The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-05-16 00:00:00

oiled that four Barons n ere sufl cirnt ; hut Sir Samuel skeppard said five he was no tioubt a man of ex , reme f ood nature, and that accounted fur it. lie wished 0 conciliate the Seetelt gentlemen, anton. , whom lie peel; tame; and when lie .vas told that five would be I more agreeable than four. lie said, in his good-natured I wa r, let as have live, :Mil !,IS SCUtal friends home& I stelv cried out 1 ' live for ever,•'—(A laugh :-Ilr. then ilea on to show that by the arrangement &dun -! e d, the country lost 3.000/. per annum ; as th e chi c ij It e iheinbrancer's I Wive. which was to bare ceased, WAS oil! in engine and had a salary of I,lmvi. per atm., i w hich, added to the ra:ary of th.. Baron, nook lie then proceeded to remark u.,.0n the !mention of I the place of the present Baron Ncrton, an Eng ask I ,nryer, by a Scotch one; which, he eonteioled, be the means of driving away the two English ti tens, who, by art arts; le of the Union, were allowed ra practise in that Court, and to one of whom that liaron , hip was hitherto appropriated. It would he he said) at least a r mii,l-about way of en.luditig them 4ltogether. 10$1 of the hope of a lucrative pro vrimeat, lie believed tual some weight with Eaglish I 'levers—ht. knew it had with Scotch ones ! .....(klangh.) I Ile questio I was reilmed to this narrow point.—the moinisdouers bail inquired Ali reported that a fifth baron was unnerusary the athgei bad n•t inyni.ed, and gave an opposite orinion. It w as plait. there was tvs ha no retrenclmictit, bnt that conld net er answer to se:een dif.icokics. It 113:4 the object of tie Noble Lord that the tint.stion s!iould be passed by ; if so, it would be quite useless on auy other occasion to embarrass tioremuent by motions of economy, as it would be evide at that nothing of the kind they could to,dhly rodeo hear!) Air. W. DUSDAS sta•e.l, that the Commissioners Mad in boar short lines, and without assigning any rcoon, declared the fifth Baron unnecessary ; but the Judges, men of enferienee and Integrity, had pry- Bounced a different opinion. Lord Alit:11. 11.011:; lON said a few words in reply, when strangers were ordered to withdraw. The discussion, however, continued with closed doors for sort than an hour, when a division look took place. The nuns tiers were— For the Motion 177 Against it Majori:s in fasour of Alinisterg A enneiderafol o time had elapsed before we were re aAmitteol anti the Gar.ery, and when we were permitted t I mow our seat 4, we found the Speaker putting the quo.p.tion nn another motion, made (we beli e ve) by Lord A ilarui . mo, the o,hjert (of which wls to impute blame t.) the Miuisters fur h•tv:ng filled up the vacancy in the *AA Court of E.:ellequvr, occa4ioned by the resi gna- Mot of tit. Ithrht tt n. William Adam, bef re the re ; ort the Como!:l4.'nott. re of the Scotch Courts was stromitteil to the 1;00 t .,. k 0. To this motion Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, as an amendment, that the previous question be now put, which a-as carried without a divilion. 31e. BROUGHAM wished to know from the Noble Lord if it was intended to fill up any other vacancy that blight occur ir the same manner' bird CASTLEREAOII said, before be answered dsaS question, he desired to know from ass Hoe. grinhet what steps he meant to take on the subject At all events, the rthlie service !could not he allowed to st.lt.r by any vacancy that *night take place. Mr. III101A41.1:11 said, he had heard a great deal a! 0..9 those steps whirh were spohen of by the Noble Lord, and as there appeared to bea great deal of this Se itch business coining before the House, it was bet tur t.) proceed regularly step by step. The Hon. Member then gave notice of his intention to submit a motion to the House on the 25th of this month, re- I , tive to the tinier ty of vacancies in the Scotch Jury Courts. 31r. IMOODEN moved for an account of all salt need for the pnrposes of agriculture during the yerrs Itil .1 and IS I 9.—Ordered. Mr. LI - SHINWION obtained leave to bring in a Hall to secure the innerly of snitors in the Court of Ch)ncery —A:ljourned at one o'clock. K. HUNT.—SCIPTRIPTIONS to indemnify AIL MR. IRTNT. against his ell:items, continue to be received, at Mes%rs. Deasy's, in the Stewed; Ireland's. Hul - anti Hassell-street, Covent-garden. The sums received yesterday evening were creditable to Vie iiberal feelings of the Public. PRICE OF STOCKS TO II Rink Stock Fiti Sivr Cent. Red. MI 3 per Ct. CODS. oBi 70 001 31 t•eht. ::;11 4 lit r few*. 07}1 ;) /NT l't. Navy 10dli Long Ann. Itp. S per Cent. Amt. 13.tY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stork VO Ditto Roods Yls. 'p•. pm. Old Annuities Ex. Bills, :lit. Q. I. pro. INtto l'ons. Ys. dig. Omnium Con. for Ac. 70 89: T.ott. Tlekets ,C 23 2'. Vie gotattantall. " int filllTlsli 111144/t" IS INC TED WITil "TN' LONDON: TVZSDAT IVENIMG, MAT 16, 1620. We hare this mor*tg received Paris papers of Sa hrlaY those of Fridiy arrived last night. In the !washer of Deputies, after some preliminary business, 31. Beugnot, in the name of the Committee of Finance, • bored upon a report of the expenditure in the ser if,. of the State during the year ls2o. He entriera t the various items, and proposed several reductions In different departments. The Chamber ordered the *Tort to be printed and distributed, and fixed the de -o;l..rotion to take place immediately after the question rre.,riiing the Law of Elections was disposed of. liravier and his accomplices continue to undergo in terroLnitories. T he Duchess of Berri showed herself t•• the public on the terrace of the Tuillerlea last Thurs day, when she was greeted by loud and loyal melons'. tiuor. 'lke Duke of Angouleme is said to have been well received at Lyons. The King of Spain has ordered that 'be ostionai and united armies of Andalusia he funned into one single corps, under the command of the Capt.- lien. of that province, Don Juan O'Donoghne, who is to lwrit under him Don Antonio Quiroga. linkers! Arco Ageero is to be Chief of the Staff. His Majesty has ' s ' isseed a Dome, ordering that all symbols of lus tiest vassalage be erased wherever they may exist, "in tinier that the noble pride of the Spanish people, who acknowkdge and will never recognise any other So **** ignty than that of the nation, may not be wounded THE STATESMAN. by the s:ght of continual mementos of their humi liation." Patmex FUN na---(Fatoar).—Five per Cents. 73 fr. 60 c. The information received this morning from Bata via is of a very alarming nature. By letters from that i•l.►nd, dated Jan. *24, it appears that nearly the whole of the Dutch tr.mps had been drafted front thence to Palatuhang, in order to strengthen that military posi tion ; consequently the inhahitants of Batavia are much alarmed, as not rr than 61111 European troops were left to defend the place agi.inst the Malays, who are able to muster a moire of near Intymo men ; if the attaci. should be made, a general massacre is expected. FllOll SPANISII Nyinyh, at Phila. delphia, left d'arthacettia, 23.1 March. Mr. Phillips, supercargo, states, that tiv• Patriots were in great force at Meraport, on the river Mattakilo, and were advatteinz, and that the prospect of the Royalists in that quarter were very gloomy ; the Com mandant of Marines had taken the command of the army of observation and operation, near Mera port; every thin g , was quiet at Parsatua, except the approach of the Patriots upon Choc°. Two hundred oleo hail heen sent from Parsama to check them, and a strong body, intended to co-operate, was dis patched np the river Asato, in the (half of Darien, but they had returned to I;.irthaeenia, not being able to form a junction. In the Nymph came the mate of the brig Macedunien, of Boston, plundered in the Pacific by Lord Cochrane.—( From the Washiagtqa Paper of the 17th April.) Last night brought to a conclusion the lone-con tested cause of the NINO r. Ilcsv, JOIINATON, RAM r4ORDI au HEALY. Taken in connection with the arduous trial held at York, and the tremendous trans actions in which it originated, at Manchester, these proceedings will afford occasion for much serious re flection. The announcement of the sentence of the Court upon Mr. Hunt' and his associates, we have no hesitation to affirm, was received by the most con siderate and impartial portion of the public, with the same feelings of astonishment that were aronsed by the intelligence of the Manenester catasorstphe. The same! spirit now appears to have prevailed from the beginning to the end of the affair, though suppressed or softened down in the middle of the pewees. Mr. Hunt, indeed, took occasion, yesterday, to represent the proceedings' at York as it magnificent specimen of British juris prudence, and the deportment of the Judge as un rivalled in moderation. But, impressed as the mind might be with these favourable prepossessions, and with the recollection of the complete failure of the prosecutors to attach to the conduct of Mr. Hurst-, or the slanchester meeting, the character of turbulence, and with the lively expectatis.n that had been generally excited of the consequent acquittal of the defendants, who could have been prepared to anticipate that the venerable Mr. Jattice BAYLET, who had in his high omee bume his facnities so meekly, should be called upon to pronounce such a grievous doom as was yester day evening passed upon the defendants? What Englishman, uaawaycd by a thitrough-paced attach-1 ment to the authority of Courts, and unaccustomed to the exercise of oppression, ran acquiesce in a sentence so ex ceeding the offence, or reconcile its severity with the spirit ofJustice? Viewed, as it is required to be both by Judges and Jarirf,di rested of all prej utiles from charges not in Court, and from affairs irrelegipt to the business, the conduct of Mr. Busr, f the beginning to the end of the Manchester affair, awl in all the numerous steps of a judicial kind which he has in consequence been led to take, and which are without a precedent in the case of an unprofessional individual, was distinguished by a discretion as sound and uncommon as the talent and energy and perseverance he divltycil in his defence. It is impossible, we will undertake to say, for those who had been most disgusted with the for wardness, or dogmatism, or coarseness he had betrayed on former occasions, to look upon hint, in the various scenes through which he has lately passed, but with feelings of respect. Considerate men can never be persuaded that the conduct of Mr. liras., in the Man chester affair, could ever be so perversely viewed as to 1 kart' to the heavy judgment which it yesterday re ceived. The restraint it mustlimpose upon the de fendant, and the depression it is proposed to produce upon the minds of his adherents, may be more than counterbalanced by the revolting sentiments it is cal cut tted to raise in the breasts of those who feel an in terest in the cause of jestice and humanity. We are not the advocates of individuals but of prin ciples. We do not desire to extenuate, in the former con•luet of Mr. lit wr or hi:: associates, any qualities which, on any occasion, we have deemed reprehen sible. But we feel, in their present fate, a imot.sure of harshness incompatible with the deference due to the administration of the laws, and inconsistent with the security as well as submission of the public. The confinemeut of Mr. HUNT is likely to excite more mor tification in the minds of others than in himself. For his fate it is probable he had been well prepared. An hypocritical pretender to Christian charity, in a Morning Paper of the pet sent day, disguises his malignant exultation over it by an expression of most pious hope, that be anti others, thus removed from the sphere of their activity, will be led to reflection, and returned to society with au increased respect for the laws! Whatever opinion we entertain of the tendency of such removals to produce the respect expected, we have no doubt they will be followed by salutary reflection. Mr. HUNT has already profited by the opportunities, of this kind, which the laws have happened to afford him; and it may be expected that, with the direction his vigorous understanding has lately received, it will be employed is the increase of knowledge, and the improvement of principle. A gaol is little likely to abate his love of freedom. It was in the prison of the King's Beech, to which, t:aring the confinement Of Mr. SAMUEL Faustaxii Wapiti:rayon, he had been consigned for six months, on account of a challenge he had sent to Lord Barre (now E rl of ATLICaURv), that he originally terned his mind to the consideration of polities. It way be added, as a matter of curious coincidence, that ilchester, which is the place appointed to arrest, for a tedious time, the public exertions of Mr. Hunt, was that in which he happened to commence his pa :Weal career. About twelve years ago, as we learn frOit a corr:spondent, Mr. Hunt firs: ap? ! as a public speller, at a Meeting of the County of So merset, convened by his exertion:, and held at ll cheater, to address his Maj. sty to en er tato a negociation far termluating the then existibg war ; and was on that ocelo7 m supported by his friend, Mr. S. Waddington, who, immediately after the Manchester transactions, in the month of July last, presided at a meeting held at the Crown and Ancht,r, to tteplore that catastrophe which had appalled the puhlie, and to compliment Mr. Hunt for condoct which has now brought down upon him the vengeance of the law. The lodgment meeted out to sir ( . 11,t1ILLS WOL4F• LEV, awl his companion, was rather of a lighter measure than that il.spensed to Mr. lII'N r. Mr. Ifaa nisom, will, however, flint it urerio.ring, but we loupe not overwhelming. The debate of last night, its the House of COIII MOIIN, on a motion of Lord A. tl tstt Lvov, reverting the appointment of a fifth Baron of Exchequer in Seotland, will obtain more than usual attention. Sir PATRICK MI!111 Mitt, Rs will he seen by a /seri graph in this evening's Paper, has recently beets in du,:ted into the sitl:e, had long distingnished himself by the exer.ire of pu!i.ical authority and r stronaye in his native county. Now, verily, he Iratls Its reward. The Minister, however, appears td have begun to tremble for his majority, when this act of grateful kindness* came kw night unJer review. tl'hilst the diviaion was r ui!l K on last night in the House of Commons, Lord Castlereagh addre,sed the Ministerial Members in the I l tiby. Ile begged them to recollect that another question remained to be con sidered and divosed of, and a slivision might be ex pected to Wire place upon it. The intended proposi tion on the other aisle meaut to impute blame to Mi nisters for filling up the v without hating pre viously taken the sense of Parliament upon it ; that impntation appeared to him most unjust, for in his opinion it was the duty of government to fill op the office, and afterwards to submit the matter to PAN- Ins nt, and abide their decision whether of approbation or of blame. The fact appeared to be, that his Lord ship saw that the Uovernment was in danger of re ceiving a reprimand, and laboured hard to keep his small majority together to avert the threatened dis grace. His Lordship looked pale, but seemed in good spirits. Many of the Members went to congra tulate him on his recovery, and return to his Parlia mentary duties. The let of Angnst, the tlav appointed for the Coro nation, is rather remarkable iu the annals of the country: On the Ist of August, 1689, King William defeated King James at the crossing of the Boyne, in Ireland ; on the lit of August the present Royal Fa mily ascended the 'krone of these kingdoms, by the death of Queen Anne, in 1714 ; the battle of Minden was fought in 1759, awl the total defeat of the French fleet, at the mouth of the Nile, in 1795, by the great Lord Nelson, also took place on that day. To these may be added, the grand jubilee and gland marine fight, in Hyde-park, on the Ist of August, 1815! ! By the American Papers to the Id ult. received, as we stated yesterday, it appears that the Engrossed Bill sapplameltaay troths is Act eeneerning Naviga tion" was read a third time, passed, and sent to the House of Iterweestativats. A Petition was presented to the same House from sundry irun•fonnders, praying for an additional duty on iron imported into the Loited States. A Memorial and Petition from sundry met. chants were presented, praying for compentation fur losses sustained from the cruisers under the French Sag in the years 1793 and I SUU. A Committee hav ing been appointed to inquire into the expediency of providing a more effectual remedy against duelling, made a report, in which they state, "'That they consider the existing law as amply sufficient, if extegted, to re press duelling in the army." The. Report was adopted by a great majority. The House then took up the Bill from the Senate to continue in force the Act of the 20th April, 1818, supplementary to an Act to regulate the collection of duties o.i imports and tonnage, pass ed in 1799, amending it by adding a section, extend ing the time for completing entries, and for taking oath in cases of exportation for drawback, &c. 'phis Hill was ordered to be read the second time. General Vire', the Spanish Minister, bad not, up lb these dates, been introduced to the President. Mr. lirattan's rebignation of his seat for Dublin is hourly expected. on account of his declining health. Mr. °rattan, jun. has already cuninieuced a canvass of the citizens to succeed his father. Onr commuuica:ious frum Roscommon and Oalway do not sp.ak of any tre!l► disturbances in that quarter. This busy season of the year affords better :rogations to the peasant than could result from pursuing the ribbon system. We wish it may have the efili t of bringing them to better habits.--(Dettlie Joassal.) By letters received in Glasgow this morning (fri day. the 12th instant) from Petersburgh, we are sorry to learn that the duties uin►n coloured cotton manufac tures have been doubled. The duty upon other de scriptions ofestton goods remain the sanie.--(Glasgow Herald.) - The Doke de San Fernando, late Prime Minister of Spain, has made an alteration in the manner of sign ing his name. He now adds Quito'a to it, of which family, it seems, he is a descendant. It is (ally expected the, his Majesty will visit Ply mouth this summer, agreeably to his avowed intention of doing so during his last excursion to the Isle of Wight, when Prince Reg-at —fErrier Burette.) We understand that all the different officers of the Royal lionsehold, in every department, upon all future State occasions, are to wear a distinct official c o stume according to their several gradations. Of late years, it has been usual for then► to suit theu►selees according to their own respective tastes,especially in the inferior depprtments ; and the effect, in processions, use. has sometimes been whimsically mitre. Mr. Dymoke, the King's hereditary champion at the Coronation, died ere day before yr:terday, at his seat in Lincolnshire. The tact of the King's cham pion was enjoyed by him as Lord of the Manor of Serivelsby, in that count•. His motto was pro re:e &mice. Yesterday the Hon. Fir Patrick Murray, of Ochter tyre, Bart. took the oaths and his seat as one of the Reruns of the Exchequer.—This morning three pri soners from Falkirk, charged with treasunabie prac tices, were lodged in the eas.le.----(Sdieburgh Nets lag Coarant.) LAFY IxTELLIOENCE. (raps oar.) The hree Puisne .If:dges of the King's Beach sat Heil day in the Court of Chancery. and heard many motions which conli not be received .taring the Term, on account of the pressure of other business. The LORD CHIRP' Jullics. sat at Viai Pri in the Court of King's Bench. The causes which cane ott this morning were of little general intcrest. TIC KINGo. •YANK. This wa. an indictment preferred tc•ains! the defer. !- Int, charging him with having negotiated the sale of rornetcy in the Iflth regiment of light dragotois, eta:- teary to the Regulation of the dEtli of the late King. appeared in evidence, that a gentleman of the ef Lorraine (at whose suit the present indictment was rre• ferreil) hail applied to the defendant to to:gm:tate tile purchase of a cornetry. For this ..erviee, Mr. Lorraine had puitl 911 UL, and was to pay NMI:. more, netcy thus pretended to be disposed ultras then nileo I.y a Gentleman of the name of Hodgson, who, upon Ls examination, declared that he had not the slightest i.lta that Mr. Muse had received the suon.7 in question. ire certainly had not authorized bins to du so. No defeto:e was attempted, and the Jury, ender the direction of the Juilge, found &verdict of liuilt). SPORTING I.V TR bLIGRNCR. BETTINC) AT TATTERSAL'S, MA♦ lb. DERII 100 to 46 apt the Duke of Grafton's r. Pinslorrle II to 2 apt Mr. Cossau'e f. by fie:in. (1. by Kill II to Y apt Mr. Thornhill's c. Sailor 100 to 0 apt Lord Stawell's Antigallicen **to 11 apt Mr. [Min's c. Abler 200 to 11 apt Mr. R. klllnes's The Duke 100 to 6 apt Arbatus. by Walton, d. Lisette 100 to 3 apt Mr. Wllson's c. out of Tooes 1411 to 4 apt Lord G. Carcndish's c. out of Cat ICO to 3 apt Lord Row's ch. c. Hoopoe 6 and 7 to 4 ant the D. of Rolland's f. Emmelire 6 to g sgst the Duke of Grafton's f. out of Prudeare 6 to 1 asst Lord Rous's f. The Bride 10 to 1 asst Mr. Wyndbara's f. out of Marianne NAVAL INTEL LIGEXCE. DEAL, Mar 15.—Arrived,and sailed for the River, thi Burradile • VansiUart, Cowan (late Dalr) inple); Marquis Camden, [lsaias ; and Princess ChariOtte of Walm, Grible, from Bombay and China ; alsu the ti wan, L) gm, front Havaanah.—Came down from the Riser, and 'ohm% tin Essex, Robertson, for Bourdasua ; Juno, Pritchard; and Albion, —, for Jamaica : the litter remains. Haim:cu. MAT 15.—Arrived the Earl Leicester packet. from Cuxhaven; and Prince of Orange dittc, for lloliknd ; each with • mail. POIITARIOCTII. MAT lb.—An:red the Ariadne, Pitt, from Palermo ; and Prince Sale Coburg, Smith, from Madeira. The latter spoke. on the 18th instant, h lat. Q. M. long. b., a brig. sttppored to be a Falmoeth packet, with torn of fore top-mast, jib-bbom, &e.—Snlled the Trio, Smith, for Hail ; and the Charlotte, Classon, fog .Irehartgel. PLYMOUTH, MAT 14.—Arrived of this port the Arladne, Pitt, from Chita Vecchia, for London; SWAP and Letitia, Jones. from Leghorn ; Marquis Camden, and Primers Char lotte of ki'alev, from Bombay and China. Fshuot:Tu, Max l3.—.trrived the Four Friends, for London.—Sailed the Duke of Marlborough paektt, lye Lisbon; Wilsitighant packer. for ditto and Braztiv; end tha Princess Elizabeth packet; for Amman': all with swill ; also sailed she Mutsu. tiny. for Henan and Miransiehi ; sad Union, Head, for Waterford. Linares's., MAT VS.—Arrived the EriphrlSM Broder" from New York.--Sailed the Heresies, Kerala, for BOW Alehrosist. Nevereon, for St. Visitant's; Douro, kismet, for Oporto; and esaar..Worml, fo) Newlboadtaad. REVENUE OFFICER!! ADJUDGED TO OE BAD JUDGES OF REVENUE ARTICLES. On Wednesday last, the 14th May instant, the Commissioners of Appeals gave their Goal decision in the case of Roger Coleman spinet Joseph QueLeh, grew, South lireat lieorge-street. be nature of the appeal was one of peculiar singularity, sni this singu larity created much interest. On Saturday, the 21th day of October, 1818, certain officers of his Majesty's Revenue entered Mr. Queich's house, and seised one chest of tea as spurious tea. A trial took place be fore the Commissioners of Customs, which coniinu•d fur several days, when they, after bearing trident:, o; both sides, pronounced judgment that the tea was genuine as imported into this country from the India house. Against this judgment the scitieg-otficers ap pealed, and during the present and two last terms, the Commissi.mers of Appeals were occupied, day after day, in hearing the arguments of Counsel. The unanimous judgment of the Court was this day pm flounced, confirming the judgment of the Court below, and establishing that the tea was genuine, and fait ly imported from the sales at the India-house, aad or dering the tea to be restored to Mr. Quelch. We for b -sr to wake any remark upon the injury that Mr. Quelch must have suffered in property, feelings, and character, from this business, as we uudentand there is an action pending.—(DoLlia EtteAhsg Part.) We are sorry to say M. N. Rothschild, Esq. lays dangerously' ill at his country-bones at Stamlord-hill. His Majesty's ship V igo(Adisiral Lembo's), Captain Brown, arrived at Madeira on the llth alt., and sailed the 14th, fur Tenerife and Nt. Helena. His Majesty's ship Tribane arrived at Masleim on the 23d ult., from Plymouth ani sailed the thtb, for llarbadoes. BRIONION, MAT 15 ...Our town perhaps was never mote completely under the dominion of dullness, than at present—no bustle in the streets—tbe dandies even. may parade them without the fear of a jostle to Jujus. their stays, or to discompose their habiliments—the tavern bells are silent—sod the digs eonsequently without an overflow of customers; and Be great change of scene may be expected mita after the King's Coro nation, and it shall be his .Majesty's pleasure to return to his Palate here. We have, however, the altisfac tion to state, that the arriv.ls of last week greatly ex ceeded the departnres.---The rontraband traders, it seems, have recently adopted anew Frsetice. by which they derive more profit from informations (e loch they themselves are privy to) than from the safe &Leery so' their goods to their ordinary customers.— Our boats continue to furnish ns with a good sap p4p of fist-isk but as yet they have not been very sureessisti with their mackerel tuts. A living animal, of the Antelope giorriel. called Nhe, having the heed of a row. the meow of a horse, and the hind part resembling that of a setae. •ea brought to England in the Mamma. foam t he tips of toodd Ho,:e. Towne ani-nal. are inhabitants's samthara Africa, bat very rarely to be met with. 'I he nue new brought home bettor; to Lori R 1111 . S. 7 • I 11- 1 d , , • I r-- :::..., 1