The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-24 00:00:00

iTiVicavo's BENCH-Iig:S . IIAT . . THE JOHN BULL CAPER. 41 111 E DING tl. inACIILL. ♦ND ARROWSnITII. I /OR A LORI.. ON Sin C. WROTTniirEir AND LADY. Tbc SOLICITOR OtNeRAL and Mr. POLLEN having been heard in mitigation of punishment, Mr. SCARLET? addressed the Court in aggravation. H e contended that a more malignant and mischievous 'totem of slander had never been devised, by any Leman beings. He hoped their Lordships by the sen 'nice they were about to pronounce, would take care to prevent those who lend their names and personal re sponsibilities to such malignant purposes, in future, f ro m doing so with impunity; since they could not 'roach the real authors, it was enough that these - trretches lent their persons to receive that punishment *the others who concealed themselves, deserved; and they should, to the full extent, be made to meet the justice of the country ; this being a libel of the deepest etslignity. At one o'clock the Judges conferred together prior to pa•siog sentence, The sentence of the Court was that Weaver, Shekel', and Arrowsmith, be imprisoned in the prison o f the King's Bench, for a period of nine months: sea that Shaeltell and Arrowsasith pay a fine of SOU oe ch,sell Weaver 100!. to the King, and that they strit.lly enter into sureties for their good behaviour Yir fire years, themselves in the stun of MM. each, 'sad two others for each, of 2501. each. The Rev. Mr. Blacow was in attendance, and, it eras expected, would receive judgment as soon as the above case was concluded. THZ REV. MR. BEACON —We hope that if the Rev. Mr. Blacow, when brought up for judgment on ac 'count of his libel un our late unfortunate Queen, is consigned for the reformation of his mind and man ners to a place of seclusion, that his confinement will be rendered such as way not spoil his temper, or pro voke his resentment. When sentenced for his for Her libel on a lady, to the custody of the Marshal of the King's Bench, be was prevented, by the interfer duce of the prosecutor, from enjoying the liberty of living within the Rules. At that period there were eleven gentlemen who had been con signed to the same place for political libels, or some such misdemeanours, and who had been favoured, as was HSII2 I , by the concurrence s of the prosecutors. with the desireable privilege.— Like the dog in the manger, however, the Rev. Gentle man finding that he was not allowed to partake of the indulgence, determined it should not be enjoyed by them. No sooner was he confined, than he set up such an outcry Against this partiality, that the indulgence was revolted ; and those who hired houses, and made their arrangements for living a twelvetaonth in the Rules, were compelled to take up their abode for eleven mouths n lath' the walls of the prison. Yesterday at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was lad at the Secretary of State's Office fur the Home Department, which had been previously summoned by Lord Viscount Sidn►outh. It was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Ilarrowbv, the Earl of Westmoreland, Viscount Sid i:lomb, the Mammas o( Londonderry, Vise. Melville, toe Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Rubinson. The Council sat till near half•past four... . The packet which we mentioned yesterday as having arrived from Rio Janeiro, came direct, without touch log at Bahia or Pernambuco. The advices brought by her are to the 2.1 October, but they do not mention soy thing new having occurred in the Brazils. Of course the late decrees of the Cortes respecting the re till of the Prince Regent, and the establishment of Provincial Jniiras, bad not yet reached there. The Rio Janeiro Bank still continued to experience the pressure caused by the departure of the King, and the failure of their projected loan in Europe, lad as a measure of expediency, had issued two :Hiltless of rag in copper tokens, with which they were waking payments, often in whole bags of copper, without any proportion of gold and silver. No vessel bad arrived at Rio Janeiro from the South Seas since the General Brown ; of course, no fresh advices had tree received from thence, except what had come from Buenos Ayres, respecting the arrangements said to be wade between the Viceroy. of Peru, and Jeneral San Moths. Acconnts, however, had been received fro:n Lute Video, by which it appeared that the city and imuluce bat! agreed to' become incorporated with the Brazils, and hear the name of Cis-Placina. The account of the capture of Lima is repeated in the letters brought by the last packet from Rio. with sue additional particulars. The place, it appears, lad been reduced to a most deplorable state fur want of provisions, and the people were unwilling to bear ivy longer the calamities of a siege, unenlivened by bey hope of relief. In vain had the most urgent ap plications been made to Spain for a naval force to faille the blockade ; no answer had even been returned, tad the Lima Loyalists were left to their fate with a degree of indifference, which, it is only surprising, did tut induce them to consent to an earlier surrender. Extract of a letter from Montevideo, dated Sept. 9. In the afternoon of the Ist inst. the wind came mad to the S.E. and continued to increase from that imn till the night of the 2d inst., when it blew a ItTY iwAry gale. The Olive Branch lost three anchors sererAl vessels in the bay suffered in the same manner. Among the shipwrecks on the coast on that night, are the Arion of London, Potts, from Gibraltar, nine miles below thip, one man drowned, and part of the cargo tired, but the vessel is gone to pieces. About fifteen below Maldonado the Fly of Liverpool, Mordant, hub thence to Buenos Ayres, and it is feared little of 14 cargo or vets,' will be saved.' In the same place is 4 Preach ship on shore." WlNbow TAX.--.A very numerous meeting of the r43 rch-wardens and deputies took place yesterday, by Vinarnment, at the Post-office Tavern, when it was dtt etzined that the following requisition, universally Vied by the different parishes, should be presented 1 ° the Lord Mayor : Wr, the undersigned, request your Lordship will - Aggregate Meeting of the Householders of at as early a day as convenient; for the purpose ,P r eparing and presenting a Petition to both Houses P "usent, praying for a total repeal of the Tax on ukdow Lights."—(Debiin Morning Pelt, Nov. 22.) 1 1 46 - lit ' 'or THE. , ST BRIGHTON. Nor, 23. Lord Si. Helens, Sir B. Bloomfield, Oul. Tberiaion., Sir Andrew harnard, Sir E. Nagle, and Sir W. Kep-j pell, form, at present, the whole of the Rciyal site. ! The Marquess of Cnayngbam arrived on Monday. In the Bight of this day se'nnlght, there wai a heavy gale of wind from the S.W. accompanied by thioder and lightning. It did no mischief here, but at Chi; cbester several houses were unroofed, and chimnies blown down : providentially, no lives were lost. FIRE.—On Wednesday evening last, a fire' broke out in a house in Ironmongers' Jane, inhabited by John Priest, a fishermen; but by the exertion of the in- mates and neighbours the flauies were speedily sub dued. The accident occurred by a caadle being placed tno near the bed-curtains. Priest, who, for the last twelve months, had been confined to his room from illness, was, with his child, in the bed at the time. Under the influence of terror, however, he leaped from amidst the flames, with the child in his arms, and suc ceeded in getting down stairs in safety. His wife, with a courage highly honourable to her sex, contri buted most essentially to the extinguishment of the Hewes, ja ti performatice of which duty she burnt her hands and arms in a most shocking manner. We deem it a most fortunate circumstance that this fire was thus got under; fur had it spread, from the confined situation of the neighbourhood, incalcula ble mischief must have ensued. Smuncf,tsrn.—Last Sunday morning, three men with two carts laden with contraband spirits, were proceed ing through the village of Barcombe, on their way towards the Ucklield-road, when they were accidentally met by au Excise offic , r, on horseback, who, judging by their appearance what they were, ordered them to stop; but, instead of obeying, they .drove off at fall gallop, the lane being very narrow and dirty, the chase was a pretty smart one for the distance of three or four miles, the officer riding pistol in hand, and threatening their lives if they did not stop and sur render. The smugglers, however, were not to be in timidated, and paid no attention to the summons. The officer, at length, finding it impossible to effect their capture, made a compromise with them for the giving op of two tubs ; he then left them, and lost no time in communicating the affair to the Lewes officers, who, five or six in number, went directly in pursuit, well armed and mounted, hut ttithout being able to coins up with the smugglers. A litsyr TO BUTCH ERS.—A farmer, who could not sell his sheep, in Chichester market, at what he considered a fair price, resolved on killing, and disposing of them through the means of his brother, a shop-keeper, in the city, by which he obtained so considerable a gain as to induce him to go into the market and buy sheep to slaughter, and lie is, in consequence, now selling good mutton at did. per lb. aid by taking a leg and shoulder, a leg and neck, or a leg and breast, at IL and 2til. by which, be acknowledges, he realises more than the fifth quarter The following is the Copy of a letter which has been addressed to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex: GENTLEMEN—As it is evident that a large body of the intelligent and respectable part of the community are decidedly against the severity of the present Gnarl mil Code, and more especially that part which relates to the punishment of death for forgery of Dank-notes, it has been thought desirable to gall a %Mir blostiog to re ference to the cases of the persons under sentence for execution next week. The undersigned request you will have the goodness toicall the same, &c. &c.—Nov. 23, 1821. The following is an extract of a private letter, re• eeived by a commercial boast: in the city, dated Tunis, Sept. 20.- 4, Tunis is very healthy, but is a shocking dirty place, and the trade falling off very much.— The Dey has purchased several old vessels of different nations to make ships of war, and is now fitting out five to go against the Greeks: he has four fine ships building, two under a Frenchman, the others under the direction of the Turk ; but it will be a long time before they are ready for sea. Not one of his fleet escaped the gale; they were all totally lost, with about 2000 officers and seamen." AN INSTANCE 01 THE DEPRECIATION or LANDED PROPIRTY.—A fine leasehold estate, situate near Win chester, for which 40,0001. was offered and refused a few years ago, has lately been sold fur only 12,000/. being 28,0001. or sesex-tenths less than could have been obtained for it nine years ago. Dr. Hodgkinson has been elected Vice Provost of Trinity College, Vice Dr. Barrett, deceased. A mercantile gentleman in the neigbbourhoodof Edin burgh, made a drawing some months ago of a plan for propelling steam carriages, but having no time for trying it experimentally, offers the following hint to the consideration of mechanics or others who have op portunities of making such experiments :—The steam cylinders to be placed horizontally, the piston rod projecting towards the back part of the carriage ; the end of the rod to have teeth working into circularly placed teeth in the centre of the axle -tree, so as to turn the wheels in the opposite direction to this move ment of the rod. The piston rod teeth could easily be disengaged, by various contrivances, from the- axle tree teeth, after the rod had completed its project ing movement, to admit of its unobstructed return in to the cylinder, on the condensation of the steam. Two cylinders would keep the carriage in constant and re gular motion. DISCOYET OP A COAL Mtms.—We understand that the Magistrates are advised that there is excellent coal under the public Green, which can be worked on some neighbouring property without injuring the Green in the smallest degree, as neither the pits, coals, hills, nor.steam-engines will be placed within its boundaries. We also understand that the Magistrates are about to make the experiment by boring. We sincerely wish them success, and congratulate our fellow-citizens on the prospect of coals being found so near the town, which will tend to keep down the price of that neces sary article, and put it in the power of the corporation to carry on their proposed improvement without in juring the public Green.—(Gleagow Courier.) The Anise of Bread for this place was on Wednes day last reduced three-farthings in the quarters loaf wheats*, the price of which is now p;.—(Cossloridge Chrosicie.) Dr. Wilson, a particular friend and admirer of Oar rich, was a great punster. He, one day seeing Dr. Brocklesby coming into Batson's Colfee-h2use, then chiefly used by physicians, addressed him by the name of Dr. Rea, a noted quack of those days to which' the Doctor objecting with some, warmth, Wilson •tt. dertook to prove his correctness alrbraisally there- Brock—less 111 t. AMA: I4LP PAY.• UHT OP THE NUxinta or IiFICERE ON HALT-pdT, OP THE ARMY, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ON THE 256 OP MARCH, 1821. (See Parliamentary Paper No. 473, of 1821.) 1 Colonel. 187 Lieutenant-Coluels. 332 Majors. 1,836 'Captains, Lints. and Captains of Foot Guards, and Captain-Lieutenants. 3,491 Lieut.., and Ensigns and Lieuts. of Foot-guards. 1,346 Cornets, Second Lieutenants, and Ensigns. 186 Paymasters. XBO Adjutants. • "483 Quarter Masters, and Troop Quarter-masters. 333 Surgeons. • 439 Assistant-Surgeons, Hospital Assistants and Hos pital Mates, and Assistant Staff Surgeons. 24 Veterinary Surgeons. 31 Physicians. 70 Superintendants-General and Inspectors of Hos pitals, &c. 109 Apothecaries. Purveyors, and Clerks. 28 inspecting Field Officers of Militia, Assistant Quarter-Master•Genrral, Deputy Judge-Advo cate, &c, 13 Commissaries, Deputies, and Assistants. 73 Chaplains. 9,037 Total number; and expense-812,557/. 7s. 50. By a reference to pages 33, 36, 38, and 44, of the Amp Estimates and to No. 473 Parliamentary paper of 1811, the total of the half-pay will be found to amount to ONE MILLION TWO-HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEFEN THOUSANDOICIIRN HUNDRED •ND NINE POUNDE. The Total pensions to the Army and Navy at the pre sent time is supposed to amount to Fuca ]ZILLIONS AND A HALF STIRLING. The census of the population being completed, it is now agreed, pursuant to the Act I, Ueo. IV. to remu nerate the overseers fur their trouble therein. In the census, 1800, the overseers were allowed after the rate of Is. for every 21 names, or persons returned. In 1.411 there was no allowance specified, and many of the overseer. complained they had only their trouble for their pains. Taking the population of Great Britain at the before-mentioned rate, and counting EnglAnd qt 9,700,000 souls, thiss at a half-penny each, will be &and to amount to 19,5081. 6s. Bd.; but the population will be found to exceed this number. , Taking Scotland at 1,800,000 souls will amount to 3,750/. and Wales at 641,000 sod's, to 1,3351. 81. 4d. making in the whole to the amount of 24,593/. 15s. Od. to the Overseers. Taking the fees to the Magistrates' Clerks at 9701. Iss. 6rl. and the fees to the Chief Constables at 1,456/. 3s. 3d. the whole will be found to amount to the expense of 27,020/. 13s. 9d. an amazing sum in the aggregate, although individually inefficient to remunerate the parties concerned in taking and returning the census, who cannot be said to be more than half paid for their trouble and the necessary attention requisite for carry ing this great national work into effect. W,►rxa SPOUT.—A few days since a natural phe nomenon of rare occurrence in this climate was ob served at Mundesley, and accompanied with the fol lowing very singular circumstances. During a sale .of some wreck upon the hooch, the settee of •It person was driwo towards what he conceived to be a ship on fire, thou! a mile from the shore ; he immediately point** it out, bit it was explained by the supposition that the appearance of smoke arose from the steam vessel passing from the North. An old Captain how eversoon decided that the rising column was a water spout. While busied in the observation of this in terestin7 spectacle, a circumstance of rarer import attracted their regard. At a very short distance there was an opening of some width in the cliff, through which a stream that turns a mill takes its cootie. Id this cleft three newly built bathing machinet were laid up for the winter. In a moment these machines were harried up the cliff with inconceivable rapidity. Two of them wok their path directly towards a house, over which they were forced by the hurricane, breaking in the roof and falling on the other side they were li terally dashed to atoms. The third performed the same course over the mill and was also destroyed by its fall. We understand a subscription was set on foot for the proprietor.—(Norwich Mercury.) A most terrific hurricane visited Bungay and its neighbourhood about one o'clock on Friday se'noight. Although it lasted but a few minutes, it did infinite damage. The hurricane appeared to rise from the earth, and extended its devastation abont 100 yards. At Earsham it totally destroyed the garden belonging to a gardener at that place. It unroofed a house, car ried part of a hay-stack to a considerable distance, blew down 30 yards of garden Wall belonging to J. Soott,Esq. at Bungay, and several chimnies.—(l6id ) A Comet observed in China and various parts of India ; described by F. Reeves, Esq. F . R. and L S. CANTON, MAT, 1820.—This comet was first ob served 'on the sth of May, 1920, in the body of Centasroind nearly in the following position: A line throtigh 'Hs foot and easternmost spar .of the Cross, and produced N. E. would cut the Comet, and a line through the IVestern foot of Centaur, would also cut the Comet; and an arc of a circle through Centaur Lupus would also cat the Comet. The Comet has no tail, being one of those called Hairy. It has of late become more visible to the naked eye, but has changed its place a little, and that to the noitb-eastward. MADRAS, MARCH 1, 1821.—A Comet has been visible at Madras four or 'five evenings past. Soon after dark it is seen not many degrees above the boriion to the westward, at no great distance from the Star °alma in Pegasus, and some way to the northward of: Jupiter, but higher than that planet.— It has been getting more faint daily, and is proceeding to the westward. Bomear. MAIMS 10, 1821.—We are assured that a Comet has been seen by many respectable persons is Boinbay, aid that it has also been seen at sea. Kuhns (Penstsm 001. r,) Mcaca 11, 1821.—A Comet has been seen in N.W. quarter for these some *sewing* past. A servant near Limerick wrote his master in Dublin that be bad secured the dlrevrnut, haying sent all the poker. and tong. to the barracks. C11414431411N• a Junt.—An Irish Colonel of Dfll - previous to a trial is which he was defendant, was informed by the Counsel, that if be bad any per usal objections, he might legally challenge them.— .. Faith, and so I will," replied the son of Mats 8 4 If they de not bring me off handsomely, I will challenge veer, man of them." SOUTHWARK BRIDGE. TO 1111 EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.. . . Stn, ,, -4 am extremely glad to find that a Corres pondent hei. through the medinta of your paper,callea the public attention t o the g l oom y state i n w hi c h that noble structure, Southwark Bridge, h a been allowed to remain threughout these winter evenings. It has been the subject of conversation and coinplaint, with limy persons in the city, though never, till now; no ticed as it ought to have been ; for; siccording to the common saying " what is every body's business is hp body's business." To this feeling alone, can I nttri bete the het of the bridge having bren less fregnented on an evening, and thecomplaintremainingonredressati. After reading the remarksin your paper on Tharsdayeveo ing I went to Southwark-bridge, to au evetits condition in the gloom, and I can testify to the justness of the of your correspondent " Citizen." I was nut able to distinguish persons on the bridge till I came within a few feet of them, except on those spots where the lamps were lighted. Here is a bridge, the erection of which cost an immense enM of money, and reflects the highest honour on the mechanical acquirements of the present day ; the foot-way over the structure, is above 700 feet ; the lamps provided fur lighting the same, amount to ttocnty-si.c, but the number that was lighted on Thurday evening, was only four on the bridge and two at esch toll-house, at the ends. Now, Sir, 1 do contend, that this is not light sufficient to make this bridge either a sole or agreeable passage After dark ; but I have since seen that the ob servations of "A Citizen" have not been without effect. On Friday evening I was again on the bridge, and 1 found an encrease of four lighted lamps. This is something better, so far as relates to the bridge itself; but the long and dreary road front the brit' ~ ;e to the Borough remains in the lame dark state. There are thirty-3i: lamps on this toad, eta only fourteen are lighted. 1 trust, Mr. Editor, that these few observations may contribute towsrdi directing the attention of the Bridge Proprietors to the subject, so that the bridge way become a more inviting and secure accommodstion to the public, and, of course, wore frequented, and ul timately more profitable to the Proprietors. I am, year's, Ike. AN IMPARTiAL ODRXRVII. DIARY FOR Taß BNSUI.VO WEEK. WITH ilia TIMES or men WILTIIS At LONDON-B/W:IGL .-....F.1106.... Nov. 20, 8.--4WENTY•TRIRD SUNDAY after TRINITY. High water—morn. 18 m. after 2; even. 37 en. after 2. 96, M.—Venus sets 38 min. atter 8. High water—morn. 68m. after 9; even. 13 m. after 3. 97, T.—Moon sets 41 m. after 0 afternoon. High Water—morn. 24 wafter 3; even. 45 ra. after 3. 29, W. —Michaelnuu Roldt. High water—morn. 4 m. atter 4 ; even. 24 in. aft. 4. 03, Th.—Day increased ff hours. 99 lain. High water—morn. 46m. after 4; even. 4 m. after 3. 30, F,—ST. Axamaw. _ _ _ water—morn. 23 at. after b; even. 48 is. after 3. Dec. I. S.—Day break 31, un. after b. High water—morn. 12 m.afterB ; even. 37 in. after 0. We un derstand that an outline of a plan Ism been submitted to the *Ards. 01, she, dlslasisalty, by WU. Alfred Burton. of the Cbitbaln. Divialon of Ruyal v. _ ,111 Y 1 A iya, Marines, for the establishment of a code of numeral signals, by which communication way take place be tween ships of war or commercial vessels, of the same or different nation, in a kind of universal or naval language. This plan we believe to be something of the following kind, and, by its simplicity, it reminds ns of the story of Columbus and his egg. The signal flags made use of may, according to their position, represent certain numbers, and these numbers rnry represent those sentences by which the usual commu nication is generally carried on between -.hips at sea. Those numbers, therefore, which signify any sentence in the English, will also signify its meaning in every other language : and thus a limited communication may take place between vessels totally ignorant of the language of each other. By means of four flags, 64 numbers may be expressed, and, consequently, 64 sen tences ; five flags are capable of expressing 325 num• hers, and six flags 1,956. The adoption of this plan cannot but be attended with great convenience and advantage to the maritime world, and we are only as tonished that it was never th3ught of befere.—s(Lioce. pool Courice.) Man. Ss* tat Bonn..—The tiewapapers lately stated this Lady's large property would go to the Crown, for want of next of kin. Such have been found, aed several of her nephews and nieces teside in the neigh• bourhood of Donersile. ECCLESIASTICAL Cot:RT.—ln the report of the carte stated in our paper of yesterday, relative to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster v. Hatehard, it appears there are some mistakes. The articles exhibited were not by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster against Mr. liatchard, but were allegations made by Mr. Hatchard in a cause now pending in the Court. Mr, Rodber never claimed to have been legally elected to the lectureship, but is the licensed curate of the parish of St. Margaret. Mr. Newhard is not a clergyman, and of course never assumed to have been elected lec turer of my parish. Mr. H. is a tradesman living in St. Margaret's parish. Costetcroey COVET.—The allegation in the case of " Tburlow and Thurlotv," 'reported in our paper under the head of the " Consistory Court," has been erroneously described as being morn to and putt cularly, with reference to the facts stated to have oc curred in the'nose, at No. •4, Pandistubeildiegs, Stangate-street, Lambeth. It is dinned by the owners of that house, that such facts never lid occur ; and the public will observe, that they are lot yet proved, as alleged. Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, two fellows, of decent appearance, were observed lurking about the boon of Sir W. Adam., of MI, Albemarle-street, Picca dilly; one of them restated to go down the area steps and look through the kitchen window. On finding no one there, be bsc,kooesi to Ws menspanion to follow, which be did ; and both of them catered tire house.— Their manoeuvres being watched by a footman, who was cleaning the windowsof the adjoiaiog house, he *mill proceeded to alarm the family. Search was made, sod both the villains wet, found concealed in the coal cellar, with arealeable coat belonging to Sir William. A coa stabie was procured, sad they were brought to bfarlbo• rough-street Pollowodiet, where they gave their noses James Joan and W. Orwell. They were be b fatly committed to Newgate Ilk vial. 1 t '~ i_4l .ry , .~ A ,-4 ,