The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-02-16 00:00:00

'1 14 0, 1:. THE STATESMAN. vial to the independeace of the Bench.--(Applause.)—, -. --s m— - I The next beneficiaLact was the suppression of general The Cafeteria Journal contains the particulars of a warrants. This measure, in his opinion, still rendered ung and lowest:or letter, describing a series of acci- every Englishman's house his castle. The third dis ,•eors which happened to a thet of boats, carrying a t uguishing act of the late reign, was the abolition of the detachment under the r 111111 l moil of Major Brooke, of . slave trade. Is this measure, not less wise than it was die Horse-Ar... ers, from the period of their entering . post, every frieed of humanity must rejoice, and every Englielinian must feel peculiar satisfaction.—(Applause.) the Magee, to that of th e ir arrival at Dinap o o r: — The last instance of the beneficence of the late reign Ou the Inds of Juue, one of the boats, uoi board which a detachment of his Majesty's 24th Regiment was etio was the extended laws and influence of toleration and Larked, is stated to have upset ; by which accident one religious freedom. He was a ware that he was here private and three children were drowned. On this oc- tour/ling upon delicate ground. He alluded to Catholic leasion the heroic conduct of a Naique, belonging to the emancipation. Catholic emancipation his late Majesty lath regiment Native lufantry, is deserveuly spoken of had readily conceded and views of duty and his hissupported, so far as he had in terms of the highest approbation , thi s b rave f e ll ow , thought it compatible w ith having, at the peril of his life, rescued nu leas than conscience. When be had conceived conscience and eleven men, two women, and one child, from destruction, duty to forbid further concessions, his firmness was only being under the necessity o f carr yi ng o ff each o f t h en , equalled by his clemency. Throughout his long and separately from a part ut the wreck, to which they were arduous life, Oeorge 111. had been uniformly moral, clinging, with scarcely any reasonable hope of escaping. manly, temperate, beneficent. Every religious, domestic, On this arrival, at Mongeer, on the trith, they heard of and social duty adorned his character. His amusements 'die loss of a hudjerow belonging to Ensign Farrington, were manly, his pursuits were useful. In the hes.'.oftil which was upset in a very broad and deep part of the amusements of the chase, in the useful pursuits of agri river, at the distance of a few miles below that place. i culture, he was the model of the English gentleman. The This young other' , is described as basing lost the whole i greatest agriculturists of the age, the one an eminent of Isis property and baggage, and to have been indebted i rel.' the other an illustrioas commoner,(he meant the !ate for his life, first to die exertions of a boatman . who )du k e of Bedford, and Mr. Coke of Norfork,) had but fol. dregged him out of the water, and set him on the bottom 1 lowed the example of his Majesty. In the fine arts he was of the boat, which was then uppermost, and next, tot the own aselstanee of his friend Ensi gn :trnistrong, who relieved hint from that perikns situat ion , an d too k hi m on board ts nuojetow. sin the evening o f t h e 30th, after leaving klongeer on the inith, another buoljerow belong- accomplished, and he patronised their professors. He had a fine taste in music ; he had displayed taste and jelly mem in the encouragement a ff orded to painting in So cu inerset-house ; ne h a d co ll ec t e d o ne of the best libraries, of the merits of which he had been one of the best fag to the tieet was upset, and Lieut. Bowers, of his Jud g es. Thus accomplished, he lived beloved and ho- Majesty's 14th Regiment, was washed fairly out of the noured, and, now be was dead, bin virtues and his woe di xindow, by the sudden influx of the water un the would live for ever embalmed in the been' of the Bri opposite side. This officer appears to have been saved fish nation.—(Long continued applause.)—They were, principelly by the presence of mind of his bearer, who, at the same time, to express their congratulations that though in an equally perilous situation himself, was not their late lamented Sovereign was succeeded by his pre forgetful of his master, but succeeded in placing him on sent Majesty. His talents and accomplishments were the bottom of the boat. This accident occasioned great well known to be of the highest order; he delighted, he bustle in the fleet, and a small guard-boat, dispatched enchanted, all who approached him.—(Applause.)—He .mmediately by Major Brooke, arrived in time to receive (Mr. prilison) could say that in former times he bad ex those who were clinging to the wreck ; but no sooner perienced attention andkindness from his Majesty which had she quitted her than it snnk and totallvdisappeared. lie could never forget. His Majesty had been brought On the day after the loss of Lieutenant Rowers bottle- tip in attachment to the principles of the Constitution; row, another of the European boats sunk o ff liar, when lie had repeat e dly e xp ress ed hi s det e rminati o n t o main , oone of the pri v at es o f his Majesty's 07th Regiment of lain then, ; and there could be no doubt that he would Vont was drowned. This poor fell ow bad hi ni seify ea ch e d maintain the Constitution, and transmit it unimpaired.— 'the shore. though quite exhausted with the exertion, (Very peat applause.) when, observing the wife of the setjeant, who still re- Sir fitomss Matron rose principally in order to ex unlined on the wreck, struggling to save her children, in plain how his name was atached to the requisition : he a state of the utmost peril and anxiety, weak anti ex. had always contended that county meetings ought to Initiated as this brave soldier was, he threw himself into be not only meetings of the freeholders, but of the in the stream, ill the hopes of s av i ng th em ; lint his habitants of the county. It ought to b e so on the pre strength tailed hint, and, in this heroism, he sunk be. sent occasion ill particular. But his friend, the absent teeth the overwhelming ma ss o f waters . It I s grat ify. member for the county, had clone him the honour to in ing to learn that the fund mother and her children were sert his name. He had not had an opportunity of seeing at length saved, though the brave fallow, who thus de. the requisition, or he should bare objected to its being toted his life to the cause of humanity, alas! rose no limited to freeholders. more! Mr. TROWER (High Sheriff) said, he should first ad vert to the point tot etiquette alluded to by the Hon. Baronet. This was a constitutional meeting ; free holders were a part of the Constitution, the inhabitants were not ; they were now assembled in the county-court, where only the freeholders were understood to meet ; therefore the requisition was constitutionally limited. The inhabitants knight, if they chose, call a meeting fur the same purpose. - But the object of their meeting was to express their sorrow for the death of his late Ma jesty, and their satisfaction at the accession and recovery of his present Majesty. The honourable seconder had justly said, that his late Majesty's reign had been a long and an eventful reign. It had been so; but be regretted that political events shonld be at all introduced in delineating the character of his late Majesty. 'I he separation of Arteries, and the y revolutionary war of Fraace, had excited feelings and opinions which bad net yet received fell explanation. 1 hose great events had, it was true, come to a temporary termination; but it was still r ed for posterity to form their judgment of the principles winch then in fluenced public men. The temporary passions excited by those events, and the feelings associated with the great leaders that distinguished themselves during that period, must be buried in the tomb ere an accurate, a just, and impartial decision can be obtained. His late Majesty had come to the throne at a difficult, an awful crisis. lie had begun to reign when the p.ogress of knowledge, the diffusion of education, the general spread of civilisation among all classes of the people, gave a character and decision to national movements never known before. Those principles were in full operation when he began to reign, and produced different effects in different nations, according to the obstacles opposed to them. From those principles sprung the separation of America and the French revolutionary war. But his late Majesty 's character was independent of these events. His sincere and unaffected piety, his cheerful and bene volent manners; his meekness, affability, and charity; Iris manly virtues and eudearing sentiments; these con stituted him a great toad a good man, independently of all political questions.—(tireat applause.)—ln arbitrary and despotic tioverunients, the temper and decision of the Sovereign it ere of the ninon importance. It was other wise in a political Constitution, such as ours. The Mo narch could neither make nor unmake laws. Yet was his character of WO importance to the naticn. His natural influence, his station in society, his wishes, his example, all conspired to render his sentiments and his conduct iniportant to the nation. By the virtuous feel ing and correct conduct which he displayed, he became a beacon to direct the nation in the way they should go. Might they at once revere his virtues and follow his ex ample! It was matter of much joy to them all that hie' Ft' sent Majesty was one who had loved and respected his venerated fa.ber, and who would follow his example is ruling over the British nation. The prayer of all wan that he might reign lung over a happy, loyal, fast, united. prosperous, and virtuous people (applause); that 11.- might promote increase, and maintain the civil and religious rights and privileges of the nation ; a nd th a t at length toe might descend into the tomb of his an cestors, followed by the same veneration and regret which now attended his revered father.—(Oreat ap plause.) The address was then agreed to, neiniac eortirtadieeste, and ordered to be signed by the High Sheriff, and pre sented by him, accompanied by the Lord-Lieutenant and the Members of the county. Some doubts arose as to the propriety of embracing esnololence and congratulation in the same address, hut no precedent being accessible, it was agreed that the usual custom should he adopted. The Rev. Mr. Samsost wished the words " in Church I anti State" to he introduced after Coastitutioo, butt ft ' was judged unneeessary. Thanks were unanimously voted to the mover and se- 1 gooier of the address. 1 It was intimated, at the close of the meeting, that the Clerk of the Peace was there to receive the oath of alle giance of such as wished to take it. EAST LVDIF.S. SPA IX (/ROM TNt NATIONAL 'I he following Proeleinstion has been published by Do• Antonio Quiroga, the Chief of the Insurgent yorees:-- • " Soldiers—Placed at your head by the choice of the officers of the army, I speak to you with that frankness which ought always a , to exist between companio u ns in 'arms. Spain was going to destroy itself, and yor ruin wouhl have involved that of your country. 'Vou were destined to per;sll, not to realise the conquest of Ame rica, tur that is impossible, but to free the Myer aaaaa ent front flee alarm which roar valour has excited. Still, however, your families would have remained in the nowt disgraceful slavery,under an arbitrary and tyrannic Uoverimient, which disposes at will of the fortunes and liberties of unhappy Spaniards. Soldiers, the Govern ment has destroyed itself is the opinion of the nation ; it is not possible for us to suffer longer. Violent and r feeble, this Unverament cau inspire but indignation or contempt, whilst to render the nation happy, it ought to inspire conti,ience ; it might to be loved and respected. " Soldiers, let us employ for ourselves and for our fa ' amities those arms which assured us independence against the power of Bonaparte. The enterprise is easy and glorious. Will there be found one Spanish soldier to oppose it ? No; even in the ranks of those whom the teoverninent endeavours to draw together, you will find brothers who will unite tlsniselves with us: and should gay be found sufficientybase to dare to turn their arms against us, let us T::rrininate these satellites of tyranny, unworthy of the name of Spaniards. Soldiers, I rely upon you. Be the worthy sons of your country, and nierit that name. I recommend to you union and disci pline. I shall be happy to reward merit; but if any one is wanting in his d:ity, I shall sliest that the authority with tibia I have been invested has not been confided to me in vain. " Soldiers, victory attends os, and with it glory and the reward. which onr rountry will amp s ly dispense tons. " At the Quarter4leneral of San trrnind... Jan. 5, 1:10. AxToNtro Qviaou*, " General in Chief of the National Army." ATTItAORDINART CIPICUMPTAPICE.—In the month of Ja.tstiery last, a peasant woman, residing near Homo, of the age of sixty-nne Jean and roome r 's d a y s , was d a b. vere,l of twins, tone a hot, the other a girl : they were baptised ituutediately after they were leen, but they lived only akw bean. This woman had no children doffing the nine peen previous to this entraordisery birth. DVS. I • Dublin ▪ Waterford 0 Guernsey and Jersey 0 Got tenburgh O Haraburgh • I •aa. O Holland • Flanders O Fran'ee O Lisbon 0 Nitta ovs. ;• We are requested to state that the letter shied appeared in our Paper of the Ith Inst. sigmed " J. (hurray," ori ginally appeared in The Carlisle Journal. and was after wards sent to us for Insertion in THE STATESMAN; We accordingly inserted it as • letter to the Editor. Wear* however informed, that oar Correvpondent intended that its sho .Id appear as an extract from The Carlisle Jour eel, as it would otherwise occasion some confusion to the Reatier. ehe ktatedmati. THZ BRITISH TTAT[SIIAN IS INCORPORATED WITH " THZ •TATISWAI." LONDON: WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1 0 320. —is,. This is a day of heartfelt grief and affliction to the whole Royal Family, of sorrow in an especial canner to all those who witnessed ■nd were bene *fitted by the private virtues of the departed Sove reign: and likewise a day of seriousness to all who inhabit these kingdoms, being apprised that in the evening of it the mortal remains of thu venerable KIM) GEoana 111. will be committed to the silent and sacred depository of the House of Brunswick. The reign of this Prince has been so protracted, that its termination has acquired a mournful no velty, cnd by consequence we cannot winder that it is the subject of conversation every where, and that persons are attracted from the greatest dis tances to catch a gliMpse of what but a few, com paratively speaking, among the living crowd, have witnessed in the preparation for the obsequies of a dead King. Windsor, it is said, never exhibited any thing like what it does at this instant.—The inconve niences and privations which many undergo, only to be present on the spot where the awful ceremony of the Royal funeral takes place, are unspeakable ; for maay among them must return home ungratified in their wishes. No one can wonder at this dutiful and grateful tribute paid to the mortal part of a Sovereign, whose private life and conduct are ac knowledged, by every man living, to have been amiable and exemplary, insomuch that the pious are in no concern for the immortal part, considering him as a man day evening as having happened, nitTs7 4, but has only btenprematstreiy pronounced. . . • • -- - So much has the curiosity of the public Ix" excited to witness the last sad offices performed to the remains of our late revered Sovereign, th at every room and even bed has been for some dais bespoke by the i ntended visitors. The mi st enormous sums of money have been demanded k g very indifferent accommodations. In one in, Instance 13 guineas were refused be the use or a h i d, f a " three persons to sleep in, on the night of n il Ronal funeral. iresterday being appointed as the day for al. lowing to the public free access to the apartment' in the Palace of Windsor to view the body of t h e late King lying in state, from near eleven till h a o'clock there was a crowd of well-dressed p ew all in mourning. continually passin g ► thmagh t h e various chambers to the Audience Chamber. t ie streets were filled with the carriages of pri vate gentlemen, and with post-chaises, but there wa s Doi the slightest appearance of disorder. It is understood that all the young gentlemen Eton College are to be admitted into the Hopi Chapel, to witness the ceremony of interment, Ibis is said to have been determined upon at t h e particular request of his present Majesty. The Jansaica Papers state the death of Bilked Varennes, at St. Domingo ; he died at Port a l Prince, nged 61. He took a conspielioni part it the French revolution, and was a member ad o famous Committee of Public Safety, in 1794: denounced Robespiere, and caused him, with u of his associates, to be guillotined. We presented our Heiden, on Monday. will some intelligence from Galway, of a date so res ell as the 7th instant. Further accounts have arriv e d in town, but dated February 3d. In these a v important circumstance (if true) is related; in thenticity we certainly must doubt,—we, however, present It to our Readers as we have received it. " GALWAY, Fan. 3.—Various and contradictory an the rumours nis day, respecting an engagement whidM stated to have taken place between a party of military, and a large hodyof insurgents, within a mile and a ltalf e t Tnam, • hich, after a hard contested battle, ended is 11, total dieconsfitnre of the latter. Several are reported have been killed and wounded. Llajor Place, of thp nth regiment, stationed in this town, who comma* the military, we understand, has received a severe rind in the contliet. Nineteen of these deluded wretch"se reported to have been taken prisoners, but bare aye yes arrived at our gaol." By letters received from Pomerania, dated I. 140, it appears that the dealers in amber at Stop have feceired payment of 30,000 dollars, wind they had almost greet: up as lost for amber, which they sent on their account to some Jewislamerchest at Leghorn, where it arrived when that city wa occupied by the French troops, and it was to be feared that the amber would be taken from tboa as Prussian property. The Jewish merchants,6lk . ever, ccnveyed it with the utmost precaution their warehouses, where they kept it till mire. tanity offered of sending it to Africa for sib. At a Meeting held at the Town• Halt, NAIL en Monday. the 13th of September, by the Ina Inhabitants of Calcutta, for the purpose of id* , into consideration the best ittOde of expradattbe respect entertained by the Settlement for tied* meter of the late Right Honourable Warm Hastings, it was unanimously resolved, that Statue be erected in that city to perpetuateis memory, the virtues, and the public services, this great and eminent Statesman. A Depila tion in consequence waited on the Marquis st Hastings, to communicate such Resolution, ad to solicit permission to erect the Statue in Tank ,l square. The l'tlii.rquis received the Dopitatia very cordially, and acceded to their request. M. CARLO FEA, a celebrated antiquarian, be published a letter in the Roman Journal celled la Notizie del Gierno, in which he expresses an IP. nion that the complete text of Ciczno's Treatise De Ift• perblica may probably be yet found in some English b brary. It is known that a great part of this work la been already found in the Vatican by M. Awls .list. The * following is the ground upon which Fc.t has foitaded his opinion :—,lone, u Ito was of Chartres in the twelfth century, better hams so der the name of JOAN of Salisborv, be !saris" beefs native of that place, makes an allusion in his we*, entitled Polgeratievs, pier de awes Corielitm et eel. r:is Phitosophorum, h 3. 8. rap. 3, to a paisage is Republic. of nein°, In which the Roman Consul a " that it was necessary for men devoted to the service to cherish high sentiments of honour and g • —(Akadss est Air glottis.) Henee, concludes M. the'l'reatise De Repwelies must have been in the session ofJoat of Salisbury. It would appear, b that the learned Roman has nut attended to one ei " Safe in the hand of one disposing power, • " Or in the natal or the morti - 11 boar." We cannot learn that any account of the Quass has been recei►ed in England during the last few weeks, either as to her health or immediate resi dence. These inquiries become more important every hour to the British public. The subject must be treated of ere long, and largely and full• treated of. The arairs of Old Spain are still in obscurity, but we may truly say, proceed in a course the very opposite to the progress of those of New Spain.— The former moving, as far as concerns the Govern men of Madrid, from bad to worse; while those of Spanish America advance in a ratio of prosperity, beyond the most sanguine expectations of the trans atlantic patriot. Our readers, we trust, will not think the worse • of us, for falling into so apparent mistake, the cause of which had so general an operation. When, in Tut STATESMAN of yesterday we announced, ac cording to the very strong rumour, nay, almost the certainty from circumstantial evidence, that the KING and certain of his advisers entertained senti ments and opinions so irreconcilable as to have dissolved their connexion, and broken up the whole council ; we were not without our reffexions with regard to the peculiar awful moment, in which the supposed occurrence had happened. We were at a loss to know whom to blame on this head: we did think that the cause of the misunderstanding would never be done away, but that the erects ought not to chew themselves till the sclemn and sad obsequies of the dead Monatch were performed. The obstacles to a cordial understanding between the HEAD and the chief MEMBERS of the Cabinet, we consider to be yet unremoved, and also that they are actually irremoveable ; for we believe the former not quite so practices/4e, and the latter not i quite so plastic as to be moulded to any form which may gratify power and appease resentment. Not that we rely on any stubborn virtue of such men ; but we never have accused them of a furiclity.— I Though they have insulted public opinion, they are sufficiently conscious of its weight and influence, to prevent them from running against it, where I they have not a shadow of defence for so doing. !The origin of all this is a delicate question, on which 1 the " law of the case" has been enquired into.— ' That has been pronounced in writing and liters acripta manna. Here is a dumbly record there , fore, out of which the most erratic of the King's • Ministers cannot treed, if they would. They are thee bound for once, to act like men of honesty or virtae. It is on this ground therein*, we new angst, 'pa it, that the event "Mete . we spoke yeast.' stance, which is, that the passage here-sputum - 01 11 been quoted by St. Aggestim, in his work, De AA IM. 5, cap. IS. Thus Jon,' of Salisbury sail bile known it, without bring indebted for his kaal le(l7e immediately to a complete copy of Clallid work. ft.n B.mar Srssrnys (Tins Moristivc.)—le tpience of this being the day appointed far the introit of our late Sovereign, these Sessions, which wet 1 hare commenced this morning, are piroponell tit morrow. It was first arranged, that after the Co, met, and the Juries were sworn , th e y s h ou ld tbrs • jonrn, bait it was finally arranged that the Court, oil the pregent circumstances, 'boob' not meet till lo morrow. Cold, cough, catarrh, sore throat, and WWI tion of the lungs, or chest, are the complaints. seem endemial to our variable climate, and tell Len much exaggerated in their fatekteadalloP the severity of the present winter. The deka frame, and those of the domestic habit, seem/ liable to these ailments than the robust, sail wbd are constantly exposed to the opol 4lll Damps of the wintry atmosphere appear It 1 duce these symptoms more than mere 004, a drier air; th oug h t h e N . E. w i n d is OM to be loaded with these ailments. A corresPoil anggests, at a simple defence against these an tv 4 l,icli all persons might adopt, male aut . l the use of a scree n , i s th e manner o f a vell, cotton, or woollen, .hanging loosely, from the hat, and covering the whole or the The grotesque and uncommon appseneibi atl " 6 . 34 ordeals. however useful, We Wok I operate decidedly against its adoption. SURREY COUNTY .4IERTING. IllittTlNG Ol TUC ERYEIIOI.DERS OF SI'RREY, TO CONDOLE MITI& AND CONGRATULATE MIS MAJESTY GEORGE IT. EPSOM, Pan. 15.—A nunicroes and rest e:tehle Meet inf of the Freeholders of the county of Surrey was held this day, in the Colony Court. The Hum tizetre opened the business by reading the Kequisition to call a Meeting of the Freeholders, for the purpose of condoling with his Majesty on the death of die late King, and of congratulating his Majesty on his recession to the Throne. Lord MIDDLETON (LOW Lieutenant of the county) mired the address. It expressed the deepest grief for the death of his late Majesty George 111.. the sincerest loyalty and attachment to his Majesty George IV., and the greatest gratitude to ao awful and kind Providence which preserved his Majesty under his severe indispo sitMn. Mr. Dements (Member for the county) seconded the motion. He lamented the absence of his honourable colleague on every account, but particularly Lecanse hr conhl have addressed them on this occasion notch more suitably and eloquently than he could pretend to do. Tlievirtues of 1,4 late Majesty were known to thrtu all, And would lire fur ever in their recollection.—(Applause.) —Justice, piety, temperance, chastity, meek and every manly virtne, uniformly distinguished and adorned his eharacter.—fApplause.)--ilis reign had been singu larly long : for GO years had he been the ruler, the orna ment, and the mode lot* this great nation.—(Applause.)— He would not here enter into any political qnestions, but he could sac, that during the violence of political party, and shed the war winch separated the American mlunies from this country gave unusual bitterness to political discussions, the domestic virtues of the Mo narch, his ar•iable and virtnous character as a linslnted tnd a father preserved for him aniversal respect awl at achrnent.—(Applause.)—The blessings of his reign would he ever felt and remembered. Ihr first groat he leit of Lis re'En was the appoints:wet of the Judges for ife. Whatever pulitieisno may nth upon this sub ect, be firmly believed Oat this impure was ei!ten• _ .~ MAILS. •. I P 1 part the t toool Not has deb in ewh! ;f lor a fitr, tii