The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-19 00:00:00

Wr - rw .... . --Er^ 111ARGA7'8,' SZPT. 17. / DIE NE•W DANDELION. AND TUE PUBLIC sarAttrAsT• Yesterday presented a most captivating scene and excellent entertainment. On the lawn were erected twelve marquees, in each of which there were two tables; the visitants were also accommodated in about the same Humber of alcoves. In the centre stood a Chinese orchestra, and to the left a platform, capa ble of receiving four sets of quadrille dancers ; it had an awning of fret-work, with festoons of oak and laurel branches at (besides ; the litter gave the whole a pastoral elfect. The company were net all minor stars of fashion, but actually leaders of the ton. The garden contained an assemblage of not fewer than 800 persons, in rank, character, dress, &c., presenting infinite variety. The scene was at its zenith about three o'clock ; Dancing soon after commenced, and by six o'clock the music had lost none of it; inspirations; indeed it was a dejeutte et.lo-fourchette with many. Messrs. Gow, jun. and Weippert, jun. led the band. At five o'clock, when the stars left us, every avenue vas choked up by dashing equipages. Whilst they were drawing up, the Peacock, studded with a thousand dazzling emeralds, saluted the company with the splendour of his magic mirror, in which he seemed to multiply himself with the rays of the sun. Popular predilection never thew so flattering a picture ; and Mr. Newbolt, the proprietor, who, among his other excellencies, is addicted to rural ele gance, has dune much ; and promises to do more. -.~, .~-: pn.r.+R.1 , 7."7"" STATEAMAN NAVAL IAITICL,LIGENCE. DEAL„ Seer. 18. 7 —Sailed this morning the whole o f t he homeward-bound, fortbe River.—Arrived the Mitchell, from ae Mediterranean, and B r itannia, piled for Holl.—Came down t from the River and re main, the Northumbrian, Lawson, for Bengal ; Tho. Ines, Comfort, for the Cape of Good llope ; Daniel, Whitehouse, for the South Seas; and Express, Bar lett, for Gibraltar; also remains the American sloop of war Hornet. Poerstouvo, OCT. 18.—Arrived the brig Hot. ientot, Taylor, from London for the Cape of Go r od Hope; and Enter p rize, Perkins, from liambugh for Madeira. —Came into harbour the Hope gun-brig, from Spit head. LiVERPOOL, SEPT. l7.—The Hawke, Sharp, which imbed from hence for New Brunswick 'on the 10th inst., has pot hack with less of fore-yard and sails. HARWICH, Sept. 18—The Joseph and Jane, San derson, from London to St. Petersburgh, has been brought into this port by four salvage smacks, having been on shore on the Shipwash Sand. FA LMOUTII, Sept. 16.—Artived the Prince Ernest packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, in ten days. AUCILANGEf., Avo. '2.—There is a report of the Kesh, having been lost in the White Sea; bot as yet there are no particulars concerning her.—The Ann, Todd, sprung a leak on her passage out here; she has sustained but very trifling damage. COVENT=GAKUBN TIIEATR The Comedy of the Clandestine Marriage was re lived, at this Theatre, last evening, for the second debut of Mr. W. FARREN, in the character of Lord Ogleby. Ills performance was a most felicitous dis play of theatric talent. We are inclined to place it above his Sir Peter Teazle, notwithstanding the es ceueoce o f the latter. It was received with still more applause. But Lord Ogleby, it must be recol- lected, has been a desideratum in our dramatic gal lery, not only unsustained, but Gnat tempted ; and its delineation by Mr. FARREN was not so mach ap plauded as a fine piece of acting, as hailed with that feeling of etithusiasin wish which some long lost chef d'oluvre of a great master is contemplated by connoisseurs in painting. The first scene was ini mitably line. The infirmities of the worn beau, his efforts to conceal his infirmities from others and from himself—his gradual progress from latter helplessness by those artifices of the toilet end the Isboratory, with which man, in his second childhood, •ainly strives to re-animate exhausted and withered nature--all these were true to the life, and most delightfully comic. His palsy fit was nature itself. It is a leading merit in 1111 r. FAR REN that he produces great effect, withoot the least effort, and by minute traits. By delicate touches, be wade lord Ogkby at once laughable and ami• ab:e—bletiding a tulle of polished gallantry with ri diculous pretension, ridiculous but not contempti ble, and redeeming all his follies at the close, by as suming, in strict keeping with what went before, a generous forgetfulness of self—a delicate and lofty sense of the obligatious which honour imposes upon him, as a Nobleman, or rather as a Gentleman. — There was one trilling circumstance during the busi ness of the toilet, of which we should recommend the omission—his employment of the tweezers.— lf we might venture to point out any fault In a performance so highly characterised by talent and discipline, it is the want, in one or two instances, of that profusion of ceremonious politeness which the preux-Cheraliers of the old school observed to the fair sea. The instance in which this appeared most striking, was where Lord Ogleby receives nose . gays from Fanny and Miss Sterling; but his eitit in this scene, with a Lady on each arm, was full of hu mour and character, and wholly free from the oh ' jection to which we allude. The amateurs of the comic drama have great reason to congratulate them selves on the accession of Mr. FARREsr• All the other characters were ably supported.... FAWCETT, JONES, KEtABLE, ABBOT, and FARLEY, were alike successful in their respective parts of Sterling, Brush, Lorezcell, Melville, and Canton; Alis• BRUNTON was an interesting Fanny; Mrs. C. Resume was admirable as Miss Sterling; sod the Comedy on the whole went off with infinite eclat.— The house was crowded. The farce of elle Sleep Walker concluded the entertainments of the evening to the utmost gratification of the audience., Mr. J. Russmt.t., from the Haymarket Theatre, performed the part of Sumno in a most admirable style, and was rapturously applauded in all his efforts. He will not fail to prove a valuable acquisition to the comic de partment of this Theatre. Tea PRACTICE OF THE LAW EN CAS ES OF POKGERY. The state of the Law respecting the forgery of Bank Notes, and the opinions of those who have to execute it, have given rise, during the present Old Bailey Ses• eiens, to some scenes which are not calculated to in. crease the respect of the People for the administration of justice. We alluded nearly at the beginning of the Sessions to the injustice which might be perpetrated between the Bank and the Government, by extending pardon to those forgers only who chose to plead guilty to the minor offence of having forged notes in their possession, and executing all who refused to plead guilty. It appears that several individuals have refused to plead guilty to that minor offence, though the Bank had on that condition offered to withdraw the capital charge,—have been tried and found guilty on that charge, and wilt, if the rule hitherto acted upon, be still adhered to, be all hanged. The question must immediately occur,—for what is it that it is necessary to execute these individuals? That their execution cannot serve any good purpose in the way of example is manifest, because all those persons whom the death of these individuals would be likely to deter, must know, that it was their own miscalculation of the chances of acquittal, or whatever other motive was the ground of their obstinacy, and not the crime itself, which was the cause of their death. It may he, that it was their comparative innocence, their want of familiarity with the artifices of criminals, and their ignorance of the administration of the law, which made them refuse to take the advice of their prose cutor. Be this as it may, it is for not taking the advice of their prosecutor, that they are executed. — if it were thought a desirable thing, that a criminal should acknowledge his guilt, we might appreciate the reason for executing those who refused to do so. But the same Court in which this transaction takes place, is that, in which we find a Judge, by a train of absurd reasoning, persuading a criminal to plead not gully, when he is conscious that he is guilty, and ready to submit to punishment. This is a wretched spectacle to exhibit to the People—and to what end ? That it may be said that all persons guilty of forgery are exe cuted ? When it is known to every one, that the pre. tones is false, and that the Bank withdraws the prose. ca ti o n, i n the far greater number of those cases in which' the guilt is clearly established. It is not by such quackery, that a respect for the law can be created or maintained. Respect is better secured by taking rare not only that the law shall be just,. but that it shall appear so. No one now knows what unworthy motives may determine the Bank, in its selection of those criminals whom it will bang, and those whom it will pardon. The transaction is secret, and the Public is left in the dark respecting it. On the other hand, if the cricniiials were all brought to their trial, if the different degrees of guilt were openly ascer tained (supposing it necessary that the severity of the law should remain the same), the Public would have a security that the full weight of it should only fall upon the most guilty. Is not this alone, a sufficient reason for relinquishing a shallow fiction (clear as fic tion is to the lawyer) which• imposes upon no one. A Correspondent remarks, as the Bank Directors seem (to speak in the mildest terms) very tardy in their attempts to remove the facility of forging their notes, by which so many sacrifices are made every Session, that it might not be amiss for the new Par liament to enact a law, compelling them to be re sponsible for the loss sustained by individuals. — This, lie observes, would not be altogether inconsist. mat with justice, considering that they alone are the gainers by the Paper System, which is the sole cause of the evil ; at any rate, it would operate as a power ful incentive to them to devise some scheme, or to adopt some of those ingenious ones which have been laid before them, to obliterate, or greatly lessen, the evil, of which every one but themselves so justly and bitterly complains. The Lord Wellington, St. Joao Itodrique, from Lisbon to Para, is captured. The St. Jose, St. Joao Baptista, from Pernam buco, is arrised at Lisbon, with loss of her main and foremasts. The Fanny Fergus, from Montserrat, is supposed to be arrised off Kingsbridge. The great horse fair at Bowden, in Yorkshire., begins in a few days; hut it is thought, from the very high price of hay in the south, that there will be a great fatting off in the price of horses, particularly in those of a middling sort and of mares. • By some curious proc►ss in nature, though seasons differ, they bring the relative produce in turn. last year there were scarcely any apples, but potatoes were i►► abundance : this season the reverse is the case. This year walnuts are a most abundant crop, but few filberts: the contrary of which was the car the last season. The foundation of a new pier has been laid at Bur lington-Quay, in Yorkshire, the old one being held to be in a very insecure stnte when the sea runs high, which is coutinually the case iu that quarter with an easterly %intl. A lamentable circumstance occurred at Haslemere, in Surrey, a few days ago. Mr. Bryant, a respect able farmer, residing at that place, went out shoot ing, accompanied by his son, a lad about 10 years of age. Having occasion to pass through a gste, he sent the boy forward to open it, whilst he heat about some furze bushes for game at a few yards distance with the but end of the gun ; unhappily the piece went off, and the muzzle being pointed towards the lad, the contents lodged in his body. The pool lit tle sufferer languished a few hours and expired. ATTEMPT TO Muansit.—On Thursday a man named Daniel Ward was attacked in a lane near Footscray, in Kent, by two smoggier*, who beat him with bludgeons, and inflicted four dangerous wounds on his head ; one of the villains had polled out a pistol. and was in the act of presenting it at the breast of Word, when two labouring men, attracted by his cries, came to the spot, and the smugglers then made off. It appeared that Wafd had travelled from London in the Morning the same toad as the men by whom he was attacked, and they supposing that he followed for the puipose of watching their proceed ings, committed the assault above described. Thursday eight the premises of Mr. Ritchie, viler cer land draper, of the Kent-road, were broke into, and robbed of property, consisting of silks and llama. drapery, to a cousiderable amount. PO LITICAL In no age of the world'heire tnglish Ministers made England appear so silly in her policy, and sb unstable in her wishes, as in the days in which we live. If the effects of their misconduct were net so horrible, the continuisl change of their principles would be ridiculous. Ardent admiters of levellers la' the east, their minions hang Killedars, pull dowel Kings, Rsjahs, and Peishwas : prefounifilevotees ofd tyranny in thervest, they set up petticoat esnbroider-i ing and boar-hunting despots. Tolerant in teligimal abroad, they encourage the Catholics in Canada ; re- 1 store the Pope to Rome; assist in the revival of holy tricks in Naples, France, and Spain ; sod intolerant at home, they keep the poor Catholics in bondage, for the glory of God, the good of their souls, end the safety of Mother Church. Perfect cameleons in politics, they change their hues with the carpets on which they tread ; they are all things to all men ; and whether they fight against or for Kings to pull them down, or set them op; or for plunder, mutes• sion of empire, they hide themselves behind that malls of our law, which declares that the King can do se wrong, being verydesiroos that his subjects shall believe in his servants' Impeccability. Ignorant themselves, they believe that those who see and hear them are as ignorant as they are. With a bold front, they seem' to say, whilst they laugh at their dopes 66 Fools of England! fight AGAINST legitimacy in Ceylon, and mon le K itimney in South Americo. Fools of Eng land ! fight against legitimacy in India, and for le. gitimacy in France.—Fools of England! believe that I legitimacy is good for man in Austria, Prussia, Dein. mark, Holland, and Hanover; but that it is pre• judicial to mankind in England, Sweden, Spain, and Ceylon.—Fools of England ! we tempted the South Americans to throw off the legitimate yoke ; and we will endeavour to put it on again !—Fools of Eng land ! we recognize the illegitimate King of Sweden, and the supplanter of his father, and therefore the illegitimate Kirig of Spain; and we sanctioned the spoliation of the territories of the legitimate King of Saxony, whilst we consented to crush the legitimate Republics of Genoa and Venice; but all is right ; however strangely it may appear, we are sop porters of legitimacy.—Fools of England ! you ought to think as we direct, —fight when we desire,—ply when we demand,—bend at our nod,—be subservient to our will, —and be spatigled, whi.kered, hampered, bullied, insulted, hurthened, and chained, willkout a murmur or a sigh. Are we not the King's Mi. (rimers ? Hate we not command of the 'treasury ? Can we not buy, or barter, whom we will and what we will ? Whet is wisdom to us ? What need have we-of genius ?—we do not admire the one, nor want the other :—we do best without them. The latter might teach es to be consistent ; the fernier, to tor ment ourselves with consequences. It is enough that we are the King's Ministers. Dupes by thousands cry, all we say is right.—Tools by hundreds prove, that we do *smiting wrong. Principles are worn out —Despotism is the order of the day—Liberty is a farce--Patriotism is a jest—the People a laughing. stock—their Rights a banter—Prerogative is l aw — Power is justice—Kings are every thing—the Peo ple nothing—War is our game—Peace our rein ; and a Standing Army our glory, and the pride of the Crown ! How do they harnsonizethis mass of inconsistencies and errors ?—By the aid of theyreasery. How dr they reconcile this congeries of contradiction ?-13; the all-powerful logic of the Treasury. 1104 (11 they demonstrate, that what is just in the east, unjust in the crest S By the never-neglected evidence of the Treasury. How do they amalgamate their pretended hatred of Napoleon's ambition, and ravaes in Europe , with English ambition, devastation plunder, and rubbery, in Asia? By the cliemlc , processes of the Treasury. Whilst the Treasury I thus powerful, the fools of England will never thro off their folly ,-and learn to be wise. They will nevt learn, that virtue is not vice ; power is not justice profusion is nut economy ; military despotism is nt law. They will raiser learn, that continental con. nexions are home miseries; that peace is not a curse , and war is not a blessing ; that it is disgraceful t adopt German fooleries, or to wear German tilt, pings, or succumb to German Ministers, or to si crifice English blood to Russian, Prussian, or Ant trials ambition ; that it is the interest of England t know little, and love less, the vassals on the Con , Linen! ; that all political ills are the effects of politi. cal follies; and whilst the English believe, that ho flour is gained by throat.cutting, and glory by de vastation—that destruction is a virtue, and plunder ing nations is justice, they will he crowded with Soldiers, worn down by Tases,est up by Sinecurists, and duped and despised by political Quacks and ad seuturous Charlatans. tire Wednesday evening, a young man, fashionably attired, went to the Coach and Horses Inn at Plait lob!, and; after ordering and dic , ,osing of an excel lent supper, retired to rest in one of the best beds in the house. In the middle of the night he arose, packed up silver plate and other property to the amount of 301. and upwards and decamped.—He has not since been heard of. A few days since a man, whose sense of fear was deadened by intoxication, undertook, fora *ogee, to walk along the parapet wall of Ruthergien-bridge, near Glasgow. In the attempt, he fell on the bed of the river at a place which at that lime happetted not to be covered with water. lie was much hart. Be fore the fall, he lost his balance twice, but saved him self by taking hold of the bridge. A tire broke out on Thursday night in King-street, Oxford-street, at the residence of Mrs. Guest, a laondiess. It was occasioned by the clothes of an in. irm woman taking fire, which communicated to the bed furnitere, and destroyed the goods in the room. The poor woman was taken to the Hospital In a de- plorable state. SUDDtN Dartn.—Thursday morning, between the hours of eleven and.terelve o'clock, one of the com• positnrs in the employ of Mr. Hansard, printer to the House of Commons, in Parker's-street, Drury lane, on leaving his frame to wash his hands, he had scarcely reached the sink whets he fell down to all ap pearance in a fit; but upon the arrival of two me dical men, it was ascertained he had burst a blood, vessel, and their attempts to recover him prund nu. landing. - His name was Jobasow. .!. ItirFT.W` 77 7 NtWiluaT, SEPT. 17.—This Mao, who mom to himself the title of Pedestrian Chamedost of Rag. land, is now engaged in a noose ordeals task than as y hitherto achieved by himself, or any of bit compel. Lora. The undertaking is, to go 75 miles a day for sit eaccessise days, on the turnpike-read between Newbury and Andover, at a place called Newbtsry Wash, about a mile froth the last-mentioned place, wham the ground is measured from the Goo public bee*, half a mile towards Ando v er, which is a fine open level, without house or tree on either side of the toad; and at the ehd of the hell mite is stationed a soft of watchman's boa, where a loan Is posted to watch the performance. Crisp been on Sunday evening last, by starting from the Gun at - seven o'clock, and finished the first day's task of VS miles on Monday afternoon, at two. The second day. he completed 75 miles about four o'clock on Tuesday . afternoon. The third day's task was not performed till after five o'clock on Wednesday. He started spin on Wednesday evening, at eight, and did not complete the 76 miles till hetweert sit and seven, on Thorsday evening, and great doubts are entertained of his success. ITist wager is only for 151., which, if the Champion should fortunately win, wilt pay him about eight. pence a mile for his performance. lie walks its a blue jacket, flannel Oa %Ors, worsted stockings, and a pape r cap, with high shoes, in one of which he his cut sea, a great pakt of the upper-leather, near the sole, to save his font, which is m ac h g alled, and through this hole the gravel frequently gets late tl.a shoe; he is sometimes obliged to stop and take net the gravel. The state of his feet and want of bis rest, are such as to induce a belief that he will be obliged to decline to-Marrow ; but many of the knnwiog ones at Newbury (who sin not very numerous) con sider it only i feint ; at present, the betting on this ostraordinary undertaking is about even. Tee harvest in the, northern parts of England is got this year much about the time it was besieging to Imo cat the last 'woo. C,,, I R . I • . A - 1.e140161e-, . 9 ` ~._..; . . . , - • • , . 1, .. i * litliffillii=" 1111111116111111111 . 11 * - • 401MLAYS re Arse LORD L I EUTEN42II 414 ' . . er MS tiff& .- _.:.... 00 ,..,_ .. CORK, Sirr. 14.—The fellossieg is the Add - r i q -'; the Meeting hild on Thursday at the Comn I Tatern, to his Excellency, the lAird.bieetestatit. . In its ptincipies it is constitatiosal ; In its Isnceage 4 respectful, but dignified ; in Its represeti•atieh dare state of the country unquestionably Correct; aid in the assignment of ceases demonstratively jiff. The . chief circumstance which gave rise to this Addrett. I was the Onjustifiable conduct of a few indliidisals in assuming the privilege of speaking in the nee* of the large body of respectable inhabitants of Mt City, without having regularly convened a meeting of theft. I inhabitants. This °attest-tillable assumption has met the deserted rebuke—and we venture to predict that no such conduct shall ever again pass ancorrictid in this City. .. . Nothing was farther froiltbffeeiliettiplatide et the individuals, who composed the Meeting of Thereday, il $ than to offer any disrespect or annoyance Wits Semi- l' lency—but when they. did address him, they euselder. ? 7 ed it their right and their duty to speak the langileget 0 not of sycophants, but of freemen, and of pattiotes • The Gentlemen appointed by the !sleeting/it pleseet :3 i the Address, have only to state, that the had sit interview at six o'clock on the evening o !friday, with the Lord Lieetsluant's Secretary—that they coma meniceted to him the nature of their cellimissioe, i f and the substance of the Address, ted that they were polite, Wormed, that his guellenty had tined' , If devoted a day to the reception of Addressee, and .r ' that from the lateness et the hour-'.the immediate engagements of his Excellency, end his reseletion to "- depart froth this City at six o'clock on the folteeties mauling, it would not be possible fox him to falter 4 them with an audience. , ,t TO MS EiCELLEIIteIe CRANIA, tdl+o o ll.ll. lAilb t ! TALBOT, LORD LIEUTEVANT, GENERAL ANN OE* FERAL GOVERNOR OP IRELAND, Ike. die. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR Eicett.tnet-neWe hie i r Majesty's faithful subjects, the lithlibillets of the City of Cork, beg leave to approach your Etesto. lency with the etpression of 00 cortgrateletions oal . i your arrival in our City, end of our unalterable t * 1 attachment to the permanehce and prerogatives ot k ( i #' r that branch of the Constitution which your Eacellenet t represents in this country. 1 While we profess these sentiments with sincerity's 9 t we trust we may r without incurring the charge of : 1 11 . disrespect, throw off that mock of hollow compile t ? ment, and reject those false declarations of Weed t happiness, and those unfounded enticipati ,, ns of fe., • tare prosperity, which are employed by interested i ' l t persons in order to support an iniudicines system.( 4 vi . . , , r administration, and to ingratiate themselves w it% • f men in power. Permit us rather to exercise the ,t constitutional privilege of stating to the Vic . Regal , I s Head of our Government the real condition of out 7, country, and the causes which appear to us to over. tt bear the most strenuous exertions of its inhabitants, I' a and the striking natural advantages of Its SON its i ' - situation,.and its climate. . On the condition of oar country, It Is not ex• ~ aggerstion in us to state, that idleness, poverty, ant ,d disease prevail, that, however the landed i proprielore . re may appear to be relieved by the present. forced I prices, arising chiefly from a redundant and !GOAN i es paper currency, the lower orders can expect little .. f lo benefit, while the real produce of their labour if ty taken from among them without adeqoate redionera.. lo ,ion. is To this ruinous abstraction of national wealth by ce excessive taaatiou, and absentee proprietors, and to i:t, sir the consequent want of d emand for the labour of the .1 , es 'people by those to whom the laws of society hate ap. in, propristed the. surplus produce of our soil, we et& :41 tribute the greatest portion of our misery; hot we is cannot avoid also pointing out the evils arising from )tv an ill-regulated and vexatious tythe system, and the " • rev 4 ' :e; While we notice these circumstances, se . Meat discord produced by religious mission. tot likewise express our ardent hopes, that yolk Eitel. will use every effort, and empley eery pradlt. ientgh,odaifiodrsercetmantivainngontthipaosethysotuarcnesdtholft p ol ls° p l ri s: , : 1 7 . 4n p te a ::. suffer ing, virtuesffltdCemmi consecrated the h e g i c e publicll e a 1 to o c y e l:011 71 e n o r n n a b d ! m e: : L ../ us. nistration. , , 11, - - ' --: Ito CRISP, THE PEDHSTRI.O. DR. i 4 r- !Tr • - 7" .: ~_