The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

___ ~ __ Aleasali . 1 A What ! S. 1 1 ., a may rfitise liberty by the 130 4 . slavish 'voles', enter into compro. lies I What," continued he, with ardour in bis countenance and servant (net being s householder) entitled to choose a guardian to Ile property, or still more dear t o end liberty, as well as you or my. !ling 'to keep up this vivid ands .....std display of Ike patron towards helpless clients, I subjoined. that (scrogding to the ancient weatain s : , ‘ . vi non possis quod veils, velis quod possin U I ceild not obtain from a debtor the whole of wbits , l was lie, I might reasonably consent to take tlit l Lalf, without however acknowledging to have re. ceived more then such portion. " Ab," said this raped logician, " in commerci.l dealings that conduct might be wise, but in politics the case is by no means analogous: since those on whom the demand is shoot to he made are as able to give the whole as the half." I found it as impossible to contradict such r►asoning, as I am glad it was so—how far those on whom the demand is to he made may he willing to pay, and when pay the whole of what is due, or what force may be necessary to make them act honesily,is ono: her question, and one which I cannot undertake to answer, no more than I can say whether either of my,est pealed friends. so freely treated of, may be pleased with what I have said of their conduct. So much I have thought it necessary to urge to prevent injury to that cause et hick !Panda pro. mitten( to the view of every enlightened matt, and the merits of which ought not to be lessened in the eyes of any one by the personal hickerings of one class of Iteformers, nor by the polemical disputations, how. ever learned, of a still hither class. Co-operation, riot collision, is necessary to fulfil the purpose of the benevolent Ili former. The advantage of co-opera tion is witnessed in our enemies, and we ought to imitate them in that. wib huste duceri is a maxim here imperlrusly dictated. Bluuabbary. Dec. It S. P. The Duke of W ELLINGTON is now a•Field•Marsha in the Austrian and Prussia. service, as welt as in that of Rossi.. It appears by the New York Papers, that the hostile Seminoles, being in a ' , ate of starvation, had made offers of stil•mission, on condition of their lives being spared, and rho remnant of their property secured to them. The Macedoni,ii frigate had put to • sea again, on her voyage round Cape Horn. The boundary between the United States and the British territory had been run in let. 45. deg. from St. Regis to Lake Champlain, and is found to be only a few rods 'north of the old line of demarcation. The Legisla . tore of Connecticut has passed a law for per mining T snail-coaches to run on Sundays. That of New Jae. l ire) bits passed a series of regulations with regard to , the sale or transfer of slaves, sal,irb as ill, no doubt, have! the effect of suppressing the tragic ill opgroes a rid men of colour, which had recently slaw% up between that State and Louisiana. The sale, transfer, or as. signment of a slave, knowingly. to a non-resident, or to any person intending to export him, is punisha ble with a fine of from 500 to 1000 dollars, arid im. priannment for not I, ss than one year, nor more than . two years. The purchasing or receiving an asisiers omit of a Slave, for the purpose of t -sporting him, the attempting to export him, or being accessary • thereto, incurs a penalty of from 1000 it, 2000 dol lars, and imprisonment, at hard labour, for a period of from two to four years. The preparing of any vessel for the exportation of States, incurs a for feiture of ship and cargo. The Slave who is the sub ject of any sale or transfer, in breach of 'hese provi sions, is declared to be ipso facto emancipated. ARCTIC EXPEDiTIoN.—It is said, that early in the • ensuing summer another Expedition will he sent cut, for the purpoSe of exploring a north-western passage to the Pacific Ocean. The Griper gun-brig has ar. lived at Deptford, and will be prepared as one of the discovery vessels, in lieu of the Trent. it is also said, that two of the bomb-vessels which were at Algiers, will he ordered out on the same destina tion. The Isabella and Alerttider will be paid off this day or to-morrow, and the I' , PMS will be allow ed a month to go and see their friends. The won derful Eseuimaux, who is still on board one of the ships at Deptford, and who •lately sat for his por trait, has taken such a fancy for drawing land scapes, that the Officers have given him paints and brushes, and every other facility for indulging his pew propensity. A Meeting of the Inhabitants - of the Ward o Bri•ad••treet was held yesterday morning, at Ger. varti's-hall, Cheapsitle, to take into cnusirleration the eases of the unfortunate 01411. Cnchntan, Weller, and Driscol, ordered to be harre , d this r..toruing for utter ing forged notes, and to ado," such measures lIM might be deemed best calculated to pr.cure the suspensi •ta of their execution until their cases Ara fully investi. gated. After a brief explanation .f the ohject of the Meeting, a Petition to the PaiNct; REGENT was read and agreed to. praying his Royal Higratess to be gra• ciously pleased to stay their execution until the evi elence on their trial could be reseed. The Petition was signed by the persons present, and ordered to be presented yesterdsy,with an accompanying letter to Lord Stoblot;Tit, pressing his Lordship to use all ex pedition in forwarding the Petition. The Petition was immediately sent off by eapress to Br:ghtou.— Mr. NictioL, volunteered to be the bearer of it. The dogs brought by the ships of the Northern Expedition, have for some days past been ••hjects of much attraction at the British Museum. On Friday one of the poor inoffensive animals was killed in the grounds belonging to that nations% establishment, for the perpose of its skin being stuffed and placed in the rooms • and the other has been sent to the Museum at iaris, probably for the same purpose. — Of the four that remained at the Admiralty, two have been scut to the Duchess of YouK, and the other two to Sir JOSEPH Balms. The fates of the four latter will be more cougenial to the feelings of humanity than those of their companions flettaten Fitsliette.—A fish-curer ha' been in. dieted to stand trial before the High Court of Jos t ticiary on the 31st curt., for the crime of falsehood, &e. in presenting the same herrings in different • horrels, , to be twice branded, for the Government bounty, tied of making two false oaths relsthe thereto. :• . eaasirstian, he etch who bas lost his for mesh-mongering sla raise with his enerni , the seine generous I metiner, ' 6 hss 1111 1 done that he is not watch over his litth his. over his life sr self !" Not unwilli .1:•nlas Tlit STATESMAN 'AIL INT'M LIGENCE. DEAN Dac. 14.—Arrived the Royal Charlotte, Harper, from Hull for Cadiz, and sailed ; and Ac tive, Chisel, from Petershorgh for D•istot.—Cams down from the River Not night and sailed, the Rosen*. Snow, for Boston; Charlotte, Rattans, for Santander. PollTetof MITI!, DEC. I.l.—Arrived the Sarah, Whicherd, from Sunderland ; Le Felicite. he Chard. from o..nlopr.—Sailed the Speedwell, Harrington, far Waterfowl. Fatmotrrif, Dec. W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship :Hersey, fro% i crtrize. and rernsino with his'Ma jesty's.shipo Lee and Heron.—Stiled tho Duke of Kent packet, for Lisbon ; and the Lady Wellington packet, for Jlmeics, both with Mails; and a few out ward-bound vessels. reseanct, Dec. 12.—Arrived the Thomas and William, Brown, from Plymouth for Glanow, very leaky ; and several other constero.—The boat Morn ing Star, Kerwin, took out the crew of the Emily, Thomas, which struck on the aundle4tone c,, Thura day, and landed them at S. Levan, it then blowing a strong gali. MONTUOSE, DEC. 11.---The harbour lights of this port are to be lighted on the tist, sod continue to be lighted from sun-set to sun-rise, until the let of !Any. LERWICK, NOT. 26.—A large ship (about 400 tons), from the Bsltir, with timber, brought up on the 18th instant, off' the west side of these Isllnds, in 60 fathoms water, with loss of bowsprit, fore topmast, and misenmast, and all the deck lumber.— The pilot wished to get her into frillswieh, but it came on to blow so hard, that they found it impos sible; they were therefore, obliged to let her drift to sea. She had plenty of provi‘ions and water on board, and it is hoped will be able to get into some port in these Islands eery soon. The pilot says, she belonged to Stockholm. H ‘ft %nett, Dm. 11—Reported to MOWN. Billings, and Co. as Vice-Admiralty Agents —one anchor about 7 cwt., about 0} 'athoms of 10 inch chain, 41111 piece of bony rope, no bum.. swept in Ballet:ley Bay, marked " Industry, Newcastle, Bedlington ;" on• ditto, about 7 cwt., no buoy, hut about it fathoms rope, about 37 fathoms of 10 inch cable—supposed to be lost on Friday morning, swept in Ho%Lesley Bay about 1+ m les above S. W. buoy of the Whiting, the Lights open to the westward about a sail's breadth. Among the rumoured chanvat in Administration, it is said that the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM will SOC co.d Lord MELVILLK in the office of First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir Wit.r.law SCOTT has decided, that in all cases of capture of ships in rivers, harbours, *c. by con joint expoditions (Army and Navy), the parties are not entitled to /tend nroney; bat only when captured et sea, and by ships alone. A Petition, very numerously end respectably sign ed by the Inhabitants "1 Sheerness, is Rhea( to he presented' n the Lords Commissioners of the Admi ralty, praying that their Lordships would he pleased to say when that portion of the town included in the late Act of Parliament, and to be pulled down to en• large the Dock-yard, will be wanted by the Board.— The anspense occasioned by the indefinite period when the same may be taken by the Admiralty from the proprietors, no more than a few dews notice be. ing required, has occasioned a corn,•lete stagnation of business, and may, unless relieved, ultimately ruin many industrious individoals. A private letter from La 111. - sche, dated the sth ;nat. in the department of the Sirthe, slates, that some disturbances had taken place among the mili tary pupils of the Royal School in that town. They proceeded to acts of violence; but no serious con sequences resulted from them. Mr. MATIIEKS is arrived at Bath, where be is now At How. VI cena, Nov. 28.—Connt Joseph Colloredo, Grand Prior of the Or ler of ,Malta, Privy Co oor itt er , C , smberlairs, Minister of State, Field.Mstothrii, Di•ertor-Getieral of Artillery, and Proprietor of a Regiment of Infantry, died the day before yesterday of a dr'psy on the longs, at the age of eighty.four. M Era XCIIoIT SUICIDE.—Sunday evening, bet wren sit and seven o'clock, Mr. Moore, the landlord of the Bull's Head Tarim, corner of Jerusrdem.parts. age, Ayleshury-street, Clerkenwelt, in a fit of insa nity, committed the dreadful act of self-destroc• (ion. lie went from the bar to the water-closot, which is upon the ground.floor. A person passing by a few minutes after, saw him reel out of the closet, and fall upon the floor, with his throat dread fully cut. 'l' he family were alarmed, and the unfor tunate man was carried to his bed, and medical aid was sent for. A knife was found lying on the ground, near the place where the deceased fell, which was supposed to have been the instrument he perpe trated the deed with; but, upon farther search, a razor was found, covered with blood, in the water closet. He had lately been in the habit of drinking to excess, particularly brandy, and it had deranged his intellects. Ile died yesterday morning, at eight s ' ock, leaving a wife and several children. Sunday night the coach-house of the Rev. A. C. Onslow, Rector of Newington, was broke open and robbed of a set of chaise-harness and a riding saddle. Sheffield and its neighbourhood were 'jailed on Thursday, the 3d inst. by a most tremendous storm of thunder and lighloireg, which caused the greatest alarm throughout the town and its vicinity. The lightning appeared one vast brillitist sheet. It pass ed over the Bracco into the valley beneath, where it struck a strong brick wall fiat to the ground, tore up pert of the foundation, and drove out a sash window fr m • house, sod carried it to the oppo o 2 ;, fi , s ide o f the room: fortunately no person re ceived the least injury. To rzE EDITOR or rms STATESMAN, have this thotaeut read your Paper of last Thursday, containing a Getter written by Major CAZTWRIGHT, and addressed to the Duke of BED ►ORD, in which the writer states certain objections to _ . my two Letters published in your Psper of the 30th SepteMber and 15th October last, on the subject of the distressed Lshnorers and Manufacturers. As 1 am at present upon a •isiit of some continuance to a particular friend, it is impossible for me either to re. consider my own Letters, or reply to the Major's objections; but as soon as I return hotne,*hich pro. bably will not he till after the 116lidaya, I will care fully re-peruse both the one and the; onto ; and if I find that I have fallen into any error will 4e very re,dy to retract it. Having enlisted myself under the banners of TRUTH and LIBERTY, I should really think that I disgraced my colours if I were not open to conviction. At the same time I beg leave to say, that I will never desert a cause which I have once adopted from principle, so long as that cause con tinuos to appear just and right in my estimation. — To the name of CARTWRIGHT I am willing to piy the tribute of respect, but not authority. Though that Gentleman appears in the light of a political op ponent, yet 1 trust that I may still regard him as my friend. Ile very well knows that I write hastily and negligently, and likewise that I feel strongly; he must be aware, therefore, how difficult it is fur one under such circumstance', so to regulate and measure his expressions, that a larger meaning can never be ' applied to his words than what he himself wished and intended them to have : and therefore I must request that if any expressions, in any of my four Letters on the above subject should appear to him too harsh, he will accept this declaration as a suflicient apology, that nothing unkind or unfriendly was mitten led.— I am enovinced that we both mean well to the cause of the poor distressed Manufacturers, Labourers, Artificers, &r. consequently, in our competition of measures to befriend that cause, and the reas , tning And inve•tigatinu to which that amicable competition may lead, I can conceive nothing hot good likely to result to the cause itself. Let the subject be sift.el to the bottom, and the parties concerned be enabled to form an accurate judgment which exped'ent is most likely to afford them relief from oppression, the Major's or mine. But my friend says, that shove a million of persons hare already declared by their petitions their decided opinion, that they regard Universal Suffrage ert the hest remedy for their case. To this I reply, that these persons were then in a state of political darkness. They did not kenw what their ancestors had done for them—they were ignorant of the laws and customs of the laud having already extended to them a powerful protection against all tazatinn whatever ; neither did they consider that the King, by his Coronation Oath, swears to govern according to these ancient lams and customs, which no Minister can controvert without great per sonal danger to himself. These laws were dormant but not abrogated: sad alt the humble merit I aspire to is that of bringing them into public notice, con vinces' that this alone is sufficient to give them efficacy. Ott the other hand, the Universal Suffrage for which these persons prey, or have prayed, would take from them this Cotistrerettomar. snier.o, and brinz them within the power and controul of legitimate taxation. I therefore pray, on my part, my friend, seriously to consider the temper of the times, and the disposition of the People of this coentry, in which CORRUPTION rules predominant, and bee nearly de faced every remaining vestige of REAL REPitasENTA• ?low. What analogy can now be said to exist he tween the present days, and the days of oar ancestors as referred to in my last hotter, when the Represen tatives of the People conceived they bad no right whatever to giveaway the money of their constituents without their formal consent first bad and obtained ? Look among the Reformers MN, and see if they offer to the People such a kind of Representation. — There are but two instances I know of : one is the Gent tertian of this house by w hose hospitable fire-side I am now writing, who told the Electors of Berkshire that " his onlyambition was to he their &amend faith ful Representative, and as loth to follow the SENSE of his constituents, not only respecting ltrform, but upon all other important occasions." The other in stance is that of a worthy patriot in the West. who I have also the honour to call my hind.- and who made a similar declaration to the Electors of Exeter; hut what was the result ? Alas ! both these Gentle men lost their election. Let the worthy Major there. fore consider ,when he proposes to extend Represen. tatinn as a protection against oppressive Taxation, what Representation wow ir, and that the very minds of the People most undergo a change before it will, Of can be, rendered a REALITY instead of a DELUSION, I remain. for the present, • Sir, your's, &c.,. i\TRUEMAN. Deatoed-house, Berks, Dec.l2. 1818. , ; Crowder, who was indicted, and was to baseball tried for the robbery of the Sterling ntail-coach of a box rostaining a large quantity of bank-nntes be longing to the Sterling Bank, has been liberated, the Bank having declined to proceed any further in the basiness.—(Ediaburgh Paper.) Sanday eight the pamias of the Too Collector of Breetwood, in Esse:, wprii broke op's, sod robbed of 2001. in Book of EogloadAlNSl. • I 1 -. s i4eit M,P.CTIUh. ^~ .I_ .410 111 . A Meeting of tke Electors of Westminster rot. siding in the parishes of its J..'n si , •l ;t Marearto. was yesteiday called at a building in Mar ket.etroei 4 to eorisider of the best means for securing the return. of Mr. Hebhouee to Parliament. Shortly after one o'clock, Mr. Hohhotite; Mr: Brooks, Mr. Richter, and several other Gentinmeni made their appearance. Mr. Wilson was pieced in the Chair, and a series of Resolutions were reed, setting forth the importance of continuing the strap gle for the independence of Westminster, enforcing the necessity of choosing a fit and ;itcier person to advocate the cause of Parliameniere Reform he the side of Sir Francis Borden, and destribitig Mr. 11.. b. house to be a Gentleman emitted to the support ut the Electors. 11$ The two first Resolutions were pot and e'err withont discussion. When the third Was - sobinitt to the Meeting, Mr., llohhouse came, for waid.ji speak. A Mt. Bowie resented himself of ki t eSilell time, and Mr. Hohltouse retired. Mr. Bowie then male some ibsereatione on the two Resolutions which had already heel' carried. ...a spoke at much length in praise of S ir F. 'riot-dint; wbo, he contended, had nobly fought the Mittel of the People, and done all that it was possible for WO to do in their cause. He cousidered Mt lint house. from his eitachment to the principles of Liberty, to be a fit person to sit by the side f Sir Fr.incis Roe. deft; and tort:ugly recommended bite to the support of the Meeting. 1 .:11r. Mallows next spoke. During the hoc* Election he hail hail much oipertence of ,:se feelings of the Elect°. a in the 1.11111( , (1 1/3Tl•bei of it. John and St' Margeret, soil he kne A. that they Itsd great dil!lcuties to contend with, fr •te their bi,inity both _ to Church and Stare. Ile discleireel till intention of speaking with dietecpect of the. bitted& Ch l rets which bound society t”gethrit by the sacred lite , Of religion. The church of which be spoke, wig t church of !stick and stone, of melt Ind moi ter. (R the influence th.it Church 4.'l.4i:iced, min) of thee.. tie addressed must be alrear', app.'s'''. The i ,..41 Abbey is their neighbourhood hod revenues accruing to it from eight alifel , ot ce.untiii, Amounting to SfOnol. mere or less ii' sdonitterl • fle M , ~ I i'et 4 of Religion ought to' have io good co' , '0 preseti it id, but what he objected to was the stalls end the hiihop4 ricks, end the other espensive establish !lulu s ;tem id PA for those connected 'with the Chur,.li, t o end ni l . theta twoppese the liberties of she People. P.. Church acid State, and he *right add the Pris..n in their ' neighbourhood, for sit three went together, weft* ever found in oppesition Up' Ate rights df die Puffier. 'lithe course of 'ilie' tats Etettion, he had had the p'eavure to becnthe sr vainted with a Society that had been formed to secure the independence of the Piddles of St. Margaret and St. Jahn. Some of its members he had then the pleseureto see. lie hoped they would pe r s,.sere in their efforts, whrevet might be said of them, even though they should he called' traitors. Ori4inall y , lie Deserted, treason meant a clime against tbe State, through 'sow that only was regarded as treason *MO wee a crime 'against the Sovereign. 'Formerly treason meaht in offence against the Nlajesty of the Peopie, and though that People had resided et Rome, ha did nee know why the Msjesty of the People should not' be held to exist In England as well as in any other coml. try. ,lie strongly insisted on the•neceseity of making 'the most of the restraints which the People yet possessed on the Government, by returning those who would mske their real sentiments known ha Parliament. %Vithoet this oar Howie of Comatose would become what the F. sock Parliament Via fanned'', merely a Chamber to register Edens 1 f or t o eing the reentry. The same forms might still be retained ; we might hate a noose of Coin• mons, into which lice or sit hundred Gentlemen would lounge as into a coffee-house. They might have a table tricked out with various fooleries, with clerks about it, end with it bauble at the bottom rif it and a blockhead At the top (he might say this, as, at present, there was no Speaker in existence), but . if the People had not a substantial c'.eck on the Govern. ment, they would become mere cattle, and lose that erect form which God had originally bestowed upon freemen, to tlistitiguish them from tne brutes around them, that perish. On the importance of Perlis. mentary Reform, he descanted with great animation. He presumed to hope, that whether he (Mr. Hobe house) wereia had or a good man, they would do bee ter to elect him than to suffer another to be elected for them.' Tbe Resolution was then carried. ' Other Resolutions were agreed to, and a Commit. tee was appointed to forward the Wettest of Mr. floldioose, which it was announced *OA sit every day at the Red Lion, in Prineesrstreet. Mr. RicafLa addressed the Meeting ow Ow ne cessity of commencing en' active ea ems', and Thanks having been given to this chairman, the business ter. mutated. .ii N. 4., FlRe4.—On Sunday morning a fire broke out its the house of Mr. Crosford, of iligh.street, Shad. well, grocer. The family had retired to bed, and wets boiled in sleep, but were alarmed by the watchman, whe discovered the fire by observing smoke issuing from a window. The timely ordeal of engines, and a good supply of water, prevented much deluge being done. . Sunday night, betels, IP and 10 o'clock, an alarm. ing fire broke out io de bay-loft of the Flying Horse livery-stables, belonging to Mr. Canniest, Half Mooa alley, Bishopsgste-stribel, which destroyed the corn and hay, together with the stables. Prosideatiolly the horses were got out safe. The engines arriving, and with a good supply of sister, the fire was get under without farther mischief. CAOTION TO Tile Pvssic.—A tall man e sod two females of rather genteel appearance, took furnished. !Aging', IS, Charles-street, Northampton-ware, from which they absconded in three or four days, atter having ran in debt with several tradespiseople ha the neighbourhood to a great eaten', within* owing their lodgings. The matt appears to be 004 00 years of age; the wife shout 47, ond hulled about 18 or 20: the female' wort long grey dela * the one lined with pink, tad the ether with greys-. bar straw bonnets tied with black vilmeds. The . ape were a green goat, with wash *Ow pita% ... 11 1 1 A . . • • .