates had been aware that it was absolutely necessary that they should be freemen before proceeding to the election, they would have rendered themselves eligible. Mr. IlanvEv was of opinion, that the motion could not be sustained, inasmuch as the candidates could not have been ignorant that they ought to be freemen before proceeding to election. The Court ought therefore to make its choice instantly, as otherwise - it would be casting a deep injury upon (he professional character of the candidates who were eligible, if they sent them back in order to get fitter persons. The Court was then proceeding to the election, when it appearing that only two out of the five can• didates were eligible, Mr. JACKSON moved an adjournment, which, at. ter some time, was carried on • division of 77 to 61. —Adjourned. The two worlds, as they have been, tor sow. denominated, are daily presenting themselves to oar minds, in new points of comparison and of contrast. In Europe the Monarchs are confederating, in order to bold the People down : in America the People are confederating in order to be able to set the power of European Monarchs at defiance. As the Mendel of Freedom and of the happiness of the human race, we have all along shown ourselves more Mocked to the Confederation of People than to thit of Kings. If Kings cannot maintain their authority without the assistance of each other, they do not deserve to pos sess any authority at all; but the coorederation of the People is the real social bond by which free and happy communities are at once formed and preserved. It is worth while to ezantioe some of the most pro. minent particulars that have presented themselves to the public notice during the course of this week, re lative to these two different confederates. In Europe all is in motion. in anticipation of the determinations of the Allied Sovereigns at their Con gress at Ais-la.Chspelle. The leading circumstance in the business of their proposed Meeting is to re. move the Army of Occupation from France, bat they have another very pointed and very puzzling affair to consider, and that is how they shall cajole and controul each other, and how each may cajole end cositroul his subjects. In withdrawing their armies from Freese, they still fear that they may in. deed liberate the People of France : a People who can only be held completely in a state of thraldom by a Louis XI V. or a Napoleon. But the time for reflection is past. The time 19 come when their Army of Occupation serves not to suppress the in clination, hut to irritate the antiety of a vast nation of soldiers. They know, or they ought to know the character of that Nation: it is tractable only while one pad of it is in the ranks, sod the other is rising to the ranks; it can he directed only while it consists of an army and of a nursery of Conscripts. They opposed the only chance it ever had of changing its habits : of domesticating its ardour by an enthu. siastc love of itself—of exchanging its love of glory for a loved liberty—and of converting theservility of military discipline into the more liberal spirit of social order. They opposed this ; and they have seen and felt the conseqoence. They foresee and they dread still more tremendous consequence; they are aware that France must either he completely military or completely free. The latter they fear on account of its imaginary contagious influence on their unhappy and insulted People; the former they tremble at, even in idea, on account of its real—its experienced results upon themselves. France—colour the truth as they may.—France is still their terror. In this sense France may be proud of the chains to which she has been condemned. The Army of Occupation was a proof, though a galling one, of the apprehen sions of her foes ; and the imprisonment of her great military leader on a rock in the midst of the Atlantic, must be to F. enchmen a mental triumph. The Allies snatched from them their sword of war ; but they dared not to suspend it in the hall of their trophies —they threw it, with cowardly ahhorreoce, from I their sigla--they cast it into the ocean, and they only now dare to think on it, hut as they hope the waves may have corroded it with rust. May Napoleon and the military enthusiasm of France perish together end for ever ! She has shown symptoms of a better and more durable enthusiasm : she has displayed a love of liberty, as liberty ought always to be loved, that is, connected with the love of social order. She was interrupted in the indul. gence of this—the hest end the most comprehensive of the social affections. She was interrupted by Premien., and Getman', and—no, not by the English, but by Mr. Pitt and an oligarchy of English B o roughmongers. But, let not the advocates of real pacific liberty despair; the Boly Alliance is sensible that France cannot become the dull and heavy slave of the dull and heavy Boorbons. She Oust be milithry, and conquer them; or she must be free, end sets seductive and elevated example of freedom to their subjects. The Allies, with respect to France, stand between two evils : they might MIMI' one, and convert it into a benefit to all man. kind ! they dare not ; and, like a man centendiog against two combatants, one of whom a single wdrd might convert into a friend, they wilt probably ulti mately fall, the victims of their own decision. Were we to look more minutely into the circom. stances of Europe, we should discover many other causes of alarm, both to the Sovereigns and the Peo. pie. Every thing is misplaced : the natural connec. tion between Prince and People is out of joint; it is jargon, and jostling, and confusion. On the Conti. nent there have been changes and interchanges of territory ; the People have, in numberless places. no legitimate obedience to the Legitimates who presume to rule them. Government, not only in England, bat throughout the Continent, is much too dear: it is costly far beyond its worth. A good Republic would at the price which is now too generally given for a proud, petalent, and perverse despritism.be far too dear. Men had better return to the savage state than submit to give two.thirds of the produce of their labour to have the other third precariously protected. Men need not be afraid of the savage state, w hen they are so robbed by their Governments that they have no sasterrauce left for their dependents, and the mid dle class of society is obliged to see those beneath them, compelled to become either guesses or slaves . Yet that this is generally the case in most of the countries in Europe, we cannot hesitate to tenet', when we cast our eyes round to the present state .t society. Government every where in Europe is in cessantly calling for money; money agents are .itr general request ; taxes ere first laid end them they are mortgaged, so eager are Sovereigns ip makteeven posterity subservient to the power and the luxury of the present day : nor does coin suffice for their eztra., e ssence, they must have credit also; and the value of the goods of the merchant is often expended through a hundred modes of Imports and customs be , fore their arrival. The Government of England has had most 'tee (ice, and has therefore arrived at most proficiency The price of labour is no where more emit'," -- _ Tn sink the Offal, per stww uf isio.. fleet ... 44. ot. sass. 0.1. 1 Head nr tattle this due r ------- Mutton . 44. 6i. re 54. 64. Realm ....... -- .... 750 The Native Indian Warriors, who were lately in these arts. The price of latiour Vent .. b. oft. to 64. 4d. Skeen sad Lambs ...... 7,610 brought forward a_t the English O . rers-hooset are at guidance with its price than here. But this is noi said, that since 'trhe left this country D ue .........-.... Perk ...ss. Od to 6s. 4d. Calves ...... .... ...... '240 Lamb....4s. 0.1. to ss. 64. Pies .... - -..... .. 9-20 now per fo rm i ng at Piewcastle-upon- I yne. the fault of the employer r the manufacturer cannot over the whole 4.1 her property to her husboid, who HAY-MARKET. I The Autumnal Equinet, which is generally about afford to give those who work ferliim aes had been a Coramissery in BoNAPLaT's army, anti Ilnr ....„. oi. to. od. i.. al. Bs. 04, I the 22d of Sete fells later Mil year. It takes because he is o bliged to contribute So exorbi t antly to whom his lb ife , during his absence of 16' Italie, Comer .... Ed. Oi. ed. to 91. 0.. 04. buoy .... 2. ta. 04. to 21. 14:. 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