The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-19 00:00:00

enemies and his partizans; but in the last Procla n, which will be found in the column referred to, olitlcal Chief expressly declares that the removal of General bad no relation to the conspiracy, and that his - and character stood unimpeached. Riego himself, yesterday stated, so far from being arrested, pro ,ed to his destination, baring addressed a Promla :ion to the army, in which he imputes his removal to calumny, and expresses his warm and unchangable attachment to the established Constitution of the Cortes. From the character the General had hitherto possessed, and from the character of the people of Spain we have no reason to suppose a conspiracy could lie formed by Riego for the purpose of establishing a RPpulblic ; and from various circumstances we have as little reason to doubt that the plot, of whatever kind it be, was magnified, and that the agitation it occa sioned would be soon allayed. • Extract of a letter from Pcerto Cabello, dated the 18th of July :—" The armistice which Bolivar pro posed did not take place, because he demanded that the operations of our army in the kingdom of Santa Fe should be stopped : also that our Guerillas in the Plains, called Slamos, and particularly that of Urntia, who, with 600 cavalry, routed Remigio Ramos, and took from him 400 horse, with all his men, between Calabooso and the Rao. The Guerillas of Blanco have re-taken San Cadoe, and afterwards took possession of Mentalva." Prom St. Augustine, July 23 :—. 4 The sloop Hunter arrived at St. Augustine on the 21st, and sailed on the 27th ult., fur the purpose of exploring the ulte rior part of Pensacola, below the 22d degree of latti tude. This vessel was fitted out by an association, at Philadelphia, under the protection of Government. An arrangement for the conveying of the mail between St. Augustine and St. Diary's has been formed. The mail will leave the former place on Wednesday, and arrive on Tuesday morning. Extract of a letter from St. Thomas's, July 17 :— " Believing you to be a Gentleman much op- posed to the shameful traffic of Slave dealing, I Lave taken the liberty of inclosing you the copy of a Protest,,inade at the Island of St. Bartholomew. It is *Op from the office of the Colonial Secretary of St. , a *hit i and will serve to spew you that this nefari ' nd shameful trade, will never cease as long as the Americans find protection and encouragement to con "travene the laws of the above Island. Indeed, it is a place where every species of villainy is permitted. ~ A canvass has commenced for the office of Lord 3layor of the city of London, for the ensuing year. Mr. Ileygate was the next of the Aldermen, who, accor4iing to the usual rotation had reason to expect t., be returned by the Common Hall, on Michaelmas Jay, for the selection of the Court of Aldermen to fill the civic Chair. Mr. Alderman Magnay bad some years ago, on account of certain dif ficulties, declined presenting himself for the •ollice, when it was his turn to expect it; but now, his difficulties being overcome, he presents his claim for the Chair, as if it had never been waived. Against this step Mr. Alderman Heygate has entered his protest. Ile will not admit the principle which would allow any member of the Court of Aldermen to claint the rotation at his pleasure ; and this be main not only on account of what he deems his own right, but in justice to his brethren who hare not passed the chair. A letter from Smyrna, by way of Gibraltar, an nounces that a massacre took place there on the 7th, Stb, and 9th ult. Twenty Genoese suspected of being spies to the Greeks, were put to death by the Turks, notwithstanding the intercession of the British and French Cousuls. A letter from Odessa, August 21, says :—" I am as sured there will be no war. The Russian army, how ever, amounting to 120,000 men, is defiling down the Froth. The Turks are entrenched round Yassa. The two provinces (Moldavia and Wallachia) are completely devastated. Since Baron Strogonoffs departure from Constantinople, the Turks have opened the free pas sage ofthe Bosphorus, and published an amnesty to submitting rebels ; which form the two principal ar ticles of the condition proposed as an ultimatum." During the absence from Jamaica of his Grace the Duke of Manchester, the administration of the Govern •ntent devolves on Major-General Conran, Lieutenant- Governor of the Island, who opened his commission as such, in due form, upon his return thither from Eng land in 1819. The admission of the state of Missouri into the union, a point so long and so warmly contested in Congress, is officially announced in the American papers received yesterday. Before the separation of Congress an act had been passed for conferring that privilege on Missouri, conditional to her making a de claration through her separate legislature, that no part of her constitution should debar any citizen of the ether states of the union from the privilege and immue 'shies bnjoyed under the constitution of the United States. That condition was felfilled by a solemn pub lic act of the assembly of Missouri on the 26th of June, and on the 10th of August the proclamation of the President, announcing the admission, was issued. Orders have been transmitted to New South Wales, where the 48th Regiment is stationed, to reduce that corps, at present 1000 strong, to the establishment of the rest of the Infantry. It was owing to a special application from the late Governor, in 1818, that it was increased to that strength. it is now preferred to place the 48th on the same footing with the other Infantry Battalions, and to forward an additional re giment to the station. The 3d (or Buffs) have rude ed orders of readiness for New South Wales, and are on their way to Chatham, whence, according as con vict ships go out, they will be sent in detachments on board those vessels. By a statement from the Board of guise, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, it appears that the Hop plantations have increased in Kent as well as in Sasses. In the Canterbury diarist the number of acres under Hop cultivates was, its 1802 6141 saes, sad is 1820, 8943 aim [hisenei motion, the Pot the Gen honor a as y ceeded 'nation z~-- THE STATESMAN-. TO 211 E LICENSED ricruitizoßs.—No. IV. There it milling protects the Licensed Victualler against the multiplied attacks of his enemies more than the public Press ; nor is there any description of trades men but should set their faces against those detestable branches of it, that wish to make those in power every thing, and the people nothing. I have heard some stupid, say, I keep Papers at both sides of the question to please my customers: fallacious doctrine! so this all wise Solomon, wishes to support those venemous reptiles who sting him to death, who are paid out of the taxes for abusing those that pay. If such noodles did not take in such papers, those filthy establishments must fall to the ground, notwithstanding they are sup ported in stamps, salaries, and work, dirty or clean, by the measure of its nastiness. There are no doubt many obstacles a Publican has to encounter: his landlord the Brewer, his creditor the Distiller, or his Worship the Magistrate. The first suprlies him with deleterious swipes, or turns him out if lie attempts to rebel ; and if he should be a Magistrate, or time-serving hanger on, the unfortunate Publican must even consult him as to the description of Newspaper lie takes in. The Distiller or Liquor-merchant not nnfrequently pulls up stith the Brewer, and at all times bold the Publican in ter rore n ; while the finishing blow is left for the Just-ass, who endeavours, not only to know every thing passing in the public-house, but at every man's house in the neighbourhood ; and so slavishly do they play into the hands of the ruling powers, that a. trivial disrespect to the Magisterial Veto, not unfrequently places the license in jeopardy, but the publican either in a prison or a workhouse. The Green-bag Plot, lately brought forth at Hammersmith, is a pretty foul sample of the spy system, where they fixed Sir Robert Wilson at the head of a committee to manage the Queen's Funeral, although the publican swore that Sir Robert was never in his house; nor do I believe there was any more colour for the ivsertion than if they said I could make good porter from treacle and quassia, or an honest man of a Bridge street petty-fogger. If Publicans are to be thus be lied and harassed, by such vexations, why do they not at once encourage that part of the Public Press who supports them against their vile oppressors, and spew by their spirit they'll send their enemies adrift, and never put a penny in their way. No, there are a few groveling wretches amongst them who worship the rising sun, and like the Dutch garrisons, when be seiged by the French, " sell the powder to shoot at themselves." That is the case with a Publican who takes in a hackney print, he pays his money to oppress himself. The:. why not erect this grand battery in his own defence. This truth is well known to them, and I take upon me to say, there are a set of fellows at present in the metropolis, who attempt to force their political trash on the publicans under the specious promise of supply.' ing them with certain newspapers for so long a time gratis, provided they agree to take in that paper regu. larly afterwards. The imposition has in some instances succeeded until the misled Publican saw his error and kicked out the deception. This dishonest, this infam. ous trick of humbugging with Morning and Even ing slops, has been followed up to a degree of in famy unprecedented for the last IS months ; but the few who have been duped are beginning to open their eyes and see their way amidst this fog, this mischievous sys tem of fraud and delusion. They see themselves misre presented, they see these hackney scribes live in volup tuousness from the wages of prostitution, and should in every way possible endeavour to counteract it ; let them apprise the honest press with every attempt to trample on the law; let them beware of a set of ruffians who are either common informers, hired spies in good cloatlis, or those chatty vagabonds who provoke argument to entice a company into warmth, and have a plant ready to give down the information in private : these low wretches are as plenty as pickpockets, a calling they don't appear ashamed of, but send their in formations from hand to hand, until at last the Publican is called to account, without an idea of his error, or the miscreant who traduced him. lie is harassed in every possible way, until at last, he is glad to get quit of a con cern before he loses his all, and runs to try his chance, where he has the world to begin over again. If the country is free, as they say it is, those who pay the taxes have a right to the benefits arising from the em ployment of the taxes ; it is through the honest part of the Press they become informed how those taxes are laid out ; and what must that Publican be—what a slavish creeping thing must he be to pay daily for those velii• cis, of infamy, who neither spare public or private character who abuse their honest fire-sides, and even rake up the ashes of the dead ? Then let him ask himself, has he a right to pay for what he knows to be arrant lies, for his own abuse and his neighbours' degradation ? To pay a set who are rewarded by the measure of their mischiefs and the wantonness of their hired slanders; but who will, in time, like theitattle-1 snakes, inflict their death wounds on themselves. Leather-lane, Sept. IS, 1821. BARNABY Every preparation is making in the Royal House hold for his Majesty's intended visit to Hanover, and Saturday next is still confidently named as the day on which he will set out. His Majesty, it is said, will travel on the Continent under the title of the Earl of Dublin. Active prepa rations are making at Brussels to receive the Royal visitor the latter end of the ensuing week. His Ma jesty will stop there for a day or two at the residence of the English Ambassador, and then proceed to Han over. ROYAL SQuannori.—The Royal George, the Royal Sovereign, with the Liffey, the Lee, and the Cameleou, arrived at Portsmouth on Monday last. The Royal yachts went immediately into the harbour to refit. Lord and Lady Stewart intend leaving town to morrow, on their way to Vienna. They propose pass ing a few days at Brussels. The Masques. and Marchioness of Londonderry left town yesterday evening for their seat at North Cray. On Saturday the Marquess sets out for Hanover. On Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, as the Duke of York was passing along Charing-crou in an open carriage, accompanied by a groom, his horse fell, by which accident his Royal Highness was thrown out. Several penons wbo witnessed the accident in stantly hastened to his assistance, bat we are happy to state that his Royal Highness did not swain any arias. injuries!. FOR, THE STATESMAN. TO THE LIVERY OF LONDON. Feeling interested in every' thing that appertains to the city of London, it is not to be supposed I can re main neutral on the eve of an election for Chief Ma gistrate. You, my friends and fellow citizens, have witnessed more than one Chief Magistrate, within these few years (without any occasion whatsoever) introduce the military. You have also seen your fel low citizens, upon more than one occasion, attacked, without mercy : you have seen a few of your own body advertise rewards for these said soldiers' breach of the laws; you have also found a body of your ene mies congregate within your walls, and place them selves as an inquisition above the law, and barrass the sheet anchor of the people, by the formation of a body of informers, who prowl about your shops and your fire sides, to the injury of your domestic peace and char tered rights. You have seen your present most Worthy Chief Magistrate and your city repeatedly in sulted, and even the life of your Sheriff, your Alder man, attempted by a red coat, while the said Sheriff was officially engaged as conservator of the peace ; you have seen your Petitions rejected, and your repre sentations treated with disrespect by Ministers; and you have now to see the prcspects of independence, the rights of the city of London endangered, should the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs become the tools of the Minister. These are your prospects, my fellow citizens ; let no longer apathy possess yon, let the British Lion shake off the dew of indolence from his mane, let li berty and the Constitution ring within your walls, let the man who has devoted a long life to the real inte rests of the city, who has put down a base peculating faction, who bas saved the lives of the innocent, and always stood the open foe of the guilty, let him and your present excellent Chief Magistrate become the choice of the Livery, and at once put it out of your enemies' power to enslave you further. If you do not, you deserve to be dragooned, to be rode over, cut down, or shot like dogs. A military Government ap pears the dearest object of your foes ; they wish to se parate the citizens and the soldiers; they retain, in your neighbourhood, a regiment, who has sliewn itself obnoxious to your fellow citizens. They hire a set of hungr y scribes to abuse ynti, who daily vomit forth the basest falsehoods against you. Then, will you remain the base, the cowardly wretches P Will von surrender the rights of the city of London without a rruggle ? I trust not ; you will not degrade the remains of your brave ancestors, you will not annihilate the liberties of your city or your country. A FREEMAN. ORIGINAL POETR Y SONO. No longer the song of the lark, Sounds musically sweet to mine ear ; The woodbine, and jasmine, and rose, No longer delightful appear. For he, who oft sat by my side, And heard the lark carol in heaven, /lath broken the vows that he gave, Ills love to another hath given. And he, who oft wove me a wreath, Of woodbine, and jasmine, and rose, Bath broken the vows that he gave, The wreath on another bestows. The Scotsmen resident in Manchester intend to send a handsome gold snuff-box, bordered with a thistle, to 3lr. Hume, with an inscription to this effect:---- .. Presented to Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P. by his coun trymen resident in Manchester, as a testimony of re. spect for his talents, and gratitude fur his Parliamen tary exertions." The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe has given a freehold piece of ground at Stonehouse, near Plymouth, on which is to be erected a Classical and Mathematical School for lOU boys. The stone for building it is also the gift of the Noble Earl. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—The 10th Regiment of Foot arrived here on Monday from Portsmouth, to re place the 1 lth, ordered to Cork, a detachment of which regiment embarked on Friday on board the transports. A man, named Oxford, who had been for many years in the employ of Mr. O. Sparing, as a paviour in the Dock-yard, has lately come to the possession of an estate of 850/. a year. Martin Rowe, his wife, and daughter-in-law, were on Tuesday last committed to the Borough gaol, for trial at the Sessions, on a charge of robbery under the following circumstances :—On the 26th of De cember last, Mrs. Long, the wife of a Lieutenant in tbeArmy, who resided to Turnchapel, intending to go to Exeter, went to the first toll-gate on the New-road, in expectation of meeting the coach, hot it having passed a short time before, the gate-keeper kindly of fered to take charge of her trunk until the next day, or whenever she might wish to go. On the 29th she came in time, and took up her trunk, apparently in the . same state as she bad left it, but on opening it in Exeter after her arrival, she was surprised to find se veral things had been taken out, particularly a piece of silk, which on Sunday se'nnight being observed on the person of the gatekeeper's daughter-in-law, a search warrant was obtained the next day, and that, with many other of the articles which had been missed, were found in the house. J. Merry, of Normanby, near Kirbymoorside, who be came insolvent, about 4 years ago, having lately received a legacy of 9001. under his brother's will, could not rest satisfied until be called his creditors together, and gave op the sum to them : in consequence of which they generously agreed to settle ten pounds per annum upon him for his life, as a reward for his integrity. The fire in the Cowgate was not finally subdued until late in the afternoon of Monday. The loss of lives on the occasion was confined to the three indivi duals already mentioned, namely, the mother and her two children. They were buried on Tuesday after noon, In two coffins, and the unhappy father was able to attend the funeral, supported by two men. In re moving the rubbish on Monday, a chimney-sweeper fell from a part of the burnt walls, and was severely injured. The front wall was pulled down in the af ternoon, and part of it falling oo the house opposite, knocked in several of the windows, and considerably damaged the walls. We are happy to understand that a subscription bas been commenced on behalf of the anfortenate fernlike who were burnt oat, countenanced by the Magistrates, and to which they bare liberally contribatsdok-(EifieburgA Paper.) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER, MONDAY, SEPT. 17. The Fitzwilliam Stales of 10gs each, with 20gs added I! the Corporation, for two-year olds 6st., three list.. four. via. 9 b five, Oat. lib.. six. fist. 31b.. and aged 90. 71b.— Last m ile and a half. (5 subscribers.) Mr. Lambton's br. c. Borodino, by Smolensk°. dam by Stamford, 4 yrs old (T. Nicholson) Sir E. S. Dodsworth's ch. c. St. Pa rick. 4 yrs old Sir W. Maxwell's gr. c. Jock the Laird's Brother 3 yrs 3 Lord Milton's br. c. Czernicheff, 3 yrs 01d..... 4 3to I agst Borodino-7 to 4 and 2tol on St. Patrick. A hard race. Produce Stakes of 101 gs each. h. ft. for two-year old colts, Sst. 21b., fillies Sst.—Red-House In. (4 subscribers.) Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Octavian walked over. The Gaels? ST. LAGER STAKES, of 24X11 each, for three-year old colts fist. 21b. fillies Sst.—st. Leger Course. (49 sub scribers.) Mr. T. 0. Powlett's hr. c. Jack Spigot, by Ardrovan or Marmion, dam by Sorcerer. (11 5c0tt)...... ........ I Mr. Watson's ch. f. Fortuna, sistr.r to Woodbine, (S. Day) * Lord Scarborough's b. c. Coronatiou, by Calton, (B. Smith) Lord Fitzwilliam's b. c. Sandheck, by Cotton. (Buckle) 4 Mr. Allison's br. c. Vingt-un, by Smolensk°, (Edwards) 6 The following also starte d but were not placed: i ' Mr. R. Milne's b. f. My Lady, by Comus. Mr. Hunter's gr. c. Goitavus, by Election. Mr. Ritldel's b. c. Colwell, by X.Y.Z. out of Leon Porte. Mr. Peirse's gr. f. by Comus, out of Lisette. • 4 Mr. T. Sadler's f. Pastorella, by Fyldener, out of Folly. Col. King's b. f. Lunatic by Prime Minister. Mr. Watt's ch. c. Caroline. by Cerberus, out of Magid!) rl Mr. Brandling's b. c. by Prime Minister, dam by Ruler., 6 to 1 agst Jack Spigot-100 to 4 agst Fortuna-100 to 3 agst Coronation-100 to b agst Sandbeck-3 to I agst Vingt-un-6 to 1 a g st My Lady-6 to 2 agst Gustavus.—A good race between the first two ; won easy at last. Produce Stakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. for colts Sst. 711).. fillies Set. 41b. t 31b. allowed, de.—Four miles. (11 subscribers.) Sir M. M. Sykes's br. c. Antelope, by Smolensko, data by Shuttle. (T. Nicholson) Mr. Gascoigne's b. f. Cora, by IVaxy, out of 5 - our:leen 2 Sir W. Maxwell's ch. c. Monreith, by Haphazard 3 3 to 1 agst An t elope-5 and 6 to 4 on Cora. . . 2 to I agst 'llonreit'i. His Majesty's Plate of INOgs. for all horses. etc. fors-year olds lOst. 41b., live, I Ist. 81b., six, 123 t. and aged I2st. Zb.—Four Mr. Petre's hr. c. Sir. John. by Smolensko. 4 yrs old I Mr. T. 0. Poarlett's b. c. Gambler, 4 yrs old 2 Mr. Armstrong's b. c. Alexander, 4 yrs old 3 8 to 4 on Ssiolensko. The Pheasant shooting this season promises well for the sportmen, as the late spring was so favourable to the young birds. We learn from Aberdeenshire tint the grouse %re very plentiful on the hills this season, and uncom monly well grown—scarcely a cheeper to be seen ; but in consequence of the wet weather last week, they were seen in flocks of hundreds, and as wild as in the end of the season.—(barerncss Currie'.) Last week, a young shark, about 6 feet in length, was taken in Plymouth Sound, not however without considerable difficulty; upwards of 20 hooks were carried away before it could be secured, and at last it was killed by severe beating on the head, after being brought to the surface of the water. Fine fresh herrings, the first of the season, were brought for sale, yesterday morning, to Billingsgate I%latket, and were soon purchased by the principal fishmongers. There is now a considerable degree of briskness in the iron trade of Staffordshire ; the furnaces are in operation, and most of the hands fully employed. On Friday next, being St. Matthew's day, according to annual custom, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Governors of the several Royal Hospitals, will at tend divine service at Christ Church. After a sermon by the Reverend Robert Lynam, A. M., they will re pair to the great Hall in Christ's Hospital, where two orations will be delivered; in Latin, by Joshua Welch; in English, by Joseph Yates Cookson ; the two senior scholars of the Grammar School. The Commissioners of Inquiry into Charities have been 1.-.tely pursuing their researches among the mnsty records of the Totnes Corporation ; and after the pa rishes in the vicinity of that town were inquired into, they adjourned to Dartmouth, which place has occupie I their attention for upwards of a week. They aie now about to proceed to Ashburton, Chualeigh, Newton, and Teignmouth. I n the account of the Recorder's report of the con-. victs cinder sentence of death, ordered for execution on Thursday next, appears the name of Sarah Payne for stealing in a dwelling-house. The execution, however, of the tr.:fortunate woman will be postponed on account of her pregnancy. FIRE IN GRAM lIURGII-liTREET.—Few fires have occasioned such immense loss of property as the late one in Oracechurch-street ; and hut for the extraordi nary exertions of the firemen, and a ready supply of water, the destruction of buildings and property would have been ruinous in the extreme. It has not been as certained who the unfortunate person was that pe rished with the fireman and turncock, while removing some of Mr. Ryant's property. Bustin, a fireman, had the good fortune to escape from the window of the first floor to the balcony of the next house ; previous to which he had placed in safety an eight-day clock, which has been thrice rescued from the devouring ele ment. This spot is memorable in relizious history, as the first place in London where the Quakers (or Friends) assembled. Wm. Penn here preached the sermon for which he was prosecuted, his Jury intimidated, and every insult heaped upon him and others who differed from the religion of the Court. Happily these days passed away with the Revolution of 1688. The house in which Penn or Fox resided is still left, attached to the premises of Messrs Masterman, which narrowly escaped destruction. The Friends' Meeting-house is destroyed, with a valuable library of books and various documents belonging to that respectable sect. Coax EXCHANGE, SEPT. 19.—The favourable change in the weather has caused a temporary suspension in the demand of almost all grains, and particularly for wheat, the consumers having amply supplied themselves last week, when the then state of weather threatened the most serious consequences to the out standing crops; sal the advance of prices that took place on Friday, predated 'immense supplies on Monday for wheat ; there were very few buyers and not one tenth part of what a,• peered was disposed of, although offerewere made at I reduction of Bs. per quarter from Friday's prices ; hated the quantity remaining over for this morning's market was very large, and from the stagnated state of the tee scarcely a sale could be made, even at a decline of full Is. per quarter from Monday's prices. Beans are also oared se lower terms; and Oats may be quoted at foil ls. per quarter cheaper.—ln Barley and other articles there i s so alteration. • -,1••• 7'7