The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-22 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA. TATE OF THE INDEPENDENT ARMY IN (EXTRACT OP A PRIVATR LETTFR.) Under the date of the 19th of June, I wrote you,' and communicated to yon all the news of an authentic nature that we had received at that period, from the' Maine. Since then, I have received an interesting letter from an intelligent friend of mine at Angostura. ,The fol lowing are extracts from it, and may be relied upon , ag correct ; it is dated as late as the Ist to the 7th of June: Having horn confined with a severe illness of four months, and a convalescent, I went for the recovery of my health, and travelled over the province of (Ina).- ana, and saw the whole of the hlissions of the Caroni, and prepared a correct Map and observations of that country ; and the communications there are with the British settlements in the Esei t uilm. 1 retnrned to Angostura three weeks ago, and am going to New Orenada with (;en. Sucre and seri ral other officers, from whence I will give you all the news when opportunity offers. We have nothing new from the armies, which are -as follows :—Thr Presi olent's, in ('ata ; Oen. Urdaneta's, in St. Christohal ; Paes's, at San Fernando and vicinity ; Bermudez's, in St. Clara, (Barcelona); Monies, nith 500 men, near Comma. A Ben. Power, and 170 Iri•hmrn, part of the Irish Legion, arrived three weeks ago, :;1141 go op to the army of Pile: immediately. (01. Illo•set commands the British Legion, and the rifles, at the Apure : they have still about 3110 British troops there, and about 160 with the President's army : being all that remain out of about 6000 that have arrived in this country. The next campaign will be a settler, and I tract ' will be a successful one to *is: ae have plenty of, men, and at present, I am happy to say, they are well armed, which I could not have said two months bask. I don't know my ultimate destination till I see the President at Ctscutta, as he has sent for me ; hnt I soppaie it will be either with his army, or Cr daneta's, You will see a work of mine on this country, soon, froth England. I have tried to do justice to those whom Col. Hippesley attacks, and to give a true ac count of the state of the country I have seen. louse of the Creoles will be displeased with my description of their customs, but I defy the world to refute a syl lable I have written. PUNISHMENT Br PROXY. A Man of Dough residing at Little Chelsea, was, a few days ago, b►►rnt in effigy at that place. It ap peered that the unfortnnate culprit, was a married man, with several children, but celebrated for his amours with the frail sisterhood, two of whom were last week tried and acquitted at the Jli.ldlrscx Ses sions, for seduciar him to their residence. heating. him, and tearing his clothes. On that occasion he de clared himself to be a most rirtriores max; but sev.•r.il of his neighbours appearing to be better informed on the subject, and knowing the reverse to be the rase, determined the hoary-beaded offender should suffei the ignominy of a public exhibition. For this purpose a numerous assemblage of young men and boys, were, at an early hour, busily employed in preparing for the awfal ceremony. At seven o'clock the unfortit:iate ji l fere was bront•ht forth, elevated on a long pole, and paraded up and down the villace, to the gre.st sa tisfaction of all who knew his depraved lialiits. lie appeared q►►ite composed, and perfectly indifferent to t.,,i hootines and hissings which accomp third bins to the place of execution. The following Ines w. re then read in an audible and distinct mintier, by the Serjeant-Major, who usually officiates un such OCC.I - : Thou man of dough, Thou well must know. This public exhibition. Is meant to shame Thy wretched fame, g're thou'rt sent to perdition. Thy crimes are great, Thy awful state Demand a quick repentance ; Make some redress, And wow confess. Time justice of thy sentence. But although he app eared to listen to tit is Ad dress with great attention, not a word could be ex tolled from him. The fatal torch was then applied and in a few minutes the wretched figure was con seined to ashes. Hs Majesty's Answer to the Loyal Address from the University of Oxford : I thank von for your loyal and dutiful Address. .• This declaration of your principles, and of the feel ings with which you are impressed, at the present im portant conjuncture, is not less honourable to you, than satisfactory to myself. " It is by sods manifestations of loyalty and public combined with a strict execution of the laws, that an eirrival check will be given to the efforts of those who labour with unceasing industry to corrupt, inflame, and p the minds of my faithful subjeirs, to deprive tti-mn of the imitates , restraints, and the consolations of religion, and to subvert all those establishments, and in st lotions, which have so long been reganled with af fectiolitte veneration in this country, and with admire tio I throughout the wail!. " In the exercise of the great trust committed to my charge, I shall be invariably actuated by the deepest conviction, that the true interests of my Crown, are in separably united with those of my people; and I am fully persnaileol, that in your several stations, it will be your chief object and constant endeavour to afford to your cotintry, the best and sorest means of permanent irampillity and prosperity, by encouraging and incul cating &profound reverence for our Holy Religion, a zealous attachment to our invaluable Constitution, and a firm determination to transmit it unimpaired to oar latest descendants." Coxtlarcrs, Dec. 15.—Tho I7pper Elbe Is fast ; it freezes very keenly.—Wind S.B. by E. blows strong. Hameutton. Dec. 15.---Since yesterday we have ex ) oriented a severe frost, with easterly wind, and if it contiettes two or three days more, we expect that the navigation of the illbo will again be obsi nem., Nov. 17 (9).—Tbe frost has left us; fbr the last ten days the wind has been tresterlY• I re ceived a letter this day trona St. Petershurgii, inform 4 int; me that Gronetadt was free . froin ire. and that 1• sail had arrived since the 3tl (13th) inst. and toss were is sight. IRELA.YII. ATTESIPTITT APR APSINATION.••••••TiIe Wetford [b raid of last Thursday contains an advertisement from a public meeting, the Mayor in the chair, offering re wards fur information respecting a mostolariog attempt at assassination, Made on Monday night about tleven o'clock, by firing pistol balls into a room in the Back street, with an intent to murder one of its supposed inmates. A placard was likewise posted on the dour, with these words, " ern of to hare conspired to tour der gun." eLowaset.. Dec. 16.--On Wednesday mond' Messrs. Colelough and Donnelly, Excise Officers f Ulonmel, under the direction of Redmond Dart', Es Acting Inspector-General, proceeded with a party the Royal Lancers from ('alter, to the neighbourho of Mitehelstown, %there they destroyed green prix Di.vri , b7ics, three of which were at full work : If spilled and destroved more than :1,1!011 gallons of pi ale, with a quantity of sin . !rlings ; made prisoners three men found in the distilleries ; and seized a iv's tits of malt, both dry and in process : they also soil some horses and carts found conveying illicit gm and made the carriers prisoners, who, toirther A the persons shore mentioned, were brought in rushee to Clonniel, where they have deposited iii his AlajSIC ft's stores three unlicensed clipper stills, about .it: hard rels of illicit malt, and two burst a, with tirosrh tarts. Atlecrtiser.) A few nights back, about seven o'clock, the house of 31r. Denis thwyer, a respectable farmer, a bo resides on the lands of ltiorkeen, in the barony of Kilns managh, av;,s forcibly entered by a banditti, consist ing of ci..Tht armed men, who knocked down his ser vant man in the kitchen, pet out the candles, and pro ceeded to the parlour, where 11wyer and his wife were sitting, and demanded the fire arms, ‘i Lich they insist ed ots trmlimr, hot %thick be denied having they nut tieing satisfied with his assurance, forced him to sweat to it. 'flue rutlians then pet //wyer and his wife into another room, while they starched minutely fur the arms, and s nut ancreeding in Eviting- tuna, they left as:. house. On Captain Wilson's hearing of the out rage, he instantly dispatched a •tron7 party of his mounted Police, who appalmniled s'ot .urn in the mo , tatains of Kilnasnan.:zli. Ile then se 11111 l toned an other irentleman in the nrighbottrhimi:, mho had been reeetitly robbed of his arms, with Myer and his sery alit but, it lien examined on oath, they would not go farther than their Imli..f, that some of the persona were of the parties who robbed their hillefelg, in eon segnenvo of which Captain Wilson was reluctantly obliged to trowliarge these men.—(ltid.) LAN' INTELLIGENCE. CO:11T OP CHANCERY, Dim. !I. TOE ATTORNEY-CENFit %1., AT THE KFLATION OF TOE MARQ' r 049 OF 111.‘NI.F.)RP, V. THE PUKE OF MUM- nouo:4;ii. Thia caose was again brought hefore the Lord Ulla*. ee p oe by \I r. Sba,lwell, n ho noticed the postponement that had tal;en place for the purpose of having,• au affidavit of the silos th•• Dnke lilts entitled to ma de, it hit 'A has already been laid before our readers. 31r. iT railed the attention of his Lordship t• the affi.latit of 1:r. l'enneler., and another person, %r h o h a d ;L im o sworn in support of the ease of his noble The Lynn CIIANCELLOR. - 113! the Duke made an affidavit that he has not encumbered these rents ? Af ter some observations from Mr.Shadwell, his Lordship said, that it wonld he necessary that his liraer shonlal make an a!ildavit that he had not ....signed or encum bered the property in question. At iiresent it was merely stated the Duke of Mal-lion:ought was entitled to. the rents ; hut that Was, in fart, saying nothing, as any perwn :night tome to the court to-morrow, And say that he held au a•sitt 'la of the property that was now the snhject of dispnte. timely, said his Lordship, Isis lirare rats have no o'sjection to making an affidavit as to the interest he has in this suns, or whether he has or ha, nut made an assignment of it. Mr. IV..AV undertook to make an affidavit by the next Seal, if the proceedings were allowel to be stayed until that time. Mr. SIIALOWRIL said the real question here was, whether the Custoa should or should not be dis rhar_ed? The Lonn CutNert.t.on said he would not dis charge the order he hall made ; and after some farther conversation, the rase was ordered to stand until th• next seal day. VICE-CILINCELLOR'S COURT, Du. I. IN THE MUTER oF THE EATON CHARITY. Mr. SOAre r Lt. stated. that this was a petition by two of the trustees of this charity, and it prayed that the Rev. hi r. another of ti.r trusters, might be compelled to Live :an account of the !OHM now in his bands, received on account of the charity. Mr. CROSS interposed, and preyed of the Conrt that the petition might stand over, as Ilk client, the Rev. 51r. —, had b..en unable on account of indispo3ition to answer the allegations iu the peti.ion, which se verely reflected upon him. Sitati‘‘ cu. said. that it was true the petition contained some heavy charges against the Rev. lien- Reiman ; but it W3'; (41 her singular that lie should plead indisposition 30 a reason for not answering the petition, since he was able to write a very long and abusive 'Ater in repl}• to it. The VICE-CH+NcaLLou.--•-Perhaps it is your peti tion that has wade him laugh.)•---fhe only objection I have to postpone the hearing of it is, that it prays fur an account which sooner or later 'oust be rendered', What is your objection, Mr. Cross, to an account? Mr. Cans' replied, that the only objection was, that by yiekiing to the prayer of the petition, without a full answer to the charges which it contained, his client *night appear to be atituitting them. The Vie a.CUANcSLLUft desired that the petition might sand over, as if lie proceeded in the.petition at present, no other opportunity %timid be triyen to the Rev. Gentleuisn to meet the severe al:egatiuss in the petition. lIMINP.I.m.' TILE STATESMAN COURT OF KINIII BENCH. DEC. 21. London Adjourned Sittings after Michaelmas Term, before the LORD CniarJutrica and Common Juries. BOTHWELL AND ANOTHBR D. DEMAINI. This was an action on a Bail Bond given by the de fendant to the late Sheriffs of London, to which the def ndsnt pleaded infancy. 1 It appeared in evidence, that the defendant had been 1 in business for himself as . a Manchester warehouse /Win . . for a year, and that he was a remarkably tall {ruing 111411, and had all the appearance of full age.— In support of his plea of infancy, however, he called a Yorkshire cousin, who remembered him when he was only three immtlis old ; and he also produced the regis ter of his birth, by which it appeared, that he was in a slate of inimicy when he executed the flail Bond. The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found for the delemiant. SACS( DEES AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES Or raorigaT r. GREGO. This was an action of 'rover by a‘signees of a bank rupt, nine-merchant, to recover a certain quantity of wine, alleged to have been sold to the defendant, a retired baker, after bankruptcy. Mr. Brougham was th i the plaintiff, and Mr. Scar .lett footle defendant. "'There wis nothing of public interest in the case.— The plaintiffs made tint their claim, in the opinion of the I.eara-•,1 Judge, to the sum of 32/. 14s. fur which the Jun found their verdict, POLICE. PURIM' OFTICE, Bow STllFET.—Yesterday, Mr. Fre &rick Avert—, t h e celebrated Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, it .1, brought to the office by Bishop and Ni cholls, the officers, front his house, in Compton-street, Soho, where he has resided for about 30 years, charged with rubbing the Royal Institution in Albemarle street. to it hid' the prisoner was a subscriber, and had hoot so for mane years. Ile emit- went an ex amination before Rirliard Birnie, Esq., the sitting Magistrate. It appeared from the evidenre adiliterd in support of the that Ilse Royal Institution possc,seil it very superior library, particularly in ge twat scientific honks, lint that the rharacter and esti ination of the hoolis have been reduced considerahl for ...to , rearq past by their being nutilrrell imperfect or in...nip:eh., not by stealing or destroying the bo/i l ;s. lint br tearing nut leaves fr on the books and stealing them. 'I his practice has been stipposed to have beet. rani...! tilt for :•onte years before it was discovered: and at first, when one book and then another was pointed out as imperfect, it was conjectured to have been Iry accident ; bus at length it was discovered that Itich were found to he imperfect by leaves brio ! : deficient, had been ascertained to have been coin- 1 pletely perfect a very short time before. The num ber of the detective Looks increased, particularly scientific and valuable works, so much so, that lir. John titers, the Assistant Librarian to the Royal institution, made a lyrical statement to the Managers of the circumstances, and at the same time mentioned the prisouer's name as the gen tleman lie suspected, and stated, as the ground of Isis suspicion, that the hooks which lie had discovered leaves to have been taken out of were boo!,s that the prisoner Aas in the habit of reading, and that after the prisoner had lift the lostittiti,in, he had examined the Sallie hooks he had seen in his hands, and had found leaves taken out of them. Mr. Stert was di rected to watch the conduct of dm prisoner when he came to the Institution, which he accordingly did,' The prisoner's hours in general of visiting the Insti tntion were front s little after live o'clock in the after-1 noon till past seveu, time hours best calculated to pur sue such mat-practices, as there are fewer subscribers there then than at ulh. r hours. On Wednesday evening the pri-iini r was at the Institution during his ustril boors of between 5 and 7, when Mr. Stert weelted him very closely, and had no doubt that he hail torn some leaven out of some books he hail been looking :-1, but owing to a pile of hooks which was between them he could not be positive, and therefore he was afraid to interfere. After the prisoner had left the Institution, Mi. Stert proceeded to examine the books which lie bail particularly noticed the pri dna had been looking at, when he found a periodical scirntifie work, called Nicholson's Journal, defective of live leaves, which lie was positive was entire and complete last week. Strongly suspecting that the prisoner had taken them, he determined on taking steps against Lim; he reported the whole of the cir euntstances to Mr. Mingle, the Sitting Magistrate, who, after doe cototider ttian, determined on issuing a search warrant to search the prisoner's house. Bishop and Nicholls, the officers, accompanied Mr. Stert to the prisoner's house in Compton-street. with the search warrant, anti found the prisoner at home. Mr. Stert proceeded to exae:ine the different papers in the house, and identified a ontether whirl, had been torn out of books beloagitig to the Ititval Institution. While this was doing, the prisoner walked up and down the room in great agitation. The °dicers seised the leaves, Sr. identified by Mr. Stert as belonging to the proprietors of the Royal In stitution, and them and the prisoner they brought to the afire before Mr. filmic, when 31r. Stert identified sundry leaves, which corresponded with books belong ing to the Royal Institution that hail been mutilated. All the hooks which had been plundered of leaves were those which the prisoner was in the habit of reading when he was at time Royal Institution. Three leaves found in his house corresponded with the first volume of it' i Ili ch's Coniestic Encyclopaedia, which Mr. Steil said lie had no doubt belonged to the volume in the library of the Royal Institution ; also three leaves, containing from pa ge 421 to 426, of Cullen's Materia Medico, which had been missed from that 'cork be longing to the Institution. The officers produced a number of other leaves, ansonittiog in the whole to about 30, small and large, which M r.Sted said he bad doubt belonged to books in the library of the In stitution. The prisoner, in his defence, said the leaves seized by the officers in his house, and produced before the Magistrate, belonged to books . which be had at home. State book!, however, belongiog to the lioNlSoslOn were produced, in which the leaves matched to the places where leaves had been takes out, as to. the pages, type, &c. The Magistrete, after hearing the whole of the car nisi it was of great consequence to the property nt ~u Institution of such importance, and especially as in jured or despoiled by one of its own subscribers ; hot to constitute a felony, the property stolen must be if some value, and however valuable the books might be from which the leaves found in the prisoner's bone r , and identified by Mr. Stert, has been torn, yet t i e leaves separated from them were only waste paper, and it was doubtful whether the smallest v.ilue (. 0 , 1 ;4 be put upon the different le.ives produced ; if they h a d weighed r pound, be would have committed the .r;. soner for the value of a pound of waste paper, but as that was not the case he discharged hint. N.IUTIC4L INTELLIGENCE': The Freiheit, Domeke, from Liverpool to Stet•:n. put into Dantzie, on the 30th of Nov. with damage. The Coquette, Taylor, f um Liverpool to Af,:ca, was totally wrecked on 'the eoast of Wexford abort the 17th inst. and only wo of the crew s.tved. The Agenoria, Nall, frim Brill ; ,-ewatcr to (itir!- 4 . sev, put into Penzance, on Monday, with lo , s of bo.t, bulwarks dam lack!, sails split, and part of her cargo thrown overboard. The Fairy, (Jaya, coal laden, gunk off the Land's End, on Sunday. Crew saved. The Esther. iV ilson, front Liverpool to Philatlelphia, put intolVaterfortl,un the 14th inst. with hiss of wain and inizen torn tsts, the co.ist of Aso •rica. BRENIEN, Der. 15.—The frost Lt set in with new vigour, b}• which the navigation will be stagnated once more. LIYtNPOOL, 19.—1 t is reported that an Ameri can ship, sopposed to he the Dublin Parket, Coles, fr New York to Dublin, and several colliers, are lost off the Kish PL UOI•T , . 19. — • ! he Fame, Owen, from Cha rente for London. got aground near the vil's Point this morning, u hell a•t..iiipting to proceed to iea, bat it i, exported tt.!l be t : of off in the course of the day, without any material damage. SPARRING.—OIiver had a benefit at the Royal Tennis Court. in Wiichnill-street, yesterday. which ss•as well attended. The amateurs, who prefer►ed qualify qfloatity, had a good treat, and we noticed those only which excited interest. Jemmy Lennox made a buss hoist with one of his pupils, preparatory to that between I /liver and Shelton, which was an excellent set-to, coin hieing the requisites of boxing with much personal courage. It was give and take until they were tired of it, and the appl•ntse was uprourioms Ilelasco, and Sampson the Birmingham Youth, hail something like a match in earnest 'so about eight rounds. They turne•t to, as if nothing tint mischief was meant, and the flonrisz system in general ended the rounds. Relates had the hest at going off, and the men reminded the amateurs of th, it fight in reality, if there was not I) great a display of the uncorking system. In the fif.l► round Behisco hurt his shonhier by a fall, and after wards Sampson had the best of it. It was altogether a manly turn, and there was nothing like quarter shown. A new black of Richmond's, who will never keep up die name of his patron or a Molineur, had &turn with Oliver Burn, but he made a complete failure, and Isis atte:uins. to hit were rather thrusts, whisk will 'ever do mischief. and having lost his colt teeth some thirty y:•ars ago he had find souse other employment. Ben Burn and. Larkins made a very striking set-to, ss hieli was followe t by much applause. It was a good specimen of sciecc • . against strength and courage. Harris and Hanwond hit away in good form, as did also the Hype'', Cooper, an.l Curtis. There was a fine display of courage and seitusee in the last set-to. There w•as no new matches made. Snitcher in mode. fortilcr in re. • The treatment mild—the mire effectual. AC AN UI D Examination of Professional Pretension,' Is only to be feared by those who are conscious its capacit y. Impressed at en early period of onr professional career with the importance of a more minute etteidion to a clam of diseases reuliarly affecting the grander operations of Na ture, we boldly d..vlated from what was held to be medics) orthodoxy ; attacked the vatietings of cenp%rlrkm, and. be ele frreCux its vile purp7mes, consider oursek es juely entitled to that approbation and patronage which, for twenty yeses, have rewarded our successful and detuted stedibs. The 'estimation of our enlightened brethren.who freptently appesl to o u r opinion. is an additional gratiiraticza to ner while our authority from the College itielf, strengttomed an it is by the most enthusiastic testimonials of almost every Professor In the British Metropolis, must ewer protect tho sanctity of our fame from nvy or misrepresentation. The impetuosity of youth. or the momentary want of ora tion in the mature,' man, often lead to the effects of tegious disease; happy. therefore, may the early apr Hese' be called, whose anxiety can be alleviated by a few de. , ' care; end even in the more advanced stages, characterized by numerous symptoms, we can illustrate our assertion. by rindering the treatment mild. the cure effectual. • Every organic chaage, or functieeal disturbance, inci dental to the generative economy. fills egimily within es.e province, and still}field to our attend-in. Arnow , these ire diseases of the urethra. weakness• and constitutional meats, of however long duration. The child of inanition msy be restored to appetenre. and, tweed of bring exhausted by nervous debility, he will sir ciliate the manlier proof of vigorous impulse. W hen limits of an advertisement do not allow the classification of onr s*ils iects, but they are amply detailed in a Work o e lately pep lisped, called The Y.eis of Life," the rapid ,ale of accompanied with ea increasing prect;rc. are undeMetoe proofs of our general utility. The Book can be had at t:it. ' Paternoster-row; ; Ai. Picradilly ; 16, Pr:ne.••-- street, Soho ; 174, and 32, Fleet-street 1 tor at logy Floas• ' sellers. No disesees are felt with greater pnignsney by the stifferrr than those occasioned by his own imprudence; and In us• cases of consultation is liberality of education in the I'r•, fessor more desirable, than where the moat %I:emended e4l'f • Silence is placed, and the most inviokble secrecy is expeel,•-l thus the terms are plaini‘ slated at thu first interview, or is "insert to letters reinntely detailing the symptoms, slid closing a remittance for unediciee and advice, which can be forwnrded to any part of the world. GOSS and Co.. NI. It. C. Surgeons. I I, Bonveric.;tre- , . Flirt-street.--4 private door round the turner. bIARRir.D. Thursd:iy at St. Luke's. Chelsea. the Rev. Hears Blunt. A.M. Vicar of Clare. Suffolk, Fellow of Pe•uhrolte Cambridge, and Mateole Chaplain to his Greer Soul/eke t.r Richmond, to Julia Anse, daughter of Joseph >taller, u Chelsea. F.sq. Thursday looming, at St. °corr.'s Antral. Mornoshcry. bliss Mary Wiissield, eldest daughter of William WI; 6 Said, Esq.. sn.l sire& to the Earl of Dishy, to Wu.. Uvrdo . 'kali.. of Naield, lo the moiety of Revealed. - DIED. Os the 13111 Inst. s* Epsom. Caaries Parish. of Eremesiwi: I College. Cambridge. *gel 11. Oa the like lest.. John Clarke. Eel.. illeile-see-bee. e Rassegste. late a ANAL Middlesex. lured 83. tilooka RAW. •Vlliriel. gueel Psibiiolutt et the asnt.e " tin Brienply is " sad Tog Costs - ttru no)," (Sancti. Peyote) IPS. Stettin. opposite Si. Cl•ment'senneo by R. WARDSLL. Joe.. 1.L.11.: to ohm', aN C.•-•- manisatiais, Ortiors, lko. aro requested to he adders. e 1. r P f I l i