The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-09 00:00:00

Iololllll.l7lToftAt BARLY.LIFE of MR. M(INT. Iffeallswoirs of Henry flout, Mg. written by bkoself.) • (Concluded from yesterday's Statesman.) . * p ooh had nearly passed, and with most of the las &Affair began to wear ofh 'and it was seldom ;;; 10 1 1 .1; not so with me, it pressed very heavily i s a fig wind, and instead of being one of the most boys in the school, I was now become quite ti and even melancholy, and was frequently ob. ol d to shed tears. My friends endeavour'd to rally . oreet of this what they called sulky moor! ; I replied bill could not help it, that I should never again he tory till it was discovered who it was that took my flow's money ; and that its being lost while k was his bed-fellow, certainly threw a sort of suspicion on me, that I could not get over, apd to labour under &deb remit-red me completely miserable. 'They all endeavoured to laugh me ont of this humour, and o ast say that Scott himself did every thing in his Meer to relieve me; but it was all in vain, I not only grew wag ma ?, bat I bogus to lose my appetite, and as I ' Looked very thin and ill, Mrs. Evens was somewhat a b ri ael, an d said every thing she could to comfort ree. Alas' it was all in vain, and I really began to think that I should fall a victim to false accusation, f„, d f l ad SO sleep by night, nor ease by day. Mrs. divans now proposed to send for my father, which is few days she did. When he arrived and was informed of the circumstances, he felt greatly dis tressed. I was sent for into the parlour ; my father was shocked at my appearing in such health, and the azonv of his feelings was intense at the cause of my ib e ss. Ile entreated me, by the love 1 bore towards hint and my mother, to confes. s the truth ; if I had in an unguarded moment been led into an error, the only reparation was openly to confess it, and, in that case, be offered immediately to repay Scott his money, and to make him a handsome present besides ; in fact he promised to do any thing. Before he would allow me to make an answer, he went almost upon his knees, and implored me to tell him the whole truth, proffer ing at the same time his entire forgiveness if I had &twit. I assured him in the most serious and solemn manner, that I knew nothing whatever of the money, that it had made me very unhappy indeed, that I had I had no sleep for the last eight or ten nights, and had lost my appetite, and that I was become very weak and ill ; which illness he found, by feeling my pulse, was attended with a veer considerable fever. Ile pro. posed to take me home 'for a short time, to restore my health ; but this I objected to, as being likely to give aco our to the charge. It was therefore settled that should take some medicine, prescribed by Dr. Stiles, to calm rily spirits and allay my fever. • My fatl.er returned home almost broken-hearted, and l confirmed in the same melancholy and hopeless state. However, in the evening of the next Sunday, a lot- ratite running np to rue almost breathless, and declared that he hail discovered the thief, who hid stolen the money. I eagerly intreated hint to explain himself—be answered that Charles Best, tog ether with kit brother James. bad just brought in a haffed of Carratcqy Comfits, which he said be had bought with live shillings, given to biro by his father. The Father of these hoes lived in the town, and they had been home on the Sunday, as was usual, to dine with him. They hal just returned from their visit, about eight o'clock in the evening, and Charles. the eldest, the fellow who had acrnsed me of being the thief, had now brought these comfits in his hat, saying that his fa titer had given hitnfire shilling's, which he had expend ed at once in this way. My friend directly declared that it was a falsehood, that his father was a cursedly stingy old fellow, and that he had never before re turned with more than sixpence in his pocket ; and he aided, ruppose his father or any other person hail given hint five shillings, it was very unlikely that he w.oild lay it all out at once in such a manner. I re quested Best to show us his purse, to see if he had any more money in it. This he declined to do; and, as his brother James began to shuffle, and did not es)rfirm hinz altogether in his story, I immediately seized him by the collar, and having tripped up his heels, called fur assistance to search him. This we accomplished with some difficulty, and having gut at his purse, we found it contained sixteen shillings in silver more. lie now changed his tale, boil asserted that his father had given him a guinea, which he had changed at Mrs. iladding's the pie -woman; that he had purchased five shillings-worth of carraway comfits, and the sixteen shillings was the remainder of the change. By the manner of his telling this story it was evi dently false. Some of the boys accordingly kept him. in custody, while myself and my friend, who had first brought me the intelligence, rushed out of the house, regardless of the consequences, and proceeded as fast as possible to the house of old Best, either to have this account confirmed or denied. On our reaching the door we knocked with gm at authority, and upon the servant's opening it, we marched in without any cero tawny, and demanded an audience of his master imme diately, as we had some very important business with him. The servant informed hint of our visit, and be came ant of the parlour to ns, anti demanded what liu‘iness we could have with him at that time of night, it being then nearly nine o'clock. We first asked if his sons had been home to dine will him; he answer ed yes, and that they hail left his house upwards of an hour ago. in order to return to the school, and he wished to know whether they bad not arrived before we left. We replied that they had. We then asked Lim if he had given his son Charles any money ; he at once said, " Certainly not." His mother might have given him sixpence, but if she did it- was without his knowledge. Ile then returned into the parlour; anti we heard him ask his wife if she had given Charles any money t o- day, the answer was, " No, my dear." any was quite enough for us, and without waiting any further cerest•ony, we started off back to the school. In the roman time, Best, having ascertained that we were gone to his father to make enquiry, had con fessed that it was he who had stolen the esesty eat of .Scutt's pocket ; and when we returned he was see rounded by all the boys, who were upbraiding sad taunting him with Me villainy ; but they were all more enraged with bite for his baseness in accusing me of the theft, than they were with the theft itself. I was the only one who expressed any pity for him, awl had the weakness to solicit fur that *nervy to be however, they soon left the town, wltieb It was gm rally understood was occasioned by this unfortsoate event. My father was sent for, and he case ovet Ito. tnediately, to participate with rue in the happiness I felt, at be4ng so completely exculpated from from all suspicion ; and every endeavour was made to render me, as far as it was possible, compensation for my ref tering,. _ _ I trust that this circumstance will prove to the reader the danger and the injustice of condemning any parson upon mere circumstantial evidence. How cautious ought jurors upon their oaths to be, not to find men guilty upon mere circumstances ; and, par ticularly, when their verdict may give the party over, bound hand and foot, and place his life or his liberty at the disposal of corrupt, wicked, cruel, and vindictive judges THE QUEEN. Messrs. Brougham and Denman had an interview with her Majesty at Brandenburgh House, on Thursday strewing, soon after her return from her aquatic ex cursion. Mr. Alderman Wood reached the Queen's town re sidence soon after ten yesterday meriting, when it was announced that her Majesty might be expected at half past eleven. At the appointed time her Majesty arrived, attended by Lady Hamilton, and almost immediately proceeded to the House of Lords ; where she had another con ference with her Counsel. After remaining about half an hour in her retiring room in the House of Lords, her Majesty having ap pointed to receive several Addresses at Brandenburgh House, set out on her return thither immediately. In order to prevent a recurrence of those outrages committed by the crowd when the St. Mary-le-Bone Address was presented, the Magistrates at Bow-street sent down a strong parts• of officers under the direction of Perry. the conductor of patrols; and in consequence every thing passed off with the utmost order and re gularity. Sir Hobert Wilson and Mr. Hobhouse first arrived with an Address from a number of inhabitant house holders of the town of Derby. Mr. Hobhouse was in full Court dress, and Sir Hobert wore a full dress Major-Generals uniform with the insignia of his dif ferent orders of Knighthood. At half-past ore o'clock the deputation with the Address from the parish of Whitechapel entered the grounds in twenty-one open carriages, drawn by four j horses each : and they were almost immediately ful -1 lowed by the Ahlersgate Ward Addresses, in thirty sist carriages, headed by Mr. Alderman Cox, in his scarlet gown the ward officers •with their maces, Ice. As tlte company alighted they were shown into the drawing-routn to wait the return of her Majesty from town. At a quarter past two her Majesty arrived. She was receited with acclamations by a crowd of respect ably dressed persons who had assembled in Lout of the house and on the lawn. Her Majesty retired for about ten minntes ; and then, after giving audience to Sir Robert Wilson and Mr. clubhouse, she took her station at the upper end of the marble gallery, attended by those gentlemen, Mr. Alderman Wood, M. Schiavani, Colonel Oliviera, Lady Anne Hamilton, and several othe.4lies, and the Whiteehapel deputation, was admitted. The address was presented and read by Mr. William son, the chairman of the meeting, and her Majesty returned a most gracious answer. The deputation had afterwards the honour of kissing hands. The Aldersgate Ward deputation was nest admitted, `when Mr. Alderman Cox presented the address , which ! was read by Mr. Corbould, the mover of it. Her Ma jesty replied very graciously, and this deputation also kissed hands. We understand, that in the course of the day Lord Duncannon presented an address to her Majesty front the females of Shetlield, with 10,600 signatures; and that Mr. Alderman Wood presented two, one signed, as we are informed, by 300 individuals belonging to the Leicester militia, and the other from the females of Halifax. The address from the male inhabitants has been presented to Sir Francis Burdett. The following is her Majesty's gracious Answer to the Address from the inhabitants of li'hitechapel : " I am happy to find that my many sufferings and my accumulated wrongs have so powerfully interested the sympathies of the inhabitants of St. Mary's, White- Aapel. " The conspiracy which I am combating, though no minally directed against myself. is in fact, a conspiracy against British liberty. NI, measure since the Rev°ln ' tion has portended such disastrous consequences as the present Bill of Pains and Penalties. While it threatens freedom under all its diversified aspects, and with all its general rights, and all its particular securities, it at the same time darkens the perspective of the future, with a lowering appearance of civil war. It exhibits a cloud on the edge of the political horizon that may burst in misery on every family an the country. " This Bill of Paitis and Penalties may thus be the harbinger of woe to every man's hearth. It may em bitter the days of thousands and tens of thousands both rich and poor, and produce irremediable regrets. " After the noble stand which so many , of the most estimable among the Peers have made against this pes tiferous bill, and the total want of any evidence to jus tify its enactment, it cannot be expected that it will pass; but if it should pass, we must never lose sight of the probability that his Majesty may marry again. The issue of that marriage would in ill likelihood cause a • contested succession. That part of the nation which will not allow the Bill of Pains and Penalties to be a constitutional act may not readily submit to the off spring of a marriage which will never generally be deemed legitimate. " If my marriage be annulled, it must be annulled in defiance of all law. The Queen, therefore, who suc ceeded me would only be nominally Queen, for no law ful right can be conveyed by an illegal act, and in the opinion of the great majority of the nation, nothing Can stamp this - Bill of Pains and Penalties with any legal characteristic. It will never he regarded as any thing more than an act of pure tyranny, and as such it will excite the hatred of the present age, and experience the execration of posterity.' SHOCKING ACCIDINT.-00 Thursday afternoon, a youth of the name of Pegot, an apprentice in Marsha'. street, St. James's, in company with two others, hired a boat to await the return of the Queen; and baring been regaling themselves too freely at Batteries, on their re turn they ran foul of a large above Lambeth Church, a , ii mil the bus: Tr • • -them were picked up aft r i supporting themselves bar some time on die water ; but 'Fagot sunk to r;se no more. . • MI STAI IN AACCHI: [Addressiog!Emelt to both] Mee ands ; yen yoe eater de court, prates garde: Or, by Oar, you will Dever receive de reward: For yea erowegamled, Morblem I If you falter. Au nu de is pension, yon may pt von halter! The LADY ! A halter? Mon Dies! asy dear Masai, you sport : As pis eller, I know we shall hod friends at Court• Grace a Dieu! dat dam fellow Is gone; ce •il !equals! Approehez ma Coolness', come Liss your own Mead. The LADY. Moi embracer an bontme; Fi. Sneehi ;IL done ! SACCHI: RACCIII: Ja snis fiche de n' pas potnoir rests r ee soar; Mali on nous epie. Adieu. au revoir ! The LADY [Soli.] Now must I con my legsnn once attain Then to to sleep ; but. ah ! I fear In vain. METEOROLOGY. THE DRILLINd. (From Mt Lherpoot ifirretery.) liana. as Aparteulat Medeeseteelle De Moat's Losifiefe. Thee. after Beeper. ?meet. the Canons of Colowbier. lisoehi. sad Idejoeci : the latter of whose Is lest shout to retire to bed. Seeming the two former Chen awls toe tote-a. fete. BACCHI proceeds: Rh hien! vat de crown lawyers visit you to say You most swear dat is true, or you von't get de pay But If dem curse lawyer. dat plead for de Queen. proughan, Denman, or ViSlams, who are so dam keen, 1)o pat ugly question, to mach you tm sly. " Je no me rapelle psz," dear Countess, reply ; And If. par hazard. from the truth you should seeder. Yoe must say. tkat is only von " doable entendre." Quint a you, Msjoeel, ven pussrd, no more do. But shrug up de shoulder. with " Non ml rieordo." Boone nuit.Theodore! it feet avoir bon your; N'oubliez pas vet' leeon. et repose: sent pour. [Exit Signor Non Rieordo to bed.] RACCH I : Pourquoi non 1 Ce West pea la premiere folks. De Mont. Embrassez encore. Eh bien ! very veU. The LADY : Adieu! mon cher Saeciti: but don't kiss and tell. The weather has continued fair and brilliant since Monday se'nnigbt, and much warmer since the present month commenced than during the concluding days of the last. During those days the mercury in the thee ammeter at I o'clock never rose shove 64 ; but for more than a week past it bas on an average exceeded 65. At the beginning of the eclipse on Thursday it stood in one thermometer, in ('ornhill, at 69j, in another at 6t, and in both sunk at the time of the greatest ob scuration to 64. At the Royal Observatory at Green wirb, it fell only three degrees, and by a letter we have seen from the Rer. Dr. E. D. Clarke, the celebrated tea seller,. at Cambridge, the same fall WM observed there. The birds there all went to roost. The gloom was not so great as many expected, not greater than the twilight that day, five minutes after sun-set ; yet Venus was vi sible in London ; and at Brighton, not only was that planet observable to the naked eye, hut Mercury and Mars to those u who had suitable glasses. At Nor wich the Thermometer at the commencement of the Eclipse stood at 631 and at five seconds, after the greatest obscuration 6lt, exhibiting a difference of only two degrees. In the F.clipse of 1745, when the °bull ration was only 94 disits, or about two less than that of Thursday, M. Cassini de Thury, who went with the King of France to Compeigne to view it, says, that at the middle of the Eclipse the Thermometer fell 24 degrees. At Norwich, substances which were set on fire previ ously to the Eclipse in about a quarter of a minute, were unaffected during the greatest obscuration, nor could the Thermometer he raised by the focus of a burning glass thrown upon it. In every quarter from which we have heard, the atmosphere was highly propitious to observers. In London the light fleecy clouds that occa sionally passed over the sun did not obstruct the view of it, and with the exception of a very few minates, the progress of the Eclipse was visible from the beginning to the end. From all patty of the country we learn that the wea ther has for the last ten days been exceedingly farour able to the harvest. A few days previous, on the 25th ult. a storm of the most vivid lightning, and the loudest thunder ever witnessed in that neighbourhood, took place at Port Monteith, to the north-west of Illasgow, It happened between ten and eleven o'clock at night, and was areouipanieil by a slight earthquake, which was felt by those inhabitants who were in bed. A person travelling on the road was knocked off his horse by an explosion; but was only injured slightly by the fall. On recovering from the shock, lie found Isis horse stand ing in a tremour at about ten yards distant front him. The man had seen himself and his horse encompassed by a pale blue flame, ascending his breast with a ruffling noise, and a strong smell of sulphur. The following, are as usual, the observations made during the week by our correspondent in Lie Strand. Steroid. Sept. 9. RR FR R ONItTICR 8 I , 11 IBAIRONIT?R. o'clock. o'clock. at night. Sept. ----. -- 3. 8. •• • 37 63 .5i Wad Fair 4, M.... 63 63 61 ,116 Fair 3, Tu... bt 06 38 ,18 Fair 6, W.... 63 63 64 .14 Fair •7, Th... 34 61 SS .18 Fair 8 F... • • 37 88 63 ,118 Falf 9, F.,. 67 ey 48 Fair • The Mercury in a thermometer In the Strand fell 3 de grees during the eclipse. DIARY FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, WITH TNT TIMES OF MOIR WATTS AT LONION-OICIDOR. Sept. 10, S.—Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. Illgh water—mortal a. after 2; area. 44 s. after 3. 11. N. Day deerassed Shears 42 sin. High water—aura. 66 a. after 2; etas. 9s. after 4. IL T. Saturn rises 0 in. past 7 afternoon. lllgh watoo--morn. 24 ae. after 4; ovenJani. after 4. IL W. Jupiter eats 21 ale. pest 6 sore. High water—sort. I a. after 6 ; eyes. 42 la. after 3. 14, Th.—Holy Cross. Iflgia waaar—a. 46 rain. after 41; saes. It s. after 0. F.-IPlral starter 2 afternoon. High witlar—sore. 41 a. after 6 ; area. 12 in. after 7. 16, S, cleats rise 21 past I sore. High wiler—seat. 48 s. after 7; arcs. VS a. after 8. SPURTIM) JIITELLIOBACS. PONITVRACT MgrIPINCh. Theassst. Srikt. 7. ISIS. TM Led,won Msle. offlegbrosk thrust-Toss old oohs. Wt. Sib y 1111los, Ow. Mb' O Mile sod s Quetta,. Sir J. Ilyng's bt. e. eassosode, by Sisoiensto I Mr. Wilson 's b.e. Carpenter. by Don Coossek—Cockeghter V Mr. Brows's b. e. Desert; by Tramp A good roes. - - • - Sweepstakes of 90gs mieb.fot two-year oMs, colts to carry Sat. Mb.; Illnes,Bo. The last Three 44 notes of a Mile. Mr. Milnes's b. fr. My Lady, by Comes, sister to the Duke I Lord Fltawilligm's W. e. Cternichrg. by Soiolosako-- Miestral Lord Scarborough's b. e. by Smolensko, by Miss Callon 3 Won easy. Seventy Pounds Oat by the Mailbag's for the Borough of Pontefract. for horses. ac. of ell Agra ; weights. ge. the same as for Toesdues Plate. and the ms inner of Tuesday 's or Wednesday's Plate, to carry estra. Dents. Three Miles each. Mr. Kirby's be. a. Benlfsce, in Sorcerer, .3 yri el 1.. 4 I I Mr. Cilfteses b. h. Cimellon, tiyrs out Mr. Whe's b. se. Cottage Old, by Thunderbolt. 5 yrs d REITI?4O Al' PONTErRACT T/IE DONCASTER ST. LFOEIf .—S err . 7. SI to apt Tramper. 6I to apt Cavalier. 10 to apt Mr. Loftuev Woodbine. 101 to apt St. Patrick. I f to apt Arbutus. IS to agst Altisidora c. IS to apt Toner. IS to asst Repdando. BOXING IN NORFOLK. The fight between Cox and Bar lee, for a purse of 2euf, was fought on Tuesday last, at Thurton, in Norfolk. much smaller number of persons assembled to witness tht battle than is usual on such occasions ; bat whether th;. result arose from pugilism baring lost some of its Ai traction with the amateurs of Norwich, or that thou gentlemen would have considered it a degradation to attend to minor contest, after feasting so suniptnouq!y at North Walsham, we are at a loss to determine. The supposed number present was between two and three thousand persons, and amongst them we ob served, from the London ring, Joshua Hudson. Bar wingliato Youth, Teasdale, Young Belasco, &c. Burke entered the ring first, attended bv Palmer and Teasd.ale, and Cox soon followed, with Walkley and another, as his seconds. Barlee is considerably improved in strength and weight since he last fought, but Cox is still his su perior in both. They set-to at a b out half past one, went to work inensediatelv, and for the first three rounds it was very even lighting, thongh Burke being the weak est went down each time. In the fourth Cox received a heavy blow in the throat, s rally ensued, and he got another on his sneezer, hich hit him down smartly; shouts of applause followed, but in the next round Barlee was knocked down in his film. From this rotund I to the 39th odds were in favour of Cox, though native hit away well while his strength lasted, and Cox got the most of it; the 7 next Cox had all his own way. One slight blow was suithrient for Hurler, and it was Mexico to a China orange.—ln the -17th Cot received a blow which made him reel, and in a close Barlee fibbed him 'down ; great applause ensued ; but in the next rotund Burke again got the worst ; he however came up fresh, and had ouch the hest of the hitting, thorgh he fell, and thus he con tinued, having got what is called his second wind to punish his adversary must severely to the end of the tight. but went down every time except in the last two rounds, in each of which Cox received so severe a facer that it fellesLisian. and the last was a complete knock down, which dazzled him, and he mold not come to time. The battle lasted one hour and twenty-four mi nutes, and ninety-one rounds were fought. Cox is much improved in his mode of fighting, and gained still more reputation as a game man. We understand young Be lasco agreed before the combat to fight the winner In six weeks. DRCRY L.LV! THEATRS. Richard the Second was last night reviv►d at this Theatre. Mr. K►:.AN's representation of this unfortunate monarch, has long since been ranked amongst his most masterly performances. The feeling and power with which he played it last night would have given effect to a part with far less susceptibility of being rendered effective. Perhaps there is more of real pathos and subli mity in the language and sitnations of this play, than even the genius of Sit 11(i:SPEARE bits infused into any other; and it is exactly of that description of the pathe tic in which Mr. KKAM so eminently excels. The beau tiful soliloquies in which the heart-broken King plays as it were with his own woes, and moralizes upon his own griefs, derived a melancholy lustre front the manner in which they were deliveryd that carried them still deeper into the heart. We can say of the whole performance, what cannot often be said of Mr. KICAN . S. that it was chaste and perfect. Of Mrs. W. WIPIT'S last scene, as the Queen, we knew not how to speak. It has been said that a man who saw Airs. Stnnoxs as Lady Altiebeth must consider that time as an era in his life. We are sure that there who saw Mrs. Wave last eight over the dead body of Richard, will never live to forget it. An Address • from the City of Chichester to the Queen is now in course of signature. It is expected to be very numerously signed. That city is well known to be devoted to " Church and State," for it is a Bishop's See, and ruder the sway cf the Treasury as well as of the Clergy. This movement, therefore, to address her Majesty, is a striking proof of the strength of popular sentiment respecting the prosecution of the Queen. No such symptom of independent spirit has appeared in that place sinee the year 1;93. • It will be recollected that it was assidnonsly circa lated by the Duke of Rutland, and others, that no ad dress war presented from the Leicestershire militia to the Queen on the subject of the ermspiracyagainst her Majesty. Lest, however, there should be any dispute upon the subject, it should seem that 300 men of that regiment have actually signed the petition afresh ; and that it was this address, so signed, that was presented afresh yesterday to her Majesty. The Address would have had many more than 300 signatures, had not the greater number of the men been engaged in harvest- work In different parts of the county. Manned.—Thurmlay, It appears, that blijoeei, In • the company of another of the witnesses arsinst her ' Majesty, made their appearance in the boxes of one of the Theatres. They hail not been there long, when M. jocci was recognised, and it seen went over the house, and the confusion was so gteat4 diet Majocri, or the f t Pe o h r e n a t o d h n m ea m i t s i r:e: 0 . w :H s bu e ga t a i f d w te e rw arr a h rtte e i applied was stPeiheetillsiedsedtagu:e leave r Roy Bov Majesty, when she visited the House of Lards, addressed Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt in the following manner :—" Well, Sir Thomas, here I am, and here I shill be, till the day of Jrelensent." • • e . T - -~ I‘- .1 .$