The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-05 00:00:00

r 7.1 •••••,.. 7li F; Q('RES. Vetterday her Majesty remained at Brantlenburgh tote for the purpose bf receiving add . At half-past twelve o'clock a deputation from the ...04) of Camberwell arrived in a long string of car :.,,en, comprising fourteen open landaus, with four louses each, besides several landsulet4, and close car- riageg with pairs. The Address was presented and re4d by the Clerninan of the parish in hie canonicals. An Address was oho presented front the borough of Bugton. The priricipal pageant of the day, however, was the presentation of the Addressee from " the Inhabitant tlon.rholders and Married Ladies of the Perished' Mary le•huue." The cavalcade far exceeded in number and respectability all the processons that have yet taken place, on presenting Add to the Queen. It v.ioild have seemed that nut only all the inhabitants of that extensive parish had assembled on the occasion, but that the whole metropolis had poured forth its multitudes to swell the retinue. At half-past nine o'clock in the morning the neigh b ,urhoud of Welbeck-street, where the l'otnitsittee t4ont is situated, was crowded with carriages; and a great concourse of people assembled iiit foot. At half-past eleven, every thing bring arranged, the procession set forward. It consisted of 15fi carriages, the greater part admit drawn by four horses each; be sides & great number of gigs, tilburies, &c. The streets and roads in the line of the procession were literally tilled with spectators. and it was impossible for the cavalcade to move bait at a foot pace. After leaving Weibeck-street. it proceeded by way of North and South Audley-street, Stanhope -street, and Park-lane, to Hydr-pa rk-corner, and thence throng,' Knightsbridge, Kensington, &r. At Kensington-gore, Mt. Whitbread and Lord Win. Fitzgerald fell into the rank ; and, after passing through Kensington and Hammersmith, the procession entered the grounds at I3randenburgh House in the following order:— Ten persons on horseback. Sir Gerard Noel. Hart. M. P. in a chariot and pair. Mr. Ha)don. Chairman of the Committee, n WI the Att.lregs trout the Male Inhabitants: Ira. with the Id tire's front the Female Inhaliitanta: 1.1,1 %Ira. , the Sceretary of the Ladies' Committee, in an open Itartmehe and four. Mr. Hume, M. P. in a Armin: and pair. Mr. Whitbread. Lord Wm. Fitzgerald, and three Ladies, in _ . the carriage of Lady E. Whitbread. Mr. Peter %Wore. 111. P. In • eharint and pair. Avery individual wore a large white favour either on the breast or in the hat ; the addressers themselves were tied up with bows of white cockades in their hats. The head of this Immense cavalcade entered the grounds about half -oast one it'rfork, and it was con siderably after three before the whole of the company were set ilown. As the company alighted they were ushered into the grand saloon, which extends front one end of the mansion to the other. At halt-past three o'clock, the whole having arranged themselves. her Majesty enter . the saloon, attended by Lady Ha•oiltoti. Mr..% bler man Wood, and several foreign gentlemen; when Mr. flayilon read the Ails:rein front tlie male inhabitants : to which her Majesty was graciously pleased to return the following answer " I am under many heartfelt obligations to the Inha bitant Householders of the populous and opulent Parish of St. Mary-le-bone. for this patriotic and a ff ectionate Address. lam more gratified by the honest sentiments of men so enlightened and so npright, than I should be by the most sumptuous incense of adulation from that t•ifish and corrupt Jason, who have 'll long possessed all the patronage and engrossed all the honours of the State. " In my long travels, both toy land and sea, all my movements hate been watched by insidious emissaries ; sod I verily believe, that if I could have mounted in the air. I should have been followed by a balloon full of spies. But though my character has been scrutinined with as much inqnisitorial pertinacity as if my adver saries hail been composed of nothing bat eves and tears, they have not hitherto been able to establish a single charge to lessen my respectability, or to blur my repu tation. Before my a dversaries menaced my destruction 11 an unconstitutional Bill of Pains and Penalties, I had only to claim a restoration of mist just rights, or an o7en and impartial trial of my conduct. But that Bill I. is altered the position in whirls I stool with respect to my enemies on the one side, and to the country on the other. The question is not now simply, whether the Queeii shall have her constitutional rights, but whether tf - e destruction of the Queen shall pare the way for the d.struction of public liberty. It is pithlic liberty which attacked in the person of the Queen ; and the preset ',viola of the Queen, in tier rights, is become necessary to the preservation of the Nation and its liberties. The alternative at present in not between one Queen and an other; but between liberty and servitude; between a free Constitution and an arbitrary 4;ot-ern/sent. " When the Statesmen of future times reflect on the silies of their progenitors, will it not excite their asto rishment or provoke their ridicule, that the present governing powers of (heat Britain should 'offer the whole kingdom to be agitated from one end to the other, acd the pitllic tranquillity to be endangered. in order to tl•lermine the probabilities of an infidelity, where the complaining party is on the confines of old age. and the party against whom the complai nt is alleged, is put the meridian of her days? Can any man think this a snlfi ai.-nt reason for superseding all our established laws, a,a all our judicial forms—for causing the Capital to he surrounded with troops, and the House of Lords to be fortified, as if it were in danger of being attacked by ao enemy? What opinion would an impartial observer form, when he beheld a judicial proceeding, or what has the semblance of a judicial proceeding, going on under tke cover of an armed force? While the temporal Peers, assisted by the Counsel of Learned Judges, and sanctified by the presence of mitred Bishops and Archbishops. are endeavouring to eslculate the chances of, what they are pleased to call, an adulterous intercourse, the bayonets of the troops are glit t er in g on the walls of the Parlia ment, or gleaming in the passages to that venerable tribunal. . 4 When Senates are obliged to deliberate, or Courts of Justice to try causes under the protection of an armed force, it seems to indicate that those Bodies are rot acting in unison with the sentiments and affections of the People. The voice of the laws was of old said to he inaudible amid the clash of arms ; but is it because an attempt is making to set aside the laws, that recourse is hail to a military force? These, however, are times is which it is well understood that the Interests of the army cap never be really distinct from the other interests of the community. I have often experienced the generosity of English men ; and by that generosity none hare been more die tiegnialsed than my noble-minded friends in the parish et alt, Illary-ledione." Mrs. Harlon then (as Secretary to the Ladles' Limiinittee) lied the Address fruits that body. and her sjest) made the following reply :-- " I feel a cordial satisfartion in seeepting the un feigns-illy affectionate Address from the married females resolleidin the palish or St. Mary-le-bone. " Many of the most 'estimable characteristics of one !MX, borrow nu small degree of lustre from adversity. It is then that those gentle virtues are most convictions, by which we are most adorned; and when even loveli ness itself is increased by uncomplaining patience and humble resignation. " In as, it is true heroism to be meek in sorrow and not querulous in suffering. " If the spirits of those who are no more with us he at all conscious of what is passing in the scene they have left, I trust that the spirit of my beloved 'laughter will contemplate with complacency the serenity I have endeavoured to acquire, and the fortitude I have en deavoured to exercise, in trials of which it is difficult ill appreciate the severity ; and indeed to which few fe males have ever been exposed. " My departure for the Continent in ISI4, was, at that moment, like an exile from all that I held dear. I left a child who was my • d's best hope and iny heart's best stay, expecting hereafter to see her in happier days: hut, alas! I was to see her no wore! When we parted, we parted never to meet again. " I was hardly married thlore my circumstances be cause more desolate than those of widowhood, and I seemed to have heroine a ther only to he tortured by the privation of that interrourse wills my chill, which was hardly ever denied to any ther lint myself. Thus the pre-eminence of my station because only a pre eminence in misery. "It I have had any enjoyment in the changes anti chances of my chequered fife, it has been principally produced by the habits of beneficence which 1 have had an opportunity of cultivating. I claim •us prait-e for this, for I have (mind the practice to be agreeable to nature: and if I hail reflected on the stiltje:.t.mv resolution would only have derived additional support front the balance of pleasure, and the calculations of interest. Mere I request you to tttt ite witlt tote in alluilring that nise constitution of the niorrl world, which make. the most exquisite sa tisfaetirot and the 111114( perm happiness to arise out of the addition which we make to the grathie4tion of others. and to the general stork of huttnan felicity." (loth the answers were read by )Ir. .11deratan Wnesl, at the request of her M tjesty; and the greater pad of the assembly had afterwards the homoir to kiss hands. The Procession then set out, s ttttt ewhat irrecul trly on tip.ir return to ton : and the v.: it concourse of look n on 'lowly rinit:r.l the grounds. .1 lie Ministerial Papers. may affect to ridicule this demon...ration of public feeling, hoi. it displays too plainly for denial, the impre.sion that tlp. (4 1 1eroo, who was threitenr.ll with utter ruin if she volumed to set feu! in Eatrighti, now rifles in triumph through the Metropolis, and receives the Iptmaze of its inhabitants, whale tho King retirt s to his cottage in Windsor tireen-park. TABLE TALK. , From"! t cowl re and Co:. / ondon Maya:loe for Reptenaber.] From the article under this title in the Nunaber for the present month, which is rich and spirited on th• stab iect of Conversation, we are induced to select the following. extract :-- The fault of Lit • Convm•sation in reneral is its too great ten triousnes.. I t fastens upon a subject, and will not let it go. It resembles a battle rather titan a skirosiolt, ood maim a toil of a pleasure. Pvt. hap. it does this from necessity, from a consciousness of wanting the more familiar graces, the power to sport and trifle with, to touch lightly and adorn agreeably, every view or turn of a quesCon to puissant, as it :irises. Those who have a reputation to lose are too ambitious of shierinz to please. "To excel in con iersatinn," said an ingenious mail, " one muss not he always striving to say good things ; to say one good thing, one must say many ball, and more indif ferent ones." This desire to shine without the means at hand, often makes men silent :—the fear of being silent strikes us dumb. A writer who has been ac eusto:tteri to take a connected view of a difficult ques• Hon, and to work it nut grasinally in all its bearings, may be very deici.dit in that quickness and ease, which men ofthe world. who are in the habit of hearing a variety of opinions, who pick up an observation on one subject, and another on another, and who case a bout wire any farther than the passing away of an bile hour, usitaily acquire. An author has studied a par ticular poiut—he has read, he has inquired, he has thought a great deal upon it : he is not contented to take it up casually in common with o•hers, to throw out a hint, to propose an objection : he will either re main silent, uneasy, and dissatisfied, or he will begin at the beginning and go through with it to the end. He is for raking the whole responsibility upon himself. He would be thought to understand the subject better than others, or indeed would skew that nobody else knows any thing about it. There are always three or four points on which the literary motive at his first outset in life fancies he can enlighten every company, and bear down nil opposition: but he is cured of this Quixotic and pugnacious spirit, as he goes more into the world, where he finds that there are other opinions and other pretensions to be adjusted besides his own. When this asperity wears off, and a certain scholastic precocity is mellowed down, the conversation of their of letters becni"rs both interesting and instructive. Men of the world have no fixed principles, no ground work of thow.rht ; mere scholars have too much an ohject, a theory always in view, to which they wrest every thing, awl not unfrcquently common sense itself. Hy mixing with society, they rub off their hardness of manner, and impracti..able, °trees sive singularity, and retain a greater depth and coherence of owlerstanding. There is more Po be learnt from them than from their books. 'rhis was a remark of Rousseau's, and it is a very trot one. In the cr,ofidetwe and anreserve of private in. tercourse, they are more at liberty to say what they think, to put the subject in different anti opposite points of view, to illustrate it more briefly and pithily by familiar expressions, by an appeal to individual] character and p..rsonal kuowledge—to bring in tlii limitation, to obviate misconception, to state ditficehn ties on their own side of the argument, and ass them as well as they can. This would hardly egret, with the prudery, and somewhat ostentatious chime of authorship. Pr. Johnson's conversation in Heir . well's Lift. ix much better than his published sr._ .. and the fragments of celebrated men, p their letters or in anecdotes of them, are justly sew* after as invaluable for the same reason. Mist allied of sense there is in Oriettn's Correspondevite? We thus get at the essence of what is capta ined in their wore laboured productions, without affectation. • , gI'ATI 7 23MAN:, _ TO THE EDITOR OP rim STATESMAN. Ste,-1 tun in the habit of frequenting a public company of highly respectable tradesmen in my neigh bourhood, where there is much discussion every evening upon the evidence of the preceding day, in support fee it hes hitherto tutu gives.) of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, as furnished by the Se cond Edit' of your independent Journal, and have paid minute attention to the variety of circum stances sworn to by the first witness, Theodore Ma jocci, and to those of the amiable young Lady (Made moiselle Dumont), who was last under examination.— There is certainly much corroboration in their testi mony as far as it 'oes, and their evidence is also con firmed by several of the intermediate witnesses upon oath ; but what is the nature of their testimony, and what is their impression of the sviiction of an oath ? " tie that imposes an Oath makes it, " Not he that for convenience takes it, " Thorn Inpw C.lll any man be said " To break an Oath be never wade ? " Hum MIAS." ant a quiet family man, without prejudit.e, and not hi :sstd by party on the one side, nor led by cla mour on the other, ant am all adeot.ate for truth and justice in every case; but as I lind that the measure now pending in the high l'onct of Parliament, be the ye cult waled it may, will be a very expeusive, as it has hero a itt. , s! disgnsting opriation, anti as poor John Bull will, at all re's:, here to part the cola on both tittle, I submit most humbly to the learned gentle men in support of the Bill, that they would best con sult the so id and vms.'llrliu:vd interest of the coun try not to perseve..e is it any further upon such Tees tionabia evidence as they 11..ve up to this period oaf, produced, two! ere ‘,/ • tthivh,f;.o,:s the ritararier tj• the peed, a, actma t el. 41 tO cdit. The matter, to speak the troth of its origin, is merely a domestic or family quarrel, and any inter ference of Parliament, such at by the present bill, cannot by possibility ohs any good, but must in its pro gress, be productive tif notch misishief, kith as it re• gartis the moral as well as the political character of the rountr), and in its teintination may affect the interests ot the t rune as ivj trionsly as those of the People. I remain, 1f r. Your tons:ant Rratler, feemtbrark, Sept. 2. 1P24. J. P. The Queen on Situ day was followed in her progress through the city by an immense number of thieves, who committed the most daring depredations amongst the gaping multitude, who ..oilted from all quarters to obtain a glimpse at her Majesty. In Fleet-street one lientletnan was r•lihed of his pocket-book, containing notes to the amount of 4140/. Complaints have been made at the Pollee Offices in the City of other robberies to a large amount. besides the almost incredible bar vest of uatches, ate. which was wade by the light fingered tribe throughout the journey. Attempts have to- some time been making to circu late counterfeit vilv.•r coin to a great extent through the country. Last ore,, through the exertions of Mr. Evans, the keeper of liridewell, and Mr. Osman, the police-officer, a cask of base coin. weighing 11011119. ass discovered is a coal-shed, is 31eadow-street, St. Paul's, Bristol. It cootalnetl pieces of metal, cut to the s're of shillings stid ,ixpettre., and finish.d ready' to take the milling and d i e ; and there is no doubt that these counterfeit pieces, representing nearly 900/. of god coin were intended fur circulation in the Fair, whirl' began there on Friday last. At Edinburgh on Wedtie..lat, owing to previous in formation, a portmanteau, containing al), ve SI/. 10..1 of of bad silver, was 'wired by the ocers of I olive, front 1 a carrier, and lodged in the Police Office. It was 6c-1 titiously addressed, and•sevetal endeavours were made to procure it from the carrier, but there bring a guard from the Police, it did not sneered. 1 The:turn STomm.—On the night of Friday the Vith ult. about a quarter past ten, a storm began at . Port Monteith, of the most vivid lightning and loudest I thunder, recollected by any who witnessed them. It was attended by a slight earthquake, felt by the inha bitants in bed. About half a mile east, on the top of an eminence over which the public road passes, Mr. John tirahatn, tenant in Choillemuck, and his horse, were knocked down Gum the lower and south side of the road into the middle; and Sir. Graham sustained a curved wound of nu great depth, au inch and a quar ter long. Mr. tiraham had seen himself and horse en compassed by a pale blue flame, ascending his breast with a rustling noise and a strong smell of sulphur.— The flame continued upon him, and he was under the necessity of rolling himself in the mud to extinguish it, which he at length eft . ..tied. In the morning it was discovered that an oak, near the eastern verge of the domain of his (race the Duke of Montrose, had been struck with the lightning, which had broken several of its upper branches, peeled off the bark on the north east side, from top to rout. the breadth of four or five inches on the average, and sunk into the soil, which lit.tore up and scattered. JAMES WlLlwx.--Just at the moment the unfortunate may. Wilson, who was executed at Glasgow on Wednes day, was thrown off, a false report got up in the centre of the crowd, that " the dragoons, the dragoons are coming," the right and left wing eangot the alarm, and the flight became universal. Here a scene of confusion ensued that baffles all description ; some were bending their course one way, some another; all passage was conipletely blocked up, and men, women, and children lay commingling together in heaps,like swathes of bay;' the tumbling and trampling one over another, the be-1 seeching of the women, and screams of the children, were truly appalling. Many were seriously bruised, and a child, we are sorry to say, hail its brow dreadfully la cerated from the trampling. Wilson was above sixty years of age, shout live feet eleven inches in sight, was a stoat man, anal was a stockingmaker by trade, but, being a sportsman, he sometimes repaired guns, pistols, Etc.; he had a vice in his house for that purpose, which Its says was the reason the radicals assembled there for screwing on their pike heads. He never conidersd himself guilty of high treason ;he appeared imaffersni yo religions instruction ; the condemned sermons preached the two preceding Sabbaths in the jail seeined to arouse him at the time, bet were soon forgot. ilia final part ing with his wife, daughter, 10.4 throe grand children on Tuesday, Wilt truly affecting; as he expected to be hnried in Struthaven, he gave them directions net. his funeral. Wilson's family, consisting of his widtai. sod a Janette!, with tive children, are left in great distress, the prisoners in the Nervgate of Bristol were re-, .moved on the 23th ult, to their new quarters, situated near Bathurst Basin. NAUTIC.,IL INTELLIGENCE The Gotha, Setter, of and from Bermuda to De w , rara, sprung a leak on the 6th July, in lat. IV. I„, tr. 55. and filled with water. The crew were taken free the rigging on the 9th by the Eeho,Cloodmanson, f r „,„, Hatuburgh to St. bonus. AIIIETTISDAM, SEPT. 1.--The Vrow Alberdin, Schmidt, from Petersburgh to Rotterdam is taw r lost on the Western Bank of the Texel; pa r t o f the cargo saved. A vessel, name unknown, was sera gas terday morning, distnasted and full of water, and since been towed into Terschelling: she is said la b t from Petersburgh. DEAL, Sarr. 3.—Last night, dnring a strong northerly gale, the schooner Forsoget, Monwinhel, and from firemen to Messina, with stuck fish, ea u " the Goodwin Sand : the vessel, we much fear will t e totally lost. The whole of the crew, and part of the cargo and materials, caved by the Deal boatmen. Hum., Auo. 31.—A letter received here from Lei& states the arrival, at Dundee, of the Princess Charlotte. from Davis's Straight's, with seven fish, and part of Brother's blubber, about 145 tuns. VIIIRCLA SPOKEN WlTH.—Liberty, of Hnll, fur QIN bee, lar. 46. 20. leag. 57. 50. by the Collin., Wo o d, arrived at Newcastle. By rifer of his Royal Highness the Commander.ir. Chief, a detachment of the Life Unards were stens / 4 at Storey's (late, St. James's Park, yesterday morsis r , to . scort his (irate the Duke of Wellington, and 4 56, Peers to the House, and protect them from a repetitka of the ill treatment which they hare repeatedly es• l.erienred from the popniate. Two smuggling - Is, lad, n with toharra, b are recently been taken on the coast of Ireland, he th e •:sppt o, Captain rutoridge, the cargoes of whirl' are estimated to be worth at least 12,6011/. 31r. fternard Holt, of Claptcn, vc4S robbed of his o:•ket-hook, containing more than 114.1/. in notes sad cash, ote Saturday, in Parliament-street. Ile was w e.' in,setl by a gang of s 1 rtiffiaus, w h o kid hi s arms up and cut his pocket-book from his side•poelot his watch was also stolen ; but he had no power to help himself. Fifteen of the prisoners esti ally convicted at t'ie laze assizes fur the county of Sussex. have had their sentenres rommut..cl to transportation for life, and three others to different periods of imprisonment in the Iluase of Correction. At the Chester Assises three prisoners were capitally convicted and received sentence i:f death, vis.—Wm. Dunne fur uttering Bills of Exchange, purporting to be drawn by Jones and Lloyd, of Manchester, ;lon Jones, Lloyd and Co., of London ; Ralph Jackson, f'r a rape, and William Bit klington, for ruhitior and selling tire to the house of the Rev. Archdeacon Clerk. Bow-syszer.---On Friday Admiral Frazer was sir rounded by a gang of villains in St. James's-square, who pressed upon him very much, calling out "The Queen." and at the same time making a eenfasim e and knocking off the Admiral's hat, when they res. trived to rob him of a gold watch, chain, sad seek, vf the value of 70 gnineas, with uhielt theyinsie their escape. '1 be only circumstance that occurred at the OfirP in sonsequetice of the number of persons collected to wituess the procession of the Mary-le-bone Address going to the Qneen, was • yonng man brought by a cow table charged with throwing mud at the carriages as they returned from Hammersmith through Hyde Park Corner. The prisouer acknowledged that his conduct had been very foolish, and his only moth, for ..sting in the way he had done, was because ether people had done so. lie was ordered to gad bail or be committed. Als'sacs-Hovea.---Yesterday a young man of res pectable appearance, was charged with having stolen from the persi.n of a Di ntleman, named Child, s pocket-hook, containing a check of :AM and other property, while the liueen was passing through the City on Friday. The prisoner was remanded. The trials for forgery and the tittering of forged nobs are extremely numerous; five persons, of respectable a;. Partner, have been convicted of forging bills of es change at Liverpool. Their names are Thomas Contrail, Henry Houghton, James Smith, Jo`mi Bentley, and S.- muel Kettle ; sentence of death was passed npou thew, on Wednesday, by Mr. Justice Bayley, and to the firs' two it was intimated that there were no hop's oral mi tigation of their ponisliment. In addition to thew pri soners, twenty-two received sentence of death •—eleten were sentenced to 14 years transportation ;--ad thirty fo ir still remain for trial, all of whom are charged with capital offences. The trials for High Treason will commence on Monday next, at York, before Sir Robert Dallas. On Saturday the several prisoners in the Castle, who are to hr tried, were served with a copy of the intLetment, a list of the Jarors, and a list of the witnesses. ToarLoots.--It was hardly to have been espe••tenl, • tiwat these destructive engine,. should have been adopted, in the prosecution of one of the most thriving branch.% of business, in which navigation is now employed : yet we are Wormed, that a vessel bas recantly been fitted at New Bedford. bound on a new whiling voyage, with an apparatus on board, for the purpose of blowing them up. Torpedoes of an arrow form. are thrown from a gun on board the vessel, which arr calculated to sink into the body of the whale, lad there explode.—(Boatoa Patriot.) On Friday last, at Castle Carey, Somerset, John Peyto Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke, after a short ilht;so , . in his 59th year. Ills Lordship is succeeded in his title and estates by his brother, the Hon. Henry Verney. On Sunday evening, at Fulham Palace, George Gor don Howley, youngest son of the Bishop of London. In the frit h . year of his age, John, eldest son of the lion. John Spencer, and grandson of the late Doke of Marlborough. Yesterday morning, suddenly, at Peckkaat Lair- Timoth) Brown, Esq. Ina fit of apoplexy, on the Int instant. Timm Steal ton Coles, Esq. of Bisingball•atreet, merriest. -__ - • • London : Ratted. Prird. and PaWlebod at :be O. a' " Tat STATESMAN. and "Tar CENETITVTIMSI**Samta, 1141 /". 14. oppooßoak.Gatotot'a•Cinita t. by R. WARDELL. Jan., L. L. B.: to V 1 all Coy itaidaabons. Ordors. Ite. ars reglosanot to be sidrare.4. I