The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-17 00:00:00

FRICK OF STOCKS AT ONg O'CLOCK THIS DAY. leak Stock 223 Irish S per Cent. 11 per Cent. Red. 6 6 :111 India Stock S per Cent. Con. lOa Ditto Bonds —s. 325.23 e. pas. 3$ per Cent. 7Se Borth-Sea Old Ann. 001 • per Costs. 974 477/ BLllilla 4d. Si. 44. be. pm. 4pt Ct. Nay y 161 1 ene Hendon for Money 16 psa 6 per Cent. Script Bank for Account Long Ann. 17 1646 IS 1-16 Con. for Aeet 70111 lap. 2 per cent 6S$ Lott. Tickets 211. Ss. Cbc ktattiOnan. Tx, BRITISH STAT6SISAII " IS ITCORPORATED MITI " Till STATINISIST." LONDON! WIDNLWAT &VINING, JANI'ARY 17, 1821. stock EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols fur the Account opened at 70!, and were afterwards done at 701; but the market is since rather better, Consols being now 7011 for the Account, which is on Yriday. New York Papers arrived this morning to the 10th of December, from whieh we have selected the follow ing from the Eee►►ieg Post:— Navy Yamus.—There are six yards occupied by the United States at Portsmouth. The Navy Yard contains 59 acres, and cost 55,000 dollars. At Charlestown, the Navy Yard contains 34 acres, ex. elusive of extensive fiats, and cost 39,214 dollars. • M New York, the Navy Yard is situated on a long island, containing 40 acres, and cost 40,000 dollars. At Philadelphia, the Navy Yard contains 11 acres to low water mark, and cost 37,000 dollars. At Washington, the Navy Yard is sitnated on the eastern branch of the river Paternock, containing 37 acres, and cost 4000 dollars. At Gosport, the Navy-Yard contains 16 acres, and cost 12,000 dollars. Besides the above, the United States own the follow ing property :—Grovers Island, in the State of Georgia, estimated to contain from 300 to 350 acres, purchased December 19, 1799, for 7,0011 dollars. Blackbeard Island, in the same State, contains about 16,000 acres, purchased 24th May, 1800, fur 15,000 dollars. Besides IS lots of ground situated in New Orleans, estimated to be worth 369,000 dollars, and some other property at Sackers Harbour. There are near 20 agents employed by government. Grover, Island and Blackbeard Island are covered with live oak. A Ministerial agent in a Morninr Paper. now cries out, " you see how the Whigs are keeping up the ir ritation of the country :" What organ is it that niters t'usequerulous notes of alarm ? An instrument accus tomed to calm the popular agitations; that had been a stranger to the excitementsof provocation and strife? Nu. the machine which above all others had been distinguished for the tunes of discord, that had been employ-al le propagate the-most grating sensations, that had been devoted to annoy and infueiate the people. Whence comes this sudden change From a convic tion that the mischief it had been directed to oim at others has recoiled urn itself and its employers. The scandalons &Hada, the gross abuse, and the abomi et dile calumnies to which this instrument of malerolevce had been in the daily use of giving vent, have proved themselves as unprod:able as base. 'lite people have been roused by the insults that have accompanied their grievances: and milli the exception of those who are feed for their •ervility or silence, with an unanimous and cont ra:Audio/ voice require redress. In vain the ven tl adtutates of Alinisters appeal to the columns of lia r; te* for testimonies of support. They no longer serve their I nrpose. The uai ion is aware of the sources whence thoy calve, and of the means by which they are ob t inetl. From the ledes and congers whence these trslienomi,q. issue, they torn their eves and hopes to the :tuldic meetings of the towns and counties ; and every day find fresh encour a gement t o d eman d an d ex ect 3 reparation fur the injuries they have received, aid welt a complete reform as will atfurd set urity fur the future. A Meeting' of the t fpposition Members, it is said, til:es Wire this week at Hall:ham flail, the seat of *lr. Cole. Prepaeations are making. at Carlton-house FaLice f. r the reception I' f his Majesty. The whole of the igiiiicent chandeliers and furniture, which have been covered up for some time, are ordered to be uncovered, anti placed iu regular order, as his Majesty is expect ed to arifve on Friday or Saturday from the Pat ilium at Brighton. It is determined, it appears, from a Ministerial paper of this *tattling, to celebrate the anniversary of his Ald;. , ty's yours:lois to the Ti. axe, by u grand public dinner in the City of London. Unless a man more obtaxels can be found, it is proposed, that Sir William Curtis fill the Chair on the occasion. Toe QCF EN. —Upwards of fifty Add trill be presented to her Majesty on Monday next, from v:I• Elms towns, parishes, trades, &c. The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs will go in state, attended by a large &po tation of the Livery. There will also be a deputation from Westminster, anilisceeral others from the country, all anxious to testify their attachment to the Queen, by waiting upon her Majesty in twrsnn. The Brass foamera of the metropolis are preparing a more splen procession than that which accon.panied their for mer Address to her Majesty, The deputation will con sist of about seven littmirell persona, headed by six turn is raniplete suits of armour; the others clad in half ar mour.rach individual hearing some emblematical de vire. A deputation of the Coopers a ill also wait on her Majesty nn Aloralay, with an Address from that body. Thee will carry in procession a handsomely Kilt cask. with suitable inscriptions—on one hoop there will be the figures 1011, the minority that voted is favour of her Attirsty. Deputations will ale present Addresses from •the pariah of St. Marvlebone, Kensington, the London . ,lodestrioas Classes, (bass-blowers, Carpenters, and Tin pia* works's., the latter four carrying ealbleuts of their 44feral 'trades. 6.. THE STA' RIGKENNY LOYAIi ADDRESS RIACCTBD. Kizteirse, Tticasnav,--Our Csunty Meeting has just tertisinated without swing• an Address 1 It was the mitt numerous we ever bad. An amendment wss proposed by Captain Bryan, and another by Coun sellor Finn. On the question being put on the se cond amendment there were two hnwired to one in its favor, notwithstanding which the High Sheriff de clared in favor of the Noes! A division was then called for, but the Sheriff refused to divide, and left the Chair; which being taken by Lord Carrick, it was moved by 0. P. Bushe, Esq. that the thanks of the Meeting should be given to the Sheriff. The mo tion was opposed, and ultimately withdrawn ; it being distinctly admitted that the Meeting had done noticing ! In other respects the conduct of the Sheriff was blame less; he introduced no soldiers, bat acted with tem per and patience. There was some loyal intemper ance, notwithstanding which, good humour generally prevailed throngbont the day. EXPECTRD IVAR IN INDIA. The expected war in India, to which we yesterday referred in our account of letters from Bombay, is stated to originate is circumstances which thus unhap pily occurred. Some time in the month of June last, a Vakeel (or Ambassador), from the Sintliens, a nation situated on the Indus, was proceeding to treat with the government of Bombay, on some point, and who hail a body of armed men with him; they were taken to be marauders, ao common in that part of our territories (as a body of men called Comes and ,rests had just plundered in the district), and a scuttle took place, in which the Vakeel was unforttinately killed.— It was entirely a mistake, as he had sent no account of Iris advance. The lion. Mr. Elphinstone lost no time in explaining the matter, and the Sindians appeared to be satisfied ; but with the treachery that is their character istic, they invaded Kutch, plundered a village, anti wrote a must impudent dispatch to the govertonicut of Bonney. In consequence of this, a force of .1,000 troops was as sembled in Kutch, under the command of the Honour able Colonel Lincoln Stanhope. Mr. Elphinstone then sent an agent to meet the Vakeels of the Emirs of the Sindians, in the hope of an amicable termination, and stated to them the force with which he was resolved to prevent their farther hostilities; but they thought of our preparations, defied our pourer, and called in time aid of their neighbouring allies, and they stopped all commercial intercourse with the British Government.— The affair now assumed a serious complexion. The Sindians can muster a force of between 30 and 40,000 men, chiefly horse, and they threaten us with an invasion by the Baloochies, whose country lies to the west of the Indus, and who are a terror to their neighbours. Lord Hastings is most anxious to preserve peace. The whole of the British territory under his command had assumed the t transmit and Nourishing appearani.e. The sense of security it hich the natives enjoy had every where given a spur to industry, and cultivation was making rapid strides. The Company's paper was at a premium, and every thing promised a continuance of prosperity and happiness unknown iu the Peninsula. Mr. Elphinstone cordially roncurred with the Governor General in the desire of conciliating all ranks of the new countries of which we bail gained possession, and it was gratifying to see the Pindarees and retired sol diers employing themselves in cultivating the fields. But it became impossible tamely to submit to this %MIMI agreeesioa, and accordingly an army of 14,01111 ut is forthwith to be assembled, and by the month of October is expected to be in Kutch. The Commander-in-Chief is to be Sir Charles Colville, O. C. 11. an I the second ins command Major-lieiteral Lionel Smith, two most gallant Officers, who possess the entire coolidetiee of the Boni bay army. Such are the particulars derived from different letters received recently from Bombay. Our accounts, indeed, of yesterday, state that the differences were @spectra to be settled soon ; lott when a war of that dust ription is actually eoiliiictivetl, it is nut easy to : foretell the consequences. From the Liverpool paper of the. 15:h instant, re ceived this morning : THEAsufty URI►ER KELITING To tt !NE XPORTED TO 711 E WZIST IN MI.'S IN I,{E•3. Treasury Chamber, Dee. 4. 1840. " I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, with reference to tour report of Stls August last. that in consequence o( the urgent representations my Lords have received of the inconvenience of requiring wine to be exported to the West ladies in ewes, con taining six dozen each, my Lords are very desirons of giving relief ;o the trade, if practicable, without injury to the revenue, and under these circumstances, my Lords are pleased to authoriste you to allow the draw back on wine exported as above, in cases cont3inin g • three dozen each, fur twelve months, at the expiration of which time toy Lords desire that yon oill report %she titer any injury has occurred from this indulgence. (signed) • S. It. 1.;:hIllNIiTON. " To Commissioners of Customs." Nuv. 2S.—By the bri g . P ar a von, a r . rived yesterday, ne have receive.' from our corresuon dent at St. "Iliotnas*, a letter of The instant, anti the St. Thomas' finies of the 1.101 in, , t.int. We here subjoin extracts from bo;11 • trhirh furnish the latest information of the positions of the contending Royalist and Patriot forces in South .America.—(City Gaz.) EX IRACT 01 • LETTER TO TOE Enrror, DtTI'D IT. TIIOMAS . S, NOY. 15, " I hasten to enclose you a St. Thotrag . Casette, and a copy of au interesting letter, which I have just received from Margarita, of the lUth inFtant, which will give you a comprehensive view of the operations of the independent armies, now on their ward* for the capital of Caracas." " St. Juan, (Margarita.) Nov. _ " Dear Sir,-1 have just time, bet ore the Corn sails, to say, that official advice has been received, that Mon3g.is occupies Barcelona, and that the Royalists occupy in the provinces crf Barcelona and Cumana, wily the latter city, Caropano and Ca- Ham ►. We had on the Bth, an arrival from turraeoa of the 28th of October. On the last of September Carthagena was invested by 2000 Patriots. St. m ar tin by 2500-9 vessels of war and 36 gun boats. General Bohr& had been to Savanilla ; sent a reinforcement against St. Martha ; had returned to Cucuta, and proceeded with his army to l'araehe, on the route to Ca ,in Trusillo. Undaneta at St. Carlos. Para probably advanced from Calabeza to Villa de Cure, then occupied by Morales. Moriklo in Valencia ; Bermudez and Zanies threatening Ca racas; and Mazero occupying the whole country at the river Tuy. The governor Imo gene from As ogien to Cucuta." , FOR THE STATESMAN. TO THE Milli , HON. MR. BRAGOE BATVURST, PRESIDENT OF 11IE BOARD OF CONTROL L, &c. Sta,--Tite present is unquestionably the most sin gular and iutereiting , epoch in your political existence. in defiance of Intellect and contrary to the antici pation of the country, you have recently been railed to Z most elevated rank. The awful influence and blind partiality to family has grossly outraged com merce in your person. by conferring a dignity which nature never designed you to sustain. By the force of patronage von have risen to a most fearful emi nence, to a height which, with proper deference to your lofty ideas upon the subject, is far superior to your capacity and the dizzy structure of your head. You are now, Sir, President of the Board of Controni. Permit me to pay lay respects to you on that remark able event ; apologi;ing at the saline time fur my remissness in smfering the Bast-lndia Company to eclipse me in the celebrity of respectful attention. That body, with the most laudable and political alert ness, bas very properly lost no time in addressing you upon your su dden elevation ;it was wonder-struck at the intelligence, and precipitately acted on the impulse of the moment, lest the rapidity of your fill might frus trate their flattering intentions. I am sufficiently acquainted with your character to ku:w, that the address met with a most cordial and gracious recep tion. If experienre were 1 certain criterion for judgment, should boldly pronuunce that your chilled farulties would burst fortu into the spb.n.lour Of sublimity, for I confess that Lucius Junius stands eclipsed by your early indications, though. I much ilottht whether Tar quin would have enronntered the ewmiries of Brutus, in the Right lion. Mr. Brugge Bathurst. By su,:ceeding Mr. l'ant:ing, you have attracted the wondering gaze of the whole people of England. They, already, Sir, sit in judgmeot upon you. When an liontotrable and able. Barrister is seen to throw up his brief to rEsgust, the co:illusion is not very diffi cult to draw, but an acquaintance with the extent of VOW ability, induces me to tell von, it is because the case bears the contaminating, stamp of conviction and infamy. As tails is fact, in what light can that wan be viewed who stoops to a degradation, which neither ability nor honour would submit to. Mr. lannit.g most correctly relinquished the emoluments of pl ace, when they were incompatible with honesty, and pre ferred the repose of conscience, to the infamy of office. Yon, Sir, have acted in a different way, yon hare thrust yourself forward, when no honour coahl be ac quired, and fought, like a mercenary, with the solitary stimulus of par. Vet, lam free to confess, I could applaud you for setting public opinion at defiance, if my admiration of that virtue were not somewhat re strained by rt firming on the patibulary and prema ture late a the generalite who display it. The situation of President retialres a man of vigour and taient. It ought to have been the reward of con stittitimril ability, rather than of Cabinet interest. If I use the rod too sharply, Sir, von ;mist excuse Inc ; yes ate a religions character, and I refer you, as au polokry to the PrOVVrbl.' (I 'hap. ?.4. y. 3.) anti to your self As comuter.i upon the text. You most not gine that I am itt.liviiluallv your enenty. for I deny • • " nit t hat tt ;it i s • mo re," Ano a' I Live touglit it neressar t • previ ously to ap..‘lojse• to yoll, I twir nitor.• aiio - to l'..asar, fur the cottirtri•on I so hive made. " Rzpericitia deed sirlioe."—Upon this preamble. Sir, I must allow you to be gifted with the most in• blime capacity, for slander would blush to assert, that you had 'lra been weak enough to have been tutored by experience. You hare seen the pestilential in fluence of the courtly air, yet have rashly and unsoli cited, forced yourself into the very a&irit of the at mosphere. When Mr. Canning condescended to ac cept the situation, the country acknowledged his abi lity, fur it ball previously declared him competent to the task. How is it, Sir, that yon have not been equally fortunate ? Is it that you despise popularity ? If it is, I pity yon, for honest popularity is a laudable acquirement ; and if it is so, I can most confilently assure you that no contemptuous feeling was ever in .re reciprocal. Virtues and vices are not unfreqnently drscrilied by the names of men remarkable for bearing them. II AM COIN expresses Patriotism, and FRAKINS but -expresses what a consideration fur his feel ings will not allow toe to describe. Should your ideas, however, induce you to conceive that I allude to the reverse, I shall nut question the correctness of your thoughts. 1 shall not now, however, take a minute review of the character and consistency of yon political con duct. I shall postpone that to a future period, should you ever miraculously become sufficiently dangerous by your ability to attract the attention of the Mateo men . At present I would only ask whether your promotion in the Cabinet is to benefit the economy of the country, for, surely, bere must be some Sel,fitiallt canoe to account fir your most extraordinary rise. Are yon to resign your sinecures as a compensation to the public, or are you to. hold your present and previons.situations with all their endearing emolu ments, and instead of lessoning the expenditure of the country, only economise the ability of the Cabinet ? If this is the case, I sincerely sympathise with my coun try that ability slionl.l, in any way, be diminished, when a ten-fold quantity is required. ____ VIRG INIUS. • To save the reader the trouble o f reference. the following the pas age.—" A brittle for the horse, a whip for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back." Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Connell was held at the Foreign Office, which was at tended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Westinoreland, Earl of Harrowhy, Viscount Melville, Viscount Sit'mouth, Viscount Castlereagh, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Hon. Mr. ItAinson, Mr. Wellesley Pole. the Duke of Wellington, and Mr. B. Bathurst; the whole of whom continued to sit in Council until halt past six, when they broke up.and retired. Vesterday the dispatches fur Bengal by.the ship Atlas, Capt. Mayne, were aloud at the East Wilt 1 Hoag; tad delivered to thit.Pareer of that sbip.: 7.51 DRURY LANE THEATRE. tie Egressifor Mew/4 tot last night played to a well at teaded.hoese, with the object of introducing Miss Comae as Lcgdy Teazle. We were alwa)o inclined to think, when . L. we saw this Lady faltering under the " pomp and circus-. statics" of Tragedy, that More Ives something in her physi ognomy which indicated a beautiful index, it is that the comic Muse was the more natural, and therefore, ought to be the more welcon , e truest to her Raja: tier Lads 7 (ogle • his so far eontirhied or,r su'spielon4, that we shall always prefer to ace her continuing in the aim; path she bas chosen% than returning to that which she ought to abandon.—Goons played Joseph surface for the drat timr, with a glossy smoothness, and, Indeed, a general spirit which tompletely identilled him with the character. There were to other changes worth noticing in the Dramatis Person*, and as a matter of cantle, the Ooinedy went olio• the highest style of excellence. The Patriotie Addres4 of the inhabitants of this town Las already received upwards of 4,000 signa tures. Wednesday a corporal and file of men marched into the room where it lies fat signatures, with their muskets shouldered—advanced towards the table oti which it lay---mod signed it !--(Plyworth Paper.) Mr. Haynes Red Mr. George ',donne, .have each contradicted the reports which affixed to. them Hui authorship of the late Tragedy of illontai.tot produced . at Mery-lone Theatre. The fact is, that the author is, and will most probably remain, entirely unknown to the public. He is a Nobleman, and at present out of the country ; and, we believe, quite uneonscious that his Tragedy has been performed. The manage ment of it was entrusted to a highly respectable book seller, who is the only individual known, even by the manager, as eonnectcil with the play. Monday being the Duke of Glotv.ester's birth-day, it was celebrated at Burshot, by the Duke and Duchess having a select party of friends to dinner. A requisition bad been presented to the Mayor of Cambridge, requesting he would forthwith convene a gcnerat meeting of the merchants, bankers, traders, and other inhabitants thereof; to take into consider:i lk!' the distressed and alarming state of the country ; and also the propriety of presenting dutiful and loyal Addresses to their Majesties, the Kin and Queen ; as well as Petitions to tit her, or both Houses of Parliament, for a change of those measures, which have brought rite country into its present distressed and alarming aloe. The Mayor, however, replied, that be felt it his duty to decline calling a meeting, from which be conceived no beneficial result could be attained, while the tranquillity of the town might too probably, be disturbed by the agitation of subjects of go dtlicate as well as of so comprehensive and difficult a charac • ter. In consequence of the refusal of the Mayor, the inhabitants of the town of Cambridge have been in gited to inert in the Auction Mart, Market-hill, on Monday nest, for the purpose of taking into con- I siderotion the subjects contained in the requisition. A Meeting has been fixed by the nigh SliceitT of Beer ottshire, of he Freeholders and Inhabitants, C'er the 20th inst, to take into consideration the present distressed state of the country, and to implore his Ma jesty to change his Counsels. A list of HMV, more distinguished for respectability, numbers, or property, was never before sitaplt‘ed in that county. In fa::t, alusost all the great I.:ndell proprietors resident in the county have signed the requisition, together mils up wards of 100 of the most respet table yeomen. Th• meeting- is expected to be more fully attended th:.a any former occasion. The rivisition is signed by Mr. itilltins, M. P. for Radnorshire; Mr.- W. A. Madocks, M. P. for Chippenhatn, &c. The Inhabitants of Kendal and its vicinity, nct withstanding the Mayor declined, without aisignine. a single reason, to call a puldie meeting, will have an opportunity, early in the ensuing week, of signing an Address and Petitione, expressive of their unshaken loyalty t, the Sovereign, of their regard to the Con ' stitution, and of their prayers for the dismissal of a Ministry which lugs reduced a flourishing 'Mann to the verge of ruin, and the nettled of a free people to merely a name; and also of testifying their respect for the honour of the Crown, by requesting Parliament to restore her Majesty, without delay, Is the enjoyment of all her Constitutional Rights and Dignities. thtFAT PEOCATRI AN MATCH COMP!,ETED.—.IIr. Arno?, a soinersetshire yeoman, it has been stated. started on the North Itnail, on IVellnesday last, to do Saco hatsdrol awl se fly : Ater utiles in four days, whirl. is fir beyond the co.p-L.'s of the powers of aliorse. firs! stage was to Dorchester, in Oxfordshire, and front thence lie took a north-eastern route to Nottingham; from thence to Doncaster, and back to Lincolnshire, where he completed this extraordinary undertaking, at eleven o'clock on S.ittirday night, although the wea ther %vas against him. The first day he completed 72 miles its I) !tours; second slay SO miles in 20 hours ; third day Gd miles in 20 boors; fourth day 5.5 miles in 21 boors. The Pedestrian was much distressed on the third day, but he took monk time to do the last disy's work. Ilis blistered feet were relieved by worsted bit ing drawn through the blisters, which was left in. Coos-EXCH A JAN. 17.—We have had hut few ar rivals of any grain since Monday; and although the quantity of Wheat at market is hot small, the sales were heavy, except fur prime samples, which supported !lon day's prices; hut there was little or no demand for the interior descriptions.—Fine Barley being scarce, what few samples appeared this morning, were readily did poled of on as good terms as on MonJay.—Oats are ra ttier dearer, in consequence of the scantiness of the sup ply.—ln Beans and Peas no alteration in prices, but the sale of each was exceedingly heavy. _ _ On Monday afternoon the Earl of Harrowhy, on his entering into town in his travelling carriage from Bath proceeded down Constitution-hill to the Earl of Liverpool's house it, Privy-gardens, where his Lord ship set down to dinner, when his valet returned in the carriage towards his Lordship's hoes. in Gros venor-square. In' going out of Piccadilly into Berke ley -street, Mr. Butler, the valet, observed two men suddenly separate from se►eral others in Piccadilly, a nd followed the carriage down Berkeley-street.---. Sus. pec:ing tiu.-ir design he watched them closely through the glass in tie hind part of the carriage, when he perceived one of them in the act of cutting off the trunk from behind.; he immediately threw open the door, jumped down, and seized the fellow by the col lar, whom he conducted back to the Glosteester Coffee house, where he surrendered hint to a polioe.officer. his companion having fled. on fir. Butler re tuning to Cm carriage. he fowl one of the straps .of . the trunk cut of, and the other nearly severed. .21 ii 1 - 1