The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-04-11 00:00:00

P ll-- tablished for holding inquisitions on the ilipth of in divitlnals, and preventing those who wantonly sacri ficed the lives of their fellow citizens from being screen ed by arbitrary authority. From the corrupting influ enceofcanses unnecessary to be specified that wholesome i jealousy has been lulled asleep ; and from one sordid ; motive or another the best safeguards of the public i have been allowed to be taken away. The sacrifices that have been made to promote our taxing and oar funding systems are sufficient to excite the disgust and indig nation of every one possessed either ofpublic spirit or of common humanity. Without expatiatin e ends, i g h t , which the present state of the comninnite to be inconsistent with thigeneral good, let only their means be regarded. On opening the Statute Book, what a vast proportion is occupied with the Revenue Laws ; and on examining the Code, what vexation and op pression are prescibed ! To sanction them the most awful penalties are lavishly enacted ; and to enforce them the severest instruments are employed. In the better days of England those grievances could not have obtained admission, and such a case as we referred to 'yesterday would have united the peopk in a general feeling of resentment. The mo tive is now perceived for which the right of appeal in the case of murder has been abrogated ; and Revenue officers ran vigourously art with impunity and pro tection, in what their employers or themselves may call their fluty. We happened to have witnessed a similar instance In the same county of Sussex sante years ago ; but then the ancient law existed, and the exercise of the right of appeal did operate as some restraint. At that period, as a prelude to the present Preventive System, an officer of the Revenue at Horsham employed against the seougglers a formidable band of assistants, well mounted and well armed with bludgeons, who were well known then throughout the county, on account of the weekly pay they were supposed to receive, by the name of ten 'killing wen. One evening the boats of a smuggling cutter were running goods on shore near Identity head when this formidable band dashed down among the crew, and att un. fottnnate man employed in removing the :roods was knocked down and killed by one of the rfIZ. The perpetrator of the deed was l.ttown and apprehended, and brought to trial for the crime ; but though a story was advanced, which the Jury per ceived was f.tbricated, that the smugglers had Meet:kneel a violent resistance, tl e prisoner was fotind gitil!v of tine wilful murder of the deceased. The prisoner, Eluting the whole trial, was manifestly tinder the pro tection of the Crown. The Solicitor of the Excise attended on the occasion, and Mr. Misusr was em ployed as Counsel on the defence. On some point a hich had occurred in his argument with the Bench, Mr. IllfcattifiWat nod divieihtett, sod did set temple to asset t, in conversation with the other Connsel. ater srntet►ce was pronounced, " I should not CO quietly have submitted to the Judge, if I had nut had titeprisuaer'spordou in my pocket." The expression probably dropt from Mr. Mixo.sv inadvertently, hut not, as the sequel proved, without sufficient warrant. Ills MAJKSTY's pardon was shortly afterwards announced in the prisoner's behalf; and as :woo as the rumourconld h,• ►erified, proceedings were commenced on the part of the widow of the deceased. In those proceedings, we remember well, every judicious mind acquainted with tl.r case concurred ; for the pardon of the prisoner was held to operate on the Horsham band (who h•ol been selected from the gangs of smugglers most distinguished for their daring spirit) as en encouragement to proceed without restraint in the exercise of their rigour beyond the la►c. The widow personally appeared indite form in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster, in bar of the lime's pardon. '[line far proceedings took place ; and the only note of them that is recorded in professional Reports (after mentioning the case of the Appeal) is briefly this—that no further proceedings ensued. The fact, as generally understood in Sussex, o as, that the prusecue of the appeal was prevented hr a pecnniary compromise on the part of the law officers of the Crown. The woman being pour, was bribed to silence; but had her eiactnnstantes cot , responded with the feeling she had evinced, the ex ample of the murderer would not have been allowed to encourage the repetition of his crime. Letters are in town from Bahia to the 14th Feb. which may be considered more recent from the Brazils than cats be brought by the daily expected packet. which was to leave Rio Janeiro at the end of January. At the abort. date, Bahia was perfectly tranquil, and the inhdhitants waiting with the utmost anxiety the hist': determination on the subject of Portuguese affairs. Five vessels were loading with Brasil wool 6 , r Ragland, nn account of Ooversment, and, as it was thought, for ft• use of the diplomatic agents in Europe. The exportation of the PaAu dm Rajahs, as this dye wood is called, is among the Crown privileges, but the shipments Were usually made direct to Lisboa, with the exception of the period the French were in Portugal. u lien they were wade direct to this country. The present 4 11,1164 m of the destiaatiun is net, however, attributed to the changes in the swelter "Mr!. but to th e purposes t o which the proceeds ate t o he applied. We mentioned on Monday the arrest of the Omn i * coarier at Lyons, and the leisure of his deapatehes by I , lle Preach police. The courier alluded A watt Carlo The depatches, of which be was the Imam, are said to bate been the papers areessary to cleft the sale of her Majesty's Italian property on a* Like of Cam. The hill for his Majesty's Coresitiss Robes e:- aids, we are informed, MOON., of 14 " li ' "ef falls to the furrier's share. For the blink spots on tii•laride of the Mbes, no loss Aso SP. Altrat.an t aohs' Int inn bets mitilnd TH FOR TEE' stArEsmit.v. LETTER TO THE EARL OF FIFE. Mr LARD—The events of the days in which we exist, are very peculiar for the great importance alth which they are procreant ; event Sin which we as men, and particularly as Aritons, are all deeply inteteSted. By attention, even the most superficial to that line of policy and conduct, in which Ministers and their de luded dupes are strenuously persevering; we can not but draw the unavoidable conclusion; that the sole objects they have in view are, their own emoluments, though to the destruction of the liberty of the country. In such circumstances it does not become us to witness their proceedings, with the eye of an unconcerned spectator ; but we ought; by every legal means to resist, and, if possible, counter act their intentions. We have extended cur fame to the remotest regions of the universe, as people of no ble and courageous minds—who love liberty and hate bondage ; we have, at the expense of the blood and lives of many of our countrymen, saved ourselves from the slavery of a foreign despotic tyrant ; and shall we stiffer ourselves to be disgraced in the eyes of the world, by sacrificing our rights and liberties by willingly submitting to have ourselves bound in the fetters of bondage to those at home ? The general tenons of your lordship's life has been such, as to meet with the approbation of the majority of those who were acquainted with it; and on a recent occasion in the House of Commons, you have attached vonrself infinitely nearer to the affections of the greater part of the population of this emp:re. 'Tis trite, my lord, by your vote of that evening to which I allotte,—a vote, dictated, no doubt, Ity con science as well as vsatr constituents, you lost the f.t your of a set of men, who, not content with sacrificing their own consciences and the good of their country, at the shrine of seif•interevt, would need have °then do so to ; but the approbation of your conscience, and the g m4l wishes of the people (which you have gained by it) are abundant compensations for the loss. It is far better, my lord, to be deprived of a salary, however large, and be removed from the sunshine of ministerial favour, than to give your ' , support, when conscience does nut warrant it, to the contemptible measures of those narrow-mindedmen. By listening, anti acting according to the suggestion of that internal monitor and your constituents, ra ther than those of ill-designing men ; you will enjoy through every period of your life, an inward self satisfaction, infinitively preferable to the smiles of Ministers. (lo on, my lord, regardless alike of the smiles and frowns of a court, in assisting the friend+ of the peo ple to save the country from the imminent danger in uhich it is now placed. Let that independence and in trepidity be con• picuuusly seen in the cause of your own country, which were so eminently displayed through the whole of your lordship's conduct, when contending for the liberty of an enslaved nation abroad. I am, my lord, your's, &c. A Scorcustot. Letters were received yesterday from Code ) of the recent date of the 12th tilt.; but they make MO men tion whatever of any insurrection having taken place it the lonian Wawa. In Albania, pa to, tsal even quillity are far from being restored; yet the move ments time relate solely to the contest between the Ottoman Porte and Ali Paths, which has been too hastily supposed to have terminated. That enter prising chieftain, in whom age seems to have abated nothing of his pri,tine vigour, has had the address to turn the Greeks, who joined the Turks on their first arrival, into open hostility against them. The apathy shown by the Slnsulmans, combined with the disre.' lard of their promises to the Greeks, had afforded Ali an opi.ortunity to turn the scale in his own favour, by leading the inhabitants to believe that they had more to expect under the rule of an enterprising chief, than nniler the weak and tottering government of the Turks. The fortresses which Ali caused to be built in the mountains of Soli hare been yielded to such of the inhabitants as survived their dispersion and subse quent vicissitudes. From these fortres'es having been joined by other Greeks, they were making frequent in cursions against the Turks in the low country, with out huwever committing any depredations on the people. They paid for all articles which they con sumed, and were acting under a system of order and discipline hitherto little known among these tribes. The Parguinotes, not conceiving it prudent in these I I circumstances to trust to the promises either of Ali or of the Porte. remained, fur the greater part, in the lonian Islands. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House. when the undermentioned Commanders took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective destinations, vis : Captain C. Graham, Bombay; Captain J. Mills, Ml nerva ; Captain T. Haviside, Windsor ; Captain W. Hope, Herefordshire ; Captain J. P. Wilson, Hythe; Captain W. Mitchell, Bridgewater ; all for China direct. The Company's ship Earl of Balcarras arrived off Wry-mouth yesterday. The undermentioned ships were at Canton when the Baleares* sailed from thence on the 24th November, vis : Se:Liebe Castle, Orwell, Marchioness of Ely, Deeeral Hewitt, Warren Hastings, Princess Amelia, Lady Camp bell, Thomas Coatis, Castle Huntley, Prince Regent, Duke of York, Buckinghanishire, London, Amen. Asia. Canning, Wincheisea, and Dorsetsbire.—The Lady Melville, Ounira, and Marquis of Handley, bad not arrived. The East India Company's ship Thames arrived off the Isle of Wight yesterday. She left China on the 24tb of November in company with the Earl of Hal sierras. Both ships arrived off St. Helena on the 9th of February, and sailed together for England on the 18th of the same month. They lost sight of each other on the 3d of March, in lat. 4. N. and ion. 20. 30. W. The Lowther Castle was all well on the 23th of Fe bruary. in lat. U. 50. N. and long 20. 30. W. We understand that great preparations are making at the Cobourg Theatre for its re-opening on Easter Monday.—The interior of that beautiful resort of Public Amusement is now undergoing a thorough repair, air and the alterations will be on a must eztensive scale. Several of the first Artists in the metropolis are now employed in its decorations; and amongst the various interesting novelties which will be pro duced is a enechanieal ealeibition procored g a espouse from Paris, *ldch will be rtbigepel at the esechtsfea of every AM STATESMAN. TRANSUBSTANTIATiON. OR THE CATHOLIC PRIEST AND TILE PRO'I'EST.INT WAC. THE EDITOR OP THE STATEB\I.I)I. SlR—Although I know you advocate, or at least approve of, " Catholic Emancipation," I think you will hot refuse the following !risk legend a place in your paper. One of the most important duties enjoined by the Romish Church beiug to propagate popery, and to convert " hes-dirt," a certain Irish Priest once set his heart upon making the son of his Protestant neigh bour unknown to his parents a Papist. This young fellow, who, besides beiug of most et cellent understanding and of good educatiou, was a " Pickled Boy," pretended to hare a great itch for the Pope, wham he was, in fact, only unwinding the knavery of the Priest for the amusement of himself and his " pickled" companions. After a long siege, " Master Pickle," pretended be was very nearly converted : he was quite convinced upon every point bat ONE, namely, " Taaxsi•nsvAN vrartos ;" but he could nut be at all smitistied how more " bread and wine" coda possibly be changed into actoul " flesh and blood." Upon this most serious Catholic point the parties held out a considerable time, the Priest contending that the inspiration conferred upon his holy order at consecration, enabled them to perform this miracle, and the young protestant contending that THEI " TIRNISLAISTAN rivrtos'• was some trick—scone jug gle--seme infusion of real flesh and blood into the hread posh wine, whereby to impose npon their flocks and to reconcile their own consciences to the doctrines they preached. His reverence shocked at such a dreadful imputation, answered with pions intliptatiou, " No such thing—v..ta bread and nine, ANY bread anti wine." Pretending to he somewhat consoled by the frank- I ness of this proposition, the tsar; consented at last that he would formally read his recantation, provided that to satisfy all his tloubts 1111011 this question of •' transult,' his reverence would permit him to bring with him his tow N bruit and trine, to Which the divine most readily consented. The joyous day at last arrived, when an heretic was to he saved, and the vounrr, converts tIU N bread and wine Was. according to agreement, consecrated for the Sa crament, which he was, upon that occasion, to take When they arrived at that part of the sere whereat the Priest first takes the sacrament himself, I the communicant adjured him at the altar to satisfy those doubts he iii!! entertained upon the subject. and to declare, solemnly, whether that he was then ;shout to eat and drink ts as "b, rust and trint, ' or actually 46 1' LEAH and *Loon." The divine with all due so lemnity, declared it to he the latter, actually " rt.v.sts and 11t.uon. •. Just as the Priest was putting the wafer to his lips, the communicant, nltli ominous insinuation, hid Ilion eat and drink at his peril. The holy lather started— let the wafer down, and casting a look of uploraiding at his pupil, •.tammurrcd rnews: !" " 11.1, said the Other, '' slur ilfut 404 d hluntl ! ! ! I thought so, ate thy 1111:noklou% power—l see thy faith—Ult FAD and nix': aftcr all B• it, Cecil-street. TO JOSEPH II A MOON. A CISSISTIVN isisTEN %%D A PiTllltiT. No% oNVI%ED TIIL C‘‘TLE Or i'llltsTEN. - - - - - This !Ivan. entitled Ilarriion's Hope. with streetion ihseribett by his brother in bonds, tit wt It ♦4 EOM D. AIR.-" The God of Abraham pral.e."—.l beautiful He brew hlelod). When freedom bade adieu, And fbr a while withdrew, 'there was a light of hea'nly hope, That kept id view ; Afar it faintly shone. As might some star alone. Which rode timid the storm, when all The rest we►e gone. And as I gazed, its light Crest brighter, and more bright, tntil it seeeu'il to triumph o'er The shades of night Aad 'then 'twits like a day, Arising tar away, And bringing bark the golden hours Of Liberty. dark'niag cloud was there, Hut all was bright and fair; I solicit at the chains which hung The wretch to scat.•. Ah ! though the great combine, The lowly to confine. 'They cannot for one moment quench His hope dis ine. And though unfeeling might, The heart's affection blight ; And though beneath the aria of power, Huth bend the right— This cannot always he, For million► will be free ; O ! they will rise to {indicate, Humanity. My thanks to God ascend; Who loth my steps attend I For he bath been to me A mighty friend ; His wing hath bees my shields His hand hath been my star ; As through a persecuting world, I sought my way. Lincoln Castle, Ma A Court of Aldermen was hrld yesterday :st Guild hall for general business, and was fully attended. — Several persons were sworn, and others allowed to be admitted brokers.—Coal undertakers were licensed.— Itletors. Vandereom, Din, Boss, tiritfitlas, James, Crook, and Cowan were severally admitted and sworn coal-meters In trust for the city fur four years. At the last meeting of the Royal Society of Edin burgh, there was presented to the Museum of that body, by the Marchioness of HVNTL6T, a magnificent specimen of MaJrepore, about two feet four inches in diameter, and, we believe, the largest ia the kingdom. This interesting oject of natural history is in a state of excellent preservation ; and its magnitude is such, thit eight men experienced great difficulty in car rying it to the Society's apartments. A remarkable occurrence took place is Jedburgh the week before last. A fewile child, about In months old, had a needle taken out of its body . a little below the right shoulder, by Dr. Hilsoo. It is distinctly remem bered by the parrot, when the child was about two mood* old, that a needle fall from the breast of its Soo tier. and it was alway s thought that it west into the m oo* of the ehild, it is sow sertaio that such had bmie the due, as, the doctor declared that the needle had as. teak Snob through the chili's body. OLD BeiILRY, (Ten MOSPIIIIII) After the opening of the Court, and the names of the Jury were being called, Ed. l.aze►►b addressed • the COIIIIIIOII Sergeant and begged to be excused serving on the score of deafness. Common Sergeant—llow long have you been deaf ? Juryman—rr.... my childhood, Sir. Common Sergeant—(in au under tone)—Are you very deaf ? Juryman-les, sir, very deaf indeed. Common Sergeant—Well, sir, get into the box. I will take care the witnesses shall speak laud enough for you to hear them ; but it appears to we, from the tone in which 1 addressed you, that your hearing is not so bad as to render you incompetent to perfor►u _ your public duty. Dunais She, ley Was indicted for maliciously cut ting and siabbing Bartholomew 'anent, with intent to murder him There were other counts in the indictment, Charging hi 3; with intent to do him the said B. Laced, some bodily harm, &c. Bartholomew l.►,ertt deposed, that on the 13th of February, he had a wedding at his lodgings ; the . company left about tits ee in the morning ; his wife, and himself !sad been Jou nin the back kitchen, and were coming up stairs, when a man of the name of Burn WA% standing behind the door, who said he was afraid to go odt ; witness told him he would see hint safe out; Shepley was in the passage, with a sword in Isis hand : he imm►tliatel_y aimed a blow at his head, which cut him severely ; he made a second attempt, when w itoess rushed forward, and seized hint by the arm : a violent scat& ensued, and they fell ; assistance was called Cr ; ;he prisoner was secured and taken; into custody. ('ross•ezauhined by Mr. Anot.eurs.—There was a dance in the kitchen. Some dispute took place about 50/. as to who could produ.•e that sum. A few blows succeeded, anal witness's wile broke prisoner's bead with a candlestick, &c. Mary I.lteett in part cAlifirmed her husband's state ment. Prisoner in his defence denied baying a swori at all. One of the witnesses to character gate a whimsical account of the fracas. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Navigation by steam vessels appears to have become a fasoittite mode of intercourse between different par s of the island. Many packets of this description a•e now established between lireat Britain and Ireland, and a new one on a large scale is about to be launched at Bull, for intercourse with London. On the coasts of Si otL►ud this mode of navigation was early intro duced, and has been extensively carried on ; and on Thursday tt as launched at Perth the longest vessel ever known to have been bnilt in the Tay, and the largest steatu•bo.tt in the United Kingdom. She is feet in length, -10 feet in breadth, coppered to the bends, with head, quarter galleries, and is to be propelled by tn•o engines, 40 horse power each. She is intended fur establishing a communication between the northern ports of Scotland and Leith. - - - HICKMAN AND Courca.—This battle, which ex• cites more than ordinary interest, takes place this , for a hundred guineas aside, twenty-six miles north of Loudon. Cooper arrived at flelcker l s from Riddles down. Surrey, on Nlonday, and proceeded to the seat lif act' . He isnot so well as he would have been, had he not been afflicted with boils upon the legs. whirls presented his taking the necessary exercise. Hickman, who is in Hertfordshire, it hacked at 6to 4. Then is more money pending upon this match than has been known fur years. On the I!..th ult. a select band of eight of the Old ham College youths, rung at their St. Paul's Church. a peal of Keatish-TreMe-Bob-illejor, composed of 14,016 changes, by Mr. William Eversfield, of Uravesend, in Kent : and ably conducted by Mr. Joseph Newton, of Oldham, 1.-wealthier, in the wonderful quick time of 7 hours, and 26 minutes ; being the greatest extent rung in England. The artists were stationed as follows : Tie6le, Mr. Joseph Newton; 2. Mr. James Mills. 3. Mr. John Btierley. 4. Mr. James Taylor. S. Mr. William Rigby. 6. Mr. Thomas Chaddertoa. 7. Mr. John Whitehead. Tenor, Mr. James Jackson. The Tenor weighs only 13 cwt. in the key of 0. There are to be opened on Raster Monday next, three• new peals of Dells, vit. a grand ring of ten in St. Ann's liothic Tower, at Rotherham, Yorkshire, the tenor weighing 31 cwt. in the key of D.—A ring of eight, for Mitcham, in Stirrey, the tenor is 16 cwt. in the key of F. And a peal of eight for Woolwich, in Kent, the tenor only 13 cwt. in the key of U ; all cast in London. 4; trTIOX TO CAIN EN.-+BIRCTAL OITTRAMI —A driver of a coal waggon, was prosecuted on Monday last, at the Session. , at Guildhall, the evidence before the Jury Was as follows : Wm. Ilrownitt, was driving a single horse chaise, accompanied by his daughter, about twelve years of age, flown Wood-street, Cheapside, where was a coal waggon discharging a load ; be drove his horse to the head of the foremost horse belonging to the waggon, as close as possible in order to give room for a cart that was mecum him; behind the cart was another coal waggon, on the approach of which Mr. Ilrowtsitt called out to the driver*. stop, as there was not room to pass—the driver laughed sad passed sly . —Mr. Bruwnitt called out very loudly, for Yod's salah• stop, or we shall be crushed to death : the driver coos. tinged laughing and drove on, by which the wheel eti the waggon caught the chaise, and eventually three/. the horse on his side, and .was in that state drag. • ged 10 or 15 yards in the street. &awaits aid his danghter being still in the chaise, la the guest perilous situation. At length some one stopped the waggon horses, which gave Mr. B. the oppertanity of leaping out and securing his daughter; the terse was very seriously injured. • The Jassy bawl him Guilty, and the Court Bestowed him to six atomise. imprisonment in the House of Vorrentles. CORPf RSCNANOZ, St' RCN 11.—The Whale 611.41 Ws• . finites extremely dull ; no fresh arrivals since from that day's supply morningalthough offered close of , onday's market, duction of 21. per sick on increased the depression ' seppotts Mondey's prices, beteg small..-Mts are'lk isomer of large arrivals Peas no at:ration. M._- !,„ 4 Aqiii.la for although there Wee been Monday, what rahainsil ever coed no be dispasedipf. this red at lower prices, , the et, the millers asides r re. On the price of 51.111 T, .11•11 • 3 In the • Wheat train. es, the viudttitrat • lr per qnaitlw s• is since Moadsys • ' 7 .• ; #04 11 1731A .1%; .4: r r• es ll 11 we eL liat ; 4 . di ay- li . f lOC ° / ." 1 .y