The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-27 00:00:00

WV ~l " 4 ' .:-- :41 1~ A *.t. Air ic.. ,tll . - . 't • * TO THE EDITOR OF SHE STATESMAN. Sts-1 beg leave to submit to your consideration the propriety of giving publicity to the following observa tions, is your patriotic and independently conducted Paper • TIP IDTIL, TAVERN, COPIMS•IIOUSE, AND 114NAINZIPZDA. *rlaDJaptl2llll4lD to eitilblisb a So ciety.* he composed of permits in the above lines of bu einaes,anct to be called the Benevolent Society of Inn born, Betel, Tavern, and Co ic-house Keepers, and P iieons. The pretended objects of this Society are the ostsbliabowit of a school for the education of youth, on a scale the most ezhnuive, and on a plan the most ecOnomicsf, a certain portion of the scholars to pay, and Ohara. being the children of distressed Members, to be on the establishment gratis; also to afford pecuniary assistance to the families of distressed Members. Now I wish to call thwm‘st serious consideration of the persons in the above *lastest, to, the manner in Which ills professed to accoinAsh the above combined plan. and I think I shall be able to prove to a demon stration the fallacy of the means employed. Prom the industry that has lately bees used by the Proprietor of The Traveller, to circulate the printed Rules and Orders for the regulation of the Society, I presume, that every Hotel, Tavern, Coffee-bouse, Inn keeper, as well as every Licensed Victualler in the 'metropolis, is in possession of the articles of this, appa rently, excellent lostitution. The second article states, that a fund is to be provided for the maintainance of dis tressed members, in adraeood age, infirmity or sickness, and for the relief of Orphans and Widows of members. Tbis constitutes a Benefit Satiety to all intents and pur poses. No. 11, provides for the respectability of the Society, by the Ofmmittse being at liberty to refuse any person they may consider unfit to be admitted. This , then bellies tbe declaration that " the mere act of chang ing one paper l'or another" constitutes a Member ! ! Where then Is the security to the Members when every one Who takeh in The Traveller, may be turned round upon and be told that be is not r espectable ! ! We got to the 14th article, before we find what are the terms of subscription; and behold ! these are ; first, take in The Traveller, or, secondly, pay two guineas per annum.l have seen the articles of several Benefit Societies, and I do not believe that the yearly contribution of a member of any Benefit Society summits to so mach as two guineas ; and ail Members matributo olike,as all partake of the benefits alike: now in this projected Society, the taking in a newspaper, constitutes a Mombei equally the same as paying two guineas per annum, therefore the agreement between the Proprietor and the Society, must or ought, to stipulate for the payment of two gajnoas per year to Tressurer for every Subscriber, who becomes so by taking in daily The handler paper. Now, no Proprietor of a daily paper can afford to give out of the profits of etch paiee yearly two guineas, a sum which I am in (timid exceeds his gross profits ; therefore the Sub scribers are not upon an equality in regard to the pay ments, this is manifestly wife's. The lOth Article binds the Club to The Trisveller paper s hand and foot, let the politics be what they may! you are to patronise no other paper than this, so long as it shall be tegularly published. The majority of Benefit Clabshave a stipulated time fbr a Member becoming free, or in other words,being eligible to claim soy of the allow ances from the funds. The time in ill substantial So cieties is twelve monthi ; but the 18th article of this Be nefit Club requires that Mirty-sir months at the least shall expire before a member, can claim, or receive any assistance!!! Then what is the proposed scale of rdlief ? Why, (Mat in ease the fond shall be adequate thbreto) mark this ; after a contribution of not less than three years, sad how much longer it is impossible to calculate the fends shall be adequate, each single person a sum of not less than six shilling*, or mote than twelve shillings; to a catrriad person not less than eight or more than sixteen shillings per week. The 20th Article pro - vides for assistance at the burial of a Member between the sums of S/. and IW. Now I Flo call span the projectors of this Benefit Society to show whafseenrity the persons joining the Club have.— M t after paying in subscriptions many years, they in the (recline of life may be compelled to apply fur any of the proposed pecuniary grants. I contend that there is no security ; for the 21st Article gives to the Trustees and the Committee the right to make any 6ye•lates for the Goverementsof the Society ; and assigns them the es tire management, cowriel and discretion as to the pay nent to be made to the persons entitled to relief! ! ! I think not one word more is requisite to prove the testa bility of this mock sehiety ; or the opening it affords for a partial and corrupt distribution of the fund. The 26th Article is what I most particularly wish to call the public attention to. It is there stated, that a Dim of 3.0001. has been raised for the purpose of we& Wishing in the Metropolis a Day School, in which ms example may beset of the applications of the method of Bell and Lancaster, to the higher brancbsoof etlecatioa ; and that. this 3,00 W. has been offered to this society in. aid of its school establishments, on condition thet the Society contribute 1,0001. to complete the same. This wick will lead soapy persons to conclude, that this, Society eressly possesses, by gift, a sous ofllloo/. : sad that this must be a most advantageous Society, seeing . that the week amounts to 3.000/. before the Society Is established, sell that it only. requires about 1,0061. more to bring into immediate settee one of the most eaten: sive plans of odecatiou ever comeavAil by Men, whereby a complete coarse of instruction, ilk *try biaach of ass; fel and ornamental knowledge, may biobtained for the willing sine of Ave guineas per ensues, whiten teed Is to be created for the ossoiatoiaing and educating. the erpAses et dressed members. This sounds. wo k list, as to the LOOM: who has been so kiwi a s t o ma k e se grand &Imo* ta ibis infant Society ? I say no, Amasses witaxerne!! and I defy the Proprietor of Tfic Traveller to prove that fey seek sum arise*, bet . ivy Allures on the litik page of his little Book of Resat and Osmium. - .Now, my trothsrinebrienne.. I will eedeaveur is 111 4 ,hale to you, sossiticirceekstances cooisectsd withilek **l/ proposition, . About six rim since, a plan aim.: senleilies was draws op brinks great phiSseepher ersiong. *Om, and an institution wee .. pripesed to boom 4111, - UMW 110 aims of Clisamithie israsbes!; Wl s. i ehe btate4matt. " THE BRITISH STATISISILM" IS INCORPORATID WITS " TIM STATBSII it M." LONDON: TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1821. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The market and the price are much the same as yes terday : Consols at 781 for money. Jamaica papers to the 17th Oct. arrived this morn lag, by which we have received the following:— [PROM TILE ROYAL GAZETTE.] FALL OF CARTHAGENA. By the Schooner John, we have received accounts of the city of Carthagena having capitulated on the 25th ult. to the independents. On the 26th, Colonel Miguel Martinez, Aid-de-camp to General Montilla, arrived express at Savanilla, from Turbuca with the above intelligence, and with an order for all vessels at that Port to discharge their cargoes and proceed I to Carthegena, to take the Governor, General Torres, and the garrison of that fortress to Cuba. The schooner Ball, of Bristol, and sloop Geeylsound, were both taken possession of in consequence, and an officer 'and fifteen soldiers put on board each, with directions to call off Santa Martha. When off that port they fell in with the Nautilus brig, of 18 guns, who sent the soldiers on shore, and ordered the vessels to return to Savanilla and take in their cargoes, On their going back to Savanilla they were seized and sent away under protection of two gun-boats for Boca Chica, from whence it was expected they would take the Spanish troops on board, and depart immediately for St. Jago de Cuba. We learn that General Montilla, previous to the capitulation of Carthagena, had bsm•• burled that city from the Popa, and done much injury to it from the fire of six lung guns and two mortars. FROM ST. JAI". DE CUUA. We learn that an express bad arrived there from Mancinilla de Cuba, to announce to the Governor that that place bad been attacked by the Independents, who, it was supposed, would plunder the town, and afterwards burn it. Three hundred regulars and mi- 144 were immediately ordered to proceed to the as• sitanee of the place, but they bad to march a distance of 40 leagues., Dy the Two Friends arrived from Moots Christ°, we learn that the North side of Saint Domingo had suffered much from a hurricane at Monte Christo, and Porto Plata. The sea rose to an immense height, and several houses were blown down, and a number of vessels wrecked. The City of New Orleana was visited by a dreadful tornado on the 12th of July, which occasioned consi derable damage. No Paris journals had arrived to day, when our paper went to press. Frankfort papers to the 19th instant arrived last night. They have brought a copy of the Firnian issued by the Grand Seigoior last month, in consequence of the entire destruction of " the Rebels" in Wallachia and Moldavia. This Fir man invites the faithful Rajahs and Boyars to return, and promises that their persons and property shall be secure, and that they shall be governed as before, by their own laws. The reason which makes the Porte, all on a sudden so wonderfully mild and well disposed towards the fugitives from Moldas :a and Wallachia, appears to be the fear that if those two provinces, ' which are " considered as its granary," should remain in their present uncultivated state, " the pssecf9l Empire" might find itself distressedtvin64 This apprehension is probably the best security which the fugitives may have fur the fulfilment of the pro mises held out to them in case they should return.—A letter from Berlin announces that the State Gazette has an article from Krono (in tire Russian Govern ment of Wilna,) dated Nov. which says;—" The march of the troops to the South continues without in terruption." By accounts which have been received from Smyrna. of the recent date of the 19th ult. we learn that the Candiots at that place had suddenly sisen against the few surviving Greeks, and put to death all that fell in their way. The ferocity of their conduct was such, that the Pacha h'.oself thought it necessary to protect the Greeks with the Turkish. guard, who behaved well on the occasion. Not less than thirty of the former, however, had been killed or severely wounded, before the fury of the assas sins could be checked. On the 18th an arrange ment was made • with the Candiots, who on the • following day , were shipped off for Candle. Much activity had lately been displayed at sea both by the tirreks and the Turks, but it consisted more in suantentring than in downright fighling. The Turkish squadron having been joined by several vessels on the coast sear Peeress, and by those sent from Itgypt, amounted to upwards of sixty sail. It pad .repoirpd to Sante on the 9th of October, apd bad pilotage* the oasis day for the Leveet, after having ...vette,' fresh relaftwoeseeete. This was the squadron ' - Whichhad'pievieeeli f attached Osbutstii, destroyed ite town, and carried away a fewveisels—f;ld that place. It was stated some time sir.ce, thst Greek vessels bad been seen retiring to their respee t i ie islands in the Archipelago ; and it was supposed I L I an intention existed of disarming and laying them up lt . uow appears that they only went to refit, and t i er are represented as having re.assentbled, and proees4,4 to the eastean coast o f t h e M ores. It has hots to convoy th e merchantaws2 p r lago. Th e C am b rian frigate It t le ra n d g i t a lo g fo in un t d ie ne A c r e e s h sa i e escorted a fleet of vessels fol. that destination fro.% Smyrna, on the 7th of last month. The proceedings in the Court of King's B ent s , during the last two days, have been more than asoal,r interesting. No cues have occurred of late ' •IQ e rd , ch the public had more anxiontly waited the jud gment of the Court, than those of the " Jokk Bair e h , paper, and the sermon of the Re v . Mr. BLACOW; s y none, that we can recollect, had ever occurred hf cre n which the opinions of the public bad been M eta . pletely united. In cases of political peldi est i ot, called libellous, men are prone to differ. The 14,, cates of the power, that be, deem every attempt tb ex pose misrule, and everyoharge against the Igellb of oppreesion or corruption at heinous cries's, mouse what they are pleased to call the State. Lion an d betty of thinking, and of expressing opinion, ate, and must, to them, be dieadful. They know that these, and their political abuses, cannot exist together; sad they array themselves, therefore, with violence, loop press what they are aware would otherwise destroy their sinister delusions. For freedom of diatomic', the friends of political or religious reformation will Ahura contend, with firmness and earnestness, as for the most sacred and valuable of human rights. Rot, between the discussion of political or religious principles, and the calumny of private characters, the different is wide and obvious. Were that licentiousness to be al lowed which would sport with the feelings of iadiri duals, expose the retirement of domeetic life, set dearest relatives and friends at variance, or pre. woke to personal revenge, society could never exist. All this the private libeller attempts. With malignity in his heart, and falsehood is his hand, he scatters his publications like firebrands and death, and says " am I not in sport?' This is the very language lately used in one of the pabliem tioos to which we have referred. A proneness to what is termed "fun" is offered as an apology for the base scurrility and the wanton cruelty with which that vehicle abounds. Into the particulars of the case fur which its Printer and Proprietors were brought to judgment on Saturday, nor iuto that of the Reverend Libeller which was sentenced yesterday. there is no occasion to enter. We have no desk that in neither case did any genuine EnglbsNionnthisk the sentence too severe. For libels mach less bruins than that of which the Reverend Gentleman was the author, the punishment it will be easily remembered, has not been reckoned so light. The Dublin papers received to-day leave little rem to doubt that the horrid outrage in Tipperary, which we yesterday announced, was wilful and deliberate. For the only paiticulars respecting it, which ran reached us, we refer our readers to soother colonic. In other respects the state of Ireland exhibits viem which are awful in the extreme. The very means cos. templated to suppress the existing disorders, are aimed as shocking as the outrages. The revival of the Iu surrection act, with all its horror:, is one of the mew proposed. The excellent letter of our correspondent, who situ himself “ an old Publican," inserted in our colonist - his day, again introduces to our readers a subject to which we hoped we should never again have had to recur. The castigation we gave to Lieuteuant-Colonel TORRINS, ire imagined. would have proved sufficient to deter his from his deceptions. A mind capable of mimed'', the value of the good opinion of the world, would hare shrunk frotp such an exposure. And the man , whe w condWitsd'inicited so many and such jest animedry• sions, i lie did not and could nut reply to them, yeald, at least, have refrained from the repetitiou of ads which exposed him to public reprobation. got really, some people set character at sought, aid so long as they can promote their own s ordid view' care not by what disreputable means they seeceed. persevering impudence of Lieut.-Colonel Tongs: his daring attempts to encroach upon the property of others, and impose upon the public by false hares, oltS'; eiently indicate that in his opinion the violatim " honourable ties is a mere (ride , and that he pu n soll none of those refined feeling., which personaws rience, even in that condition of life, wall degree removed from the grovelling herd tof As for himself, we think him too contemptibk to emit our observation ; be is far, very far, beneath , but 21 sob as his public conduct affects the pnblic interest, " far we think it necessary to watch hise,..anu deter the unwary from falling into his snares, Yet, instead et his shrinking front the lash of censure, lie openly h°3 s s of the degrading means which be employs is do""_''' Publicans and their customers are still daily P ed° with the gang of fellows employed by this redou bt td i champion of the sword. If lee were to prove Woo_ as valiant in the fi eld as his fags are in their way, no. KING might find his services very useful, for defeat Oi l stimulates them to fresh exertion, and they always auto the most vigorous charges where their repulse has kis most mond. The Lieut. Col. calls his gang apeutt • promote the circulation of his parr agents of tuttioi t Y they are truly enough? In the day time these of° lll disperse themselves over the town, and day ate! WO' pester and tease the landlords who du not take in tie Lieut. Col.'s paper—representation and mierepteor°' Lion, falsehoods and calumnies, persnasioss agd.threat are all in tarn need, and their effect tried. ntgbt hi° these fellows repair in groups to the place* that ha" been visited during the der and renew their doe° among the parlous companies. Since we published r" account of their manoeuvres these evil a gents of an tett system have been suljeeted to a few indign ities , 11° easy to be brooked, either by the Lientimant-tBhmel or 'themselves, thong,' for the most part they hot' /,"*. v. rtbeir bard fate with apostolic fortitude and 6106" meekness; when they received a blow on one r ii , e ! to the ~~..,~ and IyMistri, the doctrine mechanical powers, the leant-, the wefts., the equilibrium of fluids, mineral etsymistry, vegetable chymistry, animal chymistry, and atmospherical chyme ' try ; in another stage it was intended to teach the a, cation of the physical knowledge this acquired, to the useful arti ; for example, suanufactuiing in its most ge neral departments; mining, domestic economy, tic-- Also the higher branches of reasoning applicable to phy sical objects, Algebra, Geometry, and the two branches of Astronomy, &c. &c. &c. Talk of an university education, in my humble opinion no University, with all its learned Profetsors, could turn out more scientific characters than this proposed Day School. So liberal and so extensive a system of educa tion gained the approbation, and met with the proffered support of a number of public spirited individuals. IMr. Bentham offered to let on lease a part of Isis garden which looks into St. James's Park, for the purpose of erecting a building for the formation of the first School on this new system; the sum of 5,0001. was calculated to be sufficient for the erection and one year's; expenses, after which the annual expenditure of the establishment would be 8101. A subscription did take place; lied a Committee of Management was appointed`..r Jabout twenty persons, at the head of which list was, I believe, his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. Sir Samuel Romilly was also one of the Managers ; but after some time the subscription only amounted to the suoi of 2,3001- the number [of subscribers being about 50, comprising characters of the highest stamp for philanthropy and scientific knowledge. Here the scheme was in a man ner abandoned, and the money was returned to the different subscribers, with a mutual understanding, that if at any time there should be a chance of this system being carried into effect, that each sub scriber would come forward with his subscription.— I have gone thus fir into the particulars of this pro jected institution, because I am of opinion that the ma jority of the Publicans and Coffee-house keepers never heard of this system of education till the Proprietor of The Traveller proposed to raise a Benefit Society, and to engross this Benefit Society on the (long since defunct) Chrestomathic school ; and offering great benefits, to whom? why, to himself!!! and no one else. If it were found impossible in more prosperous times to raise 5,0001., how much more iiapouible must it be at the pre sent period. Of those persons who belong to Benefit Societies I would wish to direct the attention to the ar ticles of their respective societies. For they invariably provide for the IMPULSION of any member, that may join another Benefit Society. By joining The Traveler So ciety you grasp at the shadow, but you lose the sub stance, therefore I say" look before you leap." At a thinly attended meeting held at the Freema sons' Tavern, to promote this Society. a parchment deed was produced and read, containing is sub t stance the articles, called Rules and Orders of the Benevolent Society of Hotel, Tavern, and Coffee-house keepers, In., and this Deed was represented to be a Bond between The Train/kr Editor and the ma nagers of this Club; and in ,truth it is a BOND ! it binds fast the Society to the paper, but in no way is the Editor bound to the Society, longer than it may be convenient to him. The Deed is a most vague instrument, the Society is not only bound to the present Tre yeller paper, bat the Society is bound to support any other paper that may be substituted for The 1 Traveller. And, as The Traveller has figured in four different political characters, within the last few months, it is impossible to calculate upon what may be the political creed of the paper that may be substi tuted for The Traveller, and to which this Society muse give its support. I do contend. that the whole scheme is nothing more than an attempt to catch the un wary, and to increase the sale of The Traveller news paper. I will not attack the Editor of The Traveller by Sap and Mine," but by open assault. thus, giving him au opportunity of explaining to the public, what it was that led him to make such a mistake—(l do not like vul gar words) respecting this 3,000/. being offered. Let him enquire at the house of Hoare and Co., Banker's, Lombard-street ; be may learn what became of the fund deposited in their house, by Mr. Wm. Allen, Treasurer to the Christoinathic Day School Institution. 1 again as sert, that the 3,0001. does not exist. But, suppose the Institution in full play, and, suppose the Society should have a dispute, or be humbugged with the. Editor of The Traveller, or of any other paper they are bound to support in lien of The Traveller, what is !Inconsequence ? Why, look to the 27th 'regulation of your little book, page 19. that the amount of the contributin' from the said newspaper, for the last three years together, with all the property vestedln the school by this Society. and the patronage thereof. shall become the property of --whom do yips think, niy brother Pablicqua year breads a little—" shall become the , property of the Proprietors of Th e Traveller !Newspaper.' Oh, Vivre tra velling Editor. I ans sure his imaginations must be.tra welling wide, indeed, that does not see the drift if this scheme. I am, Sir, your's, sre, AN OLD PUBLICAN. • 'The-Clergy of Durham, will sot. it is hoped, be is digaraat at the follOwieg anecdote i—There goes a pleasant story of a Berman clown, who beini at work in the field, saw his Bishop pass by, attended by a train more becoming a Peer. than one who calls himself- the successor er deputy of an Apostle; being highly scan dalised at it , be could not forbear lsughin g . an d laughed ' so loud that the Rey. Gentleman would needs know the reason of it. The clown answered in his natural way, that is. as a true and plain person ; " I laugh' when l' think of St. Peter and St. Paul, and see you is Cud' an' equipage." " How is that ?" said the Bishop. "Do you ask how?" said the fellow, " they were ilterlvited to walk alone on foot throughout the world, when they 'were this beads of the Christian Church andllentenants_ of Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and thou who art only one Bishop, go so well mounted, and have such a train of Hectors. that thou reseuthlest mere a Peer of the Realm. than a Pastor of the Church." To thii hie' Recereneiripplied, "but niy friend, thou doss not (*h older that I asi both i Count and a &mo v es well as slit iliabop." At whialethentatis lambed noes ..thas Jere, and the Slob asking him tho roans 01' 'IIIIOWOIII4, " Sin 'the Conk Bairn*. an is hell, others will thniliallop bar- Thiannatotrodellikaßiktit g, Reverted whapsoseded on Ids jostler witallt in a wood. ~ : ; 44 • %; • WATER AT 1,014004-11111 DOS TO-monnow. Morning 4 m. after 4.—Evening 84 min. after 4. tHE, g.I 4 II " rgISM is* of glving did hikheibryschis of llaraldr t the' Pity)!; orgpc : Ks Till fiddle rants fa lift The lie° st4o of dils syttens4iva‘ Beak :toot "2391 , i per I be elenientary and preparatorf, they were to folio* per Cout.Con. " 7f3t 8 is sciences, Mineralogy, Botany, Zoology, Methanics, $ per Cent,. 871 Cuiloy ed Cliyinistri, - comprehending the doctrine of the Per Cen ts. 9fil i Mill •A. lechanical powers, the itet.r, rise widge t &c. t le equilibrium. °fluids, mineral alrymistry, vegetable ?ring Ml* 18 WWI Ilymistrys, animal chymistry, and atmospherical chymis- froll• Per Cast • t.. I rish Per Cent. .. . e DAit * A" India 1.44 —a 66s 67a. Seuth-See Atftek .Bs Ong IV. 10001. Istspm.par. ST--.-11001. par. Is. pm. email 4s. Is. 3s. pas.. India for ditto Cos. for Aoet "Si 8 Lon. Tickets 241. ISs. IL. II V it t