The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-24 00:00:00

71 - lk to be done in the scowering business, and that he should try his hand at brewing spruce and ginger-beer. For this pdrpose be now and then gave the defer hint,* job to fetch treacle from the neighbouring shops, but never permitted him to go into the cellar. As there was a separate passage to it, any thing of the nature of the business discovered might be carried on without !he knowledge of the defendant, who protested that be had no idea that any thing improper was carried on until the seizure was made. ' The Coral. asked the defendant whether the bottle Posed in his cupboard contained scouring timid ? The defendant declared that he had not the slightest knowledge how it came there, but surmised, that as hls wife was indisposed, she had been accommodated with a bottle as a cordial. A witness proved the letting of the cellar to the man who called himself Anane. The COURT, under the circumstances, acquitted the defendant, whom they cautioned to be wore inquisi tive for the future as to the business carried on by his tenants. The apparatus and goods were condemned. Numerous cases of a similar description to the above have occurred receutly. FeHowe, mostly Irishmen, take cellars from pour and ignorant people under the pretence of wanting them to carry on the dying and Scouring husiness. They then erect stills, which they Awl( at a furious rate until discovered by the Excise, whom the occupkis are proceeded against in the :rent of the escape of the lodgers. SrilTE OF' IItELANI:i. • rlllO3l THE DERI.IN EVENING POIrT.] In speaking of the disturbances which continue, un tioHitM►ately, to prevail iirthe South of Ireland, there is due circumstance which, however, will be found to have the greatest force in the calculation of causes, but which generally (iterated in the estimate. The proximate Cause of the present riot% is well known and ascertained. We have to go no farther than Newcastle for that; but there is a predisposing cause behind, which has not, tnerto, been put so prominently forward. We refer to the state of distress ant) destitution in which the under tenantry are placed. It is well known that the agricul• tura! distress in England has operated as a relief to the 'dimmer in the field. His wages have not come down in any thing like the proportion to the decline in the mar- Solt:. He may have a loaf for 7d. or tad. for which a few years before he was obliged to pay 151. or 2s. His pork and bacon in the same ratio. His coat and his wife's gown for lees than one-balf of what they used to cost him. The farmers and landlords are crumbling into ruin before his eyes ; but be feels that his condition is meliorated, and hence the profound tranquillity which prevails in Great Britain. lu Ireland the poor have not been benefitted in the lake extent, or, rather, not at all, by the decline of the markets. 1t: Ireland they live almost exclusively on the p.tatoe--this potatoc they grow themselves, on the little patch, or Con-acre, which is let ont to theta with their lint. The rent they pay partly in money, and partly iu labour. Their Con-acre has been reduced ; reluctantly, and with grisslging, in several instances, but then, the price of potatoes has come down at the sanie time. What snrplas they may have for the market will not re munerate them for their labour. Potatoes used to be Bd. and 10d. a stone, They are now or 2d. The poor, therefore, arena 6nefitted. In the thriving times, as they were called, of agriculture, they received M. and Is. a day for their labour—but such wages are sow scarcely ever given in the interior. They are now to more than from 4(1. to 61. But the Irish Landholders are the very last to yield to ihe necessity before which their English brethren mist bow. It is not until the last possible Moment they hate been brought down to make any reductions. We read several instances in the Provincial Papers, and in our Cotewporaries, of the generosity of Land lords in making these reductions. We have perused stub generous statements, we do confess, with con tempt bordering on disgust. There is no generosity in the thing at all. The lands in Ireland are worth little more than half their nominal rental at this trontent. Wheat is no more than half of what was called •' remunerating price ;" Black Cattle are one third below their former value ; and sheep two-thirds. Where is the generosity, therefore, in making the abatement ? If the Landlords were as anxious as they ought to be, and as it was their interest to be, the 40u:en:eta should have been made two years ago. But the hung ja for the high war rents—they amused them selves by petitioning the Legislature to protect Agri culture, to raise the price of Wheat to 90s. it was a very absurd proposition, seeing that the Circulat ing Medium was reduced one-half, or taking (as we are warranted in doing) the failure of almost all the Country Banks into our estimate, two-thirds. Yet they unused themselves with this for a whole year, and kept their rents up to their nominal amount, in the childish hope of better times. We hope they are now convinced that nothing can be done, in this respect ! and that, fur their own sakes, they will reduce betimes : but, for Heaven's sake, let us hear no more of their • generosity. These considerations should be constantly kept in tiew by those whose duty it is to discuss the affairs of the country. We find, however, that they are scarcely ever brought into the account. The People, the Poor, are represented as a head-strong and unruly race—as men who have really no complaints to make, and no grievances to redress. It is our opinion that their complaints are justified, and that their grievances are real. The mode in which they are attempting to redress them in the counties of Limerick sod Cork, is another question quite., For this there can•be no excuse, and punishment.' immediate and condign, must and will be inflicted on them. At the same time it is clear, that, in the midst of much real and melancholy truth, there exists a great deal of exaggeration and overcharge. We have already had occasion to pint out several instances of this kind, and to designate the Provincial Papers in which they appeared. Among them was The Limerick Chronicle. We said, and we do say, that we could not conceive the motives which could induce the Editor, when he had so y mach unpleasant troth to record, to indulge is exaggeration. This Limerick Paper has found a conspurgator in &WM eicre's News-Letter. The following paragraph pared in this Journal on Saturday fait " It bas beau pretty generally rumoured. that the statemease of the outrages committed he the County oi Limerick, have been exaggerated in blears. lritsell i s Limerick Chronicle—this we 'inapt credit. spectabilitl of that print is will known ;. its ;means of, acquiring information are of the best descriptltin, and it is rather a harsh assumption to suppose those Proprie tors actuated by any other motives, than what nisi fairly arise from a just sense of indignation towards the dis: Writers of public tranquillity." - (Saunders'. Nen- Letkr.) • / As The Poet was the only Dublin Paper which rides-, firmed these assertions, we must observe in the first place, we did not give the statement as a rumour, but as a contradiction to a rumour. We roundly averred that The bimerick Chronicle appeared in this iostance to lend itself to exaggeration. Our business is not with the Messrr. Watson, but with The Limerick Chronick. The respectability of those gentlemen may be unquestionable, but the respectability of a Print, which inserts a vague rumour as an acknow ledged fact, is, we do say, matter of question. Its means of acquiring information may be good, but Saunders will give us leave to say, that it does not make the heat use of these means. On Saturday we published, from The Limerick Chronicle, an account of an attack upon Mr. Hill's house of Graigue. The following► letter. which we received from a known Correspondent, at Don.waile, will show what truth there is in that bta.en:ent:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE D. E. POST. Donerai le. Nov. 5. " SIR—As I do not wish your excellent Paper should 'be the vehicle of conveying falsehood, I writrto inform you, that the account given in yesterday's Maseri , :k Chronicle, of the house of James Hal, of Graigase; Esq. being attacked, and plundered of arms, is perfectly false. It was not attacked, and if it were, Mr. Hill and his Sons are well prepared to defend themselves ; nor wonhl they suffer their arms to be taken from them. I live within a mile and a half of Graigne, and am in daily communica tion with some of Mr. Hill's family, and was so this morn ing. Our immediate neighbourhood is perfectly quiet, though the deluded people have committed depredations all around it." We shall now give aa instance of this. kind from Saunders's Nese., Letter of this day : " After taking the lead off the Artillery Barracks and Chapel in Limerick, we have reason to expect they will strip every (lentleman's house in the country. I wish the real state of this country was known eu the other side of the water." Now, we happen to have received a letter from. Li• werick, dated the lath iwst. It will be seen how use turally it accounts for this had dealing: EXTRACT LH? A LETTER, DATED LIMERICK, NOV. 18. • " •••••• Now, to the lead-stealing from the Bar 'racks. Sonic 18 months ago there was a ladder left in an adjoining field, and a report circulated that some villains inteniled to strip the lead off the Barrack p roof—it was, however, represented to Col. Desbrisay, that it might he a scheme to get the sentry replaced near a Carman's Inn, adjoining the Barrack, who bad just been removed. While the sentry was there, the premises were, of course, secure. However, all passed off very well until the second attempt, when soma of the lead was undoubtedly removed. Very well ! fin Wednesday last the wind blew so bard that some of the lead came down from another part of the Barrack roof into the public road ; fortunately it was brought into the guard-room, and shown to the Commanding Officer by the men, before it was found by any thieving passenger. Had this been ti e case, what a dash it' would have in our Corporation Journal, for ceftaiuly, none but Insurgents could have carried it off, and tit the purpose of converting it into bullets." The English Papers, some of them at least, appear to have caught the system. The following contradic tion is from Vie Star : " A story is current in Devonshire, of two compa nies of the I Ith Regiment, now in Ireland, having been cut off in an affray with a party of Irish Pea santry. It is altogether void of truth. The propa gators of such a wicked and cruel report deserve the severest reprobation." AFFECTING CIPCCBISTANCE.—Oa the afternoon of Saturday, the 10th inst., a genteel looking young man called at an inn iu Lockerbie, and after signify ing I►isintention of remaining all night, went out fur the purpose of visiting the barber, but did not return. About six o'clock of the same night a man was found in a ditch near Broombouses, who had evidently at tempted to destroy himself, and who proved to be the same unfortunate individual. Having tied his hand kerchiefs together, and looped one end round his neck. be mounted a dyke, and fastened the other to the branch of a tree which grew by the side of the road, and in this way had well nigh accomplished his pur pose. Fortunately, however, the handkerchiefs gave way, and in a short time the unhappy man was found by some persons whe happened to be passing near the spot. At this time be was quite speechless ; but after he had been carried into Broonshouses, and a surgeon sent for, he revived a little, and as soon as he was able to speak, he seemed to regret that his deliverers " had not put him out of pain." By-and-by, however, he be• came more composed, and to the inquiries of persons from whom he received every possible attention, he itattl that he had hien a tradesman in London, but having met' with an accident which prevented him from working for fourteen months, his affairs bad become so embar rassed that he was forced to leave London. During his long Mlles. be had pawned or sold almost every article of his clothes cr tools, and at last set out fur Edinburgh, very slenderly furnished with moms, but buoyed up ith the hope that be would be able to work his way to the Scottish metropolis. But during the whole journey he had been unable to had employment, and when he arrived in Lockerbie, he sold a book for 2s. 10d., which be described as his last resource. After, however, leaving the barber's be discovered— with what feelings we need not state—that he had lost 2s. 6d. of this sant, and being ashamed to revisit his lodgings, and still more ashamed to beg, he wandered oat in the direction of Broombouses. and,in a fit of des peration, attempted to perpetrate the rash act which bad so providentially miscarried. We have only to add that. independently of some documents which were found about bts 1 e:son, the appearance of the on ap .y man was such as to coo6rm, its the strongest manner, the account he gave of himself, and the persons who had an opportunity of seeing him, seemed so well satisfied that be was no impostor, that they cheerfully sub scribed a sufficient sum for carrying bins to Edinburgh. whither be was going, to visit a friend, upon whose patrols's, be places great reliance.—(Deefries Cour.). STATEMAN, $ 1- L $ .141 gits Can 78k 78 $1 per Cent /per Cents A 6 per COlavy I Of Pt! 10i $ per Cast. Lour 411 , 11 19 9-16 $ reread.. 781 f UM 6 per Cent. DAY, • • LONDON: Very littte business doing. h►du sta.* . Dittoßmp 6811881. ek south:some* • • . gouth ilea - Old Aria. Ex Ni 100t1.9eplor.it pm. 26.0 m. Se. 46.115. pm. hulk for ditto Ceti: tor Aeet I Loy. Tickets 211. 18e. _ ebe btatticatztn. " 112 11181T1SI ITLTUIIM4" U INCOIIIIPORATID " TMI lITATIMULPI." SATURDAY EVINING, NOVEDIRSR 24, 1821. ---...-- • STOCK EXCHANGE, ELEVEN O'CLOCK. The market continues very fiat, and the price the same as it was yesterday. Notone bargain, up to this hour, Las been done for the present account, and only two for the next. TWELVE O'CLOCK. From the Irish papers we perceive a correspondence between Lord ItLasrEv and the inhabitants of Castle blaney, in the county of Monaghan, with the Bishop of CtocuEß, on the non-residence of the Rector of that parish. We are glad the business has beets so proper ly taken up by his Lordship and fellow-parishioners, and dial absentee. Rectors will not be allowed tuewal low up the immense sums extorted from the poverty of the people, for coming to their parishes but once or twice a-year, to receive the amount of those Ty this, for which they give no value. It is not uncommon in Ireland, that parishioners who pay heavy Tythett are forced to go into another parish to hear the word of Hon, while the sporting Rector is amusing himself with hunting, Bacchanalians, or Orange Wreckers in a distant part of the country. The Tythe-farmer to whom he has sold his income, is grinding the poor farmers with exactions and cruelties, inflicted by him self under the sanction of Ecclesiastical law. These are the complaints of the Castle-bianev parishioners, as well as the absence of their Rector; beside the change of Curates is frequent, which, they allege, takes place from worldly speculation. They also complain of there being lately erected a Temple of Prayer at a great ex pense. which should not be consigned to delegated in struction, while the Catholics and Dissenters, their fellow-parishioners, have their spiritual instruction 'provided by resident Pastors of proper gravity, weight and relwctability. They tell the Bishop, drat the ap pointment of a non-resident Rector induces them to assure his Lordship they will never submit to have their spiritual interests sacrificed to any temporal ar rangements, and that they are entitled to receive spi ritual instruction in lieu of the large income they pay for it, and that they will not continue to pay upon any other terms. They also state the want of a glebe can be no excuse, as glebe ground has been laid out for the purpose. They then tell his Lordship that the two adjoining parishes have glebes, but no resident , - Rider. They close with a threat, that if they are nut supplied with a resident Rector, without tumult or li tigation, they and their families will abstain from at tending the Church as long as a non-resident Rector con tinues the int:orator nt of the parish. Here is a straight forward picture of the sporting and time-serving Par sons, and the blessings of Clerical instruction. The hirelings cannot now call Lord BL.SNEY and the Pro testant inhabitants of Castle Blaney, rebels, .I;lv:thins, ,or radicals ; they are even among the high church loyalists. Still they feel like men, and as such contend for their rights. They now open their eyes and see the necessity of living is peace, with their neighbours, as christians should ; and as they pay so much and re ceive so little, they are determined not to submit to it any longer. Can this be wondered at, when the Rev. Sir HARCOURT LEES, the son of a Clerk in.-the Irish Post-office, is a beneficed Clergyman, a Baronet, a pamphleteer, and a leader of Orange Wreckers-- That he has been one of those, who shewed his disrespect to the KING'S letter to the Irish people, and continues to follow up this hopeful course, as the high road to Clerical promotion is most certain ; perse verance in those unchristian pursuits is what we dread, from a private understanding with some behind the throne, possessing more influence than the throne itself by which the benevolent intentions of the KING, will in all human . probahility be rendered nugatory, and tie •dld system of political and clerical coercion re- Alerted to, instead of the humane and conciliatory advice, contained in his MastsTv's benevolent com munication to the abused and insulted people of Ire- bend. This we consider a eubjrct for serious consider *don ; as a continuance of it is likely to have the •entablished Church ornamented with empty benches, aid Religion rendered less respected, than it could be by the frantic ravings of CARLILE and a thousand others of his description. The hirelings of the press are much disturbed by the success of the Portuguese people in Europe and America. They are quite shocked at the steady progress of the Cortes in both. They appear to thick nothing good can proceed from Revolutions, 4 16.01gh they now and then eulogise the glorious herniation of 1688. which placed the present family on the Throne. If that Revolution which overthrew the doctrines of divine right and passive obedience has been hailed as glorious, to the friends of liberty in England, why quarrel with the Portuguese who have only followed the glo rious example ? This is 'a question rather troublesome to the Ultras; as it involves them in a multiplicity of jOrk . I / 4 0 ' ‘% f tegregioni itsconiistencies in the vneer p ey r r O tud g ri r tt e llet s rv s l o il f oidotfu l t t or e t y ive mu s ig ch ai d e r s e t ad lib d e a r u ty ge u r n a d t e id r e u chants in shipping goods to the Brazil,: ; as if a rtsas in the form of tie G overnment i s li kely t g h , to cha nge t - nature of the Portagese merchants, whose intertsts properties have been made more secure by a d irge , front the vacillating system of the creatures of a Coln to the direction ohensible men, making laws for the hapyi, ness of themselves, and all they hold near and dear. Tl sey proceed to tell us the Ctistom-houscs are chinked wit` British manufactured goods; but they forget to saysl ie warehouses at home are in a similar situation. They afw forget to say that by our unwise policy in over.ut a i ng Portuguese produce, they cause a system of retaliati ft destructive to our commerce, and likely in filmic() elm as out from those nations whose interest would induce*", .to give us a preference, on account of the purchase of those raw material, which we rrstip them i s manufactured state. Itcse advantages are co n k a ous in our dealings with the Brazils, which th e ul tra , do not wish tcfa . ppreciate ; but ask how far sill th e change benefit England ?—Our answer is, tit uses % quantityof trans-atlantic property which was used * be shipped to this country from Portugal,, will, b y the change, be shipped direct from the Brazils in tish bottoms.. To this the Ultras will not advert ; Lue like the jaggiers or gypsies, give opinions which they can afterward: construe either oue say or the other. To effect Ibis political humbug they refer to pri. vate letters, not unfrequently manufactured is London, in which they affect to say, that there is no permi t it Rio Janeito to whom it would, at the present ms. went, be safe to consign goods. They also add, the environs of the city is infested by a band of robbers, without noticing the centre of the British capital is infested not only with gangs of rubbers, but a more destructive vermin called informers and tin like. If a ehange of honest merr elected to p►omulga•e wholesome Laws for the benefit of themselves and their neighbours is not preferable to a set of bigoted cour tiers of lazy Clergy and worthless Nubles, then, is. deed, the Portuguese Revolution cannot be Attire.— But on that principle we calculate, without dread d the consequence, and leave the Ultra hirelings to pri. fit by their neat private letters. EXTILICT 01 • TATTER FROM NORFOLK, (FIRGEM) OCTOBER 20. A north east wind, which bits been blowing siore Tuesday night, has caused a considerable change is - the atmosphere, and the effects of cold weather on the health of this town has been most salutary. We have not had any cases of malignant fever lately, snit I not even a death, for the last two days. The N. 111.• rifle papers, which we hare received to Mae G.l of October, do not mention the arrival of General Jack son, as was reported in the New York papers. FROM THE HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE (AMERICA.) SINGULAR CI acusisTANcx.—The following tea place oa board the Brilliant, on bee passage front Fos tune Island to this port :—On the 19th' of August, a large fish was teen alongside the schoouer, s3pposed to be a Dolphin. One of the crew feeling anxious to capture him, for the want of some other bait, drilled a hole through a dollar, and fastened it to his hook, which he threw over the bows of the schooner; but it was soon discovered that both the bait at.d book were missing. The second hook was then baited, is the saute manner, which shared the same fate. Oa the 21st of August, the third attempt was made, with the same kind of success. Four days after, it being calm, and the schooner having run about 300 miles, a shirk was caught, with a boat•liae, and this fish was foetid to contain two of the hooks, baited with two of the dollars, In about 15 minutes afte , the dolphin wu caught, which contained the other hook and a dollar The Lori .iama Advertiser of the 20th of Sept. says . along the frontier State of .1 o 'Hans, there is at this , moment almost every species of smuggling carried on. Slaves are brought in by the dozens, while oar vessels are coasting along the shores of Africa to prevent their departure. The last New York paper states that Mr. Booth who has just terminated a 'successful engagement at the New York Theatre, left that city on the 21st October. for the South, to fulfil his engagement with the mana gers of the Charlestown and Savannah theatres. No French papers had arrived when oar paper we'll to press, nor any foreign mail, except axe from Ostend. Among the other rumours respecting ehalVes. the Morning Chronicle, it is said that Mr. Calning to succeed the Marquess of Hastings, as Oovernor•tine ral of India; and that the office of Lord Chamlo'fla.n , or Lord Steward, is to be offered to the latter on his return. A KING CIIANGINII MIS MINISTRT.--When Oeorre 11. felt the necessity of changing his Ministers, he 1 4 - plied to Lord Wahlegrave to negotiate with the Thske of Newcastle, and his Lordship thus states the cow ia• sion of the conversation between himself and the King ;—.4 , I know he is apt," said th • King , " to be afraid, therefore go and entourage him ; te ll bun I ao not look upon myself as King whilst I am in the hoods of these scoundrels; that I am determined to get ridf them at any rate; that I expect his assistan ce, &DJ that he may depend on my rawer and protection." Nig notwithstanding the desires thus expressed his Ma. jesty was at this time unable to find a man' old enough • to undertake to form a new administration. We can imagines King to be so reduced in power. It is understood that Parliament is to meet for the • dispatch of !mitten on the 27th of January. 4 tc be .11 te to If fr TN . 4 111 IN II t 141 Ito co K 1 pH tb eh Jr hi at ar as eh so ba eh, 11~