The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-13 00:00:00

Itit..re.t in consequence of the smell number of cattle ti :girl% is now fed: to these circumstances, joined to the latenc', of this year's graying season, most be attributed, rather than to the great export, the pre sent immoderate price to n hich cattle have risen. The epidernia among the cattle, which appeared in the month of December last year, in Guelderland and Dinsperlo, and from thence spread to Utrecht, raged with the .utmost violence. trhe next heads treated of in the Report, are the E‘chtltter, Mint, Provincial Governments, and Religion, on - whiCh subjects nothing important is said.] . _ ... -_, COUItTS OF JUgTICE. The administration of justice being one of the prin cipal cares of a well-directed Government, the regu lations for that object are assigned by the Prince to ts Commission, composed of men, whose zeal and isdom ensure the happy issne of their undertaking . The sail Government was HI-suited to the morals an d ' necessities of our country, and it is therefore desir able that new regulations should be adopted, which . may be more costgeitiaf to the manners of our nation. . The succeeding heads relate to the state of the pri sons, the maintenance of the poor, public education, • ead several local or internal regulations. . With respect to foreign Relations, the Reporter observes, that after n hat has been said by his Royal Highness, on that subject at the opening of the Session, it would be unnecessary for him to dwell 'on it. Nearly all that could be at present said, would partake of the nature of conjecture; but as the :Powers who concluded the Peace of Paris had ag reed to an increase in the territory of the Netherlands, .they might expect to result from that solemn de 'Aeration of the consolidation of the political system of the country, which would enable her to take that rank among other nations, which ill.) had heretofore maintained with so much lustre. NEXT WEDNESDAY THE LOTTERY BEGINS—TIM FIRST TICKET DRAWN A PRIZE ABOVE £el.3. WILL 10.CEIVE AAA° IN ADDITION, ♦ND • NAY PROVE A 'PRIZE OF ‘90.000. An. • ala As. Dee a 0 Won burgh 0 • France yitick; Ur STOCKS TIM , 114n4 pit not Net 65}§ .4 pet Ciat. C00t...41i S 4 gm Cava. 11641 .b Nr Peat. Nat. 441 - - - • DAY AT ONX O'CLOCK Lem Ann. 161 5.16 lobs Boni► 19 20y Ilatheoplev Silk 3 5 p therbion tj Consols hw Ace. 66 jll THE STATESMAN. LONDON: JATIVART 13, Mb, • We yesterday anticipated oar cotensponriee in the account of the proCeeslings tu the Court of Common •Council. Oor notice was necessarily brief, and we renew the report to-day. At this meeting the ad vocates fur interminable war, although they could Alur make a direct opposition to the motion for an .Address, yet mustered all their strength to defeat 4t. Ti.e transcendently able manner, however, art which WAITIIMAX, though labouring nu 'der isdi- position, managed the matter, and. gave !Atari:nee to the feelings of the iltitish peo ple, defeated their hopes of pursuing the old ,road if flattery, add of converting a circumstance, anspielous to the country, because it has been remlered too necessary by the Government, into praise to the Ministers and profit to themselves. It was really curious to see how the leaders of that op .position, the army tailors, slopsellers, waterproof •contractori, and the Bogging Aldermen, for there is more than one comes under this description (we 'speak thus characteristically to show the polilical spring and bias of the mothes and conduct of the patties, and not frpsn any disrespect of person or •professions), We say it was curious•to see how all these Gentlemen, with views the same, but made to look 66 as various as the ways they take" Wing their heads at the triumphant march of the Address, and the prospect before them, and with what wofully loug faces they left the Court before the But pace, pace, friends of war 1 Rcquiescat in -pace. Particulars of various Meetings to consider of the :propriety, never more evident, of petitioning 'pink the Property Tax, will be found in our columns; and we have particular satisfaction in directing atten tion to the P.:..olutions appe►►ded to an advertise 'went in our first page, adopted at a meeting of the '(,'l►arcbwsrdcns, Overseers, and Vestrymen, at the Y.:ash Church of St. Luke's. This, forms a very ittl , per contrast to the conthict of some Gentlemen Connected witl►. Ecclesiastical affairs, whom we* are "sorry to see lendiug the weight of their eloquence to :the support of this odious imposition, viz. the Rev. RUIVLANII I flu. (rrii•abilc dicta ),sind Mr. MA aca. LLY, of Cambridge, and of contractor connections! . It is well observed in the Resolutions of this Meet ing that the extensive parish of St. Luke's, Middlesex, contains a population inferior only to six cities and towns In England and Wales. The expression thus made of the inhabitants of so extensive a parish can not but be regarded as important; and when we see it declared by such a respectable body of men ; and when, in fact, two-thirds of the people of the empire coincide in the declaration, that this Tax has, among the other evils it has created, 64 in vited bribery, perjury, and fraud," we rejoice in seeing it meet its doe reprobation, and wonder the snore that any Clergyman should so far forget his sacred duties as not readily to come forward and denounce suck a measure as fraught with political . um; moral rain ) instead of adding the anthority of ..1 4 i' 1 . 4 ' . 1 . ‘ J .. . 4 ,,. ‘ ; A . s ....- . . 'L. •!'Hi STATESMAN. his voice to the justice- and necessity of its con tinugoce. . . . . . A yery nniperous,and respectable Meeting also of 1 the inhabitants of Winchester was 'held on Tuesday `last, wgen severe! itvsolutionv, and a Petition to the House of Commons, w ere ngreed to 'against the coll .-defiance of that obnoxious Tax. • ILIVAL .INTELLIGENCB. DFAL, JAN. 12.—Arrived (the City of Nora . h schooner, in twenty-four days from' Cadiz.—Came down from the Biter the Gripeegitn-brig.-41e East Indiamen remain. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Arrived the Conflict gun brig, from Plymouth ; and Surly cutter, from a cruise.-- : Sai:ed tue Ratcliffe, Holliday, for the River. It appears that (as has indeed been the case in dif ferent parts of the country) several of the inhabi tants of Winchester had met to sign a Requisition for a Nieeting, but had declined it, thinking that it was rendered unnecessary in consequence of the Treaty of Peace with America, as . it was supposed Ministers had abandoned the measure ; Lord LlVER rcpt.'s Letter to Mr. HART DAvzst of Bristol, however, undeceived them in that respect.— His Lnrdship's Letter, we understand, was intended as u private communicatior to that Gentleman, but by some mistake, it fortun .tely for the country be clime public, and no doubt can now remain, but Chit the country at large will wow see the urgent necessity of manifesting its abhorrence of that horrible skim We have all along thought, that Peace with America, instead of being a reason for not petition ing, afforded the strongest groundb for it; the Ameri T can war having been the only plausible prelea4 fm its continuance: and we are happy to find that the eyes of the country are at length opened. A Meeting of the County of Hertford is called, and a Requisi tion; we understand, is signing for a Mceting of the County of Middlesex. FALMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Sailed the Pioneer, Lieu tenant Hill, for Plymouth; True Briton and Com merce, for London. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 11.— Arrived the Brother:, Mutter, from Halifax bound to Newfoundland, in ballast, was driven off the coast by heavy gales, n ith loss of mainmast, and sprang her fore.nast.—Carne in the Friends, Rowell, from London.—The Char &le, of this port, from Newfoundland, u ith fish for Spain, is stated to have been captured by an Ame rican privateer, and burnt—crew landed in France. WELL'S, JAN. l2.—The brig Skffield, laden with ordnance stores for his Majesty's service, came on shore here last night, and with her cargo is likely to be lost—crew saved. tx. 12.—Sailed the Leicester picket, with a Mail and passengers for Holland. The Roselle, Beatann ; Princess, Davies ; Port sca, Stokes ; and S. 8., Brand, sailed from Haven nah the 24th of Nov. and were taken in lit. 31. We give in another part of our Paper an impor tant document relative to the present state of the Netherlands. It is a Report presented by the nister of the Interior to the States-General, which we hare extracted from a Dutch Paper. Whilst it The Frederica, Janson, from Bergen and Leith to, Amsterdam, is put into Christiansand with damage. The Exmouth, Glen, from Leghorn to Amster , dam, was carried into the Tooren and Molen•gat on the 28th ult. having been on shore. The Brutus, Noorman, from Leir to Lisbon, is put into Delfziel, with loss of an anchor and cable, and four lasts of corn thrown overboard. The Hero, Evans, from Newcastle to Oporto . , was run foul of near Yarmouth, on Monday, and sunk. The Leicester transport, Weatherhead, run on shore at Jersey the 7th inst., and bilged. The General Picton, trom Greenock to llamburgh, Is lost on JuU.and. The Jessie, Stevenson, of Aberdeen, from Picton, which was abandoned by the crew, has been carried into St. John's, Newfoundland, by the Bdttrophois man of war. _.. - shows what that devoted portion of the Continent has soffered from the war, and the anti-commercial system, it bolas out a consoling prospect of re turning prosperity to the 'Netherlands in consequence of the late happy changes. But it will be perceived from the difficulties with which these countries have still to struggle, that the measures of the new Go vernment must be dictated by the most liberal po licy and the soundest discretion, as the measures of every Government ought to be, to secure to that part of the Continent, so much exposed to danger, the tranquillity and advantages which the Peace of Europe ought to afford. If the statements are true, which are circulated re gardipg the proposed union of the couutries lying between the Meuse and the Rhine; lately comprised in the department of the Boer, containing about a milliou and a half of inhabitants, and the expectations entertained that Prussia will be satisfied to forego her pretensions to Saxony In consequence of having this department ceded to her, are well founded, there is but too much reason to fear a new danger to Bel gium, fully as menacing to that country and the peace of the continent as that apprehended 'from the power and designs of France.— The whole of this department, comprehending the Duchy of Clews, lie arrondissement of Crevelt, and the other two arrondissements, of which Aiz-la- Chapelle and Cologne, claiming to be free imperial cities, ate the chief places, contains about 340 square leagues, stretches along the Rhine from South to North, and would bring Prussia into immediate i contact with Belgium, and into the near vicinity of I the French frontier. The danger which the whole 'of the Continent, and eve° we would have to appre hend from Prussia being elevated from a third rate power to the first In Germany, and to the rank of a IgrentMaritimeState,is too obvious to need pointing out. This is what Prussia has all along been endeavouring to obtain. We see that valour is nor like virtue—its own reward--applaose is not deemed a ••sufficie n t I . i compensation by modern warriors for lifting the The Boston Paper of Tuesday announces the ' failure of another bank, that of Mr. Wir..roan, and I' a ands, that the consternation which that event acts ; sioned in the town, was hardly exceeded by that caused by the former failures. The debt of the bank of Messrs. S. Stirretz.cY, which lately failed at Cork, is about 70,0901:f0r' which they have effects to the amount of 48,0001. ; leaving a deficielicy of 24,0001. They propose to' pay 14e. in the pound, at three, tivelve, and eigh-. teen months. : • The sugar-house which has- stopped .payment has exhibited a slate of its balances, by which it appears that the debts are 91 , 0001. and the credits to answer them only 50,0001. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday were mar ried, by special licet ce, in Arlington-street, by the Rev. Archdeacon IlonnsoN, Rector of St. George's, Hanover-square, Lieut.-Colonel Sir IlerraY CARR, K. C. B. to Mrs. SPENCER PEUCEVAL, widow of the late CHANCELLOR of the Excitenuxa.• After the ceremony, they left town for their seat at Ealing. Yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, the Lords of the Council met in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to hear and determine Prize Appeals, which con cluded at three o'clock, when another meeting took place, to proceed with the Baron D'lmaraT's case, which was attended by the Lottn Ascria.ort, and the Members of the Privy Council who were present at the first investigation. Their Lordships only sat about an hour and a half on the business. sword in the cause of general liberty—and ambition I It is generally understood that ail Majors and 6 still as visible and dangerous as ever. ! Brevet Majors who were ten years previous stand- We are still without any fresh intelligence from ins, are to get tke Brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colo thenets in the Army, from the year 181.5, as a token Continent, the French Papers and Co n ti nen t a l of the country's estimation of their services, and as Mails being unexpectedly, we suppose from some A distinction between them and Captains of a shorter circumstances of the weather, withheld; bat we per- standing, on the intended promotion of the latter to ceire by intelligence in the last Dutch Papers from the Brevet conk of Major. • 'Warsaw, coming down to the 15th ult. and in fact liors.—The number of Pockets of Hops weighed from every account we receive from Poland, th a t th e its Worcester Bop-market, from Dec. 2 5, 1 81 3 , to military preparttiotos are carrying on with activit Dec. 25, 1814, was as follows :—New, 12,893. y Old, 2.689. In the preceding year the quantity for maintahaing the 'nobliial, bat reitTiassalege of weighed was. New flops, - 12,959—01 d, 2038. that country to the Emperor of RossrA. Di fference, 234 pockets in favour of 1814. It is said that on account of some unsettled mat- i Mr. KEMBLE made his 'appearance on Saturday ' , the Island of ter: contingent on the Treaty of Paris night in Macbeth, at the Dublin Theatre, and was Bourbon will not be fur the present surrendered to received by a full house in a most affectionate i manner. prance. 1 . Notwithstanding that the ratification of the Pat ...... 0- Acitalr..ll-Other. Jan. 4. 1F1.5. sinExT of the United States is . necessary to paten QV. BALDWIN, of his Majesty's sloop Tyrion, ~termination to the existing hostilities betWern this has reported . to the f jords c ommissioners et . the country and America, it appears that the-pacific relations of commercial correspondence havenitready Admiralty, that the . Long Ships' Light-house ha s : commem . e d. A sessel, called the Lord Intl worth, i been washed down. bound for New York, is - •ing to sail from Li. J. W. CROKER.. verpoul, ....., is preparing . .4- and public notice was yesterday given at the Sta,—Observing the above in the Courier, and G eneral ~ Post-office, that letters for the United State:: other Papers of the 4th hat., we beg leave to in. will be transmitted by this conveyance. The lette rs ferns you, for the government of the shipping inte.. , must be delivered at the Ship Letter-office in the rest in general, that it is an error, no suck accident course of this day or to-morrow. STUARTs saute Sir Cu having taken place, and that the Long ShipsidLi t egt. • f - .. expected to leave town in • a few days, twists Embassy to the Heguli. house has not received even the slightest damage In . tatters boas Paris mention, that the Constilution, the late gales. • & Captain STEWAII; and the Preiident, Commodore (siva-a) MILLLTT and READ, Arms to Lloy e ..,s. ' 'DEGATua, have both sailed upon a cruise: . A statement has been given of .the'Olaims Oat have paned through the Auditor's Office at Lisbon for the Penzance, 9th Jan., 1815. To Mr. J. Bennett, inn. Llnyd's. iapplies to the army, and those that are yet unliqui- A private letter frorn . Naples states, that the Prin- d a t e d excee d t h e amount o r 5,000,0001 . ster li ng. — cesa of WA LES nas tinted with the highest distinc. The demands for the same supplies in Spain are to tion at,that Court. At the Theatre her Royal High. be inspecasd and passed by that office, but no esti, eats sat bctween Ktn ited (Itli:Sß MURAr. ashlar the latter has yet beat prepared. ' PROPERTY VU X. avail Yesterday a Meeting was held in Christ Church Surrey, in consequence of a requisition to t h; Churchwardens, signed by many respectable inhal:;, tants of the parish, to call the parishioners togeth er, to declare their sentiments respecting the P roperty Tax, when several Resolutions, expressive of th o , sentiments, mere passed, as well as the draft o f Petition to the House of Commons against its rt. neual in any sliape. 1.1po;i the proposing' of th e first Resolution, the only dissentient in the %whol e assembly, was the Itev. itowt.AND Una, Wan to o k occasion, in the course of the proceed ings,, t o soy, that be )s'eferreel the reign of Ft.RDsiv.ss'o to Mg of BONAPARTE. The frost,, or which we hare only had a slight vial in this neighbourhood, is so intense in Scotland, that on.Thuciday a carliug-tastelt. took -place on the ice, between the parishes of blauchline and Tarbolton, Ayrshire-61 players on each tide, wrack was gained by the latter 48 shots. On the 12th tilt. the schooner Rhoda, from Bev. muds to this port, laden, with sugar, coffro;ated cot. ton, was taken by an Ametican sehooner pviveteer, of Boston, carrying 11 guns, three leagues nil Can, Clear. The Rhoda had taken a - pilot on hoard, ald wai proceeding for C.:root:haven, when the privateer got between her and the harbour, cut her off, and immediately took : possession, stripping the Captain and crew . - of thtify clothes, - and gear the irate as shore.—(Cork 4d6ertiser, Jan. 7.) DRURY-LANE THEAmmE.—fact met, i the tam. lotT 70. 10. by an American privateer, of 14 guns. porary and lamented illness of Mr. -1 1Eviv,'Ilt• pod lhe fleets for the coast of France, Spain, Porto.. of Macbeth was performed. by Mrllkuritsx.. rQa gal, Mediterranean, and Africa, sailed from Cork do not think it necessary to enter into a added! ea.. on the 7th inst ; the fleets for the West ladies and antinatinnof this performance, as• Mr. terwrox hl4 Bermuda remained there. the kindness to come forward on the inneitency l to The fleet from Portsmouth for Cork and Bermn- 'supply the place oftheconsumintite Artist - who has te do, put into Falmouth on the 9th inst. !deservedly gained the applattie or every . era4mAtear of tho histrionic art. "I.Judei .these circumstances, we lamented to hear, towardstihe end of the piece, the eat,' essions of discontent that cause frees a part of the auditory. Tie Directors •of the Fast fad* Company are stated to bavo determined-not bat) appoint star more Cadets for some time; In' ceisequence of the tranquil state of India; and . the 'general economic system, the military establishment has been so much reduced, that some hundreds of the Cadets last a p. I painted are, it is said, doing doty as supernume. ' raries. till vacancies- *hill occur, to which tile% may succeed. It appears by a Proclamation of General ROW, the British Governor of St. Croix, that many atfitie .Danish inhabitants, anticipant . the speedy. lesion. "filen of the island to Denmark, 'in conformity with lbe Treaty of Peace, have fatten Into large arrears 1:Or Mies, loans, and other' mimics thie to the British ...ay?) MIMS, &a.. ....- - - ....._. __ _ _ ' Govitriatnent: ' The - Getters! ‘bel l '' therefore, with great propriety notified, that he shall not feel em. ! thorised to cede the island, until his Britannia Ma. jest's rights and interests are folly secured. 1 We era reque .._ sted to correct a statement on Mo l . day la. t. respecting the finding of money, le an lam hos. The box was not sold to the iittlicensitbs it lirrese merely sent to him by-a cenfiderifini le ../ :tio be . repaired, in whose presence the si '''. '., Ma tuit it ,cesttlsOls were made, arid instead of one - ,stely lac * havhsg beengiTen, both the s ervantan d li sel f hive 'since received 10 guineas each. The Gazelle de France mentions, that within the last few days there has been seen in . the forest of Galines, near Velancas, a woman or gigantic stature 'and an agreeable countenance, absolutely naked, !' and covered by her hair, which is extraordinarily long : this woman, who was suppoied t o b e ma d, did not articulate any word, and testified mach fear: enquiries are making concerning-her. - - Conoxra's Ineucsr.—On Wednesday an !egoist. , tion was held at the Queen's He a d, .L ower - street , f Islington, on the body of a woman, f oun d d rowne d, !at the New River Head, Islington. It appeared that the widow of Mr. Rackwarth l butcher, Islington. green, was missing since the g r eat f ros t l as t w i e t er; I and from the state of the present corpse, it was sees i posed by. many to be her's. Every enquiry was made to ascertain the fact, but nothing could be collected to substantiate the supposition. J. Lucai i. lnspector of the New River Whet. Works, discovered a pipe deficient in a cover place, between Master.row and Colbrook-row : be, in consequence, b ro ke It open, and found in t water-pipe the body-of a wo. : man. The remains were taken to the bone -heete, where the Jury went, and after . r et et rned to the Queen's Head. Verdict—Pound Dr4tiet. Oa Tuesday night the mansion-horse of W. Fet ter, Esq. of Easton, in the county of Norfolk, was broken into by forcing open a window, after an inef fectual attempt at the door, and some beds and a quantity of bed•furoiture stolen. , Search was imme diately made in the village, and the property - found in a cottage belonging to Mr. Foster,- occupied by one of his workmen. The man and his twin bro. (her, living in the village, soon after .absconded. They have since been taken, concealediria hay-stack at Norton, near Swaff ham, and have been committed to Norwich Castle, to take their trial, at the nest Assizes. CORN-EXCHANGE, Js 15.—The Wheat tra , Te continue, cult - Owls heavy, having but few buyers and a typereleundunt utpletv, the prie. SI nee rbenlinul ; but purchases cen!d be made on leaner terms if otf,r, had tievu made.—Barley ;and On* me is. per quarter cheaper.—Beans and Peas ure chef sale at Wed destiny 's prices. Wheat (English) 4O 61 Henn% . .-. . ,36 4? .1/itu. (Foreign) 4,1 in Old ditto .. .. .. .. . . ...:. t• Poe 34 36 Tick do. :.: . ..... ..514.--Va Farley " 46 SI Old . , . • • • Nen ditto 0ab...:.,.;.,.. .26 18 Malt - White l'e.is 4l 46 .11/41intddo. ~•........42 P . ":ew di:to .... — PeetlttlSet..—s.... 19 9 1 Ditto Boilers 4B 54 Fine flaft ..... ... 59 6tt (hey Pers 36 38 Secalailii ::......; ...'... 6) IS -..........:.• FM ITHFIELD To ‘ll.k the Offal, pc /mom istillb. . - ; .-: (leer ... ss. OA. ~ tia. a. Will ilf CO1014:04 likl ..l avo3 . si. W s,: 6. 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