The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-10-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAI, SEPT. 9.—Carne down from the River the Tortoise store ship, and sailed to the westward.— Remains as before. Fmmount, SEPT. 7.—Sailed the Speedy packet, for Corunna ; Marlborough packet, for both with Mails ; and the American ship .Viaplcton, for 1331timore.—Arrived the Ilebe, Willis, from London. CII, SEPT• 9.—Arrived the Thetis packet, with a Mail from Gottoriburgh. The Cicero, Newson, from New York to Port-au ware, was oil shore nor Sandy Hook, on the 4th tiv(l full of The Susannah, Cole, from Havre, arrived at New Yotk, w i t h tio., of mizen.mast, &c. d u ring a gale. on the 31't of Au4ust. Th e n o wrii/fe. Menie, from Honduras, arrived at Hun, dismasted, having hen on shore on the Stony 'links, and was abandoiall by the clew. SOUTH AMERICA. The French Gen. Humbert has a command among the hdocendentg, and has been sticcessf.d. A vo -I;e.tver arms from the United States of North Ame rica, is on its march to assist, in the South, the Pa triots who fight against the . .'yattish yoke ; and the citri , itql whit! will all wish them success. Coscarss or ..I.)u 11l Avlrittra.—The following particulars, on a sai.ject of daily increasing import acct., both to ourselves and our American conv,T•i t.a,, have reached us though the channel of the Ihrionah " We learn from Mexico, that the Independents ha<<at last formed a Congress at Valladolid, by the roman rence of Deputies from every province in the kiisvlotn. " Their Manifesto is energetic and eloquent. It seems intended to destroy party spirit, and to extin guish the hatred existing between old Spaniards and natires. It is high time,' they, 'to banish from our hearts that fatal jealousy that has so long kept us asunder. The fate of our sacred cause is al ready decided, every resentment must be stilled, and all recollection of past events, so fatal to both parties, banished from our minds; linked by the ties of bro therhood, let us march into the Holy Temple of P.'ace, and on the alter of our country let us sacri- Ece all hostile interest.' " The document further adds- 4 Policy and ltu. ma'•i+t• have prevented the Cipital and Vera Cruz from filling ins our handi, I:nt %non we will wrest then from Itoy•J Master?, and u•'rahy complete the work of our gio.l ars indepc: 'onrt."' It is stated rcom Paris, that the 1-•,,:nis!. I. maps, in free nmnb—s, were onil , cting at Salamanca, as it alas upp set' to ma' ;: against the Insulgon.s. An etpres.: was receiver) ye •terday, overland, from il. • i.e advises by it, state, that on the '23d u!t. intelligence r • , ohori the Government of the de fection of General Pont.' en, and of the troops in Gallicia. Great altrin was excited, and the Govern most hastened olf orders in every direction, for troops to cnneentrate and march against the rebels. Gen. Calm, it appears, takes the command of the Govern ment troops. _ _ _ IPtters from Spain are prevented from coming through France, in the usual way Digland. The Secretary of the POPE has given notice, that the ancient diplomatic r:latiAls, with all privileges and iintuunities, had been restored with the different European Powers. The right of asylum is limited to the Palaces of Ambassadors and to minor offences .-- The privileges of a pri.iting press in t ie Palace of toe Spanish Ambas , ador is atnili•hed. works for publication niust first Iv submitted to the Corigrega tion called dr Irt IL:fornic. A great quantity of arms has of late been smuvled out of England to the river PLOP, under the pretence of their being destined for the %Vest Indies. The hustings for the grand coote , t for the county of Oxford are now erecting in Broad-street, wd. Lord SuNtartm %NW.; Committee are prnvidi ar viages and colours for the electors ; Mr. AstinuirsT's friends are to be distinguished only by sprigs of oak. The Earl of ilost:urtura, - lately called together his tenants on the estate of Ochiltree. Linlithgow shire, to his Lordship's seat of Dalmetly Park, %%bore they partook of a plentiful entertainment pro aided by their landlord. Before dismissing them, his Lordship reduced their rents fully 20 per cent. on account of the present moderate state of the marketg. . f.y.wts not appeatieg on Saturday to be sworn into the office as Sheriff, he was understood to have refusitl to act, anti will consequently have to pay • the useal penalties. We understand that Mr. • Tnotter, of Aldgate, is likely to be Mr. BELL'S partner in the office. Ott Saturday, letters were received from the Ma deira islands to the 3d ult. They h ing intelligence that tit' vintage had totuily failed there—estates that formerly produced 40 pipes of %sine, were not ex rec.ed this season to produce more than twc. The usi.nl Mail from Itt:and arrived on Saturday; but the papers and letters contain no intelligence of peculiar interest. The folios, ing is copied from a . Watetfoid Paper •--t°IVP ate neither free, nor very : wilting to publish particulars; but we should think itunfiir to suppress the alarming truth, that the iusi toot's system of syt raring the peasantry to a retitle- ' lion of tithes has so far gained ground, es at present to hclutle, very nearly, perhaps fully, the entire of the county of Waterford. it affords some satisfac tion to know that, at least in these near parts of the county, it has been chiefly through the agency of strange emisssaries that the system has been carried two execution." BUTCHER'S MEAT. —Prime joints of meat are now selling in the town of Devizes for V i tl. and 6d. per lb., with a prospect of still greater reduction of price. . A sco r e of shins and eight pigs were sold in Devizes market, en Friday s.'nstight, at 71. 134. Lord CASTLEREAGH is nearly recovered from his late accident, though ho caloot yet bear any thing tight acro4: Cie kti,?.e. TN! , rr... , t he very distressing •t, hi. Lordship. A Cour:kr': knee should be very sink. bit STATESMAN, 1 To TOE EDITOR OP raz STAIWiESSUN. Silt,—lt ill accords with the liberality and tempe rate patriotism of your Paper, to impute the immo ralities of France to the late Emperor; and the more so, as the Neregale Calendar, the Calendars of our County Gaols, and the authenticated Reports on our Prisons, unhappily prove, that we ought not to be the most fore ard to reproach other States with a de pravity that is making most rapid strides in our own country ! That the morals of our neighbours are the re►erse of exemplary, ssill be readily admitted by every Gentleman who has resided long enough on the . Continent to form an accurate opinion of the morals l and manners of the People; and every man compe tent to judge will readily b,e'r %sillies!, that Box t. PARTE and his family had a far less share in ex • tiogeishieg sir toe in France than the Bounsoas. A Court notoriously corrupt and debauched, and a licen tious Clergy, resolsing all the dillies soil obligations of I civilized life into for n.s and a bli n d submission to the • Chute'', under the nick-names of piety and faith, are bad preceptors in any nation and you cannot be so little read in the history of France, Spit', tied the Italian States, and especially of those under the immediate dominion of the Pore, not to be aware that the people, as well as their mite's, have been de graded and fashioned to the vilest. purposes, under the senseless tuition anti coercion of owe n hrs. : blasphemously calling theta4elves the Vicegerents of Heaven and the Vicars of Goo, had debased the un derstanding, and perverted the hearts of mankind, by giving to faith alone a mischievous and fatal pre.. ponderance over morals. It would answer tin put pose to refer your Readers fur proofs of these melan , choly facts to the history of the Pepes, and particu larly to that of ALEXANDEIt VI. The atrocities of , his Holiness are upon record, as well as those of CATHARINE ne Mentcts, and the wretch her son, CHAILEi IX., who, concealed in a closet of the Louvre, perfidiously shot his fellow-creatures at midnight. I will not say his subjects ; because man. ; kind, properly speaking, are not the subjects of Kings, but of laws confided to the honour of Kings , to see faithfully obeyed and respected. It will be sufficient for my purpose, which is, Not to extenuate, nor set down aught in malice," if I recal you to the reigns of Louts XIV. awl XV., in which space is contained the histories of the Re- 1 gent Duke of OnLeasts, and of his debauched and profligate minion, the Abbe Boss, who, aspiring to the Popedum, was elevated, through the influence of his shameless Master, by the Pope, to the dignity of Cardinal. It is to these disgraceful periods I beg leave to refer you for the causes of that immorality which you deplore as actually existing in Fre' ce, and which you ha►e, in the warmth of your rest. tment, and contrary to your usual candour, attrihated solely to BONAPARTE! It is almost impossible to read the well-authenticated records of the criminal profusion and libertinism of the Courts of Louis , XIV. anti Xl`„ without questioning the veracity of history. According to my conception of Kings, the revenue of a State is for the express purpose of supporting its political rank in the scale of nations, by preserving its independence, and re warding its public servants, at the head of which stands the Severeign ; and that the Prince who de , votca ails portion ef that revenue to purposes of use. lest prodigality or debauchery, tending to corrupt those morals of which he ought to be the con servator, is guilty of fraud, and unworthy of the station in which the mere accident of birth ; has placed him. The immorality of which you so justly complain in Fiance has had no other source than Vie abuses to which I have alluded. The prodigality of the immediate ancestors of Louis XVIII. laid the foundation of that Revolution, the sad effscts of which every man in this country has reason '0 deplore. The scandalous waste of public mor rev du. ing a minority and to o reigns, impoverish ed tae. nation while it corrupted its morals. The Nobility became pimps and parasites to their Royal Masters, and the people stases to both ! Taxes ar bitrarily levied, and brutally exacted, deprived the latter of their little comforts ; w bile the hi t her classes of society added to an immorality, of e hick they gave the first example, an arrogance as disgusting as it was misplaced. They had the insolence to pride them selves on their birth, as they impudently call it, and claim homage from that circumstance alone, as if the peasant was not .aetea and produced by precisely the same process as that which gives exist ence to the Being whom the courtesy of social life decorates with the title of Prince ! These are the causes which demoralise notions, and not the des potism of an individual who, unhappily for the liberties of mankind, abused at once his genius and his for:sines, but who, having lost his power, it is no longer decent to revile. While 90NAPARTE was a tyrant, and France waged war against my country, I was their enemy. The one has fallen from his stupendous height, and the other is oppressed and depressed by foreign mercenaries and a worthless fanatic priesthood—the Sovereigns, in fact, of their bigoted master! So fallen, it would be unmanly to harbour even the slightest reseutment against either. Your Paper, some days past, stated, that Newgate alone contained 300 persons to be tried for criminal offences, in which were included several children under the age of 15 ! I have also lately read the tepnrts of a Committee of the House of Com:toms on the Jails, in which it is stated that the Fleet Prison is the largest brothel in England; and that senral men and women have been known to sleep in one room in the King's Bench ; in uhich it is also asserted the existence of gin-shops is con nived at, and that the Master Jailor of each has an income almost equal to that of the Secretary of the Admiralty, thong!' they cannot boast of cribbing quite so much patroller. There are in this very short detail proofs in abundance of immorality equal to any that France can be stionatized with ; %%here, by-the.bye, you can eat excellent unadulterated bread, at half the price charged for the vile mixture sold to us under that denomination by our bakers lied millers. If you have not bad reason to complain of the table beer vou drink, you are wonderfully fortunate; and no less so, if any of sour children have run the gauntlet of any of our public schools %Werra having given you serious cause of uneasiness, if not of alarm, for ; the deviations ftorn those precepts which were better respected in thc happier ties s of our grand fathers than they are at present. If boy:: will apply themselves, they may certainly become what is techni cally called scholar, ; that is, they will, at the ex piration of seven or eight years, be capable to con strue of hand JUVENAL or Homha, or any other difficult author in Latin and Greek ; hut as to morals and manners, they are held by the gowns men who teach the boys of little comparative value with the classics. Indeed, morals and manners form no part of the education at any of our public seminaries. They do not belong to the system of (bore Monki,li foundations, while feasting, gambling, drinkitig, contracting debts, and de bauchery, occupy nn inconsiderable portion of the thoughts of youth so consigned, end in which they generally ;Jerome adepts, by the time they are of an age to be ilifaliculaled at either of the Universities. Your most excellent and enlightened Correspondent has well touched upon this lamentable and important topic. Implore him, I beseech you, to resume the subject. Ili, masterly pen may lead to reform in a matter highly connected with the vital interests of the erruntry—the morals of the rising generati I There will he patriotism even in the attempt ; and I am sure that in such an attempt I would most cheerfully con tribute my mite. The Archbishop of CaNvennutty is, by his once, the hereditary superintendent of schools threughout England, as the Loan Cosa crehort i • the guardian of minors ; and if you tan prevail up•lrti his Grace to give us his aid, lie still set a m o st lare'able example to his successors, end rer ! tainly render a most inestimable service to the youths of the present day, as well as to their parents and guardians. . _ _ AN ENEMY TO PREJUDIC Cowes, I)!o. of Wi7i.e, O. 5, ISO. ! lly accounts from Aberdeen, we are sorry to find that during the last five days a spirit of tumult and disorder has manife,ted itself among the seamen of !hat port, similar to what has :I:.-!y been exhibited at. Newcastle and Sundellaml. On t:._ 21 and 3d inst. a large body of two!, assembled together, and went the length of stopping s , veral vessels from put ' ing to sea ; but by the prompt interference of the Magistracy, supported by the great body of ship , owners, and a Wholesome show of military force, they were reduced to obedience, and peace restored. Tite elegant mansion of the late Dike of F!T. Ar.- nsN's, at the upper end of Stratford-place, Oxford street, formerly the residence of Lord A Loeonovon, is taken, by the command of the Put Nee Iti:Gestr, for the abode of the Archduke Jolts of A astria, his new married Archduchess, and suite, during their stay in this country, where they are expected spee dily on their intended visit. Orders have been issued to get the house. &e. ready on the 14th inst. for the reception of the illustrious guests, or such part of their companions who may precede them in the order of their journey. I At Nottingham Fair, on the first day, from 70 to 754. were asked for prime daries of Cheese, though but little was sold for more than 70s. On the second day, the best cheese on the stones was sold at 66, and some on the third slay, sold as low as 60. In the neighbourhood of Kennington, a young Lady of considerable fortune, who was under the care of some relations, has, w;thin these few days, become insane, it. consequence of being deprived of all means of correspondence with a young man holding a highly respectable situation in a public office, to whom she had been violently attached fur Some years past. Yesterday se'nnight, at nine o'clock, e fire broke nut in the extensive set of buildings occupied by Messrs. John M`Aslan and Co. liaen-printers and and colour-makers, Tradeston, Glasgow. These buildings are at so great a distance from the centre of the city, that the flames had made great progress before the fire-engines had reached the spot. About one half of the buildings, with a great quantity of manufactured stock, was lost. . . On Saturday se'nnight two spirited horses belong ing to Ciptain Stothert, of Corgeti, having become uninaneagable in passing through a crowd collected round a quantity of earthen-ware exhibited fur sale in Castle-street, Dumfries, after destroying not a little of that frail material, threw down and tram pled upon a poor woman of the (lame of Hogg, rut her head and bruised her elicit so severely, that, on Sunday morning, she expired. It is but justice to say that no blame whatever attaches to the groom.— Captain Siothert, on being informed of the fatal event, visited the afflicted widower of the decenied (a (lay labourer in English-street), and after having offered him all the consolation in his power, /Irv. sewed him with '2Ol. and promised to take hi,n elf and his three motherless children under his protec tion and patronage. On Monday se'nnight an Of of the Royal Navy, belonging to ou of the shit's fitting out at Woolwich, was stopped on the road between Lon don and Woolwich, by three men dressed in sailor's clothes, who demanded his money, and took from him Bank of England notes to the amount of lifty pounds; they then made off, hiring lam six shil lings to pay lot a bed. • To THE EDITOR IF Tilt STATESAIdIV. Stn,—The present mode of carrying on promo Lion from one rank to another, and which is pear: liar to the naval service, is '.ery highly objectionable; I mean the positive check to promotion, which exists between one step and another, from the Midship man to the Post Captain, hounds which cnntant be overleaped without powerful interest, or the casual occurrence of fortuitous circumstance., which may heave the hiertic's., though meritotiou., Naw.! Offi; cer over the bar of difficulty. This is quite an anomaly in military service. iti the cavalry and infantry a man moo, in process of time, obtain an advance of rank, with no other re ! commendation than that of length of standing in his corps. ; Ili the corps of Engineers, in the Artillery, and in the Marines, promotion goes on equita ty ant . regularly; though not rapidly. Win may not thsi Navy be placed no as similar a footing ai circum. stances will admit ? However, t.should by no meows recommend the entire adoption of the undeviatinz system of the Engineers, Artillery, and Mail:tett, for extra promotion should in ( - very politicAl view be always open in every department of both military and naval service, to reward and excite to particulate meritorious actions. Sept. 23. aUST(TIA: On Sunday the Duke of Nonror.g arrived at hie house in St. James's-square. His Grace, we are sorry to state, is seriously indisposed ; an much sd; that he was obliged to be lifted from his carriage and carried up stairs. Hi% Grace is come to town, in order to be nearer his physicians. Detruy-LANE.—Lr)rerc• rinrs was performed lasi night, for the fourth time this season, and Mrs. M AItDVN, for the fourth time, sustained the character of Amelia Wildenhaint. tier pert . , rmance was ac companied throughout by the decided approbation of an overflowing audience. We hear that Mr. KEAN is to appear during the present season in several new characters, among which are Cardinal Wolsey, King fear, and Bajtmet. ale is also to have a character ht BEAUMONT and FLETCHER'd Beggar's hush. It is becretly whispered that Mr. Er.tastest it likely to renew his engagement at Drury-lane. ' Miss NA:3II, of the Bath Theatre, will make bet dt.hat at New Drury as Clara, in the Duenna. BeanAm does not make his appearance at Drury. lane Theatre until his return from the Musical Festivals at Halifax, Kendal, and Whitelmen, all . of which he attends in his route to Edinburgh. Mr. KEAN, the celebrated tragic performer, supensed to he at present in France. Early in the l a c; P IC, he took a trip to Croy don, accompanied by W. If.rlsooN. From theatre he made a forced match to the coast, where he embarked for Franca. A letter was received from him, on Friday, dated " At sea, eff the harbour of Dieppe." It is whis;nered, in the Green-room of Drury-l:ine Theatre, that .vlr. DOWTON will very shortly sutpert the characters of Pierre and of Richard the Third. ‘Ve understand that considerable alterations era making in the stage department of the Edinberglf Theatre, previous to the commencement of the win ter season, under the management of Mrs. Ilttenv Stonoes. The contract made by Government for supplying the military in Scotland w i•lt net. is at the follow ing rates :—Aberdeen, 4d., Perth, 41., and at Glaa4 goes 4'd. per lb. FOOT-nor lY StIEEP.—A Gentleman attached td agricultural pu , cnits being lately in Rutland, put. chased from the sitcltiterd of Count de Rosenberg, near the Hague, the lalowing rectlpt for curing the , foot-rot in sheep, viz.: gold lea'. 3 ounces ; verdigr.s, 6 us. ; vitriol, 3 oz. ; burnt alum, 3 uz.; all to be pounded and reduced to flee powder, Red aft oeverds to be boiled in a pound and a half of ordinary :toney. It is to Lao used cold, the foot to be anointed a soon as the malady is discovered, and once a day if it lade lasted any time. It /019 never been found to fail even with Merinos, so liable to that disorder. On Tuesday last a dreadful accident occurred to the Subscription Coach, while passing furiously down bill, a few miles from llonitret. The coach.. maa, in his ecdeasours to check the velocity of the horses, broke the reins, when the coach u;,set, with twelve passengers, of whom one man fraeturc.l his lee, another h:s coltar.bone, and another (a child) was neatly billed, best les a lady, and several others, • severely (truiSed. A few days since, one of those merciless who inflict wanton cruelty on animals, was driviog a miserable half-starved h or se, t q a car t loaded with men and www.u, to Croydon Fair ; the horse briaz unable to move with rapidity, the driver tuerd reins so often and so hard, that the bit cut (belt , rsit's, mouth, and the blJoil fell half a mile on the road. A lady, on horseback, seein4 the brutal behaviour of the driver, rode up. and remonstrated with hitit ; in consequence of which the fellow ~ naped out of the cart, swearing be would kill th' horse before her face, and actually cut the animal's throat. This was withi , r a mile of Croydon, and the I) , engers %vat ke.l that distance, Icaviog the dead horse and his driver by the road tide. The celebrated Problem of Dr. PRICE, to show the wonderful increase of honey at C terest, gave rise to the establishment of our btiittkitt2; k wit] ; but it require; a long Eelles of Year:, accord ing to that genteetti...l progression, to etinee great effect a!ttil , uted to it ; f..r E I now vested !silt require ISS years to am o unt to 22000. 'fit.' Doc tor little calculated Ott t h e discovery of a new rule of increase, which Jill now effort 111 three ‘Veeks what his rule could tint accomplish in 130 Voars; and this any person call prove by vetting £23 I ls. in the pur chase of a Ticket, which, on the 7th November, may increase to 150,000 3 per Cent. C•nio n lg, RS on that day all the Three Prizes of 250,000, and the Four Prizes of 220,000, in the present Lottery, m ar be drawn. cite Humber steam packet was, on Wednesday week, only four hours and 40 minutes in performing her passage from Hull to Selby, a distance of bo miles. . : I am, Sir, yours, &c. I kl 'a, • 441 '~