The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-20 00:00:00

MODERN ROME. -.161-- Amidst all the beauty, majesty, and fertitty of nature, 'he Patrimonium Petri . is perhaps Ike most uncultivated tout:try is the world ; in rpite at every favourable cir g utustasce, and a deligistfni climate, no people are so wretched as tbd modern Romans, and no soldiers so no soldirrlike as the Papal troops. They live only to co -1 mirage indolence, to promote beggary, and to check public presperity and priaasmiteppesoso. Notwithstanding the enormons wealth of all the Pope's relations, Hie utmost misery prevails among the eossosoepoople, sod but few of these children of for use condescend to share their affluence with the needy, as Christ and St. Peter taught. Bet the cloisters practice the precepts of a humane religion, and are the protec tors of the poor clients of modern Rome. he ancient superstitions are resolved into the mo dern. Triumphal pageants are changed to proces sions, and the temples of the heathen gods and heroes are transformed Into churches sacred to religions heroes, apostles, and martyrs. The pomp and ceremony of the atholic Church are almost necessary to the people of the south, who only feel through the medium of their eves, and who are sever devout but when surrounded by glare and asagniticenee. Add to this, the perfection which music has attained in modern Italy ; for if music has the power of taming wild beasts, it may sorely tame o rage sof the bologna species. To an uncivilised and sicious people,' such as the modern Italians in general appear to be, superstition is a kind of bridle to check eery and revenge. The ecclesiastical pomp also, and Ole modest eogaging Madonna, that Mother of Love •, that usodiatrix with the Deity, softens the rude clam racier of the people, and restrains them from gross in dolgenees. The spirit of military idleness, which the laws of Ro mulus rendered mitered, is still maintained in its fullest extent, though ander another form, and the diversion of the people continue to be necessities for which the State must provide.—Aped and Sports is stilt the watchword of the Romans, from the game called Moro, and the exercise of quoits and foot-ball (which were fa vourite diversions among the ancient Romans) to horse racing, and wading through inundated Pizza Navona in the dog days; from the festivities of the vintage to the Satnrnalian Carnival ; from the lire-works of the Castle of St. Angelo to the illuminated Cupola of St. Peter's, ail is pleasure and amusement. The Opera is the favoarite recreation of the well edu cated elan of the Italians, and particularly the Romans. A beautiful air well sung will draw tears from their eyes, whilst with a languishing voice they draw est the ex clainatioo ttotio-bello! and actors, poets, and composers, receive is the theatre, the approbation their talents de serve. Rat this excessive enthusiasm is most remark aide in the fair sex. Among the women of the middling class the spirit of the ancient Roman females is easily recogsisesl: they pride themselves on the place of their , birth, and their 1. Sono Romano can never be often enough repeated. The clearness of their complexions presents a striking contrast to the yellow colour of the `Neapolitan women, whilst they possess, at the same time, the beautiful features of Raphael's Madonnas.—; The Roman ladies in the higher ranks of life will faint away at the smell of perfumes, and yet the custom of wearing paint is velyiwevalent among them. (Aria heistit seems to be gradually getting into diem. The Rummies delight in ronmeratzioni, and in the coffee-; houses the public journals are read with the utmost eagerness. it is unnamable that Rome, whether in ancient or modern times, basprosinced but few great men. With the exception of Tihnifus, none of the distinguished ports of antiquity sieve natives of Rome; and the de cline of Roman literature encased the Spanish Hes perides, Martial, Lucian, and Quintillan. Modern Rome has nut produced a single musician of celebrity. Julio Roinaso Red Carlo Martini are the only distin insished Oho bare been natives of modern Rome, and Vaseitelli and Domini the only eminent ar chitects. Yet bletastasi, was a citizen of modern Rome, an well as Crescinebeni ; the latter founded the -leotlessie slegG Arrodfi, which has existed about 100 years, be t he cannot be placed io the highest rank I among poets. He Roesi, the present Professor of Oriental lanp;nages. and Monti, Lave both written Latin and Italian and may be ranked mom the-most distingnisreederi terary men of modem Some. The prelate Stay writes Latin didactic poems on the Systems of Newton and flemovich. Monsignor Garraspi was a learned anti 'teary, and Cardinal &lads wrote the Abolition Decree of the order of the Jesuits. The wurthy Confine' Bor gia. formerly Secretary to the College of the Props irytuda, has written a history of Benevento, in three vo lumes. Who is not familiar with the name of Visconti. the author of the celebrated work entitled Mascaras arittenthatto, and various other learned treatises on an tiquity. The advocate Feu. the translator of Winkle mai, and editor of Statists ' may be classed among the mew justly celebrated amen of modern Rome. • "Slain of down — is Ihs shores of ono of the aationsl s,ags. PERTH 'TRAVERS. The sobjeined Fetter has been addressed to his Brace the Duke of Athol, by the operative weavers belonging to Perth, now employed in trenching and improving waste lands:— re HIS GRACE TOP DUKE OP ATHOL, LORD-LIECITNAPIT MAT IT muss TOWN UItACIL—We, the undersigned operative wearers, beemighig In the sky of Perth, now employed la blurb lag sad isipsseisg issias lads, beg leave to approach "ear Ornt*witb seetiments of the profoundest grating& and Mr. for the purpose of expressing our sincere aeltneneinigements to pour Once, and to the other Holdalls all Ountisses of this .nasty, Aso, at a Liam when We ate szpossii to the most severe and onexampleg privatims have se generously • nem, forward to alleviate ear saffelogs and contribute to our relief. While we cannot bat deeply lamest the peseta depressed state of trade, sod the long train of domestic hardships it has occasioned in our condition, it is to us a source of much consolation that onr distresses have excited the compassion of the more opulent classes in the community, and that, though they have by no means been entirely moored by their humane exertions, they have at least bees so far mitigated, as to be res dered ICU primping and insupportable. Persuaded that murmuring sod discontent, accom panied by riotous and disorderly proceedings, could only aggravate the evils we skislore, we have all along en • siesioured to bear oar misfortunes with submissive ps tienee that heroin. us as men and as Christians, abstain ing from all political discussions, and resting is the hope that the Government of our country would devise each meeseiree, as is Its wisdom might seem but calcu lated to revive the national industry, owe up new chan nels of commeree, and raisers to a adierieg people those liesemp which are the fruits of honest labour sad re. 1 gular employment. Above all, we consider it to be our duty. on the present o& mire, to express our after ab horrence at the tiessudosdes 40 prophase and bhp rho nines publications. the elan leslesey and design of which is to slime the hdhiesee of ear Holy Religion, ' sad by wesbez%theab weibi tsl atlas of morality, to dissolve these mitred which, human society could ssither asks see be as object if desire. .....1.. V THE STATESMAN. IVe conclude. may it please your Grace. by exivessing our unfeigned gratitude fur your goodness, request's,. at the same tittle, that year Grace would be pleased to convey to the other Noblemen and Gentlemen of this county, who have contributed to our relief, our sincere sod beartf..lt thanks for their generosity and attention. indeed, we find it impossible to express, in adequate lan guage, our feelings, but we trust your tirace wall not he the - less disposed to believe, that while we bare the sense to appreciate the value of all that your Grace and the other Noblemen and Gentlemen of the county have dune fur us, s e have hearts that will remember, and principles that *ill not suffer us to abuse your Grace's confidence. Anil we farther beg leave to assure your Grace, that trbatever way hr the issue of rzisting circumstances, bottling shall ever etfare (rout our recollection the grate ful remembrance of pine kindness, and of the paternal concern u Lich yintr Grace has at all times manifested for oar suffering We bate the honour to he, may it pleats, your Grace, your Grace's very obrolient, and greatly obliged ser vants. (Signed) (lemma PINNY, Preset'. ALEx. nottratuoN, Secretary. Comatt•rraa. DAVID TAYLOR, I JOHN MITCHELL, JOHN JI.tNSAY. Jolts WHTTOCIL. Thru follow the other sigoatures,autoatitiog to about a re* narrow escape. Just whew be had reached the top el the holder, it gave way, bid as he It as descending heAdlont, his son, who was at an open skylight, caught his foot, sad held him till some workmen, alarmed by his cries, came to his relief, and palled him in at the skylight "Wow. .1 few days since the body of a young woman, appa rently shoat eighteen years of age, was thrown ashore by the tide at Helensburgh. She was dressed as a ser vant. No marks of violence of any kind appeared on her body. with the exception of a cut immediately nr der the chin, which, it is supposed, had been inflicted by some floating piece of ice. She was not pregnant; no one knew her, aid the cause of this melancholy event reclaims enexplained. EDINBCRGII, J. 17. This day the High Court of Justiciary met to proceed to the trial of Andrew Marshall, now or lately residing in Rotten-row, I ilasgow, and Margaret Wright, his wife, arcuscd of sedition and blasphemy, by circulating and distributing certain publisations of a seditious and blas phemous nature, tending to produce in the minds of the people a spirit of insubordination and insurrection against the established Hovernment, and also tending to the malicious denial of the authority of the Holy Scrip tures, and the truth of the Christian Religion. Neither of the defendants appearing, sentence of out lawry was pronounced against them, and their bail bonds declared forfeited. The LORD ADVOCATK shortly stated his reasons for bringing these people to trial. They were very eaten sire circulators of the criminal publications of kichawl Carlile, now under sentence of imprisonnwut in Eng land; and in • short time they had sold no less than 16,930 copies of these publications. at so cheap a rate as not to anionnt altogether to the sum of 1401. Last night our streets presented all the appearance of a Russian storm. The wind blew with violence from the north, accompanied by heavy showers of snow, which drifted at the corners of the streets to the depth of one or two feet. The snow fell so thick, and. from the keen ness of the frost, was dry that it resembled a cloud of dust driven by the grind. 'Early this morning the sky again cleared, and the frost is as intense as it has been any day this winter. On Swordst night. the errors borentis were very hril- Hunt in the north, and formed a beautiful luminous arch, which continued for a considerable time. The Magistrates and principal inhabitants of Leith have, in a very handsome manner, proposed to cuntri bete a sum of money to defray the expence of the per manent serjrants and baglemen belonging to the com panies of riflemen now raist tog in that place, Government granting no allowances whatever to voluuteer corps, except thole of arms and accoutreMents. THEATlM—Saturday night the new comedy of the Steward was performed here for the first time, and very favourably rerrived by a genteel audience. It is inte resting throughont, and sonic of the scenes are in a high degree pathetic. The characters were exceedingly well cast, and the performers acquitted themselves with much ability. General Dl:vantxx.—The Dublin Journal says— '. We understand that this Gentleman was arrested, on Tuesday lase, in Londcn, by one of the officers of the Irish legion. lately returned from Margaretta, fur the repayment of his commission and expenses. Asti), state of the weather may be supposed to press hard on some part of the poor, and thus, perhaps, io date some individuals to resort to, or to make it a pre text for begging, we think it right to state to the pub lie, that a Committee of the Directors of the Society for the Supprrasion of Begging, continue to meet regularly three tomes a week in the Old Church, where, we under stand, the ease of every applicant is at Oar! recordhl, and if found, on inquiry, to deserve the relief of the So ciety, that is immediately afforded. Thus, therefore, there rrtnains no excuse for begging; a nd if it does exist, it results from the humane giving alms, without knowing that the object is worthy of their countensace, thereby making it a trade well worth the following out. Arrsurr al Ftite Raistxu.—Early on the morning of Friday week, some incendiaries attempted to set fire to the storehouse at the Shutt& Iron-works, by breaking a pane of glass, and throwing a burning peat into one of doe apartments ; fortunately the room was occupied at the time by the clerk the baker, upon whose bed it alighted, and who succeeded in extinguishing tbs., kisses before any thing was consumed, excepting Soule loose straw. We understand a handsome reward has been offered in the neighbourhood of the Works for the discovery of those who made this wicked at- tempt. The church and manse of the neighbouring parish of Cockpen having fallen greatly into decay, the heritors, with a becoming spirit ar.d literality, tartly resolved lb rebuild both in a more central situation, and on a plan. also, which would unite the beauties of modern archi tecture with all the advantages suggested by our modern notions of convenience. The foundation-stone of the church was laid about four years ago, and the edifice is now so nearly completed, that it way be expected to be opened for public worship early in the spring. It is placed on an eminence, and is distinctly seen, u it well deserves to be, from the neighbouring country, for many wiles on all sides. The design of this church is Gotiiie, and is one of the last productions of the late Mr. Rici a:d Crichton, of Edinburgh, a gentleman no less distinguished fur time chasteness of his taste than for the intimate acquaintance which he displayed with the practical parts of architecture. The es te em. tion was entrusted to his friend, Mr. Dickson, of Edin burgh, under the superiutendence of Mr. Elliot, the architect. This church, it is calculated, will accommo date 800 persons, all of whom, from the excellent ar rangements which are made, will have, when waled, a full view of the pulpit. The tower is greatly admired for its elegance and lightness. It terminates in four octagon towers, each 13 feet high, with a beautiful rail ing of about seven fret high betwixt them. The height of the lower is 153 feet. The church itself is in the Ann of • Greek cross. The design of the whole is striking, and clearly indicates the improvement which hoe been made of late years in the principles of taste. and in mar notions of utility. Some recent casualties of shipwrreks, in the lame. diate vicinity of Banff and Macdull, hating led to • ?lan for establishing a life-heat there, to which the 4...05w. mine, at I,lliyil's have made a liberal offer of aid. th, Earl of Fife has generously slept forward in support of an object so laudable awl necessary, with a subscription of twenty guineas. N.sanow Racsea.—Some days age. rasa ,encoding to clean the vests of a two story imam is Balsam* bad Clic ibtatrOntatt. (Tisis "BRITISH STATRSMAN" is IN CIPAPOLITZD M/!1 " TAR STATIMIIAN.") PRIVATE CORRRSPONDENCR. --4.-- Pasta, Jan. 15.—As I anticipated, the 'a Memoires of Napoleon," of which I gave you some account in my last, have been seised by order of the Minister, whose emissaries went to Barrois, the publisher, a few days ago, and took away all the copies they could find. Is not this monstrous privilege of taking a man's pro perty, by the simple order of a public functionarv, we ticient to prove that much still remains to render Prance what it might to be, and that we can but ill afford to lose the charter? Although the book did not require this measure to make it popular, the sale has been sus pended, nor do we know when the fiat of M. de Cases will be withdrawn ; in the mean time, nothing can eireeod sect its announcement has produced, wiiile very general indignation has been excited amongst peruses ante first rank of both sexes at its suppression. Having given you the opinion contained in the Consti &ileacl of these Memoires the following extract from another popular paper, theienommee, only tends to con firm the interest created by their appearance : `• The second manuscript from St. Helena, or Me moires of the year 1815, are just seised. It is difietlt to explain the motives that could have given rise to this proceeding; for the work in question contains nothing that is calculated to alarm the authorities. Those passages (some official documents in the Appendix) which might sound badly to certain ears, appears to have been literally extracted from a pamphlet that issued some time ago, from the loyal and monarchial press of M. Le Norma?, the publication of which did not awaken the see' or apprehension of Ministers. As to the other parts, they consist principally of military details of the events connected with the battle of Waterloo ; and, his Urace the Duke of Wellington excepted, we do not think any other person has the least reason to complain. It is well known with what gexemeity the friends of his Lordship caused a French tieneral to expiate the crime of having established the above facts with sonic degree of exactnesuon a former occasion, and for having done Punic. to the Allies of England on that sanguinary day. It is to be bopod_, that the influence which enabled the agents of year Police Department to drag the unfortu nate tissergsed oat of the boasted land of freedom, may mot have, as yet, reached this side of the Channel. The eighth and last chapter of Napoleon's work, is by far the most interesting to Europe. I have only time to transcribe the concluding observations, wherria the writer follows up an exposition of the almost incredible military errors committed on the field of Waterloo, by these interrogatories.—. How would the people of Lon ,doe have looked, when they heard of the catastrophe which might have attended their army, and what would have been their reflections on having shed the best blepd of Bee Patios, to support the cause of Kings against theist their people—privileges against equality, pligarchion against freesia., and the principles of the Holy Allison against the sovereignty of public opi nion?'" MAI ua. I Malin 0 i I Waterford 0 (heresy aad Jersey I Ootteaburgb 0 Haatbartra PRICE OF STOCKS Tllll4 Beak Stock 9901 991 3 per Cent. Red. 05111 S ....Went. Cons. 67}1 48 w Cont. 7711 4 re , Cents. OM 6 per 'wit. Navy 10110 Long Ann. IT 16411 IS lisp. 3 per Cent. Ann. ILS. All. DOR. I Holland 0 O Flanders O France ..... I Lisbon . ... O Malta IliY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ladle Stock 906 Dittoßonds 10s. Hs. pa. Old Annuities Es. Bills. Id. Is. It pes. Ditto Cola. 10s. 9s. dis. °minim i I dist. Con. fee Ae. Mg 08k Lott. 'rickets EU 111. TO CORRESPONDENTS. tour Correspoistind mod tender Weir. doer Oeuvre et/ Itorliester for his Ittoel •f aueistanee. leery line qf las letter merits attentive, and &all rewire It. LONDON: TRURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1820. We have received Jamaica papers this morning to the 9th Nov., from which the following are ex tracts:— CIROM THE JAMAICA COURANT.] Of • letter front Carthagena.—" Excepting knit Seats Martha. all t►e other provinces to oripf Moaapez are already In the power of dm Bolivbr. He bas from 10 to 12,000 men, whom be has into three columns t the first directed to protect Yuman, the second Choco, and the third against Santa Martha, which last place is expected soon to fall into the heads of the Independents, u the garrison consists of only a few troops. " Three friars and two Spanish soldiers have arrived here, with passports, from Bolivar, dated at Santa Fe. The fuser also brought proposals to the Viceroy for an exchange of prisoners, Bolivar having upwards of lOU. amongst whom are Colonels Ximenes and Barrier°. •• Martial law haying been proclaimed here. every in habitant Is compelled to bear art's; great contribatioas are required, bat obtained only by threats and force. Foreigners, in particular, are obliged to pay fifty dollars weekly. . Ilimmeral Calsada. and about 400 men, have bees mhea grimmer, at iPopUlraa. the whole provisos baying rises lb `veer of the ladepolidents." Coalman. Ocv. B.—By learn received from Panama. we an ialsnood that as lasurgeat ship privateer was is sight of that port, which bad takes possession of the small island of Tobago, sad buret dews the banes; but it is expend that the people mum mimesis themselves ' long spot it, hi coossiesace of the ansoyance they re ceive from the inhabitants. who kill daily six or seen of thopleates. They 'sly get possession of the see-port ' h. Mut the village, a, the inhabitants anti about forty trio'_ tar troops have retired into the interior. By accounts from Luba, we learn, that the Insurgent brig Liburtador, Captain Chitty, had been at Marv;_ cello, and sent in to demand a ransom of Pul,Ufill otherwise be would set fire to the place. This extort:on lot being complied with, he commenced a bomhar t li neht on the town ; bet theCcnnnyandant being welt prepared, gave him a warm recrption from a battery. Thirty men were then landed from the brig to attack the town taa the rear, hut in this attempt they also failed, awl were compelled to ►etreat to the boats, with the loss of some killed and wont/Jed. llt produces a mingled sensation of pleasure and pain to observe a subscription for affording tem porary relief to the destitute, and nightly shelter to the heuseless, during the present inclement season, rise in • few days to the great sum of nearly ten thousand pounds ! Tite first idea ex cited by this prompt, this liberal charity, mast of course be highly pleasurable, as it shews that the British public poasesses that virtue which not only " corers a multitude of sins," bet also distinguishes and exalts the nation in the eyes of foreigners from all quarters of the globe. But then a painful reflection arises in the be nevolent mind, which surveys thiogs at a dis tance, and looks beyond the present moment. As far as the remedy goes, it is a blessed cordial; it heals or soothe all to whom it is applied. But, then, how far can its happy effect be extended, and to what length of time can it be continued These observations are, however, not intended to dimi nish, in the smallest degree, that energy arming from sympathy, with distress, which has so moved the liberal hand of the affluent, or of those in easy circumstances ; Heaven forbid ! They are thrown out in time, in the hope of preventing, if possible, the sad recurrence of the evil to which the com passionate part of the community are so readily called up to relieve. The present liberal provision, designated for the uses of the class of our fellow creatures, pointed out by the advertisements, was calculated upon only to remove temporary suffering. It was not the less wise and benevolent because it could not be considered a perpetual cure, or preventive of early recurrence of the disorder. The wise physician first prescribes to the symptoms of an acute disorder, and•atter assuaging their violence, he trusts to nature, or the excellence of a constitution, for the future restoration of the patient to perfect health. We are led—nay, we are impelled to these refiectlon, from 'seeing these frequent calls upon iodividest bounty and generosity : all that imuld in reams be expected, or be wished for, in This way, has been done: as Oronooko is made to say, " What friendly care can do, you have applied." Now, must we add what follows in the same sentence! " Rut oh, there is a grief admits no sure." That there is a great grief behind, none can deny, for the pristine cause of all remains ; bet we maintain that it admits of a cure. That cure, however, must be administered by the fostering hand of Government. The cause of all this is a sore subject. It is not a latent cause: it is pretty well known; but it is a tender part for the public press to touch ; and any other portion of the press taking it tip, will have but little effect. The newspapers now are become almost the sole organs of praise or censure of the measures of Government. Ministers, therefore, by their secret service-money (an assassin-like pro vision or armoury in all the Governments which employ it), take care to keep some sturdy fellows to fill the pipes of those instruments with wind ; by which, the well-practiced On;..rers of the performers know well the tones which please the most. Thus, then, the Journals that arc actually tinder the dic tation of Ministers never give occasion for their reflecting readers (if their readers have any reflec tion) to suppose these scenes of woe are more than natural, and incident to our social condition. The other part of the diurnal press, looking up, as it does to the aristocracy, for support, by the circnlatioa of their papers; and knowing that this class of readers is linked by interest, or by corneae, Ihn4"'" governmental car, by whatever heads or hands It may be guided, or through whatever miry roads it may be driven, " go about it, and about it," with out having courage to enter into the slightest coo tact with the lamentable cause, much less le meet it fully, " and by opposing end it." This is men is The Time* of this day ; a paper which, altheogh it bas sometimes exhibited a transitory gleam of re turning reason, " a symptom of a symptom," of public virtue, is nevertheless more hurthtl to the oause than The Courier, Peet, Ban, sad all the smaller satellites of the baneful planet which rules the destiny of these kingdoms altogether. It was the groat trumpeter which, with ikighttilly distended cheeks, blew the charge of war, year after year, at the instance of the Win.t.sautv family, till the Exchequer was nearly exhausted le the last farthing, and the pockets of every one of that family Oiled with the treasure.—The one at the Mint of coarse is not to be excepted from the coafratereity. The Ministers, then, are spared the censure of this disintereolerl regulator of the public feeling ; bemuse thnae collaterally or obliqoely cooarsted with the Ministry must not be wounded. Mr. Winna* Mee said, as every body knows. f I A