The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

/IW I 7 ----- i t—the terms of accommodation are modified. Zeremptory destsand for such a reform of the re ,tesootation, as alkali guarantee to the people the as :once in future of an absolute and certain pciwer of restra tht upon the ambition, the corruption, the folly, 0 the violence of a ministry ; such a resttaint, in start , as shall pteclude , so far as human wi sdom can plunging ngthe y into ireclude, the possibility of ' ex pensive wars, or of sqtandering its wealth countr in pro. ovate or useless establishments. These facts render it on exceedingly didicult task, adroit, practicable, and scrupulously as the present men have shewn them. itism f o r them either to avert or to meet the ooger and the necessity. Besides the common evils . 6 f an unsuccessful administration of finance, they b as e to encounter the exasperation of the agricul tural doses, to demonstrate the power these have to en d ur e the pressure and the justice of doing so--they h av e to assuage the fears of the monied interest, and to maintain public credit against the shock it must " s t a in io the event of the landed property advancing their claims in force —glad lastly, they have to repair a revenue clearly inadequate to more, even at its mo t rate, than just keeping the balance equal Pr - • I ,, twe eo income and expenditure, making no pro -„ision whatever for the contingency of war. We easel imagine a situation more difficult than that of t he , fisaneier ; 1 1 so is to do all this, upon his exhau s t ed 4 reilit aillinl' t a people with whom his repeated fsilures havi left him not the smallest share of tours /lone. There is a mystery—to speak in the mildest terms b a rging over our foreign policy, which discredits siettlepsrsment of government scarcely less than the 'Ass we have enumerated discredit its finance. During the iae disturbances in Italy, it is plain ws were 'either prepared to desert nor to support those °pi llions, which Ministers feared to disavow. The hand of D eeessity was upon us, and we were content to wade the declaration of principles, which, whatever lemur or dishonour lay upon the alternative, we vet neither dared to assert nor to deny. Ministers dreaded the spirit of the country they had contributed to isupoveiish, while they leaned to a cause and a league they hesitated alike to abjure or to defend. — lons they lost credit with all parties by proving their weakness. In the mean time the Home Department, low as it had fallen by Manchester, by Oliver, and by Franklin, has yet found a lower deep through the abyss into which the events attending the Queen's fu ll seal have plunged them. But the King's visit to the sister island has raised the regard of his Irish subjects towards his person to a pitch that may well, without (disrespect, be thought extravagant in outward Isaac His Majesty is, however, represented to be, and be must be anxious to repay their deuson-strations of loyalty, and Catholic Emancipation is reported now to le bis earliest desir .1 affording the roost popular weans. To this end lie is said to meditate the forma tive cf a Cabinet who are united upon this point—and tbst so soon as be returns souse appoiutinents to this Wm. will take place. Such are the real grounds and the assumed reasons 1-e the changes which report has so long and hitherto sii.a so little reality anticipated. Our cutemporaries appear to think the new commer cial regeletions of the Portuguese fortes arbitrary anti unfair, but at the same time they make no allow auee for the Portuguese feeling sore at our heavy duties imposed upon the importation of their produce. This is not to be wondered at; and it need not he ex pected that in One of peace where every maritime country has its shipping to employ, that England can command a commercial preference such as she en j•iyed when her navy commanded the ocean. The only tiling England can do to support its shipping sad manufacturing interests, is to establish an equali sing scale of duties with other nations, and lessen the charges upon the entries of British shipping. Until that is effected, jealousy must exist, and speculation become an uncertainty. The cause of the tireelcs excites much interest at the west end of the town : it is the topic every where, and asahscriptioa is raising at the Club Houses. Letters from Patras, dated the 9th of October, have bees received. The Turkish fleet, consisting of 60 vessels, was then before that town, but no confirma tion is given of the account lately in circulation, that the plague was on board these ships, or that the crews were in want of provisions. 1 t appears that the Greek ships destroyed at Galaxidi, in the Gulf of Lvanta, consisted of very few, if any, armed ships ; and of the remainder, the crews had previously been transferred to the Greek fleet, so that that event is not to be considered so disastrous to the Greek cause as it would appear i from the unexplained statement lately given. When the Turks had effected the destruction of the Greek vessels at Galaxidi, they landed and attacked the tow's, where they put to death all the inhabitants that fell isto their power. The Turkish fleet was preparing to sail froin Patras in order to attack the Greek fleet ogHydra. Patras is represented at the above date as being in no danger of an attack from the Greeks. — There were, in fact, no troops of that nation in or sear the Place ; and the Turks were so far in possesison of the country surrounding it, that they bad succeeded in getting in a large portion of the crop of currant', on which the trade of Patras principally depends. Concern-' tag the operations by land in the Morea, these letters are entirely silent. No mention is even made of the taking of Tripoliza by the Greeks, an event which has been frequently and confidently stated in the French papers; and as the letters from Patras are from a very respectable source, they render it more than probable that it has not taken place. A Ministerial paper referring to these accounts, sates the Greek fleet destroyed to have consisted of not less than 70 sail of vessels, and that of the Turkish s ;flatiron, six were Algerine men of war. It adds that the advices above mentioned are wholly silent as to the alleged cosamencensest of hostilities between the forces of each power on the bias of the Prutb. It is said, that by a Convention, the continuance of the Austrian army of occupation in the kingdom of Naples is limited to ten years. Cum.—The Governor of Chili has transported most of his state prisoners, and some criminals, to the Island of Jun Fernandes, where they intend planting a co. Joey. A few troupe and a Governor, and souse of the women of the town, comprise the whole population. K• Oro 0J; THE STATE4I44I4I COURT Or COMMON COUNClL.—igaza Dar.) A Court Was held this day for the purpose of con sidering the propriety of presenting an Address of Congratulation to his Majesty, upon his safe arrival in these realms after his Majesty's visit to the continent. The LORD MAYOR addressed the Court upon his first presiding over it, and read the requisition. Mr. OLDHAM moved a resolution fur the appoint ment of a Committee, to draw up an Address to his 31asjcstv. ilr.i.ix-Sheriff WI Lttams seconded the motion. Mr. FA veci, and Mr. Davies expressed their con currence in the object of the resolution. Mr. PATTEN th.illgilt the Court would best consult its character and dignity, by first presenting to his ~lajesty an Address of Condolence, upon the demise of the late Qtieen.—(Disapprobation in the Court.) The resolution was put and carried unanimously, and the Committee then being appointed, retired to prepare the address. -- (The Court left sitting.) Among the several other subjects to be brought before the Court are the following :—To receive Reports from the Committee for General Purposes, in relation to the Furniture, &c. at the Mansion-house, and in relation to the Cuert of Requests—To receive Reports from the Committee of City Lands, on the reference re. specting the offer of sale of the Freehold Property by the College of Physicians; on the reference respecting the Rate as ses,ed on Serjeants' Inn—To consider the Ad journedßeport of the Committee of City Lands, in relation to the Clerks of the Coal- meters in trust--To consider the Adjourned Report, in relation to the disposal of the va cant situation in the Lord Mayor's Household—To con sider a motion, that the election of Deputy Sea-coal meter be in future in the Court of Common Council, in stead of the Committee of Controul over the Coal and Corn-meters —•1'o consider the propriety of rescinding so much of the Resolution of the Court of Common Council of the• 12th of April last, which directs the sum of 1,500/. to be deducted from the allowance to all Nisei. Lord Mayors, in consequence of the abolition of the Sword Bearer's Table. TM? KING'S COURT. 1111L7 NEWSMAN.] Yesterday, at three ,o'clock, his Majesty held a bonrt at his Palace in Pall-Mall, which was atten:ed by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the first Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secre taries of State fur the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the first Lord of the Admiralty, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the President of the Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's blench, the late Gover nor of Saint Helena, the late Cowmander•in-Chief of Madras, the Russian Charsre d'Affaires, the Master of the Ceremonies, &c. Sir Milton Lowe was presented to his Majesty upon his return from the Government of St. Helena. Sir 'Thomas Hislop, Commander-in-Chief at Ma dras, was presented upon his return to England. Baron Nicolay, the Russian Charge d'Aff tires, was introduced to his Majesty by the Marquess of London derry, as principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, as Master of the Ceremonies, when the Baron had the honour of an audience with his Majesty, to take leave previous to his leaving England. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which the meeting of Parliament was further prorogued fr.on the 29th instant, to, we understood, the Id day of January next, 1822. A Proclamation was agreed up on to be issued for the circulation of a mew coinage of farthings. Several new Official Seals were agreed upon. His Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of lisrrow by, the Marquess of Londonderry, the Earl of Liver pool, the Earl of Cathcart, and the Lord Chancellor. The Recorder of London eras present, but did not make a Report.—The Court broke up soon after six o'clock. This day his Majesty will hold :motile.. Council at Carlton Palace. The Cabinet Ministers are all sum moned to attend at two o'clock. Yesterday the Count Munster dined with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Lord Owydir arrived in town from France on Tues day. The Right Hon. George Canning arrived in town on Wednesday from a visit to the Doke of Portland, at his seat, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. - Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a C a binet dinner at his house in Downing-street, at which were present the Marquess of Londonderry, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Bathurst, the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Sidmouth, Viscount Melville. Lord Maryborough, Earl Harrowby, and the Hon. F. Robinson. Lt tiers have been received from Leghorn, Genoa, and Naples. They state that the public authorities of each of those places had adopted additional preautions to pre vent the introduction of the fever so previlesit ih'Spaitt the co mmunication, therefore, between Italy and that country may be considered as completely cut off, at least for some time longer. The trade with Turkey had somewhat increased, under the supposition that Russia would not go to war with the Porte ; but at Naples, on the 20th ult. reports had been received from the Nlorea, that the Russian force on the banks of the Pruth had been considerably augmented. The Morning paper from which we copied the account of his Majesty's reception in Belgium, appears anxious to correct the impression produced by it on the public mind. It now states from authority, that the apparent . neglect with which his M a j est y was treated, on his. return through the Netherlands, originated solely in' his own express desire to dispense with the honours due to his exalted station, wishing to travel as aprivate individual; and adds that the King of the Nether lauds and his son, the Crown Prince, were most anxious that his Majesty should be attended with all the at tributes of regal pomp; and that though they might not have been able to influence the feelings of a disaffected population, England ought, in justice to give them credit for their own. Upon the arrival of his Excellency the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, at the Donegal Arms, Belfast, on Thursday, Mr. Verner waited upon him, to express the anxiety the principal inhabitants had of entertaining his Excellency at dinner. His Excellency declined accepting of the kind invitation ; but expressed his d e tertnination to accept of it daring the summer.-- We understand the Sovereign had previously invited his Excellency to his house, which he could not ac cept, from the limited time he could be absent from Dublin. It is rather a novel circumstance, that a promised diminution of taxes, in a Speech from the Throne, should excite alarm—unless among the Court pen sioners. Yet so it is io France. The King's expressed intention to reduce the land tax, has excited the fears I of many within and without the Chamber. The ex- 1 planation of this enigma is, that the qualification for exercising the elective franchise, and being returned to serve as Deputy, depends upon the individuals be- 1 ing assessed up to a specified attionnt, and the French, it appears have public spirit enough to prefer the exer cise of political privileges to a reduction of their con tributions. On stating some time ago the two memorable mili tary exhibitions that had taken place near the Adam and Eve, Tottenbans-court road, we !referred to the con versation that occurred on Hogarth's dedication of his print of one of them (the " March to Finchley") to George 11. The following is said by Ireland, in his Hogarth illustrated, to have been the dialogue which ensued on this occasion, between the Sovereign and the Nobleman in Waiting: — Pray, who is this Hogarth ? A painter, my Liege. I hate baiesting and boelry too ; neither the one nor the other ever did any good! The picture, please your Majesty, must undonbteki be considered as a burlesque. What ! a Mister burlesque a soldier ? He deserves to be picketed for his insolence ! Take his trunspery oat of as, eight. The Patriot of last Saturday night erroneously mea dows, that 4' Lord Viscount Tyrawley was yesterday elected a Representative Peer of Ireland, in the room of the Earl of Roden, now a Peer of °rest Britain." The Earl of Wicklow was the Nobleman who was chests. --(Dablia Moralis e r Port) AI l STING TO COSINICIOPATE THE GLORIOUS TRIUMPR OP PUBLIC OPINION, IN TOE ESCAPE OP MIER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN CAROLINE FROM TOR BILL OF PAINS AND PE• NAMES. On Monday evening a numerous and respectable party of trade m n, inhabitants of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, sat down to a most excellent supper that was provided at the Rams-bead-inn, in the Borotsgli-niallc.t ; Wm. Denbigh, Esq. senior warden, in the Chair. A ftf.r the cloth was removed the Chair man rose to express the satisfaction he felt at being called to preside at so respectable a meeting, and par ticularly on such an orcasion as that for which they were then asse:chle.i. The worthy Chairman proceeded to state that from what he saw of the enthusiasm of the people at the tune of her Majesty's unmerited persteatiou, that be bad no doubt that there were at that trionient many Meetings being held similar to the one at which he bad the honour of presiding. lie kit c(.nscious that the memory of our late much in jured Queen Caroline, was dear to every Englishman, and that Z 3 1:414 as he lived he hoped he should never allow the Anniversary of the Triumph of Public Opinion, as expressed in the case of our late Queen Caroline, to pass unnoticed. The Worthy Chairman concluded by giving " The tilorio - us, Blessed, and Pious Memory of Queen Caroline," which was drank in solemn silence, the Com pany standing up, and remaining so for some seconds after. In the course of the evening several Gentlemen ad dressed the. Meeting, and many excellent remarks were made in allusion to the cause on which they met. The following toasts were drank : " The Royal Family" 44 The Queen's Counsel." 4. The Peers that voted against the Bill of Pains and Penalties." " A speedy and effectual Reform in Parliament." " Lords Grey and Erskine." The bealths of Sir RonzaT W usost and Mr. Lsms voN, were also drank with the greatest applause; and the Editors of the public journals that supported the public cause, were also noticed with similar ac knowledgments. The meeting may be truly said to have been " the feast of reason and the flow of soul," and the harmony of the evening was encreased by some patriotic songs, sung in very excellent style by some of the Gentlemen present. After appointing Stewards for the next year, the Company departed. highly gra tified the manlier in which the evening had been spent, and in having performed a duty to the memory of her, who as long as history performs its task, will be considered as one deeply injured by those who had sworn to protect her—and protected by those who were honest enough to support virtue in distress. The fine peal of bells at Saviour's rang during the I evening, and upon enquiry it was found that the Warden who prevented the bells being rung on the Queen's Birth-day, by taking the ropes off and locking the belfry door, against the wishes of the other parish officer, is now out of office, and is succeeded by a man of a much wore liberal and enlightened mind. The following is an extract of a private letter re ; seived this morning (yesterday) :—Cowrier. VIENNA, Nov. I.—The report so confidently and so rapidly circulated here within the last week, that war had actually been declared between Russia and Turkey, does not now meet with a single prison to give it the slightest credit. In what it originated we do not know. and it would be vain to inquire. Rumours are now afloat of some misunderstanding between the Cabinets of Lon don and St. Petersburgh, regarding the Greeks, in which misunderstanding our Court is concerned. The Eng lish papers appear to give countenance to this notion, which has induced many persons to place upon it more reliance than perhaps it deserves. The intercourse be tween this place and St. Petersburgh is frequent. The Philadelphia Union remarks, that in ten counties of Pennsylvania, one hundred and ninety es tates are advertised for sale by the Sheriff. Ye who grumble if your cook spoils your Sunday dinner, par. don those men if they complain a little on losing their all." [Note. -- This intelligence may in some respect be consolatory to our English landlords.] Anacreon Moore came over for the 'sprees purpose of settling his affairs. He has liquidated the claim of 70001. made upon him in oon s eq uence of his Ascot at the Bermudas becoming a defaulter. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—{FeIs iL•i JUDGMENTS. At the Sitting of the Court, the S.*T.I n•rna-Huti El Ai. moved the judgniettt of the Court against :frau Col limp, convicted at the last Assizes, for the County of Sussex, before Mr. Justice Hntwongh, of av assault on Mr. D. Sparshot, Lieutenant of the Severn, employed on the Preventive service, between E isthinirne and Hastings, the assault teal: place on the .2ntl July, by which Mr. Sparshot received consi.lerahle injury ; the Defendant put in affidavits and certificates testifying to his good conduct for sixteen years. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the Court in aggravation of punishment. It appeared by the state ment of the Learned Counsel, that the defendant had formerly filled the satna situation on board the Severn," as that in which Mr. Sparshot wu si tuated, and that his dismissal fro:n such service wait the supposed cause of the assault, which was accoMpanied by great violence. The Solicitor-General pressed it before the Court as a case that required exemplary pu , iishment. Mr. Justice BAILEY delivered the sentence of the Court, which was, that the defendant should be intim- • soned three months, and give security fur good be haviour fur five years. SEDITIOUS Li DEL. George Deere stood on the thor to receive judgment for publishing a libel in The Republie.vi of the 21 of. October, It+2o. Mr. Cooper, in addressing the Court on behalf of the defendant, stated that the :4.- davits he intended to present hail not been swurr before a Commissioner of the Court, and obtained a ft -, days to get this done. The deiendant was theref ,, i • ordered to be in attendance to receive judgment on a uture day. THE KING V. A. CAROLE. This defendant was convicted at the sittings after Trinity Term, before Mr. Justice HINT, of having fished a libel in one of the copies of " Paige's Age of Beams." The Prosecution was instituted by the S.'- ciety for the Suppression of Vice, and Mr. GettNLY ties day moved for judgment. Mr. COOPIIII, on behalf of the defendant, briefly addressed the Court. Ile bespoke the humanity of the' Court in her behalf, on accoint of being a female. Dahl having acted under the influence of her brother, whir was now suffering the sentence of the !;curt. The Learned Gentleman alto stated she had no other me:trs of subsistence than being in the employ of her lirotlwr. Mr. Justice BAILEY delivered the Judgment of it-- Court, which was, that the defendant pay a tine of 5001. and that she be imprisoned one year in Dorches ter Gaol, and give security for good beis.tx iti , tr r three years, herself in 1,0001. and two sureties in sAti. each. DREADFUL ACCIDENT IS DUBLIN. (FROM THE DEHLIN MORNINU POST OF 'FLIES DAY L. 1 4 1 ../ An accident, attended with melancholy, and, v.e fear, fatal results, occurred yesterday, abont t\. Ilpck, at the Gas Station , a t the North-Nall, on.. ned by the fall of the scaffolding, which had b,•e:l erected over the retort-house, for the purpose ut taching a roof thereto. There were about twenty workmen. mostly carpenters, on the scaffolding at the time it fell. Fourteen have been injured by the acci dent; some very dreadfully. The sufferers were intnie.li• ately conveyed to Jerrie-onset Hospital. where thvy received all the assistance that humanity and could bestow. We have beard that the accident was occasioned by the incautious removal of a piece oF timber, which served as an upright to the scalfohlitm. whereby the tiebeam was broken. I:saver:4lrd av counts of the accident were current in too n ye , n r sday evening, one of which was, that time chimney of the Gas Station bad fallen ; no injury what ever has been sustained by the premises. We un derstand that it is an established rule with Messrs. Henry, Mullins, and M'Mahon, (whose workmen were hurt by the accident,) that all men in their employ ment, who are absent from their work either tilt oug lt ill health, or from having received injnry through accident, are continued on full wages, until sudm time as they are enabled to return to their employment. The following is a list of the sufferers:—Edward Leavy, carpenter ; Thomas Brephy,do.—his leg broken ; Thomas Lewis, do. ; George Waters, do.—severely in jured; Dennis Lawler, do.—severely; John *Shane, do.; Charles Yellen, do.; Nicholas Berry, do. ; tVtl- Ryan. do. ; Doorley, do. ; -- Connor, do. ; James Smyth. labourer ; Michael M'Donough, do.; Murray, do. Polder' I atrawoetsce.—A few days ago, a boy named Henry Solomons, alias Bright, a Jew, apprentice to Mr. Hyman, an eminent Jewish merchant, dealer in jewel lery, watches, &c., at Bangor, Carnarvon, eloped from his master, and carried with him property to a consider able amount. On Friday last, Mr. Hytnan arrived in Dublin, and proceeded to the Head Police-office, where he gave information of the robbery, and a description of his apprentice ; upon which. Mr. Farrell, the Chief Peace-officer, dispatched Peace-officer Ireland, who, n a few hours after, succeeded in apprehending a bey in Parliament-street, and brought him to the office, where he was identified by his master. Ireland then proceed ed to his lodging, and there found several article., which were subsequently identitied by Mr. Hyman to be his property. On Saturday evening the above officer brought the prisoner to Howth. and put him on board a steam-packet, in which Mr. Hyman being made special in the warrant, was in attendance to receive him, for the purpose of conveying him to Carnarvon gaol for trial. The Paris papers state, that Prince Laboncw is building at Moscow, a palace of east-iron, which will be ornamented with forty-two columns of Mos: al di mensions. Q4lallaC, OCT. 11.—The arrivals from sea at this port have been unusually few daring the la: t t. r nig E. Yesterday morning a slight powdering of ewe's, .Ele first this season, was observed on the tope of the most distant mountains visible to the nurthw .rd of this city. It disappeared, however, in the course of tae day. The first frost, sufficient to form ice on the standing pools of water along the roads, happened on Tttestldy tight. Hopes are entertained that the rainy •tso , has prevailed since the 29:h August, is row terminated. We have of late noticed the ini?ropriety of over loading luggage vans to an alarming height, ,Thereby they become top-heavy, and are easily upset. On Tues day asorning.Mr. Daniel Deacon' , van, while passing through Finsbury-square, heavi;y laden, on its way to the White Horse Cripplegate, w,,s upset, dad the guard and driver both thrown into the strati. ~. , I 1 t I - \k ' • 1 " :6 30 **: , a .4 4 itt :1