The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-20 00:00:00

111 E VA' lAINI NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. oF ENGLAND. MUCK 19.—Arrived aid 'lofted for the A general balf.yearly engin of the Proprietors River the Favourite, Gardener, from the South of Bank Steck was held yesterday, for the pavan Seas; Ch a nce, Black, from St. Dooley ; Northast, of declaring the dividing due oe the 6th of April Baden, from Lisboa ; and Favourite, Blanchard, seat. from, ditto.—Cease dom. from the River, the Alfred, The CHATINAW Iniseeneed it to be the opleioe of Brooks, for Africa • Thomas and Ann, Constance, the Directors, that the appreeableg dividend should for Carmarthen Hopewell, smith, for &Ando.); be Ave per cent. for the hairiest. esdieg os the Bth Cleveland, Davies, for Jamaica; Galen, Tracey, of April neat. This declaration bele" immediately for Boston ; and remain with the rest of the outward. sanctioned by the vote of the Proprietors, the *seal hosed, as efore, still detained by contrary winds, notice was given relative to the Wee eirdividead ware Wirrmotrru, MAaca 15.—Arrived the Mars, rants. litedie, from Honduras. Th0(111,6°11 of adjourniteet.mas thee pet. FALMOUTH, MARCH 17.—Arrived the Pelican, Mr. B. SHAM rose for the purpose of calling the &millet, from Naples, in 38 days, for orders.— attention of the Court to the subject of the present Sailed the Fos -pocket, witty Mails, for the Brazils. manufactore of Bank-notes. The circumstances The schooner Mary, Andrews, which arrived off which were almost daily represented in the Newsps this port last evening from Naples, is obliged to pat pen had deeply impressed his mind with the nee's in to repair some damage she sustained in the Gut, sity of considering whether the ezisting evil did not by being ran fool of by a Portaginge frigate. admit of some remedy. It was impossible not to see and admit the great disproportion between thl pre► sent severity of punishment and the facility of com mitting the crime. What he wished to suggest wits, the propriety of some public notification, holding out encouragements to artists, with a view of discovering some mode of rendering Bank-notes less capable of imitation. He was induced to think that this was by no means an impracticable object, having seen some plans devised for the parpese, and also frogs what he bad himself seen in New/gate, as well as from whet be had learned in conversation from that exemplary woman, , Mrs. Fry. He gave the utmost credit to tine Court of Directors for their attention to this subject ; bet though the Proprietors might be convinced that every due election had been made, t , ,ought that something more was necessary t.. 110 1 4 the and be could not conceive any means bette. calcula ted to answer this end than the public notification which he had already recommended. Mr. Tuonesonfottoned, and declared that, with nut meaning the slightest reit , ction on the Directors, bethought it a duty they owe.' to the ~sier clasaes.' of society to adopt every practicab le op-ans• of di- 1 minishing the facility with which the f ,rear) of their notes was committed. Asian additional precauti , n , lie would recommend the withdrawing all nap end Ism pound notes from circuit' ion, and 40) 4 6 . 064 a Si. tank currency in th.or Ware. The Chairman (Mr. HARMAN) observed, that as no Resolution was mi..ed, 'here was no stmt' fie question before them. With reference to the su.:jei..t of this coversasion, the two 1100. Members who had addressed the Court hail done the Directors no more that, justice in supposing that they were rest!) , and anxious to adopt any practicable remedy to the evil in question. Is r«quired but comniu humanit y in them to be so •iteposed, and he floated that no Pro prietor would thii.k them deficie•it in that quality The Court migh' re! ! upon it that this was.an object. which they had very ,tear at heart.—(Hear!) —They might ales he assuical, that the subject, instead of having been taken up within a few days, bad enga i vql their attention for '2O )ears; and that a Committee bad sat regularly for 15 years, for the purpose of devising some mode of manufacturing notes which might reader forgery less frequent: but the difficulties were mach greater than was generally imagined ; still it did not become him to say that a remedy was impossible, and be could assure the Proprietors, that 'no endeavours would be wanting on the part of the Directors to accomplish so desirable an object. He could have wished, indeed, that the topic had not been introduced, because, though he was sere that no misunderstanding could prevail among the Pro prietors relative to the conduct of the Directors, it might be the cause of sending forth an erroneous im pression among the Politic. As to the suggestion with regard to the withdrawing small notes from cir. collation, it must be obvious that this was a subjevi that was intimately coniiected with s general question of too great importance to be discussed on this occa sion. He begged to repeat his assurance, that time discovery of anme mode of ch , .tskilig the facility with which forgeries were now corumitted was a subject that occupied the a.tention of the 1) rectors night and day, and that every possible end , avour for that per. pose should continue to 'to used.— (Uear, hear!) The Court tom' artiovr tved --- Yesterday Yiscoont Carmaaaacsu and Count Mueslis In& aedieeces of the Punta' RiGIIIIT at V. ■ •SVIIP.MIWT” Yesterday the Doke of Susses visited the Duke and Duchess of CVNIBIRLAND. TN Doke of KENT is espected to arrive in town from Brussels, to-morrow, in order to be present at the approaching nuptials of the Princes, ELIZABETH and the Prince of Ham HOllllllllO. •The fashionable gossip in a Morning Paper states, that lady CIIAmLosTs Caurear.t. hes been married, at Lausanne, to a young Gentleman who had for some time been a member of her Ladyship's family, as toter to her son. Lady C. has nine daughters. The King of DENMARK is preparing to send a ship on a voyage of discovery to the North. Ills Ma jesty has heard of oar expeditions, and may, per haps, be desirous that the Danish flag should be first posted: on every secessibid part of the coast of Green land. IlisD• man MAJESTY may also desire, for he has good reason, to be oat of the way of encroachments, and perhaps fondly anticipates that a cool Kingdom might be discovered in the neighbourhood of the Pole, where even the Royal Partitioners of Vienna would be afraid to venture. Some Englishman of the name of Seences bas been arrested in Paris for a debt of 80,000 contracted at a furnished hotel. As he doubtless lived like a Lord, the French, who are never slow in con ferring titles, have dignified him accordingly. Sir GEORGE HOPE has returned to town from Hastings, and will retire from the Admiralty Board in about a fortnight to Scotland. On Satordat. the LORD ADIOC VIZ of Scot land was elected Member of Parliament for the Burghs of Easter and Wester Anstruther, Pittenweem, Kilren sty, and Crail, in the room of Sir J. C. ANSTRUTHER, Bart. deceased A Letter from Hamburgh of the 10th inst. says— " According to the report of Heligoland Pilots, a brig has sunk at Nordervogelsang, the masts of which only are to be seen • farther particulars are not known, unless it be ;he same of which a boat was found by the Tooning Pilots, with the name, ' Wil liam Spain, Jane, of Sunderland,' marked OD it." The manner in which taxes are imposed by an Afri can Prince is somewhat singular. Tbe King of Congo sometimes walks opt on a day when there is a high wind. Ile then pets his bonnet over one tsar only, and when it is blown off by the wind, he im poses a tea on those subjects who live in the quarter from which the wind blew. By an Bement of the net produce of the total Re venue of Great Britain sod Ireland, distinguishing that of Great Britain and that of Ireland, in each of the years ending the sth of January, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, end 1818, it appears that the total Revenue for Great Britain and Ireland was, In 1817, 61,675,3271. Is. 90.; and in 1818, 51,629,6091. 14s. 84d. The separate Revenue of Ire land was, in 1817, 4,314,6001. 14s. 2-Id. ; sad is 1818, 4,352,1301. 16s. A Return of the Offices held under the Crown, stow granted in reversion, has just been printed ; and in add i tion to the grant of the Rangership of Bmgthnt Park, n reversion to the Duchess of Gcoucmcn, we find that the reversion of the Clerk and Keeper of the Register of Sistine. at Edinburgh, was granted to WILLIAM Dummy, -Esq. on the 25th of January. 1806, on the death of ROBERT OUNDAS, Esq. In Ireland the Reversionary Office of Chief Re. toembrancer of the Court of Exchequer was granted, on the 20th Nov. 1800, to RICHARD WELLtsLev, Esq. on the death of the Marquis WELLESLEY ; of the Office of Craver and Wharfinger of the Port of Dublin, to Lord GEORGE SEYMOUR CONWAY, dated 7th August, 1802, Du the death of Lora tizmair SgvuoueCnewae,dining the lives of Lord GEORGE SEYMOUR CONWAY and GLOAGE HAMILTON SET. MOW( CONWAY; and the Office of Second Resent. brancer of the Coon of Exchequer, to Beau km etur and MERVYN STEWART, Esqn. sons of Sir JOHN STEWART, Bart. dated the 26th March, 1805 a-lr-L Mor --li is well k..own that the Dean and Canon, of Wiodsor have been turned eat of their stalls for their gins. violation of etiquette, In ail. milting Prince Lsorot.res pages to the choir of St. George's Chapel, at the funeral of our late lamented Princess, to the eaclopion of some if the Patnca REGENT'S servants. The P—v—t of E—s —n, who is also a Can'.n of Windsor, was ninth distinguished in a cer'..in quarter, but it will be recollected that at the last Montem, when an [Horn ...is Personage was seized by a common soldier, who bad been stationed to keep off the crowd, that Reverend Gentleman had the indiscretion to smile. The smile, we presume, was not forgotten, for at the late Levee the p - .., t was for a long time unnoticed. He was at length 'weever, accosted with the following ezqeisite piece of raillery :—" You have been long in the habit of terming others upon their seats, and you are now tarried off yours." To comprehend the whole pith and delicacy of the allusion, our Readers must not only recollect that the P—v—t was Master of E—t--n, but they must call in aid the bearttifel image of a celebrated political pesture-master, who, in expatiating upon the " ignorant impatience" of the People, lamented that they should "turn their backs upon themselves." Louts XIV. once and once toil, made an effort to be facetious (nil; LE-' 'is, Souvenirs et Portraits): the solitary joke is up- on mood, and as far as the wit of that Monarch is concerned, posterity is grateful for his frugality. Mr. KEAN appeared on the Edinburgh boards on Monday evening in the character of Richard. Mr. yOVNG is gone down to Bath to perform seven of his principal characters there. His four first parts are to be Hamlet, Sir Edgard Mortimer, Lord Townley, and Penruddock. a MITIIFI ELD Id Alt X ET. ...ti A ace 20. To sink the Orel. perst/se of SIN. Balt . — Sr. /141. in 45. bd. I Head of Gault Ms day r Illatses —Ss. Bd. to 6s. 64. Beasts Seel ... Os. Od. so 7s. Od. Sheep and Lambs ...• • • LOIS Pore... 52. 6.1. In 6s. 64. Caives lb Leah .- .01. 01. to 04. 04. Pit • HAY-11A/tICIT. Ray • Q. Ose OA. to 31. 3s. Od. Cleave ...... bl. (h. W. to 66 10.. 41d. Apr sons 11. i 5.... N. to V. 12s. OA. OD the death of RICHARD Earl of DONOUCIIMARR. By a Proclamation, dated Dublin, the lOtb of March, the following parishes are declared to be in a state of disturbance, and require an extraordinary establishment of Police, vie. :—Naul, Westphal'. town, Ballymadun, Garristown, Hollywood, Bally. bog-hill, and Palmerstowth its the Barony of Bal raddery, and the parish of Cloomethan, 'in the Ba rony of Netbercross, county of Deblin. Our readers will recollect the leedable end humane efforts made by Alderman WOOD to save the four miserable Irishmen who were entrapped by the Blood. Iteends, and condemned. He not only saved their lives, but raised a sum for their relief. They returned to their coentry. The money was sent to the Arch. bishop of TIMM, to be delivered to them ; and the following letter of thanks has been received from the poor men : " Sta.—We have this day received by the bands of his Grace the Lord Arthbishop of Team SOL for which we return von our most gratefel thanks. To Divine Providence and tour kind interposition we are indebted for our lives, and by your ge zeroes liberality yew have enabled us'to spend she remainder or oar lives io comfort. We shall ever pray for the prosperity of roux elf and family, and hope you may enjoy a long and bang We. •Wenook year devoted and obedient Serrano, Their RA DLL pg M'DONNF.LL, THOS. • ec CONNELL, JAMES to! QUINN. —"--""" DENNIS 14 ItEARDINi Marks. . . 1 11 Mae" Weed, Fog. 11. in at. &c. &c." ... Lai LtirgLLKiltNGß. - - • • Coital` OP 011Afeetaltlf, Males IL TER ATTCMET-OBNIRIAL i. "ROWS. the LORD CSANCEZI,OI Reid, Ile should pet ai pressott glee its float judgment in this caae, as be had intended, but ...Id referee himself fora (Mere day. Theo were a mobilo., of points in It of mho. a com plicated *Midi would *Oki Settle eonsi dimities, and ea which he Wild le seder the lie immity of making sa ofmerveleas. Ile shook), therefore, merely slate that the mewed impression on his mind wu, that there Mete oot etiAlcient grounds to support the demister. Into these be would ester at some length alike be Seedy gate his lodgment, but he did not see haw the &motet could be sopported. His Unmade said, that be begged fa - 1104 , st* that be was determined to bear no Mmions at Pei. tiods except on the particelar days allotted fot emelt: Hr Could not bet *Moot/a of the manner in which his Hooper the Vice-Chencellnt canderted the practice of !het deportment of the Coed in which be presided. by Sting particulars days foe paeolcateke business.--That certainly tended eery mach to acme !erste the business of the Coto(' and he (the Lard Chancellor) was determined io future to adopt the same coupe. It was impossible to prevent those dee lays which had so long been complained of, if the re-, galar business of the day was to be iatertopted by causes being brought on which osght to be heard at another time. If the one branch of the Court wet that tmgive eccoainkidation to parties while the °thee refused it, there wooki 116 an erste( .all order. lad therefore 'estimated that he would on no • account. eacept on very strong grounds, allow any case what. ever to be mentioned, unless it was connected with the immediate business of the day ; and he hoped kai should not be applied to for the purpose of forward. log Petitions in she paper, as no such application -could be attended to. His LORDSHIP MU afterwards occupied iq hearing Lunatic Petitions of no public interest whatever. MA. IMAM° NT's PETITION. TO Tllll AOltotremitt Tun haIIAOSIS tinIINITED ttctlrlsDost or GMAT ARITA!!! AID =MAID 1$ PARLIAletrf USIZABLIIII. tee sin MILE rev:Ms et See, Tut stns sasses assessors'. ash. 8110wetn—Thal your Petitioner feels his self =aggrieved by the impetatiorts east on his Oar the part which he, with ethers, has taken fe politioning against the (misting system of arbitrary Wooing, which hepatitis*, is effect describe his !• to be a disappointed Magistrate, who had= come late the Commission to forward hie owe interest, tied trio wished to become a popular candidate, and be returned on the shoulders of the People for the part he had taken." Your Petitioner denies the troth of these omit. Bons. He has never sought sr received any idtrae tage to himself from his office of Magistrate, or wised himself in any party, job, or intrigue, by which he might directly or indirectly forward his own interest. Your Petitioner admits, that be is the groend landlord of about one hundred and slaty new houses at the east and west ends of the Metropolis; that his freehold land at Stepney is marked out for streets, which may contain several handfed houses, among which maoy public-houses might properly be opened, and for which, were be to connect himself with the licensing interest, he might obtain Ikences, which, wader the present system, would be worth one thousand pounds each. But your Petitioner has not courted that interest; be has opposed it, to gether with the arbitrary l A lcencing System, from the first hour in which he was qualified as a Justice of the Peace, and previous thereto, in confirmation of which, he humbly begs leave to refer to his evidence before the Police Committee, and to the opinion thereon espressrd by the Committee in their Report. Your Petitioner denies that he has either the ambi tion or the desire to become a popular candidate, nor does he court or value popularity, vim wing, as be does, the sinister designs and hollow pretences upon which popularity is won ; but he represents to your Honourable House. very serious grievance, affecting the sustenance of the Public generally—the interest of the iodust ?ions poor, more particularly—the morals of the country—the natural rights of the subject— and the protection of property, of which grievance h. Lis en intimate knowledge, and therefore, with 14.000 others, many of them Magistrates and Gee. iiemen of fortune, be has petitioned for redress. Your Petititioner humbly hope*, that if the aster flints above alluded to have made any impressions to the disadvantage of your Petitioner, that your Hon. House will direct a strict examination into your Peti tioner's motives and acts to be institoted, or make order for your Petitioner to attend else Committee of your Honourable House directed to investigate the melee( of Licensing ; and also to give your Petitioner such other relief as your lion. House may think best suited to his case. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, S i CO7 4 L AN th —oile..--- On Wednesday, the 4th instant, the Court met to advise a Bill of Suspension and Liberation, with answers thereto, presented for William Taylor. Esq. of Nethermains, tired a prisoner In the jail of Or.en law, in Berwickshire. The circumstances Of the cue were briefly es follow (—A Petition had bred presented to the Court, In name of, and signed by the Solicitor-Genersl, stating that some proceedings, in which Mr. Taylor ail a party, hating depended in the Court of Session, and which were afterward* referred to John A. Murray, Esq. Advocate, Ms. Murray did, in the month of Nosembet last, receive a very abusive and threatening letter from Mr. Tay: lor, dated Dublin, and challenging him to fiaht a duel, in the event of his not performing a tensile act ; and that Mr. Murray did receive another letter from Mr. Taylor, dated sth February, iltll3, from Newcastle-upon... Tyne, again challenging him to fight, and in the event of his refusing to do so, threatening that he would come to Edinburgh by a certain day, put Mr. Murray in all the coffee.houses, and bestow personal chestioement upon him, wherever he should Nen liim, The Petition frayed- for o..praireant to apprehend Mr. Taylor, and the Lord Justice Clerk granted a warrant to apprehend him wherever he could be found within Scotland, and carry him be fore the nearest Sheriff or Justice of Peace, to be dealt with conform to law. In virtue of this ware rant, Mr. George Williamson, Messenger at Arms, proceeded to Newcastle in quest of Mr. Taylor, and having got the Loral Justice Clerk's warrant backed by one of the Justices •there, be apprehended Mr. Taylor, brought him to Scotland, and carried him before the Sheriff.Substitate at Dunse for esemina. tion. When before the Sheriff, Mr. Taylor refused to recognise the letters as his hand.writing, anti indeed to answer any questions at alt, alleging that the arrest was totally illegal; that although born a Scotchman, he was domiciled in England, was a Member of one of the Inns of Court for IS years, and I,ed been a Member of the House of Commons for an English Borough, and that in these circum stances he could not be apprehended in England upon a Scotch warrant, for an alleged crime, which, if it did elan, had been committed in England. The Sheriff-Substitute therefore ordained Mr. Taylor to find caution to keep the peace toward. Mr. Murray, under a penalty of 2001. and in default of finding such caution, to he committed to the jail of Green law, and it was of these proceedings that Mr. Tayldr now complained by Bilf of Suspension and Libera. lion. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. JOHN CLERK, appeared as Counsel in support of the arrest, and Mr. Bitoote, as Coate! for Mr. Taylor against It. Their Lordships severally delivered their (Tiniest* against the arrest and subsequent binding over to keep the peace, and the Bill of Suspension was con kaeetteartly passed. , They were , of opinion that the ' crime was of a heinous nature, and that Mr. tay.. 1 lor, if found within Scotland, was liable to be laid hold of, and bound over to find caution to ended . , the law in any indictment that might be preferred against him ' • and as to the question where the crime was committed, although that was not before the Court, it was observed, that whenever a letter was pot into the Post. Office, it became the property of the person to whom it was addressed. The SottorroaLGEssaar. immediately applied for a new warrant,. ;which having been granted, Mr. Taylor was a second time apprehended at Fadicirk, and commitord to Linlithgow Jail, end has found i bail for his appearance. The Court .eemed chielly to form their opinion on the illegality of the arrest, on the grand that the Act of Parliament only authorised the backlog of Scots warrants in &owl, in caws where the ememittere of crimes bad fiea fete England to evade justice. _Vc . The Assize, for the County of . Montgemery took piece, on Friday last, at Weleir Pool, before Mr. Serjeant BUT, Chief Josticeasf Cheater, and Mr. Serjesot MARSHALL, Nivea Jarlip, when four pri toners received sentence ottlestb, bet were repined before. the Judges tefs the tows. The beakless , Nisi FAO was aaatanally small. Your Petitioner wilt ever pray. J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT. 211.1U1VDY- i BUKSDAIY. Yesterday being what is generally called Maundy- Thursday, was observed with the used ceremony of distributing the goys' bounty. The CUM OM is known ,' to t asr been established in this country by Ed- ward 111. in the year 1353, when that haughty • King actually washed the feet of the poor people who were relieved, in imitation of the humility of our Saviour • and it is on record, that Cardinal Wol. soy after wars performed the same ceremony in the cite of York. This observance is still kept op in Por tugual and other Catholic countries. 'rho name of Mauntly.Thorsday is derived from the hand-baskets, which were called (from the Saxon) Mounds, in which the different Christian Potentates distributed provi sions to the poor. The number of persons relieved corresponds with the age of the Monarch, and were therefore 110 of each Prlr. The distribation. as usual, took place at Whitebait i Impel; but on account of an extra stair s-me being boat fen; the ante chapel to the 14n,al e'oeet, for the Duchess of York. a temporary erection was made on the out.ide on Privv.gardens, where accommodidios was provided fur e 0 , acs and tit) women. and oboist NI spectators, when 2 cods, ' salrions. 18 red hers togs. 18 pickled herring., with 4 loaves, were go% en :o each person in • wooden bowl. After the fish ant bread had been distributed. three pounds and a half of beef and one loaf were given to each person. Th. Rev. Dr. Page, the Sub-Almoner (the 4 rchbishop of York N the Almoner), and Mr. Hanby. the Lord High Almoner's Secretary, attended to in. spree the distribution; and aler all the poor persons had re ceived their progisions, she hub Almoner proposed the health of the King, a hick nos drank in ale, in wood', cups. In she afternomi. the ceremonies and additional lloval boon ties were resumed in the chapel. The Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal attended to perform the service. Soon after three o clock the ceremonies commenced by a pro cession enteriug the chapel, of eight yeomen of the guard, and a yeoman-ocher, one of the yeomen carrying on his head a large gold dish, in which were 160 red kid bags, which ought to have entrained .)s. in gold, but had a 11. note each, and also white kid bags, tied to the others with white leather strings, a b ou t two feet long, in which were Id. 2d M. and 4d. pieces is silver, amounting 10 sic shillings and eight-pence, bring as in toy pence as the King is years old ; the dish containing these namerno , bags was placed on a table, which was cowered with a white cloth, in front of the altar Ihe remainder of the procession consisted of the Rev. Mr. Holmes, the Sub !lean of the Chapel Royal ; 1 the Rey. Dr Page. the Sub-Alinoorr ; Mr. Hanby, the Lord High Almoner's Secretary; Mr. Junes. the Groom of the Al tamyy. Two boys and two gifts were selected from St. Marga ret's National School. 'or door good behaviour, by the Soli-Al. ammer, and with the Gentlemen were deror.uted with cambric amislin scarfs and sashes. cares in bouquets of (Inners, nod pre ceded by a Gentleman-Verger of the Chapel Royal. After she first lemon, these fiesidemen, who formed the pro. fesiion. ascended into the gallery. and distributed to the SO men, shoes and rockings. After which, the Gentlemen of the Choir swag an appropriate piece. After this, cloth for a coat, and Reels - for a shire. were dip tr,buted in a similar manner. As appropriate piece was again " The ng. red begs, containing the 11. notes and the small silver coinage. were distributed in a similar manner. The certunoay of distribution to the women was precisely similar. The anthem. .• Who is this that enmesh from Mom ?" was then sung, and an appropriate thanksgiving and prayer were then read. The Kiugaietilth was afterwards drank in claret, out of wooden cups. by the G entlemen who performed the ser- i vice and composed the procession. For some weeks past the number of Bank-notes in circulation hat been gradually diminishing. By the accoent presented to the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. TIERNEY, it appears that the meant in circulation on the l(ab February last was .... ,C 8.945.580 litb ditto ' 24th dhas 28.216,40 5d March ..... ....... 28.248,1211 The report of the Long Sand having lacrimal ) ID w i t hout foundation. It has been obeowled by noillor of the Trinity Rouse ) Lpodoo l sad no alteration found in it. .I rP? I. `_. . I • N . ; ? .• 4 4; • 4 II •t A 4 I 1 i~ '1 q 1 4 I t~