The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-07-12 00:00:00

I f s • t `- TVE STATI IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF OF LOAM—WEDNESDAY, Jecy 11. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. At three o'clock this afternoon his Majesty's Corn. missioners, appointed to prorogue Parliament, having taken their seats in the House of Peers, the I:,lier of tEe Black Rod was sent to command the attendance of the House of Commons. The SPEAKER, *VA a larze number of Members, accordingly attended, when the Royal Assent was given to the Duke of Clarence Provision Bill, the Appropriation Bill, the Lotteries Bill, and the Irish Court of Exchequer Itegu lbtion Rill, and Parliament %CAI , prorogued by the fil!owing Speech (loin the Throne :- 1. MT LORDS ►IUD GENTLEMEN, " We have it in comman4 from his Majcs.v to inform con, that the state of public business having enahlc•l lim to dispense with your attendance in Parliament, he has determined to put an end to this Session. " His Majesty, however, cannot close it st ithout ex pressing his satisfactioe at the zeal and assiduity with which yon have prosecuted the laborious and important emitting* in which you hare been engaged. " He has observed, with particular pleasnre, the fa cility with which the restoration of a Metallic Currency has been e ff ected by the aii:horit..• ;.;iven to the Batik of England, to commence its Pavtoents in Cash at an earlier period than had been det , :rtnined by the last Par liament. His af t jesty bas commailflpd ut to acquaint you , ti it be ronttnnes to teethe from Foreign Powers. the strongest assurances of their frieddly disposition towards this country. 911171110111,1 OF INC 1101:SE or COMMONS. " We are commanded by his Majesty to return you his thanks, for the provision which you have made for toe public. service. " Although the public expenditure has already under gne considerable reduction within the present year, his gone con.i,krable reduction within the present yesr. liii Mijesy trusts lie shall be enabled, kr/ the continuance oi peace, and of internal tranquillity, to make such fur ther reductions as way satisfy the just expectations expressed by Parliament. " His Majesty has commanded os to assure you of the gretikatitaii which he has derived from the provision which you have made for his Itoral Highness the Duke of Clarence. "Mv LGSMS AND OENTLEMeN, " It is with the greate.4 satisfaction that his Majesty has observed the ipiiet and good order which continue to prevail in those parts of the country which were not Inn! 'inre in a state of agitation. " His Ilaie -tv deeply laments fli• distress to which the agricultura interests, in many parts oldie kingdom, are Still Subject. " It will be his Majesty's most anxious desire, by a 'trim attention to public economy, to do all that de pends upon Lim, fur the relief of the Country from its present dia-ulties I hot you cannot fail to be sensible, that the sitreesg of all efforts for this purpose will mainly fiepentl otpnti the continuance of domestic tranquillity ; anti his Majc.ty confidently relies on your ntsuost ex• ertions in cont. several cuuntic,., in enforcing obetli eller to the laws. and in promoting harmony and con cord amongst all descriptions of his Majesty's subjects." The 51 , 1,111111 and the Commons then bowed and refired. The attendanre of Peers and Peeresses was very thin, Clete being few of the fernier w►o were net r , ,rricrl in the Commission. Among them were t►e Delos o' IVellincton and Montrose, and the Earls of Harrowby and Liverpool. 11OUST: OF COMMONS, WEomssoAr, JVLT 11. The SPEAKER took the Chair at three o'clock. D 1 r. HUME rose to address the House, but gave way oil being informed that a persou from the Navy Prim o: rye waited without to present some papers. This person (Mr. Hancock, of the Nary Prize-office) then appeared at the Bar, and presented a return of the fees Fal on Navy Prise Accounts. They wereordered to lie on the Table. As soon as this was disposed of— (CORONATION.) Mr. IiUME again rose to move the Address of which be had ve‘tertlav given notice. lie stated that he under stood the Privy Council to have decided that the Queen Consort did not at any time possess the right of bring crowned, and that her Majestys' claims were in consequence disallowed. This being the opinion of the Council, he slid not mean to impugn it, bat his own was of a different nature. lie considered l that a geod case had been made nut fur her Majesty, and the denial other tielits would be considered by the public as another art of persecution, added to the many whirls she had previously experienced. His object was to propose an Address to his Majesty, praying that his Royal Consort might be crowned upon the ground of expediency. There was no act which his Majesty had ever dune in his life that would be so graciously and thankfully received by his people, as a compliance with such a prayer. And he was anxious that the King should bare all the merit of doing it out of his own free will. lie would place the subject upon this ground, and waive all claiin as to right on the part of her Majesty. lie would leave it to the King to do that out of his own benevolence and kindness, which he (Mr. Hume) sad her Majesty herself believed to be a matter of strict right. She had undergone an estraordinary course of persecution and oppression, and now was the time for His Majesty's Ministers to advise him to do a great and noble act, which would in some degree atone for the past. Was her Majesty the Queen, the only person to be denied the pri vileges granted to the Royal Family, of at least being present at the Coronation, if she was not to partici pate in that ceremony: it was now within eight days of the time appointed for it, and she knew not in what situation she was placed. Perhaps, even if she presented herself as a spectator, she would be refused admittance, and thus another disgrace would be thrown upon her. Upon grounds of expedi ency it was that he wished to recommend the coronation of her Majesty, and he was not calling upon the House for Yoe much when he wished thew to agree to an Ad dress for that purpose. He n-assure that nothing would so much tend to preserve the peace and tranquillity. of the Metropolis upon the approaching solemnity, as his Majesty's consenting to perform' this act noble and geserously. He then proceeded to read the Ad ' dress which be was about to more. when the Black Rod knocked at the door of the Howse. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the Bar to summon the House to attend is the House of Peers to hear the Royal Speech. AASWItIi TO TII QUPRYS AMMORME, AND Tilt QtERA'S REPLY. At the Court at C4rlr,i::•ii:i ige, the 10th July, 1.421 Present—The King's L.ost excellent blajesty in Council. Whereas there was this daT read at the Hoard a Report form a Committee of the Isrdi of his Majesty's most Honourable P.iry Coq nci I, iu the words f o llowing. s iT.: " Your Majesty having !,een pleased, by your order in council of tile 3d of this instata, to refer unto this committee the several Ineinoriol , of her Majesty the Queen, claiming a right to he crowned on the same day and the same piare v. hich has (hay.) been appointed for the coronation of your Nl4je-.ty, and praying to be heard by Counsel in support of the said Haim ; the Lords of the Committee, in obedience to your iMaje►ty's said order of reference, hare at tor,liogly {►card Ler Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor lieni.r4l in sup port of bee 11.:j••ty - s said jail'', and l,ying rib.° heard the observations of your Ma:,ustr's Antis-oil and Solicitor-General thereupon, their Lordship do agree humbly to report to your Majesty their opinion•, that as it appears to then. that the Queens-Consort of this realui are not entitled of right to be cro►rned at any time, her Majesty the Queen is not entitled as of right to be iTourried at the time specified in her 'Majesty's Till:1110• rials. " His llajesty /14% ill:: taken thic said report into con sideration, ham been pleased, by and with tl►e advice of his Privy Council, to rpp►ove thereof. (N.gner!) " C. C. 611EVILLE.. - [This report nai sent by Lord yidu►outh to Lord Mod, the Qacr►, s ClianoberiAin Her Majesty the Quern -slit immediately the fol lowing reply:— " Brandetihn-,holfonse,.lisly 11, 1%21. "My Lord,—Tour bothlop letter of yesterday to Lord Hood, conveying to me the Report of the Com mittee of Council. on ms nsorial to the King in Coon cil, claiming my right to Ise s owned, and as I find th- (;omi mittee positively denies no. t ight which I ', a ye claimed, and which all Q.leenr-consort Imve enjoyed fseithoutone exception arisin:: ft sin the will of the Sovereign) I con sides it neces:ary to inform your liordbisip, that it is soy intention to he present at the ceremony on the 19th, the day hx*d tor Isis Majerty's coronation, and I there fore demand that m suitable place may be appuioted for me. 1•d, " f 4R01.1 E R. " To the Right Min. Lord Viscount Sitiniouth." NAPOLEON 110.V.-IPAR 7'E. The follonir.g Order of the Day, issued by Napo leon when First Coosul, way sei ye to indicate the principles he thought beconiiiig, in such arduous cir cumstances, as those in which his fortitude was put to the test : "Extract frou► the Orderly Book of the Horse Greaa • Biers, of the i'onstilar Guard. " Order of the 224 Floreal. (year ID.) " The Grenadier Grobbin ha, destroyed himself ron• sequence it love affair. Ile was other►vise a respectable man. Thi is the second e,ent of the kind whirl► ha! , happened in the corps within a month. " The First Consul has directed tb:►t it shall be inserted in the Order of the Day of the Guard, that a soldier ought to know how to libolooe sorrow and the agitation of the passions; that there is as 'notch courage in enduring with firmness the pains of the heart *lb iu retu.►ii.iug steady under the grape shot of a battery. 'Vu abandon oneself to grief %Mono re Istauce, to kill oneself in order to escape from it, is to dy Irons the heist of battle bcfure Ole in conquered. (A true copy.) (Signed) " BONAPARTE. Nest Consul. " BESSIRREI3." The following is an extract of a letter from an of ficer on the St. Helena station, dated tie Oils of May, ItP2I I. I have just rem; ned from witnessing an awfnl spec tacle—the body of the deceased thmetal Bonaparte, late the terror of the whole of Europe. The Honourable Company's ship Waterloo anchored bergs% three o'clock on the afternoon of the t!d instant, and Napoleon de parted this life at ten minute.; past six o'clock, on Satur day the sth, after an illness of some time of a compli cated nature, dropsy, liver, &c. The cause a.•igned for his death by the medical men sag a cancer in the stomach. tt I may say 1 had the earliest opportunity of seeing him, and of bring in his co:slimly, of any prison on the island, and nearly the last view and touch of his body. I lived under the same roof for seven werhs on his first arrival, and had an opportunity of having a great deal of conversation with hint ; during ri bids time lie was very pleasant and agreeable n its the family I resided with: since which 1 have sehl seen him until to-day, when he was lying in the frill drt :a of a General of a Legion of Honour, and appeared to be more Mit. a person asleep than a corpse, and very little altered front when 1 first saw him. fin his countenance there was an appearance of a pleasant smile. " Ile is to he interred on Thnrsday next, at four o'clock. on a spot chosen by himself some tithe previous to his ileitis. It is under a willow tree (about ten yards from a spring of water, from which he has been supplied ever since his residence at Longwood). in a valley called by the natives the' Devil's Punch and at this moment there are 1110 men employed cutting a road for the body to hr carried along; he is to he buried with the military honours of a General. " The road front Longrt wad forms an almost level cir cle of three miles round tl place where he is to be bit. 1e has verified his assfftirm. that he would never live in the house erected for him, rshich is finished and furnished ready, save and except some trifling work in the offices. As every comfort was consulted fur him, no expense was spared. t• I saw Madame Bertrand and her family. She looks very much mitered far the orse. as also does the Count. Montliolun seems to preserve his health better than sus of the rest. Napoleon's ilea:11 Will rause a treat revoltvi.)n in the attiirs of this ind ; some be half ruined, and others ‘‘il! benefit t - . 1:. iiierably by it." The ofE:lai returns of ti e population of the city of E linburzh, Lave not yet beea received : but a state ment has b.o , n about which makes the numbers in ElinburJi a:,.1 Leith amount to nearly 139,000, which is itn e since 1811 of 35,000. Popu lation of Aberdeen, ;,726—including seamen, 46,500 —increase since i 9,-106. The population of the parish of Leslie, in Fife, by the ce n sus jest finished, emott:its to 1.012 males, and 1,188 females —total, 2.2 e.). In 1901 the popnlatiun of this parish was 1,6419, and in isii it was 1,892. The increase is to be attributed to the spinning-mills and bleach fields in the parish. The population of the parish of Alphington, near Exeter, amounts to 4 males and 588 females ; Total 1070. There has been a diminution of 20 males and an increase of IN females, since the last census in 1811. The population of Tiverton has increased 1917 in the last ten years, the number of inhabitant* is 11111 being 6732, and at the present time SM. N. AMERICAN THEATRICALS.-MR. `• EXIT IN A RAGE.- [ISOM THE BOSTON CENTINELJ " ORATITCDE!—After a very respectable audience, and more numerous than some of those which the truly great Cooke played before, had assembled at the Theatre, to see Richard the Tiird, Mr. Kean took it in his head that the audience was unworthy of lois merit, bolted from the Theatre, announcing to the Ma nager that he should play no more, and that he was preparing to leave town. The audience received this spedosen of rude superciliousness with marked con tempt. The play proceeded without interruption, Mr. &iron n amply supplying the place of the runaway." (/ROM TOR BOSTON PATRIOT ] " Tug THEATBIL—A few minutes before eight o'clock List evening, Mr. Doff appeared on the stage, and announced to the audience that Mr. Keen lad re fused to take the part east him (Richard III.) without assigning any reason for so doing, and that be was then preparing to leave town. (in the rising of the curtain, there being some slight disturbance, and a call for the Manager, Mr. Duff again appeared, and stated that Mr. Kean had been during the day repeat edly importuned by the Manager, and his friends, to appear in the part, but that be absolutely declined.— Mr. D. on being questioned, said he believed the rea son of Mr. K.'s conduct was west of patronage. MR. KEAN'S EXPLANATION. In consequence of the above tatetuents Laving ap peased iu the American Papers, Mr. Kean addressed to the Editor of one of them, a letter, which is prefaced in the following terms : Our cotemporaries who publish these paragraphs, should in fairness have copied aho from the New York Natio:zit! .Idvocate of the Ist June, Mr. bean's letter of explanation, which is as follows : TO TOE EDITOR or TUE NVIIONAL ADVOCATE. Stn —As I have yet some months to remain in this coon try, it is my earnest wish to preserve the good opinion of those friends who have so generously and nobly manifest ed their approbation of my character and talents. As the servant of the public, 1 am aware that 1 am amenable to public opinion and censure; and if the public voice de clare that I leave bee I error, 1 ane ready to apolo gize with all due submission. But, Sir, is it not extraordinary, that the offence with which 1 am charged took plate at Boston, with the concurrence of the managers; with the approbation of friends, with whom I afterwards spent the evening, gentlemen of fortune and literary acquirements ; and that I shout 1 not hear any dissatisfaction expressed until 1 arrived iu this city ? I passed the following morning at Boston Iran• ; and on my arrival in New York, neuronal s 0 1 disapprobation were heard, which appeared to me like an overwhelming aro:wide at the termination of a bril liant harvest. At :in immoderate expense, and with all that additional co-t bid' falls to the lot of a stranger, I repaired to Boston to fulfil nay engagements. Had 1 been acquainted with the customs of the country. 1 should base made different amingements; bnt my advisers never intimated to me that theatres %%ere only visited in certain months of the year ; that hen curiosity had subsided, drainatic , talent was nut in estimation. 1 never could or would believe that the arts in this country were only encon. raged periodically, or that there could be any season in which Shakespeare was diminished in value; but as I am now initiated in these mysteries, 1 shall hereafter profit by my experience. Sir, I . live by my professional exertions. Innumerable family claims are satisfied by each month's di3hurse ments : I cannot afford to give those talents away. 1 had performed two of my principal characters without hopes of rernntoration in that town, where my efforts had, two months before, contributed largely to augment the public charities. I repeat, 1 had acted two charac ters to the very extent of my abilities without profit. On looking through the curtain, at seven o'clock, on the night I was to represent Riehard the Third, (that elm ratter which has been the foundation of my tame and fortune), 1 counted twenty persons in front of the the atre. 1 then decided, hastily if you please, that it was better to husband toy resources for a more favourable season, and, in tli;* decision, no disrespect was contem plated to the audience, slender as it was. The managers apparently concurred with me, deplored the unfortunate state of the li:ie.'', and we parted in perfect harmony and confidence. It was my intention to leave America on the close of my southern engagements. I now think it my duty to return awein to Boston, and, in person, vindicate my cause at the season when those who most patronise this theatre are assembled. The public have treated me with the greatest liberality, and I shall ever acknowledge its favours with pric;e and gratitude. At the latest hour I shall remecilter those friends by whom I have been en circled, an! At 110'.. amity and confidence I am convinced I have not I f. iced. lint I may be permitted to say, that the pr,.-cat hostility is not the voice of the public ; it is that sprit of detraction ever attendant on little minds—a spirit which watches for its prey, and seises urqn transient an I accidental occurrences to defame and desirov. That r.—pest the presses in this country should lot.e been intlucit •ed by such feelings, and denounce with Nadi acc:upwy anti bitterness, is to me extranrili 113M. " ITis something in it snore than natural. if plii!oso;thy roitl,l find it ou t." I undetsrand souse gentlenses -have asserted that I !ave acted to equally bad houses in England. I lament that they are thriven to inch extremities, or, rather, that they should compel me to declare that their assertions are untrue. The present existence of the first theatre' in Europe is founded on the abilities which they affect to despise. The provincial manager, of Eng land, Sir , tland, and Ireland, have thankful'l rewarded my efforts by MVPs (vat to what I receive from my friend Me. Price, the wort by anti efficient manager of the theatre in this city. Fet the first three years of a career, imptecedent in dramatic annals, I was in receipt of don- ble that sum in event theatre in which I acted, anal, even allowing- a trilling diminution in the spare of 7 years. j what am l to think of a city in which I have been re eeired with enthusiasm, and witness a total desertion in the space of three months ? But the public say I was too precipitate. that I should bate peforinell that evening, and then closed my en;:agentent. Granted. —Our feelings frequently mar our better judg ments, and from trifling manses lead to results which we subsequently regret. The error was renal, for as-ho is exempt from error ? But all tinpre jtoliced people will, I trust, take into consideration the unprofitable labour of acting Richard Me Third to a sobt.try few, who subsequently reknowledgeti them selves perfectly contented with the gentleman who repre sented the character. I a•li now conduced that the fine weather was my chief enemy, and shall aiain resistor my station in the Boston theatre before I return to England. I beg leave. Sir, to submit this" round unvarnished tale" to the consideration and decision of the public ; and I have too exalted an opinion of their justice and liberality, not to anticipate a 'valet in my favour. EDMUND LEAN. PRICE OF STOCKA TIII Sisk Stock 431 3f § 3 per Cent. Red 773 61 ra per Cest.Gor. 1641“ 31 per Cent. An $ per Crag. 941 6 p.orC:.Nsey 10(4111 3 per Cent. Losg Asa IV 7-169616 Imp. 3 ner Cert. Iri.l 5 per Cent. DAY AT OAR O'CLOCK. late Stock IS 41 Ditto Dna& ---5..531 Ms. lot gout}'-Sea Stock Stnuth Sea Old Atm. Bt Bills ltd . 4 6.. pm. thasioio for hluney pis Back for Account Indio for ditto Coo. for Acct 78 71 4 71 Lott. Tleitits 1131. I b.. RPM W%Trlt AT LONMY.4-131 1 11DRE To-monitme. Morning. in. after 12.—Eveniag 33 m. after 12. Qrbt ktategsnan. " Tat •IIITISSI !TATUM %hi" U INC°, PORA I ID WITS " 6T/AWMAN." LONDON: TREIGDAT EVENING. JUL. 12, 1921. The Report of the Committee of the Privy Coun cil to whom the Memorials of her MaJrsrr, is claim of her right to be crowned, had been referred, is such as had been anticipated. It has appeared to their Lordship's that as the Quacres Consort arc net enti tled of tight to be crowned at any time, her 111.1.‘EiTT the QUEEN is not entitled, as of right, to be crowned at the time specified in her Mast:in.'s tneuswiah. This Report, which has received his MASESTI'S ap probation, on bein; yesterday transmitted to the QUERN, produced in return another claim, which het Marasry lost no time in asserting. It is her in tention, as had been announced in the House of Com mons on Tuesday, to be present at the ceremony on the day fixed for his Maiaser's Coronation, and she therefore demanded that a suitable Place should be appointed for her. Previous to this application being known, but after the decision of the Privy Council. had transpired, Mr. Ill'3lC proceeded to make the motion of which he had given notice in the House of Commons, to address his Majesty, pray ing that the QUYEN might be permitted to a par ticipation in the honours of the Coronation. Waiving the honours solicited as a mutter of right, and leaving her Majesty's Coronatiou as an ac; of grace and favour on the part of the KING, the Honourable Member urged the point as neces. airy to tranquillize the public mind. While in the act of reading his motion, and hrfore it could be read by the Clerk of the House, the Uslrcs of the Black Rod made his appearance, and all fur ther proceedings were, in consequence, stopped. As to the main point intended to have been pressed,—tho participation of her AIAJESTY in the honours of the Coronation, we consider it now, after all that has passed, so entirely hopeless, that we have little regret at the interruption which took place in this proceeding. Mr. HUM,, consistently with the conviction he entertain. ed on the subject, did his duty as a member of the House in bringing the matter forward, and In tbrf mari ner in which he urged it he did his duty well. But though on that point there is now no farther roosts for argument, there is much left for the other to which her Majesty has asserted her claim. Though in de ference to the decision of the Council, she submits to relinquish the right of abating in the honours of the day, she claims to have an appropriate Place for view ing its splendour. Upon what just grounds this re quest can be refused, we are at a loss to conjecture. Is it pretended that her claim is of an eatraordinary kind, and that no precedent can be found fur it in the English annals ? Alas! her whole case, as a Royal Wife, and as a Queen, has :peen unprecedented. But her claim rest not alone on the ground of being a Queen ; she has a title as a Princess of the Royal blood, independent of marriage, to be present at the ceremony. There is, besides, a better ground on which her request might be urged, the gratifica tion which it would afford the public to find her treated with respect. It would, as Mr. Home ohserved, be the fittest opportunity of liberality and conciliation. It would make some amends for the harshness with which her 31assary bad been presi onsly persecuted : it would in some measure supply the void which her presence as a principal in the cere mony cannist fail to occasion. Is her presence so ob noxious as to make it necessity to exclude her even as a spectator of the pageant ? Are her eyes, like those of the fabled basilisks, imagined capable of blasting the expected glories of the display ? IVlsat mean ness of heart, what littleness of mind to entertain, r act upon such sentiments! Consistent with these ideas are the fears affected that the appearance of her Maizatv near the scene would tend to occa sion disorder and tumnlt. As if the way to prevent irritation in the public mind, is the enerease of its excites-neat , : As if the people would be more disposed to riot, the more they would have reason to be pleases!! Let the Councillors of his NlA.ressT ad vise as they wi!l, and the minions of his Ministers persevere as they please in the exclamations they are disposed to utter, we conceive a conciliated populice would be a better security and ornament to the hlN•i on the day of the Coronation, than all the y that can be collected from every district of the kingdom. Paris papers of Monday have arrival this ottorn;ng. They bring intelligence from various parts of the Co: - tinrnt. By an article from Copenhagen of the 26th ult. it appears that the Rwsian fleet, whirl' had been preci pitately fitted ant in the ports of the Baltic, has sailed towards the idediterranneaa. News/ma Vienna dated June 27, represents Vp•'. !anti to have had several reareasittm with the Turks in tho eavirons of l'ergowits. The Ottoman troop•, it is farther added, have experienced a defeat. - ~- ~_ ~~ \ . l-.Aii I