The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-04-10 00:00:00

their .14 tioos 11 • 1 hia ° 0 roe (roe The f.',: :lArtois a 1::'I . 6 Irered t i,c , i etti co .vority Facsur 'ootis 12 I, r,e Br :ii, infor n peps .rcement: ,d Palen A chain of antier, I N, so the nth the Pr Sort dish foist Aral fl b-e 0 I tirYt, 0 innored ti Ath, the a it it there r:! shies tc tins. Ti Heed to FUrGeS am Ivor, the I uortv romp Isere land sent off to arrived at Lours XI The De the late e tion, apps ailing on necessary sad the de says the s) frontiers , countries, fi rteed b) this deters sacred rigl wise the i. to securit . The ri LlMYn's : " The Master, f td and •••P Capt. 11. fur her do " The which !at Saturday fester ulnas he 'ler% this then Tea, toted here of the ph The in eonneere, Yuan he his Roy a hour, an played. An ofl Lord WI ar m y ; t lent b ad Tester at :he A, le,rapiis itorkihg We In S:VART foot ; Si rent; at tiion. The I ordered the Nal We 11 , i: the ap or , il:er,: Kipz of The t the kin i Wedneo The I cater a Lotter thd of ] which ss [Neill implant: Propert3 Lim a western South V I've mica "sir, air 1 ; . 0i.11 t! It par try hovi the 11" the Ind ha its t • THE STATESMAN. ildren bastards; it was by such doings as i t the emigrant. who returned with the of the coalesced troops obtained for the I , ernmetit the good will of the people. NilP-4L INTELLIGENCE. 'omit de Lille is at Ghent, and the Count at Brussels. trite from Lusatia, that the Saxon Officers •ed there gates grand entertainment in honour tore of the Emperor, at!which his health and , were drank ith acclamations of joy. II FUNDS.-5 per Cents. 67.1. 75 c. Bank 17. f. 50. c. Brussels Papers, which are received to the ,rm us that the French troops in the North .partrnents have received considerable rein ts the last week. Lisle, Douay, ieaciennes have been greatly strengthened.— of posts has been placed all along the French , and the same is done on the side of the Al dtt the sentinels stand in sight of each other, patroles of cavalry approach within a very stance of one another. The bounds be- RCP slid war was small, but the quiet had not broken by hostility. The grand head of the Allied army in Belgium was to be to the village of Sens, between Mons and necessary measures having been taken to le. Troops, it is said, were marching on to the frontiers, where they take their posi 'Re English troops as they land at Ostend to West Flanders, and take post between nd Conrtray. Sixty pieces of heavy artil metal that is most likely to be in use in the ipaign, and a vast quantity of ammunition, 'tied last week at Ostend, and immediately to 'fourarty. The Duke of WELLINGTON It Brussels on the morning of the sth lust. _Vitt. remains at Ghent. Deputies of the Swiss Diet, in consequence of events in France, have issued a Proclama pealing to the Cantons and the people, and n them to support the measures deemed y for the maintenance of their independence defence of the frontiers of the country. It system adopted " comprehends the ancient of the Confederation, consequently those ;, the restoration of which has been gus hy the high Allies in the Treaty of Paris ; .rmination of our frontiers is founded upon i 4 hts, as well as upon necessity, sin..a other. Confederation without frontiers would have ity." IMPORTANT. following was this morning posted at ie French ship L'.4mluble, Ethene, SODERY, from Bnordeaux to Dunkirk, lately detain .pi.t 'fit° Plymouth by the Eridanus frigate, I. PM:SCOTT, has been releaser!, and sailed debtination. e Confiance, from Cuad,:loupe to Havre, itely pat into' Swansea, sailed from thence on (or her destination. ?play Lord KINNAIRD arrived from Paris, left on Thursday afternoon, at which time aing was tranquil in that city, and no news had received in confirmation of the rumours circu 're of the Royalists being in possession of any (laces mentioned in the South of France. military preparations have put all the offices /NI with it in a great bustle. The Duke of tell a Levee on Friday. On Saturday night al Highness was engaged in business till a late nd also during yesterday he was busily em- .rder has been ii.oecl at Ostend, on the part of VELLI ros, to prevent women following the those who embarked with the troops will be ick• ierdiy Viscount 41e'Nut.% trausaqted business Admiralty Office, and gave orders for the Te. Is to be repaired, and to be got in a state of 'g with all possible speed. hear Lord HILL succeeds the late Sir Jour; 3. in the command of the 20th regiment of Sir WILLIAM HOUSTON to get the 94th regi kudSir Hermit TOKIINNS the 24 Garrison Bat- DIAL, Aram 9,Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship Dexterous, from Flushing.—Sailed theStreathans, Marquis Wellington, and William Pitt, for the East Indies; and Fruit frigate to the Nore.—Came down from the River to-day the Sir William Pulteney East Indiaman, and Renewal, for Barbadoes.—Re main in the Downs his Majesty's ship Orontes, Chal lenger, Mutinc, Redpok, Urgent, and Swan cutter, and several transports.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Foxhound, and Sparrowharek, for tke French coast. FALMOUTH, APRIL 7.—Arrived the Harmony, Normand, from Oporto for London, laden with wine ; she was taken 2d March by the James Munro American privateer, off Cape Finisterre, which was chiefly manned by Frenchmen, five of whom and two Americans were put on board her ; and they left also on board the Harmony, her Mite, Mr. J. Nelson, who prevailed on the Frenchmen to assist him in retaking the vessel, which they did on the 24th nit. in lat. 43. 6 N. long. 27:23 W. ; they hove the American prizemaster overboard.—Sailed the Chichcster parker, with a Mail for the Brazils.— Passed by yesterday his Majesty's ship Plover, with a convoy of about 16 sail, for Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship Steiftsure, and Camel store-ship, from the West Indies- , —sailed from St. Thames's the 27th Feb., in company with his Majesty's ships L'Pique and Mosquito, with a fleet of 90 sail, which which hare arrived in the Channel, and will proceed for the different ports.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Cordelia to the Eastward, and a few ships to Quebec. —Arrived to-day the Harmony, Goodall Henry Cell, Roxburgh, and Spectator, from the I'Vest In dies; the Louisa, Mattison, from Surinam, expe rienced several severe gales, and was obliged to throw her guns and chain cable overboard to save the ship. —Sailed his Majesty's ship Pilot, for the Mediterra nean ; also sailed several colliers. PLYMOUTH, APaIL 7.—Came in the Eagle, Stig ging, from Poole for New Foundland, with loss of cutwater and bowsprit, having been run fool of by a frigate. HARIVICU, APRIL 9.—Arrived yesterday the Auckland packet with a mail from Holland, and the . Sahrs and Janc transports from Deptford ; and Cres,r, tL,asport from woolwich, with stores. — Arrived yesterday the Beaufoy packet from Cux haven; Lord Nelson packet from Holland; Neu Union packet, from Hamburgh, with bullion; and Albion packet, for Gottenburgh.—Sailed Diana packet with a mail for Holland. RAMSGATE, APRIL 9.—Arrived this morning the Resolution packet for Ostend, and several transports for orders. Veteran Battalions recent!y disembodied are td to be immediately re-formed, and placed on tai::i>htretot under new Officers. tier.i not tell our readers that the term Sire ippe';ltion of a king. From this the French ••: have a Jeu de mot, applicable to the late )1 Fit.% vice—they call him " Louis le de-Sia.." Chert.lier de SALLE, a Captain of Cavalry in tog of i.tantwia's service, arrived in town on P , ilay evening, with dispatches to the Sardinian soder, in Upper Seymour-street. 21 .1 l of Dunce is at Ghent, where he has CORN-EICFUNGE, /team 10.—The Market this moraine was well •upplied with What, but as desoand. at a deeliar of a house, t ts. per quarter.—Harler 4. lower than Week.—Oats sod lens have been obtained from Lima, dated the ! Beans 1.. cheaper.—Wkite Peas 4s. dearef...-lo Wier-graie no November, stating that the disturbances of ; nheratiffiL , , Wheat (Nadlsb) , MI 12 Beans we before heard bad' been introductory to very ! Ditto (neap) 44 73 Old ditto 3 disaffection, and that the Patriots were tri- i Rye .3 0 36 Tick 49. ... ...... —.46 il 33 Tick d 9• tat in several spacious districts of Pere. British Bari " ' New ditto oats .... -.. .11 SI 'ty was considered to be perfectly secure at , Malt . 6O 68 Fine ditto ..... ..... 1 MI 48 1 Pokutdda. ,. .22 j/1 . .rako, and throughout the whole range of the? white Pens New ditto .... — Dot. -1 ditto l6 Pi •n coast of the Spanish colonies. The Wildman D itto Bo il ers 4B 32 rine Flour •,...•. •• • •241) Whaler, which had taken nut the utensils for Grey Pees n3B Seems& - .... nes at Pasco, load been convoyed by a ship of --war.--. SMITHFIELD MARKFT.—APRIL JO. Ind had reached her port of destination. The TO sink the ow, per atone et tlito. I hail completely the contruul of the seas in , Beef ....41s. Bd. to s. Bd. Head of Cattle this das t 18RO 111 of the Spanish possessions, the parent coon- ! Mattel ..b.. 346.• to c i r s ': r d : : 1 ,7": 14,12u sing only one man of war in bad condition, no Pork e ... fts. Od. to 7s. 61. Calve was stationed at Lima, and the English having Lamb ...Is. 04. so 95. 61. Plot. - • • treCott and the Tagus frigates, and by this time MAY May to 51. ss. N. • es; ' 1 *fatigable, of 50 guns, which hat long been I Glover voyage to the Pacific 04;ean straw , ..,/ 1 •~ ro mils EDITOR lip THE STATESMAN. the article in your Paper of yesterday's date should be correct, that a French vessel has been detained by one of our frigates, and brought into Plymouth, I hope that Parliament will move for the instructions given by the Admiralty, or by the Port Admiral, to the Officer commanding the frigate, that it may be ascertained with whom the guilt of ag gression lies; whether with the Officer in question, or whether with Government? If it should appear to be an officiousness nu the part of the former, Mi nisters are bound to bring him instantly to a Court-Martial as an atonement due to France, whose flag has been insulted ; but if the Offi cer has acted in obedience to the orders he has re ceived from his Department, it becomes the honour and the justice of the nation to impeach the Minister who has dared, by a wanton and unprovoked aggres sion, to hazard a rupture with a Power with whom we are at peace. Yob are well aware, Sir, of the temptation which our Admiralty Droits holdout for perpetual war ; yea are no less aware of the clan. destine uses to which the profits arising from this new species of revenue, unauthorised by the Legis lature, is applied ; and that this private fund for good and bad purposes dates its rise from the unna tural and iniquitous contest with our former fellow. subjects, in 1775, when the sweets of Admiralty Droits were first tasted, and amounted to so consi derable a sum as to astonish and puzzle the King how to dispose of it. lam recording a fact well known to the father of the present Minister, and to some others who are, as well as myself, in existence. I do riot know on what legal ground the Crown is permitted to claim these Admiralty Droits as part of its regalia, liable as it is to be applied to uses' , incompatible with the liberties of the people.-1 The Commons of England in the days of CHARLES 1., who had little patronage compared with the pre- I sent times, were commendably jealous of Royal in- 1 dowses, and soon prescribed limits to the illegal ez. i actions of the Crown ; I- am sorry that I cannot compliment the Commons in oar days of possessing an eqoal jealousy and sense of honour, when the in ordinate increase of patronage, the abuses in the , Administration, a standing army in the country, and foreigners, in defiance of law, entrusted with mili tary commands, so imperiously calls for the vigilance and controul of Palliament. With respect to the re ported detention of a French vessel by one of our cruisers, I am willing to hope, that if. no act of ag gression has been committed on the part of the' French to call for retaliation, that the Emperor of FRANCE will have forbearance enough to demand an On Monday last, at a public meeting of the in. habitants of Sheffield, it was resolved to Petition his exptatiatiaa of the outrage offered to his Empire by Royal highness the PRINCE Recrear immediately to the italicise course of an application through Ids Am. dissolve Parliament. lasssador. Ile does not want magnanimity to parties* Yesterday there was a Sermon preached in en irssalt, and he has taught Ministers that he knows Bride's Church, Fleet-street, before the Duke of ; how to resent one . GLOUCESTER, and a most numerous and highly re- Whatever may have been his former conduct, how spectable Congregation, for the benefit of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The boys and girls of the ever despotic his peculiar situation may have rendered Asylum attended. One of the boys repeated the him, assailed as he had been by all the States of the Lord's Prayer very distinctly, although he himself Continent, whom we had hired to bent him down, and could not hear one syllable of what he said. The to which the interests of France, as well as his own Church was crowded to an overflow, and the col pevsonal safety may have forced him, he has given am , lection on the occasion was very considerable. which trencher le roof since he resumed an empire On Friday evening a respectable looking man, from pp y Finrhley, just come to town, met the driver of a ' and chance, more than courage, had wrested from him ` brewer's! dray in St. John-street, with whom he was for the moment, that despotism forms no part of his acquainted, after walking together some distance, the present character. He has shown to surrounding countryman complained of being tired, requested per- nations that he has profited by the lessons of ad mission of the driver to let him sit on one of the varsity, and, it is seriously to be lamented, that shafts of the dray, which permission the driver in- entnple so worthy of imitation has not yet en cautiously granted him, as the dray did not proceed many yards before the unhappy man fell off, and the gaged the attention of those who are for '" hunting wheel passed over his body before the horses could be him down as a wild beast." They will do well to profit by the lessons he has already given them; or it stopped ; he was taken up in a dreadful state and carried towards St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but he is possible, in the event of renewed hostilities, he t expired oo the way there. who catty find more friends amongst their subjects than We have the pleasure to inform the Poor, are afflicted with Ruptures of any sort, that at gi, they are aware of. He has shown that he knows bow to win as well as to conquer. His abolition of Swallow-street, opposite Burlington-street, the Repo sitory for new and second-hand Trusses, they can be the Slave Trade speaks volumes to the nations of the properly fitted, and made comfortable for a few' earth, and in particular-to England, which was the sh Rings; or ill fitting Trusses may be exchanged for first to renounce the inhuman traffic. The establish. what will fit. ling a free Press in France is another measure no At Notingham Assizes, John Hempstock was con.. less victed of murdering James Snell, a boy, about twelveess acceptable to,the habits and prejudices of this years of ago, and executed on Thursday. — ln an country, and which shows how little he has to dread action on the Civil Side, Boolton v. Moody, for a' from the licence he has accorded. Our Ministersescape breach i f promise of marriage, a verdict was, by the censure they deserve by purchasing such Journals consent, taken for the Plaintiff, damages 1,0001.; iaswillabjectlydevotethemselvestotheirviews,andby and the Defendant's Counsel made a handsome de- I coercing with the strong haud.of the law such others claration as to the unimpeachable conduct and cha- I as dare to breathe independent sentiments. It most racter of the fair Plaintiff. The wife of notary, of Nogent-Seine,-Seine, was also be observed, that the French Government has a safely delivered, on the 22d March, of Jive fine chil- I cautiously abstained from giving umbrage to this dren, who are all doing well. . I country; and as the reinstatement of a discarded fa mily by the voice of the nation cannot be a legi timate pretext for war, it may not be amiss to advise the confidential servants of the Crown, to well re flect on the consequences which may result to them selves personally, as well u to their Royal Master, should they precipitate him into a contest with a State which is giving no just cause of offence, and which is evidently desircos of preserving the relations of 'peace and amity with us. The Sovereign who seized vefy firlappertunity in his power to abolish, by his fiat, the Slave 'trade, and to establish the free d* ef, the Press in his dominions. is entitled to the admiration alsd gratitude of mankind, while those ;11011a 'would conspire to dethrone him, will become leXts of well.merited contempt, and may eventually thellace which they seam disposed to assign to ••• 4014 IP& ;~>:. OLD BAILEY, AriertB: —..-- . RIOTS IN 13Ultt.INGTON•STREET. lama Ripley (butler), Richard lltrrlort. Robert Herber[, and Richard Wathews ( rillier..).- weer I charged with the wilful murder of Jane Wave's, on 1 the 7th of March lasts There was no Counsel for the prosecution ; for the Prisoners the Attorney-General, Mr. Serjeant Best, Mr. Gamey, and. Mr. Knapp. Mr. ',itch ! field, the Solicitdr of the Treasury, conducted the I defence. / Mr. 'Thompson, a surgeon, proved that the de ceased was brought to St. George's Hospital ; she lived twelve days. Her death we( occasioned by a wound on the side of the head—au abscess being formed on the brain. Mr. Robinson stated, that while in the Hooey , of Commons on Tuesday nigf,t, his house in Burling ton-street hod been forcibly entered by the mob.— , He wrote from the House of Commons to the Secre tary of State, to request some protection might be sent to his house. Believed some military had been sent previous to his writing. On the folinwitig , 1 morning the prisoner Ripley told witness of the vie. lence which had been done and threatened. I The evidence for the prosecution was so much the same as that which we before derailed, that it is not necessary to detail it. The defence set op by the 1 Prisoners contains n law •rgnment of so much gene. ral interest, as it applies to all such cases, and serves to show in what way, and how far resistance, its i cases of commotion, is considered justifiable by law, !that we feel it our duty to insert it at length. The Prisoners being called upon for their defence, the following was handed into Court by .T: Ripley t 66 MAY IT mi:4se YOUR LORDSHIPS,. GCNTLI. MEN OE THE JURY, ' 6 My Counsel being prevented by the law front either rolngerving on the evidence offered against me, or of laying my defence before you, I am obliged to have recourse to this mode of defending myself against a charge of wilful murder. Considering the painful situation in which I stand, the discussion that our case has undergone out of this Court, and the various publications respecting it which have lately been most industriously circulated through this town; I am sore you will pardon my requesting you to dismiss from your minds whatever )on may have read or- heard of this transaction before you cline into Court; and that you will give your ver dict on the evidence that you shall this day hear.— Let me also i n treat of you to separate.ourvase from a subject that has lately been the topic of much dis. cussion, and on which there has been a great dif. ferenre of opinion. Neither I nor my fellow-pri soners had any thing to do with 'the passing of the Corn Law—we were ordered to defend a house, the felonious destruction of which had been attempted, and we are brought here to answer with our lives, because we have faithfully discharged the trust com mitted to our care, and the duty imposed upon us. Our defence rests on general principles; yea, the Jury, and every member of the certimenity, have an equal interest with me and my fellow.prisoners in supporting these principles. If these principles are broken in upon or brought into doubt, the security of property is destroyed, and the peaceable and well-disposed members of society wM at all times be at the mercy of an enraged and fertontimpoliee. ",The crime of murder consicts,as the language of the record itself informs you, in the killing a fellow creature with malice aforethought; I learn, Weed, that besides that direct malice against an invitee:lost, which is made out by direct proof, and is celled •x -press malice, the law, in certain cases, peewees- the existence of malice, end describes it by the term of implied malice. From express malice ogresses most be entirely free; we could by no possibility have had any knowledge of malice against, or dispoSition to injure, either the unfortunate deceased, or any other persons that were before Mr. Robinson's house on the night when she unhappily met her death. I think 1 can with equal clearness sh" you, that there is no pretence for saying there Wits any implied malice. '• The law which Ism about to state, cannot hat be familiar to the Learned Judges ; bat I trust I shalt be forgiven in shortly bringing it under their review for your information, in the humble hope that it will receive their Lordships' sanction, and desiring only, that as far as it is sanctioned by them, it may be acted upon by you in the decision of our case. 66 I submit, that every man is justified in the use of arms in the defence of his life, or protection of his own property, or that of a fellow-subject, to whose assistance he is called against the commission of a felonious attack. It is not necessary to delay the use of arms till the immediate intention to make such attack be manifested by some open act. This principle of law is bottomed in our nature, and is recognized by that sacred Act which establishes the liberty of our country. In the Bill of Rights it is expressly declared, 'that the subjects of this country may have arms for their defence suitable to their con ditions.'— Lord Chief Justice Hale, one of the most learned and humane Judges that ever sat in West. minster Hall, says, ' If A had attempted a burglary upon the house of B, with the intent to steal, or to kill him, or had attempted to burn the house of B, if B, or any of his servants, or any within the house, had shot and killed A, this' had not been so much as a felony, nor had he forfeited ought for it, for his house is his castle of defence, and, therefore, he may justify assembling persons for the safeguard of his hoose.'— The ease alleged against us, if made cut in fact, comes completely within the doctrine of Lord Hale, as the law stood with regard to the breaking of houses in his time. After the house had been broken, in the manner in which it was during the continuance of this riot, after the threats uttered against Mr. Robinson and his family, what could those who were in the house expect, but that if the populace succeeded in forcing admission, they would kill those whom they (wind in it, who enured to resist them ? Bat siece Lord the law has made it a capital felony rut riotously and tutnultooosly resembled begin to demolish or pull dews any (11 Succeeding writers haves with universal cirri. d the doctrine' of Lord Hale beyond burglary (the only felonious breaking known in his time), to any felony committed or in any house. Mr. Justice Foster - injured party may repel force by force, , .~ ~~ 4 10 had endea- eel Hale wrote, )r ins persona - - d together, to Inelliag-hou%e. it appreba.iou, and the case of ig of a bouse mined against er says, 6 The , in defences Rk:GIILUS.