The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-08-11 00:00:00

To Tag EDIWR or rife STATESMAN. -....0.- 9111,—Th, followini grammatical stricter., on , lat. Speech, are at your disposal ; do with them as you may think prover. Pllll.O-BRP.VITATIS, emtditl..te for the °See wf Gratoluosian ' , this It. 11. /ay f 3, 1819. " It is with the greeted regret that I am obliged le • 00000 ee the continaanco of his Msjesty's la. Mented indisnosition." It mai be that the Prince's regret ethos from his being obliged to " announce," and not from the tiling announced; besides, we natorally regret Oat it to be lamented, the two words being sync opooes. If be had mid— " It is with deep regret I annoonee the confine. •uce of his Majesty's indisposition," there would Mere been nothing etplivneal.' " I -snow rinse this Session of Parliament ',Mo ist impressing the eatisfactiew t►at 1 have derived f r om the teal end assiduity with which you have op. plied 'agrarian to the 'gavial Important objects which have come ender your consideration." /1e might have said— " 1 canting close this Session of Parliament with. wet 'greasing that I am well satisfied with the seal and assiduity you have displayed in examining the IletPfei important objects which have come under your consideration." The letter appears to me plainer without the fi. trews* redandasirs of the former, saying nothing of Ike two" whittles" succeeding each other so closely. " Your patient and laborious investigation of the state of the circulation and currency of the kingdom, demands ■y warmest acknowledgments; and I en tertain a confident especiation that the sacesorua adopted as the result of the enquiry, will be predate live of the most beneficial consequences." • si Circulation" appears to me superfluous, more especially as " circulation" here would be synooy. Nowa with currency ; but "circulation" is not a maw's! noon; besides, was it impossible to avoid petting three nouns nearly following each other in the genitive or objective case, and thereby repeating "of thr" three limes? In fact, " circulation" can only have been placed where we bud it, to pre. vent this dilemma being noticed by the most illiterate. " I entertain a ennitlent espectation"—how re. dundant ! Again—" Ike measures adopted as Ike re sult of," Why not, " the measures resulting from ?" Besides, to investigate, means to replete, to search into. IVould not the whole paragraph have run better t►os?— .• Yoer patient and laborious Investigation into the owe of the nation's tourney, demands my warmest a. Innwledgmente, and I confidently expect that the measures adopted, reseltit•g from your •n. spiry, will be productive of the must birocfiLial GENTLEMEN Or TOL Noun OF COMIONI, " I thank you fur the supplies which you Mtn grouted for the present year. I shame's re gret that the slay should have vitiated of making eny addition tothe burdens of the People, bet 1 anti cipate the most important permanent advantses from the effort which you have thus made for meeting at owe ail the financial difficulties of the roomy ; and .1 derive mach satisfaction from the belief that the Moons which you have devised for this purpose, are calculated to press as lightly on all classes of the commeelly es could be aspected •beu so great an effort was to be made." Would not adding ha►e bees better than making addition,' and how mach more like a father *mild it sot have been to have said, ' the burdens of wry Pee. pie?' and how can advantages be ' important' that ere not ' permanent P' Here one of the adjectives unnecessary, the' which' after ' means' appears to mu r►dundant, and 'Me purpose' instead of 'this purpose' would have been better: also, ' lightly' seems to be misapplied, in reference to the new tem, especially to the Malt 'fax. lot us see hew It will reed corrected. " I sincerely regret that the necessity should have foisted of adding to the burdens of wry People; bat I antkipate the most important advantages from the effort pie have thee made, to meet at once all the' financial difficulties of the reentry ; and I derive mach satisfaction from the belief that the mean, you have devised for the purpose, are best calculated to prom es lightly as possible on the community, shoo se greet an effort was to be made." It will be yen I have here made several alterations, beside. the.* I have pointed out. Mar Loans AND GUIITLIFOCK, "'I enetinua to receive frees Foreign Powers Me stringiest assurances of their (tiredly dispositioe towards this coopers." " I have ottaerved with great concern the attempts which have secretly been made, in some of the mass- Attuning districts, to salty advantage of circumstance• of local distress, to mite a spirit of disaffection to Go institutions and government of the country." lostesd of employing the infinitive of the verb" to take," would it not have been preferable to hav• employed the present participle " taking ?" serif% that the principal object rests on the verb " to es. Qt." " No object can be wearer my heart then to pro mote the welfare and prosperity of •ll daises of his Majesty', subject., bet this cannot he effeded wittiest the maintenance of public order and usu. Isillity." " No object ran be nearer my heart than that of promoting the welfare," I should have said, for here Vie relative that give, force to the phrase; and Mi sisters are extremely fend of dividing his ►Majesty's Subjects into " dosses." Why not have simply said, " of all hit Majesty's subjects P' Here follows lay tertian : " Nn object as be nearer my heirs than that of Presetting the welfeve and prosperity of all his Ma *l's subjects, and this can only he at complished by piemrsiag the politic tranquillity." Yoe may rely therefore, upon my Gros deter. siltation to employ for this purpose the power en honed le me by tow ; sod 1 bate no doubt that on 'll4 t. S "i ATks~l AN your retn►n to you♦ several coontiei, you will neo pier utmost endertoonrs in co•operallun •ith the Magietrece to digest thensechinations of those ohne* Projects, if sereeasf•l, could only eogreeete ebonite. which it is professed to remedy, and •ho, ender the pretence of Ikeform, hive really no other object bet the sobveriioo of our hoppo C•ingtitelion." Whirh might bey. been turned tbs.:— 44 Y..e may therefo►e rein on my firm determine. lion, to employ the pow►r I am eiiiroslinl with by law to Mgt effect, and doubt not, Ch it on your re tern to your a I counties, you will ose your ut most on - talons, jointly with the M.gistroey, to de feat the aschinations of those, whose proj.cts, if suc cessful, would only 'maw, the evils they profess to remedy; and who, ender the preten,• of !Worm, have really for object. the subversion of the Borough mongers' salutary influence in oar happy Constito dun." [ We have to ream., the *what's receive for delaying to rob li.h the above emoosesti. or etitiebon no the Royal %peerh be fore. Thee would certainty ha... hers more in sensors at the date of his leiter. though the odium' be ;lowest ow of It v ow. e Mare b:ea us rrp..wrred Ivy the favours afoot friend,.— KO.] Ti ens XDIVOK or r:s STATESMeIN. es sorry to say that the publication of the Latter I sent you respecting Watkins, ob metal's!, came to the gallows tbroegit the infleeoce of K 4ten B..rt.ngh Iniquity, has not produced the effect I espectiol, though I am not without the hope that motility some re formation may route from it. I did hope that on the appearance of this came, Correption would be abashed, and hide its hideous hew] ; end that moral men would combine togethei In check hi pernicious influence. Whet (abject can he mete 'worthy to en gage the shove teal of that Society, purposely iiisti• toted for the Suppression of Vice, than to put the law , in force spinet the Bribery and Perjury so prevalent in Rotten Boroughs? When (nett become inditTerent to the sanctity of an oath, they are peste to society, the very foondations of which they sub veil by 11,41'04 the 'weans whereby justice can slime be administered. Surely, these Cienttemen need not be told this —surely they know that when oar an cestors could not obtain true testimony, they appeal ed le (leaven; and they cannot bet be ewers that true lestiosoxy is not to be vspecteil, where men are is the habit of taking bribes, and of forseretriog themselves. lot me entreat these eterilly persons thou to direct their efforts again 4 those monstrous vices so prevalent in Rotten Boroughs; and that they say be induced so do this, I have again takes ep the pen to correct some milrepeemil - stione vetting Watkins, and to place the mute, of fact respecting that case, which is indeed a caw of the utmost iwipoitattee to the well-befog of society, on each indisputable alithoiity, as nn sign, vitutever may be his political lea ll i ll g, sill aunts,' to reject it. the upholders of Coiropuon, she, I am Hairy to say, ate not only a numerous body of once, bat also a superior class .a respect, at heist, In rook opu• loner, wish to eigneitler IVrfkior as a bitclenod . wets h, falsely 'moil,* his • c•-tice of a crime which had been full; pr yet against him, in a nay " almost beyond exampk," and coneequeoily they say, th it as lie died silk a liejti his mouth, with re spoor t.. rho guild point, he ooeht not to be beliet• ed on any other. The stet. meat s the Sahebs'', Paper, es h eh I shall copy in part, has given to this error : it says, " that w!.ich was not seen in the priaoorr was evident in most of the spectators—a fearful and breathless mimicry, a solemn stillness, and a limp espriseion of melancholy thought.— There was in him a comp3sure and sesignaiiun worthy of a better cause; and sere not the proof; of his guilt stoiki,ig almost beyond 'sample, I is firmness of soul mast have owned coo passion in all, and a roneictiou of his innocence. lie • as earnestly and feelingly intuited to disburden his 'out of put of its guilt by confession; but he was decisive in :sit de nials of any pattisipation in the deed, and only al located that lie was close to the spot alien the murder Wei Committed. In every other ;wised but that of coafession, his behaviour was proper acid becoming. At the scoff 41 he joined its eeriest prayer With the same unsubdoed . firmness; and at Ws own desim, read aloud the lOtith Psalm : e 0 God, my heart is ready," sic —Now I beg !Payette 2 4k she y Journalist, if the account which he has here given is at all consistent with a man going oat of the world •itb a lie in his mouth; end I ask those who have commented on this account of his, aid concluded from it that Watkins was e hardened en-I obdurate wretch, if such conclusions are warianted from the pumices ? When men have committed greet cameo, an 4 are called on to wake I'Po-tome:it for them, the one or the other of two things generally happen,. Either they are penitent, and seek comfort from le ligion ; or they become callous and obdurate, and turn more daring, profane snit wicked than before; either 111 these resul's take ;clue, but both are in. compatible. What, then, is my colielesion ? It is this, that fratkins was innocent of the murder, hot not of the robbery. I do not !selloue the words that are here pet into his mouth ; because 'bey ere in eau. tradirtion with those which he uttered et Martha rough, to the 'Magistrate, who went there to meet him. On that occiotion h• never said that he *.s in. maven, ; he never ' , wended to have had " Ito per. iicipution in the deed ;" he neves reptesettiod as a casual spectator, that happened to be near the spot !mite the earn* see committed ; on the coo. scary, be allowed the justice of the *entente— and rent mid, that had he been one of the Jery, he would have given Ike came epithet. Ile admitted, that what he said in the Judge was improper ; that it , arose from sudden feeling, and that he hail sent an •pidegy tioth•Judge for hit conduct on that occasions. i His aeseition was, that be 'lid not fire the pistol—btu !on being strongly conjured by the Magistrate to es, who fired it, he eluded an explicit reply—bet said, as be had before done to the Judge, " that he was willing to die for it." lle slippers In hate been per fectly conscious that the law requited an IllOtielefielet, land he was reedy to stake it. Ile considered the ex piatory sacrifice of his ors life as sufficient, without betraying his friend, perhaps his brother (for his boo then was arraigned es en arcomplite, but acquitted for want of sufficient testimony ), and perhaps, also, h. was conscious that the mats that fired the deist (wkaelre; he was) had done it at his instigation; a if so, his concealment may, pettily', be reierded as a point of homier. There are at least mans men in a higher rank of life, who would have he'd it 115 such. Watkins nears desired to taro King's a. ideates. Ile had no wish to sale hie owe life; can the contrary, he de. elated, that if his brother and he had been tried gs.thrt, be would have tautened himself guilty, in eider to save him. Ile solemnly dechoid, thief all She crimes he bed committed arose from the h, riible things practised et Elections; he sod, that his wick mtness had been eery weal, but he trusted that Goo's mercy well frill iteeter—that he did tint wish In live; and that he went to IA 'location • ills as witch joy es it be went to a wedding. Finally, Le sect, ihu so great was the wickedness of the •orlif, that his only wonder was, that Coo ALMIGHTY did not de stroy it. This speech has been ridiculed by the Borougbesongers ; they have said, that some Slell"• dist bad pot it into his head, hat, by what I m 4Olll bitrepeetatme was M T Jet iced. Is Jail he res t t rite . Bible constantly. 114 cent till 41 teals gull', berets his crimes nese great ; sod bit (06..ot*isco of them bore every mad' of sincerity. N.thing, ii k rittil, bat such a sitorete tern , ance, ea.) the 1...pe that it in. spired, tomtit enable him In me through ohm did rah ibis placid contionsmir ahirh is etterstly ad mitted. Nor„ merit a mtti, •ii rirrow:tenerd, dom. 6.lturg in the divisor pisihibe•, most have telieveti sta those promises —L. reis!il n •t take one and reject son her. It was itromitel that Jerusalem sh..ald bit d.atropul, and it was 4•41,..ym h.s promised that " God Melt des, oy Mr tab , rn”rle of bribery." This is m• much a pi, I el R if 111., promise •f infinite ~. 1 , 1• • cO O l4lO, Wale kin: believe in She 11110 I,e!letinl II" in t he ore ? Neoll se be •utnrised, then, is lils ssyingi hit only *nutter sass. the; Gott A t.stictitv did not destroy ibis wicked world; fur he knew it to be *irked: kill oleo practices of 'flitter, And romp. Simi, iv! i. h tritest to Inc Noma kneeler nu Lis iftiod than the minder, et which Ihe •ar mot rerhapethie Ise ▪ perpotratnrosild him that it ass in ty w o rld, one ripe for destredinn* ; MI. •• 1•• apt he the natural rnostgeratce of hit rpm* rellmrtieilii But I will suppose that Ine had remicelood •ithi W 11.64161 Clow man, and tot., him all she black metope of • nick tas had cernesisted, ohms offici.tints as s Borustch 4:11111, eloold I Mgt bdiro improper u. that C ”mtit if M 14 ietolteded th•t G.4t will dearest the Inbern4ck which, it sorb a iolsetotrle 111.1.• it I h. , 'enlist, must mean nit hand ; sad well would it be, if 'Arty 11,./..,xt•monmer hod such a mooslot st hi• e.h. e, to p.-ash In him tech 'slowy do,ttioe, me• to. owt,•slly et not niaihndittiretly. Tie eteeth,.d has nethine to d.. • ills Ire case—she nnly 4141.410 a he.ng. ot.rther the tlenuisriatints is or h 11-1 a 10411 of Iteve.sio-n. hive promised to plan the 'ostler 4Go inn them it ; in short. I has. p er . so-a -ion Item the lits‘i-trate to mention hi. tiarne, , irh is Et.ft.w sit Ca tfltrl. E.(' Cl , ollon. near ll ,Itertfnrel, s.. Its. Ihe G.oglomin i. • telatosts of Lord Cuss's's, and by infirrimEo 11 5117 related to the CIWICELLOIt of this Esc* Walt. I reassio, C. Rockingli. Ant. 3. T. T. •Ir to..t r-p and al tow lion, all RenWAY Irma owl Ina on irteui.d so he orsol.hrd. bat corr. lug moats, I . pot, Ilse 11.41r0i • r ib. 0„,.01.., p.n.. If s.o, it •.is otal) dlf fcrt oit)t of Ivilowilig .be wow proore,,ios. noL EAT S FORA A dorm of ',sender and lightning, econs: pulled by torrents of hail end rein, wee risiiniiei sI it Toristock. Landolph,!lash, end St. G-ronsina, f.Ne►dsy sentright. The hail, or rather dikes of ler, which fell, were estraordirsarily Low, a iil did cons . dnable damage to the `less is hot-houses, &c. At Liskeard, the ground floors of the busses ia the levier put of the town were consplotely and the torrents which rushed through some of the um°, streets were SulfiCiPill to boar down a man.— During this time the peals of thunder 11161 , Iremend. (roily loud, and the dashes of lightning eery visit!. At metal other pliers the fetes of the storm was equally felt ; but it did not reach much farther wen than Traro, where the fall of rale, though heavy, wee not uncommon. The storm geminated 'bout an hoer, and was preceded by a most oppressive degree of beat. A sintalot phenomenon was obterteil bet wee* Chattiest., and Redraft' on Stlnregy 1191 :—An appearance like a waterspout was ob.etr►tl in rise from some old Till,/ in the neighbool howl, end con• t need f or ' noir time , but without any noise or apps. rent cootalsion in the•aarri.undint wm ,, ip'iere. It disappeared alter hosing prnro•ed.d ler Soler way across the country, tarty log up eerry light subatancr its its passage. A TTTMPTED larr: flrrafil '" Th• vinfortonate Crown Juror,' alluded to last work still lists. di./ not attemot suirid• with a razor, as then stated lot the teal cirr u marances were and are Si follow : if an enuarterisol Gen. tleman of aril 'once in the Elm Roding, sheer 45 or 50, remork•trtir about, and weeinusly of a cheerfel disposition. An .nrlictureos for so artsrialt had llama pr.f our d Bas in s , him on acrount of hls hieing i111001`• fere,' r.n account of some oyhto two,. r this , it is gif moose.% hal so drsepis alfArred his 1.1114, that h• r: l,r, hi, i on i n yo,k, very early, and repaired sn grid behind llnun.gtnn, where, with a pentode, he !Cai 010* of his wrists, and afterwards hit 'tiros , , in a ! most die-I.lrolllll4llof*. k J% This Condition he lay eget• tering in his blood till evening. when a mower, in a neighbouring sat attracted to the spat by his groans. The anfottu,sete man was soon takes to sit ion, and a surgeon, of this city, being sent fiat, he aewed,top the wounds, amt. adeutstioered the props! remedies. For three or four days he was unable to 6..11(04 even liquids, as till invariably rettariod Wealth the *mend ; we are glad to learn that hit now presents every appesiance of 'a speedy sod per. feet recovery." UtWittuu our op Pelson.—Alunday morning, about tbriers'eloal, tbej oiler of the Burbugh Complier was alarmed by • Licoiltiog at the gate of that pri• son,upoit opening •hich he was told by a neighbour, that a Prisoner heavily ironed h a d f a il mi G o . li ma top of the prison and broken both his legs. Upon' ;going to the spot *ht.', the •11(0111111:11* 1)1011nn ley, the jailer found that he was no ether thin Ifillieute, ntros' desperate ai.empt to get away .ben plumed Ifor re:sherry, was frustrated by the spirit and sags city of a Newfoundland d.'g that leaped into theater after him. The greatest suiprise s-ized all the per. i tow connected sills site the seuarrity of which, particularly in she place when Williams was con fined, was co.:islet...l the levy shorigest. Nillianta was carried in agony so Get'! !Intuits!. Alderman intim s J 01.47111 fa 5311T11,01.01 0 1 100 riaTitolitelh• P1140..•1 /WI .he j tilers. that the Prisoner hail him !twitted up at the reseal boor the night before; that the Peisoner had contrived in irmove the iron bar which was (*.wood across the hole through which l r :t o 1 8 1 1 Si an d hneth e t a s ,, ii i ur r : . P . o l, P 7 . l 4P h e a d e a prison end tied a rope hnv to he imp.ssahte to srby ii:::bi animal had made of the matting CM which his used to sleep, round the chimney, end was let , ing binned, down, when the fore broke, end be was &abed to tbe grooods I I NAVAL INTEL LIGENCR. De tt, Aucr. 10.—Came dawn from the River and the Spoctator, Richardson, for Do • —Passed Deepness, the Sinclair, Simpson, from St. Unes, PORTSWOUTII, AUG 10.—Arrive.1 e Realign frigate from the esstwarrl.—ressed up Channel, the Ganges, Otyan, from India. FAL/fit:et:lll, AUG —Arrived the American 'hip Rem)lotion, f.onn New U , l►ans; and the Fe lie Re. Iteration, linliend, from Lind .gs for Gibraltar, short of w•ler, Itc.—At rived off 'hit port, the Merv, HAWN from Africa for Copenhagen. Hutt., Aug. 9.—Arrived the .ihennon, Kielah. from Greenland, frith I t fish, 340 butte. She left the ice the 13th Jul', and brings intelligence of the Success of the fnlloeiug ship., from the 20th Jose In the 12th July :— Anrern. 1 11 . 4 ; Cads, 11; Ctring. 4 gli•en. 7; rfarntornv, 3; 'Jowl. 51 Mann "...V Aon). 1; tiepins,. II t K•rlinftl, 1 g Year, Aile. 4; A 16,1. 3; 1.. iiiiitAkel 1141;11;eur. V and 700 teals; Lard W. II ; .fig.ure.l; Prisre of Ilraa;1. 6; TrotAgnr. Y 1 g Wad , ... S; ‘l ,, aln. 1 g INgarafelw. 3; Examenth, V ow 1 ; (16111,r. 1; Jan , , 3; 11 ,se char (11'..ise• ). 5; N. rib 8111.11 , , 3; Rachel and Ann. 9; Midi', 5; Mu, mod FlisaheiA, 5, large. No credit is Owd is the report of M. nt RICHELIEU hi.ise4 called to She Presid.tsey of the Collard % but it is said, he is appointed Grus Veneer, Head Mussing'''. In the Salons here, they are repeating a reply of M. in Cato to an obliging rps•srion which hi, Ms / jesty made In him, " rare efilant sail it encore par. ICI 7"—" Sire," replied the Minister, " Il cc par !lets roe k jour de son toupietree." J. !Cosi, E4l. giro, an elegant entertainment this day to the I'ItIXCIIIIOSST, and a I Ile pu.p of dif tingoished Personages at his seat, Etat Cowes, Isle of I Wight. Perrsmourit, Aug. 9 —llk Royal Highness the Points HIGENT ht. Ogg up for this sesame his in. tended voyage to Plymouth. He is delighted with 1 the scenery of iliol4e of Wight, S.tothamptost Riser, and view of the Sr. Forest ; and menus to confine his crisis* Found 'be I.lt. of Wight and Brig..ton. At fire o'clock hi, Royal highness 'ended at the Sill • port, attended b) Lord Rowan's, Sir Goo. GaLT, Sir BY %M \lmmo, Sir E. NAGLE, end the Ron. Capt. Palm—all of whom dined with his Royal Highness et Admiral Sir Gsci CA fafaLLL'il. I EXTRACT Of INOTIIIII latTTEla —lt is said to be the intention of his Royal ll.Anniisi the Psi rico RI Iscot, alter visiting the Isle of Wight. &c., to pro. teed op Channel to the N. E coast of Scotland, and land at ilsolf, to visit the Earl of Fier, where his Royal Highness will spend a few days in shooting grouse. Ile will also visit his Grace the Doke of Gomm whre seat is bet a few miles distant from that of the Earl of Firs. Ilis Royal Highness *IL @steed hitt • inn round the north, through the Pentland Nth, toe aid, the west coast of Scotland; and after sarve)ing the Welter, Islands, will pro ceed on a visit to his Grace the DAG of Anal/I.h, at Inverary. If reliance ran be placed in the accounts in the Germ's Papers, the Prussian Gnlffillnfilt Would seem at ',went to feel a considerable degree of alarm. Professor JAM( has been remelted from Spiritism so Cosine, as a place of greater servility. Selreted persons are also continually brought Into Bailin from all ports of the Prussian Mortivehy. An arrest of Students but also token ;stare as Reslan. A Meeting was held Monday moist' at the Crown sad Anchor, in the S.rsitd, called by public notice, 1 professing to give information, am on the eutij.et of ' the new plan foe coloseiting the Cape of Gond nor.' The doors were beset by crowd. of poor people, me. / dilating their flight from distress at house to this land / of premise. In many ports of the country around Manchester, the Reformers have formed a rel• loot to deal with a ny 1 10/111, 1 • hi" bus beefs swore, g S,.orial Coissiship. or who has joined any armed association at the call of the Magistrate.. An Irish poet, singing the praises of Miss O'Nets.s., traclainte— " Lel the gladsome relwiree• pre•iiie la , he gee. • nit yob hill send ' , rub valfry e. h.... (YAWL" To produce the rhyme, Wended by •uthur, ye must feed, Iroe Hibernian preepockiim.,"o . A ale " Mr. II IILITeI Ettays and Sketches 4 Public Characters will be piettlished on iatordsy by Mr. Hone. Nothing that has of late appeared pas- MINI more interest than the Preface, which is writ ten with the utmost energy of Mr. Wm-met pen. —Ws repeat this, because it is a curious as well as a powerful effort of his genius. This Jay the Commission of Assize opens at He reford, where there are only seventeen prisoners for trial. Coax FICIIMIGY., Ave. 11.—We had no fresh sup v .—ty of Wheat since Monday, on which day nearly the whale of fine qeality was clear►d elf, bat what few samples were eabibited this morning, met beery sale, at redeced prices, owing to the contingence of fine weather, and the rapid progress making in the harvest.—Fine Harley is in demoted, and telly sop. porta Monday's prices. —The Oat trade was dell, bet net cheopet.-10 Beni end Pus there is ■e al. mulct). 1