The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-01-12 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN• pest imporianeir M alreeting nritish interests in lite Indian S,its. The Gnsereter of Fort Narib h hes di.pleyed his characteristic energy and activity slave his suite! in Sensatre, end has *Weedy en• d e . Te uied to extend the British lefleence •VIPT the • hule of that seleehle and ratensise Island. We claim all they ever had In thn•e ent,, althoegh man) of them hare not had the Deteh flag lying for. Ilia last fifty years. Is it not time they were checked ? Their system is, in the first instance, to send a large force to overawe and intimidate ibis natives, and haring once got them in sign • deed, stodiamsty pee. vent the togllab from ever afisr baying enwmuaic•- tion with the port. It less merely owing to his pea sition in Satinet?, that Governor Ramis bay bye* enabled to know what they were doing in Palem bang. the possibility of his creasing the island over the mountains had presumed that their c2hduct has been equally disc graceful at Ruoju *min.—Their object is to obtain • despotic authority over all the Archipelago, and to exclude she English from all trade at the independent ports; and in order to effect this object, they in Ike first instance sacrifice every unfortunate Prince who was acknowledged by, and sttaclusd to, t►e English - . The discoveries grad• by Governor RAT/LES in his esprolition into the interior, in a •ioerelojieal and botanical view, are nut less interesting than in a pea Mini one. lately erpsiwil wit. Headers of the encroachments Isola oe t ,•.ciona of Mach commercial speculators in lASI or the globe, but we con. fitlontly arniripme that the which he has . trkeu as Political Agent fnr the Archipelago, to check the poorest ur Dutch acumination omit orders 'hall have been mot eat from Europe, will prove reciessl. Sumatra has hitherto been very little knoen. The Earapeare establishments are entirely on the coast—Europeans had never pens treed into the interinr—and, jeolging front the takers establishments resintaierel by England, the lvland itself was considered of but little valor. — Nothing coold esceml the apathy, indifferettre, and ignorance which prevail among Europeans respect ing the Island genrosllye All attempts to penetrate into sloe interior sets reckoned desperate; no European areuld embark in them. The population of the Weiler were considered as avers, and the solneetailto impassable, and jet the natives mould still bolog dent, their gold and cassia, and camphor, &c.fer which fwinates had from the wheat egos Leen famous. The Governor felt there was bet one alternative, and that we., to open the road by going We have received, this morning, Charleston P. pen to the 6th of December, bat they contain •o thing'', Importance. Yesterday. el three tit lort„ soother Cabin*. CnOW CH 11 no held at Laid CA.TLeitraiiies hoe,* in St _. _ . ... himself. His eaterptis• was crowned with seeress. Lie penetrated tete the interior is three different directiose—to she soothward island of Negritos , the ingettant provinces occupied by a people railed the Pasaummahs--to the North's ard to Mmangcabon, the for-famed capital of the Malay Empire--ard in. land of Deuce°len, across the Island to Pakmbang. The result has bees the discovery of a mine of wealth—a coestry highly reltleated. and aborted. log in melees metals. The Passetsmahs are an athletic fine race of men, es superior to the people on the 'toast as it is possible to courceire ; they aro agricultural and numerous.--At Menangcabou be was gratified with a population sad country folly equal to any part of Jews. Within the space of twenty writes the population does not f a ll short of a ' million. In short, it is the r c c's opinion, that, with a little le enemata' me jutter re. Glit sources ato be found is Soe the Hritish meld hero derived from Java. Dot mach remains to be dose. A Central Goverament most b. established ; the whole Island must be brought Redo caramel ; sad the avenues of cammihre, now closed up, se-opened. Oar [loaders aro aware, that Priesimitaboo was the place whence all the gold that pm Milano the same of the Golden Cho/moose, was carried, sad that yp opessig“otle with that mostry we shell Sod 4 VIM 4•441.4 4 oar 84"ifie sores, awe Is Mitre receive what so mast want ntemy ; which, Oder misting rireernstasces, will be more profitable time colloidal produce. These Mammies ham not, kooruer, beau made wittiest great personal risk sad retiree. The coustry could only be explored on foot—ementains 6,000 feet high were to be crossed, mod rocks, pre cipices, sad forests, to be trammed. For Inas, nights the party had se shelter bet the leaves they could collect after their day's jammer, end their joerales were seldom less than from twenty to thirty miles a day over the very worst roads that ever mere passed. In this expedition the Governor was scoompsaled by Lady Rama. She was occasionelly tarried en a man's back, but ge nerally walked, as the roads were too bed to admit of her bring curried in a chair. Dieter AasoLo, Physician and Naturalist, fell a sacrifice to the fatigue, and died of a violent fever. Dr lioasnum, who accompanied the Governor to Mesangcabon, ma., an the 12th of August, the date of our Iva intelligence from Fort Marlborough, dangerously ill, with a dysentery, bet we hope his life wilt be spared to carry home the Important estimative he has made, both in Java and Seamus. As this was the first appearance of lite European authority is the interior, lady RAIPFLU was the meat peaceable standard the party could hoist. It I was impossible for the natives to consider their ob ject warlike, when the Governor proceeded seamed, sod confided his olio to their hospitality. They found the country beastifel and magnificent. Sr TOOMAIII STAMFORD RA vrr.cl has thrown the trade .pen, asd reformed all the establishamputs. Treaties have bets now twined into with the Princes of Me someabon, and it only monies for the Ilrittsh Go. vernment to upheld led support the system he has cossmerterd upon. Jillani , ..sq•are, in ennlPti of the Noble Viscount contingent/ indispoaoil, so as not to be able to Mewl at the Foreign Mire. The Colwell sat till shoot bye o'clock. The deliberations of the Council were onderstoott to be arratlieseols for the mooting of Parliament. Letters received from Amsterdam yesterday stet• the insaneness of tho fog there, on the evening of Tsesday preceding Christmas day, and besides she mischief done to the shipping, no less than eighty soots perished Wit* water, between the boors of sit and twelve o'clock at Right. Lights anJ ropes were of on avail. According to eccoonls from St. Domingo, of the 28th o f Noteambet, the flaytian squadron were ar. bialy engaged in h of printeers, one of +kith had captured a vessel from Baltimore, sod killed every person nn board. The B.nk, after fell enquiry and meters delibere tiro., hare , crone in th► n14(1111088 of *mistime the holm of CAMPIItLL, BOWDEN, and Co., which woo obliged on Fluky, to stop its meson's. The firm, therefore, resumed it's hoairtess immediately. A• . - (hire o'clock in the eft th• tieterteioetion a: the Bonk Direttoes ass made known on to. onbjectt The tlocision nes, is above lotions ed, favoorable f the hank highly/Impels indocod„ on a oar* minute ie. weteigotion of tar complicated comoorns of tb.irm. to lend slut sesistanest regoired. He andorstorsd that 30 respectable rserclionis of tie city of London bets come forward se secorities to the assastAl odeft, 'forming se aggregate sera a 150. ' 0001. 1 r Wit it the liew orteenees; and slats ober peleateeht has Men rendered to the &tenant of 50,0001. mere.— These WON with the fends in hand, enable the house to prnervd in its esesi mercantile cows.. It would be dillicolt to cnisvey an ides of the impression pro. dared on 'Chong• by this agreeable intelligence. The fine. C PsecT i. about to prnroed to Corry, having been appointed Treasurer of the Itepelalic of the lonian Island.. Mr. Cola, of Ifolkham, was teat week prelontori by a friend with one of the native tip of the arctic regions. Mr. Gown, in a few days, will leave Behan for London to attend his Parliamentary ditties; he gives 'fusee dinner on Thursday nest. The late Sir JOHN COURTENAT THROCKNORTON, Bart. is succeeded in his title and estates by his bro. Cher Gomm, who mounted the name and arms of COUNTER AY, slily in 1792, baying from his mother inherited the estate of Mollard, is Devonshire. MATH OF 1.01111 HARTLANtI.—On the 4th inst. died, at Stroliestoown.hosse, county of Roscommon. in the Blot year of his age, the Right lion. Mtuutcv. Lord Baron II snri.oto. Ilia Lordship was married, in 1765, to the II•tos. CATHAKINT Moose, daughter • Sl 11.11FX Lord Mousrr-Ctsnu, end is survivell by her Ladyship, by whom be has left issue. the Bon. Majnr.Goneral Tuns ss Motleys, now Lord ARTLAttn, iietit.-Colonel of the 9th Dragoons; the lion. Major-General STrrH►N Matron, Lieot.. Colonel of the 7th Drown Gaud; ; and the lion. ■nd Rev. MAIJMICE MAHON, one of the Prettoudariso of St. Patrick's Cubed'''. LtvEnroox JAN. 9.—l'ut back the Swift, --, for the Brasile, with loss of foretop-mast, and leaky. —The George, Wellsford, soiled the 94 inn. for Ma ranhao. has alto pot lock with less of oaten-most and jib-boom.—The Hamilton, Gashed, from Naples to Liverpool, is on shore in Formby Channel. IfoLuttto, .1 sm. 10.—The brig Ranger, of Len. don, Kidd, from Belfast to London, ran on shore last night at the S. E. part of this bay, having lest her boats and every thing earths sink the night be fore ; sbe now lies clear of the reeks. but in a most dangerous siteatinn. It is expected most of the cargo will be saved. NORTH Slll [LP', JAN. 9.—The Robert sod Jsnet, of and for Ssnderlonol from Amsterdam, was seized of Matti, by the Swallow cutter, and sent into this perti baviog co:wooled amongst her cargo les. spit its, and tobacco. The sloop Isabella, Watt, of Leith, was run on beard by Use Ranger of Shields, in coming into this harbour, and received unlade's big damage. MARGATE, J AN. I.—The Lord Eldon, from London to India, has brought op again in Pan Saud Ilnle.—Sailed an not ward-bound fodiassen for the Downs.—The ship Wellington, of Whitby, from India, has been on shore on the Tones Seed, sod pot hark into our Ronde.—A brig. stated to be the Abooos, of Yarmouth, from Leghorn, went on shore this movnitag on Forroess Reek, but got off again the evinivog tide, and is at secher in the lower put of the Roods. As might be 'spectra, h• Is at issue with the Dalai in many essential points ; the Governor has per sonally promoted spinst the pretensions end princi ples en obich the Dutch ■et. If Ministers would bet tore their attention to the 'aloe of these islands, they %meld see the importance to Great Dahlia of the struggle be is making. Every oat most know ender what eireowstanees the Detch obtained the Convention of 1814, in contemplation of • onion between the Onuses of Ihnover and Grew. fled they not been too that Convention might still byre stood unmodified; lmt by grasping at ton much, we heist* they will now receive • complete check.— By list Convention it is stated, sit colonies iteAsi• in po len of the Ditch on the lot et Jiweary, IS( 1 3, eft to MOM Nil with ibis, they BANE FORGBRUCS. . WAIL INTF CLIO ?CNC& DIAL, 1 %lg. 11 +Me esperieseed great part et lest eight, and the early part of this 'morning, sprang weather, blowing bard at intervals, from W.S.W. daring which the Vansittsrt lodiasaa brake the ring of her anchor, mid issediately let to another, *bleb she is sew dale, by all welt. The Elbe. Byl, free Para to Leaden, also lest se anchor sad cable, seri bag been sepplied with another.—Ar. rived the Orleat, Galilee, heat Patois', sad sailed far 11611. . . TO THR EDITOR OP THE Sin,—About three weeks ego I sent late a shop to purchase one of those two-peony pamphlets which bear evidence of the Liberty of the Press. I told the seller that I had not money saltiest to pay it with, useless he gave •me change fee a Otte Posed Note.— He said that be had no silver, bet geoid seed his bey to endeavour to proves cheep. The bey west —reformed with my Note, and I left the shop. Bo fors I had got fifty yards, I found that I had three shillings in silver and de-pewee of half-poste is my pocket. This I had utterly forgetter. Now, Sir, had I Men a Weser Is Lowden with tattered clothes, and had the boy substilited a Forged Note In place of my good one, by hie ewe ar from imposition practised epos him by any sae from when be had requested change, what might have bees the conmsqwence ? I had asserted !hut I had so sausey to pay for a two.pestsy pm- Ole', and let I had three shilling* and sis-pence in silver and copper, Is my pocket. TM shop was fell of people to witness against me. In this case it would not bare been necessary that tire boy should here been a cheat. Ile called at shops and taverns. Osse might had exchanged the Ned by a sleight of band trick ; another might have detected the forgery. A similar practice of passing bed silver, by hackney coachmen, At. before the issue of the new whinge, "pot be fresh is the memory of your Headers. Per. bens, even In Giber respects honiarrable oleo, mousey,ha did I il df, as they said, Yesterday hying Plow Mon . loy , t h e f o rd Ma y or set then 'crept, In psis they bad taken it for good Wh o t h en , summoned • Court of Atilerso•n. •ccording ld eaMiest can depend upon both the honesty end the ;urinary csd n 't t o " (44" t h e P14".".114"ts f the 16116.1" of the sewers' IVards of the Cit y, when nether a novel of a shop-boy ? The Note, for instanee, I. offered chcommunee pine. 0 .. the !nil wet. at the bar of a pet-house; it is passed Armtek lbe brook Ward, over which the leered Mayne • hands of a smoking Bleb who return it, or ettedwr, losing called in, Mr. Alderman Waishasen preeestol as may b ea t pl e ase doe High klightiseespe. is t all a Petition signed by Mr. Citshon sod Mr. Smith, two respectable inhabitant, 4 Ward, complainisg o aboations of life there are fair and airtight men; bps i persist a n improper condeset that on the sort of kis Lard. f there are men so poor, (deedless, and unknown, es ship, ist the Wardmot• held en St.Toomas's•day last, to be suable to procure any owe to speak to their char i for the electinn eight discreet and proper pumas to reeler ; and )et their moral clouted soy, perhaps. be , t ypo...you the said Ward In Commen Cease, *snag, r felly equal is that of a deal.r is genuine OF in waltd- that one of the sal Petitioned propeurl another 0111. bertet •el Porter reel or in invitation Tea. I dictate, sod isrteodsti to hay, preprowel fear taste; bet I observe that another art of poor creatures are ID t h at hi. Lordship eau p en visoa be brought forward on Wednesday nest, on charges in know urise,her he In .sornlnetion, of Dank-nose Fnrgery. Have these men Counsel ;has she Candidate thoir,ts, where. to defend them ? 1150, he will sorely attend to this spoil the Isnril May r biotin nowsinatios. view of the subject the Note Moe bees token I That the Petitioners cone oa•hro le , r4lship bed pet OW of the Prienner's po ** ess ion, and if Ike Priboncr / nn sech gentians to any other Candidate, nor was It do pot acknowledge TR AT, on which he if indided, to his duty. That they again persisted in nominating be the some which - he uttered, it coal require better the said person as a Candidate, committing that tho eridence then that of a G. ocer:s or lleberdaihec's office was a poonpßifisory one, and as he hail been re. Errand-runner, to coorisre a RIAIONING JURY,: colony proposed anti seconded. his I.3rdship had as Mar the Nolefird uttered had not been exchanged for ; a sthotity to reject him. The Petition further stated, adather."— I am, Sir, your obedient Savant, , lost one in pai.icelar of the persons retained, was Jaa. ti. 149. D. g. ant duly qualified, for as there stated, and enatendOel that the whole proceeding*. were innater illegal, that the elude, *as therefore veil, sad concluded with praying that a new election shael be made, and that they n.ight be bard by there niers. their Counsel, Solicitors, and Aped, sad to adduce evidence to prose the allegations tasteless& in their Petition. Mr. Alderman ItialTttxltr moved that the raid Petition he taken into consideration at the neat Coed of Aldermen, sod that the parties shall have Notice thereof. Mr Gibbons, one of the Petitioned, desired to know whether the business would be takes lute consideration at the nett Court, and whether they should have notice, in pretest his being at the es. pence of Cosmosl and witnesses. at an eneertalsty ? The Loan MAYni replied, all be could say wee k that it would be laid before the nest Court, sad he should think that • sufficient notice. Mr. Alderman WAITIIIMAN oh ;I, that the Ii titian was of a very llntiOof nature ; it complained of the violation of the dittos of I.:lnnen. if the alle. (rations were tree, the Ward would be enrepreselted, or Hither, what was worse, misrepresented: for hole could the Corporation act under sack circum stances, for the same thing might happen is several Wards? It was et length agreed that the Petition shield be takes into consideration at the nest Cunt, sad that the parties should have notice thereof. . rlve n'aeek.—Qeito medoralt.--Rmlin Ihi est. -Pe BRIG illeNclair , It. ward-bound East and West Indlawns. kr all well. Wressoueu, JAN. I I.—Dering the gale of lost eight the sloop William, Kedaor. of Piyotooth or Saleembe, from St. Michael's to Portsmouth, eat drives' on shore on Portlookigeth. IA the Captain, Matt, sod one omen dtemsed. The only person saved is a by, son of the natio. Greatest part et the cargo a:peeled to be sawed. PORTSMOUTH. JAR.I4 the John Inglis, 11.1 leg, from India for Logsdon. —ll has blows a heavyset* of eked from S. t. W.S. W. all day, and still emotion's; at times very ►ray 'goalie. milli t►eader and lightning.—The ships is the Roads hate tot yards and topmast doom, and •pperestly ride its Refety. PISZANCIti Jan. 9.--Arrleed the Mary, RsddetM too, from Si. Michael's for Leodeo, with Sauey. PAVILION INTELLIGIINCII. This day ee'onight the favourableness of the wee. (her intloced she Regent to take an maestri., airier/ in public. ills Royal Highness, attended by one footmen, passed from the stable.estrance its Cksrch. street, throttles the New.reed, up North.stren, and onward in the west, sod relented by the Cliff route, towards four o'clock. The moot ref ectiesate Wets tines that him in all quartets. Lord &awe:l, for his teen 'eidetic*. left the Pater. this day. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived. Mr. Nush, the architect, also came in on Teensy. On Friday, as early as stilt' o'clock in the sword. ing, the Doke of Yolk returned to the Pavilion, end was on the *ley.", the Marine Parade, end other parts of the town, define the morning. The Royal I)eke was habited in sables. His health appeared remarkably good. About half-past throe o'clock In the oilman, the Hanoverian Ambassador, Ceent Monster, came in; and at shoot three quarters pest seven o'clock, the Prince Regent, unaccompanied in his travelling ear. risge, ',horned to the Pavilion, where he took din. now immediately after with the Commander-in.Chier, avid the immediate suite of the Palace. His Royal Highness's short absents hence was bet patiially known. The lag, the denotement of his presence, on the toner of the parish church, was flying on Thursday. The Austrian Archduke Maximilian, and smite, Count Pslmella, Lord Beresford, Sit W. Compeer., M. De Neumann, &c. arrived at the Palace on Saturday. Divine Service, In the presence of the Royal Bro. tiers, and the collective body of pulses residents, was performed by the Bishop of Esser, *soloed in the responses by the Rev. F. W. Blomberg, yes. terdey. As late as midnight on Friday, a rosits.looking fellow, habited es a seaman, presented himself at the door of the Marquis of Cholmoadeley, in Marl borough-row, and within the Palace encloser', under the pretence of asking alum He was reminded of the enseesonableness of the hoer, sad desired to quit the place, by a eereent belonging to the been. bold. He coesmontly did remove from that hone, bet it was merely to descend the area of a snood belonging t• *teethe, Nobleman of the Palace. Here, however, he was presently followed by the active end sturdy porter, Wright, who ie. atantly secured, and gate him In coated, to the sen tinels at the Pavilion gate, - until the petrel could be sent for to take charge of him. At this juncture, three of the petrol happened to be passing; the man, con. sequently, was turned user to there, and who, en l evying him, observed, that they were then in quest of a man answering his description, for descending the areas of several other bosses, et me earlier pert 44 the ni g ht. lle will undergo an eausisatior at the Beech, at the Town.ltall, this day. This .using the following wale6efe►e were executed before the Debtore.doer. at Newgate ; Willies Tina, for bullock monis ; Stephen Mareeee IM yardman, for the robbe►y at Curies-town ; sad /fillies Keigkl, for highway robbery. ---- COURT or ALDKRAMN. Tat RECICNTOUTRAGEIII EIyNBLIRGIL HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. Tbersday the Court met. The Loss Justice Cutest addressed the Lord Advocate stating, that the Casa had heard with honor the el:sicking and disgreceist precedent which had taken piece on the streets of this city, on Wedoesday, Dec.3o, last, en the Densities( the elecetios of Robert Johnston. The Court. be. fore they fell themselves disposed to interfere, wished to know what was the result of may investigetioa his Lordship had instituted is cosseqsence The Loan A nVOCATE stated, that having Weird et the proceeding, nest morale( he had ordered the Pre. curator Fiscal to apply to the %millet the County to investigate minutely into the wholecireemstances,and that investigatios was gain on, althoogh not yet so complete as to enable him to lay it before the Court. lie had also applied to the Magistrates of Edinburgh for a statement of the proceedings, which had Monier. &shed, bet was not complete to be hid before the Court. His Lordship said ho agreed entirely with the Court as to the shocking and disgrsesfsi procedure which bad taken place, open reading the account of which, la the public prints, he was very mach hurt I indeed. His Lordship, however, was happy to state, i that the Magistrates of Edinburgh had no camera with the step which was taken to bleed the usfortts. sate a.am ! Nolte of the Magistrates were present upon the occasion, and the person who did so, with the view of ascertaining whether Ito was dead oe slice, received no orders to do so from any of the Magistrates. His Lordship teak this public oppor. fealty of stating this, end assured their LordsiOpe that every information sheoW he laid Wove them. The Loeb Justice CLCRIL —The Coast eertainly espects, op Leen Advocate, the tallest iseeetigatieit ea this palest subject. • i t i