The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, DEAL, JAN. 16.—Sailed the Mercurius gun•brig to cruise off the North Foreland.—Remain his Ma- Bombay, Rattlesnake, and Scourge. jesty's ship PoarssiouTir, JAN. 16.—Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship Hansadryad, from Newfoundland ; Mattis, from the Downs; and several ships from the eastward---.particulars not known.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Menai and Icarus, with a convoy for Cork ; and Sprightly cutter on a cruise.—Ar rived to-day from the Downs the Chapman, Forester, for the Island of Ceylon ; Oxford, for Rio Janeiro; Catharine, for ; Jane, fOr St. Michael's ; Lucite:4s for Rio ; several other ships, and remain. —Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship Sapphire. —Released from quarantine the James transport.— Sailed the Pickle schooner on a ccuise.—We expect his Majesty's ship Cornwallis, with the ships boiind to the Cape and East Indies, will sail to-morrow or IVednesday. II A union, JAR. 16.—Arrived the Prince ofOrange, Bridge, with a Mail and passengers from Holland ; and Diana packet, with a Mail and passengers from Cuxhaven. WELLS, JAN. IL—The John, of Sunderland; Forster, with hemp, for London, came on shore yesterday morning in a gate of wind, het has got off with little damage.—Also came on shore the Supply, of Newcastle, Swan, Master ; the crew were with great difficulty saved ; the ship is also expected to be saved. FIRE IN SMrI7IFIELD. The neighbourhood of Hosier-lane and Cock-lane, Smithfield, was thrown into great alarm this morn ing by the breaking out of a fire in the back premises of the houses constitutiog the corner of the square opposite St. Bartholomew's Irospital, and extending from Mr. Harrison's, carpenter and joiner, Hosier lane, to the back of Cock-lane. The fire originated I.* an oil-warehouse, and was discovered about two o'clock.—As it raged with the utmost violence, and scarcely'any water could be obtained until five in the morning, though the Hope Insurance engines were upon the spot, the engine-house being one of those that have suffered, the damage done is exten sive. The fire was raging with unsubdued fury at a late hour this forenoon in the warehouses of Mr. Pritchard, spirit-merchant, and Messrs. Smith and Co., wholesale shoe and leather-dealers, the front houses of these gentlemen being entire'y destroyed. We are sorry to learn that the• principal sufferer the occupier of the premises where the fire broke out, and which are completely in ashes, is ui in. cored. We have not heard that any personal injury has been sestained. mend of the article ) have fixed a forced and artificial The case of Baron D'lmnerte was finally d ec id e d ' price upon it, far beyond its natural otie=-I mean, yesterday morning. The Baron was brought before by )by its natural one, that which is fair and fast, after 1 Mr. Justice DIMPIER, upon a writ of linbeasCorpus,', allowing a liberal and honest profit to the first hand. l which, after due consideration, the Judge disallow- I If th i s applies to the art i cle of Coals, in h ow muc h ; ed, and the Baron will, therefore, be sent oat of the I more strong a degree does it apply to Corn, which country immediately. We have heard, with regret, that Lord Donovan- 1 stands certainly the first in the scale of necessity. I MORE has gota fall from his horse, by which his i have shown that the coal-owners would be the only Lordship has sustained considerable injury. !persons who would suffer from a Lou of their mono- The Price of Bread was ordered to remain the poly; so, also, would the landed proprietors be the Same es last week. 4 only persons who would suffer in the loss of theirpo. The Dublin Papers of yesterday contaia a long ~„,„ account of the Meeting of Roman Catholic Gentle men, at Lord FINGALL'S house, on Tuesday last. The. Let us look a little claim- let* the subject. The, object of this Meeting was, to deride upon the Pe- year 1793 is the period to which all the present wri tition which should be presented to Parliament in ters refer ; and the most terrible consequences are their behalf. Lord KILLEEN, Messrs. SnEIL, predicted, if matters are sull'erei to return to the 0 1 Goestare, and Lows, bad each prepared drafts of status quo of that period ; the quartern loaf was Petitions, which were submitted to the Meeting. '' then at 7d. or there abouts (I speak entirely froth Lord FINOALL, Messrs. O CONNELL, O GORMAN, 3Phttuox, &c. made several objections to Mr. memory), and every other article of consumption Sum's, which the latter defended. After a long bore a proportienate relative price. Porter was 31d. discussion, all the Petitions were referred to a Com- the quart ; beef , 6d . per pound ; labour, Is. a day. mittee of five, who are to make their Report on : The war commenced,—tazes increased.—The land. Tuesday next (this day). I owner's carriage was taxed, his horses were taxed, JOARNNt SOUTIICOTT'S WILL. The will of JOANNA was to have been proved in the Prerogative his footman was taxed, his armorial bearings were' Court on the 131 h instant ; but her bother, who re- I taxed; and, in order to still keep up his carriage, sides in Devonshire, having entered a caveat against his horses, his footman, and his armorial bearings, it, and administerered to her propetty,it could nor be he was obliged, in turn, to tax his tenant, who done. This will bring on a litigation between him again , th • lijs turn ' taxed the consumer of the pro and the present executors. The brother's objection dace i of his land. Thus, then, the only loser is the rests upon the unsoundness of his sister's mind, and her consequent inability to dispose of her pro. i co"s"mer !If t h e l and-owner had, in the first in perty. stance, give!: aay, and not taxed the tenant, the Friday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, as tenant would not have taxed the consumer, and thus a gentleman was coming tip the New Cut, Lambeth, things would have gone on as usual. As the war he was accosted by a man nho asked him what continued, the public expenditure increased ; and, o'clock it was, and at the sa"e moment knocked , , of course, the taxation went on increasing in t him down and robbed him. His head, eye, and two I preceding ratio. At length, taxation reached its face were much cut, and, we are sorry to add, of his ribs were also broken. Notwithstanding the maximum, and the whole operation ceased. Land number of patroles, the villain escaped. I then stood at the price it bad reached, and that of In the paragraph stating that two brothers in the broad, meat, and labour also remained stationary. drug line were under prosecution by the City of Lon- 'At last the blessings of peace are restored. Cores don, the word brothers was inserted by mistake for! 1 thelpolitical barometer,began to fall ; down goes el brokers. Oitihe evening of the 11 th i nstant, about wets I other article. " t But, no," says the laud _owner, o'clock, a s Mr. George Wood, of Francis-street, 44 Ido not chase to lower my rents. It is true, 111 Tottenham-court-road, was returning from aear ido take 10s. where I lately bad 20s. I can still Ilendon to go to his father's house at Mill-hill, he i keep my carriage, my horess, my footman, and as a was stopped a few yards from the S wan Inn, by ' I armorial bearings; but I want to take advantage foie* ea , who presented a pistol clos e to his r, . t the times, and, therefore, I will do my utmost and swore if he moved or made the least noise he , thi s , have two carriages, mote hOrses, two footmen, and' would blow his brains out ; n otwithstandin g threat, Mr. Wood gave him a violent blow with a! become a Knight, to add to my armorial bearings., stick, with which he was armed, which knocked the additional splendour." And how does he endeavour robber down ; the blow was given with so much to effect this? Why, by an attempt to prevent the pen_ power that the stick broke over his neck. As soon.i fed at the cheapest possible rate ifor he *el? as this robber was knocked down , . another appeared i pie b ein g knows, that if he can keep up the price:ot.goteiieo and attacked Mr. Wood , and gave him a violent 1 I blow on his ribs with a stick, which knocked him can always find farmers to give him tie pressree . I down. The first robber having recovered himself, forced price for his land. In plain fact, the farsser.„ he w ent. to the assiitance of the other robber ; . in does not care one single farthing for this discaselee; knocking Mr. Wood down, and holding him on the it is the laud-owner solely who is interested. If the ground, . when he was down, and emptied his p ockets farmer cannot pay 51. per acre for his iota, owl .4. flunk notes to the amount of about 71. Nu. owner must take less, .or his land will natIONAT Wood called for assistance, but none came. The robbers Amu made their escape towards the Swan. untenanted; and thus every . thing will go orb as .: - THE STATESMAN. CORN AND COAL TRADE. easy and natural manner, and the public wilt, as they ought, receive some benefit on the present Peace, TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. for their long, patient, and more ample sufferings ; Sta,—An interesting discussion has lately ap- daring* the war. peered in your's and some of the other Papers, The reference made by the " WHIG FARMER" on the subject of the Price of Corn. It is not Ito the article of Coals, has surely been particularly my intention. to interrupt it, but merely to. reply unfortunate. Suppose, Sir, that, as is said, all' to the eery extraordinary doctrine attempted to Blackheath was substrated with that mineral, surely be estahlshed by a writer in the Morning Chro- it will not be pretended that London would not be nicle, calling himself a WHIG FARMER; this is, benefited by its being worked : it is another thing that the axiom, universally admitted to be undoubt- whether the employment of the ships and seamen in ed by every writer upon politicareconomy of late the Coal Trade is not a national object ; but if so, date, from ADAM SMITH downwards, that " the it is one for which the inhabitants of this great me price of food regulates the price of every other arti- tropolii'exclusively pay ; and surely no man would de of consumption," is false and erroneous. ' so richly deserve Bedlam (where the " Wnic FAR- 1 I have read with considerable attention the Letter MER" charitably consigns his opponents) as he who of this writer, but I cannot discover a single argu- i would attempt to argue that we Londoners should. men: by which he even endeavours to Controvert this continue to permit the Newcastle coal-pit owners long-established position. He contents himself with (Lord Lout:DALE and the like) to fatten at our ex- i denying it ; unless, indeed, a sort of comparison as I pence. Apropos of this Nobleman : he is a striking-I to the Coal Trade may be'called an argument t and ' e l u cidati on o f w h at I h ave sa id es to t h e progress i ve I here certainly he has been unfortunate; for he can- rise,of the tand-owner—as the one rises in his way, not possibly find one more conclusive against him :so does the other also in his. This Noble Lord (or• I than that very trado affords. I will endeavour to hid ancestor) was, when coals were forty shillings. a state it in the clearest and most conspicuous rattaner• -chiOdron, plain Mr. LOWTHER—the ptlee of 'coals to advanced, h e beca m e Si r Wittraw, KalgiW—the, !The Witte FARMER contends, that if coals were ;be imported into this country at a lamer price than price inc r eas e d, hi s t i t l e b ecame h ere dit ar y, an d he the borne coal-pits are worked, it would produce the added . Baronet to his previous designation—still the effect of ruining our manufacturers. lie states this lOW- Mar k et rose, and he became a P eer — I • somewhat obscurely ; but if I understand him right, , at last the price reached the exorbitant sum of nearl y it is the force and bearing of his argument. double what it had been a few years before, and ads Now I contend that the very contrary is the• Noble Lord was able to offer to the Government a fact. We all know that a most monstrous and 74-gon-ship (the timbers of which are still, I .sup grievous monopoly exists, and has for a con- pose, seasoning, as I have not heard of her launch), siderable period existed, .in that very article, and he became the Earl of LONSDALE, &c. So it is owing to the circumstance of the Proprietors of the precisely with the land-owners—public difficulties ( coal-pits having been enabled, by peculiar circum- increase the value of the commodity, and when those 1 stances, to possess themselves, in a very great degree, difficulties begin to disappear (or at least ought to 'of the means of transport of that article from the pits disappear), these patriotic men want to keep up the to the market, by which they have the power so to price of food by the most unnatural means l ta preserve, regulate the supply to the demand, that it can never or rather to increase their own already moat m ani fall below whatever price they chuse to fix upon it.— i fold and shameful advantages. Now, Sir, it is plain, I think, to any comprehen- 1 I have extended this Letter much beyond what it sion, that if Coals could be imported from the Con- t was my original intention to have done; I shall, tinent to this Metropolis at half the price which the I however, again offer some farther considerations of Newcastle People chose to sell them at, the Public this most momentous subject to my fellow-citizens, would benefit most materially, and the monopoly through the medium of your useful and impartial be at once destroyed. The manufacturers would Journal, which I can safely say, without fear of con partake of the general good, for by the lowering of tradiction, is now the onl . , one where the public in the price of that most necessary article in the Lon terest, without reference to party, is fairly and don market, it would experience a proportionate fall honestly advocated.—l am, Sir, in the country ; and therefore they would be en- I Your faithful servant, shied to consume their Coals at a less expence.— CIVIS. Nor- would any person suffer, but they who ought to suffer—the monopolists; who, by obtaining a cons- ANECDOTE OF THE GREAT EARL OF CHATHAM. To obviate the objections against the impressment. of English seamen, NV Atrot.E., in the year 1740, brought in a Bill into the House of Commons, in which it was proposed to keep a register of all per sons capable of sea service. This Bill included wa termen, fishermen, lightermen, keelmen, bargemen, as well as ship-seamen. PITT strongly opposed this measure, as arbitrary and unjust, which led HORATIO, WALPOLE to taunt him on his youth and theatric s gesture. This sarcastic attack drew from Prri the following animated but severe retort :—" I will not undertake," said Mr. PITT, " to determine whether youth can be justly imputed to . any as a. reproach ; but I will affirm, that the wretch who, after having seen the conseopence of repeated errors, continues to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has, advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes him-1 self for money which he cannot enjoy; and spends the miserable remains of his lifo in the ruins of his , country."—This ever after gagged lioaATto WAL POLE. The petty tyranny of the Mahometan pirates, the superstition which regards it improper to prevent the ravages of the plague, and which has always made the Ottoman Empire a vast cradle for that dreadful scourge, as well as the cruelty to which the poor. Greeks, Jews, and Christians, are constantly ea. posed, has at length excited a spirit of hostility in, some of the Courts. It is asserted, in confirmation of oar former statements, that 19.0,000 men have been ordered to the Turkish frontiers, and the Divan have been demandingations from some Foreign Ministers at Constan t . • The Paris Papers 10th gravely tell es, that there are now three vacancies in the Institute, vix. 'those of Messrs. NAPOLEON, JOSEPH, and Luctra BONAPARTE. The celebrated French tragedian, TALMA, is dilly' expected in town. . Last week at the Quartpr Sessions for the county kef Southampton, Ludy Holland; of Cranbury-house, Winchester, appeared in Court, and exhibited articles I Of the peace against W. Chamberlayne, ' Esq. of - I Weston, in consequence of certain threats used VI him towards her Ladyship; and the Court ordered . him to enter into recognizance, himielf in 10001: and two sureties in in 5001. each, to keep the Peace,. • On Tuesday sennight, Mr. George Scott, a re• spectabie farmer at Saltileet, in Lincolnshire, and• who held a situation in the Customs,' Olt period , to his existence by shooting himself with "a pistol.. Mil had just before made his will, which he placed on a chair close to the spot where he destroyed himself.— Embarrassments in his circumstances is supposed to have caused the rash act. To-xowtow, IPednesday, the first Ticket drawn' a Prize above 25L wilt receiie Ten Thousand Pnunde, and may be entitled to Twenty Thousand Pounds besides ; this may well account for the eitraordimiry concourse of pee* who are flocking to the Offices-- To- - morrow being the day of Drawing. . . . EZTRAORDThT4RY 00771 The following are the particulars, sl ironed a little eakraerditsary t which hn relative, to . attack; 'elated re have I liar. Deakin, of Victliog-etipet, on lk • :'l 4 ,„th IttfOrmalitia being given to Mr.'aoff, rid the litt• tannin, Britannia.row, he immediately hid the.gette • tleman terraced to his hoase'on a shottet, and pro cured medical assistance, by means it!' which be was at length restored to animation. The account be gave was as follows:—';'hat he had been plush% the preceding evening it, the King's Dead Tavern, at Islington; and on his retain home, about half-pest ten o'clock, jest as he entered the seven . add. from Queen's Read-lane, he received a vielent:bietanWithe head, from a stick er a stone, and ells brettentlynt tarkedby three men, with - whom hefted f &vadat struggle, daring which • his clottes we:re terve to pieces; that they pal lope round bis neat, and 'endeavoured to itrangie him, and finally succeeded sy robbing - and' diagOng . ..lliin Info Ns ditch, *here he remaineditil• dibeavered, es, ribpve stated, the next two•petrolas were on duty at the time this outrage 'was committed, but neither of theM heard nor saw any thing of it, though one of them, 'betireen 'After, end twika o'clock, found kfr;Deakitt's hat, with a bole *brae ht the side of it ; and let the'course of the morning his ,shoes, one of his gaiters, several pieces of his coat, ammo cirdi of tit addross„ ea.tsell as a piece of jack ' line marked with bleed,. were 'found scattered be tween the path and the ditch, which are ahoat 60 yards apart. Little remained of his coat but the sleeves and collar, and his under waistcoat, shirt, breeches, and even his stockings, were torn to rags, but his waistcoat was uninjured, and the medical Gen tleman who attended him at Mr. Goff's, after the strictest eiamination,could not discover the slightest appearance of a wound or swelling on his bead- or _body, but there wa: a mark ro t und his neck,- as if made by a rope, and his nose seemed to ha,e Ir:e ! a little. _lle pas taken hams in a coach the c,u-sc of the dry by his friends, one of whom state!, that on Tbursdpy moruing,Air. Deakin was iu pos session of bills, ate, to :the anitioni of and was to ,receive 601. the 'same day ; itOtte of this pro perty, however, wits about him When he ,wit at tacked, as he had not more than four or h e-poeuds in his pocket.hook. One extraordinary circum stance connected isith this affair is, •thet•the watch. man, who is stationed pear the..Sbepberd and szhiN. herdess, in the City:-roster' *beat two o'clock in the morning saw a man coming from the fields with hie face bloody, and his clothes torn to pieces, and win. out hat or shoes, who told him bo had been assault , d and rabbit' in the fields, and eoquired for the nearest watch-house; when the watchman directed 'im to that of St. Luke's parish. - Sir Win. Parsons, one of the Magistrates it IVorship.etreet, was with Mr. Deakin at the Britannia ; and as the business is orid , .r the investigation of the Magistrates, it is hoped that .the mystery which at • present envelops it will be elucidated.. • • 'Si 4 RAGE. 4 , some qt. width nee trauepired, beIVI *tide on he night Of the Tr' . . - I ' I . , ;-* ~ _ . f 1 f ' • .. • ' I I ' 1, • I. , . • 1 * ' ' l'. .• , :i ! 1 ) ~.. . ,e ~.? . , .4 1 i • . • , i 44 1. v • .... ': 1 I I I I ' '. 0 t ~. t a , 1' '4. a POI ICE. • Mansion: litoesa.- 1 1 1 11; - tuillier ins est igallon of • tbe charge made ag ~net Captain'Vettny. of Ike Ea , ' India ship Caroline, cr. suspicion of the-murder of Blitter John, his steward, occu ' pied the outeatio'n of the Lord. Manor the whole of yesterday, , this brine the third exaalinatiod.. • The Lascars persisted in the. esideoce which they had before • given. Siodar Cawn (in addition to ids former evidence) deposed, that three days after last day's examination before his Lord hip, ' Captain Fenny's servant, Dadon, came ttobins nt !hell:wracks, ~ and told him be.nsuet hot go against the - Captain, but cone with hint() the Captain. D ar then took him in a coach to the Captain's house. In the llaymarket. 'the captain onAisarrival ' there sent for witness up stairs. The Captain then said to him, Sindar Cawn, what you have told the Lord Mayor is not true." Witness answered, he hod only told sybarite saw. Cap lain then said to %item, that he ghoul , tell before the Lord Mayor, that Serang bad paid him money for what hi was to say al,out the Captain having murdered Butler John. After that, Captain took the witness to his lawyer's house in another coach. 1 Captain's lawyer then wrote something on ar per, which wit ; nets did not understand ; but the Oaptain int him it was about . ..his saying the Serang gave him money . T hen Captain's lawyer ...sent witness to deliver this paper to Mr. Gold (Supertntendint of Lacers) ; this is the paper produced. The Captain then gave witness a 11. note, and said whey justice was settled lie would give him more. Theo he gave ions another coach, in which he went home to the barracks along with lawyer's clerk, who gave the paper to Mr, Gold. Captain's servant, 1)adoo, alsh accompanied them thither. Mr. Gold asked witness if lie knew what was in that paper, wititetss said he did not know. Mr. Gold deposed, that witness admitted to hlm, that he knew the contents of the paper; and Ana it was all right. . Captain Fenny new stated, that ta.ceusequence of Sindar ('awn askiogAins for money, hg took bird to Ms 'solicitors, to know if it was proper toliielt bim; - and'Who End there was no objection to it. • Witness denied usl.lng th- Captain for inane); et this time, or that he had said to Captatti's ervaut that be had told the Lord Mayor what was not true. Witness penband Is the truth of his several dipositions•before his Lordship..,. The I oats Mayon .said, lie had atlen,lvety etainined the ship. He had gone inn' the cabin and upterthri poop ; he had gone round the ship ' and examined the Wreaks 01 paint, mid by the description of the place where the spar was lived, with the men shin upon it, his Ladship did tun think it •poseible that these men could see into the cabin window ; ItOLas to the pas sibility of forcing a man out of the cabin window, the Def. • I ' aat would do. wall not to let that he any part of his defence.— ' Any apinien of his own, his Lordship said, could net chinini,h the truth; but he fi rmly believed these men could Lot hive sera through the sabio-viudow•from the positi-a in w hick the str.r '1 wits placed; 'nevertheless. the evidence was .n positive, . n I so firmly per-isted in by the witnesses, that 'it svas• impossible for his Lordship ; (consistent with the task he bad pv perform) to dismiss the case, "Ind therefore he should 'desire at to stand over fur anotise,resamition ou Moodily ftrinieb.:' • ' , . # • INTERESTING CASE--11. case of peconat mien:tit :will very shortly be brought before Ole tonn•COAti. CELLOR. ft is a petition on a statute . of lunacy, pre. fdrred by the brother of. .a Noble Pier, who is pre. • fidtaptive heir to the thls, #gainst the'Neble Lord.— The facts are simply theso: 7 -His Lordehip Was, Jur. tilt the rad of iiis first Wile,under. a &Nen trustee. ship.. !partied again, 'with 'the . eltio# tlitpgitter of otter of the Trusted, anti the trial 'iris 'eddied !loon %Nell the new :fseilily.' Tfih Lordship's brother ceitends that this stet, wairsio# Improperly latii#44ll+ll Noble Gird?. general lircompetence was 11114tIchlarty well known to the worl4: and he has tieteral affidavit's ti prove titClitealfeelty. On tile othitr side, the father of the hew`-married Lady has lied 87 tjfdarits to rebdt 'the chst/e tot-ill:testa( in.. competency .on the part of Aim Nehtetord. The first hea-dsg will probably lei In_pririte. A writer' In' the ,rreckli ffeven.crer of Sunday 'mentions, as a hardship.resalting from our Nsriga. lion Laws, Ott esr Merchants are net permitted to 'build vessels at Chabot, Halifax, &c. It is notorious .that this prevention does not.exist, a proof that the writer knows ;waling of his subject. 3 11 hi OA RS ( 7 N. ly Id ns Y~ d ~. _