The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-03-27 00:00:00

MR. BRO(IGIUM. . . I 1 1 14 V4L INTELLIG E. DeAL, Mitten 26.—Arrived the Diana, Tay, , from Leghorn,. and sailed for the River.—Pot back by contrary wields, she Pbenis, Thompson t for Is die ; Lard Cathcart, Brown, for Fort William ; Wickenden, for St. Kitt's, sad remain in the Downs with the rest of the outward-booed bet as before. Fist o'CLocs.—The triad. hes jest shifted from the S.W. to the N., and the oetivard.bouod are pre paring to sail. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 26.---Wa base had a heavy gale of wind all this day from the S.W. to N.W. which still continues, bat all the Alive in the Roods hue hitherto rode in. safety...-Arrived the Preece Regent, Barris, from London for Madras; Prince's Charlotte, Lamb, from ditto, for orshi ant To bago; and Comet, —, for the FALMOUTU, MARCH 24.—Arrived the Triem. virate, Green, from Tarrsgnea for Geernswy.--By the Princess Chsrlotte packet, from tie temitd island, we learn that the Iris., was toaallirom Bar. Woes far Liverpool, shoat t he 16th or Ink of Fe bruary lest ; Lawns Cross, for Leaden,. siesAi mil_ from St. Kitt's @boot With Fe . r .6 114 WO.. Rowe, was to sail from Si. s 101:14 1 1 0 • - ane Ist March. . • r iz trest of a Letter from Kendal,. dated Monday s i g ht....- 66 This day of great espectation has at length arrived; arid, and, notwitbstandieg the prodigious soocoerse from all parts, every thing, as was pre. dicled by Mr. Broestram's party, hes passed with perfect tranquillity. He was drawn above thirteen miles by the people, from the borders of the twenty, and the procession' was splendid beyond say thing that had ever been seen bore. The dunneds who tilled up she road and the streets, though animated with an onesampled seal in the cause, coodected themselves with exemplary decorum, and the whole day afforded a remarkable contrast to the 11th of February, when the Lowther party, disappointed of any thing like a tolerably warm reception, showed their spier by raising a riot. The most respectable profess in the Independent nosegay, Mr. 11. a grand dieser, which was most numerously attended. The •day was snowy ; but this did not prevent the people from remaining in the streets, while be addressed them in a speech, of which it is to be hoped some iecorrat may be transmitted. No time remains now to add more, escept that the town and neighboerhood Is still filled with handset people parading peaceably, singing and Orlin, or congratulating ouch outer, upon the day's proceedings, and looking forward to -the certain triumph of their interesting readjust cause. 'fo.morrow Mr. Brougham begins his progress through the principal places of the Comity, where the people are to tweet hint from the more remote-dis tricts. Ile is to be in the two nerds on this side all the week, and then to proc eed to the opposite side, which, it is 'opposed will occepy less time. It is quite impossible to describe the spirit and devotion to the Independent cause which every where prevails. A more animating scene never was witnessed, nor one more instructive to the Rulers of the Country and to domineering Family Intleence." floi BURGII REk'OR.V. . . , . List of such of the Royal &trent 'of twoilista as have, within these six months, openly eipneied the. casts of Reform, and voted Resoletions condemning the practice of self-election, with the total pepsin. Hoe of each, according to the censer . of 1811. It shield he added, that this enumeration does net in. clods the inhabitants without the Royalt ies of tbei Boreegbs, who have no vote whatever in the govern. ment of the towns, end n ho, in some cases, ost.nom• 1 her the inhabitants within the Roy a l ti e s. i Pepuhuion. Population. Edinburgh 101,98; Dingwall 1.500 Glingow 100,749 Haddingtos 4.370 Aberdeen 21.639 Lauder 1,742 Dundee 29,616 1 Jedburgb 4.45 4 5 Perth 16.948 90 Forrrs 2,92.5 Dumfries 9. 2 61 lemmas 1.312 I nverness 10.757 Lanark 5.667 Dunfermline 11.619 Anton 3,311 Montrose 11.955 %maw 5.709 10 Ayr 6,291 45 Wigton 1 . 711 Irvine 5,750 W bithora 1.93:) 1 r 907 Alierbrothock b,llO Elgin 001 28 Peebles 2.485 Dysart 5,506 15 Vt. Andrew's 4,:1t1 Total Population 379,160 List of Royal Burghs which have not hitherto moved in the cause of iteform. Population. Population. laverbervie 927 I Stirling . 5.820 Breebin 5,5J9 , Inverkeithing 41 X 1 Austrather, East, ? , an , I Dornock 2,81 Anwrotlwr. West, S ''''"` Tashi tali 5 Pittroweess LI% 25 Wick Gina I.tiOu Kirkwall 1,715 Kilrenny 1,2 3 1 Dumbarton 3.121 Campbelton 7,807 Renfrew 9.105 - Rutherglea 3,329 9.966 Itotimy 3.544 i 10 luverary 1,111 30 - unokur IBauf 3.600 Norsk Berwick Cullen 1,070 Nair. Kildare 863 Linlithgow lilurntisinnd 1.931 Selkirk 15 Kirkcaldy 9,747 35 kirkcodhright Kiagbura 2,2 4 Locinakbro Copy 4,75 s New Galloway Forfar 5,651 138 Straaraer C u i rosi 1,611 40 Queeusferry 5S Total Populating 101,233 As the above list is interesting in a statistical poin of view, from its containing an account of the po. polation of the different Royal Burghs in this pert of the kingdom, we shall add an additional list Of some other principal towns, no Royal Burgh:, with tbtit population, according to the same census. Population. I Population 19,907 3,7, 19.012 4,949 10,148 5,096 SS 5 3.116 3.300 4.4•$ 9.131 6.453 9,946 Paisky Greene, k Iscon Kilmarnock A lloa Clot twosome Port Glasgow Crief MA, Melrose Hamilton May bole Brills Siewartos 1 Dente Peterhead St. Viotti' Fa%kl. k St. Niaian's helium Stewart Kiatage Stuftelbargb , lialkeith I WiSSIWIS.S IRK SIOSIONS. 2.446 2a61 2,392 659 1,923 Clii 9,999 7,696 4.1447 4.214 6.599 4,709 Yesterday. the above Sessions commenced, before Was. Wyrsos, Esq. the Chairman, and a nemeroas Bench of Magistrates. After the Grand Jury were sworn, the Chairman addressed them, ea& expressed his satisfaction that none of the cases I. come before them were of a very flagrant oaten. He suggested the propriety of their considering the capital cases first, in order to have them ready for the Judges at the Old B•iley, on Wednesday morning. The cases tried yesterday were of ne importance. • Qn Wednesday morning, a young Me of very re. ipectable connexions, was killed in • coyest, by a man named Price. The affair beg_en in the public. bonus called Hillier's terry, near Walthari4tow, and tbe patties having agreed on their rereads, corn. usenced a fight in regular round ve s i , when the anforte. y sate man, since deceased, gan, saing he could fight no longer. His second, however, insisted on his continuing the battle; and 'holding him up, bid his antagonist strike, when a blow was bit somewhere about the stomach, which killed him on the spot.. TIPPERARY Minn.—Mr. Justice Der,:in his Address to the Grand Jury, said, be bad ato'cb satis faction in considering the e,emperitive tranquillity of the county. He paid many compliments to the activity and co.operstion of the Magistrates, and the mercy end moderation with which they had used the high poweis committed to their charge. If the Ro man Catholic Clergy, who bad so great a portion of the population under their care, as well as the Clergy of all other descriptions, would es* their influence, meet crime might be stilled ; and Gentlemen might form Corps or Associations for the prevention of violence, where there was reason to apprehend to. melt. Ile felt much pleasure, however, that no re.' ligioes or political feuds elided; yet was serpriaed' 'to Jed more than two hundred prisoners en the Ca. leader : among these, however, tberd were many eu der trivial . ch.trges. a matter which should be avoided as ouch es possible by the Magistracy, where boil weld at all he . obtained. It was fortunate that in a, prison so crowded, there were no case of fever, a fact which, at thiS time reflected a great deal of credit on the persons engaged is its siperistesdescs, THE STATESMAN. ALIAIIESTEIL P, A FOUNDLING HOSPITAL. Ma. EDITOII,--it is some years since my attention was called by the perusal of the Public Papers to a subject which I consider of deep public interest—the frequency of the crime of infanticide, and the con. sequent sacrifices of the lives of the unhappy mothers, mostly in the flower of youth, to the offended laws of their country. I am confident that a very slight reflection will Mosinee the most censorious, that the case of such Ironies has infinitely stronger claims upon our pity than our abhorrence. Yielding, L need not say to what artifices, to what promise's to what false sp. pearatices of well-dissembled love, they find them selves, when likely to become mothers, deserted, perhaps despised, and insulted into the bargain, by thote whom they bad fondly considered as the fathers 'ef their future offspring. By our existing code of maitals, the loss of chastity in a female is branded es *mime met lobo forgiven ; and wherever it becomes iafatlibly subjects her to the reprobation of her own sex, and the sneers of tiers. That per. sane im;sobordinate stations, whose prospects hi life e nd entirely op.their good character, should risk MICA for its preservation, onset appear surprising ; `lily, am even of opinion, that those minds in which the fear of shame is so strong as to triumph over maternel tenderness itself, cannot by any means be thoroughly depraved, bet must possess qualities which, under more auspicious (circumstances, might; have rendered them ornaments of society. It has therefore given me great pleasure to observe, that of late years Juries have seemed solicitous to allow the unfortunate wretches charged with the murder et their illegitimate offspring, all the latitude that con be given when the evidence does not amount to abeelege proof. • That the crime of infanticide is not coofined to those cases which come before the Public, there is bet too much reason to apprehend. How indeed could it be otherivise in a country where feast* chas tity so highly prised, and where no effectual steps have rot bets taken to rescue from shame the unfor tunate individuals who here been seduced I. Nissen dm that jewel ? As far as I know, there eaists is the whole island of Great Britain, with a population of twelve or thirteen millions, bet one FOIISDLISO green.. Witbeit intending in tbs slightest de re* to reflect epos the constitution or economy of this establislimest, I cannot help observing be* widely it deviates from Abe original - plan of .the founders, who designed It to receive and Inedistein exposed and deserted ehiltirre- -or as the Memorial .- - preheated is Om It ince bee It wet first lotortiMffld , -...e..- --- rt't ' more precisely espressos it preventing Ike erne. , . - dere of poor miserabk Infants tit .their birth, out TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GRRAt saivireking de &Milan ciliboo 4 espnsing tam- BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT Ali' gam Wools to per i s h in the streets. how IstadOa SEMBLED. • create the Inatitation meat bete this object, even for Tag IPATITION Of TINE lIISASITANTS OP lIIANCReII. die ■lasintiatios of the sestropelis alone, molt bean- TAR, IN Tee COUNTY of LANCANTIA, CONTAIN= litif•ats whets it it Uwe. that AO anlidsh•v Of Anatol% admitted genitally does set, spoons arareget Pawed in A PUBLIC *tette° MILD AT I'ANCIIIIIII4 01 admitted .THE STU DAY Of NIA= O , ISIS, fifty. The priociple of seleedoe, which is. the GO ealiary retook of coalaiwg the imeitta of the thesis,' Snowtvn,—That ell the pretest lad past calami- within each • harrow cempeeso-ethe obligations MI this and pecuniary safeties's of your Petitiosers, posed oe mothers who viola so 0140 fee their lois** arise from the onmeeemes, prolonged, and hiCGICA. a share ef those bemelits, to withal sad febenk tort 1 lably espensive sod every way mimeos wets, iste strict traandestioe by tier Committee of lietereera l whisk this coentry has wantonlrend wickedly beta ant 111000fIlf totally Width te the piefessedaltiett if plunged by • Boreftli.ineligering Oligarchy; not the Insdintioe. . • Ihearalle they were either necessary or calculated to A Fosediieg Halmitalt which Shall elketeally promote the genteel geed of the People, bet to pretest " the owitiets of poor onanntlble Infante lit promote their own sordid, splash Whereat. T i bet in their birth, andsffim, Whams* -.Ostia of impedes .46oseleeneo of their preplaidersoce is the two them to "milk din.ffitil esoliti 4 .4 OM imitate Is pls. 'o6'4 Verileinent, meastrees have been taken to elide that aliAmeblarime.lisiog who eisitteh• his saw • the prim of the produce of the land, and to use alike es diegood and on thetall. In Wee** ...eqettstry .of the land itself, to the manifest hi. mum be ease edid.a.like the.air tied kilt of hateta-g-' vary of itli r ,great land proprietors excepted. 'that ladisciiminoteli•t• all who weed theero-rated.ssitb 14000 she seme•itrileeitre it hat crime to *ass, that tittle oesprietea little essminfidee. • They most. be twirwerekereterw carried es by Loans, instead of espy if times le every pert, eve, hi the remotest dip; Tacos ;-altirnegli our industrious population have, trial at the tiegdoer. °divine' the good weep during he wets, produced every thing which the plishei will be but partial: * s r r e qui r ed an d consumed: in arms. ammunition, Let me eat here be met with the *mourn* that Ps, Ist. the cenieq•ence of which Loan System, will possibly rico! tns riser-fastidious morellos; that beievrtailed upon -the nation an annual demand of the facilities ellatiled by a plin of this ditesive na. • frens43 to 48 millions of posed', for the en of the tent would *pewees a preoliner to vice--since theca refiabekiers. - is scarcely • charitable elimination to which the et , 'bet these exeenive evils ahendantly prove that jectios would INK equally ap p ly' est national affairs are partially managed, to the Though las sot not prepared hi enter into the benefit of the great land and fund proprietors : and derails of any digested plan for effeerisig this import to 'the ruin of all the remaining population of the ant purpose, yet I beg leave, through the rardiem of kingdom. That your Petitioners are fully convinced your columns, to make • solemn appeal en the "- that all these enormous ev il s h ave ar i sen from the door of our Legislature, and to the henevolerit feel very partial sad unequal manner in which the stool- togs of those who have so often raised Weir nicest nal Representatives of the People are appointed, and employed their pens, earned . their enregies, and they are the more confirmed in this opinion, by the opened their purses in the sacred cause of hanianity. various arts practised by the Borotightecogera Bed The hearts that can sympathise in the wrongs of the their agents, against all radical Reform. seffering onto, in the distress of the imprisoned debtor, in the afflictions of unmerited indigence and That when the Boroughmongers and their detest- destitatioN, will shred" not be closed'against the fee. able Agents could no longer defend their iniqeitoss ble cries of helpless infants, the obconscioorevirlenees, cause by argument, they procured the Sospension of . • • and the moment victims of parental guilt or indurate- Abe Habeas Corpus Act, that they might have the don. power of shutting op in dungeon', lowly one who To cart,. into effect e *theme so extensite as that bad the sagacity to see, and the patriotism to exhibit which I propose, would of course far 'greed the their diabolical schemes.—That from these motives of the powers of private associations or setactiptions. Ao. alone, your Petitioners are convinced many cording to my view of things, the advantages wkith, more intelligent and virtuous part of the eornetenity have been arrested and throw/n ew ° pr i sm , : d epr i ve d etelasively of the preseriatinn .of numberless lives, might be anticipated from a GINERAL INsTITUTioN also of nee) , comfort of life, use that of food—their use FOUNDLING', are of such immense public ha attachment to their families and friends torn in the made a NATIoSA most wanton and creel manner—their families P 4111 ° 00 9" to authorise ha being LI concern. Let then the espences of carrying It lute agnuised by every species of suffering—their wield prove the first Instance betray, theses sot to such a degree as might be can • roost infamous and unjust oranner—and all their be • cowed, be defrayed out of the fends of the milieu ; geese and constrictions entirely deranged. or should Orsesiturbent deem its insects inadequate Your Petitioners therefore pray, that your Ho. to the whale dem a nd, let a ceetaie portion of the n -;parable House will net p..s:l pill of Indemnity- f ear litter ; net of li ma the great sol J / otit . a p i , to screen those Ministers, Magistrates, and other gitimsle children hate bithertri'viieee maintained, h.-- Agents, who have so wantonly and wickedly aboard set apart for this purpose, and the deficiency sap. plied by the National Eschequer. If howeeter, Go. those discretionary powers which y our Ilonoerible !loose had reposed in them, by suspending the Habeas vernsoeot should revile to interfere in the whims. Corpus Act, and farther poly that your Honourable perhaps Ike system might be most simplified k. v. : Hesse will tolerant its power, and use its utmost in- grafting r - it upon ' that ' of the p oet Largos. T h us it might be unwed, the suitable apartments sheold be lonics to put the People at large int o the p ossession of equally eod annually electing the Members of prepared in each poor house, or erected, if necessary, your Honourable Hoes*, or else esenerate your Po. g ot t he g admission of foundlings. Here they might titioners and ad other non-electors from the payment rema i n till of a certa i n age, under the are of sock of tales, and yoor Petitioners shall ever pray, Ac. of the fema l e peepers as are best qualified for the Signed on behalf of the Meeting, office; end to ensure kind treason, and dee attr rt. JAMES WitOk, Chairman. don on the part of these nurses, a gratuity might be awarded to them for each child on its removal to the general hospital for the district or county. Here"( may be permitted to hinttlist the intercepted barracks which are yet standing could scarcely be 'applied to are better use than the of district hoapi.els; as the pre. ' deft of these which hotelmen sold has been extreme ly trilling, sod the cost of buildings eteetedespressly. for the perms meet be very Considerable. The law at pretest &dere' illegitimate Intents to be the children of nobody—ay proposal is that they ' may be declared the children of the State. Let the boys, from the moment of their admission into the district or county hospital, be educated as such; let it be impressed upon their tender winds that they are destined for the service of their country ; let the in struction given them be coesoesut with this object ; sad above all, let particular care be takes to Jarboe them deeply with the divine troths of the Christian religion. A surgery will thos be provided in a Short time for the supply of oar army sod navy, skids will in a great measure **period, the oecessity for the large bandies paid by Government to retrains for the fernier, and the odious system of impress: send for the latter. such elements it is easy to coo. cehe that It meet pnctant amelioration most he ef fected le beiti,depittnients of the service, which have hitherto bees contildiered, and bet toe justly, as re ceptacles for .the scam sod iir.scooriag of society 2 and there is every reason to espied, that by pantiles the plan of education here proposed, a general im provement of morals might be produced in all those places with which our seamen and soldiers bate meet frequent intercourse. I need scarcely enumerate the ways in which the; girls may be disposed of. A considerable number,whem of sufficient age, would of coarse be employed he the dilfereot Institutions for Friendlier throughout the kingdom ; many might be provishod fee as domes. tics in the various Government establishiblets ; and it is not toe mach to especethat, after receiving as education which would qualify digs to be morel m eant., they would be sought after as each by families of every class. • - Of the practicability of tech a scheme there can, I think, be no doebt—of its utility bet one minion.-- That these crude hints may have the elect of rowing the attention of persons distinguished for rank, bi ked:, influence, and wealth, to the arnsideration et the best coarse to be 'perused for realising ifirlaseefits and of leading to steps Calculated to protean:Diet de sirable end, is the.erdest with of one whose iiiebest . ambition it is to contribute his bensider mite triennia eenderiag his country the most vineries-arid the inlet hew', as it is the sevo.t free rod the most puree/fa es ;be rocs of the earth. . • Y. E. t• • k 4 LINKING.HOUSE Ar BOTAIVY.BAY. .•• By the lest advises received from New South Wales, we learn that some of the principal inhabitants of that settlement, have lately formed themselves into • banking company, sod have obtained for that par. pose, from Governor-General Macqua►ie, a charter of incorporation with the accustomed rights, privi leges, and immunities, usually bestowed upon such a body. In a series of Resolutions, published in the official Gaulle of that Colony, they state that their fended capital must not be less than 9.0,0001. to be . raised in transferable shares of 501. each, and the general object sad business of the bank to be,'to mita blitth a sterling currency es the circulating medium, for the sure of the Colony, and to advance, upon due • Interest, and the credit of the bank, pecuniary as sistance to the colouisl trader, egrittelturalist, and wittier, as likewise to afford a safe depositary of ..imeroty comittetl to its security end charge. A measure of this kind, established upon a solid foundation, and conducted open fair cud equitable regulations, has long been a desiderata• in that Co. luny; the circulating medium of which has for the greater part, consisted hitherto of the promissory notes of individuals, fluctuating in their valve, sub ject to continual forgeries, and frequently, from the unprincipled conduct of the issuers, of no more worth than waste paper. The Earl of LIVERPOOL, Viscount CASTLEREAGH, end Count Muirstte, had audiences et the Patrice REGENT yesterday, at Carlion-liouse. A Court•martial assembled at Portsmouth On Wed. nesday, on board his Majesty's ship Queen Char. lone, for the trial of Captain Jamas ARTHUR MGR. RAT, late of his Majesty's ship Spey, on charges pre ferred against him by Admiral I'Laurin, on the St. Baena station, when the charges sot being proved, be was most fully acquitted. The ships for the North Pole do not sail from Deptford until Monday. The officers and rtes are to receive two months pay in advance. On board the Isabella, Captain Ross, the Esquirnaos Indian brought to this country last year, has embarked, and eeterns to his native shores. In the event of the ships lemming, they are to bring home each a cargo of blubber for the owners, in iron tanks, by which • saving to Government on the hire of the vessels to ,teary 10,0001. will be effected - . The Bootle have been so great about Osford, that the city looks like a flossing island, or like Venice rising trots the water. The navigation oftbe Thames • by barges, Is entirely stopped, the towitsg-patb being overflows end invisible. We are requested by Mr. BERTRAM, the Secretary Of the Eagle Insurance Company, to state, that • Policies espiriog at Lady-day may be renewed within 15 days from that period, either is Combat, or Abe Ilaymarket, when Annuities are granted sod per chased, 'sad every description of Life and Fire In. insratice elected oa the most equitable terms.—N.B. - • An allowance for Rest of Premises destroyed b y It. as heretofore. • .0o Tuesday reeving, as a young woman was pass. Ing throagh the back yard of Mr. Blake, at the half. • way house in the Kent-road, a dog, belonging to Mr. Blake, furiously - attacked her, fastened upon the Selby part of one of her arms, sad literally tore oat large piece of Sub, which was afterwards picked op by Mr. Blake. Her screams brought persons free the house to her assistaace. 'rho serge** who was called in stated, that the woend was of a Sliest dangerou s nature. It cannot be too extensively koowo,:the law provides, that " a.dog going in the street eriennteled, being from its nature danger. toes, and cease of terror to his Majesty's subjects, is a comes nuisance, and the owner say be Indicted suffering biro to go at large." for - Coat liseaaaos, WARMS 27.—There was very little ba thos doing at Mark esorossig, and trade very heavy at Idesday's pries forall Grain, cams Oak, *MA are Is. ._ ,lIIIITII -WAIIKIIT..Iistor TT. . To skit tbis Mal, per stoat a( tilbr. t e mi r ss. 5 4 . se 44. id. I Real oi Gauls tab day t ..dis. id. as lb. Od. llama m....-- eld ••• Os. id. to 6s. 6d. Oben, awl Laslos • ..... CM rata .. 44. 61. in Os. at. Calm lamb 160 ....11s. O. ta 9s. 64. Ples •••• ..... .... .. • 116114111.111K11T. Roy &,..... G. Os. 4. le bl. 10s. 04. Cover .... bli 0.• OA. te 61. 10p. 04. SOW .... 111. 11. W. s. 34 QS el ,',._ .... ~~ I I . • • .....• ~~