The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-05 00:00:00

I a I K .~ ~~ [4 r r !'. ~ 'a ~~ ,; and are tei ed ardinail, seamen; and the third consists of !aniline'', or such as are not qualified for 111, second. The highest bounty which is granted 1) the naval service, offers to able seamen five. pounds, to ordinary and landmen less in proportion. I need not remind you that the bounty given by the land stoluce to raw undisciplined recruits (otherwise land b) is no less than SIXTEEN GUINEAS, for we see the adscriisemeut posted Up in every part of the city. Can it be expected, I ask, that under these circum stances our navy ran be strengthened by volunteers ? Already, the 11111111WTS that hove been impressed upon the Yore and the Thamec, loudly reverberate, " IVito can commiserate the misfortunes of others?" Let each individual apply Aix question to himself, and I am peisoaded that no time a ill be lost. Every nerve would then he strained, every arm extended, every tongue einployed : petitions would be addressed to Parliament from every part of the kingdom; perhaps Brion! would net the noble example—and his native city would be more venerated than ever by, Your humble servant, Wistol, April 26. INIS. JUS NAUTARUM. EOCUM F: NTS RFAD BY I.OIM CAiII.ERLAGH iN ° HIS SPEECH 11 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE 2r. MAY, L£TTZR FROM ELIZA, RONAPIRTE TO BONAPARTE. " Lucca, Feb. 14. 1811. " Stat,—l have had the honour of informing your Majesty by my reports of the sth and Bth of this month, of the concentrating movement operated by the Prince of Lucca upon Pica s Oir consequence of the circumstances which induced r.rt to quit Florence, to order the evacuation of that city, and to assemble all the troops of the division upon a point of greater security. The Prince has maintained himself at Pisa till now, but having received advice of an English expedition, amounting by all accounts to at least 6000 man, and which appears to be undoubtedly directed from Sicily against Leghorn, Spezia, or Genoa, I have determined to order the Prince to con. tinue his movement upon Genoa, in order that his retreat may not be cut off by the only road which still remains open. 66 I hare been confirmed in this plan by having ascertained that some Neapolitan troops, superior itel numbers, are already at Pistoja, and have forted our advanced posts to abandon the passage of Serra voile. " I also know that the enemy intends to cut off our communications, by seizing the road which con ducts, from Pontremole to Spezia, and the Riviera di Genoa. " I have thought proper to give him notice to keep some troops, upon which the Viceroy must have reckoned, and which cannot render any very decisive services elsewhere. " The projects of the English and Austrians do sway all the doubts which the personal conduct of the Klng of Naples might create. I ought not to conceal from your Majesty that I have received from him several letter., much at variance with the opera tions of his troops. " 'Du. King is in a state of great agitation. He is astonished that the Viceroy should have retired from the Adige, and that lhavequittedTuscany,upon the notion that he could be the enemy of your Ma jesty and of France. He loudly expresses his devo tion and his gratitude for your person, and he even said to the Tuscan Deputies, that he wouldprefer re. ceiving the first blow, to drawing his sword against a Frenchman. " I know not how to reconcile this language, of which I do not suspect the sincerity, with the ar bitrary measures which have endangered my autho rity, and those which oblige me even now to provide for the safety of the French troops assembled at Pisa. Your Majesty will appreciate these contradictions, which seem to me to proceed from a resolution deem ed by the King conformable to his interests, bot into which he has been dragged contrary to his own at. fections. lam assured that the language and con duct of the King are similar in his communications with the Viceroy. 44 It is nevertheless certain, that a Proclamation of Gen. Bellegartle's, which recalls the nations of Italy to their former state has been reprinted at Bo logna under the eyes of the King. " "I'Ms Proclamation, drawn up with much art, has produced the greatest effect in Tuscany, where it is eitensively circulated. 64 I am, with profound respect, Sire, &c. (sigat d) " ELIZA." i LETTER FROM BONAPARTE TO THE QUEEN OP NAPLES. " Nargis, Feb. 'l7. " Your Husband is a very brave man in the geld of battle, but he is more cowardly than a woman or n Monk when not in presence of the enemy. He has no moral courage. He has been frightened, and he has not hazarded losing for a moment that which lie cannot hold but by nits and with me. Make him tol:y sensible of kis absurdity. When he quitted the army without my order, I foresaw all the evil coun. tits which would be given hint. I am, however, better satisfied with the message he has sent me through you. if he be sincerely sorry, let him watch the moment for proving to me that he has not been so ungrateful as he is pusillanimous. I may yet pardon him the injury which he has done me." The value of those estates to which a right of fishery is established, have of late. so much increased, 'hat one belonging to the Duke of ARGYLE, in Scot land, and usually let for 15001. per annum, has been recently taken at the advanced rent of near 40001. per annum. An estate of this kind, near Berwick upon-Tweed, the property of Lord KEAY, and for merly producing hot 3001. per annum, can now be let et the rent of 10001. per annum. A great number of human bones, and one skeleton, nearly in a perfect state, were, on Friday last, dug up by some labourers, who were employed in widen ing the 'road at the Spital, near the direction-post, at the top of Lewes. The skeleton, was of,very large dim'cursiorni. Lirct week a mrtst extraordinary circumstance took 104C:P at •Surtleet. A woman of that town, l'indar, was actually married to a man named Newman, before the body of ber former Ws band was laid,ln the grave 1 j LITERARY FUND. The Anniversary Dinner of this truly laudable and interesting Institution took place yesterday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent in the Chair. Soon after six o'clock the Duke entered, accompanied by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Cox Hippisley, Bart. M. I'. Sir Benjamin linhhouse, Bart. M. P. the lion. I.yttleton, M. P. and several other distinguished characters. Dinner was then served up in the hest style, after which Non Nobis Domine was sung by Messrs. Incledon, Taylor, and Bellamy, with suitable eirect. The illustrious CHAIRMAN then proposed the heal'', of " The Kine.".— Air, " God save the King."---" The Prince Regent, the lintron of the Institution."—Air, '6 Flail, Star of Briociwick,"—aud " The Queen, and the rest of the Royal rainily." These toasts were drunk with great applause. The Duke of KUM then rose, and in an able and eloquent speech, detailed the history of the In- stitution of the Literary Fund. ft had commenced nearly thirty years ago, under the auspices of a ve nerable and respected Gentleman, Mr. D. Wil liams, whose absence, occasioned by growing age and infirmities, lie greatly lamented. Its object was , to solace and relieve the calamities of those whose mental vigour had been directed towards the in- struction and improvement of their fellow-creatures. It was needless for him to say, that of all classes in society which had most benefited the community, ' there was not one who in its progress was more ek posed to the neglect of its private interest. The history of genius showed, that he who was absorbed in his study, rarely glanced at his ewn pecuniary interest. It was the lot of a literary character, as sailed by misfortune, to feel his fate more keenly than other men, and yet to hide in silence his cala mity—there was, therefore, a double duty upon those who sought to cherish merit when found in' indigence, and pining under the pressure of do-' mestic woes; one part of this duty was to relieve; the sufferer, the other to afford that assistance with- out piercing the tender fibre of acute sensibility.— [Applause.]—The aid given under such Circumstances was but the inadequate retribution which society owed to the person whose meditations and labours afforded them the materials of improvement and recreation.—[Applause.]—The Royal Chairman, in paying a tribute to the manner in which the funds of the Society were directed, alluded to the suggestion which had more than once been made, that annuities would be the, best mode of rewarding meritorious claimants. Here his Royal Highness observed, that this was a question not of option, - but of necessity, with the Directors=for their guide must be the weight of their purse, and if they could not extend the limits of this to meet their object, they must confine their object within the circle of their purse. The Royal Chairman concluded by reading the report of the Registrars, Doctors Chas. Symnions and James Anderson, and Mr. John The Duke of KENT next proposes " Prospe rity to the Institution"—which was drunk with three times three, and called on Mr. Fitzgerald, who recited his annual Ode, which was received with warm approbation. Mr. Fitzgerald's health was then proprosed from the Chair, and drunk with great ap plause. The Hon. J. LYTTLETON, as one of the Stewards, rose to express the great benefits which the Insti tution derived from the noble example which the il lustrious Chairman, and other Members of his Fa mily, had set by their patronage and munificence; he would therefore propose " The health of the Duke of Kent."—[considerable applause.l—His Royal Highness returned thanks, and expressed his warm satisfaction at having been thought worthy of the approbation of the company assembled on this occasion. Sir BENJAMIN ITOBHOUSE rose, to express his ad miration of the patronage with which his Royal High ness the Prince Regent, and their present illustrious Chairman, had honoured the Literary Fund. These Royal Personages had by this act shed an additional lustre on the brightest jewel in the Crown, and an nexed a fresh ornament to the splendour of their ex alted characters. The Duke of KENT, after a short preface, in which he begged that the toast he was about to give ! should be abstracted from any political feeling, proposed the" Health of the Duke of Wellington," adding, that he trusted his services, if necessary for the public weal, would be always at hand, bat stilt hoping that the hero would seldom be called into pro. fessional activity. This toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. The health of the Doke of Somerset was drunk with three times three. The Lord Mayor's health was then received with considerable applause. His Lordship returned thanks, and observed, that he had for many years been a subscriber, and an earnest admirer of this linnitution—formed, as it was, for so laudable and patriotic a purpose. Upon the health of the Vice-Prolgent of the So ciety being given— Sir J. C. IllepintY rose, and warrofy enforced the obligations which the Duke of Kent and his Royal Brother had conferred upon the Literary In stitution. The health of Mr. D. Williams, the founder, was then given from the Chair, and the tonvivialty of the evening was kept up until a late hour by the Duke of Kent, who continued giving from the Chair seve ral patriotic sentiments, which were accompanied by the genial influence of the vocal talents of Messrs. Incledon, Bellamy, Taylor, and Master Barnett. In the course of the evening the Treasurer read the state of the accoents to the Meeting. The present donations were— (The 19th) from the Prince Regent, 100 guineas. From the Stock Exchange, out the prolit3 unlawfully ob tained by Lord Cochrane, Mr. C. Julistuue, and others, 100 guineas. From tt , e Lord Msynr, 10 ruiners. Sir J. C. llippidry , Bari. 10 guinea , . Sir Wiltioin (largo, 10 guineas; and several smaller do baiions. The balance in the hands of the Treasurer, after the necessary disbursements, amounted to nearly 6501. On Fliday evening last, St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, was robbed of the surplice and several other articles belonging to the Vestry. THE STATESMAN. -....1Ww•- To THE HON. JOHN FRED. ROBINSON, M.P. SlR,—Whether to attribute the assertions made in an article which appeared in the Courier Newspaper of the 12th inst. (under head of The late Riots) to the Editor of that Paper, or to yourself, I am wholly at a loss, although it has been given to the public appa -1 rently by the former. Seveisl days prior to its insertion, I sent an ocher. tisement to that Paper, contradictory of a report which was then much propagated, ♦iz. " That you had caused my son, who was killed by the firing from your house in Burlington-street, on Tuesday,l I the 7th ult. to have been privately interred; and that you had also wholly defrayed the expences attendant upon that unfortunate occasion."—Now, Sir, you must know, as well as I must know, that both those , assertions were wholly and equally void of founda j tion. The advertisement contradictory of this report, , was sent several days prior to its appearance in the Courier Newspaper. Having been for a considerable time confined almost in a state of total blindness, I had no opportunity of seeing the publication until yesterday evening, th►t in which my advertisement appeared; wherein, at the very same time, I also saw the article to which I allude, that under head of " The late Riots."—Now, Sir, my advertise ment had merely for its object, to contradict a report of a very fatse and injurious nature with regard to myself: but the article to which I allude, evidently has for its object, to involve, in the strongest degree of guilt, the conduct of the unfortunate persons who were killed by the firing from your house in Burling ton-street. No man can possibly read it, without drawing the base inference intended—" that the per , sons who lost their lives upon that occasion, were actually and actively occupied in breaking into your house."--It is impossible to mistake the imputation designed throughout the whole of this article, evi dently calculated to sanction the necessity of having taken the lives of the identical persons who were at that time killed. When I figure to myself, that I behold my son, who within two hours before parted from me in the bloom of youth and health (and who had scarcely been a moment on the fatal spot), then laying pros. trate in the last gasp of death, and hear a rode soldiery calling out—" bear away the bodies !" what must be the agonizing sensations of any parent unfler such imaginations realized? They were mine —and not those of the writer of that article. Convinced, as I was, that my son in no manner misconducted himself upon that unfortunate occa sion, could I have conceived that such base iiisiooa (ions would have dared to make their appearance in the very face of the strongest evidence so diametri cally opposite, and of which the Coroner so re peatedly expressed his conviction.--Ilad the writer of that article confined himself to giving cautions, it mould have been very laudable advice, and of which there could be no reason to complain ;—but not ' satisfied with the forfeiture of two lives wholly tin connected with any riot, the ashes of the unfortunate victims are, with a degree of barbaroui t triumph, trampled upon in the grave, and a revival of the most painful sensations excited—by adding the basest ca lumny to the most irreparable injury• . . With regard to yourself, Sir, if the insinuations contained in this article, have in any manner been sanctioned by you, I mast say—it very ill accords with the sensations you so strongly appeared to labour under when referring to that unfortunate occurrence in the House of Commons. I am, Sir, your very humble servant, 4, Denmark-street. April 20. 1815. T. M. VIZE. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, / 1 / 4 r 4. The adjourned Sessions were this day held at the Sessions•house, Clerkett well-green, before Mr. Mai n waring, the Chairman, Mr. Serjeant Runniogtoo, Mr. Watson, and other Magistrates, principally to hear an important Appeal relating to the appropria tion of Poors' Rates, and Expences of Parochial Ap plications to Parliament. HEAD AND ANOTHER AGAINST THE TRUSTEES OF TIIE POOR OP HACKNEY. Mr. Serjeant BEST, for the Appellants, stated that the Trustees of .the Poor of the Parish of Hackney had induced several persons in that parish to make an application during the last Session to Parliament for a local Act, for compelling the landlords of houses within that parish, let at and under 201. per annum, to pay the poors' rates for such property — that such Bill was disapproved by Parliament, and was rejected by the House of Commons on the third reading by a great majority ; and that the, Trustees had, on November 28, 1814, ordered that the ex. pence. of that application, amounting to 19171.35. 8(1. should be paid out of the rates for the relief of the poor. Against that order the Appellants, who were independent inhabitants of the parish, hnd appealed, as being an order violating all the principles of the poor rates, and equally unprecedented, illegal, and corrupt. • Mr. Serjeant VAL:GUAM, for the Trustees. con tended that such order, although contrary to general law, was authorized by the particular local Act for that parish. Serjeant RUNNINCTON, ns a Magistrate, then in terposed, and stated, that the poors' rates were a sa cred fund which ought not to be appropriated to any other olrject than the relief of the poor, and that clauses were inserted in all local Acts autho rizing the payment of the espences of obtaining them out of some public fund, and that the inser tion of those clauses indicated that, even when Acts were obtained, those charges could not, without such authority, be legally paid out of any public fund, and that therefore the charges of applying for an Act, which was refused, could not be so defrayed, hut must be paid by the individuals who so thought proper to apply. _ _ the - CHAIRMAN and other Magistrates unanimous ly concurred in this opinion, and the Appeal was al lowed without the Counsel fur the Appellants being required to reply, and the order made by the 'l'rus. tees for the payment of such expences out of the pool's', rates of the parish was- rescinded by the Court. At Brook-green fair, the wife of Green, the Po lice Officer belonging to Queen-square,. had her arm broken in consequence of falling out of a swing. POLICE. _........__ !;It`7 -- QV' EEN•S Q U ARE. Yesterday Edmund Daman! ap. Treated at this Clifice on nu information etitiihateit against him, having advertise:l for and roceived lte.- cruits for the Army without having authority so to do from the Adjutant-General, an offence punish,. We with the penalty of 2td. 'term-ding to the 94th clause of the Mutiny Act, 54 Geo. 111. A man named Bryson went t o Himont's Militia Office, No. 9, Oxford.street, in consequence of an advertisement, and he and another man becam e substitutes for one who wanted to leave the tbo i Hussars. • Dameht could produce no regular authority f or this, and said General Gwynne had told in ?hitt the regulation was dispensed with, and that if corn. manders would receive the recruits, there was n o help for it. _ _ Mr. FIELDING said, howe►er much good Ihmant might have done in obtaining recruits, and he had procured an immense number, this cte was most obstinately against him ; and whatever erroneous notion might have got abroad respecting the ',fol. sions of the Act being, neglected, it would be fou n d, wherever complaints were exhibited, that such was not the fact. Damant then said that he had received authoritt to engage two men, but that he had lost such authc4 rity, and his Solicitor begged that Judgment might be postponed to enable him to enquire into such state. ment, which request was acquiesced in. BOXING EXTRAORDINARY. Cribb, the celebrated miller, brought a charge of assault against George Ikaila l an element dasher (waterman). The parties, it appeared, had been sacrif►cing libe. rally at the shrine of the jolly god, a few words arose, and a mill ensued, in which both were plunged into the water. The Magistrate discharged the warrant, and the parties left the Office, threatening each other with actions in a higher Court. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. MAxSto'N-aousa.—Yesterday James Poole was charged with robbing a man of the name of Webb, is Whitechapel, on Wednesday night. The Prosecutor deposed, that he was returning home about 11 o'clock on the night mentioned, when he was met by the Prisoner, who suddenly laid hold of him, struck him a violent blow, which nearly deprived him of his senses, and putting his hand to his waistcoat pocket, rifled it of ell the silver he had got shoot him ; he then ran off, but was pursued and soon overtaken. In his flight he had thrown away the silver, but a number of suspi cious duplicates were found upon him. He was remanded for another examination. Wm. Hopkins was charged with robbing Mr. Grubb, the Proprietor of the Bank Coffee-house, on Wednesday afternoon, of a quantity of window and bed-curtains, and other articles. The Prisoner, it oppeared, had got into the house clandestinely, and one of the servants having occa sion to go up stlirs, met him coming down, with a bundle a ppareutly under his coat. Bein g Wm.°. gated as to his business, he said it was but a .nktake, as he had been looking for the chambers of a gentle. man. This answer did not give satisfaction, and upon being more closely pressed, he dropped the pro perty, which, however, he said he had picked up on the stairs. He was remanded for another examination. GCILDIIALL. YeMPlllay John Raniall was charged with robbing Mr. Joseph Neale, a country gentleman, in Jewin-streot, Alderagate-street, on Wednesday night. The Prosecutor had been until about le o'clock, on the night mentioned, at tire Castle and Falcon Tavern, and was returning to his lodgings in J wia crescent, when he was met by the Prisoner, who, seeing him a little intoxicated, stopped. him, sad took his pocket-book, containing 141. in notes, and several papers of value; with which he escaped.— Shortly after the Prisoner was met by Page, the patrole, who stopped him as a suspicious character. The former, however, fearing.the approach of Mr. Neale, commenced a desperate fight, but was at length knocked down by Page, who observed the pocket-book drop from him at the same moment.— Upon the recovery of the Prisoner, he again attack ed the patrole, in order to effect his escape, but after a hard struggle, he was again threw's, and at length secured. At this moment the Prosecutor came up, and the thief, as well as the property, was recognised. The Magistrate complimented the officer upon his vigilance and exertion, and the Prisoner was re manded for a final examination. FORGERY. HATTON-GARDEN.--Thursday James Tyre Was broils Ist uP f r esamination, a charge of utter(sie tt draft .o ids a fil e acceptlllN., for 12.. with intent to defraud Mr. Jahn mond, musical instrument-maker, at No. 7. Polygon, "" wil " town, who stolen, that %lone class since, Slip Prisoner tame 1 0 his shop and *hired a pi .0 -.forte by the month, but sitterti..tds told wanes; he had a fri-nd who "ranted I. pierch.,se a pi forte, and if he would take I. for the one lie, she Pis- , "r• had hired, that he was commis,' ed to ray for the same; th e other nereed to take the mone and the Prisoner gave Mut a note for 121. perporting to be accepted by a J.oepk Johiwon. 1 ri ' l " l. 8 " 0 " after the uttoess saw the 'ATP piano forte at a broker's shop in the neighbour! A for sale, when he suspected the note to be for,.e I ; he accordingly wr de to a friend of his at Bristol, to make the proper enquiry after the acceptor, and was informed that no bucti person nab to be fuuud.—The Pr'. e-ster seas remanded. John W ittienr, head gardener to H. Andreas, Esq. of Ficch le, apprehended by W. Thistletoo, the officer, was examined , charged with having committed a most detestable offence. Tie examination uois strictly private, and the PrisilDer was fatly committed fir trial. John WriAlit. the driver of No. 278. hnekney-eonch,apne3r ed warraiit, charging hint with whine more 111111 his f•re. The roensured, and he win, lotted curreci.—Vic Cumpla;nani paid the expenceo. MAR RI 1.10. On Thartdav, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, John Caz en° ! e ' Fsq. of Hr,,att-greet, to Harriett, the d.,eghter of James Gib son. F.sq. of Hunter -street. Brume/irk-square. On the 94 in•t. B. B. Hatton. Esq. of Barking, Evsexi I° Miss Coleman, of Altiergate-street. DIED. On the 2d inst. Mr. John Van Voo6i, of Wahrorth, aged 37 * On the Jd inst. Mt . . John Gilson,- surgeon, Winid-street, SO' talfieldc. On the 27th tilt. at Taunton. at her father's. MN. Mtn' ll. thf wife of T. P. Doren, Esq. Captain in the Koval Navy, of Fair-oak, Devonshire. LONDON • 'HAIM Lahti P‘itailihr..l ha 11) Loa , r., L. at II OFVICX, 87, Ilert-suert. 1110 Teo R s t le The a ! I prim wale TI br4l Pqrr. 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