The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

~~ _ MR: HORSLEY'S CHILD RECOVERED, . AND kENNETT TAKES. At a lite hour this forenoon we received the fol. ioniog cotnrovnication 6 , LLovirs, Nov. 30, 1818. Renndt is taken, and the aild is well and in 4, ama 1111•0 ntwr the safe , cestody of his relative, Me. lloast.cir.— This morning Messrs. Rem, bums, end Co., of groad-street.buildings, received the above pleasing intelligence from their correspondent at Bremen, and It losing a moment conveyed the inte;ligence to Withm- conveye. the allictelparents at Canonbary-lane. It appears that M. licoancir had such correct information of the Allebs's route, that he arrived at Bremen 24 'hours OW Hewlett, who was on the point of em. barkintwa b4d a vessel named the Pallas, bound to Daltimorof' ~.. 7 SUICIDE OF NtIDIN. *itsAcir urma FROM MANCUBSTER, DATE D • AT 4 NOVEMBER 28. if m* Siste l iwriting the above, I have been oot and have learned from en undoubted source, that the great Leviathan of our waters. is just wounded, if not deed. A most astonishing sensation is caused iu the town—bet lot we mike myself intelligible. " A meeting took pface to.tlay at the Police- Office of the Police Commissioners and Heads of the Town, to investigate many accounts, and to en quire into many matters must intimately connected with the administration of our lordly tyrant here, Mr. Nadin; some curious rumours having been abroad several days here respecting him. It seems a mail, you must know well, named Evans, who has been many years a tool of Nadia's, has just now nu. expectedly come t, , a property which has rendered him independent, :and he having once vowed revenge .on Nadia for having struck him, has now put his threat into exec':tion. 46 EIGHT o'Cr.ucw.—A Gentleman has just been with mP and confirmed what I had heard before.— Evans declared at the Meeting that Nadirs caused two of the fires to be li,:hted 'Ton the hills near here (Blackstone Edge and Buckton), which yoo know during the late commotion'; was attributed to what were called the disaffocted as night signals—that Nadi!, masked out the men to be taken et the la.t Meeting before the Meeting took place—that he has frequently laid trips by Navlin's orders to take pen• OP for had note., &c. and many other black things. whiA he osideitnek to pr,,te. The Meeting was ast , in*ll4 3 Nudist left one Office in a rage, say ins, be wyuld soon valance them whether he was guilty Or suit; he won hose, and About sis o'clock he s►am foiled :9 I.l§ OAn y iid weiterina in his blood, a pistol bole , hasii.g gone thruugn oi4 neck, but he eat n dead half an Isnot since —so n•nt h for the man who has amassed 00,0004 a; Deputy Constable of Maa• Chester !" TIRE QUBEN's FUNERAL. The Prince Regent visited the Princess Augusta dud the Dachas. of Gl.tueester yesterday. His Royal Sighpeas temained to dinner at Cambridge-house. " Hones and atteiniants for the approaching fens.. lel, grave almost hourly at Kew from the different Royal establishments, under the direction of W. Co deo, Esq C'erk of the Stables to the late Queen. This Jay the black ante !turves, intended for the nos of Hearse, are to be sent Gain the Kit 4 's Mews • file Princesses continue in good health, awl the emu:hies of the Nobility at the Palace are very nu t4re- 'serous. Tho cavalcade is directed to begin to move from K'w Palace at 10 o'clock ; and it is said that it would proceed over Kew Bridge, through Atentford, and proceed to Lonjord, where the procession will halt to trtiesti the horses, &c. The Prince Regent's livery servants are provided with two suit* of moor keg frocks and jitcketv, great coats, Sac. their hate have crape round t'.em, and crepe cncketles. The porters appeared in mourning on Saturday. The orders for mourning are so great, that 04- clothes could not be made sooner. The Royal Duke , ' livery servants have similar mourning. Prince Leopold's st•rvauts are still in mourning for their beloved mistress. - Yesterday, the Clergymen and the Gentlemen of the Choir of the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, appeared in blerk silk scarfs and silk gloves. The young Gentlemen of the Choir, or King's boys, as they are con‘monly ailed, a pp.a red also in mourning, made in a style iuiilar in their -cirlet uniforms. The important geestion of admitting our Roman Car ht lic fellow.subjec(s to a participation of the con atitatiotial rights of l3ritot.o, will be brought under consideration of the new Parliament, in a manner Lord Entessonoccit was considered a little better most favourable to its temperate but serious discus- yesterday. His Lordship had had some refreshing Ilion. We *Hews that separate Petitions on the sleep on the preceding night. subject will be presented by almost every coun'y in VAGRANTS.—There are between 30 and 40 ea -Irei"d• S S cell as by the Catholics in the ether grants committed (on an average) every week from parts of Vie Uhitcd Kingdom. the Police-office, Hattoniarden, to the House of Our.ll.eadero will recollect that some time ago two Correction, in order to be pasted to their respective or three it-males were taken up end confirett for hat. parish.... This, at the rate of 10s. for the apprehen iing B sok-note in their possession unsigned. That sion of each, amounts to • large sum yearly. such 1.1481 k-flutes are actually issued, through culpa. I On Saturday night, as Mr. Skirret, a Silk-mercer, ble tiegl;gpnce, we have positive wont' now before us. and his wife. were coming to town in a post.chsi'e, A Piper a this avir&ng says, a Correspondent yes. they were robbed upon Blcckheath by a single high. tvt6ay sent us for Livection a One Pound lank of wsymau, of five pounds and his watch, which was Note, dot. d the sth instant, and numbered a valoable gold one; the highs's) man behaved very 1 t.5F.5, that appears to be genuine. having the water. complaisantly, and begged the Lady not to be fright- Intl Is and all the knurls tests, and is yet unsigned!! .tued ) as further harm was intended her. • 'V, ;;• rOMPIWIT, : . - - ~.~., STA'"FgVIAN To ra EDITOR or ras sntrEsme,v. -••■••-- Slit,--As a steady and faithful advocate in the cause of freedom and humanity, you cannot but have noticed with concerti two very alarming symptoms of i the deteriorated condition of the fortune of your country. Among many others which excite the re gret, and, I may add, the shame of the true Patriots of Old England, one is, that persons who have lived in credit as tradesmen and artizans, and being una• voidably reduced to very straitened condition and contrivatice to obtain subsistence for their families. feel no disgrace, ,irtd sca.cely any repugnance, to throw themselves and their children upon the parish! It would surprise or shock the Public at large, if the overseers of parishes, as is done at Brighton and other places, were to publish the names of all who thus seek for and obtain the means of prolonging their wretched existence from their opulent, or less uecesitous fellow-parishioners. The neat circumstance, and not a less important one, is, that many of the prisoners in our jails, view with complacency, and almost with exultation, the near approach of transportation to Botany Bay ; where they expect by their labour to obtain a more competent subsistence than they can possibly earn in England. Nay, we read in 'ha Newspapers, that a short time ago, a delinquent, on whom the seateuce of transportation for seven years was passed at the Old Bailey, exclaimed, " I thank your Lordship, thatis juNt what I wanted and wished for." These circumstances, so menacing to the bonnet and safety of Great Britain, were spoken of in the preseuce of one of our Members for the County (whose fattier represented it many Parliaments), and he was ready to confess that they were very ill omens of hts country's fate, and rendered a timely Reform an Indispensible measure to the very exist ence of the Sate itself. I therefore call upon the Honourable Gentleman to countenance and orge the remedial measure in Par liament, for such grievances as in private he so rea dily acknowledges to be requisite. What man is• so hardy and unfeeling as to deny that so:nething very essentially. wrong exists in the State, when its Go. vernment cannot find employment for the labourers, who in fact constitute the growth, wealth, and stab'. lily of a nation.-1 am , Sir , Your bumble servant, xI REP. Bloogoabory, Nov. 46. NAV.,IL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL. Nov 22.—A rr iv , d and sailed for the River, the S. len, is.iv, from the South Seas, with 2. 1 .100 barrels el alr roi oil ; and Euretts, Sioddart, from (I.leber. Castle down from the River, the Ross, Harrison,• for Jamaica; Sir Godfrey Webster, fot Jamaica ; the Tigrea, fur Jamaica ; St. Ann's, fur Uoider o , for B 4 Outdoes ; Pe PPPPP f• once, fee:Waist ; 111.44, for the Mediterranean; tivroick, for the Mediterranean; and remain in the D 4 von with the ~ a t ward•hosed as per lair —V eg . lordly arrived and sailed for the Riverthe N..uttinq, VFits n, frui.i Bengal ; tailed 23d of May o and from h• .9tn _ _ _ P ART MOUTH. N .v. 29 —Yesterday •Rived higj- s i,.a Piiiniose and Ttrian, foss shales station —Passed by the Hannah, Pearson;froni g.tet.ec, and landed ',imagers here.—Sailed hi. Ma. j••ty's ship Ilyperinn, ou a male; and the Pique, mitt* E -tit ward —Csme into Harbour his Majesty's ithip Racoon; to be paid oft —T.l.day, arrived the Lontlon trernport, frnmKnysa, with Government tint. bee ; ssilF4 from the Cape of Good Hulot, the 28;h 4ep plotter, in company with the %wen Chador., Taylor, en•' pares: from her the 3d Nr. in ht. 14. N. long. 27. West, all well ; on tlie 13th Nov. spoke the MaPculis of Angleaea, from Calcutta, in lat 3`2. N. 10,t4. 29. W. all well ; London was bnardeil the I:th Nov. by a Buenos A v rean schooner, mounting 14 guns and 125 men, in lit. '27. 50. N. long 30.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Rosario, on a cruie.—Pas:ed by the Ellen, —, from Miramichi; she brought home the crew of the Lydia, ifirdy, which vessel foui.dered the 6th Nov. neat the Banks of Newfoutall ud._ FALstool u, Nov. 26.—Artived the Francis Free.. ling packet, with a Mail, from New York, in 17 days. PENz tract, Nov. 27.—The Friede, Meiling, from St. Di taiogo to Bremen, was spoke with by a pilot boat the 21th inst. hating lost her foremast and bow sprit on the 14th inst. RAMSDATE, Noy. 28 AND 29.—Came in several vessels for shelter, and abort 20 sail of transports, from France, with the Waggon Train. ,BaistoL, Nov. 2n.—The Pilot, Webber, from Newfoundland to Whoa, has put into this port in distress, and with loss of Captain and Chief Mate, who were washed overboard. The ship Alligator, Godend, from Virginia to Cork, put into Kilrosh the 23d inst. very leaky, having had 14 feet water in her hold at sea, and obliged to throw great part of the cargo overboard. The Gallant, Blythe, from Liverpool to London, was driven ou shore a few days ago near Porta ferry ; very little of the cargo is expected to be saved. 1- EXTRAORDINARY IMPRISONMENT FOR CONTI,..IIPT. • -• . An Inquisition was held Saturday, in the Picot 1 Prison, epon the body of Mr. William Smith, who had been confined within its walls during the long period of 17 rears. The classes of his death were purely lateral, and would not have been submitted to the slightest investigation, had not an Ordinance of the Legislature enacted, that if any person die in prison his body shall not be boiied, until the Coroner shall have held an inquest upon it. It is not, there fore, to the circumstances of his death that we wish to call the attention of our Readers, but to the long imprisonment which the deceased endured previous to it, in consequeoce of an evil which has long been the subject of the loudest and justest reprobation.— The individual in question was committed by the High Court of Chencnry for a contempt of some pro. cess issuing by its authority. His scanty means made still scantier by the support of a numerous family, and by the expenses of a tedious illness arising from his imprisonment, rendered all his ef forts to ettricate himself from the unfortunate Situa tion in which he was placed nugatory end unavail ing. The property in litigation was, we believe, sif inconsiderable value; but the costs to be paid pre vious to the contempt being purged were, to a man in Mr. Smith's rank of life, quite enormous; though to marry they will appear little more than the value of an old song. They amounted to something more than 1()101.; and the want of this insigititi cant sum consigned him to an unwholesome pri son. during a period extending to nearly one- third part of whit the Psalmist has stated to be the most protracted span of human raktencs.—; Mr. Smith might have incurred, and might have been arrested for debts a thousand times greater than the sum for which he was actual!), though. not nomi nally detained; and by the leniency of the law might, if so inclined, hive obtained liberty at the close of four months. Mr. Smith might have committed ho micide, and have elpiated his guilt, even if that guilt had been visited with the severest penalties, by a !wave months' imprisonment. Mr. Smith might have laid perjury on his soul, or might base libelled the most correct end virtuous chsracters in the kingdom, arid at the expiration atm° or three years might have looked forward to freedom from his incarceration. Mr. Smith might have embezzled the property of his employers, or might have fraudulently obtained great and ostensive credit, without any means of support ing it ; and yet be might have called upon the law to shield him from the iron h.ngs of his creditors, awl to burst the bars of his prison asunder. Nay, more, Mr. Smith, if he had destroyel the happiness of fa milies, by corrupting the wife or sedating the daughter of his dearest hien& and benefactors, might have said triumphantly, " Let a Jury of my coun trymen award against me es heavy damages as they can, let them visit me with as severe a visitation as they can possibly inflict, still, if I endure the tor. rocs of confinement far ten full years, the Legislature will step forward to my relief, will release me from Pall incumbranees, sod will declare roe entitled to my discharge." But Mr. Smith, to whom we are utter 'diallers, and lin, as we are verily informed, was oat incontheted with debt, was not guilty of homi. ride—was not convicted of perjury—was not con• desisted as a Wiener—was not the embezzler of the property of his neighbours—was not the defreoder of the tradesmen with whom he was connec •d. not yet a distinguished hero in the attnais of gallantry—Mr. SAN was consigned to an Im prisonment which was only In terminate with life, becutse he had been, guilty of a contempt of 'Ciiasf of Chaneery;-"Wing to his ignorance; and had been enable to purge that contempt, owing to his po. veto, ! The Noble Lord who no w presides in the Court of Dtancery, with so much honour to himself, and ad• vatitv4e to the community, t , av himself almost de- Oared t Ids to be the fact. He has alswaje remarked, that he had not authority to allevia e the calamity, of which the law, as it now stands, compels him to become the author. On this he,d, as on every other, he speaks with the utmost correctness : he has not the power to mitigate the evil which he is obliged to inflict ; but if he does not now poste's% it, there are bodies in the State capable of giving him that lotto). rat), of which he seems to regret so much the defi• cieocy. It is to those bodies that we submit this appeal ; mad though we are convinced that to inno vate is hot in general to reform, we Omit that any innovation on the present practice of the Court of Chancery in this respect will be es a refrorm by every benevolent mind in the wide-emended circle of the British Empire We do not wish to deprive that Court of the power of ileforgirrkoherAence to its edicts ; but we do wish to tee it deprived of a Oloost unjust and inquiotorial authority—an authority coittrary to the mild spirit of the Common Law, and to the liberal genius of the British Constitution—an authority to compel indivi duals, upon pain of perpetual imprisonment, to an swer such points and such interrogatories as may tend to criminate themselves, or else to take their silence upon them as a confession of their guilt. That some punishment should be inflicted on contumacy is a truth which all must allow ; but that such a twilit,. ment shOuld amount to perpetual imprisonment, is a position which all, except those who think by tradi tion, and reason by authority, must as streuuously i • and as firmly deny. CORY EXCRANGIC, Nov. 30. —There was a good supply of Wheat this morroiig, fine i.atoples of thlch obtained 1 , 1.4 -4on day's prices ; Weenie dull sale at a reductii.a tit Y4.—Fine Bat. Icy Is de..ter.—Oats Is. cheaper.—ln Pesti, Beaus, and taster attacks no alteration. Wheat (English) .... 10 84 New ditto Ditto (Foreign) 74 88., Rye •54 56 Barley ....... 73 New..... Malt 76 90 White Pews • 65 70 New ditto—. — Ditto Boilers 76 80 per Peas 6•i 70 HM OS .. ... .. ...... 70 76 Old do. . flek do '64 68 Oats ..... ......... 40 44 Fine do . - Poland d 0..... .... 18 44 Feed do. Fine Flour 6:, 0 Seconds...... afiIITRIPIELD MARKIKT, Nov. 30. To wink the Offal, per stone of bins. Beef ......1.. 8i u. b Ad. I Heed Apt Cattle this day 3. Mutton ..4A. 61. a 6. 9‘l , Reasts 90 1/.11 ... 64 0.1. to 6. Bd. 86et1• and Lambs ..... 17,t.80 Perk ._ .4. bd. to 7s. 04. Cates lBo La1i1b......0/. 0 1 . " I 13 ' 04. Pi4r. HAY-MARKET. Ha, bl. 04. Od. t.' Os. Od. Clover 64. Os. ed. to 91. Is. Of. I. 9i. 40. 40d. ~I ~ - • , .211cs‘.. ~--... • ~. LAW 114111?1,LIGEACR; • VLCE-05AN.1•ELLOit'S CO*Urt. Nee. 3. . • THE EARL OV SD iPTVILItir LORD itollf.dt opriteiti; ARO ANOTHIRIi D THI DUEE DP Si 41:LD:ipuUGH. Sir A. Pica°.lll meted t. it lb. D eridasir aisoukt be restrained from receiving the riv.ts or prat, of certain estates, since the death of the late D •k:, and from cariiii.g on any krtioo wgairtit hn tenanti, not paying the said rents. This case had been heard before the Lord Chinceitor, who 'pow! the Is. junction, suject, however, 00 such ohjertolis RS the Defendant's Counsel might make. rho st - tea of the family were devised to the East of ihafiesi.ury and Lord K. Spencer f..r 3OQ years, n of ! the rents and pr. Mt tieing applied i keep down the interestsof theincombrancei, .he payme t of certain annuities,and V.esum 30,0001. to th" Duchesa.afteo which thesurplus was to be given to the Duke. Its. May last a receiver was appointed, and 14. RI .4katone was that person. Tee Dske though: he hid a right to the rents in arrear before the appointhsent to,k, place; but surely the Court could not vatirtine hisri to that opinion. The hill tmi!o e the Lord Ch;liscel lor stated, that the Doke had no colour of title what. ewer to the property, but yet his Grace ha.l to seil seven or eight actions against some of the tenants. The Vica-CtiaNcELLor. do nut see how that Duke can maietain soy such actions, • •-, • Mr. HART ...rid, thst h.or ,Grace had 044 an (A. davit, in which wan n Icier of 1,3.3 Shaftesbury's, where that Noltle bord vtates, that be conceivrol rho Duke entities, ilie arrears. ( Vic. D•iri) mast say, Whoever advised the Duke to think so gave hiut 'bad sidvice. Mr. Ow.. nu the other side, contended that it never could (hi' cf [Le Or t irr of t h e Court to deprive his Grace of K hat be was In posses,ion oL suilici. , o case was ins 'is out to 41i e • there c ou ld bonny refereticd.to pa , ,? tents, rend ttior.tfarp eh°. tended, that the ord:r ber ken in a pebspettive, not.retrespective prise. : • " The Vitt-Ctl tNICLI,LUR Aid, 10 must 4siderstandi this order as civet) for j4stiee to beth pariierat The invumbrances took effect alter the death of Hart testa tor. Toe trustees were placed in aashosity, on. 7 eo.,dition of receiving all reols, and paying the in. t !erect of the nod :he Duchess's an+ nuity. The Doke certainly had on right to bring any action 1'44114 the tenants; and he must be re-• strained from interfering, di:etilly or ineirectly t with the re:lts. The CooP, th«retore, were hound to igrqu.t the Injunction. The co,tv to he raid by - tho receiver out of hie funds.—lojunciion graottal. .. s ~,jr COURT OF KINCVA BENCH. 10;r TILE KING a reur. AND A NOTIIFIL. '. Mr Gutteeir .aid he had tolt ow their hoidshltli4 cause agionst a role obtained by Mr Searle° on d former day fur filitig cti uini9 informations evilest Mr. Peel and another Gentleo.ao, for a mbeirmean. our. Mr. reel aria son of !Cr Ro •ert NeAl, the. other Gentlemen tans Sir anbort's lid (11r. Gurney) regretted mach he had' not been able. to show cause oil an earlier diy, he ,hould` now be obliged, on the last dap of the Term, tone. copy a very considerable portion of their Lerdshipt" time. Mr. SC tnr.rTt here suggested, that showieg Mtge re;eht, without prejudice /o either party, be post. pooch 'ill next Term. Mr. ( 7 . ettNyv w.is ready to adopt the suggestion of t Leann d l'riend, if in so doing he had their Lord ships' Pan , titan. 'PA. Cl° it'tTlTE.— " Lot it ho see; MP dela,' May be of advantage to the parties : they may in the mart time V awe a communication with each other, and happily come to such an arrangement as way relent the matter proreeding farther." hi ATThR OF PitIVILECt. Mr. SEANU.F.TT OD a former dap obtained a rifle to show cause why Dr. Baltine should not he discharge ed out of cu;tetly, under an esecetion for debt, otg the grounds of 'tie privilege from arrest, he heinßvme of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Privy Chamber its ordinary. Mr. V. Lksvve and Mt. CIIITTY DO* thOlTedi etas. eiteinst the rule, and ronteiided that the 'olficst held by Dr. Ratline in his Majesty's household was nut such a one as entitled him to the privilege in qeestion ; itisamoch as it was net an office which re. (iked the attendance of the Defendant about the person of his Maje-ty. it being laid down in Lord Coke's Second Institutes, sod recently held its the cases of Barnett st Hobbs. and lies v. Foster, the first, Deputy Clerk of the Kitchen ; the last. Body Coachman to his Majesty, that soA constant !Min. ty to be called on was necessary to give the rojtal, servant privilege from arrest. In the present case, Dr. Battine was sprinted is Iglt, and had rime one , ., since that petit d, been celled into attendance. Mt. SC RLETT and Mr. MAkttlAT, OD the part of Dr. Baltine, cooteuded that he was prirl'eged, ale though, as stated on the other sole,. the Defendant had never been called on to &stead the King, yet he was liable to he so on state isecesioes,whonever vertigo should think fit to require his attendance: The rezisosi why he had tint been called on might be found in the lamented indisposition of his Maj , ,ty. It ap peared that the duty of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber was to attend the novereian on the occasion of Royal Marriages, 11 •yal Fooeials, the reception of Foreign Ambassadors, and genCrstly on state tic. casinos; and, infect, several of the Gentlemen had been ordered to hold themselves in reviinese to at tend the solemnity of ber late Majesty's funeral on Wednesday neat. The Court had recent y held, its the ease of the fire and candle lighter to the yeomen of the guard, and in that of one of the children of the kitchen, clthough he first executed the duties of his race by deputy, and the child of the kitchen had only been required, lo a course of •several years, to give his attendsnte on one occasion, that both these persons were privileged, because they were liable to be called on to attend at arty time. The CHIEF JUSTICE said the procticiaof the Court appeared to have been, that where there was no doubt ezirtine of the privilege of the perkim a p p lyi n g ey Mould discharge him on motion ; but sallteme there was a doubt, then the right course to be adopted would be to put the individual on the preduciien of his writ of privilege. At first the Court were intoned to dtheinntkoDerprilaivititeignee a b s a s d s t i h v i e s a prr t i ar ilge; e . co h n trt ie, i l t was ionco aptai. A ~.~ • - 7 5 f 3 . 4 - 1 .4 4 1 1 1 •S' f ' - I 1 I • .11 • i 1 ..:._ - .:?-A ~`'~: i~ - Aij • II 4 ..~ . -• , • 1. .~