The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-07-07 00:00:00

~r ~--~ • • . . . . • • r If • • Ty • •. No. I. ♦BSTRACT d the NET PRODVCE of the REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, in the Years Quarters ended. 6th January, 0,21. z2.400ka0 8,300.759. — 1,60109 9,768,134 308.000 91.278 • 22,7450 litti April, 1&il. i 9.091,876) 5,936,7913 105012,1116 960,910" 22.0,800 11,795 6,600 487 910 6,210 8,9118 42,148 13,536,123 26,161 '4,8( . 4).871 83,fX19 13,584,157 10;903,360 11,398.813 1,904,010 729,34 10,785,950 (11,070 6,940 13.664,287 6th • 1912. Z I NA; NO 84611130 ' • m,65,,724 Year ended "Bth July, '1822. 353,000 1700 4,27 110th Octotiff • 1942. ON 19,766.7 W • . . 06,089 1t,633,438 12,002,186 826,012 4,640 81.1149.291. • 163,789 51,343,060 43.696,987 3,78.1.001 1,882,402 12,633,46 S .(4.84.1.111 , 8 7,310,1 1,674,603 180.000 16,431 16,000 4441 10,000 13,160.041 69,7fM1 13,219,60 W 10,90 3,M 1,10214,810 31)6,5t7S 61.346,080 13. V THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-REP9RT. •_. 7 • A General Meeting of the Proprietors of this' was held on Saturday in the Saloon °Lillis Theatre, for purpose of electing an auditor; six new members of the • General Committee, and the Sub-Comatittetrfor the en suing year ; and also for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Sub-Committee on the state of thenceounte l of the Theatre. Mr. Calcraft having been called tO the : Chair, Mr. Dunn, who has acted as Secretory since tltf death of Mr. Ward, proceeded to read'the following Ri. port: . " The Cointeittee have again the metafiction of meet 7, ing the General Assembly with a report upon affairs of the company; which .they hope will afford a proof that the interests of the concern have not suffered from Lav ing been entrusted to their direction: "'The Committee submit this report as a summary of the arrangements and settlement of the concerns of the company, which have taken place since the last General . Assembly. The report will be confirmed by the produc • tion of the accounts, which have been regularly audited by Mr. Oakley. They have, first, the satisfaction to state, that the rent due from the lessee of the Theatre has been regularly paid ; and they cannot omit to notice the great improvement in the property of the Proprietors, in the alterations of the Theatre; effected by Mr. Elliston with so much liberality and taste, during the vacation of last year, upon which a very conaiderabli sum hes been expended, 'needing oy many thousand pentads the amount stipulated by the Committee to be laid oat in the lease granted to him. They deem it necessary also to observe, that, by the supplies of new stock, the lessee has, not only maintained the value of the wardrobes, scenery, Sm. equal to the estimate when delivered into his baud., but considerably increased it. The Sub-Committee have now the satisfaction to state that the claims discovered to be due to the various credi tors in 1819, amounting to 92,0001., have, by the arrange-. meets, and a regular appropriation of the funds, been re duced to 29,6141. se, The final instalment on the loan subscribed to effect the reduction of the debt upon that rseatre, has been made, with interest, in conformity sritb the engagement entered into in the year 1819, to return it in four years from the period of the advance ; and the Committee entertain no doubt of meeting the payment to the bond-holder', with interest, by regular instalments, according to their respective dates, from the c o mmencement of the next season, agreeably to the cal culation originally made, although they have had to con tend with some little difficulties which stood in the way of an adjustment of a claim Dot contemplated to be due from the Proprietors. This, together with other minor claims, amounting in all to 1 1001. forms an increase upon the last statement, and consequently lessens the balance at the banker's in that amount. "The death of Mr. Ward having occasioned a vacancy in the office of Secretary, the Seib-Committee have nomi nated Mr. Dunn to fill the situation, which they trust will meet with the confirmation of the General Com mittee. " In closing this report, the Sub-Committee have only to request the attention of the General Committee to the annual statement of accounts, preparatory to its being laid before the Assembly ; and which statement is now reduced to a very brief abstract, ris.—At the last Gene. ral Assembly iu June, 1522, the debt of the Theatre was 33,9651. The payment of the final instalment on the loan and other creditors, which have taken place since that period, leaves the present incumbrance upon the concern at 29.6141., and there is an available balance in hand of 264 W. towards the reduction of the bondhold ers' claims, amounting to 24,615/., and by adding 3,918/. due to claimants. undiscovered upon the late' Theabre, and 1,2801. to unclaimed dividends, it makes a total of `29,6141.,. as before stated. " The Committee think it right to add, that the New Renter's annuity of one shilling and threepence per night will commence with the ensuing season, form ing an anneal amount of 3,750/. ; and the annual real. due of the surplus rent, calculated at 4,2501. will be appropriated to the payment of the bond-holders 4u ring the next six years." Mr. Caleraft, in addressing the Proprietors at the m ansion of this Report, the reading of which elicited ge neral expressions of applause, observed, that the report was so full and explicit in itself. that he was not aware any thing had been left for him to say. It seemed, un doubtedly, that the scheme in which they had embarked, had worked to the utmost, and that their expectations had been realized to the full extent of the hopes held out to the Proprietors. It would be recollected that four years was the period within which it was stipulated the loan raised to set the Theatre in motion was to be paid off. Tirt loan might fairly be ascribed to the liberal patronage of his Majesty, who,,in ordering billows] name to be set down for a thousand pounds, gave a fashion to the project, which soon enabled them to obtain the sum they wanted. It had now been nearly repaid, and the sum which remained to pay, was ready whenever persome entitled to receive it thought proper to make their appli.l cation.—{Applause.) The next proceeding to which ite had to refer, was their engagement with the lessee of the' Theatre, and in speaking of this, it was impossible to withhold his warm commendation from Me. Wi n t o n, for the great punctuality which bad been observed in the discharge of the contract into which he had en• tered; for not only had lie paid the rental stipulat ed to the last farthing, but be had scantily trebled the sum which he bad undertaken to lay out in the improvement and embellishment of the house. The suns agreed to having been but 60001. when he had spent upwards of 19,0001.--{Wear. hear.) He was very happy to say too, that notwithstanding this liberality on th e part of Mr. Elliston, stilt, from the manner in which the public had supported him, he was io the end a gaiety by his spirited exertions. The Report also stated, that in consequence of Mr. Ward's death, the Committee had sp. I ' , PLY" .1 MONDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1823. We bays this morning received, by Express, Paris papers of Saturday and yesterday morning. Those of the former date contain a Bulletin, which is little more than a repetition of what we had previously known of the affairs of the advance guard of Count Bonimont, and of the sortie of the gerrison of Lerida. The Drapeau Blase states that Count Bourdesoult is master of the whole of the Bay of Cadiz, and that Mina has entered Barcelona. The Pilate of Sunday mentions a report cir. c ulated on 'Change. the preceding day, that a Regiment of Chasseurs had been attacked in the environs of ►fadrid bytbe Guerillas. It also states, that the report of an engagement between General Dtittnadieu and the corps of Mina, galas credit. There had been no news of this corps for fifteen dais. FIRSNCEI FUNDS, SATORDAT:I4B, 55—End of tb• month 70—Cloud at 88,89. .. r :~ 12 r. Poetess • Excise . Stamps -Tates Managed by the 'Commissioners of 'l • sacs, ioctudiarArrears of Property Post-Office.. -4 ls. dd. and 4e. on Pensions .Hackoey-Cosebes, and Hawkers and Pad Crown Lands Brancluts of the Hind's Heroditary Reveal' Sid-plus Fee, Regulated Patties 0f1icee...... Total Ordhlaiy *.thapossiaad other Veiny* • -Pr' Total iteyenile • Applied as Consolidated 4." i.:* • fit.. To Pato/ Exch. Bills - Applied as part of the Ways add !hams .... 1i.617,223 ^ 19,149.112 d . Ved.2lo 480 • • : 138 14,137• 14,014,b40 29,2 . 4 . 7 t- 1013P6 7:17 - 26a • 1,45411:4.9 1,1411,378 . ►3:796 . , The fdllewing•Petitioa agsinst the *eel of the Spital fields Act front this City,. was forwarded WA Monday even ing, to he presebted to the Hose of Lords, signed by iiooo names:— •• • (coveNTRY To the Right Honourable the Lords, spiritual and temporet. et the United Kingdom of preat Britain and Ireland, In . Parliemenrasiembled. The Petition of the Ribbon Weavers of the City of Coven try and Its Vicinity, • • Humbly Sbeweth. , -" That your Petitioners, .hasing bb served with greet regretrthat a Hill is now pending in your Right Honourable Hoesei to repeat The Acts by which the t , riees for wearing have been rendered . uniform, and your Petitioners haling suffered the gteatest distrest , fog. want of such a law, beg leave (by stating to your Right Honourable House their own cage) to shear what, in their -bumble opi nion, woold be the state of Spitalllelds, should these yalu- Ury Acts be'repeeled. " That in the absence of a law to make the payment of wages uniform. it had been the custom of the masters, in the ribbon manufacture of Coventry to pay their workmen by oas general list of prices,-and which continued from the earliest period of the trade till About the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen ; , but, in consequesee of a devia floe from the above principle at that time, *the mast, unex ampled distress followed, and which for many months preyed upon the workmen, and excited the pity and compassion of their fellow townsmen. That in the year one thousand eight hundred and sleben, some di' the masters; filleted *woe 'the general distress, proposed that three of their own body should meet three welevees, in order to agree to pay and receive such wages as would conduce to the alleviating the distress under which the workmen laboured. An ar retirement of that nature was adopted end gigged by six de puties, and then submitted tonvery• eminent courage', who declared it perfectly legal ' • bat ' thisiseing en. agreement de pending entirely upon the bonooi of the parties 'to keep it inviolate till a new 'grimmest might be fonnd necessary to be made is a similar manner, those. who valued no honour which pledged Itself to poor men. broke their word, and re fused to pay the price agreed on, the very first week after the agreement was made, although or many articles that price was lower than what had been paid fifty years ago. " That the departire from this mulual arrangemest was the cause of the poor's rates rising to 19s. in. the posed: white in Spitalfields, ander the operation of the existing Acts of Parliament, they did not, in the worst of times, amount to more than six shillings in the pound. • " That in the slimmer and autumn of the 'year one thou *and eight hundred and nineteen the prices of the work had ' become so numerous and deranged, that many of the mi ters told their worktnen they could not possibly give them any *bore work till the price for weaving was filed ea some generel uniform plan, and that they must go and aceOmplish that object, end they might have their employment as usual. Others said they were so undersold by those who were paying below a living price, that they could not promise to pay the pries they were then paying to the end of their work they had in hand. Thus hundreds of your Petitioners were forced by the masters themselves to assemble and request that uniformity might be again established. " That the Megistrates, desirous of preserving the peace of the City, while such numbers were oat of employ, Po litely requested some of the principal masters to convene the trade and come to some muted understanding, if posit -10.. The masters assembled sceordingly, and determined on a Int er 1,-;e.4 below that of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, but es it promised certainty and uniformity, the weavers thankfully accepted it. And so peaceably and orderly had the weavers conducted them selves, that a number of respectable inhabitants sent a re quisition to the Mayor to convene a town meeting for the purpose of considering and adopting the means of affording leo.' to the ouor men who bad laboured under such ex tr >me distress. In addition to this, the masters subscribed a fond to be applied against themselves, should any one of them a Remind time attempt to violate their agreement. One master sent his donation in a letter commencing with these words :—• I inclose three pounds fqr the relief of weavers who may be deprived of employment by refusing to take less than the regulated prices ;' and in order to prevent as much as possible the list being violated, the masters re quested ft committee of weavers might be formed. to protecl it, by haring access to their own fund when any of their sweet:ince refused to work at a less price. " Your Petitioners beg leave to add, that both committee and fend ere now entirely done sway, and the weavers are already beginning to experience a recurrence of those evils which a bill similar to that of the Spitalfields Acts would entirely avert. •• Your Petitioners, from the sufferings they here laboured under for want of such a Rill, cannot but be apprised of the great advantages connected with the possession of it: and when they consider the loss of it must eventually produce the same evils of poverty and distress to the Spitallields weavers that has been experienced by your Petitioners, they feel it to be their bounden duty to.praY that their poor friends may not be deprived of that which. if granted to your Petitioners, would be considered en inestimable blessing. " Your Petitioners would beg leave to state, as their humble opinion, to your Right . Honourable House, that should the Bill in question be repealed, there is every reason to believe that parochial rates will immediately increase ; that the invest of wages will be resorted to; that a system of monopoly will become the order of the day ; that the poor man will become still poorer; that the workhouses and bosses of correction will become more and more in request every day ; the revenue be injured, by decrease of silk in the importation, and of goods in the exportation ; end that, finally, master and man will be eternally at strife and anar chy, and disorder spread through the whole trade. " Your Petitioners being satisfied that an Act like the Spltalfirlds Act is calculated to prevent all such eyile, and that no good be derived from its repeal whatever, and even none anticipated by the friends of the measure, and being sat!.fied that ipe Act, is it now stands, is calculated to fulfil the wishes of millions, if its operation extended so far ; that it conveys peace, justice, equity, and good-wilibetween man sad man wherever it • sets—do most humbly implore your Right Honourable House that the Bill now ptnding to repeat the saitAct may not be permitted to passinto a law. And, es in duty bound, your Petitioners will ever pray." A petition from Nuneation, signed by' 800 names, wee for-. warded on Tuesday sunlit*. to bepresented to thitHouse of Lords, against the repeal of the'Spitalfields Acts. . - i • , Cuffs. — lt is expected that 60/. or upwards will he collected here in aid of the struggle which the Spaniards ire making against the unprincipled aggression of their breeders, who are justly regarded as the enemies, not of Spain Nly, but of tosakied at large. A subscription for this purpose was commenced by a few gentlemen on iliatertlay, which in a short tioto amounted to 261.—(Edia. Ceetwa.) . • *,,C• tirrA 4' . 1 si .._ ~. . • 1 ., pi" *I sei, rte, Qairters Bth 4 igh AMNION MO ie9M6, _ ' -140141,179 1 - 24,897.11111 6,319,3611 6,848,3411, 1,347,086 4 : 63,961 • • tv , 936 6,971 49,386 • • -881,781.' 330.000 10,187 pao.r.v a s,ost,ita mow • 14,471 4,700 6:400 7,110 9,974 13S '10,683.371 '46.732 1?,319,31011 73,353 49,138,940 248,886 • 10,608,104 19,3(4,743 ao,ssa,set • ti,.9e4;1i0 195,011 507.959 11,647,000 863,760 . 14983 44-788,026 1060,80, 1,513,936 1,708 18 ; 994,745 A 9.18& Poiot•d Mr. Dunn as his successor, by which arrange monl.there would ha a small saving of 501. o-year, by unitlerthe two salaries, and he was sure, le this, selec tion, the Committee had acted most judiciously. The nett claim to hi redueid was that of the Bond HeldEles. tattle amount of 24,615/. which with-the cams doe to Islaiments undistiovered upon the late Theatre, and un claimed dividends to the amount of 1,250/. made the total debt to be liquidated 29,6141. In six yeats be calculated Ilse whole of this incumbrance would be cleared off, and l i ken the proprietors would be rambled to divide the ser ifs' dividends, after paying the ground tent and other charges 'incurred in the management, among themselves. This was a stated things to which he confidently looked i bewerd, and on which the great punctuality. of Mr. Elliston entitled them to rely. It might be remarked also that, under the management of Mr. Elliston, k the value of their property was hourly incrasing. The Report was then unanimously confirmed by t he Meeting.—The General and Sub-Committees or last year were re-elected, including L. Evelyn, Esq. M.P. who had been olbstitated in the room of Mr. Yaux, deceased. Mr. Oakley was also re-elected as Auditor, and in returning thanks he bore strong testimony to the merits of Mr. Dunn, the new Secretary. Mr. Wathen proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Elliston, for his liberal conduct is thermanagement of the Theatre, wh_ickwas carried unanimously. Mr.E. Read suggested the propriety of paying the law expenses incurred in placing the Theatre in its present situation, and which had been paid by the Committee out of their own pockets before the bond-holders ; but his motion was considered premature, and was withdrawn. Mr. ueo. Robins then proposed the thanks of the meet ing to the Chairman, which was carried nem. con:, and the assembly broke up. . Great satisfaction was manifested at the flourishing state of the Theatre, and the Committee was saluted with tie grateful acknowledgments of ell present. Among other persons present, we noticed the Marquess of Hertford, Me. Douglas Kinnaird. Sir Geo,Browee. Sir :She. Codrington, the Hon, G. Lomb, Edward Ellice, sq. M. P. &v. • impaimmommiadisel THE NEW GLOBE. The Reader referring to the first page will see that the New GLOSS is united with the S7ATZSMAN. No Paper perhaps ever commenced with a more splendid patronage than that of the New OLona. The advantage resulting from the accession► of strength which it brings to . the STATZINAN are great and manifest. —The encrease of eircalation, thus obtained, will reader the paper eminent ly serviceable to Advertisers, and the enoreased profits will afford means for extraordinary exertions to obtain all those points of early intelligence and literary talents, in which excellence in a Newspaper exists. it is satis factory also to reflect that these advantages are without alloy. The New Ocoee has been the uniform advocate of Civil and Religiose liberty. In its union with the STATILSAIAN, there is therefore no compromise of charac ter, no sacrifice on either side. It is an union of two prints of liberal and independent principles. MAIM ♦RR. DUI. ♦RR. DUE. 2.... Dublin 0 1 ....Holland 0 2.... Waterford... • .0 0.... Hambro 1.... t) J ersey....o I.... France. 0 0 1 ...Flanders .0 O. Gottenburg I 0....Ma1ta 0 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock . I India Stock 2611 bOf 3 per Ct. Red Bllj Ditto Bonds ASs.pos. 3 p.Ct.Cons... . -.. u .991; Ez.Bill.2d. (-,. 3 a 2Ss —s pro. 34 per Coot. 91 10001. Ilps•r Cetits.b....... 99 941 .»....I --BOW. 20. ?Ss pm. Now Pears .. ... 99j - , -----Small 20s 21/. p.. .1..50gAait.............. 20f 1 ILottoryTtekets l4/. 1-1 s lop. 3 pos Ct. !Condor Acct. Vitt Abtatesinan. Year eoded Bth July, 1823. 11,00,231 114,000 18.8931 28,880 .. •• 3,093 • 31,976 13,093,703 • 07,901 ~s,i¢~jee 12 9 301, 7 5 4 P6,,196 . $08.727 -a:.. ~. I . r A : ) /t A Do t tch,llW,l al - 44 this spot ith pay rs to t he 6th 'ant. They give a fueber accoint tra the earth tikie W quakes and burning mountain that have done so much damage in Java. The following are extracts:— BauessLe, JULY 3.-41erlddajesty, the Queen, arrived here yesterday, accompanied by Prince Frederick and Princess Marianne. • It is affirmed that the Pope will send a Commissioner to conclude all the arrangements respecting a concordat 'between his Majesty the King of the Netherlands and the Holy See. It is added, that the choice of His lion' ness has fallen on Count Neal*. Nuncio from the Papal See, to the Swiss Confederation. ' AusTranam, JULY 3.,--Accounts from Batavia np to 'dm 81st of January, Which give further details of the damage done by the several eruptions of the mountain Ater Apia. From thee details if appears that three had been an extraordinary rise in the rivers which bad over flowed their banks, and carried away the bridges ; this was psrtlyowing to long continued verybeavy rains, and partly to their course being impeded by thastones,ite. proceeding front the eruptions of the Mountain. On the sth the river s Pabelsa and others, swelled in an extraordinary degree, and brought down with thee vast quantities of stones and burning hot mud, while Mer Apie again emitted fire accompanied with a dreadful noise. On the 3rd and 4th there were violent earthquakes in the valley of Sello. Several Destas.near Sello, were lee essible, because the valley of ()rimming. which was 300 fathom deep, has been changed into a mountain, and canna tbe approached on account of the beat of the stones. that have been 'brown out, and the burn ing sulpher. his believed that the Desna and the un. foresee inhabitants ate burned under the lava. Two 'very deep vanes in the Preaideef of Djoc• jokarta running South and South East front filer Apie are entirely filled up with lava, 'which on the 11th of January was still very hot. and , had a stream of burn. log hot mud running through the middle of it. The heavy rains bad on many places cleared the land of the sand and ashes which covered them. " • Accounts Teethed at Batavia from Pangerang, Said Hassan Habeshi, who was sent with some letters and pre sents, from, the Dutch Governor General of India to the Prince:of Siam, announced his arrival there on the 2d of November, and added that he was received in the most honourable manner. • Both presents and letters were well received, and the Prince bad declared that be would end" an Ambassador to Batavia to renew the ancient amicable relations with the"supreme Government. Fnur months before the arrival of Said Hagan, in Siam, Mr. Crawford,Ambassador from the British Govern. "went in India to the king of Siam had reared to Bengal. During his stay of several weeks, (as Said Hassan was informed) he had been only once admitted to an audience by the Prince; and his letters had not been answered by his Highness. " The Turks of Zectouni foreseeing tbat they should not be able this year to maintain themselves's their town have killed all the Christians without distinction of ag; or sex, and set bre to the town in several places before they left it. Their savage bands retired towards [Arian we are at a loss to explain the motives of this proceed- Lug." All Greece as far as Pharsalia is evacuated by the Barbarians; a great part of Macedonia is in insurrec tion; at least it seems certain that the proclamation of the wise Hegomesos Theocticus have in•inced the peasants of Roast Pelion and Ossa to rise ins body. On the other side it is said that the defiles of Pindus, leading to Epirus, are in possession of the Insurgents. Decisive events are at hand, and to us there seems no doubt that Greece, properly so called, will be free this year. New York Papers to the 10th of Jane have arrived this morning, by which we learn that o ffi cial accounts had reached Caraccas that a division of Morales army, which had entered Coro, had been entirely defeated. A Postscript in the Columbian of 21st May, announces the important intelligence of the capture of the Fortress of San Carlos, and consequently the Lake and city of Mara caibo. A Bogota paper, which contains an serount7of the opening of the Columbian Congress, repeats the state_ ment that one of the first acts of the Congress was ex petted to be to recognize the loan contracted in England" A Flanders Mail arrived this morning with Papers from Hamburg!) to the 2d, and from Brussels to the sth instant, extracts from which are given in our sub sequent columns. They notice some recent sets of cruelty committed by the Turks, and annoance that all Greece, as far as Pharsalia, has been evacuated by these barbs• rians. BRUNSWICK, Jews 26.—According to a Decree dated Carlton-House„ the 6th of this month, and published here on the 25th, the Regency of the Duchy of Brunswick is to cease on the 30th of October, this year, and the Go. remittent to be given into the hands of his Serest Highness Prince Charles, our reigning Duke. an erect sthich will be highly gratifying to the inhabitants of Brunswick. FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, Junelo.—The intended re. d actions in the Russian army are expected shortly to be rarried into effect. The Omperor, on his tour to view the 2d army, will pass through Moscow. It is thought that Count Wittgenstein, the Commander-in-Chief of that army, will have another more important command. In this case General Itaguisky will, doubtless, succeed him. ..... The Russian Consul General Mineseiki, and the Russian Post-Office of Moldavia, still remain at Iler manstadt. It is not observed that any ➢reparations are making for their departure, whence it is inferred that the did*. •nee with the Porte are not yet arranged. ST. PeTeRSBURG, JUNE I3.—We have frequent thunder -storms, and the beat continues to increase. It is said that a General Evangelic Consistory is to be established here to direct in the last instance the affairs of the Protestant Church. Zea, May I9.—A knee, a kind of decked bark, wbick left Tateula yesterday evening with a cargo of women and children who had escaped the sword of the Mussel men,lives the following account:— The advocates of the invasion of Spain by the French Ultra% for there are such men in England, have taken two singular points of defence of their opposition to the general feeling.. They say, first that the people of Eng land caring little, or n , thing, for the result, will sub scribe but little; and that whatever may be subscribed will dp no gond. if these matters are true, surely they might spare their railing for if no good were dour, so estsehief could be effected . The subscriptions,however tr - Lilingoroald give employment to a few branches of maw _..r~ ~ : Y--~ .e 9.353,1111 20.055.551 5,200,511 7,407,1142 1,325,000 71,073 48,400 007 . 12.211 05,181 ... R. ~'J ° 4 4 _. , ~ I I