The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-12-25 00:00:00

IL•a- C:` THE STATESMAN PROCESSIO.V AT BRIGHTON: TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STATESMAN. Brigh•on, Hee, 24 IBM s i „,—As I find yon noticed the preparations for r ,,,i r iog his Majesty, I will just give you the ole woment of the hopeful project. Oa Thursday evening there was a rowing of the Commissi oners un d er t h e Tics° Act, for the purpose of selling the ashes to the e i nzar s, fist the year ensuing. After the sale was over. these Commissioners retired to regale themselves ; aml am i i itorourol by one who was present, they had I in abundance." At the close of this parochial fess% the idea was started of convening a meeting for the next morning, to determine upon the way no od roper to receive his Majesty. You may judge „( t h e state they were in, when I tell you, as a fact, that on reading over the statues to the reqttisi sition. at the meeting on Friday, one o f th e p ersons „h„ had signed it, got up and wished to know how hi s na me came there!!! This requisition was shroud late on Thursday night, and the High l'onstable celled the meeting for twelve on F ri d a y ; although, when he was requested to 1.411 the Meeting to Address the Queen, be took Ace days to consider, and then refused. What took pi.sre at thehleeting you may haze seen iii theßrightou Herald, except that the King's physician, Sir M. Tierney, and Carr, the Vicar of Brighton, (a holm the King has lately made aDean) were present, and took a very active part. You will have seen that his Majesty was to have arrive , ' at three o'clock, and Treat preparations were making the whole of the warning for his reception. Amongst :her things, a brewer's waggon, with three pieces of old cannon, (w'noch I suppose Lord Sidnionolo's famous circular had not found " laying about") were mounted, and taken out to welcome him. But alas! a most nachs oct.nrrenee intervened to defeat their most grand, loyal intentions. About ten minutes after ,w.. two out-riders came up ; fall gallop, and announced at the Pavilion gates, " his Majesty is coming ;" and,j is a few seconds, the carriage was teen cowing, full swing, with about 20 or 30 horsemen, who, Iv gaud lack, and the use of their spurs, succeeded iu getting tso the gates a tie yards before the carriage. Rhea Cs Majesty arrived, the Cuter:Pr will tell you, be *lightest amidst the shouts of •thousands. lie did. coitist that of the horsemen, and a few people and buys, amongst whom some of the persons rade, encouraging them to shout. At this time, and for twenty minutes after, the carriages were only assembling ; and on their arrival at the gates, the company in them finding that the King Loi arrived, and that he had nor even the poor High Constable to receive him, and that all their prepara tions hail been abortive, they became quite chop-fallen. Haring, however, got together to make a shew, they 'over.- determined they would not he altogether disap pointed ; it was resolved they should perambulate the oven, which they did, amidst the jeers of a great mass of the people. Ever and anon, they made a pause, while the town hand, (in a fish van,) played God save t',e King, and they most loyally huzzaed. But they Lad all thee to themselves, for the people would not join them. At night they hail the " waggon of guns," close by the Pavilion gates, wide!) they kept firing at intervals; with a plentiful accompaniment of hums, which were kept up by the aid of souse beer contained in another waggon hard by-. I an. anxiouss to see the account the Courier gives of this. God help bins if he says any thing about the respectability of the parties, it a!! lay In the beer. 10. ..re was an illumination at night, and plenty of menaces addressed to windows of the " Queenites." It was gen. ral indeed, hut on the whole, poor and shabby. As I had been loudly threatened in case of darkness, 1 exhibited a transparency ; the Crown in a pedestal; on the ba-e "public opinion ;" the would, " Trial by Jury ;" body of the Pedestal, " the Constitution," on the left sine, 0. 11—right, C. It. the wls.tle 'encircled and snrotionooted with " Liberty of the Press." This excited amazing attention, and gr am' approval. though some Jacobins were highly displeased at it ; and as a proof of that, after midnight II had my driwin room window broken, hv half-pence. AN INHABITANT OF BRIGHTON. Yesterday afternoon the Duke of Turk arrived at his residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, soonafter three o'clock, from Woburn Abbey. The Doke of Gloucester arrived at his house in Park lane, on Wednesday night, from the seat of Mr. Green wood, near Sudbury, in Suffolk, after a tour of about a roo•ith. Last evening his Royal Highness leit town for his seat at llagsbut Park. l'esterrlay forenoon a Spanish Messenger arrived at the residence of his Excellency the Duke de Frio, in Portland-p!•rre, with dispatches hum the Court of Ma4 l -ri !. His Excellency is recalled, and is to leave England in Match next, and will be succeeded by oho blarquis de l.acia,ss Minister Plenipotentiary. On Saturday forenoon an Austrian Messenger ar rived at Chandiks-honse, the residence of his Serene highness Prince Esterhaxy, with dispatches from '1 roppau ; the Messenger, by orders, passed through ' Vienna, on his way retina Troppau, and was the berry of letters (rum Lord Stewart, whom he left at Vienna, and Prince Paul Esterhasy, father of his Serene Higb nes.. A Piece of Plate has been voted by the inhabitants of Preston . to Counsellor Williams, in approbation of his able conduct in behalf of the Queen. A nieeting was called at Tewkesbury, on Wednes day in last to consider of a Loyal Address to the King.. The first address that was proposed and seconded, was negatived ; and a Counter-Address was moved and carried by a grip majority. The mummery of getting up ininister:al loyal ad d es‘es :s cont;nued with unabated vigor. such is the disgust which must naturally be ex-. cited by these compositions, that we sh. uld fear the roes. '.t loyal!C might suffer in the estimation of well- weaning men, did we nut have the satisfaction of re touting the spirited ex. ression of true loyalty and pa triotism th t abounds in those Addresses whirls are the molt of open, public discussion. As to the compara tive intellectual powers of the Addressers, we believe 'bat not the combined pedagogic talent of barb E'si►ersities, could produce such a speech as that of )4r. Jamey, at the sues:ing of the Inhabitants of Ethalitugh. - - MESTIXG OF . 1 111XL01711.f N. SECOND EDITION. Edinburgh Star Odee-0 o'clock. This thy a Sleeting of the County of Slid-Lothian assembled, in the Town Hall in this city, pursuant to the requisition of a I•w Gentlemen of the County, previously advertised. The expectation that the original resolutions and address would be opposed, occasioned the hall to be exceedingly crowded, at an early hour. At a quarter past twelve, the Slost Noble the klarquis of Lothian was called to the chair. The Roll of Freeholders having been called over, Sir JOON Hoes, Bart proposed a Loyal Address, which dilated on the preva!ence of sedition and blas phemy in the country, woich was seconded by James Walker, Esq. Mr. FERGVIIIM, of Leith, proposed an amendment. which was ably supported by A. M. Minion, EN. Earl of Itosslyn, Francis Jeffiey, Esq., &e. but even tually lost on a division, the numbers being - - For the original motion - - 110 Amendment - - - - 9d Majority - - - -IM The Meeting is but this moment dissolved. A full report of all the speeches in our next Tues day's paper. Lotat, ADDRISS I .—We understand a loyal .ad pa triotic Address to the King will shortly be laid before the inhabitants and vititants of this town and neigh bourhood, and that a meeting of those roily who .hall approve of it, will be soon after requested.--(Cheftex hews Chromiek.) It appears by latter, from the North, that the High Sheriff of Noriliumberland rernsed to call t C.unty Meeting " to take into consideration the recent pro ceedings of Pat:iament against the Queen, and to pre sent an Address to his Majesty similar to that which was recently adopted in the county of Durham." Sir C. Mond:, Bare., waited on 241 r. Clarke, the High Sheriff, on Wednesday last, with the Requisition. when the laver immediately informed him that be did not feel himself warranted in acceding to the wishes of those who had signed the requisition ; amongst whom, we underssand, are the Earls Grey, TankerAlle, and Ossulston ; Sir J. Swiuhurn, Sir C. Munch, Mr. Latubton, Mr. Beaumont, and about 40 others. Diseases in the political, as well as the animal system can often be discovered from trifles. This is the case in the secession from Government of ldr. Grottos CANNING. What must be the complexion of measures, at the bare prospect of which, the political stomach of Mr. 020116% CANNING has recoiled The proceedings of Parliament alone can tell us ; for all conjecture must be uselt•cs ; hut it is evident from the resigna tion of even this subordinate Minister, that the Coun cils of our Government are neither unanimous nor happy. 1 Mr. Camxisin, who knows hair to turn every official movement to his arivantaTe, maw probably make some ' overtures to the Whigs. If this lithe case, and they Ireceive Wm into their veuelnior their twirl!, -w eats down upon them all the contempt which can be *hewn by an injured and insulted country. Sever we trust will that (wintry forget t'ie public conduct •f I Mr. 0110116 C CANIII vo. First, he endest.oured to supplant Lord CASTLURCAGH, by whisper; ..t• that his Imilship did At possess ability for his :...; cc ; and that he (31r. U.) was deterruintd not to art in concert with so inefficient a colleague. Foiled in Ibis attempt, and chastised in a duel by his fortunate rival, he was abject enough, not indeed to act srith that nobleman, but to accept a situation starter him. Then it was that M. C. became employed to perform the drud pry of office; and most cheerfully did he perform it. He joined in rejecting the petitions of the people; and, in the insolence of power, be supported the Dungeon Bill, and ridiculed the agony of one of its victims. He jeered at " the revered and ruptured Ogden ;" an expression which, in Mr. Canning's dying moments, ought, from mercy, to be rung in his ears; that his worldly sufferings may in some measure dimi nish the fearful catalogue when he goes to his great account. This brutal but empty phrase too, was adopted for the mere jingle; or, as the courtly scholar would call it, the alliteration. We should think very little of a Member of Parliament who, for the pur pose of effect, were to roar out, " the contemptible coxcomo eamsixo;" for it would be as paltry in one case, as it was disgraceful in the other. We repeat, that if the Whigs should receive Mr. (7asixtrto into their party, there will be no term of weakness or con tempt, of which we shall not think them deserving. Mr. CANNING is fit fur the society of th se only.whom he has deserted; and there can be little doubt that his early desertion was intended for his own ulterior benefit. But he has already taken care of himself Exclusive of the sums of public money he has amassed in office, (the Lisbon job for instance,) it is known that he has secured pension for his mother and sister, 1 Mrs. and Miss Homy, the forro;.r of whom was origi nally a provincial actress.—(Constiteihm.) Itonser, Dec. 22.—1 n consequence of a reqnisition to the Mayor of this town, to convene a meeting of the Inhabitants, to present a loyal and dutiful Address to his Majesty, a numerous and respectable meeting was held on Mooday last—James Alridge, Esq. Mayor, i• the Chair. An address was proposed by Mr. Lintott, expressive of attachment to the King and his Cio. remittent, hut avoiding any political suhject, which was seconded by Mr. Longcroft, and supported by Mr. Holmes, the purport of which was, that as oilier places had voted loyal addresses we ought to do the same. Mr. Josiah George, however, in a speech re plete with manly eloquence, observed, that if it was necessary to address the throne, the address should speak the sentiments of the people, and should convey to the ear of the King the language of truth and sin lenity. He proposed an address which, while it pro fessed the utmost loyalty to his Majesty, adverted to the conduct of his minister; and censured the pro 'eeedings against her Majesty. An amendment was moved by. Mr Yams,ld to the address proposed by Mr. lieorge, praying his Majesty to dismiss Sur ever from his con-twills his present evil advisers ; and the address by Mr. licorice, with the additional dense for the dismissal of ministers, ass carried by a great majority. NORI'll RIDING LOVALISTS. With thiosame spirit as bath been displaY•d Ity the tories ^"orit, a few of the exelnsively luyal in the North Riding have called a Meeting at Northab lerton, of the noblemen, gentlemen, eleigy. and free holders of that borough, to be held* Caere, this day, "to consider of a Pi.triotie art.! Loyal Address to his Majesty, King George the Fourth, to express their at tachment to his Majesty's Person, his Government, and our glorious Constitution." The above no ice has excited the attention of se veral of Ow Priem!. of Liberty in the North-Riding ; and being evidently a party trick, like all the other falsely-named Logo/ .tfecti,4, Marmaduke Wysill, Esq., one of our Representitives in Parliament, has nobly come forward and issued an Address on the subject, from Ettrton-lfall, "to the Loyal and Con stitutional Inhabitants of the North-Riding of York shire," in which, after alluding to the advertisement for the said meeting, he very properly says : From the quarter wheure this Notice has ori ginated, there is too much reason to expect, that this Meeting will not confile itself to an exprra.ion of Loyalty only, but pass some resolutions, which may give sanction to the present administration, and attach t the procecJin:s of . a party, the weight and influence of the North !Collor. I therefore think it my duty to attend that meeting, not to object to any expression of 10ya1,,, but to declare those important truths, as to the deplorable situation of the country, that in expres sing our loyalty to nor Sovereign, we may not with hold our censnre from lii• advisers. Are we to give our sanction to an administration, by whose measures the produce of the land lea.. been so reduced, that the Farmer Call an longer pay the rents required of him: by whose restrictive system of trade, the markets fur our Manufactures have been greatly depressed, and consequently our labouring classes thrown out of ens ployment—shall we support those A:inis: e rs who, to retain their places, have lent themselves to destroy their Queen ? I trust, the North Riding of Yorkshire will not allow its sentiments to be expressed by a small number of the population, hut attend at North allertam, on Saturday nes., (ibis day) at Ln early hour, to express their loyalty to their King, but their firm conviction, that by a total change of men and measures only, this country is to be saved."—(l ort; ifeea.V.) The et. , f - irk, 11 Mayor of % ---- Varwl in compliance with a Re qnisition signed by upwards of one hundred house holders, has appointed a Meeting of the Burgesses and Inhabitants, at the Court-house, on Tuemlay next, to consider of an Address of Congratnktion to her Majesty on the a l bandunment of the Mil of rains and Penalties. Mr. KElN.—Tbis celebrated performer arrived at New York on the ?Atli ult., in the Martha, Sketch ley, from Liverpool, after a very severe passage. The following extract of a letter is a proof of the interest wiled by his ♦isit to the Utiited States: " New Yong, Nov. 3!+, Ten at Night.--The Ann Maria was to have sailed this morning, but her departure is put off till finr to-morrow inoruing. All the passengers a►e gone to the theatre to see your 3/r, Keats. 'There he. bete a greet speculation in tickets awley. the soa natters having given notice that no more would be sold than would fill the horse." ' The Board of Longitede bare issatid an order for the payment of 5.0b0/, to Captain Parry ao•1 his compa nions, for having reached the 110 deg.lV.lo, gitude in the Arctic Circle. Captain Parry is peparing, as we stated tom.. time since, to go out again in the spring, nod take a more southerly direction. This meritorious officer had last week, at Bath, of which city he is a I 'satire, the silver medal proposed to be voted to him by the West of England Sup iety, for the encourage , pent of Arts, &c. An amendment was afterwards moved at the Anniversary Meeting by the Duke of Somerset, to substitute the Uolti Beilfordern and the motion u•as seconded by Admiral Sir Coffin, and carried unanimously. Bennamt.—lt is said that Baron Bergatni has re turned iuto Prance, at the instance of the Counsel of her Majesty, who might at a moment's notice feel themselves obliged to require his attendance in the coarse of the debates. lie arrived at Paris by Le Bourhemnais, and not by Orleans, as one journal stated. Some believe that the desire of superintend ing the education of his daughtet, has determined him to pass the winter ant of his own country. He has pareba4ed a conntry house in the environs of Paris, with a view of enjoying the exercise of the awe.— (Paris piper.) . _ . - I - NEW FASHIONED PAVEMINT.--A method of di. minishing the resistance to wheel carriages arising from the inequalities of the surface of the streets, WIN stated in our paper a few weeks ago, as being practiced in some of the towns of Italy. and as about to be tried in one of the streets of Folinbitrgh. The plan consists in laying parallel to each other, and at the dis•ance of tl:e usual breadth of carriages, pieces of granite about four feet lung, and of the widta of our kirb stones, in the carriage•road, sonsen hat like the fashion of a groove, hut inn lower than the surface of the other stones. This experiment has, within the last two days, been put to trial, on a small scale ; in the narrow part of Wych•strcet, next the Strand. From the narrowness of that street, however, one great annoyance appears likely to result from its adop tion in that place. There bing no other kennel in that part of the street, the grooves must become the channels of the slop and dirty water ; and being close to the foot pavement, which has recently been increased in breadth, they cannot fail to expose passengers in that frequented thoroughfare to be splashed even wore than heretofore. We have to contradict a report we copied of the Cameleon baling sailed for the Mediterranean with a cargo of Italian wit . That vessel it appears had teen employed, at the request of the Board of I.ong;ttule, in bringing from Fran e, to the Observa tory at tireenwieb, a tine chronometer, lately made by Betinet for that Board. The vessel was simply eased for that purpose, which having fulfilled, she is now returned to her station at Pnrtsmonth. The Society for the Suppressinn at Vice arrested Mrs. Carlile an Friday, on the former indictment. for selling the Life of Paine. and one of the Numbers of the Republican, for which she had been tried in the Conrt of King's Bench, at Ouil.thsll, and their afterwards set aside. This makes the fifth ti tut yrtiding against her at present. verdiel 111.1111* FOR ME PRRSEN7' WEE +ITII THE Or HIGH WATER •T LONDON. ;A", •IIIDUS. 1.-FOVIITII fittasav lir ADVIIIIT. High wider—morn. 3 ay. alter 6; even. 20 m. after 3. M.-CINIISTISAS Day. 1110 $7 m. after 3 ; even. 33 min. after S. 96, T. 7 -ST. STEPHEN. High water —morn. 18 tn. after 6: even. SI m. after 6. 97. W.--14r. Jong.—Moom last quarter at 4 afternoon. ' High water—mot - n. 60 m. after 8; even. 19 m. after 7. 99. Th.--Ittworears. High water—morn. 41 um. after 7; even. 8 m. after 9. t 9, F. Moon rime 37 esia. after I. wore. Iligh water—morn. a. after 8; mi. 9 o'cloes. 3u, S. Ds) increases 4 Wastes. lligli ater—siora.lom. envie; gran.) s. after 10. I,,i' - de : ". ~ .~ z MS BRUNSWICK KNIGHPS OF NORKWIL Among the bodies of men who have thrusted them selves forward with loyal Addresses, we have not ob.. served " The Itrunswiek Knights of Norwirb •' As some of our Readers may probably never have hear.) of this insignificant Order, we will give its history. Abont four years since, several men, who were, and probably are yet, satisfied with the existing order of things, assem bled at a Trvern in the City of Norwich ; and, (in their cup's we suppose) called themselves " K nights ;" by the title of " Knights of the lfinnswick Club." Some idea may be formed of the importance of the Members when we state she fart, that the President was an Apothe cary. The selfwreated Knights then gave themselves a number of ridiculous airs ; and forwarded to Lord Sid mouth an areount of what they had done: see pulled by a natokroni cod very silly sleclara'ion of their senti ments ; abusing hlattemus iota Ttaitor, anti preaching op the Doctrine of Itisine right soul passive obedience.— Poor Lord Sidmouth was crnrlly annoyed at the Loyalty co' these conceited meddlers.. lie knew vt ry well that the sirunswicits acquired and ref-tined the English Crown upon the maxim of a people's right to dethrone a tt - rant Kin.;:. Ile knew aiso, that the English People hail exercised that right upon the Son of him, against whom the immortal Hampden haul d rssen his sword : and yet Lord Sidenouth knew equally well, that it would nut Le politic to desire these miserable creatures to refer to an English Ifistory, and get a Schoolmaster to ex plain it to thew. His Lordship therefore sent an equi vocal answer. applauding their sootier* upon *hi' h these loyal and sapient Knights roomed him their " re spectful thanks ;" amid the Resolution conveving the• e thanks, we were gravely assured, uat actually signed by all the Knights, from whirls we infer that they 113•1 profited by the Sundae Arademirs, and had learn, I to write their names. he Knights were, notwithstandillZ all this, most severely lashed by the political writers of the day, and, we believe, with perfect impunity; for oe never heard of any dreadfull effects from the reselitment of these slonglity Chevaliers. We suppose that, at all events, these writers were too wary to take any of the President's Drugs; suspecting that his medical was hot eu-extensive with his political knowledge. What has heroine of the order we know not ; but if it exists, e recommend its Members to carry up a loyal .Vidress ; not forgetting , to declare their high disapprobation of the C hurt of the quern, in hating presumed, will t thority, to institute an order of Knighthood. —(Coosli tritium, Sunday Pope.) METEOROLOGY. The frost which suddenly came on the I.l!ter end of last week, an suddenly gave way to the mildness that 11;:s prevailed throughout the season. The retirement of the frost was distinguished on Sunday last, by an oc curretire similar toe hat had indicated its approach—a very dense and offensive fog. On the approach of the frost, the atmosphere overcharged a ith vaposir, had bee!' first affected by cold, so that the smoke of the metropolis was deprived of its caloric soon after its rising, so ft forced by its specific gravity to Boat near the surface of the earth ; and on the retirement of the frost, the atmo sphere appears not to have acquired warmth till after the earth, and of consequence again exhibited the same ph-- nuteetion. The mildness that has generally prey:ivied this season has given birth, in different parts of the country ru several productions of the spring ; and the shortest day this year los been remarkable, as one of ti t s most pleasant of the winter, and as tivallingenany of his autumn. Nu other phenomena have bera lately noticed here I but at Naples on the 2:411 of November, al t seven o'clock in the evening. there appeared a luminous tmleor of a very brilliant splendor. It might have been mi.,. taken for a fire work. The body from which the light emanated, and was, apparently, about the 'it' of the sun's Oise. and which appeared in the west, vanished, in falling towards the east. Strand, Iler. 23. TIII.. VOWF.IIII. 8 1 I II 111110111. TER. o'clock. o'clock. at night. Dec. 17, 5.... 33 38 49 29.89 Fogg) , 18. 51.... 41 4. 47 30,13 l'lnntly 19, Tu.... 47 ba 41 .33 Rain 211, W.... 41 47 30 ,40 Cloudy *I, 'Fli. .. 49 30 49 ,10 Fair *2, F..... 37 49 40 ,I 7 ,floutty 23, 5..... 40 43 ,01 leloidy MARKETS. -ow-- SNITUPIILP MARKET, Dar. 2.l.—The market was bnt thinly supplied this morning (owing to it* bring eltristmes ILO; snit the Battle that was there, were those that remainell over from Friday's market ; and the prices are nominal. . (To sink the Offal ; per Stone of f 411,1.) Reef .'... Ss. 8.1. to 45..81. c AAAAA AT usage?. Mutton.. Ss. SA. to 4a. Bd. l Beasts I Veal .... 4*. ed. to 68.10 d. rate r s Pork .... 4s. 0.1 to Ss. Od. Sheep end Lambs.... Sorel Lateb.... Os. ltd. to Os. mi. Pigs .. liarAllanatT.—Thi% market remains 14 per 00r lilt qnotation. Straw and florae no alteration. NAY kW* STRAW rig LOAD. Hey I(M. NV 41. 44.1 straw 11. Hs... to 11. 14s. Clever .. 41. Ws. to 81. Ss. , - The Gentleman who recently rhillenged • ai r . sportsman of his own age to tide ten nsi!.s with 'bid.. wills I i Duke of Rutland's old pack of Is until , hal' entered the forty sixth season it ith the pack. invariable. attended at lisc.placca of meeting daring that..periosy and, at a isisulerate. computation, Oar riAldca 4t feat fifty thousawil sulks in the chase. " • ` HORRID Ilestoia.--,1 tall yo :ng instn, ; Onn• 43 rears of age, was . 3 / 4 bitrtiereil nn frid.sy, • about elglit • o'clok, in Itolbeld, leading from ilisiton 10 Kingiland turnpike. The name of Wright was 'roar. srbiels• ••• *was of bloc clotb,csr.led breechea,• and leather falter's. 's • If,. had retr'ie'd al•rerstitoesrede awl' 'bruise, about dim' bead atmd shoulders, and bee deep stab un*.tiag iy was lodinate the Init i ators..H*4 ppjuic.i. im p i p t ... : ,... ; Roissou L f ae 10.pectioa of a Jury. ( appeas . e.4.*. be • waris,siar..isd was dtriristty tire•Ptea.. .• ; . • ••• • . 4 14.4. ?.. • g • : i . "bi . I?7s. r' ^41"v"" -- r .Y _4 - :5~. • I~