The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-03-18 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION, SrATE SM4N OFFICE, i PAST TWO O'OLOCK. ---...—. We understand two Messengers (Messrs. Rosie- TO THE EDITOR OF TITS STATESMAN. Stn,---In the discussion tint has taken place in wet and Scuaw) arrived this morning in Downing- Oxford, in consequence of the observations on. cer-. t street, who are said to have brought very important fain statutes of that University, and on the power, of the Proctors, which appeared in your Paper of dispatches from Lord CASTI.RREAOII. They came . the 11th instant, I have heard the writer taxed with throngh Paris, by the way of Calais, and it is report- 1 a culpable omission, in not stating that the sentence of the Vice-Chancellor's Court is not final, but that cid that Peace is likely to be concluded immedij , any person, who conceives himself aggrieved by any ately. proceedings in that Court, has means of redress by an appeal, ... !,k i n - • 1 beg leave te say, theft the appeal is genersilly• ,onsidered as nugatory, ' , anti so completely..oat of ...—........, - ; - ....v vi oar - - 1 . the power of a poor client, as not to be words4neati! : To riga EDITOR OF TAB STATESMAN. - tioning, and as only calculated to add Widest * —......... , injury. r- .. -- - ~ •••, Sia l —Having lately perused a State Tract, end Res s.' _ , . pecting the appeal, BtaeasevOita informsi us, Bed--" The Political Picture of Europe ; or, a that from the sentence of the VicteaaneellOr,t his • View of the Conduct of Russia, during the late deputy or assessor, an appeal lies to deteptes '111:1.. Coalition; and of her present Intentions with re- pointed by the Congregation ; free tbrincer to other. &aid to France," published in 1806 ; said to be a delegates of the House of Convocation; and if all Trenslation from the German, and printed at Osna. these concur iu the same sentence it is lasi, attleast ' burgh. I was particularly struch with the rancopr by the statutes of the University; etcoediug tethe It displays against France, and the coarseness of its . rule of the civil law: Bin if there biaanyAiloord-d invectives against BONAPARTE ; charging him with ante or variation in any of the thteadili K lit ilitigatioistg Peace, merely for the purpose of making appeal lies in the tair esist4 r;soel•to Judges. Denote , g o greater - acquisitions during that period, than in a pointed by the Crown, under the Great Seal of state of war! It is greatly to be lamented, that the Chancery 's. . passions of Etaglishmen have been permitted to run New, Sir, not to insist upon the impossibility of a amyl with their judgment, as to give in to these ma- ! poor client having recearse eo so tedious, and so ex pouvree of the PITT party.—Nearly all the pan- ' pensive, a modeof seeking eedress from the sentence phiets and State publications may be traced to that i o f thi s C our t, I s h a ll only observe, that the names of sehool, and written for the purpose of hiding from the Vice-Chancellor, of both the Proctors, and not the public the nefarious views of that Statesman and unfrequently of Itallhe of the Pro-proctors+, are his deputies, in making the swindling Peace of among the Delegates of Appeals,both in Convocation Amiens; without which they could not have gone and Congregatio4 I hope, then, we shall no more tie, but by the destruction of the funding system.— I hear of the easy method of a poor person's obtaining The making and breaking of that peace proved the ; redress, and of the utter impossibility of his being ruin of the best subjects of the realm, merely to take ! persecuted by the University officers. • the weight of the load of unfunded debt from Oil his , I hope, as the ,matter is now begiosising to be " illustrious shoulders ;" under which load himself , agitated, that the Members of the University win and his system was sinking! I express their abhorrence of some late disgraceful pr The tract in question seems to have been wri t ten , ceedings, which are well known, and which have by one of the underlings in office, though dis- long been the chief topic of conversation in Oxford. 1 guiseri iu the manner before stated. Immediately From my long residence in the University, I have after the death of Mr. Peer; and for the p ur p ose of I been personally acquainted with several of the Proc. rendering abortive ail the exertions which Mr. Fox's tors, who have been men of judgment and of ac- Ministry were about to take to procure a peace, and 1 knowledged benevolence, and who have discharged i which it never was the intentions of the PITT p art y , the duties of their office with honour and integrity. ' to keep, or esen to enter into again, until France I It is to be lamented that some others have thispleyed became subjected to the Boutseost yoke. a total want of proper feeling, and have behaved As Russia ix again likely to excite the attention of ' like tyrannical school-boys. . this country as entering the lists against France, it . To produce instances of cruelty and tyranny is may be worth while to notice this tract, in order to always an unpleasant task, and is disgusting to the costjecture the effects of her exertions, even in case reader. The cause of truth and humanity, however, she should become a principal instead of an auxiliary, requires that facts be brought forward in support of • which this tract is particularly strenuous in recom- assertions. mending, el a line of conduct more suited to her i I can bring an instance of a Pro-proctor, who car energies and character. I tied his assumed power to such a length,- as to stop ~I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, every woman he met, walking by herself, in the streets Batton% eta-e-house, Au,. lit. 18t '9. MERCATOR. iii in the dusk of the evening, and to demand of her who P. S. Although the above Letter bas lain by 8 ° I she was, whence she came, whither sloe was going. hang a. time; yet the tenour of it is in as perfect • . Thiel to say the least of it, was highly inquisitorial. state as if written - at the present day ; and if the It must have bead done to gratify an impertinent cu. War tactless, are, to remain at the head of affairs, h viosity, an insatiable lust of power, or something likely to continue until the Powers at eat are " ea. worse. To the inhabitants of the place, who are terminated." daily subject to the effects of such abuse of power, Witch 8, 1811, the 11th Anoivenary of this conduct cannot but be irritating, and most con reuesieJ War. duce to keep up that jealousy and ill-will, which have always existed between the University and City. It May, perhaps, be said, that this exertion of as sumed authority, did not arise from any badness of heart, but merely from the excusable desire which a young man feels to display his consequence, on his first entrance into office. It is difficult, indeed, to restrain the expression of our pity at the weakness of that man who can be proud of an office which is merely ministerial, and which places him, in the eye of the law, in nearly the same situation as that of a common constable. It must, however, be remarked, that this was not only a very foolish, but a very illegal proceeding, being totally unwarranted either by the law of the land, or by the University charters. By the latter, the time of watch and ward is limited between nine o'clock at night, and five in the morning, during which time only, the University officers have the right or power of interference, in the streets, with any but matriculated persons. This, however, was done with impunity. An action could not be brought against the aggressor, in any other Court than that of the Vice-Cliaacellor. I knew a Proctor, who, at the very time when se veral females, whom be himself had apprehended, were confined in prison, at a most inclement season of the year, had so little sense of propriety and feel ing, and so much meatiness and brutality, as to exult on the success of the cunning plans and stratagems by which he had entrapped his victims. To add to this unpleasant, but necessary recital : I remember a circumstance to have happened or so unjustifiable a nature, that the very recollection of it rouses my indignation. The Proctors took the trouble of going two miles out of Oxford, late at night, and entered a cottage where five or six girls of bad character were dancing with countrymen who lived in their neighbourhood. On finding that no Gownsmen were there, it is said, that they all de murred, except one of the Pro-poctors, who de clared that his walk should not be in vain. The fact, however, was , _ that they took the girls t o Oxford, and the Vice-Chancellor committed them to the County Gaol for tea days, .in very cold weathert.. On what legal authority, on what law of the land, or statute of the University, the commit ment was founded, still remains a problem, which might be solved, could the cause be brought into any other than the Vice-Chancellor's own Court. The above facts can be well attested. Do not, however, imagine that this severity has at all im proved the morality of the place. The case is quite the reverse. The money of the young men is now expended, and their time wasted, in hiring carriages If the particulars should transpire in time for the Yost, lie shall communicate them in another Edition. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, Al ARCH 17.—Saited the Griffin sloop of war, with Ora. TtOnr, for Holland; and the Badger hired armed cotter, with dispatches for Arlasiml Ye/ling.—Arrived the Leveret gun brit. Mitt* di.potches from the Commander in Chief in the Roompot.—The Olympia tatter has a signal for convoy to Poll3lo°lo. POnTIIIOI77III. MARCII I7.—Arrived the William, Barring ton, fristo Waterford, with provisions. —Caine into Harbour Clortodo, late French frigate. fnt.moortr, MARCH 15.—Arrived admen .hips from Wa terford, Cork, and WaliN.—Railed the Walsingham packet, with a Mail far Sorinam.• Liv ER ronL, %IA Rcn 16.—A rrived the Oporto packet, Fa den, jdniter, from Billion, from whence she sailed on the Ist of Morrh.—lt was there leported that the Marquis of Wel lington had entered Dal ()not on the 25th vll. and that great re icing was mode sit Billion in consecivence.—Al.o arrived ti.e NNorth Mar, Brrden, from Billion, nailed on the 261 h ult.; on the Ist of March in lot. 47. 3. his Majesty's brig Adder; no the 6th of M;t.eh ;poke. in tat. 47. 23. his Majesty's ships Pomona and Cydoss. who informed him that they had the day before raptured the Blinker Hal Americo) privateer, of 14 is and 86 area, who had sailed from AlorlAix bite days be t" in company with the True Blooded Yankee. By the Hermes, from Rio Janeiro, we have let- I 1 ters from thence to the 13th January; they state that 1 the troop' of the Revolutionists engaged in the siege ' of Monte Video, had been defeated by the garrison 1 of that fortress, which had been largely augmented by reinforcements from Europe, and the siege had in consequence been raised. Don M ANUEL DESARRATEA, who is a passenger by the Bermes, had been appointed by the Junta of Buenos Ayres, Envoy at the Court of London. — This person is a Creole by birth, was formerly Pre sident of the Junta, and was once engaged on a mission to the Court of Madrid. Yesterday morning two Deputies from Norway were landed at Gravesend, and only wait there for passports to proceed to town, to lay before Minis ters the change of affairs which has recently taken place is Norway, with the view, as is supposed, of obtaining the sanction of the British Government to their independence and neutrality. Celt, EXCHANGS, MARCH 18.—As !Isere was n. fresh Wheat at market Ibis morning, our prices are considered nomi nally as onillnoday. Barley sold more freely tn-dav than 9n Wednesday, hut there is ao varieties I. the price from shat day, which warts. per quarter lower Ms of! Monday. Oat are b. err quarter dearer . mad all other , gram fully support their pncrs. Wheat i liasrlialt) 69 67 Remo 42 48 Ditto (Monica) ...... 81 117 Old ditto ..., R ick do. 4O 44 Barle ye .40 44 T y . ...... ...38 46 01d.... . 4.0.1.14••••...... ... New ditto ' — Oats 9B 54 Malt ' 00 82 Fine dine ..;.. ..... - WMte Pas . • 03 64 id Feed Poland P oland tils. ..26 32 New ditto . . ....... ditto B2 28 Pits Kean ... 86 .; 70 Fine Fleur • .... . ....70 Wl* Pam vw........40 bd Ikea* -•••. •••00 lb • Blackstone's Commentaries, B. 111. cb. 6. Each Proctor has two Masters of Arty to assist him, whit. are called Pro-proctors. There was nn riot or disturbance to the home. Whey IN men who were with the girls said, that thilitlwere ready to pro test them from ebe renders, the sirls woild oat Wrier any interference of that sort, hut said that they would go goludy s i gh the Proctors to Oxfor d, which they did: • r • t . tS 1148 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD V OX TICE•CSANCEMOR'3 COURT ARO TOWER 'OT Tut PROCTORS. and horithOlk "pdritle ',thlir ttleatictres in the neigh bouring towns and villages; and in Oxford itoor, _..,..„,.._ seduction is very prevalent. • MR. EDITOR,--I am desirOut of calling the atten. • It must be allowed, indeed, that the Proctors are tion of men of honour and delicacy of all parties to not the only persons to be btstnecl for these injudi- some attacks which have lately been 'elide in The cirrus proceedings. To theVice-Chancellor, for the Courier on a young nobleman of great celebrity.-- time being, must be attributed the greater share of Had they been directed against his poetry I Might the Maine; for it must be remembered, that no cam- , have ascribed them to jealousy rif his fame, 'and I midnent lien take place but by his warrant, or by !should have left them to be repelled by the adniira that of nine of the Pro-Vice-Chancellors acting roe! tion of his country. If his politictil, condnet had him. - i. • • • been aimed at, I should have thooiht the tailitttri- If the Officers of the 'University had common portant part of it suificimitly aetured tiy • itc appar4nt sensed or common prudence; they would act with ; independence and disinterestedness. To call the aomedegree of moderation; they would not insist most popular poet of out times, " an ireinident. upon theneforcement of Statutes, and the exertion ! young man," is an insult to t e lle_public taste, pretty . of privileges, which were always odious and uncons I sore of being puilishea by the disgest eitlr which mul. • ditutiOIMII I and which ill accord with the temper end • gar scurrility never fails to lespire all men of libera l spirit of the times. lf, however, they are deter. i education and sentiments. But if Lord Byron has mined still to persist in these measures, contrary to ; employed his talents in the disputes of . party, f the voice of justice and reason, they cannot have 4 shothl not have blamed any severity of retaliatiost anyvauselo complain if they shall be deprived of ' expressed in the language of gentlemen, confined AS 'their !timenr . of annoyance; for this business now ! nearly as possible to himself, and consistent with the cons fob the, interference of Parliament s and a Peti. ! usages of fair contest. I chat! the writer In rite ms lieu knit the inhabitants of Oxford, stating their , Courier with a breach of all these conditions: . • f ,* grievaeges might place them within the protection Lord Byron; at the age of twenty.one',l smarting' o44helisy of the land, and put them on a footing !. under a sharp,provocation, and probably inislideibtMC of coq w 0 elecurity with the inhabitants of other places. • its source, published a satire, which he himselfieiG . ' ao, March, 1814. I demised almost es soon as he could calmly conOtteilt:! Y.* ' • i t . lite so ppressOd it on his return from GreeceilfSiti . • GP R11.4V SUFFERERS . k m . . 4 - . .., sild to have refined the offer o f large sistei o f iti - on'ey --omsee-- !ter permissien to re-publish it, a circumstance which GOTEFUL'AioItNOWLEDGINIENT OF BItITISH I should have disdained to mention in a contest with''' I- tea r .-- BENEVOLENCE. . a generous adversary, especially after the purposes l'Eletfhlio wills is arc extract of a letter from Leip. Ito which Lord Byron is now pub li cly known to hest' ' sib, jest received by Mr. Ackermenn, which shows applied the sums which havelaihn!pitid for the copy:C r .' . with. whet feelings the charitable donations trans- ' right of his works. In the following words of the mated from this country are there received, and will dedication of the Corsair, !trelis publicly announced satisfy the Public respecting the fidelity with which . the suppression, and avowed Ms indelible regret • Isle' they will be distributed : I having published the suppressed prodnction, " COM .. ". San,--We have been honoured with four of positions:chose FORMER CIRCULATIONS is part of mat • year valuable letters, of December 31, January 14, ! present and will be of my future •regrct." INT..itiking,. I*, mod , 1 28, all of which we have received in the ,it is evident, could have limited a generous mind lei.' Mine of the present week. With the deepest emo. ; this general disavowal, bat an apprehension (well or tion, and the most heartfelt gratitude, not only on ! ill founded) that more particular language might re.. our own part, and that of the Committee, formed vive the pain formerly inflicted, or, perhaps, wound , ever since the 3d January , but likewise on account 1 where theediaft might not before have reached. This i •av l of many thousands of distressed families, we have ' delicacy, perhaps, originally overstrained, soon i learned, with what zeal you and several other gene- I proved u hotly unavailing. rout minded men have led the way to alleviate the I The writer in the Courier, to whom I have alluded, woes of suffering humanity. Heaven will continue' chose to re-publish all those parts of the disavowed to sheerer rich blessings on the benevolent British 1 poem, which had been directed against the nearest re nation, and graciously to protect it from all salami- I lations of the writer, against those who had become ties. We have the honour to enclose you a letter . his most intimate friends. is there any example of from the Committee, which was organised at the 1 such a proceeding in the civilized and honourable war commencement of the present year, and has assumed fare of Faiglish parties?—Offensive language in private the title of ' The Association for the Relief of the I conversation is considered as unsaid by all Menttiede .. Inhabitants of Leipsic.' It contains but a feeble las soon as the speaker desires to recal it. If wares: expression of the emotions of gratitude with which ; words used to a relation or friend in society were anti We accept the generous contributions. revocable, every infirmity of temper might dissolve. " Permit us to enter into a more circumstantial the dearest and mnstsacred relations of human life.—' • account of the proceedings of this Association, and The deliberate and cold repeater of the - wurds, af- to Inform you in what manner we condect this ter their rent, is justly regarded as being equally arduous business. Besides the 10 members who the enemy of both parties. Ile does his ulmost. to. 1 etimplee this Association, and to whom the princi. convert momentary warmth into everlasting bather, pel direction over the vast theatre of the battle, com- Ito render explanation vain, forgiveness dierepetable, •• pretending 60 villages, is committed, the Directors 4 and reconciliation impossible, • kelp' In proportion to the Went of their reeptiftleil ' Teihr. cue changed, because the offensive *cords " 'WENS, three, four, or more assistants, men of .1.0 fkilif6d? Has the author lest by publieattarthe - acknowledged probity, who poetess head and heart !Vight to deliver himself from the"effeets of his ort i enough to perform this laborious duty with lidelity.linceesiderate language ? Ilse" he no right to s'elseito The Magistrates of each place furnish written state . ; his mind , and g ratlf y his tidier of jilt lice b7i' .-- -....• ' i means of the losses of the inhabitants individually, i tion t o others ? Shrill a COM9IOII . enemy be emit I agreeably to a printed form of auestions transmitted . to render the reparation unainirisi, • precisely . * Ito them. These are strictly examined by us, uith the , the injury is most extensive? . Are the hot waseatint• i assistance of the Ministers and village Magistrates.— , youth, anger, and mistnke: to be•made irreekekle et, • i Rigid inquiries are made on the spot by ourselves, the pleasure of every malevolent 'antagonist >" •• • . ; I and tier assistance and relief is apportioned to each ! had a booksetler re-published the Poem lu epste• I individual. As we have had occasion to remark, in iof I.olel Byron's prohibition, he svotad hive , :been . ! other similar cases, that donations in money alone is . universally reprobated as an invader of the mithoria.., I not always the most serviceable, since it is often in- ° rights. Ilet What is lhe difference between a book.' I judiciously expended, the Association have made it , sc!ler and the writer to whom tadreetl, ,Only this:. their grand object not merely to supply the unfortu- ' that the bookse;ler would publish tit" whole:for pee nate country people with provisions, and to replace fit, and this writer leas published 'parts from malice ? the most necessary articles of wearing apparel, and , T o p ublish the w hole, or any part, of 1 disaeonotl . household furniture, but also to provide them with work, is trio:ally the same with publishing the whole seed, corn, oats, barley, and peal ; also cattle, as or part of ii purloined manusciipt. The moral right often, cons, swine, &c. llandicraftemen with im- of the writer to withdraw his work is as clear as his plements of every kind. Distinct persons are ap- original right to withhold it. It is vain to say pointed to superintend this business. some thou. : that, however unjustifiable the re-publication may sand bushels of cern, of all sorts, for spring sowing, be, the author has too deeply offended to have any have already been purchased, and arrangements right to complain. In truth the author is rarely the made for procuring cattle from abroad, so that we greatest sutlhrer. If lie he malicious it may be agree hope to obtain your approbation and that of the able to him—if be be careless of the feelings of Committee of which you are a Member. ! others, it may be indifferent. It is a suffering so un. " You nisb us to inform what places have more ' just as only to be felt by . a generous author, and hi i particularly suffered besides our own neighbourhood:; exac t to his geeereisity. The environs of Lutzeit were dreadfully ravaged, on But the principirstaferers must generally be those account of the battle of the 2d of May ; several vin- whom, the. writer in thb courier affects to compel. highs were burned, together with the churches and 'donate, and whose wrongs he pretends to deplore...-. schools; the vicinity of Grimma and Meissen was Because respectable and amiable persons hare been likewise cruelly laid waste after the battle of Lutzen ; out* attacked, this writer, under pretepce of pe. and.the country contigeous to Dresden, as far as be- . Milking the original assailant, again tears open their yond Pirna e is little better than one wide desert. In Intoends, and invades the. privacy of their domestic Upper Loathe the whole tract between Bautzen and life. It is his triumph that lie throws disquiet into Gorlits has been desolated in an equal degree; and , families—that he contributes to exasperate and per poor Witteoberg, to which your benevolent attention ' petuate the divisions of those whom nature and has been already directed, has, together with the ad- , friendship have joined. Ile avowedly exults in hay. jacent country, been very severely handled. The ing inflicted pain by wounding the derest and most monsters have committed the greatest abominations : sacred sentiments of those whom he it compelled to there, not even sparing the venerable monuments of represent as already suffering under unprovoked in the immortal Luther, which they have almost entirely : jury. No nian who felt such sentiments in his own destroyed. i breast could have wovnind them in others. Such "Thus far we had written, when we had received ! writers are sufficiently partishel by the rivation,cf your's of the 4th instant, in which you repeat what , all that is noble and dele:litfte in tiuttiau feeling. Out. you had the goodness to apprize us of in your earlier I they must also be eotltillittitni by men of boossue, letters. We have in consequence drawn this day at I without distinction r f par'Tkillttd ' ithont regard to On sight for 50001. sterling, on Joseph RETNEK, Esq. • merit or demerit of Lord Byttio,,, "i'll..y base rendered . and =I. on yourself., Of this sum yea allot I themselves the authors of the tiepab i bed satire: • •As • To Leipsic and its •ieinity Xl5OO 0 0 such they would he considered by a Coureof Justify. 'Oa account of the Profits of the Narra- i ?00 0 0 As such they must be regarded by the parties agaittit • five of Leipsic To, Dresden non in vicinity - IMO 0 0 whom they have adopted the cffenxire languogealis. To Bautzen and ditto - . 50.1 0 0 . claimed by the original author. As such they movt Tn IV oaten and ditto To °tenon nod dttio - - 3 33 93 3 6 6 8 8 l i. be reprobated by all those who value fairness and de •To Meistin and ditto - - 533 8 8 I cency in political contest, who condemo the draggi;tt To Halle and ditto - - NO 0 0 of , private feeling and conduct before the public, mil • TiWittenberg and ditto - 800 0 0 We have the honour to be, with the ileums esteem, w iio esteem literary property as inviolable for purposes FREGI: and Co. of honour and morality, as it is for these of pecuniary profit. Nothing can he wanting to the condemnation of such writers but the proof evidently supplied by the circumstances and objects of their abuse, that they have not the excuse of resentment, hut are ac tuated by the hate policy of infusing suspicion, and confirming prejudice against the opponents of their employers in the minds of Close whose close they dishonour by their means of defence. s. H. LORI) BYRON: Among the lute arrivals at MILLARD'S East India Warehouses in the City, are some very curious India Moslifts and Shawls, which came over as pres Pets, together with some admirable productions in Ivory, from China direct.-+The Broads' _Vella, lately sold /PTA" Hon*, won p 1 %Wet bipmetiful descrip. got. .• -•- I ._~~ flir 1 , 4 „.