The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-12-28 00:00:00

GRAND ASSEMBLY OF FkEEMASOI4Ig. Yesterday Mut St; ArciinsfAay, the half-yearly installation of Gratui Officers took place at the Free masons' Tavern, Great Queen -street, when his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was installed Grand Master of the United Freemasons of England. Free masons' Hall was most supeibly fitted up, and tiled f r om the outward porch ; the East was reserved for the Grand Master, Grand Officers, and Halters ; the Masters, Past-. Masters, and Officers of the several L o dges that attended were arranged on both sides, to tLe amount of nine hundred, the Masters standing in • foot, end the Wardens, Deacons, behind, sitting on_forms. At two o'clock the greed procession took place from the Great Hall to the Grand Lodge Room. Ills Royal Highness the Duke •of Sussex, Grand "Nagler, was supported by his Royal Brother, the • peke of Kent, Lord Dundas, and the other Grand Officers, Brothers, &c. The Organ was conducted py Brother •Westley. The sight was truly grand, to see so many Brothers, all dressed hi the insignia o f their respective Orders, enter, the Grand Lodge Room, accompanied by , the Rev. Dr. Coghlan, the. Grand Chaplain. After the ceremony the Brothers returned to divest themselves, after which there was a most sumpteou: dinner, and the day was spent in the utmost conviviality... The band of vocal per formers was numerou.s. DEATH OFMlis. ,-01.7117C07T. From the following account of•the death of this , imfatuated woman, published last evening in an extra Number of the Sunday Moritor, the Paper that has been degrading itself so mach, by its devotion to this imposture, it will a pear, that the reasoning of 'coul omb sense has been verified by the death of this poor , di vos oa . ind.deludea woman, and that this fact is uutbentkated TO SM. ITOKEII. Sta,—Agreeabit to your request, I send a messen _gee to acquaint you that Joanna Southcott died this morning, precise4:at (oar o'clock. The believers in her mission, supposing that the vital functions are enly suspended fora few days, will not permit me to open the body until some symptom appears which may destroy all hopes of resuscitation. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, • Piccadilly, Dec. 27.. RICHARD REIXE. (CIRCULAR.) Sta,—As you desired to be present et Mrs. iktetbcott's arouchcinent, had it taken place, as was then expected . ; the friends considee it as their duty to inform yod and all the medlar' gentlemen who had that ingestion, that to all appearance she died this morning etacily as the clock struck four. Cat* is taken to preserve warmth, in the body as she directed; and it is the wish of the friends that you will see her in her present state. ANN UNDERWOOD. 38, Alanchesteoltreet, Toesday,.Dec. 27. To Dr. a. Reece. _ _ 1 Y the principle itself, which was most %squish°. t The process commenced by Louis Bonaparte vial, and oppressive. He confidently anticipated against his wife, has been Prematurely brought be the approbation of the Meeting, Imputes he was fore the public. The Gazette de France, whioh pre appealing to their pockets, and there was no part of tends to be always better informed than other jour a man endued with more sesitive feelings than the nals, speaks of this affair as if the pleadings were pocket. [Laughter and applause.]---How then were about to commence. It dictates beforehand to the they toget rid of it ? By petition uponpetition, b% re- Judges and to thd public the opinion which they monstrance upon remonstrance, till the Minister onght to entertain respecting Madame St. Leo, inti should be compelled to bow to the will of the peo- : mates that the tribunals can do nothing but pronounce ple.—[Applause.]—That will, when unequivocally' for the husband against the wife, and insinuates that expressed, was most powerful ; it had proved so in all•reconciliation between the parties is at an end ; A French Paper says.- 44 Maly people bare fel i the Shop Tax, and in the . Dissenters' Bill, and it but no perann win be the dupe of this trick. astonished that Madame CATAI.RNI should refuse would prove so in the present case, if put forth with In consequence of the reports circulated that this 40;e00fr. and a free benefit, offered her by the Ma energy and unanimity — [Applause].before —lle hoped the cause was about to come the 'public, we have i Wagers of the Opera for 5 0 nights ' performance dur. people would resolve to throw a rope round the endeavoured to collect same authentic details, which -lag the year : but they should first consider the ; mighty bat hateful fabric, and with a long pull, I 4 we now present to our readers. reasons pf that celebrated siegeres refusal. Madame I Strong poll, and a pull altogerther, tumble it to OA 1 • The el-decant King of Holland, who is st present C A r eeasst says, that for, the . last eight years she ; ground --(Laughter and applause.]—He should now at Rome, but who does not seem to be definitively made in England more than 250,000 fr. a year by ; proceed to submit the resolutions to them ; but be- settle(' there, is desirous that the property he pos. her talent ; that 40 or 50,000 fr. are 'too trifling a I fore he did so, he wished to state that he had received Asses- in France should be instantly sold, and that his sum to 'educe her into a fixed engagement, which her [ . numerous anonymous letters containlug charges of children, who are now here with their mother, should 1 fortune enables her to do without. She means to !gross corruption against the persons employed in be sent to him. The Duchess (although possessing i n 1 -ours'. Beeavioue.—Wednesday, between one 7. . remain at liberty, and employ her talent on her-own . collectin g the tax, and many instances of oppression. in right of her marriage a claim to a community of j and two o'clock, K Awn Coil and Elitubells account." They were of no .ose to him, however, for he never goods) does not object to the firs t p a r t of her hus- 1 Roberts, his wife, stood in the pillory at the Cross The intended front of the King's Theatre , in PO 'would make any accusation against any man upon band's claims; but she resists the second , on the ,of Gl a sg ow, for Wilful Perjury, of *Mat they were MO, is begun ;itisto be formed of b r i ck-work i anonymous authority—[Apolause.] If the writers ground that the education of the children would not I lately convicted at the Sheriff's Court. During the stuccoed, and, when completed, it will add much to of those letters would collie forward and authenticate only suffer greatly by their remora!, but they would whole exposure they were assailed not only wide the external appearance of the building. their statements to' dm Committee, it might be doing also lose the privileges of French citizens. I filth bat with stones. The man, who seemed at first ItH essential 'service to the common cause. e It is quite natural in the father to wish to have his to treat his punishment as a joke, was particularly , ANECnoTE or Pats rING.—In the P rtledge Li ! children near him, but it is also natural that the ' aimed at , andmust I received h tare owebodily hurt. ,which afew years sin brary, mother should not agree to a proposition which not The woman, however, did not wholty escape. S. Wonlmer, of this city, was found an original I Mr. PARKER seconded them, with a few observe only separates them from her, but also deprives them , From the blood on her top, :she seemed to have printed proposal, by four booksellers of Londoe,ltious, upon the uttjust, oppressive, and inquisitorial for printing Sir Hear! Ckatureeies history and. Anti- stature of the tax. of a fixed and certain domicile for their future life, i been wounded on the head. The atones were with all its edvantages.--(Journal de Paris.) thrown chiefly, if not entirely, by a party of lads futile, id Ilertfordshire, dated 1697 , in which they Kr. 11.EsIAITRE objected to the tax, not only upon • i stationed near the new building erecting on the apologise to the Nobility and Gentry, that on ac- . all the di ff erent grounds which had• been so ably ; - .. __ _ count of the dearness of paper, and high price of urged, but because it held out the strongest temple- Two garrison companies have been formed -at ' eke of the old Jail' When . the hour was elnli*eds `. the disgraceful business did not terminate. There' printing, they shall he under the nec essit y of chu g - f fl outs to many persons to perjure themselves, who Chelsea from the reduced veterans ;it is said for the *the mob who thought the lug the subscribers irenlN shillings for each book, ; bad. scarcely any alternative between that crime and purpose of furnishing ser v an t s to officers on the Staff . were those a nion ,n g w siar hich was to be a large foliolume, printed on fine !,surrendering the little property they might possess. of the Army. 1 sport 'sir too ue to be given up so soon. The according to their jnrgori, " put through paper, of 180 fall sheets, Including also five ma t s, So far, area, it was a violation of that good old i The Monitcur gives the following particulars I man was, i the mill." --Ile was cu ff ed and kicked and and 35 elegant essgrnvinga of the seats, monuments, , principle of our Constitution, that no man should be respecting the murder of M. A u g uste Dayton, knocked down and raised up, at the pleasure of the &c. of the Nobility and Gentry of that county. Of calledupon to.convict himself. 'whose remains were found distribUted in different 1 In the Candleriggs-street, to which this work 500 copies wereprinted, and lately a copy Mr. 'Werrireast addressed the Meeting at some 'parts of Paris :—The last situation which he held I . b y e ' slanders. the mob moved, he wise thrown into a cart, whose was sold in London for forty guineas. The above length. He observed, they were assembled together was that of Receiver of the Register Doty in one driver for some time drove him along, humouring proposal Mr. W. has stiltinhis possession. not only to assist in getting rid of a most oh-' . of the suburbs of Brussels. Since the separation the amusement ; but, finding that neither himself A Convention was coueleded in London in the noxious tax for the present, but to prevent it,' if of Belgiem from France, he had returned to Paris, nor his horse escaped the punishment meant for the • year 1803, and signed by- Lord trawacssuar and ; possible, from ever rearing its b e ad ag a i n. [App lause. ] and lived in a small chamber in Rue St. Germain he loosed his cart and tumbled him out ou Mr. 'torus Kinn, which seemed calculated to re- ' The tax hail been imposed at d moment of unpre- , l'Auxerrois, where he was assassinated at eight old man, the street. In the course of the fray he was repeat move all objections and dispel.% with respect to the cedented alarm mid consternation, when the country o'clock in the morning of the Bth of November wily raised shoulder-high, anti exhibted in his grey boendaries of the British. and American possessions i was threatened, or believed to be 'threatened, not M. Multi,' lived in the most profound seclusion; torn garments, and swollen feafures, a most in North America ; but this Conventian Mr..fzeria. I only With internal dangers, bat with external ones . having no attendant, and admitting no strangers' hairs , sox, w ho was thou the President', refused to ratify. I also. At that period they were.under the opeettien into hI S apartosent. The house in which he resided pitiable spectacle. At length he was rescued by the to his : exertions of the police, and taken to the office in The damages rec' *acrid by_ J: P. WARRINGTON, i of the • Pitt and Grenville Bill, and no wonder s : has no porter, and the stair-case leading ! Albion- street . It was probably from witnessing an Vial. late Barrack-master of Lewes, pins Captain I therefore, that it was suffered to take place with : room serves only for another small chamber, oc occurrence of this sort that Mr. Smith mat led to Gustir of the 18th Hussars,. for an smelt aud !but little expression of popular opinion upon K.' copied by a-person who goes out regularly before it condemn in terms so decisive the punishment of the . battery, have been give*, by the former Geritienme,• ! But of the dangers and evils that threatened' is light ei anddoes not return till late at night; so who would have felt them most had they that the absence of M. Diutun could not be re- i P .nor Y• after deducting his attorney's chorges , to Joi n km- I us,• /,. - ~• CHRISTMAS ,BOils MIR NEW irtAß'll GIFTS.— , st N, of that town, to be distributed to Inch dis. i taken place? 'The great land owners, persons marked by :my individual in the house. The want 'The very best that can /* given or meeived are to be extensive property, pensioners, placemen, and of neighbours afforded the greatest facility to the tressed soldiers' families as he may judge most needy, ef object% of the bounty. . sinecure' holders.—Pppluuse.]— !lad the country assassins for committing the crime. The same cir. be d et CauTsa's9 No , lis Cbi l ri9". By the ,_. . 2 1 yourself and friends an absolute fortune.— urehase of Lottery Tickets and Shares you may The Ros al Artillery Barracks, on OW sopshast. been invaded, the people would not have been robbed ' cumslarrees 4ong rendered all the enquiries of the - P their right to industry ; their arms and legs would Police, to discover the name of the unfortunate man, I secure t° The risk is what every one can afford. ,The forte road, near Exeter. are immediately ti betabetittoned, , of sm akk r th e do e o f ; not have been taken from them. When, therefore, ,unavailing; and it was not till the 12th of Dec. that i day , net, consequences are what every and desires. in. and to be converted into a dep6t, C a pt a i n SE ,w.tno, with about twenty men. The ; the Ministers and their adherents in Parliament caned, they succeeded in this point. The following staid, therefore, of merely wislring chit/kin and now t h ere a r e to marc h fur s out that all was in danger, and called upon eater: traces of the assassin were detected in the very place , whole of the ' artillery Year mike l o ne , 11 • • h orses are ! man to step forward knd give his aid to the common where' the crime was perpetrated, and on the 16th f r iends a haPP7 New , r -y vying Plymouth immediately, and the artillery -them a pro b a ble chance of prosperity for like ;cause,• did they---did one of them surrender a pen- he was apprehended. This assassin is John Dierks to ue used a n the carrying on the new fortificationsCOßN EREHANGE, Dec. 28.—We had bat little Mon or a sinecure, to assist in that common cease.— ; Autism, brother to the deceased. Part of the pro. erecting at that place, which will do away the Ile- ! [Applause.]--It might, however, have been sop. ' party be)ooging to Ms victim was found in his p0i ... , doisig in the Wheat' trade this morning, as scarce - cessity of working hi red horses, as was formerly thel I posed, without any great violatioo of probebilky, i session. He has confessed his guilt, and aciums- • any sales wereeffected, chiefly ie Ccospecreatio of the custom. (to the 22r1 inst. the following Dutch frigates tailed i that such examples of. patriotism .w.oald bare sac- . hedged that, it was be who murdered his aunt, Ma. • termination of the American ear, and our prices may but it was yell known they did not .--; dame dame Veins's, who was found assassinated in her be considered full 2s. per rptarter_hiwer, aitheut be. ft ent the Texel, under the command of Ceratmodore I awed ; Tem:elate, for the purpose of conveying the Medi: I Might not even the Ministers, who sew this ap- apertmenti an the 16th of Jely. last. In his exami- 44 able toiled puri proaChing calamity, and so v i g il ant l y gave the . , natio e be declared , that be had for his accomplice a supports Monday' . tei veteran fleet : the Zeeland, Rotterdam, Yssel, , Mame° the people—might not they 'also . • hate-sat man nalnad -Girootsed, his cousiniterman, who Is market.—ln Pees, Degeretnel, Eendrurt, and Ilavik.. It is understood, en' ezeeple of honourable disinterestedness and OP likewise‘iu custody. r nation in price, that their ulterior destination is to wage hostilities 1 n and undertaken to discharge their mead .We ate requested to state, that Policies of the Wheat e n g lisb) - • rmaiest the Algerines, olden they deliver op the divnto, 1 ..a Dote t °reign) ... 'fonctionsi for two or three years without emoluments . i Rpgle fosucsoce Company, expiring at Christmas, R • Dutch seamen whom they hold in captivity. aan 21/Mirrese. —The examp le woeld have been' may be renewed' within 15 data from that petted • Hurl There has been so considerable a fall of snow on : r i l t - 1., ~p er a t ice. ez tio ethy of their own cease, and most have pro. either of their O ffi ces, in Cornhill, or the Hey- • roi, ti.e western road, that the Poole, and Other snails , ' p ost . o gs ce f or loam y' &cid • beneficial result to the people. But they market, where Annuities are granted and purchased, Peas did not arrive et the General tshibited no such patriotism.—[Applause. ] —The • and every description of Life and Fire Insurance Mllel --' hours after their usual time. • Dilto Moiler* i temple were kindly permitted to sacrifice t h emse l ves . effected on the most equitable terms. : they Yeas iliftwiremsius the same as last week. the applause. . • • COVENT-GA Pletelltill* of Whittington, as might be (*petted, went off, last night, with increased eclat. The tricks were per* formed with a precision elates; unexampled ; many of the scenes are highly picturesque and beautiful.— , The music in general is of a lively and appropriate cast, with the exception ef.a plaintive ballad, which, had it been as well sung as it is compactl y would have delighted the audience_ ~ _. this, unfortunately, Was not quite the case, for Master WILLIAMS to out of tune nn this as well as the preceding evenites This must, of course, vex the Composer, issti tit think that if it be practicable it should bs ° ptit tete other hands. Mr. Waltz has hitherto' beery as foe: tunate, in having . his Ballads well sung, at he. has ° been able and judicious in their composition ; and we. trust that hereafter he will not have reason to cana plain of means inadequate to theit publicity and pea i polarity. • -: - 7 - o Ind purthasersal.thailieduct;e4...:-.fteer • Monday's priies, .h , uing .bdt 'hide 'at -(n Pas, Bemis, owl Oats therliir no va• . , - pfi* *it the Crank foeisch is very heavy. . gials)i. '4O 11 Benno • • , j . . nig4) 43 7 4 Old ditto _ 96 38 'Tick 'do.. • •f.'6 4 0 CS 961 aid , t , Oat* • .:... 66 it Pinedino ... .;.,. ...,•... • 46 60 j Poland 40. ..........94 17 1 ~.. ......,-- • -- Feri141tt0.,....:. ..... l 9 lkl. ra .. .... :01 54; F;ae Flour ...... ... 6I 6 ..., .0 44 . Second. •..... LB • ' - . 11=:7, • : ' ;"'" "71_!"_Ir . • • 1 4.,1 0 1 it . 1.. . • t b • •I • • .. .• , • • . 1 1 t o. • • • . • r • 1- StATESMAN. ... . PROPERTY nix. I With regard to the tat itself, it Would be a Waste of 7 4 11 &e .1 , f --sem.-_ time towapatiate upon its injustice and opptessions 1 DRURY.. LANE.—lltittiogedy b( Ricked tile :Ilia - . , . A Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Ward of Every man knew , every man a - every man felt, b Faringdon Without was held yesterday, for the per- horred them. .It was equally unconstitutional too ; (Richard, by rr. Ketsr) preceded the.4-steleVatito'- *.• Pose ; of coming to certain Resolutions relative to the and so unconstitutional indeed, that were it levied with ,the utmost impartiality, and no man paid ' more mime last night at this Theetre.,, It, Wes tint a• little meditated continuance of the Property ' fax. A f ter s some unimportant preliminary proceedings, Mr. De- towards it than WM . his fair proportion, it was flattering' tO the pride, nor a little credit)* to; tte talents of this pewit:bi- actor, that his.eseesioses cure pu.ty Ili:Immo, who presided over the assembly, gill iinnoesible to deprive the very principle of the mended Sifent' attention , and drew forth itialicious frees th e Chriettnas sisitersh He.played the briefly stated. to them theohject for which they Were menspre of its inquisitorial and hateful qualities.— applause m• • part ietheiiii.ionastueras mini, ;and receited the sailed together, and recommended that the discus- [APPlewic. ] , -He would defy any • mister, or any , .. •• • sion should be carried ou with moderation and set of Ministers, .to make such a tax even tolerable. same. 1 44.1 1 - , 0! licrebetionr • ne {ahoy tif Dia' temper. ; . In its . progress too it had only, become more and molds; ori Ilarlequin-Siiidimdr underwent gone Mr. Titomesox then rose and observed, ~titat the, more oppressive, by imperceptible degrees ; and he beneficial alteratiosts..teissee the niglit before. The news which had arrived \of the signature et: peace therefore most earnest!y besought his fellow-citizens Priucipul of these : sm.*" \ omission of ,a rev our with America was very unlucky far . him, es he hid' not to leave the battle to be fought bt- others, as ersoni fi cation, or rattier personation, of 'the three nothing but a strong expression of tke public wilt potent spirits of liie MIN 9 anti branidy, There is prepared the speech he• meant to addiess to t ee!, some of the - more complicated part of the machinery - tire . would deter Ministers from attempting to continue -and the topic , of the American war was- to formed a leading feature of it•-iLaughter.)-s- it; and if the people manfully stood up, and with which may yet admit of a little mitring, UWO4I it be However, that war might still be of some ese , one voice unanimously called for its abolition, there found, after - the experiment e a few farther at was no Minister who svirld dare to disregard that tempts, that they become .more niseageable to the to him, for he would venture to affirm, that ceammod echoed from every qaarter of the kingdom. hands of the scene-shifters. With only a little states thoogh the peace was a source of joy to all who beard him, and to the nation in- general, it was a —[Loud Applausee.] . : merit for sonnefailures of thisicind, the Pentesnime , The several Resolutions were then carried, and a went off extremely well. ~. • • day of mourning to Ministers and their adhrents.— I etitien framed open them, was read by Mr.Thonisp . - ' We noticed on a former occasion thelideodeur bf He firmly believed too, that the-ever f e r mi still son, which was likewise unanimously approved a. • tine scenery, and instanced d few of Me: mot meg •continued, had it not been for the determined oppo sition which the people were msking to the continu.l Mr* Thompson else stated, that a note had been , nificent ones ; to those we Would roar had that to : which the Queen of the Fables appears Sinattif, once of the Property Tat ; tear must they suppose 1 handed up to him from Mr. 'Smith, their Vestry I ,Clork, stating one instance of the manner in which , after his fall from the nl°l'olll'l. •./t. is hot se/- that because the war had ceased, their exertions i ehe Commissioners assessed the Tats: The had Sc- I passed by any thing .of the kind . Another scene, should also cease. Ministers would' still, If I i tually assessed the earnings of the pollee( that parish ; *MO attracted very general admitatiou, was the Isle, find some pretest far continuing that most hate: in the yearly amount of 5001. whit:lt-bed lints paid .transformatiOn of a watch-tower into a ship. The NI and oppressive tax ; and , he sinsisid therefore ' for the last two years, though it cost the parish ' t change was very rapid and successful. Nor did have the honour of proposing a series of - Resole- . ! above 40001. during the same period for tine mainte- i the • Choen's -sagacity desert him 99 ibCD Harlequin lions upon it. ft had been justly called the British I embarked and -put to sea. He jumped' Into -a Inquisition ; and if there was any truth In the pro. i uance of the poor. . . After the usual forms of voting the thanks to the boat immediately, while Pantaloon, hi' the at verb, " Gil* a dog an ill name and hang him," he 1 Mover and Seconder of the Resolutious, and to Mr. tempt to follow- him, was ovenset in the Wlter.--z -hoptd this ill name thus bestowed upon this detest- Herring for his conduct in the Chair, the The- Ins". l ‘er i" u'llich h" sriss haril (4l sii* board' able tat, would be found sufficient to hang it : he ; Depdty meeting was dissolved. . i gave rise to a great deal' et mir th . A itidicrnus was sure if its own weight would not be enough, - i s dance by the Gloria was-rety well received. • Atte - the people would lend their assistance to pull its legs A Meeting of the Freeholder and Inhabitants of i.ther touch, that took extremely well, and .really tell it was fairly dead. It was in vain to talk of , the tiondreds of Bereteble led Cbalfords end Liberty liras very ludicrous; ss as the shooting of harlequin , modifying it inn any way ; no modification would when he teas at last hunted down.. The tilt shot of Havering-atte-Rower, Essex, was held on Wed; i rectify its inherent vices; the principle was odious, • i,took such an - etteet, that Ise was immediately trans. nesday, on the Property TeL and the principle therefore should be abolished for t formed into a skelettnno 7 bit the vengeance of mashie Roquisitions have been signed for calling Meetings ever. Much abuse and censure Was thrown upon • i on i Clown was Cot to be its- easilY appeased-40 fired in almost every town inn Somersetsliire, to petit the Commissioners employtol to levy this impost ; „again, and the effect Wes.stitl more extraordinary than Parliament against the renewal of the P roperty Tax, i• but he always thought it was unjust, as it led them the former—llarkquin revived egate, end danced but these have been postponed in consequence of a • from the cause which constituted the real evil, to the , About w i th as moch - ereivity ain-ravet. the dance, by County Meeting being called. . effect, which was the only necessary consequence ; ,Miss.ClLtoutt,t, II 'child only fi ve years old, was of that capse. The Commissioners only exercised ' , - • performed with a surprising degree of activity and LOUIS BuNAP/ItTE'S FAMILY. their duty, and if the people truly consulted their i grace. On the falling of the curtain there was' some. Interest the - would direct their efforts against; . --eo-- - o . Idiesppr bati on, but it was completely overborne by - -