The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-07-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PoRTSMOUTII, JULY 26.—Arrired his Majesty's ships Sapphire and Thistle.—Sailed his Majesty's ship 'terra, for —. Came into harbour his Majesty's ship Ganpnede. Wesioutit, Jurnr 25.—Came in the French chasse inaree, Marie L'Calis., from Bourdeaux for Nato z, detained by his Majesty's ship Bellerophon.-1 r_ rived his Majesty's ships Tag and Zenobia, from a cruise.—Sailed his Majesty's slaps Fly and Satellite, on a cruise. FA LIIOUTII, Jet. Y 21.—A rrired the D.4te of Kent packet, with a Mail from Lisbon in 1 I days ; George packet, with a Mail from Corunna in 11 dap. 11.tewicit, JuLY 26.—Sailed the Lark picket, with a WI (or Holland ; and the Henry Freeling puke!, with ditto, for Cuxhaven. - DEAL, Jun' U.—Arrived the Sharpshooter sloop of war, from oAelid ; his Ilajesty's ship Peruvian, from Portsmouth, and several homeward-bound ves— , eels, and have sailed for the River.—Sailed a fleet of transport., under convoy of his Majesty's ship Pe ruvian, for Portsmouth ; his Majesty's ships Argo, Dann, Snake, Rcdpole, Pandora, Dextrous, Le veret, Zrnhyr, and Pioneer, with v. large fleet of transports, remain in the Downs. The Concordia, from Washington (N. C.) to Li verpool, was totally lost in coming over the l; tr. The Tea Plant sailed from Charlestown to Liver pool the 11th ult. and struck on the Bar, by which she received much datnlge, and pot back to repair. Professor Zimmcamvq, the author of the work on Solitude, died lately at Brunswick, in the 73d year of his age. Yesterday morning the Marquis of A aGrE s Et was sufficiently recovered to be able to take an airing in his carriage: and proceeded to pay his respects to the l'itiNcE REGENT at Carlton house about one o'clock, he was assisted out of his carriage on crutches by his brother, Sir. E PAGET. The Noble Marquis remain ed wi:h the REGENT near three hours; he was assisted and conducted back to his carriage by his son, Lord Glt E IVES, and Gen. BLOOMFIELD• The LORD Co xalcut.t.ott has been pleased to pre sent the ltov. Jon' Dims, M. A. Curate of the parish of the Holy Trinity, in the city of Coventry, awl late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Vi.trage of the aforesaid parish, void by the dem) of the Rev. JO3EPII RAM, M. A. the late In cumbent. ANonttrt &Leer's° BEAUTY.—The Montrose Courier, of the 14th inst. contains the following ar tide 011 Wednesday, June the 213th, a young woman, attending her mistress, who at present re sides near Duntritiald, in this neighbourhood, for the purpose of sea-bathing, awaked at three o'clock ill the morning of that day, and bled pretty profusely from the nose, without making , any other comr.l.rint ; immediately after the bleed.; iug ceased, she fell into a profoUnd sleep, in which state she was removed to her father's, at some dist.ince, and remained so until Friday afternoon at four o'clock, when she awoke and took some sictuals, complaining only of weakness. She remain ed awake All that night, and until the afternoon of the succeeding day, Saturday, the Ist inst. when she again slept, and contiaues so to do. Till Friday, the 7th instant, her jaws were fixed, so that vio lence was necessary to open them, for the pur pose of administering a little wine and water, the only sustenance she received during that period : hut since Friday her power of swallowing has returned, and a little broth has been occasionally given her. At the same time the power of swallow ing returned, she began to move her left hand, the only part of her body with which she makes any motion, being buried in the soundest sleep. In this state she remained on the evening of Weduesday, be ing then it days slAs has slept, without any inter mission. Her first sleep was about 63 hours. She has retained a healthy' appearance all the time, her colour remaining the time ns usual, and her pulse regular, only a little slower than that of persons in perfect health." Extract of a letter from Genoa, dated JJI y s: r 4 A boat belonging to :sic Majesty's ship Ponspcc, which is cruising off' 'foutol, arrived here with dis patches on the 2d inst. She brought accounts that the two parties were fighting against each other throughout Provence, which was in a state of insur rection. We have since learnt by an express, that (1,000 troops sent from Toulon had entered Marseil les, and made great slaughter among the 'Loyalists, sparing neither women or children, but the Bo napartists were defeated and the place was quiet by the last accounts. Admiral Lord ExmouTti sailed yesterday, with eight ships of war and 15 transports, some of which took in here the 14th Regiment, the Italian Levy, and _the Pigdmontese troops, Flying Artillery, &c.—This Expedition is under the command of Major-Gen. Sir H. Lowy, and is said to he destined for Marseilles." The Foreign Exeivanges have lately advanced colt. biderably in favour of this country. The Exchanges ith Holland, llnrnburgit, and France, are as nearly as possible the.rates maintained previous to the arri. cal of BONAPARTE from Elba, and before the last appearance of n %car; the prices of bullion have fallen in proportion. Portugal gold in coin, which had Iluctu.rpd go high as 51. 7s. per ounce, is now quoted at 41. Ils. fluting the late peace, the lowest price was 41. 9i. hollars, which have lately been so high a' Oa . 9 d. have declined to bs. 7d. The Foreign Exchanges, and Ilst state of our currency, may be, therefore, stated neat'y the same as during, the late Peace. SUlClDE.—YPsterdsy one of the old Pensioners, remit ly rolled in to do duty in the Tower, after shar ing himself to go on guard, took the razor and cot Via throat•itt virti a manner that he expired almost immediately. . . : ... . . BONAPARTE. Bonaparti, we learn, demanded all the homage due to a Sovereign in his passage to the British shores. His letter to the Prince Regent is signed 44 Napo leon" only—not in the character of a private indivi dual; for he claims still to be Sovereign of Elba, though no longer Emperor of the French. Persons from London and from other Otis are flocking down to Plymouth, though they know that : Bonapatte is not expected to land, and that they ' cannot go on 1).,a ill the Bellerophon; but they can row in boats round the vessel, and can occasion ally catch a gliinpse of him. Ile is the greater part of the day in the tterti gallery, either walk ing backwards and turnouts with his hands be hind him, as he.is represented In some of the pic tures in the print shops, or surveying the shipping and the shore through ael tss. Iti general he keeps shine, Beitrand and Lallemand remaining at some distance behind h'ot. Osrasionitly he beckons to one of them to point out something to him, or to make some obset tritium Ile then walla on alone. Captain Alaitland is more frequently with him than any one of his suite, ilia] he pays him great attention. Ile is its good health. As usual he passes but a short time at his meals, and drinks but little wine. Ile is said to drink regularly to the health of the Prince Re i zettt. Coffee is frequently served up to him on the deck, and when lie first came near the land about Tcrbay, he is reported to have exclaimed, rnfin, refill cep bean pup. ! (at length, here is this flue country!) adding that he had never seen it except from Calais and Boulogne, when the only points that :ould be seen were the white and bold tacks about Dover. lie is plainly dressed, in general ia a green coat, without any decorations, and a corked hut. • On board the Bellerophon Bonaparte still played the Emperor. Captain Maitland showed him his own cabin, and said he should hare the whole of it, except one corner, which the Captain said he would close in for his own bed. Bonaparte said he must have the whole.to himself, which the Captain politely y ielded ; and shortly afterwards Napoleon invited him to dinner. When he went on hoard the Superb, Bertrand first ascended the side, and was introduced to the Admiral ; Napoleon followed. " The Em peror," said Captain M. Napoleon bowed to the Admiral, and without further ceremony walked into his cabin, and sent his compliments that he would be glad to speak with him!! Nothing escapes his notice; his eyes are in every place, and on every object, from the greatest to the most minute. He immediately asked an explanation of the ropes, blocks, masts, and yards, and all the machinery of the ship. Ile sent for the Boatswain, to question him ; that Officer always fitting out the French ships. lie requested the Marines to pass in review before him, examined the arms, evolutions, dress, &c. &c. am! expressed himself highly pleased. He enquired into the situation of the Seamen, their pay, prize-money, clothes, food; tobacco, &c. ; and when told of. their being supplied by a Purser or Commissary, asked if he was not a rogue. In conversing with the Admiral, he said, " I have given myself up to the English ; but I would not have done so to any ether of the Allied Powers. In sur rendering to any of them, I should be subject to the caprice and will of an individual ; in submit ting to the English, I place myself at the mercy of a nation." Another account says—" By some passengers who came in the Bellerophon, it appears, that Bonaparte was quite at his ease on board that ship; took pos session of the Captaites cabin, sans ceremunie, in vited the Officers of the ship to• his table, talked with great freedom on the present state of things, said it was imposaiitle for the Bourbons to govern France, and that Napoleon It. would very soon be recalled to the Throne, that l'ouche was an ass, all totally unfit for the office assigned to him. lie ac. knowledged that England alone had ruined all his grand plans, and that but for her he had now been Emperor of the East as well as of the West. He walked on the poop and quarter-deck, conversed with the seamen, and affected great gaiety and un concern. In short, such is the talent of this ' Child and Champion of Jacobinism,' that before they ar rived in Torbay he was considered by all on board as a devilish good fellow." Yesterday morning at half-past eleven o'clock, the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES left Carlton-house to proceed on her way to Weymouth. Her Royal Highness was attended by the Countess of 111,CIIESTER and Colonel ADDENHIWKE. A close coach and four followed, in which were the Rev. Dr. SHORT, her Royal Highness's Sub-preceptor and Chaplain and Mrs. CAMPRELL. A chariot and four followed, in which were her Royal Highness's principal page, and two female domestics. The Duke of KENT visited her Royal, highness precious to her depar ture. Cononut's INQUEST.—Yesterday an Inquest sat before A. GELL, Esq. at the Green Coat Boy, Tothill-fields, on the body of James Campbell, an half-pay officer, and formerly holding a commission in the German Legion, wlio cut his throat on Mon day morning, in Tothill-fields Bridewell. The de. ceased had lodged fur nearly two years with Mrs. Strachey), Hope and Anchor, Five-fields, Chealtea, and on Saturday he was charged with having robbed her to a considerable extent. Clarke, constable, ap prehended him, and at the time of the apprehension, a good deal of the stolen property was found or traced. In his room were 27 bottles of spirits, linen, &c. and in his pocket the duplicates of two silver watches, all which property had been stolen from Mrs. S. After the loss of the watches, which were thus traced to bin), be had the hardihood to advertise them. On 1)6114 taken, he said, " 4 He was done for now !" On Sunday he talked a good deal, and very rationally, with Alexander Julian Marcelot, another prisoner. On Monday morning, he borrowed a razor, for the purpose of shaving himself, and ab.,ut two hours afterwards he was found dead in an out-house, with his throat cut. No other act of insanity was ad. duced, hut, as in addition to the charge of robbery, a bill for 1001. of a very questionable composition, was hanging over his head. The Jury, after some division of opinion, concluded that his distresses had produced derangement, and returee I a verdict of— ' Lunacy. THE STATESMAN. EXECUTION. This morning, at a quarter past eight o'clock, Edward Harland and Josiah Box, for forgeries, were executed before the Debtors' door, Newgate. They were dressed each in genteel mourning, and j met their fate with composure and resignation.—The unwearied and kind attention of the Ordinary (Rev. Mr. Cotton) to these unhappy persons, qud those who suffered yesterday, deserves particular notice; and we are happy to find thnt the several Ministers who attended were invariably received with the greatest politeness, and had every facility afforded for the exercises of devotion and cotiVersatiati . that could be desired. Harland was attended by several Dissenting Mi. nistert Who had constantly visited him during his con. Intement, and to whom he ever expressed himself its the most greatful terms, as having been the means of administering those religious consolations which could alone support him in his awful situation, and give hope of a better state. On Friday last a poor black man was fouild near the Commercial-road, covered with the confluent small-pox, and was seen by a brother African, who took him immediately to the Small-pox Hospital, at Pancras, where lie was humanely received by the re sident Surgeon, notwithstanding he was in want of clothes and money ; he reported that he had been lately an Ametioan prisoner, and intended to work his passage to Jamaica, his native country. A National Woollen Hall was opened in Dublin on Monday, the 17th instant, for the sale, of Irish woollens, &e. and a public dinner was given on the occasion, the Lnrd Mayor in the chair. This meet ing was attended by several persons of the first re spectability, sho pledged themselves to use every effort far the revival and encouragement of the Irish woollen manufacture. Captain ADERTON, in thirteen days from Port-an- Prince, confirms the account of the Spanish squadron from Spain, with troops, having arrived off and taken possession of the island of 111.trioretts ; and that they bad put In death indiscriminately all the men, women, and children on the island. A Spanish 71 had blown up, and every person on board (I'2oo in number) perished. Carthagena h.ul been bom barded for thirty days, and the cause of the Patriots was despaired of in that quarter. The C'deftains, PErsoN and CitetsToenc, were in a state of peace, aithnugh they had made no treaty with each other. Nine hundred acres of the richest and most fertile alluvial soil has been gained from the sea at Roslare, near Wexford. This embankment is the most exten sive undertaking of the kind ever known in Ireland. The land thus recovered is the property, end of course adds largely to the estate of JOCELYtr .THOSIAS, Esq. We quote the following paragraph relative to Eli zabeth Penning from a Morning Paper :—" We should deem ourselves wanting in justice, and a due respect for Government, if we did not state that, in cousequence of the many applications from the friends of ibis unhappy young woman; who yesterday suffered the sentence of the law, a meeting took place on Tuesday at Lord Stomoutit's Office (his Lordship was out of town), at which the Loup CHAN. CELLOR, the RECORDER, and Mr BECKETT were present. A full and minute investigation of the case, we understand, took place, and of all that had been urged in her favour by private individuals ; but the result was a decided conviction that nothing had occurred which could justify an interruption of the due course of justice. So anxious was the Limn CHANCELLOR in particular to satisfy his own mind, and put a stop to all doubts on the part of the people at large, that another meeting was held by the same parties on Tuesday night, when they came to the same determination, and in consequence the unfortu nate culprit suffered the penalty of the law." It was manifested to the Committee on the " As si:e of Bread," which, happily, will cease in Sep tember next, that, by the artifices of the mealmen, the quartern loaf has been regularly made to exceed its just value three halfpence. An elopement has lately taken place from Chelten ham. Lady llovottA !formic, the wife of GEORGE FRFDERICIL HARVEY, Esq. has been taken from her husband and family by a Lieutenant in the army. — Legal proceedings have been instituted by the in jured husband against the parties, who have been traced to Jersey. PLiestQtrrit, JuLT in.—Came in the Satellite sloop of war, from the West Indies.—Arrived and sailed agaie the Falmouth stoop of war ; also arrived a French brig of war, a cutter, two schooners, and three chase marees, prizes to his Majesty's ships Rhin, Menelaus, Ilavannoh, anti Ferret. We are stated to have had several men killed and wounded. It is also stated that the sailors of the eboie ships re duced a French battery previous to the taking of the ships.—Come in his Majesty's ship Fly, Eurotas, and Rover.--Soiled his Majesty's ship Dragon, Bri ton, Severn, and Wanderer. Valetudinarians must rejoice when they know that a Medical Board is established by Dr. COOPER and three Surgeons, of 30 years experience, at Char lotte- house, Charlotte - street, opposite. Rowt.a"to IltLes Chapel, Blackfriars-road, London, where the public are cured of dangerous diseases, without salivation or confinement. The Institution claims the attention of those who have attempted the cure themselves, or who have been so unfortunate as td consult illiterate pretenders, whose improper treat ment have ruined thousands—eruptions on their head, face, and body; sore eyes, throat, mouth, and nose ; vertigo, noise in the ears, swellings in the neck, deafness, dimness of sight, pains . in the head and limbs, frequently mistaken for rheumatism ; weakness in the knees, swelled uncles, with a general delibity, &c. are only a few of the dreadful symp toms which appear years after, and too often de stroys connubial happiness. Messrs. COOPER and Co are consulted daily by all ranks of people, from eleven till eight precisely ; or by letter enclosing a fee (for no others are answered), statir.g their case, when medicine and advice are sent to all parts of the kingdom. They also cure the piles and fistula, without burning or cuttiug, and give advice gratis, on Tuesday, Thuridny, and Saturday mottling', till twelve o'clock. 3 L IliTELLlGelita. COURT OF CfIARCARY, JOLi id. BRUCE V. SIR JAMIE! SHAW, ALDERMAN costae, AND OTHERS. Sir S. ROMILLY, on behalf of the Defendants id thi. cause, moved for an order to disthiss the prevent Bill out of Court, or to stay all proceedingi thereon, on the groutel that the late decree pronounced by hid Honour the Master the It of ; a canoe in which the Defendants in this Bill we,e Plaietifts, had ie; cured to the Ilaintiffs in this Bill all rights and bone; fits of accounts prayed by the present 13111; which Wad filed by one or two mortgagees of the pr, unties !iris ate at Temple-her, Snow-hill, and other parts of the City of London, purchased under an Act of Perlie= ment by the Mayor and Corporation of the City from the lessees and Devitees of the City; for build ing houses and other improvements, which, hyan= other Act of P a rli amen t, th e p urc h asers obtained lease to sell by Lottery shares or ticketi, under which the new erections were sold, and fonds arising from such sales ordered, under the late decree; to be ac countinifor through the medium of a Committee ap pointed for that purpose, in ordei to distribute the lame in due proportions to dad among all the parties interested therein, insomuch that the *sent Plain tiffs could have, under that decree and regulation, all the advantages and accounts sought by the predent Bill, in common with ell others, without the endiest circuity of making all parties interemed, if possible, parties to this Bill, which was filed by otie sole mort ogee, out of infinite numbers, except one assignee of the tither Plaintiff, a bankrupt. Mr. DANIEL, in the absence of his leading Coun sel, opposed the motion, as unfounded in practice; as the present Plaintiffs were net to the late decree, and had various grounds in this bill, of cc counts and relief different from those determined by the late decree, which they had nut seen, nor wets seared with a copy of. The Lotio CHANCELLOR observed, that the dc; fence, on the first tiew of it, was deci:itengainst the motion, nt least for the present, until Mr. Daniel should be furnished with a perusal of the decree in the course of the week, which, in the absence of his leading Counsel, he could possibly direct for him on this occasion. The further consideration of the cade was postponed for one week. RERRISON V. FARR AND oTutas. Sir S. 11014 ILLY applied in this case fur an injunc tion to restrain the Defendants, who are Commis sinners of Sewers in the county of Norfolk, from pro ` ceeding under the authority of their commission, to remove a certain float or tumbling hale erected on the riser Waveney, in the navigation of which the Plain tiff had a large interest. Mr. Haar resisted the motion, in the first place, because the Commissioners were by law a Court of competent jurisdiction in such cases, and a verdict had been there given by a Jury regularly iuipannel , led against the Plaintiff, on the ground that the float erected by him was a nuisances Which, by damming up the water to an improper height, threatened the neighbouring lands with at, inundation. The 'Flail'. tiff had acquiesced in the former proceedings of the Commissioners, and had suffered on nou-conipliatice ' with their order, a distress to the amount of 100 marks. It was only when the ulterior measure of • removing the nuisance was thre,itened, that he eh: ileavoured to shield himself behind a Court of Equity. In this attempt he had, however, already been once disappointed, and a similar motion to the present had even on his own ex-park statement been refused by the Court of Exchequer. There could not exibt a doubt, that if ever private rights ought to give war to public convenience or safety, it was in those cases whi're the Commissioners of Sewers had jurisdiction. Ile should contend besides, that the Commissioner! could not by any possibility .be brought before hit Lordship. The Plaintiff had been a suitor in (twit' Court, and if, in the discharge of their judicial functions, they acted erroneously, the case was re movable by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench. Sir SAMUIL ROMIILY in reply observed, that all that was now prayed for was, to prevent irreparable mischief being done to the property of the Plaintiff by reducing the navigable level of the river before t!ie cause came to a hearing. The verdict obtained before the Commissioners was principally founded on the evidence of a person as to the increased height of the present float, which person' was now under prosecution for perjury on that occasion. The Plaintiff derived his right to the navigable advantages of the river from a very ancient Act of Parliament, it was now navigated by vessels of thirty-seven tons burthen, and unless the pre.ient motion should be panted, this beneficial interest might be ruined.— As to the Plaintiff having first applied for relief to the Court of Exchequer, he had as good a rLt't as any other man to apply to a superior Court, if he was dissatisfied with the decision of the former.— Sir S. Romilly then cited a case relative to a weer and fishing yard, possessed by• the Crown on the river Wye, and let at an annual rent, in which an order of the Commissioners for Sewers for destroy. ing it as a nuisance had been set aside by the Duchy Court of Lancaster. This, he conceived, settled the general point as. to the paramount jurisdiction of Courts of Equity; and as to the danger of inunda tion, which had now existed, and been acquiesced in for six years, he considered this merely is a poetical deluge of his Learned Friend. The Lents CII iNCELLOR had considerable doubt as to his own jurisdiction over Commissions of Sewers, and especially after the verdict of a Jury. lie should, however, look into this point, and say, in a few days, whether he could afford any relief to the Plaintiff. With respect to the case cited by Sir S. Romills', there was in that a vested right of the Crown, and it occurred at a period (in James the First's reign) when the province and limits of Courts of Equity were not quite to well defined as they were at present. The Ticket, No. 6497, drawn this day a Prize of •One Thousand Guineas, was sold in 'two Fourths, one Eighth, and six Sixteenth Shares by Rscuatto sow, GoooLuca, and Co. at their Offices, Corn hill and Charing-cross; who also sold, in the pre sent Lottery, 11,172 a Price of 20,0001. in 'ltem Share•. I • L,. a/ •-,• -~! .-~ I • . .1