The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-26 00:00:00

Miraculously discovered in time to sale the lives of the poor Irishmen, they were io their torn brought to trial. Vaughan was tried fora conspiracy, and also for being accessory before the fact to coining; and Brock, Power, and Pelham were tried for the second only of these charges. The pardon of these deliberate and sanguinary villains was actually avow ed by Mr. BATIIUMIT and the ATTORNET•GENERAL s as the result of recommendation to the Panne °Ext. It seems the twelve Judges have decided., against the conviction in the case of Vaughan, on the charge of being accessory to coining before the fact ; and on the strength of this decision in the case of Vaughan, his Majesty's Ministers have advised a free and unconditional pardon to Brock, Power, and Pelham. Bat why, we ask, were these wretches once let loose on the Public to commit new crimes, and not brought to trial for a conspiracy ? Is leni ency to be shown only to (those who live by seUing the blood of their fellow-citizens? As Sir FRANCIS BumorT7 justly observed, although a representation might necessarily be made on a point of law reserved in ono case for the benefit of the Prisoners, yot we an zeds° reason why they should all escape popish sionz.:hi a case whertfr the law was clearly decided .egainst them. • • • As this act is avowed to be the result of advice given to she Crown, the exercise of the prerogative in respect tojemay be cinvassed : and in spite of the pies for mercy to these convicted blood-hounds, foonded upon the humane doubts of the Judges and . legal techuicalities,comparisons of mercy will be made, -and feelingv.no wise in approbation of such lenity will be expressed by the Public. We have witnessed :no such delicacy of abstinence from prosecution and punishment in regard to persons suspected of State adeoces. No doubts of legal propriety, no pious arrestations from the scruples of conscience interfered to prevent the multiplication of inveterate proceedings against the Reformers—nothing but defeat could awaken conscience in this respect. But is there • really nothing politiCal at the bottom of these ac (phials ? These scoundrels must have some merits, though we cannot discover them. We have seen an insinuation that Vaughan's services have been re warded by a situation at the Penitentiary. is this true? And how do these things sound in connection with such melancholy details as will be found in the letter which we this day submit, relating to the fate of the respectable individual, THOMAS Ritzy, whom the disgrace and privailensof the imprisonment under the Suspension Act, dross to suicide in York Jail The case of the enfortunate Mr. RILEY, so piiint edly and properly mentioned at the Common-bill, who, as Mr. STOCKS, a Magistrate near the spot; in his Letter to LordMILTON I said, was is/dually cosi- - witted to York' Castle, by order of Lord Sfromorru; rani of whose inoffensive deportmOet and fate, 'the letter we have inserted and alluded • to, more folly . and honestly 'speaks, contains a charge, which is to be answered at an awful tribunal. The Courier of last night,in its abominable attempts to find grounds of exculpation for the shuffling and severities so palpable in the conduct towards this man, makes this base insinuation, 66 May not the wretched mat► have destroyed himself as well from conscious guilt as from the despondency of oppressed innocence." What foundation there is for this gra tuitous assumption of conscious' guilt, may be seen as well from the letter we insert as from every parti cular that has transpired respecting this iudi 'ideal. That 'his persecutors were conscious of his innocence is pretty strongly demonstrated, from their not daring to bring him to trial:— The heart sickens, to read the details, the shocking details of the ncent persecutions. They are scarcely c►sdible. IA RILEY'S case there is a want of candour, not to say of honesty, between the Home Secretary and the local Magistrates that disgusts thimind. When the Magistrates were applied to, to know the charges against him, and whether he could be admitted to bail, the answer wav, " he is detained by the authority of the Secretary of State." When Mr. BARCL I Y ap plied. to the Secretary of Slate, he knew nothing about him—he had no charge against him ! The local Ma gistrates were not authorised to detain him tathosst charge, under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. And the Home Secretary says is was taut detained upon his - authority! Wbat juggling r Bet there is yet something more. It is represented to the Home Secretary, that further• confinement of a man, against whom he says he has no charge, will be fatal! Still the man is left to linger in the cell, acid he commits an act of suicide! Gracious Heaven ! Is a Bill of Indemnity to wipe away this pan's-blood, and turn his widow and his weeping children from the bar of justice ? . We have been favoured with Bengal Papers to the' 18th of September, by which we learn, that the Mar quis of HASTINGS had arrived at Allahabad on the Ist of that month. The espected proceedings on the North-western Frontier were likely to be of consi derable interest. The .Madras troops were Ott Ate's' March to the Nerbuddr, and a large force ()linty' , try and cavalry was to take op a position to the Northward of that river. Sir T. HISLOP was ex pected to proceed direct for Ellichpore. The troops of the third division of the Field Army had received orders from Sir D. OCHTEMLONY to bold themselves completely equipped for in "N tog by the 15th Sept.— The Pindarree force of Scimnt t ,t scus estimated at 70,000 men; but that of Lil,: KHAN at Only a few hundred followers on *whom can def•eild. • THE STATESMAN: The seeds of poplar disaffection are now said to be widely irattOred ever the Colonies of 1404111Tittlt• LAID MAIDTT in the &stern teas; sertho.intro. • . diction of a paper.cerrstoey,' Hi* ppOr tea by credit and confided* appears to be one of the principal causes of discontent., • • I'tJE Quiffs's Cobsi...—lretitiedaY j at tee o'clock,. her MAJESTY held a Coirt at her Falai*, ecesiMpa flied by the Pelhcesaes AtlOl7sTA. ISO ELIE AMU. Th. Duke of SAN CAULOS, the Spanish Ambassador, was' introduced with the usual ceremonimi. Hie Egret.' lency had an audience of her MAJESTY, delivered his credentials, end was most graciously received. Mt. Rusk, the American Minister, was introduced to her MAJESTY in a similar manner; as was Count 1.11- DORT, the Neapolitan Minister. A short time after their Eitcellencies had been introduced to her MA. 'JETTY, the Duchess of SAN CAucot, the lady of the' Spanish Ambassador, arrived at the Palace, accom panied by Viscountess Carrfzezatit, who Win. duced ber Grace to her MAJESTY: the Panics REGENT was present at the presentation of her Grace. The Court brake up anon after sia n'clork• The Duke and Duchess of Yoax, the Doke and Duchess of GLOUCEsTEE, the Princess Som.% of GLOUCESTER, and the Prince of IlEssf•Hosauac, with several of the Cabinet Ministers and their La- dies, were of the PRINCE REUENT'S diniser.party at Carlton-hoose oft Tuesday evening. to meet her MA JESTY, the Princesses AUGUS/A and ELIZABETH.- At nine o'clock there was a small party to tea, &c. The Doke of Sussex visited his Royal Mother and Sisters yesterday, at the Queen's Palace. Yesterday the Prince of llEsse•lfoatauea visited her MAJESTY and the Princesses, at the Queen's Palace. The Duke of GLOUCESTER dined with her MA JISTY and the Princesses AUGUSTA and with( yesterday, at the Qessen's Palace. Yesterday the Bishop of NORWICH hsd an midi coca of the PRTISCC REGVIT, at Carlton-house. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India-house, when the following Commanders took leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respective destinations, sit. Captain B. KAY, Marchioness of Ely ; Captain 'l. 11. Hums, Prince Regent—Madras and Bengal. The ships Bombay, Inglis, and Chi rtes Grant, ar• rived at Penang on the 26th, and the Marqeis Cam• den, on the 31st July, and were to sail from thence, for China, on the 3d August.. Mr. FARQUHAR, the late Governor of the Mauritius, who recently returned to Eugland, will, it is said, of himself as a Candidate at the ensuing Election for Canterbury, to the Electors of which City he formerly tendered his services. To-morrow will he the settling day for the long pending and• fluctuating amount of Consols. The market was heavy, and it will principally depend on the quantity of Strick.delivered and taken on that day, whether a rise or fall will follow. The Commis sioners of the Sinking Fund bought their usual quan tity yesterday at 80 3.BthaThrie per Cent. Reduced; they were freely offered Consols It 70 B.4ths, on account of the near approach of the Dividends on Reduced, and that being the cheapest Stock, they gave it the preference in their purchase. The Liberty of the Press has received a severe check at Weimar. The two Opposition Newspapers, entitled Nemesis and the Friend of the People, have been suppressed. Dr. WetLxso, the &blor of the latter, has left the country ; and one Professor con nected with theJouruals has been imprisoned silt weeks; one has been passed over in his turn of promotion ; and two have been forbidden the Court. The Ker. Archdeacon BATHURST having pledged himself to lay the improper conduct of the late High Sherif of this county (1. N. BURROUGHES„ Esq.), at the Meeting held on the 13th ult. before Parlia ment, wrote to consult two Members of the House of Lords, and one of the House of Commons, upon the subject. The latter Gentleman, in his reply, inti- Meted that " The present Ministers ..f the Crown have such en Augean Stable for him to cleanse, that be literally has not lime to sweep the Norfolk lihire-house."—( Norwich Paper.) From the Report made to the House of Common;, llt appears that the sum of 165,0001. has been ad vanced to the City of London, for the purpose of providing a site for the erection of a new Post-olTtee, ender the authority of Act of Parliament—that out of this sum there has been already expended in pur. Oases 136,3021. 64. 9J. and that warrants have been signed for payment of purchases to the amount of 21,9871. 14s.10(1. —making together 159,2901. Is. 7d. leaving a balance in hand of only 6,7101. 183. SJ. Lieutenant-Colonel ERSKINE, the youngest son of Lord ERSKINE, died lately on his passage to Ceylon. The very great satisfaction the plan adopted in former Lotteries gave to persons residing in the Country, has induced T. Bisu, the Contractor, to repeat it in the present ; and he hopes he Ites i as in a recent Lottery.' selected some of the Capitals •mnngst those Nembers advertised.--Th. under mentioned Numbers may be had, either in whole Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, or Sizteeuths, at No. 4, Cornhill :- 1.0.19 1 10.2121 16,098 I 7.412 I 2220 17,2321 6.826 11.488 $.121 17,951 11,456 1 160 87 16.037 2,RIR 11.121 13.200 113..32 10,185 I 8,323 2.757 11,456 1 10.213 15,074 1 11,122 3,110 The followiagNumbers may be had either in whole Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, or. Sisteenths, at No. 9, Charing-cross : 10,2111 12.921 111.490 1 4.608 13,553 13.291 1 10.215 4,511 1 11,129 7,415 16,089 1 17,e31 3.002 13.571 8.285 17 404 164901 10,13' 2.8241( 3,131 13,071 13,235 1 11,459 3,122 1 2,816 The present Lottery contains Three Priem of f3o,ooo,—One Hundred Ca pitsls,—all Sterling Money,—no Stock Prises,—no Classes,--no re drawing: The Drawing Commences WaerresoAT, the 4th of MARCH. PR.ESEIre Pflarf. Ticket Half Quarter • 5' 5 0 1 Rasteentis *** Letters (post paid) contain i ng Bank Notes, or - _. . Post-office Orders duly a s itendell to. The last Lottery that contained Three Prizes of . 00.000, Bt4ti :Al them all t and last Lottery he sold Three Prizes of £20 1 000 ) all in Shares. • • FOR,THe. STATIMAX: • . frit Drti DOVTO ft; Olt, rms BATTLE or TeE US 3t SUNG IN A 111(141' DOLlPU4spituullll. Ant—failft4..lTDAßTlC:" • • • PRINCIPAL VOCAL- PERFORMERS . , Mina tatozza, Sorrier, Ba‘c.ot: BATON'S?. (IWHISIN. RATSOLW, and Ours... • • ItEhnEtt.—Dzaar. DOWN TWANGS.* . • • ••••••■••••.-. • • Pr.W the rage of Partetwer, • • • Gabe the ali•• .to • Patriot Bus Mw no 100 ter, ; •4 :: • Thondeed io st. 4typhep:s 11#111 : - • , •••••• Jr‘ • :7` ,• FlOlll Ilse 'loose sistoSt. 4ansees. .4: • . Pale and ghostlike,wurted with bland, Doctor SI 0110U . 1 al4 worosid wonoded. •Crawl'd where his spruce Colleaktie.kood, • 116 Tell me, Noble Viscount, tell me, • - Ere I'm bOtse a corpse away, Have I doge A Phteewsau's . Ou Ibis hot amitardorsOrday Tell me, Noble V iscount, For my life is fleeting fast, Have I done a Placemases.doty, Can there might my mem'ry blast r' " Doctor, no," the Viscount answered, " Thou a Merman's part Wm done, black I Mount thy woisods mod brines % Thou gt by these oar Safety's wsa." " Thanks, sty Colleague I life is ebbing From this worn and Worried heart; Yet Oh I grant oue little favour, Ere in death thy kiend deiii.rt I " Bid solve servile Sinecnrist. When I'm agmher:4l.l‘ ilk the dead♦ - For my (Meer and RepoWs, • Cm some hair from this weak fiend ; " Rid him, too. this Pemion bear the n. %Mich I gain'd with parting breath ; • They will praise and laud the giver, When hii band is cold in death. " Bid him too to CROILER give some, Saying, hid firm friend I die; Hew ill pour a nioseruful requiem, . .• And embalm me with a sigh."' That I will," replied the Vlseusst, And be evermore 'heir friend ;" " Thanks, my good and Noble Colleague s Now my pains and sorrows end." Mate towards bid Colleague weeping, tbzimotyrn then upturned hi. eye, Grateful then his foot embracing. Cried '• a Plot,,' with his labl sigh: None of all the Sinecurists - Gould without a tear depart To have lost (heir Place and Pension Scare!) , more .had . tonclici their heart. 7, . - - - - Now in a good hop•oitck . bhrorded, „ • By the Ministerial crew, • . . t All the l'eoide round who crowded, . Shouted luud, " Poor Quailt,.•dieill fr • - London. • * lior.— . The Doctor was famous foe haubscranammisicti hop-pillow to a certain illustrious Pecoopgisita priew.slosep. —lie was buried is a hop-sack that be alight aotbf the curses of the People. . . THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. Mach conversation and conjecture are, occasioned I by the statements afloat respecting the -Marriage of the Duke of Clarence to Miss Wykeham. 'We have our doubts on the accuracy of most of these 'Keit/tits, but it is a part of our business to lay these particu lars before the Reader. At present, the only for mal progress we hear of towards the Marriage is that—the Duke of Clarence has given the legal no. lice of his intention to the Privy Council. The law allows the Council a full year to consider 'of such i proposition from a Member of the Royal Fainilk,.. after which, if 'it be not objected- to, the Marriage may take place; or the assent of Parliament viity as thutise a marrisge,withiti this petiOd, notwithstanding the hesitation of the Council. Sidi, itorleistand . is the Lsw ; but it is not probable, that * Pa thadteht would act. in such a cast., a l ienist the wishes of ails senior members of the Royal Family, nor is it likely, considering the harmony which now happily prevails in that family, that Pieliarnesit should be appetite(' to upon such a subject. What are the present per. I sonal inclinations of the Queen and Prince Regent we are unable to say, but we learn front good autho.l rity, that her Majesty has been much aveise from the l marriage of the Duke with a subject, aud, that the Prince Regent has endeavoured, though with less anziety, to dissuade his Royal Brother from it. Miss Wykeham, the Lady in question, is 28 years of age, of a countenance prepossessing, though not highly distinguished for beauty, of a good figure, end a must ingenuous disposition. tine is in posses.siort of between 17 and 18,0001. a year, landed property, oiitk• very forge sum of money, acetimulated during hec minority. • GRAND FOOT.KACC rots 400 GuINEAS.-011 Toes. day a numerous - and respectable assemblage of the admirers of pedestrianism, mastered on the road a shore distance from the elegant mansion of W. W. l'ele, Esq. in Epping Forest, to vritnes‘ the race be. tween Leach mad Shaw, the distance of 1.50 yards.— The former, in upwards of fifty races, had beat all the picked metrite England; and bad ahn defeated She* a short time since nit Hyde Park. Tnelipeed of the latter was nevertheless a° much admired upon that occasion, that the. odds were - wavy 7 to 4-against Leach; end more betting ()crime(' on tho4of thee' has been known for the list treaty yeah" •-••Tbe ground on which they ran was repeats; wit** staket to prevent the creed ftom pressing - apdd ehrot, also a rope with stakes , was fitacettin the Middle to prevent their jostling each -usual! At; two -a*elorkA the signal was given, and Leach got thamittfneerly e' yard ; but Shaw soon shot•hybftaattks act attow,lind when he touched the bandkorlll44, beach' was *beat seven yards behind him.' Thu• 160 girds 'were - atw complished in tha ♦err Short weer of •itsteen 1. conds. beads ran without shoes, and •bad Only r ehort pair of drawere;' the - countrroarr wee as' slightly clad, excepting a litie Of•jean• Shan bids fair to-bear all En - gland ; he-gets neat i ;pound *ith ill the hewn of s greyhound. To via EDIIOII *or rag STATESMAN.... Sll4-1100 Often wondered, like your Corr,: Sposnlecit T. B.; that the unfortunate case of Tool: Runt*, *Hume made more public. I wish I'. 13. kite* at much as I do of the diatresq int circumstances of this most distressing case, or that I was pimessed Of his ability in conveying ilia knowledge in proper and pathetic Iteensgi to other": . Howtier, simple facts are stubborn things, to wl,icit I shall confide myself.--Tuoidasßine* wait master tailor, a mid at stiict integrity, the most scruriulnul honesty End induitrious habits, by Which he Maio baited a large family in a decent •mitiner, giving Lit children the bededucation hrilitittie, and training there up in the paths df virtue slid honour, both by precept and esainPle. He was in advocate for lee form, and for thiS reason he was torn away from a pregnant wife and nine ci iklren„. who Were entireiy dependent on hint for sti•op lit, and o , clioiel fur se veral weeks at Huddersfield; during time Rif *as never permitted to see either Wife or cbihi , only through a broken pane in a garret viiodow into tr:s4 Street, the sight of whom, under Sticl. eircumstanre , 4 , drove him to distraction, despair, avid :.;sanity, fit of which he attempted his mien destruct!on. It was one of the most" affectionate of husbal.;ii tenderest of fathers, and also i than of the fineit of feeliogs. At length he was committed to York but never brought to trial. His friends, not image of the enormous espeitce always incurred in the pre paration of a legal defeoce, hid no doubt had he been tried but he would have obtained an honourable ac. quittal. His pregnant wife went to York (40 milez) under the full confidence that her afflicted husband would come home with her. After she had been York several days, she was informed that her hus band would not he tried,nir yet liberated; but 110 t he would be detained under a S.'cretary of State'A "arrant. They parted in tears, never to sae ears other morel I was an eye.-witness to this scene. Ile now relapsed into that state of dejectiiiii from Which he seemed to have been recovering. 11:t *as heavily ironed, like A felon, which hurt his min.( very much. Ile imagined . he would be thought :L di...4race to the respectable family to Wltkh lie longed, none of whom had ever been before n Ma gistrate charged with arty or'ence before. Ile iir•ittai.ti on his'existence in such a manner as may be heteer conceived . (hats iipressed, till the '7lh of October (having beets confined 16 weeks), when he put it period to it by self-destruction. I will leave you to, udge of the situation of the family, more of wiiitAt you shall . hear by-and-bye. In the mean time, I remain yours, Jac. Header:Sea, Feb. IS- W. A s . . EXPEDITION to the NO Rill ERN It EC 10 N;`i We have al ready sttte4 some particular* cancel-Id n# this Expedition.. .The tulle% lug are from equal au thority. The Isabglie ; Capttitt Itoss i t ship, is now (Plin# out. iu _the dock of Messrs. Dowion, Limehouse---1 line'roop.x . vm . istii of 3,b-to 3t6 tons. She onsiergoing tench dere than 11. complete repair; fur the shipwrights &re Ittaelising the strength nt . the belt brodding ti stew *kirk to alb and a lining to the inside,*tath •rif six inches .thick, Many bulls of 'WO - dimensions are placed on 1.11 bow and 'tern. The espence of this extraorditmry preparasiiin fora pecaliar'service, estimated at neat) 5,(X3)1. will be paid by Government. The hire f the .easels is at the rate of 10s.per Inn per month ; but, as Government take the insurance, which i, fixed at 3s. ad., the price to the owners, upon tilt, return of.the vessel', is 6a. ad. The crew 0 ( the Isabella will he shout 50; Oct 'Officers and passengers about O. No espence spared to provide for the comforts of both classer.—• Stsutscheons are used on board for the erection lil .roof over 'the deck, in theorem of their being luck -1 *op in. the ice. The births, or bed-places, are cep a,' • 'of being removed on shore, and canvas and tat :violins' of large site are provided to be lilted () v.,- thee). Coats to the amount of 00 tons, end tly ! „ for three riots, will be carried out, with sour kraut, vinegar, anti line-juiain abundance. A new kind f log is had'', the machinery of which runs from (t. vain' down the side of the rudder, nearly to the keel. The purpose is to show by a dial in the cabin, the rate of the vessel's sailing; bet doubts are en tertained, whether it may not impede the steering 0 •• the ship; and otherwise fail of its purpose, so sites no great reliance is placed epos' this esperiment.— The voyage; if unsuccessful, is expected to terrhiroa:ro about September ; 180 ; if it be successful and that the navigstorS return by the Indian Seas, a rewseil 1 5 f 20,0001. will he distributed amongst the crews. Nut - withstanding this, mud an allowarode of 31. per nootrit.„ a difficulty is found in obtaining suitable hands f•• , • the voyage, and the vessels will complete their Crev 4 at the ()okays, the great reticisievous of seamen fr,r the Greenland service. Spare rudders, sochot!'r capstans, masts; spits, and boats ere carried by tar vessels; the owners find sails and other thing's uproot the same conditions, as for transports. k-,-- CORONZR'S Inquisititin *III NI:Pt% at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Thomas gran, ; avid forty years, a workshan in the Dock-yard.; Deptford. James Upton, a shipwright of Deptfor.!, said, that the deceased and himself were at wink 1.4 that part of the docks whet* the timber is boiled prepare it for see. The degeased stalked on the of the boiler, and not Sowing that the shouts:, through which the boiler iaiepplied with water, svi, .ttabotted, be walked opon it, it gave way, and he fe't through into the boiling oyster; as he fell, he struck his bead against a a pause of lend and fractured u ; he was taken oat immediately, badly bruised and scalded, and coneeyed to the ilurgeon of the D•fcte goat& who''dressed his wound,_ and ordered him to liken .to . buy's Acciaten:i/t brat*. • , 714 - port hitters this meriting *entails (Grater dr. of the effects of the late sates. The daiwigc. • to the shipping bas been considerable, bat we are - ilia to perceive that bet few fatal Ahe ---Wrence4 ita. "NW occasioned. One of tie Padsto* Oats was on - itotebnately drowned in assisting to get -the 1),14 Plosper, of Brest, Marc Role, Molter, roc, ;:that !arbour, on the morning of the 93d. .... • 1 4..g1 _ .1111•...., 1