The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-26 00:00:00

-.- t ?' ' F. . • . , . . - ..! • v': - 4 , • ' . • • ..ii , w 1 ... ) IaIiCir4IIIIRICAN PAPERS. LiTaittat.o. (CON.) SEPT. 21.--SouTs r. BENSON.. —The plaintiff received a verdict in this cause at the present circuit in this place, before - Judge BRISTOL, of ore dinosaur) dollars. The plaintiff and family bad been taken sick with stymptoms of poison ; this led to the searching of the well, where a bag filled with hu man excretnents, parts of the body of some animal, and some kind of mineral ,poison, were foaml sunk to the bottom of the well by a stone. Proofs sufficient to convince the Jnry that the defendant was guilty of placing it there, was adduced, and they gave the verdict. We have never witnessed a rause where more moral turpitude and dept avity was exhibited than in this. There is scarcely a crime that was not developed, or ut least indicated as having been perpetrated by the defendant, some of his family, or some of the witnessses brought on one or the other side. Perjury, burglary, murder, forgery, bigamy, lar c, ay, and adultery, if out itices', were among the nuttsb.r. The defendant, as was alleged, bad poisoned the well of the plaintiff, becan se the plaintiff had attempt ed to break up an adulterous connection, of the 'daughter of the defendant. The father bail formerly 'attempted to get the son to state prison to prevent the sot from testifyintr against the 'father for poisoning; -- •'! wife of defeudaut bad died ofd oison adtuit.istered• by her soli or her husband. And what crimes ap peared not to have been eotninit . ed by either father, son, mother, or daughter, seemed abundantly sup plied when the character of the witnesses on one side or the other were impeached. Fortunately the theatre of action for these unhal lowed transactions, was on the confines of the state, ant were worthy only of the confines, the very out pests soci Fur a while it indee d a pp eared in the Court-House as thought the damned had been again summoned to an earthly tribunal.—(3merie. it Paper.) IltdOM TIM ST. LOUIS ENQUIRER. THE MOUNDS OF MISSOURI. I know of nothing that would be more entertaining than a few speculative or descriptive ideas upon the cu riosities of this country botJa. natural and artificial ; and which, were I adequate to the task, might furnish mat ter fur the scientific researches and itinerant labours of months. At present I shall confine my observations to ,the mounds, which for their number, variety, and even construction, in my apprehension, claim a more distin guished place among the artificial curiosities of antiquity than they have hitherto sustained, and I am surprized that the writers have heretofore talon no notice of them. 'I be ancient works pervade the whole western country, and vary both in magnitmle and form. Some are coniele from the base to the top ; others present oily the lower segment of a cone ; some ate semiglo b liar, others in the form of a parallelogram. The In.tst remarkable appea an .es of mounds or pyramids in the western country, within my knowledge, are on the Mississippi, consisting of two groit;;es, the one abou two wiles above the Cahsskia, which empties near St. L• OS. and the other nearly the same disteace below it ; wash in all exceede 150. Near St Louis, within one mile of the Mississippi, on the east side, is the upper groupe ; which, at a lit!l , distance, resembles an enormous cluster of liar reeks ; they are generally circular, and some of them a great height, having spate enough on the top tocon ta'n an hunirPd men. The largest of these mounds is a stupendous pile of earth, to form which must have required the labour of thousands for years : it stands immediately on the bank of lialloki. Were it not for the regularity and design dlsplayed, the plain alluvial • ground on which it %tam's, and the great number of others scattered around it, I could scarcely believe it to be the work of human baud!. The shape is a parallelogram from ninth to south ; on the south is a broad apron about half way down, and from this an.ther projection nearly fifteen feet wide: —the whole circumference is eighty yards, and the height of the mound ninety feet. The monks of La Trappe have settled near it, who have made the! *lron into a kitchen garden, and sowed the top with wheat. The extraordinary appearance of the cluster of mounds forces conviction on the reflecting mind, t sat they are the only relics time has secured fruui ob n, of a great and populous city. • The large mounds are probably sites of temples, and many of the smaller ones monuments of distinguished chiefs. There is, perhaps. no spot in the west capable of pro duciog more abundantly, and of supporting a more nu met otts population than this tract, csilivd the Ame rican bottom. The great number of mounds and the surprising qusnatity of bones, every where slug tip or found on the surface of the ground, with other appearances, prove this valley to have been anciently 611etl with the habi t* tons of men. Near St. Louis is a cutians work much admired, called the Fallen Garden. It suggests to the minds of the spectators the idea of a situation for assembling public councils. • ••• • " THE BASIS iii THS Woons."—The following ac count is pnblished in the Cahawba 'ma) Press of the 13th ult. with assurance that its authenticity may be relied on : On the Ilea nit. two little sons of Mr. Henry Vinson, of Butler county, one four, the other . two years old,, went out to meet their father on his return from work— took a wrong direction, and got lost in an adjacent • wood, which is entirely uninhabited. The inhabitants of Butler tamed out en mass, could not find nor hear • • the least account of them, and began to despair, but still persevered. On the fourth day it was thought there were no less than two hundred engaged in the hunt. When about four miles from Mr. Vinson's house a ' voice was heard from one of the company that signs were found; which had scarcely died away before the cheering report was sounded by Mr. Sims that he bad found the lost. To describe to you the scene is past my pen's communication. The lovely little babes were well, but much debilitated ; howevee, by a proper regimen, are restored to perfect healtb.They hid taken up their abode near a refreshing brook, and say they,inteaded to live there, and the number of little beds found is indicative of the fact. Around their new abode were • 'lumber of sassafras bushes, from which they bad gathered the leaves and barked the twigs aid ate thereof, which was their only support. Surely a ruling Proildence was their protector, and ought to be gratefully adored.—(C/evelead Herald, Nor. 6.) 0 •0. . j • The Alisremberg Correspondent received last ni g ht has the follAving account (coin Constantinople, of the 10th of November : We here enjoy apparent tranquillity : but in remote , quarters and suburbs ma.ters have been worse aga in for some weeks. The fanatic Turks who live there have con sidered two great tires which we had as bad omens, and the Prophet requires victims. They have therefore mas sacred some Greeks and several Armenians, and only the armed force could check their excesses, in which dissatisfied Janissaries favoured thew. The accounts from Armenia are alarming. The Persians have gained considerable advantages over the Turks, whohave, how. ever, opposed a brave resistance to them. The force of the Persians has been very much exaggerated : it con sists, according to Turkish accounts, of about 59,000 men, of whom 30,000 advance against Erzerum, and the rest against Bagdad. The Crown Prince is with the first. The Turks are inferior in force in those parts. It is generally believed in Constantinople, that the Per sians, supported by the discontented Armenians, mai , make great conquests without encountering any . consi. derahleobstacle. All the Persians here, and tnany Ar-` menians, have been thrown into prison. The changes' of the 3linistry and the Paehas, show sufficiently the embarrassments of the Divan. VIENNA, Dec. 10 —The Russian and Turkish outs, posts on the Pruth have had some skirmishes, but which have not led to any thing serious. The troops of the two nations merely observe each other. A letter from Constantinople of the 16th of November expresses fears of a general mutiny of the Janissaries, It seems that this turbulent soldiery is influenced by the party which is in favour of war. The Janissaries, on their part, vow !lathing less than to exterminate all the infidels. The return of the Ottoman fleet lies been marked by executions, and not by rewards. The Sultan has had seven of the principal officers beheaded, and some others thrown into prison. Of the four large ships which the Turkish Government hail, only one has returned, the three others have been burnt by the Greeks. The Greeks have taken Patras by storm ; thisaffair cost them 709 men, but they have made 6,000 trisoners. Plan WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 85 in. attcr 3.—Evening 11 in. alter 4. at#esestion received Ike previoe- Am, of the poisoning of th• Vice It(I% Spa.; ' wi s~ it gait* carnet. 'rho followiec is from our correspondent at Havannals, of the 15th of November : • On the 11th inst. a Spanish line of battle ship ar rived from Vera Crus in 20 days, with spices. SL. brought the fine brig Apodaca of Mexico, who it passing the ,Mery Caribe refused to salute ; she wise told theofficers of the Governor, who went en board for news, • that he had no news for them, and treated them very impolitely. He disembarked do day following, and went to Ganauaboca where he still remains without haviqg visited Havannah. Yesterday arrived a corvette from .he same place with another Vice King, Novella, the successor of Apodaca, by which we learn that the City of Vera Cruz is at present completely independent. In the Castello there are about 100 soldiers, and about two Months supplies, after which it must be given up. 'Tie last accounts received at Havannah, frotu Spain, ' state that Coma Montezuma, a descendant of the Enn• ;Vero:. of Mexico, had clandestinely left Madrid for the purpose, it is said, of proceeding to New Spain. PROM THE CHARLESTOWN PAPER OF THE 23D Nor. We regret to learn that the sickness at St. Augus tine continues with unabated violence. We regret it the more because several officers of the army, now in this city and Savannah, are said to be under orders for that port to sit on a court martial. Extract of a piirste letter received this morning from New Orleans, Nov. 7:— About 400 bales of cotton of the second crop nave been brought to market, a large proportion of which is already disposed of at IS to 191 cents. The brig Aristides, from Liverpool, which was captured by pirates, and run ashore near Cape Antonio, is reported to have been bilged. A large part of her cargo will be lost, which is very valuable. It is expected that the brig Ann, of Liverpool, has in t the es ne fate. Should this be the case, British goads will be extremely scarce indeed, We sold some linens at upwards of 100 per cent. advance. In consequence of the demand for Bills on England the exchange has rose to 11 premium, and is expected to advance to 15 per cent. cer tainly proves the balance of trade in favour of England Extract of a letter from an officer on board the United States schooner, Shark, dated Santa Cruz. (Teneriffe,) Sept. 18, 1821 "We arrived here on the 15th inst., after a plea sant passage from Madeira, where we obtained a sup ply of provisions and water, and were received with n►n:h hospitality ; we remained there only three days. We cruised for a short time among the Western Islands tor a piratical brig, mounting 16 guns, and manned with 100 men, which has committed many deprella 4loos and c•ipturcd every vessel she fell in with. We ave been cruising among theCanaey Islands for slave vessels and pirate,' but have been unsuccessful. In the course of eight or ten days, we shall sail again to cruise among these Islands, afterwards proceed to the Coast of Africa, thence to the West Indies, and return to the United States about Ist January next. — We have been treated at this place with the utmost hospitality and attention; our salute was returned by an equal number of guns, which is unusual, one gun less having heretofore been fired on such occasions.— The town of Santa Cruz is neat and well regulated, the streets clean and the houses judiciously constructed. The Shark proves to be an excellent vessel, has a fine crew, and the utmost harmony prevails among the officers.—(Norfolk Beacon.) The intelligence brought by the Paris papers to the 23d instant, so far as it relates to the affairs of France, is not of that importance which had been expected :—Two Royal Ordinances have been issued, by one of %% hich the Sieur de Lavean, a counsellor in the Royal Court of Paris, is nominated Prefect of Po lice, in place of Count Angles: and by the other, the Sieur Kesner, formerly Cashier of the Caisse dc Ser vice, is nominated Cashier General of the Treasury, in the place of the Sieur Piseatory. On Thursday there was a sitting of the Chamber of Deputies- The following Ministers were present :—M. Pey. ronnet, Keeper of the Seals ; Di. Corbiere, Blighter of the Interior ; M. de Clermont Tonnerre, Minis ter of Marine ; and M. de Villele, tbe Mi nister of Finance. The latter Minister presented a projet of a law fur the provisional collection of three twelfths of the revenue, and for opening a provisional credit of 200 millions, to be distributed among the dif ferent branches of the Administration, according to the exigencies of the public service, and pursuant to the principle laid down in the Finance Law of 1821. M. de Villele briefly adverted to the great inconvenience of these provisional aids, which tended to compromise the interests of those who were assessed, and to fetter the Climber itself in the exercise of one of its most valuable rights, namely, that of apportioning the smut of taxation to the outgoings of the Govern. nient. His Majesty, however, was determined not to have again recourse to such a measure, and 11i. de lele trusted, that before the three months were expired for which the grant was now asked, he should be able in concert with the Chamber, to relieve the financial ar- rangemenM of the country from such an embarrassing ' process. French Funds, M. 65c. The news which the French papers communicate from St. Peterburg and other quarters is of considerable interest. The Court Oa:ctte of the Russian capi tal new speaks openly in faront.of the °reeky, and TF;R-NTATF,SmA,ti TURKRY. by the Ann Nie Sr,SreritEN.-11oliday at the Public Offices. ~..:, LONDON: WEDNESDAY ZIZNING, MICEMBSI 26, 1321. New York papers arrivtd this morning to the 2oul rt of December, from which we extract the following FROM TILE NEW YORK (LIZETTE, OP THE 30TH NOY. ltnportant extract of a letter from Havannah, Oct. ?I. —Our crop of coffee is very poor this year. I had previously calculated the general average to be about one half st scup.--(Philodelphia Gazette.) Nov. 6.--TheSptnish main.from the Oronoko to the Mexican gulph is all independent. Porto Cabello in Curaccas, aud the fortifications of St. Juan del I.llloa, are the only two places in the hands of the Royalists. Mexico has surrendered—Vero Cruz is extremely de serted, and the troops retire to 1/Iloa. Nov. 7.-1 confirmed to von by my last the taking of Mexico. —All that kingdom is now independent. Extract of a private letter from the Captain General of the island of Cuba, dated Nov. 6 :—By the Royal order of the ::."2.41 of September of last year, it is or dained and provided in what manner emigrants, as well subjects of Spain, as foreigners coming to settle for their own good and that of the island, are to be hereafter admitted. I have resolved on establishing the following regulations:— Article 1. Every foreigner who may arrive with or without a passport, shall present a memorial of their Government, subscribed with his name, and that of his security, who shall be answerable for his conduct during the whole period of residence which may be allowed him ; as, without this necessary requisite, the Captain who may bring such foreigner, eball be obliged to take him away, under a penalty of two hundred dollars. • , 2. The said memorial will be examined at the eNe. cretary's off►ce. 3. The Recorder, to be appointed, shall keep a beak in which he mud' distinctly enrol the names, that •Ir , the vessel, the port of departure, date of arrival, 4.;? . .' 4. Official notice of this order to be served ou ,fits Collector. 5. The officers of the revenue must make known to all the Captains of foreign vessels that their passengers cannot be landed without first complying with these formalities. (Signed) [FROM ST. DOMINGO.] blenr. We learn from a Captain arrived yesterday from the City of St. Domingo, that it was very sickly at that place, aid also on the main. PIIILADELPUIA, Nov. :IS—Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars In specie were yesterday transported from this City to New York, for the Bank of America. [PRO][ THE GAZETTE OF NOV. 281 The President of the United States has issued a Proclamation dated 22d instant, declaring that all scriminating or countervailing duties between tie Dukedom of Oldenburgh and the United States,. have ceased since the 11th of May last. PROM TUR CMARLESTOWN PAPISR Ntiv. 25. From Havannab, by the schooner Comet, staved yesterdablwe have received regulAr files of Havanna& papers to the 15th inst. inclusive. From them 11 ap. 'P . I, 4 4 • • .1.111111111111111.4 convey indications that cannot be mistaken. In on a article it says "it has been observed that ser• rti General Officers attached to the person of the Empe ror '►ave successively quitted the capital, and it is added hat they are charged with orders for the Commasad et 'n Chief of our various corps," and in another that—. .‘ A report is in circulation here that a consideraVe part of our troops will march into Asiatic Turkel; in order to act in concert with the Persian Sy these brief sentences, it is probablr ►hat " eh ►wore is meant than meets the eye, and that w e noght to infer from them that the General Office rs had carried orders for the armies to advanc e , an d •hat the Persians have been joined ere non, by the Russian forces. As another indication of a warlike nature, the enumeration of the Russian force , r.ust be observed. In an article from Peterab org a detail is given of the positions and amount of the alt. ferent divisions of the army. The total mass of troop s is stated to exceed a million. This display o f f aro, at %Itch a season as the present, is not designed for idle parade. An Article of the 15th instant, h onk Frankfort states, that a Pitman had been publioled at Constantinople on the Sth nit. declaring that the Am. nesty tendered to the Greeks was withdrawn, as they bail refused to avail themselves of its conditions. Let. ters from Constantinople of Nov. 11th, announce that the celebrated city of Bagdad, which had no other defence than a single wall of no strength, had been talc, nby storm. The Persians are said to have put to the sword the whole of the Turkish garrisos, and most of the inhabitants who followed the doctrine of Omar. The Christians alone bad been spared, con f.,rtnably to the Manifesto published by the Priam 6' Royal of Persia. '" The intelligence from Spain given in these ?arm, is of the same unpleasant aspect as %that generally proceeds through the same channel. if tve could he. Hey, the statements, a civil war has actuilly mut meneed. According to a private letter in one of the journals, General Moreno Daoiz, who had been re :used atl►uission to Seville by the popular intermit in tln ►lity of 31ilitary Chief, hail ordered the regiment of Koy.►l Carhiniers to occupy an important post in Ar. dalusia, which General VBlasco, on the opposite side, hail resolved to occupy with another corps of cavalt that the two regiments attacked each other, and that after a sanguinary combat, the troops under the cins man(' of the Ministerial officer remaine►! masters of the Held of battle. It is added, that the King had retired to the Palace of the Prado, near Madrid, in order to be out of the reach of any sodden attack on the part of the populace. The Prado may be defended, as it is surrounded by a thick wall, and situated ut the mita a rock. It was reported at Vienna that 311 ibe .t/i niaters of the Allied Powers had addressed an import. ant note to the Spanish goverment. A lovAgnet of distinction is said to have been eotstpelled to leave she • Austrian capital in twenty-fonr hours. The facility of erecting Reform in a State has been satisfactorily proved at New York. This Con ,, itution is not 41) years old, yet it was found that abase had crept in, and circntustances occurred to render charnge essential to its future interest ; and changes ac cordingly have been made trithont trouble and nithoit commotion. Thinking people in England, look at home, and then look at this REFORM Witheitt a Rem lotion. Look at this Noble structure erected within three months, and only wanting the signature of the people to make it the fundamental code of the State. Among the wise provisions effected iif ibis Reform. it is determined that No comblisstoNED FICF.R CAN BE REMOVED EXCEPT BY TUE SENATE, IiPON APPLICATION OP TUC GOVERNOR, Oi DECISION OP 4 COCRT•MARTiAL, AND ALL THE 4 IVIL °Pewees vs rr. APPOINTED DC THE PEOPLE. This is doing thine 2 1 they should be done. There was no noise in the State. No soldiers drawn up to cram this law down peovlro throat's. No Society for the Suppression of Vice. lis Bridge-street Oang to array a host of Li:for/our and infest the public-honses with Manchester layalty.--- No Yeomen or Orange Wreakers to cut the people down, or shoot them like dogs. The Mares of New York formed their constitution in peace and quietness. if this change were found necessary to alter anti correct the errors of a constitution of a few years standing, what most be the Drees. sity of reform in a Stile where abuses inonmerablPitt bare been accumulating for centuries? Let the Clubs, let the crew that manned the vessel of Slate , under the great pilot, let the newly mautfactool aristocracy, let the landlords that cannot get WU rents, and the corrupt majorities that overluaiied the people with taxes, and sold the people's riglitg• 3 Ye' let them answer, as the day approaches when the y Pr't anso er to the country for the oppressive spiel" t " which they contributed their unbloshintt assist orr, and now, indeed, complain of dislorslty and se Ti .". How dare such men complain, have they nut th•m• selves been the cause of their country's is.io.l tunes ? have they not swell ed the majoririts o•!:ca 1 tresed six Gagging Bills in a few liars ? h 4ve tluy 1 , not added tenfold to the list of paupers? and n o ` e they talk of that agricultural and manufactitritnt distress which they have brought ova the etottoi r Y• Unfortunstely there are nom., from the castle to the the hovel, but feel the ef fects . the dreadful etrezts of sce 3 most profligate and imbecile r ulers that ever dig • any bsan deg c al o i ni u sg a r star, and d . l i nt isnutor ai rn t i l ge. i eiwtoisE shapes do am al n ea rlyi:arr h a ve io na it el ra b .. a t n ; p i p . or i rr i liar'"' the eyes of the unbelievers. Credulity is on 41'" Wow— wit.f 10 psi: - 6 " ilex*" the iroa volt $ Where 3 4 " 11 *re bed Ober b~ lees o pop So o f. they . 1 ifid the CC 00 gtta tOnion• "TUB BRITISa STATISSISAN' ' Is INCORTOIts FED WITS " TSP STATESMAN." 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