The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-10-27 00:00:00

• ... THE ~...116P, - . OFFICIAL. o r ders have been issued from the War•oftice for carrying the u ndermentioned redoctious into effect ssith the least pos.ible delay : MEDUCED ESTA BUSHMENT OF ALL REGIMENTS, At Iloine and Abroad, ramp' those in the East Indies. Cavalry. Lirtliv trod Heavy, . Ilifantry,ll) Companies 8 Troops I (7nlonel 1 Colonel I Lieutenant-Colonel 1 Liesitenaat-Colonel 2 Majors 2 Majors lil Captains 8 Captains li Lieutenants 8 Lieutenants 8 Eresigaii 8 Cornet* • The own! Staff 't hr usual Staff 5 35 Serjeatrot 29 Serjeants st) Corporals 24 Corporals 2'J Drummers 8 Trumpeters 610 Privates 8 Farriers 536 Private* 273 Horses—lS Privates in each Troop to be dis- mounted. All Officers, Supernumerary to these Estab rents, to be placed on fluff-Pay, and th• Non• Commissioned Officers and Privates discharged. The 20th Dragoons, the 94th, 95th, 96th, 97th Regiments of 'lnfantry, and 3d Battalion o f the %Lae Brigade, now in Great Britain or'lreland, all Re cruiting Troops and Companies, and 3tX) men from each Regiment of Foot Guards, to be immediately reduced. The under-mentiened Corps, now serving abroad, to be reduced es soon as possible, Viet, Std. 91tb, and ?sth Dragoons, in the Last ladles. Sd and 4th 13:►ttalinno, titbit Foot. :id and 4th West India Itegimeuts. ktoyut York Rangers. Itoyil West India Itungetv. 4 Royal African Corps. Yos k Chasseurs; and wveral Invalid ansWar►ison Companies. The V Dragoon Guards, 30)sagioniis, 34, 7th, 13,1, 29'h, 434, and .57th Regiments of Infantry, now on their return from France ; to proceed to Ire. land. It is-ebrlersthod the 11th and 13th Dragoons are to proceed to the East Indies. The Blues, and the two Regiments of Life Guards are reduced to the.same Establishment as the other Cavalry Corps. The total of these reductions in the Cavalry, Font Guards, slid Infantry, amount to more than 33 ) 000 men and Officers; the artillery tint included. ffirAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, OCT 26.—Came down from the River and sailed the Brnthers, Stamp, for Batavia and Boncon. len ; Cuostantia, Wetherell, for Antwerp ; and Isis blajesty's ship Euryalus, for Portsmouth, &c. Potursstouxst. OCT. 2G.—Cause into harbour his Majesty's ship Sicamnittler, to be paid off. FALM , UTiI, OCT 21.—A r rived the London Packet,- Morgan, from London fur l'atermo.—sajjA the Lady Arnbella packet. with a Mall, for Lisbon. — The Marchioness of Silisbury Packet, for the Lee ward Islands, is gone into the Roads. PENZANCE, OCT. '24.-- l'ut its ,vveral Coasters for shelter.---Arrived the (Ark, Lester, from Poole, Pith loss of main boom. Cow, OCT. u6.—Sailed the American ship Eli. shbetti, Boeltfsod, for Bombay, with 20 boxes, curs. tau,it.g 45.100 Sp.stsish dollars. NoRTII SnlET.ns, OCT. 21.—This morning the nes log, Sanders, of .ionclestand, from Riga for Newcastle, wills grain, in corning into this harbour struck several times upon the bar, which caused her to make so much water es to require the scsistance of a number of mess to keep the pumps going to prevent her from sinking Part of the cargo is di,chareed, and every exertion is using to get oat the remainder. RAIISGATE, OCT '26.—Since nor last, some other parts of the hull of a wreck, with a how.sprit, have been landed here, and in the whole tire baulks of timber, and 30 plinks and deals, together with part of a plank of the stern, pith the !same " Carjens, 1805" LIVERPOOL, OCT. 25 —Arrived the Harp, Hodge, from hence at St. Andrew's, N B. 20th of September. —Sailed the Aberdeen, notice*, for the Isle of France, sod eight others oat ward-bound. THE NEW CROWN.-.-PI)TRUCCI, the artist, who emoted the die for the Crown.piece jost privately'' published, is determined that his name shall he trans . milted to posterity. It is engraved at full length on both sides of the coin! For this Fpectmen of vanity and presumption he has no precedent. The Mater of the Mint himself, was contented with sinugglinz his initials, W. P. end that only in the first edition of his half.crown-pieces—sod Lord MULGUAVE, the Master-General of the Ordnance, an office of high consideration, was humble enough to place his name on the rear of the cerri Ate which supports the PRINCE'S great bomb in the Park. NonTn.WEsT was the 11th, end Hot the 18th August. that Captain M pithead, of the Larkins, saw the Dtscovet) Ships for the Inv time to the northward of 76. Some further information of the openness of tie sea in the above.mentioned lasi. Hide, has been received from Mr. Duncan, Master of the Raith, of Leith, who states., that, ‘ t to the north. ward of this latitude the sea was much clearer of ice 3hen he had ever seen it before ; and that as he had . it in his power to have proceeded farther north, there was no obstacle that lie was aware of which should prevent the Dircoverytiliips from going as high as was IleCessary in that direction. Hoe INTELLIGENCE —The Hop Duty this year, • early iii August, was estimated at SO or 90.0041.; it is now believed to exceed 170,0001. which with the New Duty would bring the amount to nearly • 300,0001. The estimated Duty of Foreign Hops Jest - year was 30 to 35,0001. Amount of cotton exported this year from New Orleans, up to the ht of Aug. last:— To Great Bri•ain ..46,178 131,501 Frauce Cualawibr, Total The cotton on board reviels in the harbour, and to he ship:sod. may amount to about 5000 more. (New York Paper.) Margaret fitnnedy, who was sentenced to be hanged at Glasgt.w en the 4th of November next, for some forged notes of the Stirling Batik, pleasui e. • has beeu respited during his \lejesty's t"7.7T'7. - irtii . gr.rATV,Bm. SPURTING IN IR NCE. • NEWMARKILT THIRD ocToBER, OR HOUGHTON sinlctiN 6, loin. MONDAY, Cc-r. 26. Handicap Sweepsiokas 10gs ruch, fur 3-3 r olds and upwards. Y..C. Mr. Vtinsittart's Slim, 3... yrs old, 7sf. . - 1 Mr. Tei reti's Sostrogii, 3-Im. old, 94 , . Mr. Rubles Srbworizenniirg. 4 “s otd. 121 h. 3 LI to 8 not Slim. sto 2 oast ausertio. Duke of Rutland'. Quadrille, 7.. t. brat Duke of Graftub's Lnn, S. I). M. 100 v. 6to 4 4.11 Qmdrille. L ord liiterprqer, 121 b. beat Lord D:trlingtoo's Romp, 84. 6;b. Ati. N. 2 , 1140.. o tisl on liverpreter. 51r. Sam, fist. Tin. brat Duke of fluii:ma's colt hv Whitton, out of Canidia, Sat. Mb. A. F. 200,1 e, It. ft. Even Letting on S..m. Mi. Toortioill'ii Steeltrap ie".. from Sir J. Sbelle)'s Prince Paul (dead), ast. 71u. stow. It. M. 50.1 p. THE NEW CROWN PIECES. MR. Eorroß,-1 cannot, as an Englishman, feel satisfied with the audacity of the F.reign Artist, or with the Anti-English spirit of the Master of the Mint, in suffering the name of a foreigner to thus ,publicly accompany oor most noble piece of coin, the Crown Piece; and thus perpetuating one of two thing;, either that there was not an English Artist to be found equal to the task, or that the predilection in the Government of the country, fur every thing foreign, so far prevailed, as to keep natise genius in the back grow), whilst it blazoned forth its foreign predilectious.. Sir, I am the last in the world to decry merit; let it he found in a fo reigner or an Englishman. 1 glory in the spirit of this ceuntry, which holds out the fostering haiid to genius even in foreigners; may such a spirit siever he *sitting in this country ! but is there an English. man in esisteoce, passessieg a spark of British fire, but burns with indignation, flirt a Fttreiglier (however high his merits) should hate his 'tante handed down to posterity on the coin of these realms ? As 1 hate before observed, the measures of the Government, in the main, I most cordially approve; but, Sir, 1 do hope, such a spirit of indignation will be called forth throughout the country, at this slizht which is cast on British genius, as to oblige at least, the name of the artist II) he taken from our Princely Coin. It, Sir, we have no Englishman whose genius is equal to it, let it not be proclaimed to the latest posterity—let us not he dis graced thus by our own coiu—hut, Sir, we have ar tists equal to it. Let, Sir. the .Siiver Medal Which was struck at the Soho, Birmingat:oi, for the Jubi lee, speak. Let our Copper Coinage speak. 1 pre sume these were done by native artists; and, Str,if they were nov—if we have not an artist, capable of executing the Coin of the country, 1 protest, as no 1 would rather see my country's naked. ness proclaimed by its own acts, than it should be in the way it wig now be done, if our new Crown Pieces are to remain as they Ito—whit Possible excuse will be found for this, 1 really ant et a loss to guess. 1 have heard it said, our c o in should correspeud in the brilliatice of its exert,- lion, with our other brilliant conduct at this ! *pitch. I adebit it should do so: - hot are we in. delved 10 fotergoors fir the other parts cf our Nil- Haney ? It we are, let us give over talking of ie. and will it add to our fame. that we are indebted toll foreitto artist, forttis esc.llence of our cola 2.- any-credit to us? It it is. I must cooffu...l tuotwasaral in what. I maintain, Sir, it is our diveruce, and *hall is st OW, we consent to !writhe the perpouvor4 of it! It is no indelible stigma upon evert Etiglan artist,suit the English Government, to cetivait to he the propa gators of it. In passing Toner hill, I look at the !Shot with pleasure, that the country a buildiug for such a purpose, corresponding with her g l oat. ness ; but, oh, how is my ride (and is it not a com mendable pride ?) mortified at the reflection, that it contains not an Englishman (patine , ' to undertake its principal operation know not, Sit, how your Readers feel, but 1 feel my blood flu* ten times mote rapidly through my veins than ever, at such a reflection. I will not enter into the merits of the execution, fur I am no judo of it ; but this 1 think, according to my coarse way of looking at it, eacopt the edge, it is mean, compared with our old crowns; there may be some titre touches of art, which mine but .4 cninicisseut could find out, anti that with a ma4nifying-glass ; hut really, Sir, for boldness of design, and for ti commanding appearance, fur some thing grand, which at once delights and astonishes my dull eye., and want of tote, 1 would prefer the old ones. I • :etiaint OW the horse, flying liver the Dragon, might have something to an Italian in the idea, very sublime; but 1 must be allowed to say, the licitannia on a Penny. Piece, with our sea.girt shore, and the British [(earl of Otk in the dist:tote, has charms for au Englishman of the present tley, far surtrissisig,any that the confused and sen%eless tradi tion, and in my opinion. no less confused execution of George and the Dragon can call forth. Sir, should like to he informed by some of those who are able, wherein it is that our l'ent,y-Piece does s l ot f ar 'zeel this highly extolled New Crown, except Cie edge; and to an Ettgtishmato, the one proclaims his glory, the other his oisgrace.-1 hope, Sir, you will admit these few loose hints from one Who cot t linty . MLANSIVLLL. NIAGARA FALL4.—Judge Voavra bits las • a contract, says an American Paper, to ereet spe a nent bridge from the American shore to Goat is 'ld, to enable travellers to view the Falls, without doss ing over to the Cans& 'shore; and that Colonel P. WHITNEY is Conitrocting a flight of stairs, per fectly safe and commodious, so thefts fatuity Lollies can descend 200 feet from the precipice, and reach the foot of the Falls with Palle and safety, where a boat is kept to cross the Niagara. MACREADY, the father of the performer of that ,dame at. Covent•garden, took his farewel benefit. last week, at the Newcastle Theatre, the receipts of which, on that evening, exceeded one hundred and twen►y pounds. The Comedy of the Green Man has been success fully got up at the Liverpool Theatre, under the di rection of Dowrou, who plays the Green Man himself. A Gentleman named Mearde, who had been spend ing the evening with a party of friends in Great Marlborough.street, on Sunday evening, was return ing home through Portman-square, when he was as sailed by three ruffians, who knocked him down and robbed him of his watchi three pouuds, sad some silver. I {~J3~~.J r ..R-~-- .:-- ~ T F Mi. : GRANT a►d the PEOPLE of IRELAND. Oar Readers have to , en informed that the Inha bitants Newry had p►esented an Address to the new Irish Secretary. Thu followittg is Mr. Grant's answer : TO.THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF NEWRY. " Duhiin Castle, Oct. 16. 1818. GENTLEMEN.--I feet, with a just sense of obli gation, all the kindn►ss and confidence *Nth the eloquent Address you have done me the honour to transmit to me, displays; and I beg you will he pleased to accept ray sincerest acknowledgments for such a testimony of your favourable opinion. " With the warmest wishes that cats be entertain ed tar the nanquillity of• Ireland and the happiness of her People, I most cordially sympathise; and is will be, not only my. duty, hut my highest gratifica tion, to emp!ny. for the promotion of those objects. the share of power which is entrusted to me in the Administration of this country,, and whatever abili ,ies I may possess. " Of ihPse abilities, however, permit MP to avow the consciensiteis I feel, that your generosity has led you to form far ton sanguine an estimate; but such as they are, they wit! be devoted to.the public ser vice; and I trust, Gentlemen, you will, tliisk it suffi cient for me to offer you this assurance, without going into the questions to which ypu. have alluded—:- questions. ioileed, the discus s ion of which, however interesting, does not come %Win, the sphere of the duties belonging to my race. " Of the effects to he produced by my endeavours, you have been pleated, in great liberality to me, to indulge in large anticipations. Whilst I must beg to guard thyself against being understood to become p ar ty to whatever those anticipations may involve of reflection on the past, I willingly recognise in them a delineation of ajects, which, I am well aqui,: ought ever to be in my view ; and it slop be my 4 anxious. study, as far as my powers may be compe tent, to promote amongst all classes of the community the spirit of conciliation, which is, I trust, already pro gressive, and to maintain the equal and pure adminis tration of justice. I must further express my firm per suasion, that such also is the disposition of those with whom I am more particularly called to act, as well as of those who direct the Gounsejs of the Empite; anti that, on whatever other points there nay tie a difference of opinion, On the principle of condurt iog the Government with a conciliatory spirit, and of dispensing the eaisting laws with strict impartiality, tlorie is but one ottani - m sentiment. s• In a situation arduous in itself as well a 4 new to me, I feel that I shall stand in need of much in dulgence; but so long as my intentions are uttim peached, I shall not despair of it from a generous People,; and, sensible as I am, both of rnr, own de ficiencies and of the difficulties t.ithat situation, I y et %pt. lit if such Pies/sting motives to exeritso, as will add eitioiatiais to all the iiictsies of duty. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obliged and obedient Set Va " CHARLES GRANT.". CATALAN UPOV flax TIM ONE. ^•. 1 1. 0 ' -- A Correspondent at Ale-tn.Chapidforaelfria!the fol lowing particulars of this Lady's sum- osful ethib , tiono at the Congress. Though we nele:avvrethat there was much n;isdont and great talent: at Congress, we could scarcely believe that harmony was so much in vogue among the great politicians. When Queen Elizabeth proposed to give Seater, -the Poet, five 'hundred pounds, as a reward (or writing his great and inimitable work. the Fairy 'Queen, '' What!" said Burleigh, her economical Minister, " give all this for a song?" But Statesmen and Warriors are more liberal to musical merit now.a.day a. The pie. t o re of Loyd Cast!eresgh standing up, listening to Ithe hymn of God save Great Frederick, instead of Great George our King. is us. ing " The concert of Madame Catalani on Monday evening was attended by all the rook and fashion of the place. The great hall or ball-room of the Re doubt was filled to an overflow, and probably not fewer than 900 people partook of this high entertain. men% In the midst of Ponces, Courtiers, and Mi nisters, all did so much homage to her talent, that one might say the attentions shown her were es. cevaive end eaten vagsat. M. A lopeus, the Itua‘ian Minister, decorated with his star, was her caoaliere set - rude, and handed her to the elerited beat (or what in this case may be called the throne), from which she rzerted her subduing pesters. inc Pt;ttress of Tour and Task saluted her on her entrance with great affability ; Prince Hardetiberg was very atten tive ; and Loot Castlereagh, who was by her side, seemed delighted. At the conclusine of the con cert, she sang God save the King *lib great animation, and ihriugh iiispised by the air of the place, she interpolated the hymn with Great Frederick instead of Great George: his Lod. ship stood op, according to the custom in England— an eznmple thai was not followed by the rest of the audience. A circle of Ministers was collected about Madame [Wow, wife of the violin player, after the concert, as if she had been the Es,oress of all the Rtosias ors -a Loftee.day. The Enipeior c.f Austria and King of Prussia. accompstlied by the ton of the; latter. attended at a balcony in a kind of incognito. This celebrated artiste, from tier excellence and the appreciation of her talent by the Sovereigns, is now called here la reine des cantatrices, el la cantatrice des roil, the queen of. singers, and the biomes .. of kings. The sum that the Duke of Wellingten sent her for attending his soiree was 1000 francs, which she would probably Isaac reckoned enough for a song, had not as much been given by-his Grace.for a Suite to lisfoist, the violist player, who accompanied her. The produce of Monday slight, allowing for all es. penves, was more than ten times that amount. Ma dame Catolarii bas been more fortunate than the other artists of inferior note who hate otept to tli9 play their talents at Clingiest,. Many of them are now departing with loud complaints of the defici encies of their causes. Same of them have lost to the amount of 50 or 60 Napuleons, instead t.f having gained by their attempts to please. There lure now forty debtors, end one hundred pri• softer:, less to lichester Jail ; thou at this period last year. ~.~ ~. _~~ Pry .1 , -t _ -- `.4.),, ‘ , %: L iiiV 1 AllifiL 1G RAVE: ar.-- COURT OF KING'S Id --- e..ttit 11, sEtt,/ EANTV INN HAM., OCT. S. This 'thy, the Judges of the Woe's Bench, wit. Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. Justice Abbot, and Mt. Justice liolroyd, sat in Serjeants' fun , 1.0 try seee i rgi remanent causes. wt a Ls c o a n se n io r D ICILSo specialit Alin n,izti n o . : l 7 l c . u a s r . ising This w as not of an award made by Mr. Gazelee. The award orla gity.ted from an action on the case, breught agoinet three persons as joint owners of the ship [lope, oft board of which the Plaintiff, Mr. Wile. it, the mega chant, had shipped geode fer Senegal and Go esi... The !lope was taken by an American prisateer, sett her cargo nearly destroyed. She was re-captured by flee of We King's frigates, and carried hits' Bermuda, where the Defendant, Dickson, sold chi. remainder of the cargo, without authority from the shipper of the goods, and the further prosecution of the voyage was kat. The Plaintiff brhsght tilt action, and a v•rdfet was liken by consent fur 20,0001. subject to the . award of Mr. Gezelee, who reduded the verdict to the suns of 3.1961. Dikers points of law arose in the coarse of the esiilence, which, in this instance, sato submitted to the Court. Mr: Rictisaoson was hoard in sopport of the award, and Mr SCARLETT contended .t has the 'Moo's* 4.1 damages found by Mr. Gulden ought to be re. 'dure'd by 1,0001: •• The COURT were decideily with Mr. Sceelettlis ilis view or the points, and the judgment was, that -tht Plaintiff watt entitled to the sum awarded by MA Gaseire, deducting 1,0001. • .. lutlWgitAir AND CO. V. ItAll& Thiayas ,s case reserved frt . the opinion of thet ' Court, itfirviection brought to recover the amount of two billkrof exchange under the following dream ; stances :—The Plaintiffs, who are hanker:, and acted . .ep agents for the Defendant, were its the habit of rßiscounting bills brought to them by a person named rankahme, who purchased and sold wool for the , Defendant ; pitikß ye to such bills rectiting his actual acceptat.cX - ' Ou the 30th of August, , 181.1, the Defendant addressed a lettgr to the Plaintiff*, acquainting them that he did Wet" .(nteod to accept any more 'bills drawn oh him by Braillisome, till he received the receipts and vouchers connected with them, but that on their regular frenstbissioft the bills would continue to he ditty henoured.-- Nietters went on after this notice and coodie tingle' promise of acceptatiee, withbut interrup. lion for some time. On the '2slh of feettruary, how ever, of the followieg 'rag, a bill sent to the Plain. tiffs by ll , atilc.onie was discounted, and enclosed to the Defendant,• who returned flu answer Cel the Bth of Nla rill, when he refused to titincur it. Too Plaintitt , , notwithstanding, 'wrote again to t:.e Da. . Pendant on the 11th, enclosing another' bill for 2001. and saki'g no notice of his refusal to accept the for mer. Br aiiksome soon 9r..f berme' a bankrupt, and the Pl a intitpr, as l i s signee4; sought to recover the amount of thrice *Wits, oti the ground that there dud been an improper detention of the- first Nil. off die part if the drawers which reudeted hiss. felpiniaibte for the pay's' ant of both. The goirsti- n was a . gied . for the Plaintiffs, by Mi. KLAnEtt, who, its Lis 1 4.10w:tie up the elf*, as it referred to the second bill ; and by slr. LITTLEDALS far the Defendant. • ' Mr. Justice ISAYLET thought the Learned Conegi hail done we!) in relniquisififig all title to the seCOttit : bill of exchange, vow in questinto, upon the farts its ' stated to the Court. It tinetrue that there had not 1 yet been ally direct decision, with regard to what Period of detention would be equivalent to an actual !acceptance. But it appeared to him to he of great timpot toner , that the doctrine of constructive at ceptaticy should be admitted with much caution, and not caroled to any eatraordinn ry latitude. The prin. ciple on which the force of such negociable engage. clients was founded, was the ezpros consent of the party to whom the instrument was addressed, as sign). fied by his own soluntary siguanire. It had beers already held, that a promise to acce p t would not blurt h drawee, if given before the hill was in esist 'ence; hese the action was f•nlittled upon a conditional promise, which had certainly not beets siolated by the Defendant's waiting to see whether the conditions would he fulfilled. It might have been better If the Defendant had disclosed the t#llsoll of his delay; but under the circumstances of the case, it ought to hive recurred to the other patty, after the avenge! notice which they had received in August. In addition to all this, there was the fact of the I'l 'LAU,' having taken no untice of the Defendant's refusal to accept the first, la hen they sew a second bill in their letter of the 11th, a silence which he thought most be con. stetted into an acquiescence on their part its that re. fusel. fin adverted to these fir i n s in the evidence, Itemise there was no fixed rule of law opplinal,le to cases of this de.cription ; atl of which musts he decided oven a full view of their peculiar circumstances. Mr. Justice ArßuT coticutsvd, both in ilie•legol principle as laid down by bis Leettred Brother, and in the itifetences which the evidence obviously sag., ; piste& The opini"na of 1...irr1 . (brawl:lie, Lord Nlatt.field, end Lord Eitenborough, had been cited from report a of cases in which the genetat 4 . 1 . 1 ,.:. 0 0 , t o the obligation upon drawera had Mite incl.. &Holly helot e them. The opinions of those eminent Judges would he alwajs treated by the Court with the greatest ierpect, but they .did not go to the es. lent of the propoaition it: support of which they were quoted. Lord ilardwicke had expressly said in the 'case alluded to, that its special circumstances were the ingredient' of his opinion. Lord Eilettiso rough, when he said that the detention ought uol to eiceel la • re viontsble. time, left a gobstion open upon every succeeding case, and a question Mat must be gore' need by particular fairs, tad by the relative con. juct of the parties. Mr. Justice ilotewen was litewl 4 e of opinion. that is sitnpie owis•fraaisce could never he construed into an fmp!ied consent. It irtS true that its this Case the Defendant bad promised to return the bilk, unless induced AO accept them by the receipt of his vouchers. 'nut at this *as a promise, without fifty consideration, it rouid not legally hind, him. finder revolh ells umstances, the detention of •• bill by a drawee, for several hays might be regarded ass air. t ea l acceptance, 111 nt least as a converallass; tyst its this case. there was an missencrof OWPty circ;intstance that could Wing it within either the-otkelit other. - , outlier , ef the N y t ~, ••e• 1 ~ 3 ` ~ ...4- z . 1 `, '1 c