The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

. , INGIS.YS OF lIRSSE•IIOMb. BIRTH-DAY. inner given by the Prince Reg - erit, at .nse, on Friday, in honour of the Princess i rthorg'it Birth-day, there were present gird Duchess of York, the Duke and De. )ocester. the Princess Augusta, the Duke the Prince and Princess of - Hesse-Ham. herb • 'ltem-Sophia of Gloucester, Prince Ester. h a y , .8,, T 0n Gerning, Baron O'Naghten, the Lord Chamlwrlsin, the Lurd Steward, the .Marchioness of ju ert f o id, the Marchioness of Cholmoodeley, Count and Coeutess of Munster, several of the Foreign Am. b assa d e rs sod their Ladies, Amigo. After dingier the the Princess of HesseAluts. Duchess of Glouc e s ter, berg, and the Prioress Angosta, left Carlton.hoese, and went to the Qoperr% Palace, to attend their Royal • ii‘b, t h et . Th e Princes* Aegusta remained with the Queen, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess of Dessellombuig, returned to Carlton.bouse. The 'Regent pre the entertaiument in the lower suite of yearns. Tho King's Guard mounted at S'. James's Palace with the Sate Colours,; in honour of the day. At fire o'clock in the afternoon, a barrel of beer was Oven to the public iu the frost of St. James's Palace, as 14 cusromAry. in the earning the tradesmen of the Prioress illuminated their houses. !CPS Government yesterday received dispatches from the e.l hound to the North Pole. They are ~tf Smeland, May 3. The oflicers and crews stele all in es. tel,-tit health and spirits, and prim lug to prosecu.• their vi.y ago on the following day. Tit Olive Branch. NII•MILIAN, of Belfast, bound to London., put into . Portsmoulla oil Friday, from Jamaica, b) contrary wilitls; left Kingston on the 26in of Fehruary. When off the ilavennah, she was spoke liv en independent privateer brig of 16 tins, from Buenos Ayres, ender America's colours, which, ho:sever, she changed for an English ensign, on seeing a Spinkh brig of war ; and immediately give chase to the brig, and obliged her to seek pro tection under the guns of the forts. account has been presented to the House of Commons of the number of persons convicted of cruises throughout England and Wales, of persons acquitted, and of persons against whom no bills were found, during the last seveii years. The general in ference front this document is the great incroase of crintes duriug U:e period specifiml. In 0411, the whole number of commitments is 5,337; its 1817, tied r 14,0(X); in 1811, the total number of persons con. ',ivied was 3,163; in 1817, 9,056. Convicted of bur glary. in 1811, 76; in 1817, 374. For crimes con nected with counterfeiting the coin of the r' alai, in 1811. 91; for the same in 1817, '203. For ha ying Rank-cotes in possession, in 1811, 17 ; its 1817, 11'0. Mr. LEYLAND has declined accepting the invite that of the indopetident Freemen of Liverpool to stand aeaisist Mr. CANNING. The great jobber is likely .16.. - have a more powerful opponent. Report speaks of a Requisition to the Earl of SEFTON (an Irish Peer), whose health, we are happy to learn, is now recovered beyond the most sanguine hopes of his friends. It would indeed be a circumstance much to he regretted should there net be found some candi date of unsullied public and private character to re deem the towel of Liverpool from the indelible dis grace of returning such a man as Mr. CANNING. The number of notes discovered by the Bank to have been forged from the Ist of June, 1812. to the 10th of April, 1818, distinguishing those from 11 to 201. and upwards, is one hundred and thirty one thousand, three hundred and sixty-one. The tom! •spence of prosecutions for forgeries, or titter ing forged notes, from the Ist of March, 1797, to the Ist of April, 1818, amounts to the sum of - 148,3701. 94. 3,1. 'rise nominal value of the Notes, o f which payment was r.-fisrd, from Ist. Jan. 1816, to lUth April, 1818, is 73,7601. and the nominal va lue of fotged Notes paid by the Bank for the same period, a toch was after welds recovered on the for geries being detected, emouisted only to 751. To show the greet and elartiaing increase of forge ries of Bent of England Notes, since the time of the suspension of their payments its specie, the whole es pence of their prosecutions in the year 1707, was only about 1.5001., while its the first three months of the present )ear, it amounted to the enormous •urn of nineteen thousand, eight hundred and niacly pounds! The Marchioness of TATISTOCE, on Thursday night, honoured the Surrey Theatre with her pa. trunage. Among the fashionable parties we noticed the Duke of LtiesTea, Lord IVILLIAIIt FITZ GERALD, Lord Kt:vs:me, Lord Prreitsuass, Lord and Lsdy ilattitlxbro:s. &c. etc. On the two preceding evenings. Lady I.:mass:Tit FAME, Earl and Countess of BLEssiecTos, Lord Kral!, I..tdy IY. W vise, and R number of other distinguished parties, testified * high sense of. the entettaiumeut they hail esperienced. Three frigates, of 46 guns each, to be named the Druid, Thisbe, and Nemesis, are ordered to be built at Pembroke Dock -yard, its addition to those already in hand, making in the whole, sixteen ships of differ ent classes now building and under orders to be built at heat yard. We perceive that . fists is tint the Contractor for she Lottery at present upon sale; hut we see that the Scheme Isis beet' formed, its some measure, upon the plan of the lest, for which lie was Contractor, namely, by introducing a numerous List of Capitals. This gicet, him a good field for his o perations, as we doubt - dot the greater past of these Capitals will (ds vireo') go throogit Isis hands ; this appears too to be the general opinion of those numerous adveutorers whet daily visjt him. On Sattivday, as Mr. Sharman and his partner, Mr. Layton, ironmongers, of Greenwich, were walking on Mr. Coulson's iron-wharf, Thames-street, Mr. ',Won's font, whe is blind, came in convict with a piece of iron, the consequence wits, his hai held of Mr S.'tiarm, they both fell into the Tliantes. r.'t.;lsernis is, in his fall, fell on a huge, and hreke fill his sibs, he eas•takets to the Steel-yaril Coffee , house, and died last night, leaving a wife mid I children. Mr. Laytou did not receive soy Ibjury, obi) , a duckiug. a.+.? - 'I'HP. • - ;4411 1 :4L INTELLIGENCE. yesterdey the homeward •llessad hie the Rivet.—Came down from the River and sailed, eke Ann, Layboorn, for Malta ; Re. becca, Audrey, for St. Thomas; and Kingston, Younei for Quehec.—Soiled for the Rivet the Speke, Quinten, from Bengal; and to-day came down from the River and sailed, the Victory, Braithwaite, for Bombay : Waterloo, Hepburn; for Madras ; Re gent, Wellbank, for Batavia ; and Soccess; Parry, for Liverpool.—Remain his Majesty's ships Northumber land and Severn. PORTSIIMUTH, MAY et —Yesterday sailed his Majesty's ship Sappho, for the Cape of Good itope; and Grecian, on a croize.—Tn-day arrived the Iris, Rerbert, from. the Cape of Good Hope, with the crew of the Amsterdam, Dutch 71, lately wrecked Beer the Cape; out 73 days.—Went out of harbour the Vigilant. PLYMOUTH, M.ty 23.—Arrived the Vengenr and Rochfort, from Portsmouth.—Passed op Channel the Hanover, from Jamaica for London. Coat, MAY 19.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Heron, Admiral Sir J. itoeley.—Sailed five trans `refs, with troops, for Cried+. NORTH SMELTS, MAY 22.—The gailiot Anne. Sophia, Evans, Master, of and•hound to Rostock, laden with coal, in going to sea this morning got on the Hend Sand ; the wind being easterly and a heavy sea, on the flood title she filled with water ; a num ber of ballast•hesvers have been employed to throw the cargo out of her, in hopes of satin; the vessel from becoming a wreck. RYE, MAY 24.—The schooner Henrietta, of Al tons, Geyken, Master, from Maleza, hound to Ham burgh, last from Dover, sprang a leak off Dun. genes!. on Friday afternoon, and the Ciptain and crew were obliged to quit her between fire and six o'clock, she having newt ; she was taken possession of by the smack Essex, of London, and the Argus pilot cutter, of Deal, and towed on shore at Hastings on Saturday last. Cargo taken out, consisting of wine and fruit, the latter damaged. LIVERPooL, MAY 23.—Arriverl the Thomas Gib bons, Brewer, from Savannah : the 26th of April, in company with the M..trtgomery end Sally for Liverpool ;on the 101 h of May, at half-pact nine P. M. in lat. 45. lone. 38. 12. ran foul of the John. Neck, from Liverpool to Quebec, when she imme.. diJtely f,)tortlered—crew saved. Al.o arrived. the ICeres, Forsythe, from Charleston : d 25.11 lof April ; on the 30th, in lat. 37. 41. lon 63. 27. spoke the Elizabeth, from Liver 1 pro, to Charleston lon the 3d of May, in lat. 40. 19. long. 54. spoke th e 1 Gibraltar, from Boston for South America; on tie 16th of May, in lat. 45. long. 36.53. spoke the lib, from Leith to New York. The PARISH or BETIIN9L.GREEN. The day after his conviction. Mr. Merenron trans. twitted the following letter to the Churchwardens/Ind ()fewer' of the parish of St. Matthew, B:thoal. green : ' 13etlinal.green, M,iy 19. " GENTLEVIttt,—I bog to acquisint you, that I shall, on account of Mr. Robert Wrightson and others, trustees of the Poor's Rate of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, pay into the Bank the sum of 9251. Is. 3d., being the sum charged in my account, as Treasurer of the said Rate, in 1813, un der the head of D4llll and Crossland's bib, and that 1 or my Solicitor will attend for that purpose at the Drawing-01fice in the Bank to-morrow, at half.past 12 o'clock precisely.-1 am your obeMdientlt servant, rCERON." The money was paid into the Bank, and Mr. Merceron further offered to give up the situations he held in the parish, and to pay the costs attending the recent prosecutions, upon the condition that hi. Pro. socutors would not noose the Court for j u dgment. — We understand that it was proposed by some that a compromise should be entered into, and that, as the parish had been annually at great losses through some channel or other, w hich it would not be difficult to guess, at 10,0001. might set it something to rights, •nd the judgment of the Court might not be invoked if the cu l pr it s h ow ed p ro ofs of a penitent heart. The result of the application was, however, an on• qualified refusal. The parish are determined to make an example, and on Thursday or Friday nest the business will be done. The whole detection of the system that had been carried on so much to the pre. judice of the parish, arose from the activity Jr the Rev. Mr. King, Rector of St. Matthew. Saturday, as Mr. Taylor, street-keeper of Lom bard-street, was conveying a mitt to Ow Compter, for picking pockets, a companion of the Prisoner's tripped him up, and dislocated bis collar-bone. Tile WO both escaped. Letters from Germany state. that a German Co lony has been founded in the Brazils, near the River Macon. Each colonist receives gratuitously from 50 to 100 arpents of land. A town is to be built, to be called Leopoldinia, in honour of the A r chtlultess Lacipotorfic, now Princes. Rove! of the Brazils. The ile; , .irture of the Prince and Princess of IlEssz-linstuoutta, which had been positively tired for to n ttio father of the Prince having deferred sin intended iturney for the sake of receiv ii.g the interesting co.iple, is now indefinitely pusti I potted. •-•11OP•-- i g *2og2= TOB PRll ‘ At the dii Caritan-hrsnsi of ifesso-1;44 the D e ice and c hess of Glot of Claretir•, hergsliwPtil I I II It I 11. I a• , rs r- • ra. IP* pR OM - N• li. my :he. MI hip ho Rho ich nit, 1411 W I $4 . ' i+ f Of e of if tit" i • 'The Average Prier of SUGAR, for the Week, ending Nay 11). per Cwt. A.,•tage Veal, of CORN of IiNOIAND and WALES, per glower, Irmo tile Vlav aye i Barley. Oats. itonos. Pease. °atm. •s. 1 1 . j d 1 116 0 1- 3 S I;i d i i s is d i d 01 a. d.. 1 di. 61 1,1!95 9 i four A . - - ; . . • LAW 11VTF LIG ENGB. COURT OF CHANCEfiIr, MAT Mi. SOLICITOa-GaNZIAr: moved, thit Dr. Ileriry Jenne", might pay over to the Trinities of Charlotte Fryer, • sum of 1611. the arrears of an annuity , of 1001. granted to Charlotte Fryer; also, that the Trustees might receive a sum /151. which had been paid into Court ; and further, that Dr. blink might pay the Trustees an annuity of 601. for the belie fit of the son of Charlotte Fryer. The stiouit" deed set forth, on the consideration that Charlotte Flyer had, under a promise of marriage, cohabited with the Doctor as his wife; that she had borne him a son ; but that she had ceased to cohabit with him, and was then living apart from him; that having deceived her by a promise of marriage which he had not perform ed, he •greed to settle upon her an allowance of 1001. a year, with a reversion of 601. a year to her Isots, for his support and education.—A reference had been made to the Master, who was to enquire what a ts of the annuity were due, and whether the child had been properly supported by the father. prior and since his mother's r3eath. The Master had reported, that 1641. was due on account of the an nuity of 1001. to the mother ; and that with respect to the boy, his morals and education had beets alto. gether neglected ; for it appeared, that he had beets first placed under the care ; of a woman at 10.. a Week, hut hail subsequent)) , been removed to the ; house of a woman who was paid on4y is. a week, and that he slept in a room with six other boys. Mr. W eve followed on the same side. Mr.Cowaso?l,oto the past of the Defendant, ssi4,l he should he very far from attempting to juctif ) the conduct of his Client ; but the fact was, that a marri age had actually taken place between Dr. host l er and Charlotte Fryer. Ilis Client, at the time of the marriage, had signed his rotate 4irrereibt f r om %ha , it really was ; but the mime he had written was sin:liar in sound, though spelt differently—the two names were id em swu m h.,weser, in consequence of his having so done, he, Dr. Jentser, enteriaioed a false persuasion that the marriage was not a said one. The marriage, however, being legit, he submitted that the deed made under a different impression fell to the ground, and that the custody and education of the Child belonged to Dr. Jenner. To pay over the money to the Trustees would he an act of super fluity, as she Doctor could immediate!) compel them to refund it, in virtue of his marital and parental righ!f. The [anal) CIiANCELLort observed, that When Di. Jentier stood before tutu with letters of administra lion, taken out as the husband of the lady in whose favour he had granted the atiossity, he would then take him to have been her 11..sbatill; but at present he could only consider him as he had developed his own clsasacter ; and that was, a. s mats who bed de. ceived the 16.41 y be a promise of marriage, which he had never thought proper to carry into effect. lie was s.f f•pinion the trustees ought to he paid the 1611. in smear, and that Dr. ..1,11(11.f should henceforth keep up the - annuity to the son, according to the terms of stipulatimi with the mothet and her trustees. tuliToN COAL DUTY. ATTOltlielr-OLNERAL. 0.. BROWN. Mr. NEWLAND—Your Lordship was so good as In say, that we might call your atteution to the case of the Attioney-General v. Brown. LORD CHANCELLOR.— All I can say, is, that will appoint it for you some day next week. As the appeal in the House of Lords is from me, I should not like to he the only Lord who was to decide upon it. The Lord who usually attends 1 have not been to speak with, but 1 will see him, and let you know its a day or two. Mr. NEWLAND.-1 understand that Mr. Horne has not got the order for which he applied. Lotus CIIANCELLOII.-1 wade no order at all. If I am right in my conjecture this is a case with which the Noble Lord, to whom 1 have alluded, will be extremely familiar. 1 think it will he proper for the Gentlemen on one or the other side, to hand the brief of the information and the demurrer to the Noble Lord. It will be useful to send it to him before it comes oil. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 23. ADULTERATION OF TEA. Mr. Juts's moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict lately obtained in the rave of Palmer should not he set aside, as not founded in evidence. The Learned Gentleman stated, that the indictment against the individual was for having 501hs. of adul terated tea in his possession, not withstanding which the Jury found a verdict for 56:118., though there was no direct evidence to prove the finding of mote titsn 29Ihs. in his possession. The Learned Gentleman trusted, that when the penalties were so very heavy, and apportioned to the quantity found, the Court would feel the necessity of so•far guarding the indi vidual as not to impose him to the paying of a heavier sum than the justice of the case required. Ile there. fore hoped the Coin would grant a rule to show cause why the amount of penally should not he re dared to the emeltl quantity found on the premises. The Lunn Cuts BARON said, there was the strongest evidence to show that Jones, the porter, bad carried to and from the house large quantities of this kind of tea. Baron GARUOW saw no rel. SOn whatever for dis. turhing the verdict, which he thought a just one; and he bait no doubt, front the vigilance slid activity of the Public Prosecutor, that that o.Ecer would follow up what be had already done by a criminal prosecu tion against the parties. It was quite impossible, he said, that the rule applie d for could he granted. The Learned Gentleman might move for a new trial, if he pleased, or rather if he would venture upon a task which might have so little prospect of success. The only reduction which it was possible to make in the amount of the penalties might be from 56 to 50Ibs. the quantity set down in the indictment.—The Court dismissed t lot application. Mr. ThuoTos was itt the course of the gay argu# big a case, and occasionally referring, itr support of his atgument, to certain remedies in equity, pointed out in , many decisions in the Court of King's Brach, when the Loeb CHIEF Beans interrupted himi and said, Mr. Taunton, there has been more bad equity twit down in the Court of King's Bench during the last 60 years, than bad law is all the other Courts in Westminster Hall." • wri . • -- Tics ATToIiNeY-Oetstistal. r 0 ANDEII. 4 O 4I . W SAILERi• C. MILL, JAIkekBENNETY, AND ottlitle. 1111 1 1 was an intormal.niu against the Wends. '44' who ire labourers, charging them ilith 'whipping and unloading a coisSids.rable (Omuta? of foreigo sp;ritS, which hid been illegally imported bite *MI country, and whit!' had not paid the duly The De-. fendants submitted to a veillitt for the Crown ; and we only state their cage, beca l uie it is doitlli con nected with that immediately following; tildes; front the respectable station in life of the Defendant, has elicited a good deal of interest. inc ATTORNEY GENERAL V. G. WENtf, &ft Mr. % I t' ALTON opened the piOadihei in this cad; and stated, that this was an inforination Mill by tliti Attorney-General againit the Defendant, and the in-, formation charged, that a considerable qesintitir a foreign Geneva had been imported into ttlk reentry' without payment of duty, and that the Etieferidaut had been concerned in the landing sod onshippirime the same, whereby he had' fiirfeitied triple the vale.: lie was also charged with hating received Into hit ustatody the said Geneva. TO this inforcitatidn bit pleuded Not Guilty. Mr. DAUNCET stated, the} the scene tatierloti , the present case lay nedr celobrated Weteting place, namely, Worthitig. The DefOndiot, Oh is tc busker and a landholder, fives at i place cillsid Ferring, in the neighbotarhon.: of that todn,•ana tb offence implited to him was stated to hat.• been coin: mined on tpe 4th et April. 1817. It 'yield appeets I thAi the Geneva in gyration wes'finded at Ferrine lane End, within a mile cf the Defendant's house, and (ha( a guest number of peistois were employed to carry it lion, thence to a barn, which wit his pro jperty. It was there ilepoSited , t he D efendaht bein t !present, avid at the completion of the busineli hal locked the door, pot the key in Mt pOcktit, and went away. If he was enabled to prose These faCtli the guilt of the Defeintint would be etwhiished, and It would only remain for the Jury to' find the siugli value of the tubbs landed, and the Officers of this Crown would afterwards triple that amount. After a long examination of evidence on both sides, the Jury found a verdict for •the Crdwn—Ds mages, One Thousand Pounds. Cot tzT or ittNo's RF.Nell. MAY TUE Kis.) V. A. TIIIsTLEWOOD. This Defendant, who, it will he recollected, true tried anti found guilty during the Sittings after last Term, upon an indictment., chnugine hint with send log a challenge to Lord Sitintouth, this morttiog ap. peorr , l in CPuirt. roiended by Mr. JAM'S Watson, for the purpose of snovin tor a view trial. Tito or. ti ary .rittions ofii..• Wit hating been gorge through, the lmiendatit presented himself to the Outlet of the Conit. Mt. Justice Bairte*:—Have ion any . affidaiits ? Thistlewood.—•• I 'have, my Lord." The Der , fendant put in three affidavit*, which were read by Mr. Dealtry, the Clerk of the Crowo.office. The first Was an affidavit made by himself, in Which he stated, that from the lateness of the period at which he received notice of trill, it was impossible for him to bring forward those Witnessed whose OP demure would have indoced the duty, instead of pro' maiming him guilty, to come to a conclusion of contrary description. He did Hot receive notice of , trial till Saturday the 10th of May, at do hour too late to enable him to apply at the Crown•othee for subrcenas. Sooday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wed. nesday were holylaysi and the Ctowit.offic• wet dried. Ott Thursday, the 4th of May, he sat brought from the King's Bench prison, at so early an hour as to preclude him from making any effort for his defence. Ile could hate called sixteen re epectable witnesses, who Would have sworn that it was impossible that Rolls Button should have known his livitd.writimse, and that he was a witness who" I Emelt toot to he believed on his oath. 1.91 d ELLENBOIIOeG tr.---Does the Defendant swear that the challenge in question was not his hand-writing ? Mr 'Paltry continued reading tile affidavit, which went on to state that Mr. Justice Blyley having given him reason to hope that he shoOld have a new trial upon the production of proper affidavits, he now Rusted that hope would he realised. There was no denial en the part.of the Defeutdatit that the writ ing was his. The nett affidavit was from James Watson, sur geon, in Stirrey.etrept, in the Strand; in which hi 11 1 31.41 that he attended at the Crown.odice, in the Temple, con the part of Arthur Thistlewood, a prig soner in the King's Bench, on Monday and Tuesday the llth and 14th of May, for the purpose of gets ling subprettat to enable him to call Witnesses for hit defence; hut there were no persons in attendance, 01111 hence the raid Arthur Thistlewood was deprived of all to ass of defence whatever el his trial. — There was an affithvit from Sauna Thistlewood to thei like effect. She attended at On Croin-office the 11th, 12 h, and 13th. Lord ELLESooßolitut 511 d; the Defendant had suf ficient notice of his trial antecedently, awl should have netted himself to get his witnesses. There did not seem much likelihood, however, even if his wit nesses had come, that they could have done him any !mice; they could not swear thttt the hand-writing was not the Defendant's; for he had not ventured to do so himself. There *MI no pretence for the etu4 Lion for a new trial. The Dgfendaut then left the Court. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS i Mat 25. WHITE H. DIXON. This was a cause regarding the per Chase and Male of • horse at the City Repository, Barbican. The Plaintiff is a 11401filite, of the Country Advertising ()thee, in Fleet-street. I'he Defendant, Mr. R. Dixon, selectee'', end formerly Cumnion Councilmen. Mr. Sefitant VAUWIAS stated, that hir.White, the Plaintiff, hating occasion to hay a lints., hit atter,. don was diterted In this Repository, b 7 an edveriite meat in lAe Time, Ne*.paper. It ran thus:--;." A beautiful bay gelding, the property of a Gentleman, taken ha elecution (die manner in ;thick the Learned Serjeant read this puff excited considerable laughter), an curliefist hunter, got by darn, Smelts fewest goer of any in London, to be sold without reserva."—.. Mr. White, Caught with this description, beiaght tits horse at 46 guineas, *hen it was di,covered his shim, could not tie to kilt off, without incur ling the greater dams. His feat was dissatrd, and Ili fact as tra ~~ .' I • 14. • :," • 14' Ai • • A Id Df at of 10: buP td id •-• Ni •, ►ed re!' int hi Ind Lts Ind ugh. this loth Da"