The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-06-18 00:00:00

P=a , I 11.0"41. • D i az, Joss 17 -b—Arrived the Ceitoritp, from St. Übe* lot the Baltic; Mary, Sh aw , from Palermo, for Order*; Melanthn, Pre*, from St. bossing°, for wrders.--The Victory, Braithwaite, spoke with by the Celerity i n l a t. 30 1 i ong . 43., *II well ; also the Phteniz, Cozens, for St. Helena,.by the Marys', in lat. 48. lone. 10. 22. by the Chronometer, all well.—Came down from the River sad remain, the Emma, Jaewood 9 for the sooth Seas ; Governor Harcourt, Wilson, for De. swa m; Ranger, Remington, for Demerara ; Li betty, Evans, for Oporto; and Herald, Foreman, for Quebec. • Portimoutit, JUNE 17.—Arrived, the Russian " brig Rusick, Kotzebue, from the Cape of Good • pope, having• been out two years and eleven months, from Croustedt, on a voyage of discovery ; the crew are particularly healthy ; she puts in here for provi sions and water : and his Majesty's ship Tiber, from a ft' uilpf.....+AiSo arrived, the Horoby, Walker, from St. Kitt's—she has been sent home under detentive for • breach of the laws ; George, Reed, 'hens Port-au. Prince, out 41 days ; Rockingham, Waugh, from Newcaatle, for Bengal ; and Tortoise store-ship, from the Brasil& FALiknlTif, Juno ls Arrived, the Speedy packet, with a Mail, from the Brazils, in 42 days ; Imo o f Yolk packet, with ditto, from America, 24 dwi from Ilalifst. j,tvcartut., JuNEIB.--6Arrived, the Albion, f r om Jamaica, off Liverpool ; the Balance, from New Orleans, is reported to be arrived ; the Caroline, Guthrie, from Permambuco, to Liverpool, was spoke on the 3d of May in lat. 3. lona. 3% 30. W. by the Jubilee; and the Westmorland, Cummins, from Celestas. The pemons, M'Nalmht, from Jamaica to Glas gow, was wrecked on the Caicos, the 10th of April— crew saved. . • RULES FOR ELECTORS. ne following Declaration is submitted to public .spirited Mectors throughout the Empire as pro per to be signed by Candidates at the General Elec tion of 1818. DtCLARATION of 4. B. Candidate for the or If the undersigned should be Eelected one of the Representatives of the of in the House of Commons, he hereby solemnly pledges him self on the points following :- 1. That be will conform himsrlV r lo the expresed wishes of his Constituents on any irUhject on which they may deem it necessary to instruct him, or will cease to affect to be their Representative and will re sign his seat. t. That he will support any Bill which has for its object the eateusion of the Elective Franchise to all Householders or persons paying direct Taxes. 3. That he will support any Bill whose intention is the repeal of the Septennial Act and the shorteuing of the duration of Parliaments. 4. That he will oppose the maintainanee. of any Standing Army in time of Peace, and will divide the Rouse on every man sod on every pound proposed to • be, improperly grouted, man by man, and phund by pound, till the Army shall be reduced Willi just COO - 5. That as a protecting executive force, he will prefer to a Standing Army, the true Bulwarks of an insular free People—the Navy, the Civil Power, and the National and Colonial Militias. B.'Vhat he will endeavour to restore Trial by Jul; as well in Revenue Laws, and Debtors and Creditors' Laws, as in all other cases ; and will seek to establish the independence of Juries, by support ing any Bill - whose object it is to cause qualified per sons to be summoned in pre.establiabed rotation. 7. That he will give his vote for no monies to carry efts feture wars, which are not palpably just and ne ceisavy, and which have not been provoked by causes commensurate with the magnitude of the evils of we r. 8. That he will support on German or other Fir- . reign Policy not intimately connected with the inte rests of the free British People. 9. That he will resist uodue grants to the Civil List, and will divide the House against supplies pound by pound, for. any Salaries and Pensions not merited by public service. 10. That he will take special care that all his 'fates limn hate a tendency to support the castle of Civil sad Religious Liberty. ' If. That he will endeavour to render the Penal Laws in their letter and practice conformable to the civilised and enlightened character of the age. 14.-That be will never forget the right of all to Subsist, with moderate ezertions of labour, and to re. geiverthe equal succour of power; and will therefore • endeavour to improve the condition and comforts of the mess of the People, and to protect them against Mal-administration, Falsehood, and Injustice. A Paper of yesterday stated, that the arrangements for the management of Drury-lane Theatre were al ready made. Not a single arran'gemetit, says an other Paper of this morning, has been yet decided, bat it is not improbable that the stage management ha offered to Mr. CoLatAti. The Westmorland Election will commence on the 30th inst. Yesterday the foundation of s new church was laid at Stepney by the Duke of Yoaa, assisted by the Bishop of LONDON. The Rector of Stepney placed in a cavity formed in the foundation stone a glass bottle, containing gold and silver 'coins of the present year. He also deposited a plate with an inscription, stating by whom the foundation was laid, the names of the Rector, the trostees, builders, &c., end that the church Ives fur the accommodation of 1,500 persons, two-thirds of the space being free sittings. The 10th Hussars have marched from the barracks at Canterbury to Margate and Ramsgate, where they are to be stationed during the Election for that city. Thy packet boat between B olton and Bury, in Lan. cashire, was by some accident f an.•rtunately upset, on Sunday evening, on the Canal, by which three women, two men, and a boy use &own& • THE STATES . . , . X4ST INDI4.II9IISE, Jvms 17. ' A Quarterly General Cove .of Proprletoto of tast ladle Stock was this day held OA. Company's House, In Leadenhell-street; for the transaction of . a Variety of business. HALF-YEAR'S DIVIDEND. The Minutes of the last Court having been read— The CUAIRMAN (John Pattisou 4 Esq.) proposed, theta Resolutiovi of the Court of Directors, of the preceding day, recommending that s dividend of .54 per cent. on the Company's capital stock, for the helLyear commencing the 51k of January last, and ending on the sth of July neat, should be agreed to by the Proprietors. The motion was carried in the affirmative, after a few words from W. Hunt., who complained, that, inconformity with the By.Lawr, these. ought, en- Dually, to be laid before the Proprietors an account of ihe net profits of the Company, which had not Mien done—and, in the absence of such an accoent, It was impossible for him to say, whether the pro pitted disidend'wasa just one or not. COMMITTEE OF BY-LAWc. . Mr. Cummtma presented the Report of the Com mittee of By-Laws, whose functions expired this day. The Report esprened the satisfaction of the Com mittee at not discovering, through the past year, any violation of the Company's Laws. - The Gentlemen who perm' on the Committee of By-Laws were then re-elrcelid, with the exception of of Mr., %Vhitshed Keeneaisif Mr. Alexander Baring, in whose places Melissa: . 3.4larby and J. 11. Trittom •were elected. - 7 :if • SHIPPING ACT. The CUAIRWAN stated, that the Bill for amending and consolidating bite one the several Acts relative to the hiring of the Company's ships,':bid passed into & law. . . Mr. R. JacKsors took that opportunity of stating Os hostility to the measure. In his opinion, the whole of the shipping system should undergo a revision. Mr. titan reiterated the objections to the Bill, which he had advanced on former occasions. The 'Hon. Proprietor then proceeded to offer some re snarks,on certain papers that had been presented to ; Parliament. Care, he observed, ought to be takeu that the regulations of the different Presidencies, ; which were, in fact, the Acts rif Parliament by' which their East India territories were governed, should be sent to this country as speedily as possi. ble. .They had a right to expect, that, its the year ISIS, a greater body of regulations titan those draw, up in 1815 and part of 1816, shneld lose been serif home. Some system ought also to be adopted to law ; sore the speedy tratismicsinn of memorials from tbete,_ officers abroad to the Court of Director. The CuntussAN said, that the regulation% theses not presented to Parliament, hail been received op to. the end of 1817. Orders were about to be trans silted from the Court of Directors, which would, In future, prevent any unnecessary delay—and with .respect to memorials, orders would also he given, that no delay should take place in their transmission. sr. lILLEN A. Mr. Mime observed, ttat from the papers laid be fore Parliament, it appeared, that the ezpences in curred in keeping up an estattliahment at St. Helena, had greatly indented. For the year ending, May. `lBl5, it was 79,0001.; for . lEl6, it...mounted to 106,0001.; fer 11317, , to : 127,0001. ; for . 1818, to 173,0001. He wished to Ittibw, were tbn'Compiny to make good thisexpence-.-or was part of it payable by the Government ? • .4 * - • The CuAtestasi said, the East India company were not liable to pay any pert of the ettpence be yond what St. Ilmletta had usually cost them. The surplus was debited and clmirged to his Majesty's Government,. COLLEGE PENSIONS. Mr. Hum - know called the attention of the CAIIITt to the College Pensions, which, he conceived, were not properly granted. There was a prosiest of 2001. to Edward Christian, 'Bic). late Professor of Civil Law, who was, at present, as well able to perform the duties of the Professorship as ever he was. lie also observed a pension of 1201. to a French master—and not more was granted to Dr. Gilchrist, one of the ablest Oriental scholars that ever existed. The Cliatß SIAN strongly deprecated observations of this kind, which could be made with no other view hut to Idwer• the Executive Body-in the eyes of the Proprietors. Mr. GRANT looked upon the proceeding of the Hon. Proprietor, as extremely uncoostiitstilmal. If he chose to bring forward any'rliecificWinrion, the Directors would meet it manfully, but it was quite impossible to answer those desultory attacks. Mr: R. 'horst,* contended that his Hon. Friend had a right to animadvert on papers regularly brought before the Proprietors. MR. HUDLEStON AND COLONEL WILKS. Mr. HUDLESTOM said, he was desirous to lay be fore the Proprieturs * Report which he had drawn up end submitted to the Court of Directors, on the 1 30th ult. It minted to the accusatiow'made against him in Colonel Wilks's History of the South of India. He hoped it would be found .tta be a coro. Vice refutation of that statement. Belt, should' he limo disappointed it; that hope, it would be his duty, 'as Ite had already intimated, to retire from the Direc tion without a murmur. He then moved— ' " That the letter written on the 9thlt sit, to the Court of Di gators by John Hudlettort. KN. be now re.sd—sual that Copirs sr it should after-ear& be lett open sit that Hosts fur the peru sal of the Proprietor," The letter, which was exceedingly long, went into a history of the Peace or Mangalore, to negociate which with Tippeo, in 1784, Mr. 401 lier, Sir G. Staunton, and Mr. Hudlestoit, were appointed Com.' missioners—and denied, in the most decided terms (the denial being supported by a chi% of argument, drawn from circumstances,and strengthenedby docu ments), the accusation made in Colonel Wilks's • 'book, against Mr. Iludleston and Sir G. Staunton, o n the authority of a native menial servant, viz. that, fearful of personal violence, they had planned their escape to a ship in Mangalore-roads, and intended to leave Mr. Sadlier and their attendants to their fate. The document having beets reed— Sir. H. Russit.t. said, whets he considered the 'Foy in which Mr. Hudleston had been re-elected, not a single scratch having been placed against his name, he could not, for a moment, doubt bat that the Pro prietors were perfectly satilified of his ivaoceuce.— . ^Y. - _ , . -, * ~s -•-• \ • '-~ ---~ . -_ ; ~ ~1 . • ENGLISH 'LIBERTY. Thethit II &Amore, Esq. Who is a Candidate fbt ibe.citypt Eteter, his addressed a letter to those etiliehtetted Electors of the City of Bleier, in whom thi ancient spirit of Hoglish libetty still arthriti s Will perverted by sephittry, uhintimidated by poser, un contaminated by corruption, from which the follow.: lug are ettricts 6 ' FELLOW-CITIZENS I—l hate come forward in these arduous times expressly he vour Requisition I hale no ambition to gratify but that of setting tt free People ; l deem a seat in a corrupt Woes., neither an honour nor e benefit; it is the .manner only in Which I em placed there,ithst makes the post honourable, and if there be any individual who re. Tents of having affixed his signature to the Itegnisi. lion, I now literate him from his engagement. Theid is not a man among y, n unacquaitt , ed with my Utica% sett merits. It is my solemn emoriction, that un less a real and efficient Reform take place in theCom mt 11. o eof Par lia.nent, unless it he made truly and effectually to represent the voice of the People, and become identified with them, nothing hut accumulated ry, and open, swotted, oligarchical• despotism; he very wo s• of all forms of governments 'gaits this unhappy and algicted nation. In the face of my Creator, and as I hope for mercy for abundance of human failings, I declare this to he my conscientiooi Lbelief and I trust that on temptation will ever lead we to any actions but what wilt accord with this he :lief. If 1 had valued a seat in Parliament, I could very easily have obtained it ; seats are at the present moment, for a very nbttous leas.bo, to be had et a low rate. Should you therefore fail In your exec. lions to return me tor your Representative, the chief saucers, which I shall feel will be more on your se count than my own. -Nor will your efforts be lost; your triumph will he great; the exemplary struggle' of this remote and " ever faithful" city will bate considerable effect in the great ClUffs of the Conglite. lion. Happy shall Ibe lit the reflection that I have in any degree, however small, contributed to so great, so desirable ad event. ' a lint Amer a chafe Not often unsure. .:tai: power warped weititt.e , " when oppoi.ett. 46 I am told that it is frequently obserted by your enemiee, that I shall gain the Elemion, ,f I can frost( to the promises which have been made to me. It is, my friends; a vulgar error to charge the People with tickleness4 it is their leaders who are tick... not they —it is . iheihnpoileitt Pretenders to Patriotism, who mount into plaCishy the ladder of Reform, then kick it down, laugh at their deluded supporters. and con sole their reproaching conscience with some snug sinecure, or profitable birth. ?'refit yea I my friends!' why ; lam fighting your cause, not thy own ; I have come forward by yaw- erpeest desire, twice repeated, and the very doubt which Cotruptinta cast" upon your pledge, shows pretty clearly, that • she knows ways and means of securing votes, which I scorn ; and I fear already that she has been dab. bling in her dirty work. 64 One of those minor Squires, with whom your neighbou , hood abounds, has, it is said, given it as his opinion, 'hat I cannot possibly succeed because will expend no money. This is certait.ly no great romplimi tit to your virtue, and proves, if true, more than any words, the necessity of that Reform for which I have through life contended. The little Sqaire is right; I do not mean to expend any too ney ; I have therefore appointed Iteitiltr Counsel, nor Attorney, nor Agent. Accotding to the Con s itutioa, it it your own concern, and who so fit to manage it as yourselves! If Mammon attempt to disgorge his coffers among you, or Deihl to drown your intellects in wine, you must see that there is some reason for the atrocious deed, end whoever is the criminal, he will be ashamed to own it. No man throws away his money for nothing t he that buys *ill also sell— " ' Rob me the Exchequer, Hsi! the first thing thou dost " But remember that' the bribed elector is a trai tor to his country' " One of your tmthsculate Corporation hes, I • understand, laid a wager, that I shall not poll 900 votes, this is pretty bold, considering that the Re. quisltion to me received 3il signatures; but as the Gentleman has thus shown in whet little estimation he holds your honour, I trust you will return the com ;diluent by showing how little you value his judge meta, and thus prove the old adage, that ' a fool aud his money are soon parted.' I don't like Cor porate men betting ; they have too great a stake in the contest ; for depend upon it, when once we ob.. tain a Reform in Parliament, the rights contained in your old charters of the Henries, and John, will he fully restored to you, particularly that paramount right of electing your Mayor and Corporation. " Trust you, indeed'. why ; the chief fault I Ood in you is, that you place too great, not too little confidence in me, and thus increase in no small de gree my difficulty in supporting that 'leveret station in your good opinion which (so undeservedirheld. repeat, that should any individual among you repent of having affixed his signature to the Requisition, he isatt full liberty to bestow his suffrage as he pleases; I do not desire any compulsive votes, I desire only men in whose breasts the free spirit of the genuine English Constitution breathes with ardent and uncon taminated purity. " You knoratlist no last shoulflbeenaded, notate, inp the very reason why yoar os o ed w . n butyb choosing; o o alid gen th C a o t llSent in Parliaments of Acts of Parliament bind all is this, because every man it party, and consenting to them. 6 . You know that the basis of the tnglish Constitu tion consists in freedom of person, and .security of property ; and that as your freedom oughfi not to he , endangered but by a Jury of your equals; so y ear property should not be taken from you, bet by alt • ' Assembly (as Mr. Pitt, of 17'85 swill) freely elected, between whom, and the mass of the Pe ale, there was the closest union and the most perfect sympathy.' 66 You know, for. Lord Chief Justice Holt hes told yaw, that ' the elective franchise is the molded birthright, and invaluable privilege of the subject.' It is this alone which can melte the Honeuisoie House what it ought ever to be t the express image . of the feelings of the People;' whereas there it now , • no other way for the preservation of a decent ate tendon to public interest in the Representatives but the interposition of the lied, of the Peo p le itself.' . I i .-~ ,11 • p .~ i ~ ~~ With this feeling, it *bold he'll well if an extin guisher were now put on the.busirresc Mr. IluDLEiros.spid 3 tee hoof given a pie;dge to the Proprietors—that pledge hafted redeemed—it remain ed for them to act as they pleased—and, with their permission, be would withdraw. Mr. Huma, who introduced the question original!, to the Court, defended himself from the *pietisuu. of having mile an attack on the Honourable Di. .ttwctor. He had, in fact, .fought the.subjert forward to enable the Hon. Director to rebut the charge, if 'possible. Mr. R. JAcirsow paid a very high compliment to the character of Mr. Hudieston—but expressed his °Onion that the subject could not rest here. It would b e for the Court to come to a vote upon it. The letter was then ordered to lie on the table— and, on the motion of Mr. Hums, several documents, connected with the subject, were ordered to be pro duced for the perusal of the Proprietors. Tle Court then adjourned. LAVE TRADE. Eatract of a letter from a Gentleman at Senegal, to one of the Directors of the . African Insitution, dated Minch PA:— " When ).eta wrote to you, I was net without hope thee, ere Ibis, measures would have been taken by the Freech Government to arrest the progiesi.of the Slave Trade in this neighhourbeed ; as it ors difficult to suppose for a moment that the Authorities here were ignorant of the t. tent to obi .11 the trace was carried on in thr'settleeseot. My expectationi, however, have been disappointed ; it .has increased, • is hoot ly increasing.; and, at preseut, there is not the least appearance even of secrecy, nor the least fear of interruption; fur the slaves are now put on board in the river, and the vessels pass the bar its the sight of every Officer in the garrison. two of the last vessels which left this place with slaves, pissed outwards at a lime when three French vessels of war (a ship, a brig, and a schooner) were at anchor outside the.bar ; and although the slaves sailed within hail, no esamittation or notice was taken of them. The distress in the neighbouring villages I stated to you in my last, and the news of this renewed traffic is rapidly spreading over the country. Daniel, one of the most powerful Kings in this part of Africa, lately came to the vicinity of the settlement, sod held several conferences with the slave traders, as it to ascertain the accuracy of the information he had obtained ; and immediately com nseaced hurtling and pillaging a number of his own willies under circumstances of the most shocking ,atrocity ; and of his own subjects, whole fantili-s Isiere dragged to the batiks of the river, where they were sold ; and thus eeparated from their friends, homes, and country for ever. booty, on this occasion, furnished the cargoes of the two vessels messtioned above, which passed the bar on the 1 lth of February. 46 Ft orn the Moors they still continue to obtain a great number of captives; and, among them, this re-. Imes% of the traffic this given rise to dilutes and wars, unprecedented of late years; and it is reported here, that large cira.ans of slaves have beets collected in. the interior, and are stew on their way to this 'dace, where they are daily expected. 4 4 : lite rvitslch Government having lately re.colled the Commandant, who, a's I noticed in my former letter, could toot have been ignorant of what - was pe.sing, I cherished the hope that it was the first step of that Government to put a stop to the trade, and to fulfil the treaty they have made; but I regret to be obliged to say, that his successor appears still More inclined to overlook the mischief which is go ing on in his command ; for, as I have mentioned before, the slaves are now put on bond in the river, and even, in one case, were embarked while the ves sel lay off the wen. "The two vessels which remained in the river when I last wrote to you, obtained their cargoes, sailed shortly afterwards, and one of them has since returned, and is now in the river preparing for a second cargo, to purchase which she has brought here a large quantity of rum and tobacco. " List of vessels loaded with slaves at Senegal, be twixt the 9th of November, 1817, and the 19th of March, 1818: — Schooner Zephvr of Martinique. Ihlore or Eliza of li. asdeatsa. Eliza of heuveast: B▪ rig J.;lore or Eliza of Itoun.coo it, 2d voyage. (;aniot Muria i f " Vessels remaining in the river Senegal for slaves, on she 19th of March . 1818 : Schooner Sylph of Nantz. ed tovor. .1.61-ce or Ellza of llourttratox. 21 a.. ) age. Rtive sod Caroline of Nauss. id vapAge. Zephyr ut Nansz. 1- 5.1 g Po -Onion. •' N: B. 'Me above vessels are exclusively for Se negal; from Gore* several slave vessels have also beets dispatched, and I understand the trade is carried on there to a great extent ; but I regret that I ant not possessed of sufficient information to cornmeal cite to you the particulars." -• • MEMOIRS 67 LUCtILN BONAPARTe.-1 1 1. PliLTltrn in his Ambigu, streogly corroborates the opinion al -ready given of these interesting Memoirs. lle oh Berkey. that they ore entitled in et ery re-peel to be di-tinguished from the males of secret histories, ►o calir.i, which have !wheats) appeared respecting the family of Bon APART'. T hey can only base been written by a confidential Secretary. by one a ho has followed the ►teps and witnessed the actions ot Lucius for bear•and-twenty %estop. and wbn now openly ,im=bues ham to public view. A SAlernan who figiired a little In the Revolu tion, rind who enjoys a high distmetiou in the tamer of art. happened to be iit 'wanton during the 'trowel:it of the W lark, and at he had been intimately emote:mil w sib the individual in vies be was tomsulled respecting theirautheatitity by the Eng lish Editor. He acknowledged their veracity, with the dicey him' of some met ifieni ions, vs Well he has made to certain Anec dotes, and some facts which be has added ill a letter addressed in tne Editor, and which is !printed at ►he end of the Volume.— ' "NO. A pprodi give- to tine W 40tit a &mine seat of authentieit v the Reader will find n great fund of furious Anecdote, seal tee Historian rich materials for the !With of the It.so•ution. WESTMINSTER POOR ATEs.-4t is a curious proof of the eagerness of the lower classes to vote upon the present election, that Poor Rates to the amount of three hendred pounds have just been paid to the Overseers of St. Margaret's, Westminster, who did out before consider their claim likely to produce as many shillings. The payers are from the lanes about Tot hill.street. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are daily espected upon a- visitation at Pembroke Dock yard. e • • . . I _ c F ~_~s