The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-20 00:00:00

. 4 0 most be the condition of our country for ke d i p foreign trade. peridi commerce alto ' and, we s ay. if such must continue to be P it a f t ; o d e d condition of this part of the public p ea n ewspapers altogether." It were or t he pu blic mind to be misled for a time, f 4„mattrily stray in the path of error, than be deceived or misled by artifice and self f:c.„:. It would soon right itself were there not e e tro d deceptions bias applied to it every morn- I I „ki l t This very Journal, on which we gr i c iarly animadverting, continually echoed, bi be a ss, the mischievous, the murderous cry " i l l s!! have indemnity for the past, and secu l'ocbribafuture." For the mere propagation of di:elks' falsehood, The Time* owes a life of ~,,t o me to the British public: nay, as far as it is er. 4 7 , , d " the leading Journal of Europe," it oto all to the European public: for it contri ko )) mate hecatombs of its inhabitants by its wed sway on tie actions and resolves of its cia o. We may be thought singular in our ,4 thinking; but, we protest solelninly, we 1 not curry a twentieth part of the sin upon d ards which is justly ascribable to that Paper, to tile twenty thousand a-year it is said to derive la t i t pobl;c. by its circulation and advertisements. o t maCition of mankind is to be bettered, it 1 , 1 t t by references to the first causes of natural e./1 calamities : by resorting to the first ret , tles of action, and the nr.ture of things.* Iwo bas overcome much, but it has still much must be assisted in its divine operation in Tillable people ; that is by honestv.—Bi rs. thick Heaven, nearly down ; fallacy uoielPiaterest must be attacked without ceasin e o• • We do sot pretend to be endowed with super rem! powers ; but we do hope, whether reason ',toe:envie, to be able to call up more power (l agents in the good work of regenerating public :::e, :ad living to see a better order of things ,::Mused among us. Wt 4 cm p.m. the following article, in Tke Times of tscw. tst with an agonizing pity :—" Would the ladles, l• aaA is possible, encourage the mannfacture of pillow- Mr is Stir varlets articles of dress, they would do a +strrertafhsmaity than they are aware of, for it is an ottlsteltet, ant there are at this time not less than tOO,OOO pr awn sad children depending for support upon its osmois, tad whose earnings et present do not enceed ;ISt." \lt a vat sot a whisper. about the cause of all this ; patsy mkt h behalf. or in the name, of oor now abused wt lll.te Mortal.; country. No or.e exciaiisa le Its nisi, `pi/fah obi Imposer' - Upon ills meeting of Parliament, after this prom ption, we hope and trust that some Members, uho are amigos For the preservation of the mi re- . nang kberues of their country, will take up esolutely, and Dot easily be made to lay it down, he ceoUderatioa of the unnecessary extent of the sueintg Anal—that bane to the freedom of all MUM Wiat reasons can the most ingenious and des pee Meister urge now, in fin our of such an over er.g establishment? It implies, in itself (more rascally io England, whose natural defence is its amtiroe position), either that the Government is Idioms! and tyrannical, or the people base and uraly. But, even were land-forces of the use they his been described to be, an esteemed and ye- , was Reformer, and no less drm friend to the teoPerity and tranquility of his country, has satin helot shown what a safe and expenceless sub gate ay be put in its place. A Standing Army wen to be an object of peculiar jealousy, and ent of hatred, to the people of Great Britain: irberess, by degrees, if we were to allow Ministers to prated as they have done of late, our °overs aw Would, in time, approximate to that of Prussia. The solitary are the instruments destined to 01). ths PRINCE'S authority. hi order to prepare . 14 m to act against the people in a favourable l i mtore• they are separated from them, quartered ' 1 heads; and, afterwards, inspired with eon *alike every trade or profession but their own. lg reneer them conscious of their pre-emi *we, luny marks of distinction are conferred on t he• More has been done in this regard .t f _ til t the hut ten years of the war seminal " AsPablic, or, in other words, against the line' of France, than during a whole am bggc ; for it is only within these few years that a gigantic military establishment has le a looked upon with more than indifference 7 9 ga with complacency ! Used to despise the "lea, they soon become desirous to oppress thew, la are ever reedy and eager to fall upon that g the realm which should attempt to sake Nowrection, whatever may have been the in thluiel of it.• We have now so many titled men II th e way (many of the Sire were Sub, six or tit years before). that we shall presently, as die cage in France before the Revolution, What may be called the Nobility de This Nobility of the sword, once admitted, 1 1113 00 (and who would be sorry for it f) despise 7_Nobibty de la robe which pre it birth. 2 8 Paie, Portugal, Russia, Denmark, and Elwe 17' I iveY sentinel has the scandal o us prerogative 1 / 1 111 swaY the Wait elll9ut with the Wood or, .a THE STATESMAN. subjects. It is impossible to say what we may come to in time, by these gradual and daily aberrations from reason and the path of liberty !! THE DUKE OF ALVT. Sidissouth Rope/ Marine Library. Jon. 17. We are extremely sorry to announce, that the serious indisposition of his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT still continues. The cold his Royal Highness contracted has terminated in pleuretir inflammation, with cough.— Mr. :them:, his Royal Highness's surgeon, has been in constant attendance, and besides three copious bleed ings from the arm, we understand his Royal Highness has twice undergone the operation of cupping. The Bulletin of Sunday announced the increased ill ness of the Doke, but that some relief was obtained by sleep. The Bulletin of this day is as follows: Weelerfssit Collate. Jan. 17. His Royal Highness the Duke of KENT'S febrile symptoms are considerably abated. His Royal High ness complains this morning of rather an oppressed re spiration. In other respects his Royal Highness conti nues much the SUDS as yesterday. (Signed) J. WILSON. MATON, of Spring-glirdPll, IS this instant a rrived (four o'clock) to attend his Royal Highness. Extract of a letter, dated Paris, Jan. 16, says— " The great Insurance Company, established in this city at the close of the war, on a scale calculated or in tended to engross the business of the whole world, and began its operations by sharing a dividend of ten per cent. among its proprietors, is at its last gasp. A con sultation of the directors was held last night, to consi der the propriety of discontinuing it altogether. They Caine to a resolution, however, of making a previous effort to maintain the establishment, by entering into a negotiation with the second Company, in order to put a stop, if possible, to the system of competition that has hitherto subsisted between thew, and by which both have been materially injured." AMERICAN TRADZ.—" The trade of the once-. flourishing city of Baltimore," says an article from that place, dated October IS, " has, within the present year, becoine so that very few, in any branch of tnerchandize, are able to clear expencea. The sitisatioo of many of our Banking Institutions is such as will.; probably, for years p n t dividends being declared by them ; and these dividends bare, heretofore, been the sole support of many families, composed of widows add' , orphans, who will now be reduced to great indigence. _ 0- The awful calamity which has visited one part f our city, will be the means of increasing our burthens for the support of the poor is no inconsiderable degree; therefore, every expedient which can in any degree tend to diminish the pressure of these burthens, becomes an important consideration." EARTHQUAKE IN BAVARIA.—A letter from Mit tenwakl, dated Dec. 29, says—" On the 20th instant, at a;► minutes after seven in the morning, the shock of lin earthquake was felt around this place. It lasted about siren or eight seconds, and took a direction front Smith to north. The motion it produced was quite as strong as that on the 10th of April last veer. The wind, farm the *oath, was eery still. The thermometer of Reaumer shad, tw till ilinite o four *wren above sev sad ilitt barometer two degrees above changeable weather. tht the 21st, the thermometer rose seven, and the barometer six degrees, with a powerful south wind. The wind, during the night, has veered toward, the north, and brought on a hard but miW frost: there is a great prospect of its ecininuance. Last night the whole of the receipts of the Adelphi Theatre were devoted to the charitable fund for the relief of the Houseless Poor. The Lord Mayor honoured the Theatre with his pre-' mime and special patronage. The house was filled at an early hoer, and the proprietors hare every reason to congratulate themselves on the successful result of their benevolence and liberality. The Managers of the provincial Theatres, fol lowing the laudable example of the London Pro• prietors, have in general appropriated one night's performance for the benefit of the poor in those towns in which they perform. Massimo Horse, Jaw. IT. The LORD Maros has great pleasure in stating, that in consequence of the observations which be felt it to he his duty to make the other day, at the Meetis for sheltering and relieving the 'louden ' he has had a communication with the American ViceConsel, who Informs him that the American sailors, who have served on board British ships, are not actually precluded front relief at his office on that account, although they so fre quently snake that an excuse for applying at the Man- Eon house; and further, that be has at present about 100 destitute seamen, whom he daily supplies with lodg ing, food, clothing, and medical assistance, by means of funds furnished bins by the tiovernment of the United States, several of these men having, to his knowledge, served many years in the British Navy. — This tiendeman states, also, that, in his (Abele' caps. city, he bas lately contracted for the passage of b 0 of the aforesaid uses, now in the London Docks. Friday se'nsight, Robert Langan, of Ballywa• courty, in the aunty of Waterford, Esq. was martial,' at Stradbally, to Mrs. Dudgeon, relict of the late Capt. Dudgeon, of the 110th Regiment; and, on his return to I his seat, the sea's, day, he was taken ill, and died on the Tuesday of the typhus fever. On Monday last. a dead robin, in full feather, was taken out of a large oak tree, which the mechanics in the yard were sawing. Na aperture of any kind wasl apparent by which it could have found entrance. At the Quarter Sessions held on Tuesday, at the Guildhaß of the city ofßochester, before ABRAHAM Moons, Esq. the Recorder, Duncan Levington, a soldier of the Tist rest. received sentence of death, for the commission of a crime which must not be named. Fiat tie Tag STBAND.—We are sorry to hear that the loss suffered by Mr. Cary, the optician, by this calamity. is wholly irreparable. He bad. it seems , been upwards of thirty-five years in collecting( his patters tools and models. Such a loss, indeed, admits of no &dogmata in snrases; and the public mew sympathise with the suf ferer, as a scientific character, as well as a respeetahle tradesman. Ricsaassox. Gosimuca sad Co., respectfislly as quaint the Public, that the State Lottery will finish , drawing as Saturday the Nth instant. The Wheel contains two Prises of 10,11110/. money. sic'.—Tickets sad Shares, warranted undrawn, are on sale by RtallanD• ens, lioomaca, and Co., at their Olfic..s. lUnk ings. and Glsarisg Cross, who sold last At No. 710, a Prise of 311,0001. Comas. THE MAN LV MR MOON. T. - The following is the " Introduction" to The Man in the Moon, recently published by Mr. /lone : t lately dream'd that in a huge baloon, All silk and gold, I journey'd to the Moon, %Viler* the same objects sann'd to meet my eyes That I had lately left below She skies; And judge of my astonishment, on seeing All things met!). to a heir, agreeing: The mountains, rivers, cities, trees, and towers, on r) nthia's silver surface, seesn'd like ours ; Men. women, children, language, dress, and faces, Lords. Votonvons. Lackiee. Peosioners, and Places. Whigs, Tories, F,aw)ers, Priests, and men of blood, And even Rodirais - by all that's good Is a long street, just such as London's Steam, Is, 'Midst Belles, and Beggars, Pickpockets, and Dandies, Onward I went, between a brazen horse. And a large Inn which bore a Golden Cross. Then through a passage, nervow, long and dark, That brought my footsteps to a spacious park. it Aimed that morning that the Sovereign Dey The. Prince of Lunateris posed that way— Uode ! what a sight ! what meatless crowds were than. Who yells, and groans, and hootings, rent the air ! By which I learo'd, the Lionatarien nation An Wont to testify their admiration ; We don't do so on Earth—bet that's no matter— The Dey went onward, midst a hideous clatter To meet the Senators : for 'twas appointed, That, on that morning. lie—the Lord's anointed— Shonid make a grand Oration from the Throne, That his most royal pleasure might be known Respecting certain great affairs of State heard the Speech ; Ob ! could the muse relate The " Wegener," the sweet " distinetireerss,“ With which his Royal Dity ship did address That reverend body of Nioonarian sages, I'd write a book that should endure for ages. Alas! such heights are not for me to reach ; I'll. therefore, from my note-book, take the speech, And yon must say, as 'tis by Pope exprest ) " Give all thou canal, and we will dream tie rest !" (Here follows the Speeds.] OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. THIS DAY. rfesioniu Detrain and Herbert Sward. were indicted, the former for stealing a quantity of leather,the property of William Hoe, and the latter for receiving the same, knowing it to be stolen.—The prisoners were both found Guilty. Fraarois Gerard, obis Delode, was indicted for steal• ing, on the 13th of September last, two gold witches, value 401., the property of George Fearn and Joseph Littler.—This is the person who has figured for some time as a dashing awl successful swindler. Mr. Dou Live; awed the cue to the Jury; but as we gart;the particulars at length at the time they oecured, we not enter into an enlarged detail. The public curitoity excited by the expectation of this Mal was indictmesa by the Reconoan. He stated, that as the prisoner hail no Counsel, it became the duty of the Judge to see that justice was done him, and in per• seance of that duty, Ise felt it necessary to point out an error in the indictment, which put an end to the sue at once. It was there stated, that the robbery had been committed on the 13th of September, In the sixtieth year of the Reign of King George the Third. As this was an impossible case, th at day not arriving till September next, be imagined the ease must be at an end. The Counsel for the prosecu tion agreed that this was an insuperable obstacle, and the prisoner was discharged accordingly. As he was leaving the Court, he was again arrested en another charge of swindling, and conveyed to Bow street to undergo a fresh examination. Three boys, of the names of Brick's, Beller, and , Bailey, the eldest of whom did not appear more than sixteen years of age, were next pat to the bar, charged with stealing a silver spoon and creans-jeg. the property of Johnson. Each of the prisoners endeavoured to exculpate himself by accusing his companions of the robbery.—They were all Found 011114% In the course of the trial, a police officer stated, that the youngest prisoner, who was about It years of age, had been a thief from lois infancy ; that he (the witness) had known him for six years as an incorrigible thief, and that he bad hail more escapes, and trained up more thieves than any person whom he (the officer) had ever known. The Nereid, Senna, from Malaga to Havannah, Las been taken by the Liberalador, Veneweliso privateer ; she landed the crew at Montego Bay, hesiem, 6th of Nov. and continued eruizing of ' Olt Port Daring the late frost upwards of $0 permte, who met with serious accidents in conseqtaeace of the slippery state of the streets, have been received at the St. George 8 Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner. In consequence of the inclemency of the wea ther, and the sudden transitions from comparative mildness to intense cold, and great rarefaction to troublesome humidity, a dangerous, even fatal, and judging by a few cases, a contagions diarrhoea has made its appearance, chiefly attacking those of a robust habit, while those of more feminine eabits hare been attacked with Nephritic pains.—(Glaa ow Chronicle.) Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain F. ADAMS was swore into the command of the ship Buckingham shire, consigned to China direct. On Tuesolay,Saniuel Granger, a coal-porter, while in state of iatoxication, was staggering neer Hyde Park owner, whet fabling down several times, the wheels of w aggon, heavily laden, passed over his loins, end irritate' him In a terrible almoner. He was taken is a deplorable condition to St. George's Hospital, where be died in the greatest agony. An inclest was held at the King's Head, Plymouth. on Saturday last, on the body of W. Memory, the Mate of the venial belonging to ttrliham, who died in come pence of a stab received in at affray last week, In Cathe ter'''. The Jury, after a long eml . minute iarestigatios, retuned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the Dutch somas also ialllkted the liaise. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Extract of a letter from Mr. IL Alton, Agent to Lloyd's, at Terceira, dated 29. d Dec.: — "On Wednesday the 15th inst. we experienced a sio• lent gale of wind from the S. E. which continued for se veral days, and caused much damage amongst the ship ping. At sun-set of that day, three signals of distress were seen flying. On the following day, the Aurora sloop carried away her best bower cable, and several guns were heard as signals of distress, but it N as imps sible to send oat assistance. At night, cni the 17th, four vessels hoisted signals of distress, hut only one anchor could be got elf. Same day, during a heavy sea, the Portuguese schooner, Santa theists, and the Engtah polatra Concord we.e abandoned by their crews, and both shortly afterwards were totally wrecked. The Petit Auguste, French ketch, drove from her cables, and drifted athwart the brig Thomas's cable. She afterwards got on shore. and best to piccolo. On the 15th, at noon, four English, one French, sad one Portuguese, vessels, were abandoned by their crew•. The Seat. w:.. and Speedwell schooners parted. The brig Thomas was abant . o led by all the crew, elf''. Capt. Vide!, her owner. No boats or assistance whit • ever could he rendeial from the shore, the sea breskiag mountains high. On the 201 h, the Thomas parted her cable, and fell on board the Sea flower scb•roner, and received considerable damage.—At night the Setiflower was dashed to pieces. On the 21st, the gale abating, boats and pilots were sent to render every assistance possible. Such a gale has not been experienced during the last 70 years; happily no lives were lost, hut many vessels have received very considerable damage." Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Margate, dated 19th instant:—" '1 wo small boats a.e washed on shore near liirchington, • John Pay' marked on the stern of one of them, and 'Commercial, of Aber dee David Talbot,' painted on the stern of the other." The Marianne, Rieverts, was list near tiottenburg on the Ist instant—a passenger drowned I only 1813 bundles of flax saved. and in a damaged state. The Sperulator, Gould, from England awl L'eni, to Panama. was captured on the 10th Sept. oil Panama, by the Ands Insurgent frigate. and carried to the Went of range, which the Audes took possession of the 10th September. Deis., J•w.l9.—Sereral vessels hare arrived from the westward and proceeded for the River, particulars un known ; among. them was the Laurel, Spinks, from Charente.—Remain in the Downs the Asia, Balderston. fur India. an I Triumph, Street, from Bengal. all well. Haawscu, JAN. 17.—Sailed the &auto! pueket for Holland, and Lord Nelson packet for Castbarek, both with mails. SOOTOPOitT. JAN. 19.--The sloop George sod Jenny. itl'Hay, of Greenock, from Limerick, is on shore here. The crew are saved, and it is expected the vessel may be got off. PORTeMOUTII, JAN. 19.—Nothing arrived or sailed to day. We have had very heavy gales of wind daring the night and this Morning . from t‘e A. - ` - ' 4 ":" — "r• 4 "• 1 RAMS' • ra, Jan. IV.—Arrived the Qtratee Steer, Is. gan, from Konen, with loss of anchor and mills Dunkerque, Le titre, from Dunkirk, with hoes of ditto; and Active, Nosier, from Roues, with her fore.rigging. damaged. FA ;MOUTH, Jsx. 17.—Arrived the 51anchester puke% with a mail from Jamaica, in 69 days; and the Lady Arabella packet, with a mail from Lisbon, in 15 Iblys. Yesterday morning, a young man, named Williams, who was employed in a factory in the neighbourhood of Westminster, was in the act of carrying a cask of liquid of a burning description ; in consequence of his falling down it broke, and the liquid went over him and burial him in so dreadful a wanner that he died on being taken to the Westminster Infirmary. He was 83 years of age. We have to record, as a caution to the humus. sad benevolent, against similar frauds, the mai of . Henson, who was convicted last Friday al Hicks's Hull, for a fraud on the Bishop of Makes, endeavouring to obtain money curler false pretences. H. _represented himself the brother of a poor woman named Artie., whose husband had been killed in the iron-mitt belong ing to 3lesars. Wilkinson and Co. at liotherhithe. Hen son enclosed a petition to the Bishop of Durham, with tbe wises of several noble families, and a certificate signed by the Rector and churchwardens of the parish of Botherhithe ; lie was convicted on the evidence of - James Price, servant to the Bishop, who suspected it was not a true case, accordingly applied to the Rector and chitrchwardens of that parish, and found the certi ficate to be a forgery ; and on lleoson's applying for his answer, had bim secured by a constable and taken before a Magistiats at Marlborough-drat, who committed him. Price received the thanks of the whole Court be having taken so much pains to mod such a chairmen , out of the country. Snstr-STasutrc.—ln con ce the great in crease of the crime of eirep-a=u7or, a tow' sty be. it.. focused, in Surrey, for the Prosecution .f Sheep-stealers. Yesterday niontlng siseimep-skim (saleable flostbdtwn) with the entrails, were found in the common sewer, sag the White-horse, Lambeth-marsh. They had been re-' cently flayed. Of course the animals had been Molts, and the skins thrown sway to prevent detection. Yesterday, at two o'clock, as soma boys, belonging to Messrs. Foyer and Hicks, chimney -sweepers*. in James-street, tiratvesor-sguare, were removing soot in a vault, in Bird-street, the arch gar, way. and MOW two of them in the ruins: one was soon extricated, *Rh a alight injury only ; the other. It years of age, every possible exertion was mode by the neig a = was sot fossil for more than as boar (the groats, wry of rubbish baviug fallen upon him), when ail sips at life were gene. COMM OP EXCHA Aolleadasa, 11 II C. F. DIM, at sight, 11 18 Reitardsia, It 0 Aa s t s = t l , 2 1 H 26 1 Altana, I Tarts, days' sight, Ita 0 Ditto. 66 iti Freekihrt on the Malae,l6l Thema, It. no. HI Madrid. s4f Cadia, .04j Bilbee, 141 &review 34 fivaills Gibraltar, 10 Tummy, lax. N. bailors. 41e • 44h . Malls" 4 6 • a T V ' 16 314 Id 27 1 /toltri, D? Mom% 116 per es. DO NN ilk pm. COW. Cork. Ile per ear. .JL Niw itasl umier_ K dr. W. per „ VI : !liver. MI Margo dastard. , la. Id. t - r •' - . 4 . • r