The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-08 00:00:00

-, • THE QUEEN. ~ . . . , The Prince Regent remained with her Majesty and the Princesses, ti ll after eleven o'clock, on Sunday m i g ht, and then returned to Hampton Court. No other member of the Royal F am ily v i,i tr d h r Ma jesty on Sunday , the Physicians having advised that she s hould be kept as still and composed as possibly. I, the course of the evening, Sir Francis Milman re turned from London, and both he and Sir Henry Hal ford have remained in close attendance ever since, so much,so, that daring the night they only took a few boors' rest alternately. Yesterday morning the following Bulletin was ex hibited in the ball of the Queen's house:— Kew Palace, Sept. 7. " The Queen was a little better throughout yesterday, and has passed u good night, F. MILMAN. ,‘ H. HALFORD." The operation which her Majesty underwent, on Saturday night, appears to have given her consider able relief ; at least, it is certain, that, at present, she ie in a great measure free from those severe pains and spasms of the viscera, which, on Saturday, seemed to threaten her speedy dissolution. Her Ma jesty, however, notwithstanding this temporary ces. lotion of pain, is in a state of extreme debility; enable to bent the slightest motion, to lie down in her boll, or even to move from her chair at all. Nei. ther has it heeit judged advisable for her chair to be wheeled into the adj.,ining room, where the Prin cesses have been in the habit'of personally waiting on their suffering parent, during her little r epast, with the most affectionate anxiety ; and now her Majesty takes her repast in her bead-chamber. Her Majesty, indeed, has lately received very little food, end that of the lightest kind ; the wing of a roasted partridge, or some sixth trifle, constituting her dinner. NAVAL MTh; L LIGENCE. DEAL, SEPT. 7.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Metcalf. Howard, from Bengal ; and Grenada, Scott, from Bombay—sailed Aprit 22, Vittorio; Bow nays, (rpm Jamaica ; Amphitrite, —,from Montreal ; Enterptize, Hamlyn, from Grenada; Sarah Christiana, Yoroz, from do. ; Nautilus, Aleland, from do.; Nep tune, Rosebury, from Cadiz ; Malvina, Brook, from .Ancona; Balfour, Gunsun, from Tobago ; Friends, Goodlead, from Quebec ; and Arethusa, Holy, from St. Jago tie Cuba, for orders.—Sailed the homeward bound ships for the River, and the o utward-bnu► u l on their respective voyages.—Came down from the River and sailed, the City of Bourdeaux, Hallett, for St. Helena ; Thomas and Juda, Stokes, for New fottodlend ; and Effort, Farrant, for TenerilTe.— Ar wised and remain in the Downs, the Russian frigates Legrov, Commodore Ratmanolt ; Prospeshitsy, Cap-' tain Platter ; and Probornoy, Captain Stanilory, from Cronststit, bound to Cadiz. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 7. A rrived the brie Concord, from London for Gibraltar,—Sailed the Leveret goo. brig, for St. Helena.—Remain his Majesty's ships Semiramue, Ipitigettia„ and Carron. FALMOUTH. SEPT. s.—Sailed the Leda, Stewart, from the Cape of Good Hope for London. NoaTu SHIELDS, SErt. s.—The Eliza, C►awford, of South Shields, coal laden, has put back with loss of her topmasts, sod is at anchor• off Ty womb Bar, waiting to get relief. MARGATE, Serf. 7.—Arrived off this port the Thomas, Bell, from St. Vincent's. WEYMOUTH, SEPT. 6.—About 15 sail of merchant men, laying its Portland Roads, wind-bound, sailed down Channel early this morning. The Spanish Government has recently order levy of men and money in the provinces to fill up its army ; but in a few districts has the order been promptly executed. The necessities of the Court are so urgent, that the money will probably be swallow. ed up before the men are collected at Cadiz. Where, too, are the means of transporting them, unless they are furnished by England ? For at Madrid they do do not reckon upon the Russian ships which have been purchased, sod which have been since allowed to go 'to decay, without any attempt at repairs, in the port of Cadiz. Tire colliers employed in the numerous mines near blauchester have refused to labour without an in crease of pay. The accounts from Leeds, and the other principal clothing towns in Yorkshire, state, that the orders were newer known to he greater than at the present, and that the greatest harmony subsists between the masters and their workmen. On Thursday, the 17111 ult. the first Admiralty Court for the jurisdiction of the borough of Colches ter, with the Customary Court and Court of Conser vancy, for the fishery of the river Collie, since the granting a new charter to the borough, was held, eccordieg to ancient custom ; various encroachments were presented, and much other business doue; at the close of which the Mayor, dtc.ditted under a maiquee on the shore. runcTo.stioN.—The contract lately made for light ing the town of Liverpool, during the ensuing year, has been thrown void by the misplacing of a comma in the advertisement, thus :—" The lamps are aline sent about 4050, and have in general two spouts each, composed of not less than twenty threads of cotton." The contractor would have proceeded to fornish each lamp with the said twenty threads, but this.being but half the usual quantity, the Commis sioners discovered that the differeoce arose from the comma following instead of preceding the word each. '[he parties agreed to annul the contract, and a new one is now ordered. SPRING•GUNS.--YeMenley morning died, Charles Grant, Esq., en eminent Russian broker, of Globe road, Mile-end, On Sunday se'nnight, about ten at right, he took his usual walk round his ground, pre . vioos to retiring to rest. Not being aware his ser wits had set the spring-gun which had recently been placed there, in consequence of the numerous depre dations committed, he trod upon the wire, and re. ceived five slugs in the back part of his thigh. Sir W. Blizard extracted the slugs, and faint hopes were entertained of his recovery, until Saturday night, when a mortification ensued and terminated his ea• istence. He has left a wife and two children. On Saturday night, an uninhabited house in the City.roed, belonging to Mr. Wood, of 13, City road, was entered by means of a false key, and stripped of all the locks and other fastenings; a large cr{i}er Nu also carried off by the robbers. Tr .-7 7 TtIE sTA HENRY EDO. AND MR. GEORGE 'VINETENT DOWLING. A fesivflnitee Mors twelve o'clock .this foreno Mr. BUNT went into Mr. CLEMENT'S, Proprietor of the Observer Newspaper, near St. Clement's church, in the Strand, to look over the different Morning Papers, to see which gave the best - and fullest account of the Meeting in Pelece.)ard. Whilst he was there Mr. Dowtima opened the shop door, and seeing Mr. HUNT, he asked some question and was retiring, when Mr. HUNT stepped up to the door and cried stop, a word with you. Mr. DOWLING stopped, standing in the door way holding the door in his hand. Mr. HUNT.—" You infamous rascal, how dare you publish in all the Papers that yoo gave me a horse-whipping, which I had not the spirit to re sent ?" Mr. Do{9Ltaie...- 66 I give you my honour as Gentleman, I never did." Mr. Iltmr..- 46 ll—n your honour—a hired spy, a Government spy talk of honour ! if yoo did not, some of your d—d colleagues did; and it was copied from Pa per to Paper all over the country. You infamous scoun drel, if you have the courage or spirit of a man shOw it now ; come, I shall go into the street with you" —(offering to go out). Mr. Dow LING."---- 44 upon my honour yen wrong me ; but, HUNT, you are well known, and I should only get disgrace by having anything to do with you ;" going and pulling the door after him. Mr. Ifor.—" I shall not touch him whilst in Mr. CLEMENT'S drop, but he shall not go unpunished for his falsehood, Lk cnwarilice shan't save him from me, following Mr. Dowt.txr: into the street, collaring him, and giving him two or three blows with his, clenched fist—take that, and as you have not spirit* to resent it in a manly way take this law. Here a great crowd begin to assemble. Mr. lltmr retired into the shop. Mr. Dowomo put in his head and said, 44 Mr. HUNT I would he glad to know your address?" Mr. Iltmr.—" Every person knows my address, No. R, Norfolk•street." Mr. DowLING then went away, and thus it ended for the present. Dr.. JO/INS/11"s DEFINITIOAT OF EXCISE, AND THE pTHAT liorEEDlNcis lANATIOS AHAiNsT 111 M FOIL EX P. The definition given of the word Excise by that luminary of our literature, Dr. Johnson, in his in comparable Dictionary, should be held in remem• brance ; as well as dill it was attempted by the Ex cisiog powers of his day to threaten the venerable Doctor into a less obnoxious explanation of the word Excise. But Dr. Johnson was a mat; not to be frightened either by Excise Officers or Attorney-G nerals. It appears from the subjoined opinion of Lottl Mansfield, when Attorney-General, upon Dr. Johnson's explanation of the word in question, that the Lawyer held the explanation of that still odious impost to he libellous; hut advised th4t time should be allowed and threat+ used, in order to induce the. great Philologist to alter his definition. Time has cetininly been allowed—whether threati were used we know not ; but the explanation continue.; to this day in the Dictionary as originally written and pub lished. Reason, therefore, and critical science base lin (his case been too strong for the legal opinion. CASE. Mr. Snmeiel Johnson has lately published a Bonk, entitled " A Dictionary of the Essalhh La t, ,, lsisge, in which the words nre deduced flutes their anginal., anelilleorated in their different signification 4 by example. from the bet writers. To which are pall zed, a History of the Language, and an English Oram- anat." Under the title " Excisr" are the following words : Excise, n. s. (accijs, Dwelt ; r.crisant. Latin.) a hateful tax, levied term' commodities, and hdjaaged, not by the common judges of property, but tceelches Weed by those to w hum " Ex cise" in paid. The People should pay a rateable tax for their sheep, and an excise for every thing which they s hould cat.—ll AY W•RD. " Amliittim. brow to wk.. ex, ise " Of a more frag tut para,ii.ee,"—CLEAVELAND. IX CISE. " With loindred rows of teeth the shark exceeds. " And on all wades, like Ca-sa war, cit. feeds."—M Astycz.. " Can hire large houses. and oppress thepoor " By farin'd Lxcitie."—DavutiesJu VI:NAL, Sat 9. The A ohm's definition being observed by the ommissionerts of l cis-. they desire the ray. , iir of your opinion: W heater it w.II not he consider ed as alibel ; and if so, whether it isnot proper to proceed against the Author, Printer*, and Publishers thereof, or any and which of them, by informa tion or how otherwise ? OPI \ 10V, " I ant of opinion that it is a libel but tinder all the eireitm stances. I should thick it better to give him an opportunity of altering his definition; and its case lie do'ut, ilire.tteu him with an information. (Signed) ..W. MURRAY. '. Nov. F 9, 175.5.” SURREY THEATRE.—After the whimsical Barletta of Trick for Trick, in which FITZWILLIAM and Mrs. WEsrus were most whimsically effective, a new and splendid Pantomime was last night produced, under the title of the Sea Serpent ; or, Harlequin Yankee. Much has been said about the Marine Monster of the Atlantic; but nothing has been done likely to give him so much interest with a British Public as his pro duction in the above form ht this Theatre, which has presented us with some very superior pieces of Ame rican local scenery, the first ever produced on the English stage. The combined magnificence and mirth of this Piece (some where about the 30th produced this season) will insure it a prosperous ran till the House closes ; the tricks are excellent, the dresses beautiful, and the music lively and appropriate. The Performers all exerted themselves to the utmost, and undivided expressions of applause accompanied the Piece throughout, and attended its re-aunouncement. Red Riding: flood fell 0 wed, and with MOTP than even its usual success. The Duet between FITZWILLIAM and Mrs. ORGER is frequently sung three times. Yesterday, J. Jones, of Little Peter-street, was going through the Almonry, his attention was arrested by seeing a female stretched upon the threshold of a door, in such a posture as led him to believe that all was not right. 04 going to the spot, he foetid that she had fastened a handkerchief to a staple in the door, and tying it fast round her neck, she endeavoured to strangle herself. He immediately cat the handkerchief) and she recovered. ,TESMAN COVENT-G.4IIDES -TiIEATILE. Yesterday being the day nettled for the re-opening of this Theatre, the doors were opened at the usual hour, and a most numerous end brilliant audience was anon assembled. Beautiful as the hdlase appeared when lighted. up on Friday, the elegant assemblage which graced its walls last night,..gave the whole • hniihing and pleasing touch. The boxes and pit were filled in almost every part before the curtain rose, Ind in the course of the eventrifttferbeCatne crowded to an overflow. 13014 the galleries were also completely filled. At seven o'clock the curtain rose, and the Per formers advanced and snug " God save the King." I TAYLOIL, DUROUSET, 'FINNEY, Miss MATTHEWS, and Miss STERLING, were of the number who pre sented themselves. The Play was " Macbeth," in which Mrs. YATES, from the Dublin stage, made her first appearance in London, as the representative of Lady Macbeth. It is no easy task to pronounce on the merits of an actress from a first performance. The ter ror and emotion, which repress exertion in many, and exaggerate it in some instances, will frequently constitute a very considerable drawback on the 'success of a debutante. For Mrs. Yates some 'allowances moat . be made, on account of what we have just alluded to; but if a fine well proportioned figure, interesting countenance, and powerful voice, can recommend their possessor to favour, she will prove an acquisition of great importance. White urging Macbeth to commit the murder which is to place a Crown on his bead, she displayed a just conception of the part, nod some of her re proaches were breathed in a spirit of bitterness that was universally felt and approved. The speech in which she declares herself capable of sacrificing her infant to forward the object of her ambition, was marred by the breaking of a necklace of white heads, which, at the moment she spoke of dashing the child's brains out, came falling from her neck, and rolled about the stage in all directions. In the banquet scene the unea:iness and indioation with which the wife of Macbeth views his alarm and anguish, were well depicted, at the close of which she dismissed the guests wish an animated expression of impatience, which would have been most striking if shelled given full scope to her powers, and had not Buffered a too great attention to set an unnecessary timit to the effort. tier last accuse inspired universal interest, sod I reiterated applause rewarded her labours whets she retired. Touxo acted Macbeth in many parts with great ability, hut we have seen him to greater advantage. In the latter scenes he was remarkably fine, and the ' manner in which he receives the news of the moving grove," and his reucounter with Macdaff, were ad mirable. Mr. C. K EM TILE, who was reported to be ill, agree ably surprised the audience by presenting himself before them as Macda IT lie wag greeted with shouts of universal applause, which were frequently renewed in the course of his fine performance. The other characters offered the usual display of talent, and the Tragedy throughout (with the excep. don of one or two of the choruses, in which the bond being a new one, and the parties not acCus timed to play together, were found wanting In some respects) went off in the best manner, honoured with mute attention and universal approbation. On the whole the season at this Theatre has commenced un der 'hot most 114ttering auspices, and with uncommon and highly merited eclat. SPARRING. Painter hid a benefit at the Fives' Court yester day, which was bot very thinly attended. Belcher and Iturmer.—This set.to was again re peated. Much science was displaced, and the parries were made with the greatest nicety. It was the only equal match of science. Pm'nter and Richmond made some flourishes as well 44 hits, but they gave satisfaction. Rale: and Spring.—This bout excited much at tention, as it was considered equal in science; but Spring had more than two stone in weight. F.very maneeuvie was practised to mei, but Giles had de ci(ledly the best of it, against superior length. Scroggins, Batton, and others set.to, and a ruffian ins, match between two would-be pugilists, excited much applause. They hit away unmescifully, and the flooring system was all their aim. DUCA DFUL ACCIDENT.-Yesterday morning about nine o'clock, a fine boy, about ten years of age, of the name of Adams, whose parents reside at Mr, Owen's, straw bonnet warehouse, shoe-lane, Hol born, was unfortunately jammed against a post al the corner of Brearer's.yard, Shoe.lane, by a wag gon, and was killed on the spot. The following accident happened last week l• the parish of Staverton, near Daventry :—The borse. keeper to the Crown Prince Coach, having • ander. taken to look occasionally, into the orchard of • neighbour, to see that the apples were .sefe daring the night, became the thief himfelf, and having mounted a tree, fell from one of its highest branches, 'with his shirt and pockets laden with fruit ; in which situation he was found speechless the nest morning, with his back broken. lie was carried home alive, but died in the course of the day.—{Birmingham Chronicle). On Saturday evening, between suit and seven o'clock, a man of genteel appearance went to the Fountain 'revert', Catharine.street, Strand, and desired to he shown to a room where he could wait for a friend whom he eapected to call. A room on the first floor was offered to him, and after Waiting there a short time, he came down and said he had a call to make in the neighbourhood, and would re. torn in a few minutes, and requested if his friend should come in his absence, to wait his return ; neither he nor his pretended friend called, and on the waiter going into the room, he discovered he had stolen the four window curtains. 'Olt Sunday afternoon,' daring the attendance at. church of Mr. Green, of 8, Jamel.street,. York. street, Newington, and hip family, some 'litters pludered the house of several pieces of silver plate, and a quantity of linen and wearing apparel. Two men were observed to come out of the house with some bundles, bat no attempt was Mad* te stop them. • - T". - da f t - 1444 CHAP ELL E .. tti G. The eyes pf Europe are beginning to ve directed ,Innards Aii-laXlispelle, the proposed place of as sembly for the . Congress of Sovereigns, which is to commence its sittings the latter end of this montli.--• Of whom this celebrated assembly 14 in consist, es.. rept the two Emperors of Russia and Austria, end the King of Prussia, with Lord Castlereagh, we do uot know ; but agar ao we can learn, no other So vereigns will be present. Of *hat they hive in view, except the discussion of the propriety of evacuating .France, we profess ourselves equally ignorant; but rumour states that one of the points, which is to en gagitheir most serious attention, is a proposition by the King of Spain that they should interpose betwixt him and the South Americans, so as to bring the .latter back to their allegiance, under certain condi tions proposed by the former. Be all this as it may, there will be in a very short time a Congress of Sovereigns, of the Lords of the Creation, and the general feeling is, that these Sovereigns have appoint. sel this meeting to settle certain matters and things in which the whole population of Europe is concerns id, according to their own discretion. Probably a few more transfers of human beings, with the lands . 1. 10 which they feed, will grace their proceedings. Probably, they will lay down a general code of government for themselves and their brethren in all (store cases of emergency. We should have liked it better, we confess, had we heard that, on so im portant an occasion, the People had been invited to take some share in the deliberations. They are not, however, as far as we can learn, to be permitted to be present even by their representatives. So that whatever interests are et stake, whatever it may please arbiters of human fate to determine, respect ing them, their opinion will not be asked, nor their copse's. required, except in the way of submission and rilence. Under these circumstances, we con fess, notwithstanding the terms of the Holy Atli once, that we look on the Congress with moat suspicia *us eyes, anticipating only provisions for the enlarge* ment and security of power, end restraints of popu lar will and popular right. We are old fashioned . erinogh to consider the People as yet of some mite. (prone. Our creed with respect to power is, that Sovereigns are only the servants of the People, and when we see them congregating together of their own accord, and assuming to themselves the disposal of w hole districts by bargains, in the formation of which the inhabitants are not participators, we cannot but feel that the proper order of things is reversed, and fear that there is a combination to establish despotism. The mere evacuation of France is not enough In ac count for this extraordinary movement. The Minis. tern of the respective Courts might easily have ad• justed this point. It must have in view some ulterior considerations, and these can only be the mode in which the world is to be divided Romeo a number of men, caging ihemselves Sovereigns, and these posses. 'oes secured to them. Their assembly is of their own suggesting, and an doubt for their own purposes.-- If it contemplated any thing for the People, the Pen. ple would have beers consulted. Rut they hate not been consulted : nor would one of them, if deputed by millions, be admitted even to listen to their de. liberations. It is, therefore, with the extremest anxiety, that we wait for intelligence of what is going on at Ais-la•Chapelle, especially as one of the Members of that Assembly will be an Englishman —a Representative of the People in his own country. — flow such a man can amalgamate with Sovereigns dis. posing of human affairs in their own right, we have already hail a little specimen. How he will continue his career, excites our curiosity in the highest degree to learn. But, perhaps, it is only on Englishmen he will deign to confer the title of men, with rights to protect sud defend. Most Representatives of the Pen• ple would feel themselves awkwardly situated in such company. They would he apt to ask on cer• fain occasions, " what will the People say to this 1 Are they willing to accept of such and such regula. lions:" Arid if theanswer were made," what have the Penpleto do but submit?" they would take up their hats and leave the room. We mon no such ill.manners frogs my Lord Castlereagh. his respect for Crowned Heads is too great to permit him In put in competition with it, any little feeling he may yet possess, as an inks. Nista of this lend of liberty. This, however, we do augur, that neither he nor those with whom he is about to co-operate, can throw any very serious or permanent impediment in the way of human ameliora tion, either on the European or American continent. Knowledge has made too great a progress on both to be stopped in its advance; and people of enlightened minds will not endure the rod of despotism long.— As to any effect their decisions may have on the des tinies of south America, we are perfectly at ease.— lisle intelligence from that quarter, and particularly the conduct pursued by the Spanish agents towards the Patriots, leaves no doubt, not merely as to the certainty that no mediation will be accepted by them, but that their independence will be established. In deed, as one interesting letter expresses it, it is as good es established already. The very application . of Spain for the interference of the Holy Alliance is a confession of inability on her own part to perform the task of subjugation. Had not this been the case, she would never have truckled to strangers for assist ance, nor su6mitted to ask as a favour, from the in• terference of bystanders, what she claims as a right. 'lle Independents know this es well as she does; and if they had not the recollection full in their minds of humanity outraged, of faithless profession's, of murdered arid tortured friends arid relatives, of chains, and racks, arid gibbets, it is not very likely they will trust to promises made under the guarantee of Sovereigns, whose assembling together for their own purposes proves that no application on the part of the People would excite their attention, were these premises bieken. No : these interesting People have had toe much experience not to know that their 'own arms most be their only protection. They have had the still more gratifying experience that the op• peal they have made has beers successful, so far as to give the best founded hopes 'of eventual conquest.-- Besides, taking the most' favourable view of the goes. don of" mediation in their case, the,only ground on which they can listen to it is, an acknowledgment of their Independence. Without that preliminary, no negociation can he set on foot. Etery thing short of it would be a dereliction of most solemn de clarations made in the face of the world, arid sealed by the best blood of the provinces. Submission, en jj t 3 71 4. . 4 tr. I T ~. V 7.•:". I •