The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-09 00:00:00

Or' NAVAL INTRLLIGENGE. Dear., Dec. S.—Came down tints the River the William sod Alfred, Clark, for Antigee.; Charles, Mane, for Tobago; Starling, Barreti, for gaits, s g , and remain in the Dawns with the 'Outward boundoll well.—Arrived and remains the Brothers, from Antwerp to Oporto. RAIRSG ATE, DEC. B.—Came in several valets for shelter. Dovea, Dec. S.—Arrived off this port the Trent, L an ghottom, 29 days from Quebec for London : on the 24th Nov. experienced a severe gale in long. 32. W. which lasted 36 hours—lost during the gale, one man washed overboard, stero-boat, bulwarks, and decks cleared °Pall lumber. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. B.—Arrived ,the Sir .George (Morn, (transport), from Cork, to take troops to Ireland. —Sailed the Voyager, Jacks, for London. Wcirmounr, Dcc. 7.—Last evening was brought into these Roads, the galli .t Friendshaft, Penarn, from Boardeaus to Bremen, in a very leaky state : • the tinsel is much strained, and it is feared her cargo 'mast come net; also the Ana and Susanne, Dunn, from -- to Cowes, with loss of boom and gaff.- the wind being fair, she sailed for that port. FaLmouni, Doc. 6.—Strong gale and thick weather. The skips in the Roads have struck their ' top.gallaat masts, at appear to ride the gale out well. SCAISCIROUGII, Dec. 7.—The Woodall, Smith, of Bell, took oat the crew of the Deinlos, Mathews, of and from Sondastand, Witt costs, for London, en the 3.1 lost., which vessel in was a sinking state. and with both masts slid bowsprit goue.—Several Billie ships ere off this place. CAanto %NI, Dec. 7.—The Muster and crew of the John and Mary, DAWSOII, of Kinsale, landed in their boil last Thursday evening near Newport, Pent• brokeshire, they report their vessel to have foundered that day off Strurnble Head, laden with copper ore, from Beerhaven to Swansea. LONDONDERRY, DEC. 4.- -The Newcastle packet, Robinson, from Leith, with herrings, is totally lost in ouviver. The Indians, of DiewcrotiP, is totally lost on the Goofiest Sind—crew and most of the stores saved. INTERESTING EXPEDITION. • [FROM A PARIS PAPER A great number of French travellers are at this moment labouring to extend our empire of know. ledge. Amongst these p er.evefin g men. we most place in the first rank Captain Freyrinet, Common- , der of the corvrtto l'Ureuie, wbich is on her way to the Southern Hemisphere. lie has instructions to determine the configuration of the globe; to make observations respecting the variation of the needle., anti the intensity or magnetic power. ; to devote big attention to meteorological operations and general physics, which ire cennected with the theory of the earth; and finally, to observations on netural his tory, shore all, in whet relates to animals. The last accounts which have been received from him, were dated from the Cape of Good Hope; the crew enjoyed the mast perfect health, and the learned navigator was preparing to pumas bis important mission. LOUD RAKELAGII AND Mit. ADOLPUUS.—The day after the memorable trial at tlicks's Ilan, in which Lord RANELADII we; •convicted end fined 501. for an assault, his Lordship, it seems, called open Mr. ADOLPHUS, et his Chambers, and applied the words •t coward, liar, and scoundrel," to Mr. A. with the view of , provokitrg him to fight a duel. Mr. A DOL. I'HOS, however, heard his Lordship's abuse with commendable temper, though under hi♦ own roof, and on Monday last took the wiser measure of pre ferring a hill against his Lordship for having widen. 'routed to provoke him to fight a duel. The bill vas found by the Grand Jury. Mr. Aormottus im mediately directed his Solicitor to move the case, by certiorari, to the Kitties Bench. This was accord ingly done, and notice to that effect was set ved upon Lord R.AMELAGII'S THE FUNDs.—Stocks have been looking upwards for some days, awl a further ti,e is expected with confidence, as the value of the great Capitals in the present Lottery increases with every advance of the Funds, Btsti's Office in Gorohill is every day throttled with adventurers. IVbat en extraordinary thing it would he in the annals of Lotteries should one Ticket get £60.000 in Stock. on the first day if so, we hope it may be sold in Shores ; and at no Office is this su likely to happen as at Bost's. A DANDY STRIPPED.—On Monday night, about ten o'clock, a flashy fellow, of the Dandy species, entered the Posilion Tavern, near the OlvmpicThee tre, and had tome liquor, and immediately after went out. Mr. 'hard, the Master of the Tavern, suspected his character I , ow his foppish appearance. and ob serving him going out of the house, thought it might not be his intention to return, end following him, saw him set off at full speed. He was able, how ever, to overtake end bring him back ; he demanded payment for the refreshment he had taken, and the D.lndy replied, " 'Pon my honour. my dear fellow, I have left my purse at home." Mr. Ir Mtn took his (a•la Francais) hat, and the Dandy said he should die on the road home if he had not his chapeau. A Gen. tleman told him to leave his waistcoat, for his stays and padding would prevent him from taking cold. — Ile accordingly took off his waistcoat, nod gave it info the hands of Mr. laird. lie then put nn his coat, buttoned it up to the throat, slid walked out nearly as dandified as when he entered. On search ing the waistcoat pocket, Mr. I. (onto) an artificial mustachio and a tavern-Wines bill fur board and lodging, -unpaid. TIT E ST Arr EgM To Tux EDITOR or TUE STATESMAX • 1 Sin,—At the instance and solicitude of many well beloved friends, I have long withdrawn from open combat with the adversaries of Freedom, the real enemies of their country ; I have net, however, the less employed my pen and tongue in private, in ads°. eating that cruise which involves within it all that distinguishes the reasonable man from the brute. — Though I have never for a moment despaired of that divine cense, yet I have thought it not wrong to 'b efalls from openly declaring my feelings upon so im portant a question; those feelings. since that time, could not fril to have been aggravated by the recol• lection of the loss of fortune and liberty so many Mars in a loathsome prison; and that too fur doing what I consider an act partaking more of the meri torious than any other of my whole life, viz. for en. deavouring (not only disinterestedly endeavouring, but against my interest endeavouring) to better the condition of my fellow-creatures. The same conduct and motive I have long beheld and ad mired in the two great champions of Freedom, Sir FitANCia ihipaVr and Major CAIIT*ItIGHT. This is not a compliinetst, but a just and merited tribute of my approbation to their well-tried north and ta lents. Though I have not the homier of personally knowing the former, yet I have the fullest confideuce in his integrity and seal ; with the latter I have bad the pleasure of being acquainted thirty years. I long ago defended the country with my purse and person, together with that worthy citizeis•soldier, l from the foreign for, and se now are desirous of ' rescuing it from the plundering grasp of its internal enemy. But more of this at another time and in another place. The blow which pot me hors du combat (the whole history of which %sill one day marvellously astound the Public) was created and impelled by an infernal sentiment uttered from the chief Seat of judicature; it was not, in this instance, the seat of JusTicE.— The sentiment was uttered by that tool of poser, Lord M ANSvIELD (though once himself accused of sedition), that " Teuth itself is a Libel, and the greater the Truth the greater the Libel," After this I published in the Argus Newspaper paragraph as follows, viz. The People of England are ac cused by the Government writers of sedition, and a disrsitioti to disobey the Ises, yet while it cannot be said, that the House of Commons is composed indl: vidually of the bona ide Rrptesentatives oft titt :utter vsy the ',LIPS inspo,ed sly them as though the Ilouse were so c.. tistr ;Wed." F , sr 11.0 the then Attorney•General,Sir AUL 1118ALD 11.1cnONALD, was set upon me, and reduced me from affluence to ad• varsity ; and further, by the acerbity anti hostility of Lord KENYON, 1 was imptisoned in the King's Beech and Newgste, for a period longer in duration than the celebrated war in Troy !! ! Can yoo be lieve then, Mr. LOVELL, that although I have been silent, I have forgotten my wrongs? No, they . and the wrongs of marry others, will be spoken of 66 trumpet-tongued," when the proper moment comes, mud then I will relate a history 'and Odra a mystery, which will riot soon be forgotten. The I reason, however, of my taking op the pen at this moment, which, but for the particular occasion, nitwit in the eyes of a few appear a precocious one, is first, ;he denouement of the fraudulent farce which has long been smiles in Threadneedle-street, of which the following is the critique; and secondly, that many of my dear friends, who formerly adjured me to silence, now see as plainly as myself a necessity for speaking out. With hearty good wishes to the STATesscrer, the only honest one I know, I remain your friend, &c. lituounbury. Dec. 4. S. P. ON THE BANK RESTRICTION ACT. It has been truly bNitl, that the once healthy Can stittilion of Great Britain is now beset with nume rous ill., either of which, if ant soon remedied, will be sufficient to destroy it. The National Debt is one, the 'icor% Roles another; the third, the less known, is not less 110110 US, via. the growing demand for Tea from India, the investments for bayirg which being almost wholly of the precious metals (chiefly s ilver), inu,t tend to impoverish the country ; and •‘ though last, not least in our esteem," is the Bank Paper system, or rather surfeit. Of this momen tous and mischievous Act, I mean alone to treat in wit place, Et this time. Although every person in this kingdom feels the ill effect of this measure, yet but few rightly under. stand the cause of it, slid but few more can in any way esplain the dire effect of it in all its beariugs; and although it may he truly described as a cancer or running sote on the body politic, and would inevi tably terminate in en euthassasie of the State itself, if not timely remedied ; yet, as its operation is slow, and nut traceable day by day, the Public have not taken alarm sufficient to insist upon an immediate incision of the morbid part, rather than let the whole body perish. The Guise! Ah in that cause is contained an " Wad of woes." The pristine cause was the es• pensive war, the prodigal the repeated war on the Continent. This disposition to renewed war of the most disastrous or berthensome nature, was excited aud fomented by the merchants and bankers of London, end who will most assuredly, under retri lautfory and final justice, be the first and greatest sof (ems by its ultimate effects... Proximate,: self interest rather than temote national advantage prompted these capitalists to throw up their hats in the sir, when assembled at Merchant Taylor's Hall. in exultation at the resolution for war. They had profited from the former war by a concurrence of furtunete or forteitous circemstances, and they did not look far enough into things to foresee that the gams direr los commercial country, must et length end I",tbe blur) or amin o of that tonst_r) to ibis re: sped they ?ere trofy . Gartheginiaa. No Metter, war ihtti bewailed* II trade of instant prolll to the is. pi fallout, hoes The moment of the profligate Lord 3010aTtl's entering into it against Awoke. Here it ias that money made Money, and the loans, with thttravegant interest and dooceurs, and premieres d( Lotted{, 'rickety, and ilonoveS open Scrip, occasioned 'the hurtles of that War Minister to be %wrought ebb the distinguished of those gentry. Great wale of spode were wanted too for exportation, not onl to pey our own troops, but also to subsidize the German Princes, who let their troops by battalions, or tether sold them at se much per head, to fight ' our biotin. Quarrels in which those petty Sore.. reign', those proprietors of human bodies, hid no more to do, or to apprehend, as et the head af. die.; tent and continental States, than with the sumptuary laws of the Emperor of CHINA. To distinguish things and alts by their proper names (and he is a coward,' fordo?e a stale who does not); if this was not bloc& motel, I know not what is. Well, this money, the persons who used it call it what they please; wall ~,trod in specie (Ole wary German prefers hard ) cash to paper ill his dealing.). and - the - Dttuatmoune, and lie Hoaxer, with other Bankers, but especially+ the BKNK, furnishethit at a per ceniage, and what weal infamous in many, and irelsoitable in the Minister,' It in sums of vast magnitude nut of Me country,' althoagh forbidden by the constitutional laws of.ths realm, sales.; provided for by express Act of l'or. liament. For this illegal art the Premier promised and obtained for his particepscriminislNDKMNlTY ; and this he was as able to do, and theywere as ready to coofide in, as though it were an individual act of his ohs' Obe Minister for the time, being the /ultimo inobrle of that vast end powerful pachine l the !louse, of Commons. As a question en parranr, was there then no occasion for a Ittf..rm in that maid Douse. called the Representatives of the l'eople, hot bring, in feet, the instrument or tool of the Premier ? SRecie for exportation, whether foreign or British, being 'eepeetedly wanted and 1)10,1 targely for, the Bonk was tempt.d to part with almost the w! - ole it pl/4. sensed, and thereby was makiog a profit upon two capitals instead of one ; for honestly, and by its ow a rosislitution, It should have but OUP, the hellion er specie which they nuelit to have hail iii their cotri.rs,i being intended by their ('ha. ter at a apenrits for their paper hi circulation. Uri although the Bank was lien ble to forfeit its Charter, had the (alerts of its bein. - publicly known, yet ss tb,,oh egfectilli had nut manifested therisettes, on account of timely peace with America, and trade wonderfully reviving so esto bring back an iota ,= • f wealth, this grist Company of Merchants escaped that discovery whiob would assuredly have happened aid hostilities been protracted match longer. In three years after the French Revolutionary War, every one knows what dill happen. The ser eity of the Bank to the Minister, 1 was going to say, bat it could not be denominated servility, since Its speculating Directors woold not servilely have (alien into the views of the Monate*, if profit, two fold profit, bad tint been held op to them ; profit on the specie exported, and profit from their paper Its the increased per ceetage or agency, paying the nation's debtors at their counters, though with what niight be deemed the nation's money, since Mr. PITT'S Go wernment had given it legal currency. The conspira w therefore of the Beak with the Minister, is the "rrt+pPt WM . for such - a proceeding, end this con. spirery it is, thst has entailed one of the worst of 6sztorses on this commercial empire. A curs e, which 9tritiling Witte timely blessing of a Reformation in - that corrupt system which occasioned it, can ienteve. The proceedings of this politico-trading Company, di. wetted by the avaricious and anti-patriotic views of its Governors and Directors, have poisoned all the channels of trade, foreign and domestic. — They have made the existence of the hardy peasant and indefatigable aitizan painful and precarious, although these are the best and most useful members of the community, ss being the most tiecessery to the well-being of every State. By the vicarious raise of the Bank paper, from its more or less superfluous abundance, or from the hazard of its getieineness and mystery in the proof of it, the bread may he said to diminish in the hit'- ha •idinen's baud as he raises the morsel to his mouth ! ! ! Oh Heavens, how long is this to continue ? The words of CICLRO, on CATAI.I NE'S conspitscy, rise in the indignant mind of every thinking, honest Briton, and he exclaims—" Quarqtra tandem abinere palientia 'rostra! ! In my own mind, the measure of indigeatiorr has long been full to the brim; it has, however, now been made to ton over by a most dishonest anti wicked idea which has been publicly thrown out by one of flue Bank advocates ; no doubt with a view to feel the public pulse upon the sly occasion.— Though Joint BULL is characteristically Alenomi. noted a great fool, yet a portion of his family will no doubt be clear-sighted enough to discern through ha flimsy veil, the fraudulent design of this specula tive body of money-changers. it is no less than this, as appears by the report of the Times, a few days ago. A Mr. WRAY, anxious for the interest of the Bank (its honour is oat of the question), pro poses that it should lessen the quantity of its circa• biting notes by taking them up when gold is of a certain or Mint price, viz. at par, but that whets gold is above that price, an AG IO should be paid to the Bank by these who exchange paper for gold!! —lime is au honest proposition truly. Do all the affirmations end boastings of Mr. MANNING in the House of Commons, of the readiness and desire of the Bank to pay in specie, come to this at lan ? Surely the Directors of the Batik of I.:aglowd must think their countrymen the most besotted People in the universe if they put up with such usage. This is indeed the sharper's way of gaming— " head I win; tail you lose." So that Bank paper is to fall to a discount, if gold should be high in price; but to bear Ito premium or profit shoold that metal be ever so low !!! If the new advocate or pleader for the Bank has not be-strayed the vol. tnre's Debt, I know not what is foul, nor what is fair. But with these ambitious and ataricinas gentry, who figure in this manner. we suppose. as with Suaitz-rasaes witches ) lu Macbeth, " Fair is foul and foal is fair." , 't I. P. •• 7 THE Pit ESEIVT SYSTEM or rin BANK 9 AND ITS PROSECU IiONS fOtt FORGI.B Y. • .... , The Indictmentsy all run that the for forger •-• crime ero was a6ndmCthoitmtepad •• e y o w f it t h he in l3 l :k t of F d 'a e rg i' ll u id 'i .'L he Bat the witnesses on the part or the Bank, their own Solicitors, Searcher', and Inspectors of Note', as universally swear, that the proaecution is instituted in order to protect, not the Bark, but Me l'obtic: and it is certain that, whomsoever the Note may have beet dragon with the intention to defined, the Bank. is the only party that cohort and will not b. defraud ed; for it will not pay the forged :'vote to the iii. nocent bolder of it. There is another inconsistency id the present syse tern, which was detected on the late triad*. Thd Bank, by knowing its. own Notes, and being under emorbligatioa to pay forged ones, can sustain 00 loss, but e r i suchnd inudt i dossua d s, l d o u s a s I s in , ? by s t lilt:aysilsolal)neexdage,beyrasotinione i c b a d l i i t e i d d u t a h l e , Public: yet, when the lospector of the Bank Wan required by the Jury, on Willianis's trial, to declare, how he knewa forged from a real Note, the quell. lion was resisted on the pArsciple thrlt, !' it would lead so great inconvenience if she IhnivitegibAbligra to declare the private works by whiclattecetiO de termine on the gestuineuen of its Notes" By this doctrine, then, it follows r tillitt iudisiduals, who s i re the genuineness of Notes, are aki:pnrnini,tieg7risiired in ariceof marks hy which the true can be distingolaheal from the false; and the Bank, who are not obliged to pay the false ones, retain to themselves the esclcsive faculty of discerning thee,. An to the diCttiM, of general theoretn upon which tiro taws aw , iiist forger? we founded, baittlei that we are a crimmercial count: t', mud therefore•forgere . ought to be hanomi ; the Wiwi, of 0,44 illoorem has ' long Veil si•owit end proved. ii , illarid was oticeas Icommercial a•coatory as Faieta ad, ant! j et never es i ecuted for forgery. The I,lJillteis of England are a h ig hly go i n w e r el..l body. aid yet ace. they, as such, n.it , t grievously adverse to tetlic,iog capiaal purtish• inset 041 all . 7iterif!); 1 and are 11.1111 emertiog them. selves warmly forahe repeal of la wa su sanguinary. Large islands of iremietkitee seen so fir lgoutli as :he West Inoies. A.very. eitest;ive one •as seen in 1 tee oeightuarrheitil of she B hams Islaride 4 sithAihootai rise to a very great aensotion. .. M outlay aright, Sir. 11. Mroions l i i tg et si o di r ' e tig . Tr i :t t o ' li i t ott he i on l.. p vgerr, : " lin is in she employ of i an.l San, f ilk -ine•ctistos rind dyers, ia the It:timer roads, returoing hams. from the ,eity 2 ehtre..ire.had 'Welted 181. 174. Gd. tort want Bried'sislaici, a fellow pirriorsed his arms behied„ cud two stilted ro bbed him of the whole sum. Fi ital.—Monday alienation a flirt broke oil in the workshop of Mr. Cotiely, carpenter, in Evelyn. buildioes, Oafoid-st , eet. It appear• that a fi.• had been incautiously left alight in the e • k shop whilst the nom *eat home to (limier, and ntitch communi cated to some paw-dust and shusiriga on the floor. A. Gentleman who was reading at his window saw 034 Males issuing out and in.med!ately gave an Warm. — The parish engine arrived in a few minutes afterwards, and succeeded in Stopping the progress of the filmes. Another tire broke out in the shop of Mr. Foriest, shoemaker, No. 1, Wigmore-street, which dest.6yed a considerable putt of the interior. A gang of robbers beset she shop of Mr. Jainesi of Eltliam-place, Kent-road, on Monday night.— Mr. fames was cautioned by a neighbour, and corn ing suddenly upon them, detected one of the party in the act of Inkiog out a pane of glass from the shop window. Ile had cut away the window.trame with a knife. Mr... James kept fast hold of the Prisoner until an officer nrtived. The coach-house of Sir Thos. Wilson, Stamford street, Blackfrisrs•road, was broke open on Mon day night, anti plundered of some valuable harness, and a coachman's hol.cost. , • aa , i MAIL COAC C ured RuBsERV.--Yeiter;sey I ilr get and John Lee 011'e cnarged by Jeliii.Fuantan, a constable of Sr. Giles's, at hlarlboroagh. oreet Office, tinder the following circomoances :—Fuza man stated, that between severs and eight o'clock the precediog evening, as he was going slang lkoatia street, St. Giles: s, he saw J. Lee behind a mail tioliCis going down towards Holborn, einleavouring to pull some ',wets - out of the hoot ; witness and his brother followed, and when the Prisoeer juinped down, he seizes' him by the throat. The Coach those on, and the Prisoner threw the parcel awsy At this moment a loud whistle was heard, and about twenty thieves, at the head of whom was.the other Prisoner, rushed upon *hoes!, whom the beat most unmercifully, and knocked his bio:her down. The Prisoner had a large clasp knife which he elides. .soured to open, bat the light from a shop window discovered the danger to witness, who instantly wrenched the knife from his hold. ‘l'ith great diffie celty lit forced him into a shop, the other villains beating him all the time, and from thence be convey ed him to the watch.house. In the liatiarim some of she others got off with the parcel, - "1►ot the other Prisoner was taken into custody. Witoesa anti his brother searched the lodgings of she Prison ers, and found a crow-bar concealed in the bed, and about a dog• it skeleton keys. Two knives of a peculiar shape which were found on the Prisoners were produced; the blades were about four inches long, very thick, and on the whole cala culated for the worst of purposes. The Prisoners said, they touched the coach tr y they knew nothing further of tl : e matter. The y are " accident," but both connected wish a most eatensive of horse stealers, who have carried on their depredations iu Berkshite to en alarming estent.—Committed. CORN EXcliAscE, DEC. 9.—Although there testa been no fresh arrivals since Monday, the quantity of Wheat left over from that day's supply was more than sufficient for ihis morning's demand, for the sales were exceedingly heavy, and prices almost on minal.—The quantity of English Barley on sale was rather small, yet liPviag but few buyers Monday's prices were with difficulty obtained.—Oats were also dull sale at Monday's prices.—ln other articles there was no alteration. Yesterday C. Thompson was fined 201. at the Thames Police-office, which being unable to pay, he was sent to the House of Correctinti for tit month+, for selling a dog to Mr. Payne', a botcher. at Briztorr, which he afterwards re-s.ild to Mr. Whitbread, a clieese•meoger, at Wapping. a; . r Y• Ai :4- a • • • : • 4 . • f _ -,,, y ' , •Y 9 . .I . .J P. •