The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-17 00:00:00

Sir ROBERT BAKER.—The resignation of this wor-' thy Magistrate by no means surprises, as we have looked for it, since the unfortunate 14th of August, as• much from the hints, inuendos, and abuse of the hackney prints, as from the open-mouthed attacks of the lowly understrappers f sanguine minds. Those who exulted at the Manchester Tragedy, might natu rally be expected to approve of the shedding of inno cent blood at Hyde-park or Tyburn : and now they tell us, that bad not Sir RoBERT shewn so much Want of promptitude at the first onset, the military need not have been forced to shoot their fellow-men in defence of themselves, (and still without effecting the intended purpose,) so that because Sir ROBERT did not call out Me whole regiment, and deluge the streets of Kensing ton with the blood of the KING'S unoffending sub jects, lie is weak and imbecile, and deserved to be superseded by a beardless - boy, whose servant swore he could not tell whether he wore mustachios or had ever been shaved ; or whether he was 16 or 60 years of age. Sir ROBERT, in truth, has committed a deadly {crime, by calling into action the sound judgment Lonest feelings of an Englishman, and endeavouring to stop the effusion of human blood. Base satellites of wickedness and weakness, who would wantonly promote Vie sending forth the KING'S Guards to murder the faithful adherents of persecuted MAJESTY, under the fictitious colouring of a guard of honor' A gu ird of honor, truly, would, no doubt, have been cheerfully allowed, bad she been proceeding to the scaffold.— Guacd of Honor to a QUEEN, whore life and honor bad been attacked by the same party, but a few weeks before, was too barefaced even for a profligate Slop•tu6. To have anticipated any other termination but a Hall taty outrage, would have been foolish ; it would have shewn an ignorance of the past and a disregard of the future. Of the real dangers, Sir ItonEnT BAKER was well aware. But now-a-days, for it may be told that a Civil Magistrate only obtains his honors and rewards as the General in battle—by the number of killed and wounded. Should Sir ROBERT retire into private life, his ' , meat will be accompanied by the blessings of theiridow and orphan, the fathers of families, and by the approval of his own conscience. the will retire not covered with stars and garters, but with the approba tion of his fellow-citizens, and the eulogies of the human race. 41P, The Paris papers continue to present a mass of con tradictions, relative to the matters in dispute between the Russians and the Turks. Some articles state that after the arrival of a Russian Courier from St. Peters burgh, a rumour had spread that the Emperor Alex . ander was satisfied with the answer of Turkey, and tir t there would be no war. The reverse is assertgl other communications from the same place. An ex traordinary courier arrived in Vienna on the 29th It of August, which was said to have communi cated to the Cabinet of Vienna the decision of, the llnssi.tn Government in reply to the answer of the Divan to the Russian ultimatum. The reply of the Russian Government was thought to bear a character decidedly warlike,. and this impression seemed to gain some C6nfirosiation from the circumstance, that on the foltowing day, the 30th of August, the Aulic Coun cil of War despatched numerous messengers to the commanders of the several Austrian corps cantoned iu;Transylvania, and forming the cordon of ob servation atom; the line of the Turkish provinces.— The Brussels papers, in corroboration of the latter opinion, contain a letter from Constantinople dated August 10th, which states, that whilst the Turkish Government endeavoured to create a belief that the departure of the Russian Ambassador would not disturb the good intelligence which existed be tween the two countries, Baron Stroganoff, had .pub licly declared that " war was inevitable."—At Leipsic there has been a strong contest between the students and the police, in consequence of the gates being or dered to he shut at nine o'clock. Lord Gwydir, and 'the Marquis of Lansdown have arrived in Paris, and Lord Yarmouth, who, a Paris paper says, enjoys the intimate confidence of King George IV., had been in Paris for some days, but had left that place for London. Preparations are making at Calais, one of the French papers assert, .fora she passage of the King of England, which it was supposed would take place on the 14th or 16th, (a date or two before be returned to Loudetfrom Dahlia.) rixscit FUNos, Sari: C4.—Five per Cents, 86f. 20c. .43ank Actions, 1546 f. 23c. Montreal Gazettes arrived,this morning to the 10th of August. —The following is from the Montreal paper of August 9th : Oa Saturday last, Alexander 111.1Cenzie, Esq. arrived in this City from the Grand Portage, whither he bad gone to announce the joction of the North West and Hudson Bay companies. This intelligence was received with great joy, and cannot miss making a very great change for the better in the Indian trade. The return of Fur for the Interior is said this year to be aoco.nmonly great. This day his Majesty will hold a Cabinet Council at Carlton Palace. The whole of the Cabinet Ministers being summoned to attend at half-past two o'clock. Yesterday the Lord . Chancellor, tie Marquess of Londonderry, and Earl Bathurst, bad audiences of his Majesty. This day Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, it is said, will bevy town for the Continua, is order to make the • necessary - arrangements for the King, at the different plates where his Majesty will stop ai on his way to kisser es, .--...4.1.•-•-- The exercise of authority by Magistrates on Pub licans has been lately brought to notice by one of our correspondents, for whose observation's On the subject, we believe, the public in general, as well as the• Pub licans will be much obliged. The following case of this kind, which we copy from The Morning Chromick of this day, is, from the interesting circumstances with which it is connected, calculated to fix the attention still more strongly on the nature and effects of the li censing system : ANOTHER GREEN BAG PLOT. At the General Meeting of the Justices in the Com- I mission of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, acting for the division of Kensington, held at the Hammer smith Coffee-house, Hammersmith, on Saturday the Bth instant, for the purpose of granting licenses to the pub licans of the Hamlet and neighbourhood—we have been informed, that the proprietor of one of the most respect able of the licensed houses in the district was subjected to a most iagnisitorial examination before his license I was granted to him. The circumstances are these: — The Coffee-home Keeper was called before this Quo rum of Magistrates, and informed., that information had reached his Majesty's Government that Sir Robert. Wil son bad attended a private meeting at his house, pur porting to be a meeting of the inhabitants of Hammer smith, when the door was carefully kept from all in truders, and that at that meeting the obstructions which afterwards took place in the progress of the procession of her late Majesty's funeral were planned. To this the Tavern Keeper • replied, that Sir R. Wilson had never been in his house; that the meeting was, in the fullest sense of the word, a public one ; and as a proof of it, some of the gentlemen connected with the public press attended, and reported the proceed ings. The solemn asseveration of the Landlord was not thotight sufficient by the Magistrates present. A long adidavit was drawn up, and without any copy bring given to the party, he was upon the instant required to swear to it, and sign it. This affidavit was corrobora tive of his own statement above alluded to, and he was in furmed that lie wont(' hear fulther of this affair. To this we have to add, that a tradesman at Hammer smith was peremptorily sent for by the Magistrates, and examined relative to his knowledge of the affair. Another publican in the same hamlet has received no tice, thrit if lie continues to exhibit any placards in favour of the late 12tt•en or her friends, he must expect that hie license will be is danger. --- Tbe Meetings of Magistrates, which have been for a long time held at Hammersmith, are in future to be re moved to Kensington lt'e learnt the above particulars at too late an hour last night, to do more than give the mere detail; our readers, however, will easily supply the comment." clan LATE 31.4.1xsTY.—Mr. Hieronymus, Mademoi selle Brunet, Songez, the Moorish attendant, and other domestics who accompanied her Majesty's remains to Brunswick, have returned to Brandenburgh-horse. Lord and Lady Hood, Lady Anne Hamilton, Mr. Austin, Mr. Wild, and Dr. Lushington, arrived by the way of Paris, on Friday, at Dover, by the Rob Roy steam packet from Calair, accompanied by Count Vassali, and Captain Ilesse, and are expected in London this day. Imme diate measures will be taken by the executors to carry into effect the directions contained in her Majesty's will, of the disposal of the property. None of the servants are yet discharged, nor has any arrangement of a peen• niary nature yet taken place with respect to them. lU hitos, her late Majesty's principal cook, has WIS 19110410! situation at Brunet hotel, Leicester-square. The subscription for a lasting testimonial of the affec fectionate regard of the inhabitants of Hammetsmitia for her late Majesty proceeds with more spirit than the mostsauguine expectations of the Committee could have anticipated. It is not yet determined where this monu ment is to be placed : it was the wish of the inhabitants to fix it in the centre of the hamlet, in the Broadway. but this will, it is expected, be opposed by the Bishop of London, who is Lord of the Manor, and has the right of 4 .roitti. A nook in the Church will not be accepted, particularly as the situation would be selected by the Rector, and the object of the subscribers might thus be frustrated. The Committee are, it is understood, in treaty, for a piece of freehold ground, in a very conspi. cnous situation, on which to erect the cenotaph in con templatiou. Mr. Rossi and several other artists have sent designs for the approbation of the Committee, and no time will be lost in making the selection. Last Tuesday, in the evening, a meeting was held at the Union-rooms, liichmond-hill, in this town, at which from 3 to 400 persons attended, Mr. James Mann, in the Chair; when it was determined unanimously, "in order to consolidate and organise the great mass of re formers in one indissoluble union, and to render their efforts irresistible, to form " themselves lot* a branch of the great Northern Union, (as recommended by Mr. Hunt), to be nominated the Leeds Central Committee of Radical Reformers."—The Members of this Anion are to corttribute one penny a week towards raising a fund " in order to return tried friends of the people to the Rouse of Commons at the next general election," and the sub feriptions, by a general organized system, to be made as extensive as possible. In a letter from Mr. Haut, ' which was read to the meeting, it was observed, “ drat if the Ureat Northern Radical Union consisted of 100,000 members, each contributing one penny a week, the radicals might, at the next election, send from three to ten members of limit own into the House of Com. mons ; and even if they purchased all the seats ! of the Horoughmongers, which might be worth while for once, a real Reform in Parliament would be obtainedgwithin six months. These subscriptions would amount to 21,633/. 6s. W. a year, enough to purchase seats for five radical members, who might be Sir Charles Wollesley, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Cobbett, Major Cartwright, and Mr. Wooler." In these views the meeting coincided, and after electing a treasurer, secretary, &c. they voted thanks to Henry Runt, Esq. for his intrepid support of the rights of the people; to Sir Charles Wollesley, for, his patriotic exertions in the cause of liberty; to Mijor Cartwright and Mr. Cobbett, for their services to the country ; to Mr. Wooler sad Mr. Carlile, for their ad. l vocacy of the cause of reform ; sod to Mr. Alderman Wood, for his services to our late pereeuted Queen. — (Leeds ilerenty.) . . Saturday the Glasgow frigate, Capt. B. C. Doyle, fitted for the gait tadis statiaa. - prewsied is at which place tleaiial tho Nit. Birn. Swat s (11.111111. Governor of deyisa, slat *MK will •smeherit laa boar& her, for 141 island: Urea, wigs is appointed second-ia-commaaad at Baobab iltiberkek from Peoessuoutb. - On Wednesday afternoon; about 4 o'clock, the Royal squadron, having on Tuesday night off the the Land's End shipped a sea, put back to Milford Haven. On Thursday evening the King landed and proceeded immediately in his travelling carriage for town, accompanied by Lord Graves sad others of his suite. His Majesty appeared to suffer from his tem pestuous voyage, and was expected to stop two nights on his way. It was understood at Milford that his Majesty would sleep that night at Dynewor Castle.— , On Friday afternoon his Majesty passed through Chel tenham, where he was addressed, while changing horses, by the Master of the Ceremonies, in the name of the inhabitants and visitors ; and on Saturday re turned to his Palace in Pall-mall evening. The Royal squadron., it appears, had reached within 30 miler of the Land's-end, when, from the boisterous state of the weather, it was obliged to put about, and return to Milford Haven, where it arrived at 4 v. as. on Wednesday. At five next morning, his alajesty landed amidst the cheers of thousands of spectators. A band of music was in attendance, which played several na tional airs, and his Majesty appeared to receive the marked attention which was paid to his Royal person, with much gratitude. He bowed frequently, and looked remarkably well. Three carriages were landed from the fleet, one of which was his Majesty's pri vate one, and in a short time his Majesty drove off.— TheiCing slept on Thursday night at Brecon. His Majesty travelled so rapidly, that when he arrived within a mile of Gloucester his horses were so coin pletely knocked up, that he was obliged to wait till fresh horses were sent for. He passed through Glou cester about one o'clock, and intelligence of his Ma jesty's landing and of his route to London reached Cheltenham before his arrival at that place and great preparations were made to render his Majesty a very distinguished reception. His Majesty, however, pass ed through Cheltenham two hours sooner than expected, and informed the Master of Ceremonies, in reply to his address, that he was too much fatigued with his voyage and journey to allow of his making any stay there. His Majesty slept on Friday night at Chapel House, Oxfordshire. The Royal George has provtd herself a complete sea boat in her rough and boisterous passing from Dublin. Some idea of the violence of the gale which the Royal squadron encountered, may he funned from the circumstance that the forecastles of the two frigates, the Active and Liffey, were completely un der water, from the pressure of canvas they were obliged to carry in brder to keep up with the Royal George. On Tuesday evening, when the Royal squadron was at sea, a seaman belonging to the Active frigate fell overboard from the main-yard-arm - and was drowned, s us the weather was too bad to admit a pOssibility of lowering a boat to save him, and the ship going so fast through the water. The yacht of Sir William Curtis, after weathering tisk kseavy gale of Tuesday night, in the Irish Chantsol, waved safe off the Isle of Wight on Friday, being the only one of the fleet assembled in Dublin Hay upon the late occasion, which has made her passage to the lace of rendezvous. . . .._ .. HIS MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CONTINES7'. The following accounts received last night, by a Flanders mail, are quite at variance with the reports of his Majesty having relinquished his intontion of visiting Hanover this year : BRCSAILLB, SEPT. 12.—A letter from Lille of the 9th, says, •• Orders from the Government have ar rived at Calais, to make all the necessary preparations for the reception of his Majesty the King of England, who is expected in the coarse of this week." FILANKFORT, Seer. Temple, the British Charge d'Affaiers, has just been officially informed, that the King will arrive here between the 2241 and 25th of this month. Hit Majesty, accompanied by Lord Liverpool and the Marquess of Londonderry, and several members of the Privy Council, will put np At the Roman Emperor Hotel. From this city his Ma jesty will go to Louisburg and Homburg, to visit his sister; after which he will return to our city, whence he will continue his journey by way of Giessen, Mar burg, and Cassel to Munden. At Cassel great prepa rations are making, and at Munden, being the fron tier town, Ms Majesty will be received by the Deputa tions from Hanover. Then he will proceed towards Gottingen, and stop not fat fkom that town, at the house of the Government, in the village of Wehnde. From the village he will go to Gottingen Itself, and then by the Harr to Hanover. Bacssets, Barr. 13.—1 t appears twain, that his his Majesty the King of England, under the title of the " Earl of Dublim" will arrive in this capital en the 19th. Every preparation to receive him has &tread' bees made ' in the hotel of Lord Clancarty, the British Ambassador. It is added that his Majesty will remain at Brussels the 19th and 20th, and continue on the 21st his journey to Germany. Oor readers will recollect, that Captain Parry, on his lamer voyage (and we suppose on the present), was furnished with certain papers, which were to be thrown overboard in different situations, with a view &Witten of conveying information as to the progress of the expedition, as of endeavouring to ascertaia the strength and direction of the currents of the Ocean : the former object is now happily at an end, but the latter is growing every day more and more interesting. We are glad, therefore, to be able to statey that one of these papers, which appears to have been thrown overboard from the Hecla, on the 16th of June 1819. in lat. 58 deg. 13 min. N. long. 46 deg. 55 min. W. was found on the south-east shore of the island of Tenerife, on the 29th of July, 1821. and transmitted to England by the mercantile house of Palley, Little and CO. HONOUNIAII.I TO Queen's COUNTY, U. is a fact worthy of note, and highly honourable to this county, that Alters is not. neither has there been for some time past, any person in....... -~ :~ . ;~. • tie EMI= MARKET. This charming piece of comic mecholism, together with the heavenly strains of Moziar, is Itely .t) prove highly attractive, and render a most iftegn:ti. cat treat to the dramatic conuoiseur. The dresses reat, though magnificent, and the piece.rendereol by the attention of the stage department. It wooed .onkina under etch circumstances to canvas ouio•.n e:y• the trivial errors of auv of the performers. . %vie is too well established in the inotsic4l worl.l •.. • NI our praise, still where praise is due it should . ;•-• i; her soft tender notes are delightful, and hrt' r generally so unstrained by distortion or •:• test of action, and she appears so much at her e..e t is a pleasure to listen to her. Iler very tllitie.:ot :artio.s was executed with peculiar science, and the .s with Miss R. Conk' with peculiar juolgnoevt. Th• latter voting lady bids fair to be at the top of her pr..f..ssion. tier voice is clear and upper notes puseilool ; exe cution ponrtrays the excellence of her precephor; aisof • her varied powers in the duets with Mr 4. 11A0itteK brought forth the most deserved applause This lady is also a clever actress and good singer, and in troll we must congratulate the manager on such a powerful ac quisition of talent. Mr. JONES placed the C.)eni in his usual respectable style, but Mr. DECANIPS Figgre was incomparable ; his eccentricities never appe:ore:l to so much advantage, and his musical correctne=s tilled us with as much surprise as admiration. Mr. TavLeJaa, a new per former, represented the Drunken Ga: deter: He appeared as much at home as if lie had be.-n liberally supplied with the aqua vita! of Ileilge's and Co.; the ease of his manner and the touches of science whit h he often displays, will render him an acquisition to those Ilona gers who so anxiously look after large bargains. 'floe piece was well supported by the performers gentorall.v, and if it has not an extensive run it must be attributed to a want of public taste in giving preference to buf foonery. • THE BETTING ON THE ST. LEUUR AT DONCASTER. SEPTEMBER h). Sto 1 agst Gustavus—l , to 1 agst Jack Spigot-7 to 1 agst my Lady-8 to 1 agst Statesutaa-9 to l agst - cou-14 tot apt Sauelbeck-16 to l agst Alt;3lJoru-20 to 1 agst Fortuna. EXTRAORDIN.III r OCCURRENCE. -,-, • The nnfortunate young culprit, Lee, found guilty &* robbery and cruelty, last Surrey Assizes, was, our r•it dens will recollect, executed on Monday last, at Horse monger-lane. His mother being confined on a bed cf Wiless, and almost heart-broken,. his dejected father and friends were unable to provide the means of Chris tian burial. Mr. Walter, Governor of the prison, ordered an Undertaker to provide a decent funeral, and that his relations shonld see the deceased, and be allowed to fu low him to his grave; Mr. W. undertaking thilithe would see the Undertaker paid his charge. In conse quence of this, the body was carried to the Undertaker's house; and on Tnestlav, the father, sisters, and frien Is • attended the Undertaker, to see the body, and to know when it was his pleasure it should be buried ; but ob tained no satisfaction. The next day they applied at the prison, and Mr. Walter being out of town, Mr. Cave, the Deputy Governor, sent them to Mr. Memnon the Officer at Linion Hall. who on Wednesday accompanied theM to tin, Undertaker, where they were told the co (ready lready been buried. Upon their pressing to kitor-er whet* the Untie woeild give theta no satisfaction; and &lemon with his usual acuteness, suspecting that all was not right, continued to be on the look out. The afflicted parents and friends became doubly anxionsas to the remains of their deceased relative. They repeatedly called on the undertaker in vain, and agrin applied to Glcanon, who found the burial had not taken place, but was to be private on Saturday evening. With that circumspection which dictates ail his movements, he, accompanied by Mr. Crisp, followed the worthy undertaker, who hail procured soldiers front Thames-street, to carry the coffin to the next burl It ground, where he had obtained a receipt for 103 , the money paid, which receipt was dated four days bakir.— Glennof and Crisp proceeded to the burial-ground Where the coffin was just laid down and the grave-digger bulr at work. They considered ceremony unnecessary, and broke open the coffin which they found filled with clay and rubbish, but no bodz.• The amiable undertaker would willingly have covered his retreat, hut Messrs. (Mention and Crisp considered a few minutes couver3a tion with the. Magistrate would better answer Go ends of jetstice and litunanity and without any apology for the liberty, brought the andettaker direct to Union Hall, where he was examined by Sir John Pinhorue, the Magistrate, and committed to the same quarters from whence he so lately removed the body of the culprit de ceased. - The occupyers of land in Sussex are considerably increasing their bopplantations ; about fourteen years ago the number of Acres planted with hops in that county did not exceed 5,400, and at this time there are micro 0,300 thus cultivated. Conx-Exeitaxas, Sam 17.—Our market was very largely supplied with Wheat to-day from Essex, Kew, and S uffolk, the chief part of which consisted of this year's growth. the vittaliti of which was tolerably fine, vet, notwithstanding the unsettled slate of the weather, the sales were very heavy, and Friday's prices could not be obtained by full ss. per quarter, but what was dis posed of was at an advance of full 2s. per quarter. on that of Monday's quotation.—Barley, Beans, and White Peas are considerably dearer, and Grey . Peas are Is. per quarter higher than on this day se'nnight, bpt are 2s. per quarter lower than on Friday.—The Oat trade was heavy at an advance of 2s. per quarter on last Mon day's prices. ENGLIIII. I. I. Wbeat,Kent, sad E.sezbO 88 New Old Suffolk Small Besse 44 40 Tick ditto 4O 4-1 Oats. Potatoe 32 34 Ditto,i Poland 3O 6S Ditto, Feed ... .. 23 20 Old . 00 - Flout, Per Seek-- 65 in Norfolk, (Old) 6O itit Rapeseed,jser Lost .. 31. 3* Rye. Barley 4O 48 Wheat, American— . Malt... Waite Peas 40 42 Baltie,Red Boilers 46 48 /bunko' Red, . Grey ditto 3s 35 SMITHFIICDD, SIFT. 17. ere was a plentiful ripply of all descriptions of cattle at 'market this morning, al though the badness of the weather, meat of good quality maintain their prices, and there is every appearance of a rise. _ _ Stone of filbs.) - ATTLE AT KAMM 1950 mod 1Ant05....12,9110 1 le is the poise of N.Y. .. U. b. Ire U. 14 . TAT ES. LICENSING srsrik. - RSTORIrIV - VONDON. l• - "TIrt X . (1' Binh the offal Se.' b' • .. ~ . . mac .smerrip 10 004 160111101' 11as wen 190011 10f 90060 11010 ('lip sins the offal ; per Sim past. any parses is the . meaty jail or Waits, os any Iffesi• •• • ffs• 44. C AI S -6199. Mattes.. es. 64. to Is. Od. Busts W_ immisamierichen isesivois doe posemiss fft ar. V .... SS. Od. to de. Od. Calves Be. N. le 35.103. Miser Wel ONSPIN et liSsisisok Isom . so is. ad. Pigs *MAY UM coadisi allow fir kiaiks "4 ' 'air • ms p er aillind.a last 1. 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