The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-12-25 00:00:00

rlisllTlr - .4,.1 therefore entreat the help of elmiefrieims Doctor PSuesrotrm but who bee, we believe, set bees thought to mark, es yet, a diploma be any such distinguished talent. The Country Gendemn of Ragland have often been likened to an Swish Seek of sheep ; sad, oven use atemion, in Sir R. Wiaromes tine, wheelie appeal was made to their pockets or their 1140111, they observed, by one of their 141 H nyder esseem, that they submitted to be fleeced to the very Ain, like the animal they were said to represent, without the smallest win or resistance; bet, added be, take bat a guinea oat of the parse of the Capitalist ; is other words, one bristle only from the neck of the keg, and be will squeak, and grunt, and roar, to the disturbance of the Royal Exchange and the whole City. We will answer for it, however, that, in this ease, &rude*, ea well as wool, will be taken to make up the amount required. The discussion of the infernal assures to which Britons must now submit, hes produced one proud event to stand against the dire infliction by their power: and that is, the demonstration of the gentry possessing men of the most transcendent abilities, such as never before adorned any national Senate. We, at 'the first instant, pronounced the et.comium due to the author of the " Vintheige Galicia," and foretold his fame. His lumissoes,l logical, and rhetorical declamations on the wonted bane of his country's freedom, have Billy made out prophecy. His polished diction and display of in tellect have surprised and pleased every hearer ; insomuch, that we arc sure that in any senate in the world, except one impregnated to the last Ibre in corruption, his oratory could not have been ex ermed in vain. Does not this circumstance more than any other show how necessary it is to be rid of the pest of the boroughnionger'og system route Sri conic If :Minister, could make jrrirs as different and diotinct from the community at large, as they and die Court nick, soldiers from the citizens, then might they assare themselves of that vengeance against the Press, with which its exposition of their weakness and incapacity has inspired them. But the thing is impossibk : British jurymen will still be Britons, though we cannot but apprehend much m!bellief will be done, by the unnatural power conferred op the Law Of of the Crown, before Englishmen in galena are alive to the dreadful tendency of the measures in question. The Petition which W 35 presented by Mr. IRMO last night to the HOMO of tiooto•ons, from certain merchants of London, pruyin,; that cis inquiry should be instituted into the eneses of the present commercial distress of tho kingdom, in order, if possiLle, that some measure may be adopted to re :neve it, or alleviate its effects, has originated from a motive that some men will approve of more than Gibers. It may be instanced, perhaps, as confirm ing the truth of what the author of the " Fable of the 11,:es" says, vit. that " public vices produce public benefits." We will take an opportunity of saying something more upon this subject at our leisure : in the mean while, let it be t nierstood as not having the ins /aims:yr of the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England at its lout. Lord CASTLEREAGH, who is considered a more inflexible hero than his colleague in the Cabinet, hi:. VANSITTART, w•as induced to declare, tl:at the deems respecting the specie-payment of the Bank arc irreetreible The Jann.:ea packet that was missing. has ar riied with the loos of her rudder. Nothing has been received from the Main that enables us to judge with any accuracy of Bolivar's movements.. subsequent to the capture of Santa Fe, though it was expected he would direct his march towards Santa Martha, where the Spanish garrison is small, and the inhabitants disposed in his favonr. The papers received are tilled with long reports on the misfortunes of persons who had followed the rash ! enterprise of SeGregnr, and wine fats subsequently performed by him. The following are extracts from the Papers received : Kitaievex, OCT. U.—Rear-Admiral Sir H. Popham. K. C. 8., to coesequesce of his recent promotion. changed his flag ea Satiy last (Octebertfid) hoes bias to red. lee customary salutes were fired on the occasion. OCT. 16.—A report lies reached this city, that all the staisramate British Officers taken at Porto Hello. sad -osalialti at Dories, bad bees beheaded by order of the I.:eseasaadaat of that place. attract of a 'eller from Santiago do Chile, dated August 3 :- ILosd Cocking is esp.:tad to sail in September. Me thousand trap are o be embarked, who will set ups* -tbe rot st of Few. if aft a little farther to the worth :wart Re •lots arie preparieg 'sty fast. which makes it Pflibelik fireredom commarcs by as attach apes the Ilgoabbaan Callao.-1 1 1 0 0 ) dollars. Wette to th e Company, n hays hesarA sued. lassides mos. sad other articles I le dollars, se thersabeata, la charge of Caveats Smith, a North Marrisaa, were iseereeprol reme teepee it laud our %pi. The rest was takes set a a reseal brig. Nth Capable preferred ei se esitikstes tilt It was Splash . to Valinfaise , to lave the se I They seise ; ha. la that case. they ad have Mg their sessele.—Lore soy animas eoesessiag thew; his higher tbaa ever la Me edimatim all Z1 011 7111% ilkiskdras amide ilMleaNse of ss 011111118111 bschp tssond s. b• fes tbe bad. Ins .alsfyiac the Seat hi n t eta& *WM. Min Lib, has" 41 Chilies mit ramslasty. Tim 0111 g. .•• giro Is the egad of the Royalists, for simmer asp OOleg la to las dim dio lag ship is always tiss has semi most impose& Lord Cochroao bas naval elbow of the vary bat rats professional talents is coemsanif stain hint sal, la short, the Patriot last 6 "pal "'amylases Spain eau wad against it. Admiral Mance has peblislied a mask Jae= the wising the blockade of Callao, which is Every thing here is quiet and !wadeable. Govemsowent is lieseudag tolerably rich—the army is well clothed—and the people more deternalood sad tic than ever. Some of the priaeipal chance wits a few British merchants, have eterook upon smelts eesii dens, to equip six thousand sea, and provision them fee three months, after their arrival I. Parc —Gomm' San Martin has been Invited over, sad If he approves of the plan, it will be acted npon. The mediae of the British naval fens in the Pseidc is (as far as it can be consistently with lastewdoes) every way salenlated to uphold the exalted opinion which is entertained of our countrymen throughout Chili, awl in Peru. The Yankees, on the coatreri, stand as Low as the British do high. Three Provisoes to the northward of Lima reheed to pay the tribute to the king's tiovernaest before Lied Cochrane quitted the Peruvian coast. Since this, it has been reported that a disturbance has taken place at Arequipa, ani that the inhabitants there are ripe foe re volution. LIST Or TV! 'PAXSON ISONI. •C !M. Yawata* 41 Frio , ' Posse,' IR Brig of War Boaoraltia SR Ditto Shupe IS Ditto Cluagatra St SioupolWat A Sc h ooner I Grampus 114 Ditto Otte Boats—each earrybq Ban BabastlaaSS Corvette oar Meg 41-putaador, sad Raiolvaion 19 Sloop of War four 4-poerbdor swivels 6 B. Antonio *4 Corvette Armed lasodwa se Petrillo IR Brig of War Besides armed mardiaalmes 70111C11 TEAT fOIIIIIINI O'Higgins 10 Goss San Menlo tMt Looter° 41 Chseebueo 20 A Corvette g ily erui rode at anchor within three ro Till masesaes, ritl.26. Afterwards *wed. The °Wearied 20 Gees Peerrydoe 14 outside, whilst the rest es of the esesey's forts. It is painful to watch the inroads Of power upon the rights and franchises of the people. Power may therefore well be suspected, and even ab horred. The conduct of the House of Peers on a late occasion, in passing one of the detestable five Bills, urges the mention of a fact in our history, via.—That the power of creating Peers without the assent of Parliament, is contrary to the ancient laws of the realm. This power was first usurped by HENRY 111., and Lord BLAUCHAMP was the flrbt who took his place in Parliament by virtue of a Letter Patent. CHARLES I. having, made the power of the Star Chamber arbitrary, he ordered all civil causes be tween him and his subjects to be brought before that Court ; a bloody tribunal, where right and courage were useless—where llribery and Villainy were seated on the Bench, holding the Balance of Justice—where Resentment and Ferocity quenched their thirst in the blood of innocent victims. A few respectable inhabitants of the Parish of St. Clement Danes, paid a respectful visit to Mr. HORUOLSE, at his anti-sincchro place, which lies lately been granted to him by order of some of the Members of the House of Commons. The inha bitants of St. Clement Danes have to inform the public that they found Mr. lloaitoraw. in an ex cellent room. quite pleasant (for Newgatel, mid in good spirits, and apparently quite conscious that he had not committed ore single act that was con trary to the dilly of an itpriglit Englishman: that he had HO recantation to older to the people, and most assuredly none to an usurped power. The Duke of Rosie, upon presenting himself yesterday to clear himself from contumacy, was confined in the military prison of Abbaye.—He was condemned to death three vows ago for contumacy by the council of war of the first military division. This sentence will now doubtless be revised by the council of the same division.—(Jonniai de Paris.) On the night of the 47th of November, a tri coloured flag was found attached to the window of the Bienr Laos, Cag maker, at Lodere. The au thor of this offence has not yet beau discovered, but stapicion has fallen upon a woman who is known to hear enmity to laces, and who, it is supposed, wished by this means to draw him into an unfavourable situation. The following evening a skull was exhibited in the same place , with th e inscription of " Guerre a more' allied to it. nottoctux, Dxe. 16.—The theatre of La Gaits was almost totally destroyed by Are on yesterday evening. Fortunately tio lives were lost. The extent of the damage is not yet ascertained. A similar accident occurred 20 years ago at the same place.—(Paris paper.) A work entitled " France as it is, not Lady Mor gan's France," has lately been published, and ex cited great attention in the literary world. The author of this work bas already been before the public, and if we were to judge of the present, by seine able previous productions, our opinion would IN Me degree tend So his prejudice ; as a bio bk ebbe to meek is certainly very limited, r a l t r i4l we recollect that this species of literature toydres a facility of obtaining information upon bets, which are often known only to a few, and 'also a peculiarity of style in which bw succeed, 'and still fewer excel, we shall not be surprised that, though he may have failed in it, he should have shown esedderable superiority in the work before ns. Ho has abets a comprehensive view of the state of :=9:6to, durinc, and subsequent to the I France ; his subject is treated in a . .neeleily sorb, and though in many o; his observe- Wm and Illlivences we cannot agree with him, we .olisidd mil*it wojlot on that amount, Mope to emodsola • This we many persons whose opinions coincide with those expressed in his work ; there .ere mans who would acknowledge She judies of liana r Deese lies. --Saawal of the edema homed sailed lass edgim. pease of titer bare restock egala. Casts dews frost th. Rivet. dm Courier, (Mow% far Me. Michael's; Lade, Walker. for Orme& I Jesalo. Clap ham), for fenteasbooe; Mo. Topple's% for Jemmies ; sod Monitor. Brews, for St. Tbetwas's. Arrived sod sailed with most of the homeward belted for the River, th. hoe, Iteldt, frees the Cesar/ Islands. Foresworn, DU. 24.—Arrived the Castllas, from Quebec. Sailed the Albury transport, for Liverpool- FALNOUTO. DEC. 21.—Put back the :lolly. Lowry, front Lisbon. A pilot-boat has come is from the brig heel- donee, Clark, arrived °Billie port from St. John's, New Brunswick, and landed tba crew of the Maria, Word. ; of Dartmouth. frets St. John's, Newfoundland, for Dub -lis, which the Providence fell is with on the 13th inst. about 200 leagues southward and westward of Scilly, in a sinhiag state, having experienced dreadful weather on her passage, and a few days previous to her failing in with the Providence. a sea 'frock her, which laid her on her beam-ends, whes they were obliged to' cat away the ousts; and when she was abandosod by the crew the wester was up to the decks. The Providesee also fell in, on the 13th inst., with the Belmont, from De merara. for Liverpool, who had, on the Ist insL takes the crew of the ship Isabella, lades with thither, in a sinking state. Luvea►oot., Dee. 23.—Arrived the Bliss, Harvey, fur Quebec; on the 9th instant, la ha. 50. 42, long. 22. 30, fell in with the ship F.ntraa,`from Sfirstaiehl, for this port, with loss of fore and misen-masts, stais-top-masta, boats, and every thing off deck; she was upright and water-logged. Also arrived the Martha, Simpson. from Quebec; on the 30th of November she experienced a violent hurricane, which carried away her boats, bul warks, stauncheons, and spars; and the Alexander. Marshall, also front Quebec, distnasted. Rea, Dec. 21.—The fishing-smack Endeavour, of Dartmouth, picked up on the 22d instant, about six leagues off Fairlight. three casks of brandy, marked T.Y.E.M., No. 36, D.F.R. N 0.6, P.S.A.P. No. 2. SIR FR.I.VCIS DVRDETT AND MR. CODBEIT. The following is Cobbett't' account of the failure of the tiegociation between his friends and Sir Francis Burdett, to procure a reconciliation be tween them " When I came to London, a gentleman from the country, in a day or two after the dinner at the Ctown and Anchor, asked me whether there were no means of producing a reconciliation b.-tweets Sir Francis Burdett and me. After some conversation upon the subject, I gave this gentleman his commission, in the following words " Deeativr 4, 1819. " I am ready to tender my hand to sir Francis Bur_ deft, and to tender my wir d,. heart and anitsdlitto be ex. ertml, in co-operation nith him, fur the purpose of ea. deavouring to rescue our country from the fangs of its oppressors. I net read} to bury all private considera tions in oblivion. I have sees, all thron:ll the rountry, progfs of a most ardent desire, that an tonne should take place ; and, I am resolved, that no private feelings of mine, shall obstruct that union." •. Wm. Cimustrir." At the same time that I delivered this paper, I told the gentleman who was the bearer of it, what I had told all my English friends at New York, and what I had told to particular friends at Liverpool, that I never would be the wader-worker of Sir F. Burdett again, and, that, I would have nothing to do with him any more than with any other common per.on ; that I never would consult with him; anti, in short, that I would have nothing iu the shape of co-operation with him, rtrept as one of a public meeting, perhaps, leaks., As trowld insaiediatcly. sad out of his own parse, famish the mesas of 'facilitating es sooty as the occasion gavial offer, the entrance g ift. Dant and ',lffy* into the Hoarse of Commons!!! And this, I told the gentlemen who was the bearer of the paper, that lie had my fall liberty to state to any person whatever, either in eon rrrrr tion or in print. This gen tleman expressed his wish that these terms might be tommunitatell to Sir Francis by myself, to which I bad no objection; and I told him I should give the terms in writing. with permission to their bring published as soon as Sir Francis chose, and with a declaration, on my part, that I should stake them known to the public without loss of time. Ou the 9th of December. I received the following note from the geutiensan, who had beta the bearer of the paper above hunted : " Duce Sta.—Freon a conversation I have just had with Sir Francis Burdett. I ant persuaded the enclosed cannot be rendered availahle. This ceases me regret; bat I have thought it best to return it to you with my asauraswe that it has not here used or sees." His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, accom panied by tee Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Bloom field, returned to Marlborough-row on Friday night. The Duke of Gloucester arrived • short time be ---- The greet height or the Clyde and the bilge. pieces of footing ice have been of the most fatal effects to the shipping lying at the Brocadelaw.— This morning a number of vessels were retold wog by the overrhclininir current and the MID a the IM. Glasgow Colour.) Napalms condom to eeeepY pueblo Weida is Primer—Mlll: Creudlebeio and his See hme bee. tried Wore the Court of Adige at glade, for " % oil N sad his tar (family, a;tel l adfitri l r ii g ;lia . which, in imfobilifir , 1 WWI* a earicatnre, in which - - ' XIMI: szdrs PRISON ,Ir. CONSTANTINOPLi. the Movie. description of the Baguio prism at Conatantiaopiels extracted knew a watt. old tied Madeline, sr Nessars es Great : The sus sad high assissare of the Baguio, vitiated estaigosssig A ihs sesteal sad the diets amnia littit sushi if Ma *di% bat a world of wailing! Otte pert is tomini hy she prisoners wads ea beard the emesey's *go. mhos with as irea ring resold their lets. await id els ttfemah reprileery their tremifereece es beard the Taal& Amt. This part may ally be called a sort of patiateey. The other is hall is perfection. It is the larger slide's's; "NW with the Ware! subjects of the thud (whom their real or supposed Wade moaners have he might to this bode of osavailiag tears. Here are ''nosed alike the ratted beggar urged hi h olm to 'Mal a lomf t aid the nch Maker instigated by avarice to day a deposit; the Moak who saes open violater; sad the bolter who employs false weights; I the 'sod robber and the pirate of the seas, the assassin and the cheat. Herr, as in the infernal retinas, ars weighed satires of every country—Turks. Omits, Arm • j ohm Bi s, Jews, and rks ; mild here are confisamded iu dividnals of every steed—the Makommedan, the Chris ! clan, the Hebrew, and the Heathy.. Here the proud and the booth'', the 'palest sad the mosesitoss, are reduced jto the direst of equalities, the quality of tooter. But err: for shoeW mew hapless victim—perhaps guilts* of no other crime but that of Mein excited the Militates • I cupidity, still wear ea his first 'forams the livery of better days, his mere docent appearance will only expose him to harsher treatment. Leaded with the heaviest fetters, naked to the most loathsome of malefactors, he ie compelled to prelime every alleviation of his berthas. every mitigation o of his pain, at the most exorbitaLt price; until the total exhaustion of his slender store has acquired him the privilege of Ming at least on a level with the lowest of his fellow-safferers; and spared addi tional torments so loager lucrative to their inflictors. Even day a capital fertile in crimes pours new of fenders'into this dread receptacle; and its high walls and I deep recesses resented every instant with imprecations and curses, uttered in all the various idioms of the Ot toman empire. Deep moans and dismal yells leave not its dismal echoes a moment's repose. From nournisle until night, and from night until morning, the ear as stunned with the clang of chains, which the galley ' slaves drag about while confined in their cells, and which they still first about when toiling at their tails. Linked together two and two fot life, should they sink un.:er their sufferings, they still continue thus linked after the j death it either; and the man doomed to live on, dr.,gs after him the corpse of his dead couipauion. In no lA.- reetion can the eye escape the spectacle of ate:scions p•s nishments, and of indescribable agonies. Here, perlia; you see a wretch whose stiffened 'limbs refuse their lice, stop soddenly short in the midst of his labour, and. as if already impassable, defy the stripes that lay open his flesh, and wait in total immobility the last nierc:lal blow that is to end his misery ; while. there, you rior his companion foaming with rage and madness, tent against his own person his desperate bends, tear la's slotted hair, teed his bleeding bosom, and dub to pices j hi. bead against the walls of his dungeon. ' A long unpunished pirate, a liberated galley•slay., Aclamet•reis by name, was the fiend of bell who, be ingenuity in contriving new owners, and his infi•ri. t' delight in beholding new suffering, had deserved to i - some the chief inspector of this place, anal the chief it, - mister of its terrors. His joys were reat, but they were not yet complete. Only permitted thus far to exert i•e his craft on mortals, he still was obliged to calculate ' what degree of agony the human frame could Mai, at 1 to proportion thopein he inflicted to the powers of suf.. ' feting which man possessed, lest, by dispatching his vie tints too soon, he should defeat his own aim. Ile wits rot yet received among his brother daemons, in tine blissfal abodes were torments do not kill, and where tI e i soffirser's pangs might be iocreased in an infinite ratio. Wilds truth the very hour of my arrival had afforded ' bias a sorely lamented proof! An Armenian cubic,, suspected of withholding front the Sultan—sole heir 1,. dl his effscers—the dep osit of a deceased Pasha, bail , just been delivered over into Achoset's bawls; and many were the days of bliss to which the executioner looked forward in ilie diligent performanee of his office. On the very first application of the rack, out of shear albs lice, the Scruff expired ! Two days later, the whole of Achmet's prospects of sublunaryhappiness were near coming to a close. Some wretches, driven by his cruelty to a state of madness, had sworn his destruction. Their bands, tied behind their back, could be of no use to them in effecting their purpose. They determined to crush him with their bo dies. All at the same instant fell with tbele wish weight upon the executioner, or upon their sirs essapa sioss already pressing to the ground the prostrate mon ster, in hopes of burying his corpse under a living tu mulus. But Achmet's good star prevailed :—ere yet his suffocation was completed soldiers rescued the 'miscreant. He recovered, to wreak on his disappointed enemies his fiercest vengeance. Their minishosent was dreadful. Sanguinary but not cruel, prose to shed blood in aerie s yet shuddering at tenure. l was horror-strork at the scene, and the yells of the victims still ring in my ears. The horrors of this scene are dreadfully aggra vated by the introduction of the plague, which is thus described : -- ----- - The scourge bad bees expected for some time. B r several of the releasers had the frightful bag. its lute binger, been distinctly sees hovering with her bat's wings over our drier abode, wad with her booked takes numbering nee by one, her intended but still eases peeling victims. In the silence of the night she bad been beard leinarely caning them by their sasses, bench ing at their several doors, and marling with lived spots the damp walls of their cells*. Nothing but die viaisatiois of this destructive sweater lesessi wanting to complete the horrors which sur mended me: - for if eves. whim only guilds" forth men free to fly front Hs approach, tied to shrink ::::41. contact, the gaunt spectre mows down allele Miss' like the rips core in the field, it mg be ions earl what havoc messes wises it is permitted to bunt lISS hams the lIIIIMNS bowels of hell, in the midst of jigis eless-wedged in their & meows, or linked tw at their ta*s, whom it suet trample glows to the eve it can find a vent is space. _lt is there that— with a feces of in rendes ready ferried, a trail of miasma ready laid on every side—though this prime minister of death strike at mildest', it sever misses its aim, aid its Casoetateips the quickness of ligiesieg or of t . .. leis t he re that seen those who thee far retain MI possession of health, already caleniste the hours they still may live; that these who today drag to their last abode their Wages esseapshisses, to-waerrow are laid beside them ; wed that those who arodyksg. make thole selves pillows of the bodies set yet cell elbow ahead/ deed. It is there that dually we behold the pies destroyer, is on place awaited is @fleece, is another eseessfered with fell lore im plored with anxious cries, there with eager that iced -. laugh- 4 !4 Ul i I -, --,, ,__ 4 11 L ...171P eeee l e i . his "bleat is trea t e d ia a napoleon wino" to net Publie etteatiee 1 il7ey r eiiii - ineylive ithet Aso elie t° - y dreg to their . r ' h a •.soolutitr.nrght. Yd though in many o: his .. obse rve - in France—DM Ceeellebels and his Eton hare, hot *belie their Ildrisee rerapealese. wearer, are laid el l thlall sae INSWelWell we cannot WWI wi th reek we been tried MOM the Coon of Aida. at Paris, for , beside theta 1 sad that those irks en dylag, nolo thee . ' 7- 'Amid it ',Xs! on that aceouni t alone to se g toon sedigees eereelop, namely, portraits ef , seine fills of do Wain not yet geld eitbere serd/ 1: millairma • hie many lames whew ePieleee Na aed his ranilly, and partiodarly a point deed. It ie dm* that teeny we beheld the gees oda- *we ezpvefted in his work ; there of 1 er.4•44. which, in anroktivg itself, diaillisy- 41/4 " re " r nother feessaared s is 6 " P ie l h av k u sited iii l iff es e ce l a is . mi ,ore many who would acknowledge ehe koalas of e d a m i n ; b e a n a ini n ci i n yi , i n w hi c h N ills. 'Me rewash* on all oessaiswa, lest lell'ewatele that Icon Is reereseeted as again ?peening Louis XV s fit 1 i ll'ilwva i ni er.._ ir ni t h enw alla r A i lesi n p er n irs 'i w king il.r. es impillive with is ea .:l7. an 'ear polidad notions will not die* 118. 40 gh the and his Tiaras*, with Voce to Baspaers at the hot-' ..," Mockery. by sea as. to delak away its it aim lewirdel. At die woe timer the meats of too, and the following ineceeplioe steeled it :—J. , ii e Ibis blehlWO IMI each se to render it weeds,' diming ripen* stew heart die Is Is eideitc—The . iii, n inn io nn n e the *o n i s nne g inni di n i n t h e g in i ig. perused by ell parties. Joey returned a verdict of Aciptithil!l ie whidi Omsk seperstltisa eaisedies that distams. • . _ -, tore. \‘. r 1 - t ( 1 t