The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-08-24 00:00:00

• - - --'.v"~-.r x -~Q . --,~ } E STr' ►TESI4iA :' 3141 - AL .INTELLIGENCE. T 9 z•as EDITOR. es rag ST4TEMIN. 1 • .4. ---..41V ORTSXOUTII, AVG. 23.—Arrived hi+ Majesty's , liti, , ork, from a cruise; and Ranger, Wood, m tit. Petersburgh. Cu., Aca 23 —Came down froin the diver, remains, the Duchess of York, Massifs ghti m, for no g Ayres.—Arrived die Dextrous sloop of war, m Portsmouth. ) 1 01ouTtr, AUG., 22.—Came in the Ilaughtkand ii : a , brigs of war, from a cruise; Christian, llam, i n Lanelly ; Fly, from Waterford.—Sailed his jesiy's ship T'iber for the . liastward. 11,, R w ten, Aua. 23.—Arrived the Lady Neiman cket, with a .Mail, from Cuxhaven.—Sailed the ! a:tfoy packet, for Holland, and Henry Freeling rket, for Cuxhaven, both with Mails. very much. wonder that no humane Member of the Howe of tloinmoits thought fit, on the passage of the Nem Hackney Coach 13111throtigh that House, to introduce (or it least attempt to In troduce) a clause, having for its object the amelloii tion of the treatment usually received by the •16iiis employed in these vehicles. Most of these MAW animals are half starved, and have little or no rest, except when on the stand ; added to which they are often very Much beaten and ill-treated by their di ivers. —Surely, Sir, in a civilized country like this we ought not only to endeavour to soften the condition of the distressed and afflicted among our fell Ow-cre atures, but also to extend Our compassion to the dkmb creature. Cruelty, in all kit hideous forms, ought to shrink. affrighted from civititatibn, and while we (laudably an doubt) exercise our benevolence on the distressed °roar own and foreigti nationt the brute creation ought not to be forgotten. I also bblerve, Ithat Parliament have some additional claims on khe Proprietors of Hackney Chariots. Now the rickel Act is annulled, of which they justly complained, they ought not to think themselves aggrieved if some I regulations were made relative to the manner in which 16.1 treat their horses. 1 hope Sir, that in the neat ' Session of Parliament some enlightened Member will call the attention of the Muse to this important sub ject. If you will insert the above in your independent Journal you will give pleasure to Your most humble servant, it. V. Z. A Viessenger has itB rived in Downing-street, from l ie, Kith dispatches from the Duke of WELLING g, containing the details of the destruction of the Irracks in the Bois de Boulogne, occupied by the Flash and Hanoverian troops. GovernmPnt have received dispatches from Lgett K w:WM, dated from the Bay of Naples, 9th July. re understand they contain an account of the dist ri. pion and movement of the ships under his command tlot station, and of the proceedings against the By the Admiral Griffiths we have received letters d Papers from Buenos Ayres, to the 29th May, hich mention the entry of the independent army of • latter into Potosi. This army is commanded by enersl Rowurau, who, it seems, obliged Pezona, mmsnding the Spanish forces in that quarter, to , precipitately towards El Desaguadero, leaving ind him all his artillery, baggage, and military ores, which fell into the hands of the Buenos yrists in the important point of Santiago de Co aita. The Itidepondents ..f La Paz, Cochamba, I Casco, were prerious!y posted in El D"88. vier°, and as this is the main point of regress Lima, it is possible that Pcznues retreat and pplies of provisions will have been cut off.— the Buenos Ayres Gazettes is a dispatch of Ge ra! Awrisas to the Supreme Goverstn:ent of that e, in which, io his own name, as well as that of s troops, he protests his entire submission and elity to the same, and expressing the firm resolu on of all to die for the liberty and independence of to country. In the same Gazettes is also seen a 'roclamation of the Municipality of Buenos Ayres the inhabitants, exhorting tl:om to give donations .r the increase of forces, as weir sea as land, which as carrying into effect, in order to oppose any ex .ition that might come out from Spain. Accord g to both letters and papers, the most animated en usiasm every where reigned, a great number of lions were organized, and all were in daily expects. on of the threatened expediticin, under a hope that to effort would seal the independence of the wary. Extract of a Letter Madrid, Aug. 5.—" Our =cite has favoured us whit three letters ; one from Pope to the King, thanking him for the restore. on of ti.e. Jesuits : another from some Vicars capi .llo with the same view, and offering to remove all bstructions which may thwart the success of a mea. vie so I leasliug to their God : and the third letter from some Jesuits still remaining, from the period f the expulsion, expressive of their gratitude to his lajeoy. &c. It is astonishing that a set of Monks so ormelable to all Princes by their doctrine of regicide, hould be reestablished, and by a King ! The sys. en. of persecution continues the same; Don Alvarez . uerra, Fx-Minister at War, has been condeinned o banishment, and to pay the expeoces of process. vetal imprisoned D•puties, who had been permitted o enjoy the liberty of conversing with their friends, .ave heeti again shut up in secret. A priest of the rder called Des 4gonizantes, whose crime, it would ppettr, was merely that of having held some conver tin!' about the restoration of the Constitution, was ,anced here a few days ago. Neither the prayers .or intercessions of persons the most respectable had cc effect in Softening the mind of the King ; and this unhappy man fill a victim to what, at the palace, is called severity, hut which, to give it no harder tame, may more properly be called infalualion." Aug. 14th, 1815. - - SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE. CALEssnouno 7 —One of the pleasant Equivoques in Paris on the heavy exactions which the French suffer, and on the size of the King's person, is the follow ing :—" Nous sommes en slat de payer des grandee; contributions parce que nous aeons an gros reveno." Ma. KEAN'S BENEFIT.— There was an overflow is every part of the house on the evening of Saturday! se'imight. The receipts, exclusive of gold tickets, amounted to 4301. In the efterpiece, Mr. Kays played Abel Drog;er. It was altogether the most I comic exhihition ne ever witnessed. The audience w, re in roars of laughter all through.—(Dublin Freeman's Journal.) A question arose in the • Court of Chancery ow Wednegday, whether a person making a voluntary affidavit, before a person not authorised to ad. minister an oath, was liable to be prosecuted?—, I The LORI) CHANCITLLOR expressed himself nearly as follows:—' , It may be useful to have it understood , that he certainly is liable. There was -a case dis ca4sed iu ! . .is place, in which Lord LouGunortouGis ' directed a prosecution for perjury against a man upon an affidavit sworn before an individual who had no authority to administer an oath. I was then Attorney-General, and found great difficulty in that Case ; but. u po n looking into the proceedings of the Court of King's Bench, I found it established that that was a proceeding contra bonus mores. I ac cordin;:ly prosecuted that person, and succeeded in convicting him, and the Court of King's Bench put I him in the pillory. It is therefore very important to be understood, that those affidavits made before a person who has no authority to administer an oath, although it does not constitute perjury in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, still it is an offence of 'uch a high and heinous nature, that the person com ' miffing it may be prosecuted and put in the pillory. The c-se I allude to was that of the linen 0. THOMPSON." It is no mail indication of the tone and E.,:e of France, to see, that several emigrants of dictinctio•:, Irrtit•ulnrly Clergymen, who had gone over with the first time, retired with him, and spin en- Intl! Franey with him, have now returned to Eng land, unable to brook the disconsolate aspect of their cotaitry, and not to witness the degradation threaten. ed by the conduct of the Allies. It is a singular cir cumstance, that none of these emigrant Clergy go to Spain, where one would think, they might expect to find con,eitiality of sentiment, as well as warmth of welcome; but they seem to have their suspicions on thy. matter. CATIIOLIC AT/AIRS. —The following has been puhlithed es the substance of a letter from Cardinal ).lira to Dr. Tao Y :- 46 Dr. Tao received a let: - r from Cardinal LITTA, dated Genoa, Apr: 25, 1815. It inforns him that the Rescript has been derlared null but the most objectionable part of it :, re ii:•rti. It sets out itifferent forms of oaths of ally. i pace ns fit to be Wien. It contains a declaral.on that the Popt ca t i ii .t consent that the correspondence with the See of Rome should be subjected to the scrutiny of Government; but it states, that his Holiness is prepared, in case of Catholic Emancipa tion being granted, to agree, that in future the lists of the perverts intended for ll7shops shall be sub mitted, in the first instance, to the Ministers of the Crown, that they may strike out the names of any Terson or persons whom they moy consider us dis lops, or ausetwous. The letter adds, that these in tentions of the Para have been already intimated to the English Ministers." A melancholy event occurred lately at the parish church of St. Hoch, in Paris. A wretched individual terminated his existence nearly in front of the altar, by blo*ing out his brains with a pistol. His body was immediately conveyed into the vestry. In the chair which he had occupied was found a paper, wherein he declared, that the fatal act which he was about to perpetrate, was occasioned by poverty. He has left four children to lament his loss. There are no poor laws in France, but relief is never withheld from the wretched. We understand that Sir JANES YEO proceeds in the loons:awl to command, with a broad pendant, on the coast of Africa.—Sir ROBERT HALL, lately re turned from Canada, proceeds again immediately to that country, to supersede Commodore OwEs in the comnand on the waters of Canada, where Govern ment intends keeping up a respectable establishment iu future, Early on Thursday morning some villains broke into the shop of Mr. Bushell, in Temple-row, Bir mingham, and succeeded in carrying off lace and mil. Jittery goOds to the amount of '2OOl. The warehouse of Mr. Mills, in New-street, in the same place, was also entered early on Thursday morning, and sobbed of metal to the amount of SQI, r ir:. ~ __ . ~re~t .W . .d 1.—.,. ~~ - ••• • _ ,LAGO 01 COMO. IMPORTN O TVS' PIISONV • —..0.- - -. . ! • . .. .[c• whiled:l,. • ' the reside:K.6,6l A, "Princess tit. Waiei Open the shore of this bewutifdi lake will render it somewhat The discipline- of Ihe . prieriii, if Cargill " fait • an object of curioaity. It ia between the Alps and t he m o rals as well as the Coinfeo and sr . s‘nity of 04 .. '. AppetiirteS. • Coraurn, or, as the Itali ans c all it, priseneis, nett comes wider tie ceirlideration iff thi s Como; from which the lake tak e r flit name , i s a c i ty ,' •Committee. The ftepnrt reteorki, that the Coda . b . • upon one of its bays, so considerable as to have t mittee could not jean, in what *Ay eiCer,Sei 4.4 ante: cathedral of white marble and a porrulation.of nearly ren ''' d or discovered, Ss therri hi vie roll-Cell or Mum; 20,000 sputa. Its chief distinction in a nc i en t hi s t or y ter daily, Weekly, or Monthly, • Th e only inielligi: . • i s that of h av i n g h a d p uny i h i yaa tio' r - foi one Of the Manner of. kribeinglt 04441iithilket d. iiioner its citizens, and its patron. In hia time; it appears . still oceupiea hie retsms of Las wryer!, is (told lho . to have been more populous th an n o * ; b ut ma . .ehum . master ha goes reetrirt7) erilfeEi the dittos Bern travellers say, that it co n tai n s, it pr e s en t, 10 rind this infers uo-iirialaty Of. ilefigibir; 4 1 filit churches. The inhabitants are still mindful and officer fines not g'n to the i ...lit of a pti5...114 it hi ' proud of Pliny, who had isics ritlai upOn the Lake. receives the rent frost' any; hue else epee the itaircitti One of their inscription's ro'b's arithery enitsithea— or in . the pasiige . The Ciimiiiittee intuition, ria An 44 Ordo, populusque Corn end instance of s Galant Pliniunt Ste: it'll negligence. the ecitiiiie of ' lanai ritunicipern 'sum ' incomparafillosi Cochrane, cundum who hid iiir , the ,priatisi on Morideet . And . ... . . stataa et elogio ornavere." ' There are two smaller towns upon the 6ite etta r • • Wheats diStppearance was trot known to the Mikihitt till he win Orating Of It by 'Hie („otainittele iii ! chi ' • . several villas, one of which is not unreasonatity'sup: Timridi P • • In reaped to t he ihhiwil 4 the prhccii, ardniten:. posed to stand upon the scite 'of a villa Orr tiny, ' . fragments of pillars bei n g dis c e rn ible near it in th e tress is moat eothmili, and there Ta'a conatant sale of Lake, at low water. There are Aso many Villages; spirituous liquors. Mr. Jonei i'l2A he has infor for this superb Lake is 50 Mil e s in length, and from mottoes of ten Place* *heist tbefire 46111, slid ano three to seven in breadth. The form of it Ii tier - ther Wittier!, slates, !hit eh tht atiircaiss there be pentine ; the dipth very great; from 40 to 600 resider' there jilt sort of p'utilic:houie kept, Whorl ' • feet. 'lire loner covering of the mountains that spirits are lot ) only Sold its'l4 ' tarried iiwiy; but '.. hornler it, is generally. of vines, olives, arid orchards ; people easeMitle there cif' an eienlo4 ti drink them; the middle groves of cheanut; the upper region of that be lir ditiiretiel by theriotont 'irrtoileafirih in hid down, or forests of pine add fir, with the exception ' vicinity, and that from the'strong smell of en If thi of some very elevated ridges, *heehaws either naked, ! ed Hie ioom - lbel nuit A . V '. i . . . . f officerL Visit , , t , -.1 to Or the psate. or crowned with snow. Behind theie; to the north- . ' lice. . .. .. , . - s . wa ral,west ward, and eastward rise the Alps in all their Of the cu t est to, which .k . stehling' ii eiritest' . , iiii tu grandeur, CoMmittee could dot Ward, iia Ibi. piillok'S vie 4 no -- m e.— • . . communicative.on this, or oa e i ther subjects, aiherii ' t: l ' their own indulgences Were conredred. The conduct of the British Government in sending l COG i URI' OF AtSi' ' . i . ...43,, PARIS, diva. 19. ~ . The CoMmiltee do not goi rs o n iti'ef eit r i u ti 7 . , , r i c e a frigate and orders to Buenos Ayres, to embark the i 1-- —..40,....... . . 4 of 'lsing, or etluilmil dlasitiatiets,'er 'hate hada,'ol • British property and merchants there, under only. a ; CHARGE OF MURDER. ! aelf4ndulgence - by whiCh ereditere fire der ded• 64 • • rao , pr few days notice, has caused a great sensation in the Francois Rickard llonore, Ghez:alier de Longpre, perty clissipaterkawl Morals tainted. •, : manufacturing towns concerned in that traffic. It is ex-officer of cavalrs, who for sonic time belonged to i The week:' service by the Chat-lain if not al way! " 1 now near eight years that trade has been carrying the King's body guard, which he was obligati to leave performed by • the same individual, us the prevent on to the free port s of Spanish America, to the on account of a disorder contracted by his licentti:,us Chaplain, Mr.*Evii,iii, Is, freM age and ieflrmity; ' amount of at least twelve million' ste r ling annually, mode of living, formed an acquaintance its a gam- ; hardly ever' able to 'idea. The attendance . hi . I particularly to La Plata, that consumes at the rate tiling-house, with a female of the name of Therese' chapel is small, dud intlthir the Mafia! , :or MEV t of two millions of the above. For It . this ,trade, con- Petite Jean but who went by that of Clementine.— Officers think it their duly 16 lid lOVt* 6si Valle 8 voys have been appointed, M r . st, A ples W H as named a r • e conceived so violent a passion foe her, as to be these circumstartees , where no example Is set; *Kehl'. 1 Consul at Buenos Ayres, and as such introduced at the Prince Regent's levee; and a few ymirs ago, when very jealous en account of her interviews with x.per...i there is no regular clergy Man, the ComMittee reseed; • , son named Dumont. He harrowed a pair of pistols , that the neglect with which the Sabbath ii treated- 4 s P th la e ta,t Portuogues e co-op e troo ate ps v with isited M the shores of Lora ha , gunsmith , a gusmith, with the professed intention of chal- . within the walls of the prison, is not sttipilsing : hist ' rontevideo ' Strangford caused them to withdraw, and• Admiral longing his rival, and went to the house where Cle,, they recommend that Ihe Captain should heed efficievit mentine residvd. They retired to bed, and no sooner person, and that the system by which hig alteatiod . I De Courcy raised the blockade. Were these, or was Clementineasleep, 1 firedof i become • should longer lie Perinitted 6 titan, Angpreone liras a sinecure, no not, inductive proofs that these people were not the uistOls at her , and the other at himself, by which to exist. '. t trespassing against the known rights of 'Minns .? h • ed • ' The girl died four ' The Committee b Itithough th it be 4 t e severely wound his month. Under these assurances , at this moment 6 0001 ' ' 1,-01 ' ' days afterwards. Longpre pleaded jealousy as an. rule of Court made in 1781, by which she Marshal Itt 7 of British property exists in that section of America, p aril sold on credits, and distributed in the interior, excuse for the act, and asserted, that when be corn- commanded not to suffer the wives and children of y mitted it, his mind was in such a state that lie did not prisoners to lodge in prison, there *ere on the 13th besides 200,0001. of real property purchased by Bd. tiah subjects. lir addition to all this there are old know what he was doing. ' ... . .I of March, 1815, one hundred and eighty worried outstanding debts, and could the whole be wound up ongpre, at his trial, was not sufficiently re- and children,. not prisoners, residing within the in a few days, or weeks. , . If not, the British Go , covered to be able to speak artic.ulately, so that he walls. Independent of the bad' conseeitieeces thus -•• ' vernment says, the owners are to trust to the getierosity chiefly espressed himself by gestures. . HierAdvocate arising from the overcrowding of the ptison, the re. read a consultation of Physicians, who were of suit of this indiamilhinate admission of women aril of the Spanish Government, to that same Government that has immured 51,000 of its own most deserving opinion, that the medicines which . the accused was children of all ages and description's, tl , ere are moral , in the habit of taking might have produced a:state of evils connected with the subject th.it strerialy pre. subjects, and principally confiscated their property. • mental dium s ogewisiot. : sented themselves to the oliunis of the Committee,-.. Arid whilst this order is sending nsafttnd CO -M • lnanka- The Jury brought in a verdict, that the Chevalier :Itis in evidence, in the Report of a former Coas ting to the merchants in Buenos Ayres, the Custom had not acted wilfully or with premeditation, and he ! mittee, that a system of early pro-titterers was the Houses are clearing out more propeFty•here, that is was accordiogly Acquitted. . . i elect of the introduction of female children within also to go and be swallowed up in the threatened jaws • - -, - A ~ t the walls, thus exposing them •to the contamitutting of the lion. And yet this alarm has been given on ' manners of a prison; and the enquiries made by the no other grounds, than a threat from Ferdinand, that Yesterday morning the Ducks of Yomiratrsected! present one led to the cm victim,. that the Ring's t his expedition was going to Buenos Ayres. Is this , milit ar y b us i n ess with his Seeretary,:a York a hue lßen now ch prison, as it is mlrnin'attareil i etthibitt the protection we owe to that same trade, which has !. Afterwards his Royal . flightiest ) wa wanted to caritoss - scenes of vice arid debauchery, the couteintslotion of been the basis of ail our dories ? I House to attend his Royal brotheritia Ititrim r") er; f i - which must aggravate these evils.- Women, of oil thence he walked to his office in the iforie'thrirdi, ! .. - - .i • descriptions tire admitted freely and wit ,osut enquiry, where he remained some time. • and men, women, and childrenaleepind scriminatsly' ACCIDENT.--A serious accident had neatly oc- 'in Hie -same room. The.Commiftee are of °vitriol* carted in Clirlea.street, Hatton-garden, yesterday that the rules of Court ought to be strictly tiered morning, in consequence of the iammuderit practice. of ' Upon, that for certain hears of the day the family placing garden-pots outside the windows, without 'of the- debtor, or his friends, ought freely to be any secittity in 'windy werither..• One of thotepublic . admit ted to him, but no 'trailer ought to ne per. nuisances was yesterdet inorninj thrown from its' mitted on any account to sleep within the walls, ex- . situation by the 'ala i and fall' upon an elderly gem- ; rept on the special leave of the Mir seal, the per tlemets who was- twining , at .tisastiree ; fortunately, ;•mission, and the rettson for giving it being entet.td in however, it only gave him. a slight . blow on the! a book. • and show tato-the visitors. • shoulder ; had it strnek bin, on the head, the effector . .d•he other articles of information in the Report must have been fatal, OS the pot was above the c e m.l_ 4 of, the -Committee on th prison, e King's Bench priso, n ' mon size. There Is a penalty attached te l l4 o ff ence ' ' grafd its deaultness, and the rules of Court for its against the safety of the public; it is, moch ao be re- i uminage i nen t, ' ,i t !, an n os s i.i gni e n t of *bit is we shall ' gritted it is not more frequently eriforced. • I:castled,, ell of it sr inch we think necessary to Ivy Those persons who have relatives •or friends in a•Atefore our Readers. stale of mental derangement, have no doubt felt sume r .The prison is ill lightdd, and, Whorl the Cotn uneasiness at finding,-from the Report of the Corn.. .mittee saw it, was estrometyclirty l though they were mittee of the House of Commons on Mad-houses, that informed, that far • some mouths,. it bad not been so several of these Establishments are not conducted in clean. The scavengers are paid by the :llarshal, but„ such a manner as either to promote the cure of their they make a profit by the dirt i and only take It :luny patients, or to reader comfortable those that are its. when the quantity repays,the labour of removal. — curable. It will, therefore, be satisfactory to those, They sell also Inc urine, which is collected in tebs, ; whose sad duty it is to determine on an eligible si. . the smell of which is generally complained of. 'r:re . tuation for an unfortunate friend, to observe, in the !,Committee recommend the prison to he better lighted; same Report, a few houses, spoken of in very rlif- , at least one lamp to be in the stair-case, and, that the ferent terms from the generality. The ((dinning is , nuisances now mentioned be t removed, by,, ordering-, an abstract from the very interesting evidence of Mr. the scavengers to execute r egularly their duty, and 1 WAKEFIELD. He observes—" I have visited Mr. carrying pit the urine by,an under-ground drain,— Fox's Establishment (London House, Hackney), At present there is no attention paid to oleanllness f . above a dozen times, have been shown over every . each individual actieg in this respect as he *inks 1 part of it, and the case of every patient has been proper, arid keeping his apartments according to his described to me. I think it admirably conducted.— habits : the Offioers of the prison paying no alters.. llt is managed by Mrs. Fox, a very judicious good- tion to these particular s.— The scavengers were in natured woman, whom all the patients seemed very the habit of levying a tax of one shilling a week , much to respect. It is a large house, capable of the upon the Welters who sold meat within the prison, , sexes being kept perfectly distinct, and they are here , and the Marshal knew n oth i n g of it . T he demand , classed according to their habits in life. They are , was air extortion, for which they had no authority. quite roomily accommodated, not by any means: . The prison is managed by certain rules laid downs crowded, and there are means for separating the vire , by the Judges of the King's Bench, which are called lent from the placid; indeed I saw none violent, the Rules of the Court. 'fine earliest bears date which I attribute to the mild mode of treatment par- 1729, and as far as they were applicable to the then sued." Those who know the attention Mr. WAKE.. state of the prison, seem to hate been well considered. rtsr.n has paid to this subject, and with what dili- There are also other rules and orders, of the year gerice he has examined the different houses of recep- 1760, which are printed and hung up in various Con, both pub* and private, will feel satisfied that parts of the prison. Besides these, there are' n nh e e this commendation would not have been bestowed rules of the 12ilt, 19th, and 41st of his present Ma. by him had it not been merited. Here, then, is an jesty, which, together a ith the preceding, may be As) NM, where the relatives and guardians of Om taken as the code r.f laws, by which the prison aught Ins-the may be sure that their upfortunate friends will to be regulated. The Mat slut! is a Magistrate, bat meet with every coinfortilka their situation admits of. acts as such only within the district of his ()Wit prie They will‘ he treated with humanity anti tenderness, son, He ha• ;he power of committing riotous or die. their minds Will'be occupied And amused, their bodi- . orderly person ' 7 ll,rsemonger.lane, which, how. ly health preserved by exercise in the estensive.gsr. ever, is but settle , .•sercised. The pl,:ces .•1* con: dens that are astMehed to ,the premiles4,:ariid every finement within the :r'ls; of the prison are Called the means made au of to promote " ihe'reeovery .of rei• strong rooms, of who: ,, 'here are two of the siva, Sens • I. ? • 11 11ise one floored with raced, and the other with stam p - • ) .. , -a •MI=MIMINSMiinmoiJ I • 1 i ". K . 1 I ¼ ~~ • .I'.