The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-11 00:00:00

words in the STATISMAN of last netting week. He tells the Commander-in-Chief that bts knowi he (Sir ROBERT WILSON) was, before his dismissal, subject to Martial Law ; and notwithstanding he is by tbe mea sure alluded to, no longer in that ptediesmont, 'be Is willing to wave all objections to a Military Tribunal. He also says, " I again presume to remind your Royal Highness of those woks: which you were formerly p l ease d t o oo kamoledge ; but the strange situation in which I am now so amsecountaldy placed, compels ate to refer your Royal Highness to your letter of the 2lth January, 1815 1 and the documents to which it relates,infoirther support ofmy claims to justice on the present °cession." Here is $ lotto': of some consequence; we trust it will soon make its appearance, and further expose the Wisdom of Ministers and keepers of the Kiwa's con science. To all these entreaties Sir RORER? met a flat refuel. Would it be so, if they could bring the colour of crime against him? Oh, no; not even .cold they produce a member of the hired Hang to come forward ; not even the honest creature that made oath before Mr. --,yhmh, pooh, Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, respecting Mfr. Yovos of Hammersmith t fudge, fudge, fudge ! Here is law and equity with a vengeance ; here is re spect to ifergna Nark and the Bill of Rights. That Aliftsa Chez, ta that became the Coniston Law of Eng land, which Hi ug JOHN signed or he would have lost his thtone—wbat JAMES 11. was banished for infringing on ; and for a breach of which, one of the first talented Mouarclos that ever sat on the British throw, lost his head ! ! ! The two letter circumstances proceeded from the idvice of evil councellors, as does the present case. In the reign of Jost, so exalted was the general opinion of Magna Marta, that the BISHOPS prepared a prayer of Excommunication, which prayer was by a Special Proclaination to be read in all Churches and plaecs of devctioa, and enforced with all the rigour of Church discipline. Thee an Englishman's house etas his castle, no trial without a regular Bill of In ilictannt prepared before a Grand Jury, and its alle gations supported by respectable witnesses upon oath, or that Grand Jury would not suffer the party to go to trial; even then, he had the protection of twelve .honest men to rest his defence on and obtain inch a,,iatance as might contribute to substantiate his innocence. Was Sir BOBERT Wnsox'scase of so bad a nature that he was not to be allowed the chance of a Highwaymax, a Bowler, or a Murderer? Is be not au Englishman ? Was be not born under the protection of pages Charta and the Bill of Rights? The grand barriers of the law of the land are trampled upon, and by whom ? By those who approved of the persecution of the Queen of England ; the Jasper tidbit) . of foreign perjurers, and encouraged by their bdliCiillll a hungry gang of adventurers, and their bat. tulion of tcsamorsy; by those that have reduced once proud England to the poverty and insignificance of a German Province, and crammed its workhouses and prisons with the unfortunate victims of a bad policy. These are the great Statesmen, the profound Poli ticighs, the exemplary Divines, the Military Prodigies, anti the Naval Colossi* ; fioin such, Oh Lord deliver tr 4!!!! Avast, Great Heads. We recollect a Naval (Hiker having been abruptly dismissed the service by the First Lord of the Admiralty, whom he sued by an action at common law, and recovered damages. There Itlagua Charts was not a dead letter ; there Packed Juries were not to be seen. There the law of the land set up a defiance against Naval or Military Despotism; and in the case of Sir ROSIST WILSON we look to the law, and the honest energies of the people fur redress. No boroughmongering protection; no wan ton aggression on the right of property. Twelve honest Englishmen would do Sir ROBERT justice.— Those brave officers who have fought their way to proinotion, now see to what the tenure of their bard earned pittance is subject. They see that independ enceso grateful to Englishmen is trenched Upon; they see that a brave soldier, who has distinguished himself by his eminent services in all parts of the world, ren- ' dered incapable of acting as an honest Representative of the People, lest he should lose that interest which the purchase money laid out in his commissions ac cording to justice should entitle him. We rejoice, however, to say, that subscriptions are coming forward with promptitude in all parts of the country. Last night there was a meeting of tradesmen and mechanics, the constituents of Sir ROBIRT WlLsost, where a subscription was opened under the most favourable auspices, and our advice on that point in the STATES MAN of Tuesday last scrupulously followed up, every man's mite was welcome, and the people came forward with the most patriotic ardour, from which we prog nosticate the most glorious issue. The City meeting in behalf of Sir Robert Wilson is fixed for the 18th instant, and will take place at the City of London Tavern. Mr. Hobliouse has transmitted 1001. to Mr. Weather stone, the Chairman of the Committee in the Borough, to he added to the subscription for Sir R. Wilson. The High Sheriff of Shropshire b.s fixed the 18th instant for the election of a Knight of the Shire, in the room of the late Mr. Cotes. Mr. Rowland Hill, it is expected, will be returned without opposition. The gold plate which was ordered to be made in lien of those articles which were carried off by some enthusiastic hands from the Coronation Banquet, was on Saturday deposited in the jewel-house, at the Tower, which now once more boasts the whole regalia com plete. By letters received this morning from the Cape of .40011 Hope, we understood that the Royal African carpi was disbanded there on the 26th June last.— (Biffeburgh Calumet, Oct. 4.) THE STATESMAN. THE BULL AND THE BLACK COW DROWNED IN THE SLOP TUB. On those demoralised coasts where smuggling end shipwreck are practised to support the natives, a BEACON, or false light is held op on the adjacent heights to mislead the shipping among the rocks and quicksands, and thereby reader them immediate eh jects of destruction and plunder, so It is in politics. A Beacon is held out to mislead 'the *wary, whose object is evidently plunder ; a few of the depredators, who made the first blaze, got sosmorchl lathe confla gration that the Doetor himself has given them ep for loswas he says, tliere are strong symptoms of gent grese and mortifieatiOn, and sent them to the Hospital of Incurables at Coventry. This Beacon l= so terrified a Bull and a Black Cow that they run through every muddy kennel and filthy ditch, from Lancaster,to London, until both exhaust ed, fell headlong in a tab of dirty slops, near the Obe- Usk, is Fleet-street. This boll has, for some time, been the pest of its neighbourhood, and has attempted to gore many, particularly females, it been severely beaten and impounded - for the most infamous tres passes pa Its 'neighbours ; no fence was too high' felt him, and no boundary sufficient to keep him at peace with the adjacent herds. It is said, his sire, the OM Fiddle►, had taught him to play Alley Caoxse, by which he was sent to breed black cows in the Isle of France, where he went by the wawa Cook and sometimes Coachman, but his se eroacbasests there iodated his keepers to have him impounded and sent home as worse than bad. He then formed a treaty offensive, but not otherwise with a Black Com, a beast of the most mischievous note. — This nefarious nasty Black Cow, at last became es disgusting to all the cattle in the country, that it was impounded, and kept six months on spare diet, which made it even more venomous, and when it could iitd trespass on its neighbours in private, it kept bellowing and shouting in the bosses and highways. In fact it was thought it would do some mischief to the women, as it had a most infamous predeliction against the first woman in the country. This Black Coto and mad Dull have lately fallen into a slop lab, where they now waddle overwhelmed with mud. A mad Doctor has re commended phlebotouty, but it is objected to by other professors, least he might have bit them and render their as mad as himself. 'Tis supposed a proclamation will shortly issue from Whitehall, offering a reward for any one who can render them comp°, modes within twelve calendar months, but that is generally thought will take some years to effect, as the agitated and im poverished state of the sloptetb, is too obvious to be longer doubted, so mach se tbst be is advertised as aa insane runaway. Her Serene Highness Princess Esterhatty and family arrived at No. 5, Wellington-crescent, Ramsgate, about seven o'clock on Saturday evening (6th instant,) having been only seven hours and 20 minutes on her journey from London. In compliment to the Princess for the partiality evinced in the selection of that town for her residence, she was received with a band of music, and arches were erected in King-street, illumi nated with variegated lamps, ender which she passed to her residence. At 8 o'clock on Sunday morning, 12 rounds were fired from the battery on the East Cliff, in honour of her arrival.—(keatish Gazette.) WINCHESTER, OCT. 9.—A General Meeting of the Lieutenancy of this County was holden this morning at twelve o'clock, at the White Hart lan, in this city, at which the Duke of Wellington presided. There was a full meeting of the Depaty Lieutenants, Lord Rodney, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., M.:., Sir John Pollen, Bart, M. P. &c. &c. After the Meeting his Grace returned to Stratfieldsaye. It is said that he will review the North Hants before their time of ser vitude expires. Rune ANDRE.—The peach-tree taken from the grave of the unfortunate Major Andre, at Tappan, and now arrived in England to be presented to his Majesty, is one of the two that were planted over the remains of that unfortunate gentleman. The other we understand is in the possession of Mr. John Fraser, of the Hermitage nursery, Ramsgate, and is in a very flourishing state. Mr. F. in the course of his Botan nical researches, in the year 1816, visited the grave of Majnr Andre, at Tappan, and obtained the above tree together with some tufts of grass also taken from the spot, both of which are objects of great curiosity and veneration to the visitors of that fashionable water ing place. Carnot is living in averyretired manner near Magde burg. He is engaged, it is said, in composing a work, entitled Historical Memoirs of the French Reran lion, cad the Events of the last Thirty► Years. Mr. Glen's Souvenir, by Raphael, won the Gentle men's 501. at Enfield, yesterday, is two heats.—Nine started. The celebrated Miss Edgeworth is expected shortly in this country, on a visit to Lord Carrington. at Wy combe, Bucks. She will, in course, pass some time with her literary friends in the Metropolis. VacctrravioN.—The festival in honour of Dr. Jeuner, to whom mankind are indebted fur the dis covery of Vaccination, was lately celebrated at Berlin, by a superb banquet. All the Faculty in the city were present, together with several Functionaries and Statesmen. The Counsellor of State, M. Hufelaed, presented at the close of the banquet, lists of the chil dren who bad been vaccinated in Prussia dariag the year IslB ; and the result was, that upwards of 460,000 children bad been inoculated within that period. THEATRES. COVENT GARDEN. Last night " The Antiquary" was performed at this Theatre, for the first time this season, and Miss HALLANDS appeared, for the first time, in the charac ter of Isabella /'ardour. In this• attempt she was eminently successful. Two of her songs were warmly tailored. No other novelty occurred ; but all our old favourites sustained their respective parts with their accustomed reputation. - -..• HAYMARKET. The favourite Opera of " Rob Roy," was the treat of last night at this Theatre, and afforded the admirers of theatrical excellence a high gratification in the per formance of Mr. TERRY as the hero of the piece. Mr. TERRY'S talents sever shone more conspicuous than in thedevelopement of this cis arac ter,and without approach ing towards any excess, exhibited the hardy Chief in all his appropriate energy and dignity. In the burst of indignation which escapes from Rob Roy on being be trayed by Rashleigh (Maids:ton, Mr. TERRY was pe culiarly happy. This performance, of course, was the dbief feature of the piece, and the chief attraction of the evening ; but the singing of Mr. LEON; Us, who sustained the character of Francis Osbaldes tom, and of Bliss C R EV7, who performed Diode Vernon, obtained a large share of applause. Mr. Traumas was highly successful in the character of Bailie Jarvis. The play has been got up in the most liberal style, both as to scenery and dresses, and does great credit to the manager, who, unappalled by the fearful odds which he bas to encounter when contending with two winter theatres, has not ceased to afford the amplest and the most varied series of entertainments be the public. At the falling of the curtain, Mr. TERRY 'seated that Rub Roy would be repeated this evening; *a announcement which was received by a numerous - Stud elegant audience, almost with acclamation. ANECDOTE. Alderman Grogblossom, whose nasal beauties have lopg been the playthings of the rosy God, was, on a recent occasion, invited to dine with Alderman C—, of Dublin, whose butler was one of those facetious characters who made his wit and humour an agreeable appendage to his master's established hospitality. Upon this particular occasion, he dreaded Pat's loqua city might exalt itself to the guest's variegated pro montory. He therefore thought it necessary to caution the butler against touching at the word " carbuncle," which he promised faithfully to beware of. Towards the close of the repast, p rat begun to let dy his random shots and brilliant ' dashes, which diverted the company mightily, uud nose was more entertained than Alderman Urogbles son, still the HOST thought Pat was getting too close to the forbidden fruit, and he called out " Pat you'll please to recollect the caution I gave you this morning." —Pat turned on his heel and aptly replied, " Let me done for that your honour—not one word about the nose." The thing was irresistible. An uprorious dt of laughter followed, in which the carbuncled knight heartily joined. The Duke of York yesterday transacted military business at the Horse Guards. Count and Countess Lieven have taken the route of Hanover, in order to meet his 3lajesty. ALARMING ACCIDENT THIS ronEN nom:This fore noon, about eleven o'clock, the roof of one of the unfinished houses building in one of the new streets, opposite the stage door of the Coburg Theatre, fell in with a dreadful crash. Mr. Short, the builder, a workman, and a boy, were in the house at the time of the accident, and, ue are concerned to learn, that the boy was so shockingly bruised that when taken to the hospital, his life was dispaired of. The workman also was very seriously hurt, and Mr. Short received some severe contusions. INGENIOUS DEVICE.—An article, under this head, has been copied by several London papers, from The Mansell Advertiser, respecting an artifice by which a prisoner, at the last assizes in that town, had eluded justice. It was alleged, that he confounded the judg ment of his prosecutor, who was an aged man, by con triving, during the trial, to go back from the bar to the other culprits in the dock, and there exchange his clothes with one who, in consequence of the metamor • phis, was pointed oat by the old um as the actual criminal. The story seemed to us extremely impro bable, and now turns out to be incorrect. The same journal from which it had been taken says, on Sa turday, that the device by which a prisoner of the name of Collins succeeded, at the last assizes, in effecting the acquittal of a fellow prisoner, has since been found to have been effected thus :—The prosecutor, Fitz martin, not being acquainted with the person of the prisoner, Barrett, got into one of the side galleries of the Court, as soon as it was open for the admission of the prisoners, and before the arrinl of the Judge. Here the prosecutor being seen from the dock, Collins addressed him, saying, " it was a burning shame for you to have taken me from my wife and children, when you know I'm not the man that robbed you!" The prosecutor, Fitzmartin, then having no doubt but this was the man, swore to him on the trial being called, and thus Barrett was of coarse acquitted; but there was no change of clothes between Collins and Barrett, nor did Barrett even retire from the Bar till his acquittal after be was arraigned; but Collins, standing near him in the front dock, was identified by the prosecutor as above stated. IMPROVE/AZ:MI is Werrmixaysa.—The new front to Westminster Hall, we are informed, is only an ear nest of farther improvements. The whole of that ex tensive building, it is said, will be repaired; the ancient statues of the Saxon Kings and Judges are to be restored to their proper niches ; and the armorial bearings of the founder, Rims, and his Knights, are to be replaced, and also those of RICHARD the Second. CORK ASSIZEB.--Ocr. 4. This morning the Hon. Baron Smith entered upon the County Crown business. • RAPE. William Capel was indicted for violating the penes of Ellen Morrissey. The evidence of the proseeutrix, a young and Innocent looking country girl, was gives in a manner that excited the general commisseration of the Court, except in one instance, where his Lordship, ob. serving some improper levity, ordered if it should be re peated that the parties should be instantly committed to the dock. The prosecutrix had lived three years in the capacity of a servant, at the house of a person awned Riordan, near Charlfsille. At an early hour of the morning, jut after day break, on a Thursday, about half a year ago, she went out to the Geld adjoining the house, and was met by the prisonerwhom, in identify ing, she said, 1' there is the rogiselffo broke my heart." He threw her down and against her consent violated her person. She immediately became very unwell, but did not divulge what had happened to her until the follow ing Saturday, because she was ashamed, and to those who enquired said it was a blow she had got in the back. On Saturday, however, she told what bad hap pened to her, and was taxen by her friends before Mr. Russell, who after some inquiries took her information. The witness was ably cross-examined by Mr. O'Con nell, on behalf of the prisoner —first, with the view to prove that she bad previously had intercourse with her master's brother, and next to show that front not having at once charged the prisoner with the act, and attributing her illness to a blow, that she was not entitled to credit by the Jury. It was also attempted to be proved that she had offered to abandon the prosecution if she got 20 guineas from the prisoner, but this she positively de nied. Her replies throughout were artless and consist ent, and did not in any respect tend to impeach her first answers, or the story she had told, which was aggra vated by the fact, that the prisoner, though a young man, is married, and has a family. On behalf of the priso.r.r, Dr. Fitxmanrice, a respect able professional gent'eman, was examined, who de posed that he had attended the proseentrix, and was of opinion that the attempt made on her person had not been completed. Upon this evidence the capital charge was necessarily abandJned, and the prisoner acquitted, but his Lordship directed that bills should be imme diately sent to the Grand Jury for the assault with in tent to violate, which were accordingly found. AFFRAY AT BANI)ON. FRIDAY, Ocr. s.—At an advanced hour this day, the trials arising ont of the melancholy transaction whic:i occurred at Bandon, on the 2J of July last, wee• com menced. George Tresilian was arrainged for the murder of Margaret Crowley, by a shot fired from a pistol.— After some progress bad been made in the trial it was 'ingested to the Counsel for the prosecution, by Baron Smitk, that the capital charge could not be sustained. and it was evident that there had been a general riot and it was not distinctly proved with which party it had originated. In these observations the Comael fully concurred, and expressed their wish to be entirely directed by the Court, in which the prisoner's Counsel having acquiesced, a verdict of Manslaughter was re. turned. Joseph Turner was next arraigned - , f,,r the murder of John Shea, by firing a shot from a gun, on the same occasion. The evidence of the witnesses in this case was of course in some respects similar to that of the persons examined in the last, but many of the facts were ma terially different, and unfortunately the capital charge was more strongly supported. It was, however, as in the last case, humanely, and we are convinced, dis creetly, agreed between the Counsel at bulls ■ides, not to proceed to any extremity, in the hope that what had already taken place would have a beneficial effect. His Lordship also in eloquent, enlightened, and im pressive terms, in addressing the Jury, expressed si milar hopes, and lamented the unfortunate feuds, the exis•ence of which had too long disturbed the County. The Jury• then retired and after deliberating C..r some time, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the prisoner ; and in a few minutes after, the Foreman stated to the Coart, that be was requested by his Fel low Jurors to convey to his Lordship their opinion, that the prisoner, Turner, ought not in future to be entrusted with arms or employed as a constable. His Lordship expressed leis thanks to the gentleman of the Jury for the suggestion, which entirely corresponded with his own opinion, and he had no doubt would re ceive due attention in the proper quarter. A number apersonsof both parties, in custody, were then severally arraigned, acquitted, and discharged: and the Court was then adjourned. A fatal accident lately occurred at Poictiers. A young man went into the garden of the house in which he resided with his wife's family to amuse biossolf with firing at a mark. The door of an old green- Image served for a target. The moment he discharged the pistol a shriek was heard from uithin ; be rushed forward,•and his wife fell into his arms, ekpiring as she uttered these words, "Juke, yes hare kille4 me!" —(Paris paper.) - _ PROCESSION EXTRSORDINARY.---YeeefailV, about five o'clock, c3nsiderable curiosity was excite d ' in the Strand by the exhibition of a coal heaver seated on a ladder, slung on tne shoulders of twotoal-heavers, wlso proceeded from Southampton-greet, in the direction of Charing-cross. The circumstances were these The proprietor of a coal-wharf, having a workman ill at one of the hospitals, sent him $ bottle of wine, which he entrusted to the care of the man's u He, who instead of taking it to her afflicted spouse, thought proper to carouse with one of her husband's fellow workmen. The effects of the wine thus enigyed were productive of a closer approximation than probably ' was cotutemplated by either of the parties. The ware offender was paraded as above described for a consider able time, and instead of finishing by eying him a ducking or a castigation at the cart's tea, they ad journed to a public-house, where oceans of Mos raja tse:e eagerly inhaled by himself and comrades to a late hoar. Rumour states that this candidate for today has already three wives alive sod thriving. • :'~