The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-13 00:00:00

~ - The following is given'as a statement (date Colum bian Army :—Divisioni of General. Bolivai-l—lst bat talion of Ortnadiers ;, lit ditto, Conguerorts of Boyaca Regiment of Barcelona; ditto of Boyaca ; ditto of Teroja . ; ditto of Duigos ; ditto of Bogota ; each coin• puted on an average to be 1000 strong, independent of Cavalry whfise numbers are not known. Division of General Inidanetta—lst battalion of Rifles and Infantry, abuut 1200 strong ; Ist regiment of Lancers, composed of 800 men ; and two squadrons of Cavalry. The Di 'Won of Pees consists of 3000 Cavalry and 1500 Infitntry ; among the latter arc 700 Englishmen. The Coroner's Inquest on the death of RICHARD Honer was yesterday evening terminated, after a course of proceedings that bad extended to the unpre cedvated space of fourteen long and laborious days. The. Jury having retired and deliberated, for about six hours, among themselves, delivered an unanimous verdict of " Menulaughter, against the Officers and Blen of the First Regiment of Life Guards, who wer e utt duty between Tyburn Turnpike and Park-lane tan the day tin which RICHARD HONEY was shot, itamely, Tuesda'y the 14th day of August, 1821." From the style in which the ministerial writers had indulged themselves to the close of the investigation, it is obvi ous they apprehended a more serious result. The anxiety under which they laboured is nOw removed, and the Jury, which had through the previous proceed ings been the occasion of their dread and abuse, are at present the object of their respect. They had no conception, that after the verdict which bad' been found in the case of FRANCIS, that it were possible that the death of Honer which was brought about by the same means, at the same time, and by the same persons, could by any train of evidence or reasoning be found to differ so materially as the verdict of wilful murder and manslaughter do. They congratulate the friends of military interference that " the present verdict being general in its nature, leaves no room for individual prosecution, or for prosecution of any kind ;" and that " unless the ascertainment legally devolve on some public authority, the verdict must be a mere &ratans fulmen." To them who had anticipated a verdict of wilful murder, the verdict of manslaughter must be a great relief. But still this verdict acknowledges that the death of Hog EY was brought about by means which are not justifiable according to the laws of the country. For if the military had acted consistently with those laws, the verdict must have been justifiable homicide, since the consequences which result from persons act ing under lawful authority, can by no sophistry be proved to be unlawful acts. Limited as the acknowledg ment of guilt may be, we trust enough is proved to open the eyes of those who have endeavoured not only to screen from punishment the men by *hem the deeds have been committed, but sod their utmost endeavours to obtain subscriptions for rewarding them for being guilty according to the verdict., in one instance of manslaughter, and in the other of wilful murder. Notwithstanding the boasts of the Ministerial prints, we trust that now the inquests are concluded every means will be employed towards discovering the persons who have been guilty of the crimes, in order that they may be brought to trial ac cording to the laws of their country. The King remained on Monday in Milford• Haven, and intended to sail with the tide of that evening for the English Channel, if the wind permitted. _ _ His Uracc the Duke of Montrose has resigned tile Lord Lieutenancy of Stirlingshire. Accounts from Dumbarton have reached town s stating that his Grace has also resigned the Lord Lieutenancy of Dumbarton shire.—(Stirling Journal.) NEW YORK, AVG. 6.—The Columba, commanded by Commodore Bainbridge, which vessel arrived al this port from Gibraltar, in company with the United States brig, Spark, Capt. Elton, on Sunday last, is, perhaps, the largest ship of the line, that ever sailed in the European seas, under the American flag. She is about 2,400 tons burthen, according to the usual measurement, and carries 64 guns on her gun deck, and 36 carronades on her quarter deck and forecastle. Her compliment *of men is SOO. She draws 26 feet of water, and measures 250 feet of altitude from the surface oldie water to the highest point of her main top-gallant-royal-mast-truck. On coming on the coast on Friday last, the Columbus met with a school of mackerel, which followed the ship all day ; in the course of which period, they 'caught the unparalleled number, according to an estimate, of 14,000 of that fish. There were near 300 --lines used, and the people pulled in the fish as fast as Abey could throw the bait into the water. One of the Lieutenants counted 600 mackarel which he caught with his own hands. The Columbus has brought out many rare plants, birds, and animals—of the latter, two cattle of the celebrated white Tuscan breed are the most conspi cuous.—(Bostos latelligeacer.) The U. S. brig Spark has on board water taken from the four quarters of the globe, viz.—Smyrna, in Asia ; Tunis, in Africa; Gibraltar, in Europe; and the Navy Yard, in Charlestown, America. The Columbus, 74, was absent 15 months, and from a crew of 800 men, lost only 6, and two of those by casu alty, two others of consumption, and two by fever. The deaths by sickness were in the astonishingly small pro portion of one to two hundred and fifty annually.— There are now on the sick list seriously id only two, and they with consumption. The Spark was absent 5 years, end from a crew of 100 moo lost only 17, and nine of those by casualty, leaving the annual loss by sickness lesi than two. These facts speak highly in praise of the correct discipline of Com. Bainbridge sad Capt. Elton, and their officers.- The perfect state of cleanliness in which the ships of the United States are kept island% to the praise of the service. They would sot offer by a companion in this regret with the houses of oar bosefiroion.—(Pooloon's Amer.) PRIVATE LEITER FROM Di thought, my dear Pat, our royal Co. at an end, but that'. 111 donamery, Master mother was st real Irishman, after ti, about for three or four days, would not land upon his own principality, bat Dunleary in a hard gallop. Between you and I Pat, he could not have better luck, for when be was snug and warm near the Glen of the Downs, and like the grave digger, up to his hips in the good things of this world, he could not content himself and take it fair and easy, but should be trotting Off to sea in his golden turf basket, just as if lie could pull up the waves to stop like a mail coach ; so that his ship itself was not willing to leave Ireland, where itself and its master was at home in comfort and civil society; where he had such belly ; fuls of good usage that I think you must alter your tones as Molly Magrane altered her husband's inexpressible., or his Majesty will let you take rare of one another and come back and live with ourselves, because the first word of English he heard on his landing was Irish, and Ceadth Mille a/althea:walk is at the bead and tail of grace before meat, and after supper, and Shea the Vahah is at his fingers ends ; so to be perfect In the language he has got one of Dr. O'Halloran's Irish Grammars, which he reads as often, and studies as fervently, as he does his prayer-book. Would you believe it, Pat, they say the goldek turf basket was attracted back to Dunleary by a great County Meath Loadstone, or some other witch, or Ban shee, or supernatural constellation. A London boy just come over, says the return of his Majesty's fleet in that there vay is very honsi.sons, and supposes as how the King that visit to leave; this here place, not by ao means; while Sawney Macpherson, the sidler says, " Hoot a sea' neon, Deel burn nee but it is the Scotch Weitches that changed the tolled, and is playing those pranks with his Majesty, for neglecting to pay his first veesit to the bra bonny che.els ut Eedin bro.." While Neddy O'Donnell, the shoemaker, quotes a passage from Shakespear's Tempest. You remember, Neddy, he used to spout so elegant, you can't forget Neatly who used to make the beautiful cordovans for you. Poor Noddy was always theatrically inspired, and many is the hobble it has involved him in. Some time ago he walk'd thro' carrion-row in Ormond-market,when Bet Muttonfist, the butcher, asked him to buy a leg of veal, (by the by, Bet's veal was generally staggering Bob), Neddy replied with dramatic swagger 'tis a Mae de" Bet. The lady took fire at the insinuation, and rejoined, stop young man, what do you mean by dat you snob? 0/1! bad luck to de Crawleys.— Upon which he stood aghast, and exclaimed " 'Twas from its mother's %womb untimely ripped." Bet sounded the tocsin of war, the marrow-bones and cleavers called an hostile brigade of Amazons to assist her in a process of castigation. So Neddy, for sake of a whole skin re treated in as much disorder, as a great Commander did at certain celebrated races, for had she catched him, be would have cut as pretty a figure as his H— did when drum'd out of the —by his adorable angel. Talk ing of angels Pat, reminds me of another vagabone.— You can't forget Gill Floggen ; you must recollect him; he wan a sort of a sailor, a salt water lubber, who God or man could never get any good of. You remember he lived with Dolly the actress, and had a whole house full of children by her. Would you believe it Pat, tho' poor Doll behaved as the best of mothers, and spent her little earnings upon their education, and brought them up ele gantly, still the vagabone turned fortune-hunter, and left poor Doll to go to Channel-row,* where she died of a broken heart.-oh, bad lurk to the Crawleys. Oh, Pat, Honey, have von any such big blackguards as Bill at your side of the water? I hope not, if you have, flagel lation to them every day they see a paving-stone. I told you, my dear Pat, that Deizo D— would make an abject apology, sooner than be kick'd out. Any of the blackguard bloodhounds would kiss the King's—, or his foot, to keep in place ; and remember, I tell you, their villainies will skew themselves whenever another gormandizing opportunity takes place. Do the people of England know so little of human nature as not to be lieve a set of low raggamuffins, who come deliberately forward, and bind themselves by a solemn oath, to ex terminate 19•20ths of their countrymen, would stop at any thing, to:fuliil the sanguinary obligation. If there are such credulous fools amongst you, which I hope there are not, give them a sketch of the stateof Ireland for seven years before you left it, that is, if they will listen to you, as, you know there are none so blind as those who mon% see, or so deaf as those that won't hear ; and if I can count on the abuse some of your vagabond papers heap on that excellent magistrate, Alderman Waithutax, he must be one of the best men in the world, for who but an es tablished scoundrel would abuse a man for endea vouring at the risk of his own life, to save the lives of his honest neighbours, in discharging their (Anis tian duties to the remains of their killed fel low creatures; and I find the loudest bound in the pack of conspirators is a hackney scribe, called Slop, who waskicked out of the leading journal for blackguard language and other baseness, this fellow of old Jacobin notoriety who toasted "May the last of K— be stran gled with the C—ta of the last of B--." But thank Heaven the filthy retailer of Billingsgate is as much despised here as with you ; and from all I can learn, the Dog in Office was a Gentleman to him. Oh, that I was a Liveryman, luck and grace to me, if I would not bolt off to London, barefoot, and hare-legged, to make Waitbman Lord Mayor, sooner than let those consum mate noodles stand in the way of the people's rights, and bold their hopes upon the smiles of any petty tyrant in power who Would enable them to for their interests upon the miseries and privations of the people. As I can't say more for want of time, and as you're a Liveryman, crown yourself with glory, and cry out, I. Waithaum for ever, and the curse of the Crawley's on his enemies." • A Dublin Workhouse. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is to continue a year kopr in the Vice-Rage Government, u a mark of the Royal favour of the Riag. Of the thirty-one Noblemen who have 51101 the station of Lord Lieu mint of Irelan4 for the Ism eestory, only slz have had the honour of the regular period being Prolonged by the Sovereign. ajleble,condesee dould win the wisest, and the coldest, warm,'—it is evident his Majesty came to please, and be pleased ; and as no person in his dominions was happier than he was whilst here, •o has every human being in Ireland the warmest feelings of devotion and loyalty to him at this moment. I was close . o his Majesty when be entered the room, which we built in anticipation of the honour ' entertaining him, and you may form some idea of oar exertions to render it worthy of the King, when Ittell you that be exclaimed involuntarily, with appa rent admiration and delight, the entire surpasses !' How happily would not all have terminated but fur the toast !" The turn of his Majesty's head, the shape of his hat and clothes, have become quite the fashion in Ireland since the King's visit; every act of the Royal Per sonage has found a crowd of admirers; even the man ner in which his Majesty drank his wine is imitated in every company by those who wish to have a cha racter 1 lodges of the flavour of Rhenish. The King on puhli , occasions always drank bumpers, but he kppt iris glsgs four times longer to his lips than is or dinarily allowed for swallowing a cheerful glass, and seemed to sip the wine drop by drop. so that the palate had the fullest opportunity of imbibing the flavour of no doubt a rare and rich vintage. The King threw his head gently back as he sipped his glass, but nrver took due wine .from his lips, until he cleared the bumper. _ _ Before the Corporation of London incur any expen sive preparations for the civic feast intended f..r his Majesty, we should recommend a reference to the Lord Mayor of Dablin, upon the probability of the King's acceptance of the invitation : if we are not misinform ed,' his Majesty was graciously pleased at the Lord Mayor's grand dinner in Dublin to express him- self ta the meat confidential and condescending unit ner to Sir Bradley King upon a variety of topics connected with the unrivalled splendour of the feast, and the improbability that his Majesty should lose his vivid recollection of the civic display, by any future attempt to engross his attention by a similar compliment at this side of the water. We are told, indeed, that the King distinctly informed the Lord Mayor of Dublin, that the Corporation of London may invite him, but —. We )Link it right to give the anecdote, and it comes front high antfiority, to spare the city purse. The Lord Mayor of Dublin might perhaps have mistaken his Majesty's exrreesiOns ; and, on an occasion where so much chaw• paigne was uncorked, a lapse of memory may be excused. The King might have only intended a compliment to his host, and to console him with the assurance that " done bat himself should be his parallel." But as the anecdote exists, it is right our city friends should look to it. \blic house it h out paying the reckoning. They were parsued by Austin (a servant to the house,) who, in attempting to wrench a scythe from the hand of John Bone, was greatly cut. The Learned Judge interrupted the trial, by observ= ing that the evidence offered had not made nut such a case as could sustain the present charge. The pri soners might however be indicted for a cruel and violent assault. The prisoners were therefore acquitted, with a proper admonition from the Judge. FORGED NOTES. Ann Davis, an elderly woman, was put to the bar; *. charged with disposing of and putting away two forged one pound notes, with intend to . defrand his Ma;esty'e subjects. It appeared, that on Saturday the 4th of August, . the prisoner had purchased some tea and sugar at the shop of Mr. Newland, Charles-street, Islington, and had ten+ dered in payment a one pound note. The shopman sew peeled the note to be a bad one, but gave the change to the prisoner, who went away. On the following. Mona day another woman cause to the sta. ship, and desired to have some tea and sugar. led change for a one pound note. The shopman recollecting the former note, declined to change this, but desired to look at it. The woman gave him it, and he sespected it to be forged. lii asked her who had sent her, and she replied a woman whom she did not know, and is.olft she had met in cross-street. The 'shopman described the prisoner as she had appeared on the Saturday be fore, and the woman said that she believed her to be the person who had sent her. The shopman desired the woman to wait until he had procured a constable, and having done so they all proceeded to the house in Cross- , street where the Woman had left the prisoner. The prisoner had gone, but the shopman saw her go past the shop in about two hours after, and had her taken into custody. The prisoner had, when she passed thaftesa . note, given an address " Roberts, Covent Garth, ' " which, upon inquiry, was no where to be found. Sarah Leach, the woman whom the prisoner had *sent with the second note, stated that she had heilk.4l the pri soner asking for change at Mr. Norton's, Cross-street, sad had offered to try to procure it in cars the note was a good one. The prisoner assured her that it was, and witness then went to Mr. Newland's shop, where sha was detained in the manner already related , . Mr. Fish, a Bank Inspector, proved both the West!) be form.d. , The priiOner threw herself upon the mercy ofi the Conn. Mt. Justice Rictrannenv summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner " Guilty," but recommended her to mercy. FIRE IN PRINCE'S-MEET, SOllO. -~- . A Coroner's Inquest was held last night, at the Three Crowns, Hichmond-street, Soho-square, before Thomas Higgs, Es 9., Corottir for Westminster, on the ,body of Benjamin •filyers (the son of Mr. Myers, penell- Ananufacturer), who ferished in the confisgration on Monday anittilng • fast. After several witnesses had stated the circumstances of the fire which occasioned the death of the deceased, the Coroner intoired If any other persons bad been burnt, and he was informed that the calamity was more extensive than was at first supposed, there were still four bodies under the ruins, a Mr. Bar net and his child, and a Mrs. Pole and her daughter, who were lodgers in Mr. Myers's home. One of the J ntors stated that near 200/. LA been subscribed towards the relief of the fifteen families, who had been burnt out. The Jury mturned a verdict—“ Accidentally burnt to Death." Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ships were thus sta• tinned, viz. : . -- Doel;tms of Athol!, 1300 tons, Captain Daniell, No vember ship. New ship, 1300 tons, Capt. Hunter; and Balcarras, 1417 tons, Capt. Cameron, for Bengal and China, early ships. Thomas Colitis, 1331 tons, Capt. Majoribanks ; and New Ship, 1300 tons, Capt. K. Smith, :M. Madras and China. Castle Huntley, 13(10 tons. Capt. Drummond (late) ; Berwickshire, 13041 tons, Capt. Sheppard (early); Buck inghamshire, 1369 tons, Capt. Adams (late) • Duke of York, 1327 tons, Capt. Campbell (early) ; and Denies., 1325 tons, Capt. Hamilton (early) for Bombay and China. Thames, 1330 tons, Capt. Haviside, for Beim)*leo and China. _ New Ship, 1300 tons, Capt. Walker ; and Orwell, 1335 tons, Capt. Saunders, for St. Helena, Bombay, an 1 China. Lady Melville, 1200 tons, Capt..l. Stewart; Marques 1 of llun:ly, 1200 tons, Capt. D. MilLeod ' • L0nd0n,•1332 tons, Capt. J. B. Sotheby ; Canning, 1326 tun*, •W. Patterson, for China direct. _ _ The Just° Despique upset in a squill off Oporto Dar, oo the 28th ult. end sunk in deep water: 14 of the crew drowned. Ft vg's Cot; RT.--This place was well filled with amateurs yesterday, it being opened for the benefit of David H d son. 'f fie sets-to were goo.l, but the attraction of the day was Randall, whom the. bills annotmced — would show npon this occasion. Upon the entrance of this celebrated miller into the Court the crowd gatberel round him almost to suffocation ; and when he ascended the stage to set-to with Holt, be was received with shouts of -applause. Those amateurs who bad sit an opportunity of witnessiog his condition in the rim appeared astonished beyond description at di., foto change which bad been effected in his person, tint* his last display at the Court. Holt exerted binsiesitto give the amateurs a treat, and the skill upon the *be side, and the science opposed to it upon the other, pin doced great satisfaction and thunders of approbatiok-- Martin did not shine t but be arrived in town yeaterjeir morning, and there was some Maio: about the Master II( bei, backed for 3001. 5011 f. mid* of the tolls -ding again against Randall, at the express wish of Martin . , who at tributes his sudden defeat to accident. But a knowing Israelite, who overheard these remarks, cried out " these:" Lushbrooke and Parish appeared with their changed nobs, and were congratulated at the courage they bad displayed in their combat. Oliver andSheltoti ; Hawkins ana Curtis ; the Young Cat and a gontePaisly s . were loudly cheered for their efforts to please thefhisiv. Turner and Day. Hudson wound up the sports, Of the day with a little hard work upon both sides. The latter thanked the audience for their liberality towards hint. and retired from the stage to cornet the pesrtermbitth tilled a box of DO small dimensions, observing •• to the Champion, Cribb, who guarded the blunt, that it was a eovereign remedy for the cure of braises. • ''S T • • - ÜBLIN.—No. 10. ROF4L ANECDOTES OF DITALLPO. E.& it • OLD BAILEY—Tats 16 • TAINMAArTS. .." • • • Coerespondeeme !tea , = John Hone and Benjam:a Boole were indicted for ma- lawyer Bore:m e wl+. ll:tract of a letter from a distinigqinad keMbir of k.ficlortely Cutting and maiming James' Auitin with a ticking the King the. Board of (Dublin) Aldermen :=After ietnelag thri of j es o nr h oo k. not let his Majesty , sailing of his Majesty from the has:boar 44stown. The prisOuen were drinking togetkbr at a public- sent trim back to th e who' sa7 l —" His (the 8 411-11 1 2 . 4 a5ii4 house billed theltobia Hood, and Wished to escape with- en Toe sad 1 Pat, sibbft.s°64le."ll4llBK—nay, 7. nid out paying the reckoning. They - were parsued by HARVEST. —..e.-- Should the wet weather continue another fortnight , or a month, Mr. Cobbett's prophecy is not very likely tit be Os to Wheathang at 2s. a bushel , before Christmas. There is more reason to apprehoo the 'ports will be opened for importation in cuosequeoco of the rise of price. A torrespredent, who returned to town on Tumidity from Worcester, informs us that during ten days he was in that place, the only fair one %vas the day of his departure. The rain that fell there on Friday after the storm, was the heaviest lie ever witnessed. The meadows near that city were inundated to a great ex tent, and the standing corn shooting in the ear. Many of the farmers in that neighbourhood consider their crops destroyed, and the rise in the price of •wheat in Worcester market, on Saturday, was unprecedented and alarming. So great was the difference between the local and the general price that acorn-dealer care off to London on Sunday to purchase wheat next day at Mark-lane, to send down to Worcester by the canals The following is an extract of a letter from a tra ♦eller of Bedford :—" Our wheat crops are generally housed, and, 1 am happy to say, they hare sustained but little injury. The barley and oats, I am fearful, will not be so fortunate, as the weather is now very unfavourable." Tuesday the Duke of York held a Levee at his office in the Horse Guards, as Commander-in-Chief. Among those presented to his !Loyal Ilighness was Sir Hud son Lowe, on his return from St. Helena. Lord Lauderdale is confined to his bed at Dunbar Castle. His Lordship had been desired to leave Lon don by his physicians; and, on his way to Scotland, was detained a week at Datcastcr by severe indis position. The King of Sweden closed the Storthing, or Par liament of Norway on the 21st of August, by a long and conciliatory speech. The President of the Storth iog delivered a speech. On the return of the King to the Palace, the members proceeded to present their respectful homage to him. The 21st being the Anniversary of the King's election to the Crown of Sweden, all the Officers of State and Authorities waited on him, and presented their congratulations, to which his Majesty replied in the most affectionate terms. In the evening the King reviewed the Hoops; and on his return to the City, was received by the ac clamations of the people. A letter from Stockholm, of the 23th of Aug. men tions another instance of the bold and independent spirit that influences the Diet of Norway. The Upper House of that Assemblylave caused proceedings to be instituted, in the Court of the States, against two of the Ministers for mal-administration, via. Count Wedel Jarlsburg, head of the Finance department, and Count Fasting, chief of the department for the Navy. Last week eighty-three workmen in Portsmouth Dock-yard were superannuated, upon a stipend of 241. per annum. The following vessels have arrived at Peterhead, being the last of the season from the Greenland Whale Fisbery:—the Ocean, late Reid, with one fish ; brig Mary, Thom, with 10 fish, and 1,600 seals, about 120 tuns of oil, a full ship ; and the Eclipse, Router, with 12 fish, 120 tuns of oil. When the Assizes fur Merionetb came on at DA golly, there was neither prickles nor cause ! The Commission was next •opened at Carmarthen, where there : was not one prisoner for trial, either for the iconnty or borough. -.- . .0. , - 1" •