The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-05-04 00:00:00

CHUIZE OF THE CONGRESS FRIOeITE. . (FROM TIM tTIONAL IXTELLIGENCON.) . The following an extract of a letter from an Offi cer on hoard the United States frigate Congress. dated I.intin Maud. fifty utiles from Canton, Nov. 7, lo IV: " We made Java Head, the south-western extremity of ti:e Wand of Java, and southern point, forming Funds Straits, on the lath day- of Yeptentber, at 9 h. 30 tn. A. s. with tlo• ship Citizen, of New Vork, wider convoy, After standing up the Straits some thirty or forty miles, we were boarded by a great vuttiln•r of the t.atires; an account of whom I sent to our friend M'Kinsty. ire anchored in Anger Bay nit the 21st, at 1 v. 0., where is a small fort and b!ocklintise he'onging to the litech, and garr:soned by Malay troops, commanded by a captain anti one )übaltern. '• The Javanese are far from considering themselves under any restriction by the garrison in the village ; on the contrary, much pains is taken by the Dutch to keep them in a good humour. " Leaving Anger flay, we worked up, day h t • day, to the northward, until ne entere‘t the Straits of Punta, which takes its name from the island forming the eastern, as does the island of Sumatra the western side of it. The shore along the coast of Sumatra, both haw-1..8nd after entering the Straits, is remark-1 ably tow, and continually covered uith water for some distance hack. Large trees appear growing tint of the midst of the waters, whose roots, continually washed by the ebb and flowing of the titles, gradually loosen their hold in the earth, and a common gale of wind will precipitate a %thole line in the Strait., whose floating trunks, generally with roots upturned, are always met in passing through, to the no small, thouglt temporary, alarm of strangers navigating this passage. The Straits of Banta, from the entrance to the outlet at the north, is 1.15 miles ; though possess. .Ing many dangers and difficulties. I consider it the the safest and best approach to the t. him' sea. " At the head of this Strait, off the mouth of Pa• Inntban river, we four,' a Ditteh sip* olron of one 7.1 and two frigates, besides smaller vessels. At the head of this river, the Dutch have for many years main •taiold a factory; but, a few months since, the natkors, embodying themselves, attacked the Dutch, and very few were enabled to escape with life on board some small vessels they had lying in the river ; upon the first intimation at Batavia, they dispatched the vessels we saw In the Straits, two frigates. then under weigh standing up the river to Palumban. • " Passing the Straits amidst squalls and thunder, at three in the morning, during the vivid flashes of lightning, w•e discovered the Seven Islands, then the island of Palo Ty°, a small, high and uninhabited island, situated to the westward of the former. Among these islands, and those to the eastward, called the Anhambas, we were visited by a speck of the 'Wal low, of two very different appearances, both having thy sow note with those of uur own country : one of the saute plumage and appearance, though smaller : the other larger, much the bailie form, with a plumage uf very light silver gray... To else of these birds, I 'believe the lame, the Chinese are indebted for their greatest epicurean Instary—a bird's nest, which is discovered, after much labour and search, among the Vie rocks and cliffs of the islands-of the China Sea : a few of which sold lo the Mandarins at Canton, re-com p-rise these poor searchers for months of toil. We passed Palo Sepals, lying in lat. 12 deg. 2m. on the tub October, and that vast rage of dangers which tretch near 61'0 miles, to the roast of Palawan; to get well to the northward of these shoal-, before the change of the monsoon, is a great object obtained : and every I•• Ay should at the same time endeavour to get as frr to the eastward, doting the months uf September, Oc tober, and November as possible, as thick rainy wea ther, much easterly and heavy winds, are to be expect ed, and those dreadful scourges of these seas, the Ty fenge (Tuffoons, vulgarly called). " It would surprise you to know what a number of ger •pean establishments have been formed in this sin gularly wild and savage Archipelago, amongst a race of rnile, vindictive, naked Islanders; you will behold the subjects of different European nations, bidding defiance, as it were to disease, to danger, and a thou send deaths, which is continually reducing the number of their hardy few: strange too that sufferings should not teach them commisseration ; but that, in the midst ef all their troubles, they should treat those natives, in their power, with ruthless remorseless tyranny.— Thie observation is probably more applicable to the ruteli settlers than any others. But the English can claim no great exemption from the general reproach of i barbarity, in the treatment of their possessions in India. The Butch have attempted é settlement on the north coast of the Island Borneo; but the difficulties they her • to encounter in the opposition of the natives, the deleterious state of the atmosphere, makes it ex tremely problematical, whether they effect it or not however little these islsoders like the innovation of foreigners, they give the preference to the English, and s.—mare opposed to tine Mitch Trin any others. Prom the time we got to the north of Polo Saparta, until we arrived at the north end of Luconia, was two weeks, on aeconnt of the continued calms, and southerly cur rests ; un 24tA of October the wind commenced from the noeth-east, and increased till 25th, when it blew an ehisulute hurricane. Nothing could stand the fury of the sudden and tempestuous gusts; every sail was furled, avid it required all our exertions to secure the ship. The whole firwanwnt assumed a wild, lucid, and extraordinary appearance, and rellected upon the &rhea blood-red colour, the precursor of a tyfong— the seas rose in mountains, and tumbled over the ship In wild confusion, and every part of her appeared to trelnblt under the frequent shocks ; through the whole night the tempest raged, and it was passed in no small anxiety by all on board; thus it continued until the 311th, when it began to Orate, and on the 31st we put sal' upon the ship. " On the Ist of Nov. after doubling round the east side of the l'ratas Shoal, ee made the coast of China, and wound in among the islands to this place, where see are at this time snugly moored, waiting the return eit the Purser, and the arrival of the American Consul, Mr. Wilcox, from Canton, to arrange the best mode of proce d ure —whether to go np eighteen miles further to an awhorage at Chinnpre, or remain here; we have thus far obtained our sui,plies very readily from the Aare, though at rather an advanced As yet I THE STATESMAN. have nut visited the island ; shall do so probably to morrow. During the tyfottg, •tit* Chinese boats suf fered dreadfully ; upwards of two hundred of them were totally destroyed, :•nd, at a moderate computation, two thousand of these unfortunate beings, of both sexes, v.-ere consigned to eternity amidst those waters, upon whose surface they had lived for generations be fore. Al t every 1 se in Macao was wore or less injured, and an East India Company's ship dismasted, lying in Macao Roads." the briOstrst touge :—thei: dress is adotned by rib bons, and glitters with tinsel that might look be coming, even on the boards of our mighty thestres.- 1 :tnil yet, on consideration, we think that even the chimney-sweepers begin to feel the influence of the time. Yes, it is certainly set The clantotir of their stomachs is mu longer linshed by Mrs. Montage's be nefaction. The iniektness of their looks is on the wane. They are no longer the happy mortals that they were wont to he. They have become unlike-- The inhabitants of the earth. The grins with which they demand a reward for their melancholy tnovements are scarcely of this world ; avail the music which they, once a year, degrade fr its sublime elevation to please us mortals on the earth below, sounds heavy and monotonous ; its ateakenittr spirit is gone: the orchestras, es en at the minor theatres, may surpass it. This is but a mournfal tertnihation to an article on the month of May, and yet we do not know how to amend it. Were the plasures of the time still pr. - sent, perhaps we might have catteist a spirit from the sports : lint we have hail to speak of joys no loner in existence ; and the recollection of old days rotates open us with a more sorrowful feeling than if they had never bees festive and gay. L.IIV INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, M►Y S. TIII: KING r. HINT AND OTIIERII.--Mr. Justice Ilavt.Ev entitinited the reading of his Report until three o'clock, when not having finished it, the further proceedings were adjourned until Friday morning. Mr. Thomas Well., who has several times applied for hearing to their Lordships, appeared up the floor of the Court, and entered into a very incoherent state ment of real or suppose I grievances. '1 he • ffeet of this gentleman's addr.ss wan to impute the etitne of perjnry to certain indit ideals of respectable situation in society ; and he was informed by the bird Chief Justice that the Court could not I:sten to su c h default. tory enatier. Afi• r he had b cu repeatedly desired to state the nature of his W 1111) put in an affidavit of fearful extent, declar:ug that lie was a ruined man if any ;:ccident beryl it. He sul.-iineetly entreatol, that the Court would be pleased to :v.sigt) him proper Conn /a I, in order that his case, which was of the highest importance both to hintse:f and to the launch, might be fully investigated. The LORD CHIEF Js STICK thought that Counsel had already been requested to look into the matter. He would read the affidavit; and if there was any thing which the Court could do, and ought to do, that should he done; but the Court could not listen to de - Mutation. '1 he plaintiff might apply again in a day or two. THE KINO r. JOHN SHEA 1.-Mr. MARRTATT prayed judgment agrinst this drfendant, who had been con victed upon an indictment for obstructing the revenue officers in the performance of their dnty. The defend ant wi.s sentenced to four months' imprisonment in Maidstone gaol. ''''irraie /Lure in ihirtai. Ihnsoreas.—The p r isoner in this ease was an Rzeize 'Meer in the Cantiridge divi sion, and was convicted of having defrauded two poor persons, named 31iIht and Forteseue, each of the sump of 16s. Mills anti Fortescue, as dealers in tea and coffee, were obliged by law to take out an annual license for their traele: to receive the money due for such licenses had been part of the duty of the prisoner ; and he had induced Mills and Forteseue to pay Yea the amount, on the pretence that he had already paid it, upon their account, into the proper °Mee. The prisoner, in his defence, put in a written pip% in which he declared his innocence of the charge optui which hr had been convicted; and stated, that he Md i actually, in many instances, so paid the license-milliti iii advance. lie had been dismissed from his Anse tion, had suffered imprisonment during 131 days, Me had a wife and children entirely depentlent spun hint. The Loan Colls, Jl'Blllll reminded the prisoner, that be should have thought of his wife and children :4e he committed the offence of which he bad been guilty. ' • Ur. Justice B tYLiT said, that the crime of the pri soner WAS aggravated by the circumstance of the cow fidentie situation in which he had been placed ; and the sentence of the Court was, that he shoed be trans- ported fur seven years. TDB KING r. WALTERS A x a ornete.-31r. Serjeant , Pau. prayed the judgment of the Court egoism these defendants, six in number, for a riot and assault at Brrdgewater, of which they were couvicted last Assizes foe the county of Somerset, before 3lr. Justice Bur rough. The transaction arose unto( hostility towards Turner, who gave evidence be.; against it..bert Walters, for ;rise Laws,. of which he was to pay a line of 201. A ffids ma of pnalidument. string the A the defendants. addressed the Cote on behalf of the cireunfstances of the casel and adjudged as folloWs : and Mary tioese should go atl respective husbands entering into , ;their good behaviour for two , pay to the King a fine of 101., the good behaviour of himself 'himself in 5111., and two _.- his wilb to he insprisoned in Detester gaol fur three months; Charles Ct.llins to be i risoned for one month in the same gaol, and to en-, I IF q his personal recognizance in MU. to be of . ltiaviuur for three years; and Joseph Rossiter , n Rae of 51., and enter into security for his r for three years, himself in 501., and is in 251. each. 1 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY I. fr ' y r. !int Ltd:co.—This was an action brought by **net of two coaches, running to Ry e , t o recov er 'tolls which he 110 paid by compulsion to the nt. It appeared that toll had b e en rece i ve d y e defendant on the 31st of June, 1819, f or some drawing one o f the plaintiff's coaches, and that s ,* on their return with another coach, on the sante day, the toll had been demanded, which the plaintiff was obliged to par to avoid being stopped. '1 he question argued was, whether the same horses dram ing a dif. ferent coach were exempted from a second payment o n the same day, by the 44th George 111 —Thi‘ bein g :)rovht before the Court by a demur rer to t h e dada . - ration. Mr. Serjeant TADDT Was Counsel for the defendant, and Mr. Serjeant I.IO3ANQUET for the plainti'r. Mr. Serjeant 'Norm- r► as heard in reply lk hen The Causer ►!etermined that the ease cited by the plaintiff's Counsel governed this in principle, and that the exemptions contained in the 24 George 111. had been re-enacted in the 49th, and therefore gave judg: anent for the plaintifr. Dunux, Arum 26.—0 n Saturday, an inquest was ' held on the body of Robert Lilly, of Little Longfoed , street, before Alderman &Aral' JONES, City Coroner, and a respectable Jury. It appeared in evidence, that the deeeased had been a respectable citizen, who, by honest indultry, had accumulated some thousands of pounds, and was the owner of several homes in this ee s ti i t 0: city. About seven years ago I* portioned kis only daughter in marriage to a Gentleman who held r.... spectable situation in a public . e. Al eat four v ago his affairs became greatly deranged, and h e o a put nd into th: a hour liam Courts set, he between ns s en that n pr i>,,,, upwards of three years, and when scarcely he attemptedt vent Act, was arcely worth a pound follow his business, but hi re he was again disvppointed. All these circumstances preyed severely on his mind, and be was constantly complaining of the badness of the times, and lamenting the loss of the property he possessed. On Friday morning he made trio or three applications, in all of which he was disappoint. ed ; he returned to his lodgings in the coarse of the day, and after having been at home for some time, sent for a gentleman in the neighbourhood, to whom be gave his keys, anl. I 5.,1 4 1 his Itrart was broken, and he would nut be lung alive. Shortly after be was seized with a violent vomiting, which terminated in his death. While this evidence was giving to the Jury, Surgeons Ireland and Osborne opened the hotly, and examined the stomach and intestines, after which, being duly sworn, they returned a written report, tha: his death was occasioned by arsenic. It was pr,, er d by several witnesses, that the deceased had always arsenic. by him, for the purpose of killing rats. .The Jury immediately returned a verdict, " That h e cause by his death by ha, lug taken arsenic." l'one, Arnie. Vr. hr. o of the men kit for exert'. tiou at the late County Assizes, were hanged this day at Hallows-green, pursuant io sentence. Their names were' Patrick Dnetwortli, i ;toothy Deashy, and Denis Crawler. 1 hey hail heen convicted of burglary in the house of a poor man somewhere in the west of the county, from whom they took a few ragged clothes. which were afterwards restored to the owner, and a trifling stun of money. l'unwortb, who was from the neighbourhood of Alan w, was much superior to the others in his general appearance, which was rather decent. He continued t.) read a prayer-book with much attention on his wav to the place of execution, and excited the astonishment of the spectators to find him an associate in such a robbery. The others were illiterate, wretched-loolOng seen, and joined very de voutly in the prayers which were read by the elerq men who accompanied them. Density was an old man, who had, it appears, deserted his wife and six children for some years. Crawley was very youmr. The three were apparent) } very repentant, and suffered their Lae with much fortitude. There are three others for a like crime to die to-morrow. Domes et peens axon Hot. Thy how and pleasing sift. SOCRATES, by his discourse on marria&n, so en raptured his auditor) with the subject, that tee married men dew to their wises, and 41e belebelors hastened to be wedded ; ind " The 14pectefor" has aimed, that the word •• wife" is the rust agreeable and delightful name Is Were. ' The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the desideratum of oar en:oyment. teeming not only with hap , piness on rartii, but ;g the mei itself to baronets's with bliss hereafter. Previous, however. to entering into this hallowed oblige , tims , it bummers an ineperstise deity, not only to regulate the peasinhs, bet to el %Ilia the grosser nature front those im purities. whirls the ft•erlotn of derestrlctel pleasure may hare retailed on it To the necitet of such attention are attributable many of those hspiess inalsaces, which. while they eicite Cie inomeisvration of the beholder, should also imperal him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will efteminize the body--a residence in the tropics nill relax the elastic filers—hot more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently com promise-14e asteral dignity into a state of inanities, from whence the 'goateed sufferer more than &obis the chance of relief. To all such, urea. we address ourselves, offering hope--eibern)—uinsmilar strengtle—felieity ' • n o r will oar advent-) appear trestionable. sanctioned astiley are by the multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience. The pais cares of married rife;, are sometimes disterbed by the suspension of those !Austell, whieb concentrate the nuptial wreath—tor the female habit is often eimillintiunally weak—yet it cal he stresigttegned. and deficient eftergy im proved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, an well as is too? relaxation tailor gamentive , , enegiedge err ability to dire speedily. and *Rh effect. :smutty selleitems to espel the unfeeling 'levy rk from the putties mi prestespe welly taken up, we desist,' from gementl priseiples with less hesitation; and confident in our len honourable lateitrily as Members of she College of Iteirgns. we refer gar sateen; community of either sex (especially those entering into ma tri tat life) at once to our house. where daily alteedurs Is given for personal eons:lifetime : and letters from tile country are immediately answered; these must cumin remittance for ‘• It ice and :Medicine. which can be foreardca to any part of the world. howesur distant. GOSH end CO. M. R. C. Surgeons. 11, ilouverie-street. Fleet-street, Louisa. Jut published (Troth Edition), The AEG IS of LIFE, a familiar Commentary on titealtate Risessea. Ry GORR and Co..addressed to the Yes* sad Mnier 6 tr of both these*. May he had at 110. Poborw° r' row; 88. Pall-.hall ; 24, Gerrard-street; 174, Flest-strat and of all Booksellers. Price Oa Monday last. the Lad) of 11. M. Wardle, Esq. fey_ mouth, of a daugater. DI MD. Teredayeresing last. General Viten. formerly eidaeLife Guards. anti brother t• Mrs. P. La Tosehe. Ou Satan:ll,y last, in the tiOth year f.l* his age, the Honourable Wilmot Vaughan. Earl of Lisbarse. 41 1: Lordship dying unitterried, is someeeded in his title U es tates by his halt-brother, the Hee. Colour' Join Vai On Tuesday last. at her father's horse in Upytart:i. nor -street, Susan. the last surrlylag child of Jobe WIN". Esq. M.P. endue t Printed end Published by die Tsersisslia R. %V A WWII...Ian. at the 011ie.. Ne• Site tot, Cleseees Church :.bore all t'enesentosim" ..ll dens. sus Acisertisetccuis are reqimostel 1 be earsilAM. a female, named Brace Tar fore Justices of the Peace 1 las silence against the Exci convicted, and adjudged It vita wesd lint in mitigation plawee 'awl contrition of th II . WiLutaxa addre the de nelsons, and Thet'orar, taking an tl into alitsideration, ordered That Elisabeth Badman an large / upo6 their nipectis theif personal security fort' Trent Robert Walters to pi to Miter - Into security far th 14 wife fur three 'Teri, sueeties in 2;1. each, and 1 o.v .stA r-nA r. (rttoM •AI.OWfS'S LONDON MAGAZINE.") Concluded froes err Paper of Saturday. We are told that King Henry VIII., who was such a gallant in his youth and such a tyrant in his age, once rude "a !flaying - with his wife Katherine, from Ureenwicla to the high ground on Shooter's-hill, ac companied by the lutds and ladies of his court. Thi s must have happened in the earlier period of his life; and we can well believe that the man u•ho trod •• the held of the cloth of gold," and had qualities n Melt enabled hint to understand and return the courtesies of his brother king at Ardres, could relish the plea sures of the tiro o•. Mar. The Reformers were averse to all these sports, as savouring of superstition, and did much towards abo lishing them; yet Latimer once found himself ne glected, and roloprlled to give way to Rubin Hood. He say,—(ne quote this films 31r. Godwin's Life of of Chaucer)—" Coining to a certain ton - n en a holi day to permt, I found the church door fast ;locked. I taryed there Italie an hour.. and more, and at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, Syr, this is •t busy day with W. we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Ilotol's day ; the parish are gone abroad to gather fo:. 1: olio I ; I ray you let • thent not.—l thou.:lit my rochet would have been re gargled ; hut it 'yeah' not osrve; it was him. ;o give place to Rollin Rood and his men." The poets have erer been the treat advocates and pa rons of 3lay. Spenser, and Shakespi ate, and Fletcher, and Milton, and 411 the treater spirits of En i zland, b.IVC Slit.:pc.l from their lofty OMITS. With out disdain. Jo jtolice and hono u r to this delicate mouth. Spete•.er, it. his account of the 111111101., thus introducer : Then earn.. lair.. Mn-. the fairrO. 1I:1yd on ;round, Deck', all viith eainlie•a of her season's And Ihrow Ito; ti.•w'r, cut of her hy around. Shakespeare has scattered allusions to May, like dowers, over ali his plays and poems. We hear of " The merry month of May ;" the '• .lac-n:.•rtt of yottilt ;" the " lay of blood ;" &e. &e. lle tells us also (as we have a'ready said) of— Love whose month is es er May. ~~~:,~- Maids are Mny %hen they are Iflliol4. Rtit the Ay Whet, then are n Ive 4. and, what is pillar more to on r purr •se, the it is as impoggible to iliytrrse a crowd, na tls tu nutke 'cm sleep On May-tiny 'swelling. which will weer be. Marlow, iu 1/13 CriChtlitell song ul• the " Pa'sionate Shepherd,"Sanalies the pleasures a Jlay a grousul of invitation, as it were, to his mistress. The shepherd su ain't shell 'lance end sing, For thy delight etteit din) morning: If these delights the mind may 'twee, Then live with me, end ha try lure. And Mr. Charles Lamb, worthy in all respects to be classed with the writers of antiquity, has spoken of the saute thing, in some beautiful litter, addressed to a child. Milton talks of May and its beauties, in various parts of his mighty works. lfe has even written a sung " On May Mo ring," with which (although it is pretty well knots it) we shall conclude oar extracts. he sung is worthy or the day. Now the bright morning -star, day's harbinger, Comes doming from the East. and lends with her The flowery May. who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip. mid the pale primrose. hail bounteous Nlsy ! that dost Inspire Mirth, and youth. end starts desire; Woods nni groves are of thy dressing, Mill and dale cloth hosst thy blessing. Thus we seiste thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. _ . Thus then have the first of May, and the " fiowrie moods of May," be••n spent by our ancestors, and ce lebrated by our poets. Now, there is scarcely a gar land to be seen : the song is silent, am! the dance is over : the revelry has ceased ; and ♦ulgar pursuits usurp the pla:•r of those uleasant pastimes wh eh seem ed a sort of first offering to gentle skies, and were con seer.ited by the smiles of the tender year. If we were dwellers in the country, we would try to revive these things, for they are worth revival. They are land marks of happiness, to which the peasant was went to look : he enjoyed them in anticipation and remern branre ; they stimulated his exertions and rewarded , his toil. .1 he introduction of these customs wouldi render lamaries " of little worth" and less desired m l and might charm back many a spirit to its pure and' early simplicity. 'I he number of fierce adventures in. rensmeree and war would br tHminlsifed, because cess in either would be less an object of ambition. It is but a had thing, we suspect, when the minds of men are cooped op all together, either in counting-lioness or camps. Not only have the revellers left the revel, but the very poets, who ought to be free from the alloys of time, turn their barks on Nature, and their rhymes to more profitable account. They pen a fiery tale, a sa tire, a love-song, a compliment, or a joke : they prise, and coquet, with imitations of Nature, Itut Nature her self is never worshipped, and seldom sought. We had ivritten thus far, and had forgotten the only remaining followers of May-day sports. 'I he chimney-sweepers, with their soot, and shovels, and brushes, and finery, had absolutely escaped our thoughts. To them the first of May is still "a gaudy lday ;" though we fear that their dancing is not alto gether spontaneous. However, they are now the sole " lords of holiday,"—the only sporters and revellers in the spring. 'I hey are, indeed, splendid instances et gaiety. They have crowns, and garlands, and merry looks, and sometimes even pyramids of flowers. They disdain naan's every-day attire; and come forth in the morning to run their course, decked out in all Hy paraphernalia of their order ; their visages, it moot confessed, are of an indisputable black: Blurt, het seek as is esteem, Prince Metnnon's slow might brsrem. ~Ind this sombre colour is relieved by a liberal use r k . i ; d INN