The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-07-31 00:00:00

- __'F'd IL IN7'RLLIGENCE: . —isprw— Litreeeoos., Jut.lr 29.--Arrived the Reroo,-New.. comb?, from Savannah : sailed 44th Jine, acrd on t h e 30th, in lat. 35. 43. lon. 66. 50 . was plundered by the Indian Hover, under Spanish c o lours, o f mone y, watches, clothes, and provisions. Also ar rived the Sassonah, Morgan, from New Orleans : ,f ro m Banes lit June; 013 14th June, in let. 24. 11. Jon 63. 11. spoke the brig . Three Sisters, from Ja maica to Halifax. She had been boarded on the 11th by a Mexican pirate, who pluedered her of all her provisions, bet supplied her with some beef and bread. DIAL, JULY 30.—Came down from the River the Wids, Hay, lot Sierre . Leone, l and remains in the Downs wi h the Severn frigate ; Royal Sovereign -yacht, and Diligence East India pilot yacht ; the latter waiting the arrival of some East India ships which are hourly tweeted. •Facmotru, JULY 48. , —Arrived the Duke of Kent parket, with a Nlail from Lisbon, in 10 days. _ WHITEY JULY R2.—Arrived the Kearsley; from Greenland, with 6 fish ; brings an account of the fol lowing bet..oging ill this port ; she left the ice on the Ist July, viz t—Ainswell, 8 fish ; E.k, 13 do.; Mel, 2 do. ; Resolution, 19 dn.; Valiant, 4 do. Lively, 3 do. Fame, 7 do. • Volunteer, 3 do.; Pk.. Ilia, 3410.; and Newer's-4j Aendon, 4 do, „„.. , , ,-- --r 't Yesterday dispatches were mide up at the East in. ais.bou4e, and delived to the Pursers d the following ships, direr* for China :-Regent, Captain PHILIP 41PLIBT ; and Moffatt, Captain Stator; Ler.—Pa.- senger by the Regent—Captain Dan HY, K. N. CoaNELLY, the father of the Irish stage, and the contemporary of Eowtts, SHVVER, n , in and Rirbsa, died a few days ago in Dublin, in the 83d year . of his age. In his time he was an excellent • Comedian, and the particular friend and companion of O'KEEre. Lord C 001114112, who arrived at Calais on the Ilst instant, was to stop a few days at Boulogne, end then repair to Paris. • In several shop•wiudo wit its the Metropolis, Forged • Motes are now exposed, which, on being presented at 'the Bank, have been declared forgeries. The face of them has the word 44 fogad" in large characters stamped thereon ; they are tolerable imitations, and appear executed in a stylieisy' to deceive. From this circumstance, it seems' the Bank have discon tinued detaining geese . things, and ire content to mark them in such manner as to prevent their cir culation. This alteration in their proceedings as arisen, it is said, in consequence of the verdict ob. taboo' against them for false imprisonment, in an ac tion before Inrd ELLENBoILOUGLI, during the last Term, in which damages to the amount of 501. were awarded. A horse-shoe was lately found, between three and • four feet below the surface of the earth, in the Bop cone' wood, in Shrophire, much corroded by age, but in other respects perfect in form. From the sin gularity of its shape, and the remains of the fastening nails adhering to it, it has evidently been placed backwards on the hoof, and has the appearance of • being aileron off by an overreach of the animal. It ' is cortjectored to have belOnged to the horse rode by Charles 11.,% after his defeat at the battle of Wor- Worcester. DARING ROBIERY.—On Monday last at midnight, about '2O yards from the Plough public-house, in the • Kent-road, Mr. Daniel Ferguson, of East. plaee,Stock well, oas attacked by four or five men, who knocked 'tins down, beat him dreadfully, and robbed him of :of all the money be had about him. Mr. Ferguson was found about an hour afterwards lying senseless en the ground, weltering in blood, by a labouring • wan, who continued with him until he recovered his tenses, and a ' misted him home. The atrocious ac t 1 . was committed near a small cottage, the shutters and walls of which were bespattered with Mr. Ferguson's . blood. The inhabitant of the cottage, an elderly . female, bearing a great bustle and noise, as if the head of some person was forced violently against the shutters, looked out, and distinctly heard one of the party say with an oath, 64 We have waited an • boar for you, but we have got you at last." She was so overcome with ter rot', as to be incapable of giving airy alarm, and was afraid to open her door In assist Mr. Ferguson when the bustle had ceased. Mr. Fergu son is ander the care of Mr. Hillisrd, Sargent', at Stockwell, and continues in a state of great danger. A robbery to a very considerable extent was corn • veined yesterday at noon, in Oiford-street. A Mr. Burton, who resides in Leicestershire, was attracted by some foreign musicians, and he stopped to hear them play. There were some genteel looking men in frock coats about him, and after he had left the spot, he found that ha had lost not only his pocket. Bonk, bat the flap of his coat. The book contained 15001. chiefly in Hinckley, Leicestershire, Commer cial Bank, and some notes of the other Bank in that • town, in ten pounds. The amount in Bank of Eng land notes was 5651. Information was given at Nlarlborough.street Police•olfice, but there is as yet so clue to the robbery. About nine o'clock on Wednesday night, the front Of, a Reuse its Tower-street, Seven Dials, fell to the ground with a dreadful crash, which alarmed the neighbourhood. Fortunately, no persons happened to be passing at the time, Of they would have been crushed to pieces, as the rubbish filled the street from one side to the other. The noise caused the neighbours to run to the spot, where a most fearful sight presented itself to their view : me front of the house having fallen completely into the street, disco vend the wretched inmates under all the terrors of persons doomed, and meeting to be every instant buried in the ruins, and crushed to death. Every door was occupied with different families, from the top to the bottom ; acme were in bed, some sittingat supper, and others et their work at the time. Hap pily, every one escaped, having suffered no further Injury than was caused by the fright, end running ;lover each other down stairs. On examining the pre .i seit•ett, it vies discovered that the joists comp osin g be floors and roof , ex tended from one party wall to • he Di' ', in consequence of which al l t heir forni• iv,. &c. was got out without suffering the smallest Hwy. Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, two sailors nu board a ship lying off the Hermitage, quar relled about some tobacco, and scuffling together ) both fell overboard and were drowned. • d Defendable; iu ENG LIS II test night the comic Opera tailed the Americans, written by Mr. Antrum), with the original music by .1311AGAW and M. P. KING. was performed at this Theatre before a crowded audience. The piece (for. the first time of its being performed these seven ,years) was received with more than ordinary eppro-• . Winn ; indeed, from the number of respectable per formers engaged in the songs and choruses, it mast have been brought forward at no inconsiderable ex pence to the proprietor, whose talents and exertions appear unbounded in giving to the gitglish Operas an ascendancy which that delightful species of drama so truly deserves. Miss CAREW, who may now be fairly styled the prima donna of the English Opera, Min KELLY, Miss STEVS:NSOG, Mr. hazes, and Mr. PEARINAN, acquitted themselves with great skill, and, l in their vocal exertions were deservedly cheered with the most gratifying testimonies of applause. T. ludicrous comic humour of Mr. Hzet.rv, in Dabble, which threw the gods in the gallery into a broad grin, produced a roar of laughter through •out the house. Mr. CIIATTEHLEY also, in Fret mils, the Irish poet, exerted with success his comic powers; as did Wicarnsorr, in Zeciekiah, .11ocutt., in Martin Slow, and SLATER, in Paul Toad. The Native Americans were quite at how in the parts : Ootted them in the piece, on fl one ist them in particular eshibi(ed very improvable tiler& in a dying scene. It would be an unjust omission not to notice the fine expression and feeling displayed by the excellent Band in the sccompaisiments through out the whole. The celebrated Overture of Lodoiska was substituted in thd place of the original one, in order to introduce a new Flageolet, invented by Mr. BANEBRIDGE, which, from its shrill sod unique effect in the tine solo played by Mr. HARVEY, elicited an involuntary burst of applause. This little instru ment far surpasses the French pipe lately introduced in Quadrilles among those foshionablcs who prefer foreign novelty to native worth. BIUGHTON, Amy 30. This watering.place may be justly termed in the meridian ()V its prosperity, if not with the first order of fashionables, it is in the aggregate of numbers, and it is truly remarkable to watch the influx and retire of company. Forty coaches are now in full daily *holiness; and if we may judge of the success of the wheels, some idea can be estimated by taking an average, that each coach receives nearly 1001: per .week. Hastings, FAstboerne, and Worthing, are also, at this time, caviling in the plenitude of visitors be yond all former reasons. The contrast between July, 1817, and the present year, is more exemplified by the almost disappearance of mendicants on the road from Portsmouth to Hastings. The morning's amusement of malty of our visitors is to walk on the cliffs, and watch the sagacity of the King's stag hounds in taking the water. Mr. Sharp, the huntsman, enters the boat, and proceeds to sea. He gives a signal to his canine tribe, and they follow the boat with aatouishiog precision of order. As the harvest has began, a farmer in this neigh bourhood has laid a large bet, that he has grown from 140 acres of wheat 140 loads without a grain of smut; another fortnight or three weeks will de cide his wager, when we shall be happy to give the elect particulars of the decision, as it (will form a sort of criterion to judge of the produce of wheat, in the same manner as the oats have been proved. The Neptune packet, Captain Wallis, of 60 tons, end William packet, Captain Boldest, of 50 toes, sailing between Brighton and Dieppe, decided a bet,, on Tuesday lest, respecting their superiority of sail. lug and nautical skill. They set off for Dieppe, under the disadvantage of a calm, but the Captain and crew of the Neptune depended upon their sea. manship and knowledge of the tide to defeat their antagonist. However, the William was victorious, haying gained the harbour mere than half an hour before the Neptune. Considerable sums of money were depending epon this voyage. - COURT 0.I? CHANCERY, Jove 30. • auto, IN THE MATTER OSI REID. Though this case occupied a very long portion of ,Ma Lordship's time, we shall not go into a minetd detail of the particulars, as it was stopped when only heard es-parte by his Lordship. We formerly detailed them when the case was before Sir William Grant, the late much and justly esteemed Master of the Rolls ; and it may therefore be necessary only to give a mere-outline of the facts. • • The testator died, leaving by his will t certain .seen vested in trustees, for the benefit of an illegiti mate son of his, at the same time bequeathing the trustees a sum of 10001. for his receiving a liberal education, the testator expressiog his wish that the son should be educated in order to his following a mercantile profession. Should his conduct be such as to meet their approbation, • sum of 7 or 80001., (we are not sure which) was to be given him by the trustees on his reaching the age of 26 , but vice versa the sum wag to be withholden. Before hd was 2t years of age lie became Involved In debts, and was obliged to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act.— Being by that means discharged from prison, his assignees now claimed the particular suns which should come to him when 26 years of age, whier ibe trustees refused, sod at the lime timealeclered: (bey bad no objection to pay hint the interest forhis eltpport and maintenance, and particelarly as the td= toter had not, by his will, made any regulation for Of disposal of the sum, should the young man act improperly. That late most excellent Judge (Sir W. Grant) ordered the principal to be paid into Court,. as, in consequence of the defect in the will, the Crown must of necessity be a party. The cause came on as a motion before the Lord Chancellor this mornipg, who heard the Counsel open it, and also the Solicitor-General, who now (in the absence of the Attorney-General) appeared for the Croon. .• Mr. CoLcussost was heard at great length for the assignees, and was proceeding' to comment on the provisions of the Insolvent Act, wheu he was stop ped by The LORD CHANCELLOR, who said, there Was DO end of such things going on, if he was to be called . for every day to hear motions which ought more pro. perly to come before him as causes. So much time sae taken up thereby as to prevent the other bug. uess of the Court coming on. Let causes and mo. lions be beard as such, but let not the time of the Court be wasted by one thing bring heard for an. other, He would not hear a word more on this lilt he had gone through his list' Of Bankrupt Petitions. —lt was really absurd to call on him at this time of year to hear such motion', when perhaps 2 or 300 Bankrupt Petitions were pending. To aakhins to do so was in vain, for he would not, and therefore Mr. Coltinsen had better stop. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL--On the part of the Crown, my Lord, I told the other side I could have uo possible objection to their bringing the case on, in the shape of a motion, but I also told them it ought not to be beard as such, as it was properly a cause. Mr. BELL could declare there was on the part of his Clients no wish to occupy big Lordship oneeno. went unnecessarily. The LORD CHANCELLOR—I believe that, Mr. Bell ; but how can L continue to be attacked and persecuted as I now am every clay ? I do oot believe there ever was a Judge in this Court so much hunted after as I am, or so much obloquy thrown on me. I have 110 doubt, but, that when I get home, after the duties of the day, I shall find 20 or 30 letters lying on my desk, trona bankrupts, complaining in 'the most piteous terms of the miseries they do endure from my not hearing their cases. But, good God, 'what am I to do, if my time is to be occupied in this man. man by useless, unnecessary harangues? Am 'I also on this account to be attacked and blamed for delay ? How can I do otherwise, unless I persist in hearing particular business on the day I mention that I will hear it ? I tell you now, what I said• yesterday, that I wilt not pr.-ceed one step out of my regular course, or hear a motion or case, unless on the day flied fur it. Mr. Btu. would not have presumed to bring this forward, had be not thought the case urgent. The Lotto CHANCELLOR—I give you ample credit for your good motives, Mr. Best ; hot really is not the cause of every suitor in this Court urgent ?--. Every suitor in this Court has a right to call on me to hear his case on the very same plea, and surely no man of rational understanding will 'spec, me 10 hear the cause of one party, which may perhaps be the ruin of another class of suitors. It is needless to say mo t e, for I ,sill not hear any such motions now, at this season of the year. My mind is made up, and am Ito be trifled with, and no attention paid to my orders, as is done elsewhere? Put this cause (fur I cannot call it a motion) in the paper, and let it be , heard after the Bankrupt Petitions, provided it can be so draw, before the 15th of August, fur I shall cer tainly rise then. tiotacyron•GuyEnAt. said, he had every tam. son to be satided, and indeed he only anticipated whet his Lordship had now said. The Loan CHANCELLOR —Very well. I will hear your case, Mr. Bell, but not till I have got through my Bankrupt List. After so long delay, I cannot suffer their feelings to be longer trifled with... Here the case ended. GRIGG AND OTHERS V. LOIITT AND OTHER,. The SOLICITDR•GENERAL moved for an Injunction on the part of the Plaintiffs to restrain the Defendant Lovitt from selling a quantity of oil, or from inter• feting in any manner with the sale or it, and also to restrain the other Defendants from delivering up to Lomat such part of the oil as remained in their re. elective hand,. He made this motion upon an affidavit whfch dis. doled the following fact :..—Some time since tie Plain tiffs were applied to by Mr.,Hithers, an eminent Met. .Chant,for the loan of 10,0001. which was secured by promissory notes, and by the deposit of a large I ttantity of coffee. Sobsequently,• h o wever, the ' ci coffee was talon one of (rye hands of the Plaintifts, and with,tbeir coneerrence, 342 casks of oil were substituted. sMr. Haber, failed in business, and the oil was put Into the hands of Lovitt, who acted as agent for the Plahrtitkfor the purpose of being sold.. A great part of the oil was sold, and Mr. Lovitt hail receited,the purc.basetseasy.t The remaining portion , his Cirdarnstances, and had refused to delitter up thb purchase-mottey•Which he hid thug gni into his por tassion.. The injunction therefore prayed, that Mt. Loeitt should be restrained ftoni interfering-any fur ther its the concern. The Loan ChAttact.tra granted the ittotioni opus Mak* being eters to the pieties. OUR/ JIM *ASS IrdiS t hear 'V. the Calendar &Mains 18 prisoners; two for highway robbery, foot for uttering forged Bank of Emile's(' notes, and one for isailog forged Bent, of Ringleted notes in possession ; one for Counterfeit ing silver • Coin ; two for manslaughter; one for bi gamy ; one foe ptemstorely returning (torn baoisb mei i and sit Tor theft of sellout kinds. Nine of thole prisoners were committed before Chriesmas. A few reinntei past sit in the evening*. Ibricitio. ton, VAq. high Sheriff, proceeded in the Bishop's ear ' risge end sit horsey to reeertbe Judges ; a svitolele giment of special constables preceded on horseback. IThe Under-Sheri& came next in the High Sh riff's carriage an Anse horses. Mt. Lambton followed with intipege; his coach was drawn by sit iteaeltifollirsries : besides t Boas. weir &err servants b lot lioflebsck attended fiewr • At semen Al , ill'reterned. Mr. Baron Wood, the Croon Judge here, came in the Bishop's carriage. Mr. Jusiice litytey, who bed gone to narrowest., had not yet isitired. They proceeded directly to the Crows. .CWitit, where the Commission was opened etsd read. The only peculiarity in the proceedings sas s that the Royal Proclsmation against sire And profaneness was not read, and that instead of '• the King, .and my [Arils the King's Justices," the Crier cots eluded with- "God as,, the King, and my Lind of burham."—The rash of spectators into the Court was e a traortlinarily great: this is probably to he ascribed to the novelty of the sight, es the Assizes art held here only once in the year. Adjourned till 12 to•rnorro w. ~ K l' ASS IZ ES. MAIDSTONE. Jove' 10.` W./ CIVIL THE KING V. ItEES AND THREE OTiltßi. This was au indictment against Itee, 0141, Wth, Edwards, George Wright, and John s Is-her, fur assaulting and falsely imprisoning two . trines, named Wm. Bills ata,,Nte. Nasoy i at Chatham, 6n the 6th Aug. last. The prosecution was carrietknn at the instance of the Board of Admiralty, and conducted by Mr. Sere king ONsLow, Mr. MARRYAT, Mr. GURNEY, and Mr. itoe. It appeared in evidence, that the firth Defendant, Mr. Rees, was a linen-draper it Chatham, and Ike other Defendants were his servings. At 11 o'clait, on the night of the 6th of Aug. the Prosecutors were .:alking on the pavement near Mr. Reea'• doer, and one of them accidentally happened to touch the area of Mr, Edwards, one of the Defiedents, whilst he was speaking toe female. This produced some abu sive tanguageson both sides, which ended in an at tack by Mr. Rees, upon the marines, aided by the other Defendants, except IVrigle. They wen knocked down, beaten and kicked violently, and afterwards taken to the cage, and Balls was subsea quently confined for about 14 days in the hospital, in cantegnence of the bruises he received. Mr, ADOLPHUS, with whom was Mr. CHITTY, sd. dressed the Jury with great ingenuity and eloquence on the part of the Defendants, and afterwards pro. duced several witnesses, the effect of whose evidence was to show, that the Prosecutors were the aggressors —that one of them had • drawn his bayonet, and wounded one of the Defendants, end behaved other. wise in a 'pent manner, which rendered it necessary for the Defendants to act on the defensive. The case went to the Jury finder the directiont of the Leirtied Judge, and all the Defendants were found Guilly,witts the esception of George Wright. tHE KING V. milt This was an intntmaiion against the Defendant, at the suit of the Attorney-General, for assaulting Ni cholas Roubillia rd, an Officer of the Cuatoms, in the eiecution of Ilia duty, at Deal, on the 17th Oct. Mr. Se.jeant ONeLOW. Mr. MARRYAT, Mr. GDR. NET, end Mr. ItoE, conducted the prosecution; and. Mr. ADot.Peris the defence. The facts of Jilt case were these Roubil. liard, now • Lieutenant in the Navy, and Mr. Peete c also s Lieutenant, and both -belonging to his Majes ty's ship Severn, stationed at Deal, were sent in per. suance of a deputation from the Ciasioms aided by 10 men, to search a tugger, in the act of landing, and supposed to contain smuggled goods. In the at. tempt so to do, the Defendant attacked Mr. lloubil- Hard, and struck him a blow on tee breast, which made him stagger several pacer. Mr. Roubillisnrs evidence was corroborated by that Of Mr. Petite, and the Defendant was foand Guilty. WYATT V. SIR C HOSTS, K•C B. This was an action against the D.fendant, as re presenting the Commissioners of the Navy and 01d- Ilene. Departments at Sheerness.. It was argued, that the action should be brought against him, instead of the Commissioners. Mr. CtinWonD stated the pleadings, that the Plain. tiff complained of the Defendant for trespassing on the waste of his Manor of Minster, and taking away the gravel of the beach ;to this it was pleaded, that the place in question was the property of the King, and that the Defendant committed the supposed trespass as the servant of the Kieg, and by his eommand. The Plaintiff denied this right, and asserted the place to be his own soil end freehold. Mr. Gueneit then stated the Plaintiff's case, which was, that the Commissioners of the Navy and Ordnatrce had taken the steAsesch from the shores of the Manor of Minster, for the purpose of ballasting the King's ships, and for many years they had paid the Lords of the Manor of Minster for this privilege; bet of late years they had refused to pay for it, and the omly question now wits, how far the waste beach of the Manor eatended f The Plaintiff It as high as high-water mark of ordinary sring and the Defendants contended that it was only is the bigh•water mask of ordinary Deal ~' x7eV _.s ~~„ oA;ithk2 . ak - r STA.TESMAN ' • • - - vr.""'" • f OPER.d. rAtv ;riligLLIGEn 4.; of It nag placed in the bands f Whet Defendsidei ind still unsold. Mr: Levitt I!yeame einh4tressed in h . . _ . _ .2 ...At...A-A §A. A.A1:•42.. AAA, HAI • '9. •di • vr • end ses. if cis ine4 ring tides; es ss.higls sip dilene GENERAL JACKSON. We give the following biographical sketch of the American Commander, who took Pensacola, because it is curious ; but some of the circumstances thus said to have characterized his life, will appear rather strange for belief. If this account he true, the . " Ha. nibal of the West," as his countrymen syle him, has ran an excceotric career, having been formerly a lawyer promoted to the beach, and having turned to the military profession, for which, by nature and disposition, be seems well fitted. He is a man of the most desperate courage, great facility of address, at limes delighting to mingle with the lowest classes, and to converse with them in their owls style ; and at other times, and in other society, emoting with equal ease the manners of a polished gentleman. fie is famous for the number of duels he has been engaged n, and an anecdote is told of bias which sufficiently marks his character. When he wasa Judge,. cr iminal on his circuit had escaped from the officers of justice. Jedge Jackson ordered the Sheriff to raise the posse to parses the offender, and advised him to summon him (Jackson) among others. The Judge accordingly went at the head of the posse, and shot the offender (who resisted) with his own hand. Ile then returned to the judgment-seat, received the report of the resist ance and death of the individual, 'Dud gave en order ' for his burial in doe form. From this account of the habits and temper of the "Hannibal of the West," it is not unlikely that he may have been tempted rather to extend than to contract the boundiries of any dis cretionary power with which he may have been en trusted. llow this may be time will show. We highly approve of the plan BIM adopts, of giving the names of the places where the Capitals he sells are sent tot we observe he notices near 30 places last Lottery, which had large Capitals, and in the preceding Lottery newly as many bad f 30.000 Prises of him; and the Lottery before that he sold Three 00,000 Prizes, and gave similar sc eonnt.—ln fact, it is in our recollection that there is hardly • place of any note but what has had Coal pitals of him in the late Lotteries , a—Though Butt gives the names of the places, he never mentions the names of the fortunate purchasers. • '! V 0 . .71 • ~~ I P II ri t•