The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-07 00:00:00

f 114311)URGII MAIL. STOCKHOLM, JA the four Estates have, by an unanimous Resolution, approved by the King, in order to giveis new guarantee in the uninterrupted happiness of the Notion, and a firmer support to the Government, conferred on Prince Oscar, Duke of Sudermania, .in case of the absence or illness of the King and . the Crown Prince, the exercise of the lineal Authority, with all Constitutional Rights, and I eve wa%ted upon him to formally announce this 11... h I ,i io n. Ilia Royal Highness will complete his 19th ! e,f or th.• 4th cf nest Jell,. fl NOVEIi. JAN learn that the Countess of Ktelnianrisegice is Appointed Lady of Honour So the rotor? iNtsori of his Royal Highness the Duke of Camhrii!g'. hoot the 7th .4 neat month his Roy' si Ilizlntess is .+llpPeted her.. from Cassel, for sometime. It is said that the chief Nobility of .this: ei?yi will be present at the celebration of his Royal Highness', marriage, at CGISPI. TILP two houses adjoining the Palace of his Royal Highness will he united with it in one front. JAN. 30.—Eichan:;e on London-33 2.-33. 5 Moscow, Dr.c. 2t —lt is now decided that the Imperial Court reniairis here till the ling-in of her Imperial highness the consort of the Grand Duke Niett..!As, which is expected in the middle of April. The Court will, therefore, hardly leave Moscow be fore July. The Emperor will go in the mean time to Petersburgh, and theoce to Warsaw ; subsequent to which, a Coin:res. of Sovereigns at Aia-ls-Chapelle s:.olion of, at which his :Majesty will be present.— Before this, however, the King of Prus%ia is ex „peeled here; but uothing is certainly fixed iu tbis respect. DtrICII MAIL. FRASIETORT, JAY. 49.—Under this date is as 'f lick VOW) "Gtiios, dated the 10th of isneery, cap taining an account of the arrival of the Sirdinian Vice-Consul from Algiers, as already published in the French Papers, and from them tracslated into the 3Engtish. The commencement is exactly the same, but the conclusion is as follows :—" The Dey re. ceieed them surrounded by his guard, and with his sabre In his hand ; but he fell into such a rage, that be threatened the English Consul to have his son's bead cut off, and to have it fixed op at the door of the Hall of Audience, if they troubled him any far ther. At the request of the terrified father, all the Consols desisted for the moment. The next day the Sardinian Vice-Consul was ordered to leave Algiers." This account, therefore, differs from the other in mot mentioning the seizure of the Vice-Consul's daughter, nor the clothing the British Consul's nieces in a Turkish dress ; but it states that they were seized in the streets, and put in the harm. .. ~. • 1 • i where immediate execution followed on the bare fact : he sub • milted that stool prepuilut suspicion or presumption of guilt were vilffiLient. The Appellee kbd set birth his acquittal; but Stmt. 3 lien. VII. r. I. pro. ided, that the rights of the Appel /ant should, not lei koauding, he preserved entire, (orals" pro secution by the Kittkaila was liter 111603 atlas There might be many reasons fur the exceptiou of the rights of the Appellant the ptoseentinei might be premature, or the Prisoner might be acquitted by eannivaoce ; and is such a ease the appeal was town important. With regard In this part of the case, he quoted Castle a. Baisbridge (3 Sir. 853 ) ; Ilex es Chetwynde C. 2 her. 2204); Wilson v. Kennedy (1 Wits. 132); Bull. N. P. 245; 8vid:.260, is order to show that ass acquittal was not in Many comeka proof of innocence. Admitting, however, for argusesea‘ that he Appellee *asset liberty to reply fresh facts, hr instated that those fact. did not .Vaal! 4041(4061Y 'oda tvlisar hissalitie , fu the bra place, *ben le mama d particular times, it was generally accompanied by the word about. The Count observed, that the Appellant had done the same. Mr. Lorriv an wered; that to the .4 ;speller. precision, even as to minutes, wits of the unmet impurisitice for his alibi ; and It was singular, that, from beginning to coil tin re was no po silt'e eves stens that he was not tit , re at toe lime of the murder, and rovld not base been there; all was left to inference merely. Te Appetite had not ventured to overt that the illicit inter course took place Isetore Mary Ashford went to Mary holler's. Mr. Jostle., BaYLLY.— Ile is only maser Opal he can prove, and how is he us prose that at which only two ;wows are pre. Sent, one of is 110111 is dead, and the other himself not being a competent witness? The Appellee put it as a presumption that the intercourse took place betote Mary Ashfurd went. to Mrs. Butler's ; Alr. Justice AlSlloT.—Your point is. that the intercourse took place brfore she went to Mary Butler's; and yet you do bet aver it any morethaa he does the contrary. _Air, Justice BATLIM—Nor do you aver that the Defendant bras the person that had the illicit intercourse with her: only that some pentoo had had it. Mary Ashford leaves Mary But ler's, at about a quarter part four; aud withiu a quarter of an hour afterwards she is seen, first by one, and then by another, bear Bell. lane. Mr. Cu; I TV.— A nd that would allow him fifteen minutes,. Mr. Ju,loce BAYLEY.— rhea tie bas Lu go froth§ Bell-lane arrow the hat rowed field, on:I there ;woke her, and carry her to the place where the criminal iutervourre took place; Mum to con vey her to the pit, to thieve her in, aud then to eon on close in John Holden r,. which according to she nearest way, is a wile land a half, and :wording to the readiest wan, a milennd reset' lisrluags, within lea than halt an hour : at ibis tiMe, too, it is open day, nod ;madly people a ill be hi.out to see him. The great doubt I burr had is, *heftier the footsteps orar the pit were suede Wore four o'clock or sifter : the probability seems to he, that they 0 hI have walkint together Amaral, tqe .. pit ; but Mbeiliet it was befeirefour or after *the ti lira Mu. Mr. Cute' T repented, that there wits MP positive averment by the Appellee that he was not there, and. fur aught that ap veered, tie might have had a horse. It was laid down in all isoOks,• that evidence of an alibi Waii Iu 1w received with ex- Sterne cassia° ; and there wassiothiug corium what had become ot.fintrolosi hetWeen tive and seven o'clock, at' which Sot I the bud, ads found receutly dead. btr.Justice Ilavtatv. —She is seen near the pit at half-fast four, and he is been ut tru miuutes before the going its a con trary direction. • Mr. I tux 1, urged that their Lordships were not now trying the cause a Nether the Defendant were or were not really guilty, but merelyancertaiiiing whether there was sit/Beloit presumption against hint to defeat the trial by battle: whether enough was not stated in the counter-plea to induce their Lortishipv.to resort to the original constitutional mode of trial, instead of follow ing a'practice which all ;mot deplore had ever been parsurd. If the Appellee w ere innocent. he would go down to his trial in the country %ills :all the advantages of his innocent.. : if an alibi eYivied. he ;might prove it, a nd n o d o ubt a ll' p re j u di ce , if i t tinted any *lure, would be A:unshed fibrin u Court of Justice: the probability seemed rather to he, that a Jury as their oaths in aambe of life and det..ls, would be disposed to think favour. misty of an individual placed in the situation of the Appellee.— On alt thew grouods he submitted that the replication to the counter-olea wen insittleieut, and that the Appellee ought nut to . hu permitted to wage battle elide the Appellant, but must 'Omit to the cunstiuU anal trial by the country. Lord lit.l.rannitolatat • and the other Judges consulted for moue minutes, after which his Lordship said, the Court think it rosy he expedient that this argument :Mould proceed to morrow : we will then hear %tr. Tindal on Inc oilier side. Mr. Ct. bri K carked if it would be the first case called on. Lord Euivanteit;ca answered its the alliterative. 'lle Detrirckvat liarh retired from the bar , and was followed throug the bull by a consido able crested. By a letter from Boulogne, dated on Monday last, lit appears that the weather has been most tempestu. mos aloeg the French coast during the last week.- 1131, Saturday afternoon a smuggling vessel was lost within • stnee's throw of the Pier-head; and we re. Bret to state, that the whole crew, consisting of nine k,atglishosen and one Frenchman ) periaked. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1818. The Secret Committee on the Ministerial sealed Papers (alias, the Green Bag) was appointed Last night in the House of Commons, amidst much mer riment, the Members of Opposition producing no lists, and the Ministerial Members performing the cere mony of electing themselves to the important duties of investigation, amidst the cheers of their own side of the House, and the sneers and laughter of the other. It is. impossible not to smile at such a mockery of trial upon such subjects, though levity . is far from the sentiment that ought le predominate': irr the mind of the Patriot, the" Statesman, and tht Representative of popular sad outraged rights on, .witnessieg such a mode of evading impartial enquiry, and shielding a delinquent. Ministry. IVhen the Clef IS proceeded to call over the House, for the purpose of 'Memberi answering to their names, and putting their lists into Are glass, for the ballot - for the Commit tee on the Green Bag, the first Members who an swered lira call were, Lord VALLETORT (Lord CASTLEREAGH'S nephew), Mr. BATHUROT, and Sir GEORGEWARKENDER !! The Public would do well to attend to the names of the pinposers,end the persons appointed to constitute the Committees. Mr. CAL. caser, one of the scrutineers, stated the additional illustrative circumstance, that " of one hundred and three lists given in; nittety.seren were not only iden tically the same, but in the same hand-writing ;" and It appears also, that most of the proposers of thelists were holders of places under Government !! Mr. Casteisto, on a previous eight, described the mode of ballot as " a happy inventioe." It is fur the Ministers es the Itight,Honourable Pensionary de scribes; but such happy thoughts anger very turfs. vourably for the country. We can be at no loss to perceive the of ject proposed to be attained by the ap pointment of these Secret Committees, to decide upon cx-parle evidence. It is, as we have repeatedly said, to secure them, by a Bill of Indemnity, for the impri sonment of so many human beings,against whom they had no charge to allege, upon which they could bring them to trial by due course of law, and thus to effect and justify the course of their onconstitutional pro ceedings against the Meetings for Reform held throughout the country. No other purpose ran be served by the secret deliberations thus held, whilst every indication is that of assured tranquillity to the State. Wbat public good, we would ask, can re. felt.frorn the labours of &Committee thus constituted ? It. is admitted that unconstitutional powers were granted to Ministers, end it is established in the pub lic view that these powers have been grossly and cruelly abused. We now desire to be con• winced that these anti-constitutional powers were wisely granted and humanely used. If there were any doubts upon either of these subjects—and doubts there no question are, many and serious— they must, of course, be strengthened, or rather converted into certainty, by the appointment•of such a Committee. The thing is ridiculous beyond any thing that we ever knew of the ridiculous. The chief and most active persons on the Committers/re actually members of Government, and the whole are' Ministerialists upon this point, except two, Lord , ' GEORGE CAVENDISH and Sir A. Prfacovv, the former of whom cannot, and the latter is understood to be unwilling to attend. It is, therefore, now clear and undeniable, that there is a consciousness of great wrong in the Susponsiotr of the Habeas Corpus Act ; or the authors and executors of that measure would have submitted to preserve some appearance of fairness and impartiality in the institution of the investigation upon• which they man to found their claim to a Bill of Indemnity. How is ihe''country to 'regard — ll vindicition protwetVr ing from such a tribunal ? They see it com posed of the very persons who were mixed in the transactions with respect to which it is appointed to enquire. Even Lord CASTLEREAGH, two other Cabiuet Ministers, and the ATTORNEY and &MM. TOR-GENERALS, are in the Committee, and as Mr. BROUGHAM observed, are sure to attend, whatever attention the other component parts of the Board of Enquiry may give. Such is the Committee on whose verdict the Bosse of Commons is to legislate on this important matter, and allay theiospicions and indig. nant feelings of the nation, excited and irritated to rage by a system of government that employs end ,defends insurrectionary Spies, malignant Informers, and cruel sod onecessary insprisoncasets. What a spectacle for the country, that a Committee composed for the most part of Ministers and Ministerial adherents, should be appointed to de cide upon the question, whether persons tm prisoued by order of Ministers should have their right of action at law—whether, far instance, such persons u the Meurr. Ev.twsss (fit whose THE STATESMAN 'have not evert the .Ses- , urge as tbair iethorky), and who - have' coirmeoced pro oppreasott, eljoeld Ita l ie an op. ! l egal riches, And 'vindicating !they ill their proceeiPogs these persons, already suf ld be condemned before to pey all the!ipeices they may have incurred ! Though Opposition is weak in the House that calls itself the Representative of the interests and the Guardian of the rights of the Public, it is luckily strong out of doors, and this proceeding to silence the indignant voice of truth, that is universally heard abroad, will show of what materials the Go. 'vernment is made. May this evil be productive of good ! it will further demonstrate more then all that we have urged, or can yet utter, the necessity of a Reformation in the Parliament of the country. THE LOANS AND TILE MONEY LENDERS. Lord CASTLEREAGH, in the House last night, threw out a hirst . .that • our capitalists would do wisely to hesitate before they plated their money in foreign funds, since they most not reckon on any aid from Government, at any time hereafter, for the security of their money, the late case being entirely' special, .and resting on the liberal' constraction'ef the Treaty of Amiens. Mr.ll AinIERSLEY ably . cps". tended that there was nothing Jo that Treaty which could justify the late measure, since the provision re. (erred alone to commercial affairs, and these were overlooked, while the interest of persons who had placed money in the French fonds were attended to. No satisfactory answer was given to this. This act on the part of our Nlinisters has given rise to seri ous animadversions. Will Lord CASTLEREAGH'S pre sent caution now prereot British interference in fo reign loans? This we can hardly Piped, when the domestic system makes it impossible fort Drooled men to make a fair interest of their capital, The'Cutarscar.Loa of the EXCHEQUER tlfHpegill to repay'-tlto sic millions borrowed in 1816 from the Bank.; and in answer to a question from Mr, Theatre, he stated that this payment would be made io money. He undertook to satisfy the House, that if it should be found necessary to propose a. conti nuance of the suspension of c►sh payments, such a measure would be proctored on grounds .perfectly distinct from that of any accommodation to Gotern ment. Mr. TIERNEY very properly Adieu!ed tire idea . of a foreign loan rendering I termini/mote of the re striction necessary, and maintained flat all danger 1 from such a loin world be o►er before it could be necessary to propose the measure.. Ile announced it as.his intention to move, week' after :leek, for ac. coonts to ascertain the :issues of the' Hank ; for the only security the country could have of the prepa rations of the Bank for a return to cash payments, I was the reduction of their issue& It rovv be here right to add a few words in es planation of these Loans, their amount, and the con sequences resulting from them. The first Is to Prus sia, of 3,000,0001. sterling : this may, we believe, he considered as nearly settled. The second, to France, is in a more early stage: its amount, moth larger, being about 32,000,0001. sterling ; and its object is to enable that country to liquidate the claims of its creditors, and pay up the contributions; the consequence of which will be the removal of the Army of Occupation. Much of the money for this purpose will unquestionably go from England : and hence the. apprehension (not resulting either from ' the foreign relations of the State, or its financial con. cerns), that the Bank will not bss able to IMMO its cosh payments. The details of the horrible atrocities stated in the French Napery, un the sothority of letters from Genoa, we are glad to find, are not confirmed by the Recounts in the Dutch and llamburgh Mails, which have subsequently been received. ''The Ilamhurgh Mail, however, repeats a part of the . dreadful Weill. gence. According to the information thus derived, the murder of the British Vice-Consul's son was not perpetrated, hut threatened. The former accounts . from Algierialleged the forcible consignment of th e British Vice-Consul's daughters to the harem of the 'reigning .despot, and the murder of his son before his eyes by the some barbarous authority, and in the pre sence of the assembled Ministers of the European Pawns. The fiamburgh Papers menthes.. only the niece of the Sardinian Consul as being so insulted. — Thus, however, from various soerces of intelligence we learn, that a great outrage has beers committed; but,as troths of a painful natere are seldom lessened in the repetition, we may conclude that the latter account is the •only one, which shoOld- be folly credited. Of the insufficiency of Treaties with. Such Chiefs, as illosst of Moorish Africa, to.restrairt their Runge from the barbarities which bareiiesnme_ habitual with them, this af f air is _another proof.— When will the jarring end "jealosts ambition of the European Powers allow them to take the ,only proper mode of establishing a eiiilised power en the coasts of Moorish Africa It is stated .ie . these Paperi•ei 'the authority of letters 'from Constanti eople, thitikbe Deys of 'Tuns! and ALcsires have con poled a treaty of peace under the guarantee of the GRAND &Game, and at the onset ime ie cenjanctioe !with the Dry of 'Fitt/VW, haver entered iato-an offen sive slid defensive alliance with . the Emperor of Mo novo°. If this intelligence• be true, it will ine Awes *mom for the art quid of the presen t ) . . _. 1,1•4 Court proceeded in the further boariig of the argi l : mews of csiesel upon the Demurrer. Mr. Titinat.t., as Junior Counsel for the Api. petite, in a speech .of consummate learning and la. geneify, *wended to combat the armrests o f Mr.. Cutrry,. In -sepport of the .couriter.ples...l The main point of the Learned Geritleman's.arg e .. ment, so far as we were elate to collect, was to semi from the earliest Authotities to the present time, Ist all pleas of wager of battle, and counter-pleas there.. to, the Couit, decided upon facts leniently before them on matter of record, and that in no use was the plea of wag* of battle disallowed, except w bete tee pri. silage or disability of the Appellant war matter of ,e.' cord, or apparent, or there was sufficient evideuesi in, view of the Court to satisfy the Court of the pre: sumption or guilt of the Appellee. At half-past wee o'clock we left Mr. TINDALL. still speaking. Mr. CHITTY will reply to Mr. TINDALL, and it is generally understood the Court will give judgment tbi, day. The Court was, as usual, egtremely crowded` and TitottisTom throughout preserved his usual trail. quillity of appearance. • . . . • Ma. Tntirniwoei.--erht. morning 'Articles .ef the Peate . were . peeferied•by Lord Smescotrrn against Mr. Tit taTtEwdoe, .far seeding him. it cbilleap'te fight a Duel, either with tided or piirol. Yesterday a Court at _Directors was held it the E is r fotli e .flo u se, when C.crrait) T. F. Tlttartilsrow was sworn into the cemmand of the alitp Asia, com. signed tqpeurral and Madras: . Sir Jamas. MACKINTO4H, M. P. facts R.. , corder of Bombay, .tias been appointed ProftreiWbf—f.ar - lit Ste .F.ast I;adia College, Hurts, .on the reaignation of K. Cup lAN, Esq. . , . • of the Friends of Par liatreenta 71. Reform on Wednes lay last, at the Angel Inn, tVedette kt which Mr. them' presi d ed, week . * o nille of his speechi declarer! his' internals ragairi beComing a candidate for..thst Borough at Ow seining General Election. :. • Prince FREDERICK Jostett Lobts..crt .eourg, is in his 49th year, being horns in July,' WS/. commanded the Austrian Armors tivirt distill.. guished.gallantry ; and we Itterit •frons 011icer• that Iserved with him, that he is an odiZer of great in itrty seerit. his union with our amiable Prittoess Fuck. 112TH is fixed ; his Serene Highness wall).- introduced atthePniticE's levee on Thursday 001.. The Mar.; Tinge will take place at Easter. The Prince.. ELl zituETtt *will hats it o?larriage portion of 40,0001. and her animal income is 15,0;101. a-yest: . liar intended consort his hereditary Prince, and tie reigning Doh* is in his 71st year. . 1. A .Meeting (consisting of the Atchbisimp of CAN TERBURY, the Bishops of LONDON, GLOUCESTeR, Citt:sTee,. and Lasioaer, and, iablevd, nearly the whole Bench of Bishops, together with the Duke of Notertiewseet.Ama, Lord SIDMOUTII, endabout 23 lay Peers)_ was held yesterday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of forming a Society, stet raising a fund in aid of the intended Parliamentary grant for the building of churches. A number of 11...- solutions, for the purpose of carrying the object of the Meeting into effect, were passed, and the assess. bly separated. If Ministers are to have a Bill of Indemnity foe the imprisonment of so many human beings, against whom it appeals they had no charge to allege upon which they could bring them to ilial by due course of law, we trust the same Bill, or at least another to he propsed, will contain a clause of itidentnifiE cation to the 'info/testate men so imprisoned, sod. most of whom were utterly ruined by the 'per secution they suffeted.— , —Sutely, a `Parliament anxious to make Bitumen; to the country for the suspension o'f its messt "invaluelee privilege, while they color Mieisters:with their shield, will suit leave the sufferers by that infringement naked and helpless. They are deprived of all legal course of redress by this Bill. Beert thole who have commenced their or -1 thins fur image mitt stop—and the Public must ob serve that the rebieriptien which has been kindly opened fnt tbAr. relief Must come short of the notes siry easitts..We trust that this recommendatiou . eili not biresettcroked by the feeling and considerate met bars •iir all parties, for. it is not a question of .party, bat of benignity and justice. THE'LATa 111 A Routs ota Awinconx.---On Thor,- day, at one o'clock, the resselfe of : this Nobleman weie deposited its StanserMi:;Charch, to which the proeession passed throegh, Ski: Marquis's Park and 'sir. DRUMmoND . i ''Ten Noblemen and Gentlemen follewed the, billy. Amongst them were, the Esrl of ABERDEEN, Lord Ctommett., Sir Eo- WARD lIAMILTON, the Bishop,.of LONDON, !fir HAMILTON, the Key. Mr. Bowen, mod Dr. Paulin. TON. In consequence of the death of Sir JOHN AN.; sTRUTIERR,•IIe3I in the Home of Commons becomes vacant for the Fife district of Boroughs. Colonel - 4NSTRUTUTR, the uncle of the lets. Baronet, it is supposed ) will be elected without oppesitioai TO COIttLESPONDLNTS. imprisonment Ministers 11.• The par.tcrtipb annosocing ? new pahliattionrelating tea pension pewee*. to urge late diisinguitbed Orator. is Heide to Stamp nun , . • suisith irtlie traty irelisesaiity ft troot imerteti. 'the ether Jointed men w • • • ... . neinner tlyinst their op. ...4 ' . .. portnnity of seekiag l'eg Intrcg (kr ATOCKS•THus laY A.T tyrkilt O'CLOCK. Honk Flock Me 5 pitr Cent. Nary 106 1054 their character, or whet 3 per rent. Red. 814 80j India hoods 98 96. p tioec Cent..,Console tit 80 ---‘ Sioile 441 should be quashed; while I Commis fur Ake. 80iii Gong Alio. 94/4 1516 ficiently unfortunate, she .1 per Cent. 9/1i 99 Eselseilaer bilis 19 V 9 p j 5 w 4 1.44,44,,L .4111:14 .of A Lciaas. r p. 0 Kis% of Senor 14;111 SURIRI t. • have issued ordel , in Iti&Oqi cto llu o f thewlbove oat. rage, to fit out a squadron for Ike purpose of de. mending satisfaction. The Congress of Sovereiga st it is new said, is to be held at Aix-la.Chspelle.. By the articles from Sweden, ,we And that Prince OSCAR, the son of BERNADOTTE, is Auth or i se d to exercise the powers of Sovereignty in Stellifit, a w , ever the King and his father shall be both ill, sr both absent. The anticipation of such events, not men. tioned as likely at present, was probeldy °Hint o w, tomtit not an indirect confirmation and ackstowlestg. ment - of OSCAR'S fighti; ass icknowledgmenNiwAid, could. net be directly required, with Out implyini some doubt, as to their original sufficiency. COURT OF K 1 G'S IRENCII. • MIMED V. TIORNTON. The Prisoner was brought into Court this sorn•2 log before tees, o'clock, in the usual wanner, and took his place at the bar.• After Some' roaliai business was . disposed of, aboUt • hall-past tee this Court proceeded in the further topariiit of themes.: . . • . • 1 I • • • 1 • t .• • 1 1 • • • .•. ‘l. •