The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-18 00:00:00

NAVAL I.VTIMLIGENCIS. PORTIMOCTS, Nov. 17.e-Arrive3 the Aellllk. anti lllos tt ious. of 74 guns earls. and the Laryalus. frigate, at Si. lle len'', from ermizlna oe Cherbui ,h. Sailed the Ulysses, of 41 gua., wish twenty sail of trans port.. having about YJJI sroop, .so board, for Ilse I)ossns. which arc to cover the eollmrk Won of our troops at %Val c:teren. Arrived the Quebec, Hoe. Capt. Psalm% from Plymouth t ark the Deride-, from a cruiLe. Sailed the Dolphin store hip. fir the Daum. PI.TMOVTR, Nov. Iti.—Arrived and sailed again, the Qaebec frigate ; and the Cockatrice, frost the West ladies, with Government storm. ranee down out or harbour, the Thais donp of war.. Sailed the Humber armed ship, wita a large beet, under convoy for the Dawns. I)rtt, Nov. 17.—Last night several ships arrived from th:. Baltic, soder convoy of his Majesty's ship Mercurius. Tbi► morning his Mnjesty's brig Briseis, and several van et coasters arrived-from the westward, and pawl through, and about Al !RH 0/ me. chant vessels have arrived from the riser s and remain. In the flown the Princess of Orange, Vice-Admiral Campbell ; San Domingo. and Vaaganrd, of 74 gam each ; I,e3den, and NloninJuth, 64 guns; I.is, 3) guts; [liana, St. liorenzo, niut Iris frigates ; and the following sloops and brigs, Blossom, Beagle, fewer, Briseis, Cheerful, Etha, Fly, Furious, Mercuriu•, Osprey, hello, Recosery, and Zeo.obin. VACANT' SEATS IN PARLIAMENT. The following scats ia Parliament are not► va. cant : ,I6ingdoa—lty the death of Croucc K% A rt., gsq. BuckinglianttUre —By the Marquis of TtrcttE !LLD saceeed- jpgihe Duke Of PORTLAND. Came!ford—fiv I.nrd HsNitir Pcryr succeeding the Mar- citti4 of LutsnowNE. Cot kernsuid.4—By Lord LowttiEß, made a Lord of the Ad- _ :niralty. Drourich—By S:10t/DVI BARNE, Esq. made a Lord of the Treasure. Du. hene—liv Ricataart Eq. wade Secretary to the Treasury. carport Huts—By Lord PA LSI VISTO !11, Mae Secretary at • War. Ditto—By Ph. Airrittra Wct.Last.sv, created Viacount WELLINGTON. Arerthainpron—By Mr. PCECZTLL, made First Lord Of the rrrawr% . -Oxfordrhi, c—By Lord FR ANCIS SPENCER, made a COlll mi..iotter of the Board of Controtal. Scarouromixi•--By CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Esq. made Juke Piolvilc.ttr. Tiwrifin—Right Hee. Rice4aco RTIMIt. made Secretary of Stair. E iabrr.h —By Mr. DoNDAS SAUNDERS, made President of toe d of Coattail. Doarnpatrict—By Joss Wit.sox CROKER, Esq. made Se croar) to the Admiralty. Queen's C..uat3—Hatt. Wa, WchLtst.mt PoLt, made Se cretary of Slate is Irelard. SUICIDE:—A young Lady, not more than 19 years of age, whose re.idence was a 'hurt di'tauce front Buckingham Gate, put a period to tier ex. istence by drowning herself in the Thames on Wed. nesday last. Her body was taken out of the wa. ter in ten minutes after the act had been coin. milted, but attempts to restore animation were fruitless. The young Slily was the d.tughter of a Gentleman of property, and the came of sui. cid.: was supposed to have origi...tted from preg. oanry. The I;ast•lndia Company, who formerly paid their freight in batik notes, hare resolved in fu ture to make those payments by their bills at three months. On Monday last six hundred soldiers belonging to the Duke of Brunsnick's corps were embarked at Yarmouth (Isl.. of %Vigil° in transports for Guertisq ; and on Wednesday 900 of the same corps embarked in transports at Cuwcs for the same island. One hundred and twenty horses belonging to the Itoyal Waggon Train march into Portsmouth to-morroe - , and embark for Portugal. A evenings since the premises of Mr. Lane, Gera ...I-street, Soho, were robbed of stocking pieces to the amount of .1001. Thursday night a Gentleman going along New. gite-street, was robbed of a valuable gold watch. Thursday night about eleven o'clock, as Mr. Si In h or, of Holly well.street, Shorrilitch, was returning home, he was accosted by a man in a sni.tek truck, near his own house, who knonktisl him down and robbed hint of a silver watch, with which he made his escape. ' We understand that Mr. NUCAt.t.tim's Lure Rouge, or The New and F:rtraordinary Red Book, noticed some time ago in this Paper, will appear before the end of the present month, which wilt contain a complete view of the Pensions in Great Britain anti Ireland. TM High Sheriff of the County of Glamorgan, JtaltlllAU 110111 PRAY, Esq. who is to present his County Address, in honour of his MAJFSTY has.. iug entered Into the fiftieth year of his Reign, we are informed has applied for the honour of Knighthood on the occasion. Should his appli cation be attended to, it is presumed other Sheriffs ‘Ol, on application, have the like honour con. !erred on them. The financial system of the Corporation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is at present under a close I investigation, by a number of intelligent Burgesses in behalf of their Brethren and the Public, who have been lung kept ignorant of the state of the Body Corporate. The neglected state of the Pub lic Charities in that Town has, for some time past, been under the consideration of a patriotic Judi yid tal, n hose harmer exertions have been pro. olidi!ive of advantage to the poor, and through all‘t.e efforts the present investigation has been etTee:,.o, n hich, among other particulars, has brought before the Public another instance of the mismatu4vment of a well-endowed charity—the Ilospit.l the Virgin St. Mary in that Town — the miserable inhabitants of which, six in number, are only alowed the sum of .11. 10s. per annum for their .ithsistence, while the Corporation is giving a Reverend Vicar, though a non-resident, the sum or . fift.y pound! per annum for the name of .31,1der of the lloswital. To rz EDITOR or THE SI a—The Magistrates of lb :a-street are so zea lous in their endeavours to preserve Twice and quietness in the New Tite.tvwc, that persons who nave exhibited placardr, which Mr. BaAmn has sworn *ere calculated to excite noise ant: tu mult, have btxnt compelled to find bail in the sum of EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS, fur their appearanci• at the Sessions. But how are the times altered since thu glorious days of KING WILLIAst, of blessed memory. A century back, the liberty of the subject was better protected. KIND WIL LIAM 111, wlio owed mach to the exertions of the Prutestants, wished to reward their service., and in his reign, fur the protection of their reli gion, it was enacted, 1 !VIII. and Mare, c. 18. s. 19 : " That if any person shall willingly, and of purpose. ma " licioutly, ur contemptuously, come icto any calAssirat, or " parish c.starclt, chapel, ur other congregation, permitted by " the said Act. and disquiet or disturb the same, fir misuse " any proacAcr or 'rattier, such pertkm-, upou proof bet re " any Justice of the Pewee, by Iwo or wore milkiest nit " tosses, shall Bud two sureties to be humid by recognizance " in the pearl sum of Firrir rot:Nos, ani on default of "• such sureties, shall be committed to .prisou, there to re " main till the twat General, or Quarter Sessiorst I and upon " coo r tertos of the said offence, at the said fle..eral, or " Quarter SC•SiOns, shall suffer the pain and penalty of " Ttrzsertr POUNDS." To what, then, can we attribute the estraordi. nary conduct of MODERN MAnisTRATcs, wrha de. mand such excessive bail from persons who have merely acted according to the customary usage of the audience in the TuLtritz ?! ! What legal jus tification have they for considering the making a noise in Covent-Garden Theatre more criminal than disturbing public worship in St. Paul's, ur lVestminster Cathedral Middle Temple. I NIPARTI A LIT Y. A barbarous murder was lately committed near Ballinrobe, in Ireland ; the circumstances are as follow :—A mendicant in sailor's dress came into that town, from Castlebar, seemingly deprived of the use of one hand, - accompanied by his wife and a chill of five weeks uld, soliciting charity. In the evening, about nine o'clock, they left town to return to a village in the neighbourhood, to which there is a bye-road leading. Shortly after they had left the high road, the man (whose name is Michael Sweetly) entered into an alterca tion with his wife, and stabbed her in the left side of her belly, near the navel, acid inflicted a wound sufficiently large to allow her bowels to fall oat. After he had given the wound, he re. turned to the nearest house oft the road that he had passed, and mentioned that two men had at tempted to violate his wife, and being unable to succetxt, murdered her. A number of people immediately gathered to where thu woman was, and considering the conduct of the man very sus picious, they looked fur him fur the purpose of secori..g bins. hi.sdi u g that he had made off, he was pursued by the Rev. Mr. Shanty, the priest of the town (who happened to be going by at the time), a Serjeant of the South M iyo Militia, and several other venous, arid secured. Thu poor woman was brought into town alive, and continued so until about four o'clock next morning, when she expired. Hefore she died she was asked concern. ing her murderer, and site declared it was her husband who stabbed her, and said she would not acknowiege it, but she apprehends:ll he might swear against some innocent pet son. lle has since acknowledged his guilt, and says he was actuated by jealousy. Considerable ieconvenience was lately experi enced in the city of Cork, in consequence of the Dublin mail nut having arrived its course. It has been accounted fur in the following extraordinary manner :-.- " The mail which left Dublin last Monday evening fur Cork, being unsually large, the guards were unable to get it into the mail-boot, and were obliged to fasten it on the top of the coach. Oa Tuesday night, in passing Kilworth mountain, the lamps were extinguished by the want of air, owing to the density of the fog, and the ropes having given way, the mail fell off un. perceived. Oa Wednesday morning when Mr. Anderson, of Fermuy, learnt the circumstance, he immediately got a large military force, to take the necessary measures of precaution and inquiry. After a very fatiguing march in scouring a great tract of country, tho bag was found in a quarry, near Mitchelstown, unopened, amd brought to the post office here yesterday." Last Sunday sem al carriages, with pri. goners, arrived at the Ilead (Mice of Police in • Dublin. The Magistrates of that Office dispatched, on tho preceding night, sonic .gent peace officers, with warrants to arrest many persons in the county of Meath, concerned in va rious felonies, and for putting to death ono of their own party, who had amassed a large sum of money by plunder, and who the robbers were fear. ful would approve in case he should be taken pri soner. The entire of the warrants were executed, and the rubbers arrested at Whitelau, near Bet. lewstowts. A party of the military surrounded the residence of the robbers, while the Magistrates and Peace Officers entered and arrested the whole, and discovered a large cave, wherein•tho principal of the ging, Pat. Coogan, lay concealed. Shipments of linens, damask, and large gran. titles of Irish calicoes, have taken place to Rio Janeiro and Dzinerara, during this month, front Belfast, and also of linens and calicoes to New York, but by no means in such large quantities as usual to the latter place. Flax is gradually declining in price. Last month best Petcrsburgh was at 1151. so 1121. per ton, in Liverpool. It afterwards fell to 1061. and was still lower in London—down to 1001. per tun. This mouth the price, after some fluctua. tion, is sinking in England, owing to the large arrivals from the Baltic. In consequence, the price of has in Ireland has been considerably de pressed. In Newry and Armagh the sale is very dull on market days, and the holders of the stock in the warehouses are very willing to sell. They remember the failure of the attempt at monopoly last year, and the consequent losses which some had sustained. The quality of the new flax ap pears much superior to the growth of the two last years.— (Cork Paper.) TEIF STATESMAN. LAW INTB I. LIG LINCE. - *. COURT OF CHANCLAXI..,„, Friday; Nurentber • TYTHEI. „f RtLEY V. FOWLER AND OTHERS. The LORD CU iNCELLO ißliflOeil that haitad applied to Baron Thompalto to learn-whether it was the practice of the Courtof Exchequer tik' allow the consolidation of tytlitt,, , mot ca relating to the sante Oulter,'ditlioutlistiunet course before answers were putlb.r m r, %ion upon his own mind had beewthasuchkwis• the practice as stated by Sir S. ft fly. But Baron Thompson had replied, that ha had no notion that the consolidatioo of causes under such circumstances, could be perthitled if matters of course, though this might be allowed upon special reason stated. Mr. HART argued, that the practice contended for on the part of the Defendants, who objected to the payment of their full tythifs, was contrary to the reason of the thing ; fur it was impossible to know before answers put in, whether tVb defences would be the same. Some might plead 'parish mu. due's; others firm moth's's, &e. and the thirty. two Defendants might have twenty different de. [cams, Sir. S. Romti.r.v referred 1119 Lordship to the case of Fife v. tlro( k, in Pecre Rc. ports, in favour of the practice fur which he con tended. The Lotto CuAncgt.Lon said he would look at the case, and apply again to Baron Thompson. DALTON E. SIR J. INNEI KERR. Mr. HART, for the Plaintiff, stated, that a Deed of Separation had been executed between ,;ir James Lines Kerr, and his late wife, by which she had the right of devising certain pro perty by Will, which she did to the Plaintiff, oho filed his 8.11 in the Hulls Court for an ac count. The Defendant, after taking all the time which the Court would allow to put in his answer, tiled a cross bill, alleging that the deed in guts. lion was contrary to the instructions given to the person whi. drew it, and offering to prove this. The original cause was to be heard on Monday ;. but Mr. Hell had obtained, as a matter of course, an order to enlarge publication to the last day of term, that the depositions taken under the cross Lill might be read by way of defence to the origi nal. Mr. hart contended, that as the Defendant had before taken advantage of all the delay in the original cause to which he wai entitled, he ought 1 not to have had more withou s pecial reason as mu signed; and he therefore u to discharp the -...i order. Sir S. Rourr.r.y and Mr. BELL observed, that there had been no unnecessary delay on the part of the Defendant, who had used every diligence in bringing forward the only defence he had, which was by cross-bill, and that it would be hard if he should be deprived of that defence. The LORD CUANCELLOR said, that the question was, whether the delay should have been allowed of course. He had some doubt as to the practice in that respect, and would inquire into it. In the mean time, he recommended to Mr. Hart to take the costs of this application, and a peremptory ' undertaking to try no the fist day of the Sit. tings after Term, to which Mr. Hart agreed. COURT OF KING'S Br.scu. • Friday, November 17. _ . This was a day for special argument, in which the matters they riderred to, although very !camell in every respect, were yet not of general interest to the public. SERJEANT V. WHITE. This was a question upon the Post:horse Duty. It was an action fur the penaltf t of 101. against the Defendant, who was .cher#4 with • that sum, for not baying paid the appropriate duty upon chaise-horses travelling from 13ishopsgate.street to Itomfurd, and back again, the distance of 74 miles ; the sum which it was contended he should have paid, was 6s. and he bad paid 3s. 6d. con. tending that he was not liable to pay more ; the question depending upon the various and complie. cated provisions of the several Post.horse Duties. The Court, after complaining, as it had too often reason to complain, of the defective provi. sions of these statutes, in -which there are too many repugnancirs, were clearly of opinion, in this case, that the Defendant had not paid the pro. per duty. as imposed by law, and therefore gave judgment for the Plaintiff. BLACILET V. SMITH. This was a question between the West India Dock Company and a merchant, upon the reason ableness of the charges of the Company, in re spect to wharfage, &c. on goods belonging to a ship in their docks, while it remained there to load, preparatory to going on an outward vo . sage, it being contended by the merchant, that the 6s. Bil. per ton, which was paid to the Company, was all they were entitled to, in this caw, and that they were nut to charge any thing for stores be. longing to the ship, even although she should re. main six months in these. Docks, taking in her cargo for an outward-buund voyage. On the part of the Company it was admitted, that they should not charge for stores, such as nere imme. diately necessary for the ship, n bile she remained at the dock ; but as to those stores which she might want for use during her voyage, and which were put on board in their dock,they were entitled to charge the same as for any other goods wart", and merchandises. The Court intimated a desire to know whether' ithe parties wished to add to the case the fart as It stood ; whether the claim of the merchant here ex.:, tended to the whole of the stores which the ship might want for the whole voyage, or was confined, to that which the ship might want in these ducks. If the latter only, the Court inclined to think that the Company could not make any charge beyond the Gs. 8.1. per ton ; hut, if the former, they thought the merchant asked leo much, and therefore, should pronounce judpsisant foe the Company, with liberty to add to the case the fact, if it was so, that the merchant claimed only an exemption for stores fur the ship..deFieg her stay in these docks. ,t) _ <. • TVE iuib V. WILLIAM at. tirom. The defendant was brought up by Habeas Corpus, from the common jail of the County of Essex, charged with stealing a hog on the 27th of Marchlast, for the purpose of his being bailed, on the special circumstances of the case. ...The Court, after hearing the whole of the evi. deice, as returned with the certiorari, by which alt the proceedings before the Magistrate were re. moved, obwrectl, that as the defendant would hare to remain nearly six months is prison, if not now bailed, and as a good deal of doubt was in troduced into the case upon the evidence, it was but fa;. - to bail hint ► and, therefore, he was bailed upon four persons, beside himself, entering ioto a recognizance in 201. each, fur his appearance to take his trial at the nett Assizes for thc county of Essex. Mr. GARROW moved for a rule to show cause, why Mr. Russell, an Attorney of the Court, should not repair to a Client of his, the sum of 51. together oath the costs of this ipplication. He was desired to add, " and why he should out answer the matters of the aflidasit ;" but that was superfluous, fur that he must do, in 'hewing any cause. He moved this upon an affidavit, stating, that Mr. Russel had much abused his character of Attorney, and if the party cum plaining could have no redress by the Court, he had uo resource for it. It was stated, that Mr. Russell was a confidential Attorney in def tiding a suit for a Gentleman who wanted to raise some money upon a Bill of . Exchange for 701. whirls he applied to Mr. Russell to discount ; to which he agreed, on having a warrant of attorney, upon which he made out a bill, with the following items in it se. a. d. Warrant of Attorney. and several conferences rela tive to lending this money ,(that u. conferences with hitmelf, Cro nobody else was to lend tar money) said Mr. (;arrow - - - - 2 2 0 Fmterinz Judgment on Record - - - 4 0 Ca. ha. 11. Discount lls. In short, the whole bill upon this . occasion, amounted to 151. Is. ad. so that the Client tad only 511. for his 701. Now there was no Ca. Sa. issued, nor could there be, or no judgment had been entered up, as it was stated to him; but all this was an expence by anticipation. Upon such circumstances, if they were correctly stated, the present was a mild motion against this Proles. sional Gentleman. Rule to 'hew cause granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. .1: Friday, Nov. 17. Serjeast SJIZPIIIERD chewed cause against a Rule obtaiwed by his brother Best, a few days r.itice, to bring up the body of • person named Foster, by a writ of ilubeas Corpus, in order to his being discharged from the custody of the She riff, on the ground of his being coaclyrran in or dinary to hi• Majesty. Tl,e Learned Se•jeant admitted, that the defen.iant Forster was coach. man to his Majesty ; but contended, flat he be came liable to arrest, in consequence of his con section in trade with Mr. Attway, of the Otte Bell Inn in the Strand, with whom he was partner ; and this was substantially proved by the acceptance of a bill of exchange, which was addressed to Messrs. Attway and ForFter, and which was accepted by Forster, in the names of Charles Forster and Cu. Mr. Serjcant Ben, in answer to this arciment, urged the Act of Parliament, which protected persons connected with his Majevy's household from arrest for debt; and instanced a cue A ich had recently occurred with a clerk of the kite .en, who was arrested, but, on pleading his prit ege, -was discharged from custody. This aim., he atorri d, was o f muc h less ilispOi lance than his ,Mujalty's coachman, who, if his Leat Bro ther's argument was admitted, might he arrested While driving his Majesty to the House 01 Lords,or `on ady other state occasion ; from which circutn.. stance, his Majesty might hes object to very con.. siderab:e inconvenience, and the public basiauss be delayed. Sir JANIS MANSFIELD said, he was at a loss to know how far it was proper to permit his Ma jesty's household servants to carry on any trade ur traffic, which might render them liable to arrest, and from which they were protected by their privilege, to the injury and prejudice of others of his Majesty', subjects ; but as that pri vilege did absolutely exist, it could not be done away with ; consequently the Defendant had a right to his discharge. Sir JAMES MANSFIELD sat at Nisi Nil's, in Guildhall ; but no case of importauce uicurcd. J. SI LAO, Esq. Banker, of Abingdon, has been solicited to Offer himself a candidate fur that 80. rough, in the room of the late Representative, Geo. KNAPP, Esq. deceased, w hick he has dc. dined. Sir Gs°. Bowireit r•. Aigns Malinesbury, and is expected to come in without opposition.— ( Miser. ) Yestciday, a young man, an ostler in the 80. rough, undertook for a wager of ten guineas to trot a small Roney, belong;..g to a ge . )t l eolan in Touley.street,, ten miles in :he space of one hour. lie started sear the Teri. rike-gate at liem..:l4ton, going ogle mile oat and on. mile in, on the Clap ham.road, till the little au.cod pet formed the task four minutes wi,hin the timenllowed it. On Wednestlty afte•noon a young lady, the only daughter 01 an opulent .ncrchant in the city, eloped with an officer . r) the army, from the house of a near relation of her own, ut the neighbour. hood of Blackheath, where Ow had been ou a visit fur a few weeks. We itave been aisurea, that tit,: inrolous in. ventor of that invaluable article, the Ittioselic Raw,. Tablet, has it in contemplation to pr o . dace shortly another invention (low! on a 4. milli . basis) 'or the purpose 01 sharpening pen. kis.rey and s , trgical instrument.; this, if as sue t.;esafult ittlits 'petits as the Riz',r Tablet, will af. ford much utility to the public, and must be ac , eeptehle•even to the moat dr'icaie, as it will not tapir.. any oil to facility e its use; in this sue we presamc the hone may Ile totally laid aside.