The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-01-06 00:00:00

ri I t STATESMAN; [l/11011 Tilt /RIEMAN% aountrat...l Applic.tion haring been made by • publican °Elite i name of Commies', residing in Seffolk.street, against certain printers of tbo Bank of Ireland, to enforce payment of spiritoehe liquors, alleged to hale been consumed in his hoes., the demand was resisted by 1 Mr. Oldham, engraver to the Bank, on the part of the printers. The question being of considerable impurtance, and inspiring the interests not only of publicans in general, but of the entire working classes of the community, the Worthy Alderson wished to base the point argued by Counsel, aod accordingly, Mr. Fort, iv oat heard on the part of fire Plaintiff, and Mr. JONA. Caciec on the part of the Defendants. it appeared that certain of the eepper-plate print. era employed by the Bank of Ireland, bad been in the habit of frequenting the hoes. of the Plaintiff, sad had lectured a debt of 161. for spirituous liquors, consumed by them in his house, sad that I. recover the semi he had proceeded to arrest two of she said copper-plate printers ; but that, finally, the sitter had been submitted to the decision of the above-aimed Magistrate. On the part of the eopper-plate prieteras Mr. Oldham stated, that he hail established • Stahl, Bask smosg them, the accuonsiatiews of which be refined to hand over in discharge of their debt, the same having been incurred castaary to the pro-Went of an Act, passed in the 4th year et the reign of George 11., which prohibits (be giving credit to worksairo, servants. mad ethers, by pottsocans, above the vale* et one shilling. Mr. Oldham (lather stat ed, that the fend in ques t i on had beeellstablished with the view to its being appropriated to the pur chase of clothes and other necessaries. (he payment of mut, occasional relief in cases of sickness, Ste. ; and that the handing soy part of it over for 1114.411s charge of the debt in question, would be a diverting it from its original destination to a mischietees and illegal purpose. That so beneficial bad been the operation of the fund, that a seas of 4161. had been actually saved, by a ten printers, in the short space of eleven mouths, most of whom had lived hitherto io poverty and dissipation. Alderman %V A Ott en, otter hearing an hopeless sr gement on the part of the naiad', dismissed (heap. plication ; complimenting Mr. Oldhasn on the semen of those esertious which had effectuated so salutary so object, by thus, us it were, renewing those obsta cles which the Legislature had wisely ieterpeeed se that dissipation in public.hoaser, which has mired the very bails of the working claims in this country. Th. above decision pots an end to the question of wotitmen, servants, and others, obtaieing credit its pnblic•housee, and is of the lest importance to ibe morals and well-teeing of that useful clots of the community, who ace, untertanately, too often led to waste those ellffiiitip which *lsmail be appropriated to the health, coolest, a lid couvesieNce of themselves and their families. tent, that it seams to bales all hopes of possible re. 'decant • ground down and kept in sobjectisa by a weight Of tasatioo which is unesempled in the his* itory of this or any ot her countr y —the revenue, thoughaggeteeted by peace, and by a rigid, I had almost said s vesatious, collection of On isles, by no mesas unemberrassed ; and this stile of is James ros. embarrassment increased by a paper circulation, cosy When the etoth we teseeeds and after the ut tili strutted on principles most intuitions and dangerous toasts of the King, the Prime Repel, and the Royal to the best interests of the Slate, and productive Family, of guilt, and misery, god blood, at which the Earl Gan nee and spoke *early Si fellows:— heart sickens; ; do you hope to escepe these ensiled " I sew dee, Goothense, to give you the toast ties by establishing Bible Societies and building which it Ins been noel ter propose nest to that of the Churches ?—(Green oppiense.)—l am not more King and the Prince Regent, "The gloriosa sod is- indifferout t han I osght to be to the interests of medal Memory 'ef Mr. Fez ;' a memory always tree teligiou ; I revenges the olivine origin of our living in our affections, end fora period of It years faith ; I consider it the best cement of society • the net lets dear to 05 than at the moment which Ivrea- grestest end meet permanent severity of pablic*mo noted his valuable life; a memory attended always rals ; as such I respect, I veserate, I vale*, sad esteem •Ith reflections painful at once and pleasing • which it ; as each I au enslave to promote its blowing ills us with undiminished though calmer feelings of through all classes of my y felwhisklow-sub"me ject ld mask and s ; bat I dm. regret for the Immense loss whirls we then moistened, test that Winn bypocrit bet at the nate time with all the glory and guanine cannel the reel cloge of the distress which is pens of %slash we, as his friends and disciples, most be lent in the cemetery, and would multiply the Mosby conscioes In looking hack upon a course of public melting canting lementstions for the dept' of more action enegentled in the display of sleet which Illy. No, Geodes's, it is net by the application of It psennto, bat entitled to still higher praise, remedies such as then that the evils of the times diet Of Connoted and eadisinished stlachinent , are to be ilopened ; and while the Governesset ciao to the can* of real liberty. No, never, Gen. ; tine, to preseet to oar view systems affoodiag cow. demon, beer was that vain w hich we shell hear no is Incitement prleea t im b ers , wha tee worst propersei ma d y he their es of at.. mere peering forth 'bewares of an able sold unbiassed len, heir wew ver ,mated is here fall and impressive tones of 'tarmacs seal, whatever their abilities, will be heard in vain to anti reason ; never was this voice rafted, bet to declaim from their new pelpiss. Thedisesse demands resist oppression end to perperoare slid improve 1 a very different treatment; polliatives ran no logger the blessings of our fire Canstitatines. The principles be useful. It is clear and obvious that a rigid and 44 that C rags were deeply impressed upon him unsparing system of retrenchment and economy by study end inintion ; his eye was ever find open should be epplied to the correcion of that great nil, it as the land.onark of public condemn. In this will and would be the only promise al that I.6lst•ry effect. he heed the key ef all his policy ; simple, honour. For this the call el the coentre has been so strolls's& able, end enlightened. eqtrally prudent and fearlms so clearly and distinctly liesrrt in the late election, i redoing open attack, and earnings in detecting : that I have little fest they will seater, to oppose it. the losislioes arts that were placated against that What I nor mech more is, their antpation of Ina Coustiietion, he was its steady. intetible, and in- aserepable defende. This is the title deep rooted chick they may render their secrets nugatory and in eat he to which ge meet to pay dee `goer— , useless. We knew of shot character measures of this le ‘the lisle which we may hope will long prove', this description are, when token into Ilte bends of d ie bend of un i on to t h e Whi gs of Great Britain —a s thaw whose esistence they threaten ;we know how title boar much wootowalettole, MOM derebte,aosd More I they sir .11 their energy end o•lue, If they are not truly glorious, th en all these vain distinctions at. I subservient so the very poi l sotes they one inteoded ideal& by eerier ern—ell those unworthy rewards Ito thread of to avert. I hopy he ft ime is fast a p . rebid ere acquired in this glitter and corruptions . prosching when you, rid wen ke yes, will of a Couil.—(Gred applause.) I fully partake in the I feel the necessity of r•efiti,ll, and will icier your . feeling shirts yne have so strongly expressed ; and ! selves to be 14Itered • ilb no longer ; when these arts that feeling I ought to receive as an intimation not to I that have ton long been practised can no more prevail; interrupt its espressioa by the introduction of any 1 when the %%begs of Eisgland will teed the way, end ether subject. But I sup ask what subject then is, the People unite with them spoil a real bone fide spa whether of foreign policy or domestic bitterest, or tem gr eat orm and Itertrenchosent, upon a tedoctioued that in the sm dna degree affects oar Constitation, oar military establishment within those bound* which does not immediately associate itself with I which are marked oat to less by 'nunciol ditScslties the OPllliff y of !dr. Fos, mad slant moment so et than try the danger their eacess threatens to the Con• to oddness to you the observa tions which any be Imitation. Toe _ u sio wrassoraell W hich cannot be deo thought proper on each on occasion, as that in used with safety, end which mast not be oopitted la which your feelings are meet es cited by the mention ibis interval of peace, fur the duration of which It le of bit name ? With respect, then, to foreig n po. k impossible to calcalate open the Holy Alliaace, if liey :—This evidently opens mooch too hogs a felt' we mean to preserve our rank and importance as a for discussion at art opportegity like she provost ; I • great and free nation. If hese trete in a fair train will, therefore, only say this mach, that, this lof accemnplishosent, as they should be, much would being oar ant and greatest interest, our most watch. ; yet remain to be dime. Even if our regim* were 'sleets s heoug to be elected to prevent its laterrup- 1 equal to air eapestditere, and reductions aisle that tier. On e subject el the ernagements by which 1 enght enable as to Sift future osisoseies, still cur ' anyone hasn't's. finally settled, and the principle of strength would be Leonine. and our power prewar'. then arratigeOrents, I WM net new essorgen pasties. s ege, if net invigorated mod consolidated by the tor. lere :as far as they have received the senate* of Tree. dial attertiment of a waited People. We have nen. ties and the approbation of Parlisetent, if not contra. in the most pressing moments of the late war, at the b dined y saloons obi are liptions, they now binding rand of the greatest dangers, haw st e r K muchingd they were upon the faith of the elation. Bet, I treat, that we I ineressed by the sitealion of the Si It shell never be induced to give oar sanction to any cannot be possible that, with this in our minds, we engagements, however plausible in their prefenions, should neglect to provide against the recanting of and on that account net the Ins to be emptied—l such dangers. And yet hew have we to lament, that trust, I say, we shall never be brought to concur in nothing has been attempted to eradicate those seeds *opponents the full palest of which is not known to of discord and dissension which have bent sand es ; end shall never be persuaded to tolerate a system to grew up amongst es. It is to be feared that too of perpetual tnterfereuce with the affairs of other mach pretjedire may remain with respect to this 1 countries. The troops of the Confederacy are sow question, soil that it is not felt to bees liberal and just withdrawn from France, and with them, I trust, is es oar interest and safety require that it should be for ever at so end the horrible and intolerable pre- felt in the country. But to yea I address myself tension of prescribing to others what shall be the witheet hesitation, and with the most entire con". 'tient and what the character of the changes which dente shoo I state, that you will cosies? with me, they will be permitted, under the direction and in tha t it is abose all things wicessary (sr as to ape controol of a Council of King', to make in their ply ninnies to that greet work of union, ad to ,n fi t remens own domestic and internal institution s. Never let those disabilities, tipsily improvident t l es ;nen, Gentlemen, that the right of resistance which vedette so large a piano of the empire from was recorded ins characters of fire at our own glint- the fell erjoyment of the blessings of thehere Con Ismast titute ens Rerolation in 16 M; an d that by the success f u l tion.—(Appicese.)—And, Gentlenen, l esertion of that priociple, we enjoy whatever we now congregating you, that the circumstances in which we portics' of liberty and independence. Let es not are now placed appear tabs sinisterly favourable for then refuse to others that right which has been so the accomplishment of all these measures. I bare to essential to ourselves. I hope we shall now observe congrsielate you en the changes that have taken a policy sincerely and entirely C ent a which shell place since I had the honour of addressing you last absolve es from the affairs of the Ciseal, which j year. I no longer speak under the sespension of any recure the confidence of oilier onions by ' that law, which is the best security of our liberty.— erasion and moderation, which may engage their Of the preteaces under which that was sospeaded, I good will by its liberal earl constitotional spirit sod will not say any thing ; they have been sees thrnegb, which may be productive of universal concord, ' by a 'spoiled, reprobated, I had almost said, by all that assistant atilt to the principles of right and jes. were free, and konnerable, and virtuous In the tics. 'lbis is the policy which reason and duty pre. country, but I am sere by a greet majorky ot h e e 'Mho to us; this is the lesson which we shall Ind in People of Enelawd.—(Applessas.)—Sing thg every pegs of th e history of Mr. Fog . —(Appiouse.) and owned, and reprehend they have beee,bet tlAy _ I know that what I am now saying will be treated have net bees puoished as they ought to have been in with mockery and derision by the disciples of that the persons of Moir authors.—(Apyleatse.) — Theng l a modern school, who treat with sneers of contempt we are restored to the law, a precedent of a Oh* those antiquated sod espioded notions which would , dangerous character has been recorded ; and inkwell& apply isles of morality to affairs of state. Founded i but too well how encesafelly these things sift tell' as these principles ere in etereril truth. tweet was I sorted to in times of irritation sod alum, of boor there a time which more imperiou sl y celled for their sere the raw they afford to thee sepportees ear. strict and complete observation than the present. — replies', when their places are theeatentd by the We are now in the liftk.year since the overthrow at growing diegoeigate of the People ; how at , firot min.. by the ro. Bonaparte, and in the fourth since the renewal of ! ratios of seek precedents, powers, the peace, which, by bit return from Elbe, sustained j lively granted out the mod pressing easeihnsies, b r a three months' interruption. That is, I believe, ! shades sad degrees, are introdeced into asset of of nearly half of the period that, from the comments. sir espedieeny, till men become familiar with thee meet of the present reign, has been allowed as an in. and, from the facility of granting, and die bilk id tonal of tranquillity to repose otter the miseries end essderieg, a system of oppression is established, SA desolation of war. In she course of these four years, no Moronity is left, bat base submission. or forcible in whet condition do we find ourselves? That our , resistance. Such was thins@ with the dissen b siol was ifjs situation is improved, lam melt w i llin g to believe; I Rome ; end each has been the prosiness y ld4 —but, though improved and improving, there is i most of those States have lost their freedoes.-4„, not a man whose experience mast not make him From independence to slavery, mad from slavery, fen—there is not a person so blind god venters-I when oppoession became too Intolerable to bear, al as not to perceive—that we still have to en-1 to internal discord, or submission to a foreign cos . counter difficalties of a most formidable nature.—! quern—each seems to be the melancholy circle la Oppressed by a lead of debt, which by a angular 1 which the destiny of the world s 's Tegnard oar. has been carried forward by degrees, god I selves from similar Inialorto ought to be oar study fatality anted even by those who were appointed to assist in day end night, sad the brat object dell oar esertleneg dltainishieg Its harden, which bas grown to that et- and it is with saliefactioa that I say, 1 new see rand -:-- IfICWC.ISTLS FOX DINNXIt. On Marshy bat,* DUI' after sit o'clock, a !erg end rosgliatable soaves, sat down to an steeliest dieser, at Mt. Dolesrorth's, Qoosn's Hood Inn ' in cossortnistitia of ths Right Hososraltis ClNtrise ALT ZR SCOTT.— By the death of Isis wifio's 'weary, this ceiebeatird Poe, is seems, hos retwitly cows W. Be M St poseeminn of a large fortune. Macsan's CAS ar.—This venerable and stspeed- Ma MINIM of Seatish antiquity, in *Mat the in teresting discovery (the real Jacob's Ilea), lately toolied by se, has been made, aid white' esteem. dietary stone is mew strived in hamtles, is seated among the Sallow Hills, in the parish of Cellar, a few miles to the North of the City of Perth. On She proud eminence, Densinnan Hill, on which AC scat bid defiance to fate, he is said to have built a fortress on its soma', the literal isterpreistion of which is " Fort Emmet." To this be betook him self, severe, as be thnnght, from all danger. The site.- tan of Drainage is strong by nature, and he is said to have audered it impregnable by art. The hill is laniard, deep on all sides, and difficult of access.— The area on whit% MACllatt'S Castle stood en this eminence, is 168 yards in length, by 100 in breadth, near the eastern, and 55 near the western titanic Its foundations, so far as can be discerned, eshibit two concentric circles somewhat eliptical. There seems to have been a fosse faring the north-east, e joined le the rampart ' • end an esplanade facing th south-feat,south-st, encompasse d with an outer wall, joined the rampart likewise. VillTll. Urc. 31.—This morning, between five and sift o'clock, a very alarming fire broke eel in the east wing of Meehan Castle, and for some time threatened destruction to this ostensive building.— On the first alarm a greet crowd of people assembled, and the family servants, aided by their exertions, succeeded is extingeishing the firs before the St rive% of the engine frees Itethaut Ptifstfield, which was seat on the first notice. We learn with re gat, that the d' • g and drawing.rooms, together with part of the library, base been destroyed; the books, however, were all removed before the &abed communicated to the ceiling of the roes.—lt has not beet, arertsined from what cause the ere ori ginated.—A bride, who was to base been married a few d.ys ago in Illairgowrie, soddenly changed her mind, and set ofi' the day before that flied for her wedding, for Edinburgh. The bridegroom and guests, however. east through the anal formalities observed on such occasions ; anti after sending a deputation for the bride, and a cart far the " titan," spent thecley with the utmost convitiality end good cheer. The elopement of the bride is ant ascribed to indifference or • preferable predsonl, bet is said to have taken place at the instigation of her mother. Coax Excusecs, JAN. 6.—We have had no at rivals since Monday, end what little fine F.eglish Wheat was left over for ibis morning's market mot ready sale on full as good terms as ou that day ; bet there Is scarce any demand for foreign Wllool.—Fine English Bailey folly supports Monday's prices, hay ing bet little at market.—Oats wets dell sale, but whet few samples were disposed of, obtained the same pikes es not Monday.—ln Beans sad Peas there is scarce any shies doing, and pica ass nomisel. It is carious to observe, that the usaal emblems of Cheistres—Misletoe, ivy, and holly, have been this year. in many places, superseded by the most beesti ful fell.blown roses—a peculiar instants of the late mildness of the season ! Saturday night last, •bila Inaw persons were em ployed putting some luggage in the Liverpool mail, opposite the Post-office, in Lombard-street, some thieves contrived to rob it of avail bags of letters, with which they got clear of .r4l 1 islet thf sifences noodled as tbs sess. with linicu tory ipt '4Ol NAVAL INTELLIGENCIt. iam• s.—Arrived end galled for the River the Ocoee, Remasington, from Bengal ; Artie', Retwrts, frown Antwerp, for Plymouth, end remain. —Cams down from the Rim. and remain, the Ari- Wm, Hambleton, for Rio (ensue; larreen, Graham, for tba Cape of Good Hope; Fanny, --, for St. Vincent's; Rugby, Wise, for Charleston; Harriet, Tallock, for Teneriffe; Moisten, --, far Cork and Ceylon ; Endymion, --, for Belfast ; sad Melaatho, Parrett, fur Bahia, &c. Pontsmonvu, JAN. b. Arrived the Importer transport, from Cork, with troops.—Paned by the Bosirts, Balaton, from Bengal for London.—Arrived the Britannia, liantlyn, from the Domes for Gress da.—Selled his kinjoKiy's 'loop Shamrock, for Jer sey.—The William Pitt, Graham, for St. Helene, &c• hionght op at St. kelea's lest night, at II o'clock. awl got roomier arey this storming, and is sow is ike Oleg, the vied being tee light for her to wake aseb way. JAN. 4.—Anital several sisals from Ireland for Leaden.-.-ia'•lied the Vassals., --, for M. Micburs. FALMOUTH, J tr. 3.—Arrived the Lady Miry Pel lam packet, witb • Mail from Now York t in 27 days; .yoke al Kent pocket, with a Mall from Lisbon, in triitht da ys; hjr Majesty's ship Lee, from a cruise, and fortnight is the French lugger Theodore, with 268 tabs of spirits, which she captured shoot eight losers t. the sorthward of t h e Lizard last mating. RAISSOATt, JAN. s.—Came is moral Teasels for shelter. beetroot., JAI. 4.--Arrived the Mary, Ile. rid', from Nola Scotia; on the 29th November, Is lat. 42. 25. long. 65. spoke the brig Princess Char. lone, Williams, of Dumfries, from St. Jobe's, New Hesesoick, for Jamaica. GRATISEND, J s.—Arrived the Samuel and Jame, Harland, from Quebec; Ale:ardor, Desist, from Marseilles ; C ommodore Barr y , Kay, from Ntw Orleans ; and L'Mgle, Poole, from the Smith Sm.—Soiled the William sod Mary, Treekella, for Gediz ; Rambler, Knight, for Constantinople ; Fre. &rick, Stephens, for Cork ; William Bower, Meson, for Rotterdam ; Amity, Peiteit, for Newry ; and Queen Elisabeth, Ainey, for Cberante. THE 4GRIGLICTUK4L PETITION. Skeenobers (Aron&le swims es that this POW's' bee attracted the metiers of the tamdbeidera le Imbed, ebe bate deputed sore Gentlemen to empties fete lbe merits of the propoeition, sod tint she ememett_ 111 likely to be supported by th e Sister, Ceeetry. Wh ate at the MIMI lime instructed I. the peormees a she Petition, by an intimation that Rad om' and Idowarrater bele " jigged the coat," and that " them am bet three Welsh entwines, and five or sin Reglish meet, eopermided with the Petition." No doubt as be entertaloed that the great body et the egricellerista will give their supper' to a measare of which the efferent tendency is to promote their eves interests, by removing all foreign competition in the home markets, mud thereby raising the mosey price of their produce. Ireland is essentially an agriculteral country; and therefore omen 11 Oils @ter. lie's may be matted from that part of the United Kingdom, Is sapped of the Petitioners in Great Britain. flet our egricoltural friends most not ea. pect that eke manufacturing, commercial, and mo stied interests of the country will remain idle, and mot eorleamper to counteract such direct stuck epos their property. The manefacturing end commercial bAles are proverbially tmeruloot, end will, we fear mot, do their day to themselves, to the country, sad to the agricalturiste themselves on this occasion. It was es tassel sayind of Sir Robert Walpole, tint the Gentry Gentlemen in Parliament, ea Representatives of the landlioldera, were like their ewe sheep, and submitted to be fleeced in si lence end witboet apposition ; but that the mane. feaurerv, eserthants, and capitalista, were like hoes, end week' met Mier a bristle to be plucked from their backs without raising • most l imes,t so d di i . ardent uproar. A little of this smiaish feeling would met be 'misplaced should the threatened Peti.' lion make its appearance before Parliament ; for it cermet be borne, that in a time of professor! peace an & sleepy should 'hes be made by any pert of the State to impose an additional lax open the prime Artie% eI conaemptlem, and thereby increase the ebso. late weight of all the other tsars that now pa. rilyse the eweegies of the country. It smelt', we fear, prove a vain attempt, were we to think of proving i• one of the promoters of this Petition, that in urging it forward he was doing his utmost to in jure himself. and 'bat, should be succeed in raising the price of Wesel. be would, while he pot more money into one pocket for his wheat, &c. take wore in proportion out of the other, to pay fur such ar• tides of necessity and lacer, as be aright think fit' ~, purchase; for although each separate article would he increased in price only in proportion to the iricioaserl price of kis wheat, yet, as this pro portivr :could be fell molly in ail, he would bud, to hta roe', 'het the dliferace in the collective prices world be very considerable. r Dectenn Cnit.n.—The rhil,l that was foond et s door in Tash-street, Gray's i ncs .lano, with which Ann bymons, the mid. ife, was charged with he'ng concerned in, dies! no Senclsr night, in the ossukhowse of the •pior Liberty of the l'aci.h of Si. Andre*, Holborn. The child, after being found, *vent the night in strong convulsions, owing to Mrs, i9wont giving it a goanfily of syrup of icepoies to relent et) big by bringing on glen). A Coroner's i n quest I. sentmuned in be hold on the body thi+ day. The Admiralty Sessions will commence out Mon day nest. at Jestice.hall, in the Old Bailey, 14 the lowed tbs Sib 111 PO ETA NT D IsOL9ION. II