The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-12-07 00:00:00

_-~,.. K"I• • • • • .14 , Pite ; b ." 4CI la g th° 4B oo lo :0 0 , 1113 ,7 Mr.lierjemst 8ur.u..." I cave's* that Out I said.wmet have bees misapprehended. What."' steel was, that the Metpagere hive cot actSd fairly in this business. For twy owe pert, I wish, for %betake. of the Idweagen sad fur the sake of the Public, that the Measlier' -bad met [heels". tion tn.day, so that the, whole of their condspt might bate hewn decided spot' by • Jery. ,, 11.4 re thvbenfreted* Serjeant wu interrupted by the Orlin, cif the Jury, whose names being called over, the /Porehiset delivered the • ' VERDICT for the lI;A.INTIFF, DAMAGES...FIVE POUN DS. • J. hlsisraar,o then requested the Foreman to sctp".tipt him with the ground on which their ver dict htd been givea s with reference to what he had referred in his di vgo, aluptleiT they found for the Plsin‘iif epee tile illegality of the Arrait, or upon the ground AM Mr. Cligord hid not been guilty of it riot. • • The Foreman replied, that on the illegality of the meat, they were unanimous. With respect to Or qeeetion.uf Ur. ciloront. having been con. .-etned in a-riot, there was a diterence of opinion. Thetquesdes bad net ) however, been decisively disgusted, as the Jury was unanimous in their ver. diet ow the first principle. Sir Jewel MANSFIELD-1 am sorry that that qnestion was not decided, for it leaves the thing whielell sashed to be decided as equivocal as ever. 1 ins ittsteidlvery sorry that the Jury slid not agree oe the distinct grounds of the verdict, for this site-king mistake of the public will still go forth, and ;White outrage maj be continued by a furious deserves no better name—they may think tkeesselves authorised. to take justice into their .*n hands, and gratify their revenge by vidlenec NMI oetragrons conduct, even, perhaps,. to the rotifer their country. What may be the cense. cianneoof etch a spirit, tt is impossible to foresee, bet &right I am, that it leads to every kind of hbrfoe-s-possibly to thessibversion of Government, certainly to great evils, perhaps the worst that can be catered by a nation. Joafia. - or —Werciand the verdict nn the ground tilat the 'Plalutilf wits illegally apprehended. Sir hues MANsitete —That's ersivocal, and decides nothrn{...for he might be ti rioter, and yet illegalliapprebeeded by being taketsafter the thing lilts lever. Justrw•x.—lt was generally thought ration liiimeh to censer*. wearin f t 0. P. into ass act of riot, ;Ad by some, that It would be inconsistent trablic righta. fair.JAnc* Ntisnseinco then addressed the air. -.Abe Greutietnee of the Jury di not state un what particular ground they have given their veniict utast they state is by no means decisive. All of thesis were of opinion, it seems, that the arrest -weeillttgal ; but they do not state the grounds on vied) they considered it to be so. Some of them thought it:lllegal, because of the apprehension af. wr t h e thing was, in their opinion, over ; while others were of opinion, that it was rather harsh to construe the wearing 0. P. in the bat into an Sit of riot. Some of them thought that such a sonstrection %%0011 be inconsistent with the rights of Englishmen ; hut nothing decisive has been de. fl‘fed on this important subject. The Court then broke pp. INTKI.I.IGENCE. -41611-- COURT OF KINMI- BENCH. bac. 0. &Wags at Nili Prins before Lord ELLi_voo. Rot;Gm, and a Special Jury. • ORARLESUARRISON V. JORN KINC. The Plaintiff in this Cause is a respectable At. 1 . tensity, in . (;raven.on feet, Strand ; and the U .fen. dant lea person well known to the Public, in con. serener of his extensive pecuniary transactions. It was an action to recover &images for various iiiiitanco of malice towards the P:aintiff, exhibited lb, the shape of different criminal prosecutions, Mellows aspersions, and false imprisonment. — Fear charges against the Defendant were sorcifiixl rise record : gat, that he had maliciously and without any reasunable or probable cause alive. .h ge sdaLtheflaintilif o end charged kiln before the Ma. igioerates of Bow-araut,witit having uttered a forgo! ocesptance to a bill of exchango, fur the sum tie Atli, reguarda* us be the _acceptant* of Messrs. Moaner end Co..Copthall.eoert, no such person ( G o was alleged) bang in existence. S.condly, that on the 11th day of December, 1808, lie pub. nand a LIMO on the character .f the Plaintiff in -the 9ass4l newspaper, called The Br:lish. Guar- Amu,* *hid he, King, was proved lu be the reprisfort in a statement of facts, purporting to I .be a report of the proceedings before the Magi*. _moot von the said chaise of forgery. Thirdly, .thug he had invliaiously gassed to he sued out an usewaion against the Plaintiff for the sum of SW whilst at the time he was not indebted to him 6 single farthing, but on the contrary, the Det•ndant owed kip, the Plaintiff, Mt. en balance of at:Ousts, as .vas proved by the award of an K oi warable liaeriuter. Fudrthly aid lastly, -that the Defendant, on the 9th day of January, in the prescilt year, went before the Grand Jury of the County of Middkves, and prefer. red an indictment against the Plaintiff for ob. • raining money under false pretences, by means of said bills of exchange, he (the D..fendant) bad before chargid him with having uttered, knowing it to be false and forged, which • Indictment, the Grand Jury ( a ft e r min i. Ong King and his Clerk) returned Hitt found. The evideore, on the part of the Plaintiff, (ally sustained the case stated by the A tatrney.Gesera w ho was remarkably aninsated'ond eloquent. Mr. C L IFFORD, on behalf cif the Defeadooti pole an appeal to the Jury, who, after -an its. p r essite charge from the Bench, at great length, owl with much f...elittg, retired fur half au boar, a ge l found verdict fur the Plaiutiff.—Damars, O N I TAIOUSAND Fin' HpfetED IPuttetottl i •. # . • SUBSCRIPTIoe . t • Ingnitlit irlffunottiMini CO VT.N r-aait RN TR EAT RE. p Trepet ut commirrio: tfully ittiorm the IL PUBLIC. 'Math. ► appfteatio• for LIOAL ASSIST AMOK. noes mutunis considered as reusing ender the shove description, are more immure's than the present state albs IPURD it pratillo empty silh: they am. therefoxe. seder the Weenie, of 'Arkin( a eentine.once plebe LIBE RALITY of the rUBLIC. shill alone can enable thee to carry the wishes the SUBSCRIBERS lets ellact. sinticilll4lol4 CONTllive TO R■ RIICOVID AT The Mike of Tan linovastru , t. 57, Fieet.utrett Mr. &newt Wire. 13, gkierter.street, (Tresserer) t Mr. J. Powell, 3, Greve- PI re ,Catomlen-Town,(Serrettry I) Meows. Sew tool How, Ilnoksellers. 331, gtflm 4 Mr. Meetly, Stationer, t. Doke -strew. Pllsterbewer-square Mr. T. Tem, flooksrller, 111. Clomp -My t Mr. Situenuos, corner of Leather-lam, Holborn. ---- ----- • Automat of Subscriptinas already advertl4*... 48437 10 6 Veal, Vidi, Vici '`` Trial 10, Jury . • " Smart" old Night-rap 0 10 6 Towards the Jubilee ;tight s • Impartial Charge to a Jiffy • 0 10 6 Modesty ia P. B The Real B. C. Y All Wigb not Judger......... It is requested that all Communications on the subject of the above prorrculions sal, he made to Mr. William West, Attorney, ..V.i.j. Cleaseat'Ann. _ 1 . 1 O 0 .m........ O wv, # T - 77 ' 1 41 I M . 4 :•••• • 'l9lleierlialitar: - •vogawr GARDEN rmaarta. • • EDNE.spiT. • The Ilsoptietors expected that. the effervescence of the popular feeling which manifested itself so loudly en Tuesday would have subsided last night, but it wills masifestly inert-4'ldd. The Men of the' World, and °tear Arad Nahm, were -the per formances of the evening ; and we are highly *tamed by the gravity with • hick some of the Ma nagers' Newspapers affect to criticise the acting in the play. The truth is, that early in the evening the disapprobation of the company .rendered the perfumeries ou the stage a very secondary consi. ileratien...and after thecommencement of the second pace, the noise in the body of the House drowned every other sound. In every part of the House o.P.'esboste un the hatand in medals on the breast; the expressions uf disapprobation were general, the Pit, Boxes, and Galleries, vying with each other in hissing, hooting, groaning, whistling, and every other expresblutt of disapprobation, thwt• the ferti. , lity of invention could devise. Placards again I reared their heads in great numbers: About nine o'clock, Wood the flreman, Jew Bennett, and about twenty Police Officers, sup ported by • large corps of ruffians, making a sud den rush into the Pit, attempted to make a very general grab, but their reception was warmer than has been experienced by them on any night since the opening of the. Theatre. Wood was extremely active, and displayed an inclina tion to act with the accustomed brutality of the ruffian corps; the Pittites, however, prevented that display, by attacking in their turn, and com pletely overthrowing the entire body of this 46 rabble rout," of whom every matt was ex pelled after a contest, its which divers corks were drawn, and the clothes of Wood literally inn' from his back, Happily no serious personal in jury was sustained by any one. It was some time before any of these gentry • ventured to prep into the Pit, which they at last entered in small bodies, ta:.ing care, how. ever, to keep close to the dews. The Pittites permitted them to enter o ithuut opposition— ' nor did they molest (hem, bat intimated, that' so long as they were peaceable,. they would not aid , die with them. Cats there be a stronger illustra. lion or proof of the rai ties who are the instigators of riot. That there was a very great disturbance iii the Pit last nisltt is must true. By whom was it I created By the servants and agents of the Pro prieturs, sent there expressly for the purpose of ' subduing the expressioii of public disapprobatiun. Hitt for them there had been no disturbatox. We were extremely sorry to see a large quantity of peas thrown upon the stage, happily they were dis. coverall in sufficient time to prevent any accident. This is a mere trick, like that of throwing halfpenny and peony-pieces un the stage, which also occurred last night—of the agents of the House to cast an odium on the public. The party who played off this muumuus; is suspected; and may probably be discovered. The public, there can be no doubt, are auxins's to prevent every thing like its. suit to the performers, and much more, injury either to them, the Proprietors, ur their pro perty. In the Pit three Counsellors' wigs were visible, whether they were Counsellors, and if so, whether they were honest, it is nut its our power to inform our readers. At no great distance were halts do zen white night caps. IVhether these coverings were intended as a protection against cold, or whether they were - used as precautionary Cutler. lugs, in ease the Couis.el should open their plead. lugs, we are also unable to ascertain. We Mire sometime% felt a strung disposition to slumber even at a Theatre ; and when Counsellors' w.gs make their appiiaralice, we, by nu means, think a pre cautionary stiglit.cap superlissuus. Those oho have beets accustoms-xi to long pleadings, may perlia;:s think it as necessary a provision (or vi sit to the Theatre, as an Opera Glass. A tin trumpet was throw is upon the stage dos ring the Pantomime. Mr. Farley rook it up, bowed respectfully, and deplored it to an at tendant. His reception during the remaiuder of the evening was very flattering. The curtain dropped finally, amidst the lota s., of the many loud roars of disapprobation, that we have yet heard. Groans and cheers succeeded ; and the scorn manifested to the inmates_ of the private lodgings in the three pair, hal a very vi. sible operation. . • The company separated at isn early, hour, ar. ter the most tempestuous night that has set been seen at the must splendid.Theatre in the world. A Gentlimais was taken out of the Dress Boxes, at an early hour in the evenin4, and held to hail, on the usual charge. 'Whether the readiness with which he fnuntl bail was offensive, o r ..w_bether the Managers . have taken a Is.winis from , the Society of Vice, we ICnow nut ;` btit the mu ment that the reeognisauees were signed, Mr..; Gibbons, the orator, strode forth, and Wit four distinct inforinations against. this Gentleman, whose name is Cooke, for swearing . finir pro. fusee oaths---uputt which informations he was fined in the sum of two shillings 'for earls, and three shillings fur the costs on each. This was a neat calculation of the Orator, saving Mr. Cooke the trouble of receiviog any change out of a 11. note. BERMIRE 1111E17 AG. At a Meeting of the Noblemen, Gentterarn, Clergy, and Freeholders of the county of Berks, held at Abingdon, un the 2711 s instals!, to eunsi. der of as Address to his M.j sty, un his unteriug the 50th year of his reign. An Address was moved by Lord Abingdon, and seconded by Sir Moris. Ximenes, and offer having been read, and the question WO% shout hr be put, Mr. •ffallett upraised his astnnishment, that, when every heart and hand shussid be unifea, and when a call might soon he made tot the people to shot their blood in defence of their Ring and Country on British ground, no invitation should have been gisen to th e w e ,. bitants and others of the county, to express their loyalty and attachment. He then spoke iti praise of a the steady and bonourehle conduct of Mr. Knapp, the late Representative of the Borough of Abingdon, during the last trying and ex. traordiinary Session of Parliament, end added, that, were a subscription n anted for a monument, he would subscribe liberally to record his Me, on I the Duke of York's disgraceful cond..ct n hen I Comities:ler in Chief of the British Army ; his vote on L erei Castlereagh's attempt to barter a Writership in InJia fur a Scat in Parliameist ; and his vote to institute an inquiry into the case of Mr. Dick, who %Vas Stated to have been got out of the House of Comniona, by !IWO , • of his Maje,ty'a Ministers, because he wonid not vote cwitrar, to It he dictates of his conscience. But he holied it , n „1,1 net b e necessary t.t record 411 ul t freli:;,- L.)- slifion, at the ensuing election, that must see:o to compro.uise their late friend's indepetidenee, noel !that of the peace of the nation, fur what is C.4!ICLI I the peace of the Burma:tit of Abing,loo. Mr. 11.111,1 t, at Some length, warned tit: Mtet_ my of the great datigor wh:ch thica'ened the country, and enforced the propriety of notating the (wily of the peo; le, by attending to their rights and in , oresti, and moved an adjouranient ; which nas Feconded h. Mr. G.io !lake. :rhe Ilkth Slieritf, Sir Thomas Theuphilus Met.. who had before admitted that the i, habitants ought to have bees. summoned, iiisi.tted Hint no one ahoedil vote, who had nut a freeltrild.of 10s. a-year. Mr. Hallett answered, that Gent fem. u k. ere invitedoind it would be for I'llolov., to diseritninate the Gentlemen, th:iugit ter tb‘i not press an examination by him of the ladies in the gallery—(n laugh). Sir Thomas told him he was not to dictate, am? again insisted that no one should rote but a F. solder ; when there appeared outs thirty -!o Freeholders present Ithough a mat ket.d.ty at Abingdon), of which Skeen voted fur Ow mo tion, and twenty against it, %%Inch Sir Thomas was about to call a gicat majority, but very pro. perly corrected himsel. Mr. lirootllake then riquesied to have the address again read, it having been hurried over in a manner at to be heard u ily by few of the few who were present. Thiti request Sir Thomas thought proper not 1., comply with, aiwl insisted that Mr. Goodlake shoulti not say is word on the Address, as the Adjournment was negatived. The Address he said must of course be carried, and immediately put the Qttettion. Mr. Hallett than gm: Sir Tbuluas auliee, th It 4 a Requisition was already signed by many respect. table persons, and was forwarded to others foe i their simiatures, for the purpose of rolling a County Meeting, to take into consideration the shinning state of the nation. The Meeting then voted the usual Thanks 10 Sir Thomas, and separated. The Spanish frgste tbat artyott at New-York, with the Minister of FEltflttf AND vu. 10 Ihc Go. vi•conieut of the United States, sailed from t h at port on the 4th ult. on her return to Cadiz. Ea r l C ANDKN , th e Lira President of the Conn_ cil, was at Court yesterday, fur the first li no %lace his indisposition. _ PRICE OF firOCKS rill 9 per Cent.C.lns. shut Redeced 49/1 4 per Cent.... 8411 3 per Ce Consols for Arc. 7011 DA AT ON 1:. O'CLOCK Low. A nn...P 9 151 Omnintst UAL' now, Rycli Fs. Lottery Ticket. 150. THE S'fATE SMA N. P140P0 , 111 I Ti.• 4 %X. LONDON: THURSIIA V, DI CEMBER 7. 'fur Foreign Ripers, fri,m which we hate given Ettracts, are alike debtitute, of event, and informat . . England, at this awful crisis, of the fate of Fit- rope, presents a more ertraordinury contrast, between human grandeur, potter anti energy— itbasensent, intbeticit t y and supine apalltg—than is to be fount, in the annals of the world. Coin. mending—despotically commanding, the ocean— and with an army, which, if not equal in num bers, Is superior, in appoinment, to that of any army iu the world-=the *hole power of England, has been (wind, unequal, to the capture of Ant. warp, or the expulsion of the French from the Pe ninsida, even with the assi'tance of the population of Spain and Portugal—and in the absence of tha main body of the French army, tied ap, ut l it was for monthg, on the Banks of the Danube. Is this powcr...if it be, what is weakness? Every object of our attempt, fur which the country has patiently submitted, to the lavish expenditure of million after million, has U. 1.11— ' completely, absolutely, and entirely failed. A t the moment we aria writing, the remains of our brave troops are evacuating the fatal bland of Walcheren. From Spain and Portuzal, every account con. curs in announcing disease, distress, and dissaiis. faction, and is accompanied with *italics, hopes, and expectations of returning to England. We have•, however, after failing in every other project, succeeded in taking possession of four of the Seven •Island+ of the lonian Repubtic! Admirable! In the moan vim. , the patriotic and vigorous efforts of Mr. WAITIIIf AN, in the Coert of Common Council, have happily awakened the slumbering Citizens of this ►eighty Metropolis, from the dream of apathy in which they wasted, and more than wasted, so many y e ars. Nor is it matter of slight consolation, to sec that a British .I:try, will judge for themselves, on the rhuminently important subjeet,...the last stake Till PERSONAL RIOUPSOVENOLISHISEN. Yesterday, soon after twelve o'clock, hi.' MA JESTY arrived at the QuEEN'I Palace, from Wind sor, in his travelling-carriage, escorted by a party of Light Hor.e, where he was received by the Dukes Of YORK arid COMIERLAND. A little after two o'clock his MAJarry held a private Levee, at which the following Noblemen and Gentlemen bad the honour of being presented to bis :MAJESTY : The Marquis Wellesley. oa his being appointed Secretary of State far Foreign Atuirs. and on his return from Spaiit. Lieutenant-Colo/ad M•Cousbe, no his promotion. Major Anonyms, of the 50th regiment. on his return with the Marquis Wellesley, from the embmsy to Spain. The Ron. captain Waliegrave, brother to Earl Walde grave. era his promotive, and bringing huge the dispatches from Lnrd Colihtgwood. by Admiral Loni" Rodstock. Mr. John FerKw on his return with the Marquis Welles ley, front the enthaisy to Spain. (Apt. T. , Staioes, R. N. t on which occasion he received' the banner of Knighthood. V J Summary:, no his tears from the Baltic. Lord Edward O'Brien. on receiving the reek of the sea of a Marquis. Captain Become ' of the 40th regiment, Aide-de•Camp to Brigathee-Geiteral grow ae. Brigudier-Gastecal Browne, on his return from Woleberea. Peacock. of the 71st regiawat, OD his return from Spin and *. *cistern. Snowdesf Borne, tot his being appointed a Lord of the Treasury: Capt. Forrest. R. N. on his promotion. !apt. Burgess Comae, on his mien with Marquis Wel lesiev. from taesosibloy to Spain : Lord James O'Brjeu, as rekviitai the rank of the see of a Marquis. lla MAJVItT held a Pricy Council, at which the Marquis Wer.r.ssiew was introduced and 'MOM Secretary of gate for Poreigu Affairs. About balf.pastsis o'clock, hit MAJIIITY tilt off on bin returu to Vludsor. . N.IVAL TELLIGENCR. Inastovra, Dee. 6.—Arrised yesterday his Ilitje►t)'s 611/0p of onr. Calypso,. fronCiValcheren, n hither she bad convoyed two vein.' n . hence, laden n ith live stock in tended for the use of the soldiers there. She brings the intelli gence that these vessels weren't allowed to land the and are returning with they, the bland being intended to be entirely evacuted upon the sth inst. • Po itesantrta, Dec. 6.—The Densmart, 74 gam, Captain BiNrit ; Nyaarn, 93 pos, Captain Cotterell ; li3perien, 94 gums, Captain Brodie ; Horatio, S 6 pas, Captain 'drat!, destined for t ke Wrst-balks, are airtalued by contrary n Inds ; and the Lavinia, 44. gam, Captain Lord W. Stew', is pre treated from sailing from the same 4 .105 e. The Marchioness of Bute is pi,l4 pamrager la the latter ship in bic:ly, t the recovery of her health. Arrived tile4lnsteks frigate, from 'be New•faundland sta tion ; end the Mullett %isomer! Yesterday the Cabinet Minibters dined with 41,4 Karl of Ilaanowar, at his huJse in Grosvettivis. sir are. The ship that brought over his Eicelletry. Ott P:rsian Ambassa.lor, was obliged to purr°, .• gee_ rantine several s ti tys at Plymouth, before he cosati be landed. Erery neet.!;sary aceomen,te:e. vras prepared by order or Gov.:mentor fttr hh Excellency at Plymouth, and on the rpad.l.• don. An interpreter met his Eieellettcy at Ply motrh, and ttay..:l el with him, -*MI ettelaincil and dem, lb. d t he town. and the country, as they passed Wool Ps town. • His Excellency and Suite, toge ther with Chow app tinted to receive hint, arrived at Demeter, lla tford-loilly, on Meitit!ay after noon, where he nes received by one of the Under S cretariesof State, anti a sumptuous cult t meat prepared fur hon. Ile appeared ht.iiy pleated with the attention shown him. On TUC!_ dstyi his Esrenenry and Suite, and also those ap pointed to attend him, arrived at a house, prt•part.tl by Government for his reception, "in Matisfi. street. Died last' night, at eleven o'clock, Sir JAMES BRA "(SCOUR. Pleasure is nil the reignirg theme, Our othiaday thought, .tur midnight dream. " The be.t preservative to keep the mind its health, says Lot d Bacon mill in many instances the body too) is *the faithful admonition f friend."' Utsfortenately, the t!isltke of having out merely our vices, but even our foibles, (Olio, and feats expoled, deters thousands from asking fur or reCeising what the Philosopher rccommewts ; and thisslfutith in particular rush headlong into the vortex of dissipation anti death ! To obviate con. sequences so destrtirtive to the species and eventu. ally to population, has fallen to the lot of Dr. Solomon,by nothing public Guide to Health," which we point out to the deluded of either DC as the " Silent Friend" %hunt they may consult without exposure, and with assured coufideuce of success...." Iteriereer." LOY I)()PIi Peirdisd apt Published hr I). Lovas.s., at tse LiTATC•3IV4 Uri us, Eldekstrre t. l)sw,