The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-12-23 00:00:00

II law-making. No man, however, in his senses, would, or can believe, that proceedings of the nature we have been speaking of from day to day, of hate, weld have gone on se, were it not for that expedient Minh the facetious Doi Deddingssis, afterward' Lord Piramoisen, so truly described, aed so sneesesAilly and reciprocally practised. This expedient, the most analogous to the vile characters of those on whom it operates, is BRIBERY ! The Borough:worn, those pests to freedom, have been as busy as Stockbrokers upon the doubtful ru mours of a war or a pose*. This is then the time to execrate the infernal vatic in seats. ' But for this degrading trade, would it be possible for such a needier of persons to be kneed in the whole empire to vote as the majority of the Homes of Parliament have voted of late against tie liberty of the peer linnex I He who bas bees mimed to beggary, by _popperting an unjust and onneeeinary war, at the igingstion of the betwitehing ornery of a Prrr, .std a few of his followers, who have, in the most . 4 11111bies. (it would not be too coarse an expres sion, br the mischief of the deed, to my fp kg) matioer, promised the impoverishing multi- ode sere " Security io future, and fall hideous nay Tor the past" What can the House of . Coursons be called now bat depeedents upon the Minister I These Ministers must emloebtedly have told the Prince, their Master; 'that they . can keep the Legislature at their disposal, or he fever would let them go on as be has acme ; since in spite of those foibles which his Royal Highness has largely shared with meaner persons, he has always been credited for possessing an equal share of commonsense with them. At all events he is unconscious of the calamity his servants are brine ing upon the country; which calamity will be of that nature, that must inevitably involve his safety ar.d his happiness. These weak, and yet arrogant men, arc, in an oblique manner, establishing a Cen sorship on the Press, and by these measures Censors will be stirred up against them, and against their Prince. It seems as if the days of WALPOLE were returned again, when his beating-up seejeants be' Ministerial recruits, or a new Parliament, were uts• disguisedly told, that " all those who chose to eft( use the party of the Crown might have their price." This Lind of prostitution we have too long I I seen—too severely felt ; and till some one Minister is impeached, and, being found guilty, punished for hetraying his country in this manner, we shall go en :rein!: and surering by it. This language we shall not long be allowed to one, as the contemp tible rnd Eberticide Utah of tyranny, after having practised as traitor*, will all turn informer*, and Aft Ote ( th e ifiag's Ikea, "AtionNE TOOKE called him,) upon us. The per- SOLIVC3 alluded to ought to remember the saying, that to speak daggers is not so frightful u to use thou. Volarns sal. Still the dread work of legislating to extinguish the liberty of the press goes on. The frightful monster struggles for compleat existence. We will not cease to look the ill-omened monster on with a basilisk's eye. Would we could kill it with the darting rays of indignation, for if we can not strangle it in the birth, it will destroy our Itherties, and will make it a matter of indifference to an Englishmen where he re sides: whether in Grand Cairo instead of Great Britons, till the return of more Suspicious times. Last night, some other important topics were dis cos...4Al in the House of Commons ; but the business ended, with a very• serious question from Mr. W. SMITH to Lord CASTLEREHGII, with respect to the period of banishment for falling under the penalty of the" Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Bill." when his Lordship observed, very frankly (as we understood under the gallery), that the banish ment was to be for life." The Funds experienced a sudden rise yesterday, inconsequence of some observations which kit from Ministers, upon financial measures; the price of Consols for the Account, wu quoted at 671, at whidi they left off. This morning the Mar ket looked uncommonly brisk, Consoia were done at 681, with every prospect of a further rise ; but towards one sickeit the market as sumed a different feature, for the principal jobbers finding themselves heavy bulls of Reduced for the day, the price of Consols fell to 671. The rise this morning was owing to some farther observations made by Ministers last night, combined with a great scarcity of money ; indeed m much so that the continuation upon Redncod from now till the Consol account is I 7-16, which pays near 71 per cent. for the time, while this continues We may look for a still farther rise. Yesterday Prince LEOPOLD, attended by Sir Ro- MT GARDNER, left town for Claremont. Yesterday the Dukes of York and Clarence vi sited the Prince Regent, at Carlton House. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence walked in Hyde Park yestcrdhy. The cue of the prosecution against the Club at Paris, called " The Friends of the Liberty of the Press, has had another and a Sisal bearing before the Tribunal of Oorreetioeal Police. The Court aeateaced the defendants, Oeveaden and Simon, UP a pity of 200 t each, sad ordered that the Ckb Agar he dinelved.- THE TIES alum OF arassiz. --...-- " Nevar did martyr, with Mn lovely peat. " Pan from a world wniroway to imam id.." . . Hawaii& 111* NOG. with mild ifilaikkr, Ilhawia'd the And shod Impala valsaai Wine the dash lona; The Mho was natalloil. the greed wind woo sM $ Thit wind of Hs west AM bristles to Mtttllhe-• When, lo! how the sky. Ilk. an ingot The geniis of Iris, is glory arrayed, Casio—boss on a whits passing diM et So night. And stood on the spot whore her Loosen wu laid. The vole, of her harp, that to sorrow wu string. _ _ Partook of the sego Ish that relp•d ha her swig Aad while to Its plaletire railed umbers she Nei. Tins. sad oa my ear, the sweet reehMy stoke : " 0, Russell ! eatketwed with the sash of the breve, Look dews with mild eye, from the regimes of day— Ms listen that eons thee. that kneels by thy grave, Aad kisses the tett that onelooss thy day! The tsar of alhation, for thee does It OW, And this, is the sigh that snap= from my breast— Oh 1 amid they the strength of the mighty retell, . . . _ . . . AM wia boob tilos soul iron lie reolias of the bleat: For ever **torrent sioold streams from Woo oyoo, Aod sibs. WS, mmilog. employ my food twooli. Vail lip snot "irk, resoled ham the skim. Sigrid mobilo moolosamihe slowborilnklill ; 1 saw thee the prospect of paha slespise. Acrd Inn, mid destruction, thy progress panne; lines oft would a tear at thy danger arise. And hide thy strong efforts awhile from my view.— Bat, shade of the mighty! thine efforts were vole, To rouse In my eauseeach degenerate son: Their spirits reeoird at the prospect of psis ; They how'd to their fears, and the brave were soden' ! Foal Falsehood nrjoled, whoa II'D • bad treed Ills name on the scroll thy destroyers enferi'd; Truth wept o'er the word, that she would bare eru'd, And Infamy peblish'd the tale to the world ! When Treachery's triumph at length wag complete, And Death, the remain.* of the wretched was neer. I beard thy bold accents—when. high oa his seat, They shook the proud been of Injustice with fear Collected and calm, In the soul-try lag hoer, Firm, arm. was thy footstep, nor faelteed t"y breath; Thou smil'dst at the utmost exertion of pewee, Resigedst thy great spirit. and triampledst is death! 0. Russell! tho' high o'er thy mouldering dust No seelptor has ehissell'd thy actioes ia stone, Nor rear'd the tall column, nor moulded the bust, To grace the green sod that embosoms my son ; Yet there will the muse, is her sorrow, recline, And cull sweetest Sow'rets, to strew on thy grave; The bosom of friendship thy name shall seshrise. And dwell with el..light on the deeds of the brave. Farewell. blessed spirit! the linger of Fame list twin'd her fair chaplet lb) brow to adorn : In toes to come will she boast of thy name, And tell thy sad story to millions unborn." She ceased to complain--end her harp's silent strings No longer were swept to the numbers of woe ; lint, rising from earth on the cloud's Seery wings, She hewed a fond sigh for her hero laid low ! ato Melee la flolam. hssmsrly to Intimate sernipealalP of T. Russell's. but who afterwards basely joined in °Swiss a reward for his apprebonston. The following is an extract from Mr. Penece's letter, on the subject of the probable existence of /Rump Park : •• I am obliged to trouble you with a story, an annual of which I read ib The ilatea Ga:ette. It appears that Captain Searwell wrote to his friend in Liverpool, in which letter he said that he found me at Judd' ; that I told him Moor, Park was still! alive, and that I was on my road to Tombectoo to join him, Ike. I will give yen some small account of our discourse at table on hoard of his ship. We talked a great drat about Coffin, who had been with me the last nine years in the country f.thyssitsiaj. Ile asked me if there were any other white men there: I told him ' One Ureek awl one Armenian.' Did yon never hear of Mango Park? Is it possible he can be alive ?' said he. •In all probability he may; a friend of mine, woo trades from liondar to Tomhurtoo, by way of Sauna, told me several times, that within six years he had been four times to Tombuctoo, and had * always seen a white man there, who was detained by the I natives as a person able to write charms. Perhaps it mar be 31ungto Park; it certainly ran he no other Es. glitih traveller. Nothing else passed on the subject. MADRAS, AUG. 10, 1810.—Accounts wire re ceived at the Presidency, on Friday, from Port Louis, of the death of Sir Alexander Anstruther, Recorder of Bombay. Sir Alexander had long been ill of a dangerous complaint, and had proceeded to the Isle of France for the benefit of his health; but he expired on the lath ult. In consequence of this event, Sir George Cooper, the junior Puisne Judge on the Bench, is making immediate prepara tions to proceed overland to Bombay by Tappet, to fill the vacant seat of Justice. The Learned Judge intends to leave the Presidency in the course of the week. Two new Judges have been appointed to Ceylon in the room of the late Chief Justice, Sir Alexander Johnstone, who has retired ; and the late Sir Wil liam Coke. Mr. Justice Giffkrd, the late Advocate Fiscal at Colombo, is appointed to the Puisne Jos ticeship. The Sheffield Iris contains several articles of melan choly interest on the subject of the Sheffield Manufac tures, and the dreadful disorganised state into which they are fallen. It appears that a very great part of the Sta ple trade has lapsed out of the hands of the Master-Ma oufarturers into those of the numerous unemployed journeymen; the consequence of which, in a majority of instances, is, that the former are rapidly coming down to poverty, and the latter to pauperism. _The Princess Catherine of Wirternberg (wife of Je rattle Iluonaparte) has left the neighbourhood of Vienna. with her family, for Trieste. pursuant to leave obtained from the Emperor of Austria. The battle between Oliver and Shelton for 100 guineas aside, will take place this morning 31 miles from. London, so as to prevent intruders of dillsrent descriptions who are obnoxious to the ring Sort be- ing present. A TM nee are in fine trim, and betting is even. Two person. lamed Natal' and Mexicorsi, were lately condemned to death at Rome for forgiug Papal teseripts. The former has slate died is the Castle or St. Asgeim The paaishmeat of Me:korai has bees coommted. Last week. two Gelds, is the immediate neighbourhood of Dumfries, pleasantly ghosted es the beaks of the Nitb, were soil at the raw of SIOL pre me I res AT XZWCASTLS. i Oo Saturday even*, about half-past tea o'clock, `disturbance took place in this lowa, of which the particulate, as stated io evidence, are subiaucd : .. Roger Lamas evousimed.-1 am eighteen years of oawl pin of Robert Lawson. painter. On the night atarilay last (ltith Deceseher). about half-past tea ealuak. I was coming down borthemberlan4l.street. ftkaa I saw aa *lacer near Mr. Wawa's house ill-using a Snag woman. He bad her against the wall, with his arms shoat her. I went up and told bins to desist, when hi gawk sue an the kft side of the face and knocked 'me elliipa. There were IC. officers, but only one was with the fist After I was struck a watchman came op, and they knocked bins down also. The girl was endeavour ' lag SO get from the *dicer, and screamed. She is a modest girl s her sense is Lacy,Saederison, and she is a milliner. I lolow her, but woolsd have come to the person's as 'admit.° though I bad been a stranger to her. The asters were taken to the watch-bonne, sod they said thit I bad Jong very right. The words I used were, " I think yon are using that girl very badly, Sir;" when z l in I 4 mesa knocked down. I was 's. for near three ant . When I recovered myself, I went down the sir . cad saw three officers lighting with tome watch ; one of these was the person who struck me; I know two of them again; they were °Seers of deepens, from their regimentals. I s.sw one of the pikers ttrike a watchman; it wan not the one who .itajated nso down. I did not stop there, but went to the .2011.1ps the Flesh Market. and got myself washed.— ) liffifr.tit see Lucy Massderson again that night. Af ter I ow washed, I cause into Mosley-street, when I as. told the officers had been taken to the watch- Loam. I went there, and saw a tumult in the theta market about the watch-house. The captain of the watch called for the person the officer had knocked down. I went in, and saw the two officers, Captain Bastard, of the artillery, and one Richardson, a musician. W. Turnbull, the captain of the watch, then asked what dosage I had to make. When I charged ore of the of ficers with the assault, Captain Bastard asked if I would swear to the man, and I said I would. The other officer (mot the one that struck me) then took out a If. note, and cold, " are we to be bowslooosled here all night by these raggamuffins them a poisml note to drink, and also give that young loan (meaning me) something to drink. ' I come here to get the off i cer punished.— l'pon o u r hods refusing to take any thing to drink, Captain Bastard took the note, and told the captain of the watch, that he would be bail for the appearance of the officers on Monday morning. Turnbull agreeing to this, the Arius came out, and I was desired to remain, till the captain of dui watch took down my name. I do not know what the officers did after this; did not strike the officer lint who knocked me down ; can't tell his name, hut can swear to his person. James Atkin, sergeant at mace.—On Saturday night last, between the hours of 19 and I I o'clock, I was in the Green Market on duty, when the officers were in the watch-house. There were a great many people about the watch-house, and I went to inquire the cause, alien I saw two officers of dragoons and Captain Bastard speaking to the captain of the watch. Captain Bastard was offering himself as bail for the officers, and the hail being accepted, he (Captain B.) desired site to clear a way through the crowd for them to pass. I saw Arthur Richardson in the crowd at the minor, and I desired them to disperse; but instead of doing so, they shouted and called me ill I then laid hold of a young man name .I William Bong, in the employment or Mr. Mitchell, time printer. lie said he had not shouted, and I liberated him in oonseipience, and did not me him again.— I as sisted the watchmen in getting the officers througli the oessosestAllempobe so the people in the tireen•Marliet 011 the impropriety of their conduct, whrn a stone from the nigh swirl use on the back of the head. I weut into Te:.olale's, the Ship Inn, for a few moments, being stnn nest. When I m aume oat, I met Capt. dastard, who told me the officer, hail gone into Doilsworth's, and could not proceed ally' further. I then went to the Castle, and brought a serjeaat and six soldiers of the 4Uth regi ment who were on guard, to escort them. When I got there, a milltitiole of people were ittrutiltuouily assembled ;shoat Mr. lhelsworth's, the Queen's Bead Inn. They were shouting, but I did not then hear any improper language. (In our arrival the door of time house was shot, hut opened when we appeared ; and the officers came out and put themselves under the protec tion of the serjeant and his men. At that time .V. Rich ardson was in custody at Dodsworth's, and I identified him as being at the watchbouse, and behaving impro perly. While I was in the act of potting him within the rails in front of the house for protection, I heard a great shout, and looking round, saw one the soldiers of the fortieth regiment striking with his musket; he bent his bayonet against the wall or the rails, and some of the people cried out that a man was stabbed by the bayonet ; I slid not see the cause of the ss:ldier's striking. then went with the officers and the guard up to Friar-street, and then left them to proceed by themselves, returning with the guard to Bodsworth's. They still continued so tninultunits, that I comedown to the Mansion-house to Acquaint the Mayor with the state of the town. There might be from three to four handfed people, and they said, they were determined to have blood for blmol. The mayor came up, with four soldiers of the 40th rect. They went to the watchhouse, where there were from 3 to 4lllt persons tuniultuousir as sembled. Oa the approach of the mayor and soldiers, they hissed very mach. I was a little behind the mayor and laid hold of one who seemed very active; he is not now is custody. The mayor advised them to disperse, sad told them it was a very improper hour to assemble in such a m . They then began to sing "Scots rAa As' Walluee bled." Not one, but the whole did this. They then destmoded the mayor would liberate the !my, when his worship stept forward, and said be won not liberate any person by force, bat if any of them had been injured, and world come forward oh Monday, they should hare redress. They still eon- Unwed to use scurrilous language;—do not remember the words, but think they criesi out once " This is Manchester over again.' —The mayor several times advised them to disperse, and told theta more force was coining. They seemed to hold him at defiance. Salle more foot soldiers having come from the castle into the Greenodarket, I seized a man pointed out by the Mayor.—[Witness then identified Thomu Todd, as • leader in the mob ]—Todd pressed to the front, and seemed to encourage them. I took a die pods to the Mansion-house, accompanied by four rol -1 dears, whom I left there; did nut know the cause. I tilled on Forsyth, and we c•itie up the street together. Horse soldiers were then parading in Mosley-street, and the people hissing them. I foto' I the Mayor nor the Breen-market, where the mob had then nearly all dispers ed. Finding we could not get them to go away, Forsyth went to Col. - French, and immediately the cavalry came upon the flags, and dispersed the people in Mosley-street. Saabs of them then betook themselves to Drury-lame, and threw turnips at the civil officers. On being requested by Wham, Col. French sent the cavalry, and dispened theta there also. A number of people at that time comedown Mosley -street s saying, " Let's go to Batesbead two and two." I apprehended one of them, Michael Reaaell. I bad not seen bins iti the Green-market. Whams took bias to the Home of Correction, and ea his Mum found the mob dispersed. In answer to a pastime witness said, that previous to his going to the Castle, be aoesaapanionl Captain Bastard up Moeley-street. and requested ti • watrhnian to sr mg Isis rattlr, there 211 Mint a eendbled near . r. Thomas Itrown, a watchman, was in the Gre-n-Mar. bet after twelve o'clock on Satnrday night last, when there was a tumultuous assemblage of the peo:de.— Witness saw the Mavor arrive, and the mod continued to shout and hiss. His Worship advised them to dis perse, and then they began to sing. Witness identined [hams. Todd as slender in the molt. Me put on' lii• hat as if he wished to speak to the Mayor, hut cannot tell whether he 'lid or not. The crowd set up an " beam." Todd said to the soldiers, " rear rant: tiik.• dose order," but the soldiers did net obey. Witness heard a soldier say, if be had orders he would mar': Todd. The Mayor said Todd must he hound himself in VI. and find two sureties in 251. each, to appear at the tett.tr ' ter Sessions, or he would be committed. Michael Hensel!, Thomas Thompson, and Jones, were discharged fUr want of evidence, after a suitable ladmonitioa from his Worship. I 'aptain Kington then came forward, and was identi fied by Roger Lawson as the person who assaulted him. Wm. IMnglas, a watchman, deposed, that in eonse muses of an alarm, he rime to lkissetirth's about halt past twelve o'clock on Saturday night list, where there was a trintultaous assemblage of people shouting and hussaing. They were using a sdkrier in the crowd very ill, and witness went to rescoe him. lie took him down to the w atcb-horse, and the mob followed. Witness ob served Win. Hunter very active in the rrontl. and re quested the soldiers to mark him. He heard Itimsay. " If all the Radicals would stand trite to me, I would talce every b—r's gun from hint."—" Witte for ever." —" Death or glory." Hunter followed down to the watch-house, and still continued very active* they at tonipted to force the watch.house. Thee sang " gcot• who hae wi' Wallace bled." Witeess took floater into custody about two o'clock. Julio Landnon !Arsine, Esq. recognised Wm. Howe • as one of the most active in the tool,. Heard him thou: " Hunt for erer," " Liberty," &c. Arthur Richardson and William !rooter then entered into recognizance' to appear at the Quarter Sessions to answer the charges against them, themselves in :AN. eAsch, lad twd sureties itt t3l. each.--( Tyne Mereary.) NAVAL INTELUGEXCE. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 21.—The Seafortli, Davies, from Madras, sided 29th Angled ; on 15th Sept. in lal. 23, 41. long. 91. E. spoke the ship Bombay. from Trincomalee, for Port Jaeloon.—On the 11th Nov. in let. 8, A. long. spoke the Aso an 1 Elizabeth), from Batavia. for Amsterdam, out it days.—The Bengal, Woodward, from this rrt is arrived at Calcutta.—The Calcutta, Stroyan, Theo dosia, hfinniken, and Marv, Kneel), sidled for Cal cntta, for Liverpool, on the '27th July. The Demera ra, M'Cluue, for liemer are, is supposed to belt near the Seltees, as a letter, addressed to Messrs. Bolto;) and Litticdale, marked " Demerara" Oct. 9tl:. Igl9, per Demerara, was found in the Bannow, Ballybague Bev, also, three hales of totton, several pieces of wreck, and the body of a sailor. Da tt, Dec. 22.—Put beck the whole uf the outward-boned that sailed sesterdar, among-it whom ale the Ida. Knits, Atieona, Ajninflnt, A!- eyone, Ceres, Faith, Saratea, Tobago, Vansittart, Ocean, NOrtissispiusi. St. George, Cotoniat, Harvey, Beitaissia, !Wilshire!, Ddrt, and Atlas.— Came ofitern from the River the Wootton, Rayne, for Sierra-Lenne.--Arrived the Katherine Stuart rothes, Lamb, frnm Bombay, and E7&•nfv Cori; It.ettmirgh, from Quebec ; the latter has sailed ft): the River. PoitTsmouitt, lit:c. 22.—Arrivod the \antilip, Peedless, from Mt. John's, New Brunswick ; Royal Sovereign, Smith, from Fiume; Thomas Coutis, llajoribanks, from the Downs, fur China: John, Jackson, from Newcastle, for Jamaica; and Rum bler, Knight, for f 'epludonia. PaNashe►:, DEC. 20.—The brig Bresies. Potter back, from Smyrna, for Amsterdam, came to an anchor yesterday, near Prayer Sands, the eastern part of this bay, in a ♦ery dangerous situation. Sonic passengers landed at Pussia's Cave, and aro tinder quarantine. The vessel rode with two an chors. and this morning some pilots having got on board, they cut and stood to sal, supposed for Falmouth. One of our bay boats, in attempting to get alongside a vessel yesterday, shipped a heavy sea, when two men were unfortunately drowned. RtMIIGATE, DEC. 22. -Arrived tho Voyager. Richards, froni London, for Malta, with loss of bowsprit, bower anchor broken, and bow stove, having been run foul of by a vessel this morning off Dungeness. The John, Wright, got on shore near Flam borough Head on the 18th inst., and it was feared would be wrecked. A canons case occurred before the Edinburgh Police Magistrate on Monday lasts—Two poetic tailors, who had carried home a waistcoat late on Saturday night to one of their employers, bad been so well plied with drink by him, that on returning up the Canongete, at four o'clock in the morning, one of the brothers of the bodkin, more enthusiastic than the other, insisted upon leaping over the railing of the Cattongate church-hard. in order to prostrate himself at the tomb of Hobert Fer guson. the celebrated Scots poet. He actually leaped over the railing, and pr omsuW to the vase, and had laid himself down upon it. when he was dist °erred by the police watchman (who is stationed in the burying ground, armed with a loaded blunderbuss), and appre hended. When before the Magistrate, poor Snip de clared that the whole was a drunken frolic, and ms rely oecasionesi by Isis enthusiastic regard for the memory of the deceased poet. The watchman, on the other hand, declared that the prisoner might be thankful that no one had accompanied him in entering the eburchlard, as, under all the circumstances of the cue, Ise would most assuredly hare fired his blunder buss at,them. The Magistrate advised the tailor to de sist from such dangerous and enthusiastic proceedings in time comong ; and, in respect of his having been in a - state of intoxication, ordered him to find security for his good heloaviunr ter twelve mouths, under a penalty of • forty shillings.--Same morning, the church-yard was surrounded by about nine men, some of then well known to be resurrection turn, but the watchman cocked his blunderbuss, and declared that he would blow out Hsu brains of the first nun who mitered, epos which thy made off. It is understood that two or Three bodies hail been buried there tie preceding dav ; and it is a fact, hist the watchman was some nights before offered three guineas to allow access to the ebafth-yard, which bt, rained.