The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-06-11 00:00:00

POPULATION. The population population of Carlisle is 11,5:11, being an in crease, since 1S I I, of upwards of 2,500. TRVIIO.-1 n the Borough : Males. 1, 175 ; Females, 1,537. In the streets of Keneryn Parish : Males, 893: Females, 1,185. In the streets of St. Clement's Pa rish : Males, 837 ; Females, 1,060; Total, 6,697. Increase slice 1811 1.498. SlllPTON.—lshabited houses, 694 ; building, 7; empty, 45; number of inhabitants, 1,594 Fates; Fe males, 1,827 ; Total, 3.411 ; Increase, 543; number of Persons from SO to 90 years of age, 33, and one female upwards of 100. ADm son A se.—Males, 811 ; Females, 840; Increase, 180. There are 64 uninhabited houses, Ind four mills ont of Ave. not working. In the year 1811, there were only 8 uninhabited houses, and all the mills were in full work. On-KT.—Males, 1,500 ; Females, 1,556 ; Total, 3,056. _ _ . POOL, NIAZ DITTo.--Males, 150; Females, 144 ; Total, 294. I.e tVILET.—MaIes, 161; Females, 151 ;Total, 315. A staronn.—Total population, 1,172. Cauttattocx.—Males, 6,385 ; Females, 7,6.18 ; 1.1.013. Increase since 1811, 3,729. The above ►eturn is exclusive of the University, the resident Members of which, in full term, may be reckoned At above 1,5110. Cot resuunv and its Suburbs.—Males, 6,885: Fe males, 9,202 ; Total, 15,117, exclusive of the Borough of Longport, and the Parish of Thurington. Increase since 1811. 2,639. NOIMICH, exclusive of the Parish of St. Clement • --Males, 21,009 : 26.019: Total, -1;,:i/' The following is the population at previous pet —ln 1693, 2e,e91 ; in 1;7.2. 36.169 in I;s6. 40.051 ; in leol, 36,932: in ISI I. 37.231. • Not completed when this ;terabit was sent. This Parish 1", / sposed sow to contain about 1,000 inhabitants, %high will make the population neat I) 30,000. Ncu 21 SX . y. SUSSE X.—l tau 'ilea !souses. 1,;!‘ bosses easpty, 2 : Total, 159. N amber of families, 147; Total Inhabitants, 92;. The above return does not include the seamen belonging to the shipping of the pot t. Ilasttxas.—Parish of St. Clement's, 1,103 Males, aria 1,20 Female..—Parish of MI Saints, 1,11:1; Alales, and 1,142 Feruales.—Parish of St. Mary (in cluding the hamlet of the Holy Trinity) 576 Males, and e 33 Females. Number of 51ales, 2,776 ; of Females, 2,21 I ; Total, 6,029. ARUNDEL.--Ildles, 1,169; Females, 1,329; Total, 2,497. Increase since 1911, 3:19. WORTHING, with the Parisliof Broadwater.--.Males, 1,638 ; Females, 2,007 Total, 3,725. The population of Alfriston, amounts to 648, the nnmber of Mat's and Females are exactly equal. OA tstsnostounn.—Males, 2,769; Females, 3,127; Total, 5,895, being an increase of 723 since the priod of the last Census in I SII. STAMFORD AND Sr. llsamt's, taken agreeably to Act, May 28, 1821 :—Slales, 2,882: Females, 3355 ; Total, 6,237. Increase of population in 10 years, 61t 4 , In taking the Census at Edinburgh, last week, the High Constable found, in Bell's Wynd, an old Irish nue:nan,, aged 104, who still continues to earn her sub rstance by spinning. Ponct.svtirs or Ault ACAN SrATas.—The increase of population in the state of Indiana, since the Census of 15111 teal give us an idea of the immense emigration to the whole western country during the last ten years. The numbers of inhabitants in Indiana in the y •ar ISM was 21,009, it is now 147,000 ; making an increase in 111 years of 609 percent. l'ort.t.Ariox or 31.tv;sctivsErrs.—It appears that the whole population of the Comitionweal:h is 523,287; of whom 3123 are foreigners not naturalized-6,6:4 are blacks, and there are no slaves. There are 63,400 persons engaged in agriculture, 13,301 in commerce, and 33,461 in manufactures. Yoaxsniatt Exacuom.—Lord Stilton's Bill " for facilitating the taking of the Pull on contested Elec- Cons for the Conicy of York," after reciting tha: the C ou nty of York it , of great extent. and the number of Freeholders very large, and that great delays and in coveniruces have arisen from the Poll at such Elec tioni beiu( t.tk .n at the Castle at York, proposes to enact: That if in case the Election fur Knights of the Shire he not determine I upon the vieu, with the consent of the Freeholders present, hut that a Poll shall he required.: such Pull shall be taken at the market towns of IVake- field, Beverley, and Northalleston, and at the Castle of York respectively. and he commenced in each of the slid pnces on the day on which such Poll shall be demanded, or un the next slay but one at the farthest. unless that happen to he Sunday. The Sheriff is to appoint Vice-Sloes to sit at Wakefield, Beverley, and :Sunhat lerton, while himself or Under-Sheriff presides at York. The Poll to continue daily (Sundays excepted) until finished, to be kept open for ssight hours every slay, and at the final close of the Poll, the Vice-Sheriffs to deliver the P.. 11 Kooks to the Sheriff, who is to snake his return at the Castle of York. Booths are to he erected at each pines for taking the Poll. The Booths to be closed on 14 , 1 slay after the fourth day of Polling, in case no more than 'twenty Electors have Polled, or been referred for decision in one day. This Act is not to affect any power, right, or privilege, at present enjoyed by the Sheriff Tose appointment of Vice-Sheriffs is not to be liable to Stamp duties, and this Act to be a public :let." His Lordship has given notice, that he shall not press the passing of this Bill till the next Session of PJfillillient. Tt►e exrcntion of James Gordon, alias O'Donnell, the mnr.lerer of the poor pedlar buy, took place at Dumfries on Wcdnesilov, pursuant to Hs sentence at the last ins• ticiary Court held there. We understand, tl►at since the unhappy criminal received his sentence, he has hid hnt little inteicoarse with any one except his (Homan Catholic) priest, having declined the visits of all the Protestant ministers, whose humanity would have led them to his cell. Poor O'Donnell, to use the coarse language which he himself latel:• employed, %%lieu the worthy Chaplain of the gaol would hare conversed with him, was of opinion that " too many cooks spoil the broth."—His body was given to the surgeons for dissection.—(Corligk Journal.) Early on Sunday se'nuight, some villains opened three of the sluices of the Monkland Canal, at flack hill, about a mile north from Glasgow, and set fire to one of the lock-men's huts, which was burnt to the ground. Glad this infamous transaction not been soon discovered, it is impossible to say what would isle* been the extent of loss the Canal, as well as the adjoining proprietors, would have sustained. L THE STATESMAN, Till: STAGE. itt.l4B TIM " PLIMELAII" DIANA, ALIAS THI " PIE- BENT $(:1101:L." TO TIIE EDITOR OF TILE STATESMAN. Ste—lt is but a few days since I sent von certain lines, entitled, the Thespian Monarch's, or " LAO" Managers' Invocation to NovELTY. The paper I wise present you. is that Lady's reply ; whii.h. as well as the other, was stolen from the study table of his Majesty by my secret informant. This paper is not like the last, in his hand-writing; hut is, I understand from my little Ariel, in the band-writing of his Chief Secretary, otherwise " Mindy Itaout.sa," Who with his usual skill in " RYIECT," has arranged it (no doubt for record) in its " Present" Esvagisite Dra matic Shape. TUE 1111SPONNE OP NOVELTY TO Tis TIOSSPIAS 110,41•SCIrS INVOCAII3OI4 OS PRAYER. [Soft Music is heard—after which, a most tremendous crash, as when a Spirit appears at a " REGVLEE" Theatre.l (Enter DEMI NOVELTY. She add . s his Majesty.) Thy pray'r is heard. Afore thee see. Great Thespian King, Over-: Voyeur,— With glitt'ring robe of every dye That run delude an audience rye; Deceive the judgment—and the sight like looking on same dazzling light ; Coaroun -till sense can scarcely see •Whether Ile a►nres--or •tojestl prostrates himself before her, and kisses the km of her garment."J tlreat king of tinsel—hare I not, To 'triton's stage, successive brought Each thing that from the Drama can litclude the riralship of—mss. Dog, horse, and stag, and mg, and mo•tse, •Cat, rat, and goose—could draw a—•• hessr " That could dethrone the tyrant nine, And make their sceptre-7111.1e and mtsz ! Till ready 's eery bard. e're wrote A 4TERLING play. to est hi4—throut ; :And eery bard that ever means To try his pen —blase out his hrains ? [ll's Majesty prostrates himself with additional exstacy, and exclaims with transport—" vov usvc."] What have I not, to please thee, done! Rejected seasr,—■eeepted F t s ;" Dubb'd dunces, authors, punsters, wits— Frighten'd §DAME NATeIIE Into fits ; Discarded every thing hut— tRT.— Encouraged glare. rim! stare, and start, And rant, and attitude. and roar— Dear to the clap—and the —encore. Delightful clap and encore, dear To each vain-glorious actor's ear, As is to scandal's ear—a lie. To envy's is —scurrility. Dear as to most on gala night, Tile song of mischief —" light--light —keit !" And to the ear of glazier's boys, The broken windows' rattling noise. Dear as to Patriots' the—.short ; Or uproar's to a—rabble rout. [She raises the Monarch an I embraces him. 11.• bands her t 3 a chair. Tney both sit. j itilave I not dull blelpomene Duet taught to sing, sad vice ; And saucy Miss Tualia made To flirt in dirge and seron ide. Shakespeare " arranye.l" to Horn and Reek ; Beaumont and Fletcher to—Toot Cook. The rakish Farquhar luade to speak In cadence soft—and tende • sq:teak. Author and actor sent adrift, For/at, and sharp, an I sheg.r, aid AO. And, with a magic fisldfestick. Pitch'd Mount Parnassus to—Ott, Nice' [She hums several Sceri airs. Ile admires her gar ments with great attention, and seltit.: them into various folds and draperies ; after which she rises.] Care not for type, or pro. a fig— Persist in cal-tonet and jig. Persist, I say, and right, or wrong, Turn every author into song. Whilist " bones" and orders lust. your doors Opt. wide to Dandies, Sweils and --- Nor care though virtue, taste, and sense Fly In contempt and horror—hence. Persist, though each •• P►ar•uayen" be The ridicule of the O. I'. Though ev'ry ►wangled poet's name Excite the eaclaination—" 'Aortic" And MAStOER becomes a—rereleh As much detested as—••JAcw Km* ! !. Persist. I say. Depend on PM — Your most oberlicni—NOl EI.TY ! ! (A tremendous crash sit ibUiCal Instruments.) [Exit ix a blurt. li. • The dazzle is nearly over; tinsel, foil. and spangles can blind no longer. t The memorable " Piece" of " Pars in Boots."— Orimaldi was dressed up as an old Buck Cat. forgot who playeJ the Rat ; but I suppose it was Urinal 11. jun. This Piece" lasted an Act and • quarter, and wa, then most uproariously damned. Better for a rational Author to blow out his brains, rvan semi a MS. to such creatures as the Regi!ara.- § The Actors sicken et the word • N Art 4E. 03 . Sir, it would not do Now. N Art HI 1 . 14 not •• (Artier." There nothing '• efferlirc" but ribiddry and distraction.; sod the " .llelodiows iklodg of the • - II 'rinse twelve line% are a taitatul description. of the " Present School." l always dreaded that the Olipers. Reynolds's, Morton's. de. de. &e.. puren.led soinething horrible to the Stage. Tuose horrors, I thought. were real ized when we were visited by their sucerssors, the •• Pre sent" tleneration ; but Oh ! that Shakespeare, Otway, Beaumont and Fletcher, should be gi!,heted es they are, nightly, never could have entere.l my imagination.— What's to come nest—Pt•Nen and Jt nv ? •• The •` Rrgnlar Managers" of this deittaded city. ought to he " Regularly . ' burnt in elligy; by this gentleman. I ant told • Lady Macbeth and Relridei a, with songs." are in preparation. Nothing more likely ;—the !titulars" must be Crazy. Nove.—ln the " btroviica," is the following couplet, to which I did intend to alba i Note, but I forgot it : And etch monopolizing elf Who'd the WHOLE play prform himself ;*' I did intend to say, that I suppose this couplet does not, include Mr. Manno . s; who is, I not afraid to Ann, the very beer Advr in gneland; for which rea son, no boubr, lie his been banished trion the " Re gular Drama, ' The best AcTitass I have sees since Mrs. Jordaa, is Mr.l. ALsor, who is for Ler•disloyal attachment to Nutare, nu exile also. The whole sys tem of Managers seems to be to insult the Public, and persecute every Actor. or Actress that is a favourite with the torts. . • NNW POOR-LAI, BILL. The plan adopted of remarking on the nature of the New Poor-law Bill, on presenting the Ntitions which are furnarded against it from various quarters ap pears. by what took place in the House of Commons on Friday, to give umbrage to the advocates for the pending measure. For our part, we rejoice at these preliminary discossions, both as they tend to develop. the tendencies of the Bill which had previously been little contemplated, and to excite the attention and feelings of the House and the country upon the important points in question. At the earliest stage of the proceedings on the measure, our readers will re meruher, we took occasion to deprecate the haste with ivhieli they appeared to be carried on. We wished ere public to have time to deliberate on the revoltrion that was meditated in our social system. Time has been obtained ; and the consequence has been that the strongest objections have been made from most of our manufacturing and populous districts against the Bill, not only on account of its pernicious operations on the interests of tua•ter manufacturers, but on the interests and comforts of the labouring i n them selves. In a former paper, we took occasion to state the sentiments that prevailed in a large manufacturing city in the East of England; at present we shall pre sent those that come from the west. " We know not," says an intelligent writer of Bristol, " what may be made ,of this Bill in the Committee, nor pressed rapidly on as it is, can we wait to set if it be subjected to altera tions of any kind ; should any, that are material, be •ade therein, they will become subjects for futnre eon sideration ; hut material alteration cannot be made without getting rid of the principle of the Bill. As it at present stands, then, the objects to be effected thereby, are threefold. " First, to limit future raised in the past year. its to the amount Secondly, to prohibit relief from the poor-rate to any person, who shall be unmarried, at the time of passinz the Act, fur himself or any part of his family, unless arch poor persoo shall be actually at the time of asking relief, by reason of E;e, sickness, or bodily iofirodity, isnab!e to obtain his livelihood, and to sup port his family by work. Thirdly, to prevent the removal of any poor per. son from the parish in which he may become charge able. The tWO first provisions are evidently founded on those accommodating principles of that modern school, which most unfonndedly and presumptuously imputes to the effects of the present Poor-laws the conse quences of a wretched and mistaken system of Go vernment, artfully apologising for political abuses, and coolly sacrificing at the shrine of power the prin ciples of humanity, the natural and legal rights of the poor, and the real and permanent interests of so ciety. Why are the Poor-laws complained of, but be cause they have become burdensome, and in souse cases almost intolerable, charges on property ? Why, hut because the rates collected for the relief of the poor, have enormously increased in modern times; and because, if they progress as they have recently done under the administration of Pitt, and Percival, and Sidinoutls, and Liverpool, they threaten, and speedily too, to eng►ulph the whole of that portion of the landed property of the country which taxation has yet spared. But there was s time when the same law•, and the same claims of the poor, were sot bur densome ; for more than a century they did no per ceptible injury, they threatened no destruction to property, they excited no apprehensions. In another century ti.e charge for the poor advanced, but how and why, It advanced from a comparatively insig nificant amount ty degrees, and replier& As THE EXPENAVI OF THE i;OVERNMENT ',ultra's's. With the beginning of the funding system it began to move forward, at first slowly, in the sow aekmewledged road to ruin. . With the progress of that fatal system. and with the debts in which by means of it the nation became involved, the p)or-rates kept a well proportioned pace; till, at the beginning of the late reign, the taste for wars, and concomitant and consequent loans, and fun ling, and deb , became indulgei in on an enlarsed : and extended scale. The Americans must be taxed without representation ; this project issued in the loss of a portion of the Empire the largest and most co paid • of re-production ; and this loss was purchased by the sacrifice of thousands of human beings, and of three hundred millions of British money. This dear purchase did not, however, long repress the war mania. In 17911. for the restoration of a race of kings that had always been the enemies to British freedom, British turtle, and true British a oar was entered into which has cost the nation fifteen hundred millions of money, enlarged its debt to eight hundred millions, and increased its paupers to two millions and a half. With these patriotic proceedings the poor rates have increased in faithful proportion, 'till, from 1,7211.316 f. at the beginning of George the Third's teign, they became, in 1781, 2,167,7491.; in lsor.l, 5,348,205/.; and in ISIS, 7,063,ti99/.! Thug, true as the needle to the Pole, the amount of •the burden of poor-rates is regulated by the euaount of the debt and taxes : increasing with their increase, growing with their growth, till together they at this um. , nwtit exhibit the heart-rending spectacle of industry sinking under the burdens of taxa•ion, and pro- perty exhausted by the expense of maintaiuing the de pendant puo,-. The proper, if not the only, effectual cure for this enormous evil is veryevident; a retrospect of the man ner in which the Po .r-laws hare be:otne so barthen some points it out to the meanest capacity. But no, say the apologists for lavish expenditure of public money ; if the evil be to be charged to that account, rather than remedy the evil by insure of the comae, perish the pour of England: perish those poor-laws 'which Blackstone asserts are " founded in the very pritscipkt of civil aoci. ey ."' perish reform! We have not at pretest, the tines, nor, as our readers will pro bably think, is ibis the place. to enter into as full a discussion of this interesting question as it merits, but we cutout conclude our cursory remarks on these two provisions of Mr. Scarlett's Bill, without noticing that they bear manifest marks of that suicidal policy, which *mks to reduce the population of the country under the pretext of increasing its strength, at the very moment when the farmers cannot Bud purchasers for their produce! The other chief object of the pending Bill is for abrogating the present Laws of !allotment. The operation of this clause in the aim Poor-law Bill would afect a sadden and arbitrary al. . • man is f t e a ra k i t n i t on f i r n om the so p m ro e p w e h r property t o h f ey ey d e ese ry g ape; firstin%ih.nj point c a To t s d f l ef r t i eh : ai t . theret o , - o. e . rve not to lose, and gir ing to others who havens title to the td Poor-rates has been, and properly is, always CO e on : ,d d r e ue r en e ta t s i nf l trs n odm calculations, ofaf a r s ami i ls t pw a ro l i so reh , oru i t n ty the amount of these rates; and lands sell for more or fewer years' purchase, according to their respeed ee assessments to the poor. The landed, the mining, m k t the manufacturing property of Ragland, has sys eme d its present shape, and form, and value, conjointly With the spirit of the present laws of settlement, t ad h at been as it were consolidated therewith If, as to e reallily admitted, these laws have interfered with th e rights of the poor, and limited the sphere of their e t . 'nista., and rontrouled, ant/ perhaps reduced, the valor of their labour, these are only pnrtions of that ga le system which, restricting the British fanner is the % a l e of part of his produce, sacrifices the interests of th e public to mete him amends by corn-laws and rea le . aerating duties. Through this miserable vacillating policy, the landed interests of the country have bee n defrasded of many millions of money, by th e r o w prohibition of markets for their wool out of Great Britain, till the discouragement has operated to render Great Britain herselfdepead an t os other countries for a supply of the finer sorts of wool. The trade aa d ma. meree, the property of the country, are built op and fenced round with restrictions, and monopolies, an d grants ; take away the Thole--estab:isli a n on t h e broad, liheral, and unira:agnablet principle of freedom of trade, and reduce the charges on labour and property in this country, on the part of the Government, te a fair anti relative proportion to what they are in other countries—remove, also, all restrictions as t o t h e w . dement of the poor, which, tinder such circumstance% will, like every thing else, then, but not Ilefure, find its natural and proper level. But, attar, respect the present laws and safe-guards of property,—sed et they are. It is well known that the present state of the cotton, the woollen, the iron, and the hosie r y and yet, according no feelings tehatever of exultation ; trades, justifies s to ad t d b l e ed pr w or it i h rs io th n e s o fa f t u t r h e i % M . i n 1 i t , eN t a h ner ose ° tr i te to portionboef their workmen who, starving perhaps in distant pa rirescheeivse, i l i t , ar a e nd het e em te p fu lo re y s ed in , ino and re llo rpegr bed m a n n i d t fed inie , s ltiy hell the proprietors of these manufactories. Is it fair, is it reasonable, is it just, to fix all these aliens upon them for a maintenance, when the manufaczerers are so de. pressed that they cannot find them wo:ls, and are is. capacitated from paying them wages ? It is only obis distressed, that the manufacturing and mitring parish., and great and populous towns, cannot employ the workmen, and enable them to maintain their familia; and this is precisely the period sagaciously piteind upon by the provisions of ..hr. Scarlett's Bill, forme thorising the a orkmen and their families to claims, be maintained, at a time wisest work cannot be afforded them. This is nothing less than rank injustice; nee let cant or hypocrisy succeed in representing this as a boon to the poor. Whet, is it a privilege to be axed on an exhausted, ruined parish ? Is it an admire, to the poor to remain congregated together in maki , tides, infinitely disproportioned to the ability of the parish which is to provide for them ? Have we not, in times not long past, seen what misery has beta ta ilored in Wain, parishes, by that portios of their poor who are eati.led ender the existing laws? Rad the other portion, which war then departed, and scattered about throughout a hundred parishes, where compara tively there was a little to complain of, been also sad dled upon the parishes of their occasional residue', must not misery' lave become starvation, and extreme distress have urged on to acts of desperation and blood shed ? And yet this is the privilege which, at the expense of every principle of justice, the present Bill would concede to the poor ! The Select Committee of the House of Commies, which appears to be favourably entertaining Mr. Sur lett's Bill, in its Report on the Poor-laws, selects, as an awful instance of distress, the case of the parish of Wombridge, in which the Report states that "the annnal calor of land, mihes,and houses, is not srlitiott to maintain Ms attencrow3 and increasing poor, ern if Me sante were to Ge eel free of rent !'' And yet it boa touch parishes ?Ir. Scarlett's Bill would fix multitudes of poor in adt:ition ! In roe county of B.ccon, the Parish of Valnor joins to that of Merthyr Tvdvil, is Ulamorgaashire ; seine thousands of the workmen em ployed in s)e great iron works at Merthyr, live in the perish of Vai nor, am! yet under Mr. Scarlett's Bill these thousands wotid be entitled to claim support Iron the pat ish of Vainor, the whole rental of which would sot maintain half the number, in case of the iron mil failing in Merthyr ! Thus it is when people became entangled in legal or political sophistries! and this. if the people were yet tamed sufficiently to hear it, art the property, the comfort, and the tranquillity.' country to be sported with! But the alarm is taken; the people of this coati, are not quite hesotted ; the middle ranks begie to It* and to feel the near approach of the ruin, winch, Fl aw,: the system that alone has rendered the Poor laws offensive, or made the Poor-rates burdensome. will as infallibly involve them in, as it has alrea d y crewed two millions and a half of paolgesfte them to maintain. Let tAe cause therefwe be removed, and eke effect will cease. The guardians of the . t Birmieghata and other places bare already petitioned against the self-called • Poor-law &modisteat Bill'' and many great towns, and cities , an d manufacturing districts, are, we understand, prepa rin g so to do What a situation, as to poor-rates , wo uld Birnategb.r. and Bristol, and a great portion of t he countr y . be , s ill further reduced to, were this Rill t o become law !' .....-. --- HORTICULTCRAL Sovix.r ise Anniversary nil" ser of this Society wat held at Will is's Rooms, hi' street, St. Jv anses's-stoare, on Tuesday last. A awl splendid Dessert, probably the finest that bad ever been collected together at so early a season. was ce tributeti by Fellows of the Society and others ; it vt:.s exhibited in • separate room previous to the dinscr. Resid:-. the fruits were yttrium, kinds of are regetat:ts o f great merit. At six o'clo.-k, upwards of I till No blemen and 4.lentlemen sat down to dinner. after the cloth was removed, "the King . , the Patron of theSo atetYvu " the Royal Family," " the Royal Society and its President," "the Unstrap Society and its ilwi*e dent," with various other appropriate toasts Jishro• . wer dreuk. The Dessert consisted of s hore 200 170 of which were forced fruit , of the greatest delicacy.